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"So I, Roseann Rosannadanna, was sitting in my living room--you know, the one with the stripey wallpaper--so I'm sitting there with a basket of prunes, an' I look at the newspaper, and what's on the front page but me, Roseann Rosannadanna, sitting in my living room with the stripey wallpaper an' a basket of prunes! I coulda died! It just goes to show you, it's always somethin'."
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That is absolutely the worst hair I've ever seen on a bloid girl.
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I'll bet she has lots of cats. And ashtrays full of cigarette butts. And not a lotta visitors...
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SHE's the one that stole my chocolate-covered jalapenos!
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Well it was nice to see you, grandma. And thanks for the almonds.
Oh, that's all right. Since my teeth broke all I can do is suck the chocolate off them...
Two civilians and a Nato soldier have been killed in Afghanistan during a demonstration over the shooting of the Koran by a US soldier in Iraq. The protest by over 1,000 people in Chagcharan turned violent after the crowd tried to storm a Nato base.
President Bush apologised earlier this week for the Koran incident, in which a copy of the book was found riddled with bullets at a shooting range in Iraq. He also promised the soldier would be prosecuted.
Well now, did he hit the '10' ring or not ....
The shooting broke out during clashes between the police and demonstrators outside a Nato reconstruction team base commanded by Lithuanian soldiers in Chagcharan, the capital of Ghor province. Protesters were chanting anti-US slogans and throwing rocks, and tried to enter the gates of the base, police said.
General Ikramuddin Yawar, chief of police in western Afghanistan, said: "There was shooting during the demonstration. Two civilians have been killed. We don't know who shot them."
He added that the protest had been organised by students from a religious school. But Nato said that Afghan police killed the two civilians, according to Reuters. Nato also said in a statement that 10 Afghan police and seven civilians had been wounded in the incident.
A spokesman for Nato's International Security Force in Afghanistan (Isaf), Major Martin O'Donnell, said: "Isaf vehemently condemns this violence." He added: "It is the people's right in a free and democratic society to stage peaceful demonstrations. Violent demonstrations, such as this, have no place in Afghanistan. Violent demonstrations cause tragedies such as we have witnessed today."
President Bush's apology was made during a video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki. The soldier was sent home by the US military after the copy of the Koran was discovered by Iraqi police. He was unnamed, but said to be a staff sergeant in a sniper section.
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Is there a template for this story?
Well there should be...
KABUL - An explosion in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni killed two soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and one civilian interpreter, ISAF said in a statement on Wednesday.
Tuesday's incident happened while the soldiers were on patrol. The civilian who died was working for the soldiers as an interpreter. Another soldier was also wounded. ISAF does not release the nationality of the dead and wounded soldiers but most of the soldiers stationed in Ghazni are American and Polish.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudanese government forces lost 22 men in clashes with former southern rebels in the volatile oil-rich region of Abyei, a local army commander said Wednesday, in incidents that threaten to re-ignite the country's bloody civil war. Brig. Gen. Muntasser Sabil Adam, commander of government forces in Abyei, said his soldiers pushed back the attacking southern forces in a six-hour battle Tuesday in which he lost 22 men. The town was now calm and his men were in control, he said.
It is not clear how many people have been killed since fighting broke out last week between Sudan's Arab-dominated army and the Sudan People's Liberation Army, an ethnic African militia, in Abyei, which lies along the disputed boundary line between north and south Sudan. The area remains contested despite a 2005 peace accord that ended a 21-year civil war, which left an estimated 2 million people dead.
No SPLA official was available for comment Wednesday, but on Tuesday, southern official Michael Majak said the northern government is breaching the accord by keeping its forces in the town instead of deploying joint north-south units. Majak had no figures on southern casualties.
Many of the southern leaders come from Abyei and want to reclaim it, but the northern-dominated government wants to hang onto the area's oil resources.
Tuesday's fighting, which had broken an earlier cease-fire, began when the SPLA attacked the town with tanks and infantry, firing rockets and mortars.
A majority of the civilians in the town and nearby villages - between 30,000 and 50,000 - have been displaced, according to the United Nations. The U.N. has pulled most of its 250 civilian staff from the town, leaving only its 400 peacekeepers on the ground. Aid workers, U.N. and Sudanese officials have described the town as devastated, with the market area burned to the ground and the majority of its population displaced.
