JUBA, Sudan: More than 1,800 people have died this year in violence across southern Sudan, the United Nations said on Friday, ahead of the regions independence next week.
Some 1,836 people have been killed by tribal or rebel violence, including 273 in the first two weeks of June, according to the UN figures, amounting to more than 300 violent incidents spread across nine of the souths 10 states.
The under-developed south, roughly the size of France, has been plagued by violence since southerners voted overwhelmingly in January to separate from the north and form their own nation on July 9.
The independence vote was the climax of a 2005 peace deal that ended a civil war which killed about 2 million people. North and south Sudan have fought for all but a few years since 1955 over ethnicity, religion, ideology and oil.
More than 260,000 people are now displaced in the south, the UN figures showed, which includes about 100,000 who fled the disputed Abyei region.
Analysts say that even if the fragile peace with the north holds, the south risks becoming a failed state if it cannot bring its humanitarian situation and rampant internal insecurity under control. At least seven rebel militia are at war with the government, the UN said.
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[An Nahar] African leaders agreed Friday on a peace plan that rules Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy out of talks with rebels to end the four-month conflict in his country, a top official said.
The plan, which has to be presented to the Libyan regime and rebels, says "Qadaffy must not participate in negotiations", the head of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peace council, Ramtane Lamamra, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The document was finalized in hours of talks among leaders at the African Union summit that started on Thursday and stretched into Friday afternoon.
"It has been a big success. It has been long but good -- everybody was able to give his opinion," Lamamra said of the talks. He did not comment further on the plan, which was expected to be released to media later Friday.
The roadmap builds on one drawn up in March by African leaders mediating in the conflict from Congo-Brazzaville, Uganda, Mali, Mauritania and South Africa. This plan was rejected by the rebels who demanded Qadaffy must first step down.
The new version also envisages a ceasefire, humanitarian aid, a transition period, reforms towards democracy and elections.
It says that the transition must be "consensual and inclusive", which one diplomat said on condition of anonymity meant all parties, including Qadaffy, would have to agree, in a potential hurdle to the peace effort.
Libyan rebel representatives are special guests to the sidelines of the summit outside the Equatorial Guinea capital Malabo, where members of the embattled regime are also present.
The rebel delegation insisted Thursday that Qadaffy must quit after more than 40 years in power and also backed an International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... arrest warrant for him.
The rebel demands could be part of talks, African Union Commission front man Noureddine Mezni told AFP.
"They can bring all these issues to the negotiating table. One day they have to stop the war and to start negotiations -- already people are in an extremely bad shape, they are suffering a lot," he said.
"He must leave," National Transitional Council representative Mansour Safy al-Nasr told journalists.
Asked if he thought the conflict would be resolved through political or military means, he said: "We are ready for anything."
The rebels were also prepared to end hostilities if Qadaffy quit, he said.
"If we see that Qadaffy withdraws, we are ready to stop and negotiate with our brothers who are around Qadaffy," he said.
The rebel leadership expect "a clear stance" from the African Union on whether it supports or condemns Qadaffy, senior Libyan rebel leader Mahmoud Jibril said Thursday.
The ICC issued warrants for the Libyan leader, his son Seif al-Islam and the Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi for atrocities in the crackdown imposed on an uprising that erupted after rebellions in Tunisia and Egypt toppled their long-time leaders early this year.
"These arrest warrants reflect the international conviction that massacres did take place," Jibril told journalists Thursday. "I urge the African Union to take a clear stance."
The 53-nation African Union is under pressure to find a solution to the conflict after criticizing the U.N.-mandated 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... -led air strikes against Qadaffy's forces and insisting on "African solutions" to the continent's problems.
The summit opened Thursday with the union critical of La Belle France's air-drop of weapons to the rebels to defend themselves, warning that the guns could fall into the hands of al-Qaeda bully boyz active in north Africa.
Libya's rebel council thanked La Belle France for the supplies, saying they helped to save lives, but Russia and other nations accuse Gay Paree of going beyond U.N. authorization.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Friday La Belle France had informed members of the U.N. Security Council and NATO about the arms drop and it only involved defensive weapons meant to protect civilians, making it in line with existing U.N. resolutions on Libya.
