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Afghanistan
ISAF Policy: Catch-and-Release IED-Bombers
Posted by: tipper || 04/12/2011 20:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Turkey considers Afghan peace role
[Arab News] Turkey says it is willing to consider the idea of hosting a political office for Talibs from Afghanistan in order to promote talks to end the war there.

But a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Monday there was no official application to open a Taliban office in Turkey and that there were no immediate plans to host Afghan peace talks. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with ministry regulations.
Probably just as well. Look at how they handled the indirect Israel-Syria peace talks.
Arsala Rahmani, a member of the council set up by the Afghan government to work toward a political solution to the insurgency, says Turkey is making plans for the office but it will take time to work out.

Pak President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
is scheduled to arrive in Turkey late Monday, and Afghanistan is expected to be high on the agenda of talks.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  *** cough *** YOUNG BENAZIR BHUTTO ON GUAM *** cough *** ....

versus

* WAFF > [Chechnya]TURKISH ISLAMIC JIHADIS VOLUNTEER, to fight agz Russia in Chechnya + Caucasus.

RUSSIAN ALLEGATIONS = EVIDENCE OF TURKIC ISLAMIST MILTERR INVOLVEMENT not refuted either by Chechen or Turkic Jihadists.

* Also from WAFF > ARE KOREANS + JAPANESE PART OF [ancient] TURKIC PEOPLES - YES!, thanks to DNA Analysis.

Turko Tartaric Mongol-Chinese whose waves of landlubber mass migrations ended up in offshore ancient future Nippon???

KEMAL ATATURK + TAROS BULBA IS AS JAPANESE AS GENGHIS KHAN + GERONIMO, ETAL.

* TOPIX > MEDEVEDEV WARNS CHECHNYA REBELS: SURRENDER OR BE DESTROYED.

[DARTH VADER = "He will Join us, or Die"! here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/12/2011 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe Johnny Turk should consider a Pakistani peace role, sending troops to occupy the restive parts of the country the central government can't seem to get control over.

I'm sure they would be able to persuade the Taliban to join them in the 19th Century.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/12/2011 10:09 Comments || Top||

#3  "Achmed Addams, the 'Firebug of the Bosporus'!"
Posted by: mojo || 04/12/2011 11:38 Comments || Top||


Karzai Warns to Prosecute Those Behind Kabul Bank Crisis
[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
on Monday warned all those responsible for the crisis in Kabul Bank will be prosecuted.

Mr Karzai called on the US and European countries to send all the Kabul Bank related money to Afghanistan without any conditions.

He said Kabul Bank shareholders would have one month to repay the money they have withdrawn and if failed they could face prosecution.

"The former shareholders can no longer be part of the Bank. They must pay all their debts in a month or face prosecution," President Karzai said at a presser in Kabul.

President Karzai cites internal and external factors to have been behind the Kabul Bank crisis and puts a part of the blame on foreigners, especially an American company he names as Price Water House Cooper.

"The American audit company had reported positively about Kabul Bank and it was three months ahead of the crisis, and the Central Bank also trusted the report. This company is under investigation now," Mr Karzai said.

He also partly blames Bearing Point and Delight for what Kabul Bank suffered.

On Saturday the Afghan Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal said that restoration of Kabul Bank was one of the Afghan government priorities and that efforts were underway to restore people's confidence in the bank.

Recently there have been reports saying that Kabul Bank was being put into receivership.

The IMF had demanded that Kabul Bank should either be closed down or sold, otherwise a financial assistance programme for Afghanistan could be halted.

The UN had also warned that international donors may halt or redirect their assistance if the Afghan government failed to reach an agreement with International Monetary Fund.

Kabul Bank nearly collapsed last year but was taken over by Afghanistan Central Bank in September.

Some of the Kabul Bank shareholders are accused of personally using millions of dollars of depositors' money.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But it's likely his brother is behind it?
Posted by: Water Modem || 04/12/2011 14:35 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
American Shabaab mocks reports of his death in rap song
Omar Hammami, the reputed terrorist born in Alabama who the government in Somalia had reported dead last month, may be alive after all.

