[Al Arabiya Latest] African leaders on Thursday started combing through proposals on how to resolve a six-year conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region that has claimed up to 300,000 lives and displaced millions.
Several heads of states who sit on the African Union Peace and Security Council are studying recommendations drawn up by a seven-member high-level AU panel led by South Africa's former president Thabo Mbeki.
The team, which was mandated to critically examine the situation in Darfur, has recommended the creation of a hybrid court comprising Sudanese and foreign judges to try those suspected of committing crimes against humanity in Darfur, according to briefing notes distributed at the summit.
It also suggests that a truth and reconciliation commission be established and consider reparation for losses incurred during the ongoing conflict.
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The Middle East's most powerful Islamic political movement is undergoing a leadership struggle as young, more moderate activists try to push the Muslim Brotherhood to soften its fundamentalist ideology and become a more democratic force.
The direction the Brotherhood takes could have wider implications. The group is the strongest opposition movement in Egypt, though officially banned. Moreover, it is highly influential beyond Egypt's borders as the father of Islamic movements across the Arab and Muslim world including the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Ruling Awami League (AL) lawmakers yesterday in parliament accused BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami of joining hands with the killers of Bangabandhu, and of engaging together in a conspiracy to destabilise the country in a bid to regain power illegally.
They demanded that the government identifies the perpetrators and patrons of the recent bomb attack on AL MP Fazle Noor Taposh, and metes out exemplary punishments, as the lives of all lawmakers are in danger since the incident.
In the face of demands of ruling party lawmakers who raised the issue on a point of order, Deputy Speaker Shawkat Ali, who was presiding over the sitting, said a general discussion will be held on it next week.
Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury requested the chair to schedule a date in consultation with the leader of the House for holding a discussion on the point.
Taking the floor on a point of order, AL lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta initiated the unscheduled discussion on the recent bomb attack on Taposh, who had narrowly escaped it.
As soon as Suranjit completed his speech, the deputy speaker declined to allow the floor to other lawmakers on the issue saying, "You will have to submit a notice for holding a discussion on it."
But in the face of repeated demands of lawmakers, the deputy speaker allowed AL lawmakers Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and Amir Hossain Amu, and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) MP Hasanul Haque Inu to talk about the matter.
"In the trial proceedings, it was unearthed that Zia [late president Ziaur Rahman] was involved in the killing of Bangabandhu. Zia rehabilitated the killers and their family members," Selim alleged.
He noted that Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia did not condemn the attack on Taposh.
"It would not be possible for Babar [former state minister for home] alone to carry out the August 21 grenade attack. It was Hawa Bhaban's conspiracy," he added.
Selim, also an AL presidium member, said BNP and Jamaat are boycotting the parliament without any reason, and telling lies to mislead the people in a bid to come back to power illegally.
As AL lawmaker Suranjit stood up seeking the floor, the deputy speaker wanted to know his point of order. In response, Suranjit said when an MP's life is not in order, the House cannot be in order.
"I talked to many lawmakers. They have been suffering from anxieties since the bomb attack," Suranjit said.
He criticised the home minister for not making any statement in the House to inform the lawmakers about the incident. Lawmakers supported Suranjit's speech thumping their desks.
AL lawmaker Amir Hossain Amu said lives of all lawmakers are in danger after the bomb attack on Taposh.
He said patrons of the killers of Bangabandhu must be uprooted along with the completion of the killers' trial.
Hasanul Haque Inu said the bomb used in the attack on Taposh has an address. "The address of the bomb is communalism, militants, and anti-liberation forces. Democracy will be in danger if the evil forces are not tackled with an iron hand," he said.
He demanded that a resolution be passed in the House condemning the attack on Taposh.
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ION BHARAT RAKSHAK > INDIA MAY ALLOW NEPALESE TRUCKS [INDIA read, CHINA]INTO BANGLADESH.
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Yonhap) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao formally invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to visit China "at a convenient time," Pyongyang's state news agency reported Thursday amid a flurry of top-level visits between the communist allies for the 60th anniversary of their diplomatic ties.
Kimmie will go by train. We should find out when and on which set of tracks ...
Hu offered the invitation at a Wednesday meeting with Choe Thae-bok, one of the closest aides to Kim, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Choe, secretary of the North's powerful Workers' Party, is leading a party delegation in Beijing.
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After he's done there, he can go visit Russia. Then France, Spain, and a couple other places. If he survives the physical stress, he can give field guidance to all these heads of state, then head off to see his good friends in Iran then the US for more field guidance. Hopefully that would do him in.
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- Seoul's intelligence agency has named North Korea's telecommunications ministry as the origin of a series of cyber attacks in July on scores of state and private Web sites in South Korea and the United States, lawmakers said Friday.
It sure wasn't the Ruritanians ...
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) had initially assumed North Korea was the likely cause of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that affected 26 targets, including the Web sites of the presidential offices in Seoul and Washington. But the latest comments mark the first time the agency has named a specific organ as the user of the Internet protocol (IP) address linked to the attacks.
