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In what MMORPG you play games?
On this site www.qrmapps.com I was registered more recently and consequently wished to learn from local users in what MMORPG games they play.
Recently has found a good site where is much MMORPG games.
Site popular, who is possible that it already knows - www.prommorpg.com, there are such games as Rising Force Online (RF Online), LineAge II, Perfect World, World of Warcraft.
Give with you we will discuss who from you in what games plays.
Probably being on yours www.qrmapps.com I will find the same players as well as I.
I'm just sending the link, because this is 81 pages of photos. It includes destruction of drug supplies, demolishing Taliban depots, and what happens when a civilian truck hits an IED.
Egyptian police detained at least 350 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group and security officials said on Sunday. The members were detained on Saturday after a large protest in central Cairo organised by the Islamist group against the Israeli offensive on Gaza. A security official estimated 620 of the group's members to have been detained on Saturday and Sunday for allegedly inciting demonstrations and membership of an illegal organisation. The group said it was still trying to find out where the men were being held.
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Egypt once incarcerated 20,000 of those beasts, including Zawahiri. Those were the days.
YEMENI security forces have killed two suspected militants linked to al-Qaeda in clashes during a raid on their hideout in the capital Sanaa, a security source said.
A third suspect was captured and a fourth managed to escape, while one of those killed was a Saudi national, the source said today without providing any more details about the operation.
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Kyrgystan will order the closure of a US military airbase used to support operations in Afghanistan "in a matter of days" under pressure from Russia, a senior Kyrgyz official told AFP. "The presidential decree on the annulment of the agreement with the United States is already prepared. In a matter of days it will be published in the Kyrgyz media," the official told AFP.
The official said Russia had urged Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to announce the closure of the base in exchange for financial help to the cash-strapped Central Asian nation.
Interesting how a plan comes together ...
Russian officials have discussed extending Kyrgyzstan a 300-million-dollar (225-million-euro) loan as well as 1.7 billion dollars of investment in the energy sector of the ex-Soviet republic. "In exchange for such a large loan the Kremlin asked Bakiyev to voice the decision about the pull-out of the US airbase from Kyrgyzstan before his official visit to Moscow," the official said.
Cheez, 300 mil? We could find that in the seat cushions over at TARP ...
Bakiyev's press service has said he will visit Moscow on February 3.
Russia has sought the closure of the base, which is a symbol of US influence in post-Soviet Central Asia, a region long dominated by Moscow. Kyrgyz officials said in December that they were preparing to close the base, located at Manas outside the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, but the United States denied that there were any plans to do so.
The base is home to about 1,200 foreign military personnel, mainly from the United States, and acts as a staging post for operations in Afghanistan, located to the south. It was opened after the September 11, 2001 attacks to support US-led operations in Afghanistan.
In recent months there have been a number of street demonstrations demanding the closure of the base, which is next to the country's main international airport.
All spontaneous, of course ...
There have been tensions with the local population. A US guard shot dead a Kyrgyz truck driver in 2006 in what US officials said was self-defence.
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Screw em, if they think they can get a better deal out of Moscow then they are crazy. One Putty gets his hooks in them he'll renegotiate the deal and swipe anything of value thats laying around.
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A few years ago the rent on that base accounted for 5% of Kyrgyz GDP. That's not counting very high local (i.e. sons and daughters of the connected) wages and goods bought by the base. The only way the Kremlin deal is better is if the Kyrgyz have no intention of repaying the loans.
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"you don't know how lucky you are, boy!
Back in the US...back in the US...back in the USSR!"
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The Indians are willing and able to step into the breach. However ground transport is going to be a task.
What are we getting from support for Georgian and Ukranian confrontation policies? The Georgian leader has only half the public support that he had last year. Pro-Russia forces are also ascending in the Ukraine. Euro-missiles are an old joke.
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IMO it appears that Russia is covertly setting up and inducing the USA to strike at IRAN in time.
Widout convenient or safe air corridors for easy logistics resupply, the US-NATO + local Govt. in LT will be forced to rely on Militant-contested ground-air routes [read, MILITANT AMBUSH, CORRUPTION $$$ PAYOFFS, LONGER MILPLAN LEAD TIMES]. IOW, the Militants will have a better chance of controlling rural or open country areas while the US-ALLIES stay inside the cities and milbases [e.g. IRAQ], EVEN IFF THE US MANAGES TO MAINTAIN A HANDFUL OF RELIABLE AIR ROUTES now prone to RPG/Surface-to-Air Missle attacks.
