(RIA Novosti) - Seventy-two militants including 11 leaders of armed groups were killed in special operations last year in Chechnya, the North Caucasus republic's interior minister said on Wednesday.
Moscow has substantially scaled down the number of federal troops in the republic since two anti-terrorism campaigns, in 1994-1996 and 1999-2001. However, periodic bombings and clashes between insurgents and federal troops still disrupt Chechnya and nearby provinces. "Last year law enforcement bodies in Chechnya arrested 32 militants and one head of an illegal armed formation, while 139 militants surrendered," Ruslan Alkhanov said. The minister said security measures had helped to reduce the number of terrorist attacks by around 72% and the number of abductions by 50%.
Killing Shamil did help, of course.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov assessed the work of the Interior Ministry in 2007 as positive. "The Interior Ministry provided order during elections to the State Duma [Russian parliament's lower house] and public security during a number of important public and political events in the republic. They were all held without any violations," Kadyrov said.
In 2006 more than 600 militants in Chechnya and adjacent provinces reportedly surrendered their arms in response to a six-month amnesty declared by the Russian government on July 15 of that year for those not involved in any serious crimes. The amnesty followed the killing by federal troops of Chechnya's warlord and number one terrorist Shamil Basayev, who was behind the 2004 Beslan school siege and other atrocities.
Kadyrov, elected Chechen president in early 2007, said earlier that "the counterterrorism operation in the region has been completed and today we are fighting criminal elements in the Republic of Chechnya."
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THE HAGUE The Dutch Defense Ministry on Wednesday summoned the U.S. ambassador as other American allies denounced criticism of NATO forces in Afghanistan by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
The U.S. ambassador, Roland Arnall, met with ministry officials to offer a "clarification of the comments" by Gates, said chief State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
Gates, in an interview with The Times, correctly questioned whether North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in southern Afghanistan were adequately trained for counterinsurgency operations. "I'm worried we have some military forces that don't know how to do counterinsurgency operations," he said in discussing forces in the southern region. Gates made the remarks last week during a trip to Southern California and Nevada. The comments were published in an article Wednesday.
Although he did not criticize any country individually, Gates said he had raised the concerns at a meeting last month of NATO countries with troops in southern Afghanistan. Those forces are predominantly British, Canadian and Dutch. The question is considered sensitive for the Dutch, whose forces on Saturday killed two of their own troops and two allied Afghan soldiers in "friendly fire" incidents.
After meeting the U.S. ambassador in The Hague, Dutch Defense Minister Eimert van Middelkoop downplayed the issue. "We assume this was a misunderstanding," Van Middelkoop told the Dutch broadcaster NOS. "This is not the Robert Gates we have come to know. It's also not the manner in which you treat each other when you have to cooperate with each other in the south of Afghanistan."
It's the Robert Gates who knows how to deliver a message. Neither GWB nor Condi want to deliver the message, it would be too high-profile and set off alarms in the wrong places. But it had to be delivered by someone higher than the Assistant Deputy Undersecretary of the Army.
The Pentagon press secretary, Geoff Morrell, did not challenge the accuracy of the quotes but said Gates was "disturbed" that he might be seen as singling out a particular country for criticism. Instead, Morrell said, Gates had noted that "NATO as an alliance does not train for counterinsurgency. The alliance has never had to do it before."
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oh jeesh. Does the press do this on purpose? He makes a fairly benign comment and the reporter latches onto it and blows it up into an international incident. The Dutch have been great allies as have been the others. This is their chance to get training they might need at home. Why stir up strife?
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Dr. Gates does not make this kind of benign comment carelessly. Especially after he slapped the Marine Corps around publicly about its performance in Afghanistan and now has to use them to fill in the gaps created by useless Nato troops.
I hope this is the start of the dissolution of Nato, the greatest, most successful alliance in history. One whose mission is fulfilled.
Turkey's Islamic-oriented prime minister on Wednesday challenged a ban on women wearing Islamic-style headscarves in universities and public offices, saying there is no need to wait for a constitutional change to remove the ban, the state-run media said.
The attempts to lift the ban have alarmed secularists who fear the government is raising the profile of Islam in this Muslim but secular country.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday the ban could be lifted even before a proposed constitutional amendment. "There is no need to wait for the new constitution. Its solution is very easy. It can be solved through consensus over a sentence," the state-run Anatolia news agency quoted Erdogan as saying.
Erdogan insists that lifting the headscarf ban is merely a question of individual liberty but the country's secular establishment, including the military, regards it as a political statement aimed at undermining the nation's secular principles.
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Who needs a constitution when you have the Koran?
(AKI) - Italy's Moroccan Women's Association is to take part in an event on Wednesday to reflect on the decision by a prestigious Rome university to oppose a visit by Pope Benedict XVI. The secular event was being organised by the Rome office of the Italian daily, Il Foglio, led by Giuliano Ferrara. "The decision to support the secular gathering of conversation and mediation 'on the character of the dispute over freedom of speech' of Benedict XVI at La Sapienza University is a protest against censorship," association president, Souad Sbai, told Adnkronos International (AKI). "It represents a surrender to extremists and is similar to what happens towards moderate Muslims who on many occasions are censored."
Pope Benedict XVI cancelled a planned visit to Rome's La Sapienza University after widespread protests from academics and students to his position on the astronomer Galileo.
Galileo? He's dead, right? Been awhile now, if I remember correctly...
... they have to have some excuse to protest the man ...
In a short statement late on Tuesday, the Vatican said the pontiff's visit, which was to coincide with the inauguration of the academic year on January 17, would not proceed. Sbai wondered how it was possible for Italians to have extreme Left lectures and accept Islamic fundamentalist thinkers while blocking the head of the Catholic church from attending the university. "They put the welcome mat out for various extremists that are invited to the univerisity while the Pope cannot speak," she told AKI. "There are so many incongruencies if you think about it - that Benedict XVI could freely enter the Turkish university and mosques (during his visit to Turkey) and now cannot go to the university in a country that is so-called civilised."
I've often wondered about that myself. My mind's obviously not subtil enough to comprehend it. E pur se muove.
The president of the women's organisation questioned the meaning of interreligious dialogue. "In most of the Arab countries a thing of this kind could never happen because if a guest was invited it would be unacceptable to chase him away in this manner."
