The Taleban have threatened to blow up telephone masts across Afghanistan unless mobile phone companies agree to switch off their signals at night. They say that US and other foreign troops are using the signals to track down insurgents.
Poor Mullah Matin was microwaved from one of the infidel towers just last week, whilst innocently riding his cycle of violence.
Back to sending messages by trusted courier, which doesn't include cousin Mahmoud ...
The Taleban have warned the masts and offices of the mobile companies will be destroyed unless their demands are met. Mobiles were introduced after the Taleban fell in 2001 and are now the most popular way of communicating. ''If those companies do not stop their signal within three days, the Taleban will target their towers and their offices," Taleban spokesman Zabiullah Mujaheed said.
The Taleban say that Afghanistan's four mobile phone companies should stop operating between 1700 local time and 0300 the following morning. Militants have threatened the companies in the past, accusing them of colluding with the US and other forces. But communication experts say the US military uses satellites to pick up mobile signals and does not need the help of the phone companies anyway.
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They're just pissed about the calls they receive at 2AM.
"Hello is this mullah Homer? Mullah Homer Sexual."
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They underestimate the hole they are about to dig for themselves: go haead, piss off the phone company. They don't say " reach out antd touch someone' just for fun.
A MAN who dubbed himself "Osama bin London" was found guilty of organising extremist training camps and soliciting murder by a British court.
The logistics of organizing an extremist training camp would seem to require a certain number of dollars or pounds or euros or whatever. Wonder where they came from?
Pupils of Mohammed Hamid, 50, included some of the men later convicted of being involved in failed bomb attacks on the London public transport system on July 21, 2005.
The verdict against him came after a four-month trial at the high security Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London. Prosecutors said Hamid wanted to send recruits for training in Afghanistan and east Africa and that he boasted his name was "Osama bin London" - a play on the name of the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Really? Hey, that's pretty witty!
He was arrested on London's Oxford Street shopping district in 2004.
New South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took office Monday with a promise to boost prosperity not only in his own country but in North Korea as well, provided that the communist state abandons its nuclear weapons. "Economic revival is our most urgent task," Lee said in his inaugural speech after taking the oath of office as South Korea's first conservative president in a decade.
North Korea's idea of "refunification" involves taking over South Korea. Presumably the North is far enough beyond being able to do that to remove the effective threat to SKor, barring use of nuclear weapons which it doesn't look like they have the capability to actually build.
South Koreans gave the former high-profile construction executive -- nicknamed "The Bulldozer" for his can-do image -- a landslide victory in December's election on his pledge to revitalize the economy and take a less conciliatory approach to nuclear-armed North Korea. "We must move from the age of ideology into the age of pragmatism," Lee told some 60,000 people who gathered for his inauguration, taking a swipe at the past 10 years of liberal rule during which he said "we found ourselves faltering and confused."
Kimmie's going to kick it from natural causes eventually, unless he's assisted from the gene pool. Either way, the North finds itself now on about the same economic level as Zim-bob-weh. Having seen the problems West Germany had swallowing the much more economically advanced (than North Korea) East Germany, the SKors have to come to the conclusion that the only way they're going to return the former industrialized North to functionality will be to run it as a colony for 20 or 30 years.
Bursts of applause from the audience often interrupted Lee's address in front of the dome-roofed National Assembly building on a cold, overcast day. The ceremony included a military parade, a 21-gun salute and a choir singing Beethoven's "Ode to Joy." U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda were among dignitaries at the ceremony.
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Why were they singing the European national anthem? Korea angling to get into the latest round of expansion?
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Ok. This whole Korea thing has gone on too long. Here's how to fix it.
Quietly explain to the ChiComs that they must pull the plug on the North. They will grant amnesty to the North's leadership in some nice, secluded palaces out in the Gobi somewhere. Korea will then be reunified as a neutral, free trade nation. The US will pull out its troops and line up tens of billions in international aid to begin rebuilding the north. China will get props for the whole deal and for "expelling" the US from the peninsula.
If they decline the offer, China may look forward to a nuclear armed South Korea, Japan and Taiwan within the year. Might throw in an Olympic boycott too just for giggles.
CHICAGO An ousted American political science professor who believes some Jews have exploited the legacy of the Holocaust recently expressed his support for the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
Norman Finkelstein, who resigned from DePaul University last fall amid criticism of his opinions on the Holocaust, told Lebanese television that his view of Hezbollah is "rarely heard" in the United States.
"I have no problem saying that I do want to express solidarity with them, and I'm not going to be a coward and a hypocrite about it," Finkelstein told Future TV. "I don't care about Hezbollah as a political organization. I don't know much about their politics and anyhow, it's irrelevant."
The Jan. 20, 2008, interview was conducted in Arabic; Finkelstein replied in English.
Finkelsteins support for Hezbollah would be illegal if he were helping raise funds for the organization, said Richard Miniter, a terrorism analyst with the Hudson Institute. If terrorists are able to use his name to fundraise in any way, that would be illegal, said Miniter, who added that only Al Qaeda has killed more Americans than Hezbollah.
Finkelstein, who is the son of Holocaust survivors, said in the televised interview that Jews had to resist the Communists in World War II and the Lebanese people will have to make the same kind of choice about accepting or resisting Hezbollah. "It's a choice that the Lebanese have to make who they want to be their leaders, who they want to represent them."
Israel and the United States are resisting Hezbollah's control of the region, Finkelstein said. "That's the problem," he said. "If Hezbollah laid down its arms and said, 'We will do whatever the Americans say,' you wouldn't have a war.
"That's true, but you would also be the slaves of the Americans. I have to respect those who refuse to be slaves."
He said Israel must suffer a defeat to lead to peace in the Middle East. Asked to comment on this report, Finkelstein said he was only willing to speak live on air.
Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and supporter of Israel, said Finkelsteins comments show that he is anti-American. If its not literal treason, it certainly is treason in spirit, Dershowitz told FOXNews.com. He belongs with Hezbollah."
Finkelstein is supporting an organization that brags about killing Americans, he added.This is a man who supports an organization that recently called for terrorist attacks against Jews and Americans all across the world, Dershowitz said.
Finkelstein initially fought DePaul, a private Catholic university in Chicago, on its decision last September to cancel his courses and deny him tenure after six years as a faculty member. He threatened to risk arrest by appearing on campus, but negotiations with university officials led to a peaceful exit.
Dershowitz, who weighted in on Finkelstein's tenure process, said Finkelsteins support for Hezbollah vindicates the decision by DePaul to deny his tenure. To have an American citizen endorsing the views of a group of Iranian-funded Lebanese murderers, it shows you that the biggest front in the War on Terror is the propaganda war, Miniter said. Days like today, it looks like were losing.
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While I dont share Mr Finklesteins politics, as a Jew, Id like to apologize to the people of Lebanon, esp the Maronites, Druze, and Sunnis, for his comments.
I wonder if he has any idea what those communities in Leb think of Hezb?
Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence
The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens, according to Aaron Klein, Middle East correspondent for WND.com.
The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.
In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi's wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.
Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund's website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2001.
Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.
Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama's senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The AAAN in 2005 called a billboard opposing a North Carolina-New Mexico joint initiative to deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens a "bigoted attack on Arabs and Muslims."
Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line.
The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject of Palestine," that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.
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This is the guy who wants CHANGE...
The change will be the "certain people" (Jews, some Americans) is ok. if they are killed, maybe we supposed to feel good about it.
Is this the CHANGE WE WANT?
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Hmmmmm. Mebbe this is why Muzz do not consider him apostate. He isn't. Just under heavy cover.
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lena, as I said before - Pol Pot gave people 'Change'. Stalin gave people 'Change'.
Not all change is good - being infected with a desease is 'change', but not good. Becoming a Dhiminni is 'change', but not for the good. People of Obama political stripe have a habit of introducing the 'bad' kind of change.
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Well, let's all give Hillary a big round of thanks. Since the people voting for Obama are aren't at all interested in his issues - but only his charisma, he will still get the nomination but this will all be very useful in the national election :-)
And Rupert - while I would want to see some additional confirmation before I took it to heart, this information sounds very specific. Artificial dirt usually is vague.
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I treat this "Information" as invented by Hillary or her camp, until proved otherwise. It's entirely too conveniently timed now that Shrillary is losing the nomination.
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Know him by the company he keeps. Weathermen domestic terrorists. Muslim radicals. Separatist racist Blacks.
On February 26, 1993 at 12:17 PM, a Ryder truck filled with 1,500 pounds (680 kg) of explosives was planted by Ramzi Yousef and detonated in the underground garage of the North Tower, opening a 100 foot (30 m) hole through 5 sublevels of concrete leaving six people dead and 50,000 other workers and visitors gasping for air in the shafts of the 110 story towers.
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They've intended to harm and kill us for a long time.
They won't go away just because GWB ends his term in a year.
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And, a coupla years later another one was set off in Oklahoma City. Identical M.O., better result for the Muzz. FBI and local law squashed investigation and canceled A.P.B.'s for ME men within hours, thanks to calls made by Slick Willie. Think this inside info had anything to do with Hillarity's votes to go after Saddass Hussein ?
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Could be, Woozle, just don't utter the 'c' word cause you don't want the flock to start flinging poop at you.
Remember, your gubmint would never, NEVER EVER partake in a cover-up. NEVER !
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.
The system for rapidly fielding needed gear to troops on the front lines has been examined by auditors before and continues to improve, Col. David Lapan, a Marine Corps spokesman, said Monday night. Due to the seriousness of the allegations, however, "the Marine Corps has taken the additional step" of requesting the IG investigation, Lapan said in an e-mailed statement.
In a Jan. 22 internal report, Franz Gayl, a civilian Marine Corps official, accused the service of "gross mismanagement" that delayed deliveries of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected trucks. Gayl's study, which reflected his own views, said cost was a driving factor in the decision to turn down a 2005 "urgent" request from battlefield commanders for the so-called MRAPs.
Stateside authorities saw the hulking vehicles, which weigh up to 40 tons and can cost as much as a $1 million each, as a financial threat to programs aimed at developing lighter vehicles that were years from being fielded, charged Gayl, who prepared the study for the Marine Corps' plans, policies and operations department.
Gayl, a retired Marine officer, is the science and technology adviser to Lt. Gen. Richard Natonski, who heads the department. The Associated Press first reported on Gayl's study Feb. 15. At that time, Gayl's work had not been reviewed by his immediate supervisor, Col. David Wilkinson, Lapan said Monday. "The paper represents Gayl's personal opinions and is clearly marked as such," Lapan said. "It is both preliminary and pre-decisional, and therefore a mischaracterization to term his work an official study or report."
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"Give Marines the vehicles they need to win the war? But that would come at the cost of cutting MY program! Over their dead bodies!"
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Start by looking hard at the Democrats in congress.
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The IG investigation is welcomed, but this isn't the first time Gayl has pushed one of his agendas.
The question then becomes, gromky - the MRAP may be fine for "this war", but what about the next operation? Will there be reports that marines died because there weren't enough vehicles because the MRAPs were too heavy and large to transport, or were unsuitable for the terrain? Or being accused of 'waste' because the MRAPs are sitting on blocks, because they are unsuitable for ops?
It's not like the Misguided Children are going to be able to ask for money from Congress for new vehicles for the next war, because the MRAPs were too heavy and large to transport, or were unsuitable for the terrain. Especially if Congress stays Democrat.
