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Senior Cairo security official tells news site that Jerusalem has given Egyptian military go ahead to use planes to patrol border as part of Sinai anti-terror efforts
Will the recent escalation along the Egypt border lead to yet another change in Sinai security arrangements?
Egyptian news website al-Masrawi reported Monday that a senior Egyptian security official revealed that Israel has given Cairo the go ahead to operate patrol planes along the Egyptian border. According to the unconfirmed report, the patrol planes will be used to follow the activities of Sinai terror cells and pass on information to Egyptian ground forces operating in the peninsula.
Earlier Monday it was reported that a tank convoy reached the northern edge of the Sinai Peninsula ahead of a broad military operation against terror operatives in the region.
On Friday, a terrorist cell attacked IDF soldiers providing infiltrators with food and water in the Mount Sagi area on the Israel-Egypt border. One soldier, Corporal Netanel Yahalomi, was killed and another was injured.
Last month Egypt sent tanks and planes into Sinai for the first time since 1973, in direct opposition to the Camp David accords in order to battle against Sinai terror cells.
[An Nahar] The U.S. State Department has accused CNN of "distasteful" reporting after it used the contents of a private diary kept by slain U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens without the consent of his family.
Senior State Department aide Philippe Reines told news hounds in a statement over the weekend that the television network engaged in "atrocious behavior" in making use of the late envoy's diary as it reported on events leading up to his death at the hands of gunnies who stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi earlier this month.
Reines said CNN removed the journal from the U.S. mission in Libya after the deadly attack, which also killed three other U.S. diplomatic staff, and then went on to use information obtained from it against the express wishes of the diplomat's family.
Reines said the family told a network executive in a conference call they they did not want the journal used until they had had an opportunity to review its contents.
CNN said it felt the public had a right to know what it had learned from multiple sources about the fears of a terrorist threat before the attack on the consulate.
"We reached out to the family of Ambassador Stevens within hours of retrieving the journal and returned it through a third party, within less than 24 hours from the time we found it. Out of respect to the family, we have not quoted from or shown the journal," it said.
What CNN is "not owning up to is reading and transcribing Chris's diary well before bothering to tell the family or anyone else that they took it from the site of the attack," Reines wrote in a lengthy memo sent to news hounds on Sunday.
"When they finally did tell them, they completely ignored the wishes of the family, and ultimately broke their pledge made to them only hours after they witnessed the return to the Unites States of Chris's remains," he said.
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Slams CNN? Why does State not slam the murdering slimeball thugs instead of apologizing to them? Whose our enemy?
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really...it would have been better to let them sit there for al-qaeda to get them, alter them for propaganda purposes? Wonder why where in this mess?
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It's not about the wishes of the family, or being thoughtful and considerate, it goes a bit further than that.
If the town Post Office burns down, it's not OK to sift through the rubble and sort mail or packages to take home and read or enjoy at your leisure. or release to the local news paper. I would reckon just about anyone would view this as a CRIMINAL ACT!
US Gov't property is still US Gov't property, here or over there. Thankfully, CNN is NOT the gov't.
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Besoeker, you're right IN THEORY. Given that the gov't has no problem with their press publishing anything of anybodies as long as it doesn't reflect badly on the gov't.
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Our Champ eulogized the late Ambassador Stevens and is now lecturing the "wax museum" (UN General Assembly) on the future. He quoted Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. All wasted breath.
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I doubt it had classification markings NS, but a legal opinion would no doubt find anything on US Embassy or Consolulate grounds as rightful property of the United States. The personal effects of a deceased US ambassador would most certainly fall into this category.
It's an academic point however. Hell will freeze over and pigs will fly in flocks before this administration openly takes Main Stream Media to task over anything.
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State slammed CNN because they had an unspoken deal about making the Administration look bad. They would allow CNN more flexibility after the election.
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CNN may be in the beginning of a break with O admin. Normally they carry water for O and Co. But O&Co did not do much to recover the papers, so the newshounds and others went on a scrounging expedition. THAT is a news story in itself.
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The Libyan government said Saturday that all of Libyas militias would be brought under government control or forced to disband within 48 hours, but was quickly challenged.
We are disbanding all armed groups that do not fall under the authority of the government, said President of the General National Congress (GNC) Mohammed Magarief. We are also banning the use of violence and carrying of weapons in public places. It is also illegal to set up checkpoints.