Hammami purportedly released an audio recording this month proclaiming jihad. The Long War Journal posted a recording of the rap song on its website. The recording is described as Hammami's way of mocking reports of his death.

Federal prosecutors in Mobile first obtained a secret indictment against Hammami in 2007, for providing material support to terrorists. Prosecutors got an updated indictment in 2009, adding a conspiracy charge and a count of providing material support to a designated.

On March 8, Somalia's defense minister said that "intelligence reports" indicated that Hammami had been killed in fighting between al-Shabaab and government forces. At that time, the FBI sais that it could not confirm the report.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/12/2011 15:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Navy seizes 17 armed Somalis, gives them halal meat and nicotine patches... then sets them free!
When a Royal Navy warship captured a crew of Somali pirates, it seemed like a rare chance to strike back at the ruthless sea gangsters.

The 17 outlaws were armed with an arsenal of AK 47s and rocket-propelled grenades, and had forced hostages on a hijacked fishing vessel to work as slaves for three months.

But instead of bringing them to justice, the British servicemen were ordered to provide the pirates halal meals, medical checks, cigarettes -- and in one case even a nicotine patch -- before releasing them in their own boats.
Posted by: tipper || 04/12/2011 06:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...before releasing them in their own boats.

Then they sank the boats, right?

"We have no idea where they went after we released them." [wink, wink]
Posted by: Bobby || 04/12/2011 6:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Did they also return their guns and rocket launchers with a good "Carry on!"?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/12/2011 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I think what is needed is for the pirates, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, to capture about a dozen British swabs, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, to turn into a propaganda campaign.

The British have gotten into the unlovely habit of reveling in self-doubt and recrimination for so long that they need a shock to wake them up.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/12/2011 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  (beep....beep....beep....)
Posted by: mojo || 04/12/2011 16:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Didn't Iran already do that moose? And look what happened then.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/12/2011 17:34 Comments || Top||

#6  As a Brit, this is definitely getting embarrassing: "He also said he was unconvinced that they had enough evidence to convict the pirates – even though they were heavily armed, were carrying hostages and had confessed." Good Lord!

Posted by: PCarroll || 04/12/2011 18:33 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Mubarak has heart attack during questioning
FORMER Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak suffered a heart attack during questioning by prosecutors investigating graft and abuse allegations which prompted his admission to the hospital overnight, state television said.
Dang. I thought for sure he'd succumb to acute cirrhosis.
The ex-leader was taken to a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh two days after reports that he was about to be summoned for questioning.

"Mubarak was admitted to the Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital this afternoon, amid a very heavy security presence in the town," a security source said.

A hospital source refused to comment on the news and said that "the minister of health will make an announcement" shortly.

Mr Mubarak was admitted by his bodyguards to the VIP wing of the hospital, state television reported, adding that the hospital was not accepting any patients except for emergency cases.
Posted by: tipper || 04/12/2011 15:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Moussa Koussa warns Libya could be 'new Somalia'
I thought this is NATO's master plan. Nothing else makes sense.
Libya's former foreign minister Moussa Koussa, who is in Britain after defecting from Moammar Gaddafi's regime, said on Monday the restive nation could become a "new Somalia" if civil war broke out.
Posted by: tipper || 04/12/2011 04:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Amr Moussa: Islamists wont take power in Egypt
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
chief Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa,
... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ...
a leading contender to become Egypt's next president, said Islamists will not take power in the country but are bound to be a player on the political scene.

"Egypt will be a democratic state and will not regress," Moussa told newspaper al-Hayat in remarks published on Monday.

"There will be an Islamic element -- or an element based on an Islamic reference, as the constitution says -- in Egypt's political body," he said.

Moussa, 74, said his age meant he would stand for only one term and had already drafted his campaign manifesto.

