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Africa Horn
AMISOM Helps Somalia Investigate Theatre Bombing
(Sh.M.Network)- A Joint Board of Inquiry consisting of Sherlocks and bombexperts from AMISOM and Somali security agencies yesterday begun investigating anattack two weeks ago on the newly reopened National Theatre in Mogadishu in which 11 people bit the dust.

The Board was formed following a request from the TransitionalFederal Government, and consists of experienced and professional Sherlocksfrom the AMISOM Police Component, the Somali Police Force and the NationalSecurity Agency. It will also be joined by bomb experts from AMISOM's military component.

Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi, the Deputy Special Representative of theChairperson of the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Commission onSomalia, the most senior AMISOM official inMogadishu, urged city residents to cooperate with the team sothat the probe is expedited.

"I call upon politicians and the public to exercise patienceand refrain from making statements that may prejudice the outcome of theinvestigation," he said. "Unwarranted speculation can only hinder the effort tolearn lessons and to ensure that the people ofMogadishuare better protected,"he added.

"With the help of AMISOMand the international community, the people of Somalia have made great stridestowards lasting stability which all must come together to defend," he said,noting that the country was on track to adopt a new constitution and complete the transition to permanent and representative government.

Hon. Wafula stressed that despite the attack on the Theatre, forwhich the Al-Qaeda affiliated terror group, 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...
, has claimedresponsibility, the Somali capital was experiencing its longest period ofrelative peace since the collapse of central government in 1991. He thanked thepublic for providing information which has led to the majority of al-Shabaabplots against the city being disrupted.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Obama Says Killing Must End in Sudan
[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack Obama
In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed...
said on Monday that the "killing of innocents" must end in Sudan and South Sudan, after weeks of border fighting in contested regions and tension between the two states.
"Don't make me come over there!"
Right after we're done mopping up the Taliban...
"In Darfur, Abyei, South Kordofan and the Blue Nile, the killing of innocents must come to an end. The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan must have the courage to negotiate because the people of Sudan and South Sudan deserve peace," Obama said at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington.

Washington had earlier condemned a Sudanese air raid on South Sudan and urged an "immediate" halt to hostilities and a return to talks.

"The United States strongly condemns Sudan's military incursion into South Sudan yesterday and calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of all Sudanese armed militia from South Sudan," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland in a statement.

"Sudan must immediately halt the aerial and artillery bombardment in South Sudan by the Sudan Armed Forces. Sudan and South Sudan must end all military support for rebel groups within the other country," she added.

Sudanese bombs fell Monday on a key bridge and a market in the state capital of Bentiu, killing at least two children, prompted heavy gunfire from Southern soldiers hoping to shoot down Khartoum's warplanes.

Nuland said Washington recognized South Sudan's right to self-defense and urged it to exercise restraint in its reaction to Sudan's attack in Unity State.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  Nuland. Now there's a gal with some real serious "street cred".
Posted by: canalzone || 04/24/2012 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  At last check, the "OBAMA DOCTRINE" has been great at helping Radical Islam.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/25/2012 0:00 Comments || Top||


In Sudan's Heglig: stench of death and leaking oil
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A stench of death filled the air and oil leaked onto the ground Monday in Sudan's main petroleum centre of Heglig, where Sudan's army says more than 1,000 Southern soldiers died in battle.

"The numbers of killed from SPLM are 1,200," Sudan's military commander Kamal Marouf told thousands of troops in the area, from which Southern forces said they had withdrawn on the weekend.

The toll is impossible to verify, but an AFP correspondent who accompanied Marouf said the putrid bodies of dead South Sudanese soldiers lay beneath trees scattered among the oil fields.

He said the number of bodies was so large they were "uncountable."

They bore the South Sudanese flag on their uniforms, and some had fallen inside the area's main town.

No civilians were visible, only Sudanese soldiers camped or on patrol.

Khartoum has not said how many of its own soldiers died in the operation.

During its 10-day occupation of Heglig, South Sudan's army said 19 of its soldiers were killed and that 240 Sudanese troops bit the dust.

Early in the occupation one Southern soldier in Bentiu, capital of the South's Unity State, said: "There are so many bodies at the front line, so many dead" that it is impossible to bury them or bring them back.

"Our talks with them were with guns and bullets," said President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
, who arrived in the region wearing a military uniform to address celebrating troops on Monday.

The AFP correspondent saw one captured tank bearing a South Sudanese flag, and another damaged tank which could not be identified.

In Heglig town itself, televisions and computers lay damaged in the street.

Sudan did not allow journalists or other observers into the Heglig area during the standoff with the South, and no foreign news hounds were permitted on Monday's visit which lasted about four hours.

South Sudan said it completed a tactical withdrawal from the Heglig region on Sunday, a move that followed intense international diplomacy to pull the two sides back from the brink of a wider war.

