Some of the Afghan Senators are concerned over the capture of Barg-e- Matal, an eastern district, by Taliban insurgents.
"Today, they themselves provide arms for the enemy. The government itself paved the way for the enemy to capture districts and eventually provinces," said an Afghan Senator in the Lower House, Gulalai Akbari.
"The captured Barg-e-Matal district will not only make Nuristan vulnerable, but all the surroundings as well," said an Afghan Senator, Dr. Hazrat Shah Nuristani.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior Affairs said that police forces retreated from the Barg-e-Matal district to avoid military and civilian deaths.
"It was not just ammunition that caused police forces to evacuate the Barg-e-Matal district. Highlands on the other side were under direct influence of the enemy, and they were infiltrated from the other side of the border," said a spokesman for the MOI, Zemarai Bashari.
The remarks come as the US commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, said that a resolution of this problem will take time, and that bringing security to Nuristan province is part of their plan.
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[Maghrebia] Twelve Mauritanian human rights organisations issued a statement on Sunday (May 30th) urging the government to abolish the death penalty, ANI reported. The letter from the Mauritanian National Forum of Human Rights Organisations (FONADH) came in response to the death penalties issued last week by a Nouakchott court against three men convicted for the 2007 French tourist family slaying near Aleg.
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Mexican naval intelligence elements arrested a presumed accountant and three associates for Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, "the Lazca", leader of the criminal organization "the Zs, according to Mexican news reports.
Mexican officials also a PS90 submachine gun, an AK-47, two 9mm pistols, 411 cartridges, 12 magazines and one fragmentary grenade, as well as two money counting machines, an identification making machine, and four suitcases with around $380,000 and more than 3,400,000 pesos. Authorities also seized three vehicles
Seoul and Washington are expected to conduct a joint anti-submarine exercise on June 8, way ahead of their original schedule, as a response to the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan in March. The exercise had previously been scheduled for late June or early July.
South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command on Tuesday said the two countries agreed to stage a massive joint anti-submarine exercise in the West Sea from June 8 until 11.
Participating in the exercise will be the USS George Washington, a 97,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Seventh U.S. Fleet, seven to eight Aegis cruisers and destroyers, and nuclear-powered submarines.
The joint exercise is intended to send a warning to North Korea, a source said. It is also aimed at preventing further provocations from North Korea, which has made a series of threats over any punitive moves by the South including resumption of psychological warfare. The drill is to take place between the Taean Peninsula and Baeknyeong Island, with vessels traveling only up to waters near Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, for fear of possible protest from China.
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[Kyodo: Korea] North Korea criticized the government of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Monday for ""yielding to U.S. pressure"" over his decision to relocate a U.S. Marine base within Okinawa Prefecture. ""The Hatoyama administration has no independent political initiatives, yielded to U.S. pressure and decided to implement an existing relocation plan on Futenma almost as it is,"" the Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of the Workers" Party of Korea, said in a commentary.
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If I were Japanese, I'd think about moving this base to the mainland about now.
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If the Norks are 'blasting' the move, then it must be a good decision!
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ION WMF > WILL THE DPRK'S KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY SUFFER THE SAME TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY-LED CATASTROPHIC MIL DEFEATS THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN'S FORCES SUFFERED AGZ THE US, UNO DURING DESERT SHIELD + IRAQI FREEDOM?
* SAME > THE RUSSIAN MOUNTAN CANNOT ACCOMODATE THE TWO DUELING TIGERS OF CHINA + USA.
* SAME > CONTAINMENT AND COUNTER-CONTAINMENT: CHINA MUST SPEED UP THE BUILDING OF ITS TWO-FRONT PACIFIC FLEET [PLAN Second Fleet> Pacific + Indian Oceans]. REALIST OPTIONS FOR THE PLA-LED MIL OCCUPATION OF GUAM + HAWAII, SOUTH KOREA + JAPAN, ETC. VITAL ASIA-PACIFIC ISLANDS + REGIONS TO DEFEAT THE US IN SURPRISE ATTACK LIKE JAPAN DID IN 1941. CONVERSION BY CHINA OF THE THREE "ISLAND CHAINS" INTO "WEAK/FALSE SHELL" [Weak Iron-War Turtles] FORWARD DEFENSES FOR THE US IN FAVOR OF CHINA.
* SAME > THE HIDDEN STRATEGIC INTENTIONS OF JAPAN AGZ CHINA IN EAST CHINA SEA + NORTHEAST ASIA AS PER THE "CHEONAN" KOREAS MIL CRISIS + "THREE ISLANDS" DISPUTE [Okinotorishima + Yonaguni + Daoyus/Senkakus].
ARTIC > IIUC, JAPAN =
To wit,
* To conquer ASIA + WORLD = must first conquer CHINA.
* To conquer CHINA, Japan must conquer MONGOLIA + MANCHURIA.
* To conquer MONGOLIA + MANCHURIA, Japan must conquer KOREAS, TAIWAN, + SAKHALIN.
* SAME > CHINA NEED NOT FEAR CONVENTIONAL OR NUCLEAR WAR [Land-Air-Sea-Space]AGZ THE US, RUSSIA, JAPAN + NATO AS LONG IT KEEPS A MODERN ECONOMY + KEEPS PLA FORCE LEVELS IN THE SEVERAL MILYUHNS.
SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is still waiting for China to accept a request to send its own investigation team to verify the results of a multinational investigation that held North Korea accountable for the March sinking of a South Korea naval vessel, Seoul officials said Tuesday.
Russia has dispatched a team of experts to review the May 20 report by South Korea, the U.S., Sweden, and Australia which found that a North Korean submarine torpedoed the 1,200-ton corvette near the western sea border between the two Koreas. Forty-six sailors were killed.
Last week, South Korea provided China with detailed data on its findings and proposed an on-site inspection by Chinese experts. A South Korean newspaper reported earlier Tuesday that China has rejected the offer, but South Korean government officials said they have not received any formal response from Beijing.
