[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Coordinated action must be taken to end the long-running brutal campaign by the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, leaders from the four countries affected have said.
About time, although generally coordinating action is an active voice rather than passive voice activity.
A rare three-day meeting of 30 religious and community leaders as well as local government officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), south Sudan, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Uganda criticised the "lack of a coordinated and comprehensive strategy" to tackle the rebels.
"The LRA is committing atrocities across very remote areas of already unstable nations," read a joint statement following the meeting in the southern Sudanese town of Yambio, state capital of the badly affected Western Equatoria region.
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Well at least he isn't giving them too Pakistain. The Saudi royals seem too have a couple of the same enemies as we do.
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Hmmmm...me thinks I would plant a little SW or HW "kill switch" somewhere vital in the inner workings.
This way we could turn the avionics (or whatever..) either into fried mush or direct the flight path to a destination of our choosing.
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We could sell them the very best, no worries. They are still soddi pilots, I have had to fly near them in my past life. My dog is a better pilot, they only fly when they feel like it, and with any luck one will crash into mecca.
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[Dawn] A Saudi diplomat in Los Angeles reportedly has asked for political asylum in the United States, claiming his life is in danger if he is returned to Saudi Arabia.
Converted to Christianity?
The report Saturday by NBC News quoted the diplomat, Ali Ahmad Asseri, as saying that Saudi officials have ordered him back to his country because he is gay and had become a close friend to a Jewish woman.
Ohhhh, even worse ...
Trading hair and makeup tips with Jewish women is definitely un-Islamic. It's in the Koran someplace. You could look it up.
A point. Had he been friends for the purpose of seducing her, nobody would have cared. Uncovered meat can't complain when it's eaten.
Asseri in a letter also reportedly criticised the role of militant imams in Saudi society.
Strike three, Ali, yer out!
NBC said that Asseri, who is first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, was questioned by the Department of Homeland Security after he applied for asylum.
The department declined comment to The Associated Press when asked about the diplomat. A call to Asseri's lawyer was not returned Saturday.
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At least he can tell us who is funding these militant imans.How high does it go upto in the Royal Family?
[Dawn] Turks approved sweeping changes to their military-era constitution Sunday --a referendum hailed by the government as a leap toward full democracy in a regional power still struggling with internal divisions.
With 99 per cent of the vote counted, 58 per cent had cast ballots in favor of the constitutional amendments, state-run TRT television said.
About 42 per cent voted ''no,'' heeding opposition claims that the reforms would shackle the independence of the courts.
The referendum on 26 amendments to a constitution that was crafted after a 1980 military coup had become a battleground between the Islamic-oriented government and traditional power elites that believe Turkey's secular principles are under threat.
It amounted to a vote of confidence in the ruling Justice and Development Party ahead of elections next year.
''We have crossed a historic threshold toward advanced democracy and the supremacy of law,'' Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a nationally televised speech at his party headquarters in Istanbul.
''The regime of tutelage in Turkey will now come to an end,'' he said. ''The mentality will be so that those enthusiastic for military coups will see their enthusiasms stuck inside them.''
Street clashes marred voting at several polling stations in provinces with large Kurdish populations.
A Kurdish party had urged supporters to boycott the ballot, arguing that the proposed changes would not advance the rights of the ethnic minority.
Since Saturday, police nationwide detained 138 people suspected of threatening people into boycotting the vote or casting their ballot in a certain way, Interior Minister Besir Atalay said.
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After making cuts in military hardware budgets last year, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates last month took aim more directly at the Washington region's defense industry, calling for reducing spending on "support contractors" by 10 percent each of the next three years. Hardware is fabbed in Flyover Country; this is gonna hurt!
After surging in size and profits during the post-9/11 era, the defense industry in metropolitan Washington is bracing for a major contraction and significant layoffs that economists said could produce a drag on the regional economy for years. Marketing, administration, and R&D folks will be the first to go. Management will have to remain at full strength in case they have to expand again.
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DAILY TIMES.PK > AMERICA FACES [Many Years of] EXPANDED THREAT FROM AL QAEDA: OBAMA, despite seeming weakness on the part of AQ + includ violent or malicious AQ activities agz the USA, Amers + Amer interests, done in the name of Third-Parties.
* NEWS KERALA > [Robert Blackwill]FORMER US DIPLOMAT [again] URGES NATO TO PARTITION AFGHANISTAN [Ethno-Religious lines] OR LOSE CONTROL. Argues that the Taliban are winning, + that the "Obama Troops Surge" from Iraq is more likely than not to fail given the curr Afghan withdrawal timeframes [2011-2015].
