Jamaat Ulema-i-Pakistain-Noorani (JUP-N) leader Prof Shah Faridul Haq passed away on Monday after a long illness. He was 78. JUP is the Brelvi party. It was a part of the MMA, where it was shunted to one side by the larger egos around Noorani.
He leaves five daughters and three sons.
His funeral prayers will be held in Madni Masjid, Sardar Ali Sabri Road, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, at 2 pm on Tuesday.
Prof Haq was made president of JUP-N after the death of Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani in 2003 and also acted as vice-chairman of the World Islamic Mission.
Born in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1933, Shah Faridul Haq did his graduation from Agra University in 1952 and Master's (Politics) and LLB from Aligarh University in 1954.
He migrated to Pakistain in 1955 and after practising law for some time taught political science at the Islamia College as lecturer and retired in 1968 as head of the department.
Prof Haq was also the founder principal of the Liaquat College.
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(KUNA) -- The EU Tuesday 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... over the jail sentence against two Swedish journalists for 11 years by an Ethiopian court for supporting terrorism and entering the country illegally.
Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson were jugged in July after they were captured in Ethiopia with rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF). Tut tut. What are the natives doing, putting white men in jug?... "Do you not know who we are!?!"
"Their sentencing on terrorism related charges raises concerns about the freedom of media and expression in Ethiopia," said EU High Representative Catherine Ashton in a statement. Ogaden is a nasty, arid region in Ethiopia. It's where the remains of Lucy, the 3.2 million year old woman, were found. ONLF has been tormenting the Ethiopian government seemingly forever.
"While recognising the Ethiopian judicial process, we hope that the two journalists can be released as soon as possible," she added . Why should they be released if they were canoodling with terrorists?
According to western media reports, the two men had confessed to the Ethiopian court during their trial that they had held talks with ONLF leaders in London and Nairobi, before entering Ethiopia from Somalia and meeting members of the group. But the journalist denied charges of supporting terrorism and said they entred the country to report on the activities in the region of a Swedish oil company. Ja, sure. And I for one believe them. They're white men, y'see, so they wouldn't lie. Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for... the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the jail sentences against the two Swedish journalists. "This is a devastating blow to press freedom in Ethiopia but we are determined to pursue the fight for our colleagues' freedom," said Jim Boumelha, IFJ President.
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Don't know about the rest of you, but I'm jolly tired of these degenerates running around pretending to be bearers of civilization.
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The best technique for handling such people is to invite a very impartial, high cred observer to discreetly watch and record how they are handled, without them knowing about it. Then release them to their home nation's diplomats.
And then, once they go home and immediately complain about torture and abuse, weaving grandiose tales of b.s., provide the sworn testimony and video showing that they were not abused in the slightest.
Even cough up a little bread to get a good quality Swedish translation, make lots of copies of it, and give it to the media in Norway and Finland, who love nothing better than a little Swedish scandal.
For a little extra effort, Ethiopia could look very civil and proper, make these "journos" look like the pair of corrupt liars they are, as well as discredit the revolutionaries they were with.
[Al Ahram] Head of Egypt's military judiciary Adel El-Morsy stated on Tuesday that the administrative court's order issued earlier in the day to suspend the practice of subjecting female detainees to undergo virginity tests is not applicable simply because such a practice was never part of the military's prison code.
El-Morsy said that if such a practice was in fact ever used then it was only done as an individual act.
He added that the person responsible for subjecting women to "virginity tests" will have to face criminal accountability, and that the accused military doctor, whose name was not provided, is currently being tried in front of the Supreme Military Court. The doctor's case has been adjourned to 3 January, according to El-Morsy.
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On Wednesday, the trial of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak resumed after a three-month break that saw the ousted strongman's fate eclipsed by deadly clashes and an Islamist election victory. Mubarak may face the death sentence if he is found to have been complicit in the killings of some 850 people who died during protests that overthrew him in February.
The frail former president, 83, arrived by ambulance at a police academy which once bore his name, and was wheeled by stretcher into the courthouse. Around 5,000 policemen were on the streets to secure the trial at the academy in the outskirts of Cairo, in coordination with the army. Mubarak's two sons Alaa and Gamal, his former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six former security chiefs, also defendants in the case, arrived in court as well.
Several pro-Mubarak supporters held banners of the former president, while families of the victims that died in protests carried pictures of their deceased relatives.
Some in the crowd shouted, "The trial is a sham and the gang still rules. We removed Mubarak, we got Hussein. To hell with both of them," they shouted in reference to Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Mubarak's longtime defense minister who is now running the country.
The trial came to a halt when lawyers asked for presiding judge Ahmed Refaat to be replaced, a request that was subsequently rejected on December 7.
Mubarak's first hearing in August was broadcast on live television, but Refaat soon ordered the cameras out. The judge drew the anger of lawyers representing Mubarak's alleged victims after he issued a media gag order on testimony by high-profile witnesses, including Tantawi. In statements after his testimony, Tantawi said Mubarak had never ordered the shooting of protesters.
It is widely believed that the resumption of the trial will be merely procedural, with little discussion of the accusations against the former president. But lawyers supporting Mubarak are hoping to clear his name.
The military accomplished what it wanted to accomplish -- terrorize the protestors -- so now it can back down and appear to be 'reasonable' to the gullible infidel Westerners, especially the gullible Western journalists.
CAIRO - A Cairo court on Tuesday ordered the Egyptian army to stop forced virginity tests on female detainees.
