[Tolo News] Frauds during the Afghan parliamentary polls were "organised" and will have negative consequences if not pursued, said Dr Abdullah Abdullah to reporters on Wednesday Something in Afghanistan was organized? They are improving...
Dr Abdullah Abdullah, leader of the' Coalition for Change and Hope', expressing concern over widespread fraud during the elections, said Afghans have lost trust in the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) as well.
Majority of the frauds were done in the country's unstable areas, especially in the Taliban controlled regions, Dr Abdullah told reporters in a press conference held in Kabul on Wednesday.
The same discrepancies during the previous presidential elections were repeated in these elections, he added.
The opening of polling centres in the country's insecure areas and the use of influential people's houses as polling stations, involvement of security officials in electoral fraud and forged voter cards were among the main challenges during the elections cited by Dr Abdullah.
"Unfortunately the frauds were organised and were partially carried out by influential people," Abdullah said.
The leader of the Coalition for Change and Hope party calling the parliamentary polls un-transparent said the ECC still has time to investigate about electoral frauds.
"The consequences of an un-transparent parliamentary election in the country will be very unpleasant for the people of Afghanistan," Abdullah said.
"No one should take the responsibility of widespread fraud and there is still time to regain the lost trust to some extent," he added.
Mr Abdullah had claimed on Tuesday that the initial counting of votes revealed that his party members had gained considerable votes in the Afghan parliamentary elections.
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(Xinhua) -- An Algerian minister on Monday called on Western countries not to pay ransoms for the release of their abducted nationals in the sub-Saharan region, saying that ransoms stand for 95 percent of the funds obtained by terrorists in the region.
They can't even get charity donations from their co-religionists? What kind of jihadis can't even get charity donations from a culture that arrests unbelievers for eating during their fast?
Algeria seeks to "mobilize all efforts to stop paying ransoms (to terrorists), as all sides acknowledge that 95 percent of terrorism funds comes from ransoms," Minister Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel told Algerian Radio.
Algeria has repeatedly criticized decisions by some European countries
We're looking at you, Spain.
to pay ransoms to terrorists for the release of their nationals kidnapped in the region.
Algeria will continue its efforts on the international level to criminalize the payment of ransom for the release of hostages, the minister added.
"We seek to add two articles to resolution 1904 on confronting al-Qaida to criminalize the payment of ransoms," he said.
Messahel also called on the European Union to support the Algerian efforts towards that end. "I told my European colleagues that it is not enough to say that their governments do not pay ransoms. The EU has to take measure to criminalize it," he said.
Send them a very stiff diplomatic note. That should do it.
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What is the value of a human life? We just need to tax our citizens a trivial amount to save another citizen's life. It's so much easier that way. The cumulative effects are someone else's concern. The UN, perhaps.
- Typical European Bureaucrat
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What is the value of a human life?
Depends on what human. And whether you consider them human. Last I knew we were offering over $1,000,000 for certain high-ranking thugs or vital parts of them.
[Iran Press TV] Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Cairo to protest against Gamal Mubarak's plans to succeed his father as the Egyptian president.
Chanting anti-government slogans, angry protesters said they do not want "a hereditary government" and that the next president should be elected by the Egypt people.
It is widely believed that Gamal, a high-ranking member of the ruling party, will succeed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Hundreds of riot police were deployed outside Abdin palace, the president's official residence and attacked demonstrators who were trying to march right up to the palace.
Egyptian police also detained dozens of activists and beat many others. They also seized videotapes of some of the journalists covering the demonstration.
"They have been beating us. You can see the blood on my neck. We are a republic, not a kingdom," said an activist, adding that "If Gamal Mubarak becomes president; this country will go to hell. He cares only about businessmen."
"The people of Egypt are all dying. We are dying of poverty and we are dying of a lack of freedom", he added.
The demonstrators also burnt pictures of Gamal and effigies of President Mubarak.
Similar protest took place in Alexandria and 30 demonstrators were arrested there.
Egypt will be hold presidential election next year. However, 82-year-old Mubarak, who has been ruling Egypt for nearly three decades, has not announced if he will run for another term.
Under the recent constitutional amendments, Gamal Mubarak is one of the few people in Egypt qualified to run in the presidential election.
Mohamed ElBaradei, who formerly ran the International Atomic Energy Agency, is considered a potential rival presidential candidate to Gamal.
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[Al Arabiya] Yemeni Sports Minister Hamud Mohammed Ubad has dismissed the Yemeni national chess team for playing against Israel in an international tournament, a government website said late on Tuesday. Good Lord yes! If they brought an infestation of Hebrew cooties home with them the country would have no defenses.
The team was participating in the World Chess Olympics in Belarus when it played their Israeli opponents, the official September 26 Net website said. The minister also banned the Yemeni players who played against the Israelis in Minsk from representing their country again in the future. Lost, did they? Dont'cha hate it when that happens?
"This was an individual action contrary to the policy of Yemen, which refuses any normalization with Israel," Ubad said, adding that players of any sport must withdraw if they are drawn against Israelis. "Simply wouldn't do to have a Hebrew beat an Arab at something, y'know."
Ubad said the Yemeni players had now withdrawn from the tournament and were returning home. ... in disgrace.
The Yemeni committee against normalization with Israel expressed indignation that the team had been drawn against the Jewish state "Tut tut. Have to actually play against Hebrews? They shoulda just marked us down as the winners. We're contesting the default, of course."
