The top U.N. envoy in Sudan declared Friday that efforts to bring peace to Sudan's Darfur region have failed and called for a U.N. peacekeeping force of up to 20,000 troops to disarm marauding militias and provide security so over 2 million refugees can return home. Jan Pronk said an ethnic cleansing campaign in 2003 and 2004 had been successful and a larger, more sophisticated and mobile force was needed to help end the continuing rapes and killings and stop the groups of 500 to 1,000 militia on camel and horseback that still attack villages at least once a month. "Looking back at three years of killings and cleansing in Darfur we must admit that our peace strategy so far has failed," he told the U.N. Security Council. "All we did was picking up the pieces and muddling through, doing too little too late."
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It was hosed from the start. The UN couldn't get a cohesive effort going. The Muslim world was either hostile, indifferent or actively working against the strategy. Sudan's played the UN like a flute. The African Union forces were given a weak mandate and poorly supported and supplied. And now Sudan gets the AU chair...
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First thing we need to do is to intercept the money trails from Iran and Europe that are related to the Sudan. Freeze the assets and expose Iran, France, Spain and Germany, not to mention Russia for supporting Iranian terrorists camps in Sudan. Cutting the funds to the Kartoum Government will hurt and isolate them. Then we must go into the Southern and Daffur regions and help them build an integrated CAFGU force for self defence. Finally help CAFGU elements build their areas into an autonomous region.
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IIRC - Saudi funding is the biggest source, and China has started their influence as well...
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This is easy. A couple of companies of SF units to teach the native Furrians how to defend themselves. Provide light weapons, simple communications, food, ammo, and tactical training. Next time the Janjaweed ride into town, kerblammo! A few incidents like that and the Janjaweed will think of better things to do.
We don't want to defend the place, we want the Furrians to defend themselves.
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Furians? Call in Riddick!
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Got just the guys to train up and protect a bunch of innocents.
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So, what's the UN's batting average for handling crises? I'll give them a hit for Korea (though not a homer), and a fielder's choice for Cyprus. Since then though, it's been Ks and ground outs.
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A Brigade of the 101st, with an extra Apache battalion and a squadron of A10s would cleanse the place nicely. As long as the RoE were brief.
The janjaweed uh-hem cavalry is nothing but rag-tag muzzies with an AK47 with a few clips and some with RPGs.
Bring back the "Headhunter" tactics of the 1st Squadron/9th CAV (recon element of 1st AIR CAV) in VNM. Hunt down, kill/capture the enemy until they are gone. Move elsewhere. Repeat until clean.
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Sorry TW, I will explain the acronymns in the future. CAFGU is Just as Darrel explained. CAFGU forces are locals trained to defend their villages. Usually they are paid a small payment and given weapons and minimal training.
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I suspect UN forces would work tolerably well if they had some UK paratroopers to do the heavy lifting, as in Sierra Leone.
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Spain said on Friday it would go ahead with the sale of military aircraft to Venezuela in spite of a US ban on the export of US technology to the country.
Defence analysts said Washingtonâs refusal to grant a re-export licence for the US components of the Spanish aircraft might scupper Spainâs largest-ever defence contract: a $2bn deal to supply 12 transport and maritime surveillance aircraft and eight patrol boats to the government of Hugo Chávez.
Spanish state radio quoted Defence Ministry sources as saying the aircraft sale would go ahead and that EADS-Casa, the European defence consortium, was in contact with French companies to provide substitute technology, although this could increase the price.
EADS-Casa on Friday declined to comment on whether alternative technologies were available. Navantia, the Spanish state-owned shipyard, said the sale of its patrol boats would not be affected by the US ban.
The US said it had denied a request for licences to transfer US technology because "in a region in need of political stability, the Venezuelan governmentâs actions and frequent statements contribute to regional instabilityâ.
"Despite being democratically elected, the government of Hugo Chávez has systematically undermined democratic institutions, pressured and harassed independent media and the political opposition, and grown progressively more autocratic and anti-democratic,â the US government said.
Mr Chávez slammed the US decision as "imperialist" on Friday and insisted that the aircraft were transport aircraft. "What is this if not evidence of the imperialist horror that the Washington government wants to impose on the world, they donât have respect for anything or anybody," he told the countryâs legislature.
The Spanish foreign ministry said on Friday Washingtonâs refusal to grant re-export licences was a "technical decisionâ that would not affect relations between Spainâs Socialist government and the administration of President George W. Bush.
Venezuela, the worldâs fifth biggest oil exporter, has gone on a military spending spree that has stirred concern in Washington.
Mr Chávez complained this week that Washington was also trying to scupper a contract for Brazil to sell Venezuela at least a dozen Super-Tucano light attack aircraft, a deal agreed with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last year.
Celso Amorim, Brazilâs foreign minister, acknowledged that there were "signs" that the US was seeking to veto the Brazilian contract.
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Washingtonâs refusal to grant re-export licences was a "technical decisionâ that would not affect relations between Spainâs Socialist government and the administration of President George W. Bush.
lol! That's a true statement. Can't get any worse.
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Mr Chávez slammed the US decision as "imperialist" on Friday and insisted that the aircraft were transport aircraft. "What is this if not evidence of the imperialist horror that the Washington government wants to impose on the world, they donât have respect for anything or anybody," he told the countryâs legislature.
Hugo baby, "...what is this if not evidence of the imperialist horror that the Washington government wants to impose on the world?" Come on now, this is chump change when compared to what we could do to you ... and pssst ... no one would notice until it was too late.
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"abutment to abutment with no early exits" is my motto
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Mucho ado about zilocho. Vz is a 2nd rate power on a 3rd rate continent.
Not quite true. Some of the equipment was sold to Spain as a NATO deal and while it isn't our latest stuff, it significantly upgrades what the bastard has right now.
Not to mention that it will be in the hands of the Chicoms in days, now that they are "advising" Venezuelan "factories".
Hence the refusal of re-export license. If, however, EADS gives them replacement capability, it will be pretty damn close to a hostile act on their part towards us, given Huggy's behavior of late.
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The Spanish foreign ministry said on Friday Washingtonâs refusal to grant re-export licences was a "technical decisionâ that would not affect relations between Spainâs Socialist government and the administration of President George W. Bush.