Khartoum claimed to have defeated the South and forced it out.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Egypt Willing to Negotiate Israel Gas Deal With New Terms
[Bloomberg] Egypt is willing to negotiate a new agreement to supply natural gas to Israel under different prices and terms, the country's Planning and International Cooperation Minister Fayza Aboulnaga said.

The Egyptian parties to the 2005 accord notified East Mediterranean Gas Co., which transports the gas to Israel, five times about past-due amounts before deciding to end the agreement yesterday, Aboulnaga told news hounds in Cairo. The last notification was issued on March 31, she said.

Ampal-American Israel Corp. (AMPL), which owns 12.5 percent of EMG, said yesterday it had been informed by EMG that Egyptian General Petroleum Corp. and the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. were terminating the gas-supply agreement.

The scuttling of the deal may offer an already unpopular post-Mubarak government the opportunity to collect political capital as it struggles against an Islamist-dominated parliament intent on passing a no-confidence motion. That could damage already shaky investor confidence in the country as it heads toward electing a new president on May 23, analysts said.

With or without the deal, "investors are genuinely very concerned about the direction that Egypt is going in," Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, said in a telephone interview yesterday.

"There isn't a responsible leadership. Whether it's the Brotherhood or SCAF, there's a sense that both of them are willing to play the nationalist" card, he said, referring to the ruling military council by its acronym. "I don't think that's reassuring a lot of outside observers."

'Willing to Renegotiate'

Egypt "is willing to renegotiate the deal, though it would be under a new contract, with new terms and prices," Aboulnaga said. She didn't say how much money was past due.

Mahmud Ghozlan, a front man for the Moslem Brüderbund who earlier lauded the move as affirming Egypt's illusory sovereignty, said talk of renegotiating the deal "doesn't represent the Egyptian people and I don't think the people will welcome it."

The gas deal "has been a cause of a lot of pressure on the regime and on the military council," said Emad Gad, a secular politician who also heads the Israeli studies program at the Al- Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, in an interview. "It was difficult for them to terminate it until a legal opportunity presented itself when the payments weren't made."

Egyptian officials said the decision had no political motivation, while Israeli officials yesterday said the move raised concerns about the peace agreement between the two countries. Israel later softened its tone, saying it hoped the matter was purely commercial.

'Nationalist Credentials'

Oil Minister Abdalla Ghorab said in an e-mailed statement today that the termination was in line with the contract's terms. "The dispute is merely a commercial one that does not reflect any political considerations or any state position," he said.

Egypt's government is "trying to assert its nationalist credentials," said Hamid. "Being anti-Israel and anti-American is the lowest hanging fruit. It's the easiest thing to do, it doesn't take a lot of effort and there's really no downside domestically."

Egypt refused to authorize permits for eight U.S. non- governmental organizations, including the Carter Center, saying their work runs counter to the country's sovereign interests, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported yesterday.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  Sadly, the gas cutoff will harm Egypt more than Israel, according to Arutz Sheva:

Citi Capital Markets says that the disruptions in Egyptian gas deliveries in 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 have given Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) plenty of opportunity to find alternative sources of supply, particularly since the agreement’s suspension is unlikely to have come as a surprise.

"Although the Israeli Ministry of Finance estimated that Egyptian gas suspensions have cost Israel NIS 15bn (1.7% GDP), we don’t think that the damage to Israel is particularly visible. And since Israel’s offshore gas field Tamar is due to begin production in April 2013, any further domestic shortfalls are likely to be relatively brief," the company said.

Citi added, "The deterioration in Egypt’s relationship with Israel is likely to lead to economic costs in future. Although Egypt’s gas exports have no formal status within the Camp David accords that govern Egyptian-Israeli relations - Egypt was not a gas exporter in 1979 - this week’s news is perceived as a symbolic devaluation of Camp David, which in turn could have real-money consequences for Egypt in two main respects."

These effects include greater risk of reduced America aid. Although $1.3 billion has already been approved for 2012, future aid allocations are growing less likely. The decision also jeopardizes Egypt's Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs), which generated almost $1 billion in exports in 2011, Globes reported. 
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2012 20:21 Comments || Top||

#2  "Sadly, the gas cutoff will harm Egypt more than Israel"

FTFY, tw.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/24/2012 20:33 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemen Prosecutor Refers Complaint Against Ex-Commander To Military Justice
[Yemen Post] Yemen's Chief Prosecutor, Ali al-Awash, referred to the Military justice a complaint by the Air Force members calling for arresting commander Muhammad Saleh, who has rebelled against a decree removing him from his post by President Hadi.

Spokesman for the Air Force, Major Abdul Rahman al-Hilali, said the decision by the prosecutor was good, though the man has just avoided responsibility.

"The decision to arrest and try al-Ahmer, a half-brother of ex-president Saleh, remains good because the Yemeni people realize no one has that authority to prosecute military commanders," he continued.

