And from the U.S., and a number of other nations, according to the article, because they haven't enough income from taxes to support the expenses of the country and an executive office. (I mean, do you realize what it takes to get printer ink cartridges? They have to be shipped in from Islamabad, because there isn't a Best Buy in the entire country!)
It's been going on for years without any fussing. Everyone knows the parties involved and how much is in the bags, so it's odd they're fussing about it now.
[Al Arabiya] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai's chief of staff, Umar Daudzai, has been receiving regular cash payment from Iran, which is trying to expand its interests in the Afghan presidential palace, The New York Times reported late Saturday.
Citing unnamed Afghan and Western officials in Kabul, the newspaper said Iran had been using its influence to help drive a wedge between the Afghans and their U.S. and NATO allies.
The payments, which officials say total millions of dollars, go into a secret fund that Daudzai and Karzai have used to pay Afghan politicians, tribal elders and even Taliban capos to secure their loyalty, the report said.
"It's basically a presidential slush fund," one Western official is quoted by the paper as saying. "Daudzai's mission is to advance Iranian interests."
Daudzai and Karzai have both declined to respond to written questions about their relationship with Iran, The Times said, adding that an aide to Daudzai had dismissed the allegations as "rubbish."
Feda Hussein Maliki, the Iranian ambassador in Kabul, also declined to answer questions, the paper pointed out. But a front man for Maliki called the allegations "devilish gossip by the West and foreign media."
The Times cites unnamed officials as saying that the Iranian payments are intended to secure the allegiance of Daudzai, a former ambassador to Iran who consistently advocates an anti-Western line to Karzai and briefs Karzai every morning.
Last August, when President Karzai wrapped up an official visit to Iran, Maliki brought to the presidential plane a large plastic bag filled with wads of euro bills and handed it to Daudzai, according to the report.
"This is the Iranian money," the paper quotes an Afghan official as saying. "Many of us noticed this."
The pictures on the bills are different, which is one of the key ways to distinguish currencies.
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[Iran Press TV] Darfur's main rebel group says it is ready to start peace talks with Sudan's government through international mediators in Qatar.
A front man for the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said Sunday that a small delegation would travel to Doha next week to "consult with intermediaries about reforming the [peace talks] process."
"There will only be talks under the framework of united factions," AFP quoted Ahmed Hussein, front man for the JEM, as saying.
In February, JEM signed a framework accord with the Khartoum government in Doha, but walked out of talks in the Qatari capital in May, objecting to the government's decision to hold talks with other rebel groups.
JEM is seen as the region's most powerful rebel force in the volatile region.
Darfur, a remote region in western Sudan, roughly the size of France, has been mired in a civil war since 2003.
According to the UN, some 300,000 people have been killed and another 2.7 millions have been displaced due to sectarian strife in the region.
Khartoum rejects the estimates, saying 10,000 people have died in the seven-year conflict across the troubled region. Darfur's main rebel group says it is ready to start peace talks with Sudan's government through international mediators in Qatar.
A front man for the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said Sunday that a small delegation would travel to Doha next week to "consult with intermediaries about reforming the [peace talks] process."
"There will only be talks under the framework of united factions," AFP quoted Ahmed Hussein, front man for the JEM, as saying.
In February, JEM signed a framework accord with the Khartoum government in Doha, but walked out of talks in the Qatari capital in May, objecting to the government's decision to hold talks with other rebel groups.
JEM is seen as the region's most powerful rebel force in the volatile region.
Darfur, a remote region in western Sudan, roughly the size of France, has been mired in a civil war since 2003.
According to the UN, some 300,000 people have been killed and another 2.7 millions have been displaced due to sectarian strife in the region.
Khartoum rejects the estimates, saying 10,000 people have died in the seven-year conflict across the troubled region.
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[Al Arabiya] Printers delivered hundreds of thousands of registration books for Sudan's southern independence referendum on Sunday, clearing a major hurdle in delayed preparations for the vote, organizers said.
