[Quqnoos] The Taliban have planted improvised mines in southern Afghanistan, posing a serious threat to civilians, ICRC said on Sunday. The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross in a statement said the bombs have made "it almost impossible for people to evacuate the sick and wounded" from the town of Marjah in Helmand province.
"Improvised mines and other explosive devices are posing a deadly threat to civilians in Marjah," said Reto Stocker, the head of the ICRC delegation in Kabul.
The improvised explosive devices have prevented a return of the local people who fled their homes ahead of Marjah offensive, now it's forth week, the statement noted.
Thousands of people fled Marjah and have sought shelter elsewhere in Helmand province to avoid being caught up in the fighting against the Taliban.
The offensive, dubbed as Moshtarak, a Dari word for together, involves 15,000 NATO and Afghan forces to eradicate the Taliban militants from their strongholds in Marjah and Nad Ali districts.
As neither patients nor medical staff have been able to move about safely within the area of Marjah, health care services continue to be interrupted, the statement added.
In the early days of the operation, the Afghan Defence Minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, said improvised explosives devices have slowed down the progress in NATO's biggest offensive in the country.
The ICRC deemed the widespread use of improvised mines in Marjah as against to the most basic principles of international humanitarian law.
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sorry i couldn't make it past the first paragraph. How do they blame it on America?
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#1 sorry i couldn't make it past the first paragraph. How do they blame it on America?
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From the information provided here, they don't. I know it's a first, but let's not discourage them.
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[Quqnoos] President Karzai has made his first trip Sunday to the southern Afghan town of Marjah, a former Taliban stronghold.
The visit comes three weeks after thousands of NATO and Afghan forces have launched their biggest offensive to drive the Taliban out of Marjah and Nad Ali districts of Helmand province.
The trip to Marjah -- a former hub for Taliban's narco trade -- comes a day after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid a surprise visit to Helmand to meet nearly 10,000 UK troops in the province.
In an address to local people in Marjah, President Karzai urged tribal elders to support the Afghan government to avoid a return of the Taliban, said Quqnoos correspondent, Baryalay Rahimi, who accompanied Karzai to the district.
Karzai called on local people to join the Afghan police force and help secure the area, a former Taliban spiritual stronghold in the volatile region.
NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, Afghan ministers for Defence and Interior and the head of Afghan intelligence agency visited the district alongside with the president.
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The United States is involved in preparatory military operations in Somali for a 'major' offensive against Somali fighters, report says.
US is providing military assistance to Somali government in order to retake capital Mogadishu from Somali fighters, a recent report in The New York Times indicates.
The American military is conducting nighttime surveillance in the Al-Shabab-controlled areas of the capital and training Somali intelligence officers and forces in addition to providing logistical supports for the government, the report adds.
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TOPIX > SOMALIA: CENTRAL GOVT. SAYS IT HAS COMPLETED PREPARATIONS FOR NEW ALL-OUT OFFENSIVE AGZ REBELS.
* SAME > HIZBUL/HIZBUK ISLAM SAYS IT WILL SET UP ADMINISTRATIONS FOR GOVT-CONTROLLED DISTRICTS IN MOGADISHU.
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Hit and run is good. The second part is to stop feeding the enemy.
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This is nuts. Will do absolutely nothing to stop piracy. Fail to produce any significant stability in the south.
Most of the so called AQ are just guns for hire. If you want to kill off the AQ organizers then set out to do that. Supporting the United Nations sponsored so called Somali government is just feeding the OWG BS.
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AQ and the pirates are two separate problems in Somalia. This just appears to be yet another operation to whittle down AQ without actually doing anything.
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Finding and sinking the motherships, with all hands aboard, that'll stop it.
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Supporting the United Nations sponsored so called Somali government is just feeding the OWG BS.
Actually, the US has backed the rump-Somali government for years. BTW, you might want to readjust that tinfoil beanie into a more conical shape...
AQ and the pirates are two separate problems in Somalia.