AS US-ALLIED TROOPS AND EFFEC MILOPS BEGIN TO SUFFER FROM LACK OF SUPPLIES, THE US MAY HAVE TO CONSIDER INVADING IRAN TO "SAVE" AFGHANISTAN + ISLAMIST-TROUBLED MAINLAND ASIA [Great Power confrontation].
* see WORLD MIL FORUM > NORTH KOREA THREATENS SOUTH WITH "ALL CONFRONTATIONAL STATUS" - NEW NORTH-SOUTH KOREAN WAR IMMINENT!?
The London Times revealed Friday that a Hezbollah plot to attack the Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan was foiled last year, after Azeri Intelligence discovered the plot.
Azeri intelligence authorities reportedly first caught wind of the plot weeks after Mughniyeh, Deputy Secretary General of the Lebanon-based guerilla group was killed by a car bomb in Damascus last February.
As the date of Mughniyah's assassination draws near there is growing concern that Hezbollah is planning further attacks on Israeli or Jewish targets abroad to retaliate his killing, the Times indicates. Hezbollah's 1800 Unit is said to be working on possible attacks inside Israel.
Hezbollah leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, said: "The Zionists will discover that the war they had in July was a walk in the park if we compare it to what we've prepared for every new aggression," says the Times.
The report also stated that the Egyptian intelligence broke up a Sinai-based Hezbollah cell headed by Sami Shehab, a Lebanese citizen. The cell, which also included Palestinians members had allegedly planned to attack Israeli targets.
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(IsraelNN.com) A paper fuse on an explosive device made from a small camping gas canister apparently was lit, but burned out before it could do any damage at the entrance of the Chabad House in Florence, Italy, over the weekend, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The device was reportedly discovered during the day Saturday but not reported to police until Saturday night after Shabbat.
Also on Saturday, thousands of people, many of them Muslim, staged a march in Rome which included placards showing swastikas superimposed on the Star of David. About 300 people staged a counterdemonstration in Rome's historic Jewish ghetto neighborhood.
Last week, red paint was thrown at the front of the synagogue in Pisa.
We should remember that the murderers in Mumbai targeted the Chabad House there.
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Two of the five men accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks offered unapologetic admissions of guilt Monday in a sometimes chaotic — and possibly final — session of the Guantanamo war crimes court.
The hearings, scheduled over several days, could be the last at Guantanamo, since President-elect Barack Obama has said he would close the offshore prison at the U.S. base in Cuba and many expect him to suspend the military tribunals and order new trials in the U.S.
Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the terrorist attacks, casually admitted taking part in the attacks during a series of outbursts as the translators struggled to keep up and the judge repeatedly sought to regain control.
"We did what we did; we're proud of Sept. 11," Binalshibh announced at one point in proceedings that dealt with a number of legal issues, including whether he is mentally competent to stand trial on charges that carry a potential death sentence.
Mohammed, who is representing himself, switched back and forth between Arabic and English, insisting at one point that a uniformed military lawyer assigned to assist him be removed from his defense table. The man, he said, represents the "people who tortured me," he said.
Mohammed shrugged off the potential death sentence he faces for charges that include the murder of nearly 3,000 people in the Sept. 11 attacks. "We don't care about capital punishment," he said. "We are doing jihad for the cause of God."
Told by the judge to limit his remarks to the subject at hand, Mohammed bristled: "This is terrorism, not court. You don't give me the opportunity to talk."
In a separate hearing, a judge was holding pretrial hearings in the case of Canadian Omar Khadr, who is accused of killing a U.S. soldier, Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer of Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a grenade during a battle in Afghanistan in 2002 when the Toronto native was 15.
Khadr's lawyers are seeking to have statements he made to interrogators excluded from his trial, arguing they were obtained through torture and coercion. A prosecution witness, a woman identified only as "interrogator 11" characterized the interrogations as "lighthearted." "He always came in smiling and very willing to talk to us," she testified.