Within hours, however, the government faced its first challenge from some of its insubordinate security forces and the extra-judicial militias.
On Saturday afternoon Libyas Tripoli Rixos hotel was stormed by members of the Supreme Security Council (SSC) an amalgamation of security forces which fall under the jurisdiction of the interior ministry who threatened to blow it up. The Rixos Hotel serves as a de facto headquarters for the Libyan government.
Of course they did: they're the 'Supreme Security Council'. If you can be disbanded then you're not so supreme...
The SSC men were angered by the lack of support they had received from the defense ministry following fierce clashes between the SSC and alleged Gadhafi loyalists in the town of Brak in central Libya. Many of the SSC members are Salafists and the group is said to be sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Clashes between the two groups started on Wednesday after SSC members tried to arrest a number of Gadhafi sympathizers who had been celebrating Gadhafis Fateh Revolution Day on Sept. 1. In the arrest attempts they shot dead the sister of one sympathizer as they tried to arrest her brother at the family home. During the melee six people, mostly SSC members, were killed. There was a lull in the fighting on Thursday but on Friday deadlier clashes broke out again with the death of another 16 SSC members and the wounding of 50.
During the week preceding the bloody confrontations, tensions had been building in the town following the alleged mistreatment of locals by the SSC.
After running low on ammunition, the SSC men withdrew from Brak and returned to Tripoli with the bodies of their comrades. They then stormed the Rixos Hotel after claiming that Interior Minister Fawzi Abdel Al and Defense Minister Osama Juwaily had refused to provide them with weapons, more ammunition and ambulances despite promises made by the defense ministry.
The two men had also ignored their repeated requests for a meeting. The incident ended without casualties.
However, at least 14 people were killed and more than 70 wounded following the storming of several militia bases in Benghazi by thousands of unarmed, angry Libyans on Friday.
The attack on the militia bases followed a Save Benghazi mass demonstration in the eastern city which was held to protest the deteriorating security situation in the city which has witnessed a spate of kidnappings, bombings and assassinations over the last few months.
Libyans have been angered by what they see as government complacency and even collusion in a number of militia attacks, including the targeting of Sufi shrines and mosques in several Libyan cities. However, the killing of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, allegedly by Islamists from the Ansar Al Sharia Militia, during the storming of the US Consulate several weeks ago was a trigger.
The Libyan government has been either unwilling or unable to control the hundreds of armed militias which still control large areas of the country.
Unarmed, thousands of protestors set the headquarters of Ansar Al Sharia ablaze, causing the gunmen to flee. They then moved on to several other militia bases which were not connected with the Islamists and forced the gunmen there to also flee.
The reprisals began early the next morning when the bodies of five soldiers from the defense ministry were found on the outskirts of Benghazi. They had been shot in the head, execution style, while their hands were tied behind their backs. A sixth member remains in critical condition in hospital.
The killing of the five soldiers, who were not related to any militia or Salafist group, was thought to have been carried out by militia members in revenge for what they said was the involvement of the army and police members in helping to orchestrate Fridays protests which targeted them.
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Feeding promises to Great Satan is an old Muslim tradition.
[Jerusalem Post] "We'll cut off the hands of any aggressor," SCAF member threatens, according to Egyptian paper 'al-Masry al-Youm.'
A member of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has warned that it would "cut off the hands" of any domestic or foreign aggressor in Sinai.
The official, who refused to be named, accused Israel of attempting to provoke Egypt, and said his country's armed forces were dealing with the matter "wisely and quietly", the al-Masry al-Youm newspaper reported late Sunday night.
The remarks came in the wake of Israeli calls for a military operation in Sinai after Friday's terrorist attack on the Sinai border that killed an IDF soldier and maimed another.
Twenty-year-old Netanel Yahalomi, of the IDF Artillery Corps, was shot in the head as he and his unit were giving water to African migrants who had arrived on the border.
Shots were fired at IDF Artillery Corps and Caracal (Wildcat) battalion -- an infantry force made up of male and female combat soldiers -- from a distance of 100 meters. The soldiers instantly returned fire, shooting dead two terrorists, said IDF front man Brig-Gen. Yoav Mordechai.
The official, who said Israel had threatened a military operation, noted that the Egyptian leadership is monitoring all of the recent developments on the border with Israel.
Egypt would not allow "a single inch" of Sinai to be harmed, the official added.