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Maybe you're right lotp, but do check out the viaduct picture, it's collapse was forecast 9 years ago. Gettin ready to restart emergency repairs now.
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(and yes, there's a point to that question)
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(hell, I just tried to ask the next question, and got sent to roadside america. I was trying to ask if the Penobscot Indians have... an institution for redistributing money based on fake pseudorandom algorithms, which apparently set off some sort of alarm).
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fake pseudorandom algorithms
Firebells in the night man.
13 January 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Ukraine's Foreign Ministry today defended the seizure of a Russian-manned lighthouse at the Yalta commercial port, saying all Crimea's hydrographic navigation facilities were the property of the central government...
...Russia says the lighthouse seizure is a "provocation" that violates bilateral agreements on the stationing of its Black Sea fleet in Crimea.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said the incident could affect Russian-Ukrainian relations.
An aide to the commander-in-chief of the Crimean-based Russian Black Sea Fleet, Captain Igor Dygalo, told the Itar-Tass news agency the logic of the Ukrainian argument is flawed.
Dygalo said that under a bilateral agreement, the Yalta lighthouse is part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's hydrographic navigation systems....
I thought the Ukranian government just collapsed. So who's making this decision?
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all your hydrographic navigation facilities belong to us!
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from the BBCThe latest row comes barely two weeks after Moscow and Kiev resolved a bitter dispute over gas prices after Ukraine was forced to accept higher prices for Russian gas.
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Yeah. The government that signed that deal has gotten a no-confidence vote...
Who's in charge in Ukraine now?
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I think it is a big deal and clear escalation/provocation. The Crimea naval facilities are the only ones available for Russia's Black Sea fleet. Russia does have a Black Sea coastline but no suitable ports.
The Crimea is historically part of Russia, rather than the Ukraine and got added to the Ukraine (I recall) by Stalin who used to swap territory between Soviet republics on a regular basis.
Russia has a good case that the Crimea shouldn't be part of Ukraine and they are, in this case, the loser in the general practice? of freezing national boundaries circa 1945.
I'd say the chances of further escalations are good.
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Russian armies first invaded the Crimea in 1736. Empress Catherine II forced Turkey to recognize the khanate's independence in 1774, and in 1783 she annexed it outright; the annexation was confirmed by the Treaty of Jassy (1792).
After the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) an independent Crimean republic was proclaimed; but the region was soon occupied by German forces and then became a refuge for the White Army. In 1921 a Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created. During World War II, German invaders took the Crimea after an eight-month siege. The republic itself was dissolved (1945) and made into a region of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; in 1954 it was transferred to Ukraine.
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Russia has a good case that the Crimea shouldn't be part of Ukraine
That ignores the historic relationship between the Ukraine (literally, "the frontier") and the various centers of power in the Russian empire prior to the Revolution.
There are few geographical barriers that might constitute a "natural" boundary for (the) Ukraine. In the early days of the Tsars, after Kiev fell to the Mongols and then the Mongol hegemony began to fade, these lands were only sparsely settled, especially to the south. Some, like my ancestors, were offered Moscow's recognition of their title to large estates in the late 1600s and early 1700s in exchange for settling on the frontier and assuming responsibility for border patrols. My ancestors mostly raised and trained cavalry horses and were militia - the closest thing to a professional military - in that area for many generations. They held their land and titles only in exchange for not only raising and training the horses, but organizing and leading border patrols. Others raised wheat in the fertile black soils.
If there are few natural boundaries to Ukraine, it is certainly the case that the Dnieper forms a major thoroughfare through its center. Take a look at a map and see where the Dnieper flows into the Black Sea, and the relationship between the Crimea and the rest of what is currently marked out as Ukraine is clear.
The confusion comes, I think because Kiev (and hence the center of the early Kievian, Slavic state) is farther up the river and because *Russia* is based on Moscow - originally a trading post deep in the forest. It rose to power when the grandfather of Ivan Grozny (the Great or the Terrible) struck a deal with the Mongols to enforce tax collection for them. Many upper class Russians married into Mongol families and v.v. and the typical home of Russians echoed the arrangement of Mongol tents, with the women secluded in terem rooms.
The southern areas were the home of the horse-tribes, who go back to the Scythians, nearly 2000 years before the Mongol hordes rode through. And yes, it took the Moscovites a long time to have influence there and they deeply hate the idea of giving it up, especially because the Don flows into the Azov sea and if they don't control the Crimea they don't control their access to the Black Sea and out into the Mediterranean.
Chechnya has lost so many men to war that survivors should be legally allowed to take several wives, acting Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has said. Speaking on Russian radio, the pro-Moscow leader said this was "necessary for Chechnya because we have war - we have more women than men".
He was backed by Russian parliamentary deputy speaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Now there's a blast from the past.
Russian law restricts citizens to one marriage, but Islamic custom allows a man to take up to four wives.
Mr Kadyrov told Ekho Moskvy radio that women in the Russian republic outnumbered men by 10%, and that a man should be able to choose how many wives he had without the state getting involved. "Every man decides for himself how he should live. He is the boss, he decides, I am sure that his personal life will not be interfered with," he said.
Mr Zhirinovsky, who is the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), said polygamy should be applied across Russia "because we have 10 million unmarried women". He told the state-owned Itar-Tass news agency that he would introduce an amendment in the spring parliamentary session.
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They should continue drinking themselves to death and have Puttyputz be President For Life. Ship the extra wymyns / wemmens over here. They'll like it a bit better - and we might, too.
Institutionalizing wymyn as second-class citizens - sheesh. The ONE thing that the commies got right and Zhinkydink wants to chuck it.
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"Chechnya has lost so many men to war that survivors should be legally allowed to take several wives, acting Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has said."
Wait a sec ... Isn't that one of the goals of Saudi-funded and inflitrated Wahhabism? Under Wahhabi-applied Shari'a Law, taking multiple wives is an acceptable practice.
US policies in the war on terror are contravening international laws on human rights, a top European investigator says. Which law?
It's one of 'em. They have so many. They'll think of one, just you wait.