"China has not given an answer yet," a senior official said, requesting anonymity, adding the government does not rule out the possibility that China will respond positively, though belatedly.
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SEOUL, June 1 (Yonhap) -- Restricting cash inflow into North Korea is one of the most effective ways to punish the communist nation for sinking a South Korean warship and to prevent similar provocations, South Korea's foreign minister said.
"If cash inflow into North Korea is restricted, I think it will lower the possibility of nuclear weapons development and deter belligerent behavior," Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan said in an interview with British broadcaster BBC aired Tuesday morning.
Yu said using military force is the last resort in responding to the sinking that killed 46 sailors.
After a multinational team of investigators found the North responsible for the sinking of the warship Cheonan, South Korea took a series of punitive measures against the North, including halting trade with the impoverished neighbor and banning North Korean commercial ships from using South Korean waters as a shortcut. These measures are expected to hit the North's tattered economy hard, leaving the communist neighbor with an estimated annual loss of about US$260-$300 million in trade, lost jobs and increased shipping costs, a senior South Korean official said Monday on condition of anonymity.
South Korea has also been preparing to bring the case to the U.N. Security Council. Second Vice Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo has arrived in Washington for discussions on a U.N. referral on a trip that will also take him to the U.N. headquarters in New York. Officials have said that Seoul will determine the exact timing of a referral after these discussions.
"North Korean provocations should be dealt with through international cooperation," Yu said. "We will hold North Korea accountable for its wrongdoing through all peaceful means and let it know that provocations come with a price."
Chinese backing is crucial to any U.N. Security Council action because the country is a veto-wielding permanent Council member. But Beijing, considered Pyongyang's last-remaining major ally, has taken a vague stance on the issue, repeatedly stressing peace and stability on the divided peninsula without blaming the North.
"As long as China said it considers this incident grave and won't defend anyone responsible, I expect it to play a responsible role," Yu said.
South Korea's plan to engage the Security Council could suffer a delay due to Israel's deadly commando raid Monday on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. The Council convened an emergency session to discuss the case.
"It's difficult to say there will be no impact," a foreign ministry official said. "But the two cases are basically separate and I don't think there will be any big impact."
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Don't forget the counterfeit cash outflow, including redesigned bills that all say Kimmie's legs don't reach the ground.
The North Korean agency supervising the joint Kaesong Industrial Complex seems determined to maintain the industrial park although tensions on the peninsula are running high. The General Bureau for Central Guidance to the Development of the Special Zone was quoted by the Unification Ministry on Monday as saying it will "continue efforts to build the Kaesong complex" and is banning South Korean firms from removing registered equipment.
According to the ministry, an official with the bureau on Sunday told a staffer of South Korea's Kaesong Industrial Complex Management Committee about this.
The agency set tough conditions for the removal of equipment, saying it can be moved only after a review by the tax office in the industrial park.
All debts including wages must be paid off, rental equipment can be removed after relevant documents are verified, and no North Korean workers can be laid off temporarily due to the removal of equipment.
The bureau said it is Seoul that by curtailing South Korean staff at the Kaesong Complex last week is preparing to close it and should take the responsibility if it shuts.
A South Korean security official speculated that the bureau, which is responsible for the livelihood of about 43,000 North Korean workers at the industrial park, is trying to maintain the industrial park by making it difficult to remove equipment. But he added it is difficult to predict what fate awaits the industrial park "because leaders in Pyongyang and North Korean military brass may think differently."
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Screw it. Walk away. It's truly not worth the trouble.
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Kaesong was a genuine effort to help the North by the South. The South will now walk away from it. Hopefully they will get all their people out first.
Why does anyone in Greece besides the Muslims care? Even then, why should the government care? Are they trying to divert attention from their banruptcy troubles, or are they worried about Muslims making problems?
[Xinhua] Greece suspended a scheduled visit by Israel's air force commander to Athens on Monday, following a deadly Israeli military operation against a flotilla transporting humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, Greece canceled an ongoing joint air exercise with Israel, code-named "Minoas 2010," the Greek Ministry of Defense announced on Monday. The exercise started on May 25 and was due to run through June 3.
Earlier, Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas had summoned Israeli Ambassador to Greece Ali Yahia to formally complain and ask to be informed on the situation of the 34 Greek nationals who participate in the humanitarian mission. The mission was organized by European and American activists with a Turkish humanitarian organization.
One Greek citizen, along with dozens of others, were reportedly injured while up to 20 people were killed, according to the latest information, when Israeli forces stormed the ships which had departed from international waters off Cyprus coast on Sunday.
Protests are scheduled later on Monday by Greek activists, unionists and citizens outside the Israeli embassy in Athens which is guarded with increased police forces. A similar rally will be held in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki the same day and another one is planned on Tuesday in Athens.
"It is Greece's longstanding position that any activities undertaken by non-governmental organizations must go unhindered, under the obvious condition that said activities are legal, said a statement released by the Greek Foreign Ministry on Monday morning.
Egypt declared it was temporarily opening a crossing into the Gaza Strip after a raid on an aid flotilla that ended with Israeli soldiers killing civilians and pro-Palestinian activists sent another boat on Tuesday to challenge Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory.
The raid provoked ferocious international condemnation of Israel, raised questions at home, and appeared likely to increase pressure to end the blockade that has deepened the poverty of the 1.5 million Palestinians in the strip. Turkey, which unofficially supported the flotilla, has led the criticism, calling the Israeli raid a "bloody massacre."
Two Turkish activists were reported to be among those killed in the flotilla. Ankara warned that further supply vessels will be sent to Gaza, escorted by the Turkish Navy, a development with unpredictable consequences.
Israel has sounded an alert throughout the country fearing rocket attacks by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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@ #1 - my sentiments exactly!