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Protesters converged on Cairos Tahrir Square to join camping pro-democracy activists ahead of a demonstration planned after prayers to push for reforms. State television said that on Friday morning nearly 2,000 people were in the square, the epicentre of protests that toppled president Hosni Mubarak in February.
Clashes erupted in central Cairo on Tuesday evening between protesters and security forces that injured more than 1,000 people, prompting calls for an open-ended sit-in until the demands of the revolution are met. The violence, which raged into Wednesday morning, signalled the mounting frustration with the military rulers over the pace of reform.
Among the key demands are the trial of officials and police officers in abuse cases before and after the January 25 revolt, an end to military trials of civilians, an inclusive political process and freedom of expression and media.
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IMO, they're going to find that certain habits are countersurvival.
[An Nahar] African nations will not execute an International Criminal Council arrest warrant issued for Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy, an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... summit announced Friday.
The summit in Equatorial Guinea said the warrant issued last week "seriously complicates" efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict between Qadaffy's forces and Libyan rebels, a text of the decision said.
An assembly of the summit decided that "AU member states shall not cooperate in the execution of the arrest warrant," according to a text of the decisions.
The warrant "seriously complicates the efforts aimed at finding a negotiated political settlement to the crisis in Libya, which will also address, in a mutually reinforcing way, issues related to impunity and reconciliation," it said.
The 53-nation African Union took a similar stance against an ICC warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president. Omar's peculiar talent lies in starting conflict. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its imminent secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. in 2009 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The ICC on June 27 issued warrants for Qadaffy, his son Seif al-Islam, and the head of Libyan intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, for atrocities committed in a bloody uprising that began mid-February.
The summit that opened outside the capital Malabo Thursday also agreed on a roadmap out of the Libyan conflict, in which five African leaders are mediating.
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Whassamadda ICC?? You issued the warrant, go serve it yourself.
[Dawn] The leader of Bahrain's biggest Shia bloc says the party will join reconciliation talks with Sunni rulers despite a harsh crackdown on pro-reform protests in the Gulf kingdom.
Sheik Ali Salman says delegates from his group, Al Wefaq, will join the talks but stick to demands to loosen the monarch's grip on power and give more rights for Bahrain's Shia majority.
Salman spoke to supporters during a rally Friday in an opposition stronghold northwest of the capital, Manama.
Wefaq was the leading backer of the Shia-led protests that began in February. The US-supported talks begin Saturday. Bahrain is home to the US Navy's 5th Fleet.
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(KUNA) -- North Korea has strengthened its border controls to try to stem the steady stream of defections to South Korea, Seoul's Yonhap News Agency reported Friday.
The latest crackdown came after nine North Koreans crossed the tense western sea border into South Korea aboard two engineless boats in June, the Good Friends said in its newsletter, according to the report.
The North bans small motorless boats on its western coast and thoroughly vets people before issuing permits to go to sea. It also stopped issuing a travel permit that made it nearly impossible for inlanders to travel to border areas - crossing points for defectors, the aid group said.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the flow of North Korean defectors continues amid chronic food shortages and harsh political oppression. South Korea is now home to more than 21,000 North Korean defectors and defections are a constant irritant to inter-Korean relations. South Korea has suggested that it will not return the nine North Korean defectors to the North despite Pyongyang warning of further damage to inter-Korean relations. Seoul has a longstanding policy to accept any North Korean defectors who want to live in the South, and repatriate any North Koreans who stray into the South if they want to return. The two Koreas are still technically at war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.
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Geez, your uber women's soccer team gets smoked, cooked twice in a row, eaten up on defence, roasted on ball control, other teams' gobbling up any offense, overall creamed and served, and suddenly everyone's a fair weather fan.
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IIRC China was already doing this on its side of the Sino-DPRK borders [Yalu Regions, etc.].
HMMMMM, HMMMMMM, I could be wrong but I'm interpreting this move by Kimmie + Regime as
> INFORMATION CENSORSHIP to the outside, i.e. above than as already practiced by the DPRK.