The evening event is being organised at the headquarters of Il Foglio to defend the Pope's right to freedom of speech. Ferrara announced the gathering in the last few days initially to discuss abortion. He said the Rome university was in a pitiful state and said that staff and students wanted to deny Pope Benedict the right to freedom of speech.
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(AKI) The trial of 15 members of radical Islamist Wahabi movement saw a rare display of religious fervour in a Belgrade court on Wednesday. One of the accused, Fuad Hodzic, before entering a plea on charges of terrorism and illegal arms possession asked the court to bow and say a prayer before refuting charges against him. He said the indictment was a charade.
The group members are alleged to have operated a terrorist training camp in the Ninaja mountain in southwest Sandzak region and have been charged with planning terrorist attacks on the American embassy in Belgrade, a theatre and a hotel in Serbian capital. They are also alleged to have planned an attack on a police station in Novi Pazar, Sandzak's commercial and administrative centre. According to the indictment, they also planned the murder of Sandzak mufti Muarem Zukorlic whom they accused of betraying Islam and of being an American spy.
We were planning no terrorist attacks, nor the murder of the mufti Muamer Zukorlic, Hodzic told the court. I swear to Allah, there are boys here who wouldnt even know how to return home from here, let alone finding the American embassy, he said. He said the group moved to the mountain hideout because Zukorlic banned them from Novi Pazar mosque. He said Zukorlic was a Jewish and American spy who was hiding behind Islam.
According to the indictment, Hodzic told the police who arrested him in March last year: You are my enemy and I dont recognise this state and law, but only Allah the supreme. For you, Im Bin Laden, your deadly enemy. Im Allahs slave, and you are the slave to money and your job.
Hodzic said a policeman insulted him and asked what his wife was doing while he was hiding in the woods. I shivered and told him: Im Bin Laden and you are a rabbit, so dont pretend to be a lion, Hodzic said.
During the raid on the Ninaja camp, police claimed to have discovered a cache of weapons, explosives, ammunition and food supplies, but the defendants said the weapons were to defend themselves if attacked by Zukorlics followers. Hodzic said the mufti was acting on orders from the American embassy in Belgrade. But Allah will give him whats good for him, the mufti will break his neck, Hodzic told the court.
The Wahabi movement is relatively new in the Balkans and has a small following. The radical Islamist ideology was brought to the Balkans by mujahadeen fighters from Islamic countries during 1995-1995 civil war in Bosnia and has slowly gained strength ever since. Many mujahadeen remained in Bosnia after the war and were reportedly indoctrinating local youths and even operating training camps. Sandzak is a region bordering Bosnia, with a sizable Muslim population. Local religious leaders have complained they were terrorised by Wahabis who accused them of having betrayed Islam.
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All islamic terrorist should have their limbs removed before going to jail.
Omar Khadr's lawyers say they can't understand why Canada is not doing more to help their client in light of new evidence that Ottawa has put the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on a watch list for torture.
Khadr -- a Canadian citizen who was just 15-years-old when he was captured in Afghanistan more than five years ago and taken to Guantanamo -- has claimed that he has been tortured at the prison. Now, CTV News has obtained documents that put Guantanamo Bay on a torture watch list.
Khadr, who was born in Toronto and captured in 2002 after a battle with U.S. forces in which an American soldier died, is accused of war crimes. But his U.S. military lawyer alleges the military court that is trying him violates U.S. and international law.
Lawyer William Kuebler also believes the new documents obtained by CTV contradict Prime Minister Stephen Harper's assurances that Khadr is receiving fair treatment. "Omar has been there for five-and-a-half years, and at some point in the course of Omar Khadr's detention the Canadian government developed the suspicion he was being tortured and abused," William Kuebler told Canada AM. "And yet it has not acted to obtain his release from Guantanamo Bay and protect his rights, unlike every other Western country that has had its nationals detained in Guantanamo Bay."
Kuebler maintains that the suspicions of torture undermine claims that he can get a fair trial from the military commission in Guantanamo Bay. They want him sent back to Canada to face justice here. But the government has said he's charged with serious crimes and they are waiting for the U.S. judicial process to play itself out.
"Omar has certainly been abused, his rights have been violated under international law, and apparently the Canadian government has reason to believe that's true, and yet, they've acted not at all to assist him," Kuebler told CTV News.
I'm waiting for someone, someone, somewhere, to tell me exactly how he's been 'abused'. I'd like X-rays, photographs, and weekly charting of his weight.
Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa law professor, said the new developments cast doubt on the government's position that Khadr -- the last Westerner remaining under detention in Guantanamo -- is being treated fairly. "Canada has just admitted we believe torture is possible in Guantanamo Bay," Attaran told Canada AM. "That clashes terribly with what Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said, that Mr. Khadr, who is in Guantanamo Bay and was a child at the time he was put there, is being given a appropriate judicial process. Torture is not an appropriate judicial process."
We agree. Now tell us how he's been tortured. Don't just mouth what others have been saying.
He said torture is strictly prohibited by international law, and suggested that the Canadian government's refusal to demand Khadr's release from Guantanamo is purely political. "Out of a desire to appear tough on the war on terror, Mr. Harper has put this set of considerations out the window, and that's not appropriate, we have to obey the law," Attaran said.
Canada's new focus on torture was ordered by the inquiry into Maher Arar's nightmare in Syria. U.S. authorities sent Arar -- a Canadian of Syrian ancestry -- to Syria after he made a brief stopover in New York in 2002. They wrongly accused him of having links to terrorism in large part because of information provided by the RCMP. Arar was sent to a Syrian prison where he was tortured for nearly a year. An inquiry into the Arar affair ordered a new focus on torture, and CTV News has learned that, as part of a "torture awareness workshop," diplomats are now being told where to watch for abuse.
The goal of the workshop was to teach diplomats who visit Canadians in foreign jails how to tell if they've been tortured. It also listed countries and places with greater risks of torture. The list includes Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, and China. But surprisingly, it also included the United States, Guantanamo Bay, and Israel.
It notes specific "U.S. interrogation techniques," which include "forced nudity, isolation, and sleep deprivation." The U.S. has repeatedly denied allegations by international groups that it tortures prisoners captured in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. However, U.S. officials have refused to comment on the Canadian list.
Nudity, isolation and sleep deprivation are not torture. They also aren't fun, and I wouldn't want some female solider ridiculing my nude body. But this isn't torture, and anyone who conflates the two shouldn't be trusted on anything else.
