Amid rising tensions with neighboring Colombia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced late Friday that his country would soon take delivery of Russian-made missiles with a range of 300 kilometers (185 miles).
"We have signed some agreements with Russia. Soon we will begin receiving some missiles," Chavez said during a meeting with supporters in front of the presidential palace. And not a heckler in sight or in earshot.
He underscored the reliability of the Russian weaponry, but stressed that his country had "no plans to attack anybody." No. They are strictly defensive, and they have that pretty, sleek look. They are nice to have around.
But the announcement came amid rising tension between Caracas and Bogota over Colombia's decision to allow the United States access to several military bases on its territory.
Chavez said he was determined to defend his country "of any threat" and assured that the new missiles were purely "defensive."
He did not specify how many missiles would be delivered or whether the contract to buy them was signed during his recent visit to Russia.
But Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday that Russia would sell weapons to its "friend" Venezuela. Chavez is ourrr frriend. Heeez a guuuud guy.
"These sorts of contracts are never signed in public," he told reporters after meeting Chavez at a Russian presidential residence outside Moscow.
"We will supply Venezuela the weapons that Venezuela asks for. In accordance with all international law, of course," Medvedev added. Uuuuv koooooarrrrssse. With all international law. [suckers]
Responding to reports that Russia would sell tanks to the Latin American country, Medvedev said: "Why not tanks? Without question, we have good tanks. If our friends want our tanks, we will deliver them."
Chavez, a firebrand leftist who has repeatedly criticized the United States, said Venezuela was building up its military with Moscow's help but insisted that this was not directed against any other country.
Following the Medvedev-Chavez talks, the Russian and Venezuelan defense ministries signed an agreement, details of which were not released.
Separately, a consortium of Russian oil companies and Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA signed an agreement establishing a joint venture to develop the Junin 6 oil field along Venezuela's Orinoco River.
Russian media reports ahead of Chavez's visit said Venezuela was seeking to buy T-72 and T-90 tanks, Kilo-class diesel-powered submarines, BMP-3 armoured vehicles, Mi-28 helicopters and land-based anti-ship missiles. Quite the shopping list, in a time of squeezed revenues.
In recent years Venezuela has signed over four billion dollars' worth of arms contracts with Russia, and last November its navy held joint exercises with Russian warships in the Caribbean, traditionally seen as a US domain.
Pirates of the Caribbean.
Recent Russian arms sales to Venezuela also included 24 fighter jets Sukhoi-30, 50 combat helicopters and 100,000 Kalshnikov assault rifles. Moscow has also granted Venezuela a one-billion dollar credit to finance the acquisition of its weapons. Good luck on the repayment schedule, Medvedev.
In addition to Russia, Chavez visited Iran, Libya, Syria, Algeria, Turkmenistan, Belarus and Spain. He returned home on Friday. The network of evil/weasels.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] More and more young Britons are travelling to war-torn Somalia for "jihad training," prompting British intelligence chiefs to warn that the country is becoming a more popular "holy war" training ground, a local newspaper reported Sunday.
The heads of the U.K.'s top spy agency MI5 warned that at least 100 British citizens have gone to fight or train in Somalia since 2004, according to the left-leaning Independent newspaper, citing unnamed sources.
Do they really have to be allowed back into the country?
" You have to remember that Somalia is not a place you would go for a holiday. It is particularly striking when people with no Somali family are going there; it looks as if some people are being attracted by the lawlessness "
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"We would have started at below 20 five years ago, when Somalia was not significant enough to be put under close surveillance," a senior Home Office source told the paper Saturday, adding that the number increased each year. "You have to remember that Somalia is not a place you would go for a holiday. It is particularly striking when people with no Somali family are going there; it looks as if some people are being attracted by the lawlessness."
A moderate Muslim leader from outside London told the paper he had heard of young men travelling to Somalia to join extremist groups. "I'm hearing it from parents," Sheikh Ahmed Aabi said. "They say they [their children] are joining the jihad. This is a big problem facing our community."
So what is "our community" doing to solve their big problem?
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The officials are particularly concerned about the number of people with no direct family connection to Somalia who are travelling there, noting that it has become an alternative base for Islamic radical groups like al-Qaeda and al-Shebaab.
Although Afghanistan and Pakistan remain the main destination for British would-be jihadists, the paper said officials see Somalia as the next major challenge to combating terrorism under the guise of Islam. "I have seen figures that are not in the public domain that suggest there is an increasing flow of young Britons into Somalia," the paper quoted opposition conservative parliamentarian Patrick Mercer, chairman of the counter-terrorism subcommittee, as saying. "There is now a mixture of British people, from numerous backgrounds, who are heading out there and that is causing great concern."