Exactly. As for "whittling down AQ" - technically that's incorrect. Al Shabaab pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda, but indications are it's still a 'local' movement.
And yes, it's a mess within a mess. The objective is to make Somalia somewhat less conducive to a feeling Al-Q moving back in there (like they're doing in Gaza).
VIENNA — A North Korean colonel who spent two decades going on European shopping sprees for his country's rulers said Thursday the late dictator Kim Il Sung lived in luxury while many people struggled to survive in his impoverished communist nation.
Kim Jong Ryul, who spent 16 years under cover in Austria, also described how the "great leader" and his son and successor Kim Jong Il spent millions pampering and protecting themselves with Western goods — everything from luxury cars, carpets and exotic foods, to monitors that can detect heartbeats of people hiding behind walls and gold-plated handguns.
The colonel's account — told in a new book by Austrian journalists Ingrid Steiner-Gashi and Dardan Gashi — shows the deep divide between the lifestyles of the North Korean leadership and their citizens, who sometimes must subsist eating tree bark, knowing they will be sent to labor camps if they criticize the government.
Kim said this injustice was what motivated him in October 1994 to fake his death at the end of one of his trips and start a new, secret life in Austria in the hope that the oppressive regime would crumble within years. With no change in sight in North Korea's leadership, the colonel decided to come clean and tell his story. "Without this book, I didn't want to die," he told The Associated Press. "Now I can die with a clear conscience."
Kim Jong Ryul said the late dictator had dozens of sprawling villas — some of them built underground — filled with crystal chandeliers, silk wallpaper and costly furniture. In some of the villas, Kim — who had studied mechanical engineering in the former German Democratic Republic — even developed special ventilation systems which, in the event of a nuclear attack, would continue to function and act as filters, the colonel said.
It was in these palatial homes that Kim Il Sung and his family would feast on an immense array of fine foods — including Austrian specialties.
"He only ate foreign food," the colonel said. "In Vienna, there was a special attache, a friend of mine, who only procured special foreign food for the dictator."
Kim Il Sung's craving once led to a delegation of cooks being sent to the Austria to visit renowned culinary schools and some of the country's finest restaurants to collect recipes.
The colonel, who speaks German fluently, served as translator.
"'Learn everything!' — that's what they were told," the defector said. "The crazy dictators heard rumors that Austrian cuisine was world famous and that's why they wanted (the cooks) to come here."
He also described how Kim Il Sung — while publicly denouncing "Western decadence and imperialism" — had an extensive luxury car collection that included Mercedes, Lincolns, Fords, Cadillacs and Citroens. Kim Jong Il, who liked taking fast sports cars for a spin, also appeared to share his father's passion.
In the early 1990s, the car-obsessed ruler even ordered a North Korean version of the Mercedes 200 to be rebuilt. Upon completion, it was presented to a cheering North Korean public amid much fanfare, the defector said.
With the help of middlemen eager to make money, the laundry list of items sought by the Kim Il Sung and his son — described by Kim as "little dictator" — were easily tracked down.
For example, a wealthy Romanian secret service agent identified in the book only as Valeriu U. who ran a fake company in Vienna, helped secure, among other things, special hunting weapons and even a light Cessna aircraft.
With North Korea willing to pay 30 percent more than the asking price for embargoed goods, Austrians and others were also eager to participate. In this way, metal detectors, specialized weapons, devices that could read fingerprints and other, often banned, products found their way into the isolated country.
Kim, who left a wife and two children behind in North Korea and has yet to seek asylum in Austria, knows he is risking his life by going public.
"I'm very scared — maybe I'll be killed, shot, in the next few days," he said.
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In response to a joint South Korea-US military drill, North Korea said Sunday it will no longer make efforts towards nuclear disarmament.
North Korea also threatened to use "merciless physical force" in reaction to the annual military exercises due to kick off on Monday.
Pyongyang also announced that it would no longer abide by the armistice that brought a truce to the Korean War fifty years ago.