But international observers say they are heartened by the specificity of the Canadian list. Alex Neve of Amnesty International says he is surprised that Canada would risk offending allies by naming countries that potentially torture prisoners. "These are countries where, sadly, the record is clear -- torture and ill treatment happens," said Neve.
But it appears that Ottawa may have had second thoughts about being so explicit. After the documents were released as evidence in a court case relating to Afghan detainees, the government tried to get them back. Sources say that Ottawa apparently wanted to black out sensitive parts that may anger allies.
A war crimes trial has never been held against anyone under the age of 18. International observers have questioned Ottawa's decision not to help Khadr, who many believe is no different than child soldiers victimized in Africa.
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Khadr...is that the little shit accused of fragging a medic after his troop was ployed into approaching a gate to give medical aid to the people then got shot down point-blank?
What if there was a new approach - attach electrodes to the outside of the skull to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain and push buttons so they enjoy everything; the dreaded tickle treatment!
A total of three people have been waterboarded -- a procedure we also apply to our own servicemen in some sorts of training. In exchange, we've disrupted terrorist plots around the world, saving who knows how many lives.
I think the Canadian people need to stop preening over their "moral superiority" and start asking some questions about their own fundamental rights. Doesn't look like free speech has long to live up there.
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Let's put Canada on the Freedom Watch as they persecute writers like Mark Steyn.
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Internbational law? What's that. The only valid law is the one bvoted by elected repesentatives not by Kimmie, The Saudi ticks, the Sudanese slave holders, Bo, Assad, Ghadafi, Poutine and similar.
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The legitimate government of Canada understands that it has no legitimacy in interfering in the actions of another sovereign state, other than to express their displeasure with what's being done. This "international law" crap is just a cover to try to destroy the legitimacy of sovereign nations to act in accordance with their individual laws. This POS lawyer knows that, but is still trying to push all the right buttons to get his worthless client off the hook. Both should hang.
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Ok, that's it. Start strip-searching all Canuks at the border, and don't be polite about it.
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FOTSGreg,
Yep it's three (3). I agree the MSM makes it sound like the number is far higher, but that's because the press never lets the facts get in the way of a good fantasy story.
The actual numbers came out ~1 month ago.
Al
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It's simulated waterboarding at that. Not even the real thing. Should have skinned them alive and left them on an ant mound.
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I have no problem closing the gates on Gitmo provided, however, the USA is not required to account for the health and well-being, whereabouts, or indeed, even the mere existence of muslims we're said to have or alleged to have taken alive off the field of battle. Until the "civilized world" agrees to those terms, I say keep Gitmo running.
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I say feed the sharks swimming off Gitmo.
Problem solved.
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And remember, they are accusing Mark Steyn of being racially insensitive to Islamopharts. So this should be no surprise
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And guess who slyly slipped in the amendment to gut SFA: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas -- a state that has been ravaged and savaged by illegal immigration.
Her amendment reads:
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Nothing in this paragraph shall require the secretary of homeland security to install fencing, physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras and sensors in a particular location along an international border of the United States, if the secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain operational control over the international border at such location
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Our politicians are just as crooked as any in Mexico. By the end of this century you probably won't be able to tell the difference between this country and Mexico.
Lately I've begun to think that what it's really all about is class warfare. That is, the plutocracy is pushing the manufacturing and software development overseas while importing third world workers into this country to "do the work that Americans aren't allowed to do anymore won't do".
Maybe it's only fair because the unions made it too expensive to manufacture anything here anyway.
But what are middle and lower class American citizens supposed to do? Accept third world wages and a third world standard of living, obviously, while the beautiful people and the wealthiest of the wealthy count their profits.
Nobody notices because they're too busy watching Oprah and American Idol on TVs imported from China. They'll vote for McCain or Obama because their TVs won't tell them about anybody else. Most likely Obama will be the next president because he has the most sex appeal and that's what the TV viewers want. That's what we deserve because we are too fat and lazy to mow our own lawns or pick up our own socks.
Oh well, maybe all the young workers from Mexico will keep Social Security going for us.
We need term limits! We really really need terms limits so we can get rid of McCain and Kennedy and Byrd and all of the rest of them. They think they are princes now. We need to give them only 8 years and no pension plans and the same health care as the military gets. To do that, we need to focus on specific races and use the same tactics that they use to win those races.
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The Republican party apparatchiks are dismayed that party enthusiasm levels as reflected by voter turnout in the primaries and, more importantly to them, contributions are way down this year. They are unwilling to connect the dots and admit that when President Bush tried to ram the "comprehensive illegal immigration" deal through last year, the party committed seppuku. People no longer trust them to do what is right for the country. Their forlorn hope now is that when faced with the choice of a more of the same Republican or Hillary or Obama the faithful will rally to the cause. Ain't happening.
The Bitch is a RINO, always has been. Cornyn isn't much better. There is a nasty creeping liberalism in all the major population centers, and not just in Texas.
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what are middle and lower class American citizens supposed to do? Accept third world wages and a third world standard of living, obviously, while the beautiful people and the wealthiest of the wealthy count their profits.
The same thing the middle and lower class Romans did - eat our bread and attend the circuses sponsored by the government and the wealthy elite.
All the while we'll be virtual slaves to a system that is increasingly abusive of our civil rights, our property and taxes, our daily lives and ability to support our families.
Finally, we'll be so dependent upon the government and the elite for our bread and our circuses that we will listen to them when they tell us they know best what's good for us. At that point we will become slaves to the government and the elite and the entity that we used to know as a republic will have become an empire in most senses of the word although an empire on its last legs (withdrawing from foreign entanglements and choosing merely to defend (barely) what it already has, downsizing the military forces (already barely capable of holding the line) below what can reasonably be considered necessary for self-defense, allowing the internal infrastructure to decline and decay, allowing more and more of the empire's productive potential to be provided for it by other power's, and devoting more and more of the citizen's taxes to providing bread and circuses for those self-same citizens who have become more and more dependent upon the government to provide for them, etc.).
In the last, there will be no middle or lower class, there will be only the serf's and slaves to the elite and the government.
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Of course there isn't going to be any fence. Not so long as drug cartels are able to slip millions into the pockets of politicians in untraceable cash. Not so long as local big shot real estate developers and builders are able to get their cheap labor and make nice fat campaign contributions.
