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Among the report's other recommendations, Bunn urged world leaders to launch a global campaign to reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism, including the expansion of the mission, personnel and funding of the IAEA's Office of Nuclear Security.
Oh sure, yew betcha. More millions pissed away so ElBaradei can play button-button-who's-got-the-button with Iran and other Muslim nations aspiring to acquire nuclear weapons. A far better way to "reduce the risk of nuclear terrorism" is by crippling Islam's ability to make war. No one else but Islam is on the list of suspects for this particular travesty and the IAEA's spectacular failure at doing jack shit about it bodes not at all well.
Pakistan really isn't an issue. A single atom of their fissile material turns up in a terrorist nuclear attack and they become a parking lot. The real problem is Russia. Few avenues of retaliation against them are available should they slip a nuclear weapon to our enemies. A tactical response-in-kind could just as easily trigger a full-scale nuclear exchange. Yet one more reason why RasPutin has got to go. Outside of Islam, Putin is one of the most significant destabilizing forces in the world today.
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I'd wager the Chinese are far more leery of letting a nuclear weapon slip out of their grasp. It might just as well be used against their politburo. Plus, China cooperatesif only ostensiblywith the IAEA, so we have isotopic fingerprints of their fissile material. Russia's political turmoil and propensity for free-floating gangsterism places them at far greater risk of "losing" a nuclear device or the material needed to build one.
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VARIOUS NET ARTICLES > USA CONDUCTS SUCCESSFUL MISSLE TEST. Thusly comprises a threat to Russian missles, thusly the USA is a threat to Russia. D *** NG IT, US SCHOOLS AND COLLEGS MUST PRODUCE MORE MORE HIGHLY EDUCATED/TRAINED SCIENTISTS-ENGINEERS, ETC. THAT MAKE SURE THINGS WON'T WORK = DON'T WORK, THUS ASSURING GLOBAL PEACE AND US PRIMACY. OWG-SWO NOW > US SCHOOLS-COLLEGES ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB - you know, PROTECTING/SAVING RUSSIA + SOCIALISM!
As Afghanistan struggles to cut its raging opium production, aid workers try to find alternative crops, but for some former poppy farmers the choice was easy - they planted marijuana instead.
Afghanistans opium crop topped all records this year, producing some 93 percent of the worlds supply of the drug. But while there has been a sharp rise in poppy production in the troubled south, the drug crop has been eliminated in a growing number of provinces in the safer north of the country. Balkh province in the north was trumpeted as a success story - from 7,000 hectares of poppies cultivated in 2006, it was declared opium-free in 2007 after strong local government action.
But around the ancient citadel of Balkh, in fields where pink poppy flowers stood last year, jagged green marijuana stalks poke above other crops and in places whole cannabis fields produce a pungent aroma strong enough to be picked by passing motorists. The farmers are still cautious. They are not my fields, said Shamseddin, surrounded by head-high cannabis plants in full flower. I dont know who they belong to, he said, dropping a sickle to the ground and nudging it away with his foot. Others said they only planted marijuana to shield their cotton fields from livestock or that it was just a trial crop.
Lack of funds: The landlords used to plant poppy, but then the government came along and destroyed the crops, said farm worker Mohammad Yassin. This year we planted marijuana, the dealers will come and buy the crop from us, so well see what we make from it. We probably wont plant any next year. Marijuana, while not as profitable as opium, still makes more money than other legal crops.
In order to survive and feed their families, the farmers have to cultivate marijuana, said Balkh drug squad chief Faiz Mohammad. Other crops dont give a good profit. Last month the United States unveiled a carrot-and-stick strategy to combat opium production. It plans to spend $25 million to $50 million in the next fiscal year to reward provinces that make significant progress against drugs.
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Canadian forces encounter hemp forest in Afghanistan.
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Actually, industrial hemp {not to be confused with marijuana} is a rather superior source of industrial lubricants, acid-free paper, durable cloth, and the premier natural rope and twine. Also, the dross fibres left from hemp manufacturing make a burnable bio-fuel. Even so, the switchover to smokable pot hemp is desirable versas opium : less funding for the Taliban since the pot dealers are not flush with cash as the heroin buyers; it is a stable crop that can be easily grown on sub-par land; and it can be used for an inferior fibre product. It would behoove the West to setup a series of hemp processing plants utilizing the Romanian wet method, to convert the pot into inferior fibre which could then be made into sandbags and the like. However, make it clear to the Afghanis that they would need to convert over to true industrial hemp within 3 years - with the West providing the industrial hemp seed. At the end of the 3 years, any pot fields would be cut down and burned in place : there are very simple field testing kits that can clearly show whether a leaf came from a pot plant or industrial hemp.
