Caroline Munro (English) aka Naomi (first woman ever undeniably killed by James Bond) in "The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)" aka Anna D'Antoni in "Maniac (1980)" aka Margiana in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)" aka Jana Bates in "The Last Horror Film (1982)" aka Dia in "At the Earth's Core (1976)" (age 64)
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Internet note: Tomorrow is the planned blackout of several important Internet sites, including Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, WordPress, and several dozen more sites who have and haven't announced. The actual effect will probably be minimal.
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Caroline Munro was the star of an amazingly, hilariously bad Star Wars ripoff called "Starcrash" (1978), which also had Christopher Plummer and David Hasselhoff.
Themselves. It's a protest about SOPA and other games Hollyweird owned and operated agents [aka congresscritters] are trying to impose in order to retain their standing among the 1 percent. Call me when Occupy Hollyweird starts up.
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tw: They are voluntarily going dark as a protest to two bills before congress, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). The two combined have been nicknamed "The Great Firewall of America", and are regarded as destructive censorship laws.
Congress is already rattled enough so it has put SOPA on hiatus, though its backers are probably planning to insert it as a rider in a "must pass" bill.
The expressed dangers of SOPA and PIPA are described are that the bill would cause "an explosion of innovation-killing lawsuits and litigation"; "block access to many websites, foreign and domestic, at the DNS level, based on the assertion by anyone that they contain copyrighted images, text, or other content; and that ISPs and web hosts would be responsible for carrying out the censorship when ordered to."
"Even the supporters of SOPA and PIPA, such as Disney, CBS, and Sony are endangering their own domains, but seem to be unaware of the fact."
"The legislation would almost certainly kill Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, most email servers, most search engines, many blogs and news information websites, and slow the Internet down to a crawl as unless content was certified as owned, it would have to be treated as illegal."
TL;DR: SOPA and PIPA are effectively like Righthaven as created and enforced by the US government, and applicable to all Internet content.
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FTA: The decline in casualties tracks roughly to the decrease in air strikes, in other words.
In other words, the gung-ho Taliban who have not yet been killed have learned to duck, dodge, weave & take cover.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Kenyan fighter jets attacked two 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... bases in southern Somalia as the military operation to defeat the gunnies entered its fourth month.
The bases targeted in the Sunday attacks are in Jilib town, the cut-thoats' last defensive position before the port city of Kismayu.
Somalia media reports, which were corroborated by the Kenya military, said Kenyan warplanes dropped bombs in an Al-Shabaab camp called Sakhawedin, which is used to store food and ammunition.
A public radio station quoted residents recounting how they saw a huge smoke billowing from the Al-Shabaab camp late on Sunday.
"Sunday 15, January, at about 1.30pm Kenya Air Force jets bombed an Al-Shabaab Command Centre in Jilib, middle Juba, destroying the facility and injuring multiple Al-Shabaab cut-thoats. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the number of casualties is yet to be established," said the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) front man, Major Emmnuel Chirchir (above), in a statement.
"On the same day, at about 1400hrs, the jets bombed Al-Shabaab defensive positions at Bibi, south of Afmadow, destroying eight vehicles, among them four technicals. Several Al-Shabaab fighters are likely to have died," he said.
It was the second time KDF attacked Al-Shabaab bases in the town since the operation started on October 16, last year.
On October 30, last year, Kenyan jet fighters attacked the cut-thoats' positions in Jilib and killed 14 fighters but aid agencies said the raid claimed the lives of civilians.
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Evidently the Kenyans plan to bomb on a quarterly basis. Maybe you don't have to bomb as frequently when your goal is to prevent your opponent from progressing out of the Stone Age.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Rival Libyan militias who for two days clashed bitterly in towns south of Tripoli have settled their deadly dispute through a prisoner swap, a military official told AFP on Monday.
"Last night (Sunday) we carried out a prisoner swap... since then, the fighting has stopped," said Colonel Ahmed Omar Ibrahim al-Fakhi of the Gharyan military council.
"We had captured around 24 fighters from Assaba. They had captured four of our men. We exchanged the prisoners in Gharyan," he added.
