Hundreds of Afghans have taken to the streets to protest against the recent missile attack by US-led forces which left at least eight civilians dead, Press TV reports.
Protesters gathered in the streets of Tagab in Kapisa Province, chanting slogans against the Afghan government and foreign forces in the country.
Angry protesters also demanded those responsible for the fatal attacks to be brought to justice.
Local sources say the rockets were fired from a military base used jointly by Afghan and US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in the Heybat region of the northeastern province.
According to a United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... report on Afghanistan issued on September 28, the monthly average number of security incidents recorded for the year through the end of August has climbed by nearly 40 percent.
The report also said that civilian casualties, already at record levels in the first six months of the year, rose five percent between June and August 2011, compared to the same period in 2010.
Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of nearly 150,000 US-led troops in the country.
Thousands of Afghan civilians have been killed by US-led forces since the occupation of the country which began more than a decade ago.
Aboud al-Zumour is one Egyptian prisoner over whose long incarceration by the Mubarak regime few human rights groups or American diplomats shed a tear.
Convicted of masterminding the assassination of the late President Anwar Sadat, he was a close friend of Ayman Zawahiri, the man now leading al-Qaeda. He still speaks with admiration of his former cell-mate, who he says is a "very kind and nice man". He backs "resistance" against the "occupiers" in the Middle East - America and Israel. In his ideal Egypt, the sale of alcohol would be banned, beaches would be segregated and thieves would have their hands cut off - though, he says "it would not happen because no-one would steal".
Until last week Islamists like him were at the radical fringe, but the first results from last week's election have shown a staggering success for Islamist parties like Mr Zumour's.
Anxious liberal candidates are so worried the hardliners are now heading for a landslide that they are now making desperate appeals to Egyptians to support them in the next two rounds of voting.
Only about eight million votes have been cast so far, and the final result will not emerge for several weeks. What has been counted so far amounts to a crushing blow for the middle-class revolutionaries, both Christians and Muslims, who filled Tahir Square in January and February to force former president Hosni Mubarak from power. They wanted more freedom, yet are now faced with the prospect of newly-confident Islamist parliamentarians determined to enforce Sharia, ban alcohol, and banish many of the rights Egyptian women take for granted.
The cause of their fear is men like Mr Zumour, no longer just another militant but one of a string of Islamist radicals once banned and jailed who have thrown themselves into electoral politics.
The radicals' success showed they can no longer be deemed marginal figures. They now seem certain to play a role for good or ill in the new, hopefully democratic Egypt - and they are becoming deeply divisive figures, although Mr Zumour insists he is ready to share power.
"We want to join a coalition," he told The Sunday Telegraph in an interview at his modest apartment not far from the pyramids of Giza. "People must learn to trust and be comfortable with our Islamic vision, and know that we value peace and mercy and justice and development." "And killing Juice and infidels."
Mr Zumour spent 30 years in prison for the Sadat killing before being released after the revolution that toppled Mr Sadat's successor, Hosni Mubarak. He is now on the council of Gamaa Islamiya, another militant group previously responsible for numerous murderous attacks on tourists and civilian targets that has, like him, "gone straight".
He estimates it will win seven per cent of the seats in the parliament for which elections began this week. In results declared late on Friday from the first third of seats, the Freedom and Justice Party, created and backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, won more than 30 per cent of the vote in two regions, beating even their expectations.
The brothers were banned and persecuted for decades, yet even when they were underground they became part of the mainstream, winning massive popular support with social programmes.
Gamaa Islamiya's allied party Nour, representing Salafis who follow the puritan Saudi-style version of Sunni Islam, won more than 20 per cent of the vote. It was not clear how much of the vote Gamaa Islamiya had won last night but it appeared to be on course to win several seats. Together the hardline parties beat the liberal Egyptian Bloc into third place, a result profoundly depressing to secular and Christian Egyptians.
If those results are repeated in the next two rounds - as most expect - the Freedom and Justice Party could theoretically form a sweeping Islamist coalition with its radical rivals, something that would send shivers of fear through western capitals.
For all the Islamist parties' professed commitment to peaceful means, co-operation against terrorism with the United States and certainly Israel, subject of vicious Islamist attack, would almost certainly never be the same again.
At home the Brotherhood has sought to portray itself as moderate and committed to personal choice, saying it would not enforce the hijab - the Muslim headscarf for women - or other hardline social codes. But that does little to reassure secular Egyptians.
For Mr Zumour, the election marks an unexpected political renaissance.
Although he did not fire the gun that killed Mr Sadat in 1981, he was the mastermind of Islamic Jihad's revolutionary strategy. He has been quoted as saying he voted within the group's council against the attack; less widely publicised is his addendum that this was because he had decided that 1984 would be a better date, because by then plans would be in place for a full-scale revolution.
He now says he regrets the killing - but only because it brought Mr Mubarak to power, who he says was worse than Mr Sadat because he was both despotic and corrupt, rather than just despotic.
He also says that while he disapproves of killing civilians, Islamist militants across the Middle East, from Palestine to Afghanistan, are fighting "occupiers". "If the Americans leave this region, there is no reason for the struggle," he said. "By staying they are creating the struggle, along with much suffering."
In 1984, Zawahiri, his Islamic Jihad colleague, and other members were released early, a decision which has spawned numerous conspiracy theories. They went on to join the fight against the Russians in Afghanistan and then to the international jihad, eventually joining forces with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda.
"He is a very kind and nice man. He fasts and prays and has a merciful heart and wrote poetry," Mr Zumour said of his old friend now. "But I also advise him publicly, and urge him, against attacks on civilians and tourists. I suggest to him that that is wrong completely."
Mr Zumour was offered deals by the former regime but refused them. Nevertheless, since walking free and joining the newly re-formed Gamaa Islamiya, he has begun to say he would not break the peace treaty with Israel signed by Mr Sadat in 1979 - though like other Islamist parties he would seek to renegotiate trade terms, probably leading in practice to a freezing of most ties.
The Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party has hinted it is more likely to do deals with middle-of-the-road liberal-leaning parties, than the Islamic radicals. But even so, the popularity of these groups remains alarming to many.
Mr Zumour combines what he says is respect for personal and political choice with views that sound extreme to western ears. "It is not acceptable for women in bikinis to be walking around with men not their husbands," he said. "I would have closed beaches for women only.
"Alcohol in Islam is forbidden - it's not a choice. People can drink in their own houses but I wouldn't give out licences to sell to them, or allow alcohol in hotels."
As for cutting off the hands of thieves, he said it would hardly be necessary because once the threat was available theft would stop. "If we had this policy, would Mubarak have stolen so much?" he said with a laugh.
Christians, Mr Zumour said, would be better protected by the rights accorded them by Sharia than democracy which could theoretically vote to remove them. "The Islamic vision preserves minorities as a right not a gift," he said. "In France democracy banned the niqab (full-face veil) - but here we could never ban priests or nuns."
Egypt's Christians themselves, beleaguered by a string of lethal attacks both before the revolution and after, mostly beg to differ. They were urged by their priests to vote for the liberal Egyptian Bloc put together by the country's best-known Christian businessman, Naguib Sawiris, owner of Orascom, a gigantic business conglomerate.
As the scale of the disaster at the polls became clear, the Egyptian Bloc ran large, and rather desperate sounding, advertisements in newspapers. "Don't soften your support for the civil, moderate current to achieve a balanced parliament that represents the Egyptian people, and do not give up your rights," one read.
In Tunisia, the Islamist Ennahda Party swept to victory in elections on an impeccably moderate manifesto that stressed economic policies and refused to countenance social controls that would affect the country's tourist industry. But since then, radical parties energised by the revolution have staged aggressive rallies against television stations and universities deemed to have offended them, including over mixed classrooms.
In Egypt, even if the Freedom and Justice Party shuns them, it is hard to imagine Salafi and radical parties that may gain up to 25 per cent of the votes settling into quiet opposition. And after 30 years in prison, from which he was once told he would never be released, it is hard to see Mr Zumour going quietly either.
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Be a shame if he waited all this time to get out of jail and then had some kind of accident.
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SO, I guess they don't mind their leaders being assasinated anymore. Nice to keep in mind for future reference; sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
The head of the Libyan rebels' council in Tripoli told Al Arabiya TV that the country's former intelligence director, Abdullah al-Senussi, had been incarcerated and that his arrest could help uncover information about the whereabouts of a suspected nuclear site in the southern portion of the country.
Abdullah Nakir, said that "all of the information about the nuclear site will be discovered after al-Senussi's arrest, since the official responsible of overseeing the reactor has beat feet to Nigeria."
Nakir described al-Senussi, who was reportedly incarcerated in November, as the "Black Box" of Libya and said that no pictures had been released to prove his arrest.
He also indicated that an investigation is under way to expose the names of infiltrator spies loyal to Muammar Qadaffy ... who is now cavorting happily with Himmler and Heydrich... "Soon all the names of the Qadaffy spies that have infiltrated the rebels and gained high positions will be revealed." He said the infiltrators had attempted to help Seif al-Islam Qadaffy escape Libya.
About the spread of arms in Libya, Nakir expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... , saying that taking arms from the rebels could open them to risk from infiltrators.
"The country is still not stable despite its security for the time being," he added.
Washington opposes the revision of guidelines that restrict South Korea's missile range to less than 300 km. Officials from the two countries discussed the issue at the Defense Ministry on Thursday but failed to narrow their differences. They agreed to meet again early next year.
A diplomatic source in Seoul said although South Korea has been seeking to extend the missile range through various channels including the Defense Ministry since earlier this year, "no progress has been made yet."
The guidelines were last revised in 2001, extending the range from 180 km to 300 km and increasing the payload capacity to 500 kg. But Seoul argues North Korean missiles have a much longer range and the restrictions now present a security risk.
In negotiations with Washington, Seoul called for a range of over 1,000 km to cover all of North Korea, which is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles as well as short and medium-range missiles.
The North had already developed a Scud missile capable of striking all of South Korea in the 1980s. In 1998, 2006, and 2009 it tested missiles whose range is now believed to be longer than 4,000 km. South Korea believes it must extend its own missile range in time for the handover of full operational control of the South Korean armed forces from the U.S. in 2015.
But government officials say that the U.S. administration opposes extending the range because Seoul joined the Missile Technology Control Regime in 2001, which focuses on preventing proliferation of rockets with warheads of over 500 kg or a range longer than 300 km. Washington is reportedly worried that extending the range would provoke North Korea and weigh on its relations with China.
"The U.S. is worried because extending the range to 1,000 km would bring Beijing within reach as well," a government official said. "There's a rough road ahead before the guidelines are revised."
Remember the SS-20? That was an intermediate range missile the Soviets aimed at Europe in the late 1970s. Remember the Pershing missile? That was the missile the U.S. developed in response. Based in Europe, it could hit Moscow in about fifteen minutes.
And oh, did the Soviets ever hate it. They mounted a huge propaganda campaign to stop us from deploying it. President Carter caved, but President Reagan reversed that decision and ordered the Pershing deployed in the early 1980s. He also offered to stop the deployment if the Soviets dismantled the now-deployed SS-20s.
The Soviets did.
So now we have North Korea, and by extension China, with missiles aimed at the South. I'm thinking the ROK should go ahead and build a new generation of long-range missiles that could hit Beijing, with an offer to cancel deployment if the Chinese curb their dog.
I think I know what will happen.
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China sees both the US + Russia as potential nuclear adversaries, sole or in joint, thus it believes it needs a nuclear arsenal large enough to deter + fight both.
Ditto Russia vee the US + China, espec historic Asia rival = nemesis China, but Russia feels tech-backward/inferior China can be effectively handled by Russian conventional forces, + so saves its nukes mostly for agz the US. CHINA'S ON-GOING MIL MODERNIZATION IS PRESEN MAKING MOSCOW ALL TWITCHY.