In both cases, the judges considered whether the Pentagon must charge and arraign the men all over again after it withdrew and refiled charges in about 20 cases. The Pentagon described the refiling as a procedural step required to appoint new military jury panel members. The judges sided with the prosecutors and ruled the cases would not have to start anew.
The judge in the Sept. 11 case, Army Col. Stephen Henley, acknowledged doubts about the future of the hearings, saying one legal matter could be addressed "at later sessions, if later sessions are scheduled."
Lawyers and representatives of human rights groups who came to observe the hearings believe Obama will suspend the military commission system created by Congress and President George W. Bush in 2006 to prosecute dozens of men held at Guantanamo.
"This system is discredited and flawed and should not exist one day more, and certainly the signals that we hear from Washington, from the Obama transition team, are that he will act on it as soon as he is in office," said Jamil Dakwar, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who is in Guantanamo this week to observe the hearings.
Obama's nominee for attorney general, Eric Holder, in his confirmation hearing echoed a major criticism of the commissions: that they lack sufficient legal protections for those charged. He said the detainees could be tried in the United States.
Those statements make it unlikely that the commission system will go forward, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bill Kuebler, Khadr's Pentagon-appointed lawyer. "It is simply unimaginable to think that these proceedings would continue when you have an administration that is on the record saying that so clearly," Kuebler said. "What's very clear ... is that they want to take a different course of action on Guantanamo."
The Pentagon's chief war crimes prosecutor, Army Col. Lawrence Morris, said he did not know what the Obama administration would do and had to plan as if the commissions would go forward. Still, prosecutors joined with the defense in asking military judges to postpone this week's hearings until after the inauguration. The judges rejected the request.
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I will go to my grave believing that military justice MUST apply to enemy combatants captured in failed states. That notion is unassailable, logically, however, politically...
Not just "enemy combatants" but "illegal enemy combatants" (that is, not carrying weapons openly, not wearing uniforms, not avoiding civilians). The idea that these folks (other than the point below) should be accorded Constitutional Rights or Geneva Rights is odious and, in fact, is an incentive to be an illegal combatant.
Of course some of the enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan are US Citizens which throws yet another wrinkle on it. In this case, some sort of constitutional rights (due process) should be given, although it shouldn't have to include everything given an accused person in, say, a robbery.
I think most people understand this intuitively and the Bush people should have gone on TV early on and explained this and proposed National Defense Court or something similar and written a new chapter in the USC. But unfortunately, Ashcroft was bullied by the CIA into doing nothing and Gonzales was too stupid to do anything.
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I would prefer that they were not subject to a majestic justice system they don't deserve. Kill them on the battlefield
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US citizens caught being enemy combatants should have their citizenship removed and afforded no rights.
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"Illegal Combatants" should get what treatment suits us not them.
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That's unbelievable.
"Eric Holder, in his confirmation hearing echoed a major criticism of the commissions: that they lack sufficient legal protections for those charged."
Well, nowadays, neo-nazis say that the Nuremberg military commissions who prosecuted and condemned the nazi leaders after WWII were illegal and lacked "sufficient legal protections for those charged"...
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Well, strictly speaking, the Nuremberg trials were a case of ex post facto justice.
I am not in any way supporting or defending the Nazis. Many of them deserved more than they got - a short trip to the end of a rope.
Illegal combatants can, and should, be summarily executed on the battlefield.
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The Khasadar Force in Landikotal foiled a smuggling attempt when they seized a large quantity of arms on Sunday. The Khasadars also arrested the man attempting to smuggle the weapons. Jamrud Tehsildar Bakhtiar Mehmand confirmed the incident, saying a car was intercepted at Inzari checkpost on Bara Road after a tip off about a possible arms-smuggling attempt from Khyber Agency to Peshawar. He said the Khasadars recovered a machine gun and 3,781 rounds during the vehicle's search. The car's driver - Muhammad Nawaz -- was arrested and was being interrogated, he said.
