This Day in History:
1916 - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. (Egg and Milk production drop)
1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1941 - The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
1945 - Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
1966 - Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup.
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Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
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Wasn't Morely one of the actresses blacklisted as a Communist in Hollywood? If so she missed her time era by a few years--today she could have found a good paying job in govmint.
In 1947, her screen career came to a halt when she testified before the
House Committee on Un-American Activities and refused to answer
questions about her possible enrollment in the Communist Party.
Afterward, she continued promoting left-wing causes and married actor
Lloyd Gough. In 1954, she ran unsuccessfully as a New York lieutenant
governor candidate for the American Labor Party.
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Typical Hollywood Parlor Pink Scenario - Leo Penn (Sean's old man)
Penn advocated U.S. neutrality in the war in Europe during the period of time where the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact created a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. After Hitler violated that pact Penn urged that America enter the war.
Penn supported the Hollywood trade unions, and refused to accuse others to the House Un-American Activities Committee. He was black-listed, and Paramount refused to renew his contract. As a result Penn was not able to work as a movie actor. He found acting work in television, but CBS ousted him after receiving an anonymous accusation that he had addressed a political meeting. Barred from acting in film or TV, he became a director.
Never mind Stalin killed more innocent people than Hitler.
An Afghan lawmaker and four of his bodyguards were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in southern Helmand province on Thursday, a witness said.
Daad Mohammad, an MP and former intelligence chief for Helmand, was in a vehicle when it was hit by the bomb in Lashkar Gah district, about 555 km (345 miles) southwest of Kabul, his cousin Akhtar Mohammad, who survived the blast, told Reuters.
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Afghanistan's intelligence agency said on Wednesday that last month's attacks on government buildings in Kabul were planned and directed from Pakistan, saying seven Afghans have been arrested.
The attackers were in telephone contact with a Pakistan-based ringleader during the simultaneous attacks on the justice ministry, prisons directorate and education ministry, KHAD spokesman Saeed Ansari told reporters.
The February 11 attacks, claimed by the Taliban, killed 26 Afghans in one of the most brazen assaults on the capital since the hard-line movement was overthrown in the 2001 US-led invasion. Eight of the attackers were killed, three by their suicide bombs."Seven terrorists were arrested and one was killed during the arrest operation," Ansari said, without giving any further details about the raid.
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The NATO-led military on Wednesday claimed killing 33 Taliban in clashes earlier in the week in northeastern Afghanistan, as a bomb blast wounded three people, the government said.
In a statement late on Tuesday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said troops had clashed with Taliban on Saturday in Kapisa province, northeast of Kabul, and an assessment of the battle was going on. "As of March 16, an estimated total of 29 enemy dead and 12 wounded have been reported," the ISAF said, adding it had killed two "prominent" wanted Taliban and their two associates in the southern province of Helmand on Monday.
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Fierce fighting between Somali government forces and Islamist rebels near the Ethiopian border Wednesday killed at least 14 people, mostly combatants, witnesses said.
Government troops attacked Shebab insurgents in the southwestern Islamist stronghold of Rabdhure, sparking heavy exchanges. A Shebab commander, Sheikh Hassan Derow, told AFP the government forces had attacked his group's positions on the outskirts of the town before they were driven back. "We killed many of them and seized one of their vehicles and burned another," he said. One Shebab fighter was killed, he said.
A government official in a nearby town confirmed the clashes but did not give any casualty figure.
Residents said they saw several bodies after the fighting subsided. "I saw 11 bodies in one area and two in another. Most of the bodies I saw were of the government forces," said one resident, Mohamed Alin Yusuf.
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Somali pirates in the northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland have hijacked an Iranian vessel, Press TV has been informed. According to Press TV's correspondent, Somali pirates seized the Iranian vessel for illegal fishing carried out without the permission of the Puntland Administration.
Meanwhile a maritime official at the East African Seafarers Assistance Program Andrew Mwangura told Reuters on Wednesday that the ship was reported as seized on Monday.
"I hear that the villagers have taken it because of fishing illegally or for damaging fishing equipment," Mwangura said. "Vigilantes usually move when you destroy their nets or boats and hold the ship until they are paid back."
The Iranian Foreign Ministry, however, has not yet confirmed the report, saying that it is still under investigation.
The report comes as earlier in November Somali pirates hijacked a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship, Delight, operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) in the Gulf of Aden.
Earlier in December, a member of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Parviz Sarvari warned that Iran is mulling over a military option against Somali pirates.