The Cairo Administrative Court ruled in favour of Samira Ibrahim, who took the army to court over the practice, slammed by rights groups as "torture." She was one of several women subjected to forced virginity tests when they were detained during a March demonstration.
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Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh meets with Brotherhood leader in Cairo, says ties between the two groups threaten 'Israeli entity'
Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, premier was in Egypt Monday on his first trip outside the blockaded territory since the Islamists overran it in 2007, saying his meeting with his Islamic ideological mentors threatens Israel.
One sees the evil Joooz shaking in their shoes, one does...
Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... discussed Mideast politics with the leader of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund, which has emerged as the biggest winner in the first parliamentary elections in post-uprising Egypt, capturing nearly half of the seats so far.
Hamas is considered an incompetent offshoot of the Brotherhood.
Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie met Haniyeh at the group's newly inaugurated headquarters in a Cairo suburb.
"The Brotherhood center has always embraced issues of liberation, foremost the Paleostinian issue," Badie said, according to Egypt's state Middle East News Agency.
He has to say that even if it isn't true...
He added that Hamas has served as a role model to the Brotherhood in its reconciliation with the Fatah movement and in closing the recent prisoner swap deal with Israel.
The Brotherhood renounced violence in the 1970s, but it supports Hamas in its "resistance" against Israel.
Hamas is considered a terror group by Israel, the US and EU, killing hundreds of Israelis in attacks, including suicide kabooms. The West insists that before it deals with Hamas, the group must renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept existing peace accords. Hamas has refused.
Haniyeh described Hamas as the "jihadi movement of the Brotherhood with a Paleostinian face." He said his visit to the Brotherhood center would confuse and frighten Israel.
"Our presence with the Brotherhood threatens the Israeli entity," Haniyeh said according to MENA.
Israel has 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... that a new Egyptian government under Islamist influence might cancel Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
Hamas took Gazoo by force in a brief, bloody civil war in 2007, expelling forces of the rival Fatah, led by Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... . Israel and Egypt responded by blockading Gazoo. Badie criticized the blockade during his meeting with Haniyeh, according to MENA.
Egypt has been heading efforts to reconcile the two rivals. They came to some agreements last week in talks in Cairo. Hamas was represented by its supreme leader, Khaled Mashaal, who is based in Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... .
Haniyeh said during his visit to 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... that reconciliation with Fatah is a "strategic" matter that should not be hindered by American and Israeli objections. Israel has said the closer Fatah gets to Hamas, the further it moves from a peace deal.
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I think that Israel should make a quiet deal with the Egyptian military, before these individuals are in power. That is, in exchange for sending an s-load of Paleos permanently to Egypt, allow a bunch of the Copts to emigrate to the Negev desert.
The Negev is pretty empty, except for small bands of Bedouins, and by having a place for them to go outside of Egypt will take a lot of pressure off them. The Copts will have a chance at prosperity and religious freedom, and can provide a lot of inexpensive labor the Paleos used to provide Israel.
It would also strongly improve Israel's standing among Christian nations, who would likely help a lot with resettlement costs and development.
Israel (and quietly the US) could help this deal by offering the Egyptian junta money to accept a lot of Gazans. A couple hundred million dollars would still, for a while at least, be chump change for getting rid of Hamas and 1.6m Paleos.
Granted, Israel couldn't take all 8.2m Copts, but a lot of them would prefer to take their chances in Egypt.
The end result would be a Gaza Strip full of Copts, again part of Israel, and a bunch of Christians in the Negev, displacing the Arabs there. In turn, the Egyptian Salafists could turn their hate against other Egyptian Muslims.
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I like the idea of an exchange: all of the Gaza 'Paleos' (or whatever Newt calls 'em) are sent to Egypt; all the Copts in Egypt move to Gaza. Gaza would be crowded but in a generation it would be the Hong Kong of the Mediterranean.
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The Copts would have to build from scratch - you know the Paleos wouldn't leave one brick on another for them.
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Some Copts could live under the benign overlordship of the nation of the Jews. Some, including the Coptic pope, Shenouda III, could not.
Anonymoose, Israel has already offered refuge and a world headquarters to the Baha'i in Haifa. Relatedly, there are six million Jews in Israel, of a population already 23% Arab. There are approximately eight million Copts in Egypt. If half of them, or a quarter, took up the Israeli offer you suggest, for how long would the character of the country remain Jewish?
[Dawn] Nigeria's top Mohammedan spiritual leader sought to calm tensions Tuesday after meeting the country's president over deadly Christmas attacks claimed by Islamists that risk inflaming sectarian divisions.
The meeting came as a Christian leader in the country's north warned the government must take action to address spiralling violence or risk religious war, though he stressed Christians must not retaliate.
The US military commander for Africa meanwhile expressed renewed concern over Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... , which claimed the Christmas attacks, particularly over suspicions of links with foreign groups like Al-Qaeda.
Nigeria's top Mohammedan leader said after a 90-minute meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... that the attacks which killed 40 people, including worshippers leaving a Catholic church near the capital, did not signal a religious conflict.
"I want to assure all Nigerians that there is no conflict between Mohammedans and Christians, between Islam and Christianity," Sultan of Sokoto Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar told journalists.
"It's a conflict between evil people and good people. The good people are more than the evil ones, so the good people must come together to defeat the evil ones, and that is the message." Jonathan did not speak publicly after the meeting, but his national security adviser urged Christians not to retaliate over the Christmas bombings.
