[Tolo News] In rsponse to the reason comparison made by President Hamid 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... of the Kabul-Washington security pact with the much resented Durand Line Treaty made with Great Britannia in the 19th century, a number of international affairs experts looked to clarify the major differences between the two.
The experts principled objection to Karzai's statement, which added greater tension to a already tense situation over the delay in the Bilateral Security Agreement's (BSA) finalization, was that the pact had been judged to be in Afghanistan's interests and was overwhelmingly supported by the Afghan people.
Back in November, a 2,500-member Loya Jirga voted in approval of the BSA, and since Karzai has demanded the U.S. meet new preconditions before the deal is signed, a bevy of Afghan politicians and civil society activists have come out in public support of it.
In contrast, the experts said, the Durand Line Treaty was imposed by the British Empire and entailed the loss of territory.
"I think instead of comparing this agreement to the Durand Line Treaty, President Karzai should have compared it to the U.S. Security agreement with Germany, the U.S. Security Agreement with Japan, or U.S. Security Agreement with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and South Korea," international affairs expert Malek Setiz said.
Political analyst Daud Moradian said Karzai should consider what kind of leader he wants to be, and how he wants to be remembered.
"Today, India has changed into a strategic partner with the U.S. and is an emerging power in the region, so we hope that Mr. Karzai will learn from Ahmadi Nejad's experiences and will act in accordance with the national interests of Afghanistan like Manmohan Singh," Moradian said, juxtaposing the anti-U.S. legacy of the former Iranian leader with the more engaged leadership of India's current Prime Minister.
Recent statements made by Karzai casting doubt over whether or not he will ever sign the BSA have received harsh criticism from Afghan leaders, including Presidential candidates.
"I think that if the Bilateral Security Agreement between Kabul and Washington is not signed, the elections will not be held as well," Presidential candidate Gul Agha Sherzai ...former governor of Kandahar province. the Taliban got their start protecting people against him... said.
"The Afghan people's hope is in the hands of a foreign country, but up to the efforts of the President of Afghanistan, the government of Afghanistan, the future government of Afghanistan and the people of Afghanistan," Presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... said.
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We should call it instead the Durand-Durand Line and send Jane Fonda to negotiate it specifics.
[Tolo News] General Momand Katawazai, the Administrative and Logistics Deputy of the Afghan National Army (ANA), has said that in order to protect the military gains of past years the Kabul-Washington Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) must be signed.
Despite pressure from Washington, 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... remains entrenched with his preconditions for signing the BSA likely to go unmet. The security pact would ensure a continued military partnership between the U.S. and Afghanistan after the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... combat mission ends in December, including the continued presence of troops.
"As everyone wants the agreement to be signed, we also call for its signing," General Katawazai said. "No country can operate without the help of another country, so this agreement must be signed."
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[Egypt Independent] President Hamid 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... appeared to stiffen his resolve on Saturday not to sign a security pact with Washington, saying the United States should leave Afghanistan unless it could restart peace talks with the Taliban.
"In exchange for this agreement, we want peace for the people of Afghanistan. Otherwise, it's better for them to leave and our country will find its own way," Karzai told a news conference.
The president said pressing ahead with talks with the Taliban, in power from 1996-2001, was critical to ensure that Afghanistan was not left with an incompetent oligarchy ... derived from the Greek words oligos, a few and the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you... of braggarts, crooks, and flim-flam men.
"Starting peace talks is a condition because we want to be confident that after the signing of the security agreement, Afghanistan will not be divided into fiefdoms," he said.
Most diplomats now agree that Karzai is unlikely to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) that would allow for some form of US military presence in Afghanistan after the end of 2014, when most troops are due to leave.
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[An Nahar] A Sudanese newspaper which reported on commodity shortages and alleged corruption has been suspended from publishing, its editor said on Sunday.
Idris al-Doma said he was informed of the ban against al-Jarida during a Sunday meeting with agents of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS).
"This is because we published stories about the crises in fuel, bread and flour," he told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding al-Jarida had also written about alleged corruption in a government cotton company.
NISS agents had already seized copies of the newspaper at its printing presses last Wednesday and Friday, Doma said.
The tactic is regularly employed by the security service, which has also banned some newspapers for varying periods.
Rai al-Shaab, the newspaper of the opposition Popular Congress Party, has been shut for two years following an order from NISS.
Motorists in the Sudanese capital found some petrol stations barricaded shut last week while queues formed at others.
Residents also complained about shortages of bread, a staple food.
The economy has suffered from a lack of hard currency since South Sudan separated in 2011 with most of the formerly united country's oil production.
