TRIPOLI - Chads president and the leader of a rebel faction that tried to oust him earlier this year signed a peace accord in Libya late on Sunday, but other Chadian insurgents dismissed the deal and vowed to fight on.
Our movement was in a great struggle, rebel military chief Mahamat Nour Abdelkerim said at the signing ceremony in Tripoli, as Deby and Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi looked on. Our people suffered...but now we must speed national reconciliation and bring peace to our country.
"At least until we have a chance to get Dire Revenge!"
Chads government said the two sides had agreed to end all military activity and media campaigning against each other, to release each others prisoners and to grant an amnesty to fighters from both sides. It said Nours forces would be stationed at a location agreed by both sides until they could be integrated into the national army.
Nour, whose forces raided the Chadian capital NDjamena in April, called on the other rebel groups to sign the peace agreement and join the Chadian government. However, other rebels groups said Nour was an isolated figure and dismissed the reconciliation as a non-event.
"Nour? Never heard of him!"
The rebel alliance still under arms includes the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD), the Rally of Democratic Forces (RAFD), and the Platform for Change, National Unity and Democracy (SCUD).
Makaila Nguebla, a spokesman in Dakar for the National Rally for Democracy (RND), another of the groups in the rebel alliance, said on Sunday the insurgents would fight on. For us this changes nothing. Were not interested in any mediation by Gadhafi, or by France, or by anyone. We are going to continue to fight this regime, he told Reuters by telephone.
"We shall have Dire Revenge!"
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(SomaliNet) Somalias interim president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed has on Sunday officially opened a state-run radio that has gone on air today covering throughout Somalia, the information minister of the transitional Federal government Ali Ahmed Jama known as Jangali said. The president, who addressed through the new government radio which is called Bay Radio voice of Somalia republic, cast condemnations on Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, the leader of Islamic Courts Union narrating about what passed by describing him as a man who wrongly employs the Islamic religion as his will.
In June 1992 Sheik Aweys came to Puntland regions and fought with my militia proclaiming for the Islamic religion sake but was exercising in clan system... it was widely known what happened to him, I kicked him off the region in my control, Mr. Yusuf said in his opening address. It is the fourth time that Aweys and his terrorist group attempt to engage war through Islam. He is a really a man of many shorts saying we are the right political part clamoring for outside terrorists in the country and that is in the interest of the Somalia people. These insurgents do not give care to whether all Somalia go to vanish or not, it is fact that the terrorist group is making life more difficult, said president Yusuf.
He said he thinks that the Somali community is fully aware of what Aweyss group holds has nothing to do with the public interest. Now I am the president of Somalia and he is belonging to the international terrorists and he will lastly test the same defeat as faced earlier and flee, Yusuf said.
Bay Radio Voice of Somalia republic can be heard through short waves (SW1- 49 band and SW2 41 band) and FM 95.2 Mz. Hassan Isse Ali known as Korea was nominated for the general director of information ministry who had worked in Radio Mogadishu and Radio Hargeisa in 1980s.
Abdirahman Nor Mohamed Dinari, the government spokesman held today press conference inside Radio Bay station briefing about the battles in four fronts in Bay, Hiran and Mudug regions. He said the government forces crushed and burnt several war vehicles from what he called The Islamist terrorists killing and injuring more insurgents. Our troops have fully taken over the control of Beledwein in Hiran and Bandiredley in Mudug region, Dinari said. Both rival sides are claiming victories over the latest clashes which entered the sixth day.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been forced to shelve plans to ban radical Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir after opposition from senior police officers and the Home Office, reports The Observer newspaper. Plans to ban the group have been dropped in the past few days following intense discussions between Number 10 and legal advisers.
Counter-terrorism sources said Blair had been warned that banning the group would serve only as a recruiting agent if the group appealed against the move. The decision is a significant personal blow to Blair, who announced his intention to outlaw it shortly after the London bombings on 7 July, 2005, as part of a 12-point strategy to counter Islamic extremism, says The Observer. On a trip to Pakistan last month, he is understood to have given personal assurances to President Gen Pervez Musharraf that the ban would go ahead. Musharraf made clear to him that outlawing the group - banned in Pakistan since 2003 - must be a priority for Britain.
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So terrorist groups can appeal against bans. Good one.
