President Bouteflika has addressed a letter to console Mustapha Kartali after being seriously injured in a murder attempt last week, former Islamic Salvation Army, AIS, former chief, who escaped hardly death, revealed.
Former AIS heads are to issue Friday a communiqué to phrase a stand as far as the operation that targeted the so-called pacifists head in Larbaâ locality. Former emir of Katibat Errahman God Squad has been addressed a letter from President Bouteflika said to be conveyed by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem in his visit to the hospital Tuesday after the terrorist attack that could took Kartali life. We are for the reconciliation project, whether al Qaeda claims the murder attempt or whoever else we wont give it up, as such replied Kartali on al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb alleged claim of the deadly attempt.
As for former AIS chief Madani Mezrag position, the latter stated Al Qaeda executed the attempt and claimed it but it is not the beneficiary. All cataclysms in Algeria are serving other parties who enjoy swimming in bloodshed and crisis.
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1. Confess najis: Realize that your impure state obstructed your advance towards true Islamic purity.
2. Admit fitnah: Understand that your conduct was a form of disorder that did not help advance Islam or Islamic goals.
3. Perform taubah: Repent your wrongdoing and realign yourself to the superior ways of Islam.
4. Seek astaghfirullah: Ask forgiveness of Allah for your egregious tresspasses against the ummah.
5. Make dua: Perform a supplication to Allah that he might better guide you in your profound ignorance.
6. Deliver shahadah: Issue a profession of faith by declaring yourself cleansed of impure pursuits.
7. Commit to hanifiyyah: Devote oneself to Allah and his commandments to uphold the greater glory of Islam.
8. Renew ibahdaah: Rejuvenate the sense of worship for Allah's everlasting gift to all pious and worthy Muslims.
9. Declare taqwa: Rededicate oneself to piety and Islamic purity.
10. Remove shakk: Eliminate all doubt as to your goal of spiritual righteousness.
11. Display qasd: Be resolute in advancing the goals of jihad.
12. Avow yameen: Make an oath that your previously impure state was a form of disorder that caused unsuccessful deeds of wrongdoing and seek forgiveness by making supplications so that your new profession of faith will manifest in devotion to worshipping Allah along with Islamic purity by no longer doubting how resolute your striving must be in attaining far greater success at killing even more of the kuffar than your last miserable attempts to do so.
A New South Wales Senate candidate for the Christian Democratic Party has compared controlling Muslim immigration in Australia to stopping the spread of bird flu.
The Christian Democrats are pushing for a halt to Muslim immigration because there has been no serious study of the effects of Muslims on Australia. They say the temporary measure would give some breathing space to assess the situation.
The party today officially introduced pastor Paul Green as its number-one candidate for the Senate at a media conference in Sydney. Mr Green says he believes Australian people are very concerned about Muslim immigration and would support an immediate moratorium.
"If there was bird flu coming from a people's groups across the nation, would we not stop to assess the risk management of what it means to Australia and then assess the factors, and say, 'Is it safe to continue that or withhold it until it is dealt with?'" he said. "We are saying there's cracks in the foundation. We need to address them. We need not rush it because we could be making a bad decision."
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This is exactly right (if only a first, halting step toward dealing with the situation). islam is a memetic plague transmitted by forced conversion, slave-taking, rape, multiple wives and children and death for apostasy. Simple biology dictates an epidemic of this sort will burn out as it ravages its host. The question is whether there is anything left but a desert in the Dark Age to follow.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos has called U.S. plans for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe a "provocation" reviving Cold War debates. "That the United States are installing a defense shield in eastern Europe is a provocation in my view," Darabos was quoted as saying in an interview with daily Die Presse on Thursday. "The U.S. has chosen the wrong path in my opinion. There is no point in building up a missile defense shield in Europe. That only unnecessarily rekindles old Cold War debates."
Thank you, Minister Pissant. Always helpful to hear what the Austro-Hungarian Empire has to say.
The remarks drew a swift reaction from Washington. "We view the Cold War as being over. Such comments are not helpful and we now face a new strategic environment that requires us to move beyond Cold War thinking," State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said. "We've been open and transparent with all E.U. and NATO allies on this, and we'll continue to do so. We're discussing missile defense with the Russians," Gallegos said at a news briefing.
Darabos said he saw no danger from Iranian long range missiles and the United States should try for a different solution.
"We could always buy them off. It's worked for us Austrians in the past," he added.
A memo to our Y'urp-peon allies: we're doing this pretty much out of the goodness of our hearts. We're designing the system, and we'll pro'ly end up paying for about 90% of the development and installation. We think it's useful to let the Iranians know that they won't be able to rattle a nuclear sabre at your continent for a long, long time. We think there are certain advantages to that for you and us together, like, for example, survival. But if you disagree and don't want a missile defense system on your continent, we'll be happy to back down.
Understand however, that we won't leave our military in a Europe that is defenseless against a strike from a single (or a few) crude Iranian missiles. We can't justify that to our people, especially to our military people who run the risks so that we can be free. So if you won't want the missile defense system, we'll be happy to cancel the installation, and we'll be happy to pull out of NATO the very next day. We'll strike some side deals to keep access or facilities here and there where it meets our interests, but we'll no longer consider an attack on Berlin, Brussels -- or Vienna -- to be the same as an attack on New York. You'll then be free to handle European defense in whatever way you think best.