China now has NUCLEARIZING RADICAL ISLAM [MilTerrs = Jihadis] + also a possible post-2018 NUCLEAR-ARMED JAPAN to worry about.
* SAME > INDIA SEEKS TO PREVENT NAVAL SKIRMISHES WID CHINA ON HIGH SEAS, espec in IOR = Indian Ocean Region.
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* CHINA DAILY FORUM > EAST TURKESTAN SEPARATISTS TAKING REFUGE IN INDIA: WU MONJIE [Chin Mil Xpert], whom also claims that India's military strength at the Tibet borders is now greater than China's.
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Prior to the Nork invasion of the South, the ROK was denied heavy weapons [artillery, armor] it requested from the American cadre/diplomats even though we literally had tons of the stuff left over from WWII. The American intent was for the ROK military to be a constabulary force and saw no need to provide the ROK military the necessary equipment as growing world tensions [like the Berlin Crisis] already had sent warnings of what was to come.
It's time that ROK look after its own interests and not that of the fools in Washington.
Build a new missile that honors the current restriction but is state of the art in every other way. The kind of missile that can hit the eye of Lincoln head penny in the main square of Pyongyang.
AND, build a second stage for it that can be strapped on in about five minutes that lets it hit that same penny in the main square of Beijing.
And don't tell anyone about the second stage.
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Or let everybody know about it.
The best weapon is the one you never have to use.
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We have no business telling our allies how they can and can't defend themselves. Build what they want. Call them sounding rockets or satellite launchers. America's first Marxist administration won't be in office much longer anyway.
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ION TOPIX > AUSTRALIA TOLD TO REPAIR RELATIONS WID PACIFIC STATES.
AUS image + influence is in decline vee Rising China + not even close ties wid the US may be enuff to counter China's better or more positive image wid regional states.
* WORLD MIL FORUM > RIGHT-WING JAPAN POLITICIAN ISHIHARA: JAPAN MUST STOP BEING A BULLIED [abused], POST-SURRENDER "STUPID MISTRESS/
CONCUBINE" OF THE USA.
IIUC, this is Ishihara's roundabout, albeit critical, way of demanding that Japan dev indigenous NucWeaps in order to return to being a competitive Great Power???
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* BHARAT RAKSHAK > INDIA NEEDS A [indigenous]HOME-BUILT NAVY.
Its good for the domestic economy, e.g. expansion of Govt., Private Shipyards + employment therein.
A Moslemholy man charged over sending offensive letters to the families of dead Australian soldiers has lost his bid to have the charges quashed.
Man Monis, who is also known as Sheikh Haron, is charged with 12 counts of using a postal service in an offensive way. The charges relate to letters and CDs he allegedly sent to the wives and parents of Australian soldiers who have been killed in Afghanistan.
Monis was seeking to have the indictments quashed in the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal on the grounds they were unconstitutional. Lawyers representing Monis had argued the charges impinged on their client's implied freedom of political communication. They said the letters concerned political affairs including Australia's foreign policy.
But a three-judge panel today rejected that argument.
The judges said that while the letters were critical of Australian military involvement in Afghanistan, they also referred to the dead soldiers in a denigrating and derogatory fashion.
Not to mention that the letters were mailed -- and therefore aimed at-- individuals, which in my inexpert eyes would constitute harassment rather than protected speech. But no doubt the rules are different in Australia.
The matter is now due to return to the NSW District Court.
Pakistan has demanded it be allowed to buy Australian uranium if the government proceeds with sales of the nuclear raw material to its neighbor, India.
The Australian government is preparing to negotiate a bilateral nuclear safeguards agreement with their Indian counterparts, after the Gillard government was given the green light to sell uranium to the rising economic powerhouse.
Pakistani High Commissioner to Australia Abdul Malik Abdullah said the same concession should be made for Pakistan, which like India was not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. He said, "If Australia is going to lift the ban on a country which has not signed NPT it is much hoped that will also apply to Pakistan the same way."
Abdullah said Pakistan has not made a request to buy Australian uranium, but this might change in the future. He said, "In that case we will hope that we will also be treated at par with other non-NPT signatories."
US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman on Sunday rejected claims that he "excused" certain types of anti-Semitism, arguing during a gathering in Brussels that comments he made Thursday were misunderstood.
Ah yes, the old "misunderstood" explanation. Has it ever been believed?
Nonetheless, Jewish organizations felt the distinction the ambassador drew between traditional and new forms of anti-Semitism accepted bigotry against Jews that stemmed from the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Quite.
"I strongly condemn anti- Semitism in all its forms," said the Jewish diplomat, whose father was a Holocaust survivor, in a blurb posted on the embassy's website.
"I deeply regret if my comments were taken the wrong way. My own personal history and that of my family is testimony to the salience of this issue and my continued commitment to combating anti-Semitism."
Jewish groups were outraged by Gutman's speech, delivered in the Belgian capital at an event organized by the European Jewish Union on Thursday.
"This second problem [stemming from the Mideast] is in my opinion different in many respects than the classic bigotry -- hatred against those who are different and against minorities generally -- the type of anti-Semitism that I discussed," he said, according to a copy of his speech provided by the US Embassy in Brussels.
Non-Muslim Israelis are not different from, and a minority within, the Muslim Middle East?
"It is more complex and requiring much more thought and analysis. This second form of what is labeled 'growing anti- Semitism' produces strange phenomena and results.
Peace in the Middle East would indeed equate with a huge reduction of this form of labeled 'anti-Semitism' here in Europe."
One critic said that the envoy's comments could be used to excuse a range of anti-Semitic behavior. "Following Gutman's twisted logic," said Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, "Christian anti-Semites who insist that their hatred of Jews is based on the fact that the Jewish people failed to acknowledge Jesus as Messiah should also be excused until such time as the underlying reason for that hate -- the Jewish people's refusal to accept Jesus as Messiah -- is reversed."
