If they were smuggling drugs, they could've been smuggling jihadi packages as well, so it's a good thing they were shut down. Now y'all get to work fixing the security holes this little exercise revealed.
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It would be interesting to know if drug activity at a specific airport might correlate with the incidence of bags that "disappear" from that same airport. Maybe statistics can identify where the problems are for deeper inspections.
[Straits Times] ONE of the grand figures of the Vietnam War, the influential sister-in-law of president Ngo Dinh Diem who led a US-backed regime in the country's south, has died in Italia, media reported.
Known as 'Madame Nhu', Tran Le Xuan died on Sunday in a Rome hospital, according to the VNExpress news website, citing the Nguoi Viet Nam Chau magazine which specialises in coverage of overseas-based Vietnamese.
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... confirmed the death by citing her sister, Lechi Oggeri.
Born in 1924, Madame Nhu married Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu in 1943 and effectively became the first lady of the pro-American South Vietnam regime as US involvement in the country deepened.
A 'femme fatale' known for shocking declarations, she described self-immolations by Buddhist monks opposed to Diem as a 'barbecue'.
'Sexually suggestive in her decollete gowns, which shocked old-fashioned Vietnamese, she occupied a peculiar place as the only woman close to the misogynist Diem,' journalist Stanley Karnow wrote in Vietnam: A History.
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[Al Jazeera] The leader of a militia that helped Alassane Ouattara ...the current president-for-life of Ivory Coast. He actually beat his predecessor in an election before having to eject him from the presidential palazzo.... defeat rival Laurent Gbagbo ... Former President-for-Life of Ivory Coast from 2000 to 2011. Laurent lost to Alassane Ouattara in 2010 but his representtive tore up the results on the teevee and he refused to vacate the presidential palace. French troops assisted the Oattara forces in extricating him from his Fuhrerbunker... for the presidency in Ivory Coast has been killed.
Ibrahim Coulibaly died in a shootout on Wednesday after he and his men refused to obey presidential orders to disarm.
The Death Eaters have been accused of not meeting a deadline to surrender arms and join the new army under Ouattara.
"I can confirm that Ibrahim Coulibaly was killed during fighting today," Captain Alla Kouakou Leon, a defence ministry front man, told Rooters news agency.
Ouattara had on Friday ordered Coulibaly and his forces to disarm or expect to have weapons seized by force. Coulibaly said that disarming would take time to organise.
Coulibaly's 'Invisible Commando' Death Eaters had fought alongside what is now the Ivorian national army to topple Gbagbo.
Last week Coulibaly pledged loyalty to Ouattara saying his 5,000 men were ready to join to new army. He requested a meeting with Ouattara but was told to disarm without condition.
It is believed that Coulibaly turned the gun on himself instead of surrendering to a group that he once considered an ally.
Fighting broke out on Wednesday night in the Abidjan neighbourhood of Abobo near the militia's headquarters as Ouattara's forces attacked the Death Eaters.
"Our positions were attacked this morning by Republican Forces (FRCI) while our soldiers had met to wait for disarmament overseen by the UN," Felix Anoble, a front man for Coulibaly, said.
Coulibaly had led a successful 1999 coup that installed General Robert Guei, who was assassinated after elections in 2000.
In 2002 Coulibaly helped lead a failed coup against Gbagbo and made no secret of his own presidential aspirations. Later that year, he began the rebellion that divided Ivory Coast between a rebel-held north and government-run south.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Ugandan police on Thursday tossed in the slammer opposition leader Kizza Besigye for the fourth time this month, after smashing his car windows and spraying him with tear gas.
Besigye, who was released from a week in jug after being granted bail on Wednesday, had attempted another "walk to work" demonstration to protest against rising food and fuel prices.
He was blocked from walking by the police however and eventually drove from his home on the outskirts of Kampala into the city centre.
"I was not even allowed to get to a public road," Besigye told news hounds.
A crowd of several hundred supporters formed around his vehicle when he claimed he was prevented by the police from driving to the bank.
The standoff was broken when plain-clothed police smashed his car windows with a hammer and sprayed Besigye with tear gas, forcing the opposition leader and his bodyguards out of the vehicle.
