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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Manuela Arcuri (Italy) aka Aixa-Beatriz in "Giovanna la pazza (Joanna the mad)(2001)" aka Maria Grazia Volpetti in "A ruota libera (Freewheeling) (2000)" aka Nina in "Teste di cocco (Heads of coconut)(2000)" aka Ragazza Bruna in "Voglio stare sotto al letto (Want to be beneath the bed)(1999)" aka Carmen Tabacchi in "'Il peccato e la vergogna' ('The sin and shame') TV (2010)" aka Maria in "La notte delle streghe (The night of the witches)(2003)" (age 35)
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She/He's obviously a NE Patriot franchise paid- "comfort human" from S. America...But, when it comes to automated personal satisfaction providers, it's really a tough call. Pats will go down! (a prior New Englander)
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K-MAX was developed specifically as a cargo bird; petroleum off shore equipment deliveries as well as logging. The USN also tested as a possible CH-46 VERTREP replacement aircraft. It is a no frills aircraft and with the drone capabilities it looks like a good thing.
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The trouble with cargo lift is two fold. First is that economy of scale truly matters. A bird like the Antonov An-225 Mriya (larger than an Airbus 380), which has carried 250 tons of payload, can do in a single trip what it would take a smaller aircraft a dozen trips to do.
But the big problem is cargo shift. Over a certain amount of cargo and you are limited by the amount of crosswinds a plane can handle; and if it is liquid, you almost have to have human pilots to handle the instability.
(Channelling 'Moose) But the big problem is policy shift. Over a certain amount of poll drop and you are limited by the amount of blame a politician can handle; and if it is documented, you almost have to have Eric Holder to handle the instability.
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Its gonna be weird to NOT see manned B-52 BUFFS or C-130's, etc. fly around anymore.
On a separate nore, even iff the USDOD is correct in no major wars ever taking place for the duration/remainder of the 21st Century [2050-2100], THERE IS STILL EXTANT THE IMPORTAN ISSUE OF LACK OF UNIVERSAL GOVT, PERT CONSENSUS AS PER "PEAK RESOURCES/ENERGY", ETC. [GWCC = MMAGW].
Which will directly or indirectly affect present + future NT = Space Techs, + or fourse the OWG-NWO that no American = Amerikan, OWG Mighty USSA versus OWG Weak USRoA Global SSR, has yet voted for nor been asked to.
[Iran Press TV] More than 60 people have been killed after Kenyan warplanes bombarded southern Somalia, a Kenyan military front man has announced.
The Arclight airstrikes happened in Garbaharey town on Friday, Col. Cyrus Oguna said Saturday.
He claimed that 60 al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... fighters were killed and about 50 others were maimed in the Arclight airstrikes.
Last October, Kenya sent soldiers over its border into Somalia to pursue al-Shabaab. The Kenyan military claims to have killed hundreds of Somali fighters, but eyewitnesses said civilians are the victims of the Arclight airstrikes.
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It's a start....
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[An Nahar] A northeastern Nigerian state where attacks on Christians left around 30 people dead was put under round-the-clock curfew Saturday amid a new wave of violence blamed on Islamists.
President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... a week ago placed parts of northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... under emergency rule in a bid to curb escalating violence after 49 people were killed on Christmas Day, most of them at a Catholic church.
The move has not stopped attacks, with Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... targeting more Christians and a regional police headquarters in recent days, heightening fears of widespread religious violence in Africa's most populous nation.
"Following spates of attacks in some parts of the state, the government hereby imposes a 24-hour curfew throughout the state," Adamawa state government secretary Kobis Ari said.
More than 30 Christians were bumped off in three separate attacks attributed to Boko Haram in Adamawa state and neighboring Gombe state, which are not part of the region where the emergency rule is in force.
Eleven worshippers were killed Friday evening at a church in Adamawa's state capital Yola, and 17 other Christians were rubbed out in Mubi town in the same state.
On Thursday evening, gunnies had stormed a church in Gombe city and opened fire as worshippers prayed, killing six people including the pastor's wife.
The attacks followed an ultimatum issued last Sunday by the Islamists ordering Christians to leave the mainly Mohammedan north for the predominantly Christian south within three days.
Soldiers and police have deployed in Yola erecting checkpoints at strategic positions, state police spokeswoman Altine Daniel said.
"We have mobilized all our men for this task of maintaining law and order," she added.
