[Arab News] A Sudan news agency says authorities are investigating the staff of a radio station in the embattled western region of Darfur for working with rebels and the International Criminal Court. Which is the greater crime?
The semiofficial Sudanese Media Center reported Sunday that employees at the Netherlands-registered Radio Dabanga are accused of working to "cause embarrassment to the government" and "distort its public image."
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The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society estimates 300,000 people have died and 2.7 million have been forced from their homes since the rebellion began in 2003.
Calls to Radio Dabanga were not immediately returned.
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Nigerian police have arrested 23 more members of a radical Muslim sect responsible for targeted murders in northern Nigeria. The new arrests bring the number of Boko Haram (loosely translated as "Western education is sacrilege") sect members detained to 128.
The military have joined the police in patrolling Maiduguri and nearby cities in northeast Nigeria.
The National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) has appealed to Yemeni President-for-Life Saleh to take action over the safety of the Yemen crew of a ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in March this year.
The appeal came after the organization said it had been informed that one of the crew members done away with himself while in the custody of the pirates.
The pirates contacted the crew families and warned them that their relatives will be executed if a ransom is not given soon, it said, adding that the pirates threaten they will kill the crew and trade with their organs.
They are demanding a $ 1-million ransom which is too much and impossible to be paid by the crew families, it said.
In its letter to Saleh, HOOD said: "We appeal to you Mr President to release the Yemeni crew members and investigate them over their right negligence."
Almost 9 sailors including two officers were taken hostage after the Somali pirates took over their ship, Ice Berge, that was sailing under Panamanian flag on March 27, 2010.
The ship had been sending distress signals and walking along the coastline for three days, but coastguard told it they would not face the pirates on the ground they act under direct orders from President Saleh, the organization said.
"So far, one of the crew members has done away with himself under stress as the pirates are continuing to maltreat the Yemenis."
Their families have been following up their issue, but there was no response by the authorities, it concluded.
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A London Underground driver on the Bakerloo line was cleared of plotting terrorist attacks despite writing a goodbye note to his wife and admitting he knew an al Qaeda operative.
Amir Ali, 28, was accused of buying survival gear and had booked flights to Pakistan in order to commit "violent jihad" in Afghanistan. The married father of two wrote a letter to his wife and children declaring "Allah came first."
Ali admitted knowing Anthony Garcia, who was jailed over a plot to blow up the Bluewater shopping mall and other targets with massive fertiliser bombs. He was also said to be associated with Garcia's brothers, Lamine Adam and Ibrahim Adam, who are fugitives.
During the Bluewater trial it emerged that Lamine Adam, a former Tube driver, had been asked by terrorists in Pakistan to launch a suicide attack on the Tube.
Ali was today found not guilty of preparation for acts of terrorism between April 2006 and March last year. He claims that he was framed by the British security services after refusing to become a mole for the MI5.
When asked during the trial whether Muslims were obliged to carry out jihad Ali replied: "I think it's the obligation of a Muslim to follow the Koran."
Just 10 years ago Ali had been an aspiring amateur boxer who twice won the light welterweight division of the London ABA Championships. But Ali left the sport when officials demanded he shave.
The court heard he had studied at the University of North London. At the University's Islamic Society after 9/11, regularly attending talks with Lamine Adam.
Police found Ali's goodbye letter to Miriam and his young children in his rucksack. He told his wife not to be "upset or depressed" as he would always remember her and the children. He also asked for his "wife's forgiveness and that he would see her soon in this life or the thereafter."
Police also found terrorist related items at his home including recordings of imprisoned cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal.
During the trial he distanced himself from al-Faisal, saying he was a victim of Islamophobia and compared his plight to that of the Irish living in the UK during the the IRA bombings and Nelson Mandela.
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"I think it's the obligation of a Muslim to follow the Koran."
Let's throw the Koran from a high building and...
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EC: can't do that. It's... um... holy. And a book. Destroying the former is insensitive and destroying the latter is a heinous sin against data protection. Or something like that.
