[An Nahar] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid 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 Wednesday ordered parliament to create a new seat for the tiny Hindu and Sikh minority after MPs snubbed their demand for separate representation.
There are an estimated 4,000 Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan. The community complain of discrimination, abuse and prejudice in the ultra-conservative Mohammedan country.
Their request for a seat in the 249-member lower house was included in an election bill, passed in July after the clause was scrapped on the grounds that the community was so small.
Members of the minority then threatened to migrate en masse and Karzai stepped in Wednesday with his decree.
Under the Afghan constitution, the president has the power to issue legislative decrees when parliament is in recess but it must be approved by MPs to pass into law.
If parliament approves the new seat, it would be contested at Afghanistan's next parliamentary elections in 2015 and raise to 250 the number of representatives in the lower house.
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The community complain of discrimination, abuse and prejudice in the ultra-conservative Mohammedan country. Those infidels should be grateful they still have their heads.
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I'm not sure its a great idea because these folks are likely unhinged to still be living in Afghanistan in this day and age. Of course in the Islamic world I guess that is a prerequisite.
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If parliament approves the new seat, it would be contested at Afghanistan's next parliamentary elections in 2015 and raise to 250 the number of representatives in the lower house.
That might depend on what the Taliban have to say about it.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, warning that Somalia could slide back into being a failed state, called Tuesday on countries around the world to provide the African Union-led peacekeeping force there with attack helicopters and armored troop carriers to take the fight to Al-Shabab militants in the field.
Sure Ban, whatever we don't send to Syria, Libya, Pakistain, Afghanistan, Iraq or Egypt we'll send to Mogadishu. We'll get right on that...
The U.N. chief called on U.N. members, including African countries not yet involved, to provide the African Union-led peacekeeping force with attack helicopters, armored troop carries and other support to root out the al-Qaida-allied Al-Shabab.
"The political, security and development gains made so far in Somalia are still reversible," Ban said in a report to the Security Council. The al-Qaida-allied terrorist group Al-Shabab "continues to undermine security throughout the country, including in Mogadishu."
"Allowing Al-Shabab to continue its training and conduct terrorist activities from bases in Somalia will not only undermine peace in Somalia, but also that of the wider region," he said.
The AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia known as AMISOM is endorsed by the U.N. Security Council and is meant to pave the way for an eventual U.N. peacekeeping force. It is led by Ugandan officers, and also has large Kenya and Burundi contingents. It has more than 17,000 troops.
The United Nations has especially been stung since Al-Shabab attacked the U.N. compound in Mogadishu on June 19, killing a U.N. Development Program staffer, thee U.N. contractors, four Somali guards and at least six Somali bystanders. It was the first direct attack on a U.N. building in Somalia since 2008.
Since then, the international aid group Doctors Without Borders has pulled out of Somalia, citing increasing dangers there. Al-Shabab militants still control much of the country's south.
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[Libya Herald] Anoud Senussi was not kidnapped on Monday, a Sebah Congressman claimed this evening, but was taken by an SSC unit, anxious that she was not being properly protected.
Congressman Abdul Hadi Ahmed Ashrief told the Libya Herald that the 20-year old was taken from a three-vehicle Judicial Police convoy by men from the First Special Unit of the SSC, for her own protection.
It was thought, said Ashrief, that that a group, which he did not name, would seek to grab her on the way to the airport, her original destination. From there she had been due the fly to Sebha. However Ashrief explained, she was taken instead by the SSC unit to "a very safe place" in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , where she has been kept ever since.
Ashrief said that he had visited Anoud at her Tripoli location and she had told him that she was very happy and had been well-treated, both while she was in prison and in the hands of the SSC unit.
The congressman said that she would not be travelling to Sebha, but "within two days"would be going to either Mauritania or Egypt, where she would be joining her mother. He added that in Tripoli she was currently with two aunts and a sister.
Ashrief did not reveal when his visit had taken place and said that there were no pictures of the encounter, because Anoud had said that she did not wish to be photographed.