The sand bags and landscaping bags made from the pot would be useful in the reclamation projects involving the irrigation canal system in the Afghani hinderlands; plus if you use pick and shovel labor to fill and emplace said bags, you can easily employ a lot of people from the outlying villages that still have not benefited that much from the improving Afghani economy.
From our good friends at Moveon.o...oooops, KCNA.
Pyongyang, September 27 (KCNA) &0151; Rodong Sinmun Thursday runs an article upon the lapse of six years since the 9/11 incident broke out and an "anti-terrorism war" was declared in the United States. Predicting that the day is not far off when the indiscreet "anti-terrorism war" of the U.S. with a gloomy prospect will prove a total fiasco and come to an end, the author of the article says:
The world may outwardly appear to have changed in favor of the United States, but it is the United States itself which is in flame and a scream is coming from there.
The U.S. is racing headlong in the aggressive "anti-terrorism war" but only shameful defeat and death await it. As of September 18 about 3,790 U.S. soldiers had been reported dead and close to 28,000 wounded. Deserters and lunatics are on the increase in the U.S. units. The number of the mentally deranged soldiers has gone beyond 40,000.
The U.S. has also suffered incredible economic and financial losses. A survey panel of U.S. congress announced that the fund disbursed by the U.S. in the "anti-terrorism war" had run to a healthy 610 billion US dollars as of June this year since the outbreak of the 9/11 incident in 2001, of which 450 billion US dollars were squandered in the Iraqi war.
The U.S. debt and financial crisis and the crisis of trade deficit have reached alarming levels in the "war on terrorism" that has been continuing for years. The reactionary "anti-terrorism war" has also brought a big political loss to the U.S.
With the aggressive and dangerous nature of the war revealed more glaringly as the days go by, the U.S. finds itself an object of bitter denunciation and rejection in the world.
The bankruptcy of the "anti-terrorism war" immediately means the end of the policy of strength of the U.S. The 21st century will be the century of the total fiasco of this policy.
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Disjointed, unfocused, ungrammatical, out of tune- a very poor effort. I gave it a three.
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"The U.S. has also suffered incredible economic and financial losses."
That much is true. The US is carrying the bulk of the load for the free (and the 'wish-we-were-free non-Muslim) world, and it is heavy. We're breathing hard, but we are nowhere near fully mobilized. We can only fail if we CHOOSE TO QUIT! I'm not quitting (bought some more ammo yesterday, just in case.)
Mere wishful thinking on Pyongyang's part. A far more likely scenario is the entire MME (Muslim Middle East) disappearing in a ball of high temperature plasma. North Korea's only contribution is to continue pouring gasoline on the fire. They can only be keenly aware of how Islam continues to vigorously preclude any other outcome than total annihilation.
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VARIOUS NET ATICLES > indic that the "MME" and CHINA-ASIA is drying up. Many local MME Govts are more reluctant than not to spend scarce dollars on new or multi-lateral investments, and have gener being cutting back on oil exports to resolve State-specific econ troubles. *OTOH, SCIENCE > CHINA + AMERICA/NORAM MOST AT RISK TODAY FOR COMET/ASTEROID HIT, as they were long ago. Were once, may be again ala THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA + FLYING HORSE/PEGASUS = HORSE-DRAGONHEAD SPACE ROCK? D *** NGED 1960's OLIVER STONE TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROIDS!
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KOMMERSANT > NO NUCLEAR COOPERATION WITH NORTH KOREA. Article expresses Russian doubts on NK's willingness to give up the costly nuke techs its has worked hard on for so long. * Lest we fergit, YONGYBON facility > various Net reports claim NK may have 12-plus bombs already = nucmats for same.
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Besides, the Norks are still pissed over their prized delivery going up in smoke in the desert of Syria! Watch for the last minute balk on their part to dramatize Nork sensitivities! A bruised ego indeed!!
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As soon as they figure out how to fool Israel with the little shell game they were trying to play. Seems like it might not be as easy as they thought.
The FBI is investigating whether a section of commuter train tracks was sabotaged after Metra workers discovered a dozen railroad spikes missing in an area on Chicago's South Side. The spikes hold down metal plates that bind the rails to wooden ties.