Doctor Ibrahim al-Karim, deputy head of central Gharyan hospital, said four people were killed and more than 50 maimed in the festivities between the rival militias, which first erupted on Friday.
Witnesses said the fighting broke out after a man from Gharyan was stabbed and stripped naked in a vegetable market that lies between the adjacent towns of Assaba and Gharyan, approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Tripoli.
Fighters of The Martyrs Brigade of Gharyan said they came under fire from an Assaba militia while setting up a checkpoint in the area. Intense fighting involving rocket and machine gun fire ensued.
"The people who attacked us from Assaba are loyalists of Moamer Qadaffy," said Mohammed al-Matati, a Gharyan fighter receiving treatment for burn wounds at the hospital.
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[Yemen Post] Al-Qaeda Death Eaters released on Monday all the inmates of the central jail of Rada'a, a town they seized on Saturday, local sources told Yemen Post.
The inmates were imprisoned due to criminal cases and they have no ties with Al-Qaeda, affirmed the sources.
The sources said the Death Eaters pledged allegiance to Tareq Al-Dhahab, a tribal leader who is a relative of Anwar Al-Walaki, a Yemeni-American holy man who was killed in a American drone strike last fall.
"Al-Dhahab directed to cut prices of oil derivatives in an attempt to gain sympathy of locals" said a resident of Rada'a, a town of approximately 60,000 people.
They further confirmed that a tribal leader of Rada'a, Abdul-Salam Al-Nosairi, had hosted Al-Dhahab and submitted him keys of the archeological citadel of Alamiria.
Other tribal leaders of Rada'a, some 150 Km south of capital Sana'a, are preparing for holding a meeting on Monday evening to take decisive actions against the bad boys, added they.
Eyewitnesses cited that gunnies deployed in a number of Rada'a streets and controlled government facilitates amid absolute ignorance of security forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising... a demonstration took to streets of Baidha city, raising slogans that rejected Al-Qaeda existence in their governorate and accused forces loyal to the outgoing President 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... of supporting to Al-Qaeda bad boys.
A big shot of the Yemeni opposition has accused Saleh of supporting Al-Qaeda, helping it control Yemeni towns and attempting to show to the world that he is the only man who can defeat Al-Qaeda.
The Assistant Secretary General of the Yemeni Socialist Party, Yahya Abu Asboa, told an Emirati newspaper, Al-Byan, that he has information that Yemeni army and security forces loyal to Saleh cooperate with Al-Qaeda Death Eaters to expand.
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[Yemen Post] Militants believed to belong to al-Qaeda launched Monday offences on government institutions in the southeast city of al-Baythda,some260 Kilometers southwest the Yemeni capital of Sana'a.
The bully boyz continued their assault today and seized control of the central prison releasing all of its inmates. They also attacked an intelligence prison in the city and set it ablaze , leaving a soldier killed and another injured.
The ministry of defense quoted a military source in the city as saying:"a terrorist group attacked Monday the central prison in the Rada and they set an intelligence prison a blaze, which resulted in one soldier killed and another injured,"
The initial accounts of Rada's central prison released inmates are 700 among them serving judiciary sentences.
The bully boyz have began their attacks on Sunday as they took control of key locations in the al-Baytha bustling provincial capital of Rada, including historic Rada castle and communications' building .
The terrorist group declared Rada as an islamist emirate ,as did their fellow group(Ansar al-Sharia ...a Yemeni Islamist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... ) in the southern Abyan bustling provincial capital of Zinjubar in May.
The group is led by Tariq al-Thahab, who is connected by marriage to late American-Yemeni holy man Anwar al-Awlaqi , who was killed a couple of months ago by an American drone.
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Another Pakistan/Somalia in the making.
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Who is funding them?
Iran/Sudan?
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[Yemen Post] Senior Interior Ministry officials in Sana'a told Yemen Post that numerous negotiators were send to Mareb province Monday morning to help convince the kidnappers to free the Norwegian UN official.
The Yemeni officials were optimistic that the release of the Norwegian would take place in the next 36 hours.
Yemen Post contacted the kidnappers tribe to comment on the case, but they refuse to comment until guarantees on their fellow primitive's release are given to them.