The Israelis should start arming the Kurds to the teeth.
Then the Turks might just understand the situation a little bit better.
Also.. I look for the Turkish military become interested in the direction their country is going in.
Many Turks are deeply concerned about the radical shift their country is going in.
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If Israel is smart, they will just board the cargo ships and let the Turkish navy just sit there. If Turkey opens up, it is an act of war. Then sink the fuckers.
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Mike Hunt is on the right track...Turkey is swaying away from NATO and the West and looking for an excuse to snuggle up against Iran. One small step for man and one giant step for medieval kind.
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I don't think they realise that sending the Rachael Corrie will ensure it won't be coming back.
The Israelis will impound the ship, and probably either scrap or sell it (Depending on condition, Civilians are lousy Maintainers of machinery)
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a development with unpredictable consequences.
Actually, not so "unpredictable".....
June 1, 2010: Israel is stationing three of its five Dolphin class submarines in the Red Sea, and will keep one of them operating off the Iranian coast at all times. These subs will be armed with cruise missiles (equipped with nuclear warheads).
That's three of five. Do you feel lucky.... Turkey?
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Possibly Israel will target the engines of future 'civilian' Gaza based boats rather than board them.
Then the Turkish ships won't be attacked.
The Turkish ships could then do tow duty but that would be somewhat demeaning for them.
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But I thought the world was going to love us once the smartest administration in the world took office. Everything was supposed to be peaceful and peaches and cream. Why did everything turn to $hit? Well there is always the blame game to fall back on.
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"These are two core allies of the US, preparing to go to war with each other."
Uh, lex, Turkey showed us what kind of an "ally" they are at the start of Gulf War II. With friend like that, who needs friends?
As for Israel, they've listened to our CinC and pretty much figured out HE isn't an ally of theirs, no matter what the normal people of our country think. >:-(
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Barbara, Turkey, a NATO ally, considers itself to have been attacked. IIUC, Article V of the treaty obligates us to come to Turkey's aid in such an instance.
Either NATO's Article V is dead letter, or we will be violating a contractual treaty obligation. Wonder how Barry's going to try to dodge this one.
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Lex, the Dems are already anti-Semitic er, anti-Zionist enough as it is--don't give them any ideas.
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lex, zero sides with the muslims - he said it himself. He'll use the NATO agreement as an excuse to provide no support to Israel in a conflict with Turkey.
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"Turkey, a NATO ally, considers itself to have been attacked."
Some of their dumber terrorists citizens attacked the Israelis. Neither Turkey itself, nor its military, was attacked.
I consider the U.S. attacked each time an American is murdered by terrorists overseas, but I don't see Turkey going to war with the countries those clowns come from, or even giving a rat's ass. Nor did they give us the help they were supposed to (and originally said they would) in Gulf War II.
I realize we're supposed to follow the rules, while nobody else has to, but I'm sick of it. Turkey can go to hell. (And their military needs to re-read their constitution - again.)
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lex, zero sides with the muslims - he said it himself. He'll use the NATO agreement as an excuse to provide no support to Israel in a conflict with Turkey.
Pretty hard to avoid that conclusion, isn't it? How utterly bizarre.
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Erdogan could see himself escorted right out of office by his own military if he keeps this up. I don't think they want to get into a shooting war with Israel. Erdogan has been pulling his country farther and farther into the islamist sphere and away from the secular tradition that the military supports, or at least has in the past. This is political bluster and nothing more.
Disproportionate? I thought Sarkozy was supposed to be conservative. Israel should have gone in there with five-inch guns in their face. That would have been appropriately disproportionate enough that force would not have been necessary.
PARIS - FRANCE'S President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday accused Israel of a 'disproportionate use of force' in its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Sarkozy and for that matter the rest of the world don't know $hit, yet they are already making pronouncements about how Israel was in the wrong. I always expect it, but it never fails to amaze me how world leaders react even more cluelessly than the time before. Sit down and shut up until a couple of facts roll across your desk. Get on the internet and check out the videos that the Israelis and the embedded Al-Jizz reporters have posted. And stop saying things that you are going to end up having to eat along with a generous portion of crow in a few days because people figure it out.
Mr Sarkozy 'condemns the disproportionate use of force and sends his condolences to the families of the victims,' the Elysee presidential palace said in a statement. 'All light must be shed on the circumstances of this tragedy which underlines how urgent it is to relaunch the peace process.' Here's all the light you need: The flotilla was in Israeli waters when it was told to either go home or direct itself to Ashdod or risk confrontation. The flotilla chose the latter and got what they asked for. Done. These are Israeli waters, and the convoy could have been hauling weapons like last time. What's so hard? Is there some sovereignty issue that I don't understand here? Had they been sincere, they would have directed their convoy to Ashdod where the Israelis indicated they would forward all allowed humanitarian aid directly to Gaza under the activists' supervision.
Israeli naval forces stormed six ships bound for besieged Gaza with thousands of tonnes of aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists aboard. Up to 19 of the passengers were killed, according to Israeli media. Yeah, many of them were supposedly sleeping. On the upper deck. In the middle of a melee. Where the principal weapon of the combatant passengers were not feather pillows.
France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he was 'deeply shocked' by the Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla and insisted 'nothing can justify the use of such violence.' 'We do not understand the still provisional human toll of such an operation against a humanitarian initiative that had been known about for several days,' he said. I am even more deeply shocked that these a-holes think they are above the law. Can I go invade any foreign country I choose by simply plastering a banner that says "Get out of my way because I am a humanitarian aid flotilla" on the front of my boat?
An association of Jewish groups in France, CRIF, said it 'deeply deplored' the killings and warned that they threatened the prospects for a resumption of Middle East peace talks. 'It happened at a moment when there were hopes for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. It is not good news for peace,' one of the leaders of CRIF, Haim Musicant, told AFP. Middle East peace talks are a fantasy.