"If a sufficient number of spikes are removed in a contained location, there's the potential for the rail to shift, which would lead to disastrous results and train derailment," said Federal Railroad Administration spokesman Steve Kulm.
Metra employees discovered the missing spikes Monday and notified police and federal authorities, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, which investigates threats to planes and trains.
The FBI said it was conducting a criminal investigation into "sabotage." FBI spokesman Ross Rice said agents were checking for possible connections to a domestic violence case involving a Metra engineer.
"No one has claimed responsibility or called in a threat," Rice said. "No similar incident has been reported to us in the metropolitan area. This is a serious incident, and we are aggressively investigating."
The affected tracks carry three commuter lines, including the Metra Electric Line to University Park and Blue Island, and the South Shore Line to Michigan City and South Bend, Ind. Near Hyde Park?
President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday urged religious scholars to play an active role in ridding society of extremism.
Talking to a 15-member delegation of clerics at Aiwan-e-Sadr, he said a handful of misguided elements were tarnishing Islams image all over the world. He said people across the world, who have little knowledge of Islam, saw Muslims blowing up each other and wrongly perceived Islam as a religion of intolerance, violence and extremism. Musharraf asked the clerics to use their influence to remove hatred from society, adding that they should expose the people to the true spirit of Islam.
The delegation extended its full support to the president for his efforts to discourage terrorism and appreciated the development in the country during Musharrafs eight years in power. It said the government had made sincere efforts to achieve tranquility and peace in the country and effective measures had been taken against elements promoting hatred, violence and extremism.
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He said people across the world, who have little knowledge of Islam, saw Muslims blowing up each other and wronglyrightly perceived Islam as a religion of intolerance, violence and extremism.
Thousands of Iraqi Arabs have accepted financial compensation to leave the northern city of Kirkuk, which leaders of the autonomous Kurdish region are seeking to control, a minister said Thursday. Around 2,000 Arabs living there had agreed to return to their home provinces under an initiative launched by the committee in charge of overseeing relations in Kirkuk, Environment Minister Nermeen Othman said. The supreme committee finished approving 2,000 applications submitted by Arab residents in Kirkuk who want to receive compensation of 15,000 dollars to return to their original residence places, she told AFP.
Technical problems related to changing ID registers had prevented the payment of cheques so far, but the applicants had been approved and would be paid in the next few days, she said. According to Othman, herself a Kurd, a budget of 200 million dollars has been allocated by the Iraq government to pay the compensation packages of those willing to leave the city. Tensions between Kirkuks Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen communities have risen ahead of a constitutionally mandated popular referendum on the oil-rich citys future, which is supposed to be held this year.
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since they were pushed in by Saddam to Arabize the Kurd areas, it's time for them to git out
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i think it would be worth $15000 too get rid of them, now if we could start this innnitiative in the US, yeah all the gas stations would be short staffed for awhile but it would give the koreans and chinese alot more jobs
Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sistani has met Sunni vice president to discuss a way for unifying rival political parties. Sistani met Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who heads the Sunni Islamic Party, in the holy Shia city of Najaf in southern Iraq where he lives.
Hashemi stressed he had not asked Sistani to put pressure on any Shia group to return to the Iraqi cabinet, saying the purpose of the meeting had been to discuss the new initiative, known as the Iraqi National Compact. "The meeting was profound and many issues related to the political process were discussed," Hashemi told reporters after his meeting with the highly influential Shia cleric. "I briefed his eminence on the Iraqi National Compact and he informed me he had already seen a copy and read, analyzed and expressed his remarks on the initiative."
However, Ayatollah Sistani's office declined to comment on the meeting.
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Hashemi stressed he had not asked Sistani to put pressure on any Shia group to return to the Iraqi cabinet, saying the purpose of the meeting had been to discuss the new initiative, known as the Iraqi National Compact.
Iraq's political landscape will assuredly be far more "Compact" without Sunnis.
TEL AVIV - Israeli authorities tracking Hamass funds said they made an unexpected discovery last month -- cash from one of Israels biggest banks had found its way to a security force loyal to the Palestinian Islamists in Gaza.
This is a clear Charlie-Fox situation.
Officials, speaking to Reuters this week on condition of anonymity, said the incident sparked a inquiry by the Justice Ministrys anti-money laundering authority and fuelled debate within the Israeli government and banking community over whether to cut financial links to Palestinian banks in the Gaza Strip. That debate came to a head when Israels largest commercial bank, Bank Hapoalim POLI.TA, said on Tuesday it would stop providing Israeli shekel notes and coins to Gaza. Hapoalim attributed the move to last weeks declaration by Israel that Gaza, where Hamas seized control in June, is an enemy entity.
