(AIP): Taliban says to Afghan Islamic Press in the wrong and strongly criticized and condemned its news policy late Friday. Taliban Spokesman Dr Muhammad Hanif phoned AIP and furiously says, AIP always release Talibans achievements and success just as claims while it issue news of collation and US forces as proved one. We observed all the news organizations and regularly check their news to point out their news policies and we found AIP policy completely wrong in all its meanings, said Hanif in a very harsh tone. Dr Hanif closed his phone in a high tempered manner after conveying his anger-fold criticism repeatedly.
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(SomaliNet) While, international meeting kicks off in New York to discuss ways to stabilize the war-torn Somalia, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday urged the international community not to support Somali warlords, TAIPEI Times reported SATURDAY. In an obscure criticism of the US support for Somali warlords, the UN secretary General said "I would not have supported the warlords. I don't think I would recommend the UN or the UN Security Council to support the warlords."
Mr. Annan was commenting on reports that the CIA paid Somali warlords to fight against the surge of Islamic extremist groups which have seized control of Mogadishu and most of the rest of the country. The CIA helped fund the effort by the warlords because of suspected Islamic extremists' ties to al-Qaeda and concerns the country could become a safe haven for terrorism.
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"I would not have supported the UN. I don't think I would recommend the US or any civilized country to support the UN."
Ethiopia has denied sending troops into Somalia after the Islamic Courts Union leader accused its neighbour of deploying 300 soldiers across the border. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmad, chairman of the Islamic Courts Union, said Ethiopian troops had entered Somalia through the border town of Dolow in the southwestern region of Gedo at 8am (0500 GMT). "We want the whole world to know what's going on," Ahmed told journalists. "Ethiopia has crossed our borders and are heading for us. They are supporting the transitional federal government. "They have deployed a lot of soldiers around the border towns, which is why we have been saying that Ethiopia is going to send in troops to Somalia," the cleric said.
However, Bereket Simon, an Ethiopian minister without portfolio and close ally of Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian prime minister, said Ethiopian soldiers were at the border but had not crossed it. "Ethiopia has a right to monitor its border," he said. "Ethiopia has not crossed the border. So far, the fundamentalists (Somalia Islamists) have occupied Baladwayne and are marching toward the Ethiopian border. Ethiopia hopes that they will not cross the border."
Aljazeera's correspondent in Mogadishu cited witnesses as saying more than 100 Ethiopian trucks had massed along the road to Bedawa, where the headquarters of the interim Somali government is located. Separately, a spokesman for the Ethiopian foreign ministry told Aljazeera that Addis Ababa had no interests in interfering in Somalia.
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A religiously motivated attack on statues at a museum in Cairo has sparked outcry in Egypt and fuelled fears that the country is veering towards an Islamic state. The attack on three artworks, by a black-clad and veiled woman screaming, "Infidels, infidels!" followed a fatwa issued by the Grand Mufti of Cairo, Ali Gomaa, which banned all decorative statues of living beings.
It led to furious criticism of the mufti from Egyptian liberals. In a televised debate with the mufti after the attack, one poet raged that "the prevalent religious discourse in the country encourages terror".
Didn't seem to faze the woman in black.
Although the ancient treasures of Egypt have been protected under Islam so far, an increasing extremism in the country could make statues such as the quartzite head of Nefertiti, the colossus of Amenhotep, and the golden death mask of Tutankhamen possible targets in future.
At the scene of the attack, in the villa and museum of the Egyptian sculptor, Hassan Heshmat, guards said they had been woken in the middle of the night by the woman's shouts and the sounds of destruction. "It was a fully covered, religious woman," said Raisa Intesar, who looks after both the museum and Mr Heshmat, who is now 86. "She had jumped over the wall. We rushed out to stop her but by the time we had overpowered her, she had destroyed three statues."
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If one wants liberty and freedom then this abhorent sect will have to be wiped out or greatly reduced. There is no other way. Being "moderate" about this sect will get you run over and left for road kill.
(SomaliNet) Following the slow down of peace talks between rebel leaders and the Ugandan government under the mediation of southern Sudan, President Yoweri Museveni said Friday that the government will not pardon rebels leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Xinhua reported. According to Uganda's president, the National Resistance Movement government cannot accept the idea of pardoning the LRA ring leaders who are responsible for the murder of civilians, noting that the LRA remnants will be destroyed totally if they do not return to Uganda voluntarily.
