The European Commission will allocate 200 million euros for the reform and development of Afghanistan's justice system in the 2007-2010 period, according to a statement of the EU body released on Monday. The aid is part of a 610 million euro package to help Afghanistan in the next four years. The announcement comes just as an international conference entitled "Rule of Law in Afghanistan" is underway in the Italian capital Rome.
EU external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner will be in Rome on Tuesday to attend the last day of the summit hosted by the Italian foreign ministry gathering delegations of governments and international institutions to discuss the justice system and rule of law in Afghanistan.
The two-day conference is attended by, among others, Italian foreign minister Massimo D'Alema, Afghan president Hamid Karzai, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon and NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. During the plenary sessions, the leaders of several other countries, including those neighbouring Afghanistan will be present, among them Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India, Iran and Turkey. Representing the United States will be the assistant secretary of state for central and south Asia, Richard Boucher, together with the US ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, who is of Afghan origin and who has been a US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Technical sessions which will last till Tuesday afternoon will look at the reconstruction of the judicial system, whether in terms of the laws and legislation or the coodination at regional and provincial levels, with particular attention to the activities involved in the training of justice sector professionals and with the objective of creating a task force on criminal justice.
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They'd better earmark some of that money for killing off those residual Taliban judges who demanded the beheading of Abdul Rahman for his conversion to Christianity. Otherwise, any "reform and development of Afghanistan's justice system" is going to be an exercise in futility.
Like algeria who edicts law to punish people who push for conversion to Christianity, and supress all non-arabomuslim identity?
Algerian Minister of War Veterans Muhammad Cherif Abbes here Monday urged Islamic states to boost cooperation to fight against cultural invasion.
In a meeting with Iran's Ambassador to Algiers Hossein Abdi Abyaneh, the Algerian minister said the two countries would play effective role in that regard.
The Algerian people have always been committed to Islam, he said, adding even France's 130-year colonialism over Algeria could not separate them from religion.
He said Algerian nation seriously follow up developments in Iran that is an indication to the importance they attach to the country.
Abbes expressed hope Iran would achieve further success in its nuclear case.
He voiced Algeria's readiness to expand all-out ties with Iran and hoped he would visit Iran at the earliest.
The Iranian ambassador, for his part, welcomed media and cultural cooperation with Algeria.
Iran is ready to implement an agreement already signed between the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) and Algerian Television on exchange of media products, Abdi Abyaneh said.
He further felicitated Abbes over his reappointment as minister of war veterans.
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Counter terrorism section in the General Directorate for National Safety DGSN arrested later in June 4 people activating in the so-called the Iraqi network. The operations have been led successfully thanks to wiretapping of calls those people used to make with Algerians, Syrians and Lebanese in charge of the recruitment of combatants to be dedicated to Jihad fronts in Iraq or in the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat fiefdoms.
I thought GSPC merged with alQ and became "alQ in the Land of the Sand Dunes" or somethin'...
Well informed sources mentioned that 4 persons, whose ages vary between 25 and 30, originated from the southern suburb of Algiers; two among them have been arrested in Houari Boumedien international airport by east of Algiers judiciary police services. The cross-examination revealed that the arrested have been influenced by subversive CDs pushing young people to join the Iraqi resistance. The two arrested affirmed that they were to reach Syria so as to meet two other people. Thanks to their disclosures, the two other members of the network have also been arrested; they all are in al Harrach prison before being tried.
According to the same sources, DGSN counter terrorism section discovered, thanks to wiretapping operations that Syrian nationals and a Lebanese living in Beirut were in charge of the reception of volunteer Jihadists to be trained for combat and explosive techniques before to be sent to Iraq or to the Algerian GSPC fiefdoms.
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An Egyptian engineer convicted in 2002 of spying for Israel has died in a Cairo jail of a possible heart attack while serving a 15-year sentence, security sources said yesterday.
Sherif Al Filali, 42, had initially been found innocent of espionage in 2001. His trial judge called him a true patriot because he turned himself in as soon as he realised he may have been involved in a crime. But President Hosni Mubarak threw out that acquittal and ordered a retrial in an emergency state security court, where Filali was ultimately convicted in 2002 of trying to collect information and data on Egyptian tourism and a large-scale agricultural project for Israel.
Filali was found dead in his cell on Saturday morning, Egyptian prosecutors said. Security sources speaking on customary condition of anonymity said he had most likely died of a heart attack. They had initially said he was found on Sunday. Excerpts from a forensic report on Filali's death made available to the media said there were no signs of foul play and no injuries on his body but gave few official clues as to the cause of death.
The medical examiner in charge said simply that Filali's death "resulted from a sharp drop in breathing and circulation and the stopping of his heart muscle". Prosecutors later said Filali had suffered from high blood pressure and had complained to another inmate recently of fatigue.
Filali was among a handful of Egyptians serving jail sentences for passing secrets to Israel. His death comes a week after a nuclear engineer at the state-run Atomic Energy Agency was convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency in a separate case.
Last week, a former Egyptian official who has been named by Israeli officials as a source for Mossad, died after falling from his London balcony. Police were treating the death as "unexplained" but not suspicious.
Israeli media have said Ashraf Marwan, who died on Wednesday, passed a warning to Mossad on the eve of the 1973 Middle East war that Egypt and Syria were about to attack. Mubarak says Marwan, the son-in-law of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was a loyal patriot.
At the time of Filali's trial, court sources said that a Russian man who was convicted of espionage in absentia recruited Filali in Spain to obtain secret information about Egypt for Mossad. Israel has denied any involvement in the case. Court documents said Filali shuttled between Egypt and Spain in 1999 before realising the information he was collecting was for Israel. His 15-year sentence was less than the maximum 25-year penalty he could have received for spying in peacetime.
Rights groups had criticised the verdict as unfair, but the conviction could not be challenged as rulings in emergency state security courts are not subject for appeal.
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[guard #1 to guard #2]
"Oooh, look. He's clutching his chest and making gasping sounds!
[guard #2 to guard #1]
"It's just Ethel's chili He probably misses his mum."
#2
Last week, a former Egyptian official who has been named by Israeli officials as a source for Mossad, died after falling from his London balcony. Police were treating the death as "unexplained" but not suspicious.