Yemen is a member of the World Chess Federation, ranking the 89th in a list of 154 countries. Israel is ranked the 5th. But that doesn't mean they're better players... Or maybe it does.
Some Arab sports teams have cancelled participation in international championships in the past because of Israel's participation.
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I seem to remember a guy who said something like, "The only time OIC do not get thumped in international games, even the ones which were considered traditional or sacred, is when they play other OIC members."
Snip, duplicate, but I'm leaving the YouTube link.
In a video still accessible on YouTube, six young men in hooded tops or wearing scarves over their faces can be seen pouring petrol on a book and setting it alight, before burning another.
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In other news Iranian officials burned hundreds of confiscated Bibles just after the ayatollah pronounced a fatwa against the Koran burners. I just love the hypocrisy.
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Interesting that two MSM newspapers have contradictory statements regarding the Police motives for the arrests. Daily Mail: Police confirmed the arrests were in relation to burning the book, not for making, distributing or watching the video. El Guardinista:The six men were arrested on suspicion of stirring racial hatred, police said, which is outlawed under the 1986 public order act. They were not arrested for the actual attack on, and burning of, the Qur'an, but in connection with the posting of the video.
Section 21 of the 1986 act reads: "A person who distributes, or shows or plays, a recording of visual images or sounds which are threatening, abusive or insulting is guilty of an offence if he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or racial hatred is likely to be stirred up."
Six Tyneside men have been arrested after filming themselves apparently burning copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Police said the men, all from the Gateshead area, were detained after a video appeared on the internet. They were arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and released on bail pending further inquiries.
In a joint statement, Northumbria Police and Gateshead Council said: "The kind of behaviour displayed in this video is not representative of our community as a whole.
"Our community is one of mutual respect and we continue to work together with community leaders, residents and people of all faiths and beliefs to maintain good community relations."
Two men were arrested on 15 September and a further four on 22 September. In the video a group of men are seen pouring fuel over what appear to be copies of the Koran and setting light to them. There'll always be an England, And England shall be free, If England means as much to you, As England means to me.
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Another reason America split from the Euros over a hundred years ago and why today's ruling class desperately wants to drag America back into that fold.
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I don't know, it sounds like England has been conquered from within and is occupied land at this time. However, I would like to think of England as free but...there is the islamist threat there as there is here.
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A large chunk of the population appears to be afraid of the Muslims, another large chunk is afraid of being perceived as racist so they buy into PC nonsense. Another group just hates Western Civilization (many born as part of Western Civilization).
The last chunk is getting pissed off at it all and its only a matter of time until they really start to be heard. Hopefully at the ballot box in a wave of sanity.
The nations, not so blest as thee,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall;
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.
"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
"Britons never will be slaves."
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"At one hundred yards! Volley fire, present! Aim! Fire!"
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good community relations according to the book the racists burned
[9.29] Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
[5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
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@ #12 Mullah Lodabullah -
Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth, and the light. Whoever doth not know me as their savior cannot enter heaven".
Please know this.
Allah = submission.
Jesus = Love
Muslims are following the moon god.
And breaking the 10th commandment
It's never too late to wake up and desire to be saved.
May God bless you.
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I'm not a Muslim. I'm no fan of Islamicism. But burning another man's holy book is idiocy.
Since this "holy book" says that I'm a son of a monkey and a pig and shouldn't exist, I can't afford your fine sentiments. Neither can you.
I think that burning a book in order to supress its iodeas is both silly and counterproductive: except for career officers about hamf of the purest of the purest Free French, those who took that path in 1940 had read Mein Kampf. I think WOT would be far clmoser to be won if everybody in Dar el Hard and specially in America had read the Koran. But those people are not trying to remove the Koran from the face of the earth, what they are doing is pushing back against those who spit, sh.t and pee on _our_ holy books, be it the Bible or the Declaration of Independence (all men created equal, endowed to certain rights life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
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JFM, I have read it, I have studied it, and I have seen how the holy leaders have told their followers to implement it. You my friend are simply wrong on this one. The book is a book of hate, not a holy book. Why is it the bible is outlawed in the Islam world, one answer-the Koran tell them to. Why is it hundreds of bibles were burned is Iran just last week, because they are following the Writtings of the Koran. So when someone gets on a fucking soapbox and tell me and other we don't understand Islam and we are wrong, you, you need to step back, look at what your Islamic leaders are doing and saying and the reassess what the hell you are saying here.
I do agree with one thing you said, this war to defend freedom against the oppression of Islam would surely be long over if all of our leader read the Koran and studied it's culture. I am certain Mecca and Medina would be black smoking holes by now.
So the next time you want to stand up for Islam and their holiness saying its protected and those of us that opposed it are spitting on the constitution go to ground zero, go to Afghanistan, go to Riyadh and learn how true Islam is carried out. Watch them stone people on Thursday night in Riyadh. Watch the execute women in Afghanistan. Watch them run a genocide campaign in Northern Iraq against the Christians, in Sudan against the Christians, should I keep going, I can. You not talking here to a bunch of rednecks. Some here have been there, studied it, and watched the horror of Islam with our own eyes. We are not trampling on free speech my friend, we are protecting it.
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Pan,
you got it wrong. JFM was supporting the english guy's rights to burn a book against what Steve W was saying. JFM is not defending the koran. I think you meant to address Steve W or one of the others.
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He's saying go ahead and burn the book in refutation to Steve W's post -- as none of these Brits are trying to suppress its ideas a kin to Nazis -- they are merely protesting its ideas. They obviously know what's in the Koran as does our friend JFM - he's saying in some ways mein kampf was the holy book for certain folks as well, etc.