Tribesmen from Mareb kidnapped a Norwegian U.N. official from the streets of Yemen's capital Sunday. They tribes are demanding the release of a incarcerated tribal leader.
The kidnappers are demanding the release of Ali Nasser Hareekdan, whom a local council official in Mareb province said was the prime suspect behind the killing of four Yemeni troops.
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[Yemen Post] Violent festivities erupted on Monday morning inside the 62nd Brigade of the Republican Guard led to the killing of four troops.
The festivities erupted inside the brigade located in Arhab district, some 30 kilometers north of Sana'a, as officers and soldiers demanded to dismiss the commander of the brigade, Brig. General Mohammad Hussein Al-Bokhaiti.
Military sources speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... affirmed that the troops revolted against their commander who is accused of corruption, looting public money and committing violations.
The sources said that festivities broke out as the officers and troops rejected orders of Al-Bokhaiti to storm a village nearby to the brigade which is affiliated to the Republican Guard led by son of the outgoing president 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... Marib Press, an independent online newspaper, quoted military sources as saying that the troops refused the orders, arguing that there is no justification for the raid.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... forces of the Republican Guard blocked the main road linking between the capital, Sana'a and Arhab, eyewitnesses affirmed.
They pointed out that military forces extensively deployed along the road amid fears of protest extension to other brigades of the Republican Guard existed in the region.
News reports had revealed that Ahmed Ali Abudllh Saleh directed to use force against the protest movement that hit many camps of the Republican Guard in the framework of what has become known as the institution revolution.
The revolution of institutions have hit many public authorities and resulted in the ouster of tens of corrupt officials in Yemen, as employees insisted on firing their corrupt bosses.
Among those officials who lost their positions as a result of this new revolution were Ali Hassan Al-Shater, Major General Ali Hassan Al-Shater, chief of the Armed Forces Moral Guidance Department and Abdul Khaleq al-Qadhi, chairman of Yemenia airlines.
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[Pak Daily Times] At least ten bad turbans were killed and several others injured during a clash with Frontier Corps (FC) troops in Behlol area near Chamalang Coalfield on Monday. According to sources, security personnel were establishing a checkpost near Behlol when Islamic fascistiopened fire. FC personnel then returned fire, killing ten attackers and injuring several others. Behlol is the area where 15 FC men, including a major, were killed by a group of bad turbans in an ambush about a month ago.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... according to a report from Chamalang, security forces launched a fresh operation in the area against the Marri bully boys. The report says that scores of suspects were also nabbed during the operation and were shifted to undisclosed locations for questioning. According to a FC blurb issued on Monday, security forces have cleared the Behlol area and the coalmine project will be started soon. Chamalang Coalfield is considered one of most prestigious projects of the Pakistain Army and has been operating under heavy security for the past few years. FC personnel are providing an outer cordon to the coalfield area ensuring security of the workforce, including engineers and officials. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... it came under attack from the Marri tribes, who oppose the project.
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[Pak Daily Times] A car boomwent kaboom! inside a residential complex for displaced Shias in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul on Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding five, hospital and police sources said. The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks on Shia targets since a political crisis erupted a month ago, threatening the survival of Iraq's fragile power-sharing government following the withdrawal of US troops.
A Rootersnews hound at the scene of the blast in a small village of Shias from the Shabak minority said the kaboom left a shallow crater four metres across and flesh scattered nearby. A taxi shattered by shrapnel lay 30-metres from the kaboom with pools of blood beneath it.
"All this because of the political conflict over government posts and we are the poorest people paying the price. They want to agitate sectarian unrest, but they won't succeed," Abu Ebrahem, a village resident, said.
Police said they found another car boom at the scene and closed the area for several hours to defuse it. Hospital officials confirmed the casualty toll.
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A police officer and his 14-year-old son were gunned down in Pattani province on Tuesday morning. Police Senior Sergeant Maj Sathaporn Kongput, 50, was killed along with Patcharapon Kongput, his 14-year-old son, in Saiburi district.
The father and son were riding on a motorcycle on the way to the son's school when terrorists insurgents also on a motorcycle shot at them. They died at the scene. Both were hit in the head and torso. Spent cartridge cases from an M16 assault rifle and a 9 mm pistol were found at the scene.