The French Indian Ocean joint forces top military commander Vice Admiral Gerard Valin has predicted great reduction in pirate attacks this year as international efforts have been stepped up to curb the attacks which threaten one of the world's most vital shipping routes. He said there had been 208 pirate attacks in the pirate-infested waters off the coast of Somalia, of which 43 had been successful in 2008.
"But since January 3 there have been only two successful attacks" he told reporters in Nairobi. "It's becoming more and more difficult for the pirates and we are becoming more and more efficient."
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Red on Red?
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They're Fucked, the Iranians will kill them all.
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Whatever they do they should not open any barrels or they'll get sick and die.
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A fresh case has been filed with Motihar Police station against 41 Islami Chhatra Shibir cadres in connection with an attempted murder during their clashes with Bangladesh Chhatra league (BCL) at Rajshahi University (RU) on March 13.
Police said Motihar Jubo League Vice-President Ruhul Amin filed the case Tuesday around 11.00pm against 20 identified and 21 unnamed local Shibir cadres for assaulting him.
The case stated that local Shibir cadres Shahin, Raju, Alamgir, Robi, Shawon, Salam and Dildar with 30 others surrounded him at a Binodpur Bazar restaurant with sharp weapons, firearms, hand bombs and iron rods. They gravely stabbed him for being an Awami League supporter.
Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of the police station, yesterday confirmed filing of the case and said police had already started investigations on the pervious cases. However, no one yet has been arrested in this connection.
Earlier on March 15, BCL RU unit Cultural Affairs Secretary Awal Kabir Joy, activist Shakhawat Hossain and local AL activist Muhammad Aslam filed separate cases against 222 Shibir leaders, cadres and Jamaat leaders with the same police station.
RU unit Shibir Organising Secretary Farhad Alam also filed a case against over 33 BCL men with Motihar Police Station in connection with the murder of RU unit Shibir General Secretary Sharifuzzaman Nomani on March 13.
Meanwhile, chaired by the vice-chancellor, the RU authorities held a meeting at the VC's office on resuming the university academic and administrative activities. RU registrar, treasurer and examination controller were present at the meeting.
However, following the clashes all higher educational institutions in the city, including Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet), have been closed for an indefinite period.
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A Canadian-Lebanese national arrested for his alleged role in a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing that killed four appeared in court Wednesday for a second bail hearing. Hassan Diab, 55, was arrested in November in a suburb of Canada's capital at the request of French authorities who want him extradited to stand trial for murder, attempted murder and the destruction of property for his alleged role in the bombing.
A judge in December denied him bail pending an extradition hearing, but the decision was quashed by an appeals court because Diab, who does not understand French, could not read prosecution documents from France entered as evidence.
At the new hearing, Royal Canadian Mounted Police terrorism expert Corporal Robert Tran testified Diab had been under sporadic surveillance since January 2008. At his first court appearance, Diab had complained he was being stalked.
Tran said also that he obtained documents from the Royal Bank of Canada that showed Diab had opened several joint accounts with his ex-wife Nawal Copty, after his divorce in 1993. According to the bank, the estranged couple transferred funds into these accounts from their own personal accounts. One of them in Copty's name held $63,000 Canadian dollars Tran said.
According to French case files, Copty was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's special operations team believed to have orchestrated the Copernic Street bombing.
Diab was also identified by French authorities as belonging to the group.
In October 1980, a bomb planted in a motorcycle saddlebag outside the Copernic Street synagogue in Paris's 16th arrondissement killed three Frenchmen and a young Israeli woman, and injured dozens. It was the first fatal attack against the French Jewish community since the Nazi occupation of World War II.
French authorities issued a warrant in November 2007 for Diab's arrest, following a lead from German intelligence, believing he was involved. But Diab has insisted they made a mistake and denied links to extremist groups. His lawyers said it was a case of mistaken identity and repeatedly insisted Diab was not in Paris at the time of the bombing.
Before his arrest, Diab worked as a part-time professor at Canada's Carleton and Ottawa universities. He faces possible life in prison for murder, attempted murder and willful destruction of property, if convicted in a French court.
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Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. "There are still innocent people there," Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, told The Associated Press. "Some have been there six or seven years."
Wilkerson, who first made the assertions in an Internet posting on Tuesday, told the AP he learned from briefings and by communicating with military commanders that the U.S. soon realized many Guantanamo detainees were innocent but nevertheless held them in hopes they could provide information for a "mosaic" of intelligence.