Police argued Besigye was blocking the road.
"He was inciting violence, blocking the road and disobeying coppers," Kampala metropolitan police commander Grace Turyagumanawe told AFP.
"He was moving with many people who were riotous. We asked him to go one way but he refused. The force used was just proportionate not more," Turyagumanawe said.
Besigye, 55, was then bundled into the back of a pick-up truck by coppers and at least three other members of his entourage were also whisked away.
It was not immediately clear where they were taken to.
The event sparked stone-throwing from the crowd to which police responded with tear gas, eventually dispersing the demonstrators.
Food and fuel prices have soared in the eastern African country recently, with President Yoweri Museveni blaming inflation on meteorological and global economic factors, but protestors see it as a result of bad governance.
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[Arab News] Soddy Arabian money supply growth surged to a 20-month high in March of 13.8 percent and bank deposits jumped 13.3 percent to more than SR1 trillion as the government handed out SR53 billion in bonuses that are likely to fuel short-term inflationary pressures.
The latest data of the Soddy Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) also show that, as a consequence of higher oil prices, the Kingdom's foreign assets advanced almost 11 percent to a record level. Bank credit growth to the private sector further extended its moderate climb to 6.5 percent, a 22-month high.
In the first quarter, King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah announced a block of initiatives to support Saudi citizens estimated to cost SR485 billion over several years, including plans to raise wages, pay out one-off bonuses, introduce an unemployment benefit, build new homes and create jobs. The immediate distribution of bonuses in the first quarter added about SR53 billion to fiscal expenditures this year, according to our estimates. Many private sector companies and banks followed suit with similar bonuses, greatly enhancing the purchasing power of citizens and residents.
The implications for money supply and deposit growth were apparent. Broad money supply (M3) increased 13.8 percent year on year to SR1.15 trillion in March, while growth in M2 -- which includes demand deposits, currency outside banks and time and savings deposits -- rose to 14.9 percent, the highest since June 2009.
Soddy Arabia's monetary base, comprising highly liquid currency in banks and held by the public, soared 24.7 percent in March to SR276.1 billion and, as a result of the liquidity boost, the money multiplier fell to 4.16 from 4.52 the month earlier.
The surge in privately held funds was reflected in total bank deposits, which grew 13.3 percent to SR1.04 trillion in March compared with the year earlier, the fastest rate of growth since September 2009. Non-interest-bearing demand deposits advanced by an annual 28.2 percent to SR579.5 billion during the month, up 7.1 percent from February.
Customers have favored demand deposits for the last two years due to their accessibility and the low interest rates offered on savings deposits. Demand deposits now account for 55.5 percent of total deposits, compared with less than 42 percent at the start of 2009. Time-and-savings deposits, by contrast, slipped 5.1 percent year on year in March, although they are up almost 1.8 percent from February, while foreign currency deposits grew by an annual 6.4 percent.
One short-term consequence of government payouts and salary hikes this year should be a rise in inflation as private consumption picks up pace, with consumers more likely to pursue big-ticket purchases such as cars or appliances. Headline inflation fell in February to a 10-month low of 4.9 percent, but we anticipate prices will gain impetus in the coming months due to money supply growth, higher global food prices, steep rents and the weaker US dollar. Inflation should average 5.6 percent for the year, up from 5.1 percent last year.
Private consumption, meanwhile, is already on the rise. In March, there was a notable gain in the number and value of point of sale (POS) transactions, which grew 22.6 percent month on month to SR7.7 billion. The number of transactions rose 18.7 percent to 15.1 million compared with the month earlier. Soddy Arabia is a largely cash-based society, yet these data send a clear signal that residents are spending more money after receiving bonuses equivalent to a 17 percent one-time pay rise. The value of commercial and personal checks, too, jumped almost 29 percent on the month to SR51.6 billion, illustrating the immediate impact of the government cash injection.
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Making record profits off of gasoline, perhaps Mr. Obama could ask them for some of our money back.
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And let the rentier state continue! What could go wrong in a culture addicted to the largesse of their government? That works fine until the well runs dry.
