[Al Ahram] In a speech following Friday prayers in Qatar's capital Doha, Egyptian sheikh Yusef El-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jizz, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch. Joe has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of Joes's views have been controversial in the West, though not so much in the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Mohammedan academics from Soddy Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... highlighted the importance of quick presidential elections after the parliamentary polls in Egypt, adding that the military council should not prolong the transition period.
Qaradawi stressed in his speech that no one should have authority over the Egyptian people, not even the military council, adding that there should be no supra-constitutional principles and that the parliament has the right to set the constitution, and everyone else should abide with what the parliament decides.
In his speech Qaradawi referred to Egypt's demonstrations in Tahrir Square, describing it as the place where Egyptians go to make their voices heard, adding that "there are some who are deaf so cannot hear and dumb so they cannot understand." He urged Egyptians to vote for those who are just and honest, and not to give their voices to some just because they are rich or famous.
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The Islamist politician likely to become Tunisia's first democratically elected prime minister has alarmed liberals and secularists by claiming the arrival of the "sixth caliphate", a controversial term for a Mohammedan empire.
Hamadi Jebeli, secretary-general of Ennahda, the moderate Islamist party which romped to victory in last month's elections, told a rally in the city of Sousse: "My brothers, you are at a historic moment in a new cycle of civilisation, God willing. We are in sixth caliphate, God willing."
Party officials, who have spent months insisting they wanted to pursue secular democratic politics rather than an international Islamist agenda, were forced on the defensive after his comments were posted on the internet.
But they may have scuppered the party's hopes of forging a broad-based coalition. The left-of-centre secular Ettakatol, which came third in the vote, suspended talks with Ennahda over forming a government.
"We thought we were going to build a second republic with our partner -- not a sixth caliphate," Khemais Ksila, a senior member, said.
Mr Jebeli was imprisoned under the dictatorship of Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali for his Islamist beliefs. But since the country's revolution in January, the party has argued it wants to work within a democratic political system along western lines.
The stance was enough to see them win 40 per cent of seats in parliament, more even than their supporters expected. But opponents say their moderate public statements hide a more radical agenda -- one more honestly expressed to provincial working class supporters than the middle classes in the capital.
Ennahda's other prospective coalition partner, the likewise centre-left and secular Congress for the Republic, did not follow Ettakatol's lead, perhaps soothed by a deal making its leader Moncef Marzouki interim president.
The term "caliphate" refers to a governance system based on sharia law as formerly used by successive Islamic empires. It is a sensitive term in Arab politics due to its modern associations with Death Eater groups like al-Qaeda and especially in Tunisia where it is promoted by the radical Salafi movement, Hizb-ut-
Mr Jebeli's opponents are now planning a large demonstration to coincide with the opening of the new assembly.
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From the article linked by Eohippus (which should probably have its own thread):
"It is not a crime, but it is not the right time for the bodies to be removed, Goaider said in an interview. If the religious council issues a fatwa, an Islamic religious edict, demanding the removal of the bodies, security units will do the work, he said."
Sounds like there could be union trouble ahead as well if the Islamists think they can do their own grave-robbing and re-burying. That's union security men work!
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The advantage of a Caliphate is its one entity and leadership to be dealt with (targetted) and should have some kind of survival instincts.
Isolate them with strong visa regulations and open up the oil sands and other non-Islamic oil sources to cut off some of their funds (and contacts with the west) and let them stagnate. Its not as if they'd be a military or economic threat, at least not without the oil.
Let them look back at the days of colonialism as a golden day and you'll see Islamism sink.
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All thingys equal, the sign will be iff George Custer + 7th Cavalry + Jefferson AIrplane can defeat the armies of Persia, in Persia.
The Story ...
> Of a OWG Soldier-King named Francis.
> A Valley called the Little Big Horn.
> An Asteroid the size of Texas.
> A Sword called Excalibur.
EXCALIBUR? D **** IT, DOES THIS MEAN IT NOT THE SWORD OF THUNDERRA!?