Secretary-General of the vaporous Arab League since 2001, Moussa declared his candidacy for the Egyptian presidency after a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
from power on Feb. 11.

The country is now run by a military council which has promised free and fair parliamentary and presidential elections by the end of the year.

Mubarak's three decades of autocratic rule made it almost impossible for anyone to challenge the dominance of his National Democratic Party, which dealt crushing defeats to its rivals in elections that his critics say were rigged.

Egypt's public prosecutor is now investigating Mubarak as part of probes into the killing of prosecutors and embezzlement of public funds, although the ousted president says allegations against him are lies.

Moussa said Egypt needed a presidential, not parliamentary, system of government for the immediate future because political parties were still too weak.

"Party activity and interaction, and the building of strong political currents, need a period of time," he said. Egypt "should be a presidential state for the coming years in the absence of strong parties."

Asked whether he feared the rise of Islamists in Egypt, Moussa replied: "Lunatic groups are too weak to pounce on power, but the desire for leadership will remain."
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Egypt military takes Mubarak to Cairo
Egypt's military rulers have transferred former dictator Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
to the capital Cairo in a bid to probe his involvement in the killing of peaceful protesters.
The tumbrels are only in your mind...
Mubarak decamped to his villa in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh following his ouster in February.

Ahmed Abu Baraka, a member of the Moslem Brüderbund Legal Committee, says he will remain in military custody until judicial proceedings begin through the order of a court, the Tehran-based Arabic news channel al-Alam reported.

This comes after Egypt's public prosecutor summoned Mubarak and his son for questioning.

The ousted ruler faces corruption charges and the use of violence against peaceful protesters.

Mubarak on Sunday denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
of corruption in an interview with the Saudi-funded al-Arabiya television station. He called the accusations a libel campaign.

The developments come as tens of thousands of protesters demanded the prosecution of officials belonging to the former regime -- mainly Mubarak and his family.

Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos...
Egyptians continued their protests against the ruling military council in Cairo's Liberation Square on Monday.

The protesters are demanding an end to the military rule. They also want the head of the military council Field Marshal Mohammad Hossein Tantawi to step down, and Mubarak to be tried.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Oil near $113 amid Mideast turmoil, weak US dollar
[Arab News] Oil prices hovered at a 30-month high near $113 a barrel Monday in Asia as traders eyed fresh Middle East tension and a wobbly US dollar.

Benchmark crude for May delivery was up 6 cents at $112.85 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Friday, the contract jumped $2.49 to $112.79, the highest since September 2008.

In London, Brent crude for May delivery was down 91 cents to $125.74 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Oil prices have soared 33 percent since mid-February as traders worry political violence in the Middle East and North Africa could disrupt crude supplies.

Violence escalated last week between Paleostinians in Gazoo and Israel. Since Thursday, Paleostinians have fired more than 120 rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel, prompting Israeli reprisals that have killed 19 Paleostinians, the most intense fighting between Israel and Gazoo hard boyz since January 2009.

Meanwhile,
...back at the hoedown Bob finally got to dance with Sally...
Egyptian soldiers Saturday attacked protesters calling for an investigation of former President Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
for embezzlement, killing at least one person and injuring 71 others. Several hundred protesters remained barricaded at Cairo's Tahrir Square.

"Fresh headlines over the weekend could portend another difficult week for oil bears," energy consultant The Schork Group said. "Gazoo-Israel violence along with new protests in Tahrir Square against the military could incite another buying frenzy in the market." Investors are also watching closely the currency markets as the US dollar fell to a 15-month low against the euro last week. A weaker US currency makes dollar-based commodities such as oil cheaper for investors with other currencies.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A weaker US currency makes dollar-based commodities such as oil cheaper for investors with other currencies.