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DUBAI - Saudi officials said Saturday they had received the bodies of the two Saudi citizens who died in the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The agency quoted a spokesman for security affairs at the Interior Ministry, General Mansour bin Sultan AlTurki, saying the bodies had arrived after midnight on Saturday and had been taken to a hospital for medical examination and regular procedural measures. AlTurki affirmed that the relatives of the two Saudis have been informed about the arrival and that they will identify the dead and complete the necessary measures.
"Where do you want them?"
"Over here with the rest of the trash."
US authorities said the men hanged themselves on June 10 inside their steel mesh cells at the detention centre.
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The government has been secretly awarding honours to senior figures in the US military and foreign businessmen with lucrative public sector contracts. The Observer has obtained a Foreign Office list detailing all non-British citizens who have been awarded honours since 2003 - the first time the complete three-year dossier has been released.
It has emerged that Riley Bechtel, billionaire boss of the US-based Bechtel Corporation, which has won big transport and nuclear contracts in Britain and made a fortune from the Iraq war, was secretly awarded a CBE in 2003. This award has never been made public either by the British government or Bechtel. At the time Jack Straw, now Leader of the House of Commons, was Foreign Secretary. Although there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing, questions are being asked about whether the Foreign Office kept the awards quiet for fear of a political backlash.
But the Foreign Office says this is normal practice. On releasing the information, the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, said: 'Honorary awards to citizens where Her Majesty the Queen is not head of state are not formally announced.' According to the Foreign Office list the Queen approved Bechtel's honour for 'services to UK-American commercial relations' on 25 April 2003 - just a week after the company won a bumper £430m contract to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure after the invasion.
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Earlier this year The Guardian disclosed that Hans Rausing, the Swedish billionaire and former head of Tetra Pak, was awarded an honorary knighthood for philanthropy in January despite questions over his use of legal loopholes to avoid paying tax.
So Rausing decides that he'd rather spend his own money on areas where he thinks there's a problem and the only thing Al-Grauniad can say is that he didn't only paid crippling taxes rather than debillitating ones (thus ensuring he would have less of his own money to spend on philanthropy).
Dolts.
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Bechtel and Halliburton deserve every contract they are awarded.
There simply is no corporation with the breadth and scope these companies have.
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Not to mention Mind-Kontrol and Earthquakes divisions.
A radical Muslim who ousted a leading moderate cleric from his mosque on the south coast with a campaign of violence has said he believes Tony Blair is a legitimate target for terrorists.
Abubaker Deghayes, who now runs the mosque in Brighton and whose brother Omar is a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, told an undercover reporter that he endorsed the views of George Galloway, the Respect MP, who said an attack on the prime minister by a suicide bomber could be morally justified. Deghayes said he prayed for Allah to support anyone who attacked Blair.
Court documents show Deghayes took over the mosque using violence, intimidation and threats. Dr Abduljalil Sajid, a leading imam and a government adviser on Islam, was forced out as head of the mosque by Deghayes and his supporters.
It is understood Sussex police Special Branch held a number of meetings with Sajid about extremist elements at the site, but no overt action was taken. Sajid, chairman of the Muslim Council for Religious and Racial Harmony, is understood to have raised his concerns about the mosque with Blair.
Police sources have confirmed that in the past extremist literature had been found at the site and that some of those attending the mosque were suspected of having fought as mercenaries abroad.
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Imagine if during WW II the UK had allowed Nazi groups to openly organize, proselytize, and advocate the murder of Churchill as well as British Jews.
Then when they decided to do something about Nazi murderers, they announced that they'd first "consult" with them.
Europe will soon be lost, and descend into a space for everyday Moslem war. The question facing us is what will happen in the USA. The right to own guns and to self-defense are in much better shape here, so far.
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People must understand where they stand in the feeding chain.
Islam is number one and the rest are according to the hadiths,
The crucial element is jizya, which is a pool tax which must be paid in the same spirit as protection money.
Additionally the payer must feel humiliated.
Back in the old days this was accomplished by a physical beating of the individual when they paid the tax.
Now, however governments pay the tax (tribute), see the recent tribute paid to the Palestinians by the Big four, including the US.
As there was no physical abuse involved in handing over the money, a token abuse must be inflicted, such as a train bombing or a hijack of an airline which is subsequently flown into commercial buildings.
No hard feelings on the side of the Mohammedans, just a reminder of the natural order of things.
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"Imagine if during WW II the UK had allowed Nazi groups to openly organize, proselytize, and advocate the murder of Churchill as well as British Jews."
They did! it wasn't till 22nd May 1940 that Defence Regulation 18B was enacted. Mosley etc was arrested and the british union of fascists considered illegal.
Sorry for being pedantic but history is truth.