Several key Saudi clerics this week urged Palestinians not to give up jihad against Israel, in a sign of their opposition to the US-allied Saudi government's policy of backing ineffectualPresident Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.
Struggle, Resistance, Jihad, it all comes out the same, more dead civilians, more ruined infrastructure, richer and fatter clerics
It's that illusion of sweet reason Abbas projects. They don't think he takes Armed Struggle seriously.
Sweet reason or incompetence?
"Maintain the way of jihad and preaching which has spread among the Muslim Palestinian people. Support it and beware of it easing up, and ward off the danger of those who are laying in wait."
"Maintain the way of jihad and preaching which has spread among the Muslim Palestinian people. Support it and beware of it easing up, and ward off the danger of those who are laying in wait," said a June 30 statement published on Islamist Web sites.
Say Doom!
The document was signed by 16 scholars who are leading figures in Saudi Arabia's powerful religious establishment, including Abdul Rahman Al Barrak and Nasser Al Omar.
Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites and a leading Muslim power, was the driving force behind an Arab initiative offering Israel peace if it commits national suicide and takes all of those damnable Jooos with it returns all the territories it seized during the 1967 Middle East war. Israel and the United States want Saudi Arabia to join public talks between Israel and Arab officials on pursuing the peace plan, but Saudi leaders have so far resisted the calls. Saudi authorities have tried to clamp down on charity funding which reaches Hamas. But the scholars said: "It is our right to help them (Muslims) financially and morally and giving alms is a great moral virtue ... we warn against letting down our brothers in Palestine and in Gaza in particular."
This article starring:
ABDUL RAHMAN AL BARRAK
Learned Elders of Islam
NASER AL OMAR
Learned Elders of Islam
President Mahmoud Abbas
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Wasn't the Gaza Strip was taken from Egypt in '67, and the Egyptians laughed when Israel suggested they give it back? Didn't Egyptians believed the Gaza was a miserable den of smugglers, theives and pirates which could not be policed and said, "No thank you. Your army conquered Gaza, its yours"? Wasn't it Micah, some 2700 years ago, complaining about what a miserable place the Gaza Strip was, its peoples being abused by the rulers?
Bluntly stated, they cannot give it back. Has any person wanted Gaza in the past 2,700 years for something other than to abuse its inhabitants?
Could they give it to the Saudi's to administer, allowing the 16 signatories of the letter run Gaza?
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"Maintain the way of jihad and preaching which has spread among the Muslim Palestinian people. Support it and beware of it easing up, and ward off the danger of those who are laying in wait,"
Translation: "Don't even think of making peace with the dreaded Jews! You must continue to be the Arab world's collective whipping boy in order to distract any attention from our abusive, totalitarian, terrorism sponsoring regimes."
#5
The government of Saudi Arabia has an interest in sustaining the Paleo cause: their "Saudization" campaign involves terminating non-Saudis from certain classes of employment. They add new sectors every year. And this is at the expense of immigrant workers.
By the way, Al-Barrak is the young cleric who was seen with Osama bin Laden in a videotape that was captured in the invasion of Afghanistan.
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How about discussing a solution that will work ? Round up all the scum residing in Gaza & West Bank. Load onto freighters and dump on the Arabian peninsula. No discussion just action. Let Israel take the territory and make it bloom. They need the space and access to shipping. Let's quit the entire BS with the Arabs. Just do it.
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This is exactly what's wrong with Islam. It's just jihad, jihad and more jihad for the sake of nothing but jihad promoted by a handful of fat old so-called holy men who sit in air-conditioned palaces and never get their own robes dirty. There is never any chance of peaceful coexistence with these people. I used to be somewhat sympathetic towards the Palestinians but the Jews have tried to make peace and they have gotten nothing but jihad in return. What do they expect the Jews to do? It was the Romans who kicked them out of Israel for doing exactly what the Iraqis are doing to us now: resisting the occupation. They tried Europe and that didn't work. So now they are back in Israel. They could be the best friends the Palestinians ever had if the Palestinians were anything but miserable adherents to a death cult. Screw them.
Here's a question: What are the Soddies and Paks going to do when the Europeans finally get pissed off enough to make holocaust against their brethren in Europe and millions of muslim refugees return from Europe to the middle east?
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Here's a question: What are the Soddies and Paks going to do when the Europeans finally get pissed off enough to make holocaust against their brethren in Europe and millions of muslim refugees return from Europe to the middle east?
That's a damn good question, EU6305. Europe's current plan of inaction is leading straight towards that scenario. Conversely, regimes in the MME (Muslim Middle East) have been exporting their huge population explosionsbooms increases into Western countries specifically to reduce the chance of them rising up against these corrupt authoritarians. I'd just as soon send them all home right now to speed up the process. Let Muslims have the privilege of cleaning up their own messes.
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I hesitate to even pose such a question because I don't want even to appear to advocate holocaust in any way shape or form. But it seems to me that Islam in Europe has two choices: they can tone it down and tolerate their hosts or they can continue to make jihad against the "infidels". One way leads to peaceful coexistence and the other could well lead to holocaust. Maybe a lot of muslims believe they can eventually subjugate the Europeans and thereby create Eurabia but it could just as well blow up in their faces just like a red wire/green wire error. My theory is that a lot of the PC nonsense you hear from European leaders is not really fear of offending the muslims but fear of what Europeans might eventually do about it. Milosevic was leading the way in Kosovo so they know that what happened in WWII could happen again. I don't believe that anybody in their right mind wants that kind of outcome but the choice is up to the muslims.
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And I warn the Saudi clerics to shut their damn pie holes. Preaching hatred and infecting the entire world body with this cancer.An abomination that causes desolutation.
As the trooper said "it is easier to drill through glass than your thick skulls."
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If Europe gets off its collective ass and actually does something against the muzzies, I really can't say I would be crying too heavily against it. What is the old saying. "So you sow, so shall you reap?"
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I don't believe that anybody in their right mind wants that kind of outcome but the choice is up to the muslims.
Bottom line. Whatever happens will be Islam's responsibility. Their crapulence is driving the West's entire reaction set. So far, we have been in response mode. Heaven help the Muslims if we ever go active.