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What could go wrong in a culture addicted to the largesse of their government?
The current king is trying to move education toward more math, science, and foreign languages, and away from memorizing the Koran and magical thinking. As we saw from young JUSTICE's example the other day, even many of the children of the elite are not going to be capable of making the change. He said flatly, "Israel is not part of the Middle East," which of course makes it so.
Following declines in all but one year from 1986 to 2008, U.S. oil production (crude oil and lease condensate) increased in 2009 and again in 2010. Due in part to Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, average production dipped below 5.0 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2008, then climbed to 5.4 million bbl/d in 2009 and 5.5 million bbl/d in 2010, with 2010 volumes representing an 11 percent increase over 2008. The article shows the growth due to oil Shale formations. The Bakken alone is responsible for much of the recovery. The Eagle Ford formation (in Texas) has about as much potential as the Bakken, maybe more, and there are several other oil shale formations with substantial potential (although, alas, mostly to produce methane). Also we have lost production from the Gulf over the past year.
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We've lost about 250,000 barrels a day of production out of the gulf. By next year it's going to be 400,000 barrels a day. I don't know how many gallons of gas that is; it's about 8.8 million gallons of oil going into the refinery.
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More than welder's and truck drivers are needed. Companies are desperate for Rig hands, directional and MWD.
Halliburton is hiring! We still don't have nearly enough people and it is very good pay. But it is also a serious lifestyle change. Directional and MWD hands work the well. We're here from start to finish and right now a Bakken well is averaging 35-40 days. Then you get about 10 days off and for many, living on the rig for that long just isn't for them.
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"We've lost about 250,000 barrels a day of production out of the gulf. By next year it's going to be 400,000 barrels a day. I don't know how many gallons of gas that is; it's about 8.8 million gallons of oil going into the refinery." Thing From Snowy Mountain
From down here in Texas where some gulf oil drilling has stopped, all I know is "I'm on Empty, and Obama is just filling me up with lies."
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But but....drilling is fun! Who needs things like cell phone coverage, towns with more than 20 people (They got a bar, so what more can you want.) and you have to drive 75 miles to find a Wal-Mart, if you're lucky. Besides, think of all the scenery!
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You guys are thinking all wrong! Shale oil is evil! Extracting it produces CO2. Burning it produces CO2.We must shut it down. Better to produce less here and pay $5-6/gallon of gasoline to other countries.
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Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Foundation's Project for Excellence in Journalism: "A newspaper reporter is being punished because she took pictures with a moving camera. We live in a world where there are no longer distinctions. The White House is trying to live by 20th century distinctions."
The President's practice not just with transparency but in other dealings with the press has not been tracking his words, despite the cool glamour and easy conversation that makes him seem so much more open than the last guy. W wasn't easy to talk to? I guess some must think that someone is more likeable if they are a shallow, bitter, punishment-clinging, slow-thinking fool.
It was his administration that decided to go after New York Times reporter James Risen to get at his source in a book he wrote about the CIA. For us here in SF who went through the BALCO case and other fisticuffs with the George W. Bush Attorney General's prosecutors, this is deja vu. I guess that in the liberal mind, Obama going after a reporter for using a videophone somehow equates to W going after James Risen?
Late today, there were hints that the White House might be backing off the Carla Fatwa.
Barack Obama sold himself successfully as a fresh wind for the 21st century. In important matters of communication, technology, openness and the press, it's not too late for him to demonstrate that. Methinks some folks are still sold on the idea. Or maybe they don't know what the words mean other than giving them a good tingly feeling down their leg.
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Every time I hear anything about the O'bumble administration, or from O'bumble or any of his "friends", it just makes me want to put sharper points on my pitchfork.
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This is going viral. San Francisco Gate just called Obama a liar.
[Dawn] Security concerns raised by two gun attacks inside the Judicial Complex within a week brought Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan on a surprise visit to the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court on Wednesday and a call to lawyers to come to the complex unarmed.
General Secretary Ameenur Rehman of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association (PHCBA) said the call went out from the Executive Council of the lawyers that reviewed the security situation following the gunning down of two under-trial prisoners by rivals on the hallowed grounds on April 20 and 26.