A 21-year-old British Somali who blew himself up at a checkpoint in southern Somalia in 2007 was believed to have entered the country overland from Kenya.
Terrorism training
The Shebab, an al-Qaeda inspired movement designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., is at the forefront of a three-month-old offensive to topple Somalia's President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and has imposed strict Sharia law in areas under its control.
The paper said a confidential report in 2002 identified 16 terrorism training camps in Somalia and that the U.S. claimed the network had expanded, reaching beyond the war-torn country's own borders into American's Midwest and Australia.
If the camps blow up, one after another, who is to say whether it was the Americans, the Israelis, or just a work accident? I'm sure the visual analysts at the CIA and U.S. military intelligence know exactly where the camps are... satellite imagery being what it is, nowadays.
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Paul2's post raises a point. My impression is that tens of thousands of wannabe jihadis got themselves maimed or killed in Iraq before the effort petered out. Likewise some hundreds in Afghanistan -- the reports we've seen here recently strongly indicate that effort is losing steam much more quickly, sending home unknown numbers of young men no longer enamored of the reality of jihad. How much would Britain benefit if the idiots Darwinize themselves in Somalia now, given that Somalia is historically deadly to the locals, and even more deadly to the idealists attempting to help them?
Lieutenant James Adamson was awarded the Military Cross after killing two insurgents during close quarter combat in Helmand's notorious "Green Zone".
The 24-year-old officer, a member of the 5th battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, revealed that he shouted "have some of this" before shooting dead a gunman who had just emerged from a maize field. Seconds later and out of ammunition, the lieutenant leapt over a river bank and killed a second insurgent machine-gunner with a single thrust of his bayonet in the man's chest.
The officer was one of 145 members of the armed services who last week received awards in the latest Operational Honours list.
In a graphic description of the intense fighting in Helmand, the officer told of the moment killed the second fighter. He said: "It was a split second decision.
"I either wasted vital seconds changing the magazine on my rifle or went over the top and did it more quickly with the bayonet. I took the second option. I jumped up over the bank of the river. He was just over the other side, almost touching distance.
"We caught each other's eye as I went towards him but by then, for him, it was too late. There was no inner monologue going on in my head I was just reacting in the way that I was trained.
"He was alive when it went in -- he wasn't alive when it came out -- it was that simple."
Recalling his feelings in the moments afterwards Lt Adamson, said: "He was young, with dark hair. He only had kind of whispy hair on his chin, not a proper beard, so he wasn't that old, maybe a teenager.
"Afterwards, when he was dead, I picked up his PKM (Russian-made belt-fed machine gun) machine gun and slung it over my back. We then had to wait for more of my men to join us. We thought there could be more Taliban about and we were just watching our arcs of fire, waiting for more to come out of a big field of maize which came right up to the river we had been wading through.
"One of my men, Corporal Billy Carnegie, reached us, looked at the two dead Taliban on the ground and then saw the blood on my bayonet and said "boss what the **** have you been doing?"
The firefight, in July 2008, began during the middle an operation to push the Taliban out of an area close to the town of Musa Qala in northern Helmand. Lt Adamson's platoon of 25-men, which was leading the assault, had just halted their advance when they were attacked.
Lt Adamson, who is single and comes from the Isle of Man, was moving between two eight man sections when a group of Taliban fighters attempted a flanking attack. He continued: "The Taliban kept on probing us -- sending in fighters to attack, first in twos then in fours.
"There was a gap between the two sections and the Taliban realised this and were sending in men to get between the two groups so they could split us up and isolate us.
"Myself and Corporal Fraser 'Hammy' Hamilton were wading nipple deep down a river which connected the two positions. Hammy was ahead when the Taliban fighter with the PKM (Russian machine gun) appeared from a maize field. There was an exchange of fire and 'Hammy' fired off his ammunition and then the weight of fire coming from the Taliban forced him under the water.
"The machine-gunner had also gone to ground but was still firing in our direction periodically. I had just caught up when 'Hammy' came up out of the water like a monster of the deep.
"Then another Taliban man came through the maize carrying an AK47. He was only three to four metres away. I immediately shot him with a burst from my rifle which was already set on automatic. He went down straight away and I knew I had hit him.
