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What Galbraith says is mostly correct - In practice all you are doing in Afghanistan is providing the Taliban with revenues.
He doesn't mention the real issue in Afghanistan, which is the attempt to create a multi-ethnic society. Something that is doomed in any reasonable timescale.
[Tolo News] President Karzai's Office on Monday denied having received a proposal from Pakistain consisted of Pak government demands.
At a presser 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... 's Spokesperson Waheed Omar called the reports claiming Pakistain submitting a proposal to Afghanistan inaccurate.
"Nurse, the bottle of blue pills -- stat! The entire Pakistani government is doing that thing again!"
Mr Omar told news hounds that Pakistain had not offered any specific petition regarding domestic issues of Afghanistan.
"There, there, pets. You just swallow these pills for Nursey, and in a few minutes the lovely chemicals will transport you to the same universe the rest of us live in. You'll enjoy the visit, I promise."
After Pakistain's Premier Yusuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... visited Kabul, there were rumours suggesting he submitted a paper to Karzai's Office consisted of demands that could bring Afghan illusory sovereignty under question.
Unprecedented issues were discussed during Pak Prime Minister's visit to Kabul which is welcomed by the Afghan government, Mr Omar said.
Pakistain's cooperation in Afghan peace talks and boosting the understanding of joint fight against faceless myrmidons in Pakistain were the pivotal topics discussed during the visit.
"We hope that Pakistain takes some practical steps about peace and stability in the region," Mr Omar said. "Pakistain has not submitted any suggestion related to Afghan domestic issues and it won't be accepted if it ever suggests."
Things discussed between Kabul and Islamabad will also be discussed with the United States, Mr Omar said.
Long term strategic partnership agreement between Afghanistan and the US beyond 2014 has turned into a dominant discourse nowadays.
Mr Omar said national interests, regional concerns and establishment of a long-term relation with the US and Western nations will be considered in the US-Afghan strategic agreement.
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In past, the Perv government offered to close off the border between the two countries, except for major crossings, and Karzai adamantly refused it. While it would not have been airtight, it would have the classical "wall" effect, which would have strongly inhibited the Taliban.
As with Hadrian's wall, and the Great Wall of China, the purpose of such walls is not to keep invading armies out, but to slow down fast moving raiding parties, that swoop in, pillage, and run away before they can be counterattacked.
Karzai's opposition to this clearly indicates that his sympathies lie with the Taliban, and that was at least six years ago.
Otherwise, the only way to subdue the Pushtun is for Pakistan to annex southern Afghanistan and their cross border tribal territories.
Bahrain accused Hizbullah of attempting to topple its regime, reported the Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
It made its accusation in a report sent to United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon last week.
It said that Hizbullah is training the opposition in camps in Leb and Iran.
Bahrain also accused Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and other party members of personally conspiring with the Shiite opposition to defy the ruling family.
The Wall Street Journal reported U.S. intelligence as saying that it had tracked contacts between Iran, Hizbullah, and the Bahraini opposition since the start of the protests in the Gulf state in February.
Furthermore, Bahrain called on the United Nations to work on curbing Hizbullah's activity in the Gulf.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Eminent jurists Rafique-ul Huq and Dr M Zahir yesterday told the Supreme Court that fatwa (religious edict) is a kind of opinion without any legal force.
Go have religious force, O fatwazers, and leave legality to the legal experts!
They said this while offering expert opinions as amici curiae (friends of court) to the Appellate Division during the hearing of an appeal against a High Court verdict that had declared fatwa illegal.
Senior counsel TH Khan, another amicus curiae, favoured the appeal saying fatwa should not be declared outright as good or bad.
Waffler. The question isn't how good it is, but whether it has legal force. Honestly -- you'd think a senior counsel would be able to read the words on the paper in front of him.
A six-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque, will continue hearing the appeal today.
As per the constitution, everybody has the right to give fatwa as an opinion, but cannot instigate others to commit a criminal offence, Rafique-ul Huq told the court.