"We are Nigerians. I don't see any major conflict between the Christian community and Mohammedan community," Owoye Azazi said.
"Retaliation is not the answer, because if you retaliate, at what point will it end? Nigeria must survive as a nation."Nigeria has seen scores of attacks claimed by Boko Haram, but some analysts said the Christmas bombings marked a dangerous escalation in a country divided between a mainly Mohammedan north and predominantly Christian south.
The head of the northern chapter of Nigeria's main Christian organization warned that the government must address the problem to prevent "religious war." He said Christians were frightened and security was being tightened at churches, but also stressed that they should not retaliate.
Neighbourhood groups were being mobilised to look out for any potential trouble, he said, while adding that they would not be armed and would notify the police of any suspicious behaviour.
"We have been alerting the government that they must do something," said Saidu Dogo, secretary for 19 northern states for the Christian Association of Nigeria.
"No country has ever survived a religious war, so the government must address the problem."The sultan said after his meeting with Jonathan that the president agreed to look at previous reports issued by government panels on the violence linked to radical Islamists and the country's sectarian divisions.
The Mohammedan leader also said that more discussions would be held with religious and traditional leaders and Jonathan.
Previous studies on Boko Haram have delved into the roots of the crisis in Africa's most populous nation and largest oil producer, including poverty in the north and alleged political links to some who have been involved in violence.
The reports have produced no visible changes despite the government's pledges to take them into consideration.
There have also been major concerns, particularly among Western nations, over whether Boko Haram has links with outside thugs.
General Carter Ham, the head of the US military's Africa Command, has said that Al-Qaeda's north African branch, Shebab cut-throats in Somalia and Boko Haram have expressed a will to work together, adding they also posed a threat to the United States.
On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Ham confirmed his "continuing concern regarding the growing operational abilities of the group known as Boko Haram and of its stated intent to collaborate more closely with other terrorist organizations."
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Oh no - no retaliation by Christians. Certainly not!
[Yemen Post] The French government strongly condemned shooting fire against the peaceful demonstrators two days ago that took place in the Yemeni capital Sana'a, killing at least 14 and wounding nearly 200 others.
The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Gay Paree strongly condemns the use of live ammunition at peaceful demonstrators on Saturday in Sana'a, which resulted in casualties and maimed.
It added that Gay Paree calls Yemeni Vice President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi, Prime Minister Mohamed Ba Sondwah to assume the full responsibilities and exercise their authority on all military forces and police to put an end to the use of violence against the peaceful demonstrators.
It also called on all the military and security leaders in Yemen to put themselves without delay under the authority of the Vice President and Prime Minister without reservation and implement the directives of the Military Committee.
According to French foreign ministry, La Belle France threatened to the to take individual measures and sanctions against any military or security official who raise tension deliberately or trying to undermine the political process. Noting that the departure of former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , should enhance the power of the new authorities and will help in easing the tension.
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Can't we find a pretext to take all the oil from them?
Once American shale oil extractions are up and running, along with everyone else's, who will care what is deep under the feet of the downtrodden Shiites of Arabia?
RIYADH: Crown Prince Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, opened a symposium on "Salafism: A Shariah approach and a national demand," organized by the Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University here Tuesday and commended its objectives.
Prince Naif said Saudi Arabia would continue to follow the Salafist ideology and denounced those who create doubts about this moderate Islamic ideology and link it with terrorism and extremism.
"Salafism is rooted in the Qur'an and Sunnah and calls for peaceful coexistence with other faith communities and for respecting their rights," the crown prince said.
One does indeed hear such lovely stories of the happy Jews of Medina, a community of ancient lineage, and the architectural gems that are the varied churches serving the foreign workers of Mecca.
"We have to stand united against those who launch smear campaigns on Salafism."
As opposed to standing against those who set off bombs and murder innocents...
He also laid the cornerstone for a number of educational projects worth SR2.3 billion at the university.
Suleiman Abalkhail, president of the university, thanked Prince Naif for opening the event. "The Kingdom is based on the moderate Salafi ideology," he said, adding that the Saudi government has been following the teachings of Islam in all its affairs and relations.
He said more than 100 religious experts from around the world would take part in the symposium to discuss 120 research papers on seven core subjects.
This seminar aims to achieve several goals such as shedding light on the doctrinal teachings of the Salafist movement, clear misconceptions about Salafism, clarify the roots of Saudi government regulations and its rightful principles and lastly provide a clear idea about Islam's approach toward non-Muslims.
The core subjects include Salafism, an approach pursued by the state since its foundation and its connection to Islam; misconceptions about the Salafi approach; the Salafi approach and its connection with the modern religious discourse, the relationship between the Saudi state and the Salafi approach in terms of originality and application; and the link between the Salafi approach and school curricula.
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"Kingdom will continue to follow Satanist ideology."
[Bangla Daily Star] Prosecution witness Manik Poshari yesterday narrated before the International Crimes Tribunal how Pak soldiers shot his employee Ibrahim after consulting with Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... in 1971.
"They took Kutti [Ibrahim] to the other end of the Pararhaat Bridge [a bridge in Parerhaat of Pirojpur], consulted with Delwar Sikder [now known as Delwar Hossain Sayeedi] and shot him," Poshari told the tribunal. Sayeedi stood beside as the body of Ibrahim was thrown into the river.
Poshari while hiding on the other side of the bridge witnessed the murder of Ibrahim, who worked in his house.