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I have such a short fuse when it comes to Islam, my apologies for not catching his meaning. I too think burning books is a worthless stunt, but in the US it is protected as long as not performed by the govt and Im ok with that. I am just tired of the hypocracy of Islam and how they tend to work the seams of our laws to meet their end and chip away at our freedoms.
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The commanding officer of the guided-missile submarine USS Ohio's Blue Crew was relieved Friday for inappropriate personal behavior, according to the Navy. He was the second commanding officer relieved at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in the week.
Capt. Ronald Gero was relieved by Rear Adm. James Caldwell, commander of Submarine Group Nine, because Caldwell lost confidence in Gero's ability to command. The relief occurred after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate personal behavior that eroded good order and discipline, the Navy said. That sounds like Milspeak for not keeping it in his pants. Or maybe too much "drinky-drinky"?
Gero, who took command of the submarine in November 2008, has been temporarily assigned to administrative duties on the staff of Submarine Group Nine.
Cmdr. Theodore Schroeder, deputy commander of Submarine Squadron 19, has assumed command of Ohio until a permanent replacement is named. Schroeder previously commanded the ballistic-missile submarine USS Pennsylvania.
Gero was the second commanding officer of the USS Ohio's Blue Crew since it was converted at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to carry 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles and 66 special forces troops.
Gero's profile on LinkedIn.com states that he was the ninth commanding officer of the USS Buffalo, from July 2002 to May 2005. He was the executive officer of the USS Narwhal, and served on the USS Nebraska Gold Crew and the USS Houston.
On Tuesday, Capt. David Solms, commanding officer of Trident Training Facility, was relieved of his command by Capt. Kenneth Swan, commanding officer of Submarine Learning Center in Groton, Conn., for inappropriate personal behavior that led to a loss of confidence in his ability to command. Maybe they had a swap meet up in Banggor
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I'm thinking "indiscreet orgy", either involving enlisted personnel or "professional services" who blabbed.
It reminded me of a tale from the Flashman series, by George MacDonald Fraser, in which he was impressed by the 'knocking shop' performance of "two elderly naval gentlemen", with a bevy of petite Oriental girls.
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20-50 years ago, they would have gotten away with this shit. These days, forget it! Modern folk simply don't understand that what goes on off the job reflects your character, especially when you're in charge of nuclear weapons.
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I was not in the Navy but I worked with some of them. They are some of the most uptight people I have ever met and I bet that the sub guys are worse. "Inappropriate Behavior" is a very minor term where as "Conduct Unbecoming" would be more serious. Probably didn't wash up after taking a leak. Any Squids out there got any follow-on?
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Army grunts would go to the Navy's parties in Korea when the Army folks weren't partying hard enough. Trust me, I spent one New Year Eve at a Naval Officers house babysitting my boy who almost peed on a table that he mistook for a toilet next to the bar. Anyone who doesn't think the Navy parties hard is living in an alternate universe. Oh, and my cousin who get pregnant out of wedlock was stationed on a Navy ship stationed off of Puerto Rico, if you need any more proof.
This is the film student who supported the Ground Zero mosque, and had recently returned from an embed with a U.S. Marine unit in Afghanistan (see here for more background on Mr. Enright).
Michael Enright, the man charged with stabbing a taxi driver in an alleged anti-Muslim attack, accused police officers the night of his arrest of religious persecution and claimed he had served in the military.
Two lies to start.
Enright also told police officers he acted in self defense
Another lie. That makes three.
on August 24, when he allegedly stabbed Ahmed Sharif after first asking if the cab driver was Muslim.
The 21-year-old film student was formally indicted by a grand jury and arraigned in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday, He is charged with attempted murder in the second degree as a hate crime, as well as first degree assault as a hate crime.
Enright pleaded not guilty.
And another. Four.
In a series of comments the police attribute to Enright in a court document, he is quoted as speaking in Arabic, calling himself a patriot and claiming to have been in the military.
Five -- the military one. He apparently spoke at least a little Arabic or one of the Afghan languages, and we have no way of knowing whether or not he's a patriot.
He also called one police officer a "coward," according to the court document.
Opinion, not lie, although definitely stupid to say while being arrested.
"What ya going to do? Beat me up?" Enright is alleged to have asked inside a police car after his arrest. "You are a stupid broad. You allow them to blow up buildings in this country."
"Stupid broad" is an opinion, albeit no probably wrong. But allowing to blow up buildings is lie number six.
Enright allegedly told an officer he had been drinking scotch
Probably true, and his blood or breath alcohol level was hopefully tested to verify.
and said he was being "persecuted" for being Irish Catholic.
Lie number seven.
He later claimed he was Jewish and added, "You are going to ruin the entire Jewish race by locking me up."
Lies number eight and nine. The entire Jewish race is unmoved by the arrest of the guilty. In fact, since they worship a god of justice and mercy, the entire Jewish race would no doubt be pleased by his arrest, were they all aware of it.
Judge Richard Carruthers decided Enright would remain in custody until he was deemed psychologically fit by a doctor. The judge said he would revisit bail if Enright was given medical clearance.
Well, then. Either way this will prove amusing, although possibly not for Mr. Enright.
At the hearing Wednesday, Enright's attorney said he is filing a motion to obtain copies of Enright's notebooks that remain in police custody. The attorney, Lawrence Fisher, declined to comment after the hearing.
