[Tolo News] Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a presser on Sunday that it will launch a military operation in eastern Nuristan province to recapture Waigal district.
Good luck, guys. We want you to do well.
The Ministry is also determined to eliminate poppy cultivation in 7 key provinces of Afghanistan.
Insurgents captured Waigal district of Nuristan two weeks ago, but Afghan forces have not yet been able to retake it.
Nuristan province is bordered by Pakistain and Afghan officials have previously said that forces of Evil infiltrate from the other side of the border to carry out attacks against Afghan border forces.
"We are working on a plan to retake the district and make sure our forces will remain their without any threats," Zemarai Bashari, a front man for MOI, told news hounds.
Mr Bashari also agreed that there is a flaw in the Afghan police forces, and he urged international community to support the Afghan Ministry of Interior with better equipment of its forces.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a meeting. It was to be their last... Mr Bashari said 85 cut-thoat attacks have occurred in the last one week and the MOI has tossed in the calaboose 185 people in connection with the incidents.
Currently Afghan National Police has 150,000 soldiers.
Afghan cops are expected to take over security responsibilities in seven areas in July this year when the first phase of foreign troops' withdrawal will begin.
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[Tolo News] Killing civilians will never help us succeed the fight against beturbanned goons, Afghanistan's Caped President's Office said in a statement on Saturday evening.
The statement came after foreign forces killed five civilians in a military operation in Sayad district of northern Sar-e-Pul province on Tuesday.
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... has condemned the killings and has ordered an investigation.
Sayed Anwar Rahmati, Governor of Sar-e-Pul has contacted the Afghanistan's Caped President confirming that those killed in the operation were civilians, added the statement.
The issue of civilian casualties caused by foreign forces is one of the controversial and sensitive issues between President Karzai and his Western allies.
President Karzai has also condemned Taliban's recent attack in which they killed Daud Esaqzai, Police Chief of Sar-e-Pul's Gosfandi district.
See? He's being balanced.
The incident happened on Friday while Esaqzai was out on patrol and Talibs shot him dead.
The Taliban have grabbed credit for the murder.
Sar-e-Pul was considered a relatively peaceful province in the north, but hard boyz have recently become active in some villages.
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Memo to Hamid:
Don't worry. Sooner or later US and NATO troops will leave your pitiful excuse for a failed state because it's more trouble than it's worth. Then all of your "civilians" can proceed to murder each other without restraint.
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He is another Diem. Don't forget that most Pashto sections weren't liberated by the Northern Alliance; there were a series of near status quo armistices. In fact, the talibanimal who organized the destruction of the Buddhas, was allowed to run for the islamic-shura ("parliament"); he was later killed while attempting terror.
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[Tolo News] The Afghan government is determined to restore Kabul Bank and make sure people's deposits are kept safely, Afghan Minister of Finance said on Saturday.
The government will make sure that the illegally withdrawn money from the Kabul Bank by some of its shareholders is paid back.
Afghan Finance Minister, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, said the government is making efforts to restore people's confidence in Kabul Bank.
"A part of the money withdrawn from the bank has been paid back, and the rest is to be paid soon. All those who owe the Bank money have been identified. Whether they are in Afghanistan or abroad, they will have to repay the money they have withdrawn," Mr Zakhilwal said.
The Ministry says it is the responsibility of Afghanistan Central Bank (DAB) to decide about Kabul Bank, but the Ministry of Finance suggests the bank to be run by the private sector.
"The ones who earlier ran the bank no longer deserve owning it, for the violations they committed," Mr Zakhilwal said.
Kabul Bank was taken over by Afghanistan Central Bank in September last year.
The government is planning to closely monitor all private banks in the future to prevent similar situation as the Kabul Bank crisis.
The comments come as reports previously published spoke of Kabul Bank being put into receivership.
The IMF had recently demanded that Kabul Bank should either be closed down or sold, otherwise a financial assistance programme for Afghanistan could be halted.
The UN had also warned that international donors may halt or redirect their assistance if the Afghan government failed to reach an agreement with International Monetary Fund.
Kabul Bank nearly collapsed last year but was taken over by Afghanistan Central Bank in September.
Some of the Kabul Bank shareholders are accused of using millions of dollars of depositors' money to buy property in Dubai.