"The strategy in place today respects neither human rights nor the Geneva Conventions," said Dick Marty, the head of a European investigation into alleged CIA prisons in Europe. Oh, I was hoping he had something original
"The current administration in Washington is trying to combat terrorism outside legal means, the rule of law." Well, we're using violence, just as the enemy does. That is illegal in most places. Except in self defence.
And not even then in many Euro countries
Marty, a Swiss politician leading the probe on behalf of the Council of Europe, said there was no question that the CIA was undertaking illegal activities in Europe in its transportation and detention of prisoners. Swiss? Quelle surprise!
"The question is: Was the CIA really working in Europe?" Marty said. "I believe we can say today, without a doubt, yes." I'm glad to hear the CIA is working somewhere. I had begun to have serious doubts about that.
The Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, France, began its investigation after allegations surfaced in November that US agents interrogated key al Qaida suspects at clandestine prisons in Eastern Europe and transported some suspects to other countries via Europe.
New York-based Human Rights Watch identified Romania and Poland as possible sites of secret US-run detention facilities. Both countries have denied involvement. "Lies, all lies!"
Marty said that European countries had "a fairly shocking attitude" toward US policies, and that attention should not be focused solely on Romania and Poland. Yes. I'm shocked! It's not like we're talking about Darfur or even Kosovo.
"All the indications are that this 'extraordinary rendition' was already known about," Marty told a news conference in the Swiss town of Burgdorf, referring to the CIA programme of transferring terrorism suspects to third countries where some allegedly were subjected to torture.
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Islamic nut-jobs arent signatory to the Geneva Convention, and don't really abide by it's articles very strictly. You gotta fight fire with fire Dickey.
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Question: If Human Rights Watch ceased to exist tomorrow - would worldwide human rights be better or worse or the same? Same question for Amnesty Int'l. I believe they do more damage than good anymore.
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The man is a self-described "Radical Liberal" -- I need say no more.
http://assembly.coe.int/Members/Alpha/4023-en.asp
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since when is a lawyer an expert on anything but common law? They hire experts. This guy is blowing it out his hole for attention only
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Lenin said "the capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with." The Tranzis will walk quietly to the gallows, rig the noose, place it around their necks, and calmly pull the trapdoor lever. And they'll throw in the rope for free because they wouldn't want to exploit the poor, long-suffering Islamists.
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"The strategy in place today respects neither human rights nor the Geneva Conventions," said Dick Marty, the head of a European investigation into alleged CIA prisons in Europe.
Neither do terrorists, but I don't hear Marty complaining about them.
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Gee whizz people, the Chicoms only wanna PC eliminate 200 Million Americans plus take over approximately one-half of America, andor perhaps collude or be accessory to 5-1/2 Bilyuhn of the world's 6.0+B after that - its allegedly good for the world, good for Socialism, OWG, good for China's 1.0 Miyuhn -year old civilization, for trees and whales, and of course "living space". Besides, ala Clintonism Americans demand to be gulagged and destroyed anyway, in the name of Mother Hillary's "for the common/universal good". State-planned national- and planet-wide holocaust is good for you, yours, and everyone, so shut up like a good Amerikan anti-American Socialist, obey the rules and report with your families and pet dog like a good Waffen Soviet People's Army soldier-critter to your local suicide = extermination People's Volunteer station.
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Support your local and national Death Camp(s) and Killing Fields, Dang It. Commie Airborne, aka UNO America-based Peacekeeping garrisons, are people too, you know.
elections on 6 April. expect more attacks on the CIA etc. by left-affiliated politicians and maybe by more conservative ones to cover their electoral flank
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GW is lucky. He doesn't have to do anything to embarass the Democrats. Schumer, Kennedy and Biden are doing a fine job of that with their embrassing conduct on the judicial panel. Then on the other hand maybe the whole party is shameless.
A Canadian rural Rights group says they are hiding a Belgian family in a safe place to protect them from deportation.
About 50 farmers from across the region gathered outside the family's home in Navan to protest the deportation order for Michel Van Hauve, his wife, Suzy Myers, and their son, Blaise.
The family moved here eight years ago from Belgium, when Michel secured a work permit as a farm hand. A 26-year-old conviction for shoplifting in Van Hauve's native Belgium is cited as the reason for the deportation order.
Six months ago, Immigration Canada denied the family's application for permanent residency in Canada, allegedly because of a shoplifting conviction Michel had from when he was a teenager. Their teenage son, Blaise, also got into legal trouble after crashing his mother's vehicle during a joyride.
"They are trying to find anything they can to get us out. Why and who were we bothering so much that they have to treat us like criminals and throw us out? My son has not done anything a normal Canadian teenager has not done," Suzy Myers told CBC.
They were told of their scheduled deportation on December 29, two weeks after immigration officers arrested them because their various visas had expired in August. Ms Myers said the government has ordered that they leave with nothing more than 32 kilogrammes of clothing. "I have to leave a fully furnished home behind," she said. "All of my sadness over this issue has now turned into anger."
The family was scheduled for KLM flight out of Montreal on Thursday evening, but protestors said they were helping the family hide from authorities. "The landowners have taken them into sanctuary. We have provided them with safety, we will keep him here, and we will defy Immigration Canada," said the protest organiser, Randy Hillier.
Hillier says the worst authorities can do is deport the family, and they've already ordered that.
In a press release, the Landowners say they will not allow the family to be "unjustly deported to serve crass political ends." The house is surrounded by heavy equipment and area landowners who say they will prevent any and all attempts by any officials to enter the Van Hauve family farm. The angry protestors barred the driveway with a large tractor in a symbolic gesture and refused to reveal where they've allegedly hidden the family.
Michel should change his name to Mohammed Al-Van Hauve and have his wife wear a scarf and his son grow a scraggly beard/mustache and take to wearing a bulky vest.
Then the Canadian immigration authorities wouldn't DARE touch them, let alone deport them. >:-(
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This makes no sense at all. How much can a farm hand, supporting a wife and teenaged son, have accumulated? For that matter, how can a farm hand's salary support a wife and son? And why does the government care so much about an ancient shoplifting conviction, when outright terrorism garners government support?