Enright is accused of slashing the throat and face of Sharif, a 43-year-old cab driver, after yelling an Arabic greeting and then saying, "Consider this a checkpoint." Sharif's throat injury required 15 stitches.
A very complicated situation for those who originally claimed an Islamophobic attack: had the slashes been a little longer or deeper, Mr. Sharif would have died too quickly to seek help. Also, Mr. Sharif was against the Ground Zero mosque that Mr. Enright was working to support.
[Geo TV] Interior Minister Rehman Malik Wednesday said the 'conspirators' plotting against the government should be subjected to accountability and that the 'civil government and military are one.'
Interacting with media men outside the Parliament House, Rehman Malik said he would, if he could, make revelations about all conspiracies aimed at destabilizing the country.
"The talks of change are also part of the conspiracy to destabilize Pakistain," Rehman Malik said.
He advised 'the advocators' of democracy to adopt democratic values and shun the path of conspiracies.
The Interior Minister said he was the one who took lead in taking action over the report of alleged plot of assassinating Chief Justice Lahore.
To a question, he said Rangers are functioning under police in Karachi and the extension in Rangers' deployment for three more months is part of a routine exercise.
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[Dawn] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Tuesday for an "immediate end to violence" in Indian-held Kashmir, following weeks of confrontation between Indian troops and Kashmiri protesters.
His spokesman Martin Neseriky said in a statement that Mr Ban had urged "calm and restraint by all concerned".
Responding to a question at a briefing, Mr Neseriky said the "secretary general regrets the loss of life" due to hostilities in the region.
In August, the UN chief issued a similar statement calling for calm and restraint but later withdrew it saying it was just an advisory and not a statement from his office.
But now that the situation in the occupied territory has become endemic he was constrained to respond as journalists raised questions about his position on the deteriorating situation in the area and questioned his 'no comment' posture.
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[Al Arabiya] Islamic states sought on Wednesday to have the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society human rights council condemn a U.S. pastor's suspended plan to burn Korans, saying it was part of a pattern of global anti-Mohammedan violence.
It would be as effective as the ones condemning Israel, which is to say not at all. How does President Obama plan to vote, I wonder?
A resolution submitted by Pakistain
Shouldn't they be working on educating the students of the 10,000 public and private schools destroyed in the floods, or caring for the refugees or something? Ambassador Holbrooke recently explained that the world would not be fixing things for them, after all.
for the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) asks the council to speak out against what it dubbed "the recent call by an bully boy group to organize a 'Burn a Koran Day'."
The resolution, which diplomats said was likely to be passed as the OIC and its allies have a majority on the 47-nation body, made no reference to condemnation of the plan by President Barack B.O. Obama and other U.S. and foreign leaders.
Then why are we there?
But it said the project, championed by little-known Florida preacher Terry Jones, was among "instances of intolerance, discrimination, profiling and acts of violence against Mohammedans occurring in many parts of the world."
The move came amid increasing efforts by the OIC -- which has Russia, China and Asian and African states as allies in the council -- to have the U.N. recognize "Islamophobia" as racism and open to challenge under international law.
No.
It also follows widespread demonstrations around the Mohammedan world in which a number of anti-U.S. protesters have been killed even after Jones withdrew his proposal to stage the burning on September 11, the ninth anniversary of the hijacking attacks in New York and Washington.
In speeches in Geneva over the past few days, OIC secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu of Turkey has also argued that Jones' plan underscored his grouping's long-standing demands for a U.N.- backed ban on "defamation of religion".
Western countries and some allies in Latin America oppose both the OIC efforts, arguing that they undermine freedom of expression and freedom to discuss openly religion-based practices that infringe universal human rights.
Last week, a Pak-born Canadian Mohammedan academic, Raheel Raza, told the council, whose members include Libya and Saudi Arabia, that OIC countries systematically abuse the rights of everyone living on their territory, especially women.
European diplomats said they were unlikely to vote against the OIC resolution, as their governments had already condemned the Koran burning idea, but feared it would be used to increase pressure for actions on defamation and "Islamophobia."
The resolution, together with others yet to be submitted at the council, is likely to be voted on when the body wraps up its current autumn session at the end of next week.
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Detroit --Local Muslim leaders are upset prosecutors won't pursue charges against a man who burned a Quran outside an East Lansing mosque.
Stuart Dunnings III, prosecuting attorney in Ingham County, said today that authorities "didn't find there was any violation of Michigan law"
A few days ago billionaire Charles Munger told U. Mich. students on an unrelated topic At a certain place youve got to say to the people, Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.
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More from Michigan: Municipal officials said they decided this morning not to pursue trespassing, littering or other municipal charges against the individual. Tom Yeadon, assistant city attorney, said there is no evidence the individual stepped foot on the property of the [Islamic] center on South Harrison Road. He added the city is reluctant to pursue any littering charges.
From a littering standpoint, my understanding is that no one would consider a desecrated version of the Quran as litter, Yeadon said. That would be potentially insulting and provocative.
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I'd most likely get sink-trapped for what I'm thinking about these whining jug heads.
It is doubtful that our President will do much at all about the things he ought to speak about. He ought to slam the lack of religious tolerance in islamic lands, the lack of religious tolerance and human rights, islamic inspired terrorism inflicted on the rest of the world, the abominable way women are treated, the creeping threat of sharia law, the intent of converting all to islam, the continual threats from Iran to the mideast and the rest of the world. He ought to come down hard on the NYC imam for threatening America if the mosque doesn't get build where he wants it. But that "teachable moment" is not going to happen.
