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Africa Horn
Sudan declares emergency in border states
KHARTOUM/MOSCOW: Sudan declared a state of emergency along its border with South Sudan yesterdday, in a move that imposes a trade embargo on the South and suspends the constitution, official news agency SUNA said.
It's certainly an emergency to them...
President Omar Bashir issued a resolution declaring the emergency in the border states of South Kordofan, White Nile and Sennar, it said. The measure follows a month of border fighting with South Sudan, which separated last July after a peace deal ended one of Africa's longest civil wars.

An emergency has already been in effect for almost a decade in Darfur, along the western border with South Sudan, while a similar status took effect in Blue Nile state last September when an ethnic insurgency began.

Trade across the frontier has unofficially been banned since South Sudan's independence but the emergency formalizes that prohibition. Bashir’s resolution "gives the right to the president and anyone with his mandate" to establish special courts, in consultation with the chief justice, SUNA said.
This means South Sudan needs to build a pipeline to the Indian Ocean via Kenya. Start talking...
The measures come amid heightened nationalist feelings in Sudan after South Sudan occupied the north's main Heglig oil field for 10 days, a move which coincided with Sudanese air strikes against the South. It was the most serious fighting since the South's independence, and raised fears of a wider war.

Sudan declared on April 20 that its troops had forced the Southern soldiers out of Heglig, but the South said it withdrew of its own accord. During the Heglig occupation Bashir threatened to overthrow South Sudan's "insect" government.

Separately, Sudan's foreign minister meets his Russian counterpart today in hopes of securing the traditional ally's backing in its bloody territorial and oil dispute with the newly independent South.
In return Russia gets the oil concession. Nice...
The talks follow Sudan's rejection on Saturday of an African Union decision to ask the UN Security Council to endorse its call for the two Sudans to quickly halt hostilities and complete a peace pact within three months.Russia, which wields veto power on the Security Council, generally resists any sanctions against sides involved in regional or internal conflicts such as the one now raging in Syria.

But the United States submitted a draft resolution last week providing for additional steps that include sanctions should the two sides fail to abide by the African Union plan.

Analysts said Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti will be keen to win his counterpart Sergei Lavov's support at the United Nations should the US resolution go to a vote.

"Russia will speak out against sanctions. It made its position clear quite a long time ago," said Greater Middle East Conflict Analysis Centre director Alexander Shumilin."But speaking out against sanctions does not necessarily mean vetoing them," he said in reference to Russia's possible abstention in a move that would let the sanctions pass.
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Africa North
Salafis could swing the election in Egypt
Posted by: ryuge || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Egypt's military to reshuffle government
But I think we all saw this coming...
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's ruling military, has told parliament speaker Saad al-Katatni that he will reshuffle the government, the Muslim Brotherhood website said on Sunday.

"Field Marshal Tantawi tells Katatni said he will reshuffle the government in the coming hours," the site said.

The move came after the Islamist-dominated parliament decided to suspend sessions for a week in protest at the military refusing to sack the government and name the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) to head a new one.

A marathon election which ended in January saw Egypt's two main Islamist parties catapulted to the centre stage of politics, clinching nearly three quarters of the 498 seats in parliament. The FJP, political arm of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, has been pressuring the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ever since to sack the government and name it to lead a new cabinet.

But the SCAF, which took over when president Hosni Mubarak was ousted on February 11 last year after a popular uprising, has continued to back Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzuri's government. Ganzuri was a minister under Mubarak and is accused by the Islamists of stalling the revolution.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another Pakistan in the making......
Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303 || 04/30/2012 10:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe. Or maybe a Turkey.

OTOH, anything or anyone that opposes the Muslim brotherhood has my tacit support. If it means Egypt in flames (or for that matter the whole middle east in flames - let them live out their medieval fantasies) I can't see how that would be our concern. It has far more upside than downside.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/30/2012 11:26 Comments || Top||


Egyptian Forces Arrest 2 Hamas Members In Sinai
Egyptian security forces in Sinai placed in long-term storage 2 members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported on Sunday. 