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That the procurement process can be F'd-up is no secret. Of course it would have been better to move more rapidly and get MRAPS to theater faster. But many here know it is just not as easy as someone issueing a PO, which is what the idiotic MSM and their butt-buddies in Congress always make you want to think. These are expensive, complicated systems that need a whole lot of support once they are in theater. You can't turn on that whole system with the flip of a switch. Should it have been done faster? Sure. So should have the surge and true COIN. But as in all wars, we learn as we go for that particular event.
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Actually a lot of the problem we dealt with was spare parts for them and the maint cycle. The manufacturer was in SC IIRC. At one point it came down that they would/could send a whole MRAP quicker then the class-9 block or pre-extended bin to go with the normal rotation of the parts or consumables that shit the bed. Sounds counterintuitive but that's what we dealt with. My unit touched & shipped every MRAP that came through western iraq at one point. There is some merit to this IG invest IMO and from my experience. Some of our flag grade elephants even got involved with complaining to Logcom and the others up in the ether about the lack of velocity in the MRAP fielding.
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The first major MRAP producer was Force Protection. The JERV came from South Africa via GD-Canada and is not totally relevant. Anyway, Force Protection was in now way capable of delivering or supporting the types of numbers that were being called for without some ramp-up time. Normal, especially since they are a relatively young company. It wasn't until the Pentagon called in other big vehicle manufacturers to contribute to the production that things started to shake loose. I can only envision how the spare parts issue was bigger than getting the new ones. Real tough to make spare parts when you are flat out making your normal production.
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I think the majority of our future wars are going to either be in the Sandbox area, or in Africa or South America. The MRAP would work for all three. Sometimes, a few people can screw up even the best of deals. It took firing one guy at Bell Helicopters to free up Huey production in 1965. The IG should indeed take a close look at what's going on, and should have the power to fire whoever is screwing things up.
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An influential group of Muslim theologians in India have denounced terrorism, saying it is completely against the teachings of Islam. Their statements were made at a meeting held at the Darul-Uloom Deoband, a powerful Islamic school more than 150 years old. Scholars from 6,000 religious schools attended the meeting. The Deoband school promotes a brand of Islam which some say was an inspiration to Afghanistan's Taleban. The school has always denied this.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
Opening the conclave the head of the Deoband school, Maulana Marghoobur Rahman, described terrorism as a thoughtless act which is against the teachings of Islam. He said that the killing of innocent people of any religion was prohibited by the Koran, the Muslim Holy Book.
"Yeah. It's in the Koran someplace. You could look it up!"
Many participants said they want to change popular perceptions in which, they say, terrorism is being equated with Islam. Others said that while Muslims should not be harassed because of anti-terrorism operations, the community also needed to be more introspective.
"Yeah. Somebody's gotta come up with a definition of terrorism, yez know."
Many Islamic seminaries across India have come under the scanner of the federal authorities in the wake of recent terror attacks. Set up in 1866 in north India the Darul-Uloom Deoband is the most influential Muslim religious school in south and south-east Asia.
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He said that the killing of innocent people of any religion was prohibited by the Koran, the Muslim Holy Book.
Actually, it says that it is forbidden to kill innocent people, period.
HOWEVER, if you are not a Muslim, Christian, or Jew, then you're an infidel and guilty of idolatry. Since there is no infidel that is innocent, it's okay to kill him or her.
The Balochistan National Party has asked the PPP and the PML-N to immediately release its detained president, Sardar Akhtar Mengal. BNP Information Secretary Sanaullah Baloch told Daily Times that his party welcomed the apology tendered by the PPP to the people of Balochistan. However, he said, if the PPP and the PML-N sought redress for the grievances of the Baloch, then they would quickly secure the release of former chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal. He demanded that a truth commission be formed to investigate the killing of Nawab Bugti and Balach Marri, and the human rights abuses in the past five years. Separately, BNP leader Professor Nahila Qadiri told a press conference that the new government would not be accepted unless BNPs leaders were released.
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PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that he would seek a working relationship with President Pervez Musharraf, as the coalition government might not be able to impeach him. The ground reality is that we do not have the two-thirds majority required for impeachment, The Wall Street Journal quoted Zardari as saying in an interview published on Monday.
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The sooner President Pervez Musharraf accepts the verdict of the people and steps down, the better it will be for him, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Monday. He told reporters after a meeting with US Ambassador Anne Patterson that he had told her that the incumbent parliament would decide on Pakistans continued role in the US-led war on terror. He said the US diplomat had been informed that the restoration of the sacked judiciary was the foremost demand of the February 18 election winners. Nawaz Sharif also met JI chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed. Both leaders called on Musharraf to step down or face impeachment. Nawaz said the PPP, the PML-N and the ANP would meet tomorrow (Wednesday) to discuss a strategy against Musharraf. Separately, a US Embassy press statement said Patterson had told Nawaz that the US would work with any coalition government.
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The Pakistan Army would not halt a military offensive in Swat valley until all militants were cleared from the once-popular tourist site, Major General Nasser Janjua said on Monday.
There is no time frame for completion of the operation as there are still 400 hardcore militants hiding in the valley, the regional commanding officer told reporters. It will take time to wind up the operation, he added.
Janjua said the army was still on the trail of Maulana Fazlullah, a radical cleric who has demanded Shariah in the valley. The army launched a major offensive in November to drive his followers out of Swat. He is around Swat district but is hiding somewhere and keeps changing his location. We are behind him, Janjua said.
He said the army had secured 90 percent of the region near the Afghan border, with more than 230 militants killed and 1,035 questioned during the offensive. He said 36 Pakistani soldiers had died during operations.