Mr Kouchner reiterated his stance that the Israeli blockade of Gaza should be lifted. According to this article, that blockade doesn't exist or is unenforceable. So why do we even have a word for it?
'The current situation in Gaza is not tenable,' he said in his statement. 'We will take all necessary measures to prevent this tragedy from leading to a new escalation in violence.' Looks like everyone imaginable is trying make it seem like blockades are illegal. I sure hope they never try to throw a blockade on anyone in the future ever again.
-- AFP
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If I were sarcozy I would stop making statement about somthing he does not have a clue about and instead start worrying about the end of the Republic which will happen when the Islamic fifth colum destroys France from within and Iran completes the job by nuking Paris with bombs manufactured with equipment sold to them by French Hi Tech companies.
Just my 2 cents
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It was proportionate. The 'humanitarians' used iron pipes to attack the Israelis and the Israelis responded with their own iron pipes of generally similar size. They didn't use their much bigger (5" ID) iron pipes.
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When the next regional war starts, Israel needs to hold back one nuclear weapon to be used on Brussels, the home of most of the enticement for radical muslims. Israel has the delivery capability - they use their own equipment to launch the satellites they have in orbit. It would be wise for Europe to remember that they're not the only ones with nukes AND THE MEANS TO DELIVER THEM. It would be very wise for Europe to make friends with Israel, in light of the progress the Mad Mullahs are making toward their own nuclear capabilities.
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If they save one for Brussels maybe they can save on for mecca too.
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I think they're definitely saving one for Mecca, Hellfish.
And I'll bet they've let the Saudis know it, too. :-D
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Question - the map I saw here on BBC shows the interception taking place outside of the Israeli territorial waters. If I recall my International Law correctly, they can only control what happens in the 22km from the country. The exclusive economic zone goes out further.
So do any of you have a different map? Because I'm fairly sure that I recall that a State did not have that type of control in the economic zone. If that isn't correct, please let me know.
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Question - the map I saw here on BBC shows the interception taking place outside of the Israeli territorial waters. If I recall my International Law correctly, they can only control what happens in the 22km from the country. The exclusive economic zone goes out further.
So do any of you have a different map? Because I'm fairly sure that I recall that a State did not have that type of control in the economic zone. If that isn't correct, please let me know.
FAIL
International Law 101: You don't have to wait inside your zone to interdict a hostile force or to enforce a blockade.
You also have the right to self defense on the high seas, even if you are presumably better armed than your opponents.
Disproportionate response is only possible if one side is disarmed. Neither side was.
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Thanks badanov. It has been a few years since I was in that class and I have no idea where my books are. I figured someone here would know. I still think that I recall some cases that claimed differently, but I am not sure of the names anymore.
[Dawn] Pakistan on Monday expressing concern on attack of Gaza-bound aid ships in international waters demanded the world community to take serious notice of this uncalled for incident.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi talking to newsmen at the Benazir International Airport this afternoon said, "Pakistan has strongly protested the incident."
Foreign Minister asked the Secretary General OIC to convene emergency meeting of the OIC to discuss the issue with consultation and consensus with other members.
He said United Nations should also take immediate action on this incident. He said there was no moral and legal justification of this attack and it was also violation of international borders because the "Freedom Flotilla" carrying relief goods was attacked in the open sea.
He said Pakistan is also using all possible means to get information about the well being of the Pakistani journalists present in the Freedom Flotilla.
The Foreign Minister said he had talked to American Ambassador Anne Patterson by telephone to use her influence and diplomatic sources to get the latest information about the status of Pakistani journalists as Pakistan has not direct diplomatic links with Israel.
The "Freedom Flotilla" comprising six ships was forcefully stopped from reaching the Gaza Strip in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
The convoy includes the "Mavi Marmara," a large Turkish-flagged passenger vessel with about 600 people on board, two cargo ships and three other boats.
Two other boats are also Turkish-flagged, while another two are Greek and one more was from the United States. More than 700 people, most of them from international non-governmental organizations, people of various nationalities, religions and from all walks of life including three journalists from Pakistan were on board.
He said Pakistan has great concern about the media persons including Talat Hussain, representative of a private Pakistani television channel.
The Foreign Minister said he had talked to the wife of Talat Hussain to satisfy her that government of Pakistan is doing whatever is possible for the release of Talat Hussain and his colleagues.
Qureshi said, "Our embassy in Ankara, Cairo and Oman and other missions in EU have also been motivated to get information.
The Foreign Minister said first and top priority before the Pakistan government is to influence international community to condemn the issue and provide medical treatment to the injured there and avoid more aggression.
The Minister said he also talked to Pakistan's ambassador in Ankara and Cairo to get the latest information on this incident and informed about their status and also made efforts for their release.
"It is very serious issue, about 630 activists from 40 countries of the world were on board on Freedom Flotilla to provide human assistance to the Palestinian who were suffering from food and water," said the Foreign Minister.
He said there were eight ships in the Freedom Flotilla, from different countries including UK, Greece, which had been affected due this incident.
The Minister said the incident needs international attention. Replying to a question, he said Pakistan is in touch with Arab League, which has summoned its emergency meeting to take up the issue of attack by Israel on Freedom Flotilla.
Qureshi said he also tried to contact Foreign Minister of Turkey, but he is on board and could not talk to him. He said he will contact the Turkish Foreign Minister later this evening.
Replying to a question, he said, immediate priority before the Pakistan government is to recover the Pakistani media persons.
He said, "Our ambassador in Ankara is in touch with Turkish government."
He said neither Pakistan nor the international community is able to contact with the people who were on board Freedom Flotilla as there is no telephonic connection is available.
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So is Pakiwakiland going to announce the capture of Binny? His sidekick Z-Man? Turn over Khan for questioning by the USA?
No?
Then they should just shut the fuck up!