So Bernake printing all those dollars actually does have a benefit! It makes oil cheaper for everyone else!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/12/2011 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  And it'll keep on like this until at least three years after we elect a president at least as sane as Sarah Palin.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/12/2011 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Unfortunately, I received a rude shock researching a project.
I went to the Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports and they rate the government financial status of the US as a 4 out of 100, this is with Iraq at a 41. I think Zimbabwe is a 3. That gives you an idea of what the Economist thinks of our current government's economic policies...
I hope to go overseas and get a job that pays in something substantial like Italian Lira or Pesetas or Drachmas.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 04/12/2011 15:39 Comments || Top||


Europe
Berlin unwilling to accept refugees
Have to say I agree with Germany. The Pottery Barn rules ought to apply: "You break it, you own it"
As long as France and England want to run around displaying their testosterone fuelled stupidity, they ought to be responsible for the mess they create(potentially hundreds of thousands of refugees)and not expect Italy and Germany to absorb the mess.

"Refugees ought not to come to Germany," announces Die Welt. The position that Berlin is expected to adopt when European interior ministers meet to discuss immigration on 11 April is unlikely to be welcomed by Italy which has called for solidarity in the drive to cope with thousands of immigrants who have recently arrived from North Africa. “Italy’s dirty tricks amount to unacceptable blackmail," remarks the conservative daily, which nonetheless acknowledges that "it is inadmissible that Italy and Malta pay the price for changes that are in all of Europe’s interest." For Die Welt, Europe should come together to invest in Arab countries to bring about positive change and reinforce cooperation on the issue of migration flows: “What is a major problem for Italy and Malta could be considerably reduced if it was shared by the EU’s 27 member states."
Posted by: tipper || 04/12/2011 12:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "to cope with thousands of immigrants who have recently arrived from North Africa"

Easy - pile them on ships and send them back to North Africa.

Next problem?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/12/2011 13:41 Comments || Top||

#2  as France and England want to run around displaying their testosterone fuelled stupidity

Not sure you can blame this on testosterone - don't think France & England have had a surplus in that area since about 1916.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/12/2011 18:48 Comments || Top||


First fine issued for muslim veil: France
Posted by: anon1 || 04/12/2011 10:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cheese-eating surrender monkeys channel the spirit of Charles the Hammer
Posted by: anon1 || 04/12/2011 10:25 Comments || Top||

#2  #1: Cheese-eating surrender monkeys channel the spirit of Charles the Hammer
Posted by: anon1|| 2011-04-12 10:25 ||Comments Top||


About d*mn time!!!
Posted by: Ptah || 04/12/2011 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Meanwhile in Ivory Coast...
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru || 04/12/2011 11:45 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Afghan War Destabilising Pakistan: Zardari
[Tolo News] Pakistain's President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
has told the Guardian in a recent interview that the war in Afghanistan is destabilising his country.

The war in Afghanistan also seriously undermines Pakistain government's efforts to restore democracy and economic prosperity after a military dictatorship ruled the country for a decade.

Mr Zardari has said there is widespread concern in his country about the slow progress in putting an end to the war in Afghanistan.

He has said some American politicians had little understanding of the impact of US policies in the region.

"Just as the Mexican drug war on US borders makes a difference to Texas and American society, we are talking about a war on our border which is obviously having a huge effect. Only today a jacket wallah has attacked a police compound in Balochistan. I think it [the Afghan war] has an effect on the entire region, and specially our country," Zardari has said.

A White House report has recently criticised Pakistain's for not seriously cooperating in the war on terror, but Mr Zardari has told the Guardian that Pakistain has always listened to Washington's views.

He has criticised the way some Congress members and the US media talk about Pakistain.

"The US has been an ally of Pakistain for the last 60 years. We respect and appreciate their political system. So every time a new parliament comes in, new boys come in, new representatives come in, it takes them time to understand the international situation. Not Obama, but the Congress, interest groups and the media get affected by 'deadline-it is' [over ending the Afghan war]," Zardari has said.

He has said the US has been in Afghanistan for over a decade and everybody has obviously run out of patience, especially the American people are awaiting answers while it is difficult to convince them as there are no short-term answers.