(KUNA) -- The UK Government's terrorism watchdog is to investigate the arrests of six men questioned by police over an alleged plot to attack the Pope, it was revealed Monday.
The head of the terrorism watchdog, Lord Carlile, will examine whether the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism officers were justified in detaining the men in armed raids during Pope Benedict XVI's visit last September, according to a newspaper report.
All six men, who are from Mohammedan and Algerian origins, were released without charge after being jugged in London.
The review, to be announced by Home Secretary Theresa May, will look at whether the police used their powers correctly when they jugged the men and whether there was any other way they could have dealt with the suspected threat, according to London's Evening Standard newspaper.
The Home Office said it could not comment on the report. Police searched eight homes in north and east London and two business premises in central London, including a street cleaning depot, as part of the investigation.
Searches of the premises did not disclose any weapons or suspicious materials, Scotland Yard said.
Reports at the time suggested the men, aged 26, 27, 29, 36, 40 and 50, had simply been overheard sharing a joke in their canteen.
One of the men, 29, was jugged at a home in north London shortly before 2: 00 pm on Friday September 17.
The five other men, believed to be street cleaners, were jugged at gunpoint as armed officers swooped on their base as they prepared to start their shift shortly before 6am on the same day.
They worked for "Veolia" Environmental Services, a contractor which employs 650 on-street staff to keep the streets of Westminster area in central London clean.
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From the headline, I thought this was another Papist plot to blow up Parliament. When is Guy Fawkes Day?
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[Iran Press TV] Former British MP and Respect Party leader George Galloway ... a British national embarrassment, not particularly honest, more fond of dictators and bully boyz than he is of his native countrymen except at the peak of the election cycle ... has revealed that he will run for a seat in the Scottish Parliament in May next year.
The Dundee-born Scot was elected MP in the Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in 2005, but failed to secure the nearby Popular and Limehouse seat in London's East End as a Respect Party candidate in the May general election this year.
In his column in the Daily Record newspaper, Galloway wrote that he was under "serious pressure" in his own head to be a candidate in Glasgow for the Holyrood elections in May.
"I'd need 5 percent of the total Glasgow vote to get elected - somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 votes," he noted, adding, "My friends don't think it's beyond me. Neither do I. What about you?"
George Galloway has been a prominent critic of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country seven years ago. As a former Labor MP, he stood for the anti-war Respect Party in 2005 and won his seat in Bethnal Green and Bow from Labor MP Oona King.
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Early one morning in March, two Armenians slipped aboard a train in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, unaware that they were being watched. They removed a pack of Marlboro Reds hidden in a maintenance box between two cars. Inside the pack, Georgian authorities say, was nuclear bomb-grade uranium, encased in lead.
Before long, Georgian officials seized the uranium and arrested the men, breaking up a ring they say was willing to sell material for nuclear weapons to any bidder. International officials see the operation as one victory in the effort to prevent nuclear weapons from falling into terrorists hands.
The seizure was reported in April, but few details were disclosed. The Associated Press now has obtained more information from Georgian officials about an operation involving international smugglers and undercover agents. Some elements were confirmed by UN and U.S. officials.
Georgian police tailed the taxi. The men got out near a hotel and began casing the deserted street. They appeared concerned they were being watched.
The men then met the train from Yerevan, the Armenian capital, and picked up the cigarette pack containing the uranium. During interrogations, the men would explain they had boarded the train in Yerevan, stashed the uranium and got off before the border crossing.
Authorities had not anticipated the uranium would cross the border separately from the smugglers. So the uranium moved unaccompanied and unsecured for hours until the men picked it up at the station.
Tonoyan switched the meeting place to the hotel he had cased. He met the undercover buyer in a room. When the men pulled out the sample, a radiation detection device hidden on the undercover agent went off. He said a code word. Agents listening in burst in with a commando team.
The uranium was only 18 grams, less than an ounce. But it had been highly enriched, to almost 90 percent, high enough for use in a nuclear weapon. It did not pose a radiological risk to anyone who came upon it in transit.