Muslims get alarmed, whiney and full of phony self-righteous indignation about some guy in Florida from a church of about 10 families when he says he is going to burn the Koran but choose to ignore mentioning the above problems.
They can go bugger themselves. Where was the indignation about 9/11? None. I still remember the dancing in the streets in the ME after 9/11. Instead they want to build a victory mosque at GZ. We have a bunch of stupid political boobs who play right into our enemies playbook; the Koran and islamic writings.
Muslims went ballistic when George W. Bush mentioned "Crusade" (I think it was in an UN speech). We should mention Crusade often just to give them something to really be ticked off about. Think of it as therapy--de-sensitizing them. They are far too thin-skinned--it only goes one way. I'm tired of their noisy claimed victimhood. Come to think about it a Crusade might be a damned good idea. Maybe we should dance in the streets everytime we bag a muslim with a drone. Maybe our ROEs should pay bonuses to our soldiers for each of the enemy they titzup.
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JohnQC, I agree. We should be openly using the Koran as toilet paper after a pork-rich meal, drawing cartoons of the prophet pedophile and generally mock the religion of peace death cult daily. After awhile the nutters will either give themselves aneurysms or grow thicker skin.
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Muslims went ballistic when George W. Bush mentioned "Crusade" (I think it was in an UN speech). We should mention Crusade often just to give them something to really be ticked off about. Think of it as therapy--de-sensitizing them. They are far too thin-skinned--it only goes one way. I'm tired of their noisy claimed victimhood. Come to think about it a Crusade might be a damned good idea. Maybe we should dance in the streets everytime we bag a muslim with a drone. Maybe our ROEs should pay bonuses to our soldiers for each of the enemy they titzup.
yup.. what's fair is fair.
tolerance is a 2-way street
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Combat operations are officially over in Iraq. But dont tell the U.S. Air Force, which is still flying tens of thousands of missions over Iraq.
While Iraqi ground troops have steadily taken a bigger and bigger role in the countrys security, its air force is still lagging far behind. As of this spring, the active fleet consisted of only 36 transport, 19 surveillance, and three attack planes. The Iraqi Air Force academy opened its doors just last week.
Let us be frank, we dont have the combat or jet fighters or intercepting planes or air defense systems, Iraqi Air Force commander Staff Lt. Gen. Anwer Hamad Amen Ahmed told the AP in April. We are still far from an air forces full potential. We will need the U.S. long after 2011.
At least a decade. Let's hear Bambi acknowledge that.
Through the first seven months of 2010, according to statisitics supplied by the U.S. Air Force, American pilots flew 4,620 close air support missions over ground troops in combat. The airmen only fired their weapons only 10 of those flights compared to 1650 such sorties in 2007.
So they're flying close air support but not shooting or bombing.
But the number of surveillance flights has soared: with 6,200 sorties through July 31st, American planes could surpass 2007s total by 40 percent or more.
Much of the surveillance could be done if we had more UAVs, correct?
In addition, U.S. aircraft ferried 470,000 passengers, and hauled 52,700 tons of cargo.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] The Paleostinian president has left the door open to continuing peace negotiations with Israel even if it resumes settlement construction in the West Bank, offering a glimmer of hope that a compromise will be reached in a key dispute that has threatened to torpedo the newly relaunched talks.
That's not a compromise, that's complete surrender on the issue. President Obama's insistence on negotiations, coupled with Prime Minister Netanyahu's politically necessary intransigence on this issue, is having an effect -- the first time the Palestinians have not stood firm on a pre-negotiation demand. Not that this means the negotiations will have any concrete result as the Palestinians haven't yet reached the point of suing for peace, but even so.
But in a reminder of the fragile negotiating climate, an Israeli security guard shot and killed a Paleostinian man in a volatile east Jerusalem neighborhood early Wednesday, sparking a small riot in the area. Police were trying to contain the violence.
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly threatened to walk away from peace talks, launched this month in Washington, if Israel resumes building in its West Bank settlements after a 10-month moratorium expires on Sunday.
Walk away and be damned. Even left wing Israelis don't believe you are serious, O ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will not extend the slowdown, which has put thousands of planned housing starts on hold. Israel has also quietly halted new construction in east Jerusalem, the disputed sector of the city that the Paleostinians claim for their future capital.
Speaking to a closed meeting of Jewish American leaders in New York late Tuesday, Abbas made clear that he wants to continue the interminable yap-yap with Israel and signaled that he was backing away from his ultimatum.
"I cannot say I will leave the negotiations, but it's very difficult for me to resume talks if Prime Minister Netanyahu declares that he will continue his activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem," Abbas said, according to a transcript of the event obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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[Al Arabiya] A Pentagon brasshat says the B.O. regime is "working closely" with members of the U.S. Congress to help restore military aid to Leb's army.
U.S. Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy said Wednesday during a trip to Leb that the United States is committed to supporting the country's military.
In August, several U.S. lawmakers froze $100 million in military aid to Leb after expressing concerns the weapons could be turned on Israel and that Hezbullies may have influence over the Lebanese army.
But the B.O. regime has made clear it wants the military aid to continue in the interest of America's national security and Mideast stability.
"We are working closely with members of the U.S. Congress to resolve the concerns they have over this assistance," Flournoy said in a statement after the meeting.
Washington has provided $720 million to Leb's poorly equipped army since 2006. It says the aid aims to strengthen the military at the expense of the Shi'ite bad turban group Hezbullies, which fought a 34-day with Israel four years ago.
