KHARTOUM, Sudan: Sudanese civilian staff in the worlds largest peacekeeping operation have staged a strike over wages, the mission said on Thursday, as the countrys economy faces a sinking currency and steep inflation.
UNAMIDs national staff held yesterday a strike, the African Union-UN Mission in Darfur said, without specifying exactly how many of the roughly 2,900 local workers took part.
It said local employees received a pay increase earlier this year but consider the increase as insufficient and demand to be either paid in US dollars or to have their salaries recalculated according to the June 2012 exchange rate.
Sudans currency has plunged in value on the black market since Khartoum lost its largest source of hard currency in July 2011 when South Sudan separated with roughly 75 percent of the unified countrys oil production before independence. Trying to address the fiscal imbalance, Khartoum in June announced a series of measures including a devaluation of the pound from 2.70 per dollar to a range up to 5.30 pounds per dollar. The new rate is nearer the black market price of roughly six pounds.
Sources familiar with the situation said UNAMID is still paying its staff in Sudanese pounds at the old exchange rate of around 2.70. Betcha someone high up in Khartoum is skimming the difference between the six pounds and the 2.70 pounds per dollar...
They dont necessarily want to get dollars. They want to get paid at a fair rate, one source said, adding that the raise offered for most local staff earlier in the year was about four percent.
Declining to be identified, the sources said the strike occurred only after months of unsuccessful talks with UN headquarters in New York. If there is no resolution, job action will escalate to two days next week and a full week thereafter, they said.
I understand your concerns and I am committed to work hard with the UN headquarters to look into these issues, acting UNAMID head Aichatou Mindaoudou told the local staff in a meeting on Wednesday, the mission said in a statement.
Sudans inflation was 41.6 percent in July compared with a year earlier, official data showed, continuing a painful price spiral that prompted demonstrations around the country in June and July.
UNAMID has been in Sudans far-western Darfur region for more than four years with a mandate to protect civilians in the vast area where rebel-government clashes, banditry and inter-tribal fighting continues, though violence is less than when rebels began an insurrection nearly a decade ago.
With more than 22,000 international troops and police officers, UNAMID has a budget of about $1.4 billion for 2012-13.
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Africa, like much of the Middle East, is a culmination of the failure of the people to develop the attitudes and institutions favorable to peace and progress. "Banditry and inter-tribal fighting" have become virtual genetic predispositions. To attribute the pattern to racism denies the rule of law and the basic tenants of civilization. It is what it is.
[Al Ahram] Egyptian security forces have identified seven people, including one Egyptian, suspected of involvement in the killing of 16 border guards in Rafah in the Sinai Peninsula on 5 August.
The attack, the worst since Egypt's 1973 war with Israel, triggered the biggest security operation in the region for decades, Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal El-Din said.
Lawlessness in Sinai has worsened since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in early 2011, and his successor, President Mohamed Morsi, has vowed to restore order.
"The security apparatus has succeeded in identifying the perpetrators of the incident that killed Egyptian soldiers in Rafah," Gamal El-Din told state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper on Thursday.
He said the Egyptian suspect belonged to a dormant local jihadist cell but did not mention the nationalities of the other suspects, nor is it known if any of the suspects were locked away Please don't kill me!
Security forces are still trying to root out members of "disparate" thug groups, some of whom espouse the "takfiri" ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... doctrine, which sees modern society as godless and therefore to be avoided, or attacked.
A complex relationship between hardline Islamist groups, security forces and local Bedouin tribes hostile to the Cairo government complicates efforts to pacify the region. It also makes it harder to verify reports of the security mission in the isolated region and the local response.
Joint army-police raids on suspected thug hideouts began a few days after the attack, employing attack helicopters, armoured vehicles and hundreds of troops.
The army says 11 gunnies have been killed and 23 tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! , 11 vehicles impounded and weapons seized including five boxes of Israeli-made ammunition.
The crackdown has the cautious approval of Israel which is alarmed by the increasing audacity of the Sinai thugs. Analysts say some of them may have links to Al-Qaeda.