* WAFF > POSTER THread > COULD TURKEY SPLIT INTO THREE PARTS [Kurds in SE, Aegean or "White Turk" Region, Asian or "Black Turks" in Anatolia].
and
PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > AMERICA'S "FINAL SOLUTION" FOR PAKISTAN [ + also IRAN + CHINA]. National Breakup into sovereign Polities ala POST-COLD WAR USSR.
* STRATEGYPAGE > IRAN QUIETLY MOVES ON BAHRAIN.
* SAME > [Daoyus] CHINA-JAPAN ROW BOILS DESPITE RELEASE OFF FISHING CREW [Chin Boat Capt. still held in Japanese custody].
* WMF > CHINA'S MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS QUIETLY ISSUES "WAR ULTIMATUM" [War threat] TO JAPAN OVER DAOYUS + DETAINED CHIN FISHING BOAT. JAPAN WARNED NOT TO UNDERESTIMATE CHIN'S RESOLVE TO DEFEND ITS CITIZENS OR ITS CLAIMS ON THE DAOYUS. CPLA ORDERED BY FOREIGN MINISTRY + CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSION TO PREPARE MILOP PLANS FOR MIL RECOVERY OF THE DAOYUS FROM JAPAN.
* WMF > US "JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION" THINK TANK: CPLA CAN MILITARILY DEFEAT BOTH THE US + JAPAN IFF IT CAN OCCUPY PART OR ALL THE RYUKYUS/OKINAWA ISLANDS. CHINESE RECOVERY OF TAIWAN + DAOYUS, STRATEGIC PROJECTION OF PLA FORCES INTO WESTPAC FROM CPLA-OCCUPIED OKINAWA [andor other key Japanese islands]. DEV OF CPLA "DEFENSES-IN-DEPTH" AND LT COUNTER-ISOLATION OF US MILITARY POWER TO EASTPAC + US WEST COAST VIA ROUTINE CPLA VISITS [Local-Regio economics] + PERMANENT PLAN, PLAAF MISSLE SUBMARINE + BOMBER PATROLS TO GUAM, PEARL HARBOR, + SAN DIEGO, CA REGIONS.
IOW, CHINA = CPLA + CMC view NE ASIA [JAPAN-ROK-TAWAIN includ RUSS FE = SAKHALIN, SIBERIA] as a MAJOR = STRATEGIC MIL FRONT AGZ US-ALLIES.
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No so much as a surprise as a warning and a declaration of war against anyone not muslim. Lying is justified, if necessary to achieve the aim of world supremacy. Since all muslims are bound to adhere to shari law according to the Koran, all muslims are at war with the West. It is belief in the Koran that makes them muslims. Our culture is not compatible with islam unless we want to eventually be under the boot of islam. Personally, I do not. The message is clear, islam is not compatible with America's Constitutional freedoms.
When we first learned who flew the planes into towers, we should have just ended islamic immigration immediately and locked down muslims ie: religious profiling. vigilant surveillance of mosque, movements etc. They should be registered and watched.
And she was absolutely right. The title of this article links to a National Public Radio report from 26.June, 2003 about how we did exactly that. I had remembered the general outline, but the details went a great deal beyond my memory. But back then I didn't have the background to understand the extent to which the measures must have disrupted the jihadis' plans, how much the measures destroyed the culture supporting jihadi efforts.
Here's the first bit. You'll want to take a few minutes to read the entire PDF, I think. Please ignore the high indignation of the tone; it is NPR, after all.
Critics say strict enforcement of immigration laws has turned the war on terror into a war on immigrants
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Since the September 11th terrorist attacks, a cornerstone of the Bush administration's counterterrorist strategy has been strict enforcement of immigration laws. Officials say a broad crackdown on illegal aliens was needed to find terrorists already here and prevent more from entering the country. But critics say that approach has turned the war on terror into a war on immigrants and they question whether the changes are making the nation safer. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.
JENNIFER LUDDEN reporting:
Six weeks after the attacks on New York and Washington, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a new focus on prevention. He said he was taking a page from Robert Kennedy who, it was said, had mobsters arrested for spitting on the sidewalk.
Mr. JOHN ASHCROFT (Attorney General):
It will the policy of this Department of Justice to use the same aggressive arrest and detention tactics in the war against terror. Let the terrorists among us be warned. If you overstay your visas, even by one day, we will arrest you. If you violate a local law, we will hope that you will and work to make sure that you are put in jail and be kept in custody as long as possible. We will use every available statute. We will seek every prosecutorial advantage.
LUDDEN: Law enforcement agencies began raiding airports across the country, arresting hundreds of illegal aliens working at them. At a recent Justice Department press conference, Paul McNulty, the US attorney for eastern Virginia, said the program has been expanded to other critical sites.