And if you manage to start yet another world war, we'll observe quietly from across the pond.
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U.S. missile shield is provocation: Austrian minister
Why, yes it is. How kind of him to notice. We are purposefully provoking other nations to defends themselves as well or better against missile attacks.
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We should leave EUrope unprotected now. It will become more and more problematic to do so as Europe becomes more and more Islamic. At 30% of the population, they'll have effective control of vote hungry governments that are unwilling to deal with the domestic unrest that comes with failure to submit. Do we really need to wait till Brussels or Amsterdam adopts sharia "democratically"?
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Europe needs to defend itself. They hate us when we stay. They hate us when we leave. They can take care of their own defense now, in their own green and Kyoto-like way. We need to stop our enabling behavior with these governments. Cause--->Effect. They are capable of learning, unlike many of their ME neighbors.
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"U.S. missile shield is provocation: Austrian minister"
Fine. Then much as I'd hate to see the beautiful old buildings of Austria destroyed, we'll be glad to not shield YOU.
And by the way - notice how you don't have to speak Russian? You're welcome.
Idiot.
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Read - USSR imploded once, Post-USSR Fascist-for-Communism RUSSIA can do it again. Strong military power must be backed up by strong economic power.
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I think it's time for someone to get on the European/Russian mediad with a series of charts showing that the Earth is a sphere and missiles coming from Iran would go right over Eastern Europe while missiles coming from Russia would go over the pole and avoid Europe altogether (unless aimed at Europe in which case the planned bases would not help).
So in general the hub-bub is because Russia wants to sell missiles to Iran and/or simply villify the west to help consolidate dictatorial powers and they are using morons such as Defence Minister Darabos along the way.
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The problem with letting Europe implode unimpeded is that they have nuclear weapons, courtesy of the NATO Multilateral Force decision taken years ago. This was prescient:
Sleep, baby, sleep, in peace may you slumber,
No danger lurks, your sleep to encumber.
We've got the missiles, peace to determine,
And one of the fingers on the button will be German.
Why shouldn't they have nuclear warheads?
England says no, but they all are soreheads.
I say a bygone should be a bygone,
Let's make peace the way we did in Stanleyville and Saigon.
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn't happen again.
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they've hardly bothered us since then.
So, sleep well, my darling, the sandman can linger.
We know our buddies won't give us the finger.
Heil - hail - the Wehrmacht, I mean the Bundeswehr,
Hail to our loyal ally!
M L F
Will scare Brezhnev.*
I hope he is half as scared as I!
Comments from 1964 on France and the MLF decision here.
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The only Europe I still recognize are East European countries, Poland, Czech... but the western part may well be inhabited by aliens from Omega Centauri. Not Alpha Centauri, mind you, they seem to be all omegas, in a gallop who gets the "peace of our times" bumazhka first.
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Putin has Europe by the energy balls (gas pipelines, mainly). So they have to say these things otherwise Putin will get upset. Ask Lithuania or Ukraine what happens when Putin gets upset.
BTW, I didn't know that Lithuania has a flat (income) tax system. Good for them!
Rome, 23 August (AKI) - Two sit-ins are planned in Rome later Thursday, one in solidarity with a Christian convert in Egypt, and the other against a proposed mosque.
Both gatherings are organised by a rightwing group, La Destra, which has called on people to protest outside the Egyptian embassy and near the site of the proposed mosque, next to a Christian church in Rome's multi-ethnic Esqulino district.
Italy's foreign ministry says it is monitoring the case involving Mohammed Hegazy a Muslim whose conversion to Christianity Egyptian authorities refuse to recognise and who has been threatend by Islamists who brand him an apostate.
La Destra representatives have said the protests aime to highlight what they say is religious intolerance in Islamic nations as demonstrated in Hegazy's case, while at the same time the acts of provocation by Muslims living in the West, as exemplified by the plan to build a mosque next to a church.
On Tuesday municpal police halted construction work at the Esquilino mosque because of irregularities with building laws.
However, a top municipal official said work would be allowed to resume once the necessary corrections to the construction work are made.
The mosque aims to serve Rome's Bangladeshi community many of whose members live and work in the Esquilino which is home to several places of worship including Christian churches of different denominations, a Buddhist temple and a synagogue.
Rome, the centre of the Roman Catholic world also hosts the largest Muslim place of worship in Europe, the grand mosque which was inaugurated in 1995.
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Why isn't the Vatican issuing a formal declaration of solidarity with this protest? Benedict had the courage to question Islam's lack of religious freedom or reciprocity. Where has all that moxie gone? I refuse to believe that this man is cowering in Castel Gandolfo. Get off of the pot, Benedict!
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Thanks, TW. An interesting lesson in history, indeed!
The radio, of course, reduced the 45-minute speech to two headlines: "Bush compares Iraq to Vietnam" (gotta have the reference to Vietnam!) and "Bush Supports Maliki, As Opposed to Yesterday" (O.K., so that's a paraphrase).