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[Arab News] Sudan said on Sunday that remnants of a missile used in a mysterious attack that killed two people on April 5 proved that Israel carried out the strike.
Israel has declined to comment on the incident, which mirrored a similar attack on Sudan's east in 2009 for which it neither admitted nor denied responsibility.
A car carrying two Sudanese nationals was targeted near Port Sudan's airport.
"The definitive proof that Israel was behind this attack is that the rockets used by the American-made Apache helicopters are only owned by Israel in the region," the Foreign Ministry statement said.
It said remnants at the scene showed the weapon was an AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missile.
The aircraft, the ministry said, had flown in from the direction of the Red Sea, scrambling Sudanese radar systems and following Port Sudan airport flight paths.
East Sudan has long been a route for the smuggling of arms that often pass through Egypt's Sinai desert and reach the Gazoo Strip, territory controlled by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Islamists, via tunnels under the border.
According to the website of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which monitors arms transfers worldwide, the United States delivered 250 Hellfire missiles to Israel in 1998-1999 and 680 in 2005-2006.
Sudan said Israel, which it considers an enemy state, was trying to derail efforts to normalize ties with Washington. The United States started the process of removing Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terror after Khartoum recognized a vote by its south to secede in July.
Sudan has close ties with Hamas, but denies it offers direct support to the group. Washington designates Hamas a terrorist organization, citing its refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept existing Israeli-Paleostinian interim peace deals.
Khartoum says it has begun the process of lodging a formal complaint against Israel at the UN Security Council.
What the northern Sudanese don't seem to get is that Israel has a longer reach then they have. Israeli aircraft can stage and whack a target in the Sudan, but the Sudanese don't have a prayer of reaching the Negev. An intelligent thug dictator would learn a lesson from that.
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Did you find the little card that said "... and don't make us come back here again."? Expect more of the same as the Israelis work around the edges to improve their odds in the coming war.
SteveS, I've read recently that Israel has been quietly hunting down Hamas members around the world -- this and the Hamas arms buyer in Dubai just happened to get the world's attention.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere has warned that dozens of Kenyan youths being recruited by al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader... hard boyz pose a serious security threat to the country.
Mr Iteere said it was no secret that Kenyan youths were being lured by cash tokens to join terrorist groups, saying the police were closely monitoring their activities.
He noted that coppers were on high alert, especially on the porous 800km Kenya-Somali border, to curb the illegal recruitment.
On Friday, dozens of women from Mombasa, Kwale and Kilifi counties held demonstrations to condemn the recruitment of their sons into the terror group.
Speaking in Mombasa, the police boss noted that the concern raised by the women is a reality that cannot be dismissed by security agencies.
"We are aware that some youth have joined the group. It a dangerous trend for our country and parents should take the initiative of instilling patriotism in their children," he said.
Mr Iteere spoke shortly after a management training course for 30 chief inspectors at the Government Training Institute.
Security sources state that as many as 10 youths recruited by al-Shabaab in Mombasa and Kwale counties have bit the dust in the battle between the group and Transitional Federal Government forces.
Mr Iteere also announced that the police department had acquired three new marine patrol boats at a cost of Sh800 million to bolster the fight against trade in illicit drugs.
He said the boats recently procured from the Netherlands will be dispatched to Malindi, Mtwapa and Lamu to patrol the Indian Ocean.
According to the police boss, two of the boats have been handed over to marine police to improve surveillance on the coastline, which investigations have established is a safe haven for drug barons.
"In addition to the 24 patrol boats, the three newly-acquired boats will scale up operations on the coastline," Mr Iteere told news hounds.
A fortnight ago, coppers impounded a heroine haul of 102kg in Shanzu, Mombasa. Six suspects including three Kenyans, two Iranians and a Pak tossed in the calaboose and charged with trafficking the illicit drug worth Sh200 million.
The police commissioner said the force is keen to catch the 'big fish' engaged in drug trafficking.
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Don't fergit the AQIM/AQIY + LeT also, as new rising threats to the USA.
[Ennahar] Two months after his fall, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... came out for the first time Sunday to say he was victim of "defamation" while protesters demanding his trial got the summons in connection with a judiciary investigation.
Justice has announced that former Rais and his two sons Alaa and Gamal would be convened at an unspecified date, to answer charges in conducting anti-corruption and violence that left some 800 dead during demonstrations against the regime in January and February.