Israeli regulators said banks including Hapoalim have been pushing for months to sever banking ties to Gaza, arguing there was little profit in it and no way to know whether their shekels could end up with Hamas, putting the banks in legal jeopardy. Regulators say Discount Bank DSCT.TA and other Israeli banks plan to follow Hapoalims lead, threatening Gazas money supply and President Mahmoud Abbass ability to pay public sector wages -- part of a U.S.-led, Israeli-backed strategy to bolster his West Bank-based administration and weaken Hamas.
The Hamas-Fatah power struggle has descended into the gutter over the past few days, with both parties trading allegations about the involvement of their members in homosexual relations and adultery. The alleged "sex scandals" are said to have occurred in the Gaza Strip, which fell into Hamas's hands in June.
Shortly after the Islamist movement wrested control of the Strip, Hamas officials began talking about "embarrassing" and "damning" documents and films that were seized inside Palestinian Authority security headquarters formerly controlled by Fatah. According to the officials, the
Fatah men had been spying on several senior PA officials, some of whom were caught on tape having homosexual intercourse.
Fatah men had been spying on several senior PA officials, some of whom were caught on tape having homosexual intercourse. A DVD distributed among a limited number of Hamas representatives features a former PA official having sex with another man. The disc, according to a Palestinian journalist in Gaza City, is being sold on the black market for NIS 20.
Hamas says the PA's Preventive Security Force played a major role in collecting the evidence against the senior PA officials. In some cases, Hamas said, the documents and tapes were used to extort large sums of money from the PA officials.
Two documents that were allegedly seized inside Preventative Security Force headquarters provide insight into the method used to collect information about the sexual conduct of the top officials.
"Some of them had individual sex, while others preferred group sex. Some of them paid money for sex, while others performed sexual intercourse with males in front of their wives."
According to one document, entitled "A Large Number of Homosexuals," a number of wealthy and influential figures in the Gaza Strip had formed a "gang" for practicing homosexual intercourse. "Some of them were summoned for questioning and they admitted to having sexual intercourse with boys and adult males," the document, dated May 12, 2005, stated. "Some of them had individual sex, while others preferred group sex. Some of them paid money for sex, while others performed sexual intercourse with males in front of their wives."
The sex allegedly took place in hotels, clinics and private homes - in some cases with a picture of Yasser Arafat hanging overhead. The document described the homosexuals as a "very dangerous group" and warned that the phenomenon might spread to other parts of the Gaza Strip, adding that rival political factions could exploit the case to defame Fatah and "create chaos and confusion."
The second document is a follow-up to the first. Entitled "Results of Questioning," it names four homosexuals who allegedly had sexual relations with senior Fatah officials in the Strip. The four supposedly blackmailed the officials after filming them during sexual intercourse. "Since we are talking about top Fatah figures, there is a need to summon them and talk to them," the document, dated May 19, 2005, concluded.
A Hamas official in the Gaza Strip said the documents were the "tip of the iceberg" and that his movement was planning to reveal more evidence about Fatah's "moral corruption."
A Hamas official in the Gaza Strip said the documents were the "tip of the iceberg" and that his movement was planning to reveal more evidence about Fatah's "moral corruption."
The official said Hamas had already posted a short video on the YouTube Web site showing used condoms that were found inside the offices of senior Fatah security commanders and political figures. Another Hamas official said his men had uncovered three brothels that had been frequented by top Fatah officials in the Gaza Strip.
Fatah officials in Ramallah refused to comment on the latest allegations. However, they stressed that it was not hard to forge such documents since Hamas was now in control of the security headquarters and of all the archives and files inside the buildings.
But a respected Palestinian journalist in Gaza City who examined the two documents said there was no reason to doubt their authenticity.
According to Fatah, a Hamas imam was recently caught having sex with a male minor in a mosque basement.
In a bid to counter the Hamas campaign, Fatah members have published details about "sex scandals" involving Hamas activists. According to Fatah, a Hamas imam was recently caught having sex with a male minor in a mosque basement.
In another incident, according to Fatah, a senior member of Hamas's armed wing, Izaddin Kassam, was expelled from his refugee camp after he was caught having sex with a male colleague in a vehicle. And according to a report on a Fatah-controlled Web site, a Hamas man was caught naked together with his neighbor's wife in her bedroom. "These Hamas people are very immoral and corrupt," said a senior Fatah official. "They use Islam as a cover-up for their crimes. But our people know very well who they are dealing with. We have a lot of information about the moral corruption of many Hamas officials and we will make them public at the right time."