The complaint of the forces suggested the arrest and the stripping of the military ranks of and a trial for al-Ahmer. It also called for a decision by the chief prosecutor to prevent him from travel and seize his properties.

Within the reforms inside the armed forces according to a power transfer deal sponsored by the international community, President Hadi issued weeks ago decrees firing senior army commanders including relatives of Saleh.

The relatives of Saleh including the commander of the Air Force refused to leave their posts, in a move that triggered skepticism about the ability of the new government to control the situation. Some senior commanders within the army and the securit systems are relatives of Saleh including his son, Ahmed, the commander of the elite republican guard.

In response to the rebellion of the commanders, Hadi warned to strip them of their military ranks and turn them over to a military court.

The countries sponsoring the power transfer deal, which ended turmoil in November, announced their support to Hadi and warned anyone trying to hinder the deal.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Saudi diplomat may be freed soon:Yemeni tribal head
[Emirates 24/7] A Soddy Arabian diplomat who was kidnapped last month by Al Qaeda-linked gunnies is in "good health" and could be released within "the coming hours", a powerful tribal leader in southern Yemen said on Monday.

Riyadh said last week that a suspected Al Qaeda bad boy had grabbed credit for kidnapping the diplomat, Abdallah Al Khalidi, and demanded the release of gunnies in Saudi prisons. He threatened in a call to the Saudi embassy in Sanaa to kill the diplomat unless his demands were met.

Sheikh Tareq Al Fadli, a tribal head in Abyan
...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues...
and a prominent leader of Yemen's southern separatist movement, said he had been mediating with the kidnappers for Khaladi's release.

"Things are going well... The man is fine, he is in good health," Fadli told Rooters, adding that he would be released "within the coming hours".

Khalidi, the Saudi deputy consul in Aden, was seized outside his residence on March 28.

A Saudi front man said the al Qaeda caller had been identified as Mishaal Al Shodoukhi, who was named on a list of runaway Al Qaeda gunnies by Saudi authorities in 2009.

Shodoukhi said his group would "prepare the knives" unless their demands were met, an official Saudi front man said, and threatened further attacks, including an embassy bombing and the liquidation of a Saudi prince.

Riyadh, which has substantial influence among Yemeni tribes, rejected any negotiations with Al Qaeda for the release of Khalidi and vowed to do all it could to free him.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Britain
Secret life of shoe bomber Saajid Muhammad Badat funded by the taxpayer
The British taxpayer has paid for a new home and funded the business interests of a convicted terrorist after he agreed to turn supergrass against al-Qaeda in a secret deal with the authorities, a court heard on Monday.
Posted by: tipper || 04/24/2012 01:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Hugo's weeklong silence spurs uncertainty
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been out of sight for a week, speaking only through Twitter messages and written statements while undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba.

The lack of any appearances on television has Venezuelans wondering about what his unusual silence might say about his struggle with cancer, and whether Chavez may be coping with a particularly tough phase of radiation therapy.

More than 30 messages have appeared on Chavez's Twitter account since he left for Cuba on April 14. He has cheered on supporters with slogans such as "Let's continue building socialism!" In others, he has praised his military commanders, announced funding for local governments and vowed to survive and win re-election in October.

But he has seldom mentioned his cancer treatment.

National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello reiterated on Friday that Chavez is expected to return to Venezuela soon.
Did he say how?
"God willing, next week he'll be here again with us once he has finished the treatment," Cabello said in a televised speech. He insisted that even when Chavez is away in Cuba, "he leads just the same as if he were here in Venezuela."

"The commander's presence here isn't necessary, because just the same he's the commander of the revolution," Cabello said.

But even some of Chavez's supporters have been saying recently that they wonder what's going on with his health.

"It makes me sad, but my Comandante must not be as well as they say," said Guillermo Suarez, a street vendor selling sunglasses. "It's already been many days that we haven't seen him, heard him."

Chavez, who has been president since 1999, has long been a constant presence on Venezuelan television, often addressing the nation for several hours most days in addition to his marathon Sunday program "Hello, President." But recently there have been no episodes of "Hello, President," and Chavez said he expected his final rounds of radiation therapy, which began last month, to be rough.
They could always do re-runs. No one will notice the difference...
Chavez has not discussed details of the radiation treatments, saying they have diminished his strength but have been going well. Last weekend, he decided not to attend the Summit of the Americas in Colombia, the sort of high-profile international event where he would previously have taken center stage. Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announced the decision, saying Chavez was skipping the summit on the advice of his doctors.

Chavez began radiation treatment in Cuba in late March after undergoing an operation in February that removed a second tumor from his pelvic region. The first was taken out last June. He has kept secret some details of his illness, including the type of cancer and the precise location of the tumors. Chavez also was away in Havana regularly last year while undergoing chemotherapy after the initial surgery.

