A Department of Defense (DoD) teaching guide meant to fight extremism advises students that rather than "dressing in sheets" modern-day radicals "will talk of individual liberties, states' rights, and how to make the world a better place." The guide comes from documents obtained by Judicial Watch and is authored by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, a DoD-funded diversity training center.
Under a section titled "extremist ideologies," the document states, "In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples."
Besides a brief reference to 9/11 and another to the Sudanese civil war, the guide makes no mention of Islamic extremism. The guide also repeatedly tells readers to use the Southern Poverty Law Center as a resource in identifying hate groups.
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To topple a society, you must first destroy that which they hold dear. Our sons and daughters in uniform are but one example. Other examples are individual privacy, the church, guns, land ownership, and your father's Oldsmobile.
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Strange, both uniform and civilian government employees have to take an oath to uphold the Constitution, yet here we have an office of people who probably couldn't pass a 'pop quiz' on its content. Just move the office and its personnel to Casco Cove Coast Guard Station.
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More likely a quiet lockpicking followed by a silenced pistol three times to the head, and a quiet exit.
No suspect, no evidence and no Government troubles, the problem just dies.
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If that's where it's going what is there to live for?
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If that's where it's going what is there to live for?
Trap the bastards, they'll sit when "James Bond" Gets caught by the local law, I can think of may traps that don't involve Movie Heroics and are sure to trap the bastards, Suicide is the only way out.
I'd love to hear Obama explain to Sherriff Joe.
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[An Nahar] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... asked Pakistain on Monday to help arrange peace talks between his government and Taliban Death Eaters, and called for a joint campaign against extremism in both countries.
Karzai was visiting Islamabad to hold his first talks with newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , despite a series of public rows that have hampered efforts to end 12 years of war in Afghanistan.
Kabul was infuriated by the opening in June of a Taliban office in Qatar, considered a precursor towards talks with U.S. officials. He now wants Pakistain to help open dialogue with the militia, which has publicly refused all contact with his government.
Elements of the Pak state are widely accused of funding, controlling and sheltering the Taliban. Islamabad says publicly it will do anything to stop the fighting in Afghanistan.
Karzai said Afghanistan expected Pakistain to provide opportunities or a platform for talks between the Afghan High Peace Council -- Kabul's official negotiators -- and the Taliban.
"We hope with this on top of our agenda we can move forward in bringing stability and peace to both countries," he told news hounds.
In the past, the Afghan leader has identified Taliban havens in Pakistain as the main cause of increased violence in his country.
On Monday he acknowledged that the "continued menace of terrorism" was a primary concern for people in Pakistain, where thousands have been killed in the last decade, as well as in Afghanistan.
"It is this area that needs to have primary and focused attention by both governments," Karzai said.
"It is with hope on this that I have come to Pakistain... to advance the course of action together... but also by having a common campaign against extremism, (to) make sure that the two countries are safer and prosperous towards a secure future."
Sharif wished Afghanistan well in the transition from NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... to Afghan security control and reiterated support for peace and reconciliation to be "Afghan-owned and Afghan-led".
"I assured President Karzai that Pakistain will continue to extend all possible facilitation to the international community's efforts for the realization of this noble goal," he said.
"I also reaffirmed Pakistain's strong and sincere support for peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan."
But there are question marks over what Pakistain can deliver. Analysts say it can encourage and provide logistical support for Taliban peace talks, but cannot force them to negotiate against their will.
The Taliban have publicly refused to have any contact with Karzai's government, branding it a puppet of the United States.
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Karzai knows who pulls the Taliban strings. Does Obama?
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[UPI] MOSCOW, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Britain, the United States and other governments Monday against military action in Syria without U.N. approval. Russian humour, so very subtle.
In what was called an "emergency" news conference, Lavrov suggested video showing what appeared to be a poison gas attack last week on Syrian rebels could have been faked, Russian broadcaster RT reported. He said the U.N. investigation team in Syria can decide if chemical weapons were used but said any decision on responsibility must be made by the Security Council, where Russia has a veto.
Also Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron spent 20 minutes on the phone, The Independent reported. Cameron's office described the conversation as "businesslike." Vlad and Champ... not talking ?
Putin was said to have advised Cameron U.N. inspectors should be given enough time to do their job but did not go as far as Lavrov. His polls are abysmal. Champ needs a righteous cause, a diversion. This alleged chemical attack is his ticket. He'll be pulling the trigger very soon.
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ION FREEREPUBLIC > JOHN MCCAIN TO TOKYO + BEIJING OVER SENKAKU/DIAOYU ISLANDS DISPUTE | [The Diplomat] JOHN MCCAIN, CHINA TRADE BARBS [war of words] ON SENKAKUS ISLANDS.
* RELATED MARIANAS VARIETY > MCCAIN: IFF NO BUDGET PLAN, US MARINES TO STAY ON OKINAWA.
Not what Beijing [+ even Tokyo] wants to hear.
I do not see Beijing = China reducing its claims + escalations agz Japan + Philippines [ASEAN], ONLY EXPANDING IT TOWARDS DE FACTO MIL CONFRONTATION AGZ SAME + US.
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OOOOPPPPPP, forgot DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Reuters] CHINA SEES NO BASIS FOR TALKS WID JAPAN ON ISLANDS DISPUTE.