> ATTEMPT TO CONTROL/PREEMPT POTENTIAL DPRK MIL REBELLIONS vee expansion of Govt. controls oer ROAD = TROOP TRANSPORT + LOGISTICS NETWORKS???
Pyongyang has told the North Korean people that the nation will have achieved its aim of becoming "a great, prosperous and powerful nation" in 2012, which marks the 100th anniversary of the founder of the reclusive state, Kim Il-sung.
In addition, Kim Jong-il will turn 70 in February and the "Dear Leader" hopes to be able to transfer his power and an economically stronger nation to his son and heir-apparent, Kim Jong-Un.
Reports in South Korea indicated that the government in Pyongyang on Monday ordered all universities to cancel classes until April of next year. The only exemptions are for students who will be graduating in the next few months and foreign students.
The reports suggested that the students will be put to work on construction projects in major cities while there are also indications that repair work may be needed in agricultural regions that were affected by a major typhoon recently.
Analysts in Japan claim there may be other reasons behind the decision to disperse the students across the country.
"One reason is that there is a possibility of demonstrations at university campuses," said Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University and author of a number of books on the North Korean leadership.
"The leadership has seen the 'Jasmine Revolution' in Africa and it is very frightened that the same thing could happen in North Korea," he said. "They fear it could start in the universities."
Plus it wears the students out. Hard to start a revolution if you're isolated, hungry and exhausted.
Professor Shigemura also said that North Korea has purchased anti-riot equipment from China in recent months, including tear gas and batons, while there has been an increased police presence at key points in Pyongyang in recent months.
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How many bodies are we talking about here? Could they muster enough "students" to free up the troops they usually have playing part-time farmer during the planting or harvest seasons, or on manuring detachment?
That might be excessively paranoid. Most likely, this is just them throwing every warm body at getting seed in the ground, fertilized, and then harvested. Although you don't generally need those warm bodies in the months in between, unless they're planning on having furloughed college students out weeding seven days a week and chasing bugs, because they can't afford pesticides. They'd be more likely to stomp the seedlings in the process, knowing college kids.
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Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
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Around the edge of the baseball field at Camp Bonifas, South Korean marines under the United Nations Command are busy building four bomb shelters. The American and Korean troops at the camp are just 400 yards from the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) that has divided North from South Korea since the 1953 armistice. It has always been a tense place, ringed by razor wire and minefields, but now there is a particular urgency to the military spadework.
North Korea has carried out two major military attacks on the South in the past 15 months, and is widely believed in Seoul to be planning a third, in an attempt to extract diplomatic and economic concessions.
What makes the current situation so fraught with danger some say the most perilous moment on the Korean peninsula for a generation is South Korea's hardline stance. The government of President Lee Myung-bak, facing elections next year and criticism for its cautious response to the previous two incidents, is threatening to unleash a far more punishing response to any further "provocation", setting the scene for an unpredictable tit-for-tat escalation.
Being attacked repeatedly does tend to make people angry...
South Korean islands along the western maritime border, the scene of the two earlier incidents, are bristling with new weapons. Government officials in Seoul confirmed that those new defences will include Israeli-made Delilah missiles, with a range of 150 miles enough to hit Pyongyang.
The South Korean military is meanwhile preparing new rules of engagement for its frontline troops which would allow it to respond "robustly" to an attack without immediately consulting the government in Seoul. Security officials talk of "proactive deterrence", saying any future response would no longer be proportionate, but rather punitive enough to dissuade the Kim Jong-il regime in Pyongyang from making further attacks.
Short of killing Kimmie, I'm not sure that's possible...
A South Korean counterattack would target not just the North Korean units involved in any future military action but command posts as far away as the North Korean capital. Officials in Seoul even talk of a future incident as "an opportunity" that would allow them to "restore" a working level of deterrence. But it is a high-risk strategy.
"We are now in the most dangerous moment in Korean history over the last 25 years," said Andrei Lankov, a Russian professor at Seoul's Kookmin University. "South Korea has already committed itself to a strong reaction to a future North Korean provocation so many times and so loudly that if they don't do it they will lose elections and be shamed.
