[Shabelle] passengers who booked the flights with Turkey airlines today helplessly stood at Adan Adde airport in Mogadishu. This followed after the airline cancelled the flights from Mogadishu due to the alleged bad weather.
Passengers who contacted Shbaelle media station in Mogadishu said that they were unable to pay for hotels as the hotels were expensive and budgeted for the delays.
Passengers mainly foreigners are still stranded in Mogadishu after the airline officials cancelled the flights. Flights have been rescheduled to Sunday as the one of the passengers informed us.
Passengers are requesting the top admin of the airlines to improve their services by providing accommodations if flights are cancelled.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Rebels battling government forces in two southern states in Sudan are holding up relief and medical supplies into areas they control, the UN humanitarian chief said Thursday.
But a Sudanese rebel coalition is ready to accept a ceasefire in the two-year-old conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states so help can reach civilians, Valerie Amos told news hounds.
The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... and western countries have said fighting between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-North) and the Sudanese army triggered a major health and food crisis in Kordofan and Blue Nile.
The Sudanese military has staged regular air raids on rebel areas in recent months. The SPLM-North has in turn shelled the Kordofan capital of Kadugli.
The UN estimates one million people in the two states are affected by the conflict and more than 200,000 have fled to neighboring South Sudan and Æthiopia.
The United Nations wants to bring medicine and food from Sudan into rebel-controlled areas. Amos said the government was ready to consider the operation, which it has blocked for several months, but the SPLM-North would not agree unless supplies came "across border" from South Sudan.
Amos blamed a "breakdown in trust" between the two sides. A "breakdown in trust" isn't really a bad thing if one or more of the sides is a perfidious bastard.
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The right question: Will Egypt weather the storm?
With mass demonstrations scheduled for June 30, a new poll has shown that the popularity of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has dropped from 57 percent a year ago to barely 28%.
The revolutionary youths who toppled former president Hosni Mubarak have launched a new movement called Tamarud, or "rebellion," and are spearheading a campaign to force the president to resign; they accuse him of having betrayed the revolution, setting up a dictatorial regime, oppressing the individual and failed to address the spiraling economic crisis.
They also accuse him of blatantly filling every state position with members of the Muslim Brotherhood -- a militant organization which openly states its desire to restore the caliphate -- though Morsi had renounced his membership in the Brotherhood upon taking office. Why does this sounds familiar?
[MAGHAREBIA] Lawmakers are ready to hold a plenary session on the draft "Law for the Protection of the Revolution in Tunisia", Transitional Justice Minister Samir Dilou said on Thursday (June 20th).
But the bill may look much different from its original version. In a surprise move, Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi said his "party would seek to reduce the number" of those impacted by the "political isolation law".
The draft measure prevents anyone who served in the former government or the dissolved Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party from returning to political life.
The bill bans these allies of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from politics for seven years.
But if former regime members apologise to the Tunisian people, they will receive exemptions, Ghannouchi told Shems FM on June 11th. The judiciary will continue to handle corruption cases.
Politicians from the Congress for the Republic (CPR) pushed the bill to exclude those seen as contributing to the Ben Ali dictatorship. CPR politician Samir Ben Amor even threatened a hunger strike if the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) did not soon debate the bill.
Ennahda, however, is divided over the measure.
"The law to protect the revolution must go through judicial mechanisms," the Islamist party's secretary-general said.
Speaking earlier this month to Mosaique FM, Hamadi Jebali pointed out that the exclusion of RCD politicians would be no different than what Ennahda and other opposition suffered under Ben Ali.
Yet those described as the "hawks" of Ennahda defend the law by saying that such a measure is commonplace in all countries undergoing a democratic transition.
"The conflict regarding this law is because a large number of former members of the dissolved RCD joined Ennahda," Ettakatol party member Habib Hamdi told Magharebia.
Moreover, during the Tunisia national dialogue last month, Ennahda welcomed "figures from the former regime, such as Kamel Morjane, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence during the time of Ben Ali", Hamdi noted.
Nidaa Tounes party leader Beji Caid Essebsi is among those opposed to the draft law. In his view, it targets him for exclusion from Tunisian politics.
"The law to protect the revolution, in the event it is ratified by the Constituent Assembly, is an affront to Tunisians and will be like a fissure in the history of Tunisia and in its image abroad," the former interim prime minister and newly declared presidential candidate said.
The Union for Tunisia, a coalition of opposition parties led by Nidaa Tounes, discussed the proposed law at a recent meeting.
"The issue of the protection of the revolution is decisive," opposition politician Abdul Razzaq al-Hammami said.