During previous trips to Cuba, Chavez periodically appeared on television, either in phone calls or appearances with his aides or daughters, and gave the appearance of continuing to work and keeping abreast of affairs at home.

Before his latest trip to Cuba, Chavez said he planned to stay away longer to allow for his last two rounds of radiation treatment. He urged his supporters to remain united and said an "anti-coup command" was being formed within his political movement to focus on maintaining stability and countering any possible attempt to destabilize his government.

In the past week, his Twitter messages have been read aloud by his Cabinet ministers at televised events. At one event Friday, Chavez's supporters responded with shouts of "Onward, Comandante!"

In several Twitter messages Saturday, Chavez urged his party to mobilize "toward the big victory of Oct. 7" in the election. Another said: "Comrades you make me happy! Let's keep fighting very hard to defeat the bourgeoisie! A downpour is falling over Havana, and I'm with you!"

Chavez's online messages aim to "make it appear that the president is active, that the president is in control of what's going on in Venezuela," said Jose Vicente Carrasquero, a political science professor at Venezuela's Simon Bolivar University.
And they only take 140 characters.
Without Chavez on the air, state television has instead shown a salsa concert, documentaries and a Mass. Such programs and newscasts are interspersed with a short segment showing a healthy Chavez embracing children in slow motion against a background of folk music.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/24/2012 16:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who will the US send to the funeral?

Hillary, Joe Biden, Sean Penn, Roseanne Barr

maybe all the above

Posted by: lord garth || 04/24/2012 21:49 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Chechen President Dudayev celebrates 15 years at room temperature
Video at link.
Late in the evening of 21 April 1996, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Gen. Dzhokhar Dudayev was martyred (Insha'Allah) as a result of a terrorist attack.
Interesting backstory on the photo, if true.
The rocket strike on Dudayev occurred while he was speaking on a satellite phone in a deserted locale near the village of Gekhi-Chu in western Chechnya.The Russian leadership hoped that by killing Dudayev, Chechen resistance will be broken and the war would be quickly wrapped up in favor of the occupational army.

Dudayev was killed on April 21, 1996, by two laser-guided missiles when he was using a satellite phone, after his location was detected by a Russian reconnaissance aircraft, which intercepted his phone call. At the time Dudayev was reportedly talking to a liberal deputy of the Duma in Moscow, reportedly Konstantin Borovoy. Additional aircraft were dispatched (a Su-24MR and a Su-25) to locate Dudayev and fire a guided missile. Exact details of this operation were never released by the Russian government. Russian reconnaissance planes in the area had been monitoring satellite communications for quite some time trying to match Dudayev's voice signature to the existing samples of his speech.
Posted by: gromky || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
NKor's next nuclear test 'soon'
North Korea has almost completed preparations for a third nuclear test, a senior source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing told Reuters. This is the first time a senior official has confirmed the planned test and the source has correctly predicted events in the past, telling Reuters about the 2006 test days before it happened.

The source did not specify whether the test would be a third test using plutonium, of which it has limited stocks, or whether Pyongyang would use uranium.
We should demand that the Norks keep testing, and testing, and testing. They'll use up their entire stock of both plutonium and uranium.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2012 04:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How soon???


Real soon??
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2012 10:07 Comments || Top||

#2  The US believes that a Chinese firm gave North Korea the chassis for its mobile missle carrier, but the Company - Hubei Sanjiang Space Wanshan Space Vehicle Co. - is denying any sales or trade wid North Korea.

TRADE WID SOKOR = YES, TRADE WID NOKOR = NO!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/24/2012 23:56 Comments || Top||


N Korean army vows to turn Seoul to ashes
[Dawn] North Korea's military Monday threatened "special actions" soon to turn parts of the South Korean capital to ashes, accusing Seoul's conservative government of defaming its leadership.

The North has for months been criticising the South's President Lee Myung-Bak in extreme terms and threatening "sacred war" over perceived insults.

There have been no incidents but the language has become increasingly vitriolic. Some analysts said they believe a military provocation is likely.

"The special actions of our revolutionary armed forces will start soon to meet the reckless challenge of the group of traitors," said a statement on the official news agency.

The North said its targets are "the Lee Myung-Bak group of traitors, the arch criminals, and the group of rat-like elements including conservative media destroying the mainstay of the fair public opinion".

It said the actions "will reduce all... to ashes in three or four minutes... by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style".

Tens of thousands rallied in Pyongyang last Friday, screaming hatred for Lee and calling for his death over alleged insults.

Last week the nuclear-armed North accused Lee of "desecrating" mass celebrations marking the 100th anniversary on April 15 of the birth of Pyongyang's founding president Kim Il-Sung.