Nobody can punish anyone in the name of fatwa and any aggrieved person can move to the court against the instigators, he added.
He also observed the HC verdict imposing a complete ban on fatwa is not right.
M Zahir opined anybody can give fatwa as advice but must not interfere into other's rights. He apprehended social problems if the SC makes fatwa permissible.
If the SC declares fatwa illegal as a whole, it will be an injustice, mentioned TH Khan adding, it could lead to a movement in the society.
They'll riot about it. They can't help themselves, and someone will have to clean up the mess.
The court should be confined within the facts of the case, rather than giving any venture opinion on this issue, added the legal expert.
On January 1, 2001, the HC declared illegal all punishments imposed in the name of fatwa after a hearing on its own suo moto ruling. The court issued the ruling following a newspaper report on hilla marriage (marriage with a third person).
Two maulanas -- Mufti Mohammad Toyeeb and Abul Kalam Azad -- challenged the verdict at the SC in the same year.
And now, a mere ten years later,
The apex court started hearing the appeal on March 1 this year.
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No surprise.
Its not the propoganda issue to me its the leaking back to the Taliban of information about military operations.
The Brits need to have an upclose personal and very loud conversation with the leadership of the BBC. This says the BBC is working against British interests.
They could actually have been leaking information on investigations back to terrorist cells.
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Need the zero surprise meter on this one. I mean, we didn't need a leak to figure out the BBC wears kneepads and no pants.
[Emirates 24/7] The criminal mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that Al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe that will unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed on Monday.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told Guantanamo Bay interrogators everything and we mean everything the terror group would detonate the device if the Al-Qaeda chief was captured or killed, acording to the classified files released by the WikiLeaks website.
Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed criminal mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been held at Guantanamo since 2006 and is to be tried in a military court at the US naval base on Cuba over the attacks.
His nuclear threat was revealed in Perfidious Albion's Daily Telegraph newspaper, one of several media outlets which have published the classified assessments of detainees at Guantanamo.
Sheikh Mohammed, captured in 2003 in Pakistain, also claims to have personally beheaded US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 with his "blessed right hand" and to have helped in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people.
This article starring:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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And, even worse things will happen if Bin Laden is not captured!
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I picture some jihadi in a Hamburg flat eating massive amounts of tabouli, falafel and ful with a butt plug super glued in tight, waiting by the phone for the launch code.
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Ha, ha. That is a funny one. Tell me another. What, you'll huff and puff and turn off the anti-matter containment in the warp drive? Oh, now I am really worried.
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Arab bloviation. To carry out an act, you need both intent and capability. We know they have the intent. If they had the capability, they would have already used it. No sale.
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Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed criminal mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been held at Guantanamo since 2006
I assume it was in 2006 or shortly thereafter that this threat was revealed. Certainly we were discussing the possibility of suitcase nukes as far back as 2004, here at Rantburg. As I recall, it was decided that Al Qaeda couldn't possibly have the highly trained technicians necessary to perform the frequent maintenance required to keep such things from turning into radioactive paperweights.
[Dawn] Days before the March 8 kaboom in Faisalabad that killed at least 32 people and injured 125 others at a gas station located right next to the office of an intelligence agency, reliable sources in law-enforcement agencies had informed the Herald that a bad boy organisation, Al Tauhid Wal Jihad (ATWJ), in the central Punjab city has had Dire Revenge on its agenda since early last year.
Sources in the Punjab police had said that the group had planned to hit back after its main leader Dr Umar Kundi alias Maaz was killed in February 2010 -- also in Faisalabad -- in a joint raid conducted by the local police and the intelligence agencies who had come to arrest him for his alleged role in the May 2009 attack on the Lahore office of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The ISI doesn't seem to have a sense of humour about such things.
Investigators say Usman Ghani, one of the criminal masterminds and main perpetrators of the Faisalabad blast, was working closely with some other members of the group. Ghani was placed in durance vile on the day of the blast while trying to escape on a bicycle about a kilometre away from the site of the bombing. A citizen, who had earlier seen him with a remote-controlled device near the site of the blast, recognised and overpowered him with the help of other local residents before handing him over to the police. During investigations,
"Send for the pliers and s barrel of the strong mustache wax!"