Poshari, who claimed to be 27 during the 1971 Liberation War, testified yesterday in a case against Delwar Hossain Sayeedi filed in connection with crimes against humanity committed in 1971.
Poshari started giving his testimony yesterday after the three-member tribunal finished recording the deposition and cross-examination of fifth prosecution witness Mahtabuddin Hawlader.
Sayeedi, who is now 71, was present at the dock during the proceedings. The Jamaat leader spent much of the time reading a pocket-size book. He was allowed to lie down on the dock as he suffers from back pain.
After Poshari finished his deposition, Sayeedi's counsels began cross-examining the witness yesterday and it will continue today.
Yesterday, Poshari, who was a fish trader in 1971, began his deposition by introducing himself. "During the 1971 Liberation War, my age was around 27 and I was in my home at Chithalia village of Parerhaat."
Poshari said the Parerhaat peace committee was formed with Delwar Hossain Sayeedi (who he kept referring to as Delwar Sikder), Sekandar Sikder, Danesh Ali Mollah, Moslem Mawlana, Majhar Talukder and other collaborators.
The peace committee members then went on to form the collaborators' force in the area, he said.
On May 8, 1971, Sayeedi, Sekandar Sikder, Danesh Ali Mollah, Mohsin Mawlana, Momin, Hakim Kari, Sobhan Mawlana along with other collaborators and Pak soldiers came to Poshari's house in Chithalia of Parerhaat.
"Sensing them approaching, my brothers and I hid ourselves in the woods on the eastern side of our house," said Poshari. "We watched everything that happened in my house from there."
Seeing the Pak soldiers, Mofizuddin, a cousin of Poshari, and Ibrahim, who used to work in the house, tried to run away.
But they were captured and tied up.
"Then, they looted the rice, paddy, money, gold and other valuables from my house," Poshari told the court.
While Sayeedi, Danesh Ali Mollah, Moslem Mawlana and other collaborators distributed the looted gold and many valuables among themselves, other items including rice, paddy and the furniture were looted by the "public", he said.
After the looting, under the leadership of Sayeedi, the collaborators poured kerosene all over the house. "Delwar Sikder then torched the place..."
According to Poshari, his house had sections--three residential quarters, a granary and a guestroom--and it was valued at Tk 10 lakh in 1971.
He claimed that the burnt corrugated iron sheets, pillars, wood and other remains of the torched house are still there even after 40 years.
After torching Poshari's house, the collaborators and Pak soldiers took Mofizuddin and Ibrahim towards their camp in Parerhaat, Poshari said.
"I followed them from afar to the Parerhaat Bridge," Poshari told the court.
"From my end of the bridge, I saw the Pak soldiers consulting with Delwar Sikder and Danesh Mollah."
Ibrahim, who Poshari kept referring to by his nickname Kutti, was untied and taken to the western end of the bridge.
"They took him to the other end of the bridge. The Pak soldiers consulted with Delwar Sikder and shot Kutti who gave a loud shriek."
Ibrahim's body was then thrown into the river, Poshari said.
Mofizuddin, the other captive, was taken to the camp and brutally tortured there. Between 1:30am and 2:00am the following morning, Mofizuddin beat feet from the camp and returned to Poshari's house.
"His whole body was covered with blood and scars," said Poshari.
Earlier yesterday, fifth prosecution witness Mahtabuddin Hawlader narrated how he saw a collaborator shoot Bisha Bali under Sayeedi's orders in Umedpur village of Parerhaat.
"On June 2, 1971, I was on my way to Parerhaat around 10:30am," said Mahtabuddin.
It was then when he saw Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, Sekander Sikder, Mawlana Moslem and other collaborators along with Pak soldiers enter the Hindupara (a neighbourhood predominantly Hindu) of Umedpur village.
"I quickly hid myself in the woods on the southern end of the Hindupara," he said.
He watched the Mighty Pak Army and the collaborators loot around 22 houses including that of Anik Mandal, Nalita Bali, Harendranath Chakrabarti, Muken Chakrabarti, Satish Bala, Chitya Talukder and Robi Talukder among others.
The houses were torched afterwards.
"I saw the collaborators and peace committee members share the looted valuables among themselves," said Mahtabuddin.
Then the collaborators, led by Sayeedi, tied Bisha Bali to a coconut tree and brutally beat him up, he said. "At one point, Delwar Sikder said something in Urdu to a razakar [collaborator], who then shot Bisha Bali," said Mahtabuddin.
On the same day, he heard that the collaborators also looted the house of Parerhaat's freedom fighter Mahbubul Alam. Mahbubul earlier testified against Sayeedi in the tribunal.
During the cross-examination, counsel Mizanul Islam asked Mahtabuddin whether he knew the collaborator who shot Bisha Bali, and whether he knows what happened to Bali's body.
Mahtabuddin said he does not know the answer to either of the questions and he did not try to find out during the last 40 years.
The witness told the counsel that he is currently the Awami League General Secretary of Parerhaat Union.
He later told the counsel that Pirojpur sadar was liberated from the Mighty Pak Army on December 8, 1971, under the leadership of Major Ziauddin and Parerhaat was liberated on the same day under the leadership of freedom fighter Ruhul Amin Nobin, who also testified against Sayeedi in the tribunal.
After liberating Parerhaat, Nobin and other freedom fighters captured Mobin, Atahar Ali Member, Abdul Bari Mintu, Habibur Rahman Mridha, Sobhan and other collaborators from the area, he said.