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Radiation detectors on the Georgia-Armenia border under a U.S. program apparently failed to pick up the uranium hidden in the cigarette pack. Pavlenishvili said Ohanyan correctly predicted that the lead casing would conceal the uranium from the detectors.
This is disturbing to say the least. Missiles off LA, clever cargo bombs, and a Chinese national disguised as a Caucasian elder, and now bomb-grade uranium in a cigarette case and not one was caught by regular security measures.
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Radiation detectors on the Georgia-Armenia border under a U.S. program apparently failed to pick up the uranium hidden in the cigarette pack. Pavlenishvili said Ohanyan correctly predicted that the lead casing would conceal the uranium from the detectors.
This is disturbing to say the least. Missiles off LA, clever cargo bombs, and a Chinese national disguised as a Caucasian elder, and now bomb-grade uranium in a cigarette case and not one was caught by regular security measures.
[Al Jazeera] France has offered to grant asylum to 150 Iraqi Christians, with the priority going to those maimed in last week's siege on a Storied Baghdad church, in which 46 hostages including two priests were killed.
The first batch of 36 Iraqis maimed in the Baghdad church hostage crisis were due to arrive in France on Monday, said Eric Besson, the immigration minister.
France said it would help the most seriously maimed, all but two of whom are Christians, soon after last Sunday's shoot-out, when Iraqi and US security forces stormed the Syriac Catholic cathedral during mass.
Their arrival, said Besson, fits into France's "tradition of asylum" Besson told news hounds on Sunday.
"France is the leading land for asylum in Europe and the world's second behind the United States," he added.
'Refugee haven'
"We are the European country that receives the most refugees who have been persecuted because of their political opinions, their religion or the colour of their skin."
A second group of 93 is expected to arrive "in the coming weeks," Besson said, with the list still being drafted.
Besson says the decision is in accordance with France's tradition as a safe haven for persecuted minorities. He also added that France has been taking in Iraqi Christians since 2007.
The attacks prompted some Iraqi religious leaders to advise their followers to leave the country. The attack on the Our Lady of Salvation church in Baghdad killed 58 people and maimed 78. The Islamic State of Iraq, a group which has links to al-Qaeda in Iraq, appeared to claim responsibility for the attack.
Al-Qaeda has declared Christians everywhere "legitimate targets" in the wake of the bloodshed at the Baghdad church.
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Best not let the local members of the ROP know where these folks end up.
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Good--the burqa ban then this. The more France stays on Al Qaeda's shit list, the more I start liking France.
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Shocking but not surprising. Patrick Poole broke the story here at Bigpeace.com and now you can catch the audio in stereo on Frank GaffneyÂ’s Secure Freedom Radio. This guy, Anwar Al-Alwaki, who is allegedly running terrorist operations out of Yemen right now, had given religious training to members of the U.S. military and we donÂ’t know exactly who or where they are just yet. We are talking about Al QaedaÂ’s cleric folks.
Voters in the state backed a measure to bar the use of Islamic and international law by 70 per cent to 30 per cent, in a referendum held on the same day as the US midterm elections.
However Muneer Awad, the head of the regional branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, promptly filed a lawsuit against it. Mr Awad argued that the measure violated the right to religious freedom as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
"Islam was the target of this amendment," Mr Awad said. "This amendment does not have a secular purpose."
Judge Vicki Miles LaGrange granted a temporary restraining order against the measure, in advance of a hearing on November 22.
Remember, we only think we live in a democratic republic. We actually live in a black-robed theocracy ...
The original measure was proposed by Rex Duncan, a Republican state representative, who has said it is necessary to protect the "children and grandchildren" of present-day Oklahomans.
Mr Duncan said that Judge LaGrange's verdict "thwarts the will of the people".
However legal experts have questioned whether the measure is necessary, given that there is no apparent danger of foreign law becoming binding on the state. Joseph Thai, a professor at the University of Oklahoma's College of Law, described it as "an answer in search of a problem".