Mr. PAUL McNULTY (US Attorney, Virginia): We're looking at the power plants, the military bases, other places where people are employed that are vulnerable and we're running their names through criminal issue record checks. We're making sure that everybody who works there is who they say they are, and these are the ways we have to do business if we're going to prevent terrorism in the future.
LUDDEN: Many caught in these raids have been from the large Hispanic population, but the government's most controversial moves have been against Arab and Muslim men. Hundreds were detained and deported in the months after 9/11. An internal report by the Justice Department's inspector general criticized the harsh treatment and near random roundup of many of them. More recently, 80,000 Arab and Muslim men have been fingerprinted and interviewed under a new registration program; 13,000 of them face possible deportation, many for technical violations of immigration law.
I would dearly love to know what happened to the ones who were sent back, or went back willingly, not to mention their families. The children who were old enough to remember what America was like should just be reaching adulthood now.
with all the bleating from the leftards, I thought that it was nigh on impossible for common sense to rule the day.
Under normal circumstances it would indeed be wrong but since a bright sunny day in September, nine years ago, we have been at war.
War is not normal circumstance, and it calls for vigilance in watching those who share the enemy's ideology.
Bravo. This is probably why there haven't been any massive explosions etc on US soil since. The worst follow-up attacks have been Madrid, Bali, Russia and India
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"Under normal circumstances it would indeed be wrong..."
I don't agree with this comment at all. I live in an area that was quickly becoming heavily populated with immigrant muslims who would wear their big white or black drapes or full-length wool coats (in hot weather!) prior to 9/11.
It is when there is a certain number or perhaps percentage that the hot-tempered, nasty, treat everyone else as "infidels" becomes apparent in everyday circumstances.
There is no requirement for western civilization to commit suicide by letting immigration occur from third world countries.
I am very grateful for the crackdown because my neighborhood very quickly emptied out of the muslim newcomers. Those professional muslims who have been here for decades I still like.
I'm so very sorry for the people who perished on 9/11, but I do believe it was a necessary wake-up call for the west.
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I'm missing George W. more and more all the time.
Ms. MEISSNER: It makes us appear hypocritical, and domestic policy is undermining long-term
foreign policy goals in a dangerous way. We should not be letting that happen.
It seems to me Meissner has stated the opposite way it should be. You've got to establish priorities. National security first. Let the State Department smooth over feathers if they must (or not).
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The US tends to favor different immigration groups at different times for different reasons. I think Muslims and Mexicans have had their fair share and it is time to allow another group a chance.
And we should limit the numbers to historical levels.
And we should disallow anyone that came here illegally, or stayed on illegally, or commited other crims and now wants to be a citizens.
[Al Arabiya] The Islamic cleric behind plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York warned Sunday that retreating on the project would only strengthen the hand of Muslim extremists around the world.
"Nice little country ya got there. Be a shame anything happened to it..."
Despite the warning, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf dodged the question when asked if he intended to keep the Islamic cultural center at its current site, two blocks from where al-Qaeda crashed planes into the World Trade Center. "The decisions that I will make -- that we will make -- will be predicated on what is best for everybody," he told ABC's "This Week" program.
He's elsewhere said that, had he know the problems it would cause, he would have started with a different location, but to change now would be seen as a surrender.
On Saturday's ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, thousands marched in dueling protests over the row, which was stoked by a Florida pastor's threat to burn the Quran to mark the occasion.
Terry Jones used his threat, which triggered demonstrations across the Muslim world, as a bargaining chip to try and get the mosque moved and flew to New York to meet the imam.
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In a debate on the planned Islamic center near Ground Zero, on the Al-Jazeera TV program "From Washington DC," As'ad Abu Khalil, California State University professor, and Usama Abu Irshaid, editor of the U.S.-based Al-Meezan newspaper, disagreed on certain aspects, but both criticized President Barack Obama for failing to provide leadership in this issue. They also discussed American attitudes toward Islam and Muslims.The debate aired on Al-Jazeera TV on August 24, 2010.
The following are excerpts from the debate:
"Let's be frank – Obama has failed miserably. Obama speaks a lot, and his discourse is positive, but when it comes to politics Obama is the same candidate whose campaign staff removed two hijab-clad women from the frame, during his elections campaign.
"It was Obama who invited Muslim homosexuals to Iftar last year, but did not invite the real leaders of the Muslim community. Who attended this year's Iftar? Many Muslim leaders did not attend. There is an effort to reshape the perception of Islam throughout the U.S.
"One final thing, Muhammad. I am not afraid of the issue of the Islamic Center, whether or not it is built. What I fear most is that the pressure exerted on us, as a Muslim community, will make us change many of our principles."
"Only a few weeks ago, some Muslim community representatives – considered 'leaders' merely because they are welcome at the White House – visited Poland and went to one of the Holocaust sites there. Now they talk about the Holocaust and what happened in the 1930s and 1940s, but we don't hear them talk about what happened in Gaza."