In Potiskum, further north in Yobe state, hundreds of residents decamped their homes Saturday after all-night shootouts between Islamists and security forces.
A policeman and a civilian were killed when the gunnies robbed three banks, according to residents. They said people had decamped Potiskum for fear of military raids in the aftermath of the attack.
"Our men engaged Boko Haram gunnies in shootouts for most of the night, which led to some deaths and injuries," Yobe state police commissioner Lawan Tanko said.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden", is a shadowy group believed to have a number of factions with differing aims, including a hard-core Islamist wing.
It launched an uprising in 2009 that was put down by a brutal military assault which left some 800 people dead.
Since the group re-emerged in 2010, it has been blamed for increasingly sophisticated and deadly attacks, including an August suicide kaboom of U.N. headquarters in Abuja that killed 25.
There have been fears of reprisals from Christians, and Christian leaders have warned they will defend themselves if attacks continue.
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Well of COURSE they instituted a curfew - otherwise the Christians might fight back.
[An Nahar] The head of Nigeria's Christians said Saturday the killing of dozens of faithful in attacks blamed on Islamists suggested "ethnic and religious cleansing" reminiscent of the start of the 1960s civil war.
Christians will "do whatever it takes" to defend themselves, Ayo Oritsejafor, head of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said after a meeting of church leaders.
More than 30 worshippers have been rubbed out in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... since Wednesday, many while praying in churches, after the expiration of an ultimatum by an Islamist sect for Christians to leave the country's mainly Moslem north.
Oritsejafor said an emergency meeting of church heads concluded "that the pattern of these killings does suggest to us a systematic ethnic and religious cleansing."
The attacks have brought back memories of the start of the Nigerian civil war which claimed over a million lives in the late 1960s, the leaders said.
"We are reminded by the occurrences of these killings of the genesis of the civil war that took place here in Nigeria," said Oritsejafor, reading from a statement prepared after the meeting in the capital Abuja.
Nigeria's 160 million people are roughly divided between a mainly Moslem north and predominantly Christian south, but followers of both faiths co-exist in different regions.
The escalating attacks have raised fears of reprisals.
Oritsejafor said the Christian leaders resolved to "work out means to defend ourselves against these senseless killings."
"We have the legitimate right to defend ourselves and ... we will do whatever it takes," he said, without elaborating.
The leaders also denounced state governors in the areas where the killings occurred for failing to stop the violence.
"We hold them responsible for these heinous killings of people taking place in their states. We will not take it lightly."
Adamawa state, where most of the killings happened on Friday, was on Saturday placed under a 24-hour curfew in an effort to stem the carnage.
President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... a week ago placed parts of northeast Nigeria under emergency rule in a bid to curb escalating violence after 49 people were killed on Christmas Day, most of them at a Catholic church.
The move did not stop attacks, however, with Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... targeting more Christians and a regional police headquarters in recent days, heightening fears of widespread religious violence in Africa's most populous nation.
"Following spates of attacks in some parts of the state, the government hereby imposes a 24-hour curfew throughout the state," Adamawa state government secretary Kobis Ari said late Saturday afternoon.
More than 30 Christians were bumped off in three separate attacks attributed to Boko Haram in Adamawa state and neighboring Gombe state, which were not covered by the president's state of emergency.
Eleven worshippers were killed Friday evening at a church in Adamawa's state capital Yola, and around 20 others were rubbed out in Mubi town in the same state.
On Thursday evening, gunnies stormed a church in Gombe city and opened fire as worshippers prayed, killing six people including the pastor's wife.
A purported front man of Boko Haram last Sunday ordered Christians to leave the mainly Moslem north for the predominantly Christian south within three days.
Soldiers and police have deployed in Yola, erecting checkpoints at strategic positions, state police spokeswoman Altine Daniel said.
In Potiskum, further north in Yobe state, hundreds of residents decamped their homes Saturday after fierce all-night shootouts between Islamists and security forces.
A policeman and a civilian were killed when the gunnies robbed three banks, according to residents. They said people had decamped parts of Potiskum for fear of military raids in the aftermath of the attack.
"Our men engaged Boko Haram gunnies in shootouts for most of the night, which led to some deaths and injuries," Yobe state police commissioner Lawan Tanko said.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden", is a shadowy group believed to have a number of factions with differing aims, including a hard-core Islamist wing.