#7
ION MEMRI.ORG > PROMINENT SAUDI PREACHER [Dr. Ardith Al-Qarni] URGES ARABS TO MANUFACTURE NUCLEAR WEAPONS + GAIN MILITARY STRENGTH - FOR "THE WORLD RESPECTS NO ONE BUT THE STRONG".
and
* SAME > "OCCUPY WALL STREET" REACTIONS + SUPPORT IN THE ARAB + MUSLIM WORLD PART IX: HIZB-E-ISLAMI CHIEF GULBUDDIN HEKMATYR: "OCCUPY WALL STREET" MOVEMENTS [ + Arab Springs] INSPIRED BY AFGHAN JIHAD, "THE UPRISINGS IN EUROPE + US THE EFFECT OF THE AFGHAN JIHAD ON THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL".
* SAME > JAMA'AT-AL-TAWHID WAL-JIHAD IN PHILIPINES ASKS MUJAHIDEEN AROUND THE WORLD FOR HELP IN WAGING JIHAD [in Philippines], SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO AL-QAEDA [new AQ Chief Ayman Zawahiri], as well the Taliban's MULLAH OMAR + Emirs of other main MilTerr Groups.
and
* TOPIX > INDONESIA WARNS OF [regional = ASEAN] DISTRUST DUE TO US TROOP DEAL [USMC in Australia].
Will say it again, US-VS-RISING-CHINA-VS- NUCLEAR-ISLAMISM/RADICAL ISLAM, in East Asia + Pacific, no longer just the US versus Rising China.
The Cable has obtained the document (pdf) at the center of the "memo-gate" controversy, sent allegedly from the highest echelons of Pakistain's civilian leadership to Adm. Michael Mullen in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden. The memo offered to reshape Pakistan's national security leadership, cleaning house of elements within the powerful military and intelligence agencies that have supported Islamic radicals and the Taliban, drastically altering Pakistani foreign policy -- and requesting U.S. help to avoid a military coup.
The Cable confirmed that the memo is authentic and that it was received by Mullen. The Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani -- the rumored author of the memo -- has offered to resign over what has become a full-fledged scandal in Islamabad. The Cable spoke this evening to the man at the center of the controversy and the conduit of the memo, Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz.
Ijaz alleged that Pakistan's U.S. ambassador, Husain Haqqani, was not only the author of the memo, but the "architect" of the entire plan to overthrow Pakistan's military and intelligence leadership, and was seeking U.S. help.
"Haqqani believed he and the president (Zardari) could redraft the architectural blueprint of how Pakistan should be governed in the future -- with civilians in command of the armed forces and intelligence services and the memorandum's content was geared in that direction," Ijaz said.
Over the past month, the rumors of the memo and its contents have ballooned into a huge political crisis in Pakistan. Islamabad's military leadership has pressed Zardari to start a full inquiry and the president has summoned Haqqani to the capital to explain himself. Haqqani offered to resign from his post on Wednesday, and told The Cable that he will travel to Pakistan on Friday.
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Even the general population in Pakistan know The Army/ISI is the problem in their country.(Pak Army/Mullah alliance have been written numerous times!)
Army ideology needs changing from Kayani,Pasha downwards and the Zia mentality extinguished including the types of Gen Gul,Dr(death)A.Khan and Gen Beg who have too much say/power.I dont trust Perv Musharraf either as he is one of Zias ideologues!
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[Dawn] Governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Masood Kausar on Wednesday urged the people of the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas to keep a close eye on the troublemakers, fearing that they might resurface to disrupt peace restored by law-enforcers and political administration after great efforts and sacrifices.
"There is no doubt that tribal people are peace-loving but a handful of elements are there to disrupt peace for their ulterior motives. The people should remain vigilant," he told a 14-member delegation of elders of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... during a meeting.Malik Naseer Hussain led the delegation, which called on Mr Kausar at the Governor`s House here.
The governor said sectarian hatred was one of the issues that led to disturbances in some Fata agencies. He said those fanning sectarian hatred must be identified for punishment, adding that the people should promote religious harmony, tolerance and cohesion in the society.
