[Iran Press TV] The head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) says Libyans will go to the polls for presidential and parliamentary elections within eight months.
"In eight months we will hold legislative and presidential elections. We want a democratic government and a just constitution," Russian RIA Novosti quoted Mustafa Abdel Jalil as saying.
Jalil said that post-Qadaffy ...Megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... ... Libya "must be a different country from the past, based on the principles of freedom, equality and fraternity," and will have "strong relations with other countries, based on mutual respect and cooperation."
"We will be an active member of the international community and we will respect the treaties signed in the past," he added.
Abdel Jalil also spoke of Muammar Qadaffy's trial, saying that the runaway Libyan dictator will be tried in the country.
Abdel Jalil emphasized that the trial would be fair.
The whereabouts of Qadaffy and his family are unknown one day after revolutionaries took control of his heavily-fortified compound Bab al-Aziziyah.
The Libyan fighters swept into the heart of Libya's capital city early on Monday, and seized control of much of Tripoli without facing significant resistance from regime forces.
Revolutionaries are now facing only small pockets of resistance from Qadaffy loyalists in other areas.
In a new audio message on Wednesday, Qadaffy pledged "martyrdom or victory" in the fight against NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and the Libyan opposition fighters, claiming that the withdrawal from his headquarters was "a tactical move."
Libya has been the scene of intense fighting between regime troops and fighters since a revolution seeking to topple Qadaffy began in mid-February.
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JEDDAH: The staff of the Libyan missions in Riyadh and Jeddah have announced on Tuesday that they are shifting their allegiance to the Libyan revolutionaries.
Iraq, Oman, Bahrain and Morocco had earlier Tuesday recognized Libyas rebel-led council as the countrys legitimate international representatives. They are the latest Arab nations to break off relations with Muammar Qaddafis regime in favor of the National Transitional Council.
The embassy staff confirmed, in a fax to the Arab News office, that the employees in the embassy in Riyadh and the consulate in Jeddah now recognize the rebel government.
"We have decided to join the revolutionaries, as the fall of Tripoli proves that the Qaddafi regime does not represent Libya any more. The Libyan revolutionaries will assume control of the new future of Libya," a Libyan diplomatic staff at the embassy in Riyadh told Arab News.
"We have had no contact with the Foreign Ministry in Libya for the past five days and, we will unfurl the new flag of the revolution in our embassy in Riyadh on Wednesday," he added.
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"Please don't fire us...we got stuck on embassy duty because Khadaffy don't like us!"
Allegation could endanger takeover of New York Stock Exchange
BERLIN A lawsuit filed in a US Federal court in Manhattan by roughly 1,000 victims of a joint Hezbollah and Iran 1983 attack on US soldiers in Beirut alleges that Clearstream Banking SA of Luxembourg, which is owned by the Deutsche Börse AG, illegally transferred $250,000 million of seized Iranian funds, according to a report in Tuesdays Wall Street Journal.
Hezbollah, along with Tehrans government, killed 241 US servicemen in an attack on the Marine Corps housing complex, prompting family members to initiate litigation. A US Federal Judge ruled in 2003 that Iran was responsible for the terror attack and ordered the Islamic Republic to pay $2.7 billion in compensation to the family members of the murdered service personnel.
Iran rejects the charges of complicity in the single deadliest terror attack on US soldiers.
According to the Journal article, court documents from 2008 show that Clearstream and a second financial institution helped Iran move the money out of accounts at Citigroup Inc.s Citibank unit in New York after a federal court had ordered the funds frozen.
A Judge from the Southern District of Manhattan court ordered Citibank in June 2008 to freeze $2.25b. of Clearstream accounts that were allegedly controlled by Iran, wrote the Journal.
The family victims argued that Clearstream furnished improper information to secure the release of the $250m. A second bank was also involved in transferring Iranian funds, but the name of that bank has been redacted from the court documents, noted the Journal.
The lawsuit against Deutsch Börse could throw a wrench in the negotiating process to control the NYSE, in which the Deutsche Börse seeks to take over NYSE Euronext Inc, which oversees the New York Stock Exchange. According to the Journal, US lawmakers have raised the Clearstream controversy as a reason to block the Deutsche Börses takeover attempt.