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The sex allegedly took place in hotels, clinics and private homes - in some cases with a picture of Yasser Arafat hanging overhead.
Only fitting.
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and this is surprising, how? The "palestinian people" have been on the receiving end of pitch-and-catch for quite some time, and appear to enjoy it, after all, they elected Hamas, which has f*cked them over to no end (how's that Gazan economy, gas, water & power, and freedom of speech, going?) ....assume the position, smile, and STFU
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Man, for a religion that villifies gays, they sure seem to enjoy it.
Hamas vowed to extract a "heavy price" from Israel, and the Palestinian Authority threatened to call an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council, after the IDF killed 12 Palestinians in a series of air strikes and ground operations in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and Thursday. Eight of the dead were members of terrorist groups, but Palestinians said the other four were civilians, hit by a tank shell. Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned that Israel was getting closer to launching a larger scale military operation.
Late Thursday evening, the IDF targeted a Kassam rocket squad near Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said one person had been killed and several others wounded. Two Hamas operatives were killed in an IAF air strike in Beit Hanun Thursday morning.
On Wednesday night, five terrorists from the Army of Islam - a terror group involved in the abduction of Cpl. Gilad Schalit - were killed when an IAF missile struck their jeep in the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun. The IDF confirmed that it was behind the strike and said that the terrorists were on their way to launch Kassam rockets at Israel. The Army of Islam, a Hamas splinter group, was behind the March kidnapping of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has since been released. The group is also believed to be among those holding Schalit, who was abducted in a cross-border raid in June 2006.
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The Army of Islam, a Hamas splinter group, was behind the March kidnapping of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, who has since been released. The group is also believed to be among those holding Schalit, who was abducted in a cross-border raid in June 2006.
Has anyone else noticed how these Muslim terrorist groups have more splinters than an old telephone pole? This "plausible deniability" shit is old and tired. All of these thugs need to placed on the same list. An act by one group should be treated as a reason to retaliate against all of them. Why should they enjoy the excuse of blaming "uncontrollable" militias and factions while we are obliged to treat with them as honest negotiators? It goes beyond ludicrous.
Wherever Hamas' headquarters is, lob in an artillery shell or missile after every rocket attack. For every Israeli soldier killed, blast another jeep full of these scumbags off of street. As with Islam in general, they need to be made to feel our pain. Nothing of the sort has even begun to happen. It goes beyond irony that the greatest amount of Muslim sufferingthat of the Palestiniansis almost entirely self-inflicted. That honor must be stolen from them.
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Awww, where's the graphic wid the red dawgs? ANyhoo, TOPIX > ISRAEL > HAMAS SAYS ITS READY FOR ANY ISRAELI INCURSION INTO GAZA. Armed and ready to defend wid force Gaza sectors.
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Up until now, Israel has rejected Saudi conditions on participation in the talks. Jerusalem feels, however, that Saudi participation is critical in garnering Arab support to Israeli-PA negotiations.
Idiots. They'd do better to bomb Riyadh than ever trust the House of Saud.
Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah has called Israel as an obstacle to the peace process in the Middle East. Sabah who was speaking at the UN General Assembly, said that despite all efforts to revive the peace process in the Middle East, Israel continues to put impediments and obstacles, which increase tensions and acts of violence, and prevent the creation of favorable conditions towards peace in the region.
He also stressed that security must be for everyone and there shall be no security except by implementing international resolutions. "This requires serious action from the international community to protect the Palestinian People and implement legitimate international resolutions," he said.
The Kuwaiti deputy prime minister also expressed support for the convening of an international conference with the participation of all the parties concerned in the peace process.
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al-Sabah, there's only one thing I need to say to you and your panty waste of a nation...continue to bask in the afterglow of your deliverance, and leave any orgasms to the US! Peaches!!
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As the arabs in the ME are the real obstacle to peace, it should be our policy to redeploy somewhere else. I'm thinking somewhere in the middle of China.
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Future Movement leader Saad Hariri met separately with Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea Thursday and discussed the "qualities" of a new president. After an unscheduled meeting with Sfeir at Bkirki, the seat of the Maronite church, Hariri assured the Lebanese that they will have a "strong president" before Nov. 23.
Responding to a question, Hariri said that "we did not go through names. We reviewed qualities of a president for the republic. We want a strong president familiar with the political situation."