"Peace in Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... has been restored after hectic efforts by law-enforcement agencies and local administration," he said, adding that peace in the agency would be maintained at all costs and no one would be allowed to disrupt it again.
Mr Kausar said Fata had been brought to the political mainstream and expressed the hope that political activities would also help discourage religious extremism and terrorism.
He said implementation of Fata reforms was underway in phases and would be ensured by all means. He said security agencies were taking on bully boyz and destructive elements effectively, while most of the areas had been cleared of such elements. He urged the rustics to play their due role in anti-terrorist activities.
The governor said the lasting peace in Fata could be maintained and development process furthered with the people`s support and cooperation.
"Progress and development in Fata is a priority once peace is restored. We want the development process to continue without obstruction for early completion of public welfare schemes," he said.
Mr Kausar informed the delegation that political administrations of tribal agencies would serve the people in future instead of ruling them as was done in the past.
"From no onwards, the administration will take the people along in development activities and will have to have close liaison with political activists," he said.
The delegates apprised the governor of their problems, mostly related to education, health, communication and water supply schemes, prompting the latter to issue directions to the relevant officials for their early redressal.
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[Dawn] Chief Minister Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Wednesday said his government was ready to hold talks with faceless myrmidons provided that they renounced militancy and accept the writ of state.
"Our doors are open to those, who have gone astray by choosing the path of violence and militancy, if they guarantee living in peace in future," he told a public meeting after inaugurating the Bacha Khan Vocational Institute at the district headquarters complex in Tajazai area of Lakki Marwat.
Work on the institute has been completed at the cost of Rs19 million.
The chief minister also unveiled the plaque of the foundation stone of a bridge over river Gambila near Kot Kashmire. The bridge along with an approach road will be built at the estimated cost of Rs100 million.
Criticising his political rivals, Mr Hoti said his government gave identity to Pakhtuns by naming the province as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and securing provincial autonomy through 18th constitutional amendment. He further said under NFC award, extra resources had been collected from the centre and they were being used on development.
He said annual development programme had been increased by 80 per cent, adding that resources of net profit of hydropower generation received from Wapda would be spent on power projects.
The chief minister said he would inaugurate two such projects in power sector in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... and Chitral next month. He said the expected income/royalty from oil and gas sector had been increased to Rs15 billion from Rs800 million and that the money would be spent on the development of southern districts and start of development projects in the province.
Mr Hoti announced over Rs650 million development package for the district and said the ANP-led government would continue working for the people's welfare.
According to him, under the package, establishment of a cadet college, a boy's degree college in Darra Pezu, up-gradation of a girl's primary school, a 15km road, a bridge over Gambila river, Rs70 million for installation of tube wells, Rs20 million for installation of pressure pumps, Rs15 million for electrification schemes, two buses for colleges, posting of doctors in the district headquarters hospital and reconstruction of Government Higher Secondary School Naurang building has been planned.
Provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, MPA Yasmeen Zia, provincial president ANP Afrasayab Khattak and district president Sadruddin Khan also addressed participants.
Earlier, the chief minister visited Bannu and addressed people in the circuit house.
He said sacrifices of Bacha Khan followers and ANP workers for peace in the province would not go to waste.
"We won't hesitate from rendering more sacrifices. We are in a state of war and our sacrifices will lead to restoration of peace in the region," he said.
Mr Hoti sympathised with the families of Ihsanullah Wazir and Israel Wazir over the deaths of two ANP leaders.
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[Dawn] Bloody Karachi remains constantly under the threat of terrorism and the police are playing a significant role in thwarting attacks, Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Hussain Wasan said.
"Policemen are doing their best and sacrificing their lives in the line of duty," he said.
Wasan was speaking to media representatives after offering funeral prayers at Police Lines Garden for the two coppers who were killed in an encounter with alleged snuffies late on Wednesday night.
He said the police had successfully thwarted a major act of terrorism as the five alleged snuffies were well equipped and had a huge quantity of explosives.
Wasan said that on the lead from the registration plate number of the van, the police had managed to arrest two accused and a probe had been initiated against them.
He said the arrests had been made after raids in Hyderabad and later in Bloody Karachi.