"The revolutionary armed forces of (North Korea) will be left with no option but to exercise merciless physical force as the rival is set to do harm to the (North)," the military's mission at the truce village of Panmunjom said in a statement carried by the country's official Korean Central News Agency.
The mission said that South Korea violated the armistice by participating in the military cooperation with the United States.
Both South Korea and the US, which keeps about 28,500 troops in the country, insist the maneuvers are purely defensive.
However, on Sunday, Pyongyang condemned the drills as a preparation for an invasion.
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bah. I give it a 2. No Army-First. No Juche. No roasting fires
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Canada will list al Shabaab -- a Somali-based Islamist militant group which recently pledged allegiance to al Qaeda -- as a "terrorist group" to prevent it from operating or seeking funds, the Canadian government said on Sunday. Canada said it took action after it received reports from the Somali community that Al Shabaab has attempted to radicalize and recruit young Canadians. "This government ... is determined that terrorist groups do not receive support from Canadian sources," Vic Toews, Canada's minister of public safety, said in a statement.
The listing prohibits Canadians from knowingly dealing with assets Al Shabaab owns or controls. It also makes it a criminal offense to knowingly participate in, contribute to, or facilitate certain activities of the group. Britain's interior minister announced a similar move this month.
"Let it Be Known...Allah is our Lord! Muhammad (Sall Allahu 'alaihi wa salaam) is His Messenger and our Rasool! Islam is our way of life! The United States of America is our country! Freedom is our right!"
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I thought Keith Ellison already represented them in ReCongress....
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to nominate retired Army Major Gen. Robert Harding to head the Transportation Security Administration after his first pick withdrew under political pressure, an administration official said Sunday.
The official declined to be further identified because the planned nomination has not yet been announced.
Before retiring from the military, Harding was deputy to the Army's chief of intelligence and previously served as director for operations in the Defense Intelligence Agency.
A US federal judge has refrained from accepting a government motion asking for dropping a civil law suit that charges the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was involved in torturing two former American contractors in Iraq.
The former contractors Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel were given the go ahead on Friday by District Judge Wayne R. Andersen to follow the civil case on torture, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.
Vance and Ertel who were employed in Iraq by Shield Group Security (SGS), alleged in 2006, one year after their arrival in Iraq, that their employer bribed Iraqi Sheiks and trafficked in weapons, activities they worried were illegal.
Upon reporting to authorities in the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and officials at the US embassy in Baghdad, they were denied their identification cards and hence from entering to the Green Zone by SGS, and were finally arrested by the "United States forces" and ended up in US "Getmo-ized" detention facility near Baghdad.
The two men claim that while in solitary confinement, they were subjected to sleep deprivation, long hours of interrogation, blasting music, threats, hunger and a practice known as "walling," in which subjects are blindfolded and walked into walls, all "tantamount to torture" according to the suit.
Ertel was released after a month and Vance after two months, the suit said.
"This is the first time where a court has recognized that the facts were sufficient to potentially hold a secretary of defense personally liable for authorizing torture," said Mike Kanovitz, a Chicago attorney who represents the plaintiffs.
District Judge Andersen said his decision "represents a recognition that federal officials may not strip citizens of well settled constitutional protections against mistreatment simply because they are located in a tumultuous foreign setting."
"The allegations, if true, would substantiate plaintiffs' claim that Rumsfeld was aware of the direct impact that his newly-approved treatment methods were having on detainees in Iraq," Andersen wrote . He went on to add that "a court might plausibly determine that the conditions of confinement were torturous."
The two men are seeking unspecified damages. The next hearing is set for March 25.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, today expressed concern about the reported rise in the number of anti-government and anti-immigrant extremist groups during the past year.
CAIR cited a report released today by the respected Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). That report, titled "Rage on the Right," states in part:
The SPLC report is thoroughly discredited (just as Walter Jacobson), which is why CAIR jumped all over it.