Voting is due to start on Jan. 9 2011 in the referendum, promised in the 2005 peace deal that ended decades of north-south civil war, on whether southerners want to stay in Sudan or secede.
Preparations are lagging badly and there are fears that delays, arguments over the sharing out of revenues from the oil produced in the south, and growing north-south tensions over the vote may re-ignite conflict.
South African printers flew 500,000 voter registration books to Khartoum on Sunday, enough for southern voters living in Sudan's 15 northern states, said the front man of the referendum's organizing commission, Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim. Millions more will soon arrive in the southern capital Juba, he added.
"This is a giant step forward ... When the materials are around everyone feels confident that these things are going ahead," commission deputy chairman Chan Reek Madut told Rooters from Juba.
The commission has already started training referendum registration staff, and organizers still hope to start voting on Jan. 9, he added. "That is our hope and it is our aim," he said.
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[Al Arabiya] After the recent closure of several religious channels by the authorities, Egypt Islamists announced a plan to launch an Islamic satellite to guarantee broadcasting freedom and avoid similar clampdowns.
The decision by Egypt's main satellite operator NileSat to shut down 12 private channels, mostly religious, on grounds of violating broadcasting licenses triggered expansive protests on the part of fundamentalist groups and shed the light on the possibility of allocating a satellite for those channels, the London-based Asharq Alawsat reported Saturday.
Egyptian Islamist lawyer Montasser al-Zayat, who is known for defending members of Islamist groups, launched an initiative to raise funds for a new satellite that will be specialized in broadcasting religious channels.
"Launching an Islamist satellite is inevitable in light of the changes taking place in the Egyptian media."
When asked if the option of broadcasting those channels on other Arab satellites instead of the Egyptian NileSat, Zayat replied that this can only be a temporary solution.
"At the end of the day, Arab governments have similar ideologies and the proof is that the religious channels al-Rahma and al-Hekma were also banned from the Jordanian NoorSat. We are in a state of war."
Another option, Zayat added, is to broadcast temporarily form European satellites until the Islamic satellite is launched.
"We are planning a meeting on Monday to discuss freedom of expression and the closure of religious channels and there we will garner support for the idea of the Islamic satellite."
Zayat pointed out that the new satellite will not be Islamic in the sense that all its channels will only broadcast sermons and host preachers, but it will be a venue for freedom of expression in general.
Zayat said that a feasibility study for the project was conducted and submitted to him, yet he still believes that implementation will not be easy.
"The initiative will be faced by several difficulties because we lack political support."
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Zayat pointed out that the new satellite will not be Islamic in the sense that all its channels will only broadcast sermons and host preachers, but it will be a venue for freedom of expression in general.
This is great news for the majority of islamic females, who have always wanted to see a Golda Meir - type progressive proclaimed as the next Caliph of the islamic turdistan.
A RASH of mysterious killings by gun-wielding motorcycle assassins has led authorities to declare that a radical Islamic sect thought to have been crushed last year has been revived.
Soldiers have been deployed, a curfew has been imposed and many residents worry about attacks in bold daylight that officials call a renewal of the anti-Western Boko Haram sect's strikes on police stations and soldiers.
An outright challenge to the Nigerian government appears to be under way, with an audacious twilight prison break last month in Bauchi that freed more than 700 - including many jailed sect members - the firebombing of a police station in Maiduguri and the killing of numerous police officers and other leaders in recent months.
The violence in northern Nigeria comes at a delicate time for the country, one of the world's top oil producers and a major supplier to the US.
*sigh* In that part of the world it is always a delicate time.
Though the nation remains stable, it is struggling to organise elections next year that will test the legitimacy of its young democracy.
In Maiduguri, a hot, low-rise city of about one million people near the border with Cameroon, the discontent is tinged with religion. Islamic law is in force, as it is across Nigeria's north, but not strictly enough for the sect, Boko Haram, whose name is an expression in the local language, Hausa, indicating disgust with Western education.