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European diplomatic sources say PA willing to withdraw UN bid if Israel, U.S. hand over aid and tax funds; Erekat: Paleostinians determined to apply for membership.
Paleostinian officials denied Thursday reports claiming that they were willing to freeze their statehood bid at the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... if Israel handed over tax collection funds it had withheld over the Paleostinian Authority's acceptance into the UN's educational panel.
On Wednesday, a European diplomat said that the PA offered the United States a deal, saying it would freeze all moves to achieve full membership for "Paleostine" in various UN agencies until the end of January, while the United States and Israel would resume transferring it funds.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's special envoy Isaac Molho reportedly met secretly in London on Tuesday with U.S. administration representatives David Hale and Dennis Ross to discuss the suggestion.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... speaking to Paleostinian news agency Ma'an on Thursday, chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... called the report "nonsense," saying that the Paleostinians were determined to apply for membership."
"We should stop dealing with Israeli propaganda," Erekat said, adding that the "Paleostinian government is still focusing on getting support from the Security Council."
Ma'an also recorded the response of top PLO official Hanan Ashrawi, who called the report "completely untrue, and the Israeli media tools are not the source of information for the Paleostinian positions and decisions."
"The report is a new Israeli maneuver and an attempt to create confusion to stop the Paleostinian bid to the UN," she said.
According to a European diplomat whom the PA had updated about the proposal, the PA plans to complete the process of trying to get full UN membership for Paleostine recognized by the Security Council.
PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... is expected to ask for a vote by the end of December, although the move is doomed to defeat. Even if the Paleostinians muster enough votes, the United States will veto it.
Other than that, however, the Paleostinians are prepared to suspend their efforts to achieve full membership in such agencies as the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization, the diplomat said. Nor will they ask the General Assembly to upgrade their observer status to non-member observer state.
Though the Paleostinians offered to temporarily suspend these UN efforts, if a deal is struck that restores the PA's cash flow, it is thought such moves will be stopped for the foreseeable future.
Israeli sources confirmed that Molcho had met with the U.S. officials in London, while a British source said Molcho also met with a senior Arab figure.
The drumbeat continues...
Newly acquired intelligence reports indicate several Arab countries in the Middle East are lobbying the US to strike Iran this year, Israel's Channel 10 reported. According to the report, which is said to be making its rounds in Britain's political circles, Saudi Arabia wants the Obama administration to attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the final withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
US president has vowed to close the door on American military involvement in Iraq by year's end, but Riyadh is reportedly afraid Iran will use the American exit to take over the country. The Saoodis only live there. They can't know more about the region than Bambi does...
Since 2008, officials in the Iraqi interim government have complained to Washington that both Iran and Saudi Arabia were, respectively, funding the Shiite and Sunni insurgencies that have plagued the country since the US-led invasion that toppled late dictator Sadam Hussein.
Security experts say Baghdad's security forces are unprepared to confront the rival insurgencies that hold Iraq in their grip - and that Obama's dogged drive to fulfill his campaign promise will may have disastrous consequences both for the region and US interests.
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies have been locked in a strategic battle with Iran for hegemony over the Persian Gulf - and have accused Tehran of seeking to destabilize the region through its 'Shiite Diaspora.'
Gulf Arab leaders have sought to exert pressure on Iran and its regional allies - most notably Syrian president Bashar al-Assad - by allying themselves with Western powers opposed to Tehran's aggressive posture.
They have also joined western powers in targeting Iran's nuclear program, which they see as targeting them first and foremost - rather than Israel, who Iran has threatened repeatedly with destruction.
Suadia Arabia has also said, should Iran obtain nuclear weapons, Riyahd will seek them as well - raising the specter of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Analysts say this may be a lever to spur Obama to alter course from his current passive, sanctions-driven posture towards Iran.
Despite this, Arab powers have been reticent to publicly call for an Iran strike - which has been a high profile part of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's diplomatic agenda. Instead, observers say, they have sought to work behind the scenes to avoid being seen as working in concert with Israel.