But after last month's border clash, in which two Lebanese soldiers, a Lebanese journalist and a senior Israeli officer were killed, some U.S. politicians said the funding should be halted.
A day after they raised their objections, Iran's ambassador to Beirut said that his country was ready to "cooperate with the Lebanese army in any area that would help the military in performing its national role in defending Leb".
Israel said at the time it had complained to Washington and Paris about arming Leb's military because the weapons were being used against it. The U.S. State Department said it was not aware that any U.S. equipment had been used during the Aug. 3 clash.
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Meanwhile, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [CIA]US RUNS [covert]AFGHAN FORCE TO HUNT MILITANTS IN PAKISTAN.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > PAKISTAN SEEKS US INTERVENTION IN KASHMIR [blames India for recent troubles].
[Iran Press TV] The Iranian Foreign Ministry front man says the terrorist attack in the city of Mahabad is Israel's reaction to Tehran's successful diplomacy in New York.
Not the Kurds, then? Fascinating. Where will those treacherous Juices strike next, one wonders?
"The terrorist attack in Mahabad is the reaction of Israeli agents and the supporters of the Zionist regime [of Israel] to the country's defensive prowess in the Sacred Defense Week and the successes of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran's active diplomacy in the biggest international arena in New York," Ramin Mehmanparast said on Wednesday.
That defensive prowess is looking a bit limp, if the Enemy can strike anywhere at will.
A bomb kaboom in West Azarbaijan Province on Wednesday left 12 people dead and 70 others injured. The terrorist attack took place where people were watching a military parade. No group or person has yet grabbed credit for the bombing.
"This terrorist attack coincided with the influential presence of the Iranian delegation headed by Dr. Ahmadinejad in New York and his influential public diplomacy in raising public awareness as well as his defense of our country's rightful stances," IRNA quoted Mehmanparast as saying.
Look at that -- the president acquired a PhD, which makes him at least as smart as those defence-piercing Juices!
The foreign ministry front man referred to the 1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed war and said Iran has now reached the level of authority and capability to powerfully deter its enemies and defend its borders.
At least those at the level of Iraq in 1988. Which war Iran didn't actually win, by the way, but only held to a draw.
"The enemies of the Mohammedan nation of Iran, especially the Zionist regime [of Israel] and its supporters, cannot tolerate this power [and might to defend the country]," Mehmanparast said.
Big talk, even as Iranian airplanes inexplicably fall from the skies and it is widely believed the Juices have inserted a nasty little worm into 60% of the computers in Iran, including those running the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
He added that the enemies are targeting the Iranian nation's resilience, but they do not know that such measures have no effect on the will of the people and the officials of the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
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[Iran Press TV] Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the enemies are targeting Islam and the Holy Qur'an to fight Iran.
In a Wednesday meeting with Basij youth, the Leader pointed to the 30-year animosity of arrogant powers toward the people of Iran and said, "The enemies pretend that their target is Iran but in reality they are targeting Islam and the Qur'an."
"Because they have realized the source of the Iranian nation's development, resilience and dignity is the religion of Islam, spirituality and the Qur'an."
Ayatollah Khamenei said the Iranian nation is a pioneer in the battle between the Mohammedan Ummah and hegemonic powers and it will increase its strength to advance without retreating or slowing down.
The Leader said the Iranian nation is passing a dangerous turn in history, adding that "in the past 30 years we have passed parts of this fate-determining era but crossing these sensitive points is not yet over."
Ayatollah Khamenei added that the nation and its officials would continue their path with "wisdom, deliberation and solidarity."
The Leader said certain individual claim that the Revolution has aged, is over and Imam Khomeini has been forgotten.
"These individuals, who were not necessarily the enemies of the Revolution from the beginning, were left wanting in the face of their egocentricity and materialistic motivations and succumbed to temptations of power and position."
The Leader said these individuals have become empty on the inside and this is why they think the Revolution is over but this claim is a fraction of their "imagination and a hallucination."
The Leader said Iranians would overcome the enemies and "reach the high peaks of progress and honor."
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[Iran Press TV] Iran's President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad says the Israeli prime minister is a professional assassin, who should be tried for his crimes against the people of Paleostine.
Do learn your military terminology, "Dr." Ahmadinejad. The man was special forces, not an assassin. The two have very different approaches. I'm sure he knows assassins, though, if that makes you feel any better.
"[Benjamin] Netanyahu should be tried in court for blockading Gazoo and massacring innocent Paleostinian women and children," Ahmadinejad said in an interview with CNN's Larry King on Wednesday.
"Netanyahu is a professional assassin. All dictators in history accuse others to turn the spotlight away from themselves," the Iranian president said when asked about the Israeli prime minister's worries about Iran.
"It is questionable [why] American media feel responsible for this person (Netanyahu)," Ahmadinejad said, adding that "you (American media) are afraid of Netanyahu's warmongering."
The Iranian president said the US and Israel's nuclear weapons are the main threat to the world, and they are mistaken to think they can divert attention from this issue by using propaganda campaigns and spreading lies about others.
"Iran is firmly after the nuclear disarmament of the US and Israel."
That's nice, dear. And afterward you can go outside and play with your ball in the back garden like a good boy.
Ahmadinejad added that Israel is an "illegitimate regime" and an "occupier" and that the US easily starts wars and massacres people, "they are not qualified to have nuclear weapons and should be disarmed as soon as possible."