Later, counsel Manjur Ahmed Ansary concluded the cross-examination by suggesting that the allegations Mahtabuddin brought against Delwar Hossain Sayeedi in his testimony are false.
The counsel went on to say that Mahtabuddin does not have a profession. And as a local Awami League leader, he falsely testified against Sayeedi in a false case under the directive of his MP, and enjoyed government facilities for it.
Mahtabuddin Hawlader responded by saying that it was not true.
North Koreans took to the streets yesterday as the country closed down for the funeral of the evil rat bastard Kim Jong-Il the open air procession allowed the world a glimpse at what may be transpiring in the secretive country.
The funeral lasted three hours and was filled with mourners weeping and beating their chests. In South Korea, many people celebrated.
As Kim Jong-Il was known for an appreciation of Mercedes Benz sedans, I asked our transportation writer Travis Okulski what type of hearse the Beloved Leader took his last ride since it looks more like a mid-70s U.S. model than anything. It is a 1976 Lincoln Continental hearse. Interesting choice.
Hit the link for a series of photos.
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What does the UN call it when a world body stands at attention and gives a tribute and a moment of silence to one of the Monsters of the 21st century?
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NEWS KERALA > CHINA DENIES SENDING TROOPS INTO NORTH KOREA, immediately after the passing of Kim Jong-il as per media reports.
Prolly safe to say, however, that Jong-un will inherit the 10-20,000 PLA security force that protected Daddy-O.
By inference, iff the repors of the PLA security force are tru, then China likely knew about the real-time death of Kim Jong-il at least at the same time as Kimmie's personal or household entourage, i.e. NOT WHAT WAS ANNOUNCED ON STATE TV???
DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [FT.com] CHINA'S GREATEST THREAT IS INTERNAL, i.e. mucho decisive uncertainty as per the country's future within China's top MilPol leadership.
Perhaps more succintly, China's urban workers want higher pay + better housing + schools, etc. + are increasingly engaging in more + more organized mass protests across the country.
IMO THE REAL QUESTION IS WHETEHR THE CPC IS WILLING TO DEREGULATE + LOOSEN TRADITIONAL COMMIE CONTROLS FOR THE SAKE OF AN EXPANDING ECONOMY.
[IIRC THE SIMPSON'S = ON THIS DAY IN TIANENMEN SQUARE, NOTHING HAPPENED].
* SAME > CHINA TURNING INTO A MILITARY-RUN PUPPET STATE LIKE PAKISTAN? | THE PLA'S GREAT POWER GRAB ...... .....
* SAME > [Retired Russian MGEN. Vladimir Dvorkin]
CHINA MORE AT RISK [than Russia] FROM US AMD PLANS IN THE PACIFIC, as per its strategic nuclear deterrence [arsenal].
ARTIC > MGEN. DVORKIN = JAPAN + THE ROK ALREADY HAVE NAVALIZED VERSIONS OF THE US AEGIS BMD SYSTEM, + ARE PLANNING MORE UNITS.
* SAME > NEW ASIAN REGIONAL ORDER IS ABOUT COUNTERING CHINESE HEGEMONY.
Former president Kim Dae-jung's widow Lee Hee-ho and Hyundai Group chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun were tight-lipped on return to Seoul on Tuesday after paying their respects to the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. On Monday they met the new leader Sonny Boy Kim Jong-un, who looked "just like in the pictures," according to Hyun.
They would not otherwise be drawn. In a press release read by Yoon Chul-koo, the secretary general of the Kim Dae-jung Peace Center, Lee said, "It was purely a condolence visit."
Footage on North Korean state TV showed Pudgy Kim in a dark Mao suit, weeping as he stood at his father's body at the Kumsusan palace on Monday.
A two-minute-2-second segment showed Lee and Hyun paying their respects to Kim senior. The official Rodong Sinmun daily carried a report of their visit on the front page.
A member of the South Korean delegation said Fat Boy Kim Jong-un "seemed composed" when he met Lee and Hyun. His eyes did not look red from weeping and he received mourners calmly. He looked "rather young for his age," he added. But while the successor looks distinctly chubby on TV, in real life he looks well built, the delegation member added.
"Does this dark Mao suit make me look fat?"
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Footage on North Korean state TV showed Pudgy Kim in a dark Mao suit, weeping as he stood at his father's body at the Kumsusan palace on Monday.
[Al Ahram] The US ambassador to Egypt has refused a request by an Egyptian human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... group for help in the repatriation on health grounds of Omar Abdel Rahman, 'the Blind Sheikh', to Egypt.
Abdel Rahman, the spiritual leader of Egypt's Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya, has been held in US-based facilities for involvement in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing.
In November 2011, the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) asked the Egyptian authorities and the US Embassy in Cairo to work with the US administration for the release of Abdel Rahman who they claimed was suffering from a multitude of health problems including diabetes, high blood pressure, stomach ailments, chronic headaches and an inflammation of the pancreas.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... US Ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, responded by saying that Abdel Rahamn is getting all the medical attention he needs.
"The US Federal Prison System has gone to great lengths to provide Mr. Omar Abdel Rahman with the best possible medical care, specifically: Mr. Abdel Rahman's medical conditions are being managed appropriately and he is medically stable," Patterson said. "He is regularly evaluated by a team of healthcare professionals, including a physician, a physician assistant and a registered nurse."