"It did not matter if a detainee were innocent. Indeed, because he lived in Afghanistan and was captured on or near the battle area, he must know something of importance," Wilkerson wrote in the blog. He said intelligence analysts hoped to gather "sufficient information about a village, a region, or a group of individuals, that dots could be connected and terrorists or their plots could be identified."
Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel, said vetting on the battlefield during the early stages of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan was incompetent with no meaningful attempt to discriminate "who we were transporting to Cuba for detention and interrogation."
Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, declined to comment on Wilkerson's specific allegations but noted that the military has consistently said that dealing with foreign fighters from a wide variety of countries in a wartime setting was a complex process. The military has insisted that those held at Guantanamo were enemy combatants and posed a threat to the United States.
In his posting for The Washington Note blog, Wilkerson wrote that "U.S. leadership became aware of this lack of proper vetting very early on and, thus, of the reality that many of the detainees were innocent of any substantial wrongdoing, had little intelligence value, and should be immediately released."
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney fought efforts to address the situation, Wilkerson said, because "to have admitted this reality would have been a black mark on their leadership."
Wilkerson told the AP in a telephone interview that many detainees "clearly had no connection to al-Qaida and the Taliban and were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Pakistanis turned many over for $5,000 a head."
Some 800 men have been held at Guantanamo since the prison opened in January 2002, and 240 remain. Wilkerson said two dozen are terrorists, including confessed Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was transferred to Guantanamo from CIA custody in September 2006.
"We need to put those people in a high-security prison like the one in Colorado, forget them and throw away the key," Wilkerson said. "We can't try them because we tortured them and didn't keep an evidence trail."
But the rest of the detainees need to be released, he said.
Wilkerson, who flew combat missions as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and left the government in January 2005, said he did not speak out while in government because some of the information was classified. He said he feels compelled to do so now because Cheney has claimed in recent press interviews that President Barack Obama is making the U.S. less safe by reversing Bush administration policies toward terror suspects, including ordering Guantanamo closed.
The administration is now evaluating what to do with the prisoners who remain at the U.S. military base in Cuba.
"I'm very concerned about the kinds of things Cheney is saying to make it seem Obama is a danger to this republic," Wilkerson said. "To have a former vice president fearmongering like this is really, really dangerous."
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Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel
How odd... do a great many retired troops have second careers in the State Department? I would have thought the mindsets needed to succeed in such vastly different environments would be antithetical.
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While I cannot prove this claim UNTRUE, it has become very clear that a great many of the ones released as innocent or reformed wer actually still Hell-bent on jihad, as they were later killed or recaptured on the battlefield.
The U.S. has rejected a Guantanamo prisoner's proposal to end his 3 1/2-year hunger strike in exchange for easing his conditions at the American prison in Cuba, saying such a deal would undermine security and encourage similar protests.
Sounds like a decision W would have made ...
A federal judge in Washington had urged U.S. authorities to consider the proposed deal in the case of Ahmed Zuhair, a Saudi prisoner who has refused to eat since the summer of 2005 and is force-fed a liquid nutrient mix to keep him alive.
The government responded with a court filing Tuesday, rejecting Zuhair's request to be moved from the high-security Camp 6 to the medium-security Camp 4, where prisoners live in a communal dorm-like setting, spend up to 20 hours a day outside and have other privileges.
Has there ever been a prison system anywhere in which one's living situation was not conditioned on one's behavior?
Army Col. Bruce Vargo, the officer in charge of prison operations at Guantanamo, said in court papers that Zuhair's history of infractions makes him ineligible for Camp 4 and that agreeing to transfer him would create a "very real risk" that other prisoners will seek similar deals. "The potential impact on Guantanamo's security and the threats to the safety of Guantanamo's staff and camp population cannot be overstated," Vargo said.
Zuhair has had 80 disciplinary infractions over the past four months and the military has had to use a "forced cell extraction team" to remove him from his cell so he could be strapped into a special restraint chair and force-fed, he said.
So he's been a bad boy. In any prison in the world, that sort of misbehavior gets you tossed into the hole ...
The prisoner, who was recently moved to the detention center hospital for observation, weighs about 114 pounds but is in "good condition," according to the military. The U.S. says the 5-foot-5 prisoner weighed about 137 pounds in August 2008.
Instead of liquid nutrients we should be pouring liquid Twinkies into that feeding tube ...
His attorney, Ramzi Kassem, criticized the military's reasoning for not moving his client. "They want to pressure Ahmed to break his hunger strike by continuing to detain him in the excessively harsh environment of Camp 6," Kassem said. "Moving Ahmed to Camp 4 to encourage him to cease striking would rob ... prison authorities of the sick victory of breaking him."