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A bomb explosion outside the shop of a faith healer on the Circular Road in Peshawar destroyed at least three shops, police officials and eyewitnesses said on Sunday. No casualties were reported in the blast, which occurred in Kotwali police station precincts. The bomb was planted outside the shop of Niaz Ali Shah, a faith healer, City Circle Superintendent of Police Chaudary Ashraf told Daily Times. He said the bomb was placed in a canister and also damaged a rickshaw parked nearby, adding he had no information about any threats issued to the faith healer so far. Eyewitnesses told Daily Times that the powerful blast was heard from a long distance away. It was the second incident in Peshawar in two days in which faith healers have been the targets. On Saturday, the beheaded body of a faith healer, Pir Rafiullah, was recovered from Peshawar's Mattani area. The healer had been killed after he denounced several warnings against his practices.
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Bigjim - impotence is caused by having sex with goats and camels. Pass it on. (If anyone from the NWFP or FATA actually read this, it would start the biggest commotion to ever hit Pakistan. You just DON'T make fun of a guy's favorite goatgirl.)
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Taliban dilemma: does your girl or goat have the most attractive beard?
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Som years back the Autauga Sherrif raided som 19 "Palm readers/ Faith healers/fortune tellers in a single day, he said he wasn't impressed, if they were real, they'd have known he was coming.
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Yer talkin' about Home there RJ. Back in the late 50's early 60's there were lots of small buildings on the highway between Prattville and Tuscaloosa that offered Palm Reading. I'm not sure why that was such a choice spot.
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A small building along the highway provides easy excape when the revenooers, local constabulary, or ripped-off-and-angry locals come a callin'...
Under threat from the Taliban, residents in Swat district are publishing adverts in local newspapers to inform the Taliban that they had made amends and were no more running 'immoral' and 'un-Islamic' businesses.
"I have been providing spiritual cure to patients with the help of Quranic verses. Now, I'm a kidney patient and am suffering from cardiac problems. Doctors have advised complete rest. Therefore, I've closed my business. Do not visit me in this regard," said an advert in Swat-based Urdu newspaper, Azaadi.
The advertisement by faith healer Jameel Ahmad in Charbagh tehsil of Swat, appeared just a week before the police recovered the beheaded body of another healer, Pir Rafiullah, in the outskirts of Peshawar on Saturday.
Rafiullah was threatened a few days before his abduction on Friday last week from his hometown of Taru Jabba near Peshawar. His body was found the next day in Matani.
Ahmad's two-room clinic, which was usually packed with visitors, is closed now. A poster installed on the main gate of the locked clinic says, "I have stopped the faith healing business. The clinic is closed. Please do not visit."
Ahmad, however, is not the only one, as many others are also closing down business to save themselves. In a similar advert, Nasirul Mulk of Mingora said, "I have expiated from selling drugs. From now on, I shall do labour and earn Halal (Islamic) income. I will not use or sell drugs."
A lady councillor and a member of the zakat committee have also placed advertisements in newspapers, saying they have resigned from their jobs, and have asked the people of their respective areas not to contact them in connection with their previous jobs.
Female dancers and singers in Swat had already left the area, for cities like Karachi and Lahore, much before the Taliban's warnings to drug pushers, smugglers, elected members, and women employees of various government departments.
Locals said the Taliban, through their radio channel, had repeatedly warned residents to stop 'illegal' businesses.
The warnings against educating females have forced thousands of families to migrate to other cities of the NWFP and Punjab. The provincial government, left with no other option, said the students from Swat would be adjusted in educational institutions in other cities in evening shifts.
According to an association of private schools in Swat, the Taliban ban would put around 60,000 girls out of schools.
Women in Swat have already restricted themselves to their houses, while those employed have quit their jobs, gone on long leaves or have got themselves transferred to other districts of the NWFP.
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Newspapers are Unislamic!
Kill them all!
Ha-ha...
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Start with the NYT, oh wait, it's dead already.
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At least 15 Taliban and a soldier were killed when clashes broke out between the Taliban and security forces in Mohmand Agency, a security official said on Sunday. The clashes, which broke out late on Saturday, occurred as the forces cleared a road linking Bajaur Agency with Peshawar, the official said.
"Fifteen militants were killed in a successful raid by security forces on their stronghold in Darwazgai area of Mohmand Agency," the official said. "One security forces personnel embraced martyrdom in the encounter," he said, adding that the Taliban fired mortars at the troops from their hideouts.
