(BNA) Sudanese National Assembly Speaker Ahmed Ibrahim Al Taher reiterated his country's refusal of deployment of any international force in Darfur and said that the issue is not negotiable. The armed forces that have signed the Darfur Peace Agreement will soon be in control of all the district and will work on protecting residents and maintaining its stability, said Al Taher during a meeting with North a legislative council delegation from Darfur. The National Assembly Speaker pointed out to the partnership with Abuja pact signatories and the will to cooperate with them according to a comprehensive view on implementing the agreement.
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(IsraelNN.com) Thousands of anti-Israel protestors took to the streets of Cairo over the weekend calling on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to permit them to join Hizbullahs fight against Israel. The protestors shouted anti-Israel epithets while expressing their support for Hizbullahs war.
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Only thousands? That's as pathetic as the latest round of "anti-war" protests in Europe!
Uganda's Lords Resistance Army has declared a unilateral ceasefire with peace talks due to start next week, but the government has yet to reciprocate the gesture. A spokesman for the LRA confirmed the decision on Friday from the rebel group's base in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He said the laying down of arms had been ordered by the deputy commander, Vincent Otti, acting on behalf of Joseph Kony, the LRA leader. "I order all of our field commanders to, with immediate effect, cease all forms of hostilities against UPDF (Ugandan army) positions and others," Otti said in the statement. "We hope that the government reciprocate this gesture of goodwill."
In the capital, Kampala, a spokesman, Robert Kabushenga, said the government would not declare a ceasefire but confirmed the Uganda delegation would return to peace talks in Juba, the capital of autonomous southern Sudan next week.
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His stats are frightening. I bet they understand being dominated and kept isolated from the rest of the rational free world. If not they will.
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However, the vast majority share the attitude of Sheeryn, a teacher of Koranic studies in Bradford, who said she felt comfortable in Britain and had close British friends. I think I have a place for these people and a place for my religion, she said.
These people... Funny way to refer to "close friends" isn't it? Kind of shows up the lie.
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"Restarting any sense of integration is going to require real dialogue and understanding of what Muslims think if the deepening divide is to be bridged . . . "
Yeah, but only if they're willing accept what Muslims think for what it actually is, and what it ain't. Doubt that will happen in Britain anytime soon, since it seems to be beyond the understanding of Brits that anybody might not "like" them and what they stand for. They blame it all on a lack of understanding, when what it really is, is a fundamental conflict of values and an absence of logical, rational thinking on the part of Muslims.
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It's about time you dimwit Brits come out of your coma. These Muzzies have no intention of adopting British laws/customs. They want to take everything you've built over the centuries. Once they achieve a certain mass of population they begin demanding. Then dictating. You'd best pay attention and start moving them out. It's your only chance. You don't have the backbone to kill them in place, like we will in US if any additional "incidents" occur.
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"It's about time you dimwit Brits come out of your coma."
A coma it has to be since they aren't able to notice how NO other non-muslim immigrants have caused these amount of trouble to their society thus far.
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Immigrants have usually tended to become more secular and less religious than their parents by the second generation. But the survey shows Muslims have gone in precisely the opposite direction.
Islam, as compared to most of the earth's population, seems to have "gone in precisely the opposite direction", for quite some time now. Only the prospect of widespread access to weapons of mass destruction has altered our need to scrutinize it more thoroughly of late. So many of its tenets and practices (e.g., jihad, taqiya, ect.) would normally be of much less concern but, instead, have now become substantially greater threats when leveraged by the destructive potential of modern technology.
Nothing epitomizes Islam's regressive nature more than its perpetual longing for a sharia-ruled global Caliphate. Similarly, nothing else (save, perhaps, communism), represents such a dire threat to all other cultures than that of unreformed Islam.
There will soon come a time when Islam must be redefined as a political ideology such that any right to practice it may be proscribed in all countries allowing true religious freedom. Once such prohibitions are put in place, Muslims desiring continued residence in their host countries will be confronted with the choice of changing the way their religion is practiced or, simply, changing religions. Islam, as it stands, is utterly incompatible with modern society. No attempts should be made to accomodate it's retrogressive dictates. Its incorrigable (read; "fundamentalist")adherents must be herded back into those states which willingly embrace such theocratic rule so that they may enjoy all of the benisons of such archaic governance.
Only when Islam overcomes its intense insecurity and embraces religious diversity should be allowed back onto the world's cultural stage. Until then, it must be regarded as anathema to all the hard-won progress and stability that modern civilization has struggled to achieve.
Ban Islam now. Revoke its ostensibly religious status. Deport all Muslims who are unwilling to authentically reform it. Dismantle all theocratic governments.
At least 20,000 people marched through London Saturday to demand that British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush stop Israels offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The demonstration passed the US Embassy and the office of the prime minister who worked the telephones to arrange for a draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending the conflict, which began when Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers on July 12.
Its about telling the British and US governments that we want an unconditional ceasefire. Were the people who have the power to stop the Israelis in Lebanon...