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No sympathy here. They had visas, not permanent status, and they knew that. Cut them a break and you'll have to do the same for others on visas or with expired visas. You may as well just open the borders. No way. What gives them the right to be beyond the law?
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A Canadian rural Rights group says they are hiding a Belgian family in a safe place to protect them from deportation.
Simple solution, arrest the members of the "Rights group" that have confessed to the crime of harboring wanted persons, start at the top and go down untill some member talks.
Then continue down the members list untill you have arrested all the participants (Members) and jail the bunch of them.
Stop this before it spreads.
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just back off for a month and he'll have to come out to play. If he's got as much as he says he does, and there is not more to this story, what good is it for him to hide in the attic?
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It baffles me how foreigners think that a visa is a trifling matter. I just got my visa renewed yesterday, and I took great pains to get everything lined up properly. If I didn't have a visa, I would expect to be promptly deported. This whole mentality just baffles me.
A veteran US congressman who set off a firestorm in November by calling for a quick American withdrawal from Iraq is now predicting "the vast majority" of US troops will leave the country by year's end, or maybe even sooner.
John Murtha, the top Democrat of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, said late Friday that President George W. Bush would be forced to accept an Iraq pullout plan because inaction will likely result in Republicans losing control of Congress in the November midterm elections.
"I think the vast majority will be out by the end of the year and I'm hopeful it will be sooner than that," he told CBS's "60 Minutes" program, according to excerpts of the interview released by the network.
Although both the Senate and the House of Representatives remain firmly in Republican hands, Murtha said he believed Congress will pass a plan calling for pullout of US troops from Iraq because of rising voter dissatisfaction with the current course.
"You're going to see a plan for withdrawal," Murtha insisted, adding that he believed the president will be forced to accede to it -- or risk losing control of Congress.
"I think the political people who give advice will say to him, 'You don't want a Democratic Congress. You want to keep a Republican majority, and the only way you're going to keep it is by reducing substantially the troops in Iraq,'" Murtha said.
More than 140,000 US soldiers are currently deployed in Iraq.
The first veteran of the Vietnam War elected to Congress triggered what amounted to a political earthquake last November, when he publicly called for US withdrawal from Iraq in six months, insisting the war was grounded in "a flawed policy wrapped in illusion."
The appeal marked the first time a mainstream US politician, who had voted to authorize the 2003 invasion, referred to the Iraq war as a lost cause.
The White House initially blasted the congressman's appeal as tantamount to "surrender" but later toned down its attacks, saying the president just had an honest policy disagreement with him.
Still, in a move reminiscent of 2004, the conservative Cybercast News Service released Friday the results of its "investigation" of Murtha's war record, in which it questioned his right to wear two Purple Heart medals.
The report quotes three people claiming to know Murtha well as saying the congressman did not deserve these honors, and one of them, Vietnam veteran Don Bailey, even called Murtha "a phony and a liar."
A similar conservative group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, questioned Democrat John Kerry's war record during the 2004 presidential election campaign.
Recent opinion polls, however, give credence to Murtha's prediction that the coming congressional election may turn on Iraq.
A CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey conducted January 6 to 8 indicated that 85 percent of Americans believe that Iraq will be either "extremely important" or "very important" in the November contest, in which all 435 House and a third of Senate seats will be up for grabs.
The public is largely split on a future course, with 49 percent saying the administration should come up with a withdrawal timetable regardless of the situation on the ground and 47 advocating soldiering on.
But another Gallup poll unveiled Friday showed that Congress's overall job approval rating had plunged to below 30 percent, a bad omen for incumbents -- and the party in control of the legislature.
Murtha also disputed Bush's claim that Iraq was a central front in the war on terror, accusing the president of "trying to fight this war with rhetoric."
"Iraq is not where the center of terrorism is," the congressman insisted. "We're inciting terrorism there ... We're destabilizing the area by being over there because we're the targets."
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This is just the Donks and MSM attempting to take credit for what has been the plan all along.
For the 06 midterms they will claim 'we got the boys home'.
For the hildebeast's 08 run the claim will be 'we fixed iraq! and saved countless lives from bushhitlet! We won the war!' when we continue to follow the existing plan and pull even more troops out of Iraq.
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So Murtha is now the âOfficialâ spokesperson for AQ, Hezbullah, Hammas, and Iran too? His rhetoric is right out of the Viet-Nam and cold war era and getting way too stale. I think we need to take a look at who is paying his bills and funding him and his retoric. But first we MUST get him off the Defence Appropriations subcommittee!
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IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR. Maybe Murtha will leave Washington DC by year's end. We can all hope...
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The High Priest issued forth a proclamation to the admiration of his followers:
"The sun will rise again in the East tomorrow morning, because I command it!"
His protege seemed worried, so the High Priest reassured him, "either the sun will rise as usual, proving my power; or the sun will not rise, which will prove that the sun itself sees me as his equal, if not superior. What other man has such status?"
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How come you never see Sheehan and Murtha together?
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Iraq:
remember the JUBA vid last year where Stephen Tschiderer US ARMY was hit knocked down but got up again and his unit captured the sniper team after a 2 hour pursuit?
Translation:
3:37 - Insurgents: Look how heâs standing there. An easy target!
3:44 - Insurgents: Do shoot! Now!
3:47 - Insurgents: No, not yet. He should turn around to me first.
3:51 - Insurgents: Let him turn around a little bitâ¦
3:54 - Insurgents: ⦠but then shoot!
3:59 - THE SHOT
4:01 - Insurgents: God is great! God is great! (Allahu Ahkbar)
4:05 - SPEAKER: S. indeed got hit, but the projectile bounces off the bulletproof vest. He can save himself.
4:58 - SPEAKER: On islamic propaganda pages the movie ends here. But the movie continues⦠GIs start the chase.
5:06 - Insurgents: Letâs stay until all have entered the car. Get away. Start the motor (you can hear him trying to start it). FAST! We have to get away theyâre coming straight to us.
5:35 - SPEAKER: After 2 hours of wild pursuit the american GIs caught the insurgents.
some more from German TV
mms://shared.streaming.telefonica.de/spiegel/video/9819_256k.wmv
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al Guardian called it the 'Domestic Spying' program. They're forgetting something. See photo, right.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday he will testify publicly at a Senate hearing on the Bush administration's domestic spying program, in the face of questions from lawmakers and legal analysts about whether it is lawful.