Australia has a bigger portion of Muslim youths at risk of turning to radical Islam than any other Western nation, with up to 3,000 in ideological sleeper cells in Sydney alone, a government-backed study said on Monday.
Between 2,000 and 3,000 youths, or about one percent of Sydneys 200,000-strong Muslim population, had already been targeted by radical Islamic teachers, with some at risk of making the jump to militancy, the research said. The radical teaching base here is relatively stronger than you might expect it to be in the UK, the Middle East or the US, study author Mustapha Kara-Ali told Reuters. The youth community here is vulnerable and could be acted upon for recruitment and further radicalisation. Australia has around 340,000 Muslims around 1.6 percent of its 21 million population. But the percentage of radicalised Muslim youths was bigger than the US or the UK, where the ideological pool was of similar size, but off a 1.6 million base, Kara-Ali said.
Kara-Ali, a member of Prime Minister John Howards Muslim advisory board, said it was far harder for radicals to spread an extremist message in other countries, where moderate groups were well placed to resist their message. The Muslim community is relatively new in Australia. Given that, there isnt an established moderate Islamic order with deep roots in the community and the extremists are exploiting this, he said.
Australia, a close US ally, has never experienced a militant attack on home soil,
'Twas a whole bunch of Aussies as got blowed up in Bali
although more than 20 people have been arrested and accused of terrorism-related offences. Howard said on Monday Australia was harbouring would-be militants with the desire to emulate attempted car bombs in London over the weekend and the attack on Glasgow airport. We shouldnt delude ourselves that there arent a small number of people in our own community who would want to do this country harm if they got the opportunity, he said.
Australias Muslim clerics have been involved in a string of recent controversies, straining relations with both moderates and the wider community. Sheikh Taj El-Din Hilaly stepped down as mufti of Australia last month after comments seen as justifying rape and saying Muslims had a greater right to be in Australia than white Australians of convict heritage. The countrys top Shia Muslim cleric said last week he supported the Hizbollah militant group and attacked the Australian government for defending terrorism because of its support for Israel.
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Australian Muslims more vulnerable to radical Islam
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Vulnerable, "vulnerable"? Bullshit. More like "open to the prescriptions of their favored doctrine". Radical Islam amounts to nothing less than a correct and truthful interpretation of the Koran's dictates. Whatever "moderate" Muslims there may be are blashphemers and apostates that the Koran would just as soon have put to death. Enough of this "vulnerable" crap!
A NUMBER of Australian Muslim clerics have been identified as key hardliners who are preaching fundamentalist messages.
They include Sheik Bilal Dannoun,
Melbourne-based Mohammed Omran and Harun Mehicivic; Sydney's Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud, Hatim Eissa, Khaled Eissa and Feiz Mohammed
and Canberra's Mohammed Swaiti.
National security sources told The Australian they were aware of at least 10 hardline clerics around Australia who were propagating a Wahabi ideology espoused by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Sheik Bilal yesterday said claims revealed in The Australian that the Wahabi clerics were potentially radicalising up to 3000 Sydney youths were "preposterous". He said while he was not a part of Sheik Omran and Sheik Zoud's fundamentalist Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jammah association, he rejected claims the pair were radical. "These are people who follow the Koran and Sunnah they follow the teachings of Islam," Sheik Bilal told the newspaper. "And if following the teachings of Islam, following the way of the Prophet is called radical, then... call us radicals."
Actually, that's what they just did.
This article starring:
ABDUL SALAM MOHAMED ZUD
Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jammah
ABDUL SALAM MOHAMED ZUD
Learned Elders of Islam
FEIZ MOHAMED
Learned Elders of Islam
HARUN MEHICIVIC
Learned Elders of Islam
HATIM EISA
Learned Elders of Islam
KHALED EISA
Learned Elders of Islam
MOHAMED OMRAN
Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jammah
MOHAMED OMRAN
Learned Elders of Islam
MOHAMED SWAITI
Learned Elders of Islam
SHEIK BILAL DANNUN
Learned Elders of Islam
Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jammah
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These are people who follow the Koran and Sunnah they follow the teachings of Islam," Sheik Bilal told the newspaper. "And if following the teachings of Islam, following the way of the Prophet is called radical, then... call us radicals."
To me that sums up/proves there is no difference between radicals and moderates!!!!!
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Why take the chance when it's your life on the line?
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Why take the chance when it's your life on the line?
If I knew for certain my life were on the line, I wouldn't take the chance. But let's think through the possibilities.
Possibility 1) Bilal represents the opinion of all or most Muslims on theological grounds.
Possibility 2) Bilal represents a minority interpretation of Islam. Most Muslims would reject some or all of his interpretation.
Possibility 3) Bilal represents a minority interpretation of Islam. Many Muslims either reject his interpretation or at least haven't embraced it. But they do consider Islam to be an important part of their heritage and culture and deeply resist having it be denigrated openly.
Possibility 4) A lot of what passes for Islam in the minds not only of Bilal but of the hundreds of millions of Muslims in Pakistan, Indonesia etc. is hopelessly bound together with old tribal customs and is subject to change if those customs die out.
Question #1 is, for each of these (and perhaps other possible scenarios as well), what is the likelihood that it best describes the situation?
The next question is: for each scenario above, what specific risks do we face if it is true? By risks I mean not only the risk of terror attack, but also economic, social and moral risks. How certain are we of that risk assessment?
And the third question is: what could we realistically do about those risks, at what cost and with what likely side effects?
#6
Nilal definitely represents islamic (not just islamist) theology. I agree that islam is interwoven with tribal culture, specifically the barbaric Arabian culture. But it is the Indian subcontinent and South Asian cultures that have mellowed to a certain extent the local flavor of islam. But as literacy levels increase, muslims can read the source books for themselves and rediscover the original islam and it looks a lot like Wahabbism. That is the future, not the whiskey drinking 3 piece suit wearing Musharaffs.
If moderation is really the way of islam, then why don't we see "moderate" muslims take their arguements for peace and tolerance to their more radical brothers? It's because that is not what the islam is about and moderate muslims shooting blanks lose every time in a theological battle with their more radical coreligionists.