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Rauf's is in effect calling for ceding territorial sovereignty of at least Lower Manhattan to the Islamic world, lest it 'explode.'
When will MSM opinion leaders be calling for Rauf's arrest for making terrorist threats?
Btw "Smoke On The Water" is actually quite blasphemous. The references to "Earth's Heavenly Sovereign" (aka Hirohito) and the Sun (Hirohito's ancestor Amaterasu) are certainly disrespectful and even hostile.
I guess sensitivity training hadn't been invented yet.
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Btw "Smoke On The Water" is actually quite blasphemous. I thought it was more bloodthirsty than anything I had heard coming out of the US-era WWII & was a bit surprised to learn it was a #1 hit, and kind of a gospel number, too. It was a good thing for Japan that Hirohito decided to surrender after 2 nukes. I still think we would have done nuke saturation bombing had he not surrendered (or been overthrown by the militarists, as could have happened).
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I still think we would have done nuke saturation bombing had he not surrendered
Actually, that was our last nuke!
If I remember right, what got them to crack was when we flew about 1000 B-29s right over the Japanese mainland. After seeing what one could do, they decided to surrender about an hour later.
(Ma'an) -- The girlfriend of an alleged arms dealer accused of partnering with a Palestinian man to import weapons into the West Bank says the FBI has made a mistake. "This is a huge mistake,'' Fiorella Ayvar said, according to NBC Miami. "The truth has to come out. He doesn't have anything to do with this.'' Oh. Well then. If his girlfriend sez he's innocent we might as well let him go.
His mother wasn't available?
That's only in Bangladesh, silly. Although one wonders if Mahmoud the Weasel had decided to extend the franchise...
Yanny Aguila Urbay is accused of helping Abdalaziz Aziz Hamayel purchase hundreds of military weapons such as M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles to ship to the Mideast, along with silencers, grenades and explosives detonators.
All for the Widows of Gazoo ...
Ayvar told the Miami Herald that she has never heard Hamayel, who authorities say they have on tape with Urbay, attempting to obtain the weapons from a confidential government informant.
Tens of thousands of detainees are being held without trial in Iraqi prisons and face violent and psychological abuse as well as other forms of mistreatment, Amnesty International said Monday. The heart [urp!] burns bleeds.
The London-based human rights watchdog estimates 30,000 people are held in Iraqi jails, noting several are known to have died in custody, while cataloguing physical and psychological abuses against others.
"Iraq's security forces have been responsible for systematically violating detainees' rights and they have been permitted to do so with impunity," said Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa director Malcolm Smart. They're not a patch on the wood chippers, though. Remind me how much of a squawk Amnesia Int'l made when Saddam had the chippers rev'd up to 'puree' ...
"The Iraqi authorities must take the firm and decisive action now... to show that they have the political will to uphold the human rights of all Iraqis, in accordance with their international obligations and to stop the torture and other gross abuses of detainees' rights."
Amnesty's 59-page report, titled "New Order, Same Abuses: Unlawful detentions and torture in Iraq," lists several men who were subjected to torture or who died in prison.
If they don't use plastic shredders, rape rooms, and special prisons for children as young as one or two years, the abuses are most definitely not the same. I remember the photos of the children, seeing sunlight for the first time.
Among them was Riad Mohammed Saleh al-Oqaibi, jugged in September 2009 and held in a detention facility in Storied Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone before being transferred to a secret detention facility in the capital. "During interrogation, he is said to have been beaten so hard on the chest that his ribs were broken and his liver damaged," the report said. "He died on 12 or 13 February as a result of internal bleeding."
According to the rights group, methods of torture used have included beatings with cables and hosepipes, breaking of limbs, piercing of the body with drills and psychological torture in the form of threats of rape.
It said security forces in the autonomous region of Kurdistan were also at fault, noting one case in which a detainee had been held for more than 10 years without charge or trial and was allegedly tortured by Kurdish security police.
Iraq's fractured penal system means the ministries of justice, interior and defense all run their own prisons, and reports of torture and mistreatment are not uncommon.
Human Rights Watch said in April that Iraqi men were raped, electrocuted and beaten in a "secret prison" in Baghdad, while MPs called for an independent inquiry into prison abuse in a parliamentary debate in June 2009.
Baghdad took over full responsibility for prisons in the country in July, with the United States only responsible for a small section of high-value detainees in Karkh Prison on the capital's outskirts.
At a ceremony on July 15 when Iraq took control of the last remaining US detention facility here, Iraqi Justice Minister Dara Nureddine Dara said "the days of mistreatment and abuse of prisoners are gone."