PHCBA council noted that several lawyers come to the courts carrying their licenced pistols for safety. The meeting directed all such members to abandon this practice.
On his surprise visit to the complex, Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan took serious notice of security lapses there and ordered more security measures for providing protection to litigants and others attending the courts.
The chief justice toured both the old and new parts of the Judicial Complex to assess the security environment.
According to a blurb, Justice Ejaz Afzal visited every nook and corner of the complex and examined all the entry points wherefrom any myrmidon equipped with arms and ammunition could sneak into the complex.
He directed the Provincial Building Maintenance Cell to raise the level of boundary walls of the complex and install sufficient grills and barbed wires to obstruct any unauthorised entry into the complex.
The PHC's Registrar Syed Mussadiq Hussain Gilani, district and sessions judge Ziauddin Khattak, Peshawar District Bar Association's office-bearers and lawyers accompanied the chief justice during his visit.
Capital City Police Officer Liaquat Ali had told the registrar a day earlier that the police officials whose negligence was blamed for the two fatal shootings had been suspended.
The officer assured the high court that the security of the Judicial Complex would be strengthened on priority basis.
According to the statement, the high court had held a detailed meeting with the SSP (coordination), officials of Communication and Works Department and all other concerned on Dec 7, 2010 and it was decided that a detailed floor-wise security plan would be provided by the SSP along with detailed standard operating procedures to facilitate all the concerned in the Judicial Complex. However, The contradictory However... the said security plan and SOPs were yet to be finalised.
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Ah, Not America, the headline didn't say.
Stupid, bet the judges have a gun.
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The residents of Kotki area in Hangu district ... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them... shot and injured a person for alleged desecration of the holy Koran at a shrine on Wednesday.
Police placed in durance vile the young man under section 195-B and put him in the lockup of Hangu city cop shoppe. However, The essential However... case against him was registered in Saddar cop shoppe because the incident occurred in its limits.
Sources said that police received anonymous threatening calls, threatening them of dire consequences in case they didn`t arrest the alleged blasphemer. Similar telephone calls were also received by local journalists, who were warned to file story about the incident or face consequences. Sources said that the calls were made by bad boys.
Sources said that 27-year-old Saiful Malook picked up few damaged pages of the holy Koran from a mosque and burned them at a shrine in Kotki area where he was spotted by some people. Locals beat him and opened firing on him, injuring his leg, they added.
He was brought to Hangu city cop shoppe and locked after registration of case for interrogation.
According to preliminary investigations the accused was a sensible man and just wanted to burn the damaged pages under the Islamic law to save them from desecration. However, The essential However... officials of local police, when contacted, were tightlipped about the incident.
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[Dawn] The premises of the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) in the capital witnessed high drama on Wednesday as its zealous security team took on the officials of Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) and journalists. Scuffles, fights and allegations and counter-allegations were the order of the afternoon -- at the bank and at a cop shoppe later.
The `excitement` began in the afternoon when an EOBI team, led by Deputy Director Zulfiqar Ali Grewal, arrived at the ZTBL head office at Zero Point. He carried a warrant to seal the `property` of the bank for not clearing dues --Rs85.40 million -- owed to EOBI. The team included six assistant directors of the EOBI, including Tariq Mehmood along with their lawyer, Khurrum Mehmood Qureshi and a bailiff.
Issued by the assistant collector EOBI under Land Revenue Act 1969, Section 83, the warrant entitled the EOBI to seal moveable property and was issued against ZTBL`s president Zaka Ashraf.
The `raiders` of the old employees were accompanied by journalists who had been informed about the raid. Journalists and cameramen -- Samar Abbas and Asif Mirza of DawnNews and Waseem Abbas and Zyafat Abbasi of Sama TV respectively -- entered ZTBL`s headquarter along with the EOBI team and were taken to the room of Security Officer Col (retired) Manzoor Ahmed Qazi.
"The security in-charge told us to wait there," said Zulfiqar Ali Grewal. He explained that ZTBL had not paid up since 2008 and the EOBI people had the documents to seal a `property` of the bank. A symbolic gesture, the EOBI`s plan was to seal the managing director`s office or that of any bigwig.