Security correspondent told how Queen lobbied home secretary to secure arrest of Islamist cleric
The BBC has apologised to the Queen after its security correspondent recounted a private conversation in which the monarch told him she had lobbied a home secretary to secure the arrest of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical Islamist cleric.
Frank Gardner said the monarch personally told him she was aghast that Abu Hamza, who faces imminent extradition to the US, could not be arrested during the period when he regularly aired vehemently anti-British views as imam of Finsbury Park mosque in north London.
The Queen never expresses overtly political views herself, and the convention for people conversing with her, for example at palace receptions or other meetings, is that whatever is said remains off the record.
During an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme about the wider issue of the 54-year-old's newly approved extradition to the US, Gardner said of Abu Hamza's former activities that there was a sense MI5 had been too slow to realise how dangerous he was in radicalising other people.
Gardner continued: "Actually, I can tell you that the Queen was pretty upset that there was no way to arrest him. She couldn't understand surely there had been some law that he had broken? In the end, sure enough, there was. He was eventually convicted and sentenced for seven years for soliciting murder and racial hatred."
A clearly surprised James Naughtie, interviewing Gardner, described this revelation as "a corker". Gardner said: "Yes, I thought I'd drop that in. She told me."
Gardner said: "She spoke to the home secretary at the time and said, surely this man must have broken some laws. Why is he still at large? He was conducting these radical activities and he called Britain a toilet. He was incredibly anti-British and yet he was sucking up money from this country for a long time. He was a huge embarrassment to Muslims, who condemned him."
An appeals court has acquitted three men accused of plotting to murder a Swedish artist who had depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a dog.
Upholding a lower court's ruling, the appeals court in Goteborg said Monday there was no conclusive evidence that the three men of Iraqi and Somali origin had planned to kill Lars Vilks in September last year.
If it is this arrest that's referred to, I am confused.
Victor Davis Hanson Hanson as per usual; Excellent
It All Failed?
By Fantasy House I do not mean -- or rather only mean -- Barack Obama's La-La land in which Austrians speak Austrian, Hawaii is in Asia, Afghans speak Arabic, the Maldives lie off Argentina, there are seven additional states, servicemen are zombie corpse-men, and Kansas twisters kill 10,000 at a time.
Rather I refer to the fantasies that Obama employs to deal with a very real world he inhabits. The president just told Univision that you "cannot change Washington from the inside." In other words, the president just shattered his own four-year fantasy that he, like Lincoln, would take the train from Illinois to D.C., not just to remake America, but also to change the very way things are done there.
Now Obama accepts that the second coming of an Illinois savior has failed, not because he tried to change the ethics of Washington (he never did), but because upon arrival he almost immediately did in Washington what he was used to doing in Chicago. And so lobbying, insider politics to help campaign bundlers, private deals to pass health care, the revolving door, and nonstop campaigning all replaced hope and change.
I suppose in place of change from the "inside," he now envisions more "outside" executive orders like the de facto Dream Act, having the EPA shut down more coal plants, stopping more federal energy leases, granting more recess appointments, and extending more executive privilege.
Shattering Glass
The president's illusions about the economy have, one by one, been exploded. Do we even remember the 2010 "summer of recovery"? Or "millions of new green jobs" that ended in Solyndra-like realties? "GM is alive, Osama bin Laden is dead" -- well, sort of, in the sense that the government can take any insolvent company, inject $25 billion into it, and keep it alive until the next election.
Somehow we are to console ourselves that 43 months of 8% plus unemployment is success. The president keeps bragging that he has created 4.6 million new jobs. But who cares about the actual number created, if the number lost is the far greater figure? Do businesses brag that they grossed $4.6 million when their bottom line is a net loss of $500,000? The jobs fantasy has also evaporated in the reality that we have lost more jobs than gained under Obama, millions no longer look for work, and the percentage of adults working is at near-record lows. Where did the fifteen million more on food stamps come from?
Check your tire pressure; tune your cars up; "bankrupt" coal companies; "skyrocketing" electricity prices, Steven Chu's dream of gas prices at "European levels" -- all that only ended up at $4 a gallon gas. Yet we still don't know whether that price spike is supposed to be welcomed, in the green sense of helping to sell subsidized Volts and "cutting our carbon footprint."