The Journal cites a question asked by US Congressional Representative Steve Austria (R.Ohio) to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at a legislative hearing this year: Are you concerned that the New York Stock Exchange is going to be owned by a company thats allegedly and I think is conducting business with Iran? The involvement of the Deutsche Börse in reportedly transferring Iran funds is another blow to Germanys financial reputation. The Deutsche Bundesbank with assistance from Germanys Foreign Ministry circumvented US sanctions earlier this year and funneled at least $1.5billion euros to a US sanctioned bank, the European-Iranian trade bank (EIH), to help pay for Indian crude oil payments owed to Iran.
The US Treasury Department expressed alarm about Germanys business relations with the EIH because the Iranian entity finances illicit nuclear proliferation and weapons activities. After considerable US, French and British pressure, Germany agreed to place the EIH on the EU sanctions list. The EIH, however, is still permitted to process previous financial transactions, which were commenced before the May EU sanctions targeting Iran.
German critics view Chancellor Angela Merkels failure to shut down pre-sanction EIH transactions as undercutting international efforts to stop Irans drive to obtain nuclear weapons and finance terror groups.
Germany remains Irans largest European trade partner, with an annual 2010 volume of combined export and import trade reaching over 4billion euros. German engineering firms play a key role in Irans infrastructure.
According to the Journal, Clearstream declined to comment on the US lawsuit. The Deutsch Börse wrote in its 2010 annual financial disclosure that Clearstream intends to defend itself vigorously to the fullest extent.
Allegation could endanger takeover of New York Stock Exchange
BERLIN A lawsuit filed in a US Federal court in Manhattan by roughly 1,000 victims of a joint Hezbollah and Iran 1983 attack on US soldiers in Beirut alleges that Clearstream Banking SA of Luxembourg, which is owned by the Deutsche Börse AG, illegally transferred $250,000 million of seized Iranian funds, according to a report in Tuesdays Wall Street Journal.
Hezbollah, along with Tehrans government, killed 241 US servicemen in an attack on the Marine Corps housing complex, prompting family members to initiate litigation. A US Federal Judge ruled in 2003 that Iran was responsible for the terror attack and ordered the Islamic Republic to pay $2.7 billion in compensation to the family members of the murdered service personnel.
Iran rejects the charges of complicity in the single deadliest terror attack on US soldiers.
According to the Journal article, court documents from 2008 show that Clearstream and a second financial institution helped Iran move the money out of accounts at Citigroup Inc.s Citibank unit in New York after a federal court had ordered the funds frozen.
A Judge from the Southern District of Manhattan court ordered Citibank in June 2008 to freeze $2.25b. of Clearstream accounts that were allegedly controlled by Iran, wrote the Journal.
The family victims argued that Clearstream furnished improper information to secure the release of the $250m. A second bank was also involved in transferring Iranian funds, but the name of that bank has been redacted from the court documents, noted the Journal.
The lawsuit against Deutsch Börse could throw a wrench in the negotiating process to control the NYSE, in which the Deutsche Börse seeks to take over NYSE Euronext Inc, which oversees the New York Stock Exchange. According to the Journal, US lawmakers have raised the Clearstream controversy as a reason to block the Deutsche Börses takeover attempt.
The Journal cites a question asked by US Congressional Representative Steve Austria (R.Ohio) to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at a legislative hearing this year: Are you concerned that the New York Stock Exchange is going to be owned by a company thats allegedly and I think is conducting business with Iran? The involvement of the Deutsche Börse in reportedly transferring Iran funds is another blow to Germanys financial reputation. The Deutsche Bundesbank with assistance from Germanys Foreign Ministry circumvented US sanctions earlier this year and funneled at least $1.5billion euros to a US sanctioned bank, the European-Iranian trade bank (EIH), to help pay for Indian crude oil payments owed to Iran.
The US Treasury Department expressed alarm about Germanys business relations with the EIH because the Iranian entity finances illicit nuclear proliferation and weapons activities. After considerable US, French and British pressure, Germany agreed to place the EIH on the EU sanctions list. The EIH, however, is still permitted to process previous financial transactions, which were commenced before the May EU sanctions targeting Iran.
German critics view Chancellor Angela Merkels failure to shut down pre-sanction EIH transactions as undercutting international efforts to stop Irans drive to obtain nuclear weapons and finance terror groups.
Germany remains Irans largest European trade partner, with an annual 2010 volume of combined export and import trade reaching over 4billion euros. German engineering firms play a key role in Irans infrastructure.
According to the Journal, Clearstream declined to comment on the US lawsuit. The Deutsch Börse wrote in its 2010 annual financial disclosure that Clearstream intends to defend itself vigorously to the fullest extent.
Kay Granger tells Post that level of Muslim Brotherhood involvement in new Egyptian government will impact US assistance.