Yuh-oh.
Iff Maha-Rushian histoire' ala CHINA is any measure, NUKE-ARMED CHINA MAY BE GETTING READY TO OPEN FIRE ON NON-NUKE ARMED JAPAN [Philippines = SCS?] SOONER THAN LATER.
POssibly before October???
"Perfect STorm" for the Bammer + his alleged anti-US, Marxist-Anarchist-Globalist agenda.
The good news for US + Japan + PHIL, ASEAN is that China's ace has historically been its ground forces - this means that China may subjectively/broadly restrict itself to waging LIMITED WARS [Conventinal? TacNuke?] WIDIN RANGE OF ITS LAND-BASED LR AIR, BALLISTIC FIREPOWER.
The bad news is that iff the Bammer is indeed adhereing to the Globalist agenda, includ its precept of a "Multipolar" World where there are MULTIPLE GLOBAL SUPERPOWERS-LEADERS, then by this scope the Bammer = USA may deliberately
PCorrectly-Deniably "lose" agz Rising China in East Asia + PACOAS; + fail to stop Nuke-Armed Iran includ Iran-led OWG Caliphate [Global Islamic Superpower]???
Lest we fergit, POLITICS = MARKETING/SALES-N-ADVERTISING = "HUMAN BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEANS" = GETTING END-USERS OR CONSUMERS TO ACCEPT OR BUY, ETC. WHAT IS NOT NECESSARILY GOOD FOR THEM OR THEIR INTERESTS.
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WOW, JM that was a good day for you. Nice touch-"Lest we fergit, POLITICS = MARKETING/SALES-N-ADVERTISING = "HUMAN BEHAVIOR BY OTHER MEANS" = GETTING END-USERS OR CONSUMERS TO ACCEPT OR BUY, ETC. WHAT IS NOT NECESSARILY GOOD FOR THEM OR THEIR INTERESTS".
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But g(r)om, he's lovingly adored by the American Jewish community, but come to think of it.... so was Bernie Madoff. Perhaps not all Kenyans are Kenyan ?
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MOSCOW, August 27 (RIA Novosti) A firebrand Russian nationalist-turned-senior official said Tuesday that the West was acting in the Islamic world like a monkey with a hand grenade.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Russias former envoy to NATO, did not elaborate on his comparison, made on his Russian-language Twitter page.
[Al Ahram] The Egyptian Ministry for Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the latest statements by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan, in which he criticised Al-Azhar's Grand Imam, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Ahram Arabic website reported.
The ministry, in a statement, anounced that Erdogan's views are an insult, not only to Egypt, but all Moslems worldwide.
In a speech at the University Development Foundation on Sunday in Rize province, Erdogan reportedly condemned what he described as a "military coup" in Egypt, stating that he was "disappointed" to see the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Al-Tayeb, side with the "coup" leaders.
"Perhaps this insult raises doubts regarding the motives of Turkish officials' continued attack on Egypt and its [national and political] figures after the 30 June revolution," the foreign ministry statement read.
Al-Azhar institution is one of the oldest Sunni global authorities.
The ministry has called on Islamic figures in Turkey and the rest of the world to "strongly condemn this insult, and to protect the status of Al-Azhar, which is considered a beacon of moderate and tolerant Islam."
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Wassup, dude? A new Cairo-Tehran-Mecca Axis???
Whatever! The coming slaughter is a balm on my Islamophobic ulcer!
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[An Nahar] Mohammed Hajib, a German-Moroccan whose imprisonment in Morocco for terrorist activity the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... has termed arbitrary, began a hunger strike Monday in protest at his "unfair trial," a rights group said.
"The United Nations has asked the Moroccan state to free Mohammed Hajib because his trial was unfair. But the state has done nothing," said Anas Hellawi, a member of the Joint Committee for the Defense of Islamist Detainees.
"For that reason, Mohammed Hajib has begun his hunger strike," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Hajib was convicted of terrorism offences in 2010 and sentenced to 10 years in prison on the basis of a confession allegedly obtained under torture while he was held in pre-trial detention.
His sentence was reduced to five years in January 2012.
In its latest annual report, Amnesia Amnesty International said the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared in August 2012 that Hajib's detention was arbitrary and urged the Moroccan authorities to release him.
Morocco has been accused in the past 12 months of convicting other Islamists on terrorism charges on the basis of confessions allegedly obtained under torture, including Ali Aarrass, a Belgian-Moroccan extradited from Spain in 2010 and sentenced on appeal to 12 years last October.
Last week, some 200 Moroccans, including dozens of children, protested outside parliament in Rabat demanding the release from prison of Islamist relatives they say are innocent.
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began a hunger strike Monday in protest at his "unfair trial,
Never have I heard such a shocking and brutal injustice I cared so little about.
[MAGHAREBIA] With Tunisians turning out in the streets demanding an end to the country's political turmoil, the ruling Islamist party and the opposition have yet to talk.
"We're prepared to dissolve the government, provided the alternative is ready," Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi told Nessma TV on Sunday (August 25th), stressing the need to avoid a political vacuum.
His comments come a day after thousands of Tunisians rallied outside the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) to demand the resignation of the Ennahda-led government.