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As soon as W emphasized the Killing Fields, the MSM began to back away from its chants of Vietnam. The abandonment of South Vietnam was not the US' finest hour. Adrian Cronauer(Yes, THAT Adrian Cronauer) wears a patch which reads, "When I left Vietnam, we were winning."
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WaPo Bush Compares Iraq to Vietnam
He Says Pullout Would Be Disastrous KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 22 -- President Bush defended his ongoing military commitment in Iraq by linking the conflict there to the Vietnam War, arguing Wednesday that withdrawing U.S. troops would lead to widespread death and suffering as it did in Southeast Asia three decades ago.
"One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like 'boat people,' 'reeducation camps' and 'killing fields,' " Bush told a receptive audience at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention.
At least the first two paragraphs are more honest than the headline.
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Dubya's recent speeches, etc. have made it = should had made it crystal clear to everyone that the USA is NOT leaving the ME + is quietly entrenching and strengthening its position both Regionally and Globally. And, that Radical Islam-Terrorism must and will be defeated as long as he as POTUS has anything to say about it.
* "RISING POWERS HAVE THE UNITED STATES IN THEIR SIGHTS" and similar artiiikles > Lest we fergit, amongst other premises and agendas, WOT > WAR BTWN GLOBAL FEDERALISM VZ GLOBAL CENTRALISM, + INDIVIDUALISM VZ GOVERNMENTISM. WIthin this and other scopes, WOT > TRULY AN "APOCALYPSE" OF SORTS.
US Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the Iraqi Parliament should replace embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with a "less divisive and more unifying figure" to reconcile political and religious factions.
Must be channeling her inner JFK. You'd think the crowd that compares Iraq to Vietnam would remember that removing Diem didn't turn out so well.
Clinton, the 2008 Democratic US presidential front-runner, made her comments the same day President George W. Bush reaffirmed his support for al-Maliki. In a statement released by her Senate office, Clinton echoed a call by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin for Iraq's Parliament to oust al-Maliki in favor of a leader who could restore order to Iraq's unity government.
It's not our business to tell the Iraqi parliament who their prime minister should be.
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I question the timing.
It is intresting that Maliki has been lately rather succesful in bringing different segments together. Maybe that's the problem--an end of quagmire in sight. For Dhimmicrats, that is rather a hot potato.
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Overt US comments on Iraqi leadership - stupid. US-set "benchmarks" for Iraqi govt. to meet - stupid. Whole concept of "forcing" Iraqis to magically settle the whole mess in a timeframe never seen in all of human history for such things - incredibly stupid. Whole concept that legislative acts in B'dad will have one iota of impact on enemies of order in Iraq, who commit their mayhem for myriad bad reasons - beyond incredibly stupid.
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Whole concept of "forcing" Iraqis to magically settle the whole mess in a timeframe never seen in all of human history for such things - incredibly stupid.
And deeply uninformed about Arab and Kurd cultures.
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The arrogance and hypocrisy of this statement is staggering. Breath-taking. So now American Presidents are meant to remove foreign leaders by fiat but only provided the suggestion is a bone thrown to the mouth-breathers of the Democratic party funding base. Arguably stupider than Obama's land invasion of Pakistan and making a great deal less sense.
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The Dummycritter Party has gone out of its way to prove they have no clue how to conduct foreign policy. Between Hitlery's stupid statement that "the US should replace Iraqi Prime Minister" (we called for democratic elections, now we want to renege?), to Artless Airhea Obama calling for a ground invasion of Pakistan (why telegraph our moves in advance?) to ending the "blockade" of Cuba, the donkey party has proven to the American people what most only suspected - they're clueless. They're not much better on domestic policy - raising taxes, reinstating the draft, amnesty to illegal aliens, etc. The whole group should be airlifted to Darfur, dropped from 25,000 feet without parachutes, with spork and cooking instructions attached. That way they can at least contribute to the "health and well-being" of the region.
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The CIA failed to tell the State Department to watch-list the two Al Qaeda men, and the inspector general could find no evidence that the agency ever told the FBI about their presence in the country. The report called this a potentially significant lapse, since an alert to the Bureau might have led to surveillance and ultimately vital information about the 9/11 plot itself. In the period January through March 2000, some 50 to 60 individuals read one or more of six Agency cables containing travel information related to these terrorists, the report stated. It concluded: That so many individuals failed to act in this case reflects a systemic breakdown within the CTC. (The report recommended that along with Tenet, two former CTC chiefs should also be reviewed by an accountability board.)
The report also criticized intelligence problems when Bill Clinton was president, detailing political and legal constraints agency officials felt in the late 1990s. In September 2006, during a famous encounter with Fox News anchor Wallace, Clinton erupted in anger and waived his finger when asked about whether his administration had done enough to get bin Laden. What did I do? What did I do? Clinton said at one point. I worked hard to try to kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since.