Janjua said militants were losing support amid ongoing violence. Locals in Swat have been taken onboard by winning their hearts and minds. They are now resenting the militants, he said. Hundreds of people have died across the NWFP in recent months in clashes between pro-Taliban militants and security forces and in a wave of suicide attacks blamed on the militants.
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High Court of Sindhs Justice Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, also the Administrative Judge (AJ) for Anti-Terrorism Courts (ATCs), accepted Monday the final charge-sheet against activists of the banned Jundullah in six cases and marked the trial to ATC V headed by Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch.
The charge-sheet was submitted against Qasim alias Toori, Danish alias Talha and Abid alias Ali by the Jamshed Quarters Police Special Investigations Unit (SIU). They were accused of attempt to murder, possession of illicit arms and explosives, planning terrorist attacks in the city and robbing banks to fund their terrorist activities.
The AJ also remanded accused Khan Afsar to the custody of Boat Basin Investigations Police till March 3 in a case of kidnapping for ransom.
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Monday strongly condemned the suicide bombing in Rawalpindi in which eight people, including Lt-Gen Mushtaq Baig of Army Medical Corps, were killed. It is callousness of the people involved in such attacks because innocent lives are being lost, he said in a statement issued by the partys media centre. He condoled with the bereaved families and prayed for early recovery of the injured. He asked the government to provide best possible medical treatment to the injured.
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center will hold a private meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday to urge the international body to address suicide bombing and declare it a "crime against humanity." They will also call on Ban to cancel the "Durban II" conference slated for 2009, and address the "world's amnesia" about rocket attacks on Sderot.
In a private meeting Tuesday, representatives from the Wiesenthal Center are expected to ask Ban to advocate for a special session of the General Assembly on suicide bombing and terrorism and reverse the Assembly's longstanding refusal to raise the issue in its halls.
"The GA has had many special sessions on issues such as apartheid, drugs smuggling, disarmament, but the greatest scourge - suicide terror - is being blocked," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. "We know that 57 Muslim countries don't want a meeting on it. But if you look at the world, it's not only global warming threatening the fabric of civilization, but suicide terrorism."
The center began campaigning to designate suicide bombings a "crime against humanity" six months after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, but progress has been slow.
Following the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the center ran full-page advertisements in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune reading: "Suicide terror. What more will it take for the world to act?" Attempts to get the ad placed in four Arab newspapers failed.
"The special sessions are supposed to deal with looming problems, but this is the one subject that's never touched," said Hier, who will be among the delegation to meet Ban. "To allow a virtual veto power to 57 Muslim countries does not benefit the world."
"We want the secretary general to force it on the agenda of the international community," said Hier, who will also present the Ban with a petition to designate suicide bombs a crime against humanity signed by over 10,000 people worldwide. "The truth is, if you want to take world back from extremists, this is the best way to do it, not by hiding."
The Wiesenthal Center will also urge the secretary-general to cancel the Durban II conference scheduled for 2009, which many Jewish organizations fear will be a recap of the first conference held in South Africa in 2001 under the auspices of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. That conference was titled "The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance," but dealt mostly with Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Both Israel and the US eventually quit the conference. "When will we see a Durban conference on the treatment of women in the Arab world, or the religious police in Saudi Arabia and Iran?" asked Hier. "To have a conference that focuses myopically on one country under the globe, that is a hate fest targeting the same people as the Holocaust, is unacceptable."
On Sunday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni announced that Israel would not participate in the Durban II Conference in 2009 unless it received proof that the venue would not serve as another platform for anti-Semitic or anti-Israel activity. The decision followed an assessment by the Foreign Ministry and other Western governments that it would be impossible to prevent the conference from turning into an anti-Israeli gathering.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who is also expected to participate in Tuesday's meeting, compared the Durban conference to a train on a "specific schedule."
"There is no one to put a brake on it, unless changes are instituted at the top." It remains unclear whether the US will participate in the conference.
Several US senators have claimed that Washington will boycott the conference. However, State Department Spokesman Tom Casey recently said the decision would be up to the next US administration because the conference is scheduled to take place after President George W. Bush leaves office.
Lastly, delegates from the Wiesenthal Center will raise the issue of "the world's amnesia" regarding rocket attacks on Sderot. "We want him [Ban] to clamp down on Hamas, and say 'when you are elected, you have responsibilities to secure the borders,' but instead they are giving tacit approval," said Hier. "This is hypocrisy that the world has to expose and the UN has to say to Hamas - 'you are responsible.'"
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Sounds good. Get the UN to:
1) Decleare suicide bombing a crime against humanity.
2) Declare sharia incompatible with human rights and therefore also verboten everywhere.
3) Schools must teach reading, writing and math. No rote memorization of the koran or any other manifesto can be called a school or recieve ANY funding.
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About 8,000 more US troops will be on the ground in Iraq when the US troop buildup ends in July than there were when it began in January 2007, a senior general said Monday.
Lt. Gen. Carter Ham, operations chief for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that by July the troop total is likely to be 140,000. That compares with 132,000 when President George W. Bush approved orders to send an additional five Army brigades to Iraq to improve security and avert civil war.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, as speaker of the US House of Representatives the senior Democrat in Washington, said the announcement showed that Bush's troop buildup was not a temporary measure as it had been advertised. Democrats said when they regained control of Congress in the November 2006 elections that they would force Bush to end the war but have failed to achieve that. "As we approach the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, Americans continue to demand a new direction in Iraq and reject a continuation of the president's plan for a 10-year, trillion-dollar war in Iraq," Pelosi said.
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No use for Pelosi to continue to whine and whimper, "W" told us two years ago, that the next President will decide when the troops come home (or not!). Jelly spines in the Legislature can't front the 'Gang Of 16' and their ever faster pen wielding champion...Super "W"! The American people will finally sum the equation on November 7th...and quoting Mr. Vader "...It will be a day looong remembered!!".