They were picked up by security forces while traveling in a taxi near a security checkpoint in Sinai.

The two suspects confessed to having crossed illegally into Egyptian territory through smuggling tunnels between the Gazoo Strip and Sinai, an Egyptian Interior Ministry source told the Egyptian newspaper. They were referred to the military prosecutor, he added.

The two Paleostinian men, Bassam Mahmoud, 34, and Haitham Ibrahim Shehta, 37, are from Ramallah in the West Bank, according to the report. 
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Arabia
Wife: Bahrain hunger striker drugged, force-fed
The wife of an imprisoned Bahraini activist and hunger striker said he was being drugged and force-fed, but officials denied the accusations, saying the man had agreed to receive medical treatment.

Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, one of 14 men sent to jail on charges of leading an uprising there last year, has been fasting for more than two months.

After her first visit to her husband in two weeks, Khadija al-Mousawi said, "I went to see my husband today and he told me that he was drugged last Monday. After he woke up he found two IV (intravenous) injections in his arms and a feeding-tube down his nose. It was done against his will."

In an e-mailed statement, Bahrain's Defence Forces Hospital said, "We want to be clear that the patient has not been force-fed or treated against his will. He has been taking limited nutrition supplements voluntarily, but when his blood sugar dropped significantly today, his doctors asked for and received his consent to insert a naso-gastric tube for nutrition. At no time was he drugged or restrained."

Abdulhadi al-Khawaja's wife said a doctor had told her husband it was his duty to begin force-feeding, but her husband saw the act as a violation of his rights. She said, "My husband told them he will only accept (the intravenous feeding) until his trial on Monday and depending on the outcome will decide what to do next."

Abdulhadi al-Khawaja was given a life sentence for demanding the creation of a republic. An appeal hearing is to be held this week in the case of Khawaja and 13 others jailed for their role last year's protests.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
British union bars Israeli expert from speaking on conflict resolution
A class on conflict resolution that was set to be given by an Israeli lecturer in Manchester next week was canceled by the British National Health Service, after trade union members who were supposed to take part in the class objected to participating in a workshop with an Israeli expert.

Moty Cristal, an Israeli expert on negotiating skills and crisis-management, was to have taught a class as part of a workshop for health-trust managers and union officials. He has worked in the past with Palestinian groups and human-rights organizations, and has lectured on numerous occasions in Britain, including a lecture to the Muslim Council of Britain.

Despite all this, he received an e-mail on Friday from Manchester Mental Trust chief executive saying that his expertise was no longer required, following pressure by members of UNISON, Britain's largest trade union, which represents 1.3 million public service workers. The message said the class was being canceled "on the grounds that it is [the union's] policy and also that of the Trades Union Council to support the Palestinian people."

The Israeli Embassy in London said in response that "the cancelation of a private expert simply due to his citizenship or ethnic identity is a racist policy in every way. What is even more shameful is the fact this was supposed to be an NHS-sponsored workshop dealing, ironically, with negotiating and conflict resolution. It seems that those who canceled it are in urgent need of such training."
Posted by: ryuge || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
China mulling guarantees for ships carrying Iran oil
China is considering sovereign guarantees for its ships to enable the world's second-biggest oil consumer to continue importing Iranian crude after new EU sanctions come into effect in July, the head of China's shipowners' association said.