It was not immediately clear whether the Iraqis were linked to Chaldean Christians, who have a sizable community in Southern California and frequently try to enter the United States through Mexico.
Federal police and immigration agents detained four Iraqi citizens in the border city of Tijuana on suspected immigration violations, after the Iraqis failed to present proper visas. Police told the government news agency Notimex that the Iraqis, including a child, were found Saturday at a hotel in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego. All four were taken to an immigration detention center for possible deportation. It was not immediately clear whether the Iraqis were linked to Chaldean Christians, who have a sizable community in Southern California and frequently try to enter the United States through Mexico, claiming they face persecution in Iraq.
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I suspect it is simply a case of 'lackadinero' crossing the palms of the Federales.
TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese government recently looked into the possibility of developing a nuclear warhead, a news report said Monday, citing an internal government document. However the government's top spokesman Yasuhisa Shiozaki denied such a document existed.
"No, no, certainly not!"
The Japanese daily Sankei reported that experts at several government organizations concluded it would take at least three to five years to make a prototype weapon.
That's just smoke. The Japanese have the knowledge and the plutonium, and I bet they also have a blueprint.
The experts also estimated that the project would cost about $1.68 billion to $2.52 billion and require the efforts of several hundred engineers, according to Sankei.
Money and engineers are things Japan has in plenty.
The experts did not say whether Japan should develop nuclear arms, the newspaper reported, only what such a project would require. The newspaper published a summary of the document, dated Sept 20 and titled ``On the Possibility of Developing Nuclear Weapons Domestically.''
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Go for it, guys. I want to see a nice 1.0 kilogram, .01Kt device next Christmas.
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Everything that I have read on the subject says that Japan can have a functional testing nuke in 6 weeks; and can start serial production of warheads within 6 months. Also, they have all sorts of plutonium and miniaturization is a Japanese specialty, so small high-yield warheads that will easily fit on cruise missiles will be in the first batch. If they choose to go nuke, that is.
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They probably will because a)that damned idiot Kimmie won't stop screwing around with nukes, b) the Chinese seem to think threatening their neighbors is legitimate diplomacy, and c)anyone depending on us for protection after looking at how we're treating Israel can't be feeling too safe. If I'm Japan, I go nuke immediately upon the first signs of waffling from the U.S.
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.mac, if that's the case, Japan has already gone nuclear, and just hasn't admitted it.
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It is the waffling that is key. When even our most supposedly hawkish leaders cannot be counted on to defend American and British lives - let alone interests - there is no reason to believe we would risk our cities for Japan. Or, for that matter, those of, say, Taiwan. I expect Taiwan and Singapore could produce a nuclear umbrella in short order should things carry on the way they have been doing.
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Normally, I'd oppose further nuclear proliferation. With the flaccid global response given to Iran's blatant atomic weapons program, that position is now reversed. For their complicity in the continuing atrocity known as North Korea, China richly deserves a host of nuclear armed countries on its doorstep.
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I'd bet cash money that Japan has everything already made and on the shelf, just lacking the plutonium or uranium, or whatever else they may choose to use. Milling plutonium for nuclear weapons is an exacting process, and takes time. I don't think it would take more than six weeks, though, for the first mate-able warhead to be rolled off the assembly line. After that, it's possible that first one could be joined by others in days, rather than weeks. Japan is also the only "non-nuclear" nation that I'd assess has the capability to produce thermonuclear (hydrogen) devices. It probably wouldn't take a whole lot longer than fission weapons, either.
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Out of the brig, ready to go home With doubts over Iraq, soldier went AWOL
RALEIGH - Walt and Allyson Caison drove an hour from Selma on Saturday morning to praise a dishonorably discharged veteran.
They spotted former Sgt. Ricky Clousing, 24, in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Capitol lawn. There, along with a few others, they joined the former Army interrogator in laying flowers at the foot of the statue.
Clousing had been released from the brig at Camp Lejeune that morning after serving a three-month sentence for going absent without leave from Fort Bragg.
Raleigh was only a stop on his way to his mother's home in Washington state for Christmas, but Clousing had several North Carolina supporters who wanted to spend time with him before he caught a donated flight home.
From downtown, a small caravan of cars accompanied Clousing to the Quaker meeting house where about three dozen had gathered to feed Clousing lunch and hear his story.