"Hammy said I shouted: 'have some of this' as I shot him but I can't remember that. I fired another burst at the PKM gunner and then that was me out of ammunition as well. That was when I decided to use the bayonet on him. It was a case of one second to bayonet him or two seconds to put on a fresh magazine.
"Nothing was really going through my mind but briefly I did think 'if this works out the boys will love it' -- as in the rest of the platoon that I commanded.
"The undergrowth is so dense in the 'Green zone' that I often ordered bayonets fixed because you knew the distances between you and the Taliban could be very short. It is also good for morale."
His Military Cross citation read: "Adamson's supreme physical courage, combined with the calm leadership he continued to display after a very close encounter with the Taliban, were of the very highest order.
"His actions also neutralised an enemy flanking attack which could have resulted in casualties for his platoon."
Two weeks earlier Lt Adamson had won a Mention in Dispatches (MID) by leading his men in an ambush against the Taliban in the same area. It is understood that the young lieutenant is the first member of the armed forces to receive two awards for gallantry during the same operational tour.
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IIRC GEN. STONEWALL JACKSON in "GODS AND GENERALS" Civil War Miniseries > The North will respect the rights of the South only when the South is willing to fight and give dem Yankees the Bayonet in the belly [or words to this effect]. D *** NG IT, SERGEANT, IFF OUR MEN LEARN NUTHIN' ELSE, TEACH THEM HOW TO FIGHT AND KILL WITH THE BAYONET!
[Iran Press TV Latest] Britain's Foreign Office has 'secretly' bowed down to Libyan pressure, sparing the life of a Libyan who had shot dead a British policewoman 25 years ago.
The policewoman, Yvonne Fletcher, was monitoring a demonstration by Libyan protesters, when an assailant opened fire on the crowd targeting eleven people.
Fletcher was among those injured in London's St. James' Square, and died an hour after she was shot.
A "secret deal" was signed in 2006 to ease the negotiation of lucrative trade deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds with Libya, The Times Online daily reported on Sunday.
The deal, which ensures that the attacker will not be prosecuted on British soil, was signed between the Libyan government and Britain's former ambassador to Libya Anthony Layden.
The agreement was arranged with the approval of then foreign office secretary Jack Straw, who is now the UK Justice Secretary.
The British Foreign Office claimed that "the Fletcher family know all this and have not considered it to be a big issue."
This is while Fletcher's mother, Queenie, said she was shocked about the claim saying, "We were never told they'd agreed to this. No, never."
Yvonne's sister Heather said that the family was only informed that should any trial take place, it will be held in Libya.
The scandal is expected to infuriate critics, who have been opposing to the UK government's decision to release the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who was put on a private plane to Tripoli in August.
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Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has warned the chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam Mangal Bagh to lay down arms and renounce violence otherwise he would meet the same fate as other terrorists.
Spokesman Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Swat Muslim Khan and other commanders would be put on trial in accordance with the law, said the interior minister while talking to media men after meeting with a delegation led by President Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Fata Malik Waris Khan Afridi on Sunday.
The interior minister said that the dragnet around chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat Maulvi Fazalullah has really been tightened and he would not be able to escape. Muslim Khan has disclosed many things during interrogation, said Malik.
The interior minister went on to say the 'Zaliman' who used children for suicide bombings would be eliminated soon. He said that due to the insurgency in Fata, no development schemes had been carried out in the region during the last 10 years but steps were now being taken to eliminate terrorism so that development schemes could be initiated. Special zone for reconstruction in tribal areas would also be constituted, he said.
The interior minister appealed to the Khasadar personnel, who refused to perform their duties in Bara Tehsil after threats by Lashkar-e-Islam Chief Mangal Bagh, to come back to their duties.
He said that all political parties were taken into confidence before starting operation Rah-e-Rast and now it was clear that the nation and the political leadership of the country were united against anti state elements.--
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] NOWSHERA: Eight persons were injured in a clash between two religious groups in Cherat area of Pabbi teshil on Sunday.
Eyewitnesses said the supporters of 'Tablighis' and Tanzim Ahl-e-Sunnat clashed in Cherat area after a prayer leader did not allow a group of 'Tabligees' to enter the mosque. They said five persons were injured in the clash and were taken to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Pabbi.
The situation in the area was tense till filing of this report. Meanwhile, Deputy Superintendent of Police Pervez Khan told The News that the leaders of Tanzim Ahl-e-Sunnat, Pir Rehmat Kareem of Ismail Dhog, and leaders of Tablighi Jamaat were called to the police station to resolve the issue through talks.
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keep it up oh ye "Faithfull".
The more you kill the less we'll have to.