Sudan ranked near the bottom, at 170 out of 179, in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2013 World Press Freedom Index
It also came fourth-last in Transparency International's 2013 ranking of perceived public sector corruption around the world.
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[Egypt Independent] The Libyan Foreign Ministry said that authorities are making huge efforts to get Egyptian diplomats held in Libya released.
Five Egyptian diplomats at the Egyptian embassy in Libya were kidnapped over the past two days.
The diplomats are al-Helali al-Sherbeiny, the cultural attache, Hamdy Ghanem, the administrative attache and three other administrative employees at the cultural attache.
In a statement on Sunday, the ministry called for making space for diplomatic channels to handle the issue, saying it is paying strong attention to the detention of Libyan citizen Shaaban Hadeyah by Egyptian authorities.
The ministry said is communicating with Egypt to know the circumstances of the Libyan citizen's arrest in order to get him released soon while maintaining "excellent" ties between the two countries.
The statement added that Prime Minister Ali Zdan made more than four phone calls with his Egyptian counterpart Hazem al-Beblawy, while Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel Aziz contacted his Egyptian counterpart Nabil Fahmy concerning the matter.
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You, once something like this would be considered a casus belli for war. I wonder, how much Libyan oil revenues would affect Egypt's economy?
[DAWN] Egypt Sunday announced early presidential elections likely to anoint the general who overthrew president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , as the country reeled from a weekend of violence that killed dozens of people.
Interim president Adly Mansour announced the poll in a televised address, a day after 49 people died in festivities between Islamist protesters and police and thousands rallied in Cairo in support of military chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Sisi was expected to declare his candidacy for the election, scheduled before mid-April, after a show of support including Saturday's large rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
But the weekend festivities and bombings also highlighted the interim government's precarious grip seven months after Morsi's overthrow.
The violence came as Egypt commemorated the 2011 uprising that overthrew veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , leading to three years of tumult that many hope Sisi's election will end.
Over Friday and Saturday, six bombs went kaboom! in Cairo and the canal city of Suez, killing six people and wounding dozens in an escalation of a bully boy campaign Mansour has pledged to eradicate.
Separately, 49 people were killed in festivities when police clamped down on protests by Morsi's Islamist supporters and anti-military activists, the health ministry said.
As Mansour addressed the nation to announce the early presidential election, relatives of those killed on Saturday assembled outside a Cairo morgue, chanting anti-military slogans.
"Down with the military! The people want to topple the regime!" they chanted outside the Zeinhom morgue as they collected the corpses of loved ones.
A statement signed by nine Egyptian human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups accused the police of using "live ammunition" against demonstrators. Police said the protesters themselves had used weapons.
Police in the capital bolstered defences outside their buildings and closed access roads after the weekend bombings that all targeted police facilities.
In his address, Mansour, a judge the military appointed as interim president to replace Morsi, pledged to "uproot (terrorists) and show them no mercy".
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[Libya Herald] Libyans studying abroad who have taken part in activities against the revolution are to have their grants withdrawn, Congress has ruled. It has also said a list of the names of those involved should be drawn up so that the public prosecutor can launch legal proceedings against them.
Under GNC Resolution 13/2014, government employees working abroad deemed to have been involved in similar counter-revolution activities are also to have their salaries stopped and be prosecuted.
Libyan embassies, in particular, have been ordered launch investigations into any pro-Qadaffy demonstrations and report these to the General Prosecutor.
There have been several reports of demonstrations abroad in support of the former regime over the past week, including in Britannia, Egypt and Malaysia, where large numbers of Libyan students are in receipt of government bursaries.
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[An Nahar] A group attempting to secure the release of an ailing South African man kidnapped in Yemen by al-Qaeda said Sunday talks to free the teacher have collapsed.
Kidnappers are demanding $3 million (2.2 million euros) for the release of Pierre Korkie, who has been held since May last year.
"We have a major problem," admitted Imtiaz Sooliman, chairman of South African-based disaster-relief charity Gift of the Givers, which has been engaged in protracted negotiations with the hostage takers.
"Talks between us and al-Qaeda have virtually broken down completely as they don't trust us anymore," he said in a statement.
South African deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ebrahim recently traveled to Yemen and made a television appeal for Korkie's release.
But that visit appears only to have worsened the situation as the kidnappers believed the minister was bringing the ransom cash and now suspect the money has been "stolen."
Gift of the Givers, a non-governmental organization, said it was urgently pulling its negotiator, Anas al-Hamati, a Yemeni national, from the country for his own safety.