It launched an uprising in 2009 that was put down by a brutal military assault which left some 800 people dead.
Since the group re-emerged in 2010, it has been blamed for increasingly sophisticated and deadly attacks, including an August suicide kaboom of U.N. headquarters in Abuja that killed 25.
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[Iran Press TV] People in Yemen have once again held anti-regime protests in major cities calling for the trial of outgoing dictator President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... Demonstrators have been calling for Saleh's trial for his role in the killing of hundreds of protesters during the popular uprising that began in late January 2011.
Cities such as Sana'a, Hudaydah, and Taizz have been the scene of recurring protests after Saleh was granted immunity from prosecution.
In November, Saleh signed a deal in Riyadh, brokered by the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC), which granted him immunity from prosecution in return for handing over power after 33 years of iron-fisted to acting leader Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The United States, which regarded Saleh as a pillar of its "counter-terrorism" strategy for years, pushed the power transition deal through, while Soddy Arabia has supported Saleh by donating diesel and crude oil to the country.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... High Commission for Human Rights has censured Yemen's security forces for using live ammunition against unarmed protesters and has said that outgoing ruler should not get amnesty in a deal to persuade him to leave power.
Saleh opponents say that since the power transfer deal, Saleh has been seeking to maintain his influence over the country through loyalists in his ruling party and through security forces commanded by his son and nephew.
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[An Nahar] Hundreds of Bahrainis gathered on Saturday for a demonstration called by the Shiite-led opposition defying a ban by police.
Cleric Sheikh Ali Salman, who heads the main Shiite opposition formation al-Wefaq, appeared along with leading opposition figures among the protesters, according to rights activist Yousif al-Mahafda and footage posted on social networks.
The demonstration on the service lane of a highway leading to Manama was called for by four opposition groups, led by al-Wefaq.
Riot police blocked the roads leading to the assembly point in Tubli, southwest of the capital, forcing demonstrators to gather across the road, former MP Matar Matar told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Salman later told demonstrators to go home after fruitless negotiations with the police, saying that the "message was delivered," Matar said.
The interior ministry said in a statement on Friday that it had rejected a request by al-Wefaq to hold the rally because it would "obstruct traffic along the main road."
Demonstrations have become commonplace in Shiite villages despite a heavy-handed crackdown that ended a month-long pro-democracy protest in mid-March.
Riot police regularly clash with demonstrators and use tear gas to disperse gatherings.
An international probe into Bahrain's crackdown on protests found that 35 people were killed in the unrest, including five security personnel and five detainees who were tortured to death in jug. Hundreds were maimed.
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DETROIT: A judge on Friday postponed the sentencing of a Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner but said passengers who cant make the new date can speak publicly to the man known as the underwear bomber at court later this month.
US District Judge Nancy Edmunds moved the sentencing to Feb. 16 to give Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab more time to review a pre-sentence report prepared by the US Probation Department. But if passengers have conflicts and want to stick to the original date, there will be a hearing on Jan. 19 solely to take their statements.
Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Tukel said at least seven people have expressed interest in speaking, just a fraction of the nearly 300 passengers and crew aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas 2009.
Abdulmutallab tried to ignite a bomb in his underwear on the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight but it failed. He pleaded guilty in October on the second day of his trial and faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
Abdulmutallab, accused of working for the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, said he was retaliating for the US treatment of Muslims around the world. Hes been in custody at a federal prison in Michigan since his arrest.
Abdulmutallab, 25, is acting as his own lawyer. The Friday hearing was held in response to his request to get rid of Anthony Chambers, an attorney assigned to assist him. Abdulmutallab says they rarely meet or talk, and he asked for a lawyer who is Muslim. Chambers denied the allegations. Edmunds said he would stay on the case.
Mr. Chambers and his staff have done an extraordinary job ... far more than what standby counsel usually does, the judge said, adding that Abdulmutallab doesnt even have a right to standby counsel if hes representing himself.
And now for the nutty part of the news:
Lori and Kurt Haskell, two suburban Detroit lawyers who were on Flight 253, said they would speak in court on Feb. 16. Kurt Haskell believes the US government conspired with Abdulmutallab and outfitted him with an intentionally defective bomb. On his blog, Haskell suggests Abdulmutallab will be secretly released after sentencing.
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he plead guilty and there's a mandatory life sentence. No presentence hearing is needed. Just do it
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Sounds like the Haskell's have some issues like sanity. I'd put them on suicide watch.