Take some tylenol, Al, you're gonna need it.
Gonzales said he reached an agreement with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to answer questions about the legal basis for the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping on telephone conversations between suspected terrorists and people in the United States. ``We believe the legal authorities are there,'' Gonzales said at a news conference at the Justice Department. ``The president acted consistent with his legal authority in a manner that he thought was necessary and appropriate to protect the country against this new kind of threat.''
The attorney general said he will not discuss operational aspects of the program at the hearing, which is expected to occur next month. Specter said Sunday that he had asked Gonzales to testify publicly. The attorney general was White House counsel when Bush initiated the program, but he refused to say Friday what role he played in developing the legal case to support it. Gonzales previously has defended the program, saying last month that the NSA did not seek warrants from the secretive Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act court because ``we don't have the speed and the agility that we need in all circumstances to deal with this new kind of enemy.''
Without going into detail on the workings of it all, FISA is simply irrelevant to the mechanics of the data collection. The collection goes into a giant intelligence Hoover â bad guys, good guys, Aunt Harriet and Uncle Joe and Tiffany on her cell making a date with Brad. What comes out is specifically the stuff they're looking for â say a specific phone number. Nobody's interested in the rest; it's boring. If that number references another one, they can go back in and pull that one, too.
A "wiretap" brings to mind a guy sitting in a basement with headphones on, listening in on a specific line. This is more like collecting thousands of lines, maybe millions now, certainly more than even NSA could listen in on.
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Waaaay too complex for the MSM to fathom... Or so it would seem, on the surface. That we know it's and intentional and willful smear on their part makes this genre of story something else, entirely.
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It's like the Alito circus, or the Cindy Sheehand Show. The Democrats, MSM, and all those afflicted with BDS, get more shrill, more outrageous and more offensive as they scream "look at me". Yet each time they do it, fewer and fewer bother to look. It's just like high school. The kids in black think they are cool, eveyone else just thinks they are losers.
President Bush rejected a suggestion by Germany's new leader that the U.S. close its prison at Guantanamo Bay, saying after a first meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday that the facility is "a necessary part of protecting the American people." Guantanamo has become a symbol in Europe for what many people see as Bush administration excesses in hunting down and interrogating potential terrorists. At least one German is among about 500 foreign-born men held indefinitely at the prison camp on Cuba's eastern tip.
Did he happen to live in Hamburg, by any chance?
"So long as the war on terror goes on, and so long as there's a threat, we will inevitably need to hold people that would do ourselves harm," Bush said at a White House press conference with Merkel.
The two leaders seemed determined to get off to a good start after chilly relations between Washington and Berlin under Merkel's predecessor, the staunch Iraq war opponent and Putin puppet Gerhard Schroeder. Their discussions also included Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. Bush was fulsome in his praise of Merkel as smart, spirited and "plenty capable." Merkel smiled, but showed she is no pushover.
Both she and Bush called their 45-minute, one-on-one session "candid," diplomatic code for a meeting with real debate and differences."We also openly addressed that there sometimes have been differences of opinion," Merkel told reporters. "I mentioned Guantanamo in this respect." Merkel said last week that while she thinks the prison should not remain open indefinitely, she did not plan to demand its closure when she met with Bush. "We addressed this issue openly," Merkel said. "And I think it's, after all, only one facet in our overall fight against terrorism."
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The audacity of some people! Should have told her no and then throw her ass in Gitmo for good measure for letting the killer of Bob Steadham out. In may be the policy of Germany to let terrorists loose but it sure aint goingto be ours.
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President Bush rejected a suggestion by Germany's new leader that the U.S. close its prison at Guantanamo Bay, saying after a first meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday that the facility is "a necessary part of protecting the American people."
Poking your nose directly into someone else's business is not a way to make a good first impression. I can imagine the stir if GWB had called for scaling back socialist policies on his first visit to Germany.
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Actually I think they should close it. Hang a sign outside that says "Closed for Renovation" and move the inmates to Bikini Atoll. Don't tell anyone where they went.
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..move the inmates to Bikini Atoll.
What about Johnston Island? Don't they have a chemical weapons incinerator there? Execute these terrorist bastards, throw their bodies in with the chemicals. Everything goes up in smoke and no one will know the better.
The process of modernisation of the Indian Army's elite Special Forces has been kicked off with the necessary equipment being identified and acquired, Army Chief Gen J J Singh said on Friday. ''We are paying due attention to the modernisation of the Special Forces. The Army has identified 40 items as necessary for the purpose. Out of these, 20 are extremely specialised and are available from the US... we are acquiring them through the Foreign Military Sales route,'' he said on the eve of Army Day.
The Army chief said an empowered committee comprising senior officials had visited the US and 'seen and selected the requisite items'. ''We hope to get these items within the next six months... one year at the latest,'' he said.
Regarding the remaining 20 items, Gen Singh said they would be acquired within the next one or two years. ''Nevertheless, one must remember that the Army's Special Forces -- which are tasked with being in the forefront of all offensive operations -- have performed well,'' he said.
The Indian Army presently has five battalions of Special Forces, drawn out of the total ten battalions of the Parachute Regiment.
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The Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC) has decided to support the idea of an independent Kashmir and demilitarisation of the state. âA consensus has been evolved among the MJC leaders not to oppose the idea of an independent Kashmir and its demilitarisation,â sources in MJC informed Daily Times.
The sources said that many MJC leaders were of the view that an independent Kashmir was the most viable solution to the dispute if it could not be resolved according to the UN Security Council resolutions. The sources said this was a major shift in the MJC stance because earlier the council had always supported the solution of Kashmir issue in accordance with the UN resolutions. âThe MJC leadership thinks that people in Held Kashmir consider freedom to be liberation form Indian occupation,â the head of a militant organisation of the MJC told Daily Times. Any solution that eliminates Indian interference in Kashmir will be acceptable, he added. âThe UN resolutions on Kashmir have become irrelevant because Pakistani and some Kashmiri leaders have come up with new ideas to resolve the issue,â he said.