The Metropolitan Police said around 20,000 protesters marched through central London, while the organisers, the left-wing Stop the War Coalition, claimed a turn-out of around 100,000. A few hundred yards from Blairs office the demonstrators massed opposite the Houses of Parliament. Stop the War spokesman John Rees said that the protest was to hammer home a message to Blair. Its about telling the British and US governments that we want an unconditional ceasefire. Were the people who have the power to stop the Israelis in Lebanon, he insisted. Their silence is permitting mass murder in Lebanon by the Israeli forces. Look at the casualties: its eight to one. Salma Yaqoob, chairwoman of Stop the War in Britains second city of Birmingham, said: Were here to protest because of Israels attack in Lebanon and the fact that Britain, America and Israel are on one side and 160 countries are on the other side.
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Were here to protest because of Israels attack in Lebanon and the fact that Britain, America and Israel are on one side and 160 countries are on the other side.
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Problem is mister terrorest sympathizer is Israel only needs one on their side to kick all your ass, so you can protest all you want until the US decides it not going to support Israel(as if that would happen)you lose.
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Decendants of the idiotically vile "Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament" crowd of the sixties and seventies fortified with islamofascists numbers. Britons are that stupid?
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Scotty
Aye, Capt'n
How about beaming that car bomb we detected in Baghdad to the parade in London
Aye, Capt'n and may they enjoy a little of their own medicine
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the IDF operations against Lebanon and the Palestinians were reminiscent of the actions of the Nazis.
... they are killing children, innocents and whole families...
"The Israelis are doing exactly what Hitler did to them," he told al-Jazeera, "they are killing children, innocents and whole families." On Thursday night, Caracas instructed its ambassador to Israel to return to Venezuela.
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You are the one beating the Jews, Hugo. Few stick around your despotic socalist regime. P.S. Hitler was a Socalist. So was Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Mugabe. Tell me how many Jews made it through that?
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Chavez > "Nazi" = Hitlerist > A well-meaning but misguided arrrogant defective CLINTONIAN LIMITED COMMUNIST-TOTALITARIAN-GOVERNMENTIST, etc, whom didn't listen to the Motherly Sheehanist-Hillarist warnings of the Virgin Mary while in the trenches of WW1??? See kidz, igg you don't eat your veggies or listen to Mother Mary, the Commie Airborne's gonna get you.
A Reuters photograph of smoke rising from buildings in Beirut has been withdrawn after coming under attack by American web logs. The blogs accused Reuters of distorting the photograph to include more smoke and damage.
... photo editing software was improperly used on this image. A corrected version will immediately follow this advisory. We are sorry for any inconvience...
The photograph showed two very heavy plumes of black smoke billowing from buildings in Beirut after an Air Force attack on the Lebanese capital. Reuters has since withdrawn the photograph from its website, along a message admitting that the image was distorted, and an apology to editors.
In the message, Reuters said that "photo editing software was improperly used on this image. A corrected version will immediately follow this advisory. We are sorry for any inconvience." . . .
Earlier, Charles Johnson, of the Little Green Footballs blog, which has exposed a previous attempt at fraud by a major American news corporation, wrote : "This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop clone tool to add more smoke to the image." . . .
The Sports Shooter web forum, used by professional photographers, also examined the photo, with many users concluding that the image has been doctored. "I'll second the cloned smoke...but it looks so obvious that I don't know how the photographer could have gotten away with it," wrote one user. . . .
Score another one for the bloggers in pajamas!
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We wuz just tryin' to get across our message, that war is bad.
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And you got across [again] that MSM is basically a fraud. Just another commercail enterprise which operates on hype and con to sale its product.
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Michelle Malkin reminds us what the newservice mouthpieces said about the possibility that Qana photos were staged:
"It's hard to imagine how someone sitting in an air-conditioned office or broadcast studio many thousands of miles from the scene can decide what occurred on the ground with any degree of accuracy," said Kathleen Carroll, AP's senior vice president and executive editor.
Carroll said in addition to personally speaking with photo editors, "I also know from 30 years of experience in this business that you can't get competitive journalists to participate in the kind of (staging) experience that is being described."
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Back in the Soviet era, two of the major newspapers were Pravda (Truth) and Izvestia (News). They were the target of a folky proverb that seems just as appropriate today: In truth there is no news, in news there is no truth.
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"We confess, we dunnit. We'll try to do a better job next time."
Do I recall some news executive type being completely offended at the idea of journalists being complicit in spinning any photograhic evidence? Such as the "massacre" in Qana? I think I do . . . . I wonder what they have to say now. "Oh, this is different!"
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#10 gorb: "I wonder what they have to say now. 'Oh, this is different!'"
Kinda. But it's "Oh, this is different - this time you found proof!"
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... photo editing software was improperly used on this image. (DAMMIT THEY CAUGHT US)A corrected version will immediately follow this advisory. (YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO CATCH IT SO EASILY) We are sorry for any inconvience...
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Some have compared the current situation with the press to the American Civil war, when the press was often hostile to Union efforts. I think that that analogy misses the mark. Since the arrival of the telegraph and the birth of the modern newspaper, I cannot think of a single incidence where the Western press (there certainly were similar situations in East Europe between the wars when Facist or Communist sympathizers/agents infiltrated the press organs there) has been so thoroughly infiltrated and compromised by enemy agents. Photos are and articles provided by Arab nationalist (Ba'athist) or Islamist stringers are being published by editors with no effort to determine whether of not they are truthful or propaganda. Previously, only individuals had been compromised. Walter Duranty is a well documented case and William Schirer, in Berlin Diary, points to several jounralists that he thought had been corrupted by the Nazis. We have put US service members on trial for capital crimes based on the testimony of obvious enemy stringers, photographers and spokesmen. Our enemies can now reach into the innermost parts of our system to attack and destroy. This is unprecedented.