Gutman's comments drew a response from the White House on Saturday, which distanced itself from its envoy. "We condemn anti-Semitism in all its forms, and that there is never any justification for prejudice against the Jewish people or Israel," it said in a statement.
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WH is trying to reassure jewish voters that they are not anti Israel while reassuring jewish donors that they will continue appointing them to sensitive positions for which they are unqualified.
Tough situation.
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Lenore Zimmerman, 85, was angry and embarrassed after what she claims was a strip search at Kennedy Airport Tuesday. Now another woman in her 80s at the very same terminal says she was exposed one day before.
From her home in Sunrise, Florida, 88-year-old Ruth Sherman says she knows for a fact senior citizens are being violated at a screening checkpoint at JFK.
gI felt like I was invaded,h she told CBS 2s Dave Carlin.
Sherman says week-long Thanksgiving holiday with family in New York ended with an ordeal that started when the screeners wanted to check the bulge from Shermanfs colostomy bag.
gThis is private for me. Itfs bad enough that I have it,h she said. gI had to pull from my sweatpants and I had to pull my underwear, my underwear down.h
gYou donft do that anybody,h she added. gI felt like I was invaded.h
She says she initially complained to JetBlue and told her family, but is now going public after watching Zimmerman on television, recounting a frighteningly similar tale of what she says was her strip search, at the same JetBlue terminal at JFK, one day later.
gThey decide this 85-year-old lady needs to be strip searched,h Zimmerman said. gAfter they patted me down, they took me into a private room and they strip searched me. I said ewhy are you strip searching me? Do I like look a terroristf?h she said.
Zimmerman says she was allowed to keep her top on.
Zimmerman, who lives most of the year in Long Beach, Nassau County and spends the winters in South Florida, says she will sue the Transportation Security Agency. She said she wanted a patdown, that her defibrillator is why she cannot go through the machine, but that she never expected a strip search.
The TSA released a statement Sunday, apologizing to Zimmerman but disputing her story.
gTSA contacted the passenger to apologize that she feels she had an unpleasant screening experience; however, TSA does not include strip searches in its protocols and a strip search did not occur in this case,h the statement read. It's a matter of semantics. If they hauled her into a back room, they strip-searched her, or close enough to it. I get what she means. I guess we're going to have to come up with a new class of pervert here to cover those who like to strip search frail grandmothers and nuns in wheelchairs and walkers against their will.
State Senator Michael Gianaris of Queens wonders how the TSA can be so sure. He says with no cameras in the private screening rooms, it is a screenerfs word against the passengerfs.
gItfs outrageous,h he said. gWhat they need to find out is exactly what happened and if someone crossed the line they need to be penalized.h
gI missed my flight and I had to wait two and a half hours for the next one,h Zimmerman said.
When she finally made it to her winter home in Coconut Creek, Florida, she called her son Bruce in Long Beach, Nassau County, who told CBS 2 the family plans to sue the TSA.
gI do want them to have some sort of consequence. I think the two agents that escorted or initiated the strip search should be terminated,h Bruce Zimmerman said.
Zimmerman will return to New York in early April, but admits that she is nervous after her experience.
Both Sherman and Zimmerman say many times seniors are too cooperative and afraid to speak up when humiliated. Sherman wants that to change. Great. Now they'll probably make it standard operational procedure to tackle you and throw you in prison.
CBS 2 contacted a TSA spokesman about Ruth Shermanfs alleged strip search and were told only that the TSA will research this new case. "Research" apparently means to figure out how to deny everything people don't have photographic proof of.
Unfortunately, the day many years ago that Palestinian (?) terrorist gave his unknowing, pregnant Irish girlfriend a suitcase bomb to carry onto an airplane, this kind of thing was guaranteed.
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Bullshit on the Irish comment. It's just another half ass excuse to wipe their asses with the Bill of Rights. Security Theatre.
Israel doesnt strip search grannies, unless they are real threats. Nor do they put members of their own armed forces outbound for deployment through this bullshit either.
I know a guy who was on Bush's security detail after 9-11, not the guys who ride in AF1, but other guys, we'll leave it at that. No shit, he had a brief case with a freakin machine gun in it, which he was obviously authorized to have, and a diet coke from Macdonalds. As he went through security checkpoint to board a flight back to DC from Nebraska, TSA agent told him and i quote" Baby you caint take that drink through security, it's potentially dangerous. He says and this freggin machine gun I have here?, which she had already checked. TSA-"I dont know nothin about that baby, you just caint take that drink."
Security theatre....This justification is all complete bullshit and we all know it. Institute Israeli security procedures across the western world and we'll cut flight incidents down to zero or near it.
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Ominous1, I agree it's theater. And I do not doubt an awful lot is stopped that doesn't matter, and an awful lot isn't that does. A number of other knowledgeable people have pointed that out here at Rantburg, and I believe you all.
It seems to me, however, that the theater discourages Sudden Jihad Syndromers and other amateurs from attempting things, making the more serious attempts easier for the serious guards to see against the background. And -- and I think this is important, even if the people who really know what they're about may not -- it reminds the rest of us that there really are murderers out there, and that we civilians must also be a pack, not a herd. We've had a number of stories posted here over the years of groups of bright, young Muslims (or older ones, like that bunch of imams coming from a convention a few years ago) testing responses. Even pretty subtle behaviors are galvanizing a response these days; it was only a few weeks ago that student field trip from Oman or Dubai or wherever had to be apologized to after they were pulled from a flight and questioned.
I wish it were better handled. Mr. Wife still travels a lot for work, so he gets to enjoy the show regularly.
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The solution was applied on 9/11 - Let's roll. There have been a handful of incidents since then when some 'passenger' [who'd already cleared TSA] has acted out and the crew and other passengers solved the problem immediately.