BTW churchill personally allowed them a little cottage in jail.
plus ca meme change.
Mind you the states were busy navel gazing at the time.
A high level Chinese military delegation has set out for the US-held territory of Guam to observe large-scale US naval exercises in the Pacific Ocean for the first time, state press reported Saturday.
The 10-person delegation, including three generals and officials from the foreign ministry, left Beijing Friday, the People's Liberation Army Daily reported. "This is the first time that the US military has invited observers from the Chinese side to a solely-organized US military exercise," the paper said.
Japan warned North Korea on Sunday of "a harsh response" from Tokyo and Washington if it fired a long-range missile, as media reports suggested that the secretive state could be hours away from a test launch.
Foreign Minister Taro Aso said in a television interview that Japan would seek an immediate meeting of the U.N. Security Council if Pyongyang went ahead with an intercontinental ballistic missile test.
He voiced concern about the possibility of a missile dropping on Japan, but toned down a remark made in an earlier interview that Japan would automatically regard this as an attack.
"We will not right away view it as a military act," he said.
The Prime Minister has not yet received a reply from the Indonesia President to his letter protesting about the release of Abu Bakar Bashir.
John Howard formally complained to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last week about the release of the Muslim cleric and demanded that restrictions be placed on him.
Mr Howard says he has not received an answer yet.
But he has told Channel Nine he will discuss the issue when he meets the Indonesia leader soon.
"I'll be communicating to the President in person when I see him," he said.
"The anger of the Australian community, particularly those associated with people who died in Bali in 2002 - I mean this man although he was not directly involved - he's the spiritual leader of an organisation that gave a general benediction to the whole event."
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Does Australia have the legal wherewithal to kill people it suspects of being a terrorist threat on foreign soil?
I know it has the moral authority and ability, i was just wondering how difficult the decision has been for john howard to let this fucker walk around preaching victory and jihad after speaking to the people he is responsible for after bali.
Staff working at Shannon Airport are being pressed to report any evidence they see of trafficking of prisoners by the US military.
It follows the discovery by a cleaner last Sunday of a manacled soldier on board a US civilian aircraft at the airport. The incident has proved highly embarrassing for the Irish government, which had always accepted assurances that no such traffic passed through its airports.
Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has now signalled that gardai may carry out random checks of US planes using the airport, but in the absence of any concrete decision human rights groups have asked staff at Shannon to report anything out of the ordinary.
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They will be the first to fold to the Islamists too. Shame my ancesters have sunk to such a pathetic low.
Perhaps thats why we all are here in the "New World",
to keep up the Good fight.
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If there was a "manacled soldier" on board the flight, there was an armed escort along with him. I suspect the soldier was American. I doubt it had anything to do with the activities in Iraq or Afghanistan. Soldiers used to be shipped back to the States that way from Mannheim on a regular basis. I've been on two flights with them.
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SO now the nation of Ireland will assume that the word of the U.S. Government regarding the contents of US military aircraft isn't good enough, and will require inspections. Hmmmm, is it just me or does this cut two ways?
A. Don't fly through there anymore,
B. Don't let them pass through US schools, installations or property without similar inspections. Seems to me they make a lot of money from trading with the US, so where does this bull**it attitude come from?
It sounds like he was -- convicted under military codes and headed for punishment stateside. Of course, they can't make that detail a prominent part of the story; that would rob it of the frisson of evil they need to really bash the US.
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FORT ERIE, Ontario -- A group of American military deserters publicly embraced their new lives in Canada Saturday with the support of "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, who said she wished the son she lost in Iraq was among them. "I begged him not to go to Iraq," the anti-war activist said through tears at a rally in support of the former soldiers, who wore black T-shirts emblazoned with "AWOL." "And I wish he was standing up here with these people because he didn't want to go."
Sheehan was making her second visit to Canada in support of sanctuary for those fleeing the U.S. military. The Canadian government has so far denied political asylum to U.S. soldiers who have sought it. Appeals are pending. "They're trying to deport me," said Darrell Anderson of Lexington, Ky., who arrived in Canada by way of Niagara Falls in January 2005. He spent seven months in Iraq with the Army's 1st Armored Division and received a purple heart following a roadside bomb attack before deciding during a leave he would not go back. When I was in Iraq we were killing innocent people for oil. It was obvious they didn't want us there," said Anderson, 24, who is petitioning to remain in Canada.