"We're here to defend our revolution and to remove those who didn't meet our demands and stole our freedom and rights," said Samar Yahiaoui, 30, who came from Bizerte to attend the Tunis protest. "We'll just stay here until they leave."
"The only thing that will satisfy us is for this government to leave," agreed Ahmed Kchou, a native of Sfax.
Organisers claimed a turnout of 60,000 at the Tunis protest, held to mark the opposition's "Week of Departure". The initiative aims to pressure the Islamist party to allow the formation of a non-partisan government of technocrats.
But one month after Tunisia's political crisis unfolded, tensions remain high between the opposition and Ennahda.
After meeting last week with Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) Secretary-General Hocine Abbassi, Ennahda leader Ghannouchi said the ruling party was open to a national dialogue.
The UGTT's initiative, however, calls for more than just talks. The union proposals include a new caretaker government of technocrats, the preservation of the national congress until it finishes drafting the constitution and the dissolution of the leagues for the protection of the revolution.
Ennahda's concessions did not satisfy the opposition, which has insisted on the resignation of Prime Minister Ali Larayedh's government.
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[Pak Daily Times] FOR Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund, a fierce crackdown has led to a return to its underground existence of the past: avoiding phones and the Internet, changing homes and blending in.
Ever since security forces forcibly dispersed two Cairo camps of protesters loyal to ousted religious president Mohamed Morsi, members of his Moslem Brüderbund organization have been on the run.
Authorities have locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! the group's top leaders, including its supreme guide, effectively decapitating the movement and disrupting its organizational structure.
Morsi himself is tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! at a secret location and authorities have charged him and other Brotherhood members with involvement in the deaths of protesters.
The campaign of arrests has forced the Brotherhood back to ways it had largely abandoned as it inched its way into the spotlight.
Long banned in Egypt, the group had become gradually more tolerated in the years before the 2011 revolution, winning parliamentary seats through candidates who ran as independents.
It took centre-stage only after the uprising, which toppled president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , winning a majority in parliament and then the presidency. But Morsi's July 3 ouster has reset the clock.
"We've gone back to direct contact after having banned the use of telephones and the Internet, which could allow us to be found," said Aisha, an activist in the Alexandria region of northern Egypt, giving a false name for security reasons.
Her father, a Brotherhood member, has gone underground for fear of arrest after the August 14 break-up of the protest camps by security forces at a cost of hundreds of lives.
"It's worse than under Mubarak," she told AFP. "Because in addition to the violence of the police, there's the hostility of the people."
"Many people no longer want to have Moslem Brüderbund as neighbours, but luckily there are still some who sympathise with us."
Another activist based in Tanta, southwest of Cairo, who asked to be called Ahmed, said the group's leaders were all on the run.
"None of our leaders spend even two nights in a row in the same place," he said.
No rank of the Brotherhood has been left untouched, from grassroots members to supreme guide Mohamed Badie, who was arrested on August 20.
Security sources say more than 2,000 Moslem Brüderbund members have been arrested in the past 12 days.
But a lawyer close to the group, Ismail Wishahi, says, "more than 8,000 activists have been locked up."
An anti-Brotherhood mood has been growing for weeks. Ordinary Egyptians have attacked dozens of the group's offices and the local media have lined up behind Morsi's ouster, dubbing the Brotherhood "terrorists" and terming the crisis a "war against terrorism."
In the past, the Brotherhood has been able to mobilise tens of thousands of demonstrators, drawing on a network of supporters throughout the country. But the violent dispersal of the protest camps and the campaign of arrests has thinned its ranks and made it increasingly difficult to mobilise en masse.
Directives can now only be passed by word-of-mouth, and checkpoints on roads make it impossible to bus supporters from the countryside into towns for demonstrations.
But experts' caution against writing off the Brotherhood too soon, particularly as the movement has decades of experience in facing state repression and surviving as a clandestine group.
"The Brotherhood has certainly been shaken up, but it still has control of its finances, and the majority of its activists are still free," said Ashraf al-Sharif, a professor of political science at the American University of Cairo.
"As a closed and secret organization, the Brotherhood is capable of resisting this wave of repression and reorganising itself quickly," added Haitham Abu Khalil, a former member of the group.
A Brotherhood activist in the city of Port Said, in northern Egypt, said the movement would continue its work, even under pressure and despite the loss of its headquarters.
"We will engage directly with the population once again, and we don't need offices to do that," he said.
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[An Nahar] The head of a U.N. inquiry into human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... in North Korea challenged Pyongyang on Monday to back its allegation that testimony gathered by his commission in Seoul amounted to "slander"
The three-member Commission of Inquiry chaired by retired Australian judge Michael Kirby has just wrapped up hearing five days of often harrowing testimony in the South Korean capital -- mostly from North Korean defectors.
North Korea on Friday condemned the hearings as an exercise in "slander" that could set back a recent thaw in cross border-relations with the South.
The North, which strongly denies allegations of rights abuses, has refused to recognize the commission and barred its members from visiting the country -- a stance that Kirby suggested blunted the credibility of its criticism.
"If any of the testimony on the conditions of political prisoners, abductees, torture, starvation conditions and inter-generational punishment and so forth can be shown to be untrue, we would welcome evidence to that effect," Kirby said in a statement.