Nothing is going to change on the border until the politicians in the border states are thrown out of office and new ones elected in their place who are somehow "immune" to graft.
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At this rate, ROME, USA or USSA Empire - you know, the weak, anti-sovereign global United Socialist Repubs of America - won't do anything until HANNIBAL AND HIS CARTHAGINIAN ARMY, SPARTACUS, etc. show up at the gates and embarasses a few ROMUS Politicos by wiping out their Household-Army legions.
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jds - my thoughts exactly. A revolution is brewing and it won't be pretty. I'm not given to conspiracies or paranoia. I'd reckon maybe 40-50 yrs down the road when the avg joe has had enough the tree of liberty will be refreshed as per a great statesmen's words.
HADDONFIELD, N.J. - A group of men accused of planning an attack on Fort Dix face additional charges, including attempted murder, after a grand jury concluded there was evidence the men tried to kill uniformed members of the military. In a federal indictment handed up Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Camden, the grand jury does not spell out why the attempted murder charges were added. Greg Reinert, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, declined to elaborate on it.
Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Serdar Tatar and brothers Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka were arrested last May and charged with conspiracy to attack the military base. The men foreign-born Muslims who lived much of their lives in the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia have denied the allegations.
"Lies! All lies!"
The government has said the men had practiced firing weapons and arranged to buy guns to carry out an attack on the base. They did not carry out an actual raid. Michael Huff, lawyer for Dritan Duka, said, "If your client is innocent of the charges, it doesn't matter what he is charged with."
Rocco C. Cipparone Jr., an attorney for Shnewer, said he expected the new charges. Troy A. Archie, lawyer for Eljvir Duka, said he doubted the new charges would delay the trial further because there was no additional evidence related to those charges. The trial is scheduled to begin March 24.
In addition to the conspiracy charges all five face, the Duka brothers were also charged with possession of weapons by illegal aliens. Under Tuesday's amended indictment, they and Shnewer were additionally charged with possession of a firearm for an illegal act. Tatar doesn't face weapons charges.
The indictment also says that Shnewer conducted surveillance at McGuire Air Force Base besides several other military installations the government had already said he scouted, including Fort Dix and Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
Defense attorneys said their clients would likely be arraigned or formally told of the new charges at a status conference in court on Friday.
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Following threatening phone calls, Pakistani pop singer Ali Haider is learnt to have turned down a Bollywood film offer wherein he was to play the lead role of a Kashmiri boy called Osama, who travels to Afghanistan, falls in love with a Afghan girl, and ends up at the World Trade Centre at the time of 9/11 attacks. Without revealing the nature of the threat, he said, "In circumstances when an important person like Benazir Bhutto cannot have adequate security, what will happen to someone like me?"
The Pakistani pop singer had flown to Mumbai last year to have an idea about the film script, and finally signed the contract in December. By revoking his contract under fear of being killed, and also for the safety of his family members, he has reportedly suffered a net loss of nearly one crore Pakistani rupees. Haider said that some fanatics in Pakistan, who perhaps made the threatening phone calls, were under the impression that he was to have played the role of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
He added that actually the film was a love story meant to change the image of the Pakistani people. "It was to show the world the other side of the coin. I felt it was my responsibility as a Muslim. But I have to look after a family of which I am the sole bread-winner," the BBC quoted him as saying in Karachi.
He further said that his family began receiving threatening calls in November, when he first went to India to discuss the project. "I did not think much about the threats then; it was an important project for me. I was being given the lead role and 40 percent rights in Pakistan and the Middle East. So I went back to Mumbai to read the script. The contract was signed in December."
"They know everything about my movements; when I am at the jogging track, or when I am in the gym," he further said.
The hearing of three appeals, two each by accused and one by the State, the in kidnapping and murder case of Daniel Pearl was adjourned indefinitely here on Wednesday by an Anti-Terrorism Appellate (ATA) bench of the High Court of Sindh comprising Justice Qaiser Iqbal and Justice Syed Mahmood Alam Rizvi.
One of the appeals was filed by Ahmed Omar Shaikh, challenging the death sentence awarded to him by ATC V for Karachi. The second appeal was filed by co-accused Fahad Naseem, Salman Saquib and Adil Shaikh who were sentenced to life imprisonment. The third appeal was filed by the State through Advocate General Sindh (AGS), seeking the enhancement of the sentence (life imprisonment unto death).
When the appeals came up for hearing, the bench noted that the Special Public Prosecutor in this case, Raja Qureshi advocate, was on general adjournment till Feb 01. The bench then put off the hearing of the appeals to a date to be fixed later by the office of the court.
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Tension between the Mehsud and Ahmedzai Wazir tribes is growing in South Waziristan after power supply to Wana was apparently disconnected by the Mehsuds, tribal sources said on Wednesday.
There has been no electricity in Wana and its surrounding areas for the last 15 days because the power line goes through the Mehsud areas and the Mehsuds have (allegedly) cut it off, they told Daily Times.
Mistrust between the two groups has risen to such a level that the Ahmedzai Wazirs have stopped travelling through the Mehsud areas for fears of being captured or killed.
We have finally convinced the military authorities to allow an alternative route for Wazir tribes, bypassing the route passing through the Mehsud areas, the sources said via phone from Wana.
The alternative route is Gomal Zam Road, which the Wazirs were not allowed to use in the past, apparently at the insistence of Mehsud tribes.
As hostility between the government and Baitullah Mehsud continues to rise, the opening of Gomal Zam Road will give the Ahmedzai Wazirs freedom from the dominance of the Mehsuds, who share 75 percent of the resources being given to South Waziristan through development funds and other projects.
No Wazir can take the risk of travelling through the Mehsud areas as tension between the two tribes is at an all-time high. The Wana-Tank highway [that passes through the Mehsud areas] is very unsafe for the Wazirs, the sources said.
While the government forces are enforcing a complete economic blockade for Mehsud tribes in South Waziristan and also carrying out an operation against the tribe in Tank district, they are allowing the Ahmedzai Wazirs to transport truckloads of goods, wheat and flour destined for them [Wazirs] through the blockade.
Baitullah Mehsud was allegedly the prime suspect in two simultaneous attacks on peace committee offices one each in Wana and Shakai Valley in which nine supporters of Taliban leader Maulvi Nazir were gunned down on January 7.