We'd prefer to think of it as solving a problem before the problem goes, um, kaboom on us ...
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They also like to scream separation of church and state, unless it's muslims. Then the state can support them all they want. People are really getting fed up with this crap.
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Again, a great pitch for there being a Second Court of the United States, composed of 100 State judges appointed by the State legislatures.
Located between the SCOTUS and the federal District Courts, they would not be a federal court, and would not determine if something was constitutional.
Their purpose would be to balance the federal judiciary, by taking State cases, improperly taken by federal judges, out of the hands of federal judges, and returning them to the States.
In this case, if other States backed Oklahoma in this action, Oklahoma would have a law its people wanted, even though a federal judge didn't like it.
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"given that there is no apparent danger of foreign law becoming binding on the state"
I beg to differ. In Germany courts have already accepted certain Sharia regulations. For example a judge ruled that the first wife of a Muslim living in Germany had to share her pension with the other wives of her husband thus accepting polygamy, which is legal in Muslim states but not in Germany.
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The Ugandan wife of an American-born man who pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists entered her own guilty plea on Monday.
Proscovia Kampire Nzabanita, dressed head-to-toe in conservative Muslim dress with her face covered, pleaded guilty to making a false statement when questioned by a federal investigator about her husband, Zachary Chesser.
Chesser, 20, was accused of posting an online attack against the creators of the animated TV series "South Park" due to the program's depiction of the Prophet Mohammed.
On October 20, Chesser agreed to plead guilty to the terrorist support charge, as well as charges of communicating threats and soliciting crimes of violence. He will be sentenced in January, and is expected to receive a sentence of at least 20 years in prison.
As part of Chesser's plea agreement, federal authorities agreed not to seek charges of aiding and abetting against Nzabanita, 26, who faces sentencing on January 28 for her guilty plea Monday.
According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, Nzabanita will serve no prison time but must leave the United States within 120 days and give up her legal status.
Federal Judge Gerald Bruce Lee allowed Nzabanita to remain free on bail of $250,000 and ordered that she reside with her mother as her guardian until the sentencing.
The news release from the U.S. Attorney's office said Nzabanita was questioned on July 21 by a Secret Service special agent outside her residence in northern Virginia.
In her plea agreement, Nzabanita admitted she lied in that interview by saying Chesser had attempted to fly to Uganda on July 10 to retriever her birth certificate, according to the news release. In reality, Chesser planned to ultimately make his way to Somalia to help the terrorist group al-Shabaab, the news release said.
According to an affidavit, Chesser tried to take his infant son with him on the trip, telling his wife it was part of his "cover" to make it less likely anyone would suspect he was trying to go to Somalia to join al-Shabaab.
Court documents said Chesser was not allowed to depart the country July 10 but was told by the airline he was on the "no-fly list" and was questioned by a Secret Service agent.
Prosecutors also said Chesser, of Fairfax County, Virginia, had exchanged e-mails with Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, whose name has been linked to an attack and an attempted attack on the United States.
A Saudi Arabian terror suspect imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay welcomed being waterboarded because it allowed him to fulfil his religious duty, George W. Bush has claimed.
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The "claim" comes from the statements of the jihadi himself, of course.
Weird, innit, that the press will believe every ludicrous complaint a jihadi makes ("They flushed the Koran! And a bear! Then they made me eat an entire pony -- LIVE!"), but won't believe it when a jihadi says we did something effective.
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(KUNA) -- US supports Indias claim for a permanent membership in the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Security Council (UNSC), said American President Barack Hussein Obama on Monday while addressing a joint session of Indian Parliament in New Delhi.
Obama is the second US President to address the joint session of the Indian Parliament after Bill Clinton, who did the same in 2000.
Acknowledging India as an already emerging world power, he said: "I look forward to a reformed United Nations that includes India as a permanent member.