Clinton appeared to have been referring to a December 1999 Memorandum of Notification (MON) he signed that authorized the CIA to use lethal force to capture, not kill, bin Laden. But the inspector generals report made it clear that the agency never viewed the order as a license to kill bin Ladenone reason it never mounted more effective operations against him. The restrictions in the authorities given the CIA with respect to bin Laden, while arguably, although ambiguously, relaxed for a period of time in late 1998 and early 1999, limited the range of permissible operations, the report stated. (Scheuer agreed with the inspector generals findings on this issue, but said if anything the report was overly diplomatic. There was never any ambiguity, he said. None of those authorities ever allowed us to kill anyone. At least thats what the CIA lawyers told us. A spokesman for the former president had no immediate comment.) More at the link..
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I wonder how many of these Al Qaeda men were cut from the due-diligence to-follow-list altogether due to Jamie Gorelick's WALL Program?
hummm...guessing..
Those lists were irretrievably lost from the National Archives after they were spirited out in Sandy Berger's Socks.
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Guys, nothing in this report will soung all that unfamiliar to those who have heard me bitch loud and long (but in an unclassified manner) around here for the past few years.
The CIA is a fundamentally defective organization and needs to be ripped apart and restructured - and the eastern elites need to be forcefully removed.
The co-founder of a defunct Islamic charity has links to Islamic radicals and should be held in jail pending trial on tax fraud and conspiracy charges, US prosecutors argued Wednesday, a week after the former fugitive voluntarily returned to the United States.
Pirouz Sedaghaty, a native of Iran and a US citizen, left the country in 2003 during an investigation against him. Assistant US Attorney Chris Cardani told a judge Sedaghaty could flee or spread radical views while awaiting trial. Sedaghaty co-founded the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation in 1997 with Soliman al-Buthi, a Saudi government official who has been designated a terrorist.
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PIRUZ SEDAGHATY
Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation
SOLIMAN AL BUTHI
Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation
Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation
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Maulana Fazlur Rehman, secretary general of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and head of his own Jamiat Ulema Islam faction (JUI-Fazl), has said he will fully resist any attempt by President General Pervez Musharraf to get re-elected in uniform from the current assemblies.
Maulana Fazl also scoffed at reports painting a formal meeting of his with Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain as a step towards a possible deal between the government and JUI-F on the presidential election, saying it was virtually impossible to hold talks with unconstitutional and undemocratic elements. Addressing a press conference after an MMA Supreme Council meeting in Quetta, he said he would take full part in forthcoming general elections. He said the names of MMA candidates would be announced on September 10, and these would be sent to the alliances provincial and parliamentary boards.
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Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
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A top Taliban commander has said Al Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden is alive and well, according to US-based analysts monitoring extremist publications. All praise be to Allah, he is extremely healthy and active, the commander Mansour Dadullah said in a video interview released Tuesday by analyst IntelCenter.
"I'm okay, too! They missed me! That was another Mullah Deadullah they got!"
Dadullah said Bin Laden, the man blamed for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, had contacted him. I received a message from him in which he advised me to follow Mullah Dadullah and continue the same activities so that the mujahedeen may not weaken, he said, according to the transcript.
The video is dated June 15, 2007, IntelCenter added. Bin Laden, who has a $50 million US bounty on his head, has appeared in a series of video and audio clips since the 9/11 attacks but has not been heard from since May 2006, when the CIA authenticated a voice recording on the Internet as his. In the recording, which was accompanied by an online text, the terror network chief said Zacarias Moussaoui, a 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin and the only man convicted in the 9/11 attacks, had nothing to do with the operation.
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Nice, but NOT good enuff - the average fighter out in the field will inevitably wanna see his leader(s). Combat warriors are not stupid, and not even Radical Islam/Terror orgs should underestimate or ignore the ethos-pathos of their own men.
I totally refuse to believe that this rutbag media whore is still alive. Even Osama knows just how much his credibility relies upon making pronouncements that reflect current events and thereby provide some sort of timestamp. How many years has it been since that happened?
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I've always believed he reached 2000+ degrees at Tora Bora. Maybe if they'd been quick with the sponges, they could have gotten some of him off the rocks and filled a thimble.
But I doubt even the worms and bugs and found much to eat.
A large western oil company has offered $700m for oil assets in Iraqi Kurdistan owned by DNO, the small Norwegian oil company. The offer signals that international oil companies are willing to put significant amounts of money into Iraq in spite of the security problems and lack of a legal framework.
DNO refused to name the company, but industry executives speculated that Royal Dutch Shell was a possible bidder. Shell on Wednesday refused to comment.
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KOMMERSANT/OTHER > IRAQ = 18.0Bilyuhn new barrels in new field.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Iraqi government will become more precarious over the next six to 12 months and its security forces have not improved enough to operate without outside help, intelligence analysts conclude in a new National Intelligence Estimate released Friday.
Despite uneven improvements, the analysts concluded that the level of overall violence is high, Iraq's sectarian groups remain unreconciled, and al-Qaida in Iraq is still able to conduct its highly visible attacks. "Iraqi political leaders remain unable to govern effectively," the 10- page document concludes. A copy was obtained by The Associated Press in advance of its release Thursday.
The report represents the collaborative judgments of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organization of each military service. It comes at a time of renewed tensions between Washington and Baghdad.