An Ahmedzai Wazir jirga has raised a 600-strong lashkar (a tribal army) to protect what they call peace in the Wazir areas. According to a source, the government will bear all expenses of the lashkar.
Maulvi Nazir led a successful drive in April last year against foreign militants, especially the Uzbeks, who either took shelter in North Waziristan or in the Mehsud areas in South Waziristan.
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I am having trouble telling the players apart: I am hazarding that Waziris are tired of terrorist tactics and formed that militia to put a stop to it. The terrorists, in this case, are supported by the Mehsud tribe.
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Both the Mehsuds and Ahmedzai are clans of the Wazir tribe. Baitullah Mehsud is allied with al-Qaeda and through them with the Uzbeks. The Ahmedzai under Maulvi Nazir are allied with Mullah Omar's Taliban and through them with al-Qaeda, but they don't appreciate the Uzbeks sniffin' around their wimmin, which causes some news sources to describe them as "pro-government." Last year they claimed to have chased all the Uzbeks out of town, but it looks like they've snuck back. Both the Ahmedzai and the Mehsuds regard each other as dagnabbed furriners and only the periodic trade of 8-year-old brides keeps them from each other's throats.
I once saw a description of dynastic marriages in the area -- though not specifically Mehsud-Ahmadzai -- and it made the Middle Ages seem well organized.
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Intelligence personnel are interrogating more than 12 people arrested from various parts of the province in connection with the January 10 suicide attack, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. The accused belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jaish-e-Muhammad and other banned religious organisations, they said, adding, Initial investigations have found the men to be related to Lal Masjid. Sources said the police and other law enforcement agencies had together raided several locations.
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Suspected terrorists arrested from Eesa Khel in December said during interrogation that they were planning to hit former federal minister Sumaira Malik, Geo News TV channel quoted senior police officials as saying. Sargodha range DIG Hamid Mukhtar Gondal and Mianwali DPO Malik Abdul Aziz said in a press conference that the held men wanted to target Sumaira Malik because they believed she had mistranslated verses from the Holy Quran in a television programme. The three suspects belonged to Faqeera and Verpa groups, the channel quoted the officials as saying, that were subsidiary organisations of Baitullah Mehsud. They said that a Chakwal resident, Ghulam Rabbani, supervised terrorist activities in Punjab.
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Given the Baitullah Mahsud audiotape and Al Qaedas history of targeting former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and deploying assassins and suicide attackers, there is little doubt that the Pakistan Peoples Party chairwoman was killed in a joint Taliban-Qaeda operation, according to noted terrorism expert Peter Bergen.
Stressing that Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups have long harboured antipathy for Benazir, Bergen, a CNN expert on terrorism and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, writes in the upcoming issue of the New Republic that according to conversations he has had with several American counter-terrorism officials, a number of groups that were once relatively distinct a hundred-odd remnants of (Osama) Bin Ladens team, a couple of hundred freelance foreign fighters, several thousand members of the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, and tens of thousands of Pakistani extremists have, since September 11, blended into one big family.
He says that four days after two suicide bombers tried to kill Benazir in October, she met US embassy staff asking for protection. The following day, a Western official specialising in security met the PPP leader to tell her that having Americans on her security detail would make her an even bigger target. He suggested that she hire a local security firm instead and provided a list of the three best firms in Pakistan. She was unconvinced.
Foreigners protection: A long-time confidant of Benazirs told Bergen that the PPP was suspicious of [hiring] Wackenhut because it employs many Pakistanis; Benazir wanted a security firm staffed by foreigners. But, for that, the PPP needed permission from the Interior Ministry, which the confidant says was never given.
Nothing to gain: Bergen also argues that President Pervez Musharraf had nothing to gain from Benazirs death. He has lost whatever shred of popularity he had left since the assassination. Nor is it likely that senior military commanders, who have a strong interest in maintaining Pakistans stability, would be involved. It is also relevant to the Al Qaeda thesis that, in the past several years, Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan have morphed together, ideologically and tactically. The Taliban [group] conceives of itself as part of the wider global jihad spearheaded by Al Qaeda and deploys Al Qaeda-like suicide attacks, something it had previously eschewed.
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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has expelled 18 leaders, including former provincial minister Maulvi Asmatullah, after differences emerged in the party, Samaa TV reported on Wednesday. The expelled leaders formed a new alliance, the Nazriati (ideological) group, the channel said. Nazriati group leaders have blamed Fazlur Rehman and Maulana Ashrafi for the split, saying they had revolted against the party and violated its traditions, the channel said. The channel quoted its sources as saying that former MNA Hafiz Hussain Ahmad was covertly supporting the new alliance and the confrontation was likely to grow.
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Director General Military Operation (DGMO) Major General Ahmad Shuja Pasha said on Wednesday that the army had achieved a primary target of the Rah-e-Haq Operation in Swat by clearing the valley of miscreants and establishing the writ of the government there. The miscreants have been pushed to the Peochar area and to the snow-capped mountains, and peace has returned to the valley, Pasha briefed journalists at the army auditorium here.
Cue Elvis: "There will be peace in the valley..."
The DGMO said no steps were being contemplated to introduce legal and administrative changes affecting the Peshawar High Courts jurisdiction in relation to Swat. He said the Rah-e-Haq Operation started on November 13 last year and was jointly executed by the 23rd Division of 10 Corps and 17th Division of 11 Corps. The army cleared the valley by December 24, he said. Pasha said 36 soldiers had embraced martyrdom and another 72 were injured in the operation, while 9 civilians had died and another 45 injured. He added that the civilians were compensated for all damages.
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Gulam Nabi Azad's security has been beefed up after fresh intelligence inputs of threat from militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The National Security Advisor is believed to have told Azad that Lashkar-e-taiba (LeT) is targeting his life. Azad's security has been tightened ever since and is literally under a bullet proof cover. To prevent a security breach, a review of people whom Azad meet, his security personnel and office staff has already began. The Inspector General of Security, Ashok Gupta said, Avoiding unscheduled visits or not following any daily pattern is advisable.
Many politicians from the state have received threats from militant organizations, but politicians seemed to be unperturbed by such threats. The president of National Conference, Omar Abdullah said, No militant attack will harm us till the security cover of God is there for us. However, in an election year, the state government is taking no chance with the security of their top leader.
