It looks like a typical spring water bottling plant -- in the Scottish Highlands perhaps, or maybe the French Alps. But this factory, processing more than 15,000 gallons a day, is in a somewhat more unusual location: the middle of the Afghan desert.
Pumping water from boreholes sunk deep below the parched ground of Camp Bastion, this is the Army's first-ever bottling plant. It produces enough water to supply all 14,000 troops stationed there and experts say the quality is as good as any expensive mineral water you can buy in Britain.
The facility was built after a series of Taliban attacks on the supply lines bringing drinking water from Pakistan and the Middle East to the camp in Helmand province.
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"American contractor KBR provides the 400 mainly Nepalese and Sri Lankan staff who work at the plant, lured to Afghanistan by relatively high wages."
This can't be correct. 400 workers for a 15K gallon/day plant?
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It probably isn't the highest of high tech, Penguin, although I'm not qualified to comment about such things. Also, they have to make the bottles as well as fill them.
WASHINGTON Senate Democrats are signaling that any push by the White House for more troops in Afghanistan probably will run into resistance.
And remember kids, the Dhimmicrats thought Afghanistan was the 'good war' ...
Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the U.S. must focus more on building Afghan security forces. That view was endorsed by Sen. Jack Reed, who is also on the committee and spent two days in Afghanistan this past week with Levin, D-Mich. Their unease follows a NATO airstrike early Friday on hijacked fuel tankers that killed as many as 70 people.
That doesn't mean the airstrike caused their unease ...
Congress returns to work in the week ahead, just as President Barack Obama receives a new military review of Afghanistan strategy. Officials expect it will be followed up by a request for at least a modest increase in U.S. troops battling insurgents in the 8-year-old war.
Obama came into office pledging to shift U.S. focus from the war in Iraq to the Afghan fight, which had long been a secondary priority. But as war-weary Americans have watched 21,000 more troops go to Afghanistan this year, and U.S. casualties rise, support for the war has waned.
At least among Dhimmicrats who'd like to use the money for 'health care' and 'green jobs' ...
As a result, lawmakers say they want the U.S. to more quickly train and equip the Afghan Army and police so the embattled country can take over its own security needs.
"There are a lot of ways to speed up the numbers and capabilities of the Afghan army and police. They are strongly motivated," Levin said from Kuwait. "I think that we should pursue that course ... before we consider a further increase in combat forces beyond what's already been planned to be sent in the months ahead."
Levin said there is a growing consensus on the need to expedite training and equipping the Afghan army to improve security in Afghanistan, where 51 U.S. troops died in August, making it the bloodiest month for American forces there since the U.S.-led invasion in late 2001.
As if we hadn't been doing this all along ...
The hesitancy to boost troops levels comes just days after Obama's defense chief suggested a willingness to consider an increase. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has urged patience with the war effort, and said he would be comfortable with a larger U.S. military presence in Afghanistan as long as the increase reassured the country's citizens that the Americans were there for the benefit of Afghans.
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This Congress has an historic opportunity not to mention the sacred Constitutional duty to deal with the drop in US readiness and to address the military needs we have in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
We are in Afghanistan and Congress has the absolute responsibility to provide US forces with the necessary funds to win the war.
Playing Santa Claus with taxpayer funded giveaways in a time of war is nothing less than the abdication of the responsibility.
The window for Congress to act in the national interest closes this year.
Watch the skies. There are rumors that the mother of all defense cutbacks is coming. Obama is ready to close DOD to pay for his plans, and Congress will happily cooperate.
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Not meaning to disagree, but are democrats that certifiably insane to think they can actually get by with defense cuts while we are in the middle of an unfinished war and not pay the political consequences?
History is giving the democrats a gaping opportunity to do the right thing: bolster our defenses and win the wars we are in now.
The US Constitution is a glaring requirement staring them in the face that they must act now to defend the nation, otherwise both events and politics will run way ahead of their agenda.
Can you see a democrat Congressman explaining to a town hall of constituents, "Our requirement to force everyone to but health insurances means something has to be cut back:" mainly defense?
and not be pelted with garbage and angry shouts?
History doesn't give a nation very many chances to do the right thing to protect itself, its citizens and future generations. Our Congress just such chance right before their very eyes.