The report says that Iraqi Security Forces, working alongside the United States, have performed "adequately." However, it says they haven't shown enough improvement to conduct operations without U.S. and coalition forces and are still reliant on others for key support.
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A Milyuhn- and Zilyuhn-dollar report to sum up one sentence > USA NOT leaving ME until after Dubya leaves office in Jan 2009, or gets blown up trying - USA just waiting for US-Iran andor China-Taiwan-NK. *REAL REPORT > Alrighty now, who's gonna buy the pizzas, beers and hoagies today, D *** ng it, NSA NEA or Customs. Stripper Bachelor Party at Agent Smith - bring $$$ and nachos???
Visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki rejected on Wednesday U.S. criticism of his government, saying no one has the responsibility to set a timetable for the Iraqi administration.
Maliki made the remarks at a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart Mohammad Naji Ottri at the end of his three-day official visit. "The Iraqi government was elected by the Iraqi people. No one has the right to set a timetable for it," he said, referring to U.S. demand for the Iraqi government to achieve political reconciliation among Iraqi factions.
"Maybe those people who made such statements were disturbed by our visit to Syria. These statements do not concern us much. We care for our people and our constitution and can find friends elsewhere," he said. U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that he noticed "a certain level of frustration with the leadership in general" in Iraq and said Iraqi voters could decide to replace him.
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Taher wrote an editorial in Arabic saying that he used to meet Maliki at the local library in Syria, where he would be doing research for his master's degree in Arabic literature, pointing out: "I do not claim that we were friends." Taher said Maliki had "modest general knowledge ... he will be a puppet in the hands of Jaafari, Hakim, the Kurds and Sunnis". He added that Maliki "does not believe in democracy because of his ideological commitments" in al-Da'wa Party, claiming that political Islam and democracy do not meet for someone like Maliki.
In a private discussion held when both men were in Syria, Maliki told Taher: "We declare our acceptance of democracy, but in reality, we are tricking them [the Americans] in order to topple Saddam and come to power." Taher writes: "I swear to God that this is exactly what he said!"
Taher adds that Maliki does not believe in the equality of women and will refuse to give any cabinet posts to Iraqi women, unless those imposed by the Kurds. He wraps up by saying that Maliki is anti-American, and has expressed his anti-American views to friends and in private discourse. He predicts that if Maliki succeeds in creating a cabinet, "it will not last long and will collapse after a few months".
The Iraqi prime minister will have a difficult time indeed warding off the accusations of someone like Khudayr Taher, pleasing the Americans while courting the Iranians, and winning the confidence of the Sunnis.
For now, he is on good terms with Washington, but if he is unable to break with Muqtada, the Americans will quickly abandon him. His remarks about disarming the militias, which unless specified also include Sadr's Mehdi Army, mean that he is not too keen about maintaining his friendship with Muqtada. If he loses it, however, how strong will his influence remain within the leading Shi'ite bloc, the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA)? EMPHASIS ADDED
Maliki is the usual taqiyya spewing traitorous Islamic rectal cavity. He is responsible for the death of many American troops and continues to court the support of Iranian sock puppet Moqtada Sadr.
what do you want to do about it?
Maliki should be removed from office and replaced with either a newly elected Prime Minister or an American military overseer. The Iraqi constitution needs to be declared null and void due to its adherence to shari'a law and much of the current Iraqi government needs to be given the bum's rush.
We have squandered thousands of precious lives and billions of dollars to prop up a new Islamic tyranny. If we are truly intent upon liberating people, we'd damn well make sure that the installation of more shari'a scumbag theocracy does not follow in our wake.
The chief judge dismissed two former Saddam Hussein aides from the courtroom for unruly behaviour on Wednesday on the second day of a trial over the brutal crushing of a 1991 rebellion by Shiite Muslims.
The order came as a 76-year-old former Shiite lawmaker testified that he was falsely imprisoned for months in the aftermath of the uprising and described fellow inmates being carried back to jail in blankets after hours of torture rendered them unable to walk. I was later released because of the presidential pardon, but my life was already destroyed. I was dismissed from the parliament. My cotton was destroyed by the army shelling and my house was damaged, Kamil Kanoun Abu al-Heil recalled. Al-Heil denied that he was part of the uprising, pointing out that he was a member of Saddams rubber-stamp parliament. I was part of the regime. No way I could have participated in the uprising, he said.
In the middle of Wednesdays session, chief judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa ordered former Republican Guards commander Maj Gen. Iyad Fathi al-Rawi - who led the 1988 offensives at the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war - to leave the courtroom for not sticking to the rules of the court.
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This would be the third of six cases on which the US was assisting the tribunal. For obvious reasons it is one with high political profile. The other cases are the marshes case, the Kuwait invasion case, and the special ("revolutionary") courts case (though the top dog of that case, I think, met his end already in the opening Dujayl case). The Iraqis always claimed to be investigating additional cases without our help -but we usually were skeptical about this (and hoped it wasn't true, given our expectations of the work that would be done, uh, "independently").