Ghani disclosed the names of some of his accomplices and Sherlocks tell the Herald that they have placed in durance vile one Maulvi Rab Nawaz, the former prayer leader at the mosque of University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, and his son for their alleged involvement in the terrorist act.
Sources further elaborate and say that ATWJ snuffies had procured the explosives for the blast over a period of many months from markets within Faisalabad city without raising the suspicion of local police. Ghani is reported to have claimed to his interrogators that the blast was not a suicide kaboom. "I was present near the gas station to detonate a boom-mobile from a distance," he is quoted as saying. Another, but unconfirmed, version of the events suggests that ATWJ paid him 30,000 rupees to drive the car to the gas station before leaving and blowing it up. There is also evidence that at least one man was still in the explosives-packed car when it went kaboom!. If this account is to be believed, that man was killed because Ghani pushed the button before the other attacker could leave the car.
A mere No. 4, who should be grateful for the opportunity to give his life to keep the car from being towed as abandoned.
Interestingly, the ATWJ could not employ a jacket wallah for this venture. "There is a shortage of suicide bombers," Ghani is quoted to have said, "many ATWJ members have been killed or placed in durance vile and those who are still active do not have contact or access to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) high command to have acquired a suicide bomber for the task."
The TTP keep 'em stocked in warehouses called "madrassas" against future need.
Senior police officials in Lahore tell the Herald that Kundi's death was the biggest blow to the group. "His death left the group scattered besides suspending links with the central leadership of TTP," one official says. The law-enforcement agencies have also placed in durance vile several members of the group over the last year or so. Two of them, Asif Mehmood and Shoaib Cheema, have been in detention for the last many months for their alleged involvement in the 2009 bombing of the ISI office in Lahore though it was only last month that the Lahore police made their arrest known to the media.
Mehmood, a 30-something bearded chemical engineering graduate from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, and Cheema, a former businessman in his mid-40s who has traveled widely across the world, spoke to the Herald at a detention centre in Lahore that their group started targeting Pak security agencies and installations after the military operations in the tribal areas. "When the Pakistain Army started to fight against [the bad boys], the war entered Pakistain," one of them says. They claim that they had received ideological training from an Arab called Sheikh Eesa al Misri
Isaac the Egyptian?
who told them that "those who were fighting against [the bad boys] were the enemies of Islam." The two say that they also considered them enemies "whether they were Americans or Paks." They disclosed that they had also fought against the Americans as well as against the Pakistain Army in Afghanistan and South Wazoo after getting training in a camp run by al Misri.
Their group, subsequently, identified many sensitive locations and installation for targeting but its most spectacular hit was at the ISI's Lahore office that killed at least 30 people, including four officials of the intelligence agency and 14 coppers. The placed in durance vile duo, while talking to the Herald, accepted the responsibility for that attack and divulged some of its disquieting details. According to them it was Kundi himself who had selected the target and Mehmood, with his training in chemical engineering, played a crucial role in putting the explosives together. Other members of the group would purchase different chemicals and other materials in small quantities from different markets in cities such as Faisalabad and Lahore to avoid suspicion, and he would assemble explosives from them. "At times, I accompanied the others when they shopped for chemicals and acids," Mehmood says.
Unlike now, ATWJ clearly had their organisational structure working and their contacts with TTP alive and active. "Two suicide bombers were then made available [from the tribal areas] after paying a handsome amount to the TTP high command," Cheema claims.
Do they have a catalog? Some like them to be fine speicimins of Muslim manhood, after all, while others want to take the opportunity to clear the gene pool of the downside of inbreeding...
Other ATWJ members, meanwhile, surveyed the targeted area and gathered as much information as they could about the ISI office. "For maximum damage we decided to hit in the first half of the day when most employees of the agency were on the premises," Cheema tells the Herald.