According to EOHR, in addition to his ailing health, the Sheikh is not allowed visitors and the last time he received a guest was in 1999 when his wife was allowed to see him. He is also permitted only two 15-minute phone calls per month, and was subjected to solitary confinement for 18 years.
Salafists ...Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam that seeks a return to practices that were common in the 7th century. Rather than doing that themselves and letting other people alone they insist everybody do as they say and they try to kill everybody who doesn't... and supporters of Abdel Rahman began putting pressure for his release since April 2011 and held several protests in front of the US embassy. In August, his family and supporters began a sit-in in front of the US mission in downtown Cairo.
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We could release him at 20,000 feet over Cairo without a parachute.... I know that state is too squeamish, however, it would resolve the issue. (^8
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"Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR)"
That's a good one. The US should respond by sending them a nice pork sausage and wine Christmas gift basket.
The death squad shows up in uniform: black masks and tunics with the name of the group, Khorasan Mujahedin, scrawled across the back in Urdu.
Pulling up in caravans of Toyota Corolla hatchbacks, dozens of them seal off mud-hut villages near the Afghan border, and then scour markets and homes in search of tribesmen they suspect of helping to identify targets for the armed U.S. drones that routinely buzz overhead.
Once they've snatched their suspect, they don't speed off, villagers say. Instead, the caravan leaves slowly, a trademark gesture meant to convey that they expect no retaliation.
Militant groups lack the ability to bring down the drones, which have killed senior Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders as well as many foot soldiers. Instead, a collection of them have banded together to form Khorasan Mujahedin in the North Waziristan tribal region to hunt for those who sell information about the location of militants and their safe houses.
Pakistani officials and tribal elders maintain that most of those who are abducted this way are innocent, but after being beaten, burned with irons or scalded with boiling water, almost all eventually "confess." And few ever come back.
One who did was a shop owner in the town of Mir Ali, a well-known hub of militant activity.
[Guardian.UK] The embattled president of Pakistain, Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari, ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... on Tuesday used a speech on the fourth anniversary of the liquidation of his wife, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... to issue a firm challenge to those within the unstable south Asian nation who wish to unseat him.
The 56-year-old president told tens of thousands of people gathered at the Bhutto family shrine at Garhi Khuda Baksh in the southern Sindh province that the best way to pay tribute to his late wife, killed while campaigning in elections in 2007, was "to defend and protect democracy and democratic institutions in the country and foil all conspiracies against it".
The speech was Zardari's first public appearance since returning last week from Dubai where he had been receiving medical treatment for a suspected minor stroke and comes amid a welter of speculation that Pakistain's powerful military, which has ruled the country for much of its 64-year independent existence, is about to step in.
Zardari told the crowd that Bhutto's assassins "may have succeeded in eliminating her physically but [her] ideas and ideals ... shall never be killed".
Relations between Zardari, who became president in the wake of his wife's death, and the military have always been tense but have deteriorated significantly in recent months. Senior officers believe Zardari or close aides penned a leaked unsigned -- and unauthenticated -- memo appealing to Washington for aid in heading off a military coup earlier this year. Hearings into the affair are being held by Pakistain's supreme court and could seriously destabilise the government.
Aides of Zardari privately claim the senior judiciary are acting in concert with senior military officers to force the president out. In a jibe at judges, Zardari raised the unsolved case of his wife's liquidation in his speech.
Both elected and military officials have appeared to back away from confrontation in recent days however. General Ashfaq Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... , the chief of army staff and the most senior soldier in the country, has, via a military front man, denied any intention to mount a coup.
On Monday Yusuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... , the prime minister, denied domestic media reports that he was planning to sack both Kayani and the head of the main Pak military spy service, the ISI, saying the military supported democracy.
One bigwig in the ruling Pakistain People's party, founded by Benazir Bhutto's father, said on Tuesday that there was no question of the president resigning, whatever the pressure.
"He's a fighter. He's not going anywhere," the official said.
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[Dawn] Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... on Tuesday said DG ISI Lt-Gen Shuja Pasha's trip to London in May was under investigation and all institutes including ISI were working under the government's ambit, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives after attending a wedding ceremony at a local hotel, the prime minister said that yesterday's presser was aimed at eradicating speculations and misunderstandings regarding army-government relations.
Gilani on Monday rebuffed the speculation that the government was planning to sack Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... and DG ISI Lt-Gen Shuja Pasha.
The reports about army chief and DG ISI were the latest in what has been feverish press speculation about a rift between civilian politicians and the military.
To a question on whether a conspiracy was being hatched against the government, he said certain elements from time to time had been trying to create differences between the judiciary and the government, and also between the president and the prime minister, but in vain.
Answering a question, he said that DG ISI was on a trip to Doha with his permission this time.
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[CBS News] In the week since the last American troops left Iraq, Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.... ordered an arrest warrant for the country's highest-ranking Sunni official, threatened to exclude the rival sect's main political party from his government and warned that "rivers of blood" would flow if Sunnis seek an autonomous region.
The moves confirmed what many longtime observers of Iraqi politics have suspected since al-Maliki came to office more than five years ago -- that he has an authoritarian streak and beneath his tireless rhetoric about national unity is essentially a sectarian politician.
As a result, the veneer of sectarian unity that the United States tried to paint over Iraq's leadership throughout a 9-year presence is quickly being washed away after the departure of American forces.