"We will investigate and discharge anyone found to have committed a wrongful act," he said.
Amnesty noted while Iraq had announced inquiries into cases of maltreatment, torture and death in custody, the probe results had not been made public and "those responsible for abuses have not been brought to justice."
It also criticised the United States for handing over several thousand detainees to Iraqi custody "without any guarantees against torture or ill-treatment."
Security forces in Iraq retain broad powers to arrest individuals on the basis of tip-offs from informants, and Amnesty said torture is often used to extract confessions from those being held.
U.S. diplomats here have said in the past that Iraq's judicial system remains highly dependent on confessions from suspects at this point, rather than forensics or evidence.
Y'all wanted the U.S. out of Iraq. This is one of the consequences. Proud of yourselves, yet?
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I'm sure most of these detainees are well deserving of being detained and alot prob deserve the wood chipper of old.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday the current restrictions on W Bank settlements will not remain in place, though there will still be some limits on construction.
Good. Don't give something for the remote possibility of talking about maybe getting something for it. President Obama needs to start learning about boundaries.
Israel's 10-month freeze on new housing starts in West Bank settlements expires at the end of this month and is a key point of contention in newly launched peace talks with Palestinians. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened repeatedly to quit the talks if Israel does not renew the restrictions.
Netanyahu told Mideast envoy Tony Blair the Palestinians want a total freeze in construction. "That will not happen," he said. Israel will not build "tens of thousands of housing units that are in the pipeline, but we will not freeze the lives of the residents," Netanyahu said.
The prime minister imposed a 10-month freeze on new housing starts in the West Bank to promote resumption of peace talks. But several thousand housing units already being built were allowed to continue, and the measure does not apply to Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem.
Members of his Likud Party and government coalition partners oppose extending the freeze on housing starts.
Blair's office would not immediately comment about the details of the meeting.
Netanyahu also said the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state, but he would not make that a condition for continuing the talks.
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(Ma'an) -- Paleostinain Authority Minister of Waqf and Religious Endowments Mahmoud Al-Habbash called Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leaders "preachers of sedition," at an Eid Al-Fitr prayer at the government headquarters in Ramallah on Friday.
Ramping up the rhetoric, Al-Habbash called on Hamas leaders to piss off "stop their deeds," and to take responsibility for the "coup in Gazoo three years ago."
"Paleostine is not a bargaining chip," the official told gathered government worshipers, and called on Paleostinians to stop paying attention to outside interests and focus on the national plan.
Under the leadership of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas, the Paleostinain Authority "is committed to the Paleostinian national principals," he stressed, then turned to Iran, responding to words from Iranian leader Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad calling for an end to Paleostinian negotiations with Israel.
Al-Habbash said Iran was "against the Paleostinian National project."
Iran, he continued, is not "responsible for the Paleostinian case," adding that Ahmadinejad "will not solve" the national issue, saying that only the Paleostinian leadership knows how to defend the nation.
"We refuse the right of any other to intervene in the internal issues of Paleostine," he concluded.
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only have counterterror agency as Australia pays them.
And what effect do you all think the following will have?
Money for Jam to Islamists
"We are working with Saudi Arabian authorities, who have developed a distinguished program in which 3,000 to 4,000 terrorist convicts participate.
Through this program, convicts are invited to discuss their radical ideologies with experts. A team of psychologists and religious experts then monitor the convictsÂ’ development, including changes in their behavior regarding radical ideas. Those who become neutral toward the wrong idea of jihad have a higher likelihood of being released. Financial assistance is also given in order to empower them economically."
Just following the commandments of the Religion of Peace. Expect more of this as they gain confidence and influence.
Have a nice day!
(Bloomberg) -- Two Iranian grand ayatollahs issued fatwas calling for the killing of those who insult the Koran, including anyone who burns the Islamic holy book, the state-run Fars news agency reported.
No one was specified in the decrees, which were issued by Nasser Makarem-Shirazi and Hossein Nouri-Hamedani in response to questions asked by student groups from universities in Tehran, Fars said. Such an action against any individual could only be carried out with the authorization of an Islamic religious judge, they said.
“Undoubtedly, the blood of a person who burns the Koran should be shed,” Makarem-Shirazi was cited by Fars as saying. Everybody should “strongly condemn” such an act.
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If it doesn't say "Genuine Al-Queda" on it then it's not really terrorism and in fact it's nothing we should care about at all. In fact these are sanctified death threats. And if you don't like it you're racist and guilty of attacking Shitlam.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that Iranian nation are heading for revival of modern civilization on the basis of love and justice.
He said in a ceremony to unveil the Cyrus Cylinder that Iranian nation are awakened to regain its genuine divine, justice seeking and humanitarian identity.