Asked to comment on a call by Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun for dialogue on the presidential election, Hariri said: "We are not against dialogue with any of the political parties. We need dialogue This is our national duty." He cautioned that any MP who boycotts the next presidential election session "would be responsible for the resulting vacuum. All the people should know how serious political vacuum is."
Hariri went straight from Bkirki to Meerab where he held a lengthy meeting with Geagea. At a joint press conference at the end of the talks, Hariri said the feuding Lebanese camps "ought to start dialogue, otherwise how do we elect a president? We are our going to reach consensus. We are moving toward consensus."
Geagea, in turn, said: "Our utmost desire is to be able together with our brethren in March 8 (alliance) to reach consensus. This is going to be the starting point in our negotiations." He stressed that March 14 advocates a president who is committed to the promotion of democracy and good political governance, in addition to being an independent decision maker.
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I'd like to nominate Waleed Jumblatt, his temperament and demeanor would be enough for anyone in the Assembly to stay nervous, on guard and defensive against the 'Pro-Syrians'!
Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyassah has reported very disturbing information on the assassination of former MP Antoine Ghanem, including the preparation of the booby trapped car and the execution of the assassination The Al-Seyassah sources in Syria were able to link the assassination of Ghanem, his bodyguards and 3 others to the opening of the Arida and Dabussiya border crossings between Lebanon and Syria on September 17, 2 days before the assassination took place.
The Al-Seyassah sources also revealed that the opening of the crossings was to facilitate the entry of the assassins with their equipment and the Mercedes car that was booby trapped at the Syrian intelligence base of Kfarsoussah near Damascus including all the forged documents required. The whole operation was coordinated by Bassem Emad, a Syrian intelligence officer that reports directly to Assef Shawkat, head of the Syrian intelligence and President Bashar el Assads brother-in-law.
The assassination was performed by Syrian intelligence agents after detailed monitoring of Ghanems movements and the roads that he used to use. These agents rented two apartments, one near the residence of Ghanem in Qlei'at and the other near the crime scene in Sin el Fil.The killers also rented a third apartment in Tripoli three months ago using forged documents. The sources revealed that the killers left Lebanon immediately after committing a crime, completely disguised as Syrian workers.
The March 14 leading majority has accused Syria of the murder of Ghanem, but Syria denied any involvement. Al-Seyassah was the first newspaper to reveal the names of the Lebanese generals who were linked to the murder of former PM Rafik Hariri in 2005. All 4 generals are now in jail awaiting trial.
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Are these Syrian leaks intentional on the part of their government?
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was quoted Thursday as saying that electing a new president on a consensus base means that U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559 "is over and folded." Resolution 1559, adopted in September 2004, called for the withdrawal of the Syrian Army from Lebanon, the holding of presidential elections without foreign intervention, and the disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias deployed in Lebanon, specifically Hezbollah.
The newspaper as-Safir quoted Berri, who also heads the Shiite AMAL Movement, as saying that talks he has held with MP Saad Hariri were "very good and Sheik Saad Hariri has a very serious and honest will to achieve consensus."
"Succeeding in achieving presidential elections means that resolution 1559 has been folded (regarding the presidency and the withdrawal of the Syrian army) because the rest is in 1701," Berri was quoted as saying.
Disarming Hezbollah Key in 1559
Lebanon's Syrian-dominated Parliament amended the constitution and extended President Emile Lahoud's term for three years one day after 1559 was adopted in an apparent defiance of the Security Council. However, Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon in April 2005, less than two months after the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri by a powerful explosion in Beirut. The issue of disbanding Hizbullah's armed wing as well as Palestinian bases in Lebanon remains unresolved, however.
Resolution 1701, which ended a 34-day war between Israel and Hizbullah in the summer of 2006, reactivated resolution 1559 and banned the smuggling of weapons from Syria to Hizbullah and other factions loyal to the Damascus regime in Lebanon. Hizbullah, which leads the opposition, has called for the election of a president who rejects resolution 1559.
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Hezbollah has announced that it is ready to cooperate with Lebanon's ruling coalition to resolve the political crisis in the country. Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Naeem Qasem has called Lebanon's presidential election a very 'sensitive issue' which should be handled in line with the constitution and as scheduled. He has condemned any kind of foreign interference in Lebanon's internal affairs adding that the Lebanese nation should be left free to elect their own President.