Awaiting trial by an anti-terrorism court, the two do not show any remorse for the innocent lives lost because of their terrorist acts. "We were working only to save Islam," Mehmood says.
Saving Islam from the ISI is not a bad goal, as these things go.
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[Dawn] US President Barack B.O. Obama Monday gathered top national security and intelligence staff for his regular review of Afghan and Pakistain strategy, amid suggestions of fresh tensions with Islamabad.
The talks, in the secure Situation Room of the White House, went ahead amid a rumbling US disagreement with Islamabad on the fight against faceless myrmidons in the volatile Afghan-Pakistain border region.
At Obama's side in the talks were Defense Secretary Robert Gates, UN ambassador Susan Rice, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and James Clapper, his director of national intelligence.
But not his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... , top Afghan war General David Petraeus and the US ambassadors to Pakistain and Afghanistan joined the session via secure video-link, the White House said.
No link for Secretary Clinton, either. Perhaps she begged off for a much-needed day with the family.
On Saturday, Pakistain's army chief General Ashfaq Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... said that the "backbone" of faceless myrmidons in Pakistain had been broken, despite US criticisms of his country's strategy against Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked rebels.
The White House criticized Pakistain's efforts to defeat the Taliban in its border regions, in a report immediately rejected by Islamabad earlier in April.
Obama is also beginning to reach the point when he must consider recommendations by the military for the promised partial withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan which he has demanded from July this year.
However, The over-used However... his press front man Jay Carney said that Monday's session was not a "decisional" meeting, but was rather a regular review of US policy.
There are signs that any drawdown of troops from the decade-long fight against the Taliban will be mainly symbolic as Washington and its allies increasingly focus on the security "transition" from foreign to Afghan control.
The administration has gradually de-emphasized the timeframe, instead saying that most US forces would leave in 2014, the date set by last year's NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... summit for putting Afghans in charge of their own country's security.
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Why doesn't NATO work on putting Europeans in charge of European security?
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isn't a Carney a person that runs a circus?
what a great name for a Presidential spokesman
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Obama is also beginning to reach the point when he must consider recommendations by the military for the promised partial withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan which he has demanded from July this year.
Petreaus is in Pakistan urging thier military to increase pressure on the border regions in order to further impede the flow of fighters and weapons. At the same time, contractors and trusted atmospherics feelers have teamed, and are circulating the battlespace as we speak, interviewing small unit leaders, taking note of regional progress, then reporting back to Petraeus and his top brass? The blueprint for unit withdrawls is being formulated. Obama MUST achieve some kind of success or validity relative to his stated withdrawl strategy. He will obviously not gain any mileage at the polls with his economic policies.
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I think that Obama is looking to retreat from Afghanistan as a bone to throw to his true believers. The hard left is angry at Obama right now and he has to keep his core support together for next years election.
Military recommendations and the reality on the battlefield will have nothing to do with the decision to leave. This as was posted,a "circus", to give the impression the decision is being made in real time instead of two and a half years ago when he took office.
Of course, it will be complete fiasco, complete with mass executions of US supporters, an escalation of terrorist activities world wide and a new boldness by the ISI to continue their neferious ways.
The day we announce we are leaving Iraq starts the countdown to the next major terrorist attack on the US.
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Good point Bill.
I would like to point out that Obama, and his supporters are hell-bent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and make Iraq into another Vietnam war.
[Dawn] US general David Petraeus on Monday visited Pakistain and held talks with its army chief on ways to bolster regional security, the US embassy said in a statement.
"Gen. David H. Petraeus, Commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, visited Pakistain today to meet with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... Pakistain's Chief of Army Staff," the embassy said.
"They discussed topics of mutual interest and ways to improve regional security," it said in a statement.
This is Petraeus' sixth visit to Pakistain as the NATO ISAF commander, it said.
"He has long-established relationships with General Kayani and the Pak military from his time as the US Central Command commander," the statement said, adding that his last visit to Pakistain was January 31, 2011.
On Saturday Kayani said his forces had inflicted deep wounds on the rebellion after the United States had criticised the country's efforts to quell Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked bully boyz holed-up in its tribal belt.