"So they will probably react. North Korea is not getting what they want [diplomatically] so they will probably use their usual trick of rising escalation. My advice to war history fans is you should think of buying a map of the Korean peninsula."
Government officials in Seoul, speaking off the record, agreed that they were braced for a North Korean "provocation", because Pyongyang's peace overtures of the past few months have failed to persuade Seoul, Washington or Tokyo to enter a dialogue.
Since, after all, we knew the Norks were lying...
All three capitals insist on a North Korean apology for the two previous incidents, the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan, and the bombardment of the western island of Yeonpyeong, as well as concrete steps towards dismantling the North Korean nuclear programme, as preconditions for talks.
"North Korea has been trying this peace offensive for the past seven months. Now is the time for the North Koreans to change their mode towards more a conflictual approach," a former South Korean official and government adviser predicted.
Another reason Seoul expects another incident is that the regime in Pyongyang appears to be seeking to enhance the martial credentials of the heir apparent, Kim Jong-un, by flexing North Korea's muscles.
Seoul's bellicose language and heavy investment in border defences is clearly aimed at dissuading Pyongyang from trying a repeat of the Cheonan or Yeonpyeong attacks. However, some observers doubt whether South Korea's political leaders and military commanders, when the moment came, would actually order a response that risked triggering a full-scale war.
"I don't know if there is real political will," the former official said. "The new order being given to commanders is 'shoot first and then call' [Seoul]. But I don't know if the field commanders will shoot. Also, while the rules of engagement have changed to more proactive deterrence, looking at the current deployment of forces, I don't think we have the ability to execute that plan."
North Korea's next move to grab Washington's attention may also come in another form, a third nuclear test. South Korean government experts believe Pyongyang is fully capable of carrying out such a test and argue that the decision will ultimately be political: whether it would be more likely to force concessions from a concerned international community, largely in the form of food aid, or tighten the sanctions screw on North Korea still further.
Why not make that clear beforehand? Say simply that a new nuclear test means that food aid is completely off the table.
In response to a nuclear test, Seoul would have no military response, and would instead have to hope that China, North Korea's neighbour and protector, would agree to further sanctions. "China's record so far is not encouraging," an official conceded.
While there is widespread apprehension in the region that Korea's frozen conflict will turn hot once more in the near future, there is also general agreement that all the parties to the conflict will do their utmost to ensure there is no return to full-scale war.
"Both sides are afraid of war and if they see that the probability is real they will go to a lot of highly humiliating concessions to prevent it," Lankov said. "That is because North Korea knows that it is going to lose, and South Korean knows it is going to win but at a cost that is unacceptable, and it doesn't know what to do if it does win."
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What makes the current situation so fraught with danger -- some say the most perilous moment on the Korean peninsula for a generation -- is South Korea's hardline stance.
It's never the perpetrator's fault, is it? It's the victim's fault for arming. Armed victim doesn't roll of the tongue...it breaks the "narrative". Be a good little victim and suffer, Guardian readers will approve from afar.
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I still say the South should stage massive barbeques on its side of the DMZ for weeks at a time. Wait until a time of year when the wind blows from the South and wafts the aroma into North Korea. People would be able to smell that food cooking for miles.
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VARIOUS > it appears the DPRK is once again threatening "ALL-OUT WAR/RETALIATION" agz the ROK for the alleged insults agz it by ROK frontline = DMZ units, besides also threatening to attack USFJ Milbases.
Again, the DPRK is in an [ideo] quandry - it doesn't want to be controlled or taken over by China + CPC, ala "North Korea/Korea for KOreans", but at the same time it wants to preserve Kim family + KORCOM, etal. ruling power + belief system while also NOT liberalizing its Govt-Econ-Society to any large or meaningful extent.
By most Pert accounts, the new SINO-DPRK FTAS is highly likely to increase China's influence + role in the DPRK, where China is already uniquely responsible for 80-85% of the DPRK's trade.
The proverbial "IMMOVABLE OBJECT VERSUS IRRESISTABLE FORCE".
Again, IRONY = As per "China threat" agz the DPRK + KORCOMS, its indir in SOUTH KOREA's LT interests to accept a "sufficiently/minimally" NUKE-ARMED DPRK [+ also Nukes for itself, besides other Options].