Tough new European Union sanctions aimed at stopping Iran's oil exports to Europe also ban EU insurers and reinsurers from covering tankers carrying Iranian crude anywhere in the world. Around 90 percent of the world's tanker insurance is based in the West, so the measures threaten shipments to Iran's top Asian buyers China, India, Japan and South Korea.
Posted by: tipper || 04/30/2012 07:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apropos nothing, it occurs to me that if we had an import tarriff equal to the US corporate tax rate it would put companies thatmake stuff here on a more equal footing with those who export their manufacturing capacity to certain particular east asian countries.
Posted by: Thing from Snowy Mountain || 04/30/2012 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Ah American Juche is the answer to all problems...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/30/2012 11:04 Comments || Top||

#3  We can try to be more self-sufficient now, or we can experience genuine Chinese-satellite-style juche after we've given up manufacturing to them.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/30/2012 14:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Self suffiuciency is really helping North Korea...

Tarrifs help business owners, but make the general public poorer.

Why would making america poorer help?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/30/2012 16:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Adam Smith wasn't a foreign policy expert.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/30/2012 16:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Free trade doesn't work well when one party manipulates the currency exchange for their own interests and is allowed to continue the game for any extended period of time at the expense of others in the system.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/30/2012 17:59 Comments || Top||

#7  P2K: It's more than "currency manipulation" per se; they basically increase their money supply enough to cause some 15% inflation per year and make that available as a subsidy to that part of their manufacturing sector (based in a narrow geographical region) that services the export market, at the direction of their central government.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/30/2012 22:00 Comments || Top||

#8  The subsidy is provided in the form of "loans" that pay for the raw materials used as input for the manufacturing process that don't have to be repaid.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/30/2012 22:01 Comments || Top||

#9  It's basically an enourmous money laundering scheme, that works because a) people aren't used to thinking of inflation as a tax levied by the banking system, and b) because it's laundered through the export system, which lets them spread blame around: the average person gets screwed over, but they can blame those darn Americans or Japanese for debasing _their_ currency and not paying their debts. I guess they're waiting for some sort of crisis that will affect their economy less than it affects ours, at which point they hope to be able to make everything good or good-ish.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/30/2012 22:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Crude theories say inflation hurts everyone, but if you're using it to generate money that you're distributing unequally, some people still benefit.

Say you increase the money supply 10%, but you're giving that 10% to only 10% of the population, they're suddenly much richer even if everyone started out with the same amount of cash on hand.

Now if that wealthy 10% is using that money to run their business, able to use that extra money to go into tangibles or capital goods that they can use in their business and shield the value of that from the devaluation caused by the inflation... you have a feedback loop. There are still suckers in the taxed-by-inflation regions inland from the coast, but they can come work in the factories and live on the on-site dorms.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/30/2012 22:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Meanwhile, the US has the most socialist economy I have seen in my lifetime, run by hardcore redistributionists with a determined grudge against extraction and manufacturing industries.

There is a huge body of literature about how free trade is good for everyone, that seems to use as starting axioms relatively well-capitalized free-market societies trading in spherical cows, neither one of which really exists at the moment.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/30/2012 22:24 Comments || Top||

#12  One final comment before I leave for the night... if they set up a special tax for everyone living in an arc from roughly Chengdu down through Yunnan to Guangxi, to go to a "making certain select Shanghai tycoons richer," there'd be a civil war and a massive political purge. If they do that through inflation, they can hope that something happens to stop the game of musical chairs before the inflationary spiral gets too bad. (BTW, that's a big reason the nationalists collapsed; they eventually reached the hyperinflation point).

Hence their support of people like Pakistan and Iran, who they think can do what it takes to damage our economy more and theirs not at all.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/30/2012 22:37 Comments || Top||

#13  Anyway, it might be interesting to consider the Bo Xilai scandal in light of the nascent regional conflict I just outlined.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/30/2012 22:39 Comments || Top||


White House silent on blind dissident's escape
The Obama administration is refusing to say whether blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is under United States protection in Beijing.
However, he has been declared the winner of the Jose Feliciano Lookalike Contest...
A Chinese human rights group has claimed Mr Chen is now "under United States protection" after escaping house arrest and travelling to the Chinese capital.