Detainees Treated Fairly, Rehabilitated to Re-enter Iraqi Society
BAGHDAD Shouts drift through the air and over the razor-wire fences at Camp Cropper, a Coalition forces theater internment facility, or TIF, in western Baghdad.
Detainees form a crowd inside the compound as the loud cheers and even louder jeers intensify. Guards on the catwalks above watch closely as the mobs shouting reaches its peak. Its over suddenly, and the participants trickle away in ones and twos, replaying the highlights of the afternoons volleyball game and already planning for the next.
Allowing detainees freedom - even fun inside a detention facility may seem odd, but it is part of a strategic counterinsurgency tactic to engage detainees and separate violent individuals from the rest of the population. The goal is to create a safe and positive environment for successful detainee reintegration into Iraqi society.
Army Staff Sgt. Gregory Smith, 535th Military Police Battalion, is a Reservist military policeman and a civilian police officer from Nashville, Tenn. He works as the noncommissioned officer in charge of Compound Two, known inside the TIF as the most compliant compound. Much of his day is spent walking the compounds four zones, overseeing his guards and meeting with the detainee zone chiefs, he said.
I like to describe my job in the TIF as putting out small fires before they turn into big ones, said Smith.
Lots of rationalization about the "original spirit" of islam, but it seems to go the right way.
is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam - and a controversial and radical modernisation of the religion. The country's powerful Department of Religious Affairs has commissioned a team of theologians at Ankara University to carry out a fundamental revision of the Hadith, the second most sacred text in Islam after the Koran.
The Hadith is a collection of thousands of sayings reputed to come from the Prophet Muhammad. As such, it is the principal guide for Muslims in interpreting the Koran and the source of the vast majority of Islamic law, or Sharia.
But the Turkish state has come to see the Hadith as having an often negative influence on a society it is in a hurry to modernise, and believes it responsible for obscuring the original values of Islam. It says that a significant number of the sayings were never uttered by Muhammad, and even some that were need now to be reinterpreted.
Commentators say the very theology of Islam is being reinterpreted in order to effect a radical renewal of the religion. Its supporters say the spirit of logic and reason inherent in Islam at its foundation 1,400 years ago are being rediscovered. Some believe it could represent the beginning of a reformation in the religion.
Turkish officials have been reticent about the revision of the Hadith until now, aware of the controversy it is likely to cause among traditionalist Muslims, but they have spoken to the BBC about the project, and their ambitious aims for it.
The forensic examination of the Hadiths has taken place in Ankara University's School of Theology.
An adviser to the project, Felix Koerner, says some of the sayings - also known individually as "hadiths" - can be shown to have been invented hundreds of years after the Prophet Muhammad died, to serve the purposes of contemporary society. "Unfortunately you can even justify through alleged hadiths, the Muslim - or pseudo-Muslim - practice of female genital mutilation," he says. "You can find messages which say 'that is what the Prophet ordered us to do'. But you can show historically how they came into being, as influences from other cultures, that were then projected onto Islamic tradition."
The argument is that Islamic tradition has been gradually hijacked by various - often conservative - cultures, seeking to use the religion for various forms of social control.
Leaders of the Hadith project say successive generations have embellished the text, attributing their political aims to the Prophet Muhammad himself.
Turkey is intent on sweeping away that "cultural baggage" and returning to a form of Islam it claims accords with its original values and those of the Prophet.
But this is where the revolutionary nature of the work becomes apparent. Even some sayings accepted as being genuinely spoken by Muhammad have been altered and reinterpreted.
Prof Mehmet Gormez, a senior official in the Department of Religious Affairs and an expert on the Hadith, gives a telling example. "There are some messages that ban women from travelling for three days or more without their husband's permission and they are genuine.
"But this isn't a religious ban. It came about because in the Prophet's time it simply wasn't safe for a woman to travel alone like that. But as time has passed, people have made permanent what was only supposed to be a temporary ban for safety reasons."
The project justifies such bold interference in the 1,400-year-old content of the Hadith by rigorous academic research. Prof Gormez points out that in another speech, the Prophet said "he longed for the day when a woman might travel long distances alone". So, he argues, it is clear what the Prophet's goal was.
Yet, until now, the ban has remained in the text, and helps to restrict the free movement of some Muslim women to this day.
As part of its aggressive programme of renewal, Turkey has given theological training to 450 women, and appointed them as senior imams called "vaizes". They have been given the task of explaining the original spirit of Islam to remote communities in Turkey's vast interior.
One of the women, Hulya Koc, looked out over a sea of headscarves at a town meeting in central Turkey and told the women of the equality, justice and human rights guaranteed by an accurate interpretation of the Koran - one guided and confirmed by the revised Hadith.
She says that, at the moment, Islam is being widely used to justify the violent suppression of women. "There are honour killings," she explains. "We hear that some women are being killed when they marry the wrong person or run away with someone they love.
"There's also violence against women within families, including sexual harassment by uncles and others. This does not exist in Islam... we have to explain that to them."
According to Fadi Hakura, an expert on Turkey from Chatham House in London, Turkey is doing nothing less than recreating Islam - changing it from a religion whose rules must be obeyed, to one designed to serve the needs of people in a modern secular democracy.
He says that to achieve it, the state is fashioning a new Islam. "This is kind of akin to the Christian Reformation," he says. "Not exactly the same, but if you think, it's changing the theological foundations of [the] religion. "
Fadi Hakura believes that until now secularist Turkey has been intent on creating a new politics for Islam. Now, he says, "they are trying to fashion a new Islam."