Any nation, society, or group that so utterly fails to recognize and protect it's own self interest, is doomed to being attacked and destroyed both from within and without by some other grouping that is fully aware of its own interests. I can only hope that it is the old MSM that dies and not Western civilization itself.
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"I also know from 30 years of experience in this business that you can't get competitive journalists to participate in the kind of (staging) experience that is being described."
That is why they have their own camera men and tour guides to neatly package the propaganda.
You aren't too likely to make those Anderson Cooper admitions with the Hiz Tour guides standing there. Notice he isn't in Beirut anymore.
I think that old saying was more flat.
" There is no truth in pravda and no news in Isvestia"
Which brings me to my Soviet joke.
How many soviets to change a lightbulb ?
Doesn't matter , new bulb won't work either.
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Fraud and fakery in reporting is not an "inconvenience", Sir, it is a travesty.
Author, author! My only quibble is how indistinguishable "travesty" is becoming from outright treason.
Back in the Soviet era, two of the major newspapers were Pravda (Truth) and Izvestia (News).
This reminds me very little of a great old joke:
Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Atilla the Hun and Napolean Bonaparte are all standing on the Kremlin's balcony watching the Soviets' annual Mayday military parade.
Alexander looks at the rocket launchers passing by and exclaims, "With fire arrows like that all Asia would have been mine!"
Caesar glances down at the tanks and shouts how, "With chariots like those, Rome would never have fallen to the Goths!"
Atilla the Hun espies the artillery rolling past and announces how, "All Europe would have fallen before me with such catapults!"
Naoplean looks down at a Pravda newspaper rack and mutters, "If only I'd had that, no one would ever have found out about Waterloo!"
A GROUP of US anti-war activists on Saturday said they will head to Lebanon to denounce their government's failure to call for an immediate ceasefire between key ally Israel and the Hezbollah. The group made the announcement after two days of talks in Jordan with Iraqi parliamentarians on ways to gain US Congress backing for a swift end to US troop deployment in Iraq and US funds to rebuild Iraq. "We are leaving tomorrow (Sunday) for Syria and hope to go the next day to Lebanon," said Medea Benjamin, founding director of the US human rights organisation Global Exchange and member of several other anti-war groups.
We are appalled by our government's refusal to call for that ceasefire, appalled that the US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, stopped the Security Council from calling for an immediate ceasefire.
"We feel that the US government, by not calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire, is also responsible for a lot of the deaths and destruction that is going on today," she told a news conference. "We are appalled by our government's refusal to call for that ceasefire, appalled that the US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, stopped the Security Council from calling for an immediate ceasefire. That puts a great weight on us as US citizens."
Ann Wright, a retired US army colonel and veteran diplomat, said the group wants "to bear witness to what is happening" in Lebanon and hook up with civil rights groups to assess the humanitarian crisis and help provide aid.
'I don't really understand Hezbollah's motives and I don't understand how the Israelis mobilised so quickly,' he said...
Celebrated US anti-war campaigner Tom Hayden meanwhile questioned the motives behind Israel's onslaught. "Is this a desperate effort by the Israeli and US neo-conservatives to escalate their way out of deceit in Iraq before the November (congressional) American election?" Hayden asked. "Are they trying to scramble and sub-divide the whole Middle East? Do they hope this escalates into a conflict with Syria and Iran?" asked Hayden who was most famous for his involvement in the anti-war of the 1960s. "I don't really understand Hezbollah's motives and I don't understand how the Israelis mobilised so quickly," he said, adding that an investigation was essential to determine if Israel had notified Washington of its actions. Hayden will not be going to Lebanon but he joined Benjamin, Wright and 12 other US activists in meetings Friday and Saturday with Iraqi MPs to discuss a US troop pullout from Iraq.
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Let's export for good all those American and European anti-war activists to Syria.
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Hey Hayden! You don't understand because you're doorknob stupid! You (and Jane's vagina) couldn't figure out the Vietnam war either.
How many Vietmanese, not to mention Cambodians, died in camps at your commie friends hands? How many Lebanonese and Israeli's will have to die this time?
But don't feel bad. We have therapy sessions you can attend all over the country. Its bigger then AA. Just join the Democratic Party.
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Just like Frank and I said yesterday. When the Hez roll them up and take them hostage, not one dime of America's money shoud be paid and not one US troop should go in to rescue them. Let the Hez keep them.
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I know Cindy's still on her "hunger fast". It's gonna be really tough to find a good smoothie or protein shake in Beirut now. I fear for her health.
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I know Cindy's still on her "hunger fast". It's gonna be really tough to find a good smoothie or protein shake in Beirut now. I fear for her health.
War protester has gained praise and criticism since son's death in Iraq.
WASHINGTON Cindy Sheehan looks tired as she sits down to lead a handful of demonstrators outside the Iraqi Embassy on a recent afternoon. It has been a long year for the anti-war activist who just completed a whirlwind tour of speaking engagements in Italy.