"Furious anti-immigrant vigilante groups soared by nearly 80%, adding some 136 new groups during 2009. And, most remarkably of all, so-called 'Patriot' groups -- militias and other organizations that see the federal government as part of a plot to impose 'one-world government' on liberty-loving Americans -- came roaring back after years out of the limelight... The 'tea parties' and similar groups that have sprung up in recent months cannot fairly be considered extremist groups, but they are shot through with rich veins of radical ideas, conspiracy theories and racism."
"American Muslims are concerned that groups expressing extremist anti-immigrant and anti-government views are the same ones that promote anti-Muslim bigotry," said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. "Whenever extremism of any kind flourishes, all those who seek to preserve our nation's cherished values of tolerance and inclusion must speak out."
He added that CAIR condemned last month's politically-motivated airborne suicide attack on an IRS facility in Texas as an act of terrorism. CAIR also called on American leaders to repudiate a statement by former Rep. Tancredo (R-CO) seeming to advocate Jim Crow-era literacy tests for voting rights. Tancredo made those remarks at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn.
Hooper noted that a recent survey showed that more than 4 in 10 Americans admit to anti-Muslim prejudice.
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well I'm worried about this muslim compound out here in the country in Franklin Co. GA. Alot of weapons being fired and the law is scared too go in there
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The 'tea parties' and similar groups that have sprung up in recent months cannot fairly be considered extremist groups
Since when has CAIR ever been concerned about what's 'fair'???
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] An Indian official spokesperson said on Sunday that New Delhi had been demanding Pakistan to take action against Hafiz Saeed, who is "one of the masterminds of Mumbai terror attacks".
Responding to queries regarding a reported statement by the Pakistan foreign minister that India had not demanded the arrest of Hafiz Saeed and that the issue did not even figure in the recently-concluded foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan, the spokesperson said India had handed over dossiers to Pakistan containing evidence on alleged involvement of Hafiz Saeed in the terrorist attack.
"A dossier containing a compilation of evidence on the involvement of Hafiz Saeed in the terrorist attack was handed over to Pakistan on August 21, 2009 and his name featured prominently in yet another dossier handed over to the Pakistan foreign secretary during the talks on February 25, 2010," the spokesperson said.
Saeed's activities, including his recent "vitriolic and venomous statements" aimed at fomenting further acts of terrorism against India and the unhindered public space and freedom he enjoys in Pakistan was raised strongly by India during the foreign secretary-level talks, the Indian spokesperson added.
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[Dawn] Federal Law Minister Babar Awan has nominated himself for an international assignment worth millions of dollars. A former Supreme Court judge and a former attorney general, who had backed the proclamation of emergency of Nov 3, 2007, have also been nominated for the assignment, according to sources.
The law ministry had put the minister's name at the top of the four-member list of legal experts recommended to the International Arbitration Forum for future assignments at the International Arbitration Court (IAC), the sources said. The lawyers recommended by various countries are put on a panel from which parties to a dispute choose experts from.
"Lawyers who are finally selected from the panel by the disputing international parties get paid up to millions of dollars in fee," said Malik Saeed Khan, a former judge of Lahore High Court, who has been nominated by Pakistan in an international arbitration involving France and Pakistan over the nuclear reprocessing plant dispute.
When contacted, Mr Awan first denied any knowledge of such a panel, saying he had not been consulted on the matter. He sought some time to find out more on the issue.
After about 15 minutes, he told Dawn that somebody in his ministry had put his name on the list without his consent. "I have ordered an inquiry into the incident and have also ordered for withdrawal of my name," said the minister.
He added that he knew nothing of the other nominees. The sources said the names had already been sent to the Foreign Office.
Malik Saeed, who had resigned an important position during the martial law of Gen Ziaul Haq, said that it was the law ministry that sent the names for the panel and the law minister usually knew of the lawyers nominated.
"If I were the minister, I would never nominate myself for the panel as it is not elegant and also because he (the minister) is facing allegations of taking bribe (as a lawyer) worth millions of rupee in a famous bank fraud case," he said.