In reference to the glory of Iranian civilization, President Ahmadinejad said that though the Persian Empire was powerful enough to flourish its domain, Iran never occupied the others' lands.
"No power on earth is able to put obstacle on the way of the great nation's progress."
He keeps saying things like that. I don't think it means what he thinks it means.
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Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi in an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya TV aired Sunday said the regime in Tehran depends on creating international and domestic crises to safeguard its existence and continuation.
"The Authority considers that the continuation of its rule depends on creating crises ... it stirred a lot of problems inside universities and in various unions and within clergy as well," Karroubi told Al Arabiya TV. "The current conditions are very tense and very difficult. It has never been like this during the last 30 years of the revolution," he added.
Karroubi said when he and reformist leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, and even Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezai decided to run for Iran's tenth presidential election on June 12, 2009, they did not expect vote rigging to take place and usher in an era of political turmoil.
Whyever not? That seems to me to be a striking misunderstanding of the usual process and parties.
Rezai was seen to be much closer to the regime than other candidates having served as former Commander of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from 1981 to 1997. The IRGC, and in particular its Qods (Jerusalem) Force, are tasked with liberating Jerusalem through Storied Baghdad" in stark contrast to the country's regular armed forces which are purely for defending the country against foreign attacks.
Responsible parties
Karroubi said that activities of the Elite Revolutionary Guard and secret police continue to fuel the crisis. "Things now are in the hands of the Revolutionary Guard and the ministry of intelligence; of course I do not mean everybody under those departments is responsible, but some parties are," he added.
Karroubi revealed that the majority of members in the Rev. Guard and in the intelligence are displeased with the current conditions. "Following the Islamic Revolutions we experienced conflicts, but never something like this. What current authorities do is something illogical and unacceptable."
He said they authorities avoid the implementation of laws. "The situation has become worse after these people disobeyed the law and ignored the constitution." The opposition leader attributed "constitutional violations" to what he described as the weakening of parliament. "This is what happens when you weaken the parliament," he said.
"Even if the parliament wants to work, this man (President Ahmadinejad) who likes to act alone will obstruct its work. If I were in the parliament I would not allow such behavior."
If you were in the parliament, you would not be able to stop it.
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[Iran Press] A big-turban Iranian holy man says the desecration of the holy Koran is the symbol of a "crusade" by enemies of Islam, holding the US government responsible for the sacrilegious move.
Thus the Big Turban demonstrates that he is incapable of understanding the Other.
"Although Church leaders say the criminal who in the name of priesthood ordered the Koran burning is a lunatic and worthless person, the question is why the White House allows lunatics to throw their weight around," Tehran's Interim Friday Prayer Leader Ahmad Khatami said Sunday.
"This crime symbolizes a crusade that the enemies of Islam have launched for some time now," ISNA quoted him as saying.
Khatami added that the enemies will lose this war as they cannot stand up to the growing power of Islam.
He went on to say US President Barack B.O. Obama and other US statesmen should be held accountable for the blasphemous decision and the desecration of the Koran by anti-Islam protesters in the US as the crime has been committed 'within their geographical borders' and there no excuse is acceptable in this regard.
Anti-Islam protesters in the US have desecrated the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
One protester burned pages from the Mohammedan holy book in front of press photographers in New York.
Two evangelical preachers in Tennessee set copies of the Koran on fire and members of the group Operation Rescue tore pages from Islam's holy book.
In another incident, a man ripped out pages from the holy Koran and made vulgar gestures with them. The police did not try to stop any of the incidents.
This comes after a Florida preacher called off plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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Must notta read the Constitution. Prolly would made his turban tighten a bit too much.
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These turbans really do not understand our American way and our Constitutional freedoms. The mullahs feel that the President should have some kind of theocracy and be able to dictate. Dissenters should be thrown in jail or hung. Thanks to our Constitution that doesn't happen here.
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I have no doubt that Saudi,Iran and Pakistan see the WOT as a War Against Islam but Bambi keeps saying its a fringe element only who get their teachings from the same Book that all these countries love!
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to the turban... imagine how we must feel when you kill Christians & burn our flags and bibles.
oops... I forgot tolerance is only a one way street for muzzies
Actually in a sense he's right. The US is guilty of standing in the way of muzzie world domination.
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the enemies will lose this war as they cannot stand up to the growing power of Islam.
Nah. We just need to get busy playing some Cowboys & Muslims.
Three men are sittin' on a bench.
One's a Texan wearing a Stetson,
One's a Muslim, wearing a turban,
And the last is an Indian with an Eagle feather woven in his hair.
The Indian is rather glum and says "Once my people were many, but now we are few."
The Muslim puffs up and says "Once my people were few, but now we are many millions."