The threats made by members of the Magraha tribe to which Anoud belongs, to cut completely the flow of water from the western branch of the Man-Made River to western Libya, were made, said Ashrief, because the rustics did not understand that she had not been kidnapped.
"They didn't know she had been taken by good people, " he explained, " that's why they were protesting and about to cut the water".
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"We had to kidnap her to keep her safe from kidnappers."
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] David Cameron and Barack Obama will not hold a formal meeting at a summit in Russia this week, in what some people suggested was a snub because of the Prime Minister's handling of the Syrian crisis.
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A Russian man was convicted of "public justification of terrorism" through postings on a social networking website, prosecutors in Moscow said Wednesday.
Murat Sarbashev from St. Petersburg posted on his web page a video of an Islamist militant, advocating violence against ethic Russians and calling for an independent Islamist state in Russia's North Caucasus region.
After getting negative feedback, Sarbashev responded with an online "public justification of terrorism (and) a statement deeming the ideology and practice of terrorism right and worthy of support and imitation," according to prosecutors.
Three big prestige projects launched by new leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un are bleeding North Korea dry, exacerbating hardships and squeezing their pockets, according to a South Korean government official.
That's before the cognac, gifts for party officials and wifey's wardrobe...
They are the construction of a ski resort, an equestrian club in Pyongyang and the attempt to turn empty plots of barren land into lawns.
Now that last one makes sense: you can eat grass in North Korea. Of course you could eat horses. Keep them off the lawn and it's a two-course meal.
The official said the regime is forcing North Korean diplomats and workers overseas to remit US$300 each to Pyongyang for the construction of the ski resort. It has also told Chongryon, a large pro-Pyongyang Korean organization in Japan, to raise funds. People are being "encouraged" to send gifts to soldiers working on the ski resort, and they have little choice but to comply.
The regime is also pressing many people into labor at the equestrian club and diverting resources that could be better spent elsewhere. It sent senior party officials overseas to sign a deal to buy racehorses worth hundreds of millions of won.
And they'd better win or else...
Last year, Pudgy Kim began a nationwide greening campaign, causing a vast acreage of sod to be laid over barren lots.
The North has established a national "lawn research center" and overseas missions have been told to send grass seeds home. It has urged residents to lay sod over any empty plots in schools and villages.
The source said, "With no sufficient financial resources, the regime is trying to complete Suet Face's Kim Jong-un's signature projects by certain deadlines and people are getting more and more restive."
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Further escalating Russia's anti-US rhetoric, President Vladimir Putin called US Secretary of State John Kerry a liar, claiming he had denied al Qaeda was fighting with the Syrian opposition, even though he was aware of the al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group.
"He is lying and he knows that he is lying. This is sad," Putin said Wednesday, as world leaders gathered in St. Petersburg for the G20 summit.
Putin also repeated that any use of military force against Syria without UN Security Council approval would be an act of aggression.
In his testimony to a Senate panel Tuesday, Kerry denied al Qaeda and "the bad guys" were a majority of the opposition, only 15-25 percent, including al-Nusra and many other groups that are "fighting each other, even now."
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Good for Putin, Kerry is a liar, just like his maker and idol Obama, the quicker we the people get the liars out, (Preferably not just fired, but also banned from any kind of Politics.) the better.
They're hurting America, we see it but do nothing.
There ARE ways to remove bad Politicians, (No, not shoot them, Belittle them, force them, they'll go, we can't allow them to further destroy us) DO SO NOW.
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Putin also repeated that any use of military force against Syria without UN Security Council approval would be an act of aggression.
Lets be honest, a use of military force is an act of aggression with or without the UN blessing. It may or may not be justified but its certainly an aggressive act.
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Water wet. Fire burns. Got any stock tips to pass along, Vlad?
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"Putin calls John Kerry a Liar"
No, no, Vlad.
I know you speak pretty good English, but you could probably benefit from learning some American idioms (since you have to deal with these American IDIOTS).
Lying crapweasel is the phrase you're looking for.
You're welcome.