In the market, men in flowing robes expressed anger at the government, which violently suppressed Boko Haram in a military operation last year that killed around 800 people, but not at the sect members suspected of the recent killings.
Last year's bloodshed and destruction are visible in buildings that remain riddled with bullet holes and burned-out vehicles that have still not been cleared.
The police here say 11 people have been gunned down in Maiduguri since July - the local news media count 14, including six policemen - in a series of killings by stocky, taciturn men on motorcycles wielding Kalashnikov rifles, who shoot their victims and drive off, sometimes firing into the air for good measure. Two more policemen were killed in Bauchi last week, prompting a night-time motorcycle ban, along with the one already in force in Maiduguri.
The police, as symbols of hated government authority, are particular targets, as they have been during religious unrest in the past. But some killings have aroused particular fear because of the widening circle of victims.
The national vice-chairman of the All Nigeria People's Party, Alhaji Awana Ali Ngala, was killed in his living room on 6 October. Three days later, Sheik Bashir Mustapha, a prominent Islamic cleric critical of Boko Haram, was killed while teaching in his home.
About 250 miles away, on the muddy streets behind the Bauchi prison, there was sympathy for the sect. "Boko Haram is fighting the government because of the level of injustice," said Dan Lami Aminu, a mechanic. "All the people are in support."
However, the wave of recent killings has fed apprehension. The night-time streets in Maiduguri, controlled by soldiers at numerous checkpoints, are deserted. A list of prominent targets - opponents of the sect - is believed to be circulating.
As always, jihadis win the hearts and minds of the population...or at least the fear centers in their brains.
Now that the $60 billion arms deal has gone through, Saudi restraint is no longer necessary. The question is, is Prince Turki al-Faisal trying to make policy for the Magic Kingdom, showing a split at the senior level of the ruling family, or is this the king's own position? Regardless, this shows President Obama 'the world-beloved' has become bully bait.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, a leading figure in Saudi Arabia's royal family, called Israel "a drain on the United States, and not an asset" Friday while accusing the Obama administration of a blatant pro-Israel bias in its Middle East policy.
"Within the makeup of this administration, ladies and gentleman, there are officials who rationalize, excuse, and condone Israeli intransigence while seeking to put more pressure on the Palestinians to concede even more," Mr. Al Faisal said, in a speech to the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. "These same officials believe that the Palestinian problem is not the root cause of Arab and Muslim antagonism to the United States. It is these officials who propose that the Netanyahu government should be rewarded for its intransigence rather than sanctioned."
Mr. Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief and U.S. ambassador, was referring to a widely reported American offer of diplomatic and security guarantees to Israel in exchange for a two-month extension of its 10-month settlement moratorium, which expired on Sept. 26, causing Palestinians to suspend their participation in freshly launched U.S.-sponsored direct peace talks.
"Saudi Arabia," he said, "agreed with other Arab states to give peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine a chance -- more than once -- under the United-States-negotiated partial colony freeze. The United States failed to stick to its assurances and, to add insult to injury, offered the Netanyahu government more money, arms, protection from U.N. sanction, and, shamefully, the stationing of Israeli troops on Palestinian territory -- as if this territory were part of the United States' sovereign lands. And this was to get him to extend the partial freeze for a few more days. Now that the Netanyahu government has rejected that offer, we are waiting to see what else the United States will offer."
Arab expectations are clear, President Obama. You have your marching orders.
While Saudi Arabia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel, it has been reported that the kingdom would allow Israel use of its airspace for airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
I wonder what Iranian President Ahmadinejad and the king of Saudi Arabia said during their little phone call the other day?
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These same officials believe that the Palestinian problem is not the root cause of Arab and Muslim antagonism to the United States. It is these officials who propose that the Netanyahu government should be rewarded for its intransigence rather than sanctioned."
Dont see OBL/Mullah OMAR using the Paelos excuse for their hatred!