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The Democrats would need the full four years of Mr. Obamam's presidency to make that work. Given the Tea Parties, and that conservatives are a majority, albeit a slim one, in all fifty states, what odds they're going to have that much time?
No. Their base doesn't give a shit about national defense or the military readiness, nor do they give a shit about those sacrificing to serve in our military. The Donk party is totally unserious about their responsibilities and when (not if) the next strike on American soil happens, they will be relegated to minority status for a looong time
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Frank, I think the relegation to a minority status by the Donks is coming in 2010, and a terrorist attack on US soil will only accentuate the degree of minorityness.
The ordinary US citizen is full up with the stupid crap being fed by the Donks ( at all levels) and is just waiting for Nov 2010 to push the 'R' button. Look for massive fraud around that time also.
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and not be pelted with garbage and angry shouts?
NO, he'd be SHOT.
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History is giving the democrats a gaping opportunity to do the right thing: bolster our defenses and win the wars we are in now.
AH but you forget' this is BUSH'S WAR and to be hindered at every turn to make Bush look bad.
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Their base doesn't give a shit about national defense or the military readiness
They've been doing this for years. First they defund the military. Then rather than spend the proceeds on the national debt they pay for social services for illegals and stuff we don't need in order to buy votes. Then the trunks get put back in place and rebuild the military all the while fighting the chorus of folks who have grown all too accustomed to their entitlements. About the time the military gets put back on its feet the donks get voted back into power and the cycle starts over again. It's a vicious cycle that can't go on forever.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Afghanistan's Independent Electoral Commission has delayed the release of the latest batch of election results. A spokeswoman for the commission did not give an exact time for the release of the preliminary results.
Results were being released daily; however, it will take several weeks before the total official count is announced. Final results are not due before September 17.
More than 60 percent of the ballots of Afghanistan's August 20 presidential election have been counted so far. Figures released on Wednesday showed incumbent President Hamid Karzai getting 47.3 percent of the votes. This is while his main challenger and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah has gained over 32 percent of the ballots.
But Karzai was still just shy of the 50 percent needed to avoid a run-off in October.
The two main candidates for the presidency have each claimed victory, while Abdullah has alleged widespread vote-rigging by Karzai's camp. The commission says it is investigating hundreds of serious complaints, while the deadline for any new complaints has now passed.
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Translation, held until the results say wht they want them to say.
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Or in some places someone simply can't count that high.
Somalia's embattled government is negotiating with Islamist rebels and has persuaded some of them to join its administration to try to end a deadly spiral of violence, the foreign minister said on Saturday.
"The government maintains its plans for reconciliation and we have started talking to the rebel groups of Hizb al-Islam and the Shebab," Ali Ahmed Jama told reporters in Mogadishu.
" Some of them have already joined the government and we hope our mission for broader reconciliation will be fruitful soon "
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"Some of them have already joined the government and we hope our mission for broader reconciliation will be fruitful soon," the minister, who was appointed last month, added without elaborating.
His comments came after a relative lull in the fighting that has devastated the capital since the Shebab, an al-Qaeda-inspired group, and the more political Hizb al-Islam movement launched a military offensive on May 7.
"We are working closely with community groups and the country will be under government control soon," Jama said.
Both rebel groups have vowed to continue their struggle against the internationally-backed transitional federal government of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed until the departure of African Union (AU) peacekeepers.
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Muslims should avoid prayers that call for the destruction of non-Muslims, an influential Saudi cleric said. Many mosque Imams and preachers in some Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, close their Friday sermons with prayers that call for the destruction of Islam's enemies, especially Israel and its allies.
"Praying for the ruin and the destruction of all infidels is not permitted because it goes against God's law to call upon them ... to take the righteous path," Sheikh Salman al Awdah told Dubai-based MBC Television channel. "Calling for their offspring and ancestors to be eradicated is not legitimate ... (except) for the tyrants among the infidels and those who violate the sanctities and harm the faithful," he said.
Awdah, whose criticism of the Saudi ruling family in the 1990s earned him praise from Osama bin Laden, has since denounced the Saudi-born al Qaeda leader and said his network was responsible for the deaths of many innocent people.