The toll could not be confirmed independently.
The Pakistani military has said more than 1,500 rebels have been killed and hundreds more captured since August, when the military launched an operation in Bajaur Agency, which borders Mohmand, to cleanse the area of the Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked terrorists.
Meanwhile, a meeting of a peace jirga from Hangu, which convened to discuss the law and order situation in the district, was postponed for Monday (today), officials said. They said government offices, which were closed following sectarian clashes in the district, would reopen the same day.
The jirga's meeting, which was scheduled on Sunday in the office of the Hangu district coordination officer (DCO), could not proceed due to the absence of Orakzai Agency's elders.
DCO Mujibur Rehman and Hangu Nazim Haji Afzal told reporters that all government offices had been asked to open on Monday, adding attendance of the Orakzai elders in the jirga's meeting would be ensured. They said the jirga would be reformulated if the elders did not show up in the meeting.
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Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar has abandoned his under-construction headquarters in the Model Town area of Bahawalpur and temporarily shifted base to the North Waziristan region after mounting Indian pressure for his extradition. When last we heard from Masood he was under house arrest. That worked well.
While Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and information minister Sherry Rehman stated publicly that Azhar was missing and the Pakistan government was unaware of his whereabouts, there are intelligence reports in Islamabad that he was told to leave Bahawalpur in mid-December.
The JeM chief subsequently left for Muzaffarabad, but decided to temporarily shift to North Waziristan.
The sources say the Pakistani establishment which had arranged for his release from Indian custody in 2000 through a plane hijacking, does not want him to be extradited to Delhi and, thus, advised him to leave for the lawless Waziristan region.
The sources say Azhar appointed younger brother Mufti Abdul Rauf as acting chief of Jaish in his absence. Pakistani defence minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar had confirmed early December that Azhar was under house arrest in Bahawalpur. However, foreign minister Qureshi contradicted him a few days later.
The sources say the Jaish chief was told to abandon his headquarters before he was spotted there by international media.
India has made it clear that Pakistan must hand over terror suspects, including the JeM chief, if it wants relations to improve. India argues that Azhar, whose sermons have incited followers to commit acts of terror against India, could not have vanished. That is what New Delhi is asking Islamabad, which is trying to protect him, fearing that handing him over to New Delhi would open a Pandora's box, creating problems for the Pakistani military and intelligence establishment.
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Taliban militants on Sunday released a rare video of statements from purported suicide bombers and footage of deadly attacks they claimed to have perpetrated in Pakistan. The 40-minute tape shows men and youths, some apparently in their teens, addressing the camera about their intention to carry out suicide attacks to background music of Urdu-language militant anthems.
The video was handed out to reporters in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), by militant commander Qari Hussain, who is based in the lawless South Waziristan tribal district that borders Afghanistan. Hussain is also known as "Ustad-e-Fidaeen" or teacher of suicide bombers. All those featured on the video spoke Pashto, the main language of Pashtuns living in NWFP and the tribal regions on the border with Afghanistan.
The two biggest attacks claimed on the video were a double truck bombing last March against the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building in Lahore and bombing an office of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence in 2007. At least 87 people, including government and security personnel, were killed in those attacks and two others also claimed on the tape.
"I'm going to do this suicide bombing with Islamic sentiments," says someone who gave his name only as Masood and looked to be in his teens, to a backdrop of footage from the FIA attack. "Suicide bombers are the atomic weapons of Muslims because Muslims do not have the latest weapons to fight enemies who are committing atrocities against Muslims in Kashmir, Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq," Masood said.
On the video, a voice purported to be that of Hussain urges people to enlist for further suicide attacks. "Israel, America and Pakistan's military are committing atrocities against Muslims so jihad has become compulsory for all Muslims," said the voice.
Another voice demanded that the Pakistani government call an immediate halt to military operations in tribal areas, release arrested militants and lift a ban on a Sunni extremist group.
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At least 87 people, including government and security personnel, were killed in those attacks and two others also claimed on the tape.
So...what was the infidel count? Or were they just not Muslim enough?
A suicide bomber on Sunday killed a deputy leader of an influential Iraqi Sunni Arab political party as he and other politicians met to discuss an upcoming provincial election, the party's leader said.