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Someone should explain to them that the strike, like the Iraq withdrawal, will be made on a timetable dictated by strictly domestic considerations. I'm thinking September.
Yep, typical Democratic thinking, everything is about elections, do anything and say anything to gain or hold power, pillage the country and give vast sums of money to family and cronies.
The Pelosi/Reid/Obama triumverate is turning the Democratic party into the PRC and the US into Mexico.
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I don't disagree with the assessment but the September time frame is really questionable. It would be a foolish move to send his base packing right before an election, he'd have to be sure the center would roll his way and I don't think he can depend on that.
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The Saudi want to spend our blood and treasure? They have a military. They have planes we sold them. Let them give us carte blanche to their oil fields. Dissolve OPEC. Maybe we will think about it then.
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The Soddies need to get up off their asses and do this on their own. But then Obama will probably bow down to the king and get some of America's finest killed doing the deed for His soddie master.
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The Saudis can't do the hit on Iran.
1) they don't have the military. They have a lot of arms and equipment, and they have a bunch of bodies wearing uniforms, but they don't have a military that can plan and execute a coordinated air and missile strike on an enemy hundreds of miles away.
2) they don't have the support. Their own people won't go along. The Shi'a (~15 to 20% of the population) will blow up. The various prince-lings will scheme as to how they're going to come to power. The average Saoodi on the street will duck for cover.
3) they don't have the courage. It takes courage, moral and intellectual, to go after an enemy that you know is going to hit you but hasn't actually swung the first punch. The Saoodis don't have that courage.
No, it's up to Uncle Sucker.
As usual.
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No, the want Uncle Sucker to play the hooded executioner so they can play both sides, both clamoring for the act, but thereafter denouncing the one they expect to carry out the deed. Time to force 'them' to public sign the warrant before anything happens or forget it. They're the first within strike distance of the threat.
Who's stopping them? They've got my permission. Strike away.
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OK. Let's make a deal. Saudis pay for the hit. We get to calibrate and full rehearsal of the operation on Syria. That works OK, then we do a critique and go for Iran with the methods we (and the Israelis) choose.
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They know Israel's vaunted IDAF can bomb Iran, + Israel can certainly send in crack Commando teams, but ultimately only the US-NATO can do everything + espec invade + occupy Iran, as Maha-Rushian Limbaugh "Histoire'" says the pesky Persians will keep sending their Armies + Intrigues oer the borders until its done.
Again, "IRAN [either]GETS ITS NUKES; OR ELSE IRAN GETS INVADED".
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* CHINA DAILY FORUM > IRAN + IRAQ INTEND TO INTENSIFY MILITARY COOPERATION.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN MASS BUILDS REMOTE-CONTROLLED [mini] SUBS.
Warm Welcome - NOT - for the US Nimitz-class CVNS [Gulf of Aqaba]+ Fifth Fleet [Bahrain] + any NATO/Allied + Base-Too-Far Qatar.
[Emirates 24/7] Soddy Arabia is pressing for a UN vote Friday on a resolution condemning an alleged plot to assassinate its US envoy and calling on Iran to cooperate with the investigation.
The United States has said Iran was behind the plot to kill Adel al-Jubeir in Washington, but the Saudi resolution, which was distributed at the 193-member UN General Assembly on Wednesday, did not directly accuse Iran of involvement.
The draft resolution, which is backed by the United States, "deplores" the plot and calls on Iran to "comply with all of its obligations under international law."
It says the Tehran government should "cooperate with states to bring to justice all those who participated in the planning, sponsoring, organization and attempted execution of the plot to assassinate the ambassador of the Kingdom of Soddy Arabia."
Saudi UN mission front man Abdulmohsen Alyas said many countries would co-sponsor the resolution, but declined to name them.
"Many countries understand our position and they agree with us by co-sponsoring this resolution," Alyas told AFP.
Iran has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! being involved in the alleged plot against the Saudi envoy, possibly through the bombing of a Washington restaurant.
The United States has charged an Iranian-American used car salesman over the plot and said Iranian officials planned to hire a Mexican narco mob to kill the Saudi ambassador.