Awdah is a director of the Arabic edition of the website Islam Today and he has a number of TV shows and newspapers articles. Bin Laden had cited Awdah's writings in his statements before the latter urged him last year to abandon violence.
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Wouldn't expect him to pray for "infidel" downfall, why should he when he is an infidel?
Infidel was first used in Middle English circa 1460 (adjective, noun), from the Middle French infidèle, and from Latin infidelis "unfaithful," later "unbelieving", in the 15c. meaning "a non-Christian" (especially a Saracen I.E. muslim)
Maybe he said kafir.
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So, how well is this religious message received in Saudi Arabia? I thought so.
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Lots of wiggle room there to call for the destruction of Israel, the death of Americans because they are tyrants or have failed to convert or have harmed Muslims .....
The mother of Fawwaz Al-Otaibi, the wanted terrorist whose return to the Kingdom was announced in an Interior Ministry statement Wednesday, has told Okaz of how her son left home on Aug. 31, 2008.
According to Umm Fawwaz, her son claimed he was being transferred from his post with National Guard in the south to the northern region of Tabuk, and went to bid farewell to his family before departing. A few days later, he telephoned his brothers to tell them he was in Pakistan for jihad, Umm Fawwaz said. I realized he wouldnt return and lost all hope of seeing him again, because he was doing what he always dreamed of doing since he was about 16, she continued. When he was a teenager he used to spend a lot of time watching the war in Afghanistan and wishing he was with them carrying out jihad and achieving martyrdom. Like any ordinary teen, in other words.
Umm Fawwaz said she never noticed any particular moment of change in her sons demeanor, such as adopting signs of religious extremism. He finished secondary education, got a job and married his cousin and they had two sons and a daughter. His life was normal, she said. He never had strangers as companions, and used to spend all his time at work and home.
Umm Fawaz said she begged her son to return on around three occasions he telephoned them, but the final answer she received was still unexpected. He said he regretted leaving the Kingdom and had decided to return, Umm Fawwaz said. I was so overwhelmed with happiness that I fainted. According to Umm Fawwaz her son did not have a passport and so contacted the authorities through his brothers and coordinated with security officials to hand himself in to the Saudi embassy in Pakistan.
Since his return, 36-year-old Al-Otaibi has been held at Riyadhs Al-Haier Prison where he has been twice visited by his mother, brothers, wife and children. Interior ministry officials have said that Al-Otaibi will be treated in line with all procedures in such cases. His initiative to return home and the role of his family in this respect will be taken into account when his case is considered, the spokesman said Wednesday, adding that Otaibi was permitted last Tuesday to perform Umrah pilgrimage in Makkah. Naturally.
One of Al-Otaibis brothers told Okaz Thursday that he returned to the Kingdom because he didnt find the jihad he had hoped for. The jihad where you achieve virgins martyrdom.
As per his annual custom, Prince Naif Bin Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, has provided a Ramadan gift to families of martyred security men across the Kingdom. The gift was an amount of SR20,000 per martyred individual. Buraidah families bereaved of security service officials told Okaz newspaper that they had received personal checks from a Ministry of Interior official. Seventy-six Saudi security officers have lost their lives during confrontation with terrorist groups.
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The currency exchange site xe.com reports:
1.00 SAR = 0.266642 USD
Prince Aziz is very generous. $5332.84 per life.
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A number of Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites have been forced to leave the United Arab Emirates in recent months, Palestinian and Lebanese officials said Friday.
Hussam Ahmed, head of the Refugee Affairs Department in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the militant group Hamas, said hundreds of Palestinians had been dismissed from their jobs in the UAE for security reasons. "(This is) an operation of mass displacement of Palestinians in the UAE, especially those of Gaza origins, without known reasons other than security pretexts," he said in a statement issued in Gaza Thursday, citing the UAE town of Al-Ain. He said many did not have passports, and Arab states would not accept them with the travel documents they had.
In Beirut, a senior Lebanese political source said 45 Lebanese Shiites living in the UAE had either not been granted re-entry or had been asked to leave. No reason was given for the decisions. "Some of them had been living in the country for 20 years. They were doctors and business owners," the source told Reuters. He said Lebanese President Michel Suleiman had sent an envoy in the past week to meet with UAE officials on the issue.