U.S. Homeland Security Director Janet "Sensible Shoes" Napolitano said Friday that the risk of "lone wolf" attackers, with no ties to known extremist networks or grand conspiracies, is on the rise as the global terrorist threat has shifted. Napolitano acknowledged shifts in the terror threat this year, but said the changes had little to do with the uprisings that have overturned the old order in countries around the Arab world and opened up new opportunities for extremist groups.
"There's been a lot of evolution over the past three years," she said. "The thing that's most noticeable to me is the growth of the lone wolf," the single attacker who lives in the United States or elsewhere who is not part of a larger global conspiracy or network, she said. She named no examples, but it's a phenomenon that is increasingly the focus of international anti-terror operations.
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Lone wolves are a lot weaker than organized terrorist groups. They're the largest threat now? Then we really don't have any threats. Moreover, by definition, lone wolves don't work with anyone and hence it doesn't make much of a difference how much effort is spent to catch them - they won't get caught.
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"Lone wolves are a lot weaker than organized terrorist groups."
There are a lot of "Lone Wolves" out there.
Most were born here and speak English.
Combine that with opportunity and a little knowledge and you've got big problems.
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Maybe she means a certain lone wolf Attorney General.
Nah - Holder is not a lone-wolf, he has the full backing of Barack Obama and his crew.
I think she's talking about those lone wolf tea-partiers who are at home baking cookies and apple pies. With their demands of accountability, restrictions on the divine power of Obama, etc...
Certainly not Islamic terrorists - everyone knows there are no such people. Just ask the media! The science is settled!
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US official corruption is as stupendous as the national debt. From CBS News last night, Steve Kroft: It's been three years since the financial crisis crippled the American economy, and much to the consternation of the general public and the demonstrators on Wall Street, there has not been a single prosecution of a high-ranking Wall Street executive or major financial firm even though fraud and financial misrepresentations played a significant role in the meltdown...We begin with a woman named Eileen Foster, a senior executive at Countrywide Financial, one of the epicenters of the crisis.
Behind the financial crisis: A fraud investigator talks
Steve Kroft: Do you believe that there are people at Countrywide who belong behind bars?
Eileen Foster: Yes.
Kroft: Do you want to give me their names?
Foster: No.
Kroft: Would you give their names to a grand jury if you were asked?
Foster: Yes.
But Eileen Foster has never been asked - and never spoken to the Justice Department - even though she was Countrywide's executive vice president in charge of fraud investigations.
With allegations of a fake encounter doing the rounds, intelligence sources in West Bengal on Sunday confirmed that it was a colleague-turned-foe who tipped off the security forces about the guerrilla leader's whereabouts. They thot it was a crossfire. LOL.
Sources said Suchitra Mahato, the woman Maoist leader who successfully escaped the CRPF operation after Kishenji was killed, had mentioned that a person called Kalu was behind the tip-off. Actually, I read two other stories that said the cops leaned on a peasant who was supplying food, and learned someone important was nearby.
After being wounded in the crossfire on that fateful night, Suchitra sought shelter in house of Pintu Tudu, a Maoist contact. She is said to have revealed to Pintu's mother Lalita that 'Kalu' was involved in the betrayal. Pintu later took her to a local quack Bhudeb Mahato at Sarakata village near Burishole for treatment. Well, they certainly don't hesitate to call a spade a spade. "took her to a local quack" haha.
Bikash was the second commandant-in-chief, after Kishenji, during the Lalgarh movement. He was considered as the most suitable contender for the post of secretary of the party's state unit after Kanchan's arrest, sources said. After the state assembly elections, Bikash distanced himself from guerrilla activities in the forested belt. Responding to CM Mamata Banerjee's offer, he reportedly evinced willingness to surrender to the government.
When asked whether any insider gave the tip off to the security forces, state inspector general Gangeswar Singh said: "I am not in a position to comment on this now." "I can say no more!"
President Barack Obama called his Pakistani counterpart to personally express his condolences for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a recent NATO airstrike along Afghanistan's border, a sign the White House was stepping up efforts to ease tensions.
The White House said Mr. Obama told Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during the call that "this regrettable incident was not a deliberate attack on Pakistan and reiterated the United States' strong commitment to a full investigation." Mr. Obama called the loss of life "tragic."
It was the first such statement by Mr. Obama since the Nov. 26 incident. U.S. officials have called the incident a tragedy and have offered condolences, but haven't apologized for any wrongdoing, as the Pakistanis still demand, citing the need to complete an investigation.
The White House said Messrs. Obama and Zardari "reaffirmed their commitment to the U.S.-Pakistan bilateral relationship, which is critical to the security of both nations."
[Dawn] In a muddy courtyard next to the cemetery where a Pak flag flutters over her husband's grave, Mussarrat Bibi sits sobbing with the mourners still coming to pay their respects.
Sergeant Mumtaz Hussain was one of 24 Pak soldiers killed by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... air strikes when he was deployed to fight the Taliban on the Afghan border, leaving behind a devastated mother, widow and two young children.
They say their anguish is all the more bitter because he died in an American war they don't believe Pakistain should be fighting.
"This is not the first time that the US attacked our soldiers, but our government is not responding," shrieked Mussarrat. "It's not enough to kill innocent soldiers who are breadwinners for their children."
A widow at just 24, she says her priority is her children.
"On the day he died, the kids missed him so much. They told me they didn't want to go to school, they just wanted to see him and wouldn't go to school until they had. My son still doesn't believe he's dead," she said.
The killings at two border posts in the early hours of November 26 brought Pak-US relations to a fresh low and elicited a furious response from Islamabad, although there has been little outpouring onto the streets.
Pakistain will boycott Monday's international conference on Afghanistan in Germany, has shut the Afghan border to NATO convoys and ordered Americans to leave an air base, reportedly used as a hub for covert CIA drone strikes, by December 11.
Angry with the government for allying with the US, bereaved relatives say the only answer is ending the relationship and banning the covert CIA drone war against Taliban capos in the border region.