" He said India is indispensable for American vision of a peaceful world order while continuing with its fight against global terrorism, and without any human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... violations. "Many Indians died in 9/11 air attack in the US and similarly many Americans died in the 26/11 terror attack in Indias Mumbai two years ago. This is what binds us together in realizing our common agenda of fight against terror," said Obama while condemning all forms of terrorism.
India is the worlds largest democracy which has grown in the 60 years after Independence and developed the worlds biggest middle-class, he said and added: "India is an ancient civilization which has shaped the world for centuries. Your greatest resource is your people. You have set an example of growth all these years. Instead of slipping into starvation, you started Green Revolution to feed your huge population. Instead of depending on imports, you invested in science and technology and became the engine of growth."
The American President also laid stressed on Indo-US cooperation in the fields of civil-nuclear energy, agriculture, education, health, space technology, food-security, and information technology. Committing full support to Indias growth and its citizens, the visiting President said: "We will be right there with you, shoulder to shoulder. We believe in your promises. We share common aspirations."
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POTUS Bammer also repor wants a STRONGER, MORE EFFECTIVE + LEGITIMATE, etc. UNO.
while seemingly also telling Indjuh = India
* ION FREEREPUBLIC > OBAMA BOWS AGAIN AT INDIAN PARLIAMENT, ACKNOWLEDGES DECLINE OF US DOMINANCE.
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Obama is trying to wrestle the Indian arms market away from the Euros and Ruskies. On top of that he's hoping to charm the Parliment into relaxing their industrial liability laws.
How's that Nobel Peace Prize working for ya now?
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Also he is trying to continue to bring India into our sphere so we can have a nice ring of alliances around China and another ally against radical islam.
Aaaannndd his ass-hat advisers keep fucking shit up by insulting their hosts.
[Geo TV] Pakistain on Monday said US President Barack B.O. Obama's endorsement of India's bid for permanent membership of the UN Security Council would add to the "complexity" of efforts to revamp the world body's most powerful organ. Yep. Tightened the old turban right up.
In a statement issued shortly after Obama backed India's efforts to get permanent membership of the UN Security Council during an address to Indian Parliament, Foreign Office front man Abdul Basit said that the US should revisit its stance and "take a moral view" instead of basing itself on "any temporary expediency". "If they can be on the Security Council why can't we?"
"Pakistain believes that US endorsement of India's bid for its permanent seat in the Security Council adds to the complexity of the process of reforms of the Council," the Foreign Office front man Abdul Basit said in a statement.
"Pakistain hopes that the United States, which contributed immensely to the founding of the UN system and, in particular, its Charter Principles, will take a moral view and not base itself on any temporary expediency or exigencies of power politics," it added.
The statement also said that despite India's aspirations "for recognition as a global power", there were "reasons enough to discredit this proposed direction of the process of UNSC reforms such as India's conduct in relations with its neighbours and its continued flagrant violations of Security Council resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir".
Noting Obama's expression of support for a permanent seat for India in any reformed Security Council, he pointed out that the US itself "has acknowledged that UN Security Council reform is a difficult process and will take significant time".
Pakistain's position on UN Security Council reforms is based on principles, the front man said.
"Any reform of the Council that contradicts the very fundamental principles of the UN Charter, including the principle of sovereign equality, of equal rights and self-determination, and the principle of collective security, would gravely undermine the system of international relations based on the UN Charter principles," he said.
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ION "COMPLEXITY" WAFF > XI JINPING: CHINA'S HEIR APPARENT, to HU JINTAO.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > RUSSIA + CHINA JOIN AGZ JAPAN FOR DOMINANCE IN THE PACIFIC.
ARTIC = Moscow + Beijing desire to ELIMINATE JAPAN'S INFLUENCE, CONTROL OR ISOLATE THAT OF THE US.
* SAME > THE LESSONS THAT CHINA CAN LEARN FROM JAPAN: CHINESE GLOBAL BRANDS IS 10 YEARS OFF: EX-SONY CHIEF [Nobuyaki Idel].