"When he was fourteen, he was sent by his father to study at Lawrenceville School, a prep school in New Jersey. His father sent him there because he wanted him to attain a "world-class education" not yet available in Saudi Arabia.
"Prince Turki then studied at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in the class of 1968 (where he was a classmate of Bill Clinton), and at Princeton, Cambridge, and the University of London, where he studied Islamic law and jurisprudence.
"After he left Georgetown, he did some studies in Britain, and then went back to work in the Kingdom. Prince Turki was appointed an Advisor in the Royal Court in 1973.
"He has served as ambassador to both the US and UK."
* ISRAEL NN > [Political Writer Anne B.]BAYEFSKY: US IS MORE HOSTILE TO ISRAEL THAN IT APPEARS. POTUS Bammer Admin + US STTAE adopting formal Policy of saying modified or different things on same issue(s) to appeal to different audiences???
Also from SAME > MP KARA: DRUZE ARE DESCENDED FROM JEWS.
ARTIC = ditto the majority of Arabs living west of the Jordan River.
Of course. Forced conversions. First the Christians, then the Moslems. No surprise there, JosephM. And the Samaritans where the Israelite peasantry left behind by the Babylonian conquest in 586 BCE.
[Al Arabiya] Bahrain's embattled Shiite-led opposition held on to all of its parliament seats in weekend elections, according to official results announced Sunday, but fell short of the majority it hoped to win as a show of strength against the island kingdom's Sunni rulers.
The Islamic National Accord Association won 18 seats in the 40-member Bahraini parliament in Saturday's poll, the electoral commission announced.
The 18 candidates of INAA, which clinched 17 seats at the last poll in 2006, were all elected from a first round, with more than the required 50 percent of votes, commission chairman Abdullah al-Buainain told AFP.
Top Shiite holy man and MP Sheikh Ali Salman hailed the results and called for a "more positive" stance from the government.
"The most important message for the government is that al-Wefaq (INAA) is the largest political association in Bahrain," said Salman, who is also the head of INAA.
"The people's will must be respected and dealt with positively," he said.
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He was knocked unconscious with a half a house brick, stabbed in the face with a screwdriver and kicked repeatedly in the head as he lay helpless. His attackers hurled racist abuse at him, referring to the colour of his skin, then left him for dead. Joseph, pouring with blood, came round and staggered to a nearby bus stop to raise the alarm.
All seven denied the charges and on the second day of a trial expected to last up to three weeks, the case collapsed and the accused were acquitted.
The judge at Leeds Crown Court was told that a key prosecution witness, believed to be 15-years-old, had refused to give evidence, and could not be forced due to his age.
Joseph, now 15, has made a good recovery but is still nervous when out alone. His teeth were badly damaged and he is still receiving treatment.
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The British are well on their way to having vigilante justice. Vigilante groups almost always start peacefully, begging the government to stop criminals. Often, by that time, not only won't government stop criminals, it openly backs them.
Eventually, the public will take the law into its own hands. And though they are vehemently cursed by their own government, the bottom line is that vigilantism works.
Israel very displeased. One hopes Pope Benedict will check his Eastern bishops, who show evidence of Stockholm Syndrome or antisemitism, your choice.
AFP -- Bishops and patriarchs from across the Middle East held a two-week synod at the Vatican chaired by Pope Benedict XVI and on Saturday called on the international community to end the occupation of Arab lands.
"Recourse to theological and biblical positions which use the Word of God to wrongly justify injustices is not acceptable," the synod said in a statement.
Archbishop Cyril Salim Butros, head of the commission which drew up the statement, went one step further, saying: "The theme of the Promised Land cannot be used as a basis to justify the return of the Jews to Israel and the expatriation of the Palestinians."
"For Christians, one can no longer talk of the land promised to the Jewish people," the Lebanese-born head of the Greek Melkite Church in the United States said, because the "promise" was "abolished by the presence of Christ."