"But so far, the evidence we have heard has largely pointed in one consistent and disturbing direction - and it is so far unanswered," he added.
The Commission of Inquiry is the first U.N. expert panel to officially examine North Korea's human rights record, and plans to collect witness testimony in Japan, Thailand, Britannia and the United States.
The other members are Sonja Biserko, a Serbian human rights expert, and Marzuki Darusman, a senior Indonesian jurist who also serves as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea.
Kirby said the panel had been "deeply moved" by testimony from the 40 witnesses who addressed the commission in Seoul.
"The specificity, detail and shocking character of much of the testimony, appears to call for a response from the international community," he said. "It is not good enough to produce just another U.N. report."
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FINALLY they're called to task on the Overblown rhetoric they've been screaming.
The UN will be ignored, of course.
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"The UN will be ignored, of course."
Well, I ignore them, RJ.
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[Pak Daily Times] The inspector general (IG) of police on Monday revealed that the gunman responsible for the Islamabad standoff had links with a banned bad boy outfit.
The IG told a presser that the gunman, Sikandar, had been operating bad boy groups in foreign countries, including Dubai, for the last five years.
He said that the gunman had been helping terrorist outfits carry out their activities. He acted as their handler and controller, the IG added.
He said Sikandar underwent combat training in 1996 after which he started raising funds for the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization in Dubai.
He said that the Dubai Police had tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Sikandar in 1998. He was sent to jail for three months. The IG further said that Sikandar was held again in 2001 and was deported by the UAE authorities. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... he succeeded in getting a new passport by changing his name and appearance, the IG added. The IG further said that Sikandar returned to Pakistain in 2010.
According to the IG, Sikandar received bad boy training in Azad Jammu and Kashmire.
The IG said that the gunman worked for terrorist outfits and had planned to take the Parliament House 'hostage'.
The IG went on to say that the gunman wanted to take hostage all those present in the parliament house on the evening of August 15.
The IG also said that one of the reasons for delay in handling of the incident was the presence of a large media teams on the spot. He went on to say that there should be a code of ethics for the coverage of such incidents.
The IG said that Sikindar's drama was about to come to an end within 10 to 15 minutes. "However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... Zamarud Khan jumped into the scene breaching the security line without the permission from the authorities concerned." he added
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... Sikandar's wife Kanwal has been sent on an additional two-day physical remand.
She was earlier sent on a seven-day physical remand and one-day transit remand. Upon the end of the seven-day remand, she was taken to an anti-terrorism court. Following the judge's ruling, Kanwal was taken for an additional two-day physical remand.
On August 15, Sikandar had shut down the heavily guarded capital for five hours in a standoff that ended with him being shot and maimed.
The IG, did not say how the gunman managed to breach the security and paralyse the city for five hours.
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[An Nahar] Iraq's highest court on Monday overturned controversial term limits on senior posts, clearing the way for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to chase a third term in elections next year.
The decision, confirmed by multiple MPs and officials, comes with parliament considering a new election law ahead of legislative polls due to be held in April, Iraq's first general election since 2010.
The federal supreme court ruled that because the law passed by MPs in January originated in parliament, it was unconstitutional, based on previous judicial rulings that have argued laws must be first proposed by Iraq's cabinet.
"This should have come from the cabinet or the presidency only, not from parliament," said Ali Shlah, an MP from Maliki's State of Law alliance.
The decision was confirmed by Shlah, another MP and two officials.
MPs voted in January to adopt a measure to limit the president, premier and parliament speaker to two terms, but Maliki's supporters insisted at the time that the motion was not legally-binding and would be struck down in the courts.
Iraq's constitution does not set term limits for those posts.
Maliki told Agence La Belle France Presse in a February 2011 interview, however, that he would not seek a third term in office, and said at the time that he wanted to pass a constitutional provision limiting his successors to two tems as prime minister.
The Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, the main Kurdish alliance and the movement loyal to powerful Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... -- all members of Maliki's national unity government who frequently criticize him in public -- were the law's principal parliamentary backers when it was approved earlier this year.
The move to limit Maliki's time in power came after his opponents failed last year to push a motion of no confidence through parliament.
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[Ynet] Despite reports that Monday's Jericho peace meet nixed after Paleostinains killed in festivities with IDF, US insists: No meeting has been cancelled.
The United States insisted Monday that no meeting planned as part of the ongoing Israeli-Paleostinian grinding of the peace processor had been cancelled, despite claims to the contrary.
"Reality? We don't need no stinking reality! Tea?"
"I can assure you that no meeting has been cancelled," State Department spokesperson Marie Harf told news hounds, after reports a session had been cancelled after Israeli forces rubbed out three Paleostinians.
Earlier, a senior Paleostinian official had told AFP talks that had been due to be held in Jericho later on Monday had been put on hold because of what he termed this "Israeli crime committed in Qalandiya today."
The US State Department, which is mediating the talks process and has representatives attending, denied this, but refused to say whether or not such a meeting had taken place.
President Barack Obama has not made a decision to order military strikes against the Syrian government in response to last week's alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.
The assertion by the US official, which echoed the White House's comments on Monday, came amid mounting signs that Washington and its allies are edging toward a limited use of force against Syrian President Bashar Assad's loyalists.