The gathering at a Fort Erie park was organized by peace groups on both sides of the border. About 20 former U.S. soldiers, referred to as war resisters, have applied for refugee status in Canada. Organizers estimated there may be as many as 200 soldiers in the country who have not yet sought formal protection. "They say we're traitors, we're deserters," said Marine Lance Cpl. Chris Magaoay, 20, of the Hawaiian island of Maui. "No, I'm a Marine and I stand up for what I believe in, and I believe the Constitution of the United States of America is being pushed aside as a scrap piece of paper."
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Say what you will Big Kahuna. You're still a coward and a traitor to your country. I hope you all die of syphilis and rot in hell forever.
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He signed up for a second tour after he returned from Iraq the first time, Desert Blondie. He wanted to go, and clearly not just because his mother threatened to run him over with her car if he joined the Military.
Dr. Mahfooz Kanwar recently attended Calgary's largest mosque for a funeral. At one point in the proceedings, a man Kanwar has known for more than three decades led the prayers.
"He was saying in Urdu (the official language of Pakistan): 'Oh, God, protect us from the infidels, who pollute us with their vile ways,'" recalls Kanwar, a professor of sociology at Mount Royal College in Calgary. "I stood up and grabbed him by the lapels, which was shocking even to me because I have never done anything like that in my life and I said: 'How dare you attack my country.' And then I addressed the crowd and said: 'I have known this man for more than 30 years and he has been on welfare for almost all of those years.' "
Kanwar chuckles at the memory. "Then I said to this semi-literate man, 'you should thank me and those you call infidels.' "He asked me why and I said: 'Because the taxes I pay are putting food on your table as are the taxes of the so-called "infidels.' "
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According to the "two nation theory" that actually produced the Pakistani state, muslims are a separate nation, with their own culture and history. They cannot coexist with other impure faiths and must have their own state.
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IT's nice to see that some Muslims are finally getting it.
Sharia is a lose-lose situation. The infidels lose, but so do the Muslims.
Al
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Kanwar, a devout Muslim, says he has essentially been excommunicated by Calgary's mosques because he is too tolerant of others.
Waitaminnit. We've been told, over and over, that Muslims don't pass judgement on who is a good Muslim and who isn't. We've been told they can't exclude the extremists because there's no mechanism in Islam to do so. Of course, we've simultaneously learned of the dozens of divisions within Islam, each of which considers the other little better than animals.
And we've been told over and over that it's just a small number of extremists, that most Muslims in the West are interested in being part of the West, that they just want to get along. We've been told that there's no divided loyalties, no conflict between being (in this case) Canadian and being Muslim.
But doesn't this story make a lie of all that?
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'Because the taxes I pay are putting food on your table as are the taxes of the so-called "infidels.' "
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They probably consider it jizya - the tax paid by non-muslims. It is ok for a muslim to be supported by jizya.
Qur'an 9:29:
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold forbidden that which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
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Tough Program Is Discouraging Illegal Crossings
By Sylvia Moreno
Washington Post Staff Writer DEL RIO, Tex. -- On June 1, the three Ordaz-Valtierra brothers from Mexico illegally crossed the Rio Grande with the same dream that so many other Latin American immigrants have: head north from the border, get jobs and start sending money home.
Their journey, instead, ended in a federal courthouse here, where, dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, each was charged with the federal misdemeanor crime of entry without inspection. Each pleaded guilty and was sentenced by a U.S. magistrate judge to 15 days. Under guard of U.S. marshals, they were put in shackles and bused to a West Texas jail to serve their time and await deportation home.
"I'm sorry," Juan Carlos Ordaz-Valtierra, 27, said through an interpreter as he stood before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis G. Green. "I didn't think it was this difficult to cross into your country."
It wasn't. But this year, a 190-mile stretch of riverbank that includes the small border cities of Eagle Pass and Del Rio became a "zero-tolerance zone." If apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol, illegal immigrants are prosecuted by federal authorities for a misdemeanor, sent to jail for 15 to 180 days and then deported. If they are caught illegally entering the country a second time, they are eligible for a felony charge of illegal entry and as much as two years in federal prison.
"Catch and release" -- in which Mexican citizens are returned promptly to Mexico, but citizens of other countries are given a notice to appear in immigration court at a later date, set free and never tracked down by authorities -- would end here, said Department of Homeland Security officials at a Washington news conference this year. "Catch and remove" would start. And, officials predicted, as this tough policy became known, immigrants would be discouraged from crossing through this slice of southwest Texas.
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But as with many border enforcement programs, the positive effects are often offset by negative consequences. "It's plugging one hole here and creating holes somewhere else," said one federal official who asked not to be identified because he is involved in enforcing the program. "If it's only done right here, everybody might go elsewhere."