Israel on Sunday objected to remarks by Middle East Catholic bishops that it used scripture to justify occupying Palestinian lands, saying they recalled theological debates of the Middle Ages. "The public theological debate over who holds the correct interpretation of the holy scripture is a thing of the Middle Ages," foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP. "It seems an unwise idea to try to revive it."
Then there is this (published on Friday) reporting about Jewish-Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein, recently reconfirmed as vice president of Italy's Foreign Affairs committee:
Commenting on the Vatican Synod about Middle East taking place in Rome these days, Nirenstein pointed out a document "written in a tone of theological excommunication towards the State of Israel," which was signed by the Custodian of the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who later denied involvement, saying that "no church in the Holy Land had signed the document."
Nirenstein pointed out, however, that the names of top-level signers are clearly visible on the document which is available on the internet.
Whoops!
The document speaks in the name of "us Christian Palestinians," and says that "the military occupation is a sin against God and against man". It excommunicates Christian supporters of Israel, takes sides against the very presence of Israel, likens the defensive barrier that has blocked 98% of terrorism to apartheid, attacks the communities in Judea and Samaria and essentially cancels the existence of the Jewish state. The document goes so far as to legitimize terrorism when it talks about the "thousands of prisoners who languish in Israeli jails" which are "part of the society around us". "Resistance to the evil of occupation is a Christian's right and duty," says the document.
"In the final draft of the appeal which will be voted on Friday, the Synod is once again offering the Catholic Church as the guarantor of freedom of religious and personal freedom for all religions," wrote Nirenstein. "But if there are no sanctions against what Christians suffer in Islamic countries and if they continue to blame the Jews who have nothing to do with it all, how do they think they will be able--morally and practically--to sustain this?"
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And what lands are Arab lands and how is that determined? I'm in favor of giving all the land obtained by conquest back to Israel after the 6-Day War. Or maybe we should go back to a time prior to the Jewish diaspora.
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The document speaks in the name of "us Christian Palestinians," and says that “the military occupation is a sin against God and against man”. It excommunicates Christian supporters of Israel, takes sides against the very presence of Israel, likens the defensive barrier that has blocked 98% of terrorism to apartheid, attacks the communities in Judea and Samaria and essentially cancels the existence of the Jewish state. The document goes so far as to legitimize terrorism when it talks about the “thousands of prisoners who languish in Israeli jails” which are “part of the society around us”. “Resistance to the evil of occupation is a Christian's right and duty," says the document.
The Vatican DOES NOT speak in the name of this Christian and is wrongly using the Word of God to justify antisemitism!!!
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I must continue my rant: Jesus Christ did not abolish the Promise, but is the fulfillment of it, some of which is yet to come and when evil is truly abolished! And the audaciousness of the scandal-ridden Catholic Church to claim the moral authority as a guarantor of freedom, usurping our God-given rights as outlined by the Founding Fathers, is simply beyond the pale!!!
Ground Zero imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who came under fire for once saying Osama bin Laden was "made in the USA," yesterday stopped short of using the word "terrorists" to describe the murderous 9/11 hijackers, instead calling them "those who attacked America."
During an interview on Al Jazeera TV, recorded during a trip to Doha in the Persian Gulf, Rauf was asked whether 9/11 affected the "discourse of American Muslims."
Rauf, who has said he wants to be a bridge between the US and the Muslim world, said 9/11 caused some Americans to view Islam with suspicion.
"Islam was seen as a national security threat in America because the . . .," Rauf said, pausing in mid-sentence before continuing, "because those who've attacked America utilized the vocabulary of religion."
Pakistan simply won't accept India's right to exist.
Pakistan's ISI has roped in separatist leaders and their sympathisers to make inroads in naxal ranks in its anti-India strategies after making a failed attempt to enlist the support of the Maoist rebels.
Some of the arrested militants and overground naxal workers spoke about the plan of the deadly Inter Services Intelligence(ISI) after the Pakistani agency found it was not possible to penetrate the security system of India regularly, official sources said today.