"We are against any law that would prevent serious electoral competition," he said.
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[Al Ahram] At least 357 members of the Moslem Brüderbund and its Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) have been injured in recent festivities with political opponents in the city of Dosouk in Egypt's Kafr Al-Sheikh governorate, FJP Secretary-General Mohamed El-Heleisy announced Thursday.
According to El-Heleisy, six injuries were the result of gunshots and 90 of birdshot, in addition to 87 injuries from bladed weapons and 76 by blunt instruments.
"The injured have been taken to hospitals in nearby governorates, such as Beheira, Alexandria and Gharbiya," he said at a presser.
The health ministry, however, has stated that the festivities left only 14 injured.
El-Heleisy added that 21 legal complaints had been filed blaming certain opposition figures for the violence, including officials affiliated with the liberal Constitution party, the anti-government 'Rebel' campaign and the Egyptian popular current, along with former Kafr Al-Sheikh MP Youssef El-Badry.
Clashes in Kafr Al-Sheikh were sparked by the president's appointment of seven Moslem Brüderbund members as new regional governors on Sunday, putting eleven of Egypt's 27 provinces under Brotherhood-affiliated governors.
Last Tuesday, anti-government protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at the residence of Kafr Al-Sheikh Governor Saad El-Husseini and set his car alight. El-Husseini, a leading Brotherhood member, was appointed governor last September.
A subsequent statement by the Kafr Al-Sheikh governor's office blamed the assault on "thugs affiliated with the 'Rebel' campaign and remnants of the former regime."
Sunday's gubernatorial appointments have provoked similar festivities in other governorates, with dozens injured in Fayoum and Gharbiya within recent days.
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What do expect from gang warfare?
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[Al Ahram] Dozens of protesters gathered in front of President Mohamed Morsi's house in the suburb of New Cairo on Friday morning, denouncing what they described as the president's failure to obtain justice for slain protesters.
The protest was attended by several mothers of those slain during the 2011 revolution, who chanted against the president and prayed. Among the protesters was mother of Khaled Said. Said was killed by two coppers in Alexandria in June 2010 and subsequently became a symbol of the struggle against police torture.
Reports suggested that the president had left his house to avoid the protesters.
Journalist Rasha Azab posted on Twitter, "Morsi has fled from the deaders' mothers."
Several security cordons have been erected in front of the house.
The protest was called for by a campaign called 'We're following you' which follows the work of fact-finding committee which was drawn up by Morsi in July 2012 to investigate the killing of unarmed protesters since 2011.
Earlier this year, members of the fact-finding committee accused the president of ignoring their conclusions after leaks from the committee's reports were revealed.
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[Al Ahram] President Morsi's supporters turn out for mass demonstration ahead of anticipated anti-Morsi protests on 30 June; Islamist party leaders, prominent preachers vow to 'defeat' anti-govt opposition
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Muslims are against violence --- a predator is not looking for a fight, it's looking for a meal.
[Al Ahram] Prominent youth group denies its members participated in Friday's mass rally in Cairo by Islamist parties to support President Morsi and 'say no to violence'
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[Al Ahram] Hundreds stage anti-Morsi counter-demonstration in Cairo as hundreds of thousands of Islamist protesters rally in support of beleaguered presidency
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[Al Ahram] Coptic Church's Holy Synod says Coptic Christians are free to join planned 30 June protests against President Morsi and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
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[Al Ahram] Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyeb warned members of different Islamist groups against accusing their opponents of blasphemy on Wednesday.
In a statement, El-Tayyeb said that Al-Azhar, Egypt's core Islamic institution, calls for agreement between different factions and warns against violence and attacking others' religious beliefs.
"This is against sharia [Islamic law]," the statement read.
Tensions have been on the rise in Egypt recently as the country anticipates nationwide demonstrations on 30 June aimed at pushing President Mohamed Morsi -- who hails from the Moslem Brüderbund movement -- to step down and hold early presidential elections.
In response to anticipated opposition protests, Islamist forces and government sympathisers are expected to hold "anti-violence" protests on 21 June.
El-Tayyeb criticised "false" religious fatwas by "incompetent" sheikhs who issue statements saying that those who oppose the ruler are "hypocrites and infidels" in the eyes of Islam.
The statement came following El-Tayyeb's meeting with President Morsi on Tuesday, in a joint visit with Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II to discuss the current political situation in Egypt.
The imam said that "peaceful opposition against [rulers] is accepted according to sharia... and has nothing to do with belief or lack thereof," adding that violence and myrmidon actions are a "great sin" but not an act of "disbelief [kofr]."