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[Dawn] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced Wednesday that the paramilitary Rangers force would start a targeted operation against criminal gangs and forces of Evil in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in the next "one to two days".
A committee led by the provincial chief minister would "manage, administer and control" the operation, he said, however he emphasised on calling it a targeted action or "exercise" rather than an operation.
The interior minister, flanked by Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad and Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, was speaking to media representatives following a special session of the federal cabinet in Karachi chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... to formulate a strategy to restore peace in the lovely provincial capital.
Earlier during the cabinet session, the prime minister had also stressed on calling it a "concerted campaign" against lawlessness and terrorism in the city rather than an operation.
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If Palestinians are involved, how can it be otherwise?
[An Nahar] Middle East peace talks have so far proved "futile," a senior Paleostinian official said on Wednesday, calling for greater U.S. participation in talks.
"Until now there has been no progress," the Paleostine Liberation Organization's Yasser Abed Rabbo ... Paleostinian politician and a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. He holds an M.A. in economics and political science from the American University in Cairo..... told Voice of Paleostine radio, after several weeks of meetings between Israeli and Paleostinian negotiators.
"Despite our decision to take part in talks, we're now seeing what we expected -- that there is little hope for their progress, in fact that hope is non-existent and negotiations are futile," he said.
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WASHINGTON --- A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman warned any military intervention in Syria would create a nuclear disaster.
"If a warhead, by design or by chance, were to hit the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MSNR) near Damascus, the consequences could be catastrophic," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich stated, according to Russia Today.
Lukashevich said if a military strike were launched without seeking approval from the United Nations Security Council that new suffering for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa would occur. He added that the region could be at risk of "contamination by highly enriched uranium and it would no longer be possible to account for nuclear material, its safety and control."
He urged the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to complete a risk evaluation carrying out "an analysis of the risks linked to possible American strikes on the MNSR and other facilities in Syria."
Rueters quoted an IAEA spokesperson stating the agency was aware of the statement, but is waiting for a formal request asking the agency to complete risk evaluation and that the group would consider the questions raised if a request is received.
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Well, after the kabooms comes the contaminations...
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Yk ok tvcsink verxsIIkoli ti wscikoklonov n thomohakw mizlonskil.
Rough Translation:
Ok, PROVE it wasn't one of your Tomahawk missiles that hit the bugs and gas.
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"If a warhead, by design or by chance, were to hit the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MSNR) near Damascus, the consequences could be catastrophic,"
I seem to recall one of Syria's neighbors knows a thing or two about hitting reactors.
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The 1959 novel and 1960 teleplay "Alas, Babylon" spins a tale of a nuclear exchange between the old USSR & the USA, provoked by an errant air to air missile fired by a US Navy pilot - into Syria.
[An Nahar] Syria said Wednesday it had taken "every measure" to retaliate if hit by a feared U.S.-led military strike and would never give in, even if a third world war erupts.
In an exclusive interview with Agence La Belle France Presse, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad also insisted that Russia had not wavered in its support, despite comments by President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... suggesting a more conciliatory tone towards the West.
"Syria has taken every measure to retaliate against... an aggression," he said, although he refused to provide any clue as to what that might mean.
"The Syrian government will not change position even if there is World War III. No Syrian can sacrifice the independence of his country," he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Muqdad warned that Syria will strike back not only at Israel, but at Jordan and Turkey if they participated alongside the U.S. in a military attack.
U.S. President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... is busy trying to convince Congress to approve a strike against the Assad regime in retaliation for a suspected deadly poison gas attack on August 21 that Washington blames on Damascus.
The regime categorically denies any responsibility for the alleged attack in Damascus suburbs and has said it is cooperating with U.N. inspectors who are currently analyzing samples taken from the sites of the suspected incident.
Analysts fear that the conflict currently tearing Syria apart will spill over permanently into fragile, neighboring countries such as Leb, where supporters of the Damascus regime are already pitted against its opponents.
And allies Russia and Iran have warned that any military intervention would have devastating regional consequences.
