The article reads like a corporate personnel promotion announcement.
Summary: two newly promoted Numbers 2.5 for our guys to play with: Abdul Qayum Zakir, field commander, and Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, finances and logistics. They replace Mullah Omar's former Number Two, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, arrested a year ago. Now all they need do is figure out how to recruit without acquiring more unnoticed spies, and how to communicate without being caught by spy satellites and UAV missiles. Other Taliban have been promoted to replace Mansoor and Zakir, and others wanted the post.
[Pak Daily Times] South Sudan leaders warned against premature independence celebrations on Tuesday as the slow process of collating the result of last week's vote ground on amid indications of a landslide.
Information minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said that any triumphalism about the separation of the mainly Christian, African south from the mainly Arab, Mohammedan north risked sparking a "miscarriage" for their nascent state.
"The opinion polls indicate that the south will definitely vote for a state of their own but we must still wait for the final result," the minister said. "Don't dance and beat drums and celebrate before the baby is born in case there may be a miscarriage."
Benjamin called on southerners to be particularly careful about any crowing in front of northerners still in the south, nearly all of whom were excluded from voting in the referendum by the registration criteria.
"The north Sudanese who are here, these people are here to stay. They have the right as much as you (have) as citizens of Sudan," he said.
On the other hand, Sudanese security officers jugged opposition leader Hassan al Turabi from his Khartoum home early on Tuesday just hours after he warned in an AFP interview of a Tunisia-style uprising.
Turabi's detention shortly before 1:00am was part of a wave of arrests against members of his Popular Congress Party (PCP), his son Siddig al Turabi said, as Sudan stands at a crossroads following a landmark southern independence vote expected to lead to the partition of Africa's largest nation.
The Sudan Media Centre, a news agency close to the Khartoum security services, said that Turabi's latest arrest followed the "confessions" of senior leaders of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement, captured in the western region of Darfur, that he "guided and financed" them.
A front man for the JEM, the most heavily armed of the Darfur rebel groups fighting government troops and allied militias for the past eight years, described the accusation as a "total fabrication".
A Turabi aide said the long time kingpin turned bitter critic of President Bashir's regime had been nabbed at his home in the Sudanese capital.
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[Arab News] Al-Qaeda is at a loss because of a series of blows the group has received at the hands of Saudi security forces, said an ex-militant on Tuesday.
Speaking on Tuesday on the Homomna (Our Concerns) program on Saudi TV's Channel 1, former turban Hani Al-Mulla said Al-Qaeda has suffered major setbacks and that the Death Eaters are now resorting to desperate measures.
"The hard boyz now wear women's clothes to avoid security checks and also resort to illegal means to obtain money," he said.
The brave lions of Islam are nothing more than cross-dressing criminals? How decadent!
Al-Mulla said the organization is also "intellectually distorted" and that it has deviated from Jihad to liberate countries or spread the word of God to undermining renowned scholars and considering anyone who is not with them as kafirs (or disbelievers).
He added that the most obvious feature that characterizes hard boyz is shallowness and lack of depth in understanding religion. "The grip was tightened against Al-Qaeda members to the point that they have become secluded and isolated," he said.
Al-Mulla said Al-Qaeda began to recruit young people between 15 and 25 years of age who are very emotional and easily moved.
As most cults do.
"These young people can be made to move and kill on showing them a picture of a person slain in the battlefield," he said, describing young hard boyz as disillusioned and misguided.
He said most Saudi Al-Qaeda members were former Mujahideen who visited Afghanistan for Jihad and returned to normal lives in the Kingdom.
"Their minds were contaminated by wrong fatwas, which turned them into hard boyz willing to destroy their own country," Al-Mulla said.
He said those Saudi youths who fought in Afghanistan for a just cause against the Soviets later became contaminated and turned into terrorists.
The former turban said most Al-Qaeda members were made to read a very superficial book by Salman Al-Alwan titled "Tibyan in Explaining the Shortcomings of Islam," which brands anyone a kafir. "Al-Qaeda members have been influenced by this shallow and krazed killer book," he said.
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North Korea has six concentration camps for political prisoners with about 154,000 inmates, a South Korean government source said Tuesday. The number of inmates is a little smaller than the 200,000 estimated by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in January last year.