Of course we want to 'break' him: we want him to play by our rules, not his rules. Doesn't the lawyer understand the concept of 'prison'?
Lawyers for detainees have repeatedly complained that conditions in Camp 6, where prisoners are kept most of the day in solid-wall cells, are unnecessarily harsh.
According to who? Them? Try the Supermax in Colorado.
U.S. officials say the criticism is exaggerated but have taken steps to improve conditions in recent months.
There are currently 34 prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brook DeWalt, spokesman for the detention center.
Zuhair, who was captured in Pakistan, has been held at Guantanamo since June 2002. He has not been charged with a crime, although U.S. authorities allege that he trained with the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan and was a member of an Islamic fighting group in Bosnia in the mid-1990s. His lawyer denies the allegations and has asked the courts to order his release.
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He should write a diet book. He could go on oprah and the view...
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NDTV has exclusive details of how Foreign Secretary Shivshanker Menon was categorically told by the US that India must lower troop levels on the border with Pakistan as a first step to restarting the peace process.
It's always the good guys who have to step back first ...
An outraged India has ruled this out completely though it seems America's demand was made to encourage Pakistan to transfer soldiers to its Afghanistan border to help the US launch a major thrust against the Taliban.
Which won't happen regardless. The Paks will always have an excuse ...
But India on Thursday also clarified the Mumbai terror attacks had nothing to do with its relationship with Pakistan.
Though it should ...
External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that India still believes terrorists used Pakistani soil and infrastructure in that country to launch the 26/11 attacks.
In his recent visit to Washington, the Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon came under unexpected pressure from the new US administration. NDTV has learnt that the Foreign Secretary was told in no uncertain terms that India, not Pakistan should make the first moves towards restoring the peace process.
What really took Menon by surprise was that the US State Department wanted India to pull back troops from the border with Pakistan. India refused saying that it hadn't deployed extra troops after the Mumbai attacks. Rather it was Pakistan which has sent thousands of troops.
The reason is that President Barack Obama is gearing up to launch a bigger military offensive in Afghanistan. For this, he needs more Pakistani troops to help along the volatile Afghan-Pakistan border, troops, which Islamabad moved to the Indian border.
Again, that's all for show. Remember, the Pak army, ISI, and Talibs of various flavors are all connected and working together.
The US move to pressurise India has outraged New Delhi, it told Washington that Pakistan is responsible for the tension and the troop build up.
But what India cannot ignore is the sub-text: That it is yet to establish a comfort level with the new Obama administration like it achieved with President George W Bush.
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This should do wonders for our relationship with the Indians
NEW DELHI: Strange are the ways of the US. Just when India had shed its long-standing opinion of the US being an unreliable arms supplier, given its propensity to impose sanctions at the drop of a hat, Washington has let loose a strange missile.
The Navy was all set to launch sea trials of the first of the three Shivalik-class stealth frigates being built at Mazagon Docks (MDL) when it got a rude shock on learning the new Obama administration had directed American company General Electric (GE) to stop all work on the gas turbine engines which power the warships.
Sources said MDL and Navy are now scrambling to get Italian company Fiat Avio to oversee the "operationalisation'' of the two GE LM-2500 gas turbines of the 4,900-tonne frigate, named INS Shivalik, to ensure its sea trials can begin within a month or two.
GE, on its part, told Indian authorities that the US state department had asked it to freeze all work on the turbines it has supplied till the Obama administration reviewed its military ties with different countries.
Though the direction is not India-specific and includes other countries, it will hit the already delayed plans to induct INS Shivalik -- the other two, INS Satpura and INS Sahyadri, are now slated for delivery by 2010 -- within "a few months''.
Interestingly, this is the first time American engines have been used in an Indian-built frigate. The engines earmarked for the ambitious 37,500-tonne IAC (indigenous aircraft carrier) being built at Cochin Shipyard, incidentally, are also the LM-2500 gas turbines.
Though GE has told Indian authorities that it will take three months or so to resolve the export control imbroglio, the episode has put a big question mark on US as a reliable long-term defence supplier.
Moreover, New Delhi and Washington are yet to resolve their differences over pacts like End-Use Monitoring Agreement (EUMA) and Communication Interoperability and Security Memorandum Agreement (CISMOA), which basically govern sensitive technology control requirements to "minimise'' security risks to US and its allies, as required under its domestic laws.
This comes at a time when India has just inked the biggest-ever defence deal with US in the shape of the $2.1 billion contract between the Indian defence ministry and Boeing for eight P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft in January.