The fate of Abyei was left undetermined after the north and south ended the civil war with a peace agreement in 2005 and a separate protocol for resolving the dispute has not been implemented. The southern leadership accused the northern government of reneging on aspects of the 2005 accord by refusing to share oil wealth, failing to pull government troops out of South Sudan and remilitarizing contested border zones such as Abyei.
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The 1972 peace agreeemnt that brouht the civil war of seventeen years duration to an end promised the Southern Sudanese a plebiscite to determine the status of Abyei. The "villae" is a large collection of huts and is thoroughly southern and Nilotic in character. The Arab powers in Khartoum have never held the plebiscite and are determined that the oil found there will be "northern", i.e., theirs. Some of the fighting that reignited the second civil war 1983-onward, was centered on Abyei. In sum, this is bad news.
While the UN Human Rights commission investigates cartoons and so-called 'Islamophobia' this gets ignored.
NINGI, Nigeria, May 19 (Compass Direct News) Islamists under the auspices of a paramilitary force last week destroyed six churches to protest a police rescue of two teenage Christian girls kidnapped by Muslims in this Bauchi state town.
Funny, I thought kidnapping was a crime ...
Police recovered the two Christian girls, Mary Chikwodi Okoye, 15, and Uche Edward, 14, on May 12 after Muslims in Ningi kidnapped them three weeks ago in an attempt to expand Islam by marrying them to Muslim men. Police took the two girls, who had been under foster care, to safety in southeastern Nigeria where their biological parents live.
The kidnappers had taken the girls to Wudil town in Kano state. Following the rescue of the girls, Muslims under the auspices of the Hisbah Command, a paramilitary arm of Kano states Sharia Commission, responsible for enforcing Islamic law, went on a rampage on Tuesday (May 13), attacking Christians and setting fire to the churches.
The destroyed churches were the Deeper Life Bible Church, St. Marys Catholic Church, All Souls Anglican Church, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Redeemed Christian Church of God, and the Redeemed Peoples Mission.
Abdu said the Christian foster parents of the two rescued girls, Kanayo Chukwu Osakwe and Robinson Ajolokwu Ozuagbunna, noticed the teenagers were missing three weeks ago and reported it to police and to Ningis Emirate Council. The Christian community in Ningi, having reported the matter to the police, organized a search team to search for the missing girls, Abdu said. Word eventually got to the search team that the girls were being held in the town of Wudil in Kano state by a Muslim leader in that town.
Who is strangely still alive for unclear reasons ...
Kidnapping of teenage Christian girls by Muslims, the pastor said, has become a recurring practice in Ningi. Muslims have kidnapped at least 13 Christian girls in the town, Christian sources said. These girls are usually kidnapped, forcefully converted to Islam, and then married out to other Muslim men against the will of both the girls and their parents, Abdu said.
Two months ago Muslims in Ningi kidnapped another Christian teenage girl, Maryann Chinenye, converted her to Islam and then married her to a Muslim man, he said. As I talk to you now, the girl is yet to be found by her parents, Abdu added.
The pastor said a member of his church, Comfort Joseph, had her daughter kidnapped four years ago. The teenage daughter of Mrs. Joseph was converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man, he said. Up to this moment I am speaking to you, we have not been able to rescue this girl from these Muslims.
The attack on Christians last Tuesday (May 13), Osakwe said, left him financially devastated as Ningi Muslims looted or destroyed goods worth over 50 million naira (US$434,065) in his shops.
Muslim leaders Emir Danyaya and Gambo in Ningi, and the Muslim leader at Wudil in Kano, Maibishi declined to speak to Compass about the kidnappings and attacks.
Robinson Ajolokwu Ozuegbunna, foster father of the rescued 14-year-old Edward and a member of the All Souls Anglican Church, confirmed Osakwes account of the kidnappings and the attack on Christians in Ningi town. A resident of Ningi for 22 years, he told Compass that he had lost everything in the attack.
Her mother told Compass that police have not been able to rescue her from the Muslims who abducted her. I learned that she was forcefully married to a Muslim man and that she has given birth to two children, Joseph said.
She said Gambo was responsible for the kidnapping of her daughter. Alhaji Gambo boasted before us when we went to the Emirs palace that he did it, and that we cannot do anything to him, she told Compass. The man has protection from the sharia courts.
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One heavy bomber sortie during Friday payers will stop this shit.
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This kind of kidnappings is also frequuent (though sometimes in more subtil ways, with mosque-paid seducers) in egypt, and I've read about it in pakiland, too. SOP, ROPMA.
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The man has protection from the sharia courts . . .