The announcement, first step toward a possible trial, was made after massive demonstrations Friday, smaller Saturday and Sunday but violent with officially a death on Tahrir Square in Cairo, Mecca of the revolt that brought down Mr. Mubarak February 11.
Protesters demand a trial for the former president and other bigwigs of his regime, accusing the army in power since his departure of dragging their feet to turn the page on Mubarak's years.
The former president himself, silent since his resignation, expressed for the first time in a audio speech of a few minutes aired on Saudi Dubai-based al-Arabiya.
He denounces the "smear campaigns" against him and defends his "reputation" and his integrity." He ensures that neither he nor his wife Suzanne have property abroad and says he is willing to cooperate with justice on this issue.
The authorities have assigned Mubarak in residence in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea, and routinely deny rumors of his departure abroad.
Justice also announced the detention of Mubarak's former Prime Minister, Ahmad Nazif, following accusations of embezzlement.
Other former officials of the former regime have been for several weeks the subject of judicial action or investigation, but part of the opinion finds these actions still too timid.
A thousand protesters were still around Tahrir Square on Sunday, the entrances were blocked by barbed wire and metal bars.
Besides the trial of former president, they asked the Marshal Hussein Tantawi departure, head of the Supreme Council of the armed forces, who acts as head of state for two months.
"The people demand the overthrow of the Marshal", aged 75 and defense minister for 20 years.
The intervention of the military police, backed by riot police against the demonstrators on the night of Friday to Saturday caused one dead and 71 maimed according to official figures. Medical sources had earlier reported two deaths.
The army for its part has denied having acted with brutality and denied accusations that it had opened fire on demonstrators. She called them "off-the-law".
The presence of seven uniformed officers among the protesters had left dawn divisions within a military institution traditionally sealed on its internal debates.
These events reflect a recent escalation of tensions around the role of the army after a period of broad consensus on its efforts to stabilize the country and organize the return to elected civilian rule promised by the end of the year.
But the popularity of the military institution continues to enjoy in a wide part of the opinion has led many officials and organizations to remain cautious about these criticisms, even to dissociate themselves from the protesters.
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[Ennahar] The promise of political reforms made by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third term, which is probably why Algerians are ready to dump him... in response to the opposition calling for a "system change" in the wake of revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, began to raise doubts about his sincerity.
"We already feel the renewed confidence of power, its fear passed, the recovery of lost ground and its new confidence," observed a Sunday columnist for the Quotidien d'Oran.
In early January, when nobody envisaged the rebellion that would sweep the Arab countries, take the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents, threaten dictators in Yemen, Libya and Syria, Algeria has experienced violent riots against high prices that left five people dead and over 800 maimed.
In response, the authority has agreed salary increases, granted credit for enterprise creation by young people and housing, and fell on the control of the informal market. Denying a political crisis, it conceded the lifting of emergency rule that hinders freedoms since 1992.
"Boiling is too strong to be ignored: anything that refers to the stomach is saved but all that is part of the head and suggests a political perspective is denied," added Said Sadi, the president of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD).
No doubt that made more sense in the original Arabic...
During this time, President Bouteflika who has just celebrated his 12 years as head of state remained silent. Quoted by one of his advisers, he promised March 19 to open a "new page" on "the path of comprehensive reforms," stressing that they can not "be fruitful in the absence of political reform."
The promise does not raise the enthusiasm of the leader of the RCD, whose nine attempted demonstration in Algiers on Saturday, were blocked by police.
"We must not grow any illusions about the willingness nor the capacity of Mr. Bouteflika to leave the swamp as he is convinced that the current system is what is best for the country," he said.
Wary of his side a "necessary democratic contagion" by the Arab revolution, the historic leader of the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), Hocine Ait-Ahmed, observes that "a broader social base lacks all these resistances to injustice, violence and oppression."
"We can not but see that the wall of fear has been replaced and exacerbated deep in our society by a wall of fatigue and disgust. Weariness and disgust of false elites imposed in the shadow of terror, politico-financial mafia, rigged elections and media under surveillance", he denounced Saturday.
If not specified the content of political reforms envisaged, we speculated extensively on a revision of the 1996 constitution sought by the opposition and even by the three parties of the presidential alliance.