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After a series of legislative defeats in 2007 that saw the year end with more U.S. troops in Iraq than when it began, a coalition of anti-war groups is backing away from its multimillion-dollar drive to cut funding for the war and force Congress to pass timelines for bringing U.S. troops home.
In recognition of hard political reality, the groups instead will lower their sights and push for legislation to prevent President Bush from entering into a long-term agreement with the Iraqi government that could keep significant numbers of troops in Iraq for years to come.
Why would this be bad? Are we pulling the troops from Korea, Japan and Europe?
The groups believe this switch in strategy can draw contrasts with Republicans that will help Democrats gain ground in November and bring the votes to pass more dramatic measures. But it is a long way from the early months of 2007, when Democrats were freshly in power and momentum for a dramatic shift in Iraq policy seemed overpowering.
There was a consensus that last year was not productive, John Isaacs, executive director of Council for a Livable World, said of a meeting attended by a coalition of anti-war groups last week. Our expectations were dashed.
The meeting, held at an office on K Street, was attended by around 20 representatives of influential anti-war groups, including MoveOn.org and Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, which spent $12 million last year opposing the war.
Isaacs said he thought the meeting would be a difficult one, with an adamant faction pressing for continued focus on timelines and funding. It wasnt to be. We got our heads together and decided to go a different way, Isaacs said. The consensus was not to keep beating our heads against the wall trying to block every funding bill not because we dont agree with it, but because we dont have the votes.
Moira Mack, a spokeswoman for AAEI, was also at the meeting. There was a lot of agreement that this is really the way that we can best get our message across about endless war versus end-the-war and draw clear distinctions between anti-war Democrats and pro-war Republicans. They really dont want to end the war. This is the perfect legislative opportunity.
An additional factor: The failure of last years end-of-the-session efforts to oppose the war convinced some in the movement that the numbers just werent there. At the end of the year, Congress went out with a whole bunch more votes on Iraq with the same result. Some of the [news] stories were saying that members of Congress were getting tired of it, Isaacs said.
The new strategy doesnt mean that the groups wont be active during budget battles. The budget debates provide an enormously rich opportunity to engage the public, said former Maine Rep. Tom Andrews of the group Win Without War. Were spending $8 [billion] to $10 billion a month.
During Tuesday nights presidential debate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) referenced the kind of legislation that the anti-war crowd will be backing when she asked Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) if he would co-sponsor a bill to prevent the president from entering into any long-term agreements with the Iraqi government without consulting Congress.
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said Obama will support all common-sense efforts to ensure that President Bush does not tie the hands of future presidents through agreements with the Iraqi government.
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...push for legislation to prevent President Bush from entering into a long-term agreement with the Iraqi government that could keep significant numbers of troops in Iraq for years to come.
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I believe that it has been mentioned, perhaps here, that Bush does NOT require approval from the congress for such a long term friendship or basing agreement with the Iraqi government. If it were a "treaty" that would be something else. Anybody??
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DA$$! It's really nasty when even the BBC has to say things are improving. That leaves Harry and Nancy waaaaayyyy out on a very thin limb, in a high wind. Couldn't happen to a more worthy pair of traitors.
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So, what's the outlook for the UN administered Haiti and Kosovo projects?
(KUNA) -- The Iraq-based US army on Tuesday concluded a friendship treaty with the Anbar elders and awarded a Marines Officer Sword to two of the elders in appreciation of their efforts. According to a statement by the US army, the general commander of the Western wing of the Multi-national Force, General Gaskin officiated at the ceremony of handing the sword, which is a ritual dating back to 1805. Such swords were handed to two elders, namely , Sheikh Ahmad Abu Risha head of the Iraq Awakening Council and Sheikh Amer Al-Assafi of the Dulaim tribal union. "The ceremony was made in appreciation of the two elders' devotion," the army statement said. During the ceremony, the text of the friendship treaty was read.
The Anbar tribe is now exemplary with regard to law and order," the army statement said. The army pledged to hand out more such swords to deserving elders in future in appreciation of their assistance and cooperation with the US forces.
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Bout damned time. I have been saying for a long time that the tribes and Sheiks are the key to Iraq. Glad we finally have a general that understands that - and realized that to get the tribes on your side you have to show staying power - and some steel.
Looks like the Palestinian Rifle Association should start a gun safety program...
Gaza Ma'an Palestinian police affiliated to the Hamas-run government announced on Thursday morning the death two teenagers in two separate incidents of weapons misuse in Gaza City. Hello, I'm your friend Nahoul the Bee! Remember, you can't kill Jews if you're dead, so be very careful with your gun. Or your dad's gun. Or your uncles gun. Or your mothers gun. Or your little brothers gun. Or your...
Sources in the Gazan police said that Hamza Al-Arqan was killed and his brother was injured when gunmen were shooting into the air during a wedding party in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood in Gaza City. Oh-oh. I believe that means bad luck for the newlyweds. And, of course, Hamza...
Separately, nineteen-year-old Nawal As-Sarhi from the Zeitoun neighborhood was killed when a gunshot slipped mistakenly while she was playing with her father's pistol, police said. "A gunshot slipped mistakenly". My, they are poetic, aren't they?
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I wonder if Nawal As-Shari was facing an unwanted arranged marriage. If so, and the word got out, this could lead to many more such "accidents".
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HAARETZ > HAMAS POLICY: ESCALATION TO FORCE ISRAEL INTO TRUCE. HHAMAS now believed by PA to have the ability to covertly stockpile large caches of rockets widout fear of normal deterioration in rocket quality. Compare wid STRATFOR > IRAN: PROVOCATIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS, + THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ INCIDENT AND US STRATEGY. Since pro-IRAN USNIE had all but nullified Iran's nuclear threat vv enrichment, IRAN'S NAVAL THREAT vv "GUERILLA NAVY" + HORMUZ CONFRONTATION/CLASH is fortuitous for Dubya [post-NIE] plus more REALISTIC [trade threat]IN GETTING LOCAL MUSLIM GOVTS TO SIDE WID DUBYA-USA.
If Israel continues to intensify its military campaign in the Gaza Strip, than Hamas will change it's policy regarding kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit, Osama Mazini, the Hamas official in charge of negotiations over the captured soldier, said on Wednesday. "We will not be able to quietly take the continuation of assassinations and raids that the enemy is conducting in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank," Mazini said during an interview on the Hamas television station, Al-Aksa, warning that there is "no doubt" that such activity "affects the Schalit affair."