Washingtons $2 billion in annual aid to Egypt will be cut off if Cairo backs out of the peace treaty with Israel, Congresswoman Kay Granger whose job as chairwoman of the US House appropriations foreign operations subcommittee means she literally writes Americas annual foreign aid bill told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
The United States aid to Egypt is predicated on the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, and so the relationship between Egypt and Israel is extremely important, the eight-term Republican from Texas said in an interview. As an appropriator I have two concerns: One thing is the continuing relationship between Egypt and Israel, and the other thing of course is what government we will be dealing with in Egypt, and what position the Muslim Brotherhood will play in this government.
Granger, here among a delegation of 25 Republican congressmen sponsored by the American Israel Educational Foundation, a charitable organization affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said she is on record as saying that if the treaty between Egypt and Israel is not continued, our financial support will not continue.
Since the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, the US has provided Cairo with $2b. of aid annually, $1.3b. in military assistance and the rest in economic assistance.
Granger, who along with the delegation is scheduled to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday, said it has been made clear that if the PA goes through with its statehood recognition bid at the UN in September, the roughly $500m. of US aid to the PA would be suspended. She said this would include money for Palestinian security training.
Granger said the message the delegation would bring to Abbas was that there was a strong bipartisan desire in the US Congress to see a return to peace negotiations in a very serious way.
#5
Isn't there something about the CIA NOT engaging in domestic intelligence?
This is the kind of stuff that makes talk of big-brother much more cogent. There's much to much of this s*** going on these days with the TSA, DHS, ATF, etc.
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Given that 9/11 happened because of the wall built between the CIA and domestic intelligence agencies so high they could't even tell each other that there were concerns, I'm not sure I have a problem with this, if the CIA was only advising and informing as opposed to doing the spying themselves.
#7
I'm a little more concerned about the NYPD setting up a spyshop outside of the city like that, and in general acting like Wool's Union Defence Committee hiring privateers to scour the Chesapeake in the spring of 1861. It rather sounds like they've set themselves up as a rival to the FBI.
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TW I take your point but this is not applicable here. The CIA is spying on civilians, apparently, in colusion with the NYPD.
This is not a case of sharing foreign intel, which is their purview, with the FBI; or even a case of the FBI sharing domestic intel with the CIA. I don't recall the NYPD being part of the Federal Gov't. with all the congressional oversight that implies.
This sounds like a rogue police state operation that breaks all the rules.
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AlanC, as I read the article, the CIA trained some NYPD officers in data collection skills, and a certain Mr. Cohen spent some time as a consultant. I'm sure there was also some sharing of suspicious names... As we would have liked to see them sharing the name of Al Awlaki, dear friend of Major Hassan, MD and the Pantibomber.
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WHAT: CAIR-NY/NJ News Conference to Call for DOJ Probe of NYPD-CIA Spy Program
WHEN: Wednesday, August 24, 2 p.m.
WHERE: 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 244, New York, NY
CONTACT: CAIR-NY Civil Rights Manager Cyrus McGoldrick, 203-206-6883, 212-870-2002, E-Mail: cmcgoldrick@cair.com; CAIR-NJ Executive Director James Yee, 908-938-5990; E-Mail: jyee@cair.com; CAIR Staff Attorney Gadeir Abbas, 720-251-0425, E-Mail: gabbas@cair.com
Following a months-long investigation, The Associated Press (AP) revealed that the NYPD is using covert surveillance techniques "that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government" and "does so with unprecedented help from the CIA in a partnership that has blurred the bright line between foreign and domestic spying."
When the TSA was asked to provide legal reasons that definitely spelled out why physically invasive patdowns are legal, without any probable cause, not one TSA person had an answer. There was no legal documentation for enhanced patdowns other than it serves "the essential administrative purpose." Well silly, there's your answer right there. It's 'essential'. Otherwise TSA has no reason to exist, and have you ever heard of a large bureaucracy finding a reason not to exist? Cheez, from what turnip truck did you fall off last night?
Peep show, police state or privacy invasion, patdowns and body scans are not just in airports. EPIC said DHS is refusing to disclose details of mobile body scanner technology. In fact, in answer to EPIC's FOIA request, DHS handed over "several papers that were completely redacted."
Meanwhile at airports, the TSA is rolling out "less-invasive gingerbread man" body scanners to a tune of $2.7 million for 240 machines. At this point, I don't think skinnier versions of the Pillsbury Doughboy via kinder and gentler naked body scans are going to placate people who are secretly murmuring that America is truly becoming a police state. Spending countless billions of dollars on all this 'security theater' makes it look like the TSA is "doing their best to ensure that if there's a terrorist attack the public doesn't blame the TSA for missing it." That's part of 'essential', bub...