I know this is a stunning idea, but maybe you should do it right everywhere.
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wow, now thats's tough.15 fucking days huh
in a jail that is nicer and the food better than where you came from
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Joe Arpaio in AZ has been housing them under less-than-pleasant conditions (think green baloney sandwiches) for less than a couple dollars a day. Works there too....
Build the fence. Faster
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and lock up the "human rights" activists that facilitate the illegals by putting up aid and watering stations in the desert. Also, post Border Patrol folks at the stations to rescue (arrest) everyone who shows.
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West Texas has a lot of open space, you don't need to be hauling their asses all over and back. Develop holding pens. Contact Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix, he'll set you straight.
Ask that guy in Arizona how to run a prison camp for these law breakers. He knows how.
The Guard has spare GP-Medium tents, hurricane fencing, barbed wire footing and concertina wire for making the perimeter, and the engineering know-how to build & man the guard towers.
The American spy who persuaded Libya to renounce its weapons of mass destruction is to return to the Central Intelligence Agency, where he will direct an aggressive drive to recruit informants inside Iran to aid possible negotiations over Teheran's nuclear capability.
Stephen Kappes, a former United States Marines officer who resigned from the CIA after a clash with its then director, Porter Goss, has been brought back from self-imposed exile in London by George W Bush.
Iran will be top of his agenda. "He's a remarkable guy, a talented leader and among the finest officers of his generation," said Gary Berntsen, the CIA's key commander during the invasion of Afghanistan, who has worked for Mr Kappes in the Middle East. "He knows the target [Iran] intimately."
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I read this earlier with mixed views. Stephen (knee) Kappes is supposedly the "answer" on Iran because he wants to talk to them? Peter Goss comes out the asshole because he dumps Kappes?
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ISLAMABAD: The countrys chief economist has reportedly been removed from his post after he differed with the government on poverty reduction and GDP growth rate figures. However, the government has outrightly denied any such development.
Official sources told The News that Pervaiz Tahir, chief economist in the Planning Commission, was removed and posted as managing director of the National Energy Conservation Centre (ENERCON) on May 30, after he reportedly told the deputy chairman Planning Commission that he disagreed with the poverty reduction figures.
Secretary Planning Division Akram Malik, however, when approached said: This is absolutely untrue. He said the poverty figures of 10 per cent reduction during the period 2001-05 had been calculated by the UNDP, World Bank and Asian Development Bank experts following the internationally recognised methodology.
He said although Pervaiz Tahir was the countrys chief economist, he was not an expert on calculating the poverty figures. About the GDP growth rate figures, Malik said the chief economist was not in the country when the government calculated and finalised the GDP growth rate figures of 6.6 per cent.
When contacted Pervaiz Tahir said he would not comment on the reasons for his removal. However, when asked if he had not agreed on the official figures on poverty reduction and GDP growth rate, he said: I will only say that my views on these matters are known to all in the Planning Commission.
Sources in the Planning Commission said a committee headed by the secretary P&D and comprising the chief economist and representatives of donors as members worked on the poverty reduction figures. However, the chief economist did not attend the committee meetings and had reportedly conveyed to the deputy chairman that the poverty reduction figures being finalised were simply impossible.
According to a source, Pervaiz Tahir was a frustrated soul and he also did not attend the meeting of the Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC) in the third week of May reportedly because the committee meeting agenda did not include the Economy Paper, which was otherwise considered mandatory.
It is said that on the basis of the Economy Paper, the APCC finalises basic economic parameters and the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) and then recommend the same to the National Economic Council (NEC). The APCC, it is said, was also not provided the Statistics Divisions statistics about the GDP growth rate.
The chief economist had also been missing from the NEC meeting held a few days before the presentation of the budget. According to a source, the chief economist, out of his frustration, had left the country for a World Bank meeting abroad days before the NEC meeting. The source said that Pervaiz Tahirs disagreement with the Planning Commission boss was the consequence of his transfer, while a senior P&D official, on condition of anonymity, said the chief economist was transferred for going on a foreign tour when the budget was being finalised.
A chief economist, it is agreed, is never transferred. Either he retires or resigns, a source said.
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The Pak PM is cooking the books, making up GDP growth figures.. (desperate need of pakistanis to be "equal" to India) looks like this guy got fed up of the charade...
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In view of the spurt of terrorist activities by ultras donning army uniforms, the district administration has imposed restrictions on sale of such uniforms in Jammu.