The leader of Iraq's banned Baath party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has decided to join efforts by the Iraqi authorities to fight al-Qaeda, one of the party's former top officials, Abu Wisam al-Jashaami, told pan-Arab daily Al Hayat.
Al-Douri has decided to deal directly with US forces in Iraq. He has asked for guarantees over his men's safety and for an end to Iraqi army attacks on his militias.
"Al-Douri has decided to sever ties with al-Qaeda and sign up to the programme of the national resistance, which includes routing Islamist terrorists and opening up dialogue with the Baghdad government and foreign forces," al-Jashaami said. Al-Douri has decided to deal directly with US forces in Iraq, according to al-Jashaami. He figures in the 55-card deck of "most wanted" officials from the former Iraqi regime issued by the US government. In return, for cooperating in the fight against al-Qaeda, al-Douri has asked for guarantees over his men's safety and for an end to Iraqi army attacks on his militias.
We might have to go along with this, but that doesn't mean we have to like it ...
Recent weeks have seen a first step in this direction, when Baathist fighters cooperated with Iraqi government forces in hunting down al-Qaeda operatives in the volatile Diyala province and in several districts of the capital, Baghadad. Although the Baath party was officially banned after US-led forces in 2003 toppled the regime of Iraq's late president Saddam Hussein, its members have fought in the insurgency. Until just a few months ago, former Baath party members were helping Islamists carry out terrorist attacks against US forces in Iraq.
If this report is true, and the terms of the agreement as laid out, this could be the turning point in the war. The Baath party is outlawed, but a simple name change can deal with that. It can bring a secular Sunni-based party to the political stage to counterbalance the Shiite-heavy arrangement in the parliament. Dealing directly with the U.S. military, Izzy could become the agent of an actual reconciliation, negotiating terms of surrender - not that it would ever be called that - and reconstruction.
This article starring:
ABU WISAM AL JASHAAMI
Iraqi Baath Party
IZZAT IBRAHIM AL DURI
Iraqi Baath Party
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Hmmm. Aside from all the predictable sources of unease on this, I'm not so sure the redhead can deliver "the Sunnis". But who knows - maybe a portion.
If there is anything to this - and that's a big "if" - I'd advise driving an extremely hard bargain. So hard that it isn't distinguishable from surrender. Refusing to crush Sunni resistance was one of the Three Actual Mistakes, and while it can't be made good completely at this point, some aggressive deal-making that brings Sunni bad guys into the fold only on condition of their de facto surrender would help.
I'm astounded to hear from a friend still back having fun over there that these Sunni "insurgents" we are now so happily befriending are in fact being input into the theater biometric database (BATS). I'm skeptical that even these dimwits are so dim as to allow this, but if true it's something positive. A truly useful moment all around would be for a falling out with one of these gangs, settled by a US round-up and general whomping of their behinds, aided of course by the knowledge of exactly who they are (uh, not that that would require much genius in most cases even without the wondrous reconciliation with the infidel occupier, but let's leave that whining point aside).
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I'll bite, Verlaine: what were the other two actual mistakes?
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08/23/2007 1:46 Comments ||
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Izzy al-Douri to throw in towel
I'll take another line here Verlaine,
this is part of a big win for us,
In the short term Petraeus wins next month.
I think Izzy al-Douri's hand was forced by the the USA/Special Forces Marines and the Sunni Anbar Tribes. He can and should be used up like an old lawn mower for us.
I hope we keep "interfering" and out manuvering the Iraqi political parties, more proactively now because the next move after the Sunni areas will have to be Sadr City and the South, Najaf [Tater], Karballah [Tater/Badr], Basra [Tater/Badr] and by extension Iran.
my 2¢
~:)
Posted by: Red Dawg ||
08/23/2007 4:05 Comments ||
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Last of the Red Hot ...Mamas? Anybody know where he was in "The Deck of Cards" and who's left?
News is getting better; the MSM - quieter.
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08/23/2007 6:51 Comments ||
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King of Clubs as I recall. And holder of all the pass codes to the secret bank accounts and locations of cash.
If true, this would be as big a victory as Sherman's at Atlanta, both militarily and politically. The donks will have screwed themselves by putting Petraeus down. He would make a great candidate in '12 for whomever is out of office.
Also has to make Maliki think twice about being such a toady to Tater. The Kurds don't always have to side with the Shia.
A surrender is a surrender; we don't need bragging rights, too. Distasteful as it may be in the moment, we shouldn't hold out for the last nickel on the table if it means a chance we lose the deal. This would start paying immediate dividends. Carefully consider Grant's example.
#8
Guys, this one was the smartest of the bunch. If he is coming in, and getting a deal, you can bet your ass that he is bringing something of value. Unlike most of the other Baathists, this guy had options (money and access) to be somewhere else, far far away - and be fairly safe.
#9
I don't know, my guess is that the secret bank accounts are starting to run dry, and al-Douri isn't sanguine about refilling them from al-Queda or Iranian backers any more.
I've never been exactly clear on just how instrumental al-Douri has been in the Baath insurgency, and how much he's been the figurehead. Are we sure he's the guy with Saddam's ATM PIN codes?