Iran's UN ambassador, Mohammad Khazaei, called the proposed resolution "dangerous" and "unacceptable" in a letter to UN leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , according to Iranian media.
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi called on Soddy Arabia to delete references to "the recent US scenario" of Iranian involvement in the plot, the state IRNA news agency said.
Mohammad Javad Larijani, a senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Tuesday that the Saudi allegations are "a signal that American policy is falling apart" in the Middle East.
He said the Saudis feared the spread of pro-democracy Arab Spring uprisings to their own country.
"The wave of changes are reaching the Saudi border," Larijani told news hounds at the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... , where he is due to make the Iranian case at votes on human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. resolutions.
Washington's UN Ambassador Susan Rice called the Saudi resolution "a measured and focused response to the chilling Iran plot."
"I urge my colleagues in the UN General Assembly to support" the resolution, she added.
And State Department deputy front man Mark Toner said the United States "welcome Saudi leadership on this (resolution) and on marshaling international recognition and condemnation of ... the threat posed by Iran's actions in this regard."
Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address... the Saudi-owned Al-Hayat newspaper reported that Saudi authorities have formed a security force to protect Saudi envoys abroad and foreign missions inside Soddy Arabia.
On Saturday, the Saudi embassy in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... came under attack from demonstrators who broke in. Soddy Arabia was among Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... members who voted to suspend Syria from the bloc over the crackdown on opposition protests.
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HMMM, HMMMM, the KSA getting the Ball = UNSC Mandate for war agz Iran a'rollin for POTUS Bammer???
[Iran Press TV] Iran's envoy to the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh has called on the nuclear agency's chief to make corrections to his latest report on Iran's nuclear program.
In a November 16 letter to IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano, Soltaniyeh said that the UN body's chief is required to amend his latest report on Iran's nuclear program on the grounds that he had violated the IAEA staff regulation and the agency's Statute by distributing confidential parts of the report to a number of countries prior to its official release.
On November 8, Amano released a report claiming that Iran was engaged in activities aimed at developing nuclear weapons.
The report was circulated among the 35 members of the IAEA Board of Governors last Tuesday, ahead of the seasonal meeting of the board, scheduled to be held in Vienna on November 17-18.
In his letter, Soltaniyeh pointed out that Amano's "report (GOV/2011/65) dated 8 November, 2011, has been categorized as 'Restricted Distribution' document."
The Iranian envoy pointed out that Amano had "already distributed the confidential text of the annex days before 8 November, 2011, to certain countries including the United States of America, La Belle France, and the United Kingdom."
"This is a clear violation of the staff regulation, the oath taken by Director General upon his assumption of the post, as well as the spirit and letter of the Statute of the IAEA since all Member States are recognized equal and have to be treated equally," Soltaniyeh noted.
Soltaniyeh added, "In this context I remind you that according to the rules and procedures including that of the Board of Governors, reports of implementation of Safeguards in Member States, categorized as confidential with restricted distribution, cannot be disclosed or delivered to selective countries prior to authorization by the Board of Governors or the General Conference."
Soltaniyeh further said that "there is only one option left to prevent further damage to the credibility and integrity of the Agency and my country: You declare in your introductory statement to the Board of Governors on 17 November 2011 that the report (Gov/2011/65) requires corrections and modifications following discussion with Iran therefore it could not be the basis of any decision."
In his report, Amano claimed Iran had engaged in activities related to developing nuclear weapons before 2003, adding that these activities "may still be ongoing."
Iran has dismissed Amano's latest report on its nuclear program as "unbalanced, unprofessional and prepared with political motivation and under political pressure by mostly the United States."
The US, Israel and their allies accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program and have used this allegation as a pretext to convince the UN Security Council to impose a fourth round of sanctions on Iran.
Tehran has categorically refuted Western allegations, saying that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the IAEA, it has the right to acquire and develop atomic technology for peaceful purposes.
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[An Nahar] The leader of Syria's exiled Moslem Brüderbund said Thursday that his compatriots would accept Turkish "intervention" in the country to resolve months of bloody unrest.