[Al Arabiya Latest] Israel's storming of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla set off a diplomatic furor, drawing criticism from friends and foes alike and straining ties with regional ally Turkey, which called off planned joint military exercises.
The United Nations Security Council called an emergency session for later on Monday following the killing of 10 of the mostly international activists aboard a six-ship convoy that tried to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.
Washington said it deeply regretted the loss of life and was examining the circumstances that led to the bloodshed while Turkey, Israel's strongest Muslim friend in the region, summoned the Jewish state's ambassador and said it would recall its own.
"This attack is another sign of the reckless levels that the Israeli government's violent policies have reached," Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said in a televised speech.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled plans to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday, an Israeli statement said, in the wake of the raid.
"Netanyahu decided to cut short his visit to Canada and return to Israel early," the statement said. Netanyahu has been in Canada since Friday for talks with government leaders.
Israeli commandos intercepted the flotilla carrying 700 people and 10,000 tons of supplies for Gaza before dawn on Monday. Officials said they were met with knives when they boarded the ships, including a ferry flying the Turkish flag.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described the killings as a massacre, and the United Nations and European Union both demanded an inquiry. Rights group Amnesty International said Israeli forces appeared to have used excessive force.
Turkey, which had urged Israel to allow the ships safe passage, cancelled three planned joint military exercises with Israel, and Ankara said Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan would cut short an official visit to Latin America to return home.
"Israel will have to endure the consequences of this behaviour," Turkey's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Television images from Ankara, whose ties with Israel had already soured somewhat since last year following Turkish criticism of Israel, showed dozens of people gathered outside Israeli Ambassador Gabby Levy's residence in Turkey's capital.
France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the violence could not be justified. "I am profoundly shocked by the tragic consequences of the Israeli military operation against the Peace Flotilla for Gaza," he said in a statement.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said: "It is vital that there is a full investigation to determine exactly how this bloodshed took place. I believe Israel must urgently provide a full explanation."
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The crazy Turks cited that they searches the vessel before it left Turkey and it did not contain weapons: 1) I double it was searched 2) clubs and small arms are not hard to hide 3) Gee, aren't there several hundred miles between Israel and Turkey where weapons could have made it on?
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that would make Turkey...f*cking liars
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With regard to the weapons that Turkey didn't find, I imagine AK-47s, morters, small nuclear devices... that kind of thing.
Question for Rantburg's sailors: could a legitimate argument be made that the weapons seen in the video are the kind of thing normally found on a ship of that size? If yes, would they normally be found in that quantity?
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It would seem to me that with a passeger ship capable of holding 600 or so passengers that this would be normal, but I am just guessing. People need to cook and fix things. What are bothersome to me are that scimitar knife and the muslim terrorist banner looking thingy. Who knows, since I don't read arabic it could just be a blood drive sign, but I doubt it. I'd like to know what the excuse is for all the wooden dowels. They don't look like closet rods to me.
Now if all those items were found up on the main deck at the same time, I'd call foul.
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Didn't realize slingshot had overcome shuffleboard for boating activities.
The knives, except for the 2 black handles in foreground, are all different designs. Usually a production kitchen has all the same type/manufacturer of knife et al utinsils.
Quite a few axe handles. Nevermind the banner, can anyone make out the engraving at 0:35 black pipe?
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Question for Rantburg's sailors: could a legitimate argument be made that the weapons seen in the video are the kind of thing normally found on a ship of that size? If yes, would they normally be found in that quantity?
The ship's captain could say they had played nine innings of baseball on the main deck every Sunday night and the Arabs will believe it because they want to in this case.
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Ok, the new entry link to the IDF has a better picture, and there are some similar looking knives like in a set - also lot of pocket and/or concealable.
That engraving, I cannot make it out, but it looks to me like someone found a metal rod and designed it meaning not something just grabbed in the heat of the moment.
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The thing that looks like a metal rod with a knife style handle is called a "Butchers Steel" it's a very hard grooved metal rod used to sharpen the cook's knives as he works.
Knives that hit a bone dull instantly, it's similar to a whetstone, but instead of removing the knive's metal instead smooths it back into a razor's edge.
no butcher worth his salt would be without one.
While it's properly not a weapon, it would naturaly be with the Knives, you could stab with it, I think someone didn't know what it was and put it with the weapons to be photographed.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has stated explicitly that the Palestinian Islamist group will end its armed struggle against Israel if the Jewish state withdraws from Palestinian land it occupied in the 1967 Middle East War.
Hamas, which refuses to recognize Israel, has long maintained that it will enter into a long-term truce if Israel pulls out of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and agrees to a right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees.
Speaking on the Charlie Rose program on U.S. PBS television, Meshaal directly addressed the issue of armed resistance, which is the basis of its ideology as a national liberation movement.
"Israel started (the conflict) by the occupation so the resistance is a reaction. The action is the occupation, and the reaction from the Palestinians is that it ends," Meshaal said, in an interview taped on Thursday, according to a transcript released by PBS.
"So when the occupation comes to an end, the resistance will end, as simple as that. If Israel would go to the 1967 borders ... that will be the end of the Palestinian resistance."
Meshaal said if a "Palestinian state with real sovereignty" were established under the conditions he set out, then the nature of any subsequent ties with Israel would be decided democratically by the Palestinians.
Hamas has ruled Gaza since it won a brief civil war in 2007 against supporters of Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's more secular Fatah faction, creating a schism that has undermined the Palestinian cause.
Hamas opposes the indirect peace talks started last month between the Palestinian Authority headed by Abbas and Israel, saying Abbas will compromise on national rights.
The movement had said it could live peacefully alongside Israel if a two-state solution was reached in which all occupied Palestinian land was returned, even though its 1988 founding charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state in all of pre-1948 British-mandate Palestine.
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The last thing we can afford is a "sovereign" Hamas state with the Ayyatollah's from Tehran running it by remote contol.
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Meshaal is obviously not a student of history.