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Maybe a year of good times, free lunch and cheap hippie wymen. Then that DHD is going to start to hurt. Self-seeking fuck-uperry is a short term occupation.
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Of course he couldn't claim conscientious objector, the dumb f***. There's no draft.
He better not be able to get any VA loans or other programs available to our military.
He should have been kept in jail until his time was up, what's this 3 month deal?
He should have to pay a penalty along with the jail time. Hell, send a strong message. Have his monthly salary (if he gets any)or deduct his pay from any job that he gets once out, to pay for the incarceration, hell yeah.
We shouldn't have to pay for any of his crap. Let the Sheehan sheep raise the money.
Sorry, it just fires me up to see these guys honor him like a hero for his cutting and running.
While our boots on the ground are still out there protecting their right to do so, just kills me.
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He should have been kept in jail until his time was up, what's this 3 month deal?
The military doesn't want trouble makers anymore than trouble makers want the military. Unless, there are other charges deemed worth the time and effort of full blown courts martial and the trouble of additional resources spent on the useless individual, its consider just to get rid of them. Or as Shakespeare wrote -
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
and for those who serve together
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
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You're right, it's best to get rid of the trash than house it.
It just kills me though how they get away with this being so dishonorable and have no integrity.
Thanks for correcting my vision a bit here ;)
Although, he'll probably write a book now....
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GS is correct, as much as I would like to see him branded with a C on his forhead sending him home is best. Every dollar spent on his ass is a dollar wasted and one that could have been better spent on the troops in Basic, AIT, or in the box. Thanks for trying Ricky, you failed, at least you admitted it, and now get lost!
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Such individuals prove a theory I've got about many of the combat stress casualties and other individuals who just can't hang in a combat situation for too long.
In the combat branches you've got natural warriors who just seem designed for combat. It is like they are 100% warrior, and they are few and far between. They are natural experts, and it is obvious.
Then you have your 50% warriors. They are okay as soldiers, and they do their job, but they have no real gift for combat. They can last a long time as long as combat is intermittent and they aren't pushed too hard for too long. They can recover and keep going. These are the vast majority of soldiers. Good, but they aren't going to earn the Medal of Honor.
Then you have your 0% warriors. They only get into combat by accident, or if they are really pushed into it. They run on borrowed motivation, and when it runs out, they are the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time. They are worthless as soldiers from that point on, and the sooner they are out of the theater, the better.
Fortunately, these types rarely get into combat in the first place, generally avoiding it like the plague.
You can tell just talking to them that they shouldn't have been given a rifle in the first place. Even CS or CSS is too much for most of them.
Ironically, they often aren't COs, and even morally support the war. They just don't have that special something that it takes to be a soldier, much less a warrior.
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Pan: I hope that last sentence was missing the sarc tag, becasue I cannot think of any act this POS did that deserves a 'thanks.' He knew what was up in 2002, and then when he saw some disturbing things, he bailed.
Too bad, war ain't pretty, people die. Perhaps the cattle shot were meant to support the bad guys, do was in no position to know.
Hope his snowboarding career is short and that somebody removes the 'Out of Bounds' signs when he is up on the hill. Just sayin, stuff happens in the snow, is all.....
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when he saw some disturbing things, he bailed.
That's the part I don't get. A teenager accidentally being shot and some farm animals getting offed. Wow, like that's going to leave lasting mental scars. Maybe if you have shit mush for brains. I don't even see what this punk's excuse is unless it involves a big yellow streak down his spine back.
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Ya USN RET it was. He wasted valuable training that could have been spent on someone who would stay a while. Now some joe is doin not only his own work but this AWOL jerks as well.
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"Won't get the $30,000" > never stopped ACLU lawsuits before. The Stratification of the Cantonization of the Enclavization of the Communalization of the Katrina-ization, etc. of America = Amerika, the USSA = Soviet SSR/USR, is one of the favorite ways the Left uses to justify Big Govt in America. WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU IS WHAT YOU LOSE = THEY TAKE AWAY LATER ON.
Afghan allegations against Pakistan are baseless and President Hamid Karzai is blaming Pakistan for his own problems, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri said on Sunday. In an interview to Geo television, Kasuri said Pakistan wanted cordial relations with Afghanistan and a stable government in Kabul. Asked why Pakistan was being blamed for the unrest in Afghanistan, Kasuri said: We are blamed because we have more than three million Afghan refugees who have sympathies with the Taliban and our Pushtun tribes also sympathise with the anti-Karzai elements. He said that mutual efforts by Afghanistan and Pakistan, not allegations, were the solution to the problem. He denied Pakistans interference in Afghan affairs, but said he could not deny that there were people living along the Afghan border in Pakistan who were sympathetic towards the Taliban.