A detailed analysis of events by subversive elements in the state showed that some naxal activities were first noticed in R S Pura in 2007, the sources said. It was also found in 2008 that the naxals had some support base in the Jammu University, the sources said.
Another indicator to a link between Naxals and separatists in the Kashmir Valley came to light when Masarat Alam, the mastermind behind stone-pelting incidents, circulated a pamphlet about the plan for strikes by separatists.
Golly, you mean to say such events are not spontaneous uprisings by an outraged citizenry? More details about the connection at the link, but you should know. dear Reader, that gangsters are involved.
[Dawn] Pakistain's foreign minister said Sunday that his country will deal with a key Taliban sanctuary along the Afghan border on its own timeline despite increasing US pressure to move swiftly to help turn around the war in Afghanistan.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi spoke after returning from Washington for the latest round of high-level strategic talks with the B.O. regime.
His comments indicated a new $2 billion military aid package offered by the US did little change Pakistain's strategic calculus.
''We have our own priorities. We have our own sense of timing,'' said Qureshi when asked by news hounds about US pressure to launch an offensive against Talibs in the North Wazoo tribal area.
''When you do an operation, you have to consolidate your position,'' Qureshi told news hounds during a news conference in the city of Lahore.
''If you do an operation without consolidating, what will happen is that you leave the place and they (the beturbanned goons) will fill the gap again.''
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[Al Arabiya] Iraq's highest court on Sunday ordered parliament to resume its sessions despite a deadlock among pols who have failed to agree on the formation of a government seven months after an inconclusive election.
Parliament's temporary speaker, Fouad Massoum, said he expected to set a date for the session within days.
"I think that this decision will accelerate the government formation," he told Rooters.
The ruling may pressure Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions to speed up efforts to trade horses, but it does not mean an immediate end when parliament reconvenes to an impasse that has stoked tensions just as Iraq emerges from the worst of the war. "When I receive the court's ruling, I will call on all parliamentary blocs to sit down and discuss a date for the session. At the session there should be a consensus among them," Massoum said.
The deadlock has mainly pitted incumbent Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki against a bloc heavily backed by Iraq's once dominant minority Sunnis. U.S. officials fear any deal that sidelines Sunnis could reinvigorate a weakened but stubborn insurgency that still kills dozens every month.
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(KUNA) -- Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Fatah have agreed to meet next week to discuss security issues and inter-Paleostinian reconciliation efforts, Hamas said in a statement Sunday.
The statement noted that the venue for the meeting has not been set yet, but it is most likely to take place in Damascus. The two factions were supposed to meet on October 20 in Damascus but it was cancelled due to an altercation between Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas and Syrian President Bashar "Pencilneck" al-Assad over Paleostinian-Israeli peace negotiations and Paleostinian resistance.
The altercation happened during a recent extraordinary Arab summit held in Sirte in Libya.
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[Al Arabiya] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Paleostinians on Sunday not to take unilateral steps towards statehood, saying Israel was working closely with Washington on ways to restart peace talks.
"We expect the Paleostinians to fulfill their commitment to hold the direct talks. I think that any attempt to circumvent them by going to international bodies is not realistic and it will not advance the real diplomatic process," he said.
Peace talks that began in Washington on Sept. 2 are in limbo over Paleostinian demands for a freeze of Israeli construction on land they want for a state and Netanyahu's refusal to re-impose limits on building in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The impasse has raised speculation the Paleostinians might abandon negotiations with Israel and launch a diplomatic campaign to seek recognition of a Paleostinian state by the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society or other international organizations.
Last week, Paleostinian Authority front man Ghassan Khatib said that if peace efforts with Israel failed, Paleostinian aspirations for statehood should not be "held hostage" to Israeli consent.
"Peace will be achieved only through direct negotiations and I hope that we will return to this path with full force in the very near future," Netanyahu said, addressing his cabinet in public remarks.
Prime Minister Netanyahu apparently has also said that Israel can act unilaterally as well, which greatly displeased certain politician-Americans.