"The North once operated 10 such camps," the source added. "But it seems to have closed four near the Chinese border around 1990, when international human rights organizations made an issue of its prison camps and called for a fact-finding mission."
The six camps are No. 14 camp in Kaechon and No. 18 camp in Pukchang, South Pyongan Province; No. 15 camp in Yodok, South Hamgyong Province; and No. 16 camp in Hwasong, No. 22 camp in Hoeryong, and No. 25 camp in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province.
There are two kinds of political prison camps: permanent camps where inmates are locked up their entire life, and a re-education camp where they can be released after a long stint of forced labor. No. 15 camp in Yodok is the only re-education camp. In the others, the prisoners are interned with three generations of their family. Forced labor, torture and violence are routine there.
The North denies the existence of the camps, but there is increasing awareness in the international community, the source said.
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My guess is that they closed the political Prisoner cities (not camps) near the border because it was too easy for prisoners and guards to defect across the border and make their way to South Korea - to kimmie-boy's embarrassment.
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There's going to be a lot of face to lose for the government of China when North Korea finally collapses (or worse, explodes in a blaze of glory evil).
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"I thought Kimmie threatened to execute local leaders if anyone died of starvation."
Goodness! Look at the heart attack rate in NorK! They must have some very unhealthy eating habits. Perhaps Mrs. Bambi can go over there and set them straight exhort eating healthy food.
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I thought Kimmie threatened to execute local leaders if anyone died of starvation.
Probably a lot of "they just wandered off and probably fell into an old mineshaft/the sea/a pack of wolves"...
Seoul and Washington have started talks to revise a bilateral accord that limits South Korea's ballistic missile range to 300 km.
"The two sides have recently started talks on the revision of the missile accord because there is now some consensus between them," a government source said. "The talks are still in their initial stage, so it remains to be seen how much we can increase the range and payload weight."
The accord, signed in 1979, was revised once before in 2001. It limits the range of South Korea's ballistic missiles to 300 km and their payload weight to 500 kg, preventing Seoul from matching the range of missiles to those North Korea has been developing.
Seoul proposed the revision talks to Washington after the North tested a long-range ballistic missile in April 2009. But U.S. military leaders including U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Walter Sharp are against a revision.
South Korean military and some experts stress the need to increase the range to more than 1,000 km, which would bring all of North Korea within reach from the south coast, and the payload weight to more than 1 ton.
The North has deployed ballistic missiles with a maximum range of 3,000 to 4,000 km warfare ready, but South Korean ballistic missiles, such as Hyunmu and ATACMS, have the range of a mere 165 to 300 km.
I think it would be just fine if the South Koreans had a missile that had a range of 4,000 km, but let's ask Beijing.
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In related news, the NFL has contacted the Green Bay Packers to negotiate rules limiting the lenght of a pass to 20 yards or less with a violation requiring the immediate ejection from the game the player who throws the ball past set limit. In return the NFL has promised to have the correct number of qualified referees on the field and continue to promote the Packers.
Chicago, who consider themselves the underdogs in the upcoming matchup, welcome the news as most equal, and promise a statement immediately following the game.
ION CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > PLA DIRECTS CHINA'S [controls?]FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS INSTREAD OF CCP.
and
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > ASEAN: BREAKTHROUGH NEEDED FOR SOUTH CHINA SEA TALKS.
Methinks safe to say ditto for ALL CAMPS, ESPEC CHINA, as per NE Asia + East China Sea, not just the SCS.
* SAME > SINO-US DEFENSE + OFFENSE STRATEGY IN THE WEST PACIFIC.
USAF, USN "Air Sea Battle" Oplan favoring
> Regional "Active Defense" to deter andor defend agz Rising China + PLA.
> "Hardening" of Theater, Regional EMW, SIGINT, + related SPAWAR, ETC. AGZ LR BM, CM MISSLE STRIKES, focii on BASE BALLISTIC MISSLE DEFENSE.
> DEMANDS FOR INCREASED INTEL ON AIRFIELDS.
Wehell, does affirm some OLD PERSONAL DREAMS/VISIONS OF MINE + GUAM TAOTAMONAS.
NEVER DOUBT THE GHOST!
* SAME > SOUTH KOREA WILL ESTABLISH THE MILITARY FORTRESS DEFENSE IN NORTHWEST ISLAND, by 2015 as per five Islands in West Sea.
