[Iran Press TV Latest] The United Nations mission chief in Afghanistan says that Afghan MPs' decision to reject most of President Hamid Karzai's cabinet nominees is a serious setback for efforts to establish a functioning government in the country.
Kai Eide told journalists in Kabul on Sunday that this was a "setback and it's a distraction."
On Saturday, the parliament of Afghanistan rejected more than half of President Karzai's cabinet nominees during confirmation votes.
"It prolongs the situation without a functioning government, which has lasted since summer," the BBC quoted Eide as saying.
Although Karzai is expected to submit the names of new nominees for ministerial posts in the near future, there will still probably be a delay before the new cabinet team is approved because the Afghan Parliament begins a 45-day winter break on Tuesday.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Egypt's top Islamic body issued a fatwa sanctioning the construction of a steel wall between Cairo and the impoverished Gaza Strip, causing a stir amongst several scholars who accused Egypt of stifling the resistance in the strip.
The Center for Islamic Research (CIR) at the al-Azhar school, the world's leading institution of Sunni Islam, issued a fatwa last week saying the construction of a steel barrier between Egypt and Gaza was in line with Islamic teachings as it was part of Egypt's right to defend its territory.
"It is Egypt's legitimate right to erect barriers that would stop the damage caused by the tunnels linking Rafah to Gaza," an Azhar statement said, after it was approved by al-Azhar's Grand Imam Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi. "What is smuggled through those tunnels threatens the security of the country."
I am amazed and impressed. What brought about this awareness of reality, I wonder?
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Somebody in CIR started reading Rantburg and saw the Light™.
[Asharq al-Aswat] The Iraqi Ministry of Interior confirmed a warning issued by a parliamentary committee that Al Qaeda militants based in Yemen are planning, with the aid of Baathist leaders in Sanaa, to move to Iraq via a neighboring country, after their continued presence in Yemen is uncertain following US intervention [in this conflict].
Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman Alaa al-Ta'i confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat the veracity of the information put forward by the parliamentary Security and Defense committee. He said "the Defense committee, as a regulatory body for the work of all security agencies, is aware of this information, and there must be coordination between the intelligence service and the security agencies to prevent the movement of terrorists from Yemen to Iraq."
Security and defense committee lawmaker, Ammar Toama, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the alliance between the Baathists and Al Qaeda "already existed in Iraq since 2003 and remains until today, and the reports confirm this. Everybody knows that their (Al Qaeda's) funding comes from the Baathists, and that all acts of terrorism undertaken by them has been planned by the Baathists but implemented by (Al Qaeda). Such an alliance between them will take place in Iraq, and Yemen, and any where in the world."
Toama added "Our problem since 2003 until today is that Iraq has become the scene for the entry of foreigners...and our security procedures along the border to prevent infiltration by (Al Qaeda) elements is very weak." He added "we must strengthen our borders, by increasing the [number of] security forces there, and preparing them with modern means of monitoring [the border], and increasing the aerial surveillance along the border."
As for the possibility of Al Qaeda elements infiltrating Iraq via neighboring countries, particularly Syria, Toama told Asharq Al-Awsat "the government must quickly resolve the issue of nominating an intelligence service official with high efficiency to meet these external challenges, and the financing and infiltration of terrorists."
Toama also said "On the diplomatic level, the signing of security agreements with neighboring countries is a requirement to prevent the infiltration of terrorists, and weaken their sources of funding, and monitor their supporters in their countries. It is not unlikely that coordination with Yemen and neighboring countries in the same direction will take place, for mutual interests took place between the Americans and the Yemeni government as a result of the threat represented by (Al Qaeda). However our problem is that some neighboring countries embrace terrorism and aid them in their operations inside Iraq."
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Set up that fence.
Ohh, and they are probably wanting to go where they were in Iraq before. Known territory is always more inviting.
[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday issued death warrants against five convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Judge Md Abdul Gafur of the District and Sessions Judge's Court issued the warrants.
The court sent the death warrants in a red envelop to the senior jail super of Dhaka Central Jail directing him to take necessary steps to officially inform the confirmation of death penalty to the five convicts in the prison.
Meantime, Inspector General (prisons) Brigadier General Ashraful Islam Khan told The Daily Star that he received the death warrants at 3:00pm yesterday and the convicts were informed about the warrants.
The five convicts are Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed.
Advocate Anisul Huq, chief state counsel of the Bangabandhu murder case, told The Daily Star the count down of the execution would begin after the disposal of the review petitions if filed by the convicts.
As per the Supreme Court rules the convicts can file review petitions against the SC verdict within 30 days of receiving the certified copy of the verdict.
The counsels for the convicts received certified copy of the SC verdict of Bangabandhu murder case on December 24 and they could file the review petition by January 21.
Sources said if the court rejects the review petitions, the convicts will get seven days to submit a mercy petition to the president.
If the president rejects the mercy petitions, the prison authorities would start the process of execution as per the jail code.
The sources said as per their experiences of implementing execution, the jail authorities would start counting 21 days from the day of receiving president's decision of rejection.
The prison authorities can execute the convicts after 21 days but it must be before 28 days from the day of receiving the president's decision, they added.
Talking to The Daily Star, barrister Abdullah Al Mamun, lawyer for Bazlul Huda and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed yesterday said that he thinks the issuance of death warrants was illegal, as it was done before the expiry of the time frame of 30 days for submitting the review petitions.
On November 19, the Appellate Division upheld the death sentences handed down by the High Court earlier to a dozen killers, including the five in the condemned cells.