But in an interview broadcast earlier Wednesday, Putin appeared to strike a more conciliatory note by saying he did not exclude agreeing to strikes if it was proven the regime had carried out the alleged gas attack.
Yet Muqdad stressed that Moscow had not wavered in its support of Damascus.
"The Russian position is unchanged; it's a responsible position of a friend that is in favor of peace," he said.
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Assad really doesn't want to end up hanging from a meathook.
[An Nahar] The United States announced on Wednesday that it is ready to respond to any possible attack launched by Hizbullah as a retaliation to the anticipated U.S.-led operation against the Syrian regime.
"Our Navy is ready to respond to any retaliatory attack by Hizbullah," U.S. army chief General Martin Dempsey said during a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Dempsey added: "Our embassies are also fully protected against any possible attack by the party."
"There are conventional risks of retaliation, plus asymmetric attacks via Hizbullah. Even cyber attacks."
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Dempsey added: "Our embassies are also fully protected against any possible attack by the party."
I hope those words don't come back in a week to bite you in the ass.
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So I guess Dempsey musta got his "mind right"? 6/18/13
Flash-forward to this past Wednesday. At a principals meeting in the White House situation room, Secretary of State John Kerry began arguing, vociferously, for immediate U.S. airstrikes against airfields under the control of Bashar al-Assads Syrian regime -- specifically, those fields it has used to launch chemical weapons raids against rebel forces.
It was at this point that the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the usually mild-mannered Army General Martin Dempsey, spoke up, loudly. According to several sources, Dempsey threw a series of brushback pitches at Kerry, demanding to know just exactly what the post-strike plan would be and pointing out that the State Department didnt fully grasp the complexity of such an operation.
Dempsey informed Kerry that the Air Force could not simply drop a few bombs, or fire a few missiles, at targets inside Syria: To be safe, the U.S. would have to neutralize Syrias integrated air-defense system, an operation that would require 700 or more sorties. At a time when the U.S. military is exhausted, and when sequestration is ripping into the Pentagon budget, Dempsey is said to have argued that a demand by the State Department for precipitous military action in a murky civil war wasnt welcome.
Officials with knowledge of the meeting say that Kerry gave as good as he got, and that the discussion didnt reach aneurysm-producing levels. But it was, in diplomatic parlance, a full and frank vetting of the profound differences between State and Defense on Syria. Dempsey was adamant: Without much of an entrance strategy, without anything resembling an exit strategy, and without even a clear-eyed understanding of the consequences of an American airstrike, the Pentagon would be extremely reluctant to get behind Kerrys plan.
[An Nahar] An international political grouping headed by former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... came out against military action in Syria Wednesday, as the U.S. sought allies for strikes following alleged chemical attacks.
"There is no military solution to this conflict," said The Elders, a group founded by former South African president Nelson Mandela.
"Therefore every effort must be made to stop further bloodshed and to re-energize the political process to put an end to the conflict that has devastated and brutalized Syria," the group said in a statement.
U.S. President Barack Obama Why can't I just eat my waffle?... is seeking global backing for punitive strikes against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... 's regime for its alleged use of chemical weapons.
Obama has deferred military action pending Congressional approval at a vote scheduled for September 9. Meanwhile French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... has vowed to "punish" Assad, while Syrian ally Russia has attacked the idea of military strikes.
The Elders, which includes former U.S. president Jimmy Carter ... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet... , archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu and ex-president of Ireland Mary Robinson, condemned the August 21 gas attack in a Damascus suburb as "inhumane and criminal".
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[BBC.CO.UK] President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... has said the credibility of the US, its Congress and the international community is on the line over their response to Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons.
Speaking in Sweden, he said the world should stick to its own "red line" against the use of chemical weapons.
Mr Obama is trying to build support in the US for punitive military action against the Syrian government.
Congress will vote next week on whether to support his plans.
La Belle France - whose government has strongly advocated intervention - held an extraordinary debate on Wednesday in the National Assembly, though MPs will not vote on the matter as the president can mobilise the military without their backing.
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Well he almost has to say that - he doesn't have any of his own anymore and he's squandering ours by insulting our allies and comforting our enemies.