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he's still trying to coordinate his golf schedule and the ultimate decision with Val Jarrett
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Why not jus airdrop chitown street youfs in Damascus?
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technical issue - they would have to be armed up, since guns are outlawed in Chicago.
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IIRC it's been reported it took him three time before someone pushed him ordering the take out of Bin Laden. The man is an equivocator, unless its id'd as a threat to his immediate imperial authority - ie Tea Party, American Legion, Rush, etc.
It can't be because he'd be a classical Lefty hypocrite that for years harbored the projection that America was evil in its foreign policy to dictate to other counties their internal affairs. Of course for the Left, there is no hypocrisy in power which is self rationalizing and justifying.
[BBC.CO.UK] American forces are "ready" to launch strikes on Syria if President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... chooses to order an attack, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says.
"We have moved assets in place to be able to fulfil and comply with whatever option the president wishes to take," Mr Hagel told the BBC.
US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... has said there is "undeniable" proof that Syria used chemical weapons.
The UK Parliament is to be recalled on Thursday to discuss possible responses.
Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... said the world could not stand idly by after seeing appalling scenes of death and suffering caused by suspected chemical weapons attacks.
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Jeebus. Between Obama (handpuppet to ValJar) Joe Biden, John Kerry, and DOD Doofus Chuck Hagel, I think we're screwed. Even Carney was dumbstruck more than usual today.
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See also FREEREPUBLIC > [Business Insider] REPORT: OBAMA IS CONSIDERING LIMITED TWO-DAY [possibly three?] STRIKES ON SYRIAN MLITARY.
AFAIK no USN CVN BGS, USMC AmphibFors, or US Army, USAF heavy assets, etc. have been activated for a Syria strike or invasion.
Again though, POTUS Obama may be violating the so-called "Obama Doctrine" iff he attempts to destroy Assad's Chemwar capabilities [+ other WMDS] in the name of OBama Doctrine
"humanitarianism" or "human rights" BUT NOT REMOVE HIM FROM RULING POWER???
* RELATED SAME > [NBC News] MILITARY STRIKES ON SYRIA "AS EARLY AS THURSDAY", US OFFICIALS SAY.
Obama's criterion requires clear-n-convincing evidence to attack Baby Assad. but thus far both RUSSIA + UNO SAY THERE IS NO SUCH EVIDENCE AS YET.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Russia Today News] UK GATHERS WARPLANES, MILITARY HARDWARE ON CYPRUS BASE [Akotiri AB/AFB]NEAR SYRIA - REPORT.
I'll be dipped in dog s**t. This guy's been completely out of public view for so long that it was only natural to assume an Iranian sleeper team had turned him into worm chow...
Officials inside the Central Intelligence Agency knew that Saudi Arabia was serious about toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad when the Saudi king named Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud to lead the effort. They believed that Prince Bandar, a veteran of the diplomatic intrigues of Washington and the Arab world, could deliver what the CIA couldn't: planeloads of money and arms, and, as one U.S. diplomat put it, wasta, Arabic for under-the-table clout.
"This has the potential to go badly," one former official said, citing the risk weapons will end up in the hands of violent anti-Western Islamists. Methinks the former official was from a previous administration. To Team Ogabe and the rogues' gallery that put them in office, stuff that goes boom being delivered to anti-Western crazies isn't a bug, it's a key design feature.
This article starring:
Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud
Prince Bandar
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I'll be dipped in dog s**t. This guy's been completely out of public view for so long that it was only natural to assume an Iranian sleeper team had turned him into worm chow...
It took them this long to find a new compatible host body for the symbiote.
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Thanks, Besoeker. This story had been on the public part of the WSJ's website yesterday; it ended up behind the paywall a few minutes after I got done with this post.
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No problem. Anything I can assist or remotely out this odious bastid warms the cockles.
[An Nahar] Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday told British Prime Minister David Cameron that there was no evidence yet that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons against rebels, Cameron's office said.
Except for the deaders, of course...
During a telephone call between the two leaders, Putin said that "they did not have evidence of whether a chemical weapons attack had taken place or who was responsible," according to a Downing Street spokesman.
Cameron insisted that there was "little doubt" Bashar Assad's regime had carried out a chemical attack, according to a readout of the telephone conversation.
The British leader doubted that the rebels had the capability to carry out such an attack and pointed out that the regime had launched a heavy offensive in the area in the days before and after the incident.
"The regime had also prevented U.N. access in the immediate aftermath, suggesting they had something to hide," he told Putin.
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This is sounding like global warming or is it climate change now?. The West is brain washed. In my opinion the Russian people don't want war. Putin knows this and will avoid conflict. It is for us to lose face now. What's to be gained? getting rid of Assad?. Heavy price. We will be the bad guys and Russia will be welcomed as they are in Egypt now. Putin's end game. China appears preoccupied at this time. Economy is getting bad. Then as JM said today attention on Japan. No interference with local governments has great appeal to countries like African (Kenya) or Latin Americas.
True enough, but Putin does not have to engage in direct military conflict to win the game. All Putin has to do is persevere, pull back, continue to support Assad, and wait us out. He knows Champ cannot sustain a prolonged conflict in Syria. This is classic 'wag the dog'.
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When it comes to obooboo, trying to divine his motives is a fools errand. He simply does not know what he is doing.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.