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It was always going to be the soccer hooligans that were first to take it to the muzzies.Unfortnately the muzzies call the EDL protests BNP which loses the white support just like the KKK in the USA!
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I'm about to the point of going ahead and deserving it if I'm going to be called a racist anyway. Kind of like my father used to tell me when I was little: "Quit your crying or I'll give you something to cry about."
Could also be filed under under Lurid Crime Tales - for the actions of the British Labour Government and the Nationalist Scottish 'Government', as much as the Libyans'. And Seedy Politicians, natch.
The British, Scottish and Libyan governments connived to free Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. Medical evidence that helped Megrahi, 57, to be released was paid for by the Libyan government, which encouraged three doctors to say he had only three months to live.
The life expectancy of Megrahi was crucial because, under Scottish rules, prisoners can be freed on compassionate grounds only if they are considered to have this amount of time, or less, to live. Megrahi is suffering from terminal prostate cancer. Two of the three doctors commissioned by the Libyans provided the required three-month estimates, while the third also indicated that the prisoner had a short time to live. This contrasted with findings of doctors in June and July who had concluded that Megrahi had up to 10 months to live, which would have prevented his release.
Professor Karol Sikora, one of the examining doctors and the medical director of CancerPartnersUK in London, told The Sunday Telegraph: "The figure of three months was suggested as being helpful [by the Libyans]. To start with I said it was impossible to do that [give a three-month life expectancy estimate] but, when I looked at it, it looked as though it could be done -- you could actually say that." He said that he and a second doctor, a Libyan, had legitimately then estimated Megrahi's life expectancy as "about three months". A third doctor would say only that he had a short time to live.
This weekend it was reported that Megrahi was moved out of an emergency care unit in Tripoli.
The prognosis from the three doctors -- two from Britain -- was used as part of the evidence by Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Secretary, last month when he concluded that Megrahi should be released on compassionate grounds. Our investigation also reveals that:
[Iran Press TV Latest] After weeks of denials from London, Britain's Justice Secretary has admitted that lucrative trade deals were linked to the inclusion of the Lockerbie bomber in a prisoner transfer deal with the oil-rich Libya.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph published on Saturday that could rekindle uproar over the Lockerbie bomber release, Jack Straw also added that he was unapologetic about the motives, as it ended in a multi-million dollar oil deal by BP and Libya six weeks later.
Terminally ill Abdelbaset al Megrahi, the only man convicted of the 1988 bombing atrocity that killed 270 people, was released last month from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds.
The new revelation comes as Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other officials keep on insisting that there has been "no conspiracy, no cover-up, no double dealing, no deal on oil" over the release the 57-year-old former Libyan agent.
Straw's spokesman accused the press of "outrageous" innuendo, after the minister said trade was "a very big part" of the 2007 talks that clinched the prisoner deal (PTA).
But officials admit the prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) was part of a wider set of negotiations aimed at bringing Libya in from the international cold, and improving British trade prospects with the oil-rich African country.
"Libya was a rogue state...We wanted to bring it back into the fold... that included trade because trade is an essential part of it and subsequently there was the BP deal," Straw told the paper in justification of the agreement.
Straw sought to clear Brown from any blame in the matter saying he had acted on his own authority and no consultation with the premier had taken place.
Internal government letters leaked to the Sunday Times daily and documents released by the UK Government, meanwhile, show Straw changing his original stance to exempt Megrahi's from any prisoner deal with Libya, and in 2007 even advising on the move.
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If Napoleon was alive today how would he call Britain (instead of "Nation of Shopkeepers")?
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If Britan is this desparate for oil, why don't they make a deal with Canada to open the vast reserves in the Athabascan tar sands? Canadians are ever so much easier to deal with.
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why don't they make a deal with Canada to open the vast reserves in the Athabasca tar sands?
Probably because they're already open and being processed. Estimated reserves are 173 billion barrels.
[Kyodo: Korea] The aid situation in North Korea has become more dire due to shortages of international aid, negatively impacted by Pyongyang"s moves to conduct more missile and nuclear tests, according to an annual U.N. report on North Korea"s human rights situation released Friday. ""Owing to the shortage of international aid, influenced doubtlessly by the reaction to the nuclear and missile tests carried out by the Democratic People"s Republic of Korea, the aid program only managed to cover less than 2 million people,"" the report said, adding the aid situation ""became more desperate.""