Polls in both the muslim majority and minority nations have consistently shown the majority of muslims want to be ruled by sharia, with all the negative consequences for the rest of us. 10-30% support jihad and terrorism against non-muslims. The theological foundation is there. The desire is there. The history of subversion and jiahad conquest is there. What has kept the jihad to a low level is the means were not there. But now that the civilized world is sending $500 billion/year to these barbarians and with easy travel to Dar al Harb, the means just got a lot more plentiful. So is 10% of muslims baying for blood a high enough threshold to advocate action. How about 30%, 60%? For comparision, in WW2, 10% of the American population was under arms.
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FYI
The elected government of Iraq has extended its invitation to all Coalition supporters to stay in Iraq.
I have several friends in Iraq that are doing a great job persuading the paleo terrorists to change sides or die.
So far in Iraq his unit has change quite a few retro Paleos way of thinking, And those paleo Terrorist who resisted my friends were persuaded in large numbers to die.
Guess What FYI, relatively little force was used on Both Groups and yet they both fully cooperated.
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If moderation is really the way of islam, then why don't we see "moderate" muslims take their arguements for peace and tolerance to their more radical brothers?
Some are beginning to do so. They tend to be discounted by non-Muslims who are quite certain they aren't a) really Muslim or b) saying what they really think or c) reflecting the private concerns and doubts of many who don't yet have the courage or the certainty to speak up.
What you fail to address - and to be fair, it's hard to do so - is what shari'a means. To some it does indeed mean the Taliban way. To others, it means "my traditions and familiar way of life are under stress and I'd like to protect them". And to some it means disgust with the crass crudity that often passes for culture in the West.
You may be right that ultimately the minority voices will fail. But you cannot KNOW that. Which gets us back to the risk analysis issues once again.
#11
You're still a Muslim apologist, aren't you Robin? Not surprising actually, it seemed to be your shtick before you tucked your tail and departed last year.
Tell me, when are you going to start editing your posts after the fact?
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Ouch, NL - perhaps a new leaf has been turned? I'm sure no editing after-the-fact will occur, right, Robin?
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If it is, I'd sure like to have that ability, given some of my lamer posts....
fair is fair, though.
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Not an apologist for much of anything. Not interested in false exaggerations, tho.
(AKI) - Terrorist attacks similar to the failed attacks last week in British capital, London, and at Glasgow airport in Scotland, could occur in Germany, federal police chief Konrad Freiberger said on Monday. There are some 100 individuals living in Germany who may have "the intention and the capability" to carry out such attacks, Freiberger told the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper. He underscored the importance of strengthening security measures to thwart terror plots, the chances of which he said have increased since the German army's participation in peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan.
Germany's interior minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in a TV interview on Sunday called for the number of closed circuit television cameras surveilling airports and other major traffic areas to be increased. Some opposition politicians have however criticised the plan, saying that widespread closed-circuit surveillance had not prevented the attempted attacks in Britain.
Seven suspects have been detained in Britain following the attempted carbombing of Glasgow airport on Saturday - when fuel-loaded jeep was rammed into the terminal, bursting into flames - and two failed car bombings in London discovered last Friday. Two Mercedes containing petrol, gas cylinders and nails were found outside a nightclub in London's Haymarket district and in a nearby street. Police are linking the failed bombings and the UK remains on critical alert.
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Anyone can buy or steal cars. Anyone can buy gasoline. Anyone can buy matches. Anyone can drive through the flimsy drop gates or climb over the unsecured fences that provide nominal guards to our petrochemical refineries. Only Muslims can acquire the motivation to murder innocents, in order to advance a political cause. But any majority can oppress and deport a Muslim minority.
As I wrote yesterday, 7-7-7 is approaching. As is the anniversary - Aug 12 - of the collapse of the 1350 year old string of Caliphates. Muslims will have taken the Gas-Bomb jihad not as a lesson in failure, but of success in operating under the radar. I suspect - based only on the supreme symbolic value of 777 - that something huge will happen next month. If it does, then God help any Western leader who points the blame at our foreign policy, while whitewashing genocidal jihadism.
We can talk of al-Qaeda's manual of jihad. However, that is only a research text based on the principal authority of all Muslim terror: the Koran.
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Only Muslims can acquire the motivation to murder innocents, in order to advance a political cause.
Weather Underground
Irish Republican Army
Shining Path
Red Army Faction
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Real IRA
Red Brigades
Japanese Red Army
Lord's Resistance Army
Symbionese Liberation Army
Black Panthers
New Peoples Army
Bader-Meinhoff Group
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
#6
I am not so worried about 7/7/7. The jihadis have shown, if anything, they are not bothered about pesky things like symbolic anniversaries. What they have shown - especially al-Qaeda proper - is a determination to attack the same targets again and again. I would be more concerned about former targets than former dates.
Though working out their priorities is difficult even for those of us paying attention. Targeting "Ladies Night" is so barbaric, so alien, to our sensibilities it is difficult to fathom let alone anticipate.
A military judge on Friday rejected the Pentagon's request to reinstate previously dismissed charges against a prisoner accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in 2001, officials said. Judge Army Col. Peter Brownback dropped the charges against Canadian detainee Omar Khadr last month on the grounds Brownback's court lacked the jurisdiction to try him. Khadr was 15 when he was arrested.
The inability to prosecute centered on Khadr not being labeled an "unlawful" enemy combatant.
The inability to prosecute centered on Khadr not being labeled an "unlawful" enemy combatant.
Last June, Brownback said new congressional rules on trying detainees specify that a detainee must be designated an "unlawful enemy combatant."
Pentagon officials would not release Brownback's most recent decision, but said he ruled the prosecution had presented no new evidence or arguments to change his mind.
The prosecution has five days to appeal to the Court of Military Commissions Review in Washington. "We are disappointed with the judge's decision in this matter," the Pentagon said.
Last month, a second military judge at Guantanamo who heard a case against the alleged driver for Osama bin Laden, Salim Hamdan, also followed Brownback's decision to drop the charges. The judge's ruling used the same rationale.
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WTF? exJAG, somebody, can you help explain this apparent fiasco going on down at Gitmo?