"The terrorists' backbone has been broken and God willing we will soon prevail," Kayani said in a speech at a passing-out parade at the Pakistain Military Academy in northwestern garrison town of Abbottabad.
The White House this month criticised Pakistain's efforts to defeat the Taliban in its border regions with Afghanistan, in a report immediately rejected by Islamabad.
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, subsequently accused Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency of having ties with the Afghan Taliban in the northwestern tribal belt.
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"The terrorists' backbone has been broken and God willing we will soon prevail,"
I translate this as "The infidel Americans and their accursed drones are kicking the crap out of our guys"
Ah, to be a fly on the wall at that meeting! (Or an armed surveillance drone orbiting overhead) Given the recent and *very* public statements from some US officials, the discussion will be heated.
[Dawn] The chief of banned organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has challenged India to prove his organisation's link to the Mumbai attacks, claiming India would never be able to substantiate this allegation.
Speaking to DawnNews, Saeed said that India had sent a 400-page report to the Pak government in an attempt to substantiate its claims but had failed miserable.
He accused the government of being spineless and succumbing to the pressure from India and the United States.
"Pakistain's Interior Ministry tried hard to defend the Indian stance but failed. Pakistain is confronted with internal and external challenges and India is benefiting from that. Even the US is now talking India's talk," said Saeed.
He disclosed that he had written two letters to UN Chief Ban Ki Moon to clarify his position and the workings of his organisation.
"We had asked Ban Ki Moon to bring our case in an international court and we had stressed that we are ready to appear before the court. The only response we had from him was informing us that he had received our letters," said the JuD chief.
Saeed strongly condemned US activities in Afghanistan and Pakistain and said the suicide kabooms were a response to the drone attacks.
"When you spill innocent blood and the people you kill are not even technologically advanced like you -- then such suicide kabooms should be expected as a natural reaction," argued Saeed.
He also stressed that his organisation had nothing to do with Lashkar-e-Taiba.
But they all cross train, they lend one another supplies and personnel as needed, they meet together with their ISI handlers to divide responsibilities for the Pakistani jihad that must eventually lead to the expansion of the Land of the Pure to its natural boundaries as mapped out by Jinnah and his fellows back in the early part of the twentieth century.
"Lashkar-e-Taiba operates in the Indian Kashmiree while we are based in Pakistain. There are many other freedom movements operating in occupied Kashmire," said Saeed while calling for the formation of a Mohammedan version of the United Nations. ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least...
"The UN has shown disregard for Mohammedan issues. The Mohammedan nations need to end their ties with the United States and struggle for their rights," he said.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqs Parliament Speaker, Usama al-Nujeify, has reiterated that the presence of the foreign forces in Iraq was under discussion by the government, but said that the Parliament had the final say to approve or reject that, according to a statement by his office on Monday.
Nujeify, in a reception given to the Japanese Ambassador to Baghdad, has reiterated that the people of Iraq rejects the presence of foreign forces on its territory, the statement said, adding that Nujeify had confirmed that the decision must be taken by the leaders and politicians of Iraq.
He said that the issue was presented to the government, which is the owner of the first word whether there is any need for the presence of foreign forces on Iraqi territories, adding that the final and decisive word would be issued by the Parliament, to approve or reject such presence.
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I don't think these drooling idiots understand that we have no particular wish to stay. In their active and retarded fantasy lives, Uncle Sam may get some kind of benefit from having troops in Iraq, but in reality, we are spending $100B a year having troops deployed there. I am seriously looking forward to the day that the last GI has boarded the last transport back to the US of A. We will finally have closed a chapter in our history that cost us about $5T in budget deficits - thanks to war expenditures and the war's greasing of Obama's path to the presidency.
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They had better hope that the US doesn't take them up on their offer - Iran and the terrorists are waiting until there are no more American forces there to defend them.
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Just provide all the members of Parliament a pamphlet of photos of Germany in 1919 juxtapose with images of 1946 titled - If We Have To Come Back Again!