The National Liberation Front (FLN, the former unique party, the National Democratic Rally (RND) led by Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP, Islamist) say they favor a revision "even deeper" from the Basic Law amended two years ago to allow Mr. Bouteflika to run for a third term.
These parties do not wish, however, the election of a constituent assembly claimed by the FFS and the Workers' Party (Trotskyist - far left).
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On Saturday police arrested 59 people, including 19 veiled women, who turned up for a banned protest in Paris against the draconian new law, the first of its kind to be enforced in Europe.
Earlier, French police said they will be enforcing the countryÂ’s new burka ban "extremely cautiously" because of fears of provoking violence.
They fear Muslims extremists will use the law to provoke fights with officers, while rich visitors from countries like Saudi Arabia will also cause trouble.
Mr. Wife commented once about flying home after business trips to Saudi Arabia, as soon as the airline pilot announced that they'd left Saudi airspace the black abayas trooped back to the bathrooms, emerging one by one as highly fashionable, Western-style females. On inbound trips the process reversed. There's no reason to think that rich Saudi women wouldn't readily comply with the no-niqab law.
Summary: Article and radio story this morning claims US has blocked 350 possible bad guys since the failed Christmas bombing by stopping another level of suspect. I counted three levels:
1. Visa revoked - that could be a clue.
2. On the terrorist watch list, which is where they've recently expanded the refusal. Watch list might include money men, trainers, HAMAS members, etc. as opposed to splodydope hopefuls. So we are bragging we've stopped 350 possible bag men, so we should feel safer.
3. The no-fly list, which seems to be a combo of the terrorist watch list and "considered a threat to aviation". Now - how do they decide who is a threat to aviation?
Maybe TSA is up for budget renewal.
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I saw a cute commercial last night, where a guy's in the airport being groped by the TSA people and he's talking about how he needs his equipment to be reliable.
For the blow off his chain saw comes through the x-ray belt.
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For the record Fred - some times those airline food 'steaks' can be rather tough....
The U.S. government has prevented more than 350 people suspected of ties to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups from boarding U.S.-bound commercial flights since the end of 2009, The Associated Press has learned.
Security practices changed after an admitted al-Qaida operative from Nigeria was accused of trying to blow himself up on a flight to Detroit on Christmas 2009. Until then, airlines only kept passengers off U.S.-bound planes if they were on the no-fly list, a list of people considered a threat to aviation.
JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed made a rare public appearance in Islamabad today to lead the funeral prayers for Kashmiri leader Maulvi Showkat Ahmed Shah, killed in Srinagar last week. He used the occasion to trash talk Indo-Pak cricket diplomacy while promising a "jihad" in J&K.
In a rabble-rousing speech, Saeed, the mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, said the movement in Kashmir would serve as an example for "Muslims in Hyderabad and Junagarh who want independence from the oppression of Hindus".
"The stand taken by the Pakistan government for friendship with India is not acceptable to the Pakistani people under any circumstances," Saeed, also the founder of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, said.
Saeed declared that "friendship, trade and cricket diplomacy" with India has no meaning. "We make it clear that (the government) should back the Hurriyat till the last breath for the independence of Kashmir."
"We want to make it clear that we are with Kashmiris and will remain with them... All the people in Pakistan and Kashmir are unwilling to accept anything less than independence (for Jammu & Kashmir)," he exclaimed as the crowd repeatedly cheered.
He said that instead of efforts to foster friendship and trade with India, Pakistan should work to achieve the "independence" of Jammu & Kashmir.
Paying homage to Shah, the president of the Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith, killed in the bombing on April 8, Saeed called the movement in Jammu & Kashmir "a jihad for independence where even death is part of life".
Dismissing the idea that the jihad in Kashmir had become weak in the post-9/11 era, Saeed said that "it has come very close to its final stage".
Saeed claimed that the Kashmiri leaders had kept alive their movement even "when Pakistan was under great pressure" and the government in Islamabad "always gave in to pressure".
Saeed has led several rallies in Lahore calling for jihad in Jammu and Kashmir. He said the situation in Afghanistan was a sign that India could not continue what he described as the "occupation" of Jammu and Kashmir.
"I want to tell India this is not that era when Muslims were silent (and) things have changed. Muslims have become aware. If Russia could not continue its occupation of Afghanistan, if America is preparing to pull out and they are admitting that they have failed in their mission in Afghanistan and they cannot continue their occupation... then India cannot continue its occupation of Kashmir," he said.