According to TSA Blogger Bob, in the 10 years after 9/11, there have been vast improvements and new technology as well as a "professionalized workforce" of Transportation Security Officers. Professional as in claiming no more enhanced groping of children under 12, only to break that promise and seemingly molest this little boy dressed as Spiderman?
The Los Angeles Times reported on TSA launching a behavior-detection program at Boston's Logan International Airport. These TSA officers received a whopping two weeks of training and are supposed to ask each passenger a "few" questions "in an effort to detect suspicious behavior." Doesn't this seem like yet another strike at your privacy? Some people are stressed or even nervous when they are traveling. What if you don't feel like talking or being questioned? Is this too going to become yet another TSA-mandated "you will answer if you want the privilege of flying?"
A MSNBC travel article warned that when it comes to airport security, "you ain't seen nothing yet." Some security analysts suggest Big Brother will employ an even Bigger Brother in the form of "chip-embedded passports that someday tell the federal transportation watchdogs all about your daily commutes to work, the mall -- even to parties." Yes, big brother is wanting to watch you. Congress needs to de-fund the TSA immediately if not sooner. What a complete disgrace of an agency. And proof that a good intention paves the road to hell.
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When govt is unwilling or unable to profile potential terrorists and to deal with the obvious threats, then it goes after the law-abiding citizens with invasive searching and intimidation tactics.
A wall of bureaucrats will not protect the public, but they are good at confiscating millions of bottles of water and fingernail clippers.
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"good at confiscating millions of bottles of water and fingernail clippers". Ebay deals.
TSA government jobs, what? $32./hr. with benefits!.
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While they are at it, could they clean the gutters, mow the grass, carry in the groceries, put them away, wash the dishes, brush and walk the dogs, feed the critters, prepare meals, clean the house, dust,...Forget it. It's not worth the cost of freedom.
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You can thank your buddy 'Homeland' Bush next time your undies get frisked at the aeroport...
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..if you check the record, Bush was initially opposed to the project which was pushed by the Donks for political leverage after 9/11. But don't let facts get in the way of your alternate universe.
#7
However, your buddy Obama says its time to bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan because things are better now, so we can anticipate in a few days the announcement that TSA will also be drawn down as well, right?
#8
You really need to read the archives. Bush got a lot of beatings here over the Homeland security and TSA bullshit.
But now, like all government regulation agencies, the TSA is morphing into something that it was never intended to be and taking away more of our freedoms.
#9
The project initially was supposed to be a very temporary security contract to allow the intel service enough time to identify threats.
The democrat congress insisted on making it another permanent federal bureaucratic nightmare.
#10
You have to just laugh or you're heart would explode. Quite frankly, I enjoy watching the TSA ($32./hr. with benefits) slip-shoe, shuck and jive at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport. It reminds me to hit the tax-free munies and to save receipts for the long form.
#16
If the government or your social betters wanted you to have rights, they would have given them to you.
(/me rummages in the desk for a snarkasm tag)
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Oddly enough, Mr. van der Groot, all the Dutch people I met last summer, while wandering though the countryside with my mother, visiting her old haunts, were charming and courteous. Quite like the mathematicians I know, oddly enough. Only you insist on being rude, for some reason, but perhaps you merely have a Dutch name.
I answered your question about American troops last night, by the way. Go read it, and learn something. Then google "Rantburg "Princess Pats" " and "Rantburg Canada" to learn more things. Learning is important, and you need to acquire some.
#19
Just think what the unemployment rate would look like if TSA was shut down. Not nearly as bad as it would look if the federal government merely reverted to what it spent in 2001.
Then he should have called himself Grotswiecki, tu3031. A more varied people, the Poles -- some sweet, and some tough as nails, many both. None of them foolish enough to think that name calling wouldn't get them a punch in the snoot, though.
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On second thought, just as well he didn't, tu3031. To the Poles of Poland, the descriptor of Platonic perfection is "American", whether it is a couch or a man. A Grotswiecki would have immediately revealed himself as a fraud.
#22
I once told a TSA gent who was patting me down (I opted out of getting additional rads) that we should be able to get a clearance certification from our local law enforcement agency. His response was, no, what if someone turned after getting the clearance. My response was what about all of you guys? You've all be "cleared" to do this job. You could turn as easily as any other citizen theoretically could.