The basic decisions underlying the whole unlawful combatant issue were correct and courageous, but it seems that much of the execution of the policy has been effed up. Or is that not accurate or fair?
#2
perhaps they should all be returned to Dostum's Shipping Containers in Afghan? Eliminates the court battles, and there will be a lot less to repatriate after they are "released"?
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Mujahideen of Bajaur Agency warned clerics on Monday that if they do not take back the fatwa against suicide bombing, they should prepare to face the consequences.
Which would presumably include unauthorized suicide kabooms.
The warning was delivered in a pamphlet in Pushto pasted outside shops in Khar, regional headquarters of Bajaur Agency overlooking Afghanistans Kunar province, eyewitnesses said. Anyone who says Islam does not allow suicide bombing should take back their words or action may be taken against them, said the pamphlet issued by Mujahideen of Bajaur Agency.
"Of course Islam allows suicide booms! It's in the Koran someplace! You could look it up!"
The militants also disputed the clerics decree that Islam does not allow intimidation, saying this opinion should also be withdrawn. Those who are working against the interests of mujahideen or defaming us should stop doing so, the pamphlet warns.
"Or else," it added, intimidatingly.
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nothing like a group of ignorant, illiterate, murdering, goat-buggering islamic scum to threaten the ignorant, illiterate, goat-buggering muslim theocrats.
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Anyone who says Islam does not allow suicide bombing should take back their words or action may be taken against them,
Paging Yusuf Qaradawi to the white courtesy phone.
All that awaits is a death fatwa against Qaradawi for his highly publicized discourse upon exactly why "martyr" operations were halal (permissible). While Islam's scum lower ranks have no problem making death threats against all and sundry, isn't it curious how their clerical elite just can't seem to kick down with any serious criticism or action against their own aristocracy?
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"Withdraw your fatwa against suicide bombing, or I'll . . . I'll come over there and blow you up myself!"
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The issue, as it pertains to "Fiqh" as far as I understand it does not pertain to suicide per se, which is un-Islamic only if it is unavoidable. (There is a saying by little Mo about a guy who fell on his sword, after fighting valiantly, to relieve the pain of death, that he would go to hell). It does not take a genius to reason that the target is intended as other than self, and that blowing up yourself is only an unavoidable consequence.
The other issue is targeting of civilians. Mohammed sanctioned the use of mangonels in the siege of B. al-Nadir IIRC, in concious disregard of woman/child casualties. AFAIK both have reasonable Isnad.
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I'm all for them having a little religious civil war. Keeps them occupied and off our backs. If we support both sides, just so.... They could end up killing each other off for decades!
Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan said Monday that he remains under house arrest but that he hopes the authorities will ease the restrictions. In some of his first public comments since admitting in 2004 that he passed nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, Khan said he was still suffering health problems after being diagnosed with cancer last year. No, we have not been informed, there is no such information with us, he told AFP by telephone from his closely-guarded house Islamabad when asked if the rules had been relaxed.
Obviously I would have wished that it was true but it doesnt seem to be the case. If they tell you they have lifted the restrictions, come and meet me and see for yourself, Khan added. When asked how he was feeling, Khan replied: God is kind. I am not young, I am an old man and disease is part of old age. I miss my friends. Khan said he now spent most of his time sitting home and watching TV and sleeping.
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Oh how the Pak Gov want him dead so he dosent implicate them!!!!!
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Under house arrest, but that fax machine is working 24/7.
Pakistan-based Taliban have been hit by internal rifts over attacks on civilians and consequently have begun to turn their guns on one another, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor on Monday.
Last month, militant leader Qari Hussain Ahmad launched a series of violent attacks throughout Pakistans tribal belt that left many innocent civilians dead. On June 1, in retaliation, reigning Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud captured 17 of Ahmads men and threatened to kill them. The incident highlights how the Talibans ideological frontiers have changed as Pakistani militants have regrouped and realigned their allegiances, leading to internecine violence throughout the tribal belt, adds the report filed from Pakistan.
According to the experts quoted by the two correspondents who wrote the report, the Talibans central leadership in Pakistan is weakening and some factions have proved themselves all too willing to dispense with the ancient Pashtun codes of mercy and restraint the kind that saw guests, women, and children as off-limits in war.
A university professor from Peshawar told the newspaper that the Pakistani Taliban are not as organised as their Afghan counterparts.
A university professor from Peshawar told the newspaper that the Pakistani Taliban are not as organised as their Afghan counterparts.
The writ of the Pakistan government is also absent in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), making it an attractive haven for the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Taliban militants have killed roughly 150 tribal elders and targeted political agents throughout FATA in recent years.
Taliban militants have killed roughly 150 tribal elders and targeted political agents throughout FATA in recent years. The purpose, as in Afghanistan, is to clean the slate for the advent of full Islamic law.
The report says, In their goals, Pakistans Taliban seem united, but in method, they sharply disagree. Two Taliban leaders Ahmad and Mehsud claims the report, represent a new generation of Taliban fighters who conduct their operations in Afghanistan from Pakistan and who are increasingly waging a war of militant Islam on Pakistani soil itself. Recognised as the Amir, in North and South Waziristan, Mehsud may seem like an unlikely poster child for moderation. Yet, at least in the public imagination, there remain certain lines not even Mehsud would cross, like killing innocent women and children. Through public acceptance and apparent benevolence, Mehsud has built a power base in the area.
Compared with Qari Hussain Ahmad, Mehsud is a moderate, whereas the former is said to have carried out most of the beheadings and targeted killings of tribal elders. He also launched a series of attacks against police forces in Tank in March that left many civilians dead, including women and children. His extremist views, residents add, are popular among Arabs, Uzbeks, and Afghan fighters. Mehsud has increasingly taken Ahmad to task for his indiscriminate killings, residents say. The tension finally reached a boiling point on May 31, when Ahmads followers attacked the Tank residence of Pir Amiruddin Shah, the political agent of Khyber Agency.
The newspaper claims that a power struggle has now ensued to decide both the leadership and the limits of the Talibans campaign in Pakistan. Although Mehsuds retaliation to the events of May 31 has been swift, tribal elders and residents say Ahmad has effectively undermined Mehsuds rule. Whether Mehsud or Ahmad emerges victorious, the hostage incident is likely to determine the tone of the Talibans activities here, a fact that has important consequences for the international community, adds the report.