"The Syrian people would accept intervention coming from Turkey, rather than from the West, if its goal was to protect the people," Moslem Brüderbund leader Mohammad Riad Shakfa told a presser.
"We may ask more from Turkey as a neighbor," he also said, without elaborating on the nature of the intervention which the Brotherhood might consider acceptable.
On Thursday, pro-government daily Sabah reported that the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC), together with the Moslem Brüderbund, had asked Turkey to establish a no-fly zone on the Syrian side of the shared border to protect Syrian civilians.
Mohammed Farouk Tayfour, political leader of the Moslem Brüderbund and a member of the SNC, declined to comment on the allegations, saying only that discussions were held on "every possible means" with several governments in order to stop violence.
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[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... shifted his position, as he is seeking to return to the March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... -led opposition, the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Thursday.
"We've budged, we moved to another position and we're waiting for the right time to announce this," March 14 sources quoted Jumblat as saying.
The sources told the daily that Jumblat returned to the stances he used to support.
"He (Jumblat) practically shifted back to the positions that he used to call for before he left the coalition," the sources said.
Al-Anbaa said that Jumblat is holding consecutive meetings with his former allies mainly with MP Marwan Hamadeh.
On Wednesday, al-Liwaa newspaper reported that Jumblat is seeking to revive the "Democratic Gathering."
In January 2007, Jumblat announced the end of his Democratic Gathering parliamentary bloc, and named his new bloc the National Struggle Front.
Four MPs Marwan Hamadeh, Henry Helou, Antoine Saad and Fouad al-Saad, were not part of Jumblat's bloc anymore.
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[An Nahar] Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... on Thursday called on his supporters to endorse the approach of "peaceful resistance" in the domestic arena.
Addressing an AMAL student delegation from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Berri said: "If the effective tactic to confront the Israeli enemy is armed resistance, the tactic in the domestic arena should be peaceful resistance.
"We must always endorse the rhetoric of dialogue and communication because it is the path that strengthens the country's immunity," Berri told the students.
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Translation: "Unlike those Jews, these Muslims will kill me."
[An Nahar] The Syrian National Council opposed to the regime of Bashir al-Assad needs to be better organized before any official recognition of it, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Thursday.
"The SNC must get organized," Juppe told RMC radio, excluding immediate official recognition of the confederation of most anti-Assad groups protesting Assad's regime in Syria.
"We have contacts with them, I saw Mr. Burhan Ghaliun in Gay Paree, who's the president. We help them, we have contact and we encourage them to get organized," he added.
The CNS has so far only been officially recognized by the new post-Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... Libyan authorities.
Juppe hit out again at the Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... regime, saying that "the brutal, savage repression being carried out for months cannot continue."
He hailed the "turning point" of "neighboring countries realizing that you can no longer trust Bashir al-Assad" after the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... voted to suspend Syria over the bloody suppression of protests.
Given permanent U.N. Security Council member Russia's opposition to sanctions on the Syrian regime, Juppe said La Belle France was trying to get a resolution passed by the U.N.'s General Assembly.
"We've drawn up a draft resolution at the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... General Assembly calling for an end to the repression and the beginning of a reform process," he said.
La Belle France on Wednesday said it was recalling its ambassador to Damascus after French and other nations' diplomatic missions were attacked by pro-Assad mobs.
Arab leaders on the same day gave Assad three days to halt his "bloody repression" of anti-regime protests the U.N. says has killed more than 3,500 people, or risk sanctions.
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Gee Alain, already picked out the Al Qaeda affiliated group to take power?
[An Nahar] Iraq's anti-U.S. Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... has expressed support for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad, Lord of the Baath... while noting that he sympathizes with the "revolutionaries" in Syria. Ahah. That's the kind of reasoning they teach you in ayatollah school back in Qom: run with the hounds and hunt with the hares...
*blink* Clearly I'm not clever enough to be an ayatollah.
Assad ... the same flavor of Baathist dictator that oppressed the Shiites in Iraq before we got there to save them...
has since March been trying to crush a popular uprising against his government, in which over 3,500 people have been killed, according to U.N. figures. Those'd be the "revolutionaries" Tater's busy sympathizing with...