(KUNA) -- Newly appointed US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... affirmed here Friday that he will ensure that the US continues to have the "strongest military in the world" that is "prepared to confront the challenges".
Panetta, in a message to the Department of Defense after he was sworn in today, taking responsibilities over from predecessor Robert Gates, said that "as your leader, I will ensure that our nation continues to have the best-trained, best-equipped, and strongest military in the world, a force prepared to confront the challenges that face us".
He stressed that "our nation is at war. We must prevail against our enemies".
"We will persist in our efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately defeat Al Qaeda," he affirmed.
He noted that the "successful" operation that killed the late Osama bin Laden, ... who knows that it's like to live in the belly of a whale only he's not living... "a mission that showcased American military strength and precision, is a major step toward that goal".
He added that "as we begin the transition in Afghanistan, we must remain committed to working closely with our Afghan and international partners to ensure that it never again becomes a safe haven for al Qaeda and its Islamic exemplar allies".
On Iraq, Panetta said "as we continue our transition out of Iraq, we must cement a strategic relationship with the Iraqi government, one based not solely on our military footprint there but on a real and lasting partnership".
He affirmed that "it is in America's interests to help Iraq realize its potential to become a stable democracy in a vitally important region in the world, and to reinforce that responsibility for the future security of Iraq must belong to the Iraqis themselves".
"In the weeks and months ahead, I look forward to visiting with troops and civilian employees of every rank and hearing your ideas, thoughts, and concerns," the new defense chief remarked.
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Congratulations, good luck, and good hunting. Hopefully you'll be able to leverage being your boss's choice to protect the organization you're taking over.
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Panetta Hearing for SecDef on Thursday: Obamas CIA Director Linked to Spies Through Communist Party Figure When this information is examined in context, Loudon and Kincaid stated, it is clear that Panetta, whose nomination to be CIA director was considered mystifying even to those in the intelligence business, has been a key component of a network of left-wing activists and socialist organizations for over two decades. These individuals and groups include not only Hugh DeLacy and his communist associates but the communist-dominated Progressive Party, Democratic Socialists of America and the neo-Marxist New American Movement. Panetta, in short, was a player in the network that sponsored the political career of a young Barack Obama in Chicago. This helps explain why Panetta was picked, seemingly out of nowhere, for the CIA job.
A top Taliban commander has threatened to carry out attacks on nine more key installations in Pakistan similar to the strike on Mehran Naval Base in Karachi to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden.
"The revenge game has already been started from Pakistan. The attack on Mehran Naval Base in Karachi was the first in the line of 10 that Taliban has planned to avenge the death of bin Laden," Wali-ur Rehman, head of Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) in South Waziristan, told Al-Arabiya in an interview.
Taliban militants last month struck Pakistan navy's key Mehran airbase and destroyed two front line P3C Orion maritime spy planes and killed 10 security men including an officer and some firemen.
[Dawn] President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... and the British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... agreed on Friday at their meeting here that both countries will continue to work together for fighting militancy and for promoting peace in the region.
The two leaders at their meeting at the Downing Street welcomed the ongoing collaboration between the UK and Pakistain to tackle violent extremism and radicalisation and agreed to enhance cooperation in support of a comprehensive approach by the government of Pakistain.
The meeting was also attended by Chairman Pakistain People's Party (PPP)Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Prime Minister Cameron warmly received the Pak leader on his arrival at the Downing Street and shook hands warmly outside the famous number 10 door.
Briefing the media, Farhatullah Babar, Spokesperson to the President said that Pakistain and United Kingdom agreed to prepare a comprehensive plan of action to intensify cooperation in trade and business, defence, development, education, health, security and cultural cooperation.
Both the leaders in their discussion had consensual view that terrorism was the enemy of both Pakistain and Britannia and that the two countries should continue to work together to fight the menace.
President Zardari said UK has always supported democracy and he was confident that Britannia will continue to support democracy and democratic institutions in Pakistain.
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The Flotilla of Fools was forbidden to sail by the Greek gummint, but the Audacity of Dope sailed anyway, tw. The Greek Navy (or Coast Guard?) intercepted it and returned it to port.