India's main objection to EUMA and its "enhanced version'' relates to periodic "onsite physical verification'' by American inspectors, which it contends are "intrusive'' in nature.
With no overarching EUMA in place, India and US have been reduced to signing specific end-use agreements for different defence deals like the $962-million contract signed in 2007 for six C-130J `Super Hercules' aircraft for Indian special forces.
Domestic political sensitivities have also acted as a stumbling block for India to sign the contentious Logistics Support Agreement (LSA). On the lines of the Access and Cross-Servicing Agreement the US has signed with over 60 countries, the LSA envisages Indian and American militaries providing logistic support, berthing and refuelling facilities for each other's warships and aircraft on a barter or equal-value exchange basis.
UPDATE: Upon further investigation by me, I have discovered that the Indian press accounts of the situation involving the GE engines being installed in the INS Shivalik were inaccurate and that the DDTC did not stop GEs operationalization of the engines in order to conduct a review of U.S. policy regarding defense exports to India. Apparently the engines were not modified for military use and were therefore not listed on the United States Munitions List. Accordingly, export of the engines to India did not require a license from DDTC. However, since installation of the engines on a military frigate could be construed as a defense service, GE delayed work on the engines pending DDTC approval of a Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA) allowing that work. That TAA has now been granted.
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Foreign Secretary Shivshanker Menon was categorically told by the US that India must lower troop levels on the border with Pakistan as a first step to restarting the peace process.
I really, really hope that Menon's reply is "NO" and a large "FUCK YOU" attached to the reply as a sticky.
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Meanwhile Osama Bin Laden has told Militants to attack Jordan and Somalia, and now the Obama Admin may wants Gitmo Prisoners released in the USA.
Iran isn't even nukular yet in 2010.
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My guess is that pressures on India for such things are made for the specific purpose of improving Pakistani cooperation on logistical support to our forces in A'stan. One just hopes that adequate diplomatic trust exists between the US and India that the Indians are aware of the reasons, and trust (!!!) that we don't really mean it. But, given the track record of the vaughnted Zero Administration, I would not bet on it.
DAIR: Four people including an ASI and two other police officials were killed in an attack in Malakand University. According to sources, unknown armed men fired rockets at Malakand University late on Tuesday night and when two police mobiles reached at the scene, they opened fire on them killing ASI Azizullah Khan, head constable Inayatullah, constable Adam Khan and watchman Khaliqdad whereas four others injured.
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KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Sports, Muhammad Ali Shah's vehicle came under fire here at Qasba Morr in Orangi Town. The firing by unknown people only damaged the vehicle. The FIR of the incident has been lodged.
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The Taliban on Wednesday threatened to kill a Canadian journalist in their custody if their demands were not met by March 30. The journalist, Khadeja Abdul Qahaar, went missing in Jani Khel area of Bannu Frontier Region in November 2008. In a video sent to the Miranshah Press Club, Khadeja said she was seriously ill and appealed to the Canadian and Pakistani governments, and human rights and journalists' organisations to help in her release.
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First it was $1.5 mil and the release of Taliban prisoners for this mad cow, now it's down to $375k and no prisoners.
The GFC must be hitting the Taliban hard if they are prepared to lower her sale price that much.
Maybe her co-religionist in Canada could chip in some of the ill gotten gains they have been screwing out of the "Human Rights" commissions over the last few years.
Nah.... didn't think so.
May she suffer the same fate as Margaret Hassan
in Falluja...The Irish activist is remembered as pleading for her life...her ribcage was found
in a back alley a few days later.
That describe to you the bestiality of muslims in general...
Their female supporters richly deserve everything they get from these toxic viruses from hell
or outer space!
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Two men were killed and one injured in various incidents of violence while a lawyer was abducted and a bridge destroyed in Swat on Wednesday, officials said.
The officials said unidentified armed men entered the house of Bakhti Khan in Sheen area of Khawazakhela tehsil and murdered him. Also on Wednesday, unidentified men blew up a bridge in Chamtalai area of the tehsil. Separately in Mingora, Abdul Qadeer opened fire on Bilal, killing him and injuring a passer-by Mujeeb. Unidentified men abducted Luqman, a lawyer, from Saidu Sharif area in Swat. Meanwhile, the qazi courts continued hearing cases under sharia on the second day on Wednesday. In the two days since the qazi courts have started working, they have received 500 applications, including 40 in Barikot tehsil, 28 in Matta tehsil, 100 in Babozai tehsil, 116 in Khawazakhela and 107 in Behrain tehsil of the district.
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Isn't Swat violence sort of like water wetness?