Then the shouts of "U.S. out of Iraq!" begin, and her face brightens and swells with pride, like a mother who has given birth to a political movement.
A few feet away, a flurry of activity offers a glimpse into how a once obscure Catholic youth minister has become the public face of the U.S. anti-war movement. "Cindy is protesting," one of her assistants says into a cell phone while clutching a thick yellow almanac of media contacts. "I can get you a minute." Step right up and see the Amazing Protesting Bimbo! Performances every hour on the half hour! Step right up!
As Sheehan prepares to return to Crawford today, renewing a round of protests that thrust her into the national spotlight a year ago, the story of her rise to notoriety from a ditch outside President Bush's ranch is peppered with joy and pain.
She's become a household name, yet her once strong family ties are in ruins. Her work has become a 24-hour-a-day obsession, generating praise from around the world, yet it also brought condemnation even death threats from opponents who suggest that her constant harangue has made her a bit of a political gadfly. Others say it has diluted her message.
Opponents "have been trying to get me for a long time," says Sheehan, 49, reflecting on her work since the death of her son Casey while serving in Iraq two years ago.
"I raised four kids in six years. If they think they are going to ruffle my feathers, they are mistaken."
But there are signs Sheehan is not the same person who stumbled into the national limelight last year. In addition to having an aide who handles media, she has an agent who arranges paid lectures most of them a platform to speak against the war. A blockbuster anti-war book is slated for release next month, and she recently bought 5 acres in Crawford, using some of her son's life insurance money, to ensure that protests outside Bush's ranch continue. Thanks, Casey!
Sheehan turns circumspect when asked to share the financial details of her work, such as who pays for the dozens of hotel rooms, airline tickets and meals for her and sister Dede Miller, who often travels with her. "Supporters," she says. And, she pays for some of it. "My expenses are low," Sheehan adds. The "Skating on Casey's Bones Tour" rolls on!
Still, her work has come with a costly emotional price tag.
Sheehan's fiery rhetoric and inflammatory attacks on the president have sent once close friends running for cover. She has referred to Bush as a terrorist and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as an "angel of death."
Sheehan's 28-year marriage is over. Family members have spoken out against her.
"Out of everything, that hurt me the most," she said. "After 31 years of being in the family, I thought they would support me. They totally disowned me and chose George Bush over murder."
John Tierney, author of the book "The Politics of Peace: What's behind the anti-war movement?" said Sheehan is not only an effective advocate for the anti-war cause, but she has also brought a mother's touch to a fight that tends to be difficult for average Americans to grasp.
To those who view Sheehan's activism with suspicion, her mission is about feeding an insatiable appetite for public attention.
"Cindy has a lot of hatred about her," former sister-in-law Cherie Quartarolo said. "Cindy has chosen to use her dead son's image to promote political causes. That's just inappropriate." But it is lucrative...
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like her lies about getting that headstone for her son....Bitch. W is only spending 10 days at the ranch this summer - expect to see her sell the property. She bought it through someone else's name, and the original owner is furious, cuz he wouldn't sell it if he'd known it was going to her
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"I raised four kids in six years. If they think they are going to ruffle my feathers, they are mistaken."
That is a very strange statement. Does this mean she only spent 6 years raising 4 kids? As far as I know it takes 18 years minimum (and with some kids your entire life).
A blockbuster anti-war book is slated for release next month,
How can it be a blockbuster when it hasn't even been released yet?
"They totally disowned me and chose George Bush over murder."
Another strange statement. They chose George Bush over [instead of] murder. Apparently Cindy would have chose murder.
Still a vampire trying to suck the last drops of blood out of her son's death.
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Hatred, anger, and wallowing in one's grief are no basis for a long and healthy life. Ms. Sheehan now looks like death warmed over. She's not long for this world, and on her current path, will die a very sad, pathetic and unhappy woman. I think Casey looks down with a mixture of sorrow, disgust and pity. I wish I could say the same. I have only disgust.
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They [her family] totally disowned me and chose George Bush over murder."
Amusingly revealing phrasing there, Ms. Sheehan. Soon enough your erstwhile supporters will move on to the next cause du jour, and you will die many years hence alone, unloved and unnoted. And it will be your son Casey who kicks your shrunken soul down the stairs to the depths of Hell.
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan military inquiry committee which probed the Kargil debacle had recommended "court martial" of General Pervez Musharraf but he overthrew then Nawaz Sharif government in 1999 and "stole" the report before it was implemented claimed a White Paper on Kargil released by Sharif's PML-N party.
Sharif had "constituted a military inquiry committee that recommended court martial" of Army Chief Musharraf, but the General, now also the President, overthrew then government and "stole" the report from the Prime Minister's House "to save his face," Joint Secretary of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PMN-N) Siddiqul Farooq, who released the 100-page 'White Paper' yesterday, was quoted in the media here as saying.
Anticipating court-martial in the wake of the Kargil debacle, Farooq said, Musharraf overthrew the Sharif government on October 12, 1999 to save his "neck."
"The General wanted to take over in the first week of August, but he had to hold his horses till October," he said.
Musharraf had wilfully avoided constituting a commission to fix the responsibility for the huge military defeat that had demoralised the entire nation, Farooq said and called for setting up a high-power commission on the Kargil debacle that should submit its findings to Parliament within six months.