ARTIC = CHINA must Must MUST M-U-S-T go through + learn, etc. what what JAPAN did 20-30 years ago as per the LEARNING, OPER CURVES PERTINENT TO INDUSTRY + GLOBALIZATION, ESPEC IFF CHINA HOPES TO SUCCESSFULLY MODERNIZE AND BECOME A TRUE GLOBAL POWER.
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The US PENTAGON > says that KABUL = AFGHANISTAN should be ready to handle their own domestic security, including for anti-Insurgency/Terrorism, come Year 2014.
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Looks like Zero is following W's lead correctly on one more significant issue. He's not doing too badly on the WoT front; India is important in many more ways though. Much as we ridicule the Administration's excesses and idiocies on the big State visit to India, it is still a correct and important thing to do.
[Al Jazeera] Iraqi politicians have begun a meeting aimed at breaking an eight-month deadlock over the formation of a new government and assure Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's incumbent prime minister, a second term in office.
Monday's meeting, hosted by Massoud Barzani, the Kurdish regional president, in the Kurdish capital Irbil, is expected to last for two days and will aim to create a government of national unity, including Shias, Sunnis and Kurds.
Iraq has been without a government since elections on March 7, when the Sunni dominated Iraqiya bloc won 91 seats and al-Maliki's State of Law took 89. Despite months of political horse-trading and backroom negotiations, neither side has been able to secure a governing majority in the parliament, leaving the country in political paralysis.
Many analysts say the next government needs a component that represents the country's minority Sunnis if it is going to try and heal old sectarian wounds. They argue that excluding Iraqiya from power could anger its Sunni voters and reinvigorate a Sunni backlash.
US pressure Hillary Clinton, ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill... the US secretary of state, said on Monday that the US hopes Iraq's political factions are near the end of their haggling and close to forming an inclusive government that represents all interests.
"It is fair to say that we have been consistently urging the Iraqis to have an inclusive government that reflects the interests and needs of the various segments of the population, that there had to be legitimate power-sharing amongst different groups and individuals," Clinton said.
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Iranian Fars News reported Tuesday that the al-Quds Brigade has threatened Israel over the possibility of an attack on the Gaza Strip.
Their spokesman, Abu Ahmad, said that the al-Quds Brigade sees recent statements by Israeli leaders as evidence that Israel is planning an attack.
"Resistance groups have grown capable enough to reciprocate the Zionist regime's attacks with qualitatively heavy blows Israel's sensitive and strategic points," said Ahmad.
(KUNA) -- For the first time since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000, there is not a single security suspect being sought by Israel in the northern West Bank, Haaretz published Monday.
In the southern West Bank, there are only a few names on the security establishment's wanted list, according to the Israeli daily newspaper.
The situation is a reflection of both the improved security situation in the West Bank and the increasing cooperation between Israeli and Paleostinian Authority security forces, it said.
Israel growing coordination with Paleostinian security forces, which expelled local cells of the Fatah military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and were jugged for few months by Paleostinian security, it noted.
Israel has assassinated and jugged a number of wanted people on the list, the last liquidation was of three in Nablus, it explained.
Israel has carried out the policy of liquidations in the second Intifada through the bombing of houses and cars, which led to the death of a large number of muscle.
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It's much more efficient to have a list of Paleos who won't have their best hour by being a centerpiece of a funeral.
(KUNA) -- Israeli committee of construction and planning said it published sketches of around 1,000 new housing units in Jabal Abu Ghneim, or Har Homa, in occupied Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Haaretz online newspaper said Monday the discussions over the new housing units were completed two years ago, however the committee decided to publish the sketches to receive objections from the public.
The committee plans to build 930 housing units in Jabal Abu Ghneim.
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[Al Arabiya] Jordan's boycott by Islamists of Tuesday's general election means they may now resort to a tougher stance outside parliament, posing a threat to stability in the kingdom, analysts said.