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From last week but worth a look for the inventory of weapons, which included man-portable surface-to-air missiles. From Pyongyang to Tehran to who, exactly? Even an old SA-7 can bring down an airliner. Also interesting reading is how the people who own the planes take care to hide their uses, registration, and ownership. Hat tip Josh Stanton, and some EFL.
BANGKOK - The detention in Thailand of a cargo plane transporting weapons and the arrest of its crew remain shrouded in mystery. The destination of the weapons and identity of their buyers is uncertain. American officials and analysts believe, however, that the intervention dealt a blow to North Korea's arms sales.
The Air West flight's outbound journey was normal enough. After leaving Ukraine, the aircraft stopped to refuel in Azerbaijan, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bangkok before landing in Pyongyang. After picking up the cargo in North Korea, the crew told authorities, the flight was scheduled to stop in Bangkok, Sri Lanka, the UAE and finally Ukraine. What they haven't told investigators is where they planned to offload the weapons.
Thai authorities are baffled about why the plane stopped in Bangkok on the return trip since Thailand is known for close ties to the United States. A more direct route would have been over China, stopping in Lashio or Mandalay in Myanmar to refuel.
But a plane full of weapons runs afoul of UN resolution 1874 which forbids weapons exports from Nork-land. Since China is a permanent member of the Security Council they pro'ly don't need an embarrassment like that. So the weapons go in a circuitous route with lots of deniability.
Another flight from North Korea in November 2008 took this route in an attempt to take cargo to Iran that American authorities feared could be related to weapons of mass destruction. That flight was blocked when India refused to allow the plane to fly through its airspace. The Air West flight's scheduled stop in Colombo, Sri Lanka, was likely an attempt to avoid a repeat.
Yup, and they'll keep looking for routes where the local authorities won't inspect the cargo manifests.
Remember how East Germany cracked and the Wall came down? It happened because Czechoslovakia and especially Hungary turned a blind eye to the escape of East German refugees through their countries to the west. Once they made clear that they were no longer willing to stand in socialist solidarity with the blockheads running the East German paradise (and Gorby realized that he couldn't send the tanks in) it was all over. Substitute Thailand and Vietnam as the countries willing to look the other way, and China for Gorbachev, and the similarities are clear.
I don't say we're there yet; unfortunately things in Nork-land will have to get a lot worse before that sad country implodes. But the outline is discernible.
An increasing number of North Korean refugees are arriving in northern Thailand, fleeing poverty and political oppression at home. They were spotted on the side of the road along Thailand's border with Laos. Several more ran as journalists approached.
Speaking in Chinese, one woman says they just arrived and asks where exactly they are, but she does not want to say where they came from or how they got here. "Don't ask this. So many things are not good to ask. We don't dare say," she said.
The refugees reach Thailand by crossing the Mekong River from Laos after a dangerous journey across China.
Thai immigration authorities say they took more than 1,000 North Koreans into custody this year, compared with less than 400 in 2008 when Beijing tightened security for the Olympics. Police superintendent Sutham Chatarsa says they come to Thailand because, unlike in China and Laos, they will not be sent home, where they could face execution.
"We don't have the policy to send them back to North Korea," he said. "We want to take care of them until they are accepted into a third country. It's not the same as people coming from Cambodia or Laos. North Koreans come here because of political problems. So, we want them to get to a third country."
Even so, the North Koreans are treated as illegal immigrants before being allowed to go to South Korea or another country.
Lawmakers from 12 countries met in Thailand in November to raise attention to the plight of North Koreans fleeing their impoverished and repressive nation.
South Korean lawmaker Kim Yong-tae says they often face abuse because of their illegal status. "We need to cooperate with each other to pressure Chinese or the other country governments to give them legal status. And second, we need to offer some conditions for them to sustain their livelihoods," he said.
Thai authorities say they expect the number of North Korean refugees to continue to grow next year as more choose take the dangerous journey to freedom.
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Meanwhile, INDIA > has repor ordered its law enforcement + Army to be on the lookout for illegal PAKISTANI REFUGEES fleeing the violence in thier country.
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This is interesting considering that the Thai government is in the process of forcibly repatriating Burmese refugees (refoulment, in legal terms). One wonders what steps the UN and/or UNHCR will take in either case.
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What can the UN do about refoulment? For starters they can try to talk the Thai government out of involuntary repatriation. Perhaps it is a money issue: Thailand has "hosted" millions of refugees since the 1970s and is getting tired of the problem and the expense. Or, perhaps the UN could help the refugees to resettle somewhere else. A completely outrageous suggestion, of course, would be to expect the UN to do something about the conditions in Burma/Myanmar that caused these folks to leave their homeland in the first place.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > VIDEO: MISSION SUBCONTINENT 2012 [Indian Sub-Continent = SOuth Asia]. Year 2012 or shortly thereafter > INDIA MAY BREAK UP INTO 11 NEW SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES???
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* GLOBAL TIMES.CN VIDEO > INDIAN SEPARATIST MOVEMENTS: 2000 NORTHEAST SOLDIERS [UNLF] DEFEAT 55,000 INDIAN ARMY SOLDIERS IN MANIPUR. INDIA HAS LOST CONTROL OF LARGE PARTS/SWATHES OF LAND IN THE NORTHEAST.
POSTER > 1.3MILYUHN Indian Army profess or dedicated soldiers are fighting [but have NOT YET been able to effec defeat] 20,000 Maoist Freedom Fighters.
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM POSTER > Year 2025 = INDIA may break up into 25 different Countries-Nations according to UN-US Joint Report.