Which is why the Moslems push for sharia law in the civilized nations they are using--to spread Islam and keep themselves untouchable by the regular authorities.
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This is why you cannot have separate 'sharia' courts which 'only Muslims' would have to answer to.
All they have to do is claim the victim 'converted' to instantly make anything (including kidnapping, rape, and sexual slavery) legal.
Its only a matter of time before we hear of this happening in Europe (including England), and even Canada and the US if/when Sharia is allowed to fester. After all 'all cultures are equal' aren't they?
Sharia and Islam are like gangrene which is allowed to fester.
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It's shit like this that is going to produce another Stalin or Pol Pot to subdue them and protect us, this scourge cannot coexist with us or the rest of the modern world.
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Well, how else do you think this death cult was able to spread all over the world? Surely not by gentle persuasion.
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Every time muzlimbs riot, they should be greeted with napalm. Won't take many times until even the stupidest muzlimb will learn that rioting = death by fire.
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sure says something about your religion that you have to force people to adopt it...
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Even in the poorest of places, the way to stop this crap is to train girls to never be without a knife, and to slash a Muslim who tries to grab them like a crazy woman. Sure, some might get killed, but a lot of Muslim men would get cut.
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The man has protection from the sharia courts.
Liscense to kidnap chicks. By the government of the Sharia Courts
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Muslims....went on a rampage...
It's what we've come to expect.
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I forget the source, and hence don't have a link, but recall a dispassionate but insightful analysis that concluded that Islam/Arabia's greatest threat came from a combined moral and military assault, over time and from the south - essentially the Christian/animist populations stretching from Ethiopia through Uganda all the way to Nigeria.
To the extent that the civil wars in the Congo seem to be slowly abating, it may be sooner rather than later that the focus turns north and eastward.
When the Coptic Liberation Front forms, the end will be nigh.
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My Bible says God is Justice. Lynch the kidnapper. If no court will do it, then lynch him anyway. When Muslim hoards show up to burn the churches, by any means necessary, defend the churches.
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Police and bomb disposal teams were called in after Nicky Reilly, 22, apparently attempted to detonate a nail bomb.
Mr Reilly, who suffered serious facial injuries in the blast, is thought to have carried out the attempted attack after being 'preyed upon and radicalised' by Islamic extremists.
He was arrested at the scene and taken to hospital, where he is under armed guard, for treatment to a severely lacerated eye and facial burns.
There have been attacks on shopping centres in the West Country over the past 25 years which have been linked to animal rights extremists but sources said last night that initial inquiries suggested the incident was not connected.
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There have been attacks...which have been linked to animal rights extremists but sources said last night that initial inquiries suggested the incident was not connected.
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He only got as far as the first wire, is that what you mean, Steve? Not even as far as the red wire/green wire confusion? Short bus, indeed, poor man!
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Must have slept thru the discussion on electro-static discharge at bomb school. But, hey, ESD is just another name for the Will of Allah (may his followers be sneered at).
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Think of the restaurant owner:
"no, no! It was an actual explosion in the bathroom, nothing to do with the food, believe me! Sit, eat!"
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There's apparently some interesting follow up going on here - the quick ID, and a public appeal to track the path backwards. It seems this "bomber" may not have been mentally ill as much as mentally retarded in some way. In other words, the police are really looking for the enablers/designers - and they may be very hot on the trail. Let's hope the press follows loudly rather than smothering it with surprised "neighbors" and "family members".
Four relatives of two members of parliament (MP) from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) were murdered in an ambush in Khyber Agencys Jamrud tehsil on Wednesday.
The attack left Member of National Assembly (MNA) Noorul Haq Qadris brother Hamayun Khan, uncle Hafiz Abdul Aleem and brother-in-law Bacha Jan, and Senator Hafiz Abdul Maliks son Hafiz Nooruddin dead, political administration officials told Daily Times.
They said MNA Qadri and Senator Maliks family members were travelling from Landi Kotal to Peshawar when the MNAs car was ambushed. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the vehicle as it reached the Takhta Baig area in Jamrud tehsil, they said.
The bodies of the dead were taken from Peshawar to the families native town, Landi Kotal.
The politicians families have not named any person or group in the police report (first information report), and no militant organisation had claimed responsibility for the attack so far, the political administration officials said.
Angry tribesmen fired shots in the air, shutting down Landi Kotal Bazaar, and blocked the Pak-Afghan Highway to all forms of traffic in protest.