Significantly, the "Ankara School" of theologians working on the new Hadith have been using Western critical techniques and philosophy. They have also taken an even bolder step - rejecting a long-established rule of Muslim scholars that later (and often more conservative) texts override earlier ones.
"You have to see them as a whole," says Fadi Hakura. "You can't say, for example, that the verses of violence override the verses of peace. This is used a lot in the Middle East, this kind of ideology.
"I cannot impress enough how fundamental [this change] is."
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If these efforts produce the Martin Luther of Islam, that would be great. Luther created an opening for individual conscience in a world dominated by dogma.
Islam still has to deal with the content of the book itself. They still have to finesse "slay the infidel" ande "wage jihad until Allah is obeyed" into something more like "turn the other cheek" and "render unto caesar." I wish them luck.
More likely they are setting themselves up as the Islamic Gorbachev. Once you admit that your system may not be the final authority on all matters, people start wondering whether there's much worth in the beliefs at all. If Islam is not the unalterable word of divine authority, then it loses its position as the legitimate conqueror of global infidelity. That would be a grand thing indeed.
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Well nothing has been actually published yet.
I'm skeptical that the final document will conform to the info in this article.
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Good luck with this one. A step in the correct direction, but will, undoubtedly, be supplanted by boomers of various sizes and descriptions with the only common denominator being influence by whack-job Islamonut "clerics."
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I saw this a while back as being inevitable. There is just no way for intelligent Muslims to rationalize several glaring problems:
1) Islam is supposed to be more "modern" than anything else, and that is why it is "better". However, even a damn fool can see that Islam is totally anachronistic and stupid in its practice. Stubbornly insisting that it is still better in any real sense has become embarrassing.
2) Reformation in Christianity utterly ignores what is preached in the Old Testament; Islam can do the same. It is dumb to use camel dung on wounds when you have antibiotics, even *if* Mohammed said to use camel dung.
3) Women are perfectly capable creatures, and men don't lose their marbles around them. Nothing in the Koran says otherwise, so let's go with that.
4) Homicidal lunatics that run around indiscriminately killing everyone and anyone have no real justification, ever. They must be stopped.
5) Nobody has any religious authority anymore. Islam has devolved into a free for all, with any kook doing things his own way. Order must be restored.
6) We Turks are better than Arabs, so what we say, goes.
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Meh. Hadith. Let me know when it's possible to do textual analysis of the Qu'ran itself under your own name without making yourself the target of fanatics.
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#6:
#4(2)Reformation in Christianity utterly ignores what is preached in the Old Testament
On second thought, I'll wait for Ptah to respoind to this.
Second thought WAS more accurate than the first, G(r)om! ;)
Christianity, as a rule, views itself as superceding portions of the Old Testament, fulfilling other portions, extending still others, AND totally ignoring some portions. You have to really KNOW your New Testament to see what applies and what doesn't. Paul called that selectivity "rightly dividing the word of truth".
The portion that causes heartburn is "replacement theology", where it is held that Christianity replaces Judaism rather than being the side-effect of extending The Abrahamic Covenant (old testament) to the gentiles. The issue then becomes how "Israelite" the Church should be.
Note that I said "Israelite": this is a reference to the people of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as an independent political entity within the Promised land. How much should the Church BE the State? Jesus and the Apostles were silent, so the standard assumption during the middle ages was "yeah. we should be the state". This, of course, despite a total lack of any commands or instruction in the New Testament that can be construed as "civil" laws, such as inheritance laws, death penalties, and the like. I personally take this silence as indicating that Christianity is a religion of people and church, not people and temple/mosque/cathedral and state, since the letters of Paul are full of instructions on how to run the local church.
At the same time, I don't think those who initially advocated the Church taking over the State did so with nefarious motives: The Church taking over the State pretty much guarantees that nobody persecutes the church members, and looking out for the welfare of the church members is the job of the Clergy. One has to be a political naif to believe that once the Church had secular government power, some unscrupulous people would fake religosity to take it over, spoiling both in the long run.
The American Compromise, in which the Government is forbidden to suppress specific denominations or explicitly support specific denominations, combined with freedom of speech and press to allow the proclamation of the Gospel was, in my humble opinion, the best damn thing to ever happen to both Church and State. The church, and religion in general, should be free to influence people, both as voters and as officials, but not legislate. As a result, lefties are still frustrated that America continues to be regarded as the most "religious" nation in the world, although the government is supposed to be agnostic.
My biggest worry is a legal imposition of political correctness similar to the Human "rights" commissions of Canada. Once you're forbidden to say what you think is the truth, one tends to notice that the squeaky (i.e. violent) wheel always seems to get the grease, so you think you need to follow the same policy to get the same effect.
When THAT happens, my friends, THEN we are truly f*ck*d.
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erk. I MEANT to say: One has to be a political naif to believe that once the Church had secular government power, no unscrupulous people would fake religosity to take it over, spoiling both in the long run.
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"The argument is that Islamic tradition has been gradually hijacked by various - often conservative - cultures, seeking to use the religion for various forms of social control."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
More like the other way around, bubbe.
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Sources have told PJM of a major public uprising over the weekend in Tehran an account corroborated by other reports on the Web.
This is the story they tell: at approximately 7 pm on Saturday, February 23, the Ershad patrol, modesty police assigned to enforce clothing regulations, accosted and attempted to arrest a young woman at Goldis Shopping Mall, located in western Tehran, presumably because her dress was not sufficiently modest. . . . Instead of meekly submitting to her fate, the woman fought back. A young man - it is unclear whether he was accompanying her - came to her defense and joined her in fighting the police. In an attempt to subdue and humiliate him - the police grabbed the young man and threw him into the garbage can nearby.
That was when the large crowd, predominately made up of young people, rose up against the police and attempted to liberate the young woman themselves.