Kasuri dismissed the impression that Pakistan changed its Afghan policy on just one phone call from Washington after 9/11, saying the decision had been taken before the phone call. He said the phone call issue had been dramatised and romanticised in Pakistan, adding that the nation, not the leadership, would have paid a heavy price if Pakistan had not taken the right decision after the 9/11 incident.
Talking about his meetings with Israeli officials, Kasuri said Pakistan had secret contacts with Israel at various levels in the past. He said that he met his Israeli counterpart to discuss issues related to defence, but refused to give further details. Some friendly countries were constantly asking us to enter into the Palestinian problem and play a role, but it does not mean that we have recognised Israel, Kasuri said. Pakistan neither supports nor recognises Israel and meetings with some diplomats does not mean dialogue, he added.
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Pakistan won't touch the jihadi movements, other than to make an occasional arrest to keep US funds flowing. I blame the UN for subsidizing refugee camps in Pakistan. When Muslims are idle, they make terror. Without the UN, they would be making carpets.
Jamaat-e-Islami and MMA Chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed said that his party would not contest the elections or by-elections if they would be held under a military or civilian dictator. The MMA will make public its final decision on the en-bloc resignations from parliament and the provincial assemblies, he said while talking to journalists Sunday after a meeting with Shah Anas Noorani of the JUP/MMA.
Noorani and Shah Turab-ul-Haq were also present during the press briefing. Ahmed also gave his viewpoint on international issues and said, We condemn the Security Council sanctions on Iran. It is a biased resolution and we demand the immediate withdrawal of these sanctions.
He hinted that the MMA was heading towards en-bloc resignations, although, he admitted that there was a difference of opinion on the issue. The majority has assured us their support, he said and added that the MMAs Supreme Council will meet after Eid-al-Azha. The MMA would observe a black day on January 10, the day when the by-elections for the vacant seat of MMA MNA Haroon Rasheed are scheduled to be held in Bajaur.
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Iraqs interior minister Sunday accused an un-named regional power of being behind a recent spate of mass kidnappings in Baghdad and promised to reveal more details in the coming days. Jawad al-Bolani said an investigation into the hostage-takings, in which large squads of gunmen in camouflage uniforms and police jeeps grabbed dozens of Iraqis from central Baghdad, would soon lead to charges. The mass kidnappings were messages addressed to the Iraqi political process and the government, Bolani told a news conference in the fortified Green Zone in the Iraqi capital. We have uncovered information and we will soon bring those behind these kidnappings to justice. There is a regional actor behind these kidnappings and we will soon place the results of our inquiry before the public.
Commanders of the US force deployed in Iraq, in support of the government, regularly accuse both Iran and Syria of fomenting unrest, but Bolani would not be drawn on the identity of the country or countries fingered by his inquiry. Last week dozens of hostages were taken from the Red Crescent aid agencys main Baghdad office 13 of them are still missing while the week before several dozen merchants were taken from a popular commercial street.
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Wonder if this is tied to the Iranians captured in Iraq accused of participating in attacks against Iraqi Gov. I believe 2 of em were even high ranking Iranian Diplo's we are calling Quam force members. (Quam force is Irans SOF aka terrrorist group of the revolutionary guard).
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Agee c-low, looks like ridding Baghdad of IRG and al Qud is on Bush's X-Mas list
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I hope the rumors are true and you are right Captian. It truley will be a wonderfull late christmas.
I was worried that Bush had been broken by the LLL's but his last two press conferences with the recent chess pieces moving in many directions make me think that we are finally getting ready to go all or nothing.
Israel said on Sunday it would consider freeing Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi from jail as part of a prisoner exchange deal. The comment by Defence Minister Amir Peretz suggested a change in Israels longstanding refusal to consider freeing Barghouthi as it tries to bolster President Abbas in his showdown with Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also suggested that he could release some Palestinian prisoners as early as this week, even though militants have yet to free an Israeli soldier held in Gaza. The time has come for flexibility and generosity, and it could be different than what has been said in past meetings, Olmert told his cabinet, according to a cabinet source.