The gathering was also addressed by Abdul Aziz Alvi, the head of the JuD in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, United Jihad Council vice-chairman Muhammad Usman and leaders of the Hurriyat Conference.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Salim al-Husni, a key figure in the Iraqi Islamic Dawa Party under the leadership of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, has revealed that the party is preparing for a general conference for the leaders of the Islamic Dawa Party. He said that the conference will announce Al-Maliki's removal from the party, because of his "abuse of the principles and ideas adopted by the Islamic Dawa Party."
Al-Husni, who is the former editor of the Islamic Dawa Party's newspaper (Al-Jihad) during the 1980s, said that: "Al-Maliki has used the Islamic Dawa Party and transformed it into a bridge to power." He noted that: "the ideas and principles of our party are far from power-mongering. Instead, it is a cultural and mass party that is founded on the principle of serving people, rather than serving officials and covering up for them."
The Islamic Dawa Party leader has told Asharq Al-Awsat in London that: "the complaints of the leaders and bases of the Islamic Dawa Party have made us prepare for the convening of a general conference inside Iraq, because the party is an Iraqi party." He noted that: "we will not describe this conference as a secession conference, because this has become a very shameful situation as a result of the large number of splits that have occurred within the Islamic Dawa Party." He added: "Instead, we refer to our conference as a correctional movement and a reversion to the principles and ideas adopted by the party." He said: "We will call for Al-Maliki's removal, because he has done great wrong and extensive harm to the party's history and to the political process. This is now that he has used the party as a bridge to power and held on to it."
Al-Husni, who joined the Islamic Dawa Party in 1973 and was the person in charge of the party's media affairs, noted that: "for the most part, the reason for the convening of the conference lies in Al-Maliki's way of working and behavior, which have detached the party from its principles." He added that: "the leadership of the Islamic Dawa Party has become preoccupied with power and ignored the party's mission." He pointed out that: "it is not a personal issue between me and Al-Maliki. He has been my friend since 1980, when he was not known even at the level of the Islamic Dawa Party leaders." He added: "In 1986, we, the leaders of the party, decided to wage a media campaign to promote some of our party members. Among them was Abu-Isra (Nuri) al-Maliki. This was his name." He said: "At that time, I was the chief editor of the party's newspaper (Al-Jihad), which was published in Tehran." He added: "I did not know how to present Al-Maliki, because there was nothing to write about him or introduce him, especially since he was not known as a leader until a later stage." He noted: "Al-Maliki was hesitant and fearful. Now, I find this transformation in his personality strange. I attribute this to him getting a taste of power."
The Islamic Dawa Party leader said that: "Al-Maliki has deliberately driven away historic and strong Islamic Dawa Party leaders. He also took weak people as close companions in order for him to easily control them and order them around." He added: "The cultural level of those who work at his office today is below average. We find it strange how these people are running the affairs of the state and the Islamic Dawa Party." He stated: "Accordingly, Al-Maliki has followed in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein, who drove away key Baath Party leaders and took the weak as close companions." He noted that: "today, the best name that can be given to the Islamic Dawa Party is Al-Maliki's party. We have actually started using this name, because the party's practices have nothing to do with the ideas and principles of the Islamic Dawa Party." He said: "This reminds us of the practices of the leader of the former regime, who transformed the Baath Party into Saddam's party."
Al-Husni said: "During the general conference that we will hold, we will employ the principles and ideas adopted by the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki's practices have harmed the party and everyone will know who represents the party." He added: "For quite some time now, we have moved toward change, and we do not say secession. This is because, as I said earlier, this was a shameful state of affairs." He explained that: "foremost among the splits that have occurred in the history of the party, and I mean major splits, was one that occurred in 1965, when Sami al-Badri seceded from the party and formed Jund al-Imam [Soldiers of the Imam] group. This was followed by the 1981 split by Izalddin Salim (Abdul-Zahrah Othman), a member of the former Iraqi Governing Council, who was assassinated in Storied Baghdad in 2004. This is in addition to the split that occurred in 1999 and the formation of the Islamic Dawa Party-Iraq Organization wing."