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I wonder what the Syrian-Jordanian angle is? That is, this cur and his cabal are based in Damascus, with some of them in Jordan. So several things come into play, which may or may not be related to this.
1) The money is running out.
2) The Syrians or Jordanians are leaning on them.
3) Just a day or two ago, Saddam's daughter, also a big player in this, was told she wouldn't be extradited.
#11
All of these guys are opportunists; they hold their finger up and see which way the wind is blowing. Way back when, Saddam was the gravy train, but now it's the Coalition. [Shrugs] They're thugs, but they're the thugs we have to deal with, so we hold our nose and let them belly up to the trough. If we can get them to turn on al Qaeda and the Iranian clients, it will be worth it.
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I, for one, welcome our new Baathist overlords.
/sarcasm
Seriously, we need the Sunnis on board, and to make that happen we need to deal with dirt bags like this.
Posted by: Lord Of Monkey's ||
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OldSpook, I'm with you on this one. Probably plenty of $$$ still, but no real future. Sees an opportunity to move NOW, get a choice spot. Probably doesn't like his options if Dems force a withdrawal either, so timing is in support of Gen. Petreaus's report. Timing is everything. Probably still sees Shi'ites as main enemy, gets to put a stick in their eye at the same time. Take him.
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"A-10, the cursed gunship of the Zionists, may peace be upon the martyrs Shaykh Yassin and Shaykh Rantissi, A-10."
Police broke up a Hamas bingo night fundraising meeting in Jerusalem attended by Israeli-Arab Islamist leader Sheikh Raed Salah, who says he was wounded in the process.
Good. Hope it leaves him with a limp and blurred vision.
Pray for sepsis.
The meeting, which included dozens of Islamic leaders associated with the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror gangs, was held illegally at Jerusalems Commodore Hotel.
"D-9, my brothers in Allah, the evil dozers of doom, D-9"
The stated purpose of the meeting was to raise charity for Muslims in need, but the guests of honor were Sheikh Salah and Muhammed Hussein, who serves as the Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority.
"Infidel-72, I-72. And I see we have two learned elders standing near the back of the room, bismillah."
Police arrived at the meeting and forcibly shut it down, though did not arrest any of those involved.
"Brothers, we must flee. Please bring your cards and markers with you!"
The meeting then continued on the roof of the private home of a Hamas supporter in one of the capitals Arab neighborhoods.
"Are we all back? Very well. The next number is H-8, H-8."
Police arrived at the home and dispersed the crowd by force, firing stun grenades onto the roof.
"JIHAD! I got JIHA...ow ow ow feets don't fail me now!!!!!"
Sheikh Raed Salah, who heads the radical Israeli-Arab Islamic Movements northern branch and has called for an Israeli-Arab Intifada said he felt sick following the raid and checked himself into an eastern Jerusalem hospital.
Salah is facing an indictment for incitement to violence based on statements he made at riots against Israels repairs of the ramp leading to the Temple Mount from the Western Wall Plaza.
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I'm laughing so hard about the in-line commentary, Seafarious (I think that's who corresponds to light blue). It put me right back in a good mood after a not-so-wonderful day at work. Thanks!
A senior Hamas official in Lebanon on Wednesday accused Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of launching a full-out war against his Hamas in the West Bank. Osama Hamdan, who is Hamas's representative in Lebanon, told reporters that Abbas is trying to transform his Fatah-run West Bank into a "lawless area controlled by the heads of security agencies."
Hamdan added that such measures by the Fatah leader would not "make Hamas abandon its method of resistance and the rights of our people."
Hamas came to power in the West Bank and Gaza in March 2006, but after months of bloody Palestinian infighting which culminated with Hamas's overrunning Gaza by force in June, Abbas set up his West Bank government and fired Hamas officials. Since then, Israel and the international community have embraced Abbas in an attempt to prevent further gains by the Islamic militants. Hamas has remained largely isolated in Gaza.
Hamas officials have been complaining for weeks about crackdowns against them in the West Bank by Abbas's Fatah group. On Wednesday, Hamas officials in the Palestinian territories said that nine members including a mosque preacher were detained in the West Bank. "What is happening in the West Bank is a full-out war against Hamas," Hamdan said. "We would like to remind those who imagine otherwise, that Hamas faced a wild campaign by the enemy (Israel) in the past years and offered hundreds of martyrs and thousands of detainees and the people did not abandon it."
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"What is happening in the West Bank is a full-out war against Hamas,"
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"What is happening in the West Bank is a full-out war against Hamas," Hamdan said. "We would like to remind those who imagine otherwise, that Hamas faced a wild campaign by the enemy (Israel) in the past years and offered hundreds of martyrs and thousands of detainees and the people did not abandon it."
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda
TEHERAN - Iran has developed a 2,000-pound (900-kg) smart bomb, official media quoted a Defence Ministry statement as saying on Wednesday, in the latest announcement from Teheran about progress regarding military hardware. The guided bomb, named Qased (Messenger), was developed by specialists within the ministry and is now operational, IRNA news agency said, adding it could be dropped from F-4 and F-5 jets.
Good luck getting those through a modern US anti-arm system.