When asked about the fate of a former FBI agent who allegedly disappeared on Kish Island, the Iranian president said a "joint Iranian-American intelligence committee is to investigate the matter."
Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent, disappeared on March 9, 2007 on Kish Island where he was doing investigative work for a private security firm.
US officials have dismissed suggestions that Levinson was on assignment for a US government agency.
Iranian authorities have announced that Tehran has no information on the matter but they stand ready to work with the FBI if asked by Washington.
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Yeah, and unless you Muzzies change, Israeli PM will have to become Nation destroyer & meme exterminator.
[Asharq al-Aswat] The situation in Lebanon continues to be a source of concern, domestically, regionally, and internationally, particularly in light of the escalation between Hezbollah and some of its allies on one side, and the Future Movement and some of its allies, on the other. Despite efforts to dispel the climate of tension that has existed between the two sides since the events of 7 May 2008 [resulting in Hezbollah seizing control of section of West Beirut from Future Movement militia], the political discourse from both parties' remains inflammatory, and a campaign of escalation continues.
Following a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Ali al-Shami in which the discussion touched upon the recent deterioration and the ongoing tension in Lebanon, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Michael Williams, expressed concerns about stability in Lebanon. Williams said that "this issue has generated some concern for Lebanon's stability. The United Nations continues to believe that any differences should be resolved through calm and rational dialogue between all sides, and through the work of Lebanon's state institutions." Williams also said that President Michel Suleiman Foreign Minister Ali al-Shami's upcoming trip to the UN General Assembly presents an important opportunity for Lebanon, as this will be "an opportunity to discuss the implementation of [UN] Security Council Resolution 1701."
Future Movement MP Ahmed Fatfat told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Future Movement "is not responsible for the political storm that is being witnessed by Lebanon, but was only responding to the attacks being made against it." Fatfat also confirmed that "the Future Movement has principles that it will never give up, most importantly is the international tribunal for Lebanon."
MP Ahmed Fatfat also clarified to Asharq Al-Awsat that "Prime Minister Saad Hariri -- in a statement he made during a meeting of the Future Movement the day before yesterday [Monday], pledged not to withdraw his support for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, even if this costs him the premiership or puts his security at risk...at the same time he [also] pledged his support towards good bilateral relations with Syria, and the Lebanese state project." Fatfat added that "the issue of calm is to do with the other party [Hezbollah] as that is where the escalation is coming from."
Answering a question about Syria's position towards what is happening in Lebanon, especially as one of the party's involved in this escalation is a Syrian ally, Fatfat told Asharq Al-Awsat "Let's be clear, the Syrian regime does what is in its interests and the interests of its country, while we as Lebanese, must work for the interests of our country. It is certain that some in Lebanon are upset about opening a new page with Damascus, but we will not allow them to disturb this relationship." He added that "Lebanese parties affiliated to Syria are not in favor of what is happening, and there is a picture printed in the mind, that Jamil Sayyed began an attack (on Hariri and the Future Movement) after his meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and that Aoun opened fire after his son-in-law Minister Gibran Bassil also met with al-Assad, and that in effect Syria is doing what it wants, [however] we have not felt anything negative from Syria."
Fatfat also told Asharq Al-Awsat that "the message that Prime Minister Saad Hariri will send to the people of Lebanon...will involve a number of issues, and this includes sticking to his fundamental principles, and at the forefront of this is the international tribunal, as well as committing to his allies, the [Lebanese] state, and to the bilateral relations between Lebanon and Syria."
For his part, Future Movement MP Ammar Houri welcomed "the return to calm discourse" adding that "we are advocates of calm...and democratic discourse." Following Hezbollah's enthusiastic reception of General Jamil Sayyed at Beirut airport, and the press conference that Sayyed conducted from there, MP Ammar Houri said that the Future Movement "hoped that Hezbollah would have commented on what Sayyed said about the Prime Minister, but [Hezbollah] avoided any discussions of what happened at the airport."
As for the Ministerial Statement that was put forward by Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Future Movement MP Ammar Houri said that "the Future Movement has never reversed its commitment towards the Ministerial Statement...and we are committed to the full terms of the Ministerial Statement from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon to [the principles of] co-existence, peace, and calm." Houri also stressed that "the Ministerial Statement must avoid any political tensions." Houri also said that Prime Minister Hariri is committed to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, strong relations with Syria, and the statements he previously made to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper in this regard.
Following his meeting with Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, leader of the National Liberal Party MP Dory Chamoun announced that he regretted "the state's absence from the airport...which allowed for the holding of such a reception for somebody who is an outlaw." Chamoun also said that "we were hoping that the people who received Sayyed would have reached a degree of understanding to know that such behavior would have negative repercussions on the country as a whole." He added that "I am not afraid with regards to the issue of arms, because they used this in the past and they understood that this is unacceptable internally, and that the more they use force and flex their muscles whilst hiding behind their weapons, the more they expose the resistance."
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Who has all the guns---and, more importantly, all the men willing to use them?
[Arab Times (Kuwait)] Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday in New York that if the United States started a conflict with Iran it would be a war with "no limits," US media reported. "The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious," Ahmadinejad told a meeting with US media owners and editors. "The United States doesn't understand what war looks like. When a war starts, it knows no limits," reports of the event quoted him as saying.
The UN Security Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program and the United States has called for stringent application of the measures.