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Doctrinal disputes among Quakers can get quite heated.
[The News (Pak)] Former minister Sherry Rehman has slammed the torching of a church in Sambrial, Sialkot over an alleged desecration of the Holy Quran last week.
"The Sambrial incident is a cause of concern as we have another case where a crowd takes law into its hands on the basis of an unconfirmed incident, which, even if it had taken place, could have been addressed without resorting to violence," said Sherry Rehman. She said the state moved in its law and order apparatus on time to avert violence. She said attack on religious symbols and places of worship was a condemnable act but there was no reason to allow charged sentiments to turn into violence and create a law and order situation.
"We have a number of cases involving allegations of blasphemy on minority communities, where violence erupted on the basis of false rumours and unconfirmed reports of desecration of the Holy Quran. The Gojra attack last month followed a similar pattern and the tragic part of the incident is that the local communities ceded space to a terrorist group.
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Whoever does her eyelashes Can't see very well.
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Ma'an -- The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) would like to see the Egyptian proposal for Palestinian unity developed further, member of the party's politburo Saleh Zeidan said Sunday.
Are the the ones who are the Judean People's Front or the ones who are the People's Front of Judea?
In an unofficial response to the plan, released early last week, the DFLP leader said the Egyptian document should be drawn out in more detail. The leader expressed concerns over the suggestion of the Egyptians that a transition committee oversee the preparation of elections, saying that such a committee would have to legitimize both Hamas and Fatah. He noted the difficulties around such a feat, and said the party hoped the plan would become more detailed.
Like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which delivered their response earlier in the day, Zeidan said he was very much in favor of holding elections for the presidency and the legislative council on 25 January 2010 based on full proportional representation. The Egyptian proposal suggested a mixed elections system with 25% proportional and 75% constituency based, and also suggested pushing back the elections date to "the first half of 2010."
He further expressed concern over the re-assembly of joint security forces. The Egyptian plan put forward a scheme where the forces would be joined under the supervision of Egyptian and Arab forces. The DFLP said they worried that the newly rejoined forces would be too fragile to be effective, based on continued factional concerns and a weak control mechanism.
Zeidan noted that the DFLP would present an official and more detailed commentary on the report in the coming days.
Goody. Do they have enough votes to matter?
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Ma'an -- Palestinian police at the Allenby Bridge crossing arrested seven fugitives as they tried to leave the West Bank for Jordan. According to the police, the detainees are suspected of criminal conduct with respect to their finances, including fraud.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Tehran was ready to talk with world powers on global issues but not about its right to nuclear technology.
"We are ready to talk about international cooperation and resolving global economic and security problems as we believe that such issues cannot be resolved without everyone's participation," Ahmadinejad was quoted by Fars news agency as telling the new British ambassador to Tehran, Simon Gass.
" Having peaceful nuclear technology is Iran's lawful and definite right and Iranians will not negotiate with anyone over their undeniable rights "
Iranian President Ahmadinejad
But Ahmadinejad, who is to attend the U.N. General Assembly meeting later this month in New York, ruled out any talks on Iran's alleged nuclear program.
He also did not directly respond to the call by world powers for urgent talks with Tehran.
"Having peaceful nuclear technology is Iran's lawful and definite right and Iranians will not negotiate with anyone over their undeniable rights," he told Gass as the British envoy presented his credentials.
Turkey's foreign minister said during a visit to Tehran on Sunday his country would be prepared to host talks between Iran and the world powers, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported.
It said Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu made the offer in a meeting with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.
Turkey, a U.S. NATO ally which is also looking to expand economic and energy ties with neighboring Iran, earlier this year said it was trying to bridge U.S.-Iranian differences.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Despite recent meetings between the foreign ministers of Syria and Iraq, no steps have been taken in solving the problem of the ever growing population of Iraqi refugees in Syria, where the majority of refugees seem to be just fine.
In the wake of the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq thousands of refugees fled to neighboring Syria and many of them are concerned about their fate since relations between the two countries have soured after the Aug. 19 bombings, known as "Bloody Wednesday."
In the little town of Jermana, south of the capital of Damascus, the population doubled as refugees flooded in. Out of Jermana's 200,000 residents, 100,000 are Iraqi refugees, turning the area into a replica of an Iraqi city.
"I am worried about the current situation," a refugee told Al Arabiya. "However, I still feel secure in Syria."
Another refugee agreed and attributed this feeling of security to the fact that politics does not interfere with relations between people.