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WMF > 2010 YEAR OF THE TIGER: THREE PRIORITIES FOR CHINA, MANY WORLD STATES IN FACE OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC TROUBLES ARE CONTROL OF INFLATION; IMPROVEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND DOMESTIC ECONOMIC PROTECTIONISM, AND REDUCTION IN INTERNATIONAL GEOPOL, ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES.
Espec vee the US.
* SAME > UK MEDIA "2009 CHINA REPORT" {Financial Times]: SINO-US MILITARY AND GEOPOL STRUGGLE IN THE PACIFIC APPEARS INCREASING INEVITABLE. DISAPPEARANCE OF COLD WAR US STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES AGZ CHINA, ASIA. GLOBAL ORDER AND HEGEMONY CAN QUICKLY CHANGE DUE TO SUDDEN SHIFTS IN THE PACIFIC POWER BALANCE BTWN CHINA + USA.
* SAME > SOUTH KOREA ALARMED AT CHINA'S NEW STRATEGIC/GEOPOL "DISINTEREST" IN THE KOREAS; +
YEAR 2020: INDIA AS A "MAJOR GLOBAL SUBSIDIARY STATE" FOR THE US AND EUROPE. INDIA MAY OVERTAKE THE USA AS THE WORLD'S LARGEST ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATION. MAJOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ENERGY STATE. ADVANCED MICRO-TECHNOLOGIES BASTION.
ARTIC > OTOH, at the same time, India come Year 2020 or shortly thereafter may be comprised of 50 domestic Indian States instead of the present 28, + wid a tote national population of approximately 1.5BILYUHN Persons. Each of the new 50 Indian sub-states may have an average population of 30.0MILYUHN.
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Yonhap) -- The United Nations' envoy on North Korean human rights plans to visit South Korea to meet with defectors from the North and relevant officials as part of a fact-finding mission to determine the latest conditions in the communist state, officials said Sunday.
Vitit Muntarbhorn, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on North Korean human rights, is scheduled to arrive in South Korea on Jan. 10 for a seven-day visit, diplomatic sources, who requested anonymity, said.
Better dining in Seoul than in Pyongyang ...
Muntarbhorn plans to visit Hanawon, a resettlement center in Seoul for North Korean defectors, where he will conduct interviews to obtain first-hand impressions on human rights conditions inside the North, according to officials. He is also scheduled to meet with officials from the unification and foreign ministries in charge of Seoul's affairs with Pyongyang. The findings will be reflected in the U.N.'s upcoming report on the latest human rights conditions in North Korea.
The rapporteur has regularly visited South Korea once or twice a year to collect information on North Korean human rights violations. The U.N. has reportedly sought permission from Pyongyang to allow the rapporteur to visit North Korea, though he has been consistently denied entry by the central government.
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Like maybe growing enough food to feed everyone ...
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Yonhap) -- About 100,000 North Koreans rallied in Pyongyang on Saturday to show support for the government's New Year projects that called for stepped-up efforts to rebuild the nation's frail economy, state media said.
The joint editorial, a blueprint for North Korea's policy goals in the new year and released by the country's state media on Friday, stressed the need to develop light industry and agriculture as the "major fronts in the efforts for improving the people's standard of living."
Nork New Year's resolution #1: lose weight.
Oh, they already got that one covered ...
The Korean Central Broadcasting Station and Pyongyang Radio both reported that some 100,000 citizens of Pyongyang rallied in Kimilsung Square, where they pledged to carry out the tasks laid out by the New Year editorial. North Korea customarily holds a series of mass rallies nationwide after rolling out New Year policies.
"The general orientation of this year's efforts," a senior Pyongyang city official named Choe Yong-rim said in a speech at the gathering, "is to launch a sweeping campaign to bring about a drastic turn in improving the people's standard in the flames of the great revolutionary upsurge."
Choe noted that the year 2010 holds significant importance for the country's foremost campaign, which aims to build a thriving socialist nation by 19621972198219922002 2012, the birth centennial of Kim Il-sung, the country's founder and father of the current leader, Kim Jong-il. To improve people's livelihoods, production should be rapidly increased in the areas of such daily necessities as grain, livestock, fish and fruits, as well as coal and other energy needs, Choe declared.
The participants also vowed to support the Korean People's Army and the defense industry, the reports said.
The mass rally was attended by Premier Kim Yong-il, Choe Thae-bok, secretary of the Workers' Party central committee, and Yang Hyong-sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly. The nation's leader, Kim Jong-il, was absent from the event, as is usual, with portraits of both himself and his father erected on central stages, according to the reports.
The Japan-based newspaper Choson Sinbo, widely seen as conveying North Korea's official stance, said Saturday that department stores in Pyongyang were kept busy with crowds of New Year's shoppers. "There has been a great increase in the number of customers" and "people came in an endless stream" as commodities were supplied at lower costs following a currency denomination, the newspaper said in a dispatch from Pyongyang.
North Korea conducted a surprise currency redenomination in late November, exchanging old bills with new ones at a ratio of 100 to one. South Korean officials said North Korea has increased its supply of daily commodities to ease complaints over the redenomination.
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Foreign passengers flying into the United States from 14 mostly Muslim countries deemed to have links with terrorism are to face extra security checks at airports from today amid increased nervousness in the US after the failed attempt to blow up a passenger jet on Christmas Day.
The US transportation security administration announced that everyone flying into the US from or through these countries would go through "enhanced screening" at airports.