The comments came as the White House in a recent report has strongly criticised Pakistain's military for failing to defeat insurgency despite years of US funding to the country.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Pak ISI/Jihadis Destabilising Afghanistan should be the True Title!
Posted by: Black Bart Phuling7750 || 04/12/2011 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Again, another Muslim has it ass backwards. It's Pakistan's policies that has affected America, specifically New York City. The history book is still being written.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 || 04/12/2011 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  We are at war with Pakistan, have been for years. Afhganistan is just the battlefield. If the Chinese tell Obama to stop the drone zapping and kiss Zardari's worthless ass, he'll do it in a heartbeat.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/12/2011 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Afghan War Destabilising Pakistan:

Bullshit, it ever was stable in the first place.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/12/2011 16:46 Comments || Top||

#5  NEVER. Pardon Please.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/12/2011 16:49 Comments || Top||


Terrorism continues to plague Peshawar suburbs
[Dawn] The residents of placid provincial capital see no letup in subversive activities as at least 47 persons were killed and 112 injured here only in the month of March during the current year in terrorism related incidents.

On the other hand, 12 people including two coppers were killed and 17 injured in January, while in February 12 were killed and 11 injured. Most of the victims had fallen prey to terrorist acts in suburban areas of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar.

The worst hit were the residents of Adezai where 45 people were killed in a suicide kaboom on a funeral and over 100 injured.

At least 11 incidents of terrorism took place in March wherein 11 houses, two power pylons, one CD shop, one mosque, one police post, two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
oil tankers and three schools were blown up.

Similarly, in February two police posts, one grid station, 14 NATO oil tankers, two police vans, three schools, one school van and the house of a leader of Adezai Qaumi Lashkar came under attack.

The major incidents that occurred during the past three months include car booming at Tela Band Road, Badhber, and suicide attack on a funeral in Adezai.

Four coppers including a DSP were killed and five injured in January and two coppers were killed in February in terrorism related activities.

The areas where Death Eaters showed their presence include Adezai, Teleband, Sulemankhel, Darwazgai, Badhber, Sheikhan, Batatal, Ghari Qamar Din, Pejagi Road, Liaquat Bazaar, Charkhana Road, Mathra, Bacha Ghari, Maryamzai, Kohat Road, Bara Qadeem, Matani, Hassan Ghari, Ring Road and Charsadda Road.

All these areas are located in the rural circle where police are yet to take effective measures for checking movement of suspected people. The localities are linked to tribal and semi-tribal areas and that is why Death Eaters can easily enter Peshawar through different link roads.

Despite tall claims by authorities, law enforcement agencies have so far failed to deploy sufficient personnel on the entry points to check movement of anti-state elements.

The ratio and fashion of these sabotage acts show that Death Eaters used to strike at every alternate day during the past three months without any check by law-enforcers.

These subversive acts caused huge losses of lives and properties but they did not get due attention of citizens and officials because the incidents occurred in rural areas and people did not make hue and cry to create problems for government.

Peshawar SSP Ijaz Ahmed claimed that security had been beefed up to check movement of terrorists. He hoped that wanted accused would soon be tossed in the calaboose.

He said that police had started round the clock patrolling and suspected vehicles and persons were thoroughly being checked at different places to put brakes on their movement in the settled areas of Peshawar.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  Probably because the joint is lousy with terrorists.
Posted by: mojo || 04/12/2011 11:37 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Lieberman: Israel should topple Hamas
[Ma'an] Israel should not settle for a truce with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Gazoo, and should instead seek to topple the Islamist rulers of the coastal strip, Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday.

"The goal that we have settled on, of seeking a return to calm, is a grave error because it will allow Hamas to reinforce along the lines of Hezbullies," Lieberman told public radio, referring to the Lebanese militia with which Israel fought a 2006 war, killing 1,200, mostly civilians.

"The objective must be to force Hamas out of power," said Lieberman, who heads the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party.