Al-Husni said that: "what has caused us to delay the convening of the conference is that we do not want some parties to develop the impression that we are secessionists. Rather, we want to say that this is the genuine Islamic Dawa Party." He added: "Secession means the adoption of new ideas and goals. Nevertheless, we insist on achieving the goals of our party, which rejects authority while its leader is holding on to power today." He stated: "Some people favored power over the party and got involved in acts of corruption. This is a very shameful state of affairs. Therefore, we will call for Al-Maliki's removal from the party and his deposition." He noted: "As a matter of fact, to begin with he became the leader of the party by mistake. This was a result of the vote counting method that was used at that time and led to some leaders rising to power." He stated: "Al-Maliki was also mistakenly chosen as the party's secretary general during the 2007 conference." He noted that: "Al-Maliki admitted that a mistake was made and proposed a re-election after three months in order to protect the party from harm. However, The all-purpose However... he deceived everyone and did not hold a re-election."
The Islamic Dawa Party leader pointed out that: "the influence that the Islamic Dawa Party enjoys today is attributed to the fact that it is in power. Once Al-Maliki leaves the government, the party will lose its influence, because it is not based on true mass influence." He added: "Moreover, the party won the provincial election because Al-Maliki is in power. Once he is removed from the party, he will lose a great deal of his popularity."
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[Ma'an] Israel is ready to stop firing at armed Paleostinian groups in the Gazoo Strip if the Paleostinians reciprocate, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday on Israeli public radio.
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[Ma'an] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, is willing to commit to a truce with Israel if it stops attacks on the Gazoo Strip, a front man for the Islamist group told Agence La Belle France-Presse on Sunday.
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[Ma'an] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Israel will respond "with even more force" if rocket fire by Gazoocut-throats continues.
Speaking shortly after a rocket fired from Gazoo struck near the southern city of Ashkelon, Netanyahu warned that any further attacks would be dealt with harshly.
"If the criminal attacks against Israeli military and civilians continue, Israel will respond with even more force," he told public radio.
But both Israeli and Paleostinian officials expressed support for a potential ceasefire, after days of rocket fire and Israeli air raids that have killed at least 18 people in Gazoo.
The flare-up came after an anti-tank missile fired from Gazoo hit an Israeli school bus on Thursday, wounding two people, one of them critically.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that Israel was ready to end the confrontation, if Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and other gangs stopped firing.
"If they cease firing, we'll cease firing," he said, reacting to reports that the political wing of the Islamist group Hamas, which controls Gazoo, was ready for a truce.
"We cannot tolerate firing" against Israel, said Barak, who has indefinitely postponed a trip to Washington in the face of escalating violence around the territory where Israel fought a devastating 22-day conflict in December 2008-January 2009.
"We will act along the lines of what happens on the ground," he added.
It was the first time that an Israeli minister had floated the possibility of a ceasefire since deadly festivities with the Paleostinians broke out.
Hamas and other gangs in Gazoo had previously announced a unilateral truce that unravelled before it had a chance to take hold, with cut-throats firing dozens of rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel.
But on Saturday, a senior Israeli security official said Hamas's political wing had asked Israel for a ceasefire.
"The political branch of Hamas has sent a message asking for an Israeli ceasefire" in exchange for a halt to Paleostinian attacks, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Hamas front manSami Abu Zuhri ...a senior front man for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gazoo. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... said Sunday that the group would be willing to stop firing if Israel announced a ceasefire.
"The ball is in the court of the occupation," Abu Zuhri said. "Our message to the occupation is that a truce will be met with a truce."
He said Hamas was not trying to increase tensions with Israel, but defended the actions of the Islamist group and other myrmidon organizations in Gazoo.
"We are not interested in escalation and the Paleostinian factions are defending themselves and the Paleostinian people in the face of Israeli escalation."
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Yeah, defending themselves. Just firing rockets blindly into a neighboring country. Just so the Joooos know how tough they are scare them away!
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[Ennahar] The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... will ask the Security Council of the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... to impose an air exclusion zone over the Ghaza Strip to prevent the Israeli air force to intervene, said on Sunday Leader of the pan-Arab organization, Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ... .
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You know, I did 10 years of reserve duty with an artillery unit, and we always resented the fly boys having all the fun.
Two anonymous young men in Iran, one Iranian and one Afghan, have burned a Koran in protest. This seven-and-a-half minute long video shows the two men, their faces obscured, holding the Muslim holy book and reading prepared statements. They say that Arabs have foisted this book and their homelands and because of it they have gone backwards for 1400 years. They say they dislike the Koran and want it to disappear, adding "Viva freedom!"