District Magistrate Hridesh Kumar Singh has imposed restrictions with immediate effect on unauthorised persons dealing in sale, purchase, storage, and stitching of army combat dress/readymade combat dress in the district, apprehending that these are being passed on to terrorists and other anti-national elements. ``All authorised firms/shops dealing in such articles will inform the nearest police station, within seven days,'' he said. UNI
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Hmm.. jihadis have been dressing in army uniforms and killing civilians, army, police and border security personnel since 1987.
And they ban the sale of uniforms in markets now?
Real bright politicians in Jammu and Kashmir state...
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I read a press report the other day that you can buy just about any uniform you want in the Baghdad souks.
The Pakistani branch of Islamic group al-Muhajiroun has evolved into one of many support networks connecting Western Muslim youths, mostly from Europe, to jihad in southwest Asia. According to an analysis circulated by Stratfor, the US-based online news analysis service, this occurred after the Pakistani branchs 2003 announcement of independence from the parent group in London. The Pakistani branch of al-Muhajiroun had decided to participate more actively in the jihad in Afghanistan, which necessitated its secession from the parent body. Omer Bakri Mohammed, the organisations founder, blessed this decision as he wanted to maintain plausible deniability for the group as a whole.
Stratfor writes, Groups like al-Muhajirouns Pakistani branch are channels for bringing conditioned Western Muslim youths into contact with Al Qaeda recruiters. This is likely the same medium that allowed the July 7 London bombers to go from being radicalised youth to becoming actual suicide bombers.
Stratfor cites the example of Syed Hashmi, a 26-year-old US Muslim and New York City resident, who was arrested on June 6 at Londons Heathrow Airport as he prepared to board a plane for Pakistan. He was charged with aiding an Al Qaeda plot to stage attacks in London and shipping equipment to the jihadi network headquartered in Pakistan. Hashmi, the analysis notes, is a US citizen of Pakistani origin who grew up in New York. He graduated from college in 2003. During his student days, he was exposed to radical Islamic ideas, particularly those of the now defunct London-based group al-Muhajiroun. According to Stratfor, In 1996, the nascent and small New York branch of al-Muhajiroun, like its parent group in London, comprised members who had parted ways with Hizb al-Tahrir a trans-national radical Islamist group seeking to re-establish the caliphate through non-violent means. By the end of 1999, the chapter had undergone a complete turnover, and the group gained notoriety for being an Al Qaeda propaganda front organisation.
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Just goes to show that the old saying was right. A good Paki is a dead Paki.
GHALANAI: Religious and tribal elders of Danishkol in Pandialay tehsil have established a Quami Lashkar (national army) to implement the ban on musical instruments. Around two-dozen tribal elders along with 500 gunmen have been patrolling the area for the last three days and imposing fines on tribesmen found violating the new rules. Sources said the Lashkar had managed to collect thousands of rupees in fines. According to the rules set by the body, any one found owning a VCR or CD player or involved in 'immoral acts' could be fined Rs 0.5 million and expelled from the area. An eyewitness said the local office of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), which has considerable authority in the tribal territory, was also forced to closedown. However, local office bearers of the party were not available for comments.
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Ah, sounds like a regular heaven on earth.
Let the suffering commence.
For Allah(fleas be upon him) wouldn't have it any other way.
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Set up giant speakers just inside Afghanistan and start blaring rap and heavy-metal 24/7. When the jihadis come to stop the music, pot 'em. Of course, our guys would have to LIVE wearing earplugs, but that's just a small price to pay.
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A report by Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper says that the militant wing of the Palestinian Fatah party has recruited as many as 4,000 new fighters for a possible showdown with the Hamas party.
Now Fatah has hands to hold all those lovely, new weapons recently smuggled across the Egypt/Gaza border. lotp is on vacation, so I'll take care of ordering a few vegetable platters, for those who've overdosed on popcorn. ;-)
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and the supposedly bankrupt Paleos are going arm and pay these new recruits how? Probably with the "humanitarian" aid that the antisemitic idiots in the EU is planning to send.
Fatah and Hamas will sign an agreement on the "Prisoner's document" within two days, according to PLC Speaker Abdel Aziz Dweik. Sources close to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas called the differences between the two groups were technical and not fundamental. The two organizations were said to be close to reaching an agreement Saturday on the "Prisoner's document," according a report by the Arab weekly published in London Al Hiat.
According to the report, Hamas was willing to accept the document barring a few minor changes. Sources within the Hamas government said that it would be willing to change make changes within its leadership if it would cause the easing of economic restrictions on the Palestinian Authority.
A senior Hamas official within the PA said that if the economic restrictions were not lifted within two months, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh would resign and a technocratic government would be formed.