Barghouthi, a popular member of Abbass Fatah faction, was jailed by an Israeli court for five life terms for ordering attacks as part of the Palestinian revolt against occupation. He denied the charges.
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If Israel doesn't get rid of Olmert, Olmert is going to get rid of Israel.
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I believe the Hebrew word for "idiot" is: "Olmert".
The head of Gaza's tiny Roman Catholic community on Saturday cancelled Christmas eve's Midnight Mass celebration, citing recent Palestinian infighting between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements. Father Manuel Musallem said Christian children in Gaza are scared, especially after the three young sons of a Palestinian security officer were gunned down in broad daylight as they went to school two weeks ago. "The children told me Santa Claus won't come this year because it's too dangerous," he said.
Musallem planned to celebrate evening Mass but called off Midnight Mass and Christmas day celebrations. He said the community was protesting the infighting, which has claimed 17 lives since the young children were killed, as well as the international boycott of the Hamas-led government.
The sanctions have caused widespread hardship in Gaza. About 300 Christians attended a protest on Saturday outside of the parliament building in Gaza. Only about 3,000 Christians live in Gaza, a crowded conservative Muslim society of roughly 1.4 million people. The Roman Catholic community has roughly 300 people, most of the area's Christians are Greek Orthodox.
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Earth to any Christians still in Gaza: GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN STILL BREATHE!
Geez.
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"The children told me Santa Claus won't come this year because it's too dangerous,"
I'll probably come off like some sort of sentimental SOB but, dammit, there is something so very wrong about with this. That any child should ever feel as though Santa has passed them by is simply vile.
Some backstory: I firmly believe that Christmas is meaningless unless you have the same sense of giving and generosity in your heart all year round. It's pretty easy to say that Jesus would agree with such an idea. Still, the magical notion of Santa remains something particularly special, just because it is so outrageous and delightfully wacky.
Towards that end, I have always tried to keep the idea of Santa alive in my own neighborhood. For almost two decades I have done my level best to make sure that, as they've grown up, the kids next door and across the street get a visit from Santa every year.
None of these children are deprived or anything close to it. That matters not one bit. It's far more important to me that they discover that despite all their own parents do there is still some sort of unexpected surprise connected with Christmas.
Every year, waiting on their doorstep each Christmas morn is a red plush stocking with an orange in the toe, a Lifesaver Book, a box of animal crackers, a mesh sack of foil wrapped coins, a package of Pez, a chocolate Santa Claus, a bottle of bubble blowing soap and one or two toys to boot but always a balsa wood glider.
I can't imagine not doing this.
However little sympathy I have for the Palestinians in general, right down to their children, I'll still confess that the notion of their idiotic violence causing little kids to think that Santa has foresaken them just pisses the living hell out of me.
Israeli government spokesperson Miri Eizen said the United Nations Security Council had made a "very important" decision in voting to impose sanctions on Iran. "It was a unanimous decision of the Security Council, everybody there agreed on sanctions against Iran," she said. "It is very important, it is also the first time. There is no question that we need to continue with an international effort against Iran achieving nuclear capability".
The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Saturday imposing sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment.
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Tens of thousands of policemen have been deployed at churches across Indonesia after warnings by Western nations that Islamic militants may be plotting Christmas bombings. Indonesian officials downplayed the bulletins, which have become something of a tradition themselves since Christmas Eve bombings at churches across the world's most populous Muslim nation in 2000 killed 19 people. The US Embassy in Jakarta and Australia warned that the threat of an attack over the holiday season was "serious" and "credible" and that foreigners could be targeted. They did not say on what the alert was based on.
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This may sound politically correct but I'll say it anyway; That peaceful people who are supposedly free to practice the religion of their choice should have to undergo greatest fear during their own high holy days is an oblique form of terrorism all by itself.
I'm sick and tired of this omnipresent pall that Muslim sensitivities casts over ordinary daily life. I know it's nothing compared to what it might be, but it's quite enough already. I'll not rant too much on this particular Eve, but let me put it this way:
Islamist treatment of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity was a Kristalnacht for Muslim terrorism. Islam's Jewish solution was finally stated in Christian terms as well. Their strike at the very heart of Christianity's Nativity itself was a calculated blow that has set the tone for all which follows.