However, The all-purpose However... the officials of EOBI, the bailiff and the lawyer ended up meeting Senior Vice President ZTBL Masood Khan in the security officer`s room. Once he was served the warrant, Khan claimed that it was not valid.
At this point, the lawyer and Khan had a heated exchange as the former tried to get the warrant back from the latter`s possession.
According to the EOBI team, the bank`s security personnel who were present sprung into action as attention focused on the news channel crews who were filming the episode. As the bank employees tried to stop the filming, the EOBI officials, the bailiff, the lawyer and the journalists were attacked.
According to the visitors to the bank, the ZTBL staff kicked and punched them, tearing their clothes in the process. All of them, including the journalists, were jugged in the security officer`s room and threatened.
After a while, a senior officer of ZTBL asked the detainees to accompany him to his office. However, The over-used However... on the way, the journalists used their cellphones to call their newsrooms and even contact the police for assistance.
This proved to be the proverbial red flag for a staff that was still enraged apparently. Not only did the ZTBL staff snatch the journalists` cellphones, they also demanded that the news channel air the bank`s denial of the news that its employees had thrashed the raiding team and members of the media.
Soon journalists from various organisations gathered outside to protest the detention of their colleagues. The nervous security team locked all the gates to prevent the protesters from entering.
Next on the scene was Subdivisional Officer City Circle Faisal Bashir Memon who was accompanied by others including SHO Haq Nawaz Ranjah. However, The essential However... they too were not allowed to enter and had to seek the help of Assistant Commissioner Mohammad Ali Randhwa.
After an hour long negotiations, the coppers were able to secure the release of the jugged people as well as arrest five to seven security staff members and the members of the ZTBL union.
As the tossed in the clink people were shifted to the Aabpara cop shoppe, the journalists followed them, demanding harsher measures against the bank.
Inevitably, a scuffle broke out between the excited journalists and the police. Cameras were used as weapons (at least one was) as the police brandished their trusted batons. To add to the confusion, federal minister for information and broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan also arrived at the spot.
By that time, however, Sadaqat Ali of Sama TV was maimed in his head as other also suffered injuries.
Incidentally, all the accused in police custody are retired army officers: Brig. (retired) Anjum Saeed Akhtar, managing director, Kissan Support Services Limited, a subsidiary of the ZTBL; Col. (retired) Mansoor Ahmed Qazi, incharge of security; and Maj (retired) Mohammad Masood, head of the law department.
Lawyer Qureshi told Dawn that Assistant Director Mehmood lodged a complaint with Aabpara cop shoppe. The journalists have registered a separate complaint.
While the police have promised an inquiry into the incidents, ZTBL has also condemned the incident and suspended Col (retired) Mansoor Qazi.
"The president of the bank has condemned the incident and we can assure that all the culprits will be taken to the task," said Israr Kisana, ZTBL media chief.
The interior minister has also announced a judicial commission that is to finalise a report within 24 hours.
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Deep rifts among Iran's ruling elite have reached an all-time high in recent weeks, according to sources, who say things have gotten so bad that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have stopped showing up for work.
Iran's complex power structure has for years been compared to a multi-headed hydra, with multiple points of strength. But the struggle now appears to have boiled down to a showdown between Ahmadinejad and Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- once viewed as Ahmadinejad's biggest cheerleader.
Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, one of the founders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and now an opposition figure living in the U.S., says it's a classic Iranian power struggle.
"We have always had this divide by two system, since the founding of the Islamic Republic. The main problem here is a lack of democratic mechanisms in the constitution of the country. There will always be disagreements, and competition for power." And no clear way to resolve them.
There have been disputes over positions in the cabinet, with the apparent sidelining of longtime Ahmadinejad confidante Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, often viewed as the man to take the torch from Ahmadinejad when his term runs out.
Some have cast Mashaei as the Dmitri Medvedev to Russia's Vladimir Putin -- the real power behind the Kremlin. Mashaei, who has made controversial comments in the past -- like saying Iranians could actually be friends with the people of Israel - has been cast of late as an Iranian nationalist rather than an ideologue of the Islamic Republic regime and its pan-Islamic position.