"India is our enemy and if we have to sacrifice our sons against India, we would be proud. But what's the use of sacrificing our sons for this meaningless war, which is not our war?" asked Hussain's uncle, Muhammad Nazeer.
"If our government decides to come out of the US alliance, everything will be OK. The Taliban won't attack us and we will grow. These drone strikes are fuelling terrorism and strengthening the Taliban," said Nazeer.
Islamabad says its frosty relationship with the US and NATO is under review, although it remains unclear to what extent the government or the military will force through substantial changes.
Pakistain is dependent on billions of dollars in US aid.
"This war should end now," said Said Beguman, Hussain's 70-year-old mother, a shawl covering her grey hair, sitting in her humble home deluged by mourners in Bhagwal village, 120 kilometres south of Islamabad.
"This is bringing destruction to our country," she added. "I want peace for the sons of other mothers. This war serves nobody and our government must come out of it," said Beguman.
Her son lies in the graveyard behind the house, a mound of fresh earth covered in rose petals and bouquets from President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... , army chief General Ashfaq Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... .Thirty kilometres east of Bhagwal, lies the village of Natowala that like the rest of Chakwal district is a premier recruiting ground for the army where scores of families depend on military salaries and pensions.
Tasleem Akhter says she is more upset by the government than the death of her 20-year-old son, Rizwan Abbas, who was recruited last year.
"This was his desire and mine that he sacrifice his life for the nation. I can sacrifice my three other sons for my homeland but our government should change their policies," said the 35-year-old.
On his previous trip home, childhood friend Jameel Akhter said Abbas had a premonition that it might be his last.
"While we were out walking in the streets, he told me this might be his last trip to the village and asked me to change the national flag on his grave regularly after his death," Akhter told AFP.
"He always told stories about fights against the Taliban. I never expected the Americans to kill him," he said.
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Isn't this Obama's War by now?
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[Dawn] An influential Republican politician said Sunday that the United States should link its military aid to Pakistain's cooperation on security, amid a crisis between the two countries over a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... air strike that killed 24 Pak soldiers.
Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... , a leading Republican voice on security issues, charged that Pak intelligence continues to support a cut-thoat group that kills Americans, and he noted that Pak troops in the past have fired across the poorly marked Afghan border.
"This is a fog of war situation. Investigation is going on," McCain said on CNN's State of the Union program, referring to the November 26 air strikes on a Pak border post that plunged relations between the two erstwhile allies into crisis.
"But also the fact is that the ISI, the intelligence arm of the Mighty Pak Army, is still supporting the Haqqani network which is killing Americans. That is unacceptable," he said.
He said materials in roadside kabooms that have killed US forces in neighboring Afghanistan have been traced to two fertilizer factories in Pakistain.
Since the air strikes, a furious Pakistain has cut off the movement of supplies to US forces through Pakistain and ordered the closure of US drone operations at a Pak air base.
Asked how the United States should proceed, McCain said a complete break with Pakistain had been tried in the past for a ten year period and it did not work.
"But we have to address it in a realistic fashion and aid has to be gauged on the degree of cooperation that they are showing us in helping us prevent the needless deaths of young Americans," he said.
"So I would gauge our aid, particularly military aid, and we've given many billions, as you know, directly related to the degree of cooperation they show us, and we have to explore all alternatives."
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Police forces have attacked people at Shia Moslem religious processions, arresting at least 70 in the Indian-administered Kashmire.
Thousands of Shias mourning the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammad's grandson, Imam Hossein, in Srinagar were attacked by police trying to disperse the crowds by using batons, tears gas and water cannons, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
Police have imposed a curfew in some parts of Srinagar to prevent the gatherings during the month of Muharram from turning to anti-India protests. There have been no reports of injuries so far.
In Kashmire, the religious processions, marking the anniversary of Imam Hussein's martyrdom on the tenth day of Muharram, Ashura, have been banned since 1989.
Kashmire has been the scene of violent festivities between Indian security forces and local protesters in recent years.
Over the past three years, Kashmire has witnessed a transition from a violent struggle to peaceful demonstrations and strikes, but the police use the same tactics to deal with the protestors.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members will not be allowed to represent the Paleostinian Authority in the International Organization of Parliaments (IPU), the group's secretary-general, Andres B. Johnsson, told Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Sunday.
The IPU was founded in 1889 as a framework for parliamentary dialogue, which encourages representative democracy and works towards international cooperation. The PA became an official member of the organization in 2008.
"The unity deal will not help Hamas in the IPU. We will make sure that the Paleostinian delegation will not include Hamas members, and will only authorize the list of participants when we are sure that Hamas is not a part of it," Johnsson told Rivlin. "There have been attempts to include Hamas members in official PA delegations, but I have stopped them."
Rivlin also said he supports the Moroccan candidate for the IPU presidency over the Indonesian candidate.
"We are not worried about participating in international forums with Arab representation, as long as they hold fair discussions and are not used as an international stage to censure the State of Israel," he explained. "We will not agree to take part in a hostile forum."
Dozens of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operatives have quietly returned to Gazoo from Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... as the ruling party in the coastal strip scales back its presence in Syria and gauges the uncertain future of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , diplomats said on Sunday.
Hamas leaders deny they plan to quit the Syrian capital, where the group keeps its main headquarters outside the Gazoo Strip.
But diplomats and regional sources said the Hamas delegation in Damascus, which once numbered hundreds of Paleostinian officials and their relatives, had shrunk to a few dozen.
Departures were sped up, one regional intelligence source said, by the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... 's suspension of Syria last month over its military crackdown on protests rocking the Assad government.
Diplomats said dozens of Hamas members and their families, who had lived in Syria since the 1990s, and others who moved there in recent years, have returned to Gazoo via Egypt in recent weeks.
Hamas would keep a skeletal presence in Syria to "book a seat in a post-Assad era," one diplomat said.
"Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... Hamas officials are on planes most of the time, bolstering ties with other countries like Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, Sudan, or in contact to explore new bases and not a sole base," the diplomat added.