* SAME > US, JAPAN CONDUCT AMPHIBIOUS DRILLS.
Nippon + JSDFS in 2010 finally succeed in invading CONUS = San Diego, CA.
* TOPIX > JAPAN CALLS FOR NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE.
Nice try, but I don't think SSSSSSSSHHHHHH-WE'RE-ANTI-AMERICA-YOU-KNOW-CHINA NORTH KOREA, + espec ANTI-"FIRST ISLAND CHAIN", ANTI-US CHINA + PLA, will go for it.
Again, IMO only iff the US GOVT = POTUS BAMMER? agrees to fully withdraw its Milfors from SOUTH KOREA, + mostly or wholly withdraw same from JAPAN, plus other concessions. CHINA IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY TO ACCEPT ANY FORM OF DPRK-ROK REUNIFICATION OTHERWISE, which for North Korea = IT CONTINUES TO STARVE OR CHINA TAKES IT OVER, MILITARILY OR BY NORMAL ECONOMIC FACTORS [Sino-DPRK Free Trade = FTA].
AS PER MSM-NET CRITICISMS AGZ POTUS BAMMER, CHINA > ITS TIME = BEST OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE US OUT OF THE ROK + JAPAN [TAIWAN, etc?] IS NOW, i.e. WHILE AN ALLEGEDLY ANTI-US? POTUS BAMMER IS IN THE WH.
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Lest we fergit, NET > Various Analysts claim that POTUS Bammer may need up to US$1.0BILYUHN in new Campaign funding, including US Govt "MATCHING FUNDS", to WIN FORMAL RE-ELECTION = SECOND POTUS TERM IN 2012 + SERVE AS SAME THRU 2016.
$$$ which CHINA controls a lot of.
* ABOVE NET > POTUS OBAMA AS A "ONE-TERM" POTUS ONLY? = IMO only means that BOTH NORTH KOREA + CHINA WILL PREFER TO ESCALATE MILPOL TENSIONS IN NE ASIA AGZ US-ALLIES, TO EXPLOIT A "WEAK" OR "LAME DUCK", "ONE-TERMER" POTUS BAMMER???
[Tolo News] Illegal Afghan Immigrants in Australia will be forcibly repatriated to their homeland under a new refugee deal.
Afghan government along with United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Australia have signed an agreement about obligatory return of Afghan illegal asylum seekers in Australia.
But officials here in Kabul argued that the deal would be fruitful to asylum seekers down in Australia.
Based on the deal all Afghan refugees who failed to qualify as asylum seekers in Australia will be even forced to return to their homeland.
A top official at Afghan Refugee Ministry said there is no part in the agreement about obligatory repatriation of Afghan refugees to Afghanistan.
"The agreement only focuses on voluntary repatriation of Afghan refugees. The deal said Australia prefers that repatriation is done voluntarily," Abdul Rahim, Deputy Afghan Refugee Minister, said. "This is what UNHCR insists on and this is what we want considering the current situation in Afghanistan."
According to the deal, refugees who have failed to qualify as asylum seekers in Australia will be given another chance for their cases to be reopened, said officials at Afghan foreign ministry.
"Considering returnees' rights to Afghanistan, based on the agreement the repatriation should happen based on their will," foreign ministry spokesperson, Ahmad Zaher Faqiri, said.
According to the agreement, more efforts will be made to build capacities in Afghan government institutions to prepare the ground to solve problems that make Afghans leave their country.
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After receiving threats and two suspicious letters Tuesday, the National Archives of Canada cancelled the screening of a controversial documentary that critiques Irans nuclear weapons program, a move that has organizers doubting questioning the national librarys manhood autonomy. Looks like they're risk-management drones now.
The Free Thinking Film Societys showing of Iranium prompted so many complaints some of them from the Iranian Embassy that staff thought it necessary to close the entire building at 396 Wellington St. in Ottawa, just steps from the Supreme Court of Canada and Parliament Hill at 4:45 p.m., said archives spokeswoman Pauline Portelance. And run across the street and hide behind the bushes.
Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest, we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high, she said. Just barely enough to abdicate autonomy.
At approximately 5:30 p.m., Ottawa Police swept in with its Hazmat team to investigate two letters they said could be tied to the threats of protest the National Archives staff received. Letters that managed to work their way through the postal system but were far too hazardous to put in a tupperware container.