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on pay-per-view? How much?
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[Dawn] Police claimed killing the commander of Tehrik-i-Taliban Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Yaseen Shah in Bloody Karachi's ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Gulshan-i-Jamal area on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
Shah's accomplice Abdul Qadir was locked away from the scene of the shootout.
Chief of Bloody Karachi's criminal investigations division Fayyaz Khan said two coppers were also maimed in the incident.
He said Shah opened fire when officers intercepted his car on a road and demanded that he stop.
Khan said Shah was behind a number of liquidations in Bloody Karachi.
Moreover, DawnNews quoted police as saying that Shah was also the criminal mastermind behind the recent hand grenade attacks on mobile phone franchises.
Police said Shah was traced after a suspect locked away two days earlier told the authorities of his whereabouts.
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[Dawn] Rebels lobbed grenades at a major cop shoppe in Indian-administered Kashmire on Saturday, authorities said, wounding three civilians and two coppers. Pakistain was just saying a week or so ago how they were gonna extend "diplomatic and moral support" the the Kashmire Killer Korps.
A suspected orc was killed when police shot back after the raid on the cop shoppe in northern Sopore town around noon.
"One of the attackers was killed in the encounter that ensued after police launched a search operation minutes after the attack," a police officer said.
"We are searching more structures in the area as we believe the attackers were more than one," he added, asking not to be named because he was not authorised to talk to the media.
Kashmire has been hit by an insurgency since 1989 that has left more than 47,000 people dead by official count.
Militant violence has dropped sharply in Kashmire since India and Pakistain, which each hold the region in part but claim it in full, started a grinding of the peace processor in 2004.
Last month snuffies made an abortive attempt on the life of a senior Kashmire minister in the ruling pro-India alliance.
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Two things "militants" can't stand is army camps and schools. Especially schools for girls...
[Dawn] Militants fired three rocket-propelled grenades at a Pakistain army camp in the town of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... in the North Wazoo tribal region, military officials said. There were no casualties.
In a separate incident, gunnies set off explosives at a boys' school in Miranshah, damaging part of the building.
The tribal region is alleged to be a stronghold of Taliban fighters targeting American and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces in Afghanistan.
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[Dawn] At least six bully boyz were killed and 12 injured on Friday after Lashkar-i-Islam and its rival Zakhakhel tribal force exchanged gunfire to gain control of a key base in Bazaar Zakhakhel area of Landi Kotal on Friday.
Officials said the dead were six Lashkar-i-Islam fighters, while the maimed included six fighters of the cut-thoat outfit and six Zakhakhel force volunteers.
They said Lashkar-i-Islam fighters attacked the Shankhel base of Zakhakhel force near Nari Baba area but the attack was repulsed after prolonged exchange of fire.
Officials said the two groups had many bloody festivities over the last many days for the control of key hilltops in the area.
Also in the day, the head of a peace committee remained safe in a blast targeting him in Sangar Khwar area of Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency on Friday.
An bomb planted near the house of Malik Mohammad Ali Haleemzai went off without causing any damage to the head of the peace committee.
The levies and khasadar ...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India... personnel cordoned off the area and began an operation to hunt the perpetrators of the blast. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... no arrest could be made until late night.
Mr Haleemzai told Dawn that he and his guards were safe and that he was inside the house when the bomb went off.
He said he was the apparent target of the blast as he used the passage, where the bomb was planted, to go to the
regional headquarters of Ghalanai in car.
Local political administration started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unidentified myrmidons and began investigation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... a khasadar pegged out at Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital on Friday.
Taj Mohammad, a resident of Gul Bar Shah Korona Ekkaghound, was doing his duty on a bridge near Ekkaghound on the main Peshawar-Bajaur highway when a speeding coach hit him. With critical maimed, he was shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital, where he died.
In a similar incident in Charsadda district's Ibrahimzai area, a government girls' school was blown up by bully boyz early on Friday.
Police and locals said myrmidons planted an improvised bomb inside the building of a government school for girls in Ibrahimzai area near Sradheri and that went off in the small hours of Friday.
They said the blast damaged the school's boundary wall, rooms, furniture and documents.
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Pervez Musharraf, who resigned as Pakistan's president in 2008, will be arrested on arrival in the country later this month, the Press Trust of India reported, citing a prosecutor.