The Lebanese Parliament has deferred the election of a new president until October 23 after it failed to form the required quorum. The term of President Emile Lahoud will end on November 24. Pro-government MPs have vowed to push through their plan to elect their choice if a compromise is not reached by the next parliament session on October 23. The opposition led by Hezbollah maintains that according to the country's constitution, a candidate must be elected by consensus, and any other approach is illegitimate.
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Yes. When I think "problem solving", I think Hezbollah...
There's new evidence the Saudis aren't cooperating in our battle to eradicate terrorists or those who bankroll them. Their negligence is shocking even to cynics.
According to the Treasury Department's top anti-terror official, the kingdom has not prosecuted a single person named by the U.S. or the United Nations as a terror financier. On the other hands they shell out a lot of $$$ to former USG officieal---including, at least, one former president.
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As the highlighted comment sez... they are very much friend if you are finishing up your civil service career at the State Department. Otherwise, apart from our petrodollars, they don't give a rip about us--or anyone else, for that matter.
#5
There's new evidence the Saudis aren't cooperating in our battle to eradicate terrorists or those who bankroll them.
Unless you're in the advanced stages of igamortis, you're already congizant of this amazing fact. Thank you Treasury Dept for this blinding bit. You're now on a par with most of the other beltway agencies.
#8
teh equation is very simple: What is Saudi Arabia presntly? Nothing. Just a cesspool we don't clean because we are too lazy for that getting money from oil they wouldn't be able to extract alone.
What would be Saudis Arabia is Al Quaida winned? The center of the universe.
#10
There's new evidence the Saudis aren't cooperating...
Duh. Rantburgers sure don't think the Saudis ever coorperated. Duplicitous taqiyya-spewing deceitful snakes. Who needs friends like the Sauds. We are making a bunch of fat-cat sheiks, princes, and royalty rich beyond belief who in turn finance terrorism. At least with the Pakis, Iranians, and Syrians you know what you got.
#13
Time to kick off operation Torch 2 -- land in N.Africa and work our way east -- Egypt, S.Arabia, Syria, Iran, Pakistan. Just roll'em all up. Take back our oil that's under their soil. I'd pay $6 per gallon or just let my dodge ram sit and buy a Geo Metro. Time to bust fundy islam in the mouth. Unfortunately we have few real statesmen and congressmen of foresight and grit. I liken us to Rome, AD 370ish. Career politicians, fat cats, and poltroons. Few real patriots looking out for us plebians.
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#17
Old King Saudi stabbed us in the back
He waited till we slept then launched his attack
Some would stick a hot axle up his ass
But let's just turn Mecca to black glass
Our traitor elite, both political and mercantile. As I have noted before, our world's executive leadership demonstrates a highly inappropriate squeamishness about forcing others of their ilk from their sundry thrones or mahogany paneled confines. This closed shop, guild mentality is allowing some incredibly vile gangsters and thugs free run of our globe even though they treat it like their own personal litterbox. Take a close look at yesterday's thread about corruption. Notice how the vast majority of our world is rated at less than 3.0 on a 10.0 point scale in terms of bribery? This is a direct result of thugocracy.
Somehow, tiny Saudi Arabiathe sacrosanct home of Islammanages to compete with China and Mexico in terms of corruption. Why in hell anyone is surprised that they continue to be our avowed enemy is beyond me. Isn't it obvious that nothing is as it seems in the magic Kingdom?
.com nailed this down tight a long time ago. The Ghawar oil field alone could meet America's petroleum needs for the entire length of time required to get off of the oil tit once and for all. The House of Saud needs to be rolled up like a patch of bad shag carpet. Just their complicity in the 9-11 atrocity justifies this all by itself. The 9-11 terror strike cost America well over one trillion dollars. It's time for us to collect on this debt.
Time to kick off operation Torch 2 -- land in N.Africa and work our way east -- Egypt, S.Arabia, Syria, Iran, Pakistan. Just roll'em all up. Take back our oil that's under their soil. I'd pay $6 per gallon or just let my dodge ram sit and buy a Geo Metro. Time to bust fundy islam in the mouth.
As someone who is out at the pointy end of things, Broadhead6 has got this dialed. Islam has got to go. Either we subjugate its lands with military might or simply cleanse the entire region with neutron bombs. I am rapidly becoming beyond caring about how the job gets done. The entire globe's progress towards peace and prosperity is being stalled by this death cult and it's long past tea to do something about these vermin.