[Dawn] A Jordanian court on Monday put on trial in absentia Danish artist Kurt Westergaard who is being sued in the kingdom for blasphemy over a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad.
"A court in Amman began today the trial in absentia of those who insulted the Prophet, including Westergaard and Danish newspapers which published his offensive cartoon," said Tareq Hawamdeh, lawyer for local journalists and activists who brought the suit.
"Judge Nathir Shehadeh adjourned the trial until May 8 to hear the witnesses," Hawamdeh said in a statement.
The court subpoenaed Westergaard on April 14 after accusing him of committing "the crime of blasphemy" for depicting the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb in his turban in 2008.
A Jordanian prosecutor summoned Westergaard for questioning that year after 30 independent newspapers, websites and radio stations in Jordan sued him over the cartoon, which was published in at least 17 Danish dailies, sparking violent protests in a number of Mohammedan countries, including Jordan.
Westergaard, 75, said after the subpoena that "I have not heard about this trial and have not been informed."
"In any case, I have no intention of going even if I am asked to," he said on Friday, pointing out that "I do not want to risk becoming familiar with the Jordanian prisons, which would be hell."
Jordanian MPs have demanded that the government sever ties with Denmark, and Amman has condemned the caricature, warning that it could spark further extremism and harm relations between Denmark and Mohammedan countries.
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It is an interesting observation that shitty little moderate and pro-western Jordan is officially less respectful of western freedom and sovereignty than the Soviet Union was (at least since Khrushchev.)
Here's a Danish citizen in Denmark, ethnically Danish, not a Muslim, exercising his right to free speech in a perfectly legal way. He's criticizing a violently intolerant totalitarian belief system. His right to exercise his freedom in this manner is a nonnegotiable core principle of western civilization.
And yet the West lets this corrupt little regime turn him into an international pariah with impunity.
Where's the protest? Where are official western sanctions? Where are covert ops to deter this behavior? (A little polonium in your sushi Mr Shehadeh, Mr Hawamdeh?)
What's the point of zapping goat molesting losers in Afghanistan when 'moderates' are free to wage a legal terror campaign against individuals in the West?
In 2011 it is likely that the governments of major western powers as well as NATO's military leadership in Afghanistan approve of this trial.
Maybe the Soviet Union should have tried Ronald Reagan in absentia for Anti Soviet Propaganda in his 'A Time for Choosing' speech in 1964. This might have preempted Reagan's political career and it would have been a warning for others.
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Oh my, this is a neat idea. "Try" somebody in another country for something that you don't approve of.
So let's try the so-called leaders in Iran, Arabia, etc., for their crimes against decency, freedom, women, homosexuals, etc. Call witnesses from NOW and some of the homosexual-supporting groups (can't think of any acronyms at the moment) and let them explain why a public policy of murdering homosexuals and treating women as property is a crime.
Stuttering, backpedaling, and Hilarity would ensue.
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The brutal crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders -- but apparently not enough to stop Syria from becoming the newest member of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
And despite calling for an independent investigation into the crackdown, which has left hundreds dead, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apparently won't do much about blocking Syria's path to the human rights group. Why not add Iran and Libya and make it an all Mooselimb thing.
Contrary to the claims made by Gholam-Reza Jalali director of the Iranian Center for Non-Military Preemptive Defense regarding the nature of the virus and Irans capabilities in dealing with the fallout, Stuxnet has wreaked serious and perhaps fatal havoc on the foundations of energy structure and the operating systems of the Bushehr nuclear installation. According to the Green Liaison news group, over the past year and a half the Bushehr plant has incurred serious damage and has lost major capabilities.
An individual involved in Irans nuclear activities reports that this virus was placed in the system by one of the foreign experts contracted to Iran. The virus has automatic updating capabilities in order to track and pirate information, and can also destroy the system hardware step-by-step. The internal directives programmed into the structure of the virus can actually bring the generators and electrical power grids of the country to a sudden halt, or create a heart attack type of work stoppage.