The list includes Nigeria, home of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the failed suicide bomber who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound passenger plane using an explosive device hidden in his underpants. It also includes Yemen, where it is claimed he was trained.
The other "countries of interest" are Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia, and four countries the US regards as state sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria.
From today US airports have also been instructed to increase "threat-based" screening of passengers who may be acting in a suspicious manner. The screening will include full body pat-downs, bag searches, full body scanning and scans by explosive detectors.
The introduction of the new measures coincided with a security alert at New Liberty international airport in New Jersey, which was locked down for several hours after a man walked through a security checkpoint without being screened last night.
Planes were grounded for six hours and thousands of passengers had to go through security again while the authorities went through CCTV footage in search of the man. He was eventually tracked down.
The TSA said the ability to enforce the new security measures was the "result of extraordinary co-operation from our global aviation partners". In a statement it said: "TSA is mandating that every individual flying into the US from anywhere in the world travelling from or through nations that are state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest will be required to go through enhanced screening."
Pakistan International Airlines said it had been applying the new approach to US-bound passengers since Saturday.
Yesterday, Gordon Brown confirmed that full body scanners are to be introduced at Britain's airports.
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The list...... includes Nigeria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Somalia, Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria.
And exactly WHY do folks from these places need to be coming here in the first place?
Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, was from the UK. So it might be commendable that they are finally doing something that makes sense but they still need to take it a step further and profile certain individuals (you know who I mean) no matter where they are from. Anybody who wants to bitch and moan about it can undergo "super enhanced" screening.
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Completely wrong approach: they are going after the devices, not the people.
I don't mind trying to detect explosive devices and weapons but we won't win that game. The perps are always going to find a way.
We need to go after the people. We need to make current intel available to screeners, we need to screen people right there at the gate, and we need to be serious about not just keeping a person off a plane but then jugging and tossing that person.
Don't like it? Don't fly.
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How about the muslims living in Europe or Australia?
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Mooslim pilots, you mean like Captain Khadr Abdullah, first officer Amr Shaafei from Flash Airlines Flight 604? Might have to ask 139 dead French passengers next time we see them. Also no longer available for comment are Captain Mahmoud El Habashy and First Officer Adel Anwar, and the cruise crew were Captain Amal El Sayed and First Officer Gameel Al-Batouti from EgyptAir Flight 990.
Depends. I have trained and worked with troops from Afghanistan, Iran(shah-era), Turkey, Iraq, Malaysia, Indonesia, Dubai, Oman, Algeria and the Magic Kingdom. I've also had dealings with business people, academics and just plain folk many of those places as well as Egypt, both here in the States and during several tours in the Mid-East and SE Asia. Some of them may have been terrorists; certainly one was a sympathizer (and dealt with as such).
To ban them all because a small percentage are jihadists would be the same as classing all retired-Army psueodo-Afrikaaner bentlegs as ignorant racist twats and treating them accordingly
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Actually a gentleman tried to recruit me for Rhodesia while I was visiting Kenya in '79; tempting offer (and a worthy cause), but it'd have meant deserting.
And if you knew Besoeker's past antics here at the Burg you wouldn't be as quick to condemn.
President Obama promises to investigate what went wrong, but there's no big mystery. He should simply review testimony put in the public record in early December, before the Christmas Day incident. Sen. Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee heard an explanation of how U.S. intelligence agencies decide when to put suspected terrorists on a watch list or a no-fly list. Timothy Healy, the head of the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center, explained the unit's "reasonable suspicion" standard like this:
"Reasonable suspicion requires 'articulable' facts which, taken together with rational inferences, yadda, yadda..." If this sounds like legalistic language, it is. The difference between law-enforcement procedures and preventing terrorism could not be clearer. If a well-respected banker takes the initiative to come to a U.S. embassy in Nigeria to report that he thinks his son is a terrorist, we expect intelligence officers to make "hunches," such as that this person should have his visa reviewed and be searched before getting on a plane. The result of prohibiting hunches was that Abdulmutallab was waved through.
In contrast, British authorities last May denied Abdulmutallab the right to re-enter the UK. MI5 is free to focus on gathering intelligence, making hunches and preventing wrongdoing. The British ban on Abdulmutallab didn't require any FBI-like "reasonable suspicion" test. We have a choice. We can limit how information is used or we can allow smart use of information to prevent attacks. If we continue to choose to limit how information can be used in our defense, we shouldn't be surprised when our defenses fail.
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So, if one is exercises the legal term "reasonable suspicion" in the affirmative and is subsequently found to be incorrect, can they then be said to have been unreasonably suspecious? Were the actions of MI-5 and MI-6 unreasonable?
The lack of "reasonable suspicion" then renders the subject, unquestionable, undoubted, palpable, indubious, requiring no further examiniation, tracking, or action?
Evidently the data available at the time did not provide a potential likelihood or factor of probability "reasonable suspicion" therefore no intelligence failure took place.
[Iran Press TV Latest] A retired US general and member of Iran Policy Committee (IPC) says all 18 to 28 years old Muslim men should be strip searched at airports as "one of these bombers" will explode an airliner in the coming days.
Thomas McInerney, a retired Lt. Genera with the US Air Force, told Fox News television on Saturday that within the next 30 to 120 days, "there is a danger of high probability" awaiting US airliners.
"If you are an 18 to 28-year-old Muslim man then you should be strip searched. And if we don't do that there's a very high probability we're going to lose an airline," he said.
The retired general went on to say that US officials should profile all Muslims. "We have to use profiling. And I mean be very serious and harsh about the profiling."