Musharraf is a "proclaimed offender" and there's no need for a warrant for this arrest, PTI reported today, citing Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, prosecutor at the Federal Investigation Agency. Musharraf lives in Dubai and London and plans to return to Pakistan on Jan. 25 or Jan. 27, according to the report.
A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf in February over allegations he played a role in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the AP reported at the time, citing prosecutors. He hadn't been charged in the case, AP said.
Though praising Israel will be his death warrant. What's the over/under once he arrives at the airport?
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I'd send his body double - David Axelrod - instead.
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[Dawn] A Syrian military official has defected in protest at a government crackdown on months of demonstrations against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... rule, footage on Al Jizz English's website showed on Saturday.
Flanked by soldiers brandishing rifles, a man named by Al Jizz as Colonel Afeef Mahmoud Suleiman read out a statement saying they were defecting after witnessing acts of violence by the army on protesters.
"We soldiers have defected from this army after watching the military and security forces killing protesting civilians with all kinds of weapons," said Suleiman, whom Al Jizz said was from the army's air force logistics division in the city of Hama.
Al Jizz reported that up to 50 soldiers had defected along with Suleiman. Thirteen men dressed in camouflage could be seen standing behind him in the video.
The pan-Arab satellite channel also said on its website the soldiers had decided to protect protesters in Hama and quoted Suleiman asking Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... observers to visit areas affected by "air raids and attacks". The comments were not made in the clip broadcast on the website.
A team of Arab League monitors arrived in Syria last week to verify whether the government was implementing a plan to scale back its military presence and free thousands of prisoners jugged during the unrest.
Suleiman also invited the monitors to "uncover three cemeteries in Hama filled with more than 460 corpses", according to Al Jizz.
The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... says more than 5,000 people, many of them peaceful protesters, have been killed since the uprising began in March.
The Syrian government says it is facing an armed insurgency and that what it calls "terrorists" have killed 2,000 members of the security forces.
There was no independent confirmation of the soldiers' defection. Syria bars most independent journalists from the country, making first-hand reporting difficult.
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[Iran Press TV] Amid the anti-Iran war rhetoric, the British Royal Navy has dispatched its most advanced and sophisticated destroyer to the Persian Gulf.
The Ministry of Defense confirmed on Saturday that the one-billion-pound destroyer would join the British presence in the region. The Telegraph claimed the vessel has been fitted with new technology in order to shoot down any missile in Iran's armory.
The new anti-Iran measure comes after the US is reportedly sending thousands of American troops, warships and weaponry to Israel for joint military maneuvers with Tel Aviv.
Commander of the US Third Air Force based in Germany Lt.-Gen Frank Gorenc described the deployment as not just an "exercise," but a "deployment."
The US and its Western allies have put more pressure on Iran following the release of the latest report by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in November.
The IAEA accused Tehran of conducting activities related to developing nuclear weapons. Iran, however, strongly dismissed the allegations.
The war threats come after four rounds of US-backed sanctions imposed by the UN and unilateral sanctions by certain US allies failed to stop Iran's peaceful nuclear program.
Last week, Iran's Navy wrapped up massive 10-day military drills in the strategic Strait of Hormuz to show that the country is ready to defend itself against any attack.
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one wonders how may sailors the RN is willing to let be kidnapped to avoid 'escalation' this time around.
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HMS DARE-TO-BE-DARING ...
versus
* WAFF > US NAVY + UK ROYAL NAVY F-35 [F-35C CV FSF] UNABLE TO GET [land] ABOARD SHIP [Aircraft Carriers].
ARTIC = denotes that it may be a long long time before the US Armed Services, etc. sees any F-35 JSF variant in ready, go-to-war configuration.
[Iran Press TV] Thousands of people have gathered at a mosque in the Syrian capital to perform funerary prayers for the victims of the bombing attacks that left 26 people dead.
The mass funeral ceremony was held at the al-Hassan mosque on Saturday.
Friday's kaboom that targeted a police bus in central Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... also injured more than 60 others.
The terrorist attack was the second incident in two weeks to hit the Syrian capital.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March and the UN said more than 5,000 people have been killed in the country over the past nine months.
Damascus says over 2,000 of those killed were members of its security forces.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing protesters. Damascus blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups'' for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... observers are in Syria to investigate the country's months-long unrest and to monitor the implementation of a peace initiative presented by the Arab bloc to put an end to the crisis.