This article starring:
BAITULLAH MEHSUD
Taliban
Pir Amiruddin Shah, the political agent of Khyber Agency
QARI HUSEIN AHMED
Taliban
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Anybody care to explain that graphic? Just curious.
President Pervez Musharraf held a special meeting with top officials on Monday to discuss a new strategy to curb Talibanisation along the Afghan border, officials said. The meeting was to review the security situation, especially in the border areas, and to prepare a recommendation for a new security initiative to curb extremism and terrorism, a senior government official told AFP.
The prime minister, the governor and chief minister of NWFP, the vice chief of army staff and the information minister also attended the meeting. President Musharraf presided over the meeting lasting four hours. He will give details of the plan when he addresses the nation later this week, the official said. The plan envisages reinforcement of security ... and also establishment of peace committees in the region, that will entail involvement of local people, he said. The aim is to isolate foreign elements and their local allies.
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Say something that incites all the Taliban to seethe at around noon, wait ten minutes for them to all get to their favorite terrorist meeting hall mosque/madrassa, then bomb the crap out of all the bad ones. Bomb everyone who complains. Let US forces run after those who try to run back to home base in Pakistan. Maybe offer a bounty for leads that end up with the arrest/annihilation of terrorists. And a method whereby they can get those leads to authorities without fear of being discovered, such as forced visits to authorities by the score.
(AKI) - A new web of militancy based in Pakistan is posing a serious challenge to the Western coalition operating in Afghanistan and to the Pakistani establishment. Over the last year this threat has been spreading rapidly. While establishing its frontline in the remote tribal areas ahead of a new battle in Afghanistan against NATO troops, it is increasing its foothold far from the remote tribal areas, in the capital Islamabad, in particular in the orbit of the radical Lal Masjid.
Fundamental in this new militant network is the pro-Taliban movement Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi (TNSM), banned but still active in Pakistan. It is rapidly spreading its influence, partly through over 100 illegal FM radio stations that cross its constituencies of Swat, Mengora, Malakand and Deer.
TNSM was founded by a cleric Sufi Mohammed in 1990s and it occupied the strategic highways and trade routes including the silk route which connects Pakistan to China to fullfil their demand of implementing the Sharia in Pakistan during the government of Benazir Bhutto. The militants demanded the enforcement of Islamic laws and threatened to continue to block the major trade routes connecting the country to China and Afghanistan.
Sufi Mohammed mustered some 10,000 people to Afghanistan during 2001 to fight against American troops. When he returned back from Afghanistan he was put in jail where he remains still. However, his brother Mullah Fazalmakes a very good living has taken over running the organization which has become popular again in part of North Western Frontier Province (NWFP).
The Valley of Peshawar, comprising Mardan, Swabi and Peshawar City, is also under the influence of Pakistani Taliban but the support it can count on there is limited compared to other parts of NWFP.
Strategists and decision makers in Pakistan believe that this new web of militancy starts from North Waziristan and South Waziristan and stretches the length of the Afghan border up to Bajaur agency. They believe the entire network is intertwined with the radical Lal Masjid of Islamabad. According to high level sources, the proof of these ties is the fact that one of the two radical pro-Taliban brothers who run the Lal Masjid, Maulana Abdul Aziz, recently addressed the members of TNSM by telephone. "This is the wrong interpretation of a rare event. Yes ideologically we agree with TNSM that we all believe in Islamic system of life but it is wrong that we discuss the strategies or aiming to launch any joint strategy" his brother, Abdul Rasheed Ghazi told Adnkronos International (AKI).
As far as the telephone address is concerned, "we only sent a delegation to meet TNSM people and convey our message and one member of our delegation called Maulana Abdul Aziz and put the telephone near the mike. Thats how only one occasion Maulana Abdul Aziz addressed the TNSM members. It has never been the routine, he added.
Extremism is growing in Pakistan like in other countries of the world and we are taking measures to contain it. We have security agencies posted in Malakand, Mengora, Swat where the TNSM is growing but they are less well-equipped and fewer in numbers," Major General Waheed Arshad, director general inter-services public relations of the Pakistani armed forces told Adnkronos International by phone. "We are taking rapid steps to enhance the capacity of our security agencies, he said.
This article starring:
ABDUL RASHID GHAZI
Lal Masjid
Benazir Bhutto
Major General Waheed Arshad
MAULANA ABDUL AZIZ
Lal Masjid
MULLAH FAZAL
Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi
SUFI MOHAMED
Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi
Lal Masjid
Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi
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How does an illegal FM radio station make it more than a few hours before it gets bombed?
Pakistan has lifted some of the restrictions imposed on Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced nuclear scientist, in a significant departure from previous policy, senior Pakistani officials and diplomats said on Monday.
The change reverses some of the curbs placed on him in February 2004 when he publicly admitted trading nuclear know how and technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea, a senior Pakistani official told the FT. Mr Khan was given a presidential pardon by General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistans military ruler, for his services to the country, but has lived under virtual house arrest since then.
During this time, Pakistan has turned down requests from international officials investigating the scale to which Irans nuclear program has developed for access to Mr Khan, who is thought to be being among the few non-Iranians who has any insight into the progress made by Tehran.
Pakistans foreign ministry said on Monday there was no change in Mr Khans status and that he continued to live a quiet life with his family in a wealthy district of Islamabad.
But friends of Mr Khan said he had been given permission to meet with groups of up to five people at a time, preferably over lunch or dinner. They said, he is also allowed to visit Karachi, the southern port city, where his sister and brother live. This is a huge shift in the way A.Q Khan has lived these past three and a half years. said Shahid-ur-Rehman, author of a book on Pakistans nuclear programme, who met Mr Khan several times before he was placed under house arrest.
Opinion among observers over what has prompted the easing of the restrictions is divided. Senior western diplomats say the Pakistani government may have been moved by Mr Khans declining health and treatment for prostate cancer last year.
If he is not in very good health, its best to let his friends and family see and know for themselves that he is receiving the best possible medical care, said one western diplomat.