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One person was injured when unidentified militants fired four rockets at Goth Raza Muhammad Khosa village of Balochistan Minister Saleem Khosa in Jaffarabad district on Wednesday evening, police told APP. The injured, who could not be identified, was moved to the district hospital in Jaffarabad. Nearby houses were badly damaged as a result of the attacks.
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Militants attacked Matta Police Station, the Ningolay checkpost and the houses of police personnel in various areas of Swat late on Tuesday night, leaving one policeman dead and three injured. They also partially damaged a Sui gas plant in the Balogram area with a bomb, and set fire to two girls schools in Matta tehsil and two tourist points in Kalam. Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat spokesman Muslim Khan denied their involvement in the violence. He told Daily Times elements that wanted to sabotage the government-Taliban process were behind the incidents.
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What happened to peace deal lol!!!
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Pakistan's new government signed a peace deal with pro-Taliban militants in a northwestern valley Wednesday, despite calls from the United States to clamp down on Islamist rebels.
They're the TNSM, the most inept "militants" in Pakistain. They were pretty much beaten until the gummint found an excuse to surrender to them.
The agreement will see the gradual withdrawal of troops from the devastated former tourist region of Swat and the imposition of Islamic Sharia law in line with the rebels' demands, provincial ministers said. In return the militants will close training camps, hand over foreign fighters and halt suicide attacks on government installations and security forces under the 15-point pact, they said.
Yep. They're gonna do that real soon now. Honest.
The United States took the gaspipe reacted cautiously to the deal, saying it would monitor whether such attacks stopped. "Those people are crazy! We'll reserve judgement on these things," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters, adding that fighting militancy required the "right mix" of security, political and economic measures.
The Pakistan army launched a major offensive in October to clear Swat of militants loyal to Maulana Fazlullah, a radical pro-Taliban cleric who led an uprising to enforce Sharia law in the valley.
US, NATO and Afghan officials have criticised previous peace deals in Pakistan, saying that they have led to an increase in suicide attacks on international and Afghan forces across the border in Afghanistan.
"The agreement was signed today between the government committee and representatives of local Taliban. We are very positive that this agreement will end violence and ensure lasting peace in the region," committee member and North West Frontier Province minister Wajid Ali Khan told AFP. "We have agreed on a gradual withdrawal of the troops as the situation improves. The Taliban will close down all training centres for suicide bombers and militant activities. They will not attack security forces," Khan said.
The militants had also agreed not to target girls' schools, music shops and barbers, all targets of the hardline militants who follow an interpretation of Islam echoing the 1996-2001 Taliban regime in Afghanistan, he said. "We have agreed to enforce the Sharia laws in the area," Khan added.
Officials said there was no agreement on the fate of Fazlullah, for whom the militants were demanding a general amnesty. The army has been hunting for him in the region's forests and mountains for months.
Afghanistan foreign ministry spokesman Sultan Ahmad Baheen criticised the the Swat agreement. "We believe any exclusive deal with the Taliban would result in worsening of the situation," Baheen told AFP. "We believe any sort of agreement with the terrorists would harm both countries."
US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte urged Pakistan on Tuesday to arrest a leading Taliban commander based in the tribal area of South Waziristan, with whom Islamabad is also negotiating. The commander, Baitullah Mehsud, has been accused by the CIA and the previous Pakistani government of masterminding the assassination in December of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto.
The new government, led by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, has pledged to completely overhaul Islamabad's counter-terrorism pursuit after defeating US-backed President Pervez Musharraf's political allies in February elections.
Negroponte said he would be encouraged to see Pakistan "operating effectively against some of these militant extremists, like for example bringing Baitullah Mehsud... capturing him and bringing him to justice, which is what should happen to him."
This article starring:
Maulana Fazlullah
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Yah, they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Hello Boss, this is Haji. Muji and I are still waiting for the company truck to pick us up. We've been across the street from the square for two hours. You know the one with the statue commemorating the victory over the Americans in the Kuwait War.
Oh, you say the carpool idea is "up in the air". The whole truck disappeared? Maybe it was stolen. Oh, there's been 13 missing persons reports filed.
Gee that's funny, Muji and I have been noticing a misty reddish tint in the sky to the east out over the desert. We were thinking of that old saying, "Red sky in the morning, Jihadi take warning". Isn't that where the truck was picking up the other workers?
Oh well, I guess Muji and I will have to find a new ride again. We'll start walking for now.