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Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... (LA) observers are in Syria to investigate the country's unrest and to monitor the implementation of a peace initiative presented by the Arab bloc to put an end to the crisis.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March and thousands of people have been killed in the country over the past nine months.
The West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of killing protesters, while Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups,'' insisting that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
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author and lecturer in Washington who shares his in-depth insights of the movements by Western and Arab elements behind the scenes to destabilize Syria and terrorize its people. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: What is your reaction to our first speaker and to the US' broader plan to, let's put it this way, at a minimum create this unrest in the country?
Webster Tarpley: Let me confirm some things that the first speaker said. I was in Syria myself in the second half of November and I visited Homs and I went to the Zahra neighborhood and in particular the Zahra hospital and the main demand that was raised by ordinary people of all religions was that they don't want the Syrian army taken out of there; they want the Syrian army to come in.
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Webster Griffin Tarpley - one of the most incisive critics of Anglo-American hegemony. As an activist historian he is best known for his book George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), a masterpiece of research which is still a must read. He is a 9/11 Truth Scholar and activist
nice pic of Teh Crazee on his bio site. I bet he's on PressTV's retainer rolodex
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Does Ron Paul know this guy is available for some consulting work?
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Ah. Another Press TV source that proves my batshit crazy theory.
Thanks, Press TV.
[Bangla Daily Star] Syria's interior ministry has vowed to "strike back with an iron fist" at what it say is a recent "escalation" of anti-government terror attacks.
It comes after a bomb in the capital, Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , killed at least 26 civilians and members of the security forces.
Opposition groups have accused the government of planting the bomb to discredit their opponents and influence Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... monitors.
The monitors are assessing the progress of a regional peace plan. But activists say the government crackdown has continued, with scores of people killed since the monitors arrived.
The UN says more than 5,000 civilians have been killed since protests against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike... began 10 months ago.
The Damascus blast happened at a busy junction in the Midan district of Damascus. State TV showed the shattered blood-stained windows of what appeared to be a bus carrying coppers.
Authorities say most of those killed were civilians, but some security personnel were among the casualties.
Interior Minister Ibrahim al-Shaar blamed the attack on a jacket wallah, who he said had "let 'er rip with the aim of killing the largest number of people".
"We will strike back with an iron fist at anyone tempted to tamper with the security of the country or its citizens," he said.
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[An Nahar] 23 Syrian civilians were rubbed out on Saturday as the regime held funerals on Saturday for 26 people killed in a Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... suicide kaboom that it called a "terrorist attack," promising an "iron fist" response to the second such incident in two weeks.
Local Coordination Committees announced that Syrian security forces rubbed out 23 civilians including a child.
The Committees said that the 7 non-combatants were killed in Homs, 4 others in Harasta in Reef Damascus, and 12 in Idlib.
Seventeen civilians were reported killed on Friday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the funerals were taking place in the al-Hassan mosque in the working-class Midan neighborhood where Friday's attack took place.
The opposition has pointed the finger at the regime itself, as it did after similar attacks in the capital on December 23, in which 44 people died.
As thousands of regime supporters gathered outside, many waving flags, Damascus mufti Bashir Eid preached a funeral sermon in the presence of several ministers, officials and ordinary people.
"With our souls and our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you," the crowd outside chanted to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... The ruling party's Al-Baath daily devoted half of its Saturday issue to the attack, in which 63 people were also maimed, including two pages of color photos of the carnage.
The headline leading three pages of commentary and interviews said Syrians were calling for the perpetrators to be "struck with an iron fist."
On Friday, the interior ministry said "we will strike with an iron fist all those who undermine the security of the nation."
Another headline said "we are not afraid of oil money," an allusion to alleged involvement in the 10-month-old pro-democracy uprising by Gulf Arab oil states.
And the official Ath-Thawra daily said "terrorism is uprooted, not cured, and its eradication is inevitable."
It pointed the finger at Islamists, saying they "committed many crimes in the past and they are doing it again today as a sign of defiance."
That was a reference to bloody attacks during a rebellion by the Moslem Brüderbund between 1978 and 1986 which was brutally crushed by Assad's late father and predecessor, Hafez.
But the Brotherhood, which has since renounced violence, said on Friday that "we hold the regime, its agents and its gangs, fully responsible for this crime."
It had also accused the government of orchestrating the December 23 attacks that the regime blamed on Al-Qaeda, and it called for an international probe, claiming the attack benefited the regime.