Ahmadinejad declared Tuesday that capitalism faces inevitable defeat and called for the overhaul of "undemocratic and unjust" global decision-making bodies. In a speech on the second day of a UN anti-poverty summit, the Iranian leader blamed capitalism and transnational corporations for "the suffering of countless women, men and children in so many countries." Ahmadinejad's speech to the 192-member General Assembly never mentioned the Millennium Development Goals -- the UN targets set by world leaders in 2000 to combat global poverty by 2015 -- that are the focus of the three-day summit called by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to spur their implementation.
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You can almost hear the progressive heads exploding as these tools try to grasp how it can be that Ahmadinejad doesn't love them. Doesn't he see that they are on his side and have done all they can to hate and destroy America? Surely, he doesn't mean them when he talks about targeting unjust" global decision-making bodies and transnational corporations???
If they promise to hate western civilization, capitalism, American values, Christians and Jews even more, then can he be their friend?
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You can almost hear the progressive heads exploding as these tools try to grasp how it can be that Ahmadinejad doesn't love them.
Let's hope it wakes them from their stupor and they get over thinking if they just hate America enough, kill American business, bow, apologize, allow enough mosques to be built, permit sharia law to replace the Constitution, tinkle in their pants, and spout meaningless PC mantras they will be liked and thought to be very cool abroad.
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The forty year+ process of establishing (through the legal system and our courts) a PROTECTED CLASS of people, possessing entitlements and class deference has set the stage for an Islamic decivilization. Our society and Judeo-Christian culture are at a virtual crossroads. The gilded, societal elites will climb aboard their chartered NetJets and fly off to distant lands leaving America an Islamic rubbish bin. I am least of all hopeful.
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The leftards won't be happy until America is reduced to the level of Zimbabwe, Hugoland, or Iran. The tool is redistribution of any wealth we have left. Hillary wants to give away $50 million of taxpayers hard-earned money to buy stoves for people in other countries. What the hell is that going to buy us? More poverty in our country. More State Department crap.
[An Nahar] The Syrian leadership has reportedly expressed frustration to some of its Lebanese allies over their harsh attacks on the March 14 team, advising them to adopt calm political rhetoric.
Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat quoted visitors to Damascus as saying that the Syrian stance was made to several Lebanese allies who visited the Syrian capital lately.
The leadership advised them to resort to the spirit of the Saudi-Syrian understanding and stressed support for President Michel Suleiman's efforts to contain the crisis in the country.
Damascus also welcomed the role played by Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat to bring viewpoints closer, al-Hayat said.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem stressed on Wednesday that the party has not yet voiced its final position in the Special Tribunal for Leb as it is still waiting the Saudi efforts that are aimed at thwarting its politicization and the issuing of an "unjust indictment."
He told the Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper: "We have waited in announcing our final position in line with the calm that was called for by the Saudi-Syrian-Lebanese summit in order to give a chance to tackle the tribunal's wrong course in its indictment."
"All Hizbullah wants is for the tribunal not to become an American tool and not be politicized," he continued.
"We consider the false witnesses file the key to settling this issue and since everyone has agreed that they are a problem, then why are our demands considered so impossible to fulfill?" he asked.
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[An Nahar] The March 14 General Secretariat stressed on Wednesday that remaining silent over "the other team's invasion of the Rafik Hariri International Airport" is another crime.
It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: "The other team's crisis has reached its peak and another dead-end in that it is placing the state and all its legitimate institutions before a test for existence."
It demanded the concerned authorities to go through with the legal procedures against former General Security chief Major General Jamil al-Sayyed "in order for them to maintain their credibility and in accordance with the law and constitution."
"Going back on any of these measures will confirm the victory of the militia mentality over that of the state," the statement continued.
It described the current dispute as a fateful one between those who want the rise of the state and others who don't, rejecting claims that it is a sectarian conflict.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran says the construction of a missile defense system similar to the sophisticated Russian S-300 anti-aircraft system is still on the country's agenda. It'll look just like it .. on the outside ...
Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi told reporters on Wednesday that Iran still plans to construct the system.
His remarks come after Moscow decided to suspend a much-delayed deal to deliver the system to Iran.
"A decision has been taken not to supply the S-300 to Iran, they undoubtedly fall under sanctions," chief of the Russian General Staff, Gen. Nikolai Makarov said on Wednesday.
"The authorities decided to suspend the process of supplies," ITAR-TASS News Agency quoted Makarov as saying.
Under a contract signed in 2005, Russia was required to provide Iran with at least five S-300 air-defense systems. However, The infamous However... Moscow's continuous delays in delivering the defense system drew criticism from Tehran on several occasions.
Following the adoption of Resolution 1929 by UN Security Council (UNSC) against Iran, Russian authorities began making conflicting statements about how the new sanctions would affect the contract.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in June that Moscow would "freeze the delivery of the S-300 missiles" to Iran as it runs counter to the new round of UN Security Council sanctions on the country.
Putin's remarks came as Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had earlier said UN sanctions would not affect the S-300 contract with Iran, as these missiles are "defensive weapons" and do not fall under the terms of the sanctions.
Iran has been trying to obtain the sophisticated defense system to improve its deterrence power in reaction to Israeli war rhetoric. Experts believe the S-300 missile defense system can shield Iranian nuclear sites from any Israeli airstrike. Israeli experts know better ...
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Of course there is the stuxnet like bug that might get into air defense system. The missiles just might come back like a boomerang on Tehan or their nuclear facilities or on their leadership.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Yemeni Sports Minister Hamud Mohammed Ubad has dismissed the Yemeni national chess team for playing against Israel in an international tournament, a government website said late on Tuesday.
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