Sooliman said that al-Qaeda had accused the charity of lying, claiming that "no government sends a high level minister to a country where their citizen is taken hostage,", announces it to the media but then does not "bring any ransom money."
Korkie, a 56-year-old English teacher who is suffering from a hernia, was kidnapped along with his wife last May in the Yemeni city of Taiz by members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Korkie's wife Yolande was freed on January 10 and has since returned to South Africa to fight for his release.
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Gift of Givers is a Sufist [a brand of Islam] relief organization. Kidnapping and the demanding of ransom is a way of life in that region. Who should better know the inherent risks than Sufists.
[An Nahar] A young Bahraini prisoner died of wounds he suffered during a police operation to detain him on charges of weapons smuggling, the interior ministry said on Sunday.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the Gulf kingdom's main Shiite political opposition group said the man died on Saturday as a result of torture during his detention.
A ministry statement said Fadel Abbas Musalem, 20, had been taken to hospital after being "maimed in the head" on January 8 when police tried to arrest him in a Shiite village near the capital Manama.
It added that police acted in "legitimate defense" when they fired on a car carrying Mussalem and another man when it kept driving towards security forces despite warning shots.
The other man was also nabbed Book 'im, Mahmoud! .
Musallem was part of a group suspected of "involvement in smuggling weapons and explosives and in terrorist acts", the ministry added.
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[Shabelle] Seven of Britannia's top terror suspects are now free from tough security restrictions designed to prevent them becoming involved in terrorist activity.
The group had been subject to the Government's Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPIMs).
These allowed the authorities to places strict controls on things like who the suspects mixed with and their use of phones and computers.
The orders are used to keep close tabs on terror suspects who the authorities have decided can neither be charged or deported by the home secretary.
They expire after two years unless new evidence comes to light of the suspect's involvement with terrorism.
TPIMs expired today for seven of the eight suspects who had been subject to them, Sky News reports.
The group are considered a real threat to national security. The authorities now face the difficult challenge of trying to monitor them effectively without using TPIMs.
The home secretary can consider putting one of the orders into place after an MI5 assessment of the suspect, according to the BBC.
He or she must "reasonably believe" that the person is involved in terrorist-related activities.
One suspect who was subject to such an order was Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed -- who disappeared in November last year after changing into a burkha in a mosque.
Mohammed had been linked to the Somali bully boy group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... .
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[DAWN] The anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination campaign, which was set to begin 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. today, failed to commence due to 'unknown reasons'.
Dr Imtiaz Ali Shah, focal person for polio eradication in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , told Dawn.com that proper arrangements for the polio drive were not in place which is why the campaign would not kick off today as per earlier announcement.
He declined to further comment or elaborate on the issue.
The immunisation drive is expected to begin next week now.
Around 800,000 children are to be administered the anti-polio vaccine, during the drive.
The KP health authorities had requested the education department to help carry out the campaign through teachers, following attacks on polio workers and killing of security personnel, but the teachers refused to undertake training for the vaccination and participate in the drive, citing low wages and security concerns as the reasons.
But on Saturday, over 9,000 teachers in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa agreed to kick start the campaign after holding successful negotiations with the government.
Pakistain is one of only three countries in the world where polio remains endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. Efforts to eradicate it have been seriously hampered by the deadly targeting of vaccination teams in recent years.
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It's not supposed to bring Peace---except for Nobel Peace prize for Jawn. Now, I wonder if Hillary understands that Jawn's success could harm her chances in 2016?
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The book the J curve suggests that when a country develops a certain GDP they become somewhat peaceful democracies. Somebody better keep the profits away from the Pals if they want to keep up the insanity against Israel.
The governor of Muslim Mindanao congratulated the Philippine government and Islamic militants for completing a critical step in their peace negotiations. In a written statement Saturday, Gov. Mujiv Hataman said the agreement was a "leap of our collective endeavor in attaining peace in this part of the country."
He wrote, "We commend the panels for persevering and braving the needed sacrifices and heeding the clamor of the great majority of Filipino for a peaceful resolution to the decades-old conflict in Mindanao."
Officials from the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed the Annex on Normalization, the last of four documents that make up the Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro.
The government issued a statement saying the final annex document opened the door to a permanent and comprehensive peace deal with the Moro militants. The statement said, "President (Benito) Aquino's vision and compassion and his love and resolve for Mindanao has brought us to this new era of the Bangsamoro, where dreams of peace and prosperity may begin to overcome the nightmares of the past."