Mazini said that "it is very possible that we will cut off contact," warning that this will turn the issue into something similar to that of missing IAF navigator Ron Arad.
The military campaign in Gaza, which Israel launched two days ago in response to ongoing Palestinian rocket fire, also prompted a response from exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, who vowed earlier Wednesday that the captive "will not see light" until Israel frees Palestinian prisoners. "If the enemy thinks that its operations will cause us to give up on our demands, it's mistaken," Mashaal said during a press conference in Damascus.
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(AKI) In the Philippines, they have been labelled "sexy bombers" and they are believed to be the latest weapon from the Islamic terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah.
Police from the volatile southern province of Mindanao are taking seriously the possibility that women have been trained and are ready to blow themselves up in the name of Islam. According to information given to intelligence services, there are at least 10 potential female suicide bombers ready to carry out attacks. Several cities in Mindanao, the southernmost island of the archipelago which is home to 4.5 million Muslims, would be among their potential targets.
The island is the scene of an ongoing secessionist battle being fought by Islamic separatists for the past 30 years. The head of police in Mindanao has called for local police to investigate reports that the female bombers may have been recruited and trained.
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The island is the scene of an ongoing secessionist battle being fought by Islamic separatists for the past 30 years.
They've been fighting since the Spanish laid claim to the region and passed it over to the Americans after the little tiff called the Spanish-American War. The Spanish never did really control the area. They only had a 'presence', but that didn't stop them from sticking the gullible people in Washington. The Moro culture was maintained by piracy and slavery. Two professions they weren't about to given up without a fight which they got with the Americans still in the anti-slavery mood a generation after the Civil War. What ensued was a multi-decade 'quagmire' the bring the place under real control [very similar to the Spanish/Mexican hand off over the Apache in the Southwest, whom both neither really got the indigenous people under 'western' rule]. So this has been going on, in one form or venue, for over a hundred years, not thirty.
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I don't' want to sound unsympathetic to our Muslim friends in the Southern Islands of the Philippines but after over a century of warfare, defeat, regroup, warfare, repeat... the concept of genocide starts to look reasonable.
Zohreh Vatankhah steps into the elevator on the fifth floor, takes it down to the ground floor, turns right and walks through a heavy steel door into the garage where her 2006 Toyota Corolla is parked. But this isn't your ordinary Toyota. It's a dented affair in pink, complete with a roll bar and bucket seats. She snaps on the seat belt, turns the ignition key and the engine roars to life, causing the hood to tremble like the membrane on a bass speaker. Not exactly the kind of car that would pass inspection for driving on the roads in most Western countries.
Then she puts the pedal to the metal and her pink car shoots out of the garage, tires screeching. The janitor sweeping the courtyard stares after her, his mouth agape. Vatankhah inserts Christina Aguilera's latest album into the cassette player and drums her fingers to the beat on the steering wheel. She drives toward the bazaar in downtown Tehran, crosses a bridge and passes graffiti instructing passersby to "Destroy Israel" and a poster of a burning American flag.
Five minutes later Vatankhah is stuck in a traffic jam -- nothing short of torture for a person who loves driving as much as she does. Speed is her profession. Vatankhah is a professional racecar driver. In Iran, of all places -- where the profession is not only dominated by men, but also practically owned by them.
. . . Iran is a country in which women have been considered second-class citizens since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. In a court of law, a woman's testimony is worth only half as much as that of a man, and sons inherit twice as much as daughters. Women are not permitted to sing or dance in public, or even ride a bicycle. They cannot travel without a man's permission. A man can forbid his wife from working, and if he catches her with another man, he can kill her without fear of punishment. Wearing a headscarf is mandatory, while the chador, or full-body veil, is preferred.
Vatankhah is the embodiment of sin for Iran's religious fundamentalists and radical mullahs, but for the country's urban youth she is a vision. She reflects the kind of country the children of Iran's upper and middle classes want to be living in: modern and self-confident, embracing life and cosmopolitan. . . . The ayatollahs can't stand her 'cause she walks looks and drives like an ace now
She makes the Dubai 500 look like a Roman chariot race now
The mullahs try to catch her but she leads them on a wild goose chase now
And she'll have fun fun fun 'til they take her Toyota away
Photos at the link -- she's attractive, classy, bold (in every sense), likes fast cars, and knows how to drive a stick. May God watch over her, both on and off the track.
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The link didn't work for me for some reason. I googled her name, and it appears that her REAL name is Laleh Seddigh: this blogger has photos, and complains that the reporter confused her with someone else.
A news report says a satellite photo of a Syrian site bombed by Israel in September appears to show new construction that resembles the site's former main building. The image, released Friday by DigitalGlobe, appears in yesterday's New York Times, which says the photo was taken from space Wednesday. The Israeli air strike has been shrouded in mystery for months.
Israel has maintained almost total silence since the Sept. 6 attack, which Syria said hit an unused military installation.
Foreign media reports, some quoting unidentified U.S. officials, have said the strike hit a nuclear installation linked to North Korea. Damascus denies it has an undeclared atomic program, and North Korea has said it was not involved in any such project.
Syria has signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and allowed agency experts to inspect its only known nuclear facility -- a small, 27-kilowatt reactor, according to diplomats linked to the UN watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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I've sorta been wondering if F-22s weren't used to bomb that site the first time. Driven by Israeli pilots, of course! ;-)
Perhaps it's a trap. When someone goes in for the re-bomb, the RussiansIranians Syrians will be watching to figure out how it was done. Maybe Israel could do it with a rented B-2 bomber the second time around.
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TOPIX > ISRAEL TESTS NEW BALLISTIC MISSLE AFTER IRAN WARNING + IRAN DEFIANT AFTER ISRAELI MISSLE TEST; + JPOST/HAARETZ > [Moud]ISRAEL DARE NOT ATTACK IRAN.
ALso from TOPIX > NORTH KOREA, SYRIA DID HAVE A NUCLEAR LINK. Western-Euro Govts now believe NK + Syria were covertly colluding in a nucdevprog for weapons; + US ENVOY: NORTH KOREA MAY STILL HAVE NUCLEAR BOMBS WITHIN ONE YEAR + NORTH KOREA UNLIKELY TO GIVE UP NUCLEAR PROGRAMS/WEAPONS, even iff it did declare???