"To return to calm accepts a war of attrition in which Hamas can determine when there is a lull and when the front is heating up," he said.

A tense truce appeared to be taking hold between Hamas and Israel early Monday, after both sides stepped back from the brink on Sunday.

The calm came after several days of confrontation between Israel and the Islamist group, which have raised tensions to their highest levels since Israel's 2008-2009 war on Gazoo.

The fighting, which has left at least 18 Paleostinians dead, came after an anti-tank missile fired from Gazoo hit an Israeli school bus on Thursday, wounding two people, one of them a teenager who was critically injured.

Hamas said the attack was in response to an earlier Israeli liquidation of three senior members of the Islamist group, but claimed school children were not targeted, citing heavy use of the road where the projectile landed of military vehicles.

Israel responded to the bus attack with air strikes across the Gazoo Strip, as Paleostinian bad boy groups fired a barrage of rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel, causing no further injuries.

But both Israeli and Hamas officials expressed interest in a truce by Sunday, and the rate of rocket fire dropped off significantly as a period of calm took hold. Hamas had offered a truce on Thursday evening, an hour ahead of a series of air strikes that hit targets across Gazoo, killing four bad boys.

Lieberman's opposition to the truce is at odds with the support expressed for a ceasefire by other Israeli officials including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, but he ruled out a coalition breakup over the issue.

"I don't want a government crisis, or to quit the coalition. We can influence much more from the inside than from the opposition," he said.

Others within Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party, including National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau, expressed support for a new campaign of liquidations targeting Hamas members.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Barak to Rafael: Produce 4 additional Iron Dome batteries
[jpost] - Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered Rafael to immediately begin producing another four Iron Dome batteries on Monday, Israel Radio reported.

Barak informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he authorized the order following the US government's announcement that it would transfer $205 million for the acquisition, according to the report.

US President Barack Obama was expected to sign the necessary documents authorizing the transfer in the coming days. The funding was to fall outside of the existing security package.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile, C-RAM systems, with radar, are still available for the bargain basement price of $15m a system. And while they can't handle the more advanced stuff that Iron Dome can take out, they are just the cat's pajamas for the low tech mortars and home rockets that are far more common.

And it's a mystery why Israel hasn't adopted both. Iron Dome missiles are about $30k a pop, which is a tad pricey for taking out Hamas bottle rockets.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/12/2011 10:13 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Indonesia to send peacekeepers to Philippines
[Straits Times] INDONESIA has decided to join international peacekeepers safeguarding a cease-fire that has helped foster peace talks between the Philippine government and the country's largest Mohammedan rebel group.

Philippine and Indonesian officials said on Monday the Jakarta government recently informed Filipino diplomats of its decision to join the 60-member International Monitoring Team.

The Malaysian-led team, which also has representatives from Brunei, Libya and Japan, has been credited with preventing festivities in the country's south from escalating into full-blown fighting that can derail the talks.

Presidential Adviser Teresita Deles says Indonesia is grateful for past Philippine peacekeeping help in the once-restive Aceh province on Sumatra Island.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moro Islamic Liberation Front

#1  yes, send more Muslims to the area, what a good idea
Posted by: anon1 || 04/12/2011 10:28 Comments || Top||


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Iran MP calls for military use in Bahrain
[Iran Press TV] Amid a Saudi-backed brutal clampdown on Bahraini anti-government protesters, an Iranian politician has proposed that the Islamic Theocratic Republic should dispatch its military forces to the Persian Gulf state.

"I believe that the Iranian government should not be reluctant to prepare the country's military forces at a time that Soddy Arabia has dispatched its troops to Bahrain," Khabar Online quoted Head of the Islamic theocracy Faction of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Ruhollah Hosseinian as saying on Sunday.

He added that the Iranian government should prevent Soddy Arabia from imposing a military occupation on another regional country.