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[Al Ahram] Libyan government officials move to delay the trial of Saif Al-Islam, due to begin this month, after the arrest of Abdullah Senussi, the former spy chief of Al-Islam's slain father
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The MSM and the like have had a field day with pics from Vegas, but couldn't find the time to show his previous 'duties'. Let the lads deal with what they've been through the old fashion way instead of feeding them psychotropic drugs to coddle everyone else with a warm feely that they're doing something for what the lads faced.
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Prince Harry's deployment may come as a timely distraction from his misadventures in a Las Vegas hotel room, but it has been months in the planning.
Jeez, think maybe that's why he was partying his ass off in Vegas?
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Getting nekkid with hot women is NOT a "misadventure".
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Likes shootin billiards nekkid with pretty wymin, bustin a move in Vegas AND poppin bad boyz with his heater in the Stan?
Sounds like a Man's Man to me. I say "Party-ON" Prince.
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What happens in Afghanistan stays in Afghanistan.
In addition to the previously mentioned virtues and habits, Harry is also involved with a charity in Lesotho called Sentebale.
http://www.sentebale.org
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Should have invented a unit, said Harry was in it, and the unit was going to Afghanistan (after he had returned) then release photos and encourage (tempt) Jihadis into traps hoping to get him. Instead everyone knows where he is and he (and his unit) are targets.
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..that would undercut any Taliban plan of keeping a low profile till most of NATO departs. If you knew you were going to be used as bait, wouldn't you like to get some business done before heading out?
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Yep, he's all man and follows in a long tradition of hard drinking, hard fighting, hard partying English monarchs.
Of course, I think he volunteered. Tis probably safer in A'stan than it would be around the palace and around the QUEEN. Who was NOT amused at the excapades in Vegas.
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The Venezuelan government has seized a U.S. flagged ship and detained its captain for more than a week. Since August 29 the ship Ocean Atlas has been at port in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where it docked to unload a cargo of equipment. Yet after four hours in port, the ship was boarded and searched by armed security personel, and the captain was detained on suspicion of trafficking in arms or drugs.
The rest of the crew of 15 Americans has remained on board under guard. According to a well-placed source arrest warrants have been issued for all of the crewmembers, who are to be taken off the ship for questioning.
Incredibly, my Forbes colleague Jeff Bercovici has been in touch over email with one of the crewmen, Russell Macomber, who has managed to post updates to his Facebook account while under detention.
In a sardonic tone, Macomber even relayed that when Venezuelan authorities raided the Ocean Atlas they stole cartons of cigarettes, ate the crews ice cream and let their dogs defecate on the deck. Macomber writes that he would like nothing more than an airdrop of Budweiser.
Officials at the ships operator, Intermarine, did not immediately respond to Forbes requests for information. Nor did officials at American Maritime Officers, which is believed to have provided the crew for the ship. A spokeswoman at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington said she would look into the incident.
A spokesman for the Seafarers Union confirmed the seizure to Forbes and said, The SIU is working feverishly to help resolve this situation and to ensure the safety of all mariners aboard the Ocean Atlas. We are staying in touch with the crew and will continue doing so.
A U.S. Embassy official in Caracas also confirmed the incident to Reuters earlier today.
The seizure of the ship could become an international incident if not resolved soon. A month ago Venezuela detained a U.S. citizen entering from Colombia. President Hugo Chavez accused the man of being a mercenary and part of an imperial plot to oust him. So far there has been no public comment from Chavez about the Ocean Atlas detention.
The 12-year-old Ocean Atlas is one of a very small number of U.S.-flagged heavy-lift vessels. Its cranes can lift 400 tons and its giant holds are ideal for hauling hauls boats, generators, and oilfield equipment. It often moves cargoes under contract with the U.S. government or for projects financed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which requires U.S. flagged ships to carry any cargoes it has financed.
A decade ago the ship carried oilfield equipment to Iraq. And according to a backgrounder on Globalsecurity.org, it also made a special trip to Libya:
The Department of State requested that the vessel be quietly diverted to Libya, where under special security cover, the vessel was loaded in its entirety with equipment from Libyas nuclear and other WMD programs arsenal. They included specialized centrifuges used in the processing of uranium to weapons grade, equipment from a uranium conversion facility, and Libyas five SCUD-C long-range missiles. The cargo was discharged at an undisclosed U.S. East Coast port. The Libyan cargo move was truly a spur-of-the-moment operation.