The Texan adjusts his hat, finishes rolling a smoke, leans back in his chair and drawls,
"That's 'cause we ain't played Cowboys and Muslims yet."
[Iran Press] In response to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's anti-Iran remarks, Tehran says the comments made by some American officials lack rationale.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said remarks made by Clinton and other White House officials these days are the result of their misgivings over the upcoming November elections.
Regarding the Clinton accusation that Iran is 'morphing into a military dictatorship,' the Iranian spokesman said the behavior of US officials have no 'logical justification,' Mehr News Agency reported.
Mehmanparast added that "such statements are mostly in line with electoral campaign of the upcoming US elections and the authorities of this country have redoubled their efforts to this end."
In her lengthy speech at the Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday Clinton also confessed to US meddling in Iran's domestic affairs by saying, "There is a great deal of ferment and activities inside that we do try to support."
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ION WORLD NEWS > LEAD: CHINESE VESSEL OFF OKINAWA WARNS JAPANESE SURVEY VESSELS TO STOP WORK.
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA URGES JAPAN TO MAKE A WISE POLITICAL RESOLUTION, RELEASE CAPTURED FISHERMAN IMMEDIATELY.
* WMF > CHINA REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE JAPAN'S AUTHORITY OVER CAPTURED CREW OF DAOYU FISING BOAT, DEMANDS RELEASE OF CAPTAIN + WARNS OF RETALIATION.
* NEW YORK TIMES OPINION > WATCH OUT FOR THE DAOYUS [China-versus-Japan-versus-Taiwan]. Where JAPAN, TAIWAN are involved, espec as agz CHINA, the USA is not far behind e.g. US-JAPAN Security Treaty.
* WMF > SINO-DPRK FTA WILL INDUCE CHINA WILL PUSH + INTEGRATE NORTH KOREA ECONOMICALLY INTO ITS NORTHEAST REGION [Ex-Manchuria]TO BECOME A PART OF CHINA. UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR-EXPERT PARK SEUNG-SOO/SOONG-SOO SAYS CHINA DOES WISH TO REPEAT ITS LOSS OF INFLUENCE OVER NORTH KOREA AS PER THE 1993-1994 AND 2002 NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR CRISES.
* WMF > CPLA TO DEV AND PREPARE VARIOUS WAR PLANS/SCENARIOS INVOLVING DIPLOMATIC, MEDIA, + ULTIMATELY MILITARY COMBAT AGZ JAPAN FOR RECOVERY OF TAIWAN, DAOYUS, + RYUKYUS. CPLAN TO FORMALLY BEGIN UNIT, FLEET PRACTICE OF CLOSE COMBAT AGZ FOREIGN WARSHIPS [read, USN + JMSDF], NAVAL DEFENSE AGZ 2-3 US CARRIER FLEETS.
* WMF > BOTH CHINA + JAPAN TO DEV POTENT US MARINE CORPS-STYLE AMPHIBIOUS COMBAT FORCES TO FIGHT WARS OF SOVEREIGNTY IN THE CHINA SEAS.
Collectively, above ARTICS = RISING CHINA WANTS ITS WARM-WATER PORTS, CONSENSUALLY OR FORCIBLY, + ITS NOT TAKING "NO" FOR AN ANSWER???
[Iran Press] Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has denounced anti-Iran remarks made by the US secretary of state, saying "military dictatorship" is a part of the American tradition. Huh? I musta slept through that phase of our history...
Last week Hillary Clinton said "Iran is morphing into a military dictatorship with a ... sort of religious-ideological veneer," and the US tries to support opposition forces in the country "in a way that does not undermine or endanger them."
"Military dictatorship is the essential trait of traditional thought in the US... they not only violate the international laws by military attacks on other countries... but also disregard international organizations and institutions in their attempt to achieve their ominous objectives," Mottaki said on Sunday.
Pointing to Clinton's remarks about organizing and equipping Iran's opposition forces, Mottaki said these statements reveal the "real intentions of the US which are obviously in contrast with President Barack Obama's declared stances to interact based on mutual respect."
Mottaki added that the US has unsuccessfully been trying to meddle in Iran's domestic affairs for three decades and American officials want to see the failure of the democratic establishment of the Islamic Republic.
They are not aware, however, that the objective of Iran's Revolution and establishing the Islamic Republic was to "end foreign interferences especially that of the US in the country's internal affairs," Mottaki concluded.
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Sounds like he's talking about his own country. I still want payback for the hostages taken for 444 days, not to mention all the terrorist support. It will come one day.
* STRATEGYPAGE > ARABS SEEK THE UNPLEASANT TRUTH. Of 23 Arab States, SIX are deemed as de facto "FAILED STATES", wid ANOTHER ELEVEN moving towards simil status, pas due to perennial GOVT-PUBLIC CORRUPTION + GENERAL INEFFICIENCIES.