Asked if such a racial approach would not "generate more hatred and violence towards the West," McInerney said he did not want "a racial profile."
"I want to profile on that group that we have enough evidence from 9/11, and other [high-profile] cases that we know what we are looking at," he said.
The suggestions made by the US retied general comes on the heels of a purported bomb attack on a US transatlantic airliner on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian who allegedly received al-Qaeda training in Yemen.
Lawmakers and congressional leaders in the US have echoed similar sentiments by urging President Obama abandon or suspend his plan to shutter the Guantanamo Bay Prison.
Around half of the remaining Gitmo detainees are from Yemen, and of those, about 40 have been cleared for release.
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This is precisely the reaction desired by the Muslim men who made a ruckus on those airplanes. By provoking the government into pissing off all Muslims, it drives them into the radicals' arms. This is standard leftist strategy. "The people" (in this case the Ummah) are not aware that they are being oppressed, which is a big problem for the radicals.
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DAILY TIMES.PK > [US National CTC Director Michael Leitner] EXTREMISTS SEEKING NEW WAYS TO PROBE DEFENSES, ATTACK USA, as per Mutallab incident.
* TOPIX > YEMEN CHAOS AIDS THE EVOLUTION OF AN AL QAEDA CELL, espec AQ-affiliated orgs such as AQAP as suppor by RELEASED AL QAEDA DETAINEES + FIGHTERS RETURNING FROM IRAQ.
SAME > VARIOUS > IIUC, AQ-affiliated Cells, espec AQAP, are deemed to be greatly improving their ability, skills for Terror Strikes in suppor of AL QAEDA's CORE/MAIN AGENDA whilst also seeminly remaining decentralized = autonomous from OSAMA'S ORIGINAL MAIN GROUP???
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Muslims should not be allowed on Infidel
Airlines anyway. They have shown a never ending tendency to fly them into buildings full of infidels. They should start their own airline. Those airlines entering US Airspace should require, at thier expense, F-18 fighter escorts to remote airfields designated only for a Muslim airline.
In reality they will still find a way to blow up Infidel Airlines. But then we move to the next step... Isolation of the Muslim world if they just can't quite get along with the infidel world.
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#3 By provoking the government into pissing off all Muslims, it drives them into the radicals' arms. gromky
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TOPIX > NIGERIA UNHAPPY WID NEW AIRPORT SCANS ON ITS CITIZENS; + MUSLIMS PROTEST NEW TSA RESTRICTIONS [selective discrimination by USGovt agz Muslims = specific Ethno-Religious Group].
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Personally, Morally-Ethically, and Professionally, as an American, a US Soldier, Chamorro + Guamanian, etc. this + 9-11 + GWOT is are real quandries for me.
D *** NG IT, IFF I HAVEN'T SAID "THANK YOU" FOR COVERTLY DECEIVING, ENTRAPPING, + FORCING ME TO CHOOSE BETWEEN LOYALTIES, THERES GOOD REASON FOR THAT!
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday vowed to fight internal and external conspiracies against democracy and Pakistan, with the support and backing of the masses.
"Whether it's the internal conspiracy against democracy, or it's the external conspiracy against Pakistan, we will strongly fight these (conspiracies) with the support of masses," President Zardari said this while addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of Darwat Dam here.
The Darwat Dam with a storage capacity of 119,546 acre feet and hydropower generation of 450 KW, will irrigate about 50,000 acres of land.
Governor Sindh Dr Ishrat-ul-Ibad, Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, federal ministers, members of parliament, notables of the area and senior government officials were also present on the occasion.
The president said the Pakistani nation stands united to fully thwart any external threat to the country.
"If anyone casts an evil eye against Pakistan, all the political forces, by keeping their differences aside, will stand along the country's armed forces and the people," he said.
President Zardari expressed his resolve to strengthen the country and said: "We will never bow before the opponents."
"It is the thought and determination, which runs and saves the countries. Our conviction is strong. We will never bow before the opponents. We will support the masses, who are the source of strength," he remarked.
He said the foundation stone of Darwat Dam had been laid under the vision of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto as her vision based on the socio-economic uplift of the masses.
He said similar steps would be taken to improve the conditions of the common man and give them all basic amenities of life. Zardari said Benazir Bhutto was martyred because she always raised the voice for the poor.
"The Bhutto's can be murdered but their vision, philosophy and love cannot be eliminated," he said.
The president said it was according to the vision of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto that the poor women were being allotted 25 acres of agricultural land each, adding, "Those who killed her were wrongly thinking that after her death the people would not be taken care of."
"But it was the directive of Shaheed Benazir for me to look after the people. That order is a sacred trust for me," he remarked.
The president said the women who were getting agricultural land would also be provided with the facilities like given under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Card and their record would be maintained through a modern automated system.
He said: "The PPP is a thinking, a philosophy, given by Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and forwarded by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, and is spread across the country from Kashmir to Bhit and to K-2. "That is why, the slogans of Zinda Hai Bhutto Zinda Hai and Zinda Hai Bibi Zinda Hai are raised," he added.
The president expressed the resolve to initiate and carry out thousands of development projects across the country, including dams and water reservoirs.
The president also laid the foundation stones of the Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway (M-9) and Gharo-KT Bandar Road.
The project has been initiated at an estimated cost of Rs 13.5 billion and will take 30 months to complete.
The 130-km-long motorway with conversion from 4 to 6 lanes will stretch from Sohrab Goth to Jamshoro.
The project also incorporates the construction of 32 bridges with creation of seven new inter-changes, 46 box culverts and 335 pipe culverts.