There are other signs of trouble between the president and the supreme leader. When Ahmadinejad tried to fire his power Intelligence chief, Heidar Moslehi, Khamenei intervened to reinstate him. And things have gotten so bad that Ahmadinejad is reportedly not showing up to work, may be planning to resign, and has presented a list of demands for the Supreme Leader, including removing the current Chief Nuclear Negotiator and Head of the Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili.
There are also rumors that Ahmadinejad wants to give an upcoming report on the economy and subsidies live on state television next week, but is being told he can only do it on tape, fueling speculation he may be censored. Also, the Mehr News agency reported Wednesday that a cabinet meeting three days ago was presided over by Mohammad-Reza Rahimi rather than the president. And Ali Banaei, a member of parliament from the religious city of Qom, has announced that Ahmadinejad's tour of the city this week had been cancelled.
Ahmadinejad's absence at the presidential palace this week has thrown even the usually compliant supporters of the president into speculation frenzy. Qom cleric Ahmad Najmi, previously a diehard Ahmadinejad fan and head of the Rasa News Agency, had been silent about the president's recent absence from the scene.
"If Ahmadinejad is removed, the supreme leader will have two problems on his hands. His first, most powerful enemy could become the people of Iran. The leader tortured and repressed people to keep the president in power. His second problem will be the hardcore inside of the organization, like the Revolutionary Guard and the Ministry of Intelligence, those who presided over the repression and torture."
If Ahmadinejad loses, Sazegara believes, Iranian Foreign Policy will continue unchanged, because, in the end, it is the Supreme Leader, who as his title indicates, has the last say.
Cliff Kupchan of the Eurasia Group does not believe this all spells the end of Ahmadinejad.
"This is the most intense and public clash yet between the two. It's over control of the Intelligence Ministry, Ahmadinejad's growing power, and momemtum behind competing factions in the run up to next year's Parliamentary elections. But the core fact remains that Khamenei and Ahmadinejad are dependent on each other, they jointly anchor this regime's hard-line policies. It's very unlikely that the ambitious and combatative Ahmadinejad will quit or be impeached."
The airing of Iran's dirty laundry prompted the Supreme Leader to warn, "If there are disputes, we mustn't frown in front of the people, and give ammunition to foreign media."
But it's the Iranian press and blogosphere, that appear to have the ammunition these days, as foreign journalists are largely barred from reporting in Iran.
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Right now it's internal and yes, something similar happened last year.
If it breaks into the open, expect Iran's economy to be thrown into chaos (the IRGC controls a slightly larger - at last report - chunk of Iranian industry than the mullahs).
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Ahmadinejad's tenure threatened Several Iranian lawmakers announced they were calling for the impeachment of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad amid Cabinet disputes.
Twelve members of the Iranian Parliament called for Ahmadinejad's impeachment, reports Radio Zamaneh, a Persian-language broadcaster in the Netherlands. Parliamentary laws stipulate that at least 10 members must sign a demand for impeachment before the matter is processed by the speaker.
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MOUD "IMPEACHMENT"
versus
* WINNIPEG FREE PRESS >[Hardline = Ayatollah Khatami]] CLERIC WARNS IRAN'S PRESIDENT TO END POWER STRUGGLE WID SUPREME LEADER, SHOW OBEDIENCE
[Ideo-Pol, Religious].
IIUC, IOW Khatami is demanding that Ahmadinejad "stand tall", put differences aside, + work as one wid their common El Supremo the Ayatollah Khamenei.
* OTOH CHINESE MIL FORUM > [NYT = "Jasmine"-Embattled] ARAB LEADERS WILL USE LETHAL FORCE, PERSISTENCE IS THE KEY TO VICTORY.
Uncle Muammar's defiance in Libyuh showin 'em all how its done.
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
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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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[Straits Times] ONE of the grand figures of the Vietnam War, the influential sister-in-law of president Ngo Dinh Diem who led a US-backed regime in the country's south, has died in 
[Arab News] 
Security concerns raised by two gun attacks inside the Judicial Complex within a week brought Chief Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan on a surprise visit to the 