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More like water temperature, MM. It's always there, but the degree varies from moment to moment.
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Punjab police on Wednesday claimed to have a busted an ISI sponsored espionage ring with the arrest of four persons, two of them having terrorist background and recovery of a documents, including a diary containing Pakistan telephone numbers.
A Punjab police spokesman said in Chandigarh that sensitive documents related to important Military installations, photographs, charts, movements of military units, diaries containing Pakistan telephone numbers and mobile phones and fake currency worth Rs 20,000 have been received from the possession of the arrested persons.
A case under various sections of the Official Secret Act has been registered at police station of the special narcotics cell, Amritsar following the joint operation conducted by the Amritsar special narcotics cell and the counter intelligence units of Jalandhar, Ferozepur and Patiala in Faridkot district of the state.
The arrested were identified as Naib Singh, Baldev Singh, Sukhdev Singh and Randhir Singh, all residents of different villages of Faridkot district. Naib Singh and Baldev Singh have terrorist background and several cases under TADA were registered against them, he said.
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Three Iraqi people have been shot dead in separate attacks around the disrupted northern city of Mosul, provincial police have confirmed.
According to police, an Iraqi soldier was shot in the head in Al-Gayara district 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the city on Tuesday. A trooper was also killed when unidentified gunmen sprayed bullets at an army checkpoint in central Mosul.
Meanwhile, unknown gunmen shot dead a student at Management and Administration College in Mosul University, police said.
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Mosul, the Camden of Iraq
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As long as they kill each other. I'm looking from the outside of Mosul. Nothing happening here!
An Iraqi official says authorities believe they have found another mass grave from Saddam Hussein's regime in southern Iraq. Lest they forget...
The director of the local human rights commission, Mahdi al-Timimi, says local villagers found two skulls, bones and old clothes in the oil-rich Nahran Omar area northeast of Basra. He told reporters Wednesday that excavation for more remains will start the following day.
Several Saddam-era mass graves have been unearthed since the dictator was ousted following the 2003 US invasion. The latest discovery has caused a temporary halt to oil exploration in the section being excavated. The victims are believed to have been killed in 1991, when Saddam's forces brutally crushed a Shiite uprising following the Gulf War. If only a US government official would leak this information I'm sure the New York Times would print it ...
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Hell, we fond one in 2005. They're all over the place in southern Kurdistan. Sort of like here in 5 to 7 years if the dear leader has his way Does the name Anfal Campaign ring a bell?
Of course, the reason for this coming out here now is Chimpler is no longer infesting 1600 Pennsylvania, and a case has to be made for breaking the pullout promise, so...
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Several Hundreds of Saddam-era mass graves have been unearthed
Die a miserable death, MSM.
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When is Obambi going to figure out that the messes he "inherited" could have been resolved prior to his election if the media and Congress hadn't waged a 24/7/365 campaign against Bush, making it virtually impossible for him to get anything done? THAT's going to be Obambi's "Road to Damascus" moment. I don't think he has the moral character or intelligence to truly understand how badly he's been screwed by winning the White House. I don't think the black community does either, but they'll get the message.
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Israeli troops detained 10 Hamas politicians from the occupied West Bank on Thursday in what the Islamist faction called a punitive round-up following Israel's failure to retrieve a captive soldier.
Egyptian efforts to mediate the release of Gilad Shalit, held incommunicado by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since June 2006, collapsed this week when the Israelis ruled out its demand of amnesty for scores of jailed Palestinians militant chiefs.
The impasse prompted a pledge by Israel to press the crippling Gaza blockade, as well as threats to toughen up conditions for some of the 11,000 Palestinians in its prisons.
Thursday's detainees included 4 lawmakers from Hamas, which won a Palestinian election in early 2006 but was shunned by the West for rejecting peace with the Jewish state. Mahmoud Abbas, the U.S.-backed Palestinian president, dissolved a government alliance with Hamas when it seized control of Gaza in 2007.
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Whoops. Please change title to: Israelis round up Hamas politicians in West Bank
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punitive round-up following Israel's failure to retrieve a captive soldier.
Tit for tat, Hamas. At least you know your people won't be tortured to death before you get them back. Consequences, female dog -- you know the drill.
The killing of a prominent Muslim women's rights activist by terrorists alleged separatist insurgents is a major setback to ending violence in Thailand's southern border provinces, Human Rights Watch said today.