The project has been divided into nine packages, including seven for roads and two for inter-changes.
President Asif Ali Zardari also performed the groundbreaking for rehabilitation of the coastal highway from Gharo to Keti Bandar.
The project will connect Keti Bandar to Gharo, which is also connected with Karachi through the National Highway.
The 90-km-long highway will be completed in 18 months at a cost of Rs 3.3 billion.
The highway will have six bridges, 87 box culverts and 109 pipe culverts.
The highway will open up the area of Gharo-Keti Bandar for agri and aqua culture as well as preservation and development of marine life with focus on development of mangrove forests.
It will also facilitate the development of the state of the art fish harbour at Keti Bandar besides allied cottage industries. It will also lead to the development of renewable energy resources and development of natural resources for the benefit of the national economy.
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If Zardari is President Ten Percent, then Obama is.....
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan has announced that it has no links with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),
Except for the similarity in names, of course...
adding that it is fighting only against United States.
And therefore is not involved in threatening or actually harming Afghan citizens. In fact, anyone who does so has proved himself not to be TTA, and should be shot on sight. The TTA will be grateful to anyone helping to cleanse the world of these pretenders, who blacken the name of the pure knights of jihad.
"Al-Qaeda and us have nothing in common except Jihad against the US troops," a private TV channel reported Qari Zia-ur-Rahman, commander of Afghan Taliban in Kunar province of Afghanistan as saying.
He said a large number of doctors and engineers have joined them, who will struggle to eliminate misunderstandings about Taliban's armed struggle.
After all, look at Al Qaeda's Dr. al-Zawahiri, and the AQ-AP Pantybomber, a degreed engineer with additional studies in Arabic and international business.
Qari Zia said all the commanders have been directed not to kidnap or harm foreigners, who arrive in Afghanistan for the welfare of Afghan public and a booklet has also been distributed in all parts of the country for this purpose. The Taliban commander made it clear they had no link with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
"Really. We're not trading personnel or anything! Just ignore what we said on the subject a few months ago."
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A policeman died and two of his friends were injured when a grenade he was "playing" with went off on Sunday. City Police Officer (CPO) Rao Muhammad Iqbal told Daily Times that Constable Asad Naseem was "playing" with a hand grenade at his friend's shop in Ghausia Market when it went off. He said the constable died, while two of his friends -- identified as Asad Mehmood and Talat -- were wounded. The CPO said he had ordered an inquiry into the explosion. He ruled out that it was a terrorist attack. Asad's 65-year-old mother died of shock when she was told that her son had been killed in an explosion.
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By "playing with" I assume they meant "pulling the pin and letting the spoon off". How else does a grenade explode?
And I like Mom's self-destruct as well. Hell, nobody to give her money now, so she might as well croak while the croaking is good.
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Y'all are assuming that it's a modern, properly maintained grenade fresh out of an arsenal. Could be an old corroded piece of shit which had been sitting on some Eighties-era Afghan battlefield until somebody brought it home as a souvenir of their jihad vacation. Then it just went "boom" in his hands because he had been tossing it back and forth in a threatening manner. Seems like the sort of thing a dirty street cop would do while shaking down a street vendor.
No proof, of course, but that's how I'd write the scenario if somebody asked me to dramatize it.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] An Iraqi government spokesman said on Sunday that a fifth British hostage, captured in Iraq in 2007, may be handed over to British authorities in the coming days.
Ali al-Dabbagh said he hoped security guard Alan McMenemy was still alive, but could not confirm it. British authorities said they believe he is dead and have called for his body to be returned.
McMenemy, 34, was one of four security guards for Peter Moore, 36, a computer consultant who was released unharmed on Wednesday by the League of the Righteous group, 31 months after the kidnapping.
All four of his bodyguards, also Britons, have since been killed.
The bodies of three--Alec MacLachlan, 30, Jason Swindlehurst, 38, and Jason Creswell, 39--were handed over to British officials last year.
Moore returned to Britain on Friday, and said in a statement released by the Foreign Office that he was "delighted to have returned to the UK and to have been reunited with my family."
"We hope McMenemy is still alive. The Iraqi government is seeking his release and his handover. That will be soon, God willing," Dabbagh said.
"This is part of the release process. All must be handed over to the British embassy. And that is what will happen in the coming days," he added.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Sunday the Islamist group was in the final stages of achieving reconciliation with the rival Palestinian Fatah party after he met Saudi Arabian officials to try to narrow the rift.
"We achieved great strides towards achieving reconciliation," Meshaal told reporters at the foreign ministry during a visit to the Saudi capital. "We are in the final stages now."
For a given definition of "final stages" that means "not anywhere close".
An Egyptian proposal to promote reconciliation between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group has called for presidential and legislative elections to be held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip next June.
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[Ma'an] The Leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Sunday denounced what it said was international pressure on Palestinians to resume negotiations with Israel.
"Various pressures the Palestinians are trying to drag them again to the fruitless maze of negotiations and to go chasing the illusion of misleading American and Israeli solutions," the PFLP said in a statement issued from its offices in Gaza.
The secular PFLP has joined Islamists historically in opposing the peace process with Israel, which it sees as slanted toward coaxing Palestinians to make more concessions.
The group called on the international community, "if they are interested in justice and peace, to move responsibly and urgently to lift the siege of Gaza and rebuild tens of thousands of homes and establishments and release thousands of prisoners from Israeli jails."
The remarks come amid renewed speculation that the Palestinian Authority (PA) could resume negotiations with Israel. News reports late last week said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited President Mahmoud Abbas to a trilateral peace summit with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Abbas' spokesman, Nabil Abu Rdeina told Ma'an on Friday, however, that the PA had received no invitation to a summit.