Count on obooboo to do the wrong thing for the wrong reason.
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Like his economy and debt, his foreign policy is spirally out of control. His polls are in a flat spin. He's a desperate man who seeks adoration and attention. He'll likely do anything.
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The Iranians don't need a salvaged Tomahawk. They've got Photoshop
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08/27/2013 9:33 Comments ||
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Let the Ruskies in, let them die.
Better them than us.
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It doesn't matter what is found, Obama will simply turn his head and sing loudly with his fingers in hos ears, "THERE'S NO EVIDENCE la,la,la, oevidence".
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All Putin has to do is persevere, pull back, continue to support Assad
Russia can provide supplies to Assad by shipping it to Iran's Caspian Sea ports and trucking it over land via Iran and Iraq. I'm surprised that there has been so much back-and-forth over the S-300's. Maybe the Russians aren't as committed to Assad as some think they are. Putin could stop this in its tracks by landing a brigade of paratroopers in Damascus, as a tripwire force, or signing a mutual defense treaty with Syria, thereby extending a nuclear umbrella over the Assad regime. That he hasn't shows that he's not entirely sure. Putin's weakness has been provocative, just as I suspect our weakness with respect to Chinese territorial claims in East Asia will generate headlines as the Chinese take our bland pronouncements about our impartiality to mean acceptance of their claims, and take military action to enforce those claims.
#13
trying to divine his motives is a fools errand. He simply does not know what he is doing.
Nah, not really. In fact its quite simple. President Obamas decision will be primarily based on what benefits him personally. And then pretend thats what best for the universe.
[An Nahar] The main suspect in the twin bombing that rocked Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... last week was planning to target prominent figures in the northern city, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.
According to information obtained by the daily, a police informer, identified as Moustapha H., contacted Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau claiming that he has important information over a Sheikh from Tripoli who is planning to target al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... MP Khaled al-Daher, former ISF chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi and Salafist holy man Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi.
Moustapha told the intelligence bureau that a Sheikh from al-Gharib family was collecting information regarding the three men, including their addresses, movement, the cars they use and the safety precautions they adopted.
"Gharib claimed that he wanted to assassinate Daher, Rifi and al-Rafehi," the informer said according to the report.
He also told the intelligence bureau that several blasts will take place in Tripoli.
The two men were placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! after the twin blasts in the city, the newspaper said.
The report continues that Gharib confessed during investigations that he is an acquaintance with Moustapha and thew had business in Syria.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the Sheikh said that Moustapha tricked him and stole his money.
He also said that Moustapha has ties with the Syrian intelligence.
"I have never mentioned Daher, Rifi and al-Rafehi," Sheikh Ahmed Gharib said, pointing out that Moustapha was the one who talked about them.
Media reports said on Saturday that Gharib was detained over links to last week's blasts that hit two mosques in Tripoli.
According to the state-run National News Agency, a surveillance camera spotted Gharib in the area near the kaboom that took place near al-Salam mosque.
Powerful boom-mobiles went kaboom! outside two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on Friday afternoon.
The first bomb struck in the city center at the al-Salam mosque as worshipers were still inside.
The second kaboom struck just minutes later outside al-Taqwa mosque, about two kilometers away, near the port.
Caretaker premier Najib Miqati announced that the kabooms killed 35 people and maimed 900 others, including 110 in a critical condition.
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[OMANOBSERVER] As UN weapons inspectors came under fire in Syria yesterday, the evidence of an apparent large-scale chemical weapons attack they are seeking is already fading from the scene. The longer it takes the 20-member team to get to the spot where rockets carrying nerve agents are said to have killed hundreds of people on August 21, the harder it will be for the mission led by Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom to find meaningful remnants of toxic munitions. With Western powers considering military strikes against Syria if they conclude it has used gas-laden rockets in an escalation of the country's two-and-half-year civil war, reliable evidence will be key to their deliberations. Traces of chemicals on munitions fragments, buildings and impact craters will already have degraded. It will also have become difficult to detect anything in the urine of inhabitants in the outskirts of Damascus. Perpetrators will have had days to try to cover up proof of the attack, experts said.
Ralf Trapp, a disarmament expert who worked for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is supplying experts to the UN team, said traces of chemicals in a victim's urine fade within days, though blood could contain traces for weeks. "They should be collected as soon after the incident as possible, preferably within a couple of weeks after the alleged use," Trapp said. Some feared that the UN team would arrive too late to gather any meaningful samples. Former UN adviser George A Lopez Of the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, accused Syria of applying "calculated manoeuvres" on the ground in Damascus to counter UN and world reaction. "Syrian forces continued conventional shelling of the area, while locals and others cleared away bodies," he said.
"This hastened breakdown and contamination of chemical compounds needed to provide undeniable proof of the type of gas, its concentration level, and its source to the inspectors, who may still be one or more days away from taking soil and other samples." In a conflict that is dividing world powers, inspectors will also have to safeguard the integrity of the samples. They have to make sure containers and vials transported to the laboratories for analysis follow a strict chain of custody, with fibre-optic seals and accompanied by exhaustive documentation "to be able to demonstrate that the samples have not been tempered with", Trapp said.