A Thai satellite company said Wednesday it stopped airing broadcasts of the Al-Manar television channel after learning it was tied to Hizbullah, a company spokesman said.
The broadcasts of Al-Manar were halted last Friday after just three days of a "test run" beamed through THAICOM satellites, said Piyanuch Sujpluem, a spokeswoman for Shin Satellite Public Company.
Piyanuch said the contract with Al-Manar was a purely commercial deal "without knowledge that such a station had connections to a terrorist group." She said the deal was terminated after the company found out about the channel's background from foreign media. The US government in 2006 declared the station a "terrorist entity." Al-Manar could not be reached for comment.
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Brigette Gabriel saw al-Manar TV broadcast in the USVI while on a cruise...just what and where are other satellites broadcasting terrorist propoganda?
Frontpage Interviews guest today is Pavel Stroilov, a Russian exile in London and the editor and translator of Alexander Litvinenkos book, Allegations. He was a friend of Litvinenkos.
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Lets start our discussion with the FSBs links to Al-Qaeda.
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Al Qaeda is just another tool of the Maoists for terraforming the west into good little Maoists ourselves, whether by being changed into Islamic-flavored Maoists or "nits make lice" Maoist opponents of Islam.
Either way, they don't have to worry about that darn western civilization any more.
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I always knew Russia and China supplied/trained all our enemies from Iran,Syria,Pakistan,North Korea and now even ALQ!!!!.
Until Putin is dealt with the Cold war will continue!!!!
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Paraphrased - "Disband the whole of INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, along with the RUSSIAN MAFIA. All you need to do is disband the Russian special INTELLIGENCE SERVICE... ... THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM IS ABOUT INTELLIGENCE/WAR ABOUT INTELLIGENCE".
And US INTEL e.g. ARMY, DIA. NSA, CIA, FBI, NATIONAL INTEL, etc.??? IOW, 9-11 = RADICAL ISLAMIST TERRORISM IS A DE FACTO PCORRECT PDENIABLE EXTENS OF THE COLD WAR = GEOPOL "GREAT GAME" FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION BWTN THE USA-NATO VS. THE COMMIE BLOC etc. -ISM(S), SAVE ONLY BY THIRD-PARTY PROXY.
By this scope, hence, 9-11 WAS A WILFUL, PREPLANNED ALBEIT PROXY MILITARY ATTACK BY ONE OR MORE FOREIGN OR HOSTILE WORLD NATION-STATES.
Article > 9-11/GWOT > NOT ONLY A WAR BTWN OPPOS NATIONS ANDOR -ISMS, ETC, BUT MAY POSSIBLY ALSO BE A [Global]WAR BTWN COMPETING MAFIAS + UNDERWORLD SYNDICATES FOR CONTROL OF $$$ AND INFLUENCES.
The murdered SAID Girls' family was at PENN STATE the same time as ANNA NICHOLE [SMITH] the same time as..... the same time as .... the same time as.... as.....as ............................@!?
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D *** NG IT, what does PAULA ABDUL know andor remember that would make the KGB-FSB, US INTEL, NATO, PENN STATE + now MAFIAS blacklist her by placing her on AMERICAN IDOL's SEASON OPENER [theme from DRAGNET/STAR WARS EMPIRE THEME here]??? "GIVE PAULA DELILAH/BATHSHEBA ADDUL SOME INFORMATION, PLEASE," BEFORE SHE AGAIN HORRIFIES THE ENTIRE PACIFIC BY KICKING ANOTHER COCONUT = TROPIC PLANT!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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13 fishermen abducted, 14 trawlers looted in 7 days
(RIA Novosti) - Seventy-two militants including 11 leaders of armed groups were killed in special operations last year in Chechnya, the North Caucasus republic's interior minister said on Wednesday. 
(AKI) - Italy's Moroccan Women's Association is to take part in an event on Wednesday to reflect on the decision by a prestigious Rome university to oppose a visit by Pope Benedict XVI. The secular event was being organised by the Rome office of the Italian daily, Il Foglio, led by Giuliano Ferrara. "The decision to support the secular gathering of conversation and mediation 'on the character of the dispute over freedom of speech' of Benedict XVI at La Sapienza University is a protest against censorship," association president, Souad Sbai, told Adnkronos International (AKI). "It represents a surrender to extremists and is similar to what happens towards moderate Muslims who on many occasions are censored."
(AKI) The trial of 15 members of radical Islamist Wahabi movement saw a rare display of religious fervour in a Belgrade court on Wednesday. One of the accused, 
Following threatening phone calls, Pakistani pop singer Ali Haider is learnt to have turned down a Bollywood film offer wherein he was to play the lead role of a Kashmiri boy called Osama, who travels to Afghanistan, falls in love with a Afghan girl, and ends up at the World Trade Centre at the time of 9/11 attacks. Without revealing the nature of the threat, he said, "In circumstances when an important person like Benazir Bhutto cannot have adequate security, what will happen to someone like me?"
The hearing of three appeals, two each by accused and one by the State, the in kidnapping and murder case of Daniel Pearl was adjourned indefinitely here on Wednesday by an Anti-Terrorism Appellate (ATA) bench of the High Court of Sindh comprising Justice Qaiser Iqbal and Justice Syed Mahmood Alam Rizvi. 
Tension between the Mehsud and Ahmedzai Wazir tribes is growing in South Waziristan after power supply to Wana was apparently disconnected by the Mehsuds, tribal sources said on Wednesday.
Director General Military Operation (DGMO) Major General Ahmad Shuja Pasha said on Wednesday that the army had achieved a primary target of the Rah-e-Haq Operation in Swat by clearing the valley of miscreants and establishing the writ of the government there. The miscreants have been pushed to the Peochar area and to the snow-capped mountains, and peace has returned to the valley, Pasha briefed journalists at the army auditorium here. 
After a series of legislative defeats in 2007 that saw the year end with more U.S. troops in Iraq than when it began, a coalition of anti-war groups is backing away from its multimillion-dollar drive to cut funding for the war and force Congress to pass timelines for bringing U.S. troops home.
A Thai satellite company said Wednesday it stopped airing broadcasts of the Al-Manar television channel after learning it was tied to Hizbullah, a company spokesman said. 