Afterwards they stand the Koran on a flat rock, douse it alcohol and light it. One of them hoots and laughs. The book burns fiercely, and after a few moments one of them sprays more alcohol into the flames. The video ends with them warming their hands over the blazing book.
Iran will continue enriching uranium to 20 percent level to fuel "four to five" nuclear research reactors it intends to build in the "next few years," a top official told the ISNA news agency on Monday.
So as to research, you know, plutonium...
"In the next few years, four to five (research) reactors... of 10 to 20 megawatts will be built" in the country, the head of Iran's atomic energy organisation Fereydoon Abbasi Davani was quoted as saying.
"Thus we need to continue enrichment to 20 percent in order to provide them with fuel," added Abbasi Davani, who was appointed to the post in February.
The Islamic republic is under four sets of UN Security Council sanctions over its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
"Enrichment up to 20 percent will continue and will not halt. We will increase the volume of the 20 percent enrichment based on the country's needs. For this, we will not ask for permission from anyone," Abbasi Davani said.
The aim of the new reactors is "to produce radio isotopes, and (to enable) research and development," he said.
Development of fission bombs, for example...
These reactors "will be built in different provinces," he said, without elaborating, but adding that building the first "will take three to four years."
Long enough time line that a pro-active American government could do something about it.
Iran announced in June last year it intended to build a "number" of research reactors aimed at producing radio isotopes for "sale and export to the regional and Islamic countries that need them."
So that all Islamic countries could have plutonium for research purposes...
Officials have repeatedly said that Iran would produce the nuclear fuel required for a research reactor in Tehran by September 2011.
Western powers have repeatedly said Iran does not possess the technology to make the actual nuclear fuel plates required to power the Tehran research reactor which makes medical isotopes.
But the Russians do...
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Ditto repor NORTH KOREA as per SoKor this past weekend, on more or less the North's intent to unilater expand its indigenous Nucprog despite the on-going post-YEONGPYEONG brouhaha wid the South + new national hunger issues.
* ION FREEREPUBLIC/TOPIX > AS IRAN GOES NUCLEAR, THE US [POTUS Bammer = Admin] DOES NOTHING.
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As per POLITICAL-LEGAL JIHAD + good intentions of the pro-Democracy "Jasmine" ME mass protests, RADICAL ISLAM is on the verge of procuring political power in a host of "moderate" sovereign Arab-Muslim countries, vee "normal" local electoral processes, + including histor powerhouse EGYPT whom already has a long-established Civilian Nucprog for energy.
The scenario is real that, come 2012 or shortly after, IRAN WILL STILL GO NUCLEAR [NucWeapons] WHILE STEADILY NO LONGER BEING THE ONLY SOURCE FOR NUKE-WMD TECHS FOR SOLE, VARIOUS ISLAMIST MILTERRS.
It will not be Iran, or even Iran + Pakistan, anymore, just as it won't be the USA-VS-RISING-CHINA ONLY anymore.
Like the original Mohammedan Conquests of the Middle Ages, the OWG Caliphate = Global Islamist-Jihadist State [Nuclear?] came = rose like a SUDDEN WIND.
** DRUDGEREPORT > UNREST IN INDIA? | [FT.com] TATA CHIEF WARNS OF INDIA UNREST, as due to US$39.0Bilyuhn telecommunications national scandal.
IIUC ARTIC = IOW, any breakout of "Jasmine" style mass protests + challenge to the curr Govt. in Indjuh NEED NOT BE ORGINALLY LED NOR INDUCED, ETC. BY EITHER COMMIE-MAOIST, MUSLIM REBELS - THE TWO LATTER, ETC. DID NOT START THE "JASMINE" BUT THEY MAY VERY WELL FINISH IT ALA EGYPT'S "MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD" + COALITION.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Tolo News] The Afghan government is determined to restore Kabul Bank and make sure people's deposits are kept safely, Afghan Minister of Finance said on Saturday.
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JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed made a rare public appearance in Islamabad today to lead the funeral prayers for Kashmiri leader Maulvi Showkat Ahmed Shah, killed in Srinagar last week. He used the occasion to trash talk Indo-Pak cricket diplomacy while promising a "jihad" in J&K.
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