Mr Chen had been jailed for four years and then spent 19 months under house arrest after he exposed forced abortions and sterilisations in the Chinese countryside. He was under 24-hour guard and could barely move without being watched.

But somehow the blind activist has escaped from his home prison, apparently by pretending to be asleep for extended periods of time and lulling his captors into a false sense of security.
How many times have I seen that in movies? You'd think the modern prison guards would be wise to that one, just like the one where the con pretends to be sick so that the guards will open the cell door and get jumped. But NO-o-o-o-o, once again the Keystone Koppers fall for it. Cheeez...
According to one report in a Singaporean newspaper, Mr Chen is now being harboured inside the US embassy in Beijing. Embassy staff have refused to confirm or deny the report.

Analysts say it is inconceivable that the US would agree to hand Mr Chen back to the Chinese authorities.
Oh really? I can certainly see Champ doing it.
But the Obama administration's top counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan, is not giving anything away. "I'm confident that the president and others within the US government are going to be able to find the right way forward," he said.
Another way to report that is that Mr. Brennan has no idea what to do and is stalling for time...
The incident forms an unwelcome backdrop to the visit of US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who will arrive in Beijing for talks this week.
Hi. How are you all doing?
We are not happy, Mrs. Crinton!
I know. It's the blind guy, right?
Mr Chen has released a message to the Chinese government on YouTube, asking authorities to protect his family and arrest the groups of men who have been assaulting his relatives. His wife, daughter and mother are thought to be still in their home in the town of Dongshigu, which remains a no-go zone for foreign reporters.

"I am finally free but I'm worried that my mother, my wife and my child are still under their control," he said. "They'll keep on persecuting them and since I'm now free, they'll look to take out revenge on my family".
That's generally what communists do...
Posted by: Steve White || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Pudgy observes combined arms military exercise
SEOUL -- North Korean leader Suet Face Kim Jong-un observed a combined arms exercise to mark the 80th anniversary of the Korean People's Army (KPA), a media report said Saturday.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) picked up in Seoul said without specifying the date of the exercise that Fat Boy Kim, who has been made the supreme commander of the KPA, "guided" the military maneuver. The anniversary of the North Korean armed forces fell on Wednesday.
Ah! What does this thing do?
Point it the other way, sir.

The exercise involving aircraft, tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery and infantry from combined unit 655 was aimed at conducting retaliatory strikes against imperialists and enemies of the communist country by devastating the source of the threat, the KCNA said. It said that the unit was ready and able to immediately strike at the heart of the enemy who had attacked the integrity of the regime.

The media report said ranking officers of the KPA such as vice marshals Choe Ryong-hae, Ri Yong-ho and Kim Jong-gak were present at the exercise.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Various Perts believe that the DPRK is FULLY intent on building bigger + more tech-saavy Rockets irregardless of its pervasive food problems [starvation].

IMO read, UNLESS CHINA DOES SOMETHING TO STOP IT.

* FYI CHINA DAILY FORUM > VIETNAM NEEDS AGNIS [Indian LRBMS = ICBMS].

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BARAK WARNS: EGYPT + TURKEY [+ even the KSA] WILL JOIN [Regional = ME] ARMS RACE, iff Iran goes nuclear, + wid the KSA likely getting theirs, or at least working samples therein, from Pakistan.

ARTIC > Close US ally the KSA don't want to appear as procuring NucBomb/NucWeaps Techs from Pakistan, whom is also rival Iran's BFF, whereas Pakistan doesn't want to to be stereotyped [again] as a propagator/proliferator
of Nuke Techs to anyone.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/30/2012 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  First twas the Chinese Army = CPLA, now cometh the Chinese Navy = CPLAN ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Scarbough Shoal = Senior PLAN CDR. ADM. Li Shihong]CHINESE NAVY: WE WILL TAKE ACTION WHENEVER THE GOVT IS READY, + gives the Military the formal order to strike.