On March 12, 2009, an eyewitness saw an insurgent fatally shoot Laila Paaitae Daoh, a prominent Muslim women's rights activist and peace advocate, in broad daylight in Krongpenang district, Yala province. She was rushed to Yala Hospital Center, but died of her wounds the next day. Laila and her family had long received threats and had been targets of insurgent attacks. Terrorists Alleged insurgents killed her eldest son in 2004 and her husband and second son in 2006.
The killing of Laila followed the March 7 shooting and burning of two Buddhist civilians in Pattani province. In addition to daily shootings and bombings, terrorists insurgents have allegedly committed at least five beheadings of civilians and security personnel since the beginning of this year.
"Laila's brutal murder is part of ongoing efforts by insurgents to intimidate and attack Muslims who oppose insurgency or have supported Thai authorities," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Her death is a serious loss for those trying to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in the south."
Terrorists Insurgents in government-declared "red zones" in the southern border provinces have in recent years used violence and terror to try to keep other Muslims under their control. In Mu 1 village of Tambon Purong, Krongpenang district, Yala province, where Laila lived, villagers were warned not to work with Thai authorities and not to accept food or other assistance from the government. Despite these pressures, Laila promoted coexistence between ethnic Malay Muslims and Buddhist Thais. Her eldest son was a village chief, while her husband and second son worked as volunteers with local authorities. She and her family actively advocated the belief that justice and well-being for ethnic Malay Muslims could be sought peacefully through human rights and judicial mechanisms instead of armed struggle. Laila was also instrumental in activities of the Women and Peace Group and Luk Riang, a prominent child rights group, in the southern border provinces.
For years, Laila and her family had received death threats from insurgents, who accused the family of being munafig (hypocrites) or Muslims who have sided with the occupying forces of infidels. Since Laila's death, her sister has received repeated phone calls from anonymous men, who said in the local Malay dialect: "Die. Die. Die." These calls continued through March 17. "The killings of Paaitae Daoh family members were undoubtedly meant as punishment and as a warning to other Muslims," said Adams. "In this way, the insurgents spread fear throughout the southern Muslim community."
The Pejuang Kemerdekaan Patani (Patani Liberation Fighters) insurgents, separatists in the loose network of BRN-Coordinate (National Revolution Front-Coordinate), maintain a presence in more than 200 Muslim villages despite having suffered major losses from counterinsurgency operations. The insurgents make use of abuses by government security forces and heavy-handed tactics to recruit and radicalize supporters. The Pejuang Kemerdekaan Patani insurgents have been implicated in thousands of deadly attacks over the past five years. Most of their victims have been civilians.
Human Rights Watch said that human rights groups in the southern border provinces have also been targeted by Thai security forces. The latest such incident took place on February 8, when about 20 soldiers and police in Pattani province raided the office of the Working Group for Peace and Justice (WGPJ), a nongovernmental human rights organization. After taking photos of documents and materials found in the office, the officers spent a long time inspecting data in the organization's computers, which contained details about victims and witnesses, and other sensitive information.
GENEVA -- An Iranian defector told the West that Iran was financing North Korean moves to transform Syria into a nuclear weapons power, leading to the Israeli airstrike that destroyed a secret reactor, a report said Thursday.
The report, written by Hans Ruehle, former chief of the planning staff of the German Defense Ministry, details an Iranian connection and fills in gaps about Israel's Sept. 6, 2007, raid that knocked out Syria's nearly completed Al Kabir reactor.
Ali Reza Asghari, a retired general in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and a former deputy defense minister, "changed sides" in February 2007 and provided considerable information to the West on Iran's own nuclear program, Ruehle said in his article in the Swiss daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung. "The biggest surprise, however, was his assertion that Iran was financing a secret nuclear project of Syria and North Korea," he said. "No one in the American intelligence scene had heard anything of it. And the Israelis who were immediately informed also were completely unaware."
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I wonder if Zero changed his perception of the way the world worked after getting full access to this kind of info after election? It would explain wy his deeds are so much more ush-like now (regardless of his words.)
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Hamid Tehrani at Global Voices Online brings the tragic news that a jailed Iranian blogger, Omid Reza Misayafi, has died. It seems that he may have committed suicide. Apart from the personal tragedy his family must now grapple with, his death is another step backwards for the universal right of free speech. Misayafi's death will have a chilling effect on Iranian voices online, who provide an essential outlet for the cause of reform and moderation.
I wish I had something more profound to say, but all I can do is offer a dua (prayer) for those Iranian bloggers that remain in Iranian prisons - notably Hoder Derakshan, arrested last November, who is by many accounts the father of the Iranian blogsphere.