It bridled at anti-Pyongyang demonstrations in Seoul and at comments by Lee and conservative media. These questioned the cost of the anniversary celebrations for a nation suffering acute food shortages.

Lee said the estimated $850 million cost of a rocket launch intended to mark the anniversary could have bought 2.5 million tonnes of corn.

The launch, purportedly to put a satellite into orbit, was to have been a centrepiece of the celebrations. The rocket disintegrated after some two minutes in what was seen as an embarrassment for the regime.

Monday's statement castigated Lee for comments last Friday, which urged the North's new leader Kim Jong-Un to reform agriculture and improve human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...

It also took issue with the South's unveiling of a new cruise missile said to be able to reach any target in the North.

The North attributed its statement to the "special operation action group"of the military supreme command. Military officials in Seoul said they had no knowledge of such a unit, and no particular military movements had been detected in the North.

One analyst said the North, unlike in the past, may well follow up its threats now that major anniversary events are over.

"The easiest option will be cyber terror... but we may have to guard against actual terrorist actions," Cheong Seong-Chang of South Korea's Sejong Institute think-tank, told AFP.

"This time, I think there's a high possibility that the North's words, unlike in the past, will actually lead to specific actions." Baek Seung-Joo, of the South's Korea Institute for Defence Analyses, said there had been "bad signs" across the border but did not elaborate.

"I'm worried about military provocations by North Korea," Baek told AFP.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Lee said the estimated $850 million cost of a rocket launch intended to mark the anniversary could have bought 2.5 million tonnes of corn.

That's a mighty expensive brick there, Pudgy.
Posted by: gorb || 04/24/2012 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm worried about military provocations by North Korea,"

I'm not particularly. They could try. They could kill a lot of people, but they can't win. If they tried, push them up to the 40th parallel and make Kusong the new P'yonggang.
Posted by: crosspatch || 04/24/2012 2:38 Comments || Top||

#3  'patch,

I agree with the "they can't win" but I'm not cynical enough to blow off "they can kill a lot of people". Not to mention that SKor is a significant chunk of the global economy.

I AM cynical enough to be concerned that this would give Zero some kind of win for his feckless "smart diplomacy". He'd only need one big bounce (see GHWB) to get him past Nov. Now THAT's scary.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2012 8:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, I was playing too lightly with that killing a lot of people thing. I think Obama is going to attempt to trigger something in the fall that will give him a justification for postponing elections. For example, an Iran attack, Iran responds inside the US and Obama tries to postpone elections for a year or something.
Posted by: crosspatch || 04/24/2012 11:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Well Mr. 'patch, I see you're as much a cynic about our despicable CiC as I.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2012 11:47 Comments || Top||

#6  A great defensive weapon for South Korea would be the airmobile KFC outlet. As advancing North Korean forces move South, these would be deployed along their path. At the same time, large BBQ pits are deployed in the rear areas with heaps of juicy bulgogi cooking on the grills. Together these act to slow the advance to a crawl and direct the course of the advance as the lead elements move from KFC to KFC cleaning out each one as they advance. Rear elements are bogged down in bulgogi and rice to the point where they are unable to maneuver.
Posted by: crosspatch || 04/24/2012 14:49 Comments || Top||

#7  I like your thinking, 'patch. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara || 04/24/2012 17:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Perhaps Seoul won't be "turned to ashes" vee the DPRK ...

To wit,

* TOPIX, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > NORTH KOREA MISSLES ON PARADE ARE PAPER MOCKUPS [Models]: ANALYSTS.

versus

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [POSTER = paraph] PLAN TYPE 094 SSBN [strategic missle sub = SLBMS]AT SEA, SET SAIL FROM SANYA TO YELLOW SEA | NUCLEAR WAR ESCALATION IFF US, JAPAN NAVAL INTERVENTION.

ARTIC + BLOG is in the CHINESE LANGUAGE.

The Yellow Sea is not the SCS as per the SINO-PHIL Scarborough dispute, but the PLAN Boomer will be able to hit USFK, USFJ, UNCOM, etc. key targets.

PCorrectness-Deniability = Beijing can always claim their Boomer was absolutely positively categorically undeniably ... part of the its NAVEX wid the Russians, NOT-N-NEVER EVAR! FOR ANYTHING ELSE???

Iff the PHIL is hoping that the US will back up its treaty obligations militarily iff shooting starts oer Scarborough Shoal, CHINA IS THE COUNTRY THAT WILL TEST THEIR THEORY.