* CHINA DAILY FORUM > [Xinhua] CHINA DISMISSES JAPAN'S SHELF CLAIMS [to UN], as per UN recognition of "sole" Japanese sovereignty oer the Pacific UW seafloor to north of Okinotori Atoll.

CHINA = Iff anything, its our UW Continental Shelf, not wily Japan's.

* SAME > JAPAN PLAN TO BUY ISLANDS [China = Daoyus Islands/Daoyutai] "UNACCEPTABLE".

Nippon asking for Military trouble/confrontation wid China???

* WORLD MIL FORUM > CHINESE EXPERT QU XING: IT IS ALL BUT ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE US TO SUPPORT THE PHILIPPINES AGZ CHINA OVER HUNAGYAN ISLAND [Scarborough Shoal, PHIL = Panatag].

versus

* WORLD MIL FORUM > US ECONOMIST: CHINA TO DOMINATE THE WORLD IN 20 YEARS [Year 2030, or verys hortly thereafter].

Various Ratios and Trends, etc. say it will be so.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/01/2012 0:01 Comments || Top||


Europe
'i'm Arab, A Muslim, And I Vote Marine Le Pen'
If French Muslims are largely left-leaning in their voting preferences, there are exceptions. France24.com spoke to three French Muslims of Arab descent, all of whom vote for the far-right National Front party. Here are their testimonies.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thoughtful.
Posted by: newc || 04/30/2012 10:43 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey blocks EU from NATO summit unless OIC also attends
Why is Turkey still allowed to be a member of NATO?
Ankara says it will block EU participation in an upcoming NATO summit unless the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is also allowed to be present.
To be fair, NATO is a military organization -- what business have EU bureaucrats there?
This is a win-win to me...
EU member states had proposed participation by some of the top EU bureaucrats, including European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, who are now unsure whether they will be able to attend the summit taking in Chicago on May 20-21 as representatives of the union due to the objections from Turkey, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Friday. Raising the EU's commitment to a NATO peace mission in Afghanistan, EU member countries including France had argued that the EU should be represented, while Turkey is maintaining that there should only be member state participation in the summit, the WSJ claimed.

"If non-NATO members will also participate, the OIC should be represented [in the Chicago summit] first and foremost," Turkish diplomatic sources said in explaining Ankara's position, speaking to Today's Zaman on Sunday. The sources claimed that the OIC's commitment exceeded the EU contribution in the Afghanistan peace mission.

The EU has exerted efforts for the reconstruction and democratization of Afghanistan in preparation for the post-NATO-mission period in the country. The EU launched a rule of law mission (EUPOL) under the banner of the European Security and Defense Program (ESDP) in June 2007. The union has also initiated a program for justice reform and is helping to fund civilian projects in NATO-run Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs).

Meanwhile, the OIC, a bloc of 56 countries, is also taking a growing interest in the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in 2010 it accepted a proposal by member states Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to appoint an OIC permanent representative for Afghanistan.

The US administration has joined the push for greater OIC involvement in Afghanistan for the last couple of years, which would bring benefits in efforts towards reconciliation between the Afghan government and the Taliban.

The Turkish diplomatic sources also noted that the different proposals coming from NATO members on who will participate are still being discussed and there is not an ultimate decision yet. They added that there are also objections from other non-EU NATO members to the proposed EU participation in the Chicago summit.

The background to Turkey's objection to EU participation in NATO activities involves a more long-standing dispute. Greek Cyprus, representing the entire island as a full member of the EU, blocks Turkish participation in European defense institutions such as the European Defense Agency (EDA). Turkey, a NATO member, has responded by obstructing the EU's integration in NATO activities.