The ship became the first U.S. vessel to dock in Libya in 20 years.
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Jimmy Carter V2.0
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"Day 9 - America held hostage"
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The amazing thing being, that there are any cargo vessels at all under the American flag these days.
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Well, they get a free ship out of it, and some poor sucker in the US winds up out the cost of a ship.
I mean, it's straight economic warfare, while the US still has a president who doesn't think the sort of Americans who work in the oil industry should be able to make a living.
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The best I can figure ... is that Chavez is looking for a moonlighting job, and has got his eyes on Hollywood. So he's decided to do a sequel on a movie. It's just too bad that he picked "Dumb and Dumber". I mean ... why didn't he just choose a good musical???
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He's baiting Big Satan in order to rally the voters. Probably hoping The Won will reciprocate.
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Holy shades of Clive Cussler and NUMA, Batman!
An American flagged heavy hauler for 'dark' (not black) operations. the ships operator, Intermarine officials at American Maritime Officers
These bear some deeper scrutiny.
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Intermarine is running a pretty damned big operation for a cover Note their specialization in heavy lift for things like oil equipment, consider Oogo's oil industry mess and then view this through the extortion lens.
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You'd have to hit him where it hurts -- buildings owned or populated by Iranians.
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Can you IMAGINE if you're an Iranian agent assigned to Venezuela? You can get real slices of fresh oranges in your mixed drinks. And you only have to hatch brazen plots (like this one) once every couple of months. What a DEAL!!!
Ramil Safarov is a convicted axe murderer, but to Elnur Gasymov, a university student in Azerbaijan, he is a hero. Gasymov said, "He killed a military officer of our enemy."
Safarov was sent home last week after serving eight years of a life sentence in Hungary for killing an Armenian classmate during a NATO-sponsored English-language course in Budapest. Safarov entered Lieutenant Gurgen Markaryan's room as he slept, stabbed him several times with a knife and struck him repeatedly with an axe, nearly severing his head.
Gasymov said, "He will always be a hero for me."
Instead of sending Safarov to prison, President Ilham Aliyev pardoned and freed him, drawing angry protests from Armenia and expressions of concern from the United States, Russia and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The 35-year-old officer was also promoted to major and given back pay of 45,000 manats ($56,000) for his years in jail.
China is apparently opposed to extending the range and payload of South Korean missiles, as is Japan. Opposition from the two neighbors could prove the final stumbling block in negotiations with the U.S about increasing the range and payload, which are restricted under a bilateral agreement.
Concerned that southwestern Japan could fall within the reach of South Korean missiles, Japan has been stepping up opposition to extending their range since President Lee Myung-bak's visit to Dokdo last month. Not that the Koreans have any intention of attacking the Japanese, never mind the past hundred years of history...
Since the negotiations between South Korea and the U.S. began in January of 2011, Washington has cited concerns from China and Japan as the main reason for maintaining the current cap, which limits the range to 300 km and payload to 500 kg. Seoul wants to extend the range to 1,000 km and the payload to 1 ton.
China is closely watching the negotiations, according to one expert at a state-run think tank. "The Chinese Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry and Communist Party all feel uneasy about extending the range of South Korean missiles to almost 1,000 km, since Beijing is only 950 km from Seoul," the expert said.
Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie and other top brass there view any extension of South Korea's missile range as part of a U.S. strategy using regional allies to keep China in check. There is that. Of course if the Chinese would curb the North Koreans I'm sure we could use our vast influence on the ROK...
"China will select new leaders in October and does not want to hear news about strengthened South Korean missile capabilities at a time of leadership change," said another expert. Beijing is apparently concerned that an extension would agitate North Korea, increasing tension in the entire region. Everything agitates the Norks...
But both China and Japan have the capacity to build intercontinental ballistic missiles, so critics say they are in no position to oppose increasing South Korea's capacity. China's DF-21C missile has a range of 2,500 km, while the DF-31A can travel more than 10,000 km. Japan, meanwhile, has a three-stage, solid-fuel rocket that can be turned into an ICBM. "China and Japan do not want South Korea's military status to rise," said one diplomatic source here.