The deficit? What deficit and debt? The president insists to David Letterman that he doesn't know what the aggregate debt is -- only that whatever it actually is, George Bush caused it! He barnstorms on the idea that ending the war in Afghanistan (where was the supposed "peace dividend" from Iraq that was supposed to cut the deficit?) will help pay down the $1 trillion-plus he borrows each year. Yet taking 39.5% from top incomes and hiking capital gains taxes will not even give us a 20% reduction in the annual deficit. So after the next tax hike, then what? We go to 50%, 55%, 60% -- to pay our fair share for millions of more green jobs? Read the rest.
Superb piece, VDH. Romney is doing well. Conservative Americans need support and believe in his campaign. From over here, just on the edge of the Arab chaos, I believe that he will win and be a decent President.
I hope conservative Americans who read this site will volunteer for him in the coming weeks..
I will pray that the sense of pride in traditional American beliefs overcomes the sloppy degrading embrace of the Big Brother welfare state.
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"Milyuhns more green jobs"> i.e. certain HIGHLY OR WHOLLY DEfECTIVE OR UNRELIABLE [also read, WORTHLESS] "Green Techs" that ALWAYS fail to prove their parity or superiority over current fossil/natural-fuel based designs.
It'll be COMEDY iff it wasn't for the copious amounts of tax dollars = Govt. subsidies being perennially wasted on these.
That sound you're hearing are the Milyuhns-n-Dilyuhns of angry red-blooded future OWG = Space Govt. Amerikan males whom are suddenly realizing they won't have any sexy slinky Green Orion Bikini Babe GFs anytime soon thanks to Solyndra, etc.
[Dawn] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... deplored Monday the call by a Pak minister for a $100,000 bounty to be put on the head of the maker of an anti-Islam film which has sparked deadly protests around the world.
"We deplore the call for a bounty," Michael Mann, front man for EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton, told a press briefing.
"We are particularly concerned that this call should come from a member of the government even if the prime minister... has dissociated himself" from the remarks, Mann added.
Earlier on Sunday, the United States had also condemned Pak Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour's offer of the bounty to kill the filmmaker.
Bilour on Saturday had offered a $100,000 "prize" for killing the filmmaker of "Innocence of Mohammedans" -- an amateurish film made in the United States -- and invited the Taliban and al Qaeda to take part in the "noble deed."
The State Department weighed in Sunday, with an official recalling that US President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William H. Seward ... "have both said the video at the core of this is offensive, disgusting, and reprehensible.
The official added: "But that is no justification for violence and it is important for responsible leaders to stand up and speak out against violence." Therefore we find Mr. Bilour's announcement is inflammatory and inappropriate," the official said in a statement.
A front man for Pak Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Sunday rejected the bounty promised by the railways minister as a "prize" for killing the filmmaker.
"This is not government policy. We completely dissociate (ourselves) from this," a front man for the prime minister's office told AFP.
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Does this surprise the EU?
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Two points:
1) It's disheartening when the Euro wuzzies show more spine than the US.
2)"This is not government policy" seems a bit disingenuous when the bounty came from a gov't minister.
[Dawn] The Prime Minister's Office and the ANP disassociated themselves on Sunday from a bounty offered by Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour for anyone who kills the producer of an anti-Islam film.
Mr Bilour's incitement to murder and particularly his invitation to Al Qaeda and the Taliban to do the job has placed the ANP in an embarrassing position and its acting president Senator Haji Muhammad Adeel said the party had sought a verbal explanation from the federal minister.
"We have talked to Mr Bilour and told him that it is inappropriate to invite terrorist organizations like Taliban and Al Qaeda to kill the filmmaker," he said.
Senator Adeel said Mr Bilour had accused local and foreign media of twisting his statement.
"Offering bounty for the killer of the moviemaker was a personal view of the minister but the party has concerns over his invitation to Al Qaeda," the acting ANP chief said.
He said the ANP was a liberal and secular party but a majority of its workers were Moslems.
The announcement of bounty was a matter of faith and the party had nothing to do with it, he said.
The minister made the offer of $100,000 for anyone killing the film-maker. His statement made headlines in the national and international media and sparked a controversy.
His announcement also shocked leaders of religious parties who had brought their workers to the streets against the film, but they refused to comment on it. "We can't comment on it," a leader said while ridiculing Mr Bilour's statement.
Other leaders of ANP criticised Mr Bilour and said he should not have given such an 'irresponsible' statement.