Lest we fergit,
> Commie Guerillas fought superior Japan from 1930's-1945 despite also fighting agz Chiang Kai-shek + KMT.
> Fought the superior US + UNO in Korea 1950-53 after finally defeating Kai-shek in 1949 + despite weakness, destruction from internal civil war + WW2.
> Fought Nuclear India in 1962 - occasional border clashes since then.
> Clashed wid the Soviets oer riverine borders in late 1960's despite overwhelming Soviet Nuclear Superiority.
> Unified Vietnam in 1979 + 1980's, despite its massive support to North Vietnam agz the French + espec later agz the US.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/24/2012 21:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Pentagon creates new clandestine service
Little new here. New and Improved TIDE? DIA has had a clan mission for decades and has accomplished little. Perhaps the title could read "DIA seeks secret, virtually unlimited budget line, directorships, SES positions."
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JKLF to work for Kashmir solution on its own: Yaseen
[Dawn] Jammu and Kashmire Liberation Front chief Yaseen Malik says his party will make efforts to get the Kashmire issue resolved on its own without help of anyone if Pakistain, India and other international stakeholders continue with showing their irresponsible behaviour to resolve it.

"We feel that the issue is being sidelined despite the fact freedom fighters have dropped their guns and started efforts to get the dispute resolved through peaceful protests," Mr Malik said while talking to Dawn after a presser here at Mansoora on Sunday.

He said India and other western countries were previously of the view to initiate serious efforts with the Kashmiri leadership if the Kashmiris struggling for freedom disarm themselves and start peaceful protests. "But it is very sad that the Indian government and the western countries did nothing to resolve the dispute despite the fact that Kashmiris fulfilled their demand.

Earlier speaking at a presser, Mr Malik said status quo would neither be acceptable to Kashmiris nor such a policy could help resolve the issue peacefully.

Flanked by Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
chief Syed Munawar Hasan and other JI leaders at Mansoora, he said Kashmire was not brought into focus since start of the ongoing dialogue between Pakistain and India on various issues. "Now the Kashmiris have the impression that the issue is being frozen," he said, adding that Pakistain and India should not hope for a lasting peace in the region without solution to the issue.

He said initially India had desired a peaceful atmosphere for beginning talks on the issue. Accordingly, the Kashmiris gave up their armed struggle and started a peaceful struggle.
"At present, there is an ideal atmosphere for dialogue and both the governments should try to find out a peaceful solution to the issue."

Mr Malik said since the Kashmiris gave up their armed struggle and began a peaceful movement, India started crushing the Kashmiris' freedom movement by killing the peaceful protesters. "They (the Indian forces) are arresting the protesters and throwing them into torture cells. Do they want to push the peaceful protesting Kashmiris back to their previous armed struggle?"

He warned that if both the countries were unable to find a peaceful solution, the Kashmiris would be forced to begin the armed struggle again.

He said the successive Pakistain governments had been mentioning the Kashmire issue one way or the other but the present rulers in Islamabad were not even talking of the Kashmire issue. The Kashmire Committee should also discharge its duty accordingly, he said.

The JKLF leader said after the 9/11 terror attacks, the world community had decided to resolve the international issues through peaceful efforts. The Kashmiris also took up the path by opting for the peaceful process. The international community should also discharge its responsibility by giving due rights to people of Kashmire under democratic norms,
he said.

Malik said he, personally, was in favour of a sovereign Kashmire. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
he said, the Kashmiris should be allowed to decide whether they wanted to join Pakistain or India or have a sovereign state.

Earlier speaking on the occasion JI Amir Syed Munawar Hasan said the Kashmiris were trying to protect Pakistain's lifeline. He appealed to the political parties, the media, the Kashmire Committee and the government to focus on the issue once again so that the Kashmiris could get courage to give strength to their movement again. He said shift in Kashmire policy by the Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
government had done a great harm to the Kashmire cause and the present elected rulers were also toeing the Musharraf's line. He said the Kashmire Committee was not independent and was working with no focus on the issue. "The Kashmire cause is not of the Kashmiris alone. They are fighting Pakistain's war but the Pakistain government, political parties and even the media are ignoring the issue."

He said the Kashmire Committee had also failed to highlight the issue at international level. JI Azad Kashmire chief Abdur Rashid Turabi, and other Jammat leaders were also present on the occasion.
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India-Pakistan
Malik blames political parties for extortion in Karachi
[Dawn] Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
on Monday revealed that activists belonging to political parties of the PPP-led coalition government of Sindh are to be blamed for the menace of extortion in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, DawnNews reported.

Malik said that activists of Pakistain People's Party (PPP), Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
(MQM), Awami National Party (ANP) and other parties were involved in extortion in the metropolis.

Speaking to media representatives at the Quaid-e-Azam-International Airport, the interior minister also said that few parties were involved in the deteriorating law and order situation.

The minister also rejected the speculations that armed operations were only conducted in Lyari, adding security agencies have also raided offices of the MQM and other political parties in the violence-ridden city.

"If security agencies are attacked with hand grenades, they would not shower flowers in response," said the PPP leader.

Moreover, the minister said that national tragedies, like the Bhoja Air crash, should not be used for political gains.

Criticising Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N) for opposing probe commission formed to investigate the crash, he blamed Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for doing politics on the tragic incident.