Fourteen fundamental facts about Israel and Palestine.
By David G. Littman
It's time to look back on 14 fundamental geographical, historical, and diplomatic facts from the last century relating to the Middle East. These basic facts and figures were stressed in recent statements to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and its subcommission, to the surprise of representatives of both states and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
1) After World War I Great Britain accepted the 1922 Mandate for Palestine, and then with League of Nations approval used its article 25 to create two distinct entities within the Mandate-designated area.
2) The territory lying between the Jordan River and the eastern desert boundary "of that part of Palestine which was known as Trans-Jordan" (nearly 78 percent) thus became the Emirate of Transjordan. This new entity was put under the rule of Emir Abdullah, the eldest son of the Sharif of Mecca, as a recompense for his support in the war against the Turks, and of Ibn Saud's seizure of Arabia (Faisal, Abdullah's brother, later received the even vaster Mandate area of Iraq).
3) Turning a blind eye to article 15, Great Britain also decided that no Jews could reside or buy land in the newly created Emirate. This policy was ratified after the emirate became a kingdom by Jordan's law no. 6, sect. 3, on April 3, 1954, and reactivated in law no. 7, sect. 2, on April 1, 1963. It states that any person may become a citizen of Jordan unless he is a Jew. King Hussein made peace with Israel in 1994, but the Judenrein legislation remains valid today.
4) The remaining area west of the Jordan River (comprising about 22 percent of the original Mandate) was then officially designated "Palestine" by Great Britain. As stated in the 1937 Royal Commission Report, "the primary purpose of the Mandate, as expressed in its preamble and its articles, is to promote the establishment of the Jewish National Home." This was now greatly restricted.
5) U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 (November 29, 1947) authorized a Partition Plan in this area: for an Arab and a Jewish state and for a corpus separatum for Jerusalem. The plan was rejected by both the Arab League and the Arab-Palestinian leadership. Aided and abetted by the neighboring Arab countries, local armed Arab Palestinian forces immediately began attacking Jews, who counterattacked. On May 15, 1948, the armies of five Arab League states joined these militias in the invasion of Israel, but their armies failed in their goal of eradicating the fledgling state.
6) The armistice boundaries (1949-1967) left Israel with roughly 16.5 percent, or 8,000 sq. miles, of the original 1922 Mandate area (about 48,000 sq. miles), while about five percent less Gaza, which was occupied by the Egyptians was conquered and occupied in 1948 by British General Glubb Pasha, the commander of Abdullah's Arab Legion. The historic regions of "Judea and Samaria" their official names as indicated on all British mandate maps until 1948 were annexed and became the "West Bank" of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 1950. All the Jews were expelled from the area and from the Old City of Jerusalem; their synagogues, and even tombstones on the Mount of Olives, were destroyed.
7) Until King Hussein attacked Israel on June 6, 1967, Jordan's recognized de facto boundaries covered 83 percent of Palestine (78 percent east of the Jordan river, and five percent to the west). Following its military defeat in the Six Day War, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan lost the "West Bank," which it had illegally annexed 19 years earlier, retaining the huge "Transjordan" portion (78 percent) of the original League of Nations territory.
8) Of Jordan's current population of five million, about two-thirds (over three million) consider themselves "Arab Palestinians." They are the descendants either of the original Arab Palestinian inhabitants of the Trans-Jordan region, or of roughly 550,000 Arab refugees from west Palestine who lost their homes after the Arab League armies failed to eradicate Israel first in 1948, and again in 1967. Nearly two million Jordanian Bedouin citizens and others do not identify themselves as Palestinians.
9) After the 1967 disaster, an Arab League Summit Conference held in Khartoum that November reacted negatively to U.N. Security Council Resolution 247: "No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no concessions on the questions of Palestinian national rights." This was also the determined position of the PLO. Apart from Egypt's 1981 peace treaty with Israel, there was little change, for the next two decades, in this refusal to negotiate according to U.N. Resolution 242.
10) In those "West Bank and Gaza" areas, designated by the Oslo Accords of 1994 to be placed under the administration of the Palestinian Authority (covering about 5.5 percent of the "Greater Palestine" area on both sides of the Jordan), there is now a population of over 3,200,000, of whom about 35,000 are Christians, but none are Jews.
11) The population of the Jewish state a state envisaged in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate, and confirmed by the U.N.'s 1947 decision is now roughly 6,500,000, of whom roughly 20 percent are Arabs (120,000 Christians), Druze, and Bedouin citizens of Israel. Of the more than five million Jewish citizens, about one-half are those Jewish refugees from Arab countries, and their descendants, who fled or left their ancient homeland when massacres, arrests, and ostracism made life impossible (a further 300,000 emigrated to Europe and the Americas, where they number over a million).
12) Today, a tiny, vulnerable Jewish remnant scarcely 5,000 persons remains in all the Arab world, less than half of one percent from the near million who were there in 1948 (this does not include the 50,000 in Turkey and Iran, left of about 200,000 in 1945). These are the forgotten Jewish refugees from Arab lands, from countries that will soon be totally judenrein just as Jordan has been since 1922.
13) The 22 Arab League countries cover a global surface of over six million square miles, over ten percent of the land surface on earth. Israel, by contrast, covers barely 8,000 sq. miles.
14) Security Council Resolution 242 has now become the panacea for Arab states, yet their interpretation of its key operative paragraph does not correspond to the English original, which version alone is binding. In March 2002, a Saudi "peace plan" was approved by the Arab League in Beirut, but behind it lurks the former 1981 "Fahd Plan" with a facelift that would leave Israel with impossible borders. After the Iraqi menace has been resolved one way or another, what is needed for the "Middle East peace process" is a concerted effort to support the Mitchell plan, which could one day lead to true peace and reconciliation for the whole region. But the Palestinian Authority will only become a genuine partner with Israel, alongside Jordan and Egypt, if there is a radical break with the past, and a new spirit of mutual acceptance prevails between the Arab world and Israel with individual and collective security and dignity for all. This will only be feasible if democratic institutions and a respect for human rights and the rule of law become the norm, as they now are not. And it will only be feasible if the Arab world recognizes the inalienable legitimacy of Israel's existence in a part of its historical land.