The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... on November 12 voted to suspend Syria, although Iraq itself abstained, and Arab leaders on Wednesday gave Assad three days to halt his "bloody repression" of protests or face sanctions. Two days to go, I believe...
Twelve plus three equals... wait a minute...carry fourteen if in base three (look -- it's the Arab League, they invented the zero or the decimal point or something, so if they say so, it must be right!)... Yep, two more days to go. My apologies for the digression, do go on.
But there is "a big difference" between what is happening in Syria and the "great revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen," Sadr said in a statement titled "To the Revolutionaries in Beloved Syria". "Syria, y'see, is right next door."
"Be confident that I totally sympathize with your cause," Sadr says in the statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse on Thursday, addressing the Syrian dissidents. "I'm right behind you!"
"One of the reasons behind this difference is that Bashir al-Assad is against the American and Israeli presence and his attitudes are clear, not like those who collapsed before him, or will collapse," said the statement released by his office in the city of Najaf, reiterating points Sadr made in August. "Some of your lands are still occupied," Sadr said, referring to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which the Jewish state seized from Syria in 1967. ... after being attacked by Syria, among others...
Sadr also warned against throwing Syria into "an abyss of terrorism and fragmentation in the event of a vacuum in power." "Better to maintain an iron-fisted dictatorship that maintains a single family and its cronies in power..."
"We support your demonstrations to show your opinion," Sadr said of the anti-Assad camp. "But when you get thumped you're on your own!"
"But there are large groups that ... are with keeping the government," he said, calling for dialogue and an end to the conflict.
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Oh oh. The ayatollahs are gonna take away his Gameboy.
[An Nahar] Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. stressed on Wednesday that only Israel, Iran and Hizbullah along with the current government are defending the Syrian regime, reiterating his call on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... to leave power. This is the sort of thing that passes for "thinking" in the Muddle East.
"Don't you see that now Israel and Iran and Hizbullah and this government are defending the Syrian regime?" Hariri said on the social networking website twitter.
He said that the cabinet will have to collapse eventually, adding that Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... 's warning of a civil war is merely to scare people.
"I think this government should go down, and we will bring it down ... the position given by Berri is to the benefit of the Syrian regime to scare people."
Concerning Hizbullah's arms, Hariri said that only the army should carry weapons urging the party to disarm.
"Weapons have no business being anywhere but in the hands of the Lebanese army," he said.
Asked by a twitter user about the kabooms that hit Tyre on Wednesday, the former PM said: "I think it's a political message and that's why the security forces should be in control of the whole of Leb."
Responding to a question if he might go into an alliance with PM Najib Miqati during the 2013 elections, Hariri said "No."
The former premier has been absent from the country for nearly eight months and has chosen Twitter as a comeback tool to reach out to followers and take on his rivals Syria and Hizbullah.
He left Leb in April after the March 8 forces ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... toppled his cabinet, and popped up on Twitter earlier this month, creating an instant buzz and attracting some 25,000 followers so far.
Since then, he has devoted more than an hour every evening to respond to questions about politics, food, movies or sports, much to the delight of his constituents but also to jabs by detractors.
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This example of logical thinking explains a lot about the problems in that region. /s
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Does this man get migraines when he comes up with this stuff.
I take back everything I've ever said about Mr. 10% and his buddy over in P'stan.
This has to be put in the Rantburg hall of fame.
What a whopper!!!
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Eohippus Phater7165 (I am so envious of such an impressive name),
There are no delusions about Islam in Washington, they know exactly what they are dealing with and are choosing to ignore that knowledge and are acting with that full knowledge.
When you cancel the National Day of Prayer to "avoid offending anyone" and then attend a National Islamic Prayer day, it is obvious they don't care.
Me thinks there is a lot of ME money in the Donks back pocket paying them to keep us on the sidelines.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The Islamist politician likely to become Tunisia's first democratically elected prime minister has alarmed liberals and secularists by claiming the arrival of the "sixth caliphate", a controversial term for a 
[Dawn] Governor 
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...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
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the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Walid 
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Najib Miqati