The politician emphasized that Iran's Foreign Ministry should have taken a firm international stance on the Saudi military invasion of Bahrain and the violent massacre of the Bahraini people.

"Iran's Foreign Ministry should have made greater efforts and should have filed international lawsuits against the Saudi government and asked for the assistance of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
OIC is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the UN, with 57 member states. It represents all countries with substantial Moslem populations (as opposed to the Arab League, which excludes members not of the Master Race) except those which member countries block from joining. These include India, which has more Mohammedans than does Pakistain, whose membership is vetoed by Pakistain...
regarding the massacre of the Bahraini people," Hosseinian said.

He noted that the Bahraini civilians are currently under enormous pressure but world powers are heedless of events in the Persian Gulf country "just because they are Shia Mohammedans."

Since February 14, Manama has been conducting a brutal crackdown on protesters who want an end to the rule of the Al Khalifa dynasty.

In March, Soddy Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait deployed their troops to Bahrain to reinforce the armed clampdowns.

According to the state-funded BBC, the harsh crackdown has so far left over 30 people dead.

Amnesia Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have condemned the Bahraini and Saudi regimes for the heavy-handed tactics against civilians in the Persian Gulf state.
Posted by: Fred || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Meanwhile Part III ...

* WORLD NEWS > IRAQ SAYS IRAN MUJAHEDEEN MUST LEAVE BY YEAR'S END [EOY 2011].

* SAME > MORE ENRICHED URANIUM NEEDED FOR [4-5] FUTURE IRAN RESEARCH REACTORS, SAYS TOP NUCLEAR OFFICIAL [Feredoun Abbasi].

* SAME > NATO SHIPS ON [Persian]GULF TOUR AMID IRAN TENSIONS [Shia Iran versus Sunni Saudis + GCC].

Minesweeping TF.

* TOPIX > AHMADINEJAD: NO NUCLEAR LIMITS FOR IRAN.

ARTIC = Iran cannot be denied its Natural/Moral Right to explore + dev Any Each + All aspects, kinds or types of Nuclear Technologies.

IIUC, MOUD = 1990's CLINTONISM > DEDICATED CIVILIAN NUC ENERGY VENTURES = MERELY "LIMITED WEAPONIZATION"???

D *** NG IT, WHO KNEW???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/12/2011 0:51 Comments || Top||


Koran Burned in Iran (video)
Muslims are allowed to burn Korans, and occasionally do. The issue is when kufrs have the temerity to lay hands upon it, or in any other way act as equals to those more beloved of Allah. Unbelievers must be brought to understand and accept their inferior position in the universe.
Two anonymous young men in Iran, one Iranian and one Afghan, have burned a Koran in protest. This seven-and-a-half minute long video shows the two men, their faces obscured, holding the Muslim holy book and reading prepared statements. They say that Arabs have foisted this book and their homelands and because of it they have gone backwards for 1400 years. They say they dislike the Koran and want it to disappear, adding "Viva freedom!"

Afterwards they stand the Koran on a flat rock, douse it alcohol and light it. One of them hoots and laughs. The book burns fiercely, and after a few moments one of them sprays more alcohol into the flames. The video ends with them warming their hands over the blazing book.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/12/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Everyone, quick, download a koran and delete it!
Posted by: crosspatch || 04/12/2011 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  The video ends with them warming their hands over the blazing book.

And here I thought its only good use was as toilet paper.
Posted by: gorb || 04/12/2011 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  They say that Arabs have foisted this book and their homelands and because of it they have gone backwards for 1400 years. They say they dislike the Koran and want it to disappear, adding "Viva freedom!"

This is the problem with Islam in a nutshell. Until the possession of a Koran is made a capital crime(except in controlled situations, which allows for its toxicity to be examined in controlled laboratory situations)this incurable disease will keep spreading and claiming innocent lives.
Maybe Trump should have a chat with these guys and then he will know better what's wrong with the Koran.
Posted by: tipper || 04/12/2011 12:29 Comments || Top||



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