The PFLP also warned that Israel's intention is to impose a Palestinian state with temporary borders through a process of eviscerating Palestinians' political, geographic and social cohesion.
"Returning to an endless, so-called peace process became an end in itself for US diplomacy," the Front said.
Negotiations, the PFLP said, "will bring more disappointment, loss of dignity and violations of rights."
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"...to lift the siege of Gaza and rebuild tens of thousands of homes and establishments and release thousands of prisoners from Israeli jails."
Sorry guys. This is the office of We Don't Give A Crap. Pipe Dreams are down the hall.
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PAKISTANI DEFENC EFORUM > REPORT: US PLAN CALLS FOR [Israeli-Palestinian/PA] MIDDLE EAST PEACE DEAL IN TWO YEARS, PERMANENT BORDERS AGREEMENT IN NINE MONTHS.
[Ma'an] A British-led aid convoy bound for the Gaza Strip is on its way to the Egyptian port of Al-Arish after departing Syria by boat, organizers said on Sunday.
The Viva Palestina convoy, led in part by firebrand British MP George Galloway, loaded 210 truckloads of food and medical supplies onto a ferry in the Syrian port of Latakia.
The group, which set out from London nearly a month ago and drove through Turkey and Syria, spent five days stranded in Jordan after Egypt denied it permission to travel to the Red Sea port of Nuweiba, insisting that aid convoys should transit through the port of Al-Arish, on the Mediterranean.
The convoy had originally planned to enter Gaza on 27 December, the one-year anniversary of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip which left more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.
In a message released on an affiliated website on Sunday, Viva Palestina's organizers said they received verbal assurances from Egypt that they would be allowed to dock in Al-Arish on Monday.
Another group, the Gaza Freedom March, also faced opposition from Egyptian authorities with a plan to bring 1,300 international demonstrators to the Strip for a march against the Israeli-led blockade. Fewer than 100 from the group were allowed into Gaza, the rest stranded in Cairo.
Galloway led two other successful convoys to Gaza in 2009.
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The Viva Palestina convoy, led in part by firebrand British MP George Galloway ....
The enemy right there in the open and not a Predator in sight. :(
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We can but hope that the Egyptians have a variation of Montezuma's Revenge that laughs at modern pharmaceuticals, and can only be treated by eating copious amounts of camel dung.
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Brits should re-open "Bedlam" for George. And whats with this operational name "Viva Palestina"? Are these loonies plotting an overthrow of the "reconquista"?
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We can but hope that the Egyptians have a variation of Montezuma's Revenge that laughs at modern pharmaceuticals, and can only be treated by eating copious amounts of camel dung.
When Mr. Wife was doing a factory start-up in that part of the world, he alternated food poisoning and dysentery until he learnt not to eat meat or washed fruit, but to stick to bread, lentils, and peeling his own citrus. The only cure he knew was Immodium, which neatly converted the diarrhea problem to one of complete constipation... but did nothing for the vomiting.
Hamas on Sunday urged leading Islamic clerics in Egypt to reverse a recent edict supporting the construction of a metal wall cutting off smuggling tunnels under the border with the Gaza Strip.
It emerged late last week that scholars at Cairo's Al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning, issued a fatwa in favor of the wall.
"It is one of Egypt's legitimate rights to place a barrier that prevents the harm from the tunnels under Rafah, which are used to smuggle drugs and other [contraband] that threaten Egypt's stability," the newspaper Al-Masri Al-Yom quoted the scholars as saying, according to AFP.
"Those who oppose building this wall are violating the commands of Islamic law," they added, after a meeting attended by Egypt's top cleric Sheikh Muhammad Said Tantawi, who is a government appointee.
The tunnels are used to import goods made in Gaza scarce under and Israeli-led blockade, including food items, medicine, fuel, and toys, in addition to weapons and drugs.
The leadership of the Islamist Hamas movement, which control's Gaza's local government, issued a statement on Sunday calling on the Al-Azhar scholars to retract the fatwa and instead declare the wall forbidden (haram).
The statement asked sarcastically, "whether the steel wall under the borders meant to protect Egypt's national security from Zionist occupation, or it was meant to deprive the besieged Gazan children of milk and medicine?"
"We would like to remind our honorable intellectuals of Al-Azhar that Palestine is an occupied Islamic territory, and that Al-Aqsa Mosque is being Judaised and profaned," they added.
The statement asserted that Hamas and the people of Gaza would come to Egypt's defense just as they would defend Jerusalem, and that Egypt was still represents a "strategic dimension for Palestinian resistance."
The fatwa in support of the wall has also sparked criticism from other clerics who say it contradicts previous edicts calling on Muslims to support Palestine.
"This barrier will besiege our brothers in Gaza and offer them no way out of the three-year old Israeli blockade," an opposed group of scholars said in a statement, according to the pan-Arab news network Al-Arabiya.
"It will deprive them of food, medicine and fuel and will crush the resistance," the group said of the wall.
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The tunnels are used to import goods made in Gaza scarce under and Israeli-led blockade, including food items, medicine, fuel, and toys, in addition to weapons and drugs.
Its the weapons and drugs.
A proposal: A conveyor belt through one of the crossings, with a remote X-ray machine. Unload stuff into plastic trays that go through the machine, through the checkpoint, to the other side, where the stuff is unloaded into trucks.
Of course, THAT is a reasonably safe solution for the Israelis, which is why it won't be adopted...