The minister claimed that the airline was awarded licence during Nawaz Sharif's
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
government while ignoring the rules and regulations.

He said that the government is taking all steps for a transparent inquiry into the air crash.

He assured that action will be taken against those responsible in the light of inquiry report. "We should wait for it and avoid doing politics on the issue, he added.

To a question, Malik said that law enforcement agencies have set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock a group involved in creating law and order situation in Gilgit, Bloody Karachi and Balochistan.
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
The interior minister also said that Ali Musa Gilani (son of PM Gilani) had arrived in the country to face allegations against him in the "ephedrine case."
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Asghar Khan petition: Beg opposes commission, IB told to submit report
[Dawn] The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the hearing of Air Martial (retd) Asghar Khan's petition to April 25, DawnNews reported.

A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez heard the case.

Asghar Khan had filed the petition in 1996, accusing the ISI of financing several politicians during the 1990 elections to create the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) and prevent Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
's PPP from winning. The ISI allegedly dished out Rs140 million for the purpose. The petition was based on the affidavit of former ISI chief Asad Durrani.

During the hearing, the court directed the attorney general to summon secretary interior and secretary law in his office and obtain information on a 17-year-old report regarding Mehran Bank and Habib Bank. The court also summoned records of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cases against Younus Habib, one of main characters behind the controversy and a former head of the now defunct Mehran Bank.

The chief justice in his order again directed that the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to submit its report regarding the distribution of secret funds. The IB had submitted a reply to the court on the case earlier today.

Also during the hearing, former army chief Gen (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg's
...occasionally incoherent retired four-star general who was the Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army, succeeding the creepy General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after the latter was rubbed out died in an air crash in 1988. The general was involved up to his hairy ears in the Mehran bank scandal, shuffling millions in public money to buy or lease politicians, and is believed one of the prime movers in the sale of Pak nuclear technology to Iran. He ranks second only to Hamid Gul in the volume and flavor of his anti-Western vitriol..
counsel, advocate Akram Sheikh, submitted his client's reply.
"Yez got nuttin' on me client, coppers! Nuttin'! Da witnesses is all dead!"
The reply opposed the idea of forming a judicial commission to probe the distribution of secret funds to politicians and accused Habib for wanting to prolong the matter by forming the commission.

Beg's reply further stated that Habib was accountable to the NAB and that he had to pay 115 crore (1150000000) rupees to NAB.

Earlier, a petition was filed by Habib to form a judicial commission to recover the money disbursed to politicians.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Kurdistan Chief Says Iraq PM Must Not Obtain F-16s
[An Nahar] Massoud Barzani
... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes...
, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan, said he opposes the sale of F-16 warplanes to Iraq while Nouri al-Maliki
... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party....
is premier, as he fears they would be used against the region.

The United States has agreed to sell 36 F-16 jets to Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
in a multi-billion-dollar deal aimed at increasing the capabilities of Iraq's decampedgling air force, a weak point in its national defenses.

"The F-16 must not reach the hand of this man," Barzani told news hounds at his residence near the Kurdistan region's capital Arbil on Sunday, referring to Maliki.

"We must either prevent him from having these weapons, or if he has them, he should not stay in his position," Barzani said.

Barzani alleged that Maliki had discussed using F-16s against Kurdistan during a meeting with military officers.

"During a military meeting, they talked about problems between Storied Baghdad and Arbil," Barzani said.

"They told him, 'Sir, just give us the authority, and we would kick them out of Arbil,'" Barzani said. "And (Maliki) answered: 'Wait until the arrival of the F-16.'"

There are long-running disagreements between Kurdistan and the central government over disputed territory and dozens of energy contracts Kurdistan has signed without the approval of Storied Baghdad, but tensions have recently reached a new high.

Barzani accused Maliki of aiming to "kill the democratic process" after the head of Iraq's electoral commission was tossed in the clink for alleged corruption, and previously said Maliki was moving toward dictatorship.

Earlier this month, Kurdistan stopped oil exports over $1.5 billion owed to foreign oil companies working in the region that it says Storied Baghdad has withheld.

The central government's top two oil officials responded by saying Arbil owed Storied Baghdad more than $5 billion in promised exports, and was smuggling the oil it produced to Iran.

Kurdistan also hosted Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi after he was accused of running a death squad and declined to hand him over to the central government.

The region then permitted the runaway official to leave on a trip that first took him to Qatar, then Soddy Arabia, and now Turkey.
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#1  I once said that Maliki is an Islamist (given that he does represent the Islamist Dawa Party sold as moderate Muslims by Bush's brain trust) who will replace Saddam as Iraq's El Lider Maximo, if we withdraw*. If he does pull a Salvador Allende (without the happy ending in which Allende killed himself) in Iraq, it will pain me greatly to say - "I told you so".