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Not that dogma drenched Marxist give a damn about real history, but the 'world' signed up for the Kellogg-Briand Pact which outlawed war during the 1920, a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them". How'd that all work out, say between 1931 to 1945?
Gee....kind of makes you wonder whose voices our leaders politicians a$$hats are listening to.... Don't knock it. As I recall we turned a profit on the Gulf War, too... HT: Drudge
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I'll believe it when the checks clear, you know, like John Kerry's check on the sales tax he skipped out on when he moored his yacht in Rhode Island...
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As I recall we turned a profit on the Gulf War, too...
Yes, but there were 'warrants' signed by Congress and the UN in that case.
General Officer exam on 'lawful' orders in 4,3,2...
I'm sure they'll find some who'd rather take 'orals'. As the poll on American confidence in their governmental institutions show all the other branches sky diving, I'm sure they'll find some GOs who'll be happy to take the military down with them.
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Don't knock it. As I recall we turned a profit on the Gulf War, too..
Yes, as P2K said, after the Bush administration obtained permission from both the UN and Congress. The latter meaning that the US intended to foot the bill, not hire out its military and foreign policy.
The technical questions are: Will the charges be by the hour or by the night day? Will there be additional gratuities involved and who will get them? Will there be advertising space involved? Will the administration charge extra for 'special services', such as obfuscation, deflection, and the occasional personal appearance by various political personalities?
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From Wretcherd: "One reason why Congress is vested with the power to declare war is because whoever pays the piper calls the tune. If the KSA et al. are paying the piper, they will certainly be calling the tune. For the executive branch to order a Syrian operation bankrolled by the Arabs is to effectively shift the allegiance of the executive branch from its legitimate paymaster the American people to a foreign one. From an intellectual and moral perspective, though probably not a legalistic one, this borders on disloyalty."
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Bush sr paid for the first gulf war largely with Arab money. Not a big deal if you ask me. Still, I'd rather the Arab nations put their planes and tanks and butts on the line instead of just writing checks and singing Onward Christian Soldiers!
Sunni, you want war you be the boots on the ground.
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Barbara,
I remember an early introduction to politics. I was about 14 and there was a book published about LBJ the title of which I think fits this current PoS PotUS to a tee...."None Dare Call it Treason".
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I suspect that announcing that "Arab countries have their checkbooks open and pens ready" was an attempt to mute concerns that any 'kinetic action' would be unaffordable.
Sounds all quite upper-crust and inside-the-loop. Sort of an Ivy-League mafia thing.
"I'll get your son out of Boston. You're welcome. No, no - I'm we can think of a suitable way to show your appreciation later".
I suspect the elites are used to this sort of thing and didn't realize how it would play outside their circle.
[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda's leaders have set up cells of engineers to try to shoot down, disable or hijack U.S. drones, The Washington Post reported late Tuesday citing top-secret U.S. intelligence documents.
The al-Qaeda leadership is "hoping to exploit the technological vulnerabilities of a weapons system that has inflicted huge losses against the terrorist network," the Post said online.
"Although there is no evidence that al-Qaeda has forced a drone crash or successfully interfered with flight operations, U.S. intelligence officials have closely tracked the group's persistent efforts to develop a counterdrone strategy since 2010," the report said, citing the secret documents.
The al-Qaeda commanders are keen to achieve "a technological breakthrough (that) could curb the U.S. drone campaign, which has killed an estimated 3,000 people over the past decade," the Post reported.
Drone strikes have forced al-Qaeda operatives to limit their movements in Pakistain, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and other places.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, warning that Somalia could slide back into being a failed state, called Tuesday on countries around the world to provide the African Union-led peacekeeping force there with attack helicopters and armored troop carriers to take the fight to Al-Shabab militants in the field.
A Russian man was convicted of "public justification of terrorism" through postings on a social networking website, prosecutors in Moscow said Wednesday.
Three big prestige projects launched by new leader 
Nawaz Sharif
Yasser Abed Rabbo
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
Jimmy Carter