There were threats of protest, so theyve cancelled the movie and these [letters] were delivered two hours ago to the mailroom, said Sergeant Jeff Pilon. Or so they say. Had the letters actually existed, the only thing that would have been left would have been a smoking crater in the ground that.
By 7 p.m., the letters were cleared and considered not suspicious at all. So now you're going to screen the movie because you're not pansies anymore, right?
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And they don't have a muslim terrorist problem.
And and any muslim terrorists that they do have certainly wouldn't harm anybody.
And if their muslim terrorists were to harm anyone, they wouldn't use a bomb.
And if their muslim terrorists were to try to harm someone using a bomb or biological agent, the bomb or biological agent would be assembled by unskilled hands and wouldn't explode or infect someone.
And if their muslim terrorists were to harm someone using a bomb or biological agent that was assembled by unskilled hands that exploded or infected someone, their healthcare would save the victims' lives.
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Well, Hussein O doesn't criticize a nuclearized Iran either. He said, "The US doesn't have a veto on the nuclear policies of other countries." Hence, the stoppable passage to nuclear tipped Ayatollah ICBMs target at YOU. Future generations will piss on the graves of those who put them in Islamonazi peril.
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So this is the new tactic of the Canadian Human Rights Commission to shut down 'hate speech' rather than further expose themselves to public ridicule? Plausible Deniability.
No one knows how many foreign workers with H-1B visas are in the United States at any given time because of "limitations in agency data," a new report says.
Congress created the H-1B visa program in 1990 so U.S. employers could hire temporary, skilled foreign workers to give their companies a competitive edge. Many H-1B workers come here to work in high-tech fields.
By law, the number of foreign workers holding H-1B visas is capped, currently at 65,000. Not "precisely", eh?
I'm actually please that we can do this well given that we can't even seem to be able to identify military personnel who are owed a $35k for being forced to remain in the military.
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There is a golden lining in this: once/as these H-1B holders are located, they could receive a $53k check; then when all the chaecks are gone, the Army can truthfully say, that all checks have been mailed, and at the same time, the HS weasels can say they have positively located XXX numbers of H1-B holders.
a win-win for Obumble
#4
Limitations in agency data? And how many millions/billions did they squander on their database? More importantly, who got the contract and who got the kickbacks?
Oussama Kassir, a Lebanese-born Swedish citizen who was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to start an Al Qaeda training camp in Oregon had his conviction upheld by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The head of Shin Bet security services said on Tuesday that al-Qaida affiliated groups were behind some of the Gaza violence, after militants set off a bomb along the Gaza-Israel border earlier in the day.
While speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Diskin said, "there are about 500 militant activists that identify with this idea there, and some are in touch with al-Qaida's regional command."
On Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces soldiers opened fire on Palestinians approaching the fence on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip near Kibbutz Kfar Aza. In a later response to the incident, the IDF said the Palestinians had detonated an explosive device near troops who were on a routine patrol of the border with Gaza. Soldiers later saw militants handling explosives and opened fire.
The violence took place despite the fact Hamas rulers urged armed groups in Gaza last week to refrain from attacking Israel, warning that continued violence could threaten an unwritten cease-fire that followed the Gaza war.
"All the factions in Gaza want an Islamic caliphate," Diskin said. "Hamas wants to achieve that through charity organizations,
An interesting claim...
while other more radical groups want the same goal through violence."
He also complained during the meeting that Egypt was not doing enough to prevent militants smuggling weapons into Gaza.
"If the Egyptians wanted to they could end weapons smuggling to Gaza in 48 hours," Diskin said. "They have only 14 kilometers of border with Gaza."
Security forces foiled 140 terror attempts out of the Gaza Strip last year, Diskin noted at the meeting.
There has been an increase in incidences of Israeli Arabs involved in terror against Israel, Diskin also noted at the meeting. Fourty-six Israeli Arabs were arrested in 2010 for involvement in terror against Israel, as opposed to the twenty-four arrested in 2009.
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AMMAN Jordans main opposition Islamic Action Front demanded on Tuesday the dissolution of parliament and removal of Samir Rifais government on allegations of fraud in November elections.
The elections were marred by fraud; we have evidence of the use of tens of thousands of fake identity cards during the electoral process, said IAF secretary general Hamzeh Mansur.