Meanwhile, Abbas was meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the two were discussing, among other things, Olmert's "realignment" plan.
The Palestinian president has promised to continue a 16-month-old ceasefire with Israel - denying Hamas ever broke it.
That was when his lips fell off...
After meeting Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, on Saturday, Mahmoud Abbas said Hamas had not discarded the truce in the past week. "Hamas did not break the truce, although some violations have happened, due to the killing of the family [on a Gaza beach on June 9]," he said.
"Y'see, the fact that they were shooting at people has nothing to do with the ceasefire..."
The Palestinian leader promised to uphold the ceasefire "in order to have people living in peace".
"Just not around here..."
His comments came two days after Hamas, which holds a majority in the Palestinian parliament, offered to restore the truce, which broke down after a beach explosion killed eight Palestinians, including women and children. Israel was shelling Gaza around that time but has said it was not responsible for the beach blast. Israel responded favourably to the offer by Hamas. Mark Regev, spokesman for Israel's foreign ministry, said on Friday that "if it is quiet, we will answer that with quiet".
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said on Friday that "if it is quiet, we will answer that with quiet".
Then he started giggling and had to leave the room.
The mission is anti-terrorism, but the most frightening things for some servicemembers of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa are decidedly more natural threats.
Along with the heat, dust and choking humidity, one of the first things theyre warned about upon arrival in Djibouti are snakes. And what a variety of deadly snakes there are.
Theres the burrowing asp (commonly found burrowing under stones or at night after a rain); theres the puff adder (scientific name Bitis arietans, hisses when disturbed); the black mamba (can grow to 13 feet long, and found in scrub land); the Egyptian cobra (with its distinctive hooded head); and, of course, the red spitting cobra (red, spits venom).
According to a pamphlet found around Camp Lemonier and distributed by the Armed Forces Pest Management Board, those and other snakes can be found in Djibouti. The pamphlet includes symptoms of venomous bites and snakebite treatment.
"Ill tell you what, I dont care if its poisonous or not, Im not coming anywhere near anything thats on the ground and that can bite," said Army Sgt. Bill Carter, who was passing through Lemonier on temporary duty.
"Puff adder, Egyptian cobra I dont care what its called. Keep it away from me."
Thailand should not blame Malaysia every time an incident occurs in the country's restive southern provinces.
Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said pointing fingers and placing blame on Malaysia would not improve the situation there. He said that if the Thai authorities had information, they could pass it to Malaysia so that both countries could cooperate to stop the violence.
He was commenting on a statement by Narathiwat Governor Pracha Taerat on Thursday that more than 200 small bombs, each the size of a soda can and attached with a digital wristwatch, were smuggled from Malaysia in the past week. The statement came after an explosion near a drink shop in southern Yala province which wounded a truck driver, his wife and three others.
Small bombs also exploded in toilets at five train stations in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat near the Malaysian border where the separatist insurgency has been concentrated.
I find it hard to believe that the weapons come from Malaysia as we have very strict controls on these things. Usually it is the reverse that happens.
If you tell me that petrol or sugar is smuggled (out of Malaysia) into Thailand, then I can believe that, Syed Hamid said.
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Usually it is the assholes in Islamic countries which deny forever the assholery of their Islamic cohorts.
Thailand can begin to sterlize the southern provinces of the Islamic population. Send them packing or, if they choose, they can die in place.
The Thai have an entrenched Kool Aid bunch - just read their newspapers and you find they have the same Moonbat Intelligentsia problem as Western countries. The regular folks know better, but they're good lifelong Buddhists who are very very slow to act.
The government has to lead, or the campaign of slaughtering the peaceful Buddhists will continue.
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#1 and #2, I tend to agree with you both. Why? Cos, spudhead FM Hamid is a chip off the old block. His dad was such an ultra racist in his time, a partisan fanatic. Secondly M'sia never had an respectable foreign policy.....remember dragging the sinking Viets boatpeople's boat out to sea? Or the even the Navy's rumored raping of Viet women on deserted island then?
East Timor's president on Saturday defended the leader of a band of renegade troops who have clashed with loyalist forces, saying he was not the cause of the unrest and political tension plaguing the tiny nation.
Xanana Gusmao said Alfredo Reinado, who is also demanding that East Timor's politically powerful prime minister step down, "was not a rebel" despite the fact he took up arms against other government forces.
Maj. Alfredo is not the one who initiated the problem, we have many other issues to think about," Gusmao said. He did not elaborate.
Gusmao's remarks, made on a trip to neighbouring Indonesia, appeared to be part of an attempt to defuse tensions in East Timor, but will likely concern supporters of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri and underline the complex political backdrop to the unrest.