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It's not oblique, Zenster. It speaks to the effectiveness of the terror weapon that Islam has always used against the dhimmis in its midst that the mere rumour of action is induces very realistic fear in the target population.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday rejected UN sanctions resolution as "a piece of torn paper" which would not scare the Iranians into stopping nuclear work. "It is a piece of torn paper by which they aim to scare Iranians. It is in the Westerners' interests to live with a nuclear Iran," Ahmadinejad said.
Meanwhile the United States has urged for tougher international action against Iran over its nuclear programme, saying that UN Security Council resolution was not enough. US under secretary for state Nicholas Burns said it will try to persuade other countries, especially Russia, to impose stronger penalties individually. These, he suggested, would include stopping banks lending to Iran.
Earlier, the UN Security Council had unanimously voted for sanctions against Iran for its alleged nuclear weapons programme. It is under Article 41 of Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which makes enforcement mandatory but restricts action to non-military measures. The resolution orders all countries to ban the supply of specified materials and technology that could contribute to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. It also imposes an asset freeze on key companies and individuals in the country's nuclear and missile programs named on a UN list.
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It is in the Westerners' interests to live with a nuclear Iran
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In the meantime, the liberal academic-media axis is doing everything possible to minimize or deny the Iranian nuclear threat. From Alan "Strawman" Colmes to Ted "gigolo" Rall, the standard line is that fear is vastly exaggerated, there is no proof that Iran has plans for nuclear weapons, they will take decades to develop nuclear weapons even if they intend to do so, and the whole thing is a conspiracy to justify "aggression" against the peaceful workers and peasants of Persia. It is this propaganda line, disseminated worldwide through the institutional media, that allows the fanatic Ahmedinejad (a non-entity in and of himself) to push ahead in his nuclear program. He can cover himself with the barest figleaf of denial, knowing that the west's own subversives will will do the rest.
If one Iranian nuclear weapon goes off anywhere in the western world or Israel, every one of these appeasement tools should be swinging from a lamppost within the hour.
People here often ask what is wrong with the left beasts, the tools, traitors, and appeasers. It is simple: they work their havoc with no fear of being held to account.
Just last week, for example, Colmes praised the 1975 treason whereby South Vietnam was doomed by the cut off of US aid and referred to present-day Vietnam as a "vibrant democracy." He did this, naturally, in an attempt to justify a similar cutoff of funds for the Iraq war. This position, standard now for American leftists, is literally demonic in its callousness, hypocrisy, and dishonesty.
These people are not misguided hippies or soft-headed optimists. They are sadistic elitists who revel in the death and misery they can inflict with words and access alone.
A man believed to be a top al Qaeda militant who escaped from a U.S. airbase in Afghanistan last year said in a statement that the tide had turned against the West but urged Muslims to keep up their holy war.
A Web site often used by Islamists posted the statement from a man identified as Abu Yahya al-Libi in which he said Muslims should remain vigilant and not give up force in favour of dialogue. "There is no way to reach what is required but through jihad (holy struggle). Leaving jihad causes humiliation, weakness and suffering, but carrying it out and excelling in it is the way," he said in the statement which appeared on Monday.
U.S. President George W. Bush has said he would unveil a fresh plan for an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq early in the new year. Public discontent with the war, which has killed nearly 3,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq, led to crushing losses for Bush's Republican party in the November congressional elections. Democrats have called for a change of course in Iraq while bloodshed is also increasing in Afghanistan.
Abu Yahya al-Libi is believed to be the alias for Libyan Mohammad Hassan who along with three other al Qaeda militants broke out of the Bagram Air base last year. Libi warned jihadists not to become complacent despite what he said were Western losses in Afghanistan and Iraq. "By God's grace we are seeing a noticeable retreat and crumbling of the armies of the Crusaders but we should differentiate between joy and optimism and believing that the enemy has put down its arms and surrendered," he wrote.
Libi warned militants against cooperating with "Western countries and trusting their promises."
In January, Osama bin Laden warned in an audio tape that his al Qaeda was preparing new attacks inside the United States, but said the group was open to a conditional truce with the Americans. Washington said it did not negotiate with terrorists. Libi warned Sunni Muslim militants the road to defeating the West was long and arduous. "The battle, in all its dimensions, is too great to be resolved in a day or two ... but is wide open," he said.
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