The PML-N White Paper titled 'Kargil Adventurism: Another Huge Defeat after Dhaka Fall, Who is responsible' recommended that Musharraf should "admit his blunders" and present himself for a court-martial.
"If he does not have the moral courage to own his blunders then his court martial is a must to close the doors of future takeovers by adventurer Generals," excerpts of the White Paper published in the media here said.
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Pakistan has sought the help of United Nations and the United States to provide incriminating evidence against its banned religious extremists groups to expedite prosecution of members of these outfits. It is difficult to proceed in such cases (against members of banned militant groups), therefore, information is required from the UN and other countries to proceed in such cases, a Pakistani official said. The officials informed the US during a recent meeting of the Joint Working Group in Washington about the need for evidence and asked US to provide any proof it has of these groups involvement in acts of terrorism, Daily Times newspaper quoted him as saying.
Pakistan has told the UN and the US that though it has banned these organisations in line with the UNs listing of them as terrorist groups, it now needed incriminating evidence against these religious groups, which have moved the courts challenging the government ban on them. Pakistan banned Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad besides proscribing sectarian extremists groups in 2002. The groups were banned again in 2004 as many of them had re-surfaced with new names. Despite the ban, most of the leaders have been released after brief detentions.
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The US has been given these opportunities in the past, and has been known to decline citing "national security reasons". Kinda makes you wonder.
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"...to expedite prosecution of members of these outfits".
Or to build more powerful legal defenses against the prosecution.
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Afghanistan has several times given them extensive evidences, which are promptly and thoroughly ignored. Both Hamid Karzai and the Afghan Foreign Minister have openly complained about the Pakistan non-response.
Thousands of Muslim pilgrims entered the Taj Mahal without tickets on the pretext of offering prayers, as security personnel and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) officials struggled to maintain order. According to reliable sources, for close to three hours on Friday there was total chaos at the historical monument here and all security arrangements came to a naught as pilgrims returning from Ajmer Urs entered in huge numbers. The Taj Mahal, which is closed to visitors on Fridays, opens for about two hours in the afternoon to allow local Muslims to offer prayers at the mosque inside.
According to eyewitness accounts, over 10,000 people barged into the monument as security personnel found it tough to screen every one of them and one of them said: Those who entered the Taj Friday were definitely not there just to offer prayers. This confusion is also said to have resulted in substantial revenue losses through the non-sale of tickets.
Meanwhile, the right-wing Shiv Sena announced they will perform a Maha aarti (Hindu services) at the Taj Monday to reassert their claim of the mausoleum being built at the site of a Shiva temple. When asked how they would enter, a Sena official said: This will be a guerrilla operation. Shiv Sainiks believe that the Taj Mahal was originally a Rajput structure, which housed a Shiva temple. They have prepared a long list of evidence in support of their claim, which most historians do not accept.
According to sources, hundreds of Muslims have been forcibly entering the historical monument situated across the Taj Mahal called Etmauddaula, commonly known as Baby Taj in the past few weeks. People come in on the pretext of saying prayers, but they all enjoy a picnic and leave.
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No, let them in, after they're all in, close and bar the doors for a couple of days.
Then call the Police and let them out, charge them with Tresspassing, arrest and fine heavily each and every one.
That should put a screeching halt to this kind of shit.
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The "maha aarti" was quite effective in Mumbai a few years ago when muslims groups began to offer namaz in public spaces.
Whenever there was a call to prayer, hundreds of muslims would spread rugs and pray, blocking roads, sidewalks, the entrance to train stations.
It was an expression of muslim mass power. They could close down the city arteries when they wished. All people had to wait until muslims finished praying.
Well, the Shiv Sena was having non of this. They began to have "maha aartis", with thousands of hindus offering aarti in front of mosques and blocking the entrances to muslim areas.
The muslims soon saw sense and stopped their foolishness.
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Whenever there was a call to prayer, hundreds of muslims would spread rugs and pray, blocking roads, sidewalks, the entrance to train stations
that only works if the cars and pedestrians will stop for you. I'd put the pointy end of my boot a foot deep in the ass of the first one that blocked my path
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The muslim prediliction for taking over public spaces affects even the most educated.
Dr. Zakir Hussain, a former University Chancellor, when he was President of India in the late 1960s, converted a section of the Presidential Palace into a mosque so he could pray there. Not a common prayer room, available for all faiths, but a mosque, for muslims only.
Now this is a magnificent British Raj era building, larger than Buckingham Palace, built for the viceroy and protected, like other Lutyens designed buildings, under Indian law. Hussain broke the law by altering the stucture.
When he left office, the next President was confronted with a mosque he did not want but could not touch in any way, since it was a mosque and muslims would riot if it were demolished.
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Whenever there was a call to prayer, hundreds of muslims would spread rugs and pray, blocking roads, sidewalks, the entrance to train stations.
That's another good thing tanks are for. It will only take one or two good grinding of gears and slide-slipping through the "masses" to put an end to all of that kind of sh$$.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs Kashmir policy appears to have suffered yet another setback with former Chief Justice of India, Justice (r) AM Ahmadi, pulling out of leading one of the five working groups on Kashmir, sources have revealed. Ahmadi had previously agreed to head the Working Group on Jammu and Kashmirs Relations with New Delhi, including examinations of the demand for autonomy, devolution of powers and special status for the state.