Meanwhile, Seoul and Washington have apparently narrowed their differences in the talks, which have been going on for the last 21 months. It now seems likely that South Korea will be able to extend the range of missiles to around 800 km and the payload to over 500 kg.
But the U.S. is still apparently opposed to South Korea using solid-fuel boosters. Such rockets are stronger and require less time to prepare for launch. Also, Washington apparently does not want Seoul to transform civilian rockets for missile use or vice versa. The two sides are hoping to wrap up the talks this month. "The time has come for the U.S. to decide," said a high-ranking Defense Ministry official here.
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America has been trying to figure out a way to deploy "prompt global strike" systems to take out bin-laden and similar fleeting targets.
Such a system would be a conventional weapon on an ICBM platform.
The US cannot do this, because the target would never know if they were about to get nuked or not, and would have to launch prior to the US missile impacting.
South Korea, however, has no nukes. Thus everyone can be assured that its ICBMs would only be conventional systems. Therefore, the US should sell South Korea ICBMs and share terrorist targeting info with them.
If China doesn't like this plan, well then they can do something about the Norks. Otherwise ...
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WORLD NEWS > [Xinhua.net = KCNA] DPRK URGES AMERICAN FORCES TO WITHDRAW FROM SOUTH KOREA, lest NoKor be forced to improve + expand its nuclear deterrent.
China has slammed Japan's plans to finalize its purchase + nationalization of the China-claimed Senkakus/Daoyus + warns that it will to defend its sovereignty rmains unwavering.
IMO "Pudgy" = Jong-un is engaging in good PCorrectness + being double-ended here - the DPRK warning is good for purposes of inter-Korean Reunification + Bilateralism, while also indirectly warning the ROK + US-Allies that China's entrenchment in the East, South China Seas as per disputed islands is very real + very dangerous. UNLIKE IRAN + FAR-AWAY PERSIAN GULF, NE ASIA = "PERFECT STORM" OF MILPOL CRISES VERY CLOSE TO THE BORDERS OF MAJOR WORLD POWERS.
[Christian Science Monitor] French investigators struggled Thursday to explain how a 4-year-old girl could go undetected for eight hours in a car with three bodies in the French Alps.
They also acknowledged that they still don't know why a family of vacationers with British and Swiss passports were slain in a BMW on a remote mountain road near the French village of Chevaline. A French cyclist, possibly riding by at the time, was also killed.
The attacker or attackers violently beat and shot the girl's sister, who is about 7 years old, French prosecutor Eric Maillaud told reporters in nearby Annecy. The girl was found near the car and hospitalized. She will be operated on but her life is out of danger, he said.
French authorities were not releasing the identities of the victims, but said the car was registered to a man with a British passport, who was born in Baghdad in 1962. A Swedish passport and Iraqi passport were also found at the scene, Maillaud said.
Four people were found dead on the remote road: one adult man in the driver's seat of the British-registered BMW; two women in the back seat, one older than the other; and a French male cyclist, Sylvian Mollier, who appeared to have nothing to do with the family.
The bodies were found Wednesday by a British former air force officer who was cycling by, the prosecutor said.
A number of rescuers -- firefighters, medical workers, police -- apparently eyed the crime scene after it was reported about 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Local officials then waited for special investigators to arrive, police said.
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The UK Telegraph is reporting it resulted from a family dispute.
Family disputes don't usually end in professional hits, unless you have a professional hitman in the family, of course.
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it was either a professional hit, or a very premeditated murder. the cyclist was taken down because he was in the wrong place at the wong time. another cyclist nearby (within a couple of miles) apparently did not hear shots - or that has not been reported. that might imply that a silenced weapon was used.
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From the Fox account: The man, identified as Saad al-Hilli, had lived in Britain since at least 2002, and his family had been in France since August.Public records identified al-Hilli as a mechanical engineer and his LinkedIn page described him as an aerospace consultant.Saad al-Hilli's father died recently in Spain, family friend Mae Faisal El-wailly told The Associated Press. She described the family as wealthy and well-traveled....Prosecutor Eric Maillaud said British police have reported that the girls' father had been feuding with his brother over money. A family friend said the father of the two men died recently -- while public records showed the brother had left the victim's small aeronautics design firm...According to public records, Saad al-Hilli's brother Zaid is between 50 and 54 years old, and resigned last year from his brother's company, Shtech Ltd., which specialized in computer-aided aeronautic design. His whereabouts were unclear... Shtech had only modest assets, with a net worth of roughly $13,000.