I guess this is their backup position, since India won't simply leave and let Pakland administer the place. An "independent" Kashmir could then be subverted and turned into something much like Bangla.
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Thr Paki's can crap in one hand and wish in the other. We all know which one will fill up first. India isn't going to give Kashmir up and has demonstrated it will go top war over it.
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Meanwhile the chief minister of the democratically elected J+K state government has some advice for Perv.
First demilitarise Pak, then talk J&K I am of the opinion that demilitarisation is required more in Pakistan than in Jammu and Kashmir"
Taking a dig at those propagating self-rule in J&K, Azad said, "being a small political worker, I am of the opinion that self-rule means where people form government of their choice".
Quoting former American President Abraham Lincoln, Azad said self-governance means: "government of the people, by the people and for the people".
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The Chief Minister also had a dig at the separatist leaders who, while cursing India at all oppotunities, are provided with security details by the Indian government.
As regards the parties within Jammu and Kashmir, there leaders cannot ask for security for themselves while seeking troop reduction. They should not dance to Pakistan's tunes."
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UNITED NATIONS - The American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, upped the ante in an escalating confrontation between America and Turtle Bay on the issue of Israel's place at the world body. In a sharply worded letter to Secretary-General Annan, Mr. Bolton threatened to cut funding to the United Nations if it continues to promote anti-Israel events.
Mr. Bolton's January 3 letter, which was seen yesterday by The New York Sun, is a response to a November 29 event celebrating an annual "International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People." At the event, which was attended by Mr. Annan and other top diplomats, a map that "erases the state of Israel," as Mr. Bolton wrote, was displayed.
"Given that we now have a world leader pursuing nuclear weapons who is calling for the state of Israel to be wiped off the map, the issue has even greater salience," Mr. Bolton wrote.
A photo of Mr. Annan standing below the map - several days after President Ahmadinejad of Iran made his statement - was carried last month on the Web site eyeontheun.org, creating a storm of criticism. The site also highlighted the seven-figure budget of U.N. bodies dedicated to promoting what Israel and America consider one-sided, anti-Israel propaganda in the guise of solidarity with Palestinian Arabs.
A U.N. spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told the Sun yesterday that Mr. Annan was "grateful" to Mr. Bolton and others who have alerted him to the map, and that he "much hopes" that the U.N. body that organized the annual event will "consider not displaying the map in the future." Mr. Dujarric stopped short of saying that Mr. Annan would cancel his participation in future events that display such maps.
'cause he's a diplobat, ya know, and he has to be polite to everyone, even genocidal thugs.
Mr. Dujarric said that Mr. Annan plans to answer Mr. Bolton, but 10 days after sending the letter, which contained very specific questions, Mr. Bolton's spokesman, Richard Grenell, yesterday said, "We have not received an answer as of yet."
"Who is the high-level official within the secretariat who approved use of the map for the event?" Mr. Bolton asked in the letter. "Does the United Nations intend to use the map in future U.N.-sponsored functions and events?"
Most ominously for the United Nations, Mr. Bolton wrote, "In light of prohibition under U.S. law to fund events such as this one, do you consider it appropriate for the United Nations to advertise and promote the event on its general Web site and other venues, which do in fact benefit from U.S. funds?"
THW-A-A-A-ACK! I think he used a #6. Don't make him use a #7.
Although America opposes funding for several U.N. bodies that one-sidedly promote Palestinian Arab rights, the threat to further cut its support for U.N. general advertising budgets is a matter of serious concern to Mr. Annan's aides, who have been under intense pressure to reform the United Nations in the wake of last year's scandals.
The Palestinian observer at the United Nations, Riad Mansour, defended the use of the map yesterday, telling the Sun that a pre-1948 date is clearly marked on it. "That map has been there for tens of years," he said, adding that in 2004, one of the participants in the event was the American ambassador at the time, John Danforth.
"We always use antiquated maps! Yasser did, and if it was good enough for him, by gum, it's good enough for us!"
Israel and America might object to funding for the pro-Palestinian Arab bodies, Mr. Mansour said, but the vast majority of member states "think they are useful" and vote annually to continue their activities.
But we don't have to fund them.
Mr. Dujarric told the Sun that since 1977 the secretariat "has been mandated by the General Assembly" to promote the "Day of Solidarity." He said in 1981, the "committee for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people" decided that the map and the flag of "Palestine as it existed in 1948" should be displayed in the room. Disregarding an official objection by Israel's then ambassador, Yehuda Blum, "the practice has remained unchanged ever since," Mr. Dujarric said.
The fact that the map has been displayed at the United Nations for such a long time and was only noticed this year "only strengthens our position," Israel's deputy ambassador, Daniel Carmon, said. "You can't have a U.N.-sponsored event that displays a map that obliterates a member-state." He added that even if the issue of the map is resolved, the central problem remains: the existence of "automatic" anti-Israel resolutions that provide funds for one-sided bodies at the secretariat.
The organizer of the "solidarity" event is the Division for Palestinian Rights, which in the 2004-2005 U.N. budget received $5,449,600. Other bodies include the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories,($254,500); the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, ($60,800), and the Information Activities on the Question of Palestine ($566,000).
This is all walking-around money for Kofi.
Similar funding has just been approved for the next biannual budget. America "strongly opposes the use of scarce U.N. resources to support the biased and one-sided political activities" of these bodies, America's deputy U.N. ambassador, Anne Patterson, said in October as the General Assembly was discussing the current budget. With the exception of America, Israel, and some small Pacific nations, the General Assembly approved their funding.
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In a sharply worded letter to Secretary-General Annan, Mr. Bolton threatened to cut funding to the United Nations if it continues to promote anti-Israel events.
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He needs a two-handed broadsword and should carry it to all meetings, taking heads as trophies....start with Kofi
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The UN is the most diseased corrupt pile of human scum ever created. I look forward, eagerly, to its demise.
Bolton should be getting hazardous duty pay - and personal apologies from all the assholes who voted against him for the job. He has more on the ball and more gumption that the entire US Senate.