"He has embarrassed the party which has always struggled against violence and is a torchbearer of secularism and liberalism in this region," a big shot said.
He said it was tragic to seek the help of terrorist organizations which had killed thousands of innocent countrymen over several years.
"In other words Mr Bilour has tried to bail out Al Qaeda and Taliban which have killed innocent people," he said, adding that the minister should have left the cabinet and the party before making such a controversial offer. "Instead of instigating other people to kill the
film-maker he should do this himself."
In the federal capital, Prime Minister's Press Secretary Shafqat Jalil said: "The federal government has absolutely nothing to do with the bounty announced by the minister".
He said the prime minister had not only expressed his serious dismay over Mr Bilour's completely uncalled for presser, but also conveyed his displeasure to ANP's leadership.
ANP front man Senator Zahid Khan said his party had been following the philosophy of non-violence for decades and "how can it support such a violent step?".
"It is purely Mr Bilour's personal stand which he also made clear at the presser and the ANP leadership does not support such violent means."
Answering a question, the front man said the minister, like other Moslems who had angrily reacted to the film, might have given the statement out of rage, but it had nothing to do with the party.
The front man said ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan was travelling with President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... to attend a 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... General Assembly session and he had been informed about the development.
"He must be feeling disturbed and awkward at the UN due to what has been said by Mr Bilour because the presser has been widely reported all over the world."
According to sources in the PM's secretariat, the minister had been asked to retract his statement but he had refused to do so.
"It's very unfortunate that the country is already in the eye of the storm for violent protests against the movie which resulted in the death of over 20 people but responsible people are issuing such incendiary statements," a government official said.
The sources said that if the minister remained adamant, a decision about his future would have to be taken by the ANP chief and President
Zardari who were together in New York.
Khalid Hasnain adds from Lahore: Mr Bilour stuck to his guns and said on Sunday that he would not retract his offer. "I am a true believer and I cannot tolerate disrespect to the Prophet Muhammad ((PTUI!))," he told Dawn.
He said he was a big shot of the party and didn't care about the objections being raised. "I do respect all leaders of my party," he said.
He said his statement was based on his own sentiment and feelings "and I think there should be no criticism in this regard".
ANP secretary general Ehsan Wyne said: "We will soon hold a meeting of our party's central executive committee where Mr Bilour's remarks will also be discussed." He said Mr Bilour had served as ANP's senior vice-president but had left the post after becoming a minister in accordance with the party's policy.
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In the soup .... REALLY?
This is the same country that interrogated and jailed an MD who helped (in a minor way) to locate Bin Laden. They're probably giving Bilour a medal and a public statue as we speak.
[Dawn] President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... has condemned and deplored the attack and burning of a church in Mardan.
In a message, the president said on Sunday: "The highly provocative anti-Islam film had been roundly condemned throughout the world and particularly in Pakistain by Mohammedans and non-Mohammedans alike but ransacking public and private property particularly the places of worship of other religions was itself un-Islamic and highly condemnable."
For this particular church, at any rate. All previous churches ransacked and otherwise mishandled were themselves Islamic and therefore highly lauded. If you find this confusing it is only because you are a damnable kaffir whomsill one day find your intestines roasting in Hell.
He said that ransacking and vandalising revered places of worship and inflicting self-damage in retaliation amounted to playing into the hands of perpetrators of the crime who produced the hate film.
Describing the torching of the church as 'unfortunate and reprehensible', Mr Zardari said it was contrary to the teachings of Islam which ordained respecting places of worship of all religions. "Incidents like this portrayed Pakistain and Mohammedans negatively," he said.
He called upon the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government to take all appropriate measures for protecting the places of worship of Christians and other minorities and address their grievances in this regard to avoid such incidents in future.
The PPP Human Rights Cell has also condemned the burning of the church.
It condemned the violence that led to loss of innocent lives and the burning of private and public property causing losses of billions of rupees.
"On this day, the government wanted to demonstrate national unity and all of Pakistain including religious minorities supported this cause," said Dr Nafisa Shah, Central Coordinator of the cell.
"This was to be a solemn day to demonstrate to the world, the love and respect for the Prophet of Islam (Peace Be Upon Him), and to register a protest against the obnoxious material on the YouTube that humiliates a world religion and conspires to inflame the world.
"However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... this is not a clash of civilisations, nor a clash against another religion, or community, but a protest against what seems to be a conspiracy to unleash a clash of civilisations and religions and it is clear that anyone who plays that card will not succeed.