ARTIC = IMO read, MANIC OR NEAR-MANIC OBSSESSION WID RELIGIOUS IDENTITY complemented wid SOCIO-POLITICAL PENCHANT FOR ACHIEVING LITTLE-TO-NO INDIGENOUS PRODUCTIVITY W/O EXTERNAL THIRD-PARTY [non-Muslim?]ASSISTANCE.
IOW, ARTIC > IIUC, the Arab-Muslim or Islamic World is heavily dependent on TRIBALIST = "LOCAL" WARFARE FOR "PROGRESS"???
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IOW, ARTIC > IIUC, the Arab-Muslim or Islamic World is heavily dependent on TRIBALIST = "LOCAL" WARFARE FOR "PROGRESS"???
JosephM, it sounds like you're reaching for the idea that these are raid-and-booty cultures, and only thrive insofar as the communities within raiding distance continue to produce booty that can be stolen by force.
[An Nahar] Former head of the General Security Department Maj. Gen. Jamil Sayyed on Sunday launched a vehement attack on Prime Minister Saad Hariri for saying it was a mistake to accuse Syria of involvement in his father's assassination.
"After all you have done to Syria, (Syrian President) Bashar Assad hugged you rather than hanging you to death," Sayyed said during a press conference addressing Hariri.
"It's not enough for Hariri to admit that he erred, he has to pay the price of his mistakes," the former security chief told reporters about Hariri's latest statement to pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat.
"At a certain stage we made mistakes and accused Syria of assassinating the martyred premier. This was a political accusation, and this political accusation has finished," Hariri told the newspaper earlier in the week.
Accusations against Syria were not political, they were crimes of slander that require trial, according to the former general.
While saying the tribunal knows that Hariri's political, security and judicial team were behind false witnesses in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination case, Sayyed said Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare should have summoned them and questioned them.
He also slammed the premier's supporters for denying there were false witnesses in Hariri's murder case, saying all those who have lied during an investigation are called false witnesses although "they are inexistent for the Hariri team."
Sayyed said the tribunal doesn't want to prosecute the false witnesses because "big heads would roll."
"I swear to you Saad Hariri that I would take my rights with my own hands someday if you don't give them back to me," he vowed.
Sayyed urged the Lebanese people to reject the status quo and work on change even if that requires the toppling of the government by force.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah MP Hasan Fadlallah on Sunday warned that "the Israeli war machine has started to take new security and media faces in a bid to ignite civil strife in Leb through the machinations the enemy depends on after it became incompetent in the battlefield before the Resistance's might."
What a thorough demonstration of muddled thinking.
"We're concerned with facing this attempt through steadfastness and a clear stance that would end the bid of the Israeli enemy," Fadlallah stressed.
As to the so-called false witnesses controversy, Fadlallah said: "When we talk about this issue, we don't only refer to four or five people who gave false testimonies during the investigations in the murder of (former) premier (Rafik) Hariri."
"These are only one ring of the rings of false witnesses, and maybe the weakest and smallest ring in this dossier," Fadlallah added.
"When we raise this issue and insist on it, seeking to reach conclusive results, we are rather speaking of a political-media-security group," Fadlallah said, noting that some members of the aforementioned group are Lebanese officials and "the others are affiliated with political figures and factions."
Hizbullah's lawmaker said that the alleged group "fabricated false witnesses to distract the truth and achieve other political ends."
"We want this group dismantled, the heads of this group unveiled and the case followed up at the judicial, legal and political levels in Leb, so that it (the group) faces trial and accountability."
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What a thorough demonstration of muddled thinking.
[An Nahar] Paris considers the call of Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat to "abolish" the indictment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as "inconsistent with France's stances," Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported Sunday.
Several sources in Paris told the newspaper that Jumblat has made his stance clear to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner last Thursday.
The Druze leader expressed fears that the indictment would lead to Sunni-Shiite strife in Lebanon and told Kouchner that France would be "held responsible if civil war was ignited in the country," the sources said.
However, the French foreign minister was also clear in his stance, saying Paris supports the international tribunal and does not interfere in the work of Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare.
The sources wondered how several Lebanese officials who had pleaded with France to establish the court are now demanding to abolish the indictment.
"This is unacceptable because France does not change its stances," the sources told al-Hayat.
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The sources wondered how several Lebanese officials who had pleaded with France to establish the court are now demanding to abolish the indictment.
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Turks approved sweeping changes to their military-era constitution Sunday --a referendum hailed by the government as a leap toward full democracy in a regional power still struggling with internal divisions.
[An Nahar] Paris considers the call of Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat to "abolish" the indictment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as "inconsistent with France's stances," Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported Sunday.