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In my lifetime they've always been "Desperate" no matter how many trillions they get it's never "Enough".
They're Parasites, plain and simple.
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No, they are people, who are being killed by a band of thugs and thieves that we call a government. That we tolerate the enslavement and murder of the people in North Korea diminishes us not them, because we have the power to effect change.
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Easy there Rammer - the Norks need to help themselves first. The agent of repression, the NORK army - comes frome the NORK people. If they are willing to see their parents and siblings starve, who are we to force them into liberty. Nork has several generations that have lived under the yoke of tyranny - from the Japanese pre-WWI, to the communists that infest it today. They do not know liberty, nor do they aspire to be free, at least by any visible means. While I have pity on them, I do not wish to see one drop of American blood shed for them, unless they begin the process themselves - toppling, or at least attempting to kill Kim would be necessary for my support.
In order for the Nork problem to be solved the Norks themselves will need to _want_ to change. Unfortunately they get a steady and heavy dose of Dear Leader (meaning Kimmie Boy and not Obama boy) personality cult.
What we need to do is find some way get them free press and the truth. That is what we should be doing. That and cut the farking AID to the government which Kimmie-boy simply re-wraps as 'his' providence. We are actually aiding his personality cult.
Not likely in this dictator, and commie-loving administration (or congress).
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The fuel truck bombings were called in by the German NATO commander, adding more "fuel to the fire", pun intended. The increased threats must mean they are being effective in the region, however. Even got Screech's and Binny's attention lately.
[Geo News] Chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan has said that the present government has failed to deliver and mid-term elections are imminent. Addressing an Iftar-dinner here on Saturday, Imran Khan said it is the people of Pakistan who have to pay the cost of all the corruption in the country. The internal debt has reached 0.4 trillion and foreign one to 52 billion dollars, he pointed out. Imran Khan said the biggest problem of Pakistan is that there is different law for a small time defaulter while an NRO for big wigs. He said history is testimony to the fact that a military operation in the country has always contributed to the complications.
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[Geo News] Former Federal Minister and PML leader Ejaz-ul-Haq has said US forcefully hindered investigation into General Zia-ul-Haq plane crash. Talking to media, he said Saturday I cannot point finger towards a person or a country over murder of General Zia-ul-Haq but US did not send FBI team to Pakistan for probe into plane crash. Postmortem officials were sent to far and flung areas, he added.
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One of those damned if you do, damned if you don't situations. US officials figured that if they sent an FBI team they would be accused of using it to cover up evidence of US involvement in the crash (ex-station chief Milt Bearden's book is interesting on this). And here NOT sending an FBI is regarded as suspicious. That said, Zia's crash was suspicious and may well not have been accidental.
[Dawn] A court on Saturday resumed hearing a case against suspected militants accused of involvement in last year's attack on India's business capital, Mumbai, that strained relations between the nuclear-armed rivals, Reuters reported.
India wants forceful action by Pakistan against leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group it says was behind the Nov. 26-29 attacks that killed 166 people, before resuming a peace process that was frozen in the aftermath of the violence.
Proceedings were initially launched against five men, but two more suspects have since been arrested, according to a state-run news agency report last week.
The case has been shrouded in secrecy as the court is holding the trial in camera at the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, and lawyers were under instruction not to discuss the proceedings.
Shahbaz Rajput, a lawyer for one of the accused, told Reuters after Saturday's hearing that they did not want the trial behind closed doors.
Express news reported the hearing had been adjourned until Sept. 19.
The five suspects arrested earlier and being tried at the Adiala Jail are Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a commander of the LeT, and four others -- Hammad Amin, Abdul Wajid alias Zarar Shah, Mazhar Iqbal alias Abu Qama and Shahid Jameel Riaz.
The two more recently arrested men are Jameel Ahmed and Younus Anjum.
India is pressing Pakistan to prosecute LeT founder, Hafiz Saeed, who was detained in Pakistan in December, after a UN Security Council resolution put him on a list of people and organisations supporting Al-Qaeda.