"Mohammedans of Pakistain have and will reject these acts designed to pit the world religions and civilisations against each other."
The cell called upon the authorities to take severe action against the myrmidons who used Islam to perpetuate violence on life and property and to take special measures to protect religious minorities.
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it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
More likely a starving man.
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[Dawn] The Islamabad capital territory police tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! four or five Punjab police personnel while rioting in plainclothes during the Friday protests against the anti-Islam film in the federal capital, Dawn has learnt.
Are policemen not men like any other? Have they not hearts that beat with hatred for whoever is being rioted against, though they know not the piddling details? How then can they be faulted for doing what a pious Muslim must do, an he cannot go on true jihad of the sword, for terrorizing the infidel is also spreading the beneficence of Allah.
A source said Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. had asked the police to start an investigation against the coppers but it is believed that they were freed after intervention by the staff of the capital police chief.
The Punjab police personnel were caught along with a magistrate while rioting in the capital city at around 6.46pm and later shifted to the Aabpara cop shoppe, the source said, adding they were on cycle of violences when caught.
After detention of the police personnel, messages were exchanged between the staff of the IGP and the cop shoppe at about 6.47pm, and the conversation is on the police record, the source said.
The source quoted the police as saying in their message to the IGP staff: "We have captured some motorbike riders who turned out to be Punjab police personnel."
The IGP's staff replied back: "Shift them to the cop shoppe, give their details and number. And avoid speaking about such issues on the wireless set in future."
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... police in Rawalpindi are looking for 5,000 people who had been booked for rioting on Friday.
The police have sought help from close-circuit surveillance cameras installed on the premises of private and government buildings at Faizabad to identify the rioters who caused extensive damage to the public property, police vehicles besides ransacking shops and CNG stations.
A senior police official said they had launched a manhunt for those involved in the rioting and sought help from CCTV images, video films and some other sources to identify the rioters.
One of the groups of rioters, who the police said belonged to Mohmand Agency ... 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 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... , also snatched a rifle from the guard of SP Rawal Town and his personal pistol.
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[Dawn] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... central chief Syed Munawar Hassan ... The funny-looking Amir of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined the National Students Federation (NSF), a lefty student body, and was elected its President in 1959. He came into contact with the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi, The Great Apostasizer. As a result, he joined IJT in 1960 and soon he was elected as President of its University of Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistain in 1992-93, and became Secretary General in 1993. After years of holding Qazi's camel he was named Amir when the old man stepped down in 2009... has said that Haqqani network has no presence in Pakistain.
"It is based in Afghanistan and the US should encounter it there," he said.
Addressing a public gathering here on Sunday, the JI chief asked the authorities to stop military operation in tribal areas as innocent citizens were being killed in the action.
JI central deputy chief Sirajul Haq, provincial deputy chief Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, district chief Maulana Asadullah, Islami Jamaat Tulba central chief Zubair Safdar, Jamaat Tulba Arabia chief Mahmood Bashir, Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, Muzafar Syed, Saeed Gul, Izazul Afkari, Syed Sultanat Yar and Maulana Mohammad Ismail also spoke on the occasion.
The JI chief said that more than 350 drone strikes had been carried out so far in the tribal areas. Innocent citizens were killed in those attacks, he added.
Mr Hassan said that the US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces were facing a historical defeat. Hatred against America, he said, was spreading in the entire world. "That is why now some elements in America and the west are making sacrilegious films and cartoons to defame Mohammedans," he said.
He asked the authorities to immediately halt military operation in the tribal areas and settled districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... as it was not a solution to militancy.
The JI chief said that observing holiday and holding Seerat Conference at Islamabad by the government were fruitless as the world did not take any notice of the same. He said that government should expel the US ambassador from Pakistain.
Mr Hassan said that people wanted change in the country. He said that JI would promote Islamic culture through ballot instead of bullet.
Ruling out revival of Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal, the JI chief alleged that all political parties were involved in corruption and lawlessness.
The JUI-F, he said, had been part of 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... government for the last four and a half years but the situation there had been deteriorating with each passing day.
Addressing the gathering, Sirajul Haq demanded of the government to close the American embassy until the anti-Islam film was banned in Europe and America. He said that Organisation of the Islamic Conference should pressurise the UN to frame laws for imposing ban on blasphemous contents.