The umbrella Syrian National Council, which includes the Brotherhood, said Friday's bombing "clearly bears the regime's fingerprints."
The United States condemned the attack, again calling for Assad to step down, while U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said "all violence is unacceptable and must stop immediately."
Assad ally Iran condemned the "terrorist attack."
Foreign ministry front man Ramin Mehmanparast said: "Without doubt, the unity and vigilance of the Syrian government and people are disappointing the enemies of Syria who think only of internal war, breaking up the country and making it submit to the demands of the axis of America and Zionism."
The SNC said the U.N. Security Council had to take up the matter of the bloodshed, which the world body estimated in December had killed more than 5,000 people since pro-democracy protests erupted last March.
It said "a joint effort between the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... and the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council represents a first step toward the urgent and necessary measures to assure the protection of civilians, and to ensure that the regime does not commit additional bombings and killings."
Activists have called for an Arab League observer mission that has been in the country since December 26 to admit its failure to stem the bloodshed and hand the task over to the United Nations.
U.N. leader Ban reaffirmed an offer to train the vaporous Arab League observers.
The mission has been trying to assess whether the government is complying with a peace deal aimed at ending its deadly crackdown.
But there has been no let-up in the violence amid new criticism of the observers.
The Arab League is to meet in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the mission.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, who heads an Arab League task force on Syria, has acknowledged "mistakes" in the monitoring mission.
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[An Nahar] A high-ranking Syrian security official condemned on Friday Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat's ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... recent calls to introduce "radical change" in the Syrian regime, saying that the Druze leader has once again allied himself with former Premier Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. and Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... chief Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... , reported the Kuwaiti Al-Seyassah newspaper on Friday.
The official said before a Lebanese Druze delegation: "When the time comes for settling scores, Jumblat will be dealt with in the same manner as Hariri and Geagea, as well as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffery Feltman."
He noted that Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... has so far avoided creating any security problems with Jumblat, especially in his stronghold of Mount Leb.
The Syrian official warned however that this calm will not last much longer.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... sources monitoring the Syrian crisis told the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat in remarks published on Saturday that the March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... -led opposition "would be wrong to believe that Jumblat is paving the way to returning to his former allies."
"The MP has his own specific position on the developments in Syria," they said.
"He is seeking to keep Leb away from the crisis because getting involved in it will only create more sectarian tensions," they added.
"Jumblat is not seeking to part ways with the government because he has not alternative to turn to," they explained.
The majority of Syria's Lebanese allies, starting with Hizbullah, were not pleased with his latest position on Syria, they said.
Hizbullah however is seeking to maintain the calm in Leb at the time being, they stated.
Furthermore, the sources noted that the MP's support for the resumption of the national dialogue does not stem from the need to reach an agreement on a defense strategy for Leb, but from a need to keep the country away from the Syrian crisis.
Jumblat had stated on Tuesday that history has proven that popular movements cannot slow down, but they only gain momentum.
He said citing late Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel: "If only Russia and Iran would consider the 'power of the powerless' in their approach towards the Syrian crisis."
"They should admit that the situation cannot be resolved through security measures, but by introducing a radical change to the ruling regime," he stressed in a statement on the Syrian crisis and Russia and Iran's ongoing support for the ruling Syrian regime.
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(Reuters) - Iran launched a military maneuver near its border with Afghanistan on Saturday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Is this the "Great Prophet VIII" games, or did "Great Prophet VII" go into overtime?
Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces, said the "Martyrs of Unity" exercises near Khvat, 60 km (40 miles) from Afghanistan, were "aimed at boosting security along the Iranian borders," Fars reported.
The Revolutionary Guards' naval forces' 10-day exercise in the Gulf that ended last Monday worsened relations with Washington days after U.S. President Barack Obama approved sanctions that aim to stop countries buying Iranian oil.
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TOPIX > EXPERT: CENTRAL ASIAN STATES SUSPICIOUS OF IRAN.
ARTIC = CAR Muslim Govts = -Stans prefer or don't want Iran to be a Member of the SCO-CSTO, + believe Iran covertly fosters or supports local insurgencies + violent MilTerr Groups.
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* SAME > [Stephen Blanch = US Army War College]EXPERT: LOSS OF DRONE TECH EXPANDS IRAN THREAT TO MIDDLE EAST, CAUCASUS, CENTRAL ASIA.
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