Some Moros, however, appeared less enthused. A spokesman for another of Mindanao's militant groups, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, warned that while the Moro rebels made compromises in the negotiations, the Philippine legislature might refuse to ratify the deal unless even more compromises are made by the Moros.
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MILF base camps will repor be transformed into viable Muslim communities, i.e. towns,, cities, andor economic sectors.
The SNAFU remains getting the MNLF-BIFF + aligned, + now the pro-Qaeda ABU SAYYAF + their aligned, to sign on.
As like the KURDS + AL-QAEDA AFFILIATE GROUPS being invited to "Geneva II", ditto a revamped + resurgent Commie NPA???
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Mr. Kerry! Jafari replied. Know that a direct conflict with America is the strongest dream of the faithful and revolutionary men around the world.
Jafari simply states the obvious. The entire western [non-Islamic] world is in "direct conflict" with "the faithful" and has been for centuries. Negotiating with these people is a futile endeavor.
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The major near-term dangers for Rising Iran + its NucProgs at this time are
> Sunni-led nationwide "Iran/Persian Spring", include but not limited to vee the Qaeda Boyz.
> Israeli-led sabotage - read, MOSSAD.
> MilPol confrontation wid Pakistan over Afghanistan + Muslim, OWG Caiphate-specific geopol leadership.
I don't foresee any threat to Iran from a Nuclear KSA until after 2015 + end of the Bammer's second term [2018-2020]. IMO the isolationist Saudi Royals will ultimately go Nukulaar, but won't unless "Arab Spring" + Shia-led rights protests start escalating on the Peninsula to dangerous pro-Secular levels.
[Telegraph] The Syrian regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... has funded and co-operated with al-Qaeda in a complex double game even as the turbans fight Damascus, according to new allegations by Western intelligence agencies, rebels and al-Qaeda defectors.
Jabhat al-Nusra, and the even more extreme Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (ISIS), the two al-Qaeda affiliates operating in Syria, have both been financed by selling oil and gas from wells under their control to and through the regime, intelligence sources have told The Daily Telegraph.
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Rebels and defectors say the regime also deliberately released hard boy prisoners to strengthen jihadist ranks at the expense of moderate rebel forces.
A tactic never employed by GITMO AQ handlers I am certain.
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As I mentioned earlier, all AQ seemed to do in the conflict was talk about how they were fighting Bashar while they killed other rebels and then took over Western Iraq.
[An Nahar] A number of Moslem scholars and holy mans who hail from the Bekaa on Sunday staged a protest to condemn the arrest of Sheikh Omar al-Atrash, who is reportedly involved in recent kabooms.
"We are protesting due to the injustice that is being practiced against scholars and young men in Sunni regions who are supportive of the Syrian revolution," Sheikh Khaled al-Arefi said at a sit-in outside the defense ministry building in Yarze.
Arefi voiced surprise that "detention has become a tool to physically liquidate Moslemholy mans," wondering whether the army was "acting as an army or as a gang?"
"If aiding the (Syrian) refugees deserves liquidation, we say it loud and clear: the scholars committee will not allow authorities to use double standards," the holy man warned.
The delegation called on the president, the prime minister, the army chief and the intelligence director to take a "serious" stance.
"If the situation continued in this manner, what kind of security would they be seeking? We can rein in our youths for a while, but should injustice aggravate, everyone will regret that," the delegation warned.
Another holy man at the rally noted that the holy mans have no faith in "the probe into the bombing that al-Atrash was said to be involved in."
Prior to the sit-in, army troops had cordoned off all the entrances leading to the defense ministry.
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... LBCI TV quoted sources following up on the investigations as saying that "Atrash's interrogation is being conducted under the supervision of the relevant judicial authorities and he has confessed to dealing with terrorist groups and facilitating the transportation of booby-trapped cars."
On Friday, al-Akhbar newspaper broke the news about Atrash's arrest, saying he is "suspected of offering refuge for individuals with alleged links to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... , al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... ."
Atrash played a "logistic role in terms of providing cars and facilitating the movements of the group suspected of carrying out the Bir al-Abed and Rweiss bombings," al-Akhbar added.
The holy man is registered with Dar al-Fatwa, the top Sunni authority in the country, al-Akhbar noted. He is also a cousin of Omar al-Atrash, who was accused of involvement in the Aug. 9 Bir al-Abed bombing and who was killed in an ambush on the Lebanese-Syrian border on September 11.
In January alone, three car kabooms have rocked areas that are considered Hizbullah strongholds in the country. Two bombings hit the Beirut southern suburb of Haret Hreik and another kaboom targeted the Bekaa town of Hermel.