BAGHDAD (AP) - The number of daily attacks in Mosul has dropped at least 85 percent since U.S.-Iraqi forces began an offensive against Sunni insurgents in the city earlier this month, the top U.S. commander in northern Iraq said Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling said U.S. and Iraqi forces have not met fierce resistance since the operation began on May 10. He attributed this mostly to the large numbers of troops on the streets, an initial curfew, extensive preparations and construction of new checkpoints.
Iraqi commanders have said some al-Qaida fighters ran away fled in advance of the operation, meaning they would be able to fight another day. But Hertling said he did not believe many had escaped and that some who had been in regions outside Mosul before the crackdown were moving toward the city to take up the battle. He said intelligence indicates "many of their leaders have been pushing fighters to Mosul because they see it as a critical fight as well."
"We anticipate there will be some attacks by the enemy once they come out of this initial phase of being surprised within the city," he told reporters during a news conference in Baghdad. "We anticipate that there might be car bombs, suicide vests or things like that."
The U.S.-Iraqi crackdown that began May 10 in Mosul, which the military has dubbed the last urban stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq, is the latest bid by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to contain rampant violence in Iraq. The two other operations, in the southern city of Basra and in Baghdad's Sadr City district, focused on Shiite extremists.
Hertling said 1,200 suspected militants have been captured in the offensive, with some 200 believed to be members of "terrorist organizations," adding his forces were monitoring some 13 insurgent groups. He said much of the city of 1.9 million people was under control, although three unspecified neighborhoods remain volatile. Attacks in the city have dropped from an average of about 40 per day in the week before the operation began to the current figure of four or six per day, he said. "I'm very happy with what's going on there," he said. "We are in pursuit of these criminals and terrorists and there could be dangers any day so the people still have to be careful."
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Reports say while most stayed a distance from the border, several hundred approached the crossing point, some throwing stones towards Israeli soldiers.
Rush the crossing, win a swell prize.
A permanent vacation from Gaza...
A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a truck packed with explosives early Thursday just short of the Erez crossing on the Gaza-Israel border, terrorist militant groups and the Israeli military said. It appeared that only the bomber had been killed in the blast that caused some damage, but no injuries, on the Israeli side.
Islamic Jihad and the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, a group loosely affiliated with President Mahmoud Abbass Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest of several against the Gaza border crossings in recent weeks. Islamic Jihad identified the bomber as Ibrahim Nasser, 23, of Jabaliya in northern Gaza, and said the truck had contained hundreds of pounds of explosives. An Israeli military spokeswoman said that two other terrorists militants who had been in the truck escaped before it blew up and tried to flee in another vehicle that was immediately targeted by Israeli fire. Islamic Jihad said the two managed to escape the getaway car before it was hit.
Palestinian gunmen fired at IDF Engineering Corps soldiers near the southern Gaza border fence in on Wednesday night. The troops returned fire. No one was wounded.
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Hospital officials in Gaza on Wednesday said five Palestinians, including a 5-month-old baby girl, are being treated for wounds sustained in an Israeli air-strike against gunmen. The army said they hit gunmen who had just fired rockets into southern Israel. Hamas said the wounded Wednesday were civilian bystanders.
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Sporadic clashes in the last two days between Tamil Tiger rebels and the military have killed 37 rebels, the military said on Wednesday, as daily land, sea battles and air raids continue in Sri Lankas far north.
The fighting came amidst news that Tamil Tiger second-in-command, Brigadier Balraj, died from a heart attack in rebel-held north on Tuesday. The rebels have declared three days of mourning. Troops killed 25 LTTE terrorists in fighting on Tuesday, said a military spokesman who asked not to be named. The military also said 12 rebels were killed and three soldiers died in fighting on Monday, also in the north.
Fighting between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has intensified since the government formally pulled out of a six-year-old ceasefire pact in January, though a renewed civil war has been raging since 2006. Analysts say the military has the upper hand in the latest phase of the long-running war.
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(Xinhua) -- Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani said Wednesday that Lebanese rival leaders have agreed to elect a new president within 24 hours, local NBN TV reported.
Lebanese leaders reached an agreement in Doha talks on resolving the current political crisis, Sheikh Hamad was quoted assaying.
He announced that the rival leaders agreed to elect Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman as a new president in the upcoming 24 hours, to form a government based on a 16-11-3 formula(16 for the majority, 11 for the opposition and 3 to be chosen by the president) and adopting 1960 electoral law.