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I can imagine Stuxnet working once. But after a shutdown and systems purge, and checking the reactor systems, and cutting off Bushehr from any external computers that might be affected, their system will be clean. Unless there is a trusted person on site who reinfects.
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It is the processing fuel rods etc that was permanently damaged as well as mis-matched equipment. This virus was the most brilliant form of defense against Iran's nuclear program.
Munir Maqdah, commander of Fatah's general headquarters in Leb, said that it's impossible for al-Qaeda Orcs and similar vermin or Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Leb pot stirred. cut-throats to enter the Paleostinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh.
"It is not at all easy to infiltrate Ain el-Helweh", he said to Voice of Leb radio on Monday.
Moreover, he reassured that the current security situation in the camp is very good and positive.
Regarding the clash that took place at the camp Saturday night, Maqdah said that the gun fight took place at a check point.
The follow up committee that was formed by the two sides involved in the clash had successfully ended the fight that damaged a huge number of cars and houses.
"It was cut short a few hours after it began", he told the station.
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[Iran Press TV] Commander of the Islamic theocracy Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iranian submarines will engage in asymmetric warfare against enemy vessels in the Persian Gulf in the event of an aggression.
"The new equipment (submarines) are smaller and faster under water and operate similar to our small speedboats, which terrify our enemies on the surface," Mohammad-Ali Jafari said in an interview with Fars News Agency on Monday.
Jafari said the IRGC is not seeking to build large submarines that are easily targetable for enemy forces and reiterated the Guard's asymmetric combat strategy.
The brigadier general said that the country's enemies are aware of their vulnerability in the Persian Gulf and are likely to move their forces out into the Indian Ocean before launching a strike against Iran.
"We are trying to increase our operational range and reach enemy vessels there [in the Indian Ocean]," Jafari concluded.
Earlier this month the Iranian military's navy announced plans to manufacture and deploy a new 500-ton submarine that is larger than the Ghadir submarine.
The 120-ton Ghadir submarines joined the Iranian naval fleet in 2007. The Islamic Theocratic Republic navy is believed to be operating more than ten of the light-weight subsurface vessels, primarily in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.
In recent years, Iran has made important breakthroughs in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing important military equipment and systems.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic has repeatedly assured that its military might poses no threat to other countries, stating that Tehran's defense doctrine is based on deterrence only.
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#1
GEN. JAFARI = Iran is essens saying that Iran will dev the mil capability to oppose iff, not destroy, any external enemy(s) even iff said same Milfors are located outside the Persian Gulf andor in the Indian Ocean.
As per SHIA-IRAN-VS-SUNNI-SAUDIS COMPETITION FOR REGIONAL, IDEO-RELIGIOUS DOMINANCE, I don't see how the Saudis can NOT respond in kind.
in this aspect + Globalism" + "OWG-NWO", the KSA = RISNG CHINA = has to learn to stop being ISOLATIONIST iff it hopes to successfully counter "RISING IRAN" + "NUCLEAR ISLAMISM".
9-11 + GWOT = WAR FOR ANTI-STATUS QUO = ISLAM, LIKE AMERICA, IS NOT EXEMPTED FROM CHANGE - IFF THEY DON'T CHANGE VOLUNTARILY THEY MAY OR WILL BE CHANGED FORCIBLY???
#4
There is some method in this madness, both the for Iranians and the Chinese. To have a lot of smaller, simpler submarines that are deployed in teams of two.
One of the two sits and waits as the other prowls about. Then, when a silent US submarine goes noisy, by opening its torpedo bays and preparing to fire on the noisy sub, the second sub acquires it and fires its torpedoes.
The strategy is that by sacrificing a small and cheap sub, they might bag a world class sub--and assume that if the US loses some boats and maybe surface ships, they will wimp out.
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#5 Good response but what is your take on the new " It is almost totally silent, radiates virtually no heat and is constructed entirely from non-magnetic metals". Stealth sub technology.
It is thought that some country's have units in operation. Germany just had some success with their program.