Faced with a full-blown riot - complete with angry crowds with garbage cans being set on fire - the frightened police jumped into the van and fled the scene, except for one unfortunate officer who was left behind. The policeman was reportedly attacked and beaten by the mob.
The police returned, reinforced by a full-fledged anti-riot unit. To gain control of the situation, members of the unit fired warning shots into the air and threatened to fire directly into the crowd. There were reports of between 10-15 arrests.
The incident documented by cell phone video that was uploaded to YouTube. While the quality of the video is extremely poor, the Farsi narration and background voices were intelligible and translatable.
On the video, the voice of an individual a citizen reporter - narrates: Thy (police) arrested a girl and put her in the van, people rushed to free her from the police custody. The arresting officer let go of her and they started attacking him. The van belonging to the agents left the scene, not wanting to be hit by the people and left that officer behind. People ambushed him as he was running away from them and beat him up badly.
In a report on the event that appeared the Iran Press Service web site, student web sites are quoted as saying to disperse the angry mob, heavy police and anti-riot units that arrived fired into the air but were met with a crod of more than 300 people, now changing slogans against the regime and its leaders, mostly Ayatollah Ali Khameni and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, chanting We dont want dictatorship, We dont want emergency and martial law.
The story comes on the heels of reports of student uprisings. As with this story, the reports are nowhere to be seen in the official Iranian press or the Western media - but by those who are determined that stories of resistance are somehow told.
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Nabih knows a car bomb is awaiting this next decision; heightened by his indecisiveness compounded by sentiment for his kindred politicians. Too many fingers in the pie, which begs all along why Lebanon will remain in such a 'quasi fluxing conundrum' as long as a 'strong leader doesn't 'rise'. Put a fake scar down the left cheek of Hariri, triple his bodyguard and throw the sceptor to him!
Lebanons Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said Monday that the Lebanese authority is the only power that is eligible to possess weapons. Jumblatt lashed out at Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, without naming him, reminding him that there is no escape from a defense strategy. "There is no getaway from a comprehensive defense strategy where all the weapons will be under the Lebanese army command," Jumblatt said in an editorial to be published by the PSP weekly mouthpiece al-Anbaa on Tuesday.
"No country in the world agrees to have armed factions outside its control that want to declare wars with the enemy whenever they desire as if they are the only ones that run the country's businesses."
"The Lebanese authority should be the only one eligible to possess weapons just like all over the world," the Druze leader added.
"No country in the world agrees to have armed factions outside its control that want to declare wars with the enemy whenever they desire as if they are the only ones that run the country's businesses," Jumblatt said in reference to Nasrallah's declaration of "open war" against Israel following the killing of top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh. "We in Lebanon have liberated our land and defeated the Israeli occupation more than once. We have also accomplished our national duties," Jumblatt said.
"We can do without terrorist or non-terrorist wars that could drag us to never ending conflicts on our territory," he stressed. "An open war can be averted through a defense strategy and through the handing over those alive (Israeli soldiers) or the body parts to the legitimate authority in order to negotiate this dossier with the United Nations," Jumblatt proposed.
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Oh, I think the individual people there should be allowed to possess weapons for their personal protection. You want my house to store missiles in? Bang!.
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Wally sounds reasonable, 'statesman like', and much less irritating than the senorita! His bodyguards and security net is obviously first rate, but in my opinion as to why he puts up with the BS, allowing it to age him prematurely, is beyond me! He should have thrown the 'bird' long ago...unless he has no where else to go; then there's Paris!
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FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE
-An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. -Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
-Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
-Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
-The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
-64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
-Guns have only two enemies; rust and politicians.
-You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
-Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.
-You have only the rights you are willing to fight for. -When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
-'Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.' Thomas Jefferson
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oh- and yes, I realize it is a much different situation over there and Wally is right when he says, "No country in the world agrees to have armed factions outside its control that want to declare wars with the enemy whenever they desire as if they are the only ones that run the country's businesses."
The problem in Lebanon is that they are in a civil war that has to be fought. But this is ALWAYS one of the most dangerous statements a citizen can hear: Lebanese authority is the only power that is eligible to possess weapons
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"No country in the world agrees to have armed factions outside its control that want to declare wars with the enemy whenever they desire as if they are the only ones that run the country's businesses."
Idiot, You've surely heard of the USA where damn near everyone is armed.
(And live in relative peace)
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The Arab League secretary General Amr Moussa said that the talks went smoothly between Lebanon's parliament majority and the opposition but failed to reach agreement on ending the crises . There was also no agreement on another meeting. Moussa told reporters after the meeting ended that intends to leave today.
Moussa said there is still consensus on the election of Gen. Michel Suleiman as the president but the disagreement is on the formation of the new government following the elections . Moussa said the time has come to elect a president of the Republic of Lebanon . It is important that the Lebanese president shoud attend the summit in Damascus , since Lebanon is an essential member of the Arab League
He said we will try to meet again but no time was set for such an agreement. Moussa pleaded with the Lebanese leaders not to escalate the violence . Moussa said the majority has agreed to give the opposition one third of the ministry positions but disagreed to give it a veto power .
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The widow of slain Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mugniyeh claimed that Syria was behind his assassination. "The Syrian traitors assisted in killing my husband," the Italian news agency AKI on Monday quoted her as saying. "The Syrians' refusal to allow Iranian investigators probe the assassination proves their involvement in the murder of my husband in Damascus," asserted Mugniyeh's widow.
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Whaddya think the chances are that the last thing Mrs. Imad ever sees is a blinding flash of light?
Iran's ambassador on Monday warned France to back off its tough stance on Teheran's nuclear program - suggesting there could be economic consequences for French firms doing business in Iran if the Islamic Republic comes under new international sanctions.