During the second Roundtable Conference on Kashmir, held in Srinagar in May, the prime minister had established five separate working groups of political representatives to resolve different aspects of the Kashmir imbroglio. Each group was directed to report back to him with their recommendations prior to the third roundtable conference. Although some charge Ahmadi with having put a spanner in the works, the Prime Ministers Office (PMO) has been quick to identify Abid Hussain, Indias former ambassador to the United States, as a suitable replacement.
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Manmohan Singh, when faced with any problem reverts to his bureaucrat ways and appoints a committee to study the problem.
He has appointed almost two hundred committees since becoming PM.
Looks like Judge Ahmadi doesn't agree with studying Kashmir until the cows come come (and India has more wandering cows than anyplace else on the planet).
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Islamabad has issued directives to the Karachi police on potential women suicide bombers who could target majlises or religous gatherings, Daily Times learnt Saturday. I cannot deny that there is no danger of more suicide attacks, said IG Jehangir Mirza whose office issued a comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to check suicide attacks and make clear what security measures should be taken. This exercise is not linked to the Allama Hasan Turabi case but some federal instructions have been received after which we are having to focus more on gatherings for women, Mirza stressed. These directives are meant to serve as reminders and refreshers for the lower staff of the police who need to be regularly issued instructions on their duties.
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(BNA) Iraq has primarily agreed to supply Jordan with crude oil from its Northern fields as soon as the Jordanian Al Zarqa'a Refinery is ready to operate. Al Sharqia TV quoted an Oil Ministry media spokesman saying that an agreement took place during the presence of Oil Minister Hussain Al Shahristani in Jordan who accompanied Prime Minister Nouri Al Malki in his last tour. Iraq will supply Jordan with crude oil from the Beiji Oil Refinery via Jordanian tanks carrying it to Al Zarqa'a seaport as soon as Jordan's Zarqa'a Refinery is ready, he added.
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Hmmm.... Another step of progress?
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I think after the wedding bombings, the Jordaneans quit their fence sitting and are cooperating very much under the 'radar'. This appears to be an indication.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told European leaders to stop preaching to him about civilian war casualties in an interview published on Sunday in German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Olmert also said it would not be possible to completely destroy Hizbollah and insisted he did not underestimate them, saying they had fired just 3,000 of their arsenal of 15,000 rockets so far.
"Where do they get the right to preach to Israel?" Olmert said when asked about criticism from European capitals of Israeli military operations that have led to a heavy civilian toll. "European countries attacked Kosovo and killed ten thousand civilians. Ten thousand! And none of these countries had to suffer before that from a single rocket. I'm not saying it was wrong to intervene in Kosovo. But please: Don't preach to us about the treatment of civilians."
Kosovo became a U.N. protectorate in June 1999 after a 78-day NATO bombing campaign forced out Serb security forces accused of atrocities against Albanian civilians during a rebel insurgency by separatist Albanian guerrillas. The New York-based Human Rights Watch estimates about 500 civilians were killed in the NATO bombing in Kosovo. Some 10,000 Albanians died in Serbia's 1998-99 counter-insurgency war and there were allegations of random brutality by both sides.
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Ah, Olmert, but that's all they have. Maybe if you [and we] quit paying attention to their noise, things can actually get done around here without all the stupid 'time outs'.
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They are beaten but it is not possible to completely destroy they. Israel has nevertheless been more successful than any other country in the battle against a guerrilla organization.
Ehud, we don't get much trouble from the Apaches anymore. Haven't for over 100 years.
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If Israel had returned the Golan Heights and signed a peace treaty with Syria in a timely fashion, presumably this war would not have broken out.
That's all I needed to read. If frogs had wings, they'd be pigeons.
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Israel is reaping what it has sewn. Land is either under the domain and control of a nation, or it is an anarchy. You cannot make peace with an anarchy, because there is no one to make peace with.
So Israel is bordered on three sides with anarchy.
This leaves them only two options. Either they take over the land and manage its people, or if the people are unmanageable, take over the land and drive the people into a nation more capable of managing them.
But you cannot leave barbarians to their own devices, as they have done. This is because barbarians respect no law, and are brutish beasts.
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Peace with Syria would have guaranteed peace with Lebanon and peace with both would have prevented Hezbollah from fortifying on Israel's northern border. Peace with Syria would have also isolated Iran, Israel's true, dangerous enemy, and cut off Hezbollah from one of the two sources of its weapons and funding. It's so simple, and so removed from conventional Israeli thinking, which is subject to brainwashing.
Idiot. So Hezb would've had another source of weapons and funding, then your sentence above was wrong. "It's so simple" he can't get past paragraph 2 without contradicting his basic premise. Another self-hating Joooooo/tool for Islam
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DUBAI: Some 170 Muslim scholars, thinkers and politicians called Saturday for backing the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples in the face of Israeli onslaughts and urged Arab and Muslim rulers to cut any ties with Israel.
...disavow any political or economic ties ... with the Israeli enemy and to drop any illusions of peace with (Israel) and which have brought our nation nothing but killing, destruction and shame...