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Médecins sans Frontières has said hospitals it supports in Damascus treated thousands of patients for neurotoxicity, the first independent indication of the use of poison gas in a deadly incident on Wednesday in the Syrian capital.
The medical charity said the hospitals received approximately 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms in less than three hours on Wednesday morning, of which 355 reportedly died.
Dr Bart Janssens, director of operations at the charity, said: "Medical staff working in these facilities provided detailed information to MSF doctors regarding large numbers of patients arriving with symptoms including convulsions, excess saliva, pinpoint pupils, blurred vision and respiratory distress."
MSF can neither scientifically confirm the cause of these symptoms nor establish who is responsible for the attack, the reported symptoms of the patients, in addition to the epidemiological pattern of the eventscharacterised by the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, the origin of the patients, and the contamination of medical and first aid workersstrongly indicate mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent. This would constitute a violation of international humanitarian law, which absolutely prohibits the use of chemical and biological weapons.
I'm sure the scorbutic ranthers in this crappy blog will spin the words of a secular french non-governmental organization with a decades-long track record of independent apolitical service (that is often in direct conflict with US policy) into evidence of a vast conspiracy.
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evidence of a vast conspiracy.
Nah, we just want to know: who done it?
Neither side occupies the moral high ground and the one thing they both have in common is that each is worse than the other.
#3
Doctors without Border are very scientifically cautious about the cause of the illness or who or what caused it, but they are f*cking sure it is a violation of international law against bio and chemical weapons use.
Well played. No wonder the stampede for US intervention.
#4
I'm sure the scorbutic ranthers in this crappy blog will spin the words of a secular french non-governmental organization with a decades-long track record of independent apolitical service (that is often in direct conflict with US policy) into evidence of a vast conspiracy. Posted by Lame name
With all respect and conspiracies aside, I'm sure you won't mind if I reject the esteemed organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as an arbiter of threats to US national security or diviner of US foreign policy.
#6
(1) Modern nerve gases don't land people in hospitals.
(2) Something bothered me about the video, and yesterday somebody in Jerry Pournelle's blog solved it for me: how come the rescue workers without protective gear don't drop dead?
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I'm sure the scorbutic ranthers in this crappy blog will spin the words of a secular french non-governmental organization with a decades-long track record of independent apolitical service (that is often in direct conflict with US policy) into evidence of a vast conspiracy.
The question should be be whether or not chemical weapons were used. "Strongly indicate mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent" is a probable indicator. Bhopal was also a site of "mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent." If one wants to be maintain the appearance as a "secular body with a decades-long track record of independent apolitical service," then one needs to limit one's conclusions to facts.
The question also is - who used them.
Speaking as someone who has spent a few years in the Middle East, I wouldn't accept anyone telling me it was raining unless I went outside, far away from buildings, into an open field, and saw for myself. And then I'd still call someone and ask them to verify satellite data.
Meaning that I wouldn't take the word of anyone in the region telling me who used chemical weapons.
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And besides all that, I ask you, if you had your back to the wall with your enemies threatening your life and the lives of your family, what would you do?
And even besides that, whoever used those weapons, if they used them, where did they get them??? Isn't it at least within the realm of possibility that these are left over weapons from the Iran/Iraq war that Donald Rumsfeld gave to Saddam Hussein? And if we gave chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein to use against Ayatolla Khomeini, why is it so morally reprehensible for Bashar Assad to use them against a ragtag band of bat shit crazy jihadis? I'm sorry. I just don't see anybody on the moral high ground here.
What I see is a geopolitical game in which I can only guess at the real objectives because Barack Obama and John Frickin' Kerry are sure as hell not going to come clean. It could be our government is poking very cautiously, timidly, actually in an extremely chicken shit kinda way, at Iran...at least I can hope for that. More likely we are once again doing the bidding of the Soddies who have been watching their little proxy rebels get their butts kicked and now they need a little help.
Evidence? We don't need no stinkin' evidence. We have the New York Times and ABC. We have videos! And now we have a bunch of froggy doctors without borders. It's time to act! No need to consult Congress. John McCain said it's OK. Just do it.
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I remember seeing pictures of people exposed to depleted uranium bullets that turned out to be people killed by Saddams gas attack and Saddam and his enablers simply relabled the video.
Do we have any evidence this video came from Syria?
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Evidence? We don't need no stinkin' evidence. We have the New York Times and ABC. We have videos! And now we have a bunch of froggy doctors without borders. It's time to act! No need to consult Congress. John McCain said it's OK. Just do it. Posted by Ebbang Uluque
A two day penalty attack. I'll show you...YOU racist white Russian hater YOU! I thought weez buddies, and you put Snowdenski up in Hong Kong and told me to pi** off? Now he's going to Fabrique and Mio's... having a good time while I'm stuck here with an angry FLOTUS.
how come the rescue workers without protective gear don't drop dead?
Short-lifespan agent? Some of them break down quite quickly in the presence of oxygen or sunlight, as a "feature" to allow quick exploitation of any gaps their use might create in enemy troop formations.
And considering that both Saddam and Assad built gas programs specifically for use against civilian populations, that feature would be sensible in that case, too. You don't want to clear some rebels off an oil well only to find you can't get people into the site to restore it to service for 60 days, and what's the use of a village you can't give to an allied tribe?