"Anything can happen between politicians," he told Al Arabiya. "But this is not reflected on the citizens of both countries."
Syria and Iraq restored their diplomatic relations in 2006 after almost three decades of frosty relations.
But the relations turned sour last month after a suicide bomber killed almost 100 people by blowing up a truck at a ministry. The attacker made a tape in which he claimed he was trained in Syria.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Business tycoon Salah Ezzedine, dubbed Lebanon's "Bernard Madoff" by local media over allegations he squandered more than one billion dollars of his clients' money, has been charged with embezzlement and fraud, state media reported Sunday.
Ezzedine's business partner, Yussef Faour, the deputy mayor of the southern village of Maaroub, was charged with the same offences on Saturday, the official National News Agency reported.
" He managed to win the trust of the Shiites of south Lebanon and handled a lot of their money "
Mohammed al-Duheini, mayor
Prominent Hezbollah MP Hussein Haj Hassan was among the investors according to the party, the Financial Times newspaper said.
Ezzedine turned himself in earlier this month after filing for bankruptcy. Faour was arrested days afterwards. Five others were also charged but are reportedly on the run.
Ezzedine is charged with creating a phony embezzlement scheme --- which officials have referred to as a Ponzi scheme -- that promised returns of up to 40 percent a year, prompting comparisons with Bernard Madoff. Ezzedine could face up to up to 15 years in prison
Acting financial prosecutor Fawzi Adham charged Ezzedine and a partner, Youssef Faour, with fraudulent embezzlement, issuing bad checks and violating the Lebanese monetary and loan laws. Ezzedine reportedly handled the investments of thousands of clients from Lebanon's Shiite community, many of whom eschew traditional banks that charge interest, which is forbidden in Islam. "He managed to win the trust of the Shiites of south Lebanon and handled a lot of their money," Toura mayor Mohammed al-Duheini told AFP earlier this month.
The Shiite Muslim from outside the southern city of Tyre is also the owner of Dar al-Hadi Publishing House, which has published books by senior Hezbollah officials, in the southern Beirut suburbs. Authorities have shut down the store, named after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's late son Hadi.
Born in 1962, the financier first went into business organizing pilgrimages to the Muslim holy places in Saudi Arabia.
While Ezzedine's own political beliefs remain unclear, Beirut newspapers have reported that many of his clients were members of Hezbollah. Nasrallah denied that Ezzedine had any ties to the party in a speech earlier this month, but reports say Hezbollah MP Hussein Hajj Hassan has filed a complaint over a bounced check signed by Ezzedine.
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Extremists tied to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon may have been behind the latest rocket attack from the south into Israel, a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon official said on Saturday. "My understanding is that they (the investigations) are focusing on the extremist groups that might be linked to the refugee camps," UNIFIL political adviser Milos Strugar told AFP.
At least two rockets fired from the village of Al-Qlaileh in southern Lebanon slammed into Israel on Friday, triggering retaliatory artillery fire.
Israel said on Saturday it had lodged a complaint with the United Nations. Strugar said that UNIFIL immediately launched an investigation into the incident, in coordination with the Lebanese army. "The investigation in this regard is in the hands of the Lebanese authorities, primarily the army, but my understanding is that there are some indications pointing in the direction of some extremist groups and I understand also that the investigation is focusing on these extremist groups," he said. He would not give further details.
Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps are considered fertile breeding grounds for extremism. The army does not generally enter the camps, leaving responsibility for security to Palestinian factions instead.
"The investigation is ongoing, so to talk about the details could be counter-productive," Strugar said. "The most important issue is to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice."
No casualties were reported on either side in Friday's incident.
The Lebanese army said the village of Al-Qlaileh was hit in the retaliatory bombardment and ambulances were rushed from the port city of Tyre, nine kilometres (five miles) away.
On Saturday UN peacekeepers were monitoring the border, where the situation was reported "calm," UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane told AFP.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Lieutenant James Adamson was awarded the Military Cross after killing two insurgents during close quarter combat in Helmand's notorious "Green Zone". 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Britain's Foreign Office has 'secretly' bowed down to Libyan pressure, sparing the life of a Libyan who had shot dead a British policewoman 25 years ago. 
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has warned the chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Islam Mangal Bagh to lay down arms and renounce violence otherwise he would meet the same fate as other terrorists.
[The News (Pak)] Former minister Sherry Rehman has slammed the torching of a church in Sambrial, Sialkot over an alleged desecration of the Holy Quran last week.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Tehran was ready to talk with world powers on global issues but not about its right to nuclear technology. 