If the brother did it, and the 7 year old severely beaten and left for dead, why did he not wonder where the 4 year old was?(hiding under her mother's skirt) And a hit over $13,000? Something smells here.
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something small alright. I can see one brother killing another - but not the whole family and a cyclist as well. Looks like a lot of scrutiny will be focused on what that small aerospace firm was really doing ... incl their last customers.
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thinking some more about this ... if there were cyclists competing in an event and they were spead out along the road (before and after the murder site) - doesn't that mean that one of these people has seen the suspects' vehicle? The hit team must have driven past them.
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French media have named all but one of the victims. They are Saad al-Hilli, an Iraqi-born British citizen from Surrey, his wife Iqbal, an elderly woman with a Swedish passport, French prosecutor Eric Maillaud said, while Mr Hilli's wife held an Iraqi passport. The other man killed was French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, a local man and father of three children.
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Police believe the killings were carried out by a professional hitman.
They say the four victims were finished off with shots to the centre of the forehead.
One theory being investigated is that it was the work of a foreign intelligence agency.
Detectives are exploring Mr al-Hillis ties to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Mr al-Hilli fled to Britain in 2002 with his parents who were forced to leave Iraq by the Saddam regime, according to the couples neighbours.
He worked in Guildford for a satellite engineer company called Surrey Satellite Technology and also had his own company called SH Tech, which does technical design for the aircraft industry.
He was found dead behind the wheel of the car, which was in a remote car park, with his wife and mother-in-law slumped on the back seat.
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consistent with what i had in mind ... here's why: this family had to be under excellent surveillance in order for the murder to have been done in that location (it actually requires professional surveillance from a team), shots fired were quiet (hence low-caliber pistols with silencers), assassins were professional and cold (did not hesitate to kill cyclist who also happened to be in wrong spot at wrong time), youngest daughter may have been spared by the killers.
I can make a guess about who might have done this. Think other readers can too.
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that's a reasonable piece of speculation. One thing I said above is wrong. The team that did the hit must have had remote surveillance on the vehicle - they knew the road and the time it was coming through. But they did not have anough resources to have a dedicated surveillance team at the location of the kill. That was a mistake - the cyclist showed up unexpectedly and was killed as a consequence. Professionally ... this was messy. Looks like hit men who were time-constrained, or lacking in resources (still professionals though).
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not sure about older daughter .. maybe the hitmen were in a hurry - or had a conscience. There will be an eye witness if she recovers and remembers. The Swiss authorities are going to be very upset - that one of their citizens was murdered in this incident.
Some Russians would have lost an awful lot of money when that new Russian plane crashed in Indonesia recently. Perhaps they put the blame on Al Hilli's work.
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I'll set aside the citizenship of the hitmen for a minute. I decided to go back and think harder about the comment from Besoeker. Why would one of the victims in the family be shot - but not dead, while there were professional kills on the main targets (the parents)? I've got a possible answer.
First, it's very likely that the hit team consisted of 2 or 3 people. One was experienced with assassination - that was the main shooter who did the killings. There may have been a second shooter, less experienced. And possibly a third person who was the driver.
Let's suppose they started with the hit. And in the middle of the kill, an unknown cyclist comes round a bend and discovers what's happening. The cyclist assumes it's a violent robbery on a family - may have heard cries for help. So the cyclist gets off his bike, runs to the car, and tries to intervene. At that point there is a stuggle between the cyclist and the hit men. The cyclist gets shot and killed. In the commotion, the older daughter inside the car tries to escape. She is knocked down and shot - but not accurately. The hit team is now concerned that another cyclist could come upon the scene at any moment. They quickly pump a couple more shots into the girl on the road, jump into their car, and flee. But the girl is still alive - barely.
This is fairly broad speculation. But if it's even close to the truth - the cyclist tried to be a hero. French police will figure that out. They will know a lot more if the wounded girl recovers and gives them details. This incident is going to create a lot of bad blood between the French authorities and whoever sent that hit team. Even though the target was killed, this operation was botched.