We call on all the Muslim and Arab peoples to stand by their brethren in Palestine and Lebanon and ... support them by all moral and material means available and in keeping with Islamic rules, they said in a statement.
The statement, signed by 169 preachers, academics and Islamic politicians from Arab and Muslim countries, expressed full support for the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples as they confront Israels offensives in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Calling for Muslims from all sects to close ranks and cast aside any differences, the signatories urged Arab and Muslim governments to disavow any political or economic ties ... with the Israeli enemy and to drop any illusions of peace with (Israel) and which have brought our nation nothing but killing, destruction and shame.
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Lots of new nyms lately. Welcome RB scholar and all the rest of you! I look forward to learning all you care to teach (I've plenty of empty brain space to fill, y'see).
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Blueberries grow new brain cells, RD. I've been gobbling them like candy in the hope it will do some good. ;-) Besides, you use your brain in the work you do so well, while I'm just a little Midwestern housewife who occasionally says startling things at suburban dinner parties.
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I'm just a little Midwestern housewife who occasionally says startling things at suburban dinner parties
Is that like Rantburg Tourette's?
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We'll have to ask Dr. Steve (salmon comments, not pink!!!) for a diagnosis when he gets back, Frank G. Either that or a hereditary side affect of growing up in the Ivory Tower --- I'm not possibly qualified to judge. ;-)
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In the future, the carriers won't necessarily be needed as much. Air-Carriers for the drones and maybe some unter-sea style ones as well. Less profile to be taken out. Harder to track.
Now for sure we will still have some, but, yeah The Birds for sure.
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I imagine a large vessel, more like a supertanker, but carrying an armada of simple GPS-guided buzzbomb type drones. It's deck would have a dozen launch ramps, and the drones would be brought up on conveyor belts.
Below deck it would be fueled and have its small electronic brain programmed. Automatically hoisted onto its ramp, its wings would be spread and its bomb set to arm after takeoff.
When ordered to, the ship would begin launching salvo after salvo of a dozen buzzbombs, flying low over the water to avoid radar until at a set time when they would rise up over the land.
No other "cruise" guidance, though, just cheap and cheerful. Each buzzbomb carrying a 250, 500 or 1000 pound bomb.
All the buzzbombs would be in flight before being detected, but the ship would then instantly be a target, so it would be put on autopilot at high speed to return to safe waters, while the crew abandoned ship to a small, fast ship accompanying it and headed in another direction.
Ideally, the buzzbombs would cost about as much as an economy car. Steel shell, engine, gas tank, motor for wire guidance and GPS brain. And bomb. It might even be designed to use off-the-shelf iron bombs.
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Well earned treatment. If you are stupid enough to submit to Muzzies, you deserve what you get. And what you'll get will not be pleasant. Prepare to descend into 7th century darkness. You made the problem. You solve it.
(IANS) Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has urged Pakistan to send its troops to his war torn country 'as armies from Muslim states' will help in restoring the situation.
To what? Is Fuad out of his mind?
'If armies from the Muslim states are deployed in the country, the situation will improve,' Siniora told Pakistan's private Geo TV channel in his first detailed interview after the Israeli attack in Lebanon. In the interview broadcast Sunday, Siniora said, 'Unless Israel withdraws from the occupied areas in Lebanon and provides maps of the landmines, a settlement is impossible'.
Meanwhile, The Nation newspaper criticised the government's stand that Islamabad would await a UN resolution before sending peacekeepers to Lebanon. It noted that Pakistan has yet to officially condemn the Israeli action due to the US support to the latter on the issue.
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Oh goody. Pakistanis soldier boys seeing Westernized women for the first time, run riot raping through the streets. They'll never get beyond the Beirut city limits. But do try the experiment, Mr. Clever Prime Minister. Your countrymen will so appreciate the results.
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The troops in the Mog considered the Paks to be basically useless. The Malaysians would fight, but the Paks had to be pushed and pushed hard. If the Somalis could make them cower what do you think the Hezzies will do? Pak UN assignments are based upon politics not skill.
IRAN does not give orders to the Shiite Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, Iran's ambassador to France said in an newspaper interview published Saturday, without explicitly denying that Tehran supplied weapons to the militants. "As for Hezbollah, our relations have always been emotional and spiritual. It does not take orders from Iran," Ali Ahani said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper.
Asked whether Tehran provided military assistance to Hezbollah, Ahani said: "That is part of the American accusations. Hezbollah has many channels through which it obtains what it needs."
However, the ambassador later added: "We don't have the slightest desire for a military option on a regional level. Support given to Hezbollah does not give Israelis the right to act against Syria or Iran. But if the Israelis want to start World War III, we'll see if the Americans let them."
A report published Friday in Jane's Defence Weekly said Iran will supply Hezbollah with surface-to-air missile systems in the coming months to boost the guerrillas' defences against Israeli aircraft.
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"Of course we don't give orders. The phone lines are down, and cell reception is just horrendous!"