He was referring to the Bank of Punjab case, because of which a regulatory body of lawyers is conducting disciplinary proceedings against Mr Awan, former attorney general Malik Muhammad Qayyum and others for taking bribe in return for promise of a favourable verdict in the Supreme Court.
One of the three other lawyers nominated is Makhdoom Ali Khan --- former attorney general for Pakistan who allegedly drafted Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf's proclamation of emergency that led to the unprecedented sacking of superior court judges, including incumbent Chief Justice, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. (Makhdoom Ali Khan subsequently denied that he was the author of the proclamation.)
The third nominee is Justice Faqir Mohammad Khokhar, who had to resign from the Supreme Court last year after being charged of misconduct and contempt of court by a bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.
The fourth nominee is a former chief justice of Pakistan, Ajmal Mian, who was at the centre of a controversy some 14 years ago over alleged cover-up of reported child abuse at his residence.
Justice Mian gave his version of the case in his book --- "A judge speaks out". He says the story was concocted by the government of Mian Nawaz Sharif.
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Nobama has a delimma in Iraq hell all I ever hear him talk about is healthcare
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Beinart is a libtard. How can he write an article about Iraqi elections being destabilized and never mention Iran? Or the stupidity of removing troops from one of Iran's flanks? Do these guys ever think of with whom they will be compared after general war breaks out with Iran?
The world's largest oil traders have quietly stopped supplying petrol to Iran in a clear sign that the threat of sanctions and Washington's behind-the-scenes efforts to convince companies not to sell to Tehran are paying off.
However, the decision by Vitol, Glencore and Trafigura is unlikely to cut Tehran off completely from the global petrol market as traders said Iran's long-standing suppliers were being replaced by small Dubai-based and Chinese companies.
Although Iran is one of the world's biggest oil producers, its refineries are dilapidated and it suffers from runaway petrol demand because of generous subsidies.
Energy executives said Vitol, Glencore and Trafigura, which have hitherto sold Iran half of its petrol imports of 130,000 barrels a day, stopped supplying Tehran because of mounting political risk. "The political and public relations problems more than outweigh the business rewards," said one executive.
The sale of petrol to Iran by non-US companies is legal as fuel imports have yet to be included in sanctions against the country. The companies declined to comment.
Vitol's decision is particularly important as the company is by far the world's largest oil trader. One executive familiar with Iran's trade said "Vitol consciously decided not to participate in Iran's tenders" at the start of the year. Trafigura, the Switzerland-based oil and metals trader, stopped selling to Iran about three months ago, an industry executive said. "They have concluded that there's too much political and financial risk," the executive said. Glencore stopped supply in late 2009, breaking a relationship with Iran of more than three decades.
The traders' decision comes as both US houses of Congress have backed legislation to impose unilateral sanctions on companies that provide Iran with petrol as well as on insurers of such shipments, such as Lloyd's of London. Supporters of the sanctions describe the petrol imports as "Iran's economic Achilles heel".
Oil groups such as Total of France, Lukoil of Russia, Petronas of Malaysia and Royal Dutch Shell also sold petrol to Iran last year. Chinese oil traders, including the secretive ZhenHua Oil, began supplying fuel to Iran in 2009 and now provide up to a third of its imports.
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Translation (I think): They don't want to end up with their in-country stock incinerated by air strikes. Or the profits locked down in escrow accounts by a sanctions regime?
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Tehran has some huge refineries preparing to come on line. They will have more refining capacity that most countries on the planet in a few months. They are also building refineries in Venezuela to refine Venezuelan crude there and ship finished product.
Yes, 30 years ago.
General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, warned Sunday that Iran is becoming a "thugocracy" in attempts to suppress popular anger over last year's contested presidential vote results.
"I think you've heard it said by pundits that Iran has gone from being a theocracy to a thugocracy," Petraeus, whose command stretches from Egypt to Pakistan and includes Iran, said on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS."
Petraeus said Iranian actions were making it easier for the United States to build a coalition and added: "President Ahmadinejad is often our best recruiting officer."