David G. Littman is a historian. Since 1986, he has been active on human-rights issues at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. His recent statements on this subject were made as a representative of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, a nongovernmental organization.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco has called on Israel to end its "unacceptable" blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Fernandez-Taranco, who was speaking at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, said that Israel's Monday attack on peace activists on a flotilla of ships off the coast of Gaza would not have happened without the blockade.
He was speaking in proxy for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, DPA reported.
The UN official also called for a thorough investigation into the Israeli military assault on the ships.
Fernandez-Taranco stated that the incident happened when all efforts should be focusing on confidence-building and on promoting talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
The UN Security Council started an emergency meeting on Monday after Turkey called for a meeting on the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla.
The Israeli navy attacked the Freedom Flotilla, which was carrying humanitarian assistance to Gaza, in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea early on Monday, killing at least 20 people on board the six ships, mostly Turkish nationals.
About 50 others were injured, according to Palestinian sources.
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Just trying to seem relevant, that's all. No connection to reality, as usual.
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If ever there was a bigger fraud than the UN, I'd like to see it. I'm really interested to know the opinion of the Togo UN Rep on the Israeli or any matter (Sarc button off, now).
I don't know much Israeli slang but the verb 'to bite' is le neshech (where the 'le' means 'to').
in the Hebrew bible, the word neshech is translated as 'usury' or 'interest'.
it occurs once in exodus, once in Leviticus, three times in one sentence in Deuteronomy and twice in Ezekiel (my daughter gave me a Concordance as a gift recently).
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I think Israel should go to NYC and start shooting off rockets into the U.N. building.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The United Nations Security Council has kicked off its emergency meeting on the deadly Israeli raid against the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla.
The UNSC started the session on Monday after Turkey urged a meeting over the brutal killing of activists in international waters by Israeli forces, AFP reported.
The meeting was called by Lebanon's ambassador to the UN, Nawaf Salam, who currently holds the presidency of the Security Council.
Lebanon and Turkey are both rotating non-permanent members of the UNSC.
The Tel Aviv regime is facing a wave of international condemnation over the raid on the Freedom Flotilla aid convoy, which was carrying thousands of tons of humanitarian supplies to the impoverished people of Gaza.
Palestinian sources say at least 20 activists were killed and 50 others were injured during the attack.
An unnamed diplomat told Reuters that council members were hoping to adopt a statement voicing their anger at the incident and possibly backing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's call for an investigation into the bloody assault.
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US President Barack Obama has called on the Israeli premier to launch an investigation to find "all the facts" surrounding the attack on the Freedom Flotilla.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet Obama at the White House on Tuesday. However, he cancelled the visit following Israel's attack on a Gaza-bound convoy of humanitarian aid which resulted in the killing of 20 international activists.
In a phone conversation, Obama and Netanyahu "agreed to reschedule their meeting at the first opportunity," the White House said in a statement, on Monday, AFP reported.
"The president (Obama) expressed deep regret at the loss of life in today's incident, and concern for the wounded, many of whom are being treated in Israeli hospitals," added the statement.
"The president also expressed the importance of learning all the facts and circumstances around this morning's tragic events as soon as possible," it said.
Obama, however, refrained from censuring Israel for launching a military attack on the humanitarian ships aboard which were hundreds of politicians, activists and journalists.
The Israeli attack on the aid convoy drew international condemnations. Many countries across Europe summoned the Israeli envoys, following the bloody raid.
The international organizations, including the United Nations Security Council and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have called for meetings on the brutal attack, which took place in international waters some 150 km (90 miles) off the coast of Gaza.
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Is this the same Obama as a few weeks ago?
Let's see if it sticks when the ululation reaches it's peak in a few days.
I assume there's an awful lot of money on the line from those already deeply upset Jewish donors, gorb. Either that or Rahm Emmanuel has put his foot down on the subject, being on-site and in the loop, as it were.
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Obama should start studying the effects of his idiotic world-wide policies.
Jewish votes/money put asside, the jerk has done an incalculable amount of damage to US Interests, credibility and political stance in the last year, that the jewish vote would be the least of my worries at this stage. Lesson No. One : Do not trust the US because any POTUS can and will deny any commitments made by a previous POTUS to an ally. Lesson No.2: The US does not have the will to defang any would be nuclear proliferator even if the entire future of the US will be jeopardized by a Nuclear Iran controlling the Straits of Hormooze and a major portion of the US oil supply be put in jeopardy at the mercy of the Mullahs.
Lesson No. three : the POTUS cannot get his act together giving major concessions to the Ruskies and Chinese (Reducing US Arsenal)and getting Zilch from them on the hoped for "Sanctions" against Iran.
I could go on and on all night but for what purpose ?
There is an old jewish idion which goes like this: Even seven wise men will not be able to pull out a rock cast into the well by a single fool
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Interesting listening to the wording;
needs an investigation surrounding 'the attack'.
Obama is already referring to it as an attack, and killing international activists.
Obama is spinning this as well as al Jazeera.
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the jerk has done an incalculable amount of damage to US Interests, credibility and political stance in the last year
This is why Jimmah was so peeved by the comparison of his to Barry's foreign policy.
Barry is worse than inept: he has made America irrelevant. Major crises happen without US views, interests or potential future actions being taken into account. Once fires start, the US dithers, and other nations leap into the breach.
In short, the US is no longer the global hegemon. We are neither feared nor loved. We are, increasingly, ignored.
Feature, not bug. Obama has always hated the very notion of US leadership. By making us the global bystander, he's achieved what he set out to achieve.