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High Level flunky Abolfazl Hassani, announced restrictions that would prohibit new courses on law, philosophy, management, psychology, political science,women's studies and human rights. Eventually, existing curricula will be revised to be in conformity with the Mullocracy.
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In the US, you may offer those courses if the curriculum conforms to leftist ideology, enforced by a mullocracy in all but name. Freedom!
[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian commander Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri says the United States should be brought to trial as the world's greatest violator of human rights. ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you...
"Horrifying news and information about the violation of human rights by the US government and its liberal democrat regime are received," Deputy Head of Iran's Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Sunday.
Jazayeri added that the US should be taken to court for violating the rights of its own citizens as well as for violating human rights in other countries, Mehr News Agency reported.
The Iranian commander said in the past there was no opportunity to address the countless cases of human rights violations by the US but today the opportunity has risen due to the decline in Washington's power and the promotion of an atmosphere of freedom.
"If [former US president George W.] Bush had been taken to court over the war crimes he committed in Iraq, maybe we would have witnessed fewer crimes by America," Jazayeri concluded.
In the largest-ever revelation of secret US military documents, whistleblower website Wikileaks has released nearly 400,000 classified reports about the US-led war in Iraq.
The leaked documents, which cover the period between January 1, 2004, and January 1, 2010, have shed light on a myriad of crimes and offences committed in Iraq over the past few years, including liquidations, murders, torture and rape.
The documents comprise the second such release from the controversial website, which had accused the United States of "war crimes" earlier, after releasing some 92,000 similar secret military files detailing operations in Afghanistan.
The damning documents accuse the United States Defense Department of instructing American troops to ignore reports of torture; they also suggest "hundreds" of civilians have been killed at US military checkpoints since the beginning of the war.
Refusing to discus the Wikileaks revelations, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton merely condemned the leak of any document "putting Americans at risk."
"We should condemn in the most clear terms the disclosure of any information by individuals and or organizations which puts the lives of United States and its partners' service members and civilians at risk," she said.
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boy if they worried about the liberal demo machine they should really look after ppl like me.
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[Al Arabiya] Iran will not allow its universities to begin teaching certain disciplines it deems too "Western" and existing courses will be revised, a senior Education Ministry was quoted as saying on Sunday.
"Expansion of 12 disciplines in the social sciences like law, women's studies, human rights, ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... management, sociology, philosophy....psychology and political sciences will be reviewed," Abolfazl Hassani was quoted as saying in the Arman newspaper.
"These sciences' contents are based on Western culture. The review will be the intention of making them compatible with Islamic teachings."
Hassani said Iranian universities will not be allowed to open new departments in these disciplines and the curricula for existing departments would be revised.
Iran's hard-line rulers accuse the West of trying to harm the Islamic state by influencing the country's young generation with "decadent" culture.
Pointing to the enrolment of some 2 million out of a total of 3.5 million university students in the humanities, in August Iran's most powerful figure Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for modification of these studies.
"Many disciplines in the humanities are based on principles founded on materialism disbelieving the divine Islamic teachings," Khamenei said in a speech reported by state media.
"Thus such teachings...will lead to the dissemination of doubt in the foundations of religious teachings."
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Don't you love their openess and quest for discovery and knowlege/sarc? On the other hand some of the courses mentioned are a little light in content and rigor.
The 1st and 2nd year curriculum will consist of: History of Islam, Sharia law, The prophet's prophecy for islamic control of the world, controlling and subjugating your woman or women, Sharia Law II, III, IV, etc.; History of Islam II, III, IV, etc.; Theocracy in Government and Government in Theocracy. Third and 4th years are a repeat of the same. Graduate degrees are studies in more of the same.
* ION by this move, ISLAMIST IRAN + GOVT. is being criticized on the NET as crossing a line unto TOTALITARIANISM, which is interesting given the more potent aspects of Islamic Sharia law.
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.