Mansur, whose remarks were reported on the IAF website, called for the fall of the government of Prime Minister Rifai. He also called for the formation of a transitional government headed by an honest national personality who enjoys the confidence of the people.
'Honest national personality'? Phil Donahue? Jerry Lewis? Jerry Springer?
The Islamist party said this transitional government should hold new elections on the basis of a law that expresses the democratic will of the people.
The IAF boycotted the parliamentary elections held on November 9 to protest at the under-representation of urban areas, where it is strong.
King Abdullah II called for amendments to the electoral law as he inaugurated the new parliament on November 28.
In his remarks on Tuesday, Mansur slammed the spread of corruption in Jordan, noting that the continuation of this phenomenon is a dangerous threat ... that opens the door to more poverty and social unrest.
Poverty levels are running at 25 percent in the desert kingdom, whose capital Amman.
That's half of what it is elsewhere in the Arab world...
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WASHINGTON In a symbolic gesture, the Palestinians have raised their flag over their diplomatic mission in Washington for the first time as they continue a push for international recognition that is complicating the Obama administrations efforts to restart stalled Mideast peace talks. Did Bambi bow to it?
At a brief ceremony on Tuesday, the Palestinians chief envoy to the United States hoisted the red, green, white and black banner outside the PLO General Delegation office. He expressed hope it would help in the Palestinian quest to win support for independence with or without a peace deal with Israel.
The United States has long said it will not recognize a Palestinian state without a deal, but several other nations have done so and the Palestinians are seeking broader support to bring the matter to the U.N. in September.
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pretty soon they'll print their own money, the "Suha"
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Thy have an Embassy and flag, but NO Nation?
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They are also lacking a beer, an airline and a football team.
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The new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee quickly criticized the act."Raising this flag in D.C. is part of the Palestinian leadership's scheme to manipulate international acceptance and diplomatic recognition of a yet-to-be-created Palestinian state while refusing to directly negotiate with Israel or accept the existence of Israel as a democratic, Jewish state," U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-FL, said in a release.
"The Palestinian leadership's ongoing drive to win recognition from foreign governments, and its latest push to condemn Israel at the U.N., is part of the same strategy aimed at extracting concessions without being required to meet international commitments," she said.
I believe the congresswoman recently made KCNA's "human scum" list. Looks like she might make the PLO's too...
Malaysian MP Teo Nie Ching was greeted by an act of "fowl play"
Yikes!
this morning, when a blood-soaked chicken, with a slit throat, was left hanging outside her office. On the door was a note which read: "Remember! This is a reminder Teo Nie Ching. Jihad army."
Teo, who considered this to be a death threat,
for some reason
filed a report with the local police headquarters.
"I received a call from a branch member at about 8 a.m., telling me about the note and the chicken found at the Sungai Chua office," Teo said.
"I think this is a death threat to me, there was also blood on the office floor," she added.
Teo refused to guess who was behind the threat, saying the police could investigate that.
"I don't want to guess or make any accusations," she said.
However, sources close to Teo said this may be related to an incident last August, where Teo got caught in a controversy after a visit to a mosque. The MP was criticised for not dressing properly.
Utusan Malaysia published a photo of her giving a speech in the prayer hall without covering her hair. Some said that Teo had committed another offense by delivering a tazkirah (sermon) during her visit, which the MP denied.
A warning was issued by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council not to repeat her mistake, and Teo apologised to the Sultan.
[Straits Times] NEGOTIATORS from the Philippines government and communist rebels agreed on Tuesday to resume peace talks after informal meetings in Norway.
The two sides signed a joint statement at the end of the five-day preparatory talks, saying they would meet again in Oslo for the actual negotiations on Feb 15-21. They agreed on an agenda and to work for the 'expeditious release' of imprisoned rebels. Negotiators said those include Tirso Alcantara, a commander on the main island of Luzon.
Alcantara, known also as Comrade Bart, was jugged just after the two sides ended a 19-day Christmas truce earlier this month. Peace talks were suspended in 2004 when the rebels withdrew, accusing the government of instigating the inclusion of the Communist Party and its armed wing on US and European lists of terrorist organisations.
The release of Alcantara and 13 other prisoners is a key issue for the talks, rebel negotiator Luis Jalandoni said, adding they should be let go before the first or the second round of the peace talks.