Two surveillance cameras are installed at the site, but they were not working. Local police were on alert following a report that suspected terrorists insurgents planned to kill officials.
[An Nahar] Thai authorities charged on Monday a Lebanese Hizbullah suspect with illegally possessing kabooms. He faces up to five years in prison.
Atris Hussein was jugged by police Thursday at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport, trying to leave the country. Police are still looking for another Lebanese suspect.
Hussein led Thai police Monday to a warehouse filled with materials commonly used to make bombs.
Police confiscated more than 8,800 pounds (4,000 kilograms) of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate during the early morning raid of the warehouse in Samut Sakhon, on the western outskirts of Bangkok, according to police and media reports.
Hussein told police that he and other accomplices had rented the warehouse a year ago, according to a police official.
The official said that police also found shipping containers, leading them to believe the materials were destined for shipment elsewhere, though he declined to say where.
The raid came after the U.S. Embassy issued an "emergency message" Friday warning of a possible terror threat against Americans in Bangkok, and Israel sent out a similar warning to its citizens. A dozen other embassies have since urged their citizens to exercise caution.
Thai authorities were caught off-guard by the U.S. announcement, hastily revealing they had jugged a Swedish national of Lebanese origin with alleged links to Hizbullah on Thursday and that intelligence indicated a plot could be carried out between Jan. 13 and 15.
The defense minister said the news was not released earlier to avoid panic that could hurt Thailand's tourism industry.
Damage control continued Monday, with the prime minister calling for calm.
"I'd like to tell people not to panic. The situation is under control. There is no problem," Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra told news hounds, adding that security was increased and intelligence agencies were closely following the situation.
Details of the alleged plot remained hazy Monday due to a variety of conflicting accounts from Thai officials, some of whom said that Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any plot.
"I think Thailand is likely a transit point for other regions of the world," national police chief Gen. Prewpan Dhamapong told news hounds after the raid. "It is unlikely that they would have staged terror attacks in Thailand."
But the U.S. Embassy said it stood by its warning of a possible attack in Bangkok.
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PM Yingluck bad mouthed America and was doubting the warning Americas made, but then the bomb materials were found later.
[An Nahar] Iran has repeatedly violated a U.N. arms embargo with exports to protest-hit Syria, the French foreign ministry said on Monday, citing a U.N. group of experts.
"The U.N. panel of experts on Iran has identified and informed the Security Council of several violations of the embargo on arms to or from Iran set up by... the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council," said front man Romain Nadal.
"These arms deliveries are illegal and deeply shocking because they benefit a regime that has chosen a kind of repression that the U.N. rights council has repeatedly said constitutes 'crimes against humanity'," he said.
"We condemn these violations and call on Iran and Syria to comply with Security Council resolutions," Nadal said in response to a question about a U.S. accusation that Tehran was sending arms to Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... Senior U.S. officials told Agence La Belle France Presse on Friday that Iran was supplying munitions to aid Syria's bloody protest crackdown in an initiative spearheaded by the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps' elite Quds force, Qasem Soleimani.
Iran is forbidden to import or export weapons or ammunition under the terms of U.N. Security Council resolutions dating from 2007 and 2010 slapped on the Islamic republic because of its controversial nuclear program.
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ION TOPIX > {Military Expert] A. HOVHANNISYAN: IRAN MAY INVOLVE REGION INTO SERIOUS CLASHES.
ARTIC = Dichotomy between escalatory external circumstances or events which appear to make war on Iran seeming inevitable or unavoidable; versus the Political Processes, Actors trying to ensure that such a clash is postponed or does not occur. ISRAEL, ALONE OR BACKED BY THE US ETC. CAN DEFEAT IRAN [in decisive quick war], WHILE IRAN ON ITS PART CAN THREATEN OR INDUCE THE MIDDLE EAST, PERSIAN GULF REGIONS INTO SERIOUS CLASHES + CONFRONTATIONS, + CREATE MAJOR LOCAL WAR + NUMBER OF SMALLER STATIC/FROZEN CONFLICTS OR SUB-WARS???