Ali Ahani, Iran's top envoy in Paris, said it would be "regrettable" if France continues its "very hard" line and its "alignment with the Americans" over Teheran's nuclear ambitions.
Speaking to reporters at Iran's embassy, he said that if Iran faces new sanctions, Iranian leaders would be hard pressed trying to convince its citizens that French firms should be allowed to operate in Iran.
Ahani did not specify which French companies he had in mind. French firms including automaker Renault and oil company Total have major business projects planned or under way in Iran. "We haven't decided anything on this issue," Ahani said, "but we hope that we will come to an understanding with the French government to choose a more reasonable, more just manner on this subject."
Britain and France introduced a UN Security Council resolution Thursday to expand and toughen travel bans and the freezing of assets for more Iranian officials linked to the nuclear effort.
Also Monday, a senior British diplomat said Iran may have continued work on nuclear weapons past 2003, the year US intelligence says such activities stopped.
Simon Smith, the chief British delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency, commented after an IAEA presentation of documentation that - if accurate - would strongly back US claims that Iran at one point worked on programs linked to attempts to make nuclear weapons.
That assertion was also made by a US National Intelligence Estimate, summarized and made public late last year said. That report also said, however, that the Iranians froze such work in 2003.
Asked whether the information presented to the IAEA's 35 board member nations indicated that Teheran continued such activities past that date, Smith said: "Certainly some of the dates ... went beyond 2003."
He did not elaborate. Another diplomat at the presentation, who asked for anonymity because the IAEA meeting was closed, said some of the documentation focused on a 2004 Iranian report on alleged weapons activities. But she said it was unclear whether the project was being actively worked on then.
A senior diplomat inside the meeting said that among the material shown was an Iranian video depicting mock-ups of a missile re-entry vehicle. He said IAEA Director General Oli Heinonen suggested the component - which brings missiles back from the stratosphere - was configured in a way that strongly suggests it was meant to carry a nuclear warhead.
Smith and the senior diplomat both said the material shown to the board members came from a "multitude of sources," including information gathered by the agency and intelligence provided by the members themselves.
IAEA, the UN nuclear monitor, released a report last week saying that suspicions about most past Iranian nuclear activities had eased or been laid to rest. But the report also noted that Iran had rejected documents that link it to missile and explosives experiments and other work connected to a possible nuclear weapons program, calling the information false and irrelevant.
The report called weaponization "the one major ... unsolved issue relevant to the nature of Iran's nuclear program."
Most of the material shown to Iran by the IAEA on alleged attempts to make nuclear arms came from Washington, though some was provided by US allies, diplomats told the AP. The agency shared it with Teheran only after the nations gave their permission.
Meanwhile, Iran's UN ambassador accused a group on the US terror blacklist of fabricating allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear weapons in the 1990s.
Ambassador Mohammad Khazee insisted that Teheran has resolved all outstanding issues about its nuclear program and should not face any new UN sanctions. He indicated that the United States was getting unreliable intelligence from Iranian opposition groups.
The government believes "baseless" information provided to the UN nuclear watchdog agency by the US just a few days before its latest report came from an Iranian exile group that helped Saddam Hussein during the war, he said. "I'm afraid to say that, according to my information, some of these allegations were produced or fabricated by a terrorist group, which are listed as a terrorist group in the United States and somewhere else in Europe," Khazee said in an interview with The Associated Press.
He appeared to be referring to the The Mujahedeen Khalq, also known as the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, who were deemed foreign terrorist organizations by the US State Department in 1997. Last June, the European Union decided to keep the Paris-based opposition group on its terror blacklist.
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Sounds like a threat as opposed to a warning. I'd be a bit careful with France when it comes to nuclear issues.
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What's that line ol' Sarkzy used on the bum last weekend: " Back off, dumb ass?" Something like that. He could (no, make that SHOULD) use it again here.
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What's that line ol' Sarkzy used on the bum last weekend
I finally got to see it (on teevee, by accident, I don't watch television anymore), see Evil Youtube, the exchange is "oh, non, you don't touch me", "then get lost", "you'll get me dirty", "get lost, then, sick c*nt".
I really don't think much of sarko, but seeing all the msm tempest in a teapot and holier-than-you attitude from the socialists and pundits,... almost would make him likeable to me (thanks God, it's not the case).
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The Taleban have threatened to blow up telephone masts across Afghanistan unless mobile phone companies agree to switch off their signals at night. They say that US and other foreign troops are using the signals to track down insurgents. 
CHICAGO An ousted American political science professor who believes some Jews have exploited the legacy of the Holocaust recently expressed his support for the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of blast-resistant vehicles led to hundreds of combat casualties in Iraq.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Monday strongly condemned the suicide bombing in Rawalpindi in which eight people, including Lt-Gen Mushtaq Baig of Army Medical Corps, were killed. It is callousness of the people involved in such attacks because innocent lives are being lost, he said in a statement issued by the partys media centre. He condoled with the bereaved families and prayed for early recovery of the injured. He asked the government to provide best possible medical treatment to the injured.
Detainees Treated Fairly, Rehabilitated to Re-enter Iraqi Society 
Lebanons Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said Monday that the Lebanese authority is the only power that is eligible to possess weapons. Jumblatt lashed out at Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, without naming him, reminding him that there is no escape from a defense strategy. "There is no getaway from a comprehensive defense strategy where all the weapons will be under the Lebanese army command," Jumblatt said in an editorial to be published by the PSP weekly mouthpiece al-Anbaa on Tuesday.
The Arab League secretary General Amr Moussa said that the talks went smoothly between Lebanon's parliament majority and the opposition but failed to reach agreement on ending the crises . There was also no agreement on another meeting. Moussa told reporters after the meeting ended that intends to leave today. 