"Our search into the route of the DDoS attacks on South Korean and U.S. sites found a line coming from China," NIS chief Won Sei-hoon said in a closed-door meeting of the National Assembly intelligence committee on Thursday.
"The line was found to be on the IP that the North Korean Ministry of Post and Telecommunications is using on rent (from China)," he said. His remarks were quoted by committee lawmakers who attended the meeting.
No significant damage was reported from the July attacks, though investigators failed to determine who was behind them.
Won refused to comment further, saying that to "answer in specifics would risk revealing national strategies."
"I can say no more!"
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A Russian representative announced that North Korea is gearing up for a potential return to the multilateral negotiating table depending on the outcome of upcoming bilateral talks with the U.S.
Stressing that this does not necessarily mean the six-party nuclear talks, Georgy Toloraya, director of the Korean program at the Russian Academy of Science, projected that the communist regime would not renounce its nuclear program unless it is sure it will "get some tangible results."
The Russian scholar also said the North denounced the incentive package proposed by President Lee Myung-bak, saying it is simply a replica of the "Vision 3000: Denuclearization and Openness" initiative presented during his presidential campaign.
Such statements by Pyongyang were announced at an academic conference in San Diego where Washington's envoy to the multilateral talks, Sung Kim, and visiting North Korean diplomat Ri Gun were present. The two sides have reportedly met for the second time in a week following a meeting between Kim and Ri Gun in New York last weekend.
However, diplomatic sources say the two have made little headway during informal talks in San Diego with regards to the resumption of the six-party nuclear talks. They reported the unofficial contact was a "frank, but friendly" one and ended with no major breakthroughs on the issues of denuclearization and security concerns.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly announced that Kim has yet to decide whether to attend an upcoming academic conference in New York, one which Ri is likely to attend.
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Possible return to Nuke talks
Translated that means "we arn't done bullshiting you yet" and we wnt to see what you'll offer for letting us fool you again (Cash please)
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The trial of five Muslim terrorism suspects has began in the northern Italian city of Bologna. The suspects were arrested in 2007 by Italian anti-terrorism police in the cities of Ravenna and Imola in the Emilia-Romagna region. They have been charged with subversion aimed at committing acts of international terrorism and fraud. An unnamed sixth suspect who is on the run is being tried in absentia.
The defendants are accused of plotting terrorist acts in Iraq and Afghanistan and recruiting other jihadist sympathisers to carry out the planned attacks, according to prosecutors.
Following a three-year investigation, prosecutors issued police with six arrest warrants in August 2007. The five suspects were named as: Khalil Jarraya, head of a suspected jihadist-Salafite cell with links to Al-Qaeda; fellow Tunisians Hecmi Msaadi, Mohamed Chabchoub and Chedli Ben Bergaoui; and Moroccan national Mourad Mazi.
Jarraya, known as 'the colonel' because he had fought on the side of Muslims during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, is an illegal immigrant from the Tunisian city of Sfax. He was living on 'zakat' or alms given to him by pious Muslims who attended the mosque in the city of Faenza, where he lived with his family, according to investigators.
Msaadi, aged 31 is a resident of Imola and according to investigators was at the time of his arrest poised to travel to Iraq. Chabchoub, 41, who like Jaraya is from Sfax, is married and has two daughters. An IT expert, he was allegedly in contact with other suspected terrorists via the Internet.
Ben Bergaoui, aged 34 anni, a resident of Imola, was arrested at Bologna's train station as he was about to take a train to the northwestern port city of Genoa and board a ferry for Tunisia. Thirty-three-year-old Mazi, is also a resident of Imola.
Several witnesses have already been heard, including the imam of Imola's mosque. The imam told the court on Wednesday that unauthorised funds had been gathered at the mosque to help the families of needy mosque goers.
The trial has been adjourned until 20 January.
The police investigation of the suspected cell began after police found a box full of documents in Arabic and jihadist CDs at a property in Imola, according to local press reports.
The cell members are also accused of providing logistical and financial support to international terrorism although defence lawyers say the documents and CDs only indicate the suspects were interested in radical Islamic ideology.
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Canada's new spy chief accused journalists and human rights advocates on Thursday of often glorifying terror suspects as "quasi folk heroes" and downplaying the risks posed to society by terrorism.
Richard Fadden, making his first speech as head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), said Canada had a "serious blind spot" when it came to battling terrorism.
"Many of our opinion leaders have come to see the fight against terrorism not as defending democracy and our values, but as attacking them," he told a meeting of security experts.
A "loose partnership of single-issues NGOs, advocacy journalists and lawyers" had to a certain extent succeeded "in forging a positive public image for anyone accused of terrorist links or charges", he added.
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True-The biggest enemy in the West is the Left who despise capitalism,American dream etc
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The UK is also full of these Left Wing, Commie Loving, Tree Hugging, Self Hating, Slippery Arsed Lawyer Types. They get a terrorist out of jail, and they all smile and nod their heads, in an infuriating Pious way.
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Iff recent MSM-NET Repors on Islamist activites + arrests in CONUS is any measure, the Canucks won't have too long to wait before their heroes start blowing up impor thingys around Canada.