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Darth, hell! To sort that bunch of scumbags out would take more work than Hercules had at the Augean stables, not to mention that the demands of honest justice would require that at least half those UN buttholes be executed. Better we remove all funding, expel them from our soil, turn the building into offices and condos, and admit that it was a good idea hijacked by liberals and criminals (those two words are too often synonymous, no?). Away with them, and the sooner the better.
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He just keep hitting it one piece at a time. I wonder what are his top ten hits for the next year?
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The American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, upped the ante in an escalating confrontation between America and Turtle Bay on the issue of Israel's place at the world body. In a sharply worded letter to Secretary-General Annan, Mr. Bolton threatened to cut funding to the United Nations if it continues to promote anti-Israel events.
Bolton has really gone to work but the UN corruption investigation isn't over! There is plenty of leverage to put the squeeze on France, Russia, China, and Great Britain, besides all the other corrupt officials complicit in the scandal. Previous UN mandate acknowledges Israel's sovereign right to exist in the world body, so maybe they should give Israel a full seat on the UNSC with full veto power. Israelis have the right to defend themselves and are deserving of recognition of equal standing with any other now in existence, and which the Palestinian state in not. Palestine doesn't exist, never has, nor is it deserving. A separate Palestinian state has not earned the rights it demands for itself when they won't reciprocate. As long as condones terrorism, and is not worthy of respect. It'd give additional leverage and help keep the scumbags accountable. They also could make a mutual defense treaty with each other, so Israel would have the full backing of the entire world body in defending against the aggressor, ie. Iran, without the diplomatic maneuvering and delays. Iran would immediately be a target of complete annihilation with mutually agreed cooperation in the destruction of this chancre. Maybe this worthless organization could actually come together and accomplish something worthwhile by agreeing on a zero-tolerance policy for MM's and traitors. :)
The daughter of Tareq Aziz, former Iraqi deputy prime minister, has demanded his release from prison, saying he is very ill. "My father is losing weight. He suffers from pains in the heart and has blood pressure problems. He has had two strokes already," said Zainab Aziz after visiting him on Friday.
How about if we keep him until he croaks, and then maybe put "See? I told you I was sick!" on his headstone.
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"My father is losing weight. He suffers from pains in the heart and has blood pressure problems. He has had two strokes already,"
*cough* tough shit girl .. Ask the families who he helped murder what they think !
How about hand her to them for special treatment .
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NOT... until he shows some type of remorse over the deaths of the 2,000+ American lives lost freeing his godaweful country from the grip of his tyrannical boss! short of that, I can wait until he assumes room temperature.
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Remorse for release? No. That smacks entirely too much of the farmer's apology to the pig. Let him actually make amends, then we'll talk. The answer will still be no, but at least he'll be allowed a marker for his grave.
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - The chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein plans to step down, a source close to the judge told Reuters on Friday, in a development that could throw an already turbulent process into further disarray. "He wants to withdraw," the source said of Rizgar Amin, who is to preside over the next hearing on January 24. "He will oversee the next sitting and then announce his reasons for withdrawing."
Asked why the Kurdish judge, based in the northern city of Sulaimaniya, wanted to pull out of a trial that has made his face familiar around the world during long days of television coverage, he would say only: "It is too difficult."
Somebody getting to him?
The killing of two defense lawyers has already highlighted problems with the process in a country mired in a virtual civil war that pits Saddam's fellow minority Sunni Arabs against a U.S.-backed government run by Shi'ite Muslims and ethnic Kurds intent on hanging a man they say massacred their peoples.
Kidnapping and murder have become commonplace and human rights groups have questioned the wisdom of pushing ahead with a trial in Baghdad rather than an international process in The Hague or elsewhere.
There is already a precedent in the trial, which opened on October 19, for replacing one of the panel of five judges, so in principle Amin's departure may cause little upset; a judge quit to avoid a potential conflict of interest over one of the eight defendants' alleged role in the death of a relative. But in practice, the resignation of the most visible face of the court outside of the dock may be an embarrassment for the Iraqi government and U.S. officials keen to show the world that Iraqis are capable of giving their former leader a fair trial.
Amin, 48, told Reuters in November that his family worried about him and he had taken on two bodyguards after pressure from friends. But he stressed: "A judge should never be afraid because he defends justice and the law."
Only one other of the five judges on the panel has allowed himself to be seen on camera and many of the witnesses called so far to testify to crimes against humanity committed against over 140 Shi'ite men from the town of Dujail have spoken behind a screen with their voices distorted to avoid retribution.
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Somebody finally sent him photos of the wife and kiddies coming back from the grocery store!!
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The honorable judge agreed to bodyguards only "after pressure from friends?" What was he thinking of before that? He should have been wearing body armor & carrying a side arm at all times up to this point. Doesn't he know there's a war on?
It's loong past time to put Saddam in the "ghost HMMV" and drive him around Baghdad until he's blown to bits.
However, the source within the tribunal told the BBC's Alistair Leithead in Baghdad that Judge Rizgar is not resigning over pressure from the Iraqi government, but because of his disappointment at the public's reaction.
The source said that the judge had simply been trying to ensure that the trial is fair and that everyone involved gets their say.
'Winning tactic'
The BBC's world affairs editor, John Simpson, who has attended the trial in Baghdad, says Judge Rizgar knows his resignation will be a terrible blow to the whole project of bringing Saddam Hussein to justice.
He may be hoping that public opinion will now swing behind him.
Judge Rizgar has been remarkably lenient to Saddam Hussein and his half-brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, and they have taken advantage of this, our correspondent says.
However, he says that this does not mean that the senior judge has lost control of his court.
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"W" will give his 48 hour get out of town (cease & desist) warning in October 06' provided the Israelis don't preimpt this in March! Then it's "...Ohh sh**, send the calvary in!!".
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What %^** cooperation? They have been playing a shell game on this for 18 years that I know of.
And isn't it great that the secret agreement between our last VP and the Russians (in direct violation of the US Constitution) is their excuse for selling air defense systems to Iran, thereby upping the ante for our guys or the Israelis. Thanks a lot, Al.
Gonna be a hell of a bloody show...and I pity any poor grunts who have to do the cross-compartment through that terrain. Here is a case, if ever there was one, for precision weapons and the finest SF on earth, may God protect them all.