A court released him in June on grounds of insufficient evidence, prompting the Pakistani government to appeal at the Supreme Court for his re-arrest. The case is pending.
India says Saeed was the mastermind of the Mumbai attack and says it has provided sufficient evidence against him for Pakistan to prosecute.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Breaking his silence over the ongoing security forces operation in his stronghold of Bara, the chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam (LI), Mangal Bagh, on Friday warned that he would come out with a fresh strategy if the operation was not halted till Saturday afternoon.
The announcement, baffling many Bara dwellers, was made from the LI's illegal FM channel on Friday night, the fourth day of the operation. "We ask the government to stop the operation, which is illegal," said the banned LI chief. Though stopping short of threatening counter attacks, Bagh said his men would allow the Taliban from other areas to enter Bara if the operation was not halted forthwith.
Although, a proscribed organisation, the LI is not part of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a conglomerate of several terrorist outfits from different tribal agencies and settled areas. The LI was also not allowing other militant organisations like the Taliban, to enter Bara so far. However, Bagh's fresh announcement on the entry of Taliban in Bara seems to be a pointer to an armed struggle against security forces.
In his startling announcement, Bagh said he would announce his fresh strategy on his FM channel on Saturday evening if the operation was not stopped. Security forces have demolished more than two dozen houses of banned LI leaders and their supporters during the four-day operation. Both security and political administration officials claimed killing more than 50 militants and arresting over 60.
The houses destroyed during the operation also included that of the LI chief Mangal Bagh in Sipah area. The same house was destroyed during a similar operation in June last year. The outlawed LI did not offer any resistance during the last year's operation, codenamed as Daraghlam.
Meanwhile, security forces continued with demolition of houses of suspected militants and their commanders in different areas of Bara sub-division of Khyber Agency on the fourth day of the operation Bia Daraghlam (Here I come again) while helicopters were also used to hit targets.
The action on Friday was mostly conducted in Sipah, Malak Dinkhel and Akakhel areas of Bara. The houses of Jan Gul, member of outlawed Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) Shura, Hasan Baz, Amin Shinwari, Jan Mat, Saifullah, Hazrat Khan, Shah Faisal and Maulana Buner were demolished in Sipah area.
In Malak Dinkhel area, security forces destroyed the houses of supporters and commanders of LI, including Amal Gul, Iqbal, Faqir Gul, Lal Zaman and Taj Mali. The houses of Said Nawab, Ali Akbar, Musa Khan, Azam Khan and Ajab Khan were razed to ground in Akakhel area. The security forces did not carry out operation in Kamarkhel and Shlobar areas on Friday.
The closure of Bara Bazaar for the fourth consecutive day increased the problems of the people who were under curfew and running out of food items inside their houses. Locals said curfew remained in place mostly in areas where security forces were conducting the operation. However, markets were closed causing scarcity of necessary items, particularly food and medicines.
Officials said the operation was launched because the banned LI had established a parallel government in Bara by taxing people and transport, deciding cases and awarding punishment to people without any regard for the law of the country.
They said the operation would continue till the restoration of writ of the government in the area. "The militants, who have fled to the mountains, will be targeted once the writ of the government is restored in the plain areas," said one official on condition of anonymity.
The security officials also claimed killing three suspected militants during Friday's action. One among the three slain people was identified as Shahid. Military helicopters also targeted militants' positions in Nare Baba and Mehroban Kelley area of Bar Bara, but there were no reports about casualties or damage to property.
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He would look so good with everything above the unibrow missing.
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Desparate measures by desparate men seldom work.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A member of the Iraqi parliaments security & defense committee on Saturday termed as correct a decision to put more troops on the Iraqi-Syrian borders, calling for a comprehensive strategic plan to prevent any infiltrations into the Iraqi territories. The decision, a correct and useful one although it came late, would have a positive effect to curb the number of Syrian militants entering Iraq, Adel Birwari told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Maj. General Tareq al-Asal, the Anbar province police chief, had said on Friday that orders were given by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to deploy army and police forces on the Iraqi-Syrian borders to prevent any infiltrations and enhance control and monitoring points.
Iraqi-Syrian relations have been recently strained after the bloody Aug. 19 bombing attacks that left 82 people killed and 1203 others wounded. The Iraqi government accused Baathists residing in Syria of involvement in the blasts and called on Syria to hand them over.