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Some security analysts suggest Big Brother will employ an even Bigger Brother in the form of "chip-embedded passports that someday tell the federal transportation watchdogs all about your daily commutes to work, the mall -- even to parties."
I don't carry my passport in country but if Big Brother really wants to, they can already track most people around with GPS chips in your phone and with Onstar-enhanced vehicles. Remotely shut it off and lock doors/windows, too, if reported stolen or just wanted by authorities. Friends in law enforcement have told me they routinely access all sorts of info we would think of as invading our privacy without warrants or our knowledge if they think they may have probable cause. Unfortunately, we cannot undo the "progress" that also gives us incredible conveniences.
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My accountant had his truck stolen. He located it in Philadelphia in an area that had a bad crime rate. He used gps tracking. He called the police and told them where it was. They said sorry. He goes steals his truck back and calls the police to let them know he got it back. They told him never do that again.They don't go there without several cruisers and officers. So it's the easy pickins who get targeted.
"snarkasm tag" that's a keeper.
A britisher comes home and seeing a light in his Gaage looks, an he sees three Yoots rummaging around for whatever they can find, be calls the Bobbies.
The Bobbies tell him "There's nobody available" and hangs up.
He thinks a bit, calls the Bobbies back and says"Don't bother, I've shot them, send a meat wagon"
The Bobbies hit his house with four cars and a helicopter, they catch the Yoots red handed and say, "You said you shot them", He replied "You said nobody was available".
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IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen Benny Gantz instituted new defensive measures along Israel's border with Egypt on Wednesday in the wake of intelligence indicating that additional Palestinian terror groups were planning attacks like the one carried out last Thursday by the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).
Gantz's orders went into effect Wednesday afternoon and included a bolstering of defensive measures along the border with Egypt as well as a stronger emphasis on collection of intelligence by the IDF in Gaza as well as in Sinai in an effort to locate and track terrorists that may be planning attacks against Israel.
Gantz also made changes to the operational doctrine of the Navy Command Center in Eilat which is responsible for protecting southern Israel from threats originating in the Red Sea.
"These are important changes that come in response to the serious threat that Israel faces today from the Sinai peninsula," a military source said.
TEHRAN: Irans president claimed on Tuesday the countrys military can cripple enemies on their own ground as Tehran put a new Iranian-made cruise missile on display, the latest addition to the nations growing arsenal.
It's almost as tall as Short Round...
The state TV reported that the new missile, showcased at a ceremony in Tehran, is designed for sea-based targets, with a range of 124 miles (200 kilometers) and is capable of destroying a warship. The TV said it can travel at low altitudes and has a lighter weight and smaller dimensions.
The best deterrence is that the enemy does not dare to invade, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during the ceremony. As he spoke, the TV showed footage of the weapon, dubbed Ghader, or Capable in Farsi.
The enemy should be crippled on its own ground and not over the skies of Tehran, said Ahmadinejad.
Iran has an array of short and medium range ballistic missiles capable of hitting targets in the region, including Israel and US military bases in the Gulf. In 2010, Tehran displayed other Iranian-made cruise missiles but with a shorter range.
Also on display Tuesday was a new Iranian-made torpedo, dubbed Valfajar, or Dawn in Farsi.
Iran frequently makes laughable announcements about new advances in military technology that cannot be independently verified.
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See also NEWSMAX/TOPIX > {US Senator] INHOFE:IRAN WILL BE ABLE TO HIT US [US East Coast, Western Europe] WID WMDS BY 2015.
NOT "MIGHT BE ABLE", BUT "WILL BE ABLE"???
and
* FYI TOPIX > IRAN MFA: KURDISH MILITANTS [PJAK] DO NOT RECEIVE TRAINING IN ARMENIA.
Again, SHIA IRAN-CHRISTIAN ARMENIA versus JEWISH ISRAEL-[Sunni]MUSLIM AZERBAIJAN.
* SAME > SOMALI PIRATE [Al-Shabaab], LeT TIE-UP [alliance = coop] IS BIG THREAT FOR INDIA.
* SAME > [Gaddafi Crisis] RUSSIA LOSING LIBYA, BUT MAY BE WINNING NORWAY? Russian "OstPolitik" as per International Trade, espec in Military Arms.
[An Nahar] The head of the Loyalty to the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... bloc MP Mohammed Raad slammed on Tuesday the indictment in the Special Tribunal for Leb as "fake", accusing the investigation of being politicized in order to target the Resistance.