The agreement called for the state control over all Lebanese areas, and the refrain by all groups from the use of arms to achieve political gains. "Weapons and violence would not be used in political differences," Sheikh Hamad announced, adding that "the security and military control would be in the state hands to preserve coexistence among the Lebanese."
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Lebanon's feuding political leaders have signed a deal in Qatar to end their long-running political crisis, which erupted into sectarian violence earlier this month that killed at least 67 people. They agreed on a national unity government that gives the opposition veto power. The election of a new president is expected on Sunday. Within an hour of the signing of the deal, opposition members began dismantling the protest camp outside the prime minister's office that has virtually shut down central Beirut for the last year and a half.
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Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition won a veto over cabinet decisions as the country's factions agreed to form a unity government, following talks to end a crisis that sparked the worst fighting since the 1975-1990 civil war.
I think we've seen this one coming since they staged their coup. We can see the aftermath coming, too.
General Michel Suleiman, Lebanon's army chief, will be elected president, Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassem al- Thani said today at a televised news conference in Doha, Qatar's capital. The presidential election will take place May 25, the state-run Lebanese National News Agency said.
The deal gives the opposition 11 of the 30 seats in Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's cabinet. Under existing rules, a minority of one-third plus one can block any decision.
Securing a veto ``was Hezbollah's main victory,'' said Amal Saad Ghorayeb, author of ``Hizbullah: Politics and Religion,'' a history of the Shiite Muslim movement. ``The United States will not be very happy about that.'' The government will be unable to disarm Hezbollah -- which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization -- as required by a United Nations Security Council resolution passed in 2004, he said.
Sixteen seats will be divided among Sunnis, Christian and Druze members of Siniora's coalition. The opposition also includes the Shiite Amal party and a Christian party. The president will decide the distribution of the remaining three seats.
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sink trap this if you want too. but fuck a;; them except the Iraelis
*REGNUM.RU > ANALYST: CIS MUST EBCOME NUMBER ONE IN RUSSIAN POLICY. Article - it is unrealistic for Russia to expect to restore its Cold War status as a world superpower in a few decades, but does have a better realistic chance of becine s potent REGIONAL LEADER. However, failure to effec adapt means Russ risks becoming pushed out of BELARUS, MOLDAVA, banks of the DANUBE + BLACK SEA COASTS, from Transcaucasia to Central Asia, WID RUSSIA POTENS DISINTEGRATING INTO DIFFEREN PRINCIPALITIES AND TO CEASE ITS EXISTENCE???
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Thank you for letting me rant. And thanks to all the others for their rants which are sometimes enlightening, sometimes hysterical and sometime really stupid but, hey, you can't win 'em all.
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"But always amusing."
I'm sure that's the phrase you were reaching for, Abu Uluque dear. ;-)
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By "hysterical", I meant hysterically funny. You have to be careful sometimes if you're drinking coffee not to blow it all over the computer screen. But I guess hysterical can mean other things too. Anyway I think "always thought provoking" would be more like it.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Two civilians and a Nato soldier have been killed in Afghanistan during a demonstration over the shooting of the Koran by a US soldier in Iraq. The protest by over 1,000 people in Chagcharan turned violent after the crowd tried to storm a Nato base. 
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Sudanese government forces lost 22 men in clashes with former southern rebels in the volatile oil-rich region of Abyei, a local army commander said Wednesday, in incidents that threaten to re-ignite the country's bloody civil war. Brig. Gen. Muntasser Sabil Adam, commander of government forces in Abyei, said his soldiers pushed back the attacking southern forces in a six-hour battle Tuesday in which he lost 22 men. The town was now calm and his men were in control, he said.
A Muslim convert was being held tonight after two bombs were found in a family restaurant toilet following an explosion at lunchtime.
Pakistan's new government signed a peace deal with pro-Taliban militants in a northwestern valley Wednesday, despite calls from the United States to clamp down on Islamist rebels.
BAGHDAD (AP) - The number of daily attacks in Mosul has dropped at least 85 percent since U.S.-Iraqi forces began an offensive against Sunni insurgents in the city earlier this month, the top U.S. commander in northern Iraq said Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling said U.S. and Iraqi forces have not met fierce resistance since the operation began on May 10. He attributed this mostly to the large numbers of troops on the streets, an initial curfew, extensive preparations and construction of new checkpoints.
Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition won a veto over cabinet decisions as the country's factions agreed to form a unity government, following talks to end a crisis that sparked the worst fighting since the 1975-1990 civil war. 