Maliki had said that the attack on two sovereign ministries the foreign affairs and finance is a major crime and would only prolong the Iraqi peoples suffering, adding the crisis with Syria is not new.
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Ma'an -- Third family clash in two days sees Hebron police arrest ten including one man charged with attempted murder.
A wave of family violence continues in the West Bank, this time in the Hebron-area village of Bani Na'im where one man was seriously injured in a family brawl that turned deadly when one member brought out a hunting rifle.
Police were called to the scene and halted the fight, arresting ten men and questioning them as to the motives and lead-up to the fight.
The southern district police said they have intervened in at least 80 family clashes since the start of Ramadan, including three large brawls Sa'ir, Yatta, and Bani Na'im, where a total of 15 people were arrested.
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celebrating the Religion of Peace
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It's the fault of the racist wall (kidding aside)!
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The only "Wall" is around their minds.
It's called "Religion".
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
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Ramadan is actually a "tumultuous" month; not only is it a month of food excesses (which is absolutely HILARIOUS, for a month of supposed "fasting", actually ending up being a time of overindulgence, partying, spending,...), but,
1) there are big interpersonal problems during the day (related to hypoglycemia);
2) once the fasting breaks at the sunset, the Pious gets all agitated, partying, etc, etc... In fact, in frenhc familiar language, there's a word called "ramdam", faire du ramdam, IE to make some noise, be restless, cause a scene,... it's from WWI, from trench life, and derives from... Ramadan, and was a derogatory term for the noise and agitation made by muslims breaking the fast, being a nuisance to others.
and
3) when the Holy Month finally ends, there WILL be spontaneous (small scales) riots all over the place, as it is customary for young muslims to let go of the "fasting" pressure by breaking loose and wrecking things, just to show the Infidels how they feel about them.
Add to those the very annoying habits of trying to force the non-muslims to comply with that "fast" (on the top of my head, have read over the years of minority french kids in ethnic 'hoods being either directly or through peer pressure compelled to fast, which is pretty infuriating when you read that say as an aside in an article about a pre-teen girl basically held in sexual slavery by young muslim teens, who make them follow the ramadan) or to deal with associated problems (school skipping, employees being dizzy,...) without any way to complain, wouldn't be multiculti.
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has cancelled a planned trip to Israel on September 11, against the background of Israeli anger at the Swedish government's refusal to condemn an article in a Swedish newspaper accusing IDF soldiers of killing Palestinians and harvesting their organs.
While Swedish officials told The Jerusalem Post late last week that the visit was in doubt, Israeli diplomatic officials said Saturday night that the visit had definitely been cancelled.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was considering not meeting Bildt unless he condemned the article in the tabloid Aftonbladet, something the Swedish government - citing freedom of the press - has adamantly refused to do. Netanyahu gave vent to Israel's disappointment over the matter during a meeting last week in Jerusalem with visiting EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
During that meeting, Netanyahu said that no one was expecting the Swedes to restrict freedom of the press, but that it was reasonable to expect the government to speak out against the type of defamation that in the past had led to the mass murder of Jews.
Sweden currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, and Bildt's failure to visit here will have an impact on the country's ability during its term as president to have any real say on the diplomatic process.
Ironically, while the Swedes continued to refuse to condemn the article, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos said Saturday in Stockholm that he regretted the Spanish newspaper El Mundo's decision to run an interview Saturday with Holocaust denier David Irving as part of a retrospective on the start of World War II 70 years ago.
"The foreign minister, while maintaining the most absolute respect for freedom of expression, regrets that space was given to a historian who denies one of the biggest tragedies for humanity in modern history," a spokesman for Moratinos said. "These types of statements deeply hurt the Jewish people."
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09/06/2009 00:00 ||
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Netanyahu gave vent to Israel's disappointment
Nope. Bibi just refused to meet with the dog turd. When the "vent to Israel's disappointment" will come, Swedes---and the rest of degenerats inhibiting Europe---will know the difference.
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G(r)om, do you speak french (don't think those guys speak any english worth mentioning)???