Criticising the ruling Awami National Party, Mr Haq alleged that blood was being shed since it had come into power. He said that lawlessness, price hike, selling of national institutions and corruption destroyed the country.
Mr Haq said that police potted innocent citizens in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. to protect the US consulate and cinema houses. "Burning a cinema is a crime but killing a human is not a crime in the eyes of our rulers," he said.
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US President Barack Obama will step onto the world stage on Tuesday just long enough to address simmering crises centered on Iran, Syria and the broader Muslim world - and he will then jump quickly back on the campaign trail.
Obama's UN visit also comes at a time of mounting tensions over Iran's nuclear program.
He has refused demands from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to set an explicit "red line" for Tehran. Signaling that a rift remains between the two close allies, Obama said in a interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" program that he would ignore "noise that's out there" and make decisions based on US interests.
Underscoring the depth of the problem, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in New York on Monday that Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated," ignoring a UN warning to avoid his usual incendiary rhetoric ahead of the annual General Assembly session.
The White House quickly dismissed the comments by Ahmadinejad, who will address the assembly on Wednesday, as "disgusting, offensive and outrageous." Obama will use his speech to renew a warning that Iran will not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, and his words will be scrutinized to see how far he goes in sharpening his tone.
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Barbara, isn't it funny that the hadith all tell us that Mo had 9 wives, and that he married Aisha when she was six and - frankly I don't like to call it sex - did things with her when she was nine that would get you life in jail in any decent country.
This is all understood and taken as the truth. But beware the infidel who mentions the facts.
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The Obama gov didn't.
Like it or not, our govt *is* our face to the world. Which is why a whole bunch of our citizens are doing the facepalm right now.
The unappreciated irony here is that removing the US from the world stage makes conflict more likely. But don't tell B-HO. It would only bring him down.
Complete closure imposed on West Bank and Gazoo, increased police presence and security forces deployment -- all part of IDF, police preparations for 'holiest day' of year.
The special police alertness level which was put into effect ahead of the Rosh Hashanah holiday will continue during Yom Kippur and will only be terminated after the Simchat Torah holiday in 10 days time.
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I assume just a general precaution, Skidmark, especially with all the regional preparations for mayhem. Beyond that, your guess is probably better than mine. Is Egypt really massing on the border, or just moving tanks and airplanes into the area to hunt jihadis?
[Al Ahram] Iran's President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad on Monday attacked Western powers for misusing their UN veto power in their nuclear showdown with his country and for allowing "sacrilege" against Islam.
Ahmadinejad launched his virulent attack at a United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... debate on the rule of law at which he said the United States, Britannia and La Belle France "violate the basic rights and freedoms of other nations."
"The discriminatory privilege of the veto right enjoyed by some members of the Security Council lacks legitimacy," he declared, speaking at UN headquarters in New York on the eve of the main UN General Assembly debate.
"And that is why the Security Council has failed to establish justice and ensure sustainable peace and security in the world," he said.
"Some members of the Security Council with veto rights have chosen silence with regard to the nuclear warheads of a fake regime while at the same time they impede scientific progress of other nations," he said.
This was an implicit reference to Iran's regional foe Israel, which has an undeclared nuclear weapons program of its own.
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The-Perils-of-Not-Pauline "Globalism".
As a Muslim Official said this past week, iff the Holocaust agz the Jews is a "Crime agz Humanity", as defined and interpreted by the UNO = World Community, WHY NOT THE SAME FOR "INSULTS AGZ ISLAM"???
E.G. WAFF [old] > EU MEMBER GREECE WIDOUT OFFICIAL [Grand]MOSQUE IS [not] REALLY CIVILIZED? | WIDOUT A MOSQUE [to call their own], GREEK MUSLIMS GO UNDERGROUND.
versus
* WORLD NEWS > [Examiner.com] AL-QAEDA SHOWS ITS TEETH IN TORONTO [Canada]; CITY FAST BECOMING A TERROR HUB | [The Star] ALLEGED AL-QAEDA SYMPATHIZERS SHOUT SHAME ON USA IN TORONTO.
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It's not irony because irony is getting a different result than expected. Must be stupidity allowing this disgusting little creep to come here and speak and throw threats around.
So when will Iran reciprocate and allow someone to come to Iran and speak freely without threat, danger, or dire things happening to that person?
This morning the Muslim Brotherhood warned the United States that if the United States continued meddling in Egypt, Libya, and other potential hot spots in the middle east, they intend to cut off America 's supply of 7-11
and Motel 6 managers.
If this action does not yield sufficient results, cab drivers will be next,
followed by Dell, AT&T and AOL customer service reps.
Finally, if all else fails, they have threatened not to send us any more presidents.
[An Nahar] Syria's Ministry of Information on Monday denied the sacking of the country's ambassador to Leb and said a previous email announcement was a result of hacking, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
"The email account of the ministry was hacked in order to publish inaccurate information" about the reported dismissal of the Syrian Ambassador to Leb Ali Abdul Karim Ali, the ministry said in a statement carried by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
The ministry said it "denounces this piracy" and confirmed that "Ambassador Ali is still in his post in Leb, and the announcement of his dismissal is baseless."
Syrian official news agency SANA also said on Monday that its Facebook page had been hacked.
"As part of an aggressive campaign against our national media, hostile parties have hacked the SANA Facebook page," the agency said, adding that it had no links with the contents of the page, which it was working to deactivate.
In late August, SANA said a fake email was sent on its behalf announcing the dismissal of Vice President Faruq al-Shara.
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[An Nahar] U.N.-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... envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that the Syrian civil war is worsening and the country faces a growing food crisis, envoys said.
Brahimi told the 15-nation council that the Syrian government estimates there are 5,000 imported muscle in the country and is increasingly portraying the conflict as a "foreign conspiracy," envoys at the closed meeting told AFP.
The former Algerian foreign minister, who reported on his recent talks with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... in Damascus ...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy... , painted an increasingly grim picture of the 18-month-old conflict in which activists say more than 29,000 people have died.
Brahimi told the council that the torture of detainees has become "routine" and that people were now afraid to go to hospitals which were in the hands of government forces.
The envoy estimated that 1.5 million people have now fled their homes and said Syria faces growing food shortages because harvests have been slashed by the fighting between government forces and opposition rebels.
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See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > QATAR EMIR [again]CALLS FOR ARAB ARMED INTERVENTION TO HALT SYRIAN CONFLICT. Sheikh Hamad bin Khaifa AL-Thani.
ARTIC > QATARI EMIR = argued that the UNSC has failed to take a stand agz the violence.
Yet another reason for Shia Rising Iran to hate, attack? Base-Too-Far Sunni Qatar???
[An Nahar] A Mohammedan-Christian spiritual summit held in Bkirki on Monday stressed the need to protect religions against discussion various insults and attacks.
It called in a statement for the need to form a committee of legal experts to devise the appropriate statement that would protect religions.
The participants discussed the anti-Islam film that sparked outrage throughout the Mohammedan world, Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Leb, and the poor economic situation in the country.
The participants condemned the "Innocence of Mohammedans" film and the violent reactions it created.
They urged 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... and 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... to take the necessary measures that would prevent the abuse of religions and their symbols, warning that the tensions created between Mohammedans and Christians may lead to strife.
Commenting on the Pope's recent visit to Leb, the participants thanked him for his historic trip, saying that it proved that Leb is a "secure and open country and the best place to sign the Apostolic Exhortation."
"The Exhortation stresses the depth of Christian-Mohammedan ties and Leb as an example of peace and cooperation between the two religions," said the summit statement.
"The pope's visit is a reminder that Leb is a space of dialogue of civilizations based on peace and diversity," it added.
"It is not an open ground for conflicts despite the regional and local developments," it said.
Pope Benedict XVI visited Leb on September 14 on a three-day trip during which he signed the Apostolic Exhortation.
Addressing the economic crisis in Leb, the spiritual summit noted that the rise in the public debt, increased unemployment, high cost of living, and spread of poverty will lead to the emergence of extremism and frequency of kidnappings.
It therefore urged the need for the adoption of a socio-economic policy based on a more just tax system.
It also proposed developing deprived regions in Leb and creating more job opportunities for fresh graduates.
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi had warned in his opening statement at the summit that if the economy collapses then the entire country would collapse. "That's why we should hold consultations."
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Does this mean that they will condemn the burning of Christian churches as loudly as they condemn merely insulting Muslims/
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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.
The U.S. State Department has accused CNN of "distasteful" reporting after it used the contents of a private diary kept by slain U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens without the consent of his family.
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Syria's Ministry of Information on Monday denied the sacking of the country's ambassador to 
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