[Al Arabiya Latest] A top official in the Iranian Football Federation (IFF) was forced to resign after an email was accidentally sent to the Israeli Football Association wishing them a Happy New Year, Iranian press said on Sunday. Polite, gentlemanly behavior? Unforgivable!!! The horror, the horror....
The official in question is the IFF's director of foreign relations, Mohammad-Mansour Azimzadeh, who was shamed after the email was sent on his behalf to Israeli officials, prompting the federation's president, Ali Kafashian, to express "deep remorse."
"The Iranian Football Federation has said that messages of congratulations are sent each year to all members of FIFA except the Zionist regime, which is why it was removed from the list of addresses for New Year messages," an IFF statement published by the Fars news agency said.
The statement added that a FIFA employee Amir Navan, an Israeli of Iranian origin, forwarded the Iranian wishes to the Israel association but Mohammad Ali Ardebili, head of the Iranian football union's foreign relations, told Israel's Army Radio he sent the letter to all football unions around the world and said the email to the Israel Football Association was a mistake.
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Hmmmm.....I see a situation where hackers can embarrass many Iranian officials. Just sayin'.
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Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar said Sunday it has become evident for the country that the recent anti-government riots were led by foreigners.
"The rioters are encouraged and supported by Britain, the US and the Zionist regime [Israel]," Mohammad-Najjar told reporters. "The involvement of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), enemies and those who seek to take revenge on the Islamic establishment during the past 30 years is quite clear."
He underlined that a number of MKO members, whose organization is branded as a terrorist group by many countries around the globe, had been arrested. He said they would be appearing in court soon.
Najjar said the massive participation of the people in rallies on Wednesday across Iran showed they want the judiciary to take action against rioters.
Anti-government protestors staged rallies in Tehran on December 27, taking advantage of the Shia Muslim mourning ceremony of Ashura.
Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters who vandalized public property and set trashcans aflame, provoking clashes with security forces. Seven people died during the unrest.
The deputy police chief, Ahmad-Reza Radan, said the force had not used violence against protesters, rejecting any involvement in the killings, adding that the deaths were being investigated by the authorities.
In response to the Ashura riots, millions of Iranians took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against the desecration of religious sanctities, demanding that rioters will be brought to justice.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's judiciary chief promised Sunday to "quickly and firmly" follow up the recent unrest in the country and deal with rioters who violated the sanctity of the Ashura mourning ceremony.
"Iran's judiciary will not fall short in performing its duties and will investigate the events quickly and firmly," Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani said in a meeting with judiciary officials.
He described last week's riots as an "improper" move and said, "Rioters claim they are protesting the result of the presidential election whereas they are in fact opposing the Islamic establishment."
He asserted that the judiciary body will issue "fair" verdicts and said, "Fair ruling should be based on legal and religious frameworks."
Ayatollah Larijani said that rioters who desecrated the Ashura mourning ceremonies would be punished soon.
Anti-government protestors staged rallies in Tehran on December 27, taking advantage of the Ashura ceremonies. Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters who vandalized public property and set trashcans aflame, provoking clashes with security forces.
Seven people died during the unrest. The deputy police chief, Ahmad-Reza Radan, said the force had not used violence against protesters, rejecting any involvement in the killings, adding that authorities were investigating the deaths.
In response to the Ashura riots, millions of Iranians took to the streets on Wednesday, demanding that rioters will be brought to justice.
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The Tehran Municipality has been clearing the Iranian capital of graffiti containing negative comments about defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
On January 1, Mousavi issued a statement, wherein he put forward a series of proposals for overcoming the current situation in the country.
In the statement, he made no reference to his earlier demand of holding a new presidential election. He also refrained from denying the legitimacy of the current government.
Mousavi said the executive administration must be held accountable for the problems it has caused before the people, parliament and judiciary.
The former Iranian prime minister also called for the release of prisoners, freedom for the press and political parties, and a new election law.
Earlier on Wednesday, millions of Iranians staged nationwide rallies, calling for strong government and judicial action against those who damaged public and private property in Tehran's central Enqelab Boulevard during the Shia Muslim ceremonies of Ashura.
They also demanded punishment for those who chanted slogans against the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
The statement issued by Mousavi drew different reactions.
Some, such as Mohsen Rezaei, another defeated presidential candidate, described the declaration as a "retreat" from the position of denying the legitimacy of Ahmadienjad's administration.
Others however, condemned the statement, repeating their earlier calls for judicial action against the "leaders of Fitna (Arabic for anarchy)."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The United Nations mission chief in Afghanistan says that Afghan MPs' decision to reject most of President Hamid Karzai's cabinet nominees is a serious setback for efforts to establish a functioning government in the country. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Egypt's top Islamic body issued a fatwa sanctioning the construction of a steel wall between Cairo and the impoverished Gaza Strip, causing a stir amongst several scholars who accused Egypt of stifling the resistance in the strip. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] An Iraqi government spokesman said on Sunday that a fifth British hostage, captured in Iraq in 2007, may be handed over to British authorities in the coming days.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Sunday the Islamist group was in the final stages of achieving reconciliation with the rival Palestinian Fatah party after he met Saudi Arabian officials to try to narrow the rift.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A top official in the Iranian Football Federation (IFF) was forced to resign after an email was accidentally sent to the Israeli Football Association wishing them a Happy New Year, Iranian press said on Sunday. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's judiciary chief promised Sunday to "quickly and firmly" follow up the recent unrest in the country and deal with rioters who violated the sanctity of the Ashura mourning ceremony. 