Opponents of the groups calling for 30 June protests have criticised the protests, describing them as acts of hypocrisy that contradict Islamic rules and beliefs.
On Friday, Egypt's ultra-conservative group Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya accused opposition groups calling for protests of being "entities being funded from abroad that aim to stir chaos and make Egypt like Syria or Libya," the group's spokesperson Mohamed Hassan said.
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[An Nahar] A treaty intended to clear the way to deporting radical holy man Abu Qatada to Jordan has passed into law in Britannia.
The agreement, announced by Home Secretary Theresa May in April, aims to allay fears that evidence extracted through torture will be used against the terror suspect at a retrial.
The scrutiny process by the British parliament completed at midnight on Thursday, leaving a handful of legal steps before the deportation process can begin.
Jordan's King Adbullah and both houses of the Jordanian parliament have also approved the treaty.
The document must also be published in an official newspaper in Jordan and diplomatic letters must be exchanged between the two countries.
The treaty could then lead to the deportation of Abu Qatada next week, reports said.
The 52-year-old holy man has already indicated he will not challenge deportation if the treaty is passed because the document guarantees him a fair trial.
May has previously warned that, even when the treaty is fully ratified, it will not necessarily mean that he will leave for Jordan within days because the case remains open to legal challenge.
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "We welcome the approval of the Treaty by both the UK and Jordanian Parliaments. Our focus remains on seeing Qatada on a plane to Jordan at the earliest opportunity."
Last month, Abu Qatada unexpectedly volunteered to leave the country as soon as the treaty between Britannia and Jordan is ratified by both countries.
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Just.Do.It.
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[An Nahar] A top North Korean envoy said Friday that U.S. hostility could lead to war at any time, but reaffirmed a government offer of talks with Washington that could include the nuclear weapons issue.
At a rare but typically combative news conference, the isolated state's U.N. ambassador Sin Son-Ho accused the United States of driving up tensions and appealed for an end to U.N. and U.S. sanctions against Pyongyang.
"The most pressing issue in northeast Asia today is the hostile relations between the DPRK (North Korea) and the U.S. which can lead to another war at any moment," Sin said.
With his country facing mounting U.N. and international sanctions over its recent nuclear bomb and missile tests, Sin said the North would never give up its atomic weapons.
North Korea "has a legitimate sovereign right to (its) self-defense deterrent as long as the United States continues its hostile policy towards DPRK and threatens it with nuclear weapons."
The country will "never give up (its) self-defense war deterrent."
Sin said U.S.-South Korean war games risked leading the Korean peninsula into "another vicious cycle of tensions and conflict."
But the warnings were also mixed with the North's new message that it wants talks with the United States. The North's all-powerful National Defense Commission said Sunday that it wants talks with the U.S. administration.
"This is our real intention to have talks," Sin said. "In the talks we can have wide-ranging discussions with the United States including those of easing tension on the Korean peninsula.
"Also we can discuss the matter of the world without nuclear weapons the United States has already proposed."
The envoy said that U.N. and U.S. sanctions against North Korea, reinforced since its nuclear test in February, were "blackmail."
"I urge the United States to stop economic sanctions against us," Sin said, adding that U.N. member states should not "blindly" follow U.N. sanctions.
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Commie Crap, they think we (USA) can't figure out they're just blowhards, scream "KILL THE AMERICANS" one day,and it'll be your last.
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With only 900 families running things, how hard can a coup d'etat really be?
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Hey, in Mexico it only takes 31 families. Of course their solution to economic problems is to dump the excess population on El Norte.
In response to congressional demands, the Obama administration is considering disclosing portions of classified opinions by the secret court that oversees the National Security Agency's surveillance programs.
"We would like to release into the public domain as much of this as we can without compromising national security," Robert Litt, the top lawyer for Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, told Congress last week.
Liberals in Congress have been pressing the administration for years _ without success _ to release the classified orders by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which rules in secret on surveillance requests from the Justice Department and the intelligence community.
The disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden _ including an order from the court that showed the Patriot Act was being used to justify the collection of virtually all Americans' calling records _ have emboldened congressional critics and sent Obama officials scrambling to show that the FISA court's role in regulating surveillance is meaningful.
The court, made up of 11 judges appointed by the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, convenes in a secure portion of the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. Its oversight takes place without public scrutiny and documents show that the court rarely denies a request from the government. Yet officials who have been briefed on the process say the court often demands changes in the scope of surveillance orders before approving them.
"I think they will end up declassifying at least portions of the opinions," said Rep. Adam Schiff , D-Calif., who introduced a bill last week requiring it. "I think they recognize it's in their interest now."
Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials.
Snowden was charged with espionage, theft and conversion of government property, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the case.
When does Glenn Greenwald get charged?
The complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, a jurisdiction where Snowdens former employer, Booz Allen Hamilton, is headquartered and a district with a long track record of prosecuting cases with national security implications.
The documents, some of which have been published in The Washington Post and Britains Guardian, detailed some of the most-secret surveillance operations undertaken by the United States and theUnited Kingdom, as well as classified legal memos and court orders underpinning the programs in the United States.
The 30-year-old intelligence analyst revealed himself June 9 as the leaker in an interview with the Guardian and said he went to Hong Kong because it provided him the cultural and legal framework to allow me to work without being immediately detained.
Snowden subsequently disappeared from public view; it is thought that he is still in the Chinese territory. Hong Kong has its own legislative and legal systems but ultimately answers to Beijing, under the one country, two systems arrangement.
There was never any doubt that the Justice Department would seek to prosecute Snowden for one of the most significant national security leaks in the countrys history. Justice Department officials had already said that a criminal investigation of Snowden was underway and was being run out of the FBIs Washington field office in conjunction with lawyers from the departments National Security Division.
By filing a criminal complaint, prosecutors have a legal basis to make the detention request of the authorities in Hong Kong. Prosecutors now have 60 days to file an indictment, probably also under seal, and can then move to have Snowden extradited from Hong Kong for trial in the United States.
Snowden, however, can fight the extradition effort in the courts in Hong Kong. Any battle is likely to reach Hong Kongs highest court and could last many months, lawyers in the United States and Hong Kong said.
The United States has an extradition treaty with Hong Kong, and U.S. officials said cooperation with the Chinese territory, which enjoys some autonomy from Beijing, has been good in previous cases. The treaty, however, has an exception for political offenses, and espionage has traditionally been treated as a political offense. Snowdens defense team in Hong Kong is likely to invoke part of the extradition treaty with the United States, which states that suspects will not be turned over to face criminal trial for offenses of a political character.
Snowden could also remain in Hong Kong if the Chinese government decides that it is not in the defense or foreign policy interests of the government in Beijing to have him sent back to the United States for trial.
Snowden could also apply for asylum in Hong Kong or attempt to reach another jurisdiction and seek asylum there before the authorities in Hong Kong act.
The anti-secrecy group Wikileaks has held some discussions with officials in Iceland about providing asylum to Snowden. A businessman in Iceland has offered to fly Snowden on a chartered jet to his country if he is granted asylum there.
Be a shame if the jet was forced to land somewhere...
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So, when are they going to get around to doing the same for the management/editorial team of the NYT? IIRC they released info on intel TTP* during the Bush Administration. Oh, wait, they're Obamanauts. Nothing to see here.
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Snowden might be heading for Iceland. Iceland bound? Snowden out to be careful. He might get hit by an imbibing driver while stepping off a curb in Reykjavik. It's hard to get lost in today's world after being a whistle- blower.
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How do you get from Hong Kong to Iceland in a private plane without stopping somewhere for gas? It is like 6000 miles on the straight route, which crosses through airspace of Russia, Mongolia, and Norway.
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=HKG-kef&MS=wls&DU=mi
I bet one of those countries would be happy to "interview" this guy for a while.
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How do you get from Hong Kong to Iceland in a private plane without stopping somewhere for gas? It is like 6000 miles on the straight route, which crosses through airspace of Russia, Mongolia, and Norway.
That is all part of the flight planning. You are going to have to avoid territory potential hostile to you. You will have to make sure that you have landing rights. Once you have filed an ICAO flight plan you will be followed, and I imagine by US govt assets. Also, you will probably have to avoid North Atlantic airspace under US control. I would imagine changing planes and other diversions would be in order.
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The Achille Lauro hijackers thought they were safe flying too.
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If it were me, I'd do everything that AP has suggested..... then take a very slow boat [or two] with my pole dancing girl friend instead. Imagine the surprise at the first refueling stop.
[An Nahar] Members of Jordan's Moslem Brüderbund and youth groups were among 1,500 people who erupted into the streets of Amman on Friday to protest against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... and Hizbullah.
Demonstrators gathered outside the al-Husseini mosque after Friday prayers to protest against Assad and the Lebanese group which has sent fighters to bolster regime forces in Syria's bloody civil war.
The protesters chanted anti-Assad and anti-Hizbullah slogans, Agence La Belle France Presse reported.
They called Hizbullah -- the "party of God" in Arabic -- the "party of Satan", saying that the "true place for the resistance is Paleostine", referring to Hizbullah's long-term role as champion against Israel.