Guess they want to assure it stays there.
I don't think Greek jails are as bad as Turkish one, but I'm not sure. ;-p
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Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported Friday that the damage caused to the Irish ship might not be a result of sabotage at all. According to the report, investigations have also revealed that the ship was damaged before it entered Turkish waters.
Poor Paleos - can't even get the Turks to support their cause!
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Stupidity? Giving aid to terrorists? This is the ship Medea Benjamin is on.
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You know if your going to include that pic you need to include the earlier one of the boy throwning rocks.
Can't blame the boy for peeing himself - he probably grew up on stories of how the jews eat palieo children and use their blood for whatever - from his loving Palieo parents. Probably expects to be gutted right there.
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At this time, IRAN is denying it made any threats agz Turkey, while TURKEY per se is denying any plan to mil intervene in Syria to protect protestors + remove Assad from power.
[An Nahar] Hizbullah considers itself "not concerned with" arrest warrants that were issued by the Special Tribunal for Leb against four Hizbullah members, sources close to the Shiite party said.
While the group refused to comment on the indictment, the sources told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published Friday that the court is "politicized and used by the United States to serve the Jewish entity."
Unlike what is being reported, the four members do not have leadership positions, the sources said. They are Mustafa Badreddine, Salim Ayyash, Hassan Aneissy, known as Hassan Issa, and Assad Sabra.
"Two of them are Hizbullah members but the other two are only supporters," the sources told the newspaper.
But Badreddine is reportedly a high-ranking Hizbullah fighter linked to the 1983 truck bombings at the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait. He is the brother-in-law of slain Hizbullah military commander Imad Mughniyeh.
Hizbullah's al-Manar television reported on Thursday that the indictment's content proved the court "is politicized."
The party's chief, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has also denounced the court as a conspiracy by the U.S. and Israel and said last year that the group "will cut off the hand" of anyone who tries to arrest its members.
Nasrallah will make a televised speech at 8:30 pm Saturday to announce his stance from the indictment.
According to As Safir newspaper, Hizbullah is waiting for the procedures after the release of the indictment to ponder its next step. The party has received information that the STL hasn't put details of the evidence in the file of the indictment and the arrest warrants that it delivered to General Prosecutor Saeed Mirza on Thursday.
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Will the sweet and wondrous visage of Nasrallah (tran> Nasser was a Dawg) be projected like in the Apple commercial again? I'm checking my Epsom stock, hoping like hell Mitsubishi didn't get the gig.
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Of course he does. And most of all, he prefers to live.
BEIRUT: A key Hezbollah ally on Friday warned that an international indictment of members of the group in the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri could lead to new civil strife in Lebanon.
A senior Hezbollah member was among four people named in an indictment by the UN-backed tribunal investigating Hariri's 2005 assassination. The group denies any role in the killing and has vowed never to turn over any of its members.
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt called for stability over justice. He pointed to widespread fears that the case could further divide the country, which has been recovering from decades of bloodshed, including a 15-year civil war that ended in 1990 and recent sectarian battles.
"As much as justice is important for the martyrs and the wounded, so too civil peace and stability is the hoped for future," he said at a news conference. "Civil peace is more important than anything else."
Jumblatt's support is crucial if Lebanese authorities are to cooperate with prosecutors of the international court, which issued the indictments on Thursday. Lebanese authorities have until the end of July to serve the indictments on suspects or execute arrest warrants. If they fail, the court can then order the indictment published and advertised in local media.
One of the people named is Mustafa Badreddine, believed to have been Hezbollah's deputy military commander. The other suspects are: Salim Ayyash, also known as Abu Salim; Assad Sabra and Hassan Anise, who changed his name to Hassan Issa, according to a Lebanese judicial official who did not want to be identified.
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There was a terrific article by Michael Totten a while back about the Druice and their, shall we say, adaptabilty?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
International Criminal Court
Qadaffy, an 
North Korea
A top Taliban commander has threatened to carry out attacks on nine more key installations in Pakistan similar to the strike on Mehran Naval Base in Karachi to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden.
Asif Ali 
David Cameron