Asking not to be identified, the diplomat said: "Hamas will pull out of Syria in the right time but not for good."
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When asked about Hamas's presence in Damascus, Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior front man for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gazoo. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... , a Hamas front man said: "There is no change."
In Beirut on Friday, a Hamas representative said the group was "still committed to supporting Assad."
But one intelligence source said, although Hamas "owes Syria a lot for its support, it doesn't want to be on the wrong side of pan-Arab public opinion."
Angering Syria, Hamas has refused to hold rallies in Paleostinian refugee camps in support of the Assad government, which has sunk deeper into international isolation.
Tensions with Damascus rose further when Hamas opted not to sign a statement by nine other Paleostinian groups, including President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's Paleostine Liberation Organization, in support of the Syrian leader.
Hamas, which Israel considers a terrorist group, won a 2006 Paleostinian election and, a year later, seized the Gazoo Strip following a schism with incumbents and historic rivals, Fatah.
On October 28, 2011, the jihadi forum Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad published a fatwa by Sheikh Abu Humam Al-Athari, a member of its shari'a council, in which he unequivocally permits mujahideen to capture the infidels' women and have sexual intercourse with them, even those who are married, on the claim that their marriage bonds to infidels are dissolved as soon as they are taken captive. [Emphasis added]
As MEMRI reports:
The inquiry in response to which Al-Athari issued the fatwa reads as follows:[1] "Is it permissible for mujahideen in jihad fronts to kidnap the infidels' women and hold them as their captives? What is the ruling regarding a captive in our times? How should they be divided [among the mujahideen]? Is it permissible to imprison [an infidel woman who has been taken captive] in an infidel land, or must she be brought to Dar Al-Islam [the abode of Islam]? How much time must one wait before having sexual intercourse with her, regarding both one who is a virgin and one who is not?"
Al-Athari replies: "There is no doubt that taking the women of the combatant infidels captive -- whether they are from AhlAl-Kitab [i.e., Christians or Jews] or pagans -- is permitted according to the shari'a... That being said, it must be done only after [the spoils] has been divided by an imam in Dar Al-Islam; if there is no imam at hand, prisoners may not be taken..."
Al-Athari emphasizes that before deciding to take infidel women captive, "one must consider the gains and losses that will result from this deed, which is to say that if the imam of the Muslims in a given country believes that taking the infidels' women captive will lead the infidels to band together and rape the Muslims' women, and that the Muslims are in too weak a state to prevent this, he should forbid taking [infidel women] captive..."
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I think the US should issue a "fatwa" that any US military or civilian personnel taken prisoner and raped or murdered will result in one city in the offending country being nuked. Immediately. No questions or "talks" allowed. BOOM. Period. Also, the Sheikh that issued this "fatwa" should be targeted for a drone strike - with a nuke-tipped Tomahawk. Time to get serious with these arrogant little ba$$$$ds.
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[WHY WE FIGHT, THE BIG PICTURE classic TV shows here].
FYI IIRC MEMRI.ORG > also has an Artic denoting that, at current birth rates, the Euros will be majority Muslim by 2050, THE US PER SE BY 2070.
IIUC, IOW NO NEED FOR VIOLENT JIHAD OR "NEW/
NUCLEAR 9-11'S" AGZ THE US - THE ONLY THING TO DO IS TO JUST KEEP HAVING MORE SEX + KIDDIES [Sharia?] THAN WHITEY, ETAL???
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#4--rjswartz. Your suggestion is most appropriate. These fatwa issuers need to realize cause and effect. Tell them that they now have a bulls eye target on their bodies and anything in the vicinity of them if anything like this happens.
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It's one of my pet peeves the confusion between kafir and infidel. To a Muslim a Christian or Jew is a Kafir but to a Christian a Muslim is an infidel.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is considering including a woman with its peace delegation for its upcoming exploratory talks with the government in Kuala Lumpur. Jun Mantawil, head of the MILF peace panel secretariat, said the decision is "virtually sealed" after the their central committee had agreed to the plan.
Mantawil cautioned that some requirements under Muslim traditions for a woman to travel with men have to be arranged. He said the woman "must have the closest of kin with her" to obtain clearance to travel with the men.
Mantawil said, "The MILF has considered seriously sending one woman with its peace delegation to the forthcoming 23rd GPH (government of the Philippines)-MILF Exploratory Talks in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur."
Two women are being considered to join the MILFs negotiating team Tausog human rights lawyer, Raisa Jajurie and Cabaybay Abubakar, an ethnic Maguindanaon and the president of the Shariff Kabunsuan College.
Mantawil said the upcoming negotiations are "very crucial" in light of concerns that the government and the MILF might not forge a peace deal before 2013 ends.
Secretary Teresita Deles, a presidential adviser on the peace process, said the talks with the MILF were due to begin Monday.
She said, "The talks mark the resumption of formal, full panel negotiations between the two parties. While taking care to avoid preempting the talks by commenting on expectations, I cannot but take a positive view of the fact that formal exploratory talks are pushing ahead following very serious challenges to the peace process in recent months."
Amid the mayhem when the British embassy in Tehran was stormed last Tuesday, a mob destroyed antique oil portraits of Queen Victoria and Edward VII, made off with a poster from the film, Pulp Fiction, but narrowly missed dog-napping the ambassador's terrier, Pumpkin.
However, the Basij commanders and Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) officers said by western diplomats to be in the crowd, must have thought they had hit the jackpot when the raiders came across embassy documents in the ambassador's office marked "most secret" in red ink, giving details of a gigantic invasion plan.
The intelligence coup is diminished however by the fact that the plan in question was an advance peek at Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings, which Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt provided to Stalin at the 1943 Tehran conference, where the western powers agreed to accept the Soviet domination of eastern Europe.
The British ambassador, Dominick Chilcott had taken the minutes of the Tehran meeting out of the embassy safe on the occasion of a dinner to commemorate its 68th anniversary.