* The Sunnis, the Kurds and the secular Shias were too retarded to see this, so they agitated against the limits a US presence would put on their corruption. Now they're about to lose the whole enchilada, and the sad thing is - they brought it on their own heads.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/24/2012 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  That's like selling them to Iran.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2012 1:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Which would be why the Obama administration is behind the deal.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2012 12:38 Comments || Top||


Iraq summons Turkish envoy over Erdogan broadside
[Emirates 24/7] Iraq, locked in a public row with neighbouring Turkey, has summoned Ankara's ambassador in Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
to protest at critical remarks by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, the foreign ministry said on Monday.

The envoy, Younis Demerer, heard the Iraqi complaint on Sunday after several days of charge and counter-charge.

Erdogan accused his Iraqi counterpart Nuri Al-Maliki on Thursday of stoking conflict between various groups through "self-centred" behaviour.

Maliki fired back that Turkey was becoming a "hostile state" with a sectarian agenda, saying it was meddling in Iraqi affairs and trying to establish regional "hegemony".


Erdogan returned to the fray on Saturday, saying: "If we respond to Mr. Maliki, we give him the opportunity to show off."

Analysts say mainly Turkey is worried that growing tensions in Iraq and violence in their mutual neighbour Syria may lead to a wider conflict in the region.

Erdogan's government has also recently forged close ties with Masoud Barzani, president of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, which is embroiled in a row with the Storied Baghdad government over claims to the city of Kirkuk and the region's oil.

"(Foreign ministry undersecretary) Mr. Labeed Abbawi acquainted the Turkish Ambassador with the Iraqi government's intense protest against the recent statements," the Iraqi foreign ministry said on its website.

"Undersecretary Abbawi expressed hope that the Turkish government will stop giving statements that affect Iraq's illusory sovereignty and internal affairs."

Erdogan has criticised Maliki several times since sectarian tensions flared in Iraq in December when the government tried to remove Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Al Mutlaq and sought an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq Al Hashemi on charges he ran death squads.

Hashemi decamped Storied Baghdad and has since met Erdogan in Istanbul.

The rift between Storied Baghdad and the Kurds worsened this month when the Kurdistan Regional Government said it was halting oil exports because the central government was not paying oil firms operating in the north.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel to start work on Lebanon border wall
Israel is to start building a wall along part of its border with Lebanon next week to shield the northern town of Metulla, the Jewish state’s Channel 10 television reported Monday.

It said the wall, more than 2 kilometers long and 10 meters high, was also aimed at preventing clashes between Israeli and Lebanese border forces whose posts are often just meters apart.

The private broadcaster said Israel had informed Lebanon of the wall project and would coordinate it through the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

Military sources said in January that the Jewish state was considering building a wall along a section of the 79-kilometer border, fearing cross-border sniper fire at newly built apartment blocks in Metulla.

Although the two countries are technically in a state of war, Israeli and Lebanese military officials meet regularly in the presence of UNIFIL peacekeepers to liaise on border issues.
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PA donors warn Abbas not to replace Fayyad
Which side calls Al Capone or "Mugs" Moran?
Donor countries have warned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas against trying to replace Prime Minister Salam Fayyad or confiscate his control over the PA Finance Ministry, a Western diplomat based in Israel told The Jerusalem Post Monday.

The diplomat said that the donors were aware of Abbas's repeated attempts to remove Fayyad from power and seize control over the ministry.

"We won't allow this to happen," the diplomat said. "We have made it clear to President Abbas that international aid will be affected if he or Fatah remove Fayyad."
Sneaky rat that I am, I would double-dog dare Mahmoud to can Fayyad...
The warning came as sources in Ramallah confirmed that a sharp crisis has erupted between Abbas and Fayyad.

The sources said that the tensions between the two men began after Abbas announced his intention to reshuffle the cabinet. The announcement surprised Fayyad who, according to the sources, had not been notified in advance of the planned reshuffle.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
EU targets Assad couple's high-end lifestyle
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
turned its sights on the Assad couple's high-end lifestyle Monday, banning the export of luxury goods as part of new sanctions to punish the regime's relentless violence.

In a 14th round of EU sanctions against Syria in a year, foreign ministers from the 27-nation bloc banned shipments of luxury items to Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
and further restricted the sale of goods used to repress dissidents.

"The EU will continue its policy of imposing additional measures targeting the regime ... as long as repression continues," ministers said in a statement.

Russia, which has agreed to the presence of UN truce monitors, at the weekend condemned the idea of new EU sanctions.

But European ministers and diplomats said the new restrictive measures were a direct response to continuing violence in Syria, despite the presence of UN truce observers in the country.

"It is very important for us to keep up that pressure, step up that pressure," said British Foreign Secretary William Hague. "They are not in full compliance of the ceasefire requirements of the (Kofi) Annan plan."
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