The first casualty could be the unity government that al-Maliki heads, uneasily combining his powerful Shiite alliance with a Sunni-backed bloc. It took nine months after Iraq's elections in March last year to put it together, under heavy American pressure to include the Sunnis, but al-Maliki never liked it and is increasingly saying he wants a government based on the majority in parliament, which would squeeze out Sunnis.
And al-Maliki has made clear he intends keep a strong grip heading that government.
"I have been working here for six years and I will be here for another six," al-Maliki told a news conference last week.
He has been accruing power since rising to his post in 2006 in a process that has accelerated since the new government was formed a year ago. He effectively runs the Defense and Interior Ministries and has created a separate security force that answers to him alone. He has bypassed parliament to install Shiite allies in key positions, and he has used his control over state funds and resources to gain leverage with the judiciary and oversight agencies like the anti-graft Integrity Commission.
The one risk al-Maliki runs is that he will disillusion Shiite parties making up the bulk of his government, some of which are longtime political rivals. On Monday, a politician in the powerful party of radical Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... floated the idea of holding new elections to resolve the political turmoil. Bahaa al-Aaraji quickly backed off the idea, saying it was just his personal opinion, but his comment underlined how Shiite rivals could turn on the prime minister.
Nevertheless, for the moment, Shiite parties are strongly backing al-Maliki, unified by their common fear that Sunnis want to take back power that their minority community lost with the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime.
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A debate is raging within the IDF regarding the so-called inflection point when it will need to begin establishing new formations and procuring new platforms to counter a future threat from Egypt.
The current assessment within the IDF is that Egypt will, for the coming years, retain the peace treaty with Israel due to its need for continued financial and military assistance from the United States.
Nevertheless, there is concern within the military over two different scenarios involving the deployment of Egyptian military forces into the Sinai Peninsula, which is supposed to be demilitarized under the 1979 peace treaty.
The first scenario involves an Egyptian decision to deploy troops there for training. The second scenario sees the movement of an Egyptian division into the peninsula, on the sidelines of a future Israeli war with Hezbollah or Syria, as a demonstration of unity with the Arab countries.
In both cases, Israel will be in a quandary regarding what to do, a senior defense official explained recently. On the one hand, no Israeli prime minister will go to war with Egypt over such violations but on the other hand, if we dont respond then we are turning a blind eye to the violation.
As a result, the IDF Planning Directorate has recommended that a Muslim Brotherhood victory in the ongoing Egyptian elections serve as the cutoff line for when the military should begin establishing long-lead items such as new divisions and combat squadrons.
These are formations that take a number of years to create, and that is why we will need to begin working on them sooner rather than later, a senior IDF officer explained.
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In July, the Philippines' communist party, which was founded on "Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong-Thought" finally broke its silence on the tensions between the Philippines and China over the Spratly Islands as it lashed out at Beijings arrogance for refusing to recognize the claims of other nations, and refusing to engage in multilateral talks with other claimant-countries.
Fallout from the Huks' criticism of Chinese territorial claims.
[An Nahar] No oil will be permitted to pass through the key oil transit Strait of Hormuz if the West applies sanctions on Iran's oil exports, Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi warned on Tuesday.
The threat was reported by the state news agency IRNA as Iran conducted navy war games near the strait, at the entrance of the oil-rich Gulf.
"If sanctions are adopted against Iranian oil, not a drop of oil will pass through the Strait of Hormuz," Rahimi was quoted as saying.
"We have no desire for hostilities or violence ... but the West doesn't want to go back on its plan" to impose sanctions, he said.
"The enemies will only drop their plots when we put them back in their place," he said.
The threat underlined Iran's readiness to target the narrow stretch of water along its Gulf coast if it is attacked or economically strangled by Western sanctions.
More than a third of the world's tanker-borne oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States maintains a navy presence in the Gulf in large part to ensure that passage remains free.
Iran is currently carrying out navy exercises in international waters to the east of the Strait of Hormuz.
Ships and aircraft dropped mines in the sea Tuesday as part of the drill, according to a navy front man.
Although Iranian war games occur periodically, the timing of these is seen as a show of strength as the United States and Europe prepare to impose further sanctions on Iran's oil and financial sectors.
The last round of sanctions, announced in November, triggered a pro-regime protest in front of the British embassy in Tehran during which Basij militia members overran the mission, ransacking it.
London closed the embassy as a result and ordered Iran's mission in Britannia shut as well.
Tehran in September rejected a Washington call for a military hotline between the capitals to defuse any "miscalculations" that could occur between their militaries in the Gulf.
An Iranian politician's comments last week that the navy exercises would block the Strait of Hormuz briefly sent oil prices soaring before that was denied by the government.
While the foreign ministry said such drastic action was "not on the agenda," it reiterated Iran's threat of "reactions" if the current tensions with the West spilled over into open confrontation.
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I'm afraid that our CIC would use this potential action by Iran as a call for more windmills and stuff.
He'd also be reluctant to use any military force to correct the situation unless it's controlled by the UN. Strongly worded letters would ensue.
"Bye-bye mideast oil........gotta go golfing."
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Iran would learn two Latin words: Casus belli
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This happened before, during the Iran-Iraq war, and the US both put a lot of navy there, and gave like triple insurance to oil tankers and their crews, along with paying premium prices for the oil.
However, this time, Iran probably figures it could use missiles against shipping. Or, more likely, they figure China is so desperate for oil that they would block or undermine sanctions.
But the Chinese have seen this coming from a mile away, and while they would like to just block sanctions and keep the oil flowing, they also know that if Iran gets away with it, they will just keep pushing until they screw everything up.