Three high-ranking members of the Communist Party members currently evading arrest warrants in the Philippines also should be allowed to attend the talks in Norway, Mr Jalandoni said.
'We have made our promises to try to facilitate all of this as soon as possible, but we cannot guarantee anything,' government negotiator Alexander Padilla said.
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Saudi Arabia on Wednesday abandoned efforts to mediate in Lebanon's political crisis, warning of a "dangerous" situation as all eyes turned to a Turkish-Qatari bid to defuse tensions.
In an interview with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television news channel, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said the Saudi king was "pulling his hand" from Lebanon.
He said the monarch -- whose country is a key ally of Lebanon's embattled caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri -- took the decision after Saudi-Syrian efforts for rival camps in the tiny Mediterranean country to reach a compromise failed.
Faisal said the King and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had endeavoured in recent months to address the situation in Lebanon as a "whole".
"When that did not happen, the (king) said he was pulling his hand out," Faisal said.
He added that the situation was "dangerous" and could lead to the partitioning of the multi-confessional country.
* ION JPOST > EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: DISSOLVE PARLIAMENT, + hold new Elections. Ditto as per JORDANIAN WING OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ala demands to dissolve Jrdanian Govt + hold new "democratic/popular" National Elex.
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD = US SecState HILLARY? = warns that CORRUPT ARAB-MUSLIM GOVTS, LEADERS ARE "NOT SAFE" FROM THE SEETHING "VOLCANO" [tip] THAT IS ALLAH'S + PEOPLE'S WRATH???
* HURRIYET DAILY NEWS this AM > ONLY TURKEY, QATAR [Base-too-far Qatar] REMAIN AFTER SAUDIS QUIT BERUIT TALKS.
ARTIC > SAUDI FM SAUD-AL-FAISAL = Lebanon situation is very "dangerous" as it could ultimately result in PARTITIONING OF LEBANON.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > EGYPTIANS BELIEVE THEIR TURN IS COMING. What happened in Tunisia can also happen in Egypt.
Egyptian President HOSNI MUBARAK = BEN ALI = should get ready to "leave on a jet plane".
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported that Hezbollah activists performed a drill on Monday attempting to take over the Lebanese capitol of Beirut. According to the report, the activists practiced "a real, unarmed drill meant to test their readiness to takeover Beirut and its surroundings, including airports and harbors."
There have been reports of groups of men - dressed in trademark Hezbollah black- gathering on Beirut streets on Tuesday raising tensions that later quietly dispersed. It seems that the group focused their drill on 12 strategic locations among them some UN institutions.
The drill happening soon after Special Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare submitted the indictment to the international court in The Hague after completing his investigation of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
[An Nahar] Mustaqbal bloc MP Ghazi Youssef urged on Tuesday President Michel Suleiman to intervene in halting Caretaker Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahhas' "violations" at the ministry.
He asked during a presser whether his violation of laws and reckless spending of public fund is the beginning of an unconstitutional coup.
I have a dream that one day Jake Tapper will ask Obama the same question during a presser.
He added: "Nahhas, who resigned on television, immediately started taking illegal decisions and measures that are not linked to his jurisdiction as a caretaker minister."
"Nahhas led a militia-style landing from his office on the third floor at the ministry, through an gang of his bodyguards, to the first floor of the ministry where the general directorate of investments office is located," the MP revealed.
"With the help of his militia, he broke into the offices to execute an illegal decision he had made the day he resigned," Youssef said.
The decision called for appointing four employees close to Nahhas, a matter the general director had opposed.
"Nahhas had made the general director take a forced leave of absence in order to execute his suspicious plans," the MP stated.
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I have absolutely no clue as to what this is about. No clue.
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Country: Leb? Iran? Syria?
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It's Beirut. Mustaqbal is part of the March 14th movement. The telecommunications ministry was under Hezbollah control, so the minister under the caretaker govt would also come from Hezbollah, though I don't think this guy's the original occupant. Nahhas showed up with his escort of brownshirts and the "illegal decisions" and "reckless spending" likely are associated with splitting off or covering Hezbollah's separate communications system.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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After receiving threats and two suspicious letters Tuesday, the National Archives of Canada cancelled the screening of a controversial documentary that critiques Irans nuclear weapons program, a move that has organizers 