Perhaps Musharraf has seen Khan's medical chart and knows he's going to die soon and take the evidence with him.
A national election campaign due later this year is likely to prompt nationalists to renew their calls for Mr Khans release.
His arrest was widely condemned in Pakistan where many see him as a national hero, the architect of the worlds first Islamic nuclear bomb.
Mr Rehman said General Musharraf may have been swayed by the fact that a national election campaign due later this year is likely to prompt nationalists to renew their calls for Mr Khans release.
His arrest was widely condemned in Pakistan where many see him as a national hero, the architect of the worlds first Islamic nuclear bomb. Before this issue becomes part of the election debate, maybe Musharraf decided to ease the expected pressure, said Mr Rehman.
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Yea. Sure, muzzies. If we were only that smart. Heck Congress can't even pass an immigration bill (or was it amnesty) to protect our own stupid borders.
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Yeah, Qatar is an odd duck of a country : has a seriously anti-American and anti-Semitic press, but also has the largest military base in the ME for almost exclusively US use. The local Emir built the huge base to surpass NATO standards, basically declared a 10 mile no-go zone around it, and handed the keys over the US when we left Saudi Arabia. But, he lets the press bitch and moan all it wants about the West.
However, local imams/mullahs that get too enthused about jihad tend to vanish into the desert for a couple of weeks before their bodies are found.
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They are wise to our head fake now we must use the stutterstep on them by declaring Sharia law in Ohio and Pennsyvania. They won't know what hit them.
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we must use the stutterstep on them by declaring Sharia law in Ohio and Pennsyvania. They won't know what hit them.
Israel has relayed messages to Morocco's King Muhammad VI in recent weeks urging him to travel to Ramallah and meet Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in order to increase Abbas's legitimacy, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Foreign Ministry director-general Aharon Abramovitch visited Morocco in May, and according to government officials there is an open and direct channel of communication between the two countries, even though there are no formal diplomatic ties.
Diplomatic officials said that while both Israel and the US were trying to support Abbas and the emergency PA government, what was even more important for Abbas now was legitimacy in the Arab world. High-profile visits from Arab leaders could grant this legitimacy, but Israeli officials admitted that the chances of this were slim because of the concern in these countries of the reaction of Islamic radicals and Hamas supporters in their own countries.
Government officials expressed disappointment that following the Hamas takeover of Gaza, Morocco and other "moderate" Arab regimes did not come out with a full embrace of Abbas but rather called for the reconstitution of a Hamas-Fatah unity government.
Not only were Arab world leaders unlikely to visit Ramallah, but government officials said Monday that the assessment in Jerusalem was that the Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers, who in May announced their intention to come to Israel as representatives of the Arab League and discuss the Arab Peace Initiative, were unlikely to come until the situation in the Palestinian Authority cleared up.
"The Arab League is hesitant to send anybody here when it is not clear who speaks for the Palestinians," one government official said.
Foreign Ministry officials, however, said that Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni spoke last week to both Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdelelah al-Khatib and received assurances that they would indeed come to discuss the initiative, although no date was give
Mordechai Vanunu, the technician who served 18 years in jail for delivering nuclear secrets to the Sunday Times in 1986, is going back to jail.
On Monday, Jerusalem Magistrate's Court sentenced him to six months in jail for having committed 14 violations of the restrictions imposed upon him when he was released from prison in April 2004.
The restrictions included an order from the minister of interior prohibiting Vanunu from leaving the country and a series of restrictions from O/C South Ya'ir Naveh, which include an order to inform the authorities 48 hours before changing his address and 24 hours before leaving the area he lives in or deciding to sleep outside his home, and a ban on speaking with foreign citizens before receiving approval from the authorities or participating in Internet chats.
"The state indicted Vanunu not just because he had contacts with foreigners (without carrying out the preliminary procedure of informing the authorities and receiving permission from them) but because he maintained contact with foreigners, which included handing over information relating to his work at the Center for Nuclear Research in the Negev," wrote Judge Yoel Tzur. "The commander's orders that are the subject of our hearing were issued to anticipate future dangers. The accused's deeds, which were listed in detail in the verdict and in the declarations that Vanunu made, led to the conclusion that the possibility that [he will] harm national security is a near certainty." In listing the factors that he took into account when determining the sentence, Tzur referred to an appeal against the state which Vanunu had lodged in 1998, while still in prison. In that appeal, a doctor testified in Beersheba District Court that Vanunu suffered from chronic paranoid schizophrenia. At the same time, the doctor said Vanunu's intellect and memory were not affected by the illness and he was still able to express himself clearly. Tzur said that although Vanunu's lawyers, Avigdor Feldman and Michael Sfard, had not presented the doctor's testimony in court, he would still take it into account because Vanunu's condition was said to be chronic.
After the session, Vanunu said his conviction proved that Israel was still under the British mandate because he had been convicted according to a mandatory law [the 1945 Emergency Defense Regulations]. "Maybe I should appeal to the queen or Tony Blair for justice," he said.
American and British spy agencies are funding the Jundollah terrorist group for carrying out sabotage activities in Iran, senior police official said.
In an interview with Al-Alam satellite TV on Monday, Police Chief Brigadier Esmaeel Ahmadi-Moqaddam said many innocent people have been murdered by Jundollah terrorists in the eastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.
Jundollah or the so-called Irans People Resistance Movement is a terrorist outfit that operates from Pakistan and Afghanistan with the help of American and British spy agencies.
Referring to the failure of American and British conspiracies in eastern and southern parts of Iran, Ahmadi-Moqaddam said the two imperialists are making efforts to instigate discord among Shiites and Sunnis by funding terrorist groups in areas marked for their ethnic and religious diversities.
The police chief further blamed the US and its allies for supporting drug traffickers in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a move to exert more pressure on Iran.
Instead of preventing the cultivation of opium in Afghanistan, they [US and allies] are supporting the drug traffickers, he said.
Ahmadi-Moqaddam denied that members of the Islamic Revolutions Guards Corps are assisting the police in providing security along Iranian borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan--estimated at about 2,000 kilometers.
Iran has spent more than $600 million for combating drugs and boosting security in border areas.