In a rare move, a Pak judge granted bail of $10,500 Friday to a young, mentally challenged Christian girl accused of insulting Islam by burning pages of the religion's holy book. Makes it easier for the mob to have at her...
The case has focused attention on Pakistain's harsh blasphemy laws, which activists claim are used to persecute minorities and settle personal vendettas.
The girl, who medical officials say is 14 years old, was set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! after an angry mob surrounded her house in the capital, Islamabad, and accused her of burning pages from the Koran, an act punishable by life in prison. Her lawyer has denied the allegation.
Bail is rarely granted in blasphemy cases, which carry a stiff penalty of life in prison or death. The bail decision came after a holy man was accused of planting evidence to incriminate the girl and could signal that the case will be thrown out entirely.
Rights activists, who have been calling for the girl's release, welcomed the decision.
Judge Mohammed Azam Khan set bail at 1 million Pak rupees, or about $10,500, a significant sum in a country where many families live on only a few dollars a day. A Pak group that represents minorities said it would pay the bail.
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These scenarios are at best narrow or limited-scoped, + do not deal wid Iran's most likely counter-response, i.e. initiation of large-scale Regional, International retaliatory TerrOps agz the US-West/Allies, including but not limited to strikes agz Washington DC + US Govt. per se. BY EITHER TERRORISTS ANDOR MIL COMMANDO TEAMS. The scenarios also presume that Iran will not resort to using any available Nukes or BioWar, ChemWar agz its enemies iff it believes the Mullahcracy in Tehran was at or near the point of collapse.
The focii of US, Israeli threats agz Iran's NucProgs has been on INDIGENOUS DEV + PRODUCTION OF NUKES BY IRAN, NOT COVERT THIRD-PARTY TRANSFER FROM ANTI-US INTERNATIONAL GOVTS-STATES TO IRAN WHICH REMAINS VERY VIABLE.
Unless Iran is invaded, IMO a POST-ATTACK Iran will likely order the initiation of large-scale Tnternational Terrops agz its Enemies as well the rapid dev of Indigenous NucWeaps +
"defensive" Third-Party transfer. BY THIS SCOPE, ANY SUCCEESS BY A US-ISRAEL MILSTRIKE IN DELAYING IRAN'S NUCPROGS BY TEN YEARS OR SO WILL BE ALL BUT ABSOLUT MEANINGLESS OR WORTHLESS.
Espec given ...
* MEMRI.ORG > SENIOR MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ADVISOR ESSAM AL-ARYAN: THE DEATH OF THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR [POTUS Dubya's War] IS IMMINENT.
I disagree to begin with, + moreso iff Iran makes good on its threats + orders retaliatory Regional, International terror in response to any US, Israeli attack agz its NucProgs. IFF THE US DIDN'T DESIRE OR WANT TO INVADE IRAN BEFORE, IT WILL HAVE TO NOW.
* TOPIX > [IRGC Commander] IRAN WILL STRIKE US WARSHIPS IN GULF IFF ATTACKED, by Israel andor the US.
* SAME > [Lucianne] US ATTACK ON IRAN WOULD TAKE HUNDREDS OF PLANES, SHIPS, AND MISSLES.
IMO the US = USDOD, etal. may as well just plan to de facto invade Iran via follow-on ground campaign. IFF THE US DOESN'T ATTACK, IRAN [+ aligned] WILL ATTACK.
[Al Ahram] Syria's foreign ministry calls Egyptian president's Wednesday statements at Arab League 'blatant meddling' in Syrian affairs and 'breach of Syrian people's rights'
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China is apparently opposed to extending the range and payload of South Korean missiles, as is Japan. Opposition from the two neighbors could prove the final stumbling block in negotiations with the U.S about increasing the range and payload, which are restricted under a bilateral agreement. 
[Christian Science Monitor] French investigators struggled Thursday to explain how a 4-year-old girl could go undetected for eight hours in a car with three bodies in the French Alps.
Syria's foreign ministry calls Egyptian president's Wednesday statements at Arab League 'blatant meddling' in Syrian affairs and 'breach of Syrian people's rights'