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Does anyone else notice that the mainstream media seems to be foaming at the mouth to go to war against Iran? This is just the sort of thing the left would bust Bush's chops over if it wasn't their idea. Or have I got it all wrong?
Aljazeera's correspondent in Paris has learned that an official French delegation travelled to Saudi Arabia to discuss the possibility of Abdul Halim Khaddam, the former Syrian vice president, obtaining asylum in the kingdom. Khaddam, who moved to Paris after resigning in June, has said in interviews since December that Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, had threatened al-Hariri shortly before he was killed in a car bombing on 14 February. Al-Assad has denied the allegation.
Sources told Aljazeera on Friday the Saudis rejected the idea of hosting Khaddam, upon which the French delegation left for the United Arab Emirates to discuss the asylum issue with government officials there. The French team has yet to get a final word from the UAE, the sources said.
In December, Khaddam told Al Arabiya television that the killing of al-Hariri could not have been carried out by Syrian agents without al-Assad's involvement. Asked if he thought that the Syrian president was directly responsible for al-Hariri's killing in Beirut last February, Khaddam told Britain's Sky News on Thursday: "In my belief, yes, my personal belief is that he ordered it. But at the end of the day there is an investigation. They must give the final decision."
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At least one French website has decided to totally write-off Islam and Muslims. I did that 2 decades ago. Total War Now! In French...
In a story Thursday [12 Jan 2006] about a potential link between terrorism and purchases of disposable cell phones, ABC Nightly News mentioned the purchase of a large quantity of cell phones in December from a Midland Wall-Mart.
According to Bill Vanderland, agent in charge of Midland's FBI office, no laws were broken when a group of men attempted to purchase a large number of cell phones from the Wal-Mart in the 200 block of Interstate 20 Dec. 18...Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ultimately charged one man for an immigration violation, Vanderland said, and two others were released after producing appropriate documents...However Vanderland said Thursday after the ABC report aired that assertions of a connection between a terror cell and the men who attempted to purchase cell phones from a Midland Wal-Mart were invalid.
I thought this story was fishy to begin with. No one at the local Wal-Mart, the Midland police or the FBI was named in the ABC story. No suspects were named. After so many hysterical reports from New Orleans after Katrina proved unfounded, I have become more critical about news reports without sources. In contrast, last year's initial report of a possible terror cell in Lodi CA did include names and details which could be verified.
Allahu akbar! So you've decided to join the fastest-growing organization of psychopathic murderers in the world today. Due to the exciting type of work we perform, we always have room for more volunteers, and so we welcome you to our ranks. We'd like to get to know you, while we can, so please answer a few questions for us:
Name: Abu ____________
Real name: __________________
Gender: ______ Male __________ Chattel (if so, stop here)
Marital Status: ____ Single _____ Married (# of wives: ______)
Reason For Interest In al-Qaeda (circle all that apply):
a. Hatred for everything Western, except those hot babes on Baywatch
b. Suicidal impulse but lacking the skills to carry it out
c. Inability to get women to date me
d. Want to travel and see the world before I realize my ambition to destroy it
e. Having 72 inexperienced young girls later sounds better than dealing with one nagging woman now
Would you be willing to relocate? Y/N If Y, in pieces? Y/N
Do you have any of the following disqualifying conditions?
a. Conscience
b. Soul
c. Survival instinct
d. Half a brain or more
e. Fear of flying
Thank you again, mujaheddin, on behalf of al-Qaeda -- an Equal Opportunity Destroyer
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What kinda life insurance they got?
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depends..there's a heavy "red wire/green wire" explosives deductible clause. Keeps AQ's health care costs down for newbies. Also no COBRA coverage if you switch to non-islamic terror orgs
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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The top U.N. envoy in Sudan declared Friday that efforts to bring peace to Sudan's Darfur region have failed and called for a U.N. peacekeeping force of up to 20,000 troops to disarm marauding militias and provide security so over 2 million refugees can return home. Jan Pronk said an ethnic cleansing campaign in 2003 and 2004 had been successful and a larger, more sophisticated and mobile force was needed to help end the continuing rapes and killings and stop the groups of 500 to 1,000 militia on camel and horseback that still attack villages at least once a month. "Looking back at three years of killings and cleansing in Darfur we must admit that our peace strategy so far has failed," he told the U.N. Security Council. "All we did was picking up the pieces and muddling through, doing too little too late."
The attorney general said he will not discuss operational aspects of the program at the hearing, which is expected to occur next month. Specter said Sunday that he had asked Gonzales to testify publicly. The attorney general was White House counsel when Bush initiated the program, but he refused to say Friday what role he played in developing the legal case to support it. Gonzales previously has defended the program, saying last month that the NSA did not seek warrants from the secretive Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act court because ``we don't have the speed and the agility that we need in all circumstances to deal with this new kind of enemy.''
President Bush rejected a suggestion by Germany's new leader that the U.S. close its prison at Guantanamo Bay, saying after a first meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday that the facility is "a necessary part of protecting the American people." Guantanamo has become a symbol in Europe for what many people see as Bush administration excesses in hunting down and interrogating potential terrorists. At least one German is among about 500 foreign-born men held indefinitely at the prison camp on Cuba's eastern tip.
The process of modernisation of the Indian Army's elite Special Forces has been kicked off with the necessary equipment being identified and acquired, Army Chief Gen J J Singh said on Friday. ''We are paying due attention to the modernisation of the Special Forces. The Army has identified 40 items as necessary for the purpose. Out of these, 20 are extremely specialised and are available from the US... we are acquiring them through the Foreign Military Sales route,'' he said on the eve of Army Day.
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UNITED NATIONS - The American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, upped the ante in an escalating confrontation between America and Turtle Bay on the issue of Israel's place at the world body. In a sharply worded letter to Secretary-General Annan, Mr. Bolton threatened to cut funding to the United Nations if it continues to promote anti-Israel events.
The daughter of Tareq Aziz, former Iraqi deputy prime minister, has demanded his release from prison, saying he is very ill. "My father is losing weight. He suffers from pains in the heart and has blood pressure problems. He has had two strokes already," said Zainab Aziz after visiting him on Friday.
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