Marchers also chanted: "Syria, country of free men, with the help of God, Bashar will fall."
Zaki Bani Rsheid, deputy leader of Jordan's Moslem Brüderbund, said: "The revolution of the Syrian people is a great revolution, not just one against the regime, but a tale of how a nation rose up against tyranny and repression."
"The battle of Qusayr revealed the falsity of the resistance," he said, adding that "the will of the Syrian people is capable of creating a regime of true resistance, not a false one."
Syrian regime troops and Hizbullah fighters assaulted the former rebel stronghold in central Homs province last month. A fierce battle ensued for nearly three weeks, and ended with a regime victory.
Rsheid said "the true place of the resistance is not in Syria but in Paleostine", pointing out that "Bashar will share the same fate as (Muammar) Qadaffy and the others, because this is the will of the people," a reference to the late Libyan strongman toppled in 2011.
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[Al Ahram] Paleostinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah on Friday withdrew an offer to quit a day after presenting it to president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , a high-ranking government official said.
"Hamdallah met Abbas for two hours in the president's headquarters in Ramallah and informed him he had decided to withdraw his resignation," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Paleostinian officials and media had reported a "power struggle" as being the reason for Hamdallah's offer to quit, with the premier incensed by Abbas's decision to appoint two deputy prime ministers in a government that was formed on June 6.
"Hamdallah wants clear and defined powers as prime minister and for his deputies, based on the law, so his authority is not encroached on," the official said, adding that the meeting had been "positive."
The prime minister left the president's headquarters in a government convoy, an AFP correspondent said.
Hamdallah presented his resignation on Thursday, only two weeks after taking office, in the latest crisis for the Paleostinian Authority.
His appointment on June 2 had followed the resignation of his predecessor Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... , a Western-backed economist who quit after a spat with the Paleostinian president.
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[An Nahar] Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati announced that the Lebanese state is more powerful than all Lebanese parties, including Hizbullah, while condemning its involvement in the fighting in Syria, reported CNN television.
He told the television in an interview aired on Friday that Hizbullah's priority at the moment lies in supporting the Syrian regime.
"We demand that no Lebanese side, whether it backs or opposes the regime, interfere in the Syrian crisis because that will have negative repercussions on Leb," he added.
Hizbullah has its priorities and at the moment they include supporting the regime, Miqati said.
He noted however that the party will soon realize that protecting Leb should be the most important goal.
"Our meddling in Syria will not change anything, but it will only negatively impact us," remarked the caretaker premier.
"My greatest concern is not the Syrian crisis itself, but the ongoing flow of refugees into Leb," he revealed.
He noted that some 550,000 refugees have been registered in Leb, without counting the ones that have not been recorded, which amount to some 750,000.
"These figures are too great for us to handle and we call on the international community and aid organizations to help Leb," Miqati stated.
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IMO, they understand that Sunni conquest of Syria means for Lebanese Shia.
[Al Ahram] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... headed to Qatar on Friday on a mission to coordinate with allies on the next steps in Syria as the United States considers how far to go on assisting rebels.
Kerry flew out of Washington on the start of a 12-day trip that will also include meetings in emerging US partner India, an Asia regional conference in Brunei and his latest attempt to revive the Middle East grinding of the peace processor.
The top US diplomat was to meet Saturday with fellow foreign ministers of the so-called London 11 "Friends of Syria" group in Qatar, an oil-rich monarchy at the forefront of helping rebels battling Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes...
The United States has vowed to boost support for the rebels after declaring that Assad defied warnings not to use chemical weapons, but President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... is cautious about becoming embroiled in an increasingly sectarian conflict that has claimed nearly 100,000 lives.
"The goal of the meeting is to be very concrete about the importance of every kind of assistance that's coming from the London 11 countries... being fully coordinated and going through only the Syrian opposition coalition," a US official said.
The official said that the Qatar meeting was critical as the Syrian National Coalition was looking at its leadership, amid concerns in Washington that fighters against Assad lack cohesion and direction.
"This is all in support of energizing, reenergizing, the Syrian opposition coalition leadership to work to select its leadership," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Qatar has also played a key role in reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan by playing host to a mission of the Taliban, with which the United States plans talks as it prepares to end more than a decade of war next year.
But the long-planned initiative has faced strident criticism from Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , who objects to the mission's name of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -- which may imply a government in exile from the hardline 1996-2001 Taliban regime.
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The goal of the meeting is to be very concrete about the importance
Whenever anyone - ever - begins a statement like that you know theyre completly full of horseshit.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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