#7
It is ridiculous to take Iranian 'military equipment' proclamations at face value - they usually refer to one off mockups that are supposedly full scale production units, that never seem to be produced in any numbers. The Chinese have improved their sound issues with their submarines by building and buying dozens of improved Russian full sized subs, that is not what the Iranians are claiming. The Mark 48 torpedo mated with American sub fire computers can track 6 distinct targets under water, at least that is what open source information claims.
He peers out from the photo in the classified file through heavy-framed spectacles, an owlish face with a graying beard and a half-smile. Saifullah Paracha, a successful businessman and for years a New York travel agent, appears to be the oldest of the 172 prisoners still held at the Guantánamo Bay prison. His dossier is among the most chilling.
In the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Paracha, 63, was one of a small circle of Al Qaeda operatives who explored ways to follow up on the hijackings with new attacks, according to the classified Guantánamo files made available to The New York Times.
Working with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the 9/11 planner who in early 2002 gave him $500,000 to $600,000 for safekeeping, Mr. Paracha offered his long experience in the shipping business for a scheme to move plastic explosives into the United States inside containers of womens and childrens clothing, the files assert.
Detainee desired to help Al Qaeda do something big against the U.S., one of his co-conspirators, Ammar al-Baluchi, told Guantánamo interrogators, the files say. Mr. Paracha discussed obtaining biological or nuclear weapons as well, though he was concerned that detectors at ports would make it difficult to smuggle radioactive materials into the country, the file says.
Mr. Parachas assessment is among more than 700 classified documents that fill in new details of Al Qaedas efforts to make 9/11 just the first in a series of attacks to cripple the United States, intentions thwarted as the Central Intelligence Agency captured Mr. Mohammed and other leaders of the terrorist network.
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It seems to me the requirement that men from certain countries register with the government -- which led to deportations and a mass exodus of families not in the country quite legally -- may have had something to do with the lack of successful attacks following 9/11. From a biased source, but matching my memories of the time:
In December 2002, the U.S. government ordered men over 16 from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Libya with non-resident visas to report to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for "special registration"--to be photographed, fingerprinted, and interrogated. Over the following months, Arab, Muslim, and South Asian men from 20 other countries were ordered to report to the INS for such registration.
The government justified the mass registration by declaring it needed to keep "closer monitoring" of certain immigrants because of the September 11 attacks.
Over 82,000 immigrant men came forward voluntarily and registered. Most thought the procedure would be routine. Many had applications pending for permanent resident ("green card") status-- and believed that obeying the government order would help them in the process.
They were wrong. One immigration attorney said, "This is the biggest trap I have ever seen."
Hundreds who came forward willingly to register were detained under brutal and humiliating conditions. Most of those detained were released after days of such outrageous treatment. But that was not the end of their nightmare.
Now, the government is targeting as many as 13,000 men--out of the 82,000 who underwent "special registration"--for deportation.
None of the people threatened with deportation is charged with any "terrorism"-related crime. The government accuses the men of overstaying their visas, working without proper documents, or other immigration violations. For this, they face separation from their families and friends, loss of their jobs, and other great hardships.
The immigrants from the targeted countries who aren't deported--for now--are required to register yearly with the INS and immediately report any changes in address, job, or school. They will be watched and treated by the government as "potential terrorists."
The "special registration" and threats of mass deportations are part of the fascistic clampdown on immigrants after 9/11--especially focused on Arab, Muslim, and South Asian immigrants. Immediately after 9/11, the government began to round up hundreds of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian men and detained them for weeks or months without any charges. Many were deported for minor immigration violations.
#3
I'm wondering if this batch of releases is having the impact Wikileaks had intended.
You mean demonstrating that President Bush and his team were right, Nimble Spemble? Or in shutting down frank internal communications, for fear of what might one day be leaked?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Bahrain accused Hizbullah of attempting to topple its regime, reported the Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
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[Dawn] A Jordanian court on Monday put on trial in absentia Danish artist Kurt Westergaard who is being sued in the kingdom for blasphemy over a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad.