Rejection of Israeli partnership in NATO

Turkey has also blocked Israel's participation in the summit in a sign of Turkey's determination to prevent its new foe from cooperating with the alliance following a deadly ship raid.
Posted by: tipper || 04/30/2012 05:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Biden Pushes Leadership Role For Turkey's Islamist Leaders
On Friday Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
...and a clear demonstration that the Framers were wrong in that not every small state has two qualified citizens to send to the Senate...
offered Turkey's Islamist government a leading role in the Middle East, despite its recent crackdown on dissidents, expansion of Islamic culture and education, and regional conflicts with Greece and Israel.

"We're looking for Turkish leadership in the rest of that entire region," Biden declared at a fundraiser attended by roughly 200 people from the Turkish and Azerbaijani communities, according to a White House pool report.

"It's a model as to how you can have an Islamic population, an Islamic state and a democracy, something the rest of the region is groping to figure out how to do," he told the audience, who paid up to $2,500 each to attend the fundraiser.
I recall GWHB saying nice things about Ferdinand Marcos when he was in the Philippines on a diplomatic mission. Being VP does that to you, and then it comes back to haunt you...
Turkey's ability to moderate the Islamist revolution is limited because Islamists in Egypt and nearby countries distrust Turkey's government. They fear Turkey will seek a dominant role in the region, as it once had when its Ottoman Empire governed the region from the 1300s until 1923.

Still, Biden and Obama are backing Turkey.

"Turkey is such an incredible model," Biden told his fundraiser audience Friday.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Iraq to get first F-16 jets in early 2014
Iraq will receive the first 24 of 36 F-16 fighter jets it has ordered from the United States at the beginning of 2014, a senior official told Reuters on Sunday.

Under deposed dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s air force was one of the largest in the region with hundreds of mainly Soviet-designed jets. Its military was disbanded after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Last July, Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki doubled the number of warplanes Iraq had initially planned to buy to strengthen an air force neglected during a protracted period when the country relied on U.S. air support.

Iskander Witwit, the deputy head of parliament’s security and defence committee, said that the first 24 planes would make up two air force squadrons.

“Iraq intends to have equipment which is more developed than neighboring countries have. Small neighboring countries like Kuwait even have five squadrons,” Witwit said.

Iraq would be in the market for more planes in the future, Witwit said. Pilots are already training to fly the new F-16s.
Wonder if they'll hold an open competition or whether the fix is in?
Posted by: Steve White || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I learned in 1989 hehe.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/30/2012 8:32 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Islamic Jihad Will Hold First Leadership Elections
The Islamic jihad movement will hold elections for a new leadership for the first time since it was established in the 80s, London newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported. The elections will be held in the next few weeks in the same method the Fatah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movements held their elections.
 
According to the report, the main reason for the election announcement is serious arguments between the movement's leaders in Gazoo over general policies, relations with Hamas and Fatah and "resistance" to Israel.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad


Terror Networks
Former CIA counterterrorism chief offers new details of how detainees led us to Bin Laden
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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2012-04-30
  US drone 'kills three militants' in Miramshah
Sun 2012-04-29
  Syria Troops Kill 10 Rebels in Damascus Region
Sat 2012-04-28
   21 Taliban Insurgents Killed in Clashes
Fri 2012-04-27
  Separate bomb blasts rock Nigeria's newspapers, at least six killed
Thu 2012-04-26
  Libya bans religious, tribal or ethnic parties
Wed 2012-04-25
  Sacked Yemen Air Force Commander Quits Post
Tue 2012-04-24
  India orders deportation of 10 French nationals over Maoist links
Mon 2012-04-23
  Kazakh court sends 47 men to prison for terrorism
Sun 2012-04-22
  Tons of Explosives Seized from Militants Planning Attack in Kabul
Sat 2012-04-21
  Sudan Rebels Kill 79 Troops, Militia in Blue Nile
Fri 2012-04-20
  8 die in Michoacan state as conflict goes hot
Thu 2012-04-19
  Qaeda leader suicide bombs himself and family in Iraq
Wed 2012-04-18
  Hadi Refuses to receive Former Yemen President
Tue 2012-04-17
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