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* SAME > IRAN'S BIGGEST MISTAKE | TOTAL COLLAPSE OF IRAN-UK DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, EURO CRISES [UK, EU Budget-Econ woes, Scottish independence?] MAY STALL UK'S EFFORT TO PREVENT US-ISRAELI WAR ON IRAN, or conversely an overly harsh or unecesssary Iranian mil response to same.
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All right. So what are the consequences for violating the U.N.'s arms ban?
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..an emergency council meeting, discussions, drafting of a strongly worded rebuke, then its off to a five star restaurant before demanding more money from the Americans.
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"Iran has repeatedly violated a U.N. arms embargo with exports to protest-hit Syria"
So, what else is new. It isn't like anyone is actually going to do anything about it and Iran knows it. Empty words and a waste of bandwidth from An Hahar.
[An Nahar] U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on Monday appealed to the Security Council to act with "seriousness" on Syria, where he said the situation has become "unacceptable."
"The situation has reached an unacceptable point," Ban told news hounds on the sidelines of an energy summit in Abu Dhabi.
"I sincerely hope that the Security Council will handle this in a sense of seriousness and gravity and in a coherent manner.
"I've been urging and appealing to President (Bashar) al-Assad to stop killing ... and to listen to his own people," he said.
"Leaders should always be connected with the people. When a leader is disconnected from the reality and from the people, then this situation is inevitable," he added of 10 months of deadly protests against Assad's regime.
Ban said he hoped the U.N. would act coherently, acknowledging differences of opinion on how to address the situation in Syria where the world body estimates more than 5,000 people have been killed in the crackdown on dissent.
"It is important that the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... speaks and acts in a coherent manner," he said.
"I know there are some differences of opinions among member states of the Security Council, but the number of casualties has reached to such an unacceptable stage," Ban said.
"We cannot let this situation continue like this."
In October, Russia and China vetoed a Western draft resolution that would have condemned Assad's regime. Russia, which is sticking by its ally, later circulated an alternative that would have pointed the finger at both the regime and the opposition.
Ban also commended 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... for sending monitors to Syria despite criticism of the mission that has failed to end the violence.
"I highly appreciate and commend the efforts by the league of Arab states, by dispatching monitors and engaging in discussions with President Assad," he said.
"I sincerely hope they will be able to carry on," he added.
The opposition has called for the vaporous Arab League to pull its observers out of Syria or at least seek U.N. tactical support, saying they have been ineffective in ending the violence and were repeatedly duped by the authorities.
But the League said observers would see the mission through until its initial one-month mandate finishes on January 19.
Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi said on Sunday that a ministerial meeting this week could discuss a Qatari proposal to send Arab troops to Syria.
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Last October, China and Russia vetoed a resolution that would have condemned the violence in Syria and which contained no sanctions.
Today, it is Russia that refuses to condemn Syria, or negotiate in good faith on a Security Counsel resolution regarding Syria.
Ban is going to have to ratchet up pressure on ex-KGB Polkovnik Putin.
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[An Nahar] The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... said Monday that it would start training 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 monitoring the deadly crackdown in Syria within days.
A formal request for help has been made by the vaporous Arab League and the U.N. has agreed to start the training in Cairo after League foreign ministers meet this weekend, a U.N. spokeswoman, Vannina Maestracci, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The training is to be carried out by staff of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Maestracci said.
"At the request of the League of Arab States, the OHCHR has agreed to train observers and will deploy to Cairo to do this training," she said.
A report by the observer mission is to be handed over to Arab League ministers on Thursday and the ministers will meet on Saturday in Cairo to decide the future of the mission.
Maestracci said the training had been scheduled to start earlier but was delayed at the request of the Arab League until after the ministerial meeting.
The U.N. said in early January that it was ready to help the observer mission, which has faced widespread criticism from the Syrian opposition, but that it was waiting for a request from the Arab League.
The spokeswoman was unable to say how many observers would be trained or how many U.N. experts would be involved.
The U.N. says that at least 5,400 people have been killed in Syria since Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Supressor of the Damascenes... crackdown on opposition protests started in March last year.
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ION TOPIX > REPORT: MOSCOW MAY OFFER REFUGE TO ASSAD.
Will Assad resist + fight to the end like Uncle Muammar???