He said in a presser to refute the indictment: "The Resistance will determine the way it will defend itself from the indictment and tribunal."
He added: "We had stated in the past that this tribunal does not respect the minimum amount of standards of justice, it does not want to achieve the Lebanese people's interests, and it has adopted circumstantial evidence."
"Such a tribunal cannot be expected to achieve justice and we would not be surprised if it was employed for the interests of imposing foreign hegemony over Leb," the MP continued.
"The tribunal's shortcomings in adopting international standards bolsters our assessment that it is aimed at wrongfully accusing noble resistance fighters," Raad stressed.
The indictment has accused four Hizbullah members of being involved in the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
"The indictment is a political decision dictated by American and Israeli interests," Raad continued.
"Those behind the incitement are delusional in thinking that they can tighten the noose around the Resistance and blackmail it," he added.
Leb is being forced to choose between strife and between subjecting Leb to American and Israeli hegemony, the MP noted.
"The indictment revealed that STL Prosecutor Judge Daniel Bellemare is part of a political investigation based on fabrications aimed at reaching a political decision," he said.
The indictment's terminology demonstrates that the investigation team and the international tribunal are aimed at seeking Dire Revenge™ from the Resistance, Raad stressed.
"The indictment was weak and it justified this by saying that it has not revealed all of its findings," he stated.
The indictment lacked any direct evidence, he continued.
"The Lebanese have unanimously agreed on reaching the truth and justice, but the STL cannot achieve them," the MP remarked.
"A legal investigation should take into consideration any lead and the evidence we had presented in the past demonstrated that Israel was involved in Hariri's investigation," he added.
"The evidence was enough for Bellemare to launch an investigation in Israel's involvement in the crime, but he didn't because the investigation is politicized," he said.
"We are now confronted with a politicized indictment, which was published by an untrusted side," he added.
"It chooses the timing to release it based on political factors in an attempt to destroy the Resistance," he continued.
"The Resistance will not accept the blackmail and it will not succumb to the will of its enemies and its perseverance and national resolve will thwart the goals of all the conspirators," Raad declared.
"The Resistance will determine the way it wants to defend itself and its experience has demonstrated that it can properly deal with the traps being set up by its enemies," he concluded.
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[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... stated on Tuesday that society is not aware of the size of our efforts in government.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting: "We are working within a political society that has had shortcomings in dealing with its duties."
These shortcomings were caused by its mismanagement of public funds, which the led the country towards chaos, he added.
"Leb is not a garbage dump and the Lebanese people must become aware of the size of the conspiracy being devised against them," the MP stated.
"The militia mentality has ended and the government may be toppled, but our dignity will remain intact," Aoun stressed.
"If we fail, it will fail as well," he remarked.
"I have no personal interests to achieve, but I cannot remain silent over errors," he noted.
Regarding the electricity file, he said that it is now being dealt on a "base level."
"We want the establishment of a state that can protect the citizens, while others view it as their own private company," he said.
"It's important that the people realize that an electricity plan is available and another is available to destroy mafias," the FPM leader added.
"They accused us of seeking to avoid the audit bureau, but on the contrary we want the bureau and the government to look into the plan," Aoun said.
Parliament failed to approve an electricity draft law proposed by Aoun that allows Energy Minister Jebran Bassil to receive $1,200,000,000 to implement a project on producing 700 Megawatts of electricity.
The March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... -led opposition says that the draft law gives the minister the freedom to use the amount of money without referring to the cabinet or without any monitoring by the Audit Bureau.
On the security situation in Leb, Aoun accused the Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement of seeking to create sectarian strife in Leb, adding: "The gates of hell won't be able to destroy this small country."
Addressing the Lassa land dispute, he remarked: "This issue dates back to 70 years. It can be resolved through the law seeing as it is not political and it has nothing to do with Hizbullah."
Property disputes erupted in Lassa a few weeks ago when Hizbullah members prevented a Maronite League team from surveying land owned by the Maronite Patriarchate in the predominantly Shiite town of Lassa in the Jbeil District.
They also came after members of the same party prevented an MTV crew from filming a report on the issue in the town.
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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.
JEDDAH: The staff of the Libyan missions in Riyadh and Jeddah have announced on Tuesday that they are shifting their allegiance to the Libyan revolutionaries.
When the TSA was asked to provide legal reasons that definitely spelled out why physically invasive patdowns are legal, without any probable cause, not one TSA person had an answer. There was no legal documentation for enhanced patdowns other than it serves "the essential administrative purpose."
Michel Aoun