Iran often lies says it has built new arms or upgraded weapons but rarely gives enough details for analysts to determine their capabilities. Although much of Irans weaponry is outmoded, analysts say Iran has become proficient at modifying such arms.
Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said last year Iran had designed the Qased bomb but that it had yet to be tested. He said only a limited number of countries possessed the technology of smart and guided weaponry.
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Is it like those smart bombs Japan used in 1945 - the ones called kamikaze? Except these aren't powered, just stearable?
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Don't worry about it, it's a one-off prototype. Ahmanutjob's ego will not stand for the "smart bombs" to be any smarter than he is. Nor any taller.
Gorb! LOL!
Iran wants a US Carrier in the worst way, or so bad they can taste it, the problem with Defense and Defense only is that you have to be perfect all of the time.
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adding it could be dropped from F-4 and F-5 jets.
These would be some of the Iranian airplanes that keep falling out of the sky? Snark aside, how many seconds would the jets last following take-off in an actual shooting war?
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So are they steered by the pilot? Or do they have a "manned" remote system? And how many of the Iranian jets would survive to get through the US CAP and anti-air defense?
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Perhaps the Qasad is simply a regular 2000 # bomb with a print out from Google.earth taped on the pointy end and a prayer to Allah taped on the blunt end.
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Actually lotp, assuming that at least one of the CVs has a Hummer in the air, the radar will paint the aircraft as soon as it is out of ground clutter (if not sooner) and the operator can vector in a go-faster to get an id on it and then shoot it down. although in this tight airspace, the ROE may be to assume its a bad guy and forget the 'id' step.
Germany's grand coalition government has agreed to extend the Bundeswehr's peacekeeping mission in Lebanon until September of next year.
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Read - the Russians [Navy] might be comin'. CHURCHILL WW2 > no matter the costs in men, ships, and planes, no matter what decision or plan of action you take, you must SINK THE BISMARCK = GORSHKOV.
(Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, that his country will not give up its right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful uses, according to reports reaching here. "We think that all peoples should develop nuclear technologies for peaceful purposes within (the framework of) the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)," Ahmadinejad told reporters on the sidelines of his two-day visit to the neighboring Caspian country. He slammed the U.S.-led drive to constrain Iran's nuclear program, saying those forces "have achieved nothing."
"They come against this under various pretexts and want to deprive our people of this right. They're using any means - economic, psychological and military pressure," Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying.
On Tuesday, Iran and the IAEA agreed on a working plan to clarify outstanding ambiguities over Tehran's nuclear program. Iran has blocked inspections from the IAEA to its nuclear sites since January this year after the UN Security Council imposed sanctions over the country's controversial nuclear program.
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You have a right by me to make energy with it. But if you are making bombs, which you are, it is far beyond your paygrade to determine your rights.
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3dc - nukes are really, REALLY difficult to build, requiring almost foolproof, nanosecond technology. Chemicals are easier, and don't kill you slowly unless you cover yourself in lead. Besides, you can store chemicals separately, and they're relatively harmless. You can't handle nukes like that.
I'm beginning to believe this virus I've had for the last three weeks is indestructable also. If I could find a way to weaponize it, the US could make Iran harmless with one overall spraying.
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Blah, blah, blah! Like a goddamned broken record.
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President Bouteflika has addressed a letter to console Mustapha Kartali after being seriously injured in a murder attempt last week, former Islamic Salvation Army, AIS, former chief, who escaped hardly death, revealed. 
US Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the Iraqi Parliament should replace embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with a "less divisive and more unifying figure" to reconcile political and religious factions. 
A top Taliban commander has said Al Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden is alive and well, according to US-based analysts monitoring extremist publications. All praise be to Allah, he is extremely healthy and active, the commander 
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Iraqi government will become more precarious over the next six to 12 months and its security forces have not improved enough to operate without outside help, intelligence analysts conclude in a new National Intelligence Estimate released Friday.
The chief judge dismissed two former Saddam Hussein aides from the courtroom for unruly behaviour on Wednesday on the second day of a trial over the brutal crushing of a 1991 rebellion by Shiite Muslims. 
A senior Hamas official in Lebanon on Wednesday accused Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of launching a full-out war against his Hamas in the West Bank. Osama Hamdan, who is Hamas's representative in Lebanon, told reporters that Abbas is trying to transform his Fatah-run West Bank into a "lawless area controlled by the heads of security agencies." 
TEHERAN - Iran has developed a 2,000-pound (900-kg) smart bomb, official media quoted a Defence Ministry statement as saying on Wednesday, in the latest announcement from Teheran about progress regarding military hardware. The guided bomb, named Qased (Messenger), was developed by specialists within the ministry and is now operational, IRNA news agency said, adding it could be dropped from F-4 and F-5 jets.
(Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, that his country will not give up its right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful uses, according to reports reaching here. "We think that all peoples should develop nuclear technologies for peaceful purposes within (the framework of) the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)," Ahmadinejad told reporters on the sidelines of his two-day visit to the neighboring Caspian country. He slammed the U.S.-led drive to constrain Iran's nuclear program, saying those forces "have achieved nothing." 