Hassan Zaidan Al-Lihebi, deputy leader of the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, was killed by a suicide bomber who stormed his house, shot at guards and blew himself up in a crowded reception room, Saleh Al-Mutlaq, the party's leader told Reuters.
"The suicide bomber opened fire on the guards and entered the house. They tried to stop him but they didn't manage to do that before he got near Hassan and blew himself up," Mutlaq said.
Meanwhile, Iraqi lawmakers will form a committee to try to break the deadlock over the choice of a new speaker after the Sunnis failed to reach a consensus on a nominee, the deputy speaker said on Sunday. The Sunni speaker Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani resigned on December 23 amid widespread complaints about his erratic behaviour, leaving the key post vacant for nearly a month.
The bid to resolve the dispute came just two weeks before the provincial election, aimed, in large part, at empowering the minority Sunnis.
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Israeli forces were pulling out of the Gaza Strip on Monday following a tentative truce with Hamas that allowed Palestinians to take stock of the devastating three-week war.
Military officials said troops and tanks that had poured into Gaza on January 3 as part of an offensive to counter Palestinian rocket attacks were gradually leaving, though they remained ready to tackle any flare-ups in fighting.
Israel and Hamas separately declared ceasefires on Sunday, to the relief of Western powers that, while publicly sympathetic to the Jewish state's security concerns, were alarmed by the mounting humanitarian toll in the impoverished territory.
The crisis clouded the last days of the Bush administration. It spelled Middle East challenges that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, who is to be sworn in on Tuesday, may find no less insurmountable than those faced by his predecessors.
As Palestinians emerged from hiding, agape at the killing of more than 1,300 fellow Gazans and at the widespread destruction of homes and government infrastructure, the head of the Hamas administration claimed a "popular victory" against Israel.
"The enemy has failed to achieve its goals," Ismail Haniyeh said in a speech.
Hamas's truce decision, conditioned on Israel withdrawing within a week, was "wise and responsible," he said.
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"The enemy has failed to achieve its goals," Ismail Haniyeh said in a speech.
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As Palestinians emerged from hiding, agape at the killing of more than 1,300 fellow Gazans and at the widespread destruction of homes and government infrastructure, the head of the Hamas administration claimed a "popular victory" against Israel.
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Hey guys why don't we do this hamas is not wise do be sending rockets to Isreal i Mean im 14 can remember what happened in 1967 when Isreal literaly nearly finished the Arab world please Let peace Prevail
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That's the Palestinian criteria for victory, tu. That's what they learned from Arafat. And according to that criteria they have yet to lose a war. ULU ULU ULU ULU ULU ULU ULU!!!!
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European and Arab leaders racing to consolidate a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas pressed Sunday for an end to weapons smuggling into Gaza and for the opening of the territory to desperately needed humanitarian aid.
The summit at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik was jointly chaired by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak. It was held amid separate truce declarations by both Israel and Hamas.
After the summit, Sarkozy stressed the need for Israel to quickly pull its forces out of Gaza, after three weeks of offensive on the Hamas-ruled territory. "Israel should state immediately and clearly that if rocket fire will stop, the Israeli army will leave Gaza. There is no other solution to achieve peace," Sarkozy said.
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well shit is this what you need too know too become a world leader.don't shopot rockets and tyou won't get blasted. wonder if obama has figured that out yet?
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rw, I am sure that the One has figured out not to shoot rockets at people in order to keep from getting blasted. My hope is that he quickly figures out that if people shoot rockets at you, and keep shooting rockets, eventually you have to blast them.
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Don't trust Sarkozy.
He's a liar and a deceiver.
He pretends to be pro-American and pro-Israeli, but in reality his actions do prove that he is pro-Arab like was Chirac.
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Goodie! Maybe IDF will stay around for awhile. You can't expect any sort of long term peace and stability in the area by going in, killing a bunch of the bad guys, and then going home and leaving chaos behind. Israel keeps trying that and the results remain the same.
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Exactly, the only time it didn't work like that was in 67, and you know why.
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No, you fools. A "cease fire" means that Israel stops shooting. Hamas, and Islamic Jihad and the other groups can continue. It is their Allah-given right to resist the Zionist enemy.