"The Islamists now might weigh the option of adopting a tough opposition which could cross or ignore some red lines" traditionally respected in their relationship with the state, Oreib Rintawi, director of the al-Quds Center for Political Studies, told AFP.
"If this happens, we will see a new era in relations between the Islamists and the state, as well as extreme elements seeking to promote their ideology and type of opposition."
A former official agreed with Rintawi. "If the Islamists continue to boycott the legislature, they might seek to take underground action, and the country could ultimately face the risk of becoming unstable," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered...
But the government appeared confident, with Information Minister Ali Ayed saying he was "not worried at all about such a scenario."
"As much as we respect the freedom of expression, we expect it to remain within the framework of the law," he told AFP.
The Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political arm of Jordan's Mohammedan Brotherhood, is boycotting the election in protest at the constituency boundaries set for the polls.
It says these over-represent rural areas considered loyal to the government at the expense of urban areas regarded as Islamist strongholds.
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Compare wid STRATEGYPAGE > ISRAEL BRACES FOR IRANIAN RAIN OF FIRE.
ARTIC = Iran MASTER WAR PLAN = HAMAS, HIZBOLLAH, SYRIA, + IRAN roughly firing all of their LR Rockets, BMS at Israel, causing such damage to same that a massive Muslim Ground = Conventional Forces invasion agz Israel may not even be necessary., ISRAEL FEARS THE HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE, SYRIAN "WILD CARD" IN IRAN'S OBEJCTIVES.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [IslaminEurope] OSLO: IRAN PREPARING NORWAY MUSLIMS FOR ACTION [direct action = violent Jihad]???, vee IRAN-sponsored, NORWAY-ALLEGED "RADICAL/EXTREMIST" SHIA IMMAMS = IDEOLOGUES sent by Iran to mentor Norway's Muslim population.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > UK: MUSLIMS MUTILATE BODIES FOR FAITH [dedicated Self-flagellataion/
mutilation in Anti-Western fervor].
* SAME > ERDOGAN IS THE NEW SALADDIN OF THE MUSLIM WORLD.
Will MAJOR MUSLIM STATES, e.g. TURKEY + IRAN + PAKISTAN, etal. collude to form a UN-STYLE, MUSLIM-ONLY GLOBAL "UNITED MUSLIM ORGANIZATION" in competition with + parallel to a secular UNO???
* SAME > [Todays Zaman] CYPRUS MAY NEED PARTITION, SAYS UK'S STRAW, iff ongoing Greece-Turkey negotiations fail.
UN = UNSC may have to "BITE DA BULLET" for peace in Cyprus.
(KUNA) -- President Bashar Al-Assad discussed on Monday with Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry the bilateral relations between Damascus and Washington.
Kerry affirmed the importance of continuing to work with Syria to establish security and stability and achieve peace in the region.
On his part, President Al-Assad lauded the US President Barack B.O. Obama's desire to achieve peace in the region, reiterating Syria's desire and pursuit of just and comprehensive peace, saying that the true problem is the Israeli side that rejects peace, Syrian News Agency (SANA) quoted him as saying.
Talks during the meeting dealt with regional issues, particularly Leb and Iraq, and the importance of reaching solutions that guarantee the security and stability of these two countries and the region, SANA added.
On his part, Kerry briefed President Al-Assad on the results of his visit to Sudan, where Al-Assad stressed the necessity of uniting efforts to preserve the unity and stability of this country.
The meeting was attended by Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moallem, Presidential Political and Media Advisor Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, and Deputy Foreign Minister Dr. Faisal Miqdad.
Eariler this year, President Al-Assad discussed with Kerry the prospects of the peace processor, stressing the gravity of Israel's continuing rejection of the requirements of peace.
Kerry arrived earlier on Monday to Damascus as part of his regional tour that included Sudan, and Leb.
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I wonder if this is like Teddy Kennedy's letter to the Soviets, offering to betray the US, to prevent Reagan from deploying missile defenses in Europe?