So they will more than likely let the US call Iran's bluff.
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'moose, the problem I have is that while rational people see Iran's ultimatum as a bluff, I'm not sure the whack job Mullahs of that whack job religion see it as a bluff.
What happens if their bluff is called and they're not bluffing? I'm certainly not comfortable with the Zero in Chief leading that effort, and what will Russia and China do (not to mention Hamas, Hezbolla, Saudi, etc.) in that case?
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You don't want nto risk a war with the U.S., Russia, China and Saudi Arabia on the other side.
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Sure they would EC - if it would bring the 12th Iman from his spider-hole in some well somewhere.
That is the scary part - the Mad Mullah's actually believe that he would return - and they really don't care how many of their own citizens die in the process.
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Are you really so sure that they would BE on the other side from Iran? I can easily see the Chinese & Russians supplying arms and assistance in the nature of Vietnam, just enough to keep bleeding us.
Saudi? Wouldn't trust them farther than I can spit.
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Update US Warns Iran Not to Close Strait of Hormuz
A spokesman for the Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet said Wednesday it will not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
"The free flow of goods and services through the Strait of Hormuz is vital to regional and global prosperity," the fleet said in a statement released to Reuters.
"Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated," the statement added.
The statement came after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through the strategic oil route as a part of a "military drill."
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From MEMRI: What Iran has that can be used to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Spengler's Law #1: A man or a nation at the brink of death does not have a "rational self-interest.
Spengler's prediction: America will prevail, provided the Muslim world does not take us down with it first.
What else can the Mad Mullahs do that has not been mentioned? Where can the US go wrong, assuming Iran does shut the strait down?
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US, ISRAEL DISCUSS TRIGGERS [red lines] FOR BOMBING IRAN'S NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE, + while the USA also tries to dissuade Israel from acting unilaterally.
Apparently, Israel = Netanyahu Govt. panicked + became angered after SecDef Leon Pannetta's made MSM-publicized remarks on 12/02, where Leon stated that an attack on Iran would turn the entire ME into a conflagration which the US would regret. ISRAEL TOOK THAT AS MEANING THE OBAMA ADMIN IS NOT SERIOUS ABOUT STOPPING IRAN'S NUCPROGS.
As of EOY 2011, it appears Israel still does NOT have much confidence fas before in the Bammer + Admin.
[MEL BROOKS "EVIL EYE" here].
FYI DPK POSTER = argued that Iran likes to keep its REAL MILITARY CAPABILITIES, NUKES + ICBMS, HIDDEN???
versus
* TOPIX > WW3 HAS BEGUN - ITS THE FIRST ASYMMETRIC LONG WAR WANTED BY PENTAGON THINK TANKS.
Pragmatically, e.g. IRAN iff the US Govt-DOD hope to avoid fighting "rogue" states wid even elemental but reliable NucMilTechs, then it behooves the US to do so SOONER THAN LATER, where the odds of higher US = US-Allied casualties being incurred will be better.
Anuther ...
* SAME > [North Africa-style] ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN PAKISTAN NOT FAR AWAY: MUNAWAR [JeI Chief].
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tipper good post. I believe the problem will be that the Iranians will believe their own propganda. They lost face with the many kabooms within Iran. They yearn to lash out at any enemy.
This is payback. Verbal shadow boxing. The inroads into Arab nations are my long term concern.
* RUSSIA TODAY > WAR BETWEEN IRAN + WEST
"GREATEST DANGER" IN 2012: RUSSIA'S UN EVOY [Vitaly Churkin].
FYI Vitaly is deemed by many Russ Bloggers as one of the more trustworthy + saner heads in Moscow.
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* TOPIX > VARIOUS > CLOSURE OF STRAIT OF HORMUZ NOT EASY FOR IRAN: EXPERTS. The Perts think its all bluster.
IIRC last time they tried back in the 1980's, they lost a couple of destroyers + flock of armed speedboats, + SPECOPS raided a few oil platforms.
PESKY PERSIANS WILL BE PESKY = Pragmatically, Iran is likely to keep working in 2012 on parallel NucBomb research + dev of reliable LRBMS - ONE DAY IN TIME THEY WILL HAVE THE INDIGENOUS CAPABILITY(S) TO CLOSE THE HORMUZ, PERHAPS AS EARLY AS 2015!?
* SAME > IRAN TO BUILD 300 NEW PORTS [small], along the Persian Gulf + Sea of Oman.
Killer seemed to be a nice person to his neighbors, just kind of a control freak regarding his daughter dating a non Muslim. .
Everybody shocked. Media uninterested in Islamic issue.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Jamaat Ulema-i-Pakistain-Noorani (JUP-N) leader Prof Shah Faridul Haq passed away on Monday after a long illness. He was 78.
On Wednesday, the trial of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak resumed after a three-month break that saw the ousted strongman's fate eclipsed by deadly clashes and an Islamist election victory. Mubarak may face the death sentence if he is found to have been complicit in the killings of some 850 people who died during protests that overthrew him in February.
Goodluck Jonathan
The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement that 
[Bangla Daily Star] Prosecution witness Manik Poshari yesterday narrated before the International Crimes Tribunal how Pak soldiers shot his employee Ibrahim after consulting with 
Asif Ali 
Prime Minister 
Nouri al-Maliki
"I have been working here for six years and I will be here for another six," al-Maliki told a news conference last week.