The three bombings were carried out by suicide kaboomers.
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[An Nahar] A farmer on Sunday found the remains of a rocket as he was cultivating his land in the southern town of al-Mari in Hasbaya District.
Al-Jadeed television said the man immediately informed the relevant security authorities, which arrived on the scene and took the remains to a military post.
It later turned out that the projectile was one of four rockets that were fired on the morning of December 29 towards Israel. The rocket fell short of its target and landed in the al-Mari plain inside Leb.
Security forces failed back then to locate the stray projectile.
Israeli forces fired around 20 shells that day in retaliation to the rocket attack. On the same day, the Lebanese army found four wooden launchpads in the Wadi al-Khraybeh region in the Hasbaya District, from which the rockets were fired.
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[An Nahar] A video showing a young Lebanese man saying goodbye to his family and beloved ones before heading to Syria's Homs to carry out a suicide kaboom has gone viral online.
25-year-old Ahmed Diab, who is nicknamed as Abu Bakir al-Riyadi, carried out the suicide attack on Saturday.
Diab hails from the northern city of 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... .
According to media reports, Diab headed four times to Syria and engaged in battles against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... troops to leave again last week with the intention to carry out a suicide attack in Homs near an army checkpoint.
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[An Nahar] Former Prime Minister and head of al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. warned on Saturday the Lebanese in general and the Sunni sect in particular from supporting fishy calls that urge them to involve the country in rejected and condemned wars.
"The Lebanese and the Sunni sect reject to be part of any war in Leb or the region between Hizbullah and al-Qaeda," Hariri said in a statement issued by his press office.
He stressed that "they also reject threats to target civilians in any region in Leb amid a demented war (in the region) and its dangerous repercussions on the the national and Islamic unity."
Hariri's statement comes a day after a group suspected of links to al-Qaeda warned that all areas of Leb where Hizbullah operates are "legitimate targets" for attack, telling Sunnis to avoid them.
"We, al-Nusra Front in Leb, announce that Iran's party (Hizbullah) and all its bases and... bastions are legitimate targets for us, wherever they are," the group said in a statement posted on the Internet.
Al-Mustaqbal chief said that "suspicious calls issued by bad boy groups that are proven to be directly linked to the murderous regime in Damascus only aim at making the conflict in the neighboring country slip over into Leb."
He accused the bad boy groups of "serving the regime similarly to Hizbullah that is defending it in Syria."
The official noted that "every reasonable and patriot from any sect would reject falling into these calls as much as Hizbullah's involvement in Syria is rejected."
A-Nusra Front's statement comes three days after the group -- which is believed to be a franchise of the Syrian al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda linked rebel movement -- grabbed credit for a car kaboom in Beirut's southern suburbs neighborhood of Haret Hreik that killed four people.
Tuesday's was the sixth in a string if attacks targeting Lebanese areas dominated by Hizbullah since it acknowledged sending fighters into neighboring Syria to support Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... .
Al-Nusra Front in Leb warned Sunnis against "approaching or residing in or near (Hizbullah's) bases, and (to) avoid gathering around its meeting points."
The group had earlier claimed a deadly car kaboom in the heart of Hermel town in eastern Leb, which killed three people.
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[Ynet] Iran's President Hassan Rohani said in an interview with CNN that Israel will rue the day in which it decides to attack the nuclear sites in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
In an interview conducted in Davos, which parts of it were broadcasted last week, Rohani added: "Israel knows very well what the response would be. Israel knows well our regional capability."
It sounds like the Mad Mullahs aren't certain their frenemy President Obama can hold Bibi back.
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Yeap. All the little dogies of EUrope will have prolonged hysterics.
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POTUS Bammer's new BFF + OWG Co-Superpower has a'plenty of time to both dev indigenous NucWeaps capability [production?] as well as deal wid the Qaeda Boyz in righteous Shia indignation.
It + Baby Assad aka Syria are broadly or subjectively safe until sometime in Summer 2014, but exclusive of any additional diplomatic/
negotiating time periods after that.
UNLESS, OF COURSE, SOMEBODY(S) DOES SOMETHING(S) ROYALLY STUPID.
[Ynet] The Syrian regime has agreed to allow women and kiddies to leave besieged rebel-held areas of the central city of Homs, UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said Sunday at peace talks in Geneva.
"What we have been told by the government side is that women and kiddies in this besieged area of the city are welcome to leave immediately," Brahimi told news hounds. "Hopefully starting tomorrow, women and kiddies will be able to leave the Old City in Homs."
Clearing the decks for action, in a humane way.
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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.
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