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The European Union foreign policy chief suggested on Monday that Iran could be linked to the Hamas military takeover of Gaza, recent attacks on the Lebanese army, and on European peacekeepers in Lebanon. Javier Solana, who has led efforts to bring Iran back to the negotiating table over its nuclear program, stopped short of blaming Tehran outright, but said the incidents could not be treated separately. "What happened in Gaza cannot be seen separately from what happened in Lebanon," he told a conference on the Middle East hosted by the Socialist group of the European Parliament. "There are new groups in the Palestinian camps," Solana said. "And the fact that UNIFIL has been attacked for the first time cannot be taken separately."
Solana said that while the car bomb attack that killed six Spanish members of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on June 24 was carried out by "forces we don't know", he added: "It would be naive not to see this as part of a global approach." "Somebody I know well -- Ali Larijani -- has said 'we are supporting Hamas'," he said, referring to the chief Iranian nuclear negotiator, who made the statement in an interview with Newsweek published last month. "All this is connected," Solana said. "It didn't happen by accident or miracle, it was probably planned."
"It would be difficult to understand without seeing other important regional players behind it," he added, referring to "other forces" in Iran and Syria.
Solana also said a postponed meeting of Western and Arab Middle East mediators with Israeli and Palestinian leaders would probably now happen in Cairo in mid-July. He said it was important to provide a new political impetus to the peace process, not just financial and humanitarian aid to the Palestinian government. Solana also said that in the long run it would be necessary to have an international peacekeeping presence in the West Bank and Gaza, but this was not an immediate priority.
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The presidents of Iran and Venezuela launched construction of a joint petrochemical plant yesterday, strengthening an "axis of unity" between two oil-rich nations staunchly opposed to the United States.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who both often rail against Washington, also signed a series of other deals to expand economic cooperation, ranging from setting up a dairy factory in Venezuela to forming an oil company.
"The two countries will united defeat the imperialism of North America," a beaming Chavez told a news conference during an official visit to the Islamic Republic, which the United States has labelled part of an "axis of evil".
"When I come to Iran Washington gets upset," he said. The two presidents-whose countries are members of the OPEC oil producing cartel-earlier attended the ceremony to start building a methanol facility with an annual capacity of 1.65m tonnes on the Islamic Republic's Gulf coast.
"Iran and Venezuela-the axis of unity," read one of many official posters at the site near the port town of Assalouyeh, showing the two leaders hugging each other and shaking hands.
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Does Chavez realise that Iran spouts out hatred/death against non belivers including his own Catholic country!!!!
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I prefer to think of this confab as "The Pact Of Steal".
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The European Commission will allocate 200 million euros for the reform and development of Afghanistan's justice system in the 2007-2010 period, according to a statement of the EU body released on Monday. The aid is part of a 610 million euro package to help Afghanistan in the next four years. The announcement comes just as an international conference entitled "Rule of Law in Afghanistan" is underway in the Italian capital Rome. 
Counter terrorism section in the General Directorate for National Safety DGSN arrested later in June 4 people activating in the so-called the Iraqi network. The operations have been led successfully thanks to wiretapping of calls those people used to make with Algerians, Syrians and Lebanese in charge of the recruitment of combatants to be dedicated to Jihad fronts in Iraq or in the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat fiefdoms.
An Egyptian engineer convicted in 2002 of spying for Israel has died in a Cairo jail of a possible heart attack while serving a 15-year sentence, security sources said yesterday. 
Several key Saudi clerics this week urged Palestinians not to give up jihad against Israel, in a sign of their opposition to the US-allied Saudi government's policy of backing 
Australia has a bigger portion of Muslim youths at risk of turning to radical Islam than any other Western nation, with up to 3,000 in ideological sleeper cells in Sydney alone, a government-backed study said on Monday.
A military judge on Friday rejected the Pentagon's request to reinstate previously dismissed charges against a prisoner accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in 2001, officials said. Judge Army Col. Peter Brownback dropped the charges against Canadian detainee Omar Khadr last month on the grounds Brownback's court lacked the jurisdiction to try him. Khadr was 15 when he was arrested.
Mujahideen of Bajaur Agency warned clerics on Monday that if they do not take back the fatwa against suicide bombing, they should prepare to face the consequences. 
Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan said Monday that he remains under house arrest but that he hopes the authorities will ease the restrictions. In some of his first public comments since admitting in 2004 that he passed nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, Khan said he was still suffering health problems after being diagnosed with cancer last year. No, we have not been informed, there is no such information with us, he told AFP by telephone from his closely-guarded house Islamabad when asked if the rules had been relaxed.
Pakistan-based Taliban have been hit by internal rifts over attacks on civilians and consequently have begun to turn their guns on one another, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor on Monday.
President Pervez Musharraf held a special meeting with top officials on Monday to discuss a new strategy to curb Talibanisation along the Afghan border, officials said. The meeting was to review the security situation, especially in the border areas, and to prepare a recommendation for a new security initiative to curb extremism and terrorism, a senior government official told AFP.
Pakistan has lifted some of the restrictions imposed on Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced nuclear scientist, in a significant departure from previous policy, senior Pakistani officials and diplomats said on Monday. 
Mordechai Vanunu, the technician who served 18 years in jail for delivering nuclear secrets to the Sunday Times in 1986, is going back to jail. 
American and British spy agencies are funding the Jundollah terrorist group for carrying out sabotage activities in Iran, senior police official said. 
The European Union foreign policy chief suggested on Monday that Iran could be linked to the Hamas military takeover of Gaza, recent attacks on the Lebanese army, and on European peacekeepers in Lebanon. Javier Solana, who has led efforts to bring Iran back to the negotiating table over its nuclear program, stopped short of blaming Tehran outright, but said the incidents could not be treated separately. "What happened in Gaza cannot be seen separately from what happened in Lebanon," he told a conference on the Middle East hosted by the Socialist group of the European Parliament. "There are new groups in the Palestinian camps," Solana said. "And the fact that UNIFIL has been attacked for the first time cannot be taken separately."
The presidents of Iran and Venezuela launched construction of a joint petrochemical plant yesterday, strengthening an "axis of unity" between two oil-rich nations staunchly opposed to the United States. 