[An Nahar] Russia on Monday distributed a new draft resolution on the Syrian crisis at the U.N. Security Council after facing weeks of criticism over the slow pace of talks, diplomats said.
Western diplomats said however there is no apparent change in the Russian position opposing any strong U.N. action against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's The Scourge of Hama... crackdown on protests which has left thousands dead.
The new resolution was distributed as Germany again complained at the 15-member council over the lack of U.N. action on the worsening crisis, a front man for Germany's U.N. mission said.
"It is high time for the council to have serious negotiations," said the front man stressing how there has been no talks among all 15 members of the council on a Syria resolution for more than three weeks.
Russia and China vetoed a European resolution on Syria in October calling it a move by Western nations toward regime change in Syria.
Russia proposed its own resolution in December but Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and the United States have said the text is not acceptable because it puts opposition violence on the same level as the government's assault which the U.N. says has left more than 5,400 dead.
Diplomats said the latest text distributed by Russia will be discussed by experts on Tuesday. The new text, however, only takes the existing Russian resolution and adds a list of amendments proposed by the European nations and the United States.
"It is a maneuver playing for time," one Western diplomat told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity of the new text.
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[An Nahar] Syrian security forces on Monday killed at least 13 people across the country, among them five army deserters, the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said.
Eight people were killed in the flashpoint central province of Homs while five others were killed in the northwestern province of Idlib, the LCC said.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least five people including a woman were killed and nine others maimed as armed members of the shabiha pro-regime militia shot up a bakery in Homs and burnt it down.
The Britannia-based Observatory also said a 16-year-old girl was shot and fatally maimed by a sniper in Homs, and that security forces fired off mortars at Balioun village in Idlib's Jabal al-Zawiya where hundreds of deserters had gathered.
Violent festivities pitted soldiers against defectors in the same province.
"Twenty soldiers defected. Five of them were killed, the 15 others were able to flee," the Observatory said in statements received by Agence La Belle France Presse.
In Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , security forces tossed in the slammer nine students in a raid on the university of Syria's second largest city, the group added.
The latest violence, defections and arrests came a day after Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... announced a general amnesty for crimes committed since the outbreak of unrest last March 15, a move which the opposition dismissed as a sham.
The amnesty, the third of its kind, covered infringements of the law on peaceful demonstrations, the possession of unlawful weapons and army desertion, the official SANA news agency reported.
But the opposition Moslem Brüderbund, stressing more than 60,000 have been jugged since the start of the unrest, dismissed the amnesty as "neither serious nor credible."
"The regime is trying to make its unrealistic plans for reconciliation and national dialogue credible, and it is in this context that it is making such announcements, for propaganda purposes," the group said.
Human rights lawyer Anwar Bunni said "only hundreds" out of "thousands of people who have been jugged for exercising their right to freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration" were freed.
In the first public call by an Arab leader for a foreign military presence in Syria, the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, said in an interview with U.S. network CBS at the weekend that he favored dispatching Arab troops to Syria to "stop the killing."
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... chief Nabil al-Arabi said on Sunday that an Arab ministerial meeting this week could discuss the emir's proposal.
"All ideas will be open for discussion," he told news hounds in Manama when asked if Saturday's meeting will debate Sheikh Hamad's proposal.
According to a U.N. official, 400 people have been killed since the beginning of an Arab League observer mission in crisis-hit country on December 26.
Former Arab League secretary general Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ... also said on Sunday the League should consider sending troops to Syria.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki said in an interview published on Sunday he opposed foreign military intervention in Syria, saying it would spark an "kaboom" across the entire Middle East.
"Such intervention would signify that the war will spread across the whole region, opening the way to all powers, following the example of Turkey, Israel, Iran and Hizbullah. That would mean the whole region exploding," he said.
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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.
... 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...
Senior Interior Ministry officials in Sana'a told Yemen Post that numerous negotiators were send to Mareb province Monday morning to help convince the kidnappers to free the Norwegian UN official.
... 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...
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[An Nahar] Thai authorities charged on Monday a Lebanese Hizbullah suspect with illegally possessing 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[An Nahar] Syrian security forces on Monday killed at least 13 people across the country, among them five army deserters, the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said.
Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa