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And besides all that, I ask you, if you had your back to the wall with your enemies threatening your life and the lives of your family, what would you do?
Leave. The Saudis would give him a safe haven, if only to remove Iranian influence in the area.
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Leave. The Saudis would give him a safe haven/em>
And all the rest of Allawites, and Christians, and Kurds, and Druze?
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Didn't a Cult in Japan let of some homemade Sarin on a subway back in the 90's. This could be some home cooking - might explain the fatal to injured ratio. Poor product with an equaly poor delivery.
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[An Nahar] The United States said Tuesday that chemical weapons had been used against Syrian civilians and warned President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... would demand accountability for this "moral obscenity."
Employing his strongest language yet, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said Washington was still examining evidence, but left no doubt that Bashir al-Assad's regime would be blamed.
"What we saw in Syria last week should shock the conscience of the world. It defies any code of morality," he said, in a televised statement from the State Department.
"Let me be clear. The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and kiddies and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity," he said.
"By any standard it is inexcusable, and despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured, it is undeniable."
Assad's government has denied carrying out last week's alleged chemical weapons strike on a civilian community near Damascus, which reportedly killed hundreds of people.
But Kerry said that independent reports of an atrocity were credible and said that the United States would soon present more concrete evidence of its own.
"Moreover, we know that the Syrian regime maintains custody of these chemical weapons. We know that the Syrian regime has the capacity to do this with rockets," he said.
"We know that the regime has been determined to clear the opposition from those very places where the attacks took place. And with our own eyes, we have all of us become witnesses.
"We have additional information about this attack, and that information is being compiled and reviewed together with our partners, and we will provide that information in the days ahead," he said.
"Our sense of basic humanity is offended not only by this cowardly crime, but also by the cynical attempt to cover it up."
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The way I see it O & co already decided, and just waited for an excuse. When they got tired of waiting, somebody dropped a hint to the "rebels"---who called their Palliwood pals.
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You have been warned that I should warn Barry about my warning to you.
I'm a tough guy.
"By any standard it is inexcusable, and despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured, it is undeniable."
Yeah, something happened. Can you give me the name of the agent used? Scientific, common, LOVEINT designation, molecular structure, anything?
First I heard was something like 1800 dead from an airplane, then it was 800 from artillary, now its what 300 from rockets? And not through our own eyes you dolt, from somebody else's video footage.
"Our sense of basic humanity is offended not only by this cowardly crime, but also by the cynical attempt to cover it up."
[Daily Caller] The world needs to respond to Syria's use of chemical weapons, Secretary of State John Kerry declared today. Then let "the world" do the responding for a change. I hear the French are willing...
"What we saw in Syria last week should shock the conscience of the world. ... [It] is a moral obscenity," he said Monday afternoon. "By any standard it is inexcusable ... [and] it is undeniable," he said in the State Department's press room. Career beltway politician describes "moral obscenity". Was he having 1969 flashbacks ?
His strong language suggests that the White House is planning to strike Syrian forces, likely the combat units that apparently fired chemical-tipped rockets into a suburb of Damascus packed with sleeping civilians, to deter future use of chemical weapons by other governments.
"The meaning of this attack goes beyond the conflict in Syria itself," he said. "The is about the large-scale indiscriminate use of weapons that the civilized world long ago decided must never be used at all. ... This international norm cannot be violated with consequences," he said. President Barack Obama did not made a statement today, and Kerry did not take questions.
Any U.S. intervention in Syria will likely help the Sunni jihadi rebels who are fighting the Iranian-backed Syrian regime, based in Damascus. The US military supporting jihad, er uh, ok.
But any intervention in Syria may precipitate a direct clash with Iran. It likely will also create a clash with Russia and China, both of which can stop the United Nations from approving U.S. strikes. Vlad will likely NOT roll over on this one. Putin knows a sustained US or NATO effort is not in the cards. Vlad has to show that he'll stand behind a client state or else Russia will have no more client states...
Kerry's statement did not mention the United Nations. That omission suggests Obama may work with NATO allies, as he did to overthrow Libya's dictator in 2011. Didn't mention the Congress either. Do we still have a Congress ?
"The president will be making an informed decision about how to respond. ... President Obama believes there must be accountability for those who would use the world's most heinous weapons against the world's most vulnerable people," Kerry said. Champ discussing "accountability"....? Quite rich.
"Nothing is more serious." Not even F&F, or Benghazi, or the IRS, or the NSA, or an unfinished conflict in AFG. Think time and distance imperative.
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US-UK milstrike within "seven days"???
BETTER DO IT SOON BECAUSE THE BAMMER ADMIN ITSELF IS WARNING THE US GOVT. WILL RUN OUT OF $$$ AGAIN COME [mid]OCTOBER 2013.
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[An Nahar] 
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[Al Ahram] The Egyptian Ministry for Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the latest statements by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan, in which he criticised Al-Azhar's Grand Imam, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Ahram Arabic website reported.
[An Nahar] Mohammed Hajib, a German-Moroccan whose imprisonment in Morocco for terrorist activity the 
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President Barack Obama has not made a decision to order military strikes against the Syrian government in response to last week's alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.
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Media reports said on Saturday that Gharib was detained over links to last week's blasts that hit two mosques in Tripoli.