In the wake of the Goldstone Report and amid the nuclear threat from Iran, 10 state senators, through the American-Israel Friendship League and the National Conference of State Legislatures, are on a study tour of Israel.
No. 1 on the meeting agenda? Goldstone.
According to Georgia State Sen. Don Balfour, president of the NCSL, the Goldstone document is misunderstood in the United States.
"Yesterday we had a meeting about the Goldstone Report. The average American says, 'Hey, war crimes? [with a shocked look on his face],' but then you read it and you see almost everything we [US] do is a war crime.
"Sometimes there are civilian casualties, which is horrible. But is that a war crime? If so, that changes the way we define war," he said.
If indeed the IDF is accused of war crimes, "Every soldier is going to be a war criminal. If you bomb an al-Qaida terrorist and one of their family members dies, that would be a war crime," Balfour said. Somebody gets it
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OIC initiated the Goldstone Report The secretary-general of the OIC, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu: Let me first start by completing the story of the history of the Goldstone report. What I would like to put on record is that the OIC was the initiator of this process.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > [Hillary]CLINTON LECTURES PAKISTAN; + CLINTON SAYS PAK [Pakistan] TRADERS CAN HAVE ACCESS TO US MARKETS [ + Job
sectors]???
* SAME YOUTUBE VIDEO NEWS > US ALLIED FORCES HELPING THE TALIBAN? Persistent reports = rumors of Allied Helos airlifting Talibs from areas or villages threatened by oncoming PAK Army???; + US WAR IN AFGHANISTAN IS NOW THE WORLD'S BIGGEST DRUG BUSINESS KILLING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE???
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ISRAELI MILITARY FORUM > NEW BALFOUR DECLARATION: GOLDSTONE [Report] TURNS USA INTO WAR CRIMINAL [everything US does is dir, indir a "war crime"].
So-o-o IOW, IIUC AMERICA ISN'T "PERFECT", ITS AMER'S FAULT NO ONE TOLD IT OR TRAINED IT, ETC. TO BE PERFECT, + ONLY TOTALITARIANISM CAN SAVE AMERICA = AMERIKA???
* SAME > FITZGERALD: WHAT THE COLLAPSE OF ISRAEL WOULD MEAN [Death of Israel = slow but steady inevitable Death of the US-West]; + OBAMA ADMIN CUTS FUNDING TO PRO-DEMOCRACY GROUPS IN IRAN.
Iran on Thursday rejected a plan to send its uranium to be processed overseas, just hours after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country was ready to cooperate with the West. Surprise meter?
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Finaly figured out that it's just a way to seize the material and denuke Iran, did they?
Dammit, almost worked, but look on the bright side, U contaminated by Moly isn't usable anyway, so whatever they do, they're still scewed.
Couldn't happen to a niicer bunch of assholes
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GUAM PDN OP-ED > denotes propos uranium shipment plan as a benchmark on IRAN'S + RUSSIA'S TRUE INTENTIONS VEE OBAMA-USA as per IRAN-SPECIFIC NUCLEARIZATION. IRAN + RUSSIA want to see iff POTUS BAMMER IS STRONG ENUFF TO PLAY NUC = GEOPOL "HARDBALL".
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Many Netters cay or complain that the USA is geopol isolating or containing CHINA + MAINLAND ASIA - WEHELL, NUKES-, OWG CALIPHATE-HAPPY RADICAL ISLAM IS DOING THE SAME THING.
NUC ASIA > starting to feel like CUSTER at the Little Bighorn Horn???
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman charges Tel Aviv with a Katyusha-type rocket attack on the Israeli eastern town of Kiryat Shmona calling it a Zionist attempt to keep tensions high in Middle East.
In an interview with the Arabic language al-Akhbar newspaper in Beirut, Suleiman said the rocket "is an excuse for Israel to keep violating Lebanon's sovereignty and immediately use it to continue its intelligence activity in Lebanon due to Hezbollah's presence."
The Lebanese leader explained that the rocket attack from Lebanon served Israeli interests and noted that the one who launched it was an Israeli agent. "Therefore, I do not rule out the possibility that Israel is the one behind the Katyusha attack," he said.
"I believe that Israel must deal with the main problem, which is expressed in its attacks on Jerusalem (al-Quds) and Gaza, its rejection of the right of return, the continued construction in settlements, and the restoration of rights to their owners."
Suleiman, meanwhile, stressed that Lebanon does not serve as a platform to violate the UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon war. "I said this during my last visit to south Lebanon. I stressed that we will not allow anybody to violate the international resolution," he concluded.
Israel has used rocket attacks from Lebanon as an excuse to violate Lebanese borders and openly run intelligence operations there. It has also boasted that as long as Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government, it will continue running such provocative operations against its northern neighbor.
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And he's perfectly sincere too. That's how their minds work. And that's why there will never be a peaceful coexistance between Islam and the rest.
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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SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Yonhap) -- Seoul's intelligence agency has named North Korea's telecommunications ministry as the origin of a series of cyber attacks in July on scores of state and private Web sites in South Korea and the United States, lawmakers said Friday.