[Emirates 24/7] Leb cannot change the course of a tribunal investigating the killing of statesman Rafik Al Hariri, a leading US senator said on Monday in comments acknowledging sectarian tensions over expected indictments.
Shia, Iranian-backed Hezbullies is trying to block the tribunal, attempting to curb its financing and calling on Lebanese to halt cooperation with it after it emerged that members of the group may be indicted for the 2005 attack.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday the court was moving to indict between two and six members of Hezbullies by the end of the year.
Sunni, Western-backed Prime Minister Saad Al Hariri supports the UN-backed court investigating his father's death, and cooperation with the tribunal is enshrined in the policy statement of the government, of which Hezbullies is a member.
Diplomats and politicians have previously said indictments may surface by early next year. As they approach, sectarian tensions have risen and political disputes between the Hariri and Hezbullies camps have escalated.
"Prime Minister Hariri doesn't have the power to change the tribunal," said John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"Leb doesn't have the power to change the tribunal because it was created by the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society at the request of this country," Kerry said after meeting Hariri and before heading on to Damascus.
Hezbullies, which considers the court a tool of US and Israeli policy, has called on Hariri to repudiate the tribunal, whose investigation first pointed the finger at Syria.
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If we had to choose between the government and the Special Tribunal for Leb, then it would be better to have no government, and let no one think that we can be blackmailed, Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense ... announced Monday. "Let them refrain from using the provocative approach with us," Geagea added.
In a chat with news hounds, Geagea reminded that "the popular majority, using the Taef Accord's logic, was with us (March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... forces), and we gained the majority in Parliament, and we're not willing to speak contrary to this logic."
"Any mulling of a new Taef must be collectively made by all Lebanese parties, and I don't believe that any party is willing to raise a new problem by reconsidering the basis of the Lebanese regime," Geagea added.
As the LF leader said that a major maneuver was taking place "in a bid to refer the case of martyr premier Rafik Hariri and all martyrs once again to the Lebanese Judiciary," ... whose judges are more susceptible to control and intimidation...
he reminisced that "the Lebanese had exerted their utmost efforts in order to establish the STL and fulfill justice."
Commenting on Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem's ... Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... latest remarks that the March 8 camp ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hezbullies and its allies, so-called in commoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... has the popular majority, Geagea called on the top Hizbullah official to "re-examine the results of the 2009 parliamentary elections."
As to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner recent remarks about a "new Taef Accord," Geagea said: "Minister Kouchner did not raise anything in this regard during our meeting."
Answering a question about "STL's politicization, especially after U.S. official John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry said that the indictment will not accuse a community or a party, but rather individuals," Geagea reminisced STL Prosecutor Danielle Bellemare's remarks, "which all were in that vein."
He noted that some Western officials were only echoing what Bellemare has personally revealed.
As to a potential strife in the Christian arena after Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji vowed to confront any possible discord, Geagea ruled out any potential strife, "neither in the Christian arena, nor in the national arena given the State's stance in this regard."
Also Monday, Geagea held talks in Maarab with Saudi Ambassador to Leb Ali Awadh Assiri, who described the Lebanese as "intelligent."
"It is impossible that they don't reach what benefits this country," Assiri added.
The ambassador conveyed the hopes of King of the Arabians Abdullah to "see all political forces sitting at one table, because a Lebanese solution is what will remain and last, rather than a solution imported or imposed on the Lebanese."
Asked about the meeting that gathered him to the ambassadors of Iran and Syria, Assiri said: "A friendly relation connects us as ambassadors, and the meeting was social and brotherly because our concerns and efforts are common, on the grounds that Leb deserves more time to resolves its issues."
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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.
Nigerian police have arrested 23 more members of a radical Muslim sect responsible for targeted murders in northern Nigeria. The new arrests bring the number of Boko Haram (loosely translated as "Western education is sacrilege") sect members detained to 128.
Former British MP and Respect Party leader 
Iranian Fars News reported Tuesday that the al-Quds Brigade has threatened Israel over the possibility of an attack on the Gaza Strip.