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The Syrian foreign minister declared on Sunday that the U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war" and he warned his armed forces were under orders to respond immediately if Israel attacks. "If Israel attacks Syria by any means, on the ground, by air, our leadership ordered the armed forces to reply immediately," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said after emerging from a meeting with Lebanese President Emile Lahoud.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has not ruled out an assassination attempt on Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah by the Israeli military, in an interview with a German newspaper to be published on Sunday. Olmert told the weekly Welt am Sonntag that the normal rules of war did not apply to Nasrallah, who was not a head of state but "the chief of a terrorist organisation". Nasrallah could not expect to be treated like a legitimate leader, Olmert said, while adding that he was not waging a "personal war against anyone in particular".
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Adminadinnerjacket and Pencil Neck deserve the same thing, too, as Nasrallah. They support terrorists---they get taken out. And all these screaming mullahs. Once the leadership is culled, things will get quieter....all over the world.
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Different language use. I think PM Olmert is using may in the literal sense of is permitted to, rather than meaning might possibly.
A HEZBOLLAH cabinet minister said Saturday his group's guerrillas would accept a ceasefire only once Israel halts attacks and pulls out of southern Lebanon. "We are in a defence situation. When the Israeli aggression ceases, very simply, we will stop (fighting) on condition that no Israeli soldier remains inside Lebanese land," Energy Minister Mohamad Fneish said. "We will not accept that they stay" inside Lebanese territory, he told reporters before attending a cabinet meeting. Fneish was reacting to news from French President Jacques Chirac's office which said earlier Saturday that France and the United States had agreed on a draft UN resolution on the Middle East conflict.
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Seen this times before - at best MIGHT only speak for Hezbollah, NOT Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad, and assorted armed Jiglis/Camel-kazes.
I tried yesterday and today to access to those photos, but the links are no more valid.
Does someone know how to access again to those photos (I want to download them and send them to friends, so that they can discover what really is Hezbollah)? Or can someone mail them to me ?
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I'd like to point out that the Lebanese government is keeping senior members of Hizb'Allah in its cabinet.
If the Lebanese State wants peace with Israel, they need to arrest Hizb'Allah leaders, try them for terrorist acts, and execute them. Otherwise, they are simply inviting more destruction of their country.
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(BNA) Sudanese National Assembly Speaker Ahmed Ibrahim Al Taher reiterated his country's refusal of deployment of any international force in Darfur and said that the issue is not negotiable. The armed forces that have signed the Darfur Peace Agreement will soon be in control of all the district and will work on protecting residents and maintaining its stability, said Al Taher during a meeting with North a legislative council delegation from Darfur. The National Assembly Speaker pointed out to the partnership with Abuja pact signatories and the will to cooperate with them according to a comprehensive view on implementing the agreement.
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At least 20,000 people marched through London Saturday to demand that British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush stop Israels offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The demonstration passed the US Embassy and the office of the prime minister who worked the telephones to arrange for a draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending the conflict, which began when Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers on July 12.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the IDF operations against Lebanon and the Palestinians were reminiscent of the actions of the Nazis. 
A GROUP of US anti-war activists on Saturday said they will head to Lebanon to denounce their government's failure to call for an immediate ceasefire between key ally Israel and the Hezbollah. The group made the announcement after two days of talks in Jordan with Iraqi parliamentarians on ways to gain US Congress backing for a swift end to US troop deployment in Iraq and US funds to rebuild Iraq. "We are leaving tomorrow (Sunday) for Syria and hope to go the next day to Lebanon," said 
Islamabad has issued directives to the Karachi police on potential women suicide bombers who could target majlises or religous gatherings, Daily Times learnt Saturday. I cannot deny that there is no danger of more suicide attacks, said IG Jehangir Mirza whose office issued a comprehensive Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to check suicide attacks and make clear what security measures should be taken. This exercise is not linked to the Allama Hasan Turabi case but some federal instructions have been received after which we are having to focus more on gatherings for women, Mirza stressed. These directives are meant to serve as reminders and refreshers for the lower staff of the police who need to be regularly issued instructions on their duties.
(BNA) Iraq has primarily agreed to supply Jordan with crude oil from its Northern fields as soon as the Jordanian Al Zarqa'a Refinery is ready to operate. Al Sharqia TV quoted an Oil Ministry media spokesman saying that an agreement took place during the presence of Oil Minister Hussain Al Shahristani in Jordan who accompanied Prime Minister Nouri Al Malki in his last tour. Iraq will supply Jordan with crude oil from the Beiji Oil Refinery via Jordanian tanks carrying it to Al Zarqa'a seaport as soon as Jordan's Zarqa'a Refinery is ready, he added.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told European leaders to stop preaching to him about civilian war casualties in an interview published on Sunday in German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Olmert also said it would not be possible to completely destroy Hizbollah and insisted he did not underestimate them, saying they had fired just 3,000 of their arsenal of 15,000 rockets so far.
DUBAI: Some 170 Muslim scholars, thinkers and politicians called Saturday for backing the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples in the face of Israeli onslaughts and urged Arab and Muslim rulers to cut any ties with Israel. 
(IANS) Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has urged Pakistan to send its troops to his war torn country 'as armies from Muslim states' will help in restoring the situation. 
Israeli Prime Minister 
A HEZBOLLAH cabinet minister said Saturday his group's guerrillas would accept a ceasefire only once Israel halts attacks and pulls out of southern Lebanon. "We are in a defence situation. When the Israeli aggression ceases, very simply, we will stop (fighting) on condition that no Israeli soldier remains inside Lebanese land," Energy Minister 