/sarcasm
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So, Olmert has done it once more : not letting the Israeli army destroy definitely a terrorist genocidal organization.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he wants Israeli troops to leave Gaza "as quickly as possible". Mr Olmert was speaking at a news conference with European leaders after first Israel, then Hamas declared unilateral ceasefires in Gaza. Some Israeli troops have already begun pulling out of the Gaza Strip, following a three-week offensive.
Meanwhile, Ismail Haniya, the top Hamas leader in Gaza, said the Palestinians had won a great victory over Israel. "The enemy has failed to achieve its goals," he said in a speech broadcast on Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV.
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Not good. The problems will simply recur.
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Rapid pullout is good. Make the Gazans sleep in the wet spot
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Israeli blogs are reporting evidence of open rebellion against Hamas. In that context, the IDF could lower the intensity of conflict and work at finding the rockets and launchers. Unless they get them, the mission will fail.
Reminder: Ashkelon electrical facilities generate a quarter of Israel's power. At this moment, that infrastructure is in jeopardy. Unless major change occurs, Hamas will acquire accurate weapons that could take out said infrastructure. Some Israelis promote use of nukes, if that occurs. The stakes are higher than most observers believe.
The elusive leader of the Tamil Tigers may have already fled Sri Lanka with the army charging fast towards the separatist rebels' final strongholds, Sri Lanka's army commander said.
Lieutenant-General Sarath Fonseka, commanding the most successful army offensive in the history of one of Asia's longest-running wars, also predicted victory in a matter of months as the Tigers' resistance was weaker than expected. "Prabhakaran is a man who loves food, a man who loves his family, so I don't think he would wait until the military got so close to him," Fonseka told reporters late on Saturday. "He must have already escaped through the sea." He declined to speculate on where the Tamil Tiger leader would have fled to.
Fonseka said Tiger founder and leader Velupillai Prabhakaran would neither commit suicide as he exhorts his followers to do with cyanide capsules worn around their necks, nor allow himself to be captured like former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Fonseka said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) now hold an area of 30 km (18 miles) by 15 km (9 miles), and said troops had marched 17 km towards Mullaittivu in as many days. "When the war started, I used 50 map sheets to plan it. Now I only need one sheet to plan it," he said.
Fonseka, who spoke at an annual dinner he hosts for defence correspondents at his residence, joked that he expected most of them "to be out of work by this time next year." He wore a black shirt, adorned with a dragon strangling a tiger.
The Indian Ocean island nation has put its navy and air force on high alert, patrolling the 40 km (25 miles) of coast that the army has yet to secure in a multi-pronged assault gunning for the northeastern port of Mullaittivu.
Local media this week reported that intelligence reports said Prabhakaran may have sought the help of foreign countries to rescue him via submarine. The Tigers are on U.S., Indian and E.U. terrorist lists. Prabhakaran is wanted by Interpol and India for the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 by a suicide bomber, plus other suicide attacks and killings of Sri Lankan civilians and politicians including Tamils.
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run, Mario!
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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
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The London Times revealed Friday that a Hezbollah plot to attack the Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan was foiled last year, after Azeri Intelligence discovered the plot. 
(IsraelNN.com) A paper fuse on an explosive device made from a small camping gas canister apparently was lit, but burned out before it could do any damage at the entrance of the Chabad House in Florence, Italy, over the weekend, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The device was reportedly discovered during the day Saturday but not reported to police until Saturday night after Shabbat.
Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar has abandoned his under-construction headquarters in the Model Town area of Bahawalpur and temporarily shifted base to the North Waziristan region after mounting Indian pressure for his extradition. 
A suicide bomber on Sunday killed a deputy leader of an influential Iraqi Sunni Arab political party as he and other politicians met to discuss an upcoming provincial election, the party's leader said. 
European and Arab leaders racing to consolidate a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas pressed Sunday for an end to weapons smuggling into Gaza and for the opening of the territory to desperately needed humanitarian aid. 
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he wants Israeli troops to leave Gaza "as quickly as possible". Mr Olmert was speaking at a news conference with European leaders after first Israel, then Hamas declared unilateral ceasefires in Gaza. Some Israeli troops have already begun pulling out of the Gaza Strip, following a three-week offensive. 