He's worse-- far worse-- than Carter, who at least had an engaged and interventionist NSA in Brzezinski.
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Before we give up a bipartisan foreign-policy consensus that's held for 63 years, don't you think it would make sense to have one of those, er, national dialogues that Barry used to talk about so much?
In Nov. 2008, I didn't vote for America to be no more important in the world than Brazil or Russia or China. I don't think anyone (aside from a few college-town lefties and liber-loonytarian types) else voted for us to junk American leadership and Ameriacn exceptionalism, either.
The only reason Barry was elected was the financial meltdown and the perception that McCain had no clue about how to turn things around. The financial economy, stupid.
When will people realize that this clown is destroying a position of leadership that took the nation 170 years to acquire and that we've defended and asserted, with tremendous results for US wealth and security, for nearly 70 years?
ENOUGH. I want my country back. I didn't vote for us to become another Brazil.
#10
Since when did this administration give a rat about facts?
When the "Facts" are able to be twisted to Teh ONE's means.
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I'll always consider Barry as the first (and hopefully only) Affirmative Action President.
After all the majority of the people voted for him due to his skin color - either to 'elect the first African-American president' or to avoid being called a 'racist' for questioning his qualifications (or lack of). The media certainly gave him a break due to his skin color.
This is just an excuse to avoid making an actual decision. The 'peace activists' own video livestream (before they heavily edited it) showed how 'peaceful' these activists were.
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I'll give the Obama administration a high mark on this one.
Hill-dog has been working the phones hard, telling EU leaders (Sarko, et al.) to calm down and STFU until all the facts are known.
They're the only world leaders acting like adults in this scenario so far.
The 4th Infantry Division
And all the resultant casualties in Iraq
Arm the Kurds!
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"Turkey has not invoked article five which envisages all allies coming to the aid of a member country that is the victim of an attack. "But, given that numerous Turkish citizens appear to figure among the casualties, it is understandable that (Ankara) triggers political dialogue with its parners," the diplomat added.
It was the Erdogan regime that blocked the election of Rasmussen as NATO Secretary General until he agreed to apologize in fron of Islamic potentates, humiliating himself and NATO, and undermining NATO's deterrence.
He apologized for respecting the laws and customs of his country when he was Denmark's PM. He apologized for the civil rights, the human rights and freedoms guaranteed by Denmark and all Western Democracies.
In the past the Western Alliance risked catastrophic escalation to preserve these freedoms even in militarily indefensible territories like e.g. during the Berlin crises in the 50s and 60s.
It is no exaggeration to say that NATO has permitted the Erdogan regime to pervert its very raison d'etre.
[Straits Times] THE Philippine president-apparent vowed to bring to justice members of a powerful political clan charged in the country's worst massacre of 57 people, telling European Union ambassadors on Monday that he will not tolerate armed groups outside the law.
Sen. Benigno Aquino III, who is awaiting an official proclamation by the Philippine Congress following May 10 presidential elections, told reporters he discussed the Nov. 23 massacre in southern Maguindanao province with EU ambassadors and made a commitment to obtain justice.
Members of the Ampatuan clan who were allied with outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo are among 198 suspects charged with murdering their political rivals and at least 30 journalists in an election convoy. They allegedly led more than 100 police and government-armed militia in the slaughter.
So far, only one member of the family, former town mayor Andal Amptuan Jr, has appeared at a trial that opened in January. The other six are in custody waiting to be arraigned. They have denied the charges against them.
Mr Aquino said he will not tolerate a situation where 'one entity or a group or a family thinks they are above the law.' However, Mr Aquino so far has refrained from promising to disband the government-allied militia - an auxiliary force that has augmented outstretched government troops battling communist and Muslim insurgents for decades, and often ended up as a private army on the payroll of local politicians. Human Rights Watch has recently expressed disappointment with his refusal to disarm poorly trained village fighters.
Mr Aquino also said he intends to seek justice for hundreds of victims of extrajudicial killings - mostly left-wing activists accused by the military of collaborating with communist insurgents and sympathisers .
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Isn't there some rumor about this Uranium being contaminated? It could also be a diversion . . . .
VIENNA Iran has amassed more than two tons of enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday in a report that heightened Western concerns about the country preparing to produce a nuclear weapon.
Two tons of uranium would suffice for two nuclear warheads, although Iran says it does not want weapons and is only pursuing civilian nuclear energy.
On enrichment, the report said Iran had now enriched 2,427 kilograms to just over three percent level. That means shipping out 1,200 kilograms (as proposed by the IAEA late in 2009) now would still leave Iran with more than enough material to make a nuclear weapon. That makes the deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil unattractive to the U.S and its allies.
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Yookay, but the DPRK = KIMMIE repor has several Nucbombs.
Again, NOT all MSM-NET Reports since the 1990's of Islamist Iran procuring an unknown number of Black Market, etc. Nukes from former SSRS have been discounted.
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ION ISRAEL NN > HALUTZ: NASRALLAH'S FEAR INDICATES HIZBULLAH'S WEAKNESS.
ARTIC = Nasrallah's choice to perennially stay in hiding due to fear of capture or assassination, be it by Israel or Muslim foes, says more about Hizbullah's lack of effec potency agz Israel than the opposite???
* SAME > [Israeli] AIR FORCE TOLD TO EXPECT DISTANT ASSIGNMENTS [LR missions outside of Israeli airspace agz differen multiple threats].
"Word is spreading in extremist circles of the death of Sheikh Sa'id al-Masri, widely viewed as the number three figure in al-Qaeda," a US official told ABC News. "We have strong reason to believe that's true, and that al-Masri was killed recently in Pakistan's tribal areas. In terms of counterterrorism, this would be a big victory."
US officials believed him to have been killed about a week ago in Pakistan.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
US officials tell ABC News that al Qaeda's No. 3 -- 