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Fighters like Abu Haritha and activists like Shaaban and Yakan speak in almost mythical tones about what they call the resistance in Iraq.
In nearly every conversation, they make the assertion that the United States has, at this point, lost the war.
Yeah and these guys were in Falluja.
Whats the matter? Got a little too hot for you there? The 72 virgins weren't looking all that appealing? Why didn't you make your stand against the Great Satan? Its easy enough to declare that the US has lost in Iraq when you've fled away a safe distance to the comfort of your home country.
Article by Ray Robison, a former member of the CIA-directed Iraq Survey Group (ISG), which examined efforts by Saddam Hussein to build and hide weapons of mass destruction, and supervised a group of linguists to analyze, archive and exploit documents and materials of Saddam's regime.
In this second of a three-part examination of a newly-released document captured in Iraq, Robison offers further evidence that in 1999 the Taliban welcomed "Islamic relations with Iraq" to mediate among the Taliban, the Northern Alliance and Russia, and that the Taliban reciprocated with an invitation to Iraqi officials to visit Afghanistan.
The document appears to be a notebook kept by an Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) agent, and apparently captured in 2003. The translation is provided by Robison's associate, known here as Sammi. The notebook deals extensively with the meetings between a prominent Taliban supporter and former Saddam regime officials.
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Whoops! My finger slipped (that's my story, and I'm sticking to it) before I could add my comments. I gave only the opening paragraphs of a long article, as is
part 1, which came out last week. FoxNews also has more about Mr. Robison. I found the articles heavy going, what with all the names and embedded links, the attached raw translation and follow-on analysis, but for some of you this should be like a mud puddle for pigs.
I'll keep an eye out over the next few days for part 3.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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
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(AIP): Taliban says to Afghan Islamic Press in the wrong and strongly criticized and condemned its news policy late Friday. Taliban Spokesman Dr Muhammad Hanif phoned AIP and furiously says, AIP always release Talibans achievements and success just as claims while it issue news of collation and US forces as proved one. We observed all the news organizations and regularly check their news to point out their news policies and we found AIP policy completely wrong in all its meanings, said Hanif in a very harsh tone. Dr Hanif closed his phone in a high tempered manner after conveying his anger-fold criticism repeatedly.
(SomaliNet) While, international meeting kicks off in New York to discuss ways to stabilize the war-torn Somalia, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday urged the international community not to support Somali warlords, TAIPEI Times reported SATURDAY. In an obscure criticism of the US support for Somali warlords, the UN secretary General said "I would not have supported the warlords. I don't think I would recommend the UN or the UN Security Council to support the warlords." 
Ethiopia has denied sending troops into Somalia after the Islamic Courts Union leader accused its neighbour of deploying 300 soldiers across the border. 
DUBAI - Saudi officials said Saturday they had received the bodies of the two Saudi citizens who died in the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
FORT ERIE, Ontario -- A group of American military deserters publicly embraced their new lives in Canada Saturday with the support of "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, who said she wished the son she lost in Iraq was among them. "I begged him not to go to Iraq," the anti-war activist said through tears at a rally in support of the former soldiers, who wore black T-shirts emblazoned with "AWOL." "And I wish he was standing up here with these people because he didn't want to go." 
DEL RIO, Tex. -- On June 1, the three Ordaz-Valtierra brothers from Mexico illegally crossed the Rio Grande with the same dream that so many other Latin American immigrants have: head north from the border, get jobs and start sending money home.
GHALANAI: Religious and tribal elders of Danishkol in Pandialay tehsil have established a Quami Lashkar (national army) to implement the ban on musical instruments. Around two-dozen tribal elders along with 500 gunmen have been patrolling the area for the last three days and imposing fines on tribesmen found violating the new rules. Sources said the Lashkar had managed to collect thousands of rupees in fines. According to the rules set by the body, any one found owning a VCR or CD player or involved in 'immoral acts' could be fined Rs 0.5 million and expelled from the area. An eyewitness said the local office of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), which has considerable authority in the tribal territory, was also forced to closedown. However, local office bearers of the party were not available for comments.
Fatah and Hamas will sign an agreement on the "Prisoner's document" within two days, according to PLC Speaker Abdel Aziz Dweik. Sources close to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas called the differences between the two groups were technical and not fundamental. The two organizations were said to be close to reaching an agreement Saturday on the "Prisoner's document," according a report by the Arab weekly published in London Al Hiat.
The Palestinian president has promised to continue a 16-month-old ceasefire with Israel - denying Hamas ever broke it.