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According to Mahmoud Iamanidiot it was from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
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and from the Zero? crickets.
a light for freedom has gone dark. we are all diminished
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And here what the "Official" bloggers of Iran spread around:
On Tahrir ol Vasileh, by Khomeini:
http://ethnikoi.org/iran.html
Paedophilia legal in Iran
In June, 2002 Iranian authorities approved a law raising the age at which girls can marry without parental consent from 9 to 13. The elected legislature actually passed the bill in 2000, but the "Guardian Council", a 12-man body of conservative clerics, vetoed it as contradicting Islamic Sharia law. Iran's clerical establishment insists that the marriage of young girls is a means to combat immorality. The Expediency Council, which arbitrates between the elected parliament and the theocratic Guardian Council, timidly passed the measure. The law however does not change the age at which children can get married (nine for girls and 14 for boys), but says that girls below the age of 13 and boys younger than 15 need their parents' permission and the approval of a "Righteous Court." Reformists state that the new law does not protect children, since most of those who marry at such a young age do so by force.
A religious decree by Khomeini ordered that girl prisoners who are virgins must be raped before execution, to prevent them from entering heaven. A Guard conducts the rape the night before execution. The next day, a marriage certificate is issued by a mullah, who sends it to the girl's family, along with a box of chocolates as a wedding gift.
It is quite common in Iran for older men to marry children, as long as they pay the appropriate bride-price to the girl's family. This basically means that a father can sell his daughter to whomever he wants, whilst the mad mullahs see this as a means of maintaining purity. We prefer to call this child prostitution and rape, especially given that Iran's clerics approve of the 'tradition' of 'temporary marriage' (Mut'a), which can last less than 24 hours and may be repeated as many times as desired. This form of exploitation is widespread and legitimises sex with young children. The man may even visit his temporary wife every weekend at her fathers house, for about $10 per visit. How's pimping?
Khomeini on prostitution and Mut'a (temporary marriage)
"It is permissible to do Mut'a with an adulteress, but with aversion, particularly if she is a well-known prostitute. If Mut'a is done with her, she should be told to give-up her profession."
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"and from the Zero? crickets"
He's too busy trying to figure out how he can get away with the same thing, abu. On a much larger scale than one, of course.... >:-(
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Afghanistan's intelligence agency said on Wednesday that last month's attacks on government buildings in Kabul were planned and directed from Pakistan, saying seven Afghans have been arrested.
The NATO-led military on Wednesday claimed killing 33 Taliban in clashes earlier in the week in northeastern Afghanistan, as a bomb blast wounded three people, the government said.
Somali pirates in the northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland have hijacked an Iranian vessel, Press TV has been informed. According to Press TV's correspondent, Somali pirates seized the Iranian vessel for illegal fishing carried out without the permission of the Puntland Administration. 
A Canadian-Lebanese national arrested for his alleged role in a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing that killed four appeared in court Wednesday for a second bail hearing. Hassan Diab, 55, was arrested in November in a suburb of Canada's capital at the request of French authorities who want him extradited to stand trial for murder, attempted murder and the destruction of property for his alleged role in the bombing.
The U.S. has rejected a Guantanamo prisoner's proposal to end his 3 1/2-year hunger strike in exchange for easing his conditions at the American prison in Cuba, saying such a deal would undermine security and encourage similar protests.
DAIR: Four people including an ASI and two other police officials were killed in an attack in Malakand University. According to sources, unknown armed men fired rockets at Malakand University late on Tuesday night and when two police mobiles reached at the scene, they opened fire on them killing ASI Azizullah Khan, head constable Inayatullah, constable Adam Khan and watchman Khaliqdad whereas four others injured.
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Sports, Muhammad Ali Shah's vehicle came under fire here at Qasba Morr in Orangi Town. The firing by unknown people only damaged the vehicle. The FIR of the incident has been lodged.
The Taliban on Wednesday threatened to kill a Canadian journalist in their custody if their demands were not met by March 30. The journalist, Khadeja Abdul Qahaar, went missing in Jani Khel area of Bannu Frontier Region in November 2008. In a video sent to the Miranshah Press Club, Khadeja said she was seriously ill and appealed to the Canadian and Pakistani governments, and human rights and journalists' organisations to help in her release.
Two men were killed and one injured in various incidents of violence while a lawyer was abducted and a bridge destroyed in Swat on Wednesday, officials said. 
Punjab police on Wednesday claimed to have a busted an ISI sponsored espionage ring with the arrest of four persons, two of them having terrorist background and recovery of a documents, including a diary containing Pakistan telephone numbers. 
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