I sure would like to set an online Cage Death-Match between you and the joooos-obsessed commenters from some french blogs. You'll scream "degenerates europeans" at them, and they will scream "degenerates joooos" at you, you'll complain about how the USA force Israel into a self-defeating policy, and they will complain about how the joooos rule the world and are destroying Europe, etc, etc, ad nauseam.
No need to Samson-option us*, I kinda like to enjoy the idea we're in the Biblical End Times. My own pet fantasy is that the Sh8t will hit the fan eventually, in ways no one really anticipated, but it will manage to follow the "script", yet fool everyone into thinking it's not.
So, I actually am rather optimistical, in a way.
*Disclaimerv : I would VERY happy if you (or someone else, for that matter) nuked Paris and got us rid of the Enlightened Elites... ***except*** that I would most probably lose internet access, if only for a time.... Can't have that!... Need my pr0n fix, pr0n helps soothe the pain.
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Yeah, but won't it be absolutely DELIGHTFUL to have all those let's-save-Gaia types bitch and complain because they can't fill up their gas tank, can't heat their house, can't afford good food, basically can't enjoy the luxuries of capitalist industrial socieiries? Comedy gold.
Remember : it's not that important to be happy, it's almost as to have others be unhappier than you.
[Asharq al-Aswat] An annual religious ceremony which could have become a rallying point for Iran's pro-reform opposition has been cancelled, Iranian media said on Saturday.
A reformist website also published the names of 72 people it said had been killed in unrest following the disputed June presidential election. Some 30 died from gunshot wounds, others from baton blows, one had his throat slit, one was thrown from the third floor of a building and one woman was burnt beyond recognition, it said.
The cancellation of next week's ceremony may reflect authorities' concern it could have become the scene of renewed opposition protests against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his re-election.
The poll results sparked huge opposition demonstrations, plunged Iran into its deepest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and further strained ties with the West.
The Mardomsalari newspaper cited "pressure" on the family of late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to call off the speeches traditionally held at his shrine near Tehran to mark the seventh century death of Imam Ali, Shi'ite Islam's most revered figure after the Prophet Mohammad.
"This is the first year in which the mourning is not held at the Imam's (Khomeini's) shrine," Mardomsalari said. "The official communique says the Imam's shrine is unable to hold the mourning period in view of the problems it is facing."
The newspaper gave no further explanation for the unprecedented move to cancel the mourning ceremony which was to have been held over three nights between Sept 9-11.
Reformist former President Mohammad Khatami normally speaks on one of the nights at Khomeini's shrine. Several of Khatami's close allies have been detained since the June presidential poll, which moderates say was rigged in favour of Ahmadinejad.
Other newspapers also carried similar reports, which did not say whether Khatami might appear at any of the many other such events held at the same time in mainly Shi'ite Iran.
Mardomsalari said Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder and in charge of the shrine, was "ideologically closer" to Khatami and Mousavi and that there were indications of differences of opinion with the government.
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Iran accused the United States on Saturday of providing forged intelligence to the United Nations nuclear watchdog as an annual Shiite ceremony was cancelled because Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder and in charge of the shrine, was "ideologically closer" to the opposition.
" Considering that there are no original documents on these alleged studies, there is no credible evidence of link between such forged claims and Iran ... This issue should be closed "
Iran IAEA envoy
State news agency IRNA quoted a top Iranian official as saying Washington provided forged intelligence to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which claimed Tehran had studied ways to make atomic bomb.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy to the IAEA, has sent a letter to IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei saying the agency had been given documents that lacked credibility.
"The government of the United States has not given original documents to the agency because it does not actually have any credible documents and all those documents are forged," Soltanieh said in the letter quoted by IRNA from Vienna.
"Considering that there are no original documents on these alleged studies, there is no credible evidence of link between such forged claims and Iran ... This issue should be closed."
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there is no credible evidence of link between such forged claims and Iran ... This issue should be closed."
And Quickly, before evidence can be found.
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09/06/2009 6:18 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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The mother of Fawwaz Al-Otaibi, the wanted terrorist whose return to the Kingdom was 
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Breaking his silence over the ongoing security forces operation in his stronghold of Bara, the chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam (LI), Mangal Bagh, on Friday warned that he would come out with a fresh strategy if the operation was not halted till Saturday afternoon. 