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I don't know about you guys, but I always keep my Top Secret invasion plans in foreign embassies. Usually in an unlocked filing cabinet or just laying on a desk.
Lebanon filed a complaint in the United Nations against Israel Monday for its retaliation to Katyusha rockets fired into Israel late last month, Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star reported.
In response to the four rockets fired from Lebanon, the IDF pounded the launch sites with artillery shells. The Lebanese report claimed that only one rocket was fired from Lebanon into Israel and that the IDF fired six artillery shells.
The UN complaint alleges that the IDF action was a violation of UNSC Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War, as well as international law.
Immediately following the rocket attack the IDF filed a complaint with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which launched an investigation into the attack. The UN force called for restraint from both sides.
This is a serious incident in violation of UN Council Security Resolution 1701 and is clearly directed at undermining stability in the area, a UNIFIL statement said.
An organization associated with al-Qaida claimed responsibility for firing the rockets.
The Syrian Arab News Agency reported Sunday that the Syrian army has staged a live-fire drill in the eastern part of the country "under war-like circumstances with the aim of testing the missile weaponry in confronting any attack."
According to the report, during the drill the army fired at least one Scud-B missile, which has a range of about 300 kilometers (roughly 190 miles), in the direction of the border with Iraq. It was further reported that 300 and 600-millimeter surface-to-surface missiles were also test fired. The missiles have a range of 150 (93 miles) and 200 kilometers (124 miles), respectively.
The drill is apparently aimed at showing the region's nations that Syria's army is still functioning despite the civil uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime, which, according to the UN, has claimed some 4,000 lives so far.
The exercise also sends a message to the international community amid calls for NATO's intervention in Syria.
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Shoot them to demonstrate, and they'll Not br availab when/if needed.
Sounds like a child
"Lookitme, Lookitme, I'm IMPORTAINT.
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ION MAMA RUSSIA TODAY [RT.com] > [UK Journo-Author Jonathan Steele] TOPPLING ASSAD IS PROXY WAR AGZ IRAN, by the US-Israel-NATO vee Syruhn Rebels + the UNO.
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SAUDIS MAY JOIN [Middle East = Israel, Iran Buildup]NUCLEAR ARMS RACE: EX-SPY CHIEF. Prince Turki al-Faisal.
IMO Artic also read, KSA EXPECTS POST-ARAB SPRING NEW ISLAMIST GOVTS TO GO NUCLEAR???
* SAME > RUSSIA DOWNGRADES DIPOMATIC RELATIONS WID QATAR AFTER RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IS ASSAULTED BY QATARI CUSTOMS OFFICIALS | RUSSIA WITHDRAWS ENVOY FROM QATAR AFTER ATTACK.
Iran in Bahrain + now Russia? = BASE-TOO-FAR QATAR strikes again???
[An Nahar] Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi Sunday expressed deep regret over the storming of the British embassy in Tehran and pledged to prevent future attacks, the German foreign ministry said.
"On the issue of the attack on the British embassy in Tehran, the Iranian foreign minister expressed that he was deeply sorry for what has happened," the ministry said in a statement, recounting a meeting between Salehi and his German counterpart Guido Westerwelle.
"He assured to do everything to prevent such an incident from happening again," the ministry said in a statement issued in English.
"Foreign Minister Westerwelle made clear that such an attack against the diplomatic mission of a single EU member state is perceived as being directed against the missions of all EU member states."
Salehi is due to attend a key international conference on the future of Afghanistan in Bonn on Monday.
Hundreds of protesters invaded and trashed the embassy and a second British diplomatic compound last Tuesday. British officials have said the ransacking of the embassy could only have occurred with the consent of Iran's leaders.
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The head of the Hezbullies executive council says the resistance movement is fully prepared to counter any Israeli threats against Leb's illusory sovereignty, Press TV reports.
Sayyed Hashem Safi al-Din made the remark on Saturday, a day after Hezbullies members discovered an Israeli espionage device planted in south Leb.
"This is clear proof that the resistance is alert and performing its duty. It is clear proof that the Israelis are not yet through with Leb and that it is still a target of the Israelis," Safi al-Din said.
An Israeli surveillance plane remotely detonated the device in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Leb on Friday after it was discovered.
Safi al-Din added that Leb's illusory sovereignty "is being violated daily by Israeli surveillance planes and drones."
This is not the first such Israeli violation of Lebanese illusory sovereignty that has been thwarted by Hezbullies. The resistance movement had also uncovered a number of Israeli espionage devices in several areas of southern Leb in 2009 and 2010.
Timur Goksel, a former senior adviser to the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... Interim Force in Leb (UNIFIL), told Press TV that Hezbullies is not a weak organization and it is paying "very big attention" to intelligence and security work.
"They (Hezbullies) are making very good use of their popularity with the people. The people report to them in the villages. That is a fantastic source for any intelligence organization," Goksel said.
The Lebanese government, Hezbullies, and UNIFIL have repeatedly cited Israel's surveillance flights over Leb as clear violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and the country's illusory sovereignty.
Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against Leb in 2006, calls on Tel Aviv to respect Beirut's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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The head of the Libyan rebels' council in Tripoli told Al Arabiya TV that the country's former intelligence director, Abdullah al-Senussi, had been 
Lenore Zimmerman, 85, was angry and embarrassed after what she claims was a strip search at Kennedy Airport Tuesday. Now another woman in her 80s at the very same terminal says she was exposed one day before.
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
On October 28, 2011, the jihadi forum Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad published a fatwa by Sheikh Abu Humam Al-Athari, a member of its shari'a council, in which he unequivocally permits mujahideen to capture the infidels' women and have sexual intercourse with them, even those who are married, on the claim that their marriage bonds to infidels are dissolved as soon as they are taken captive. [Emphasis added]
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is considering including a woman with its peace delegation for its upcoming exploratory talks with the government in Kuala Lumpur. Jun Mantawil, head of the MILF peace panel secretariat, said the decision is "virtually sealed" after the their central committee had agreed to the plan.