Is it all about the oil? You bet it is. For better or worse, this world runs on it and anyone who wants to argue the point can pound hot sand. The simple fact is that our current global economy is wholly dependent upon petroleum. We need to stop deluding ourselves about where oil comes from and the consequences of funneling trillions of dollars into the hands of our declared enemies.
If Hitler had controlled the entire Middle East oil patch would we have treated with him as we do with the Arabs? Face the question squarely.
We are dealing with a new breed of Nazis and few, if any, people are willing to own up to it. There is a fundamental conflict between Islam and the entire outside world. Muslims are bound and determined to make sure that this conflict cannot be resolved peacefully. Their basic creed nullifies any possibility of productive negotiations, treaties or agreements. What alternatives are left to us? Again, face the question squarely.
Yes, Saudi oil is in deep pools so the I-will-enflame-the-Persian-Gulf rhetoric is BS. (Kurdistan is also filled with deep oil pockets, and is only 15% explored) Saudi sharia doesn't recognize "kafir" sovereignty; why recognize their sovereignty?
However, I picked up the following translated reprint from an Arab forum. It appears that the House of Saud directed Wahabi clerics to produce anti-Shiite fatwahs. See for yourself:
Bushs war on Iran starts with a civil war in Saudi Arabia!
The US germs of Shiites-Sunnis strife in Iraq are spreading to Saudi Arabia where the Shiites constitute a minority of 20%. The Shiites inhabit the oil rich eastern province and to a lesser extent in Najran and Madina. On 25.09.07 a meeting was held in Saudi Arabia and attended by Emir Salman, the third in line to the throne, Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, governors, diplomats and security, army and police commanders. The meeting was addressed by the top three Wahabi fundamentalist Sheikhs; Abdullah bin Jibreen, Saleh Al-Fawzan and Nasser Al-Omar. In their sermons all three have called on the government to convert the Shiites infidels to become Wahabis, to burn their mosques and holy shrines and to prevent them from coming to Mecca for Haj. It is true that Shiites citizens are not allowed to hold a high army position or work in the Foreign Service, but it is for the first time that such an open attack has been launched. The Saudis have been sending arms and money to Iraqi Sunnis through the American forces. They are also sending men to attack Shiites mosques and holy shrines there. For the time being, Bush policy is succeeding in rallying Saudi-Sunni support in his war on Iran, disregarding the consequences. Until now, the attacks in Saudi Arabia have been carried out by Sunni Wahabi fundamentalists. One must not be surprised if future attacks are carried out by Shiite suicide bombers and the end of the rule of the corrupt house of Saud.
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times
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We have the pretext for annihilation war on Iran. The fact that the President is deliberately avoiding a proportionate response to Ahmadinejad's genocidal rhetoric, suggests that rhetoric bombs are not battlefield weapons in what is coming. When Reagan was president, he explained military action after it was a fait accompli; it worked.
#23
When we can be sure there are alternate supplies, Crusader -- not so much for the U.S., which gets a large part of their supplies from Canada and Mexico, but to keep from dropping the rest of the world into a sudden depression.
#3
I'm guessing the nut-rods aren't going to leave him alone. What kind of support do people who leave cults need? I'm picturing the same type of support needed for this gent.
#4
Having seen and heard many of those wackos up close and personal I take heart that at least one has had an awakening. My hope is that many more discover the lies they have been fed.
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#5
Reading this left me thinking what we need is a massive deprogramming operation. Treat the Truthers as a cult and address them appropriately.
Then figure out how to scale the program up by several orders of magnitude and start freeing people from islam.
#6
I've just spent the last few hours watching the "Loose Change" video and part of the "Screw Loose Change" rebuttal.
The one single most consistent feature of "Loose Change" is that, literally every single point of reference is taken totally out of context, if not fabricated entirely. I am able to see how the slick production techniques involved could lure less educated people without a rudimentary knowledge of materials science and physics into believing what is otherwise fairly easily disproven pseudo-facts. How sad that someone is so dedicated into manufacturing this sort of anti-American propaganda. We have little need for enemies with traitors like this in our midst.
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The Hamas-Fatah power struggle has descended into the gutter over the past few days, with both parties trading allegations about the involvement of their members in homosexual relations and adultery. The alleged "sex scandals" are said to have occurred in the Gaza Strip, which fell into Hamas's hands in June. 
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Future Movement leader Saad Hariri met separately with Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea Thursday and discussed the "qualities" of a new president. After an unscheduled meeting with Sfeir at Bkirki, the seat of the Maronite church, Hariri assured the Lebanese that they will have a "strong president" before Nov. 23.
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