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As Iraqi people prepare to cast their ballots in a key parliamentary election, Iran's Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani warns against US interference in the voting process.
Speaking on the morrow of a deadly blast which killed at least four Iranians in the central Iraqi city of Najaf, Larijani said Washington's ongoing military presence in the country is the main reason behind the recent wave of violence, which has reached a new high in the lead-up to Iraq's general election.
"The US government should be held responsible for [ongoing terror attacks in Iraq," said Larijani in a parliamentary session on Sunday.
The Iranian Parliament Speaker said the Iraqi nation will show that they do not need the help of Washington statesmen in deciding their country's affairs.
This is Iraq's second parliamentary election since the US-led invasion of 2003. The previous election, which was held in 2005, saw Nouri al-Maliki become prime minister.
The vote is taking place against a backdrop of stringent security measures by the Iraqi government to protect voters against election violence.
But this has not stopped insurgent groups from disrupting the election process in Baghdad and other key cities in Iraq.
According to the latest figures, at least 24 Iraqis have been killed and dozens of others wounded by mortar attacks since polling stations opened early Sunday in Baghdad.
Also, sixteen people were killed after two massive blasts flattened two residential buildings, AFP reported.
Iraqi Baathists, whose Saddam-linked party candidates were banned by the Iraqi authorities but backed by the US, as well as the anti-Shia al-Qaeda militants, are believed to be behind the bombing attacks during today's elections.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the myth of imperialism will soon be shattered.
The myth of imperialism will soon shatter as more and more nations are waking up to restore their independence, and military threats and methods of intimidation can no longer benefit the hegemonic powers, Ahmadinejad told visiting Ecuadorian First Vice President Lenin Moreno in Tehran on Saturday.
"Ecuador and a number of other countries are the standard-bearers of honor, justice, and independence in Latin America. This is due to the revolutionary movements which have emerged in them. Tehran and Quito regard the dominant governing system in the world as unjust and seek to create a world alive with justice, peace, and friendship," he noted.
"Although Iran and Ecuador are geographically very distant from each other, the two nations share the same areas of interest and concern and are determined to develop reciprocal ties in all areas," the Iranian president added.
Moreno described Iran as a forerunner in the campaign against world imperialism and called for the expansion of ties between the two countries in the economic, cultural, and political spheres.
The Ecuadorian first vice president also said his country fully supports the Iranian nuclear program, adding that Quito regards Tehran's nuclear activities as legal and legitimate.
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This short asshole badly needs to either vanish, or be toilet trained.
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Hit by a global crackdown on their wealthy financiers, Bin Laden's followers have been forced to abandon their Koranic principles to pursue their holy war.
The three al-Qaeda agents assured the Colombians that they would have no problem moving their shipment of European-bound cocaine through the Islamist badlands of the Sahara. As supporters of the terrorist organisation's North African branch, they would guarantee shipment of the drugs through territory they controlled - so long as they were paid fee of $2,000 per kilo.
The trio, all from the impoverished desert nation of Mali, thought they were setting up a deal with representatives of Colombia's Marxist FARC guerrillas to smuggle up to 1,000kg of cocaine.
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But there was anger in Washington and dismay in London when MEPs recently voted to nullify an agreement between the US and the European Council that would have allowed the US access to financial data from within the Swift network for international bank transfers.
Money trails don't lie and that is the crux of the matter.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Quqnoos] The Taliban have planted improvised mines in southern Afghanistan, posing a serious threat to civilians, ICRC said on Sunday. The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross in a statement said the bombs have made "it almost impossible for people to evacuate the sick and wounded" from the town of Marjah in Helmand province. 
In response to a joint South Korea-US military drill, North Korea said Sunday it will no longer make efforts towards nuclear disarmament. 
A US federal judge has refrained from accepting a government motion asking for dropping a civil law suit that charges the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was involved in torturing two former American contractors in Iraq. 
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, today expressed concern about the reported rise in the number of anti-government and anti-immigrant extremist groups during the past year.
