[Pak Daily Times] Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden's ... who is currently rooming with Hitler and Himmler... first mother-in-law died of a stroke after hearing the news that US forces killed him in Pakistain, a London-based Arabic newspaper reported on Sunday.
Nabih al Ghanem, the mother of bin Laden's first wife, Najwa, was taken to a hospital in Latakia in northern Syria where she died after suffering the stroke, the Asharq al Awsat daily said.
It said the woman in her 70s "could not bear the bad news and lost consciousness" after US President Barack B.O. Obama announced bin Laden's killing by US commandos during a raid in Pakistain on May 2. Bin Laden had married Najwa, his Syrian-born cousin, when he was 17, and they had 11 children, the paper said adding she had left Afghanistan a few days before the September 11, 2011 terror attacks on the United States and now lives in Syria.
In January last year, Asharq al Awsat reported that a son of the al Qaeda leader had been allowed to leave Iran to look for his mother in Syria. Part of the bin Laden family, whose whereabouts have been unclear since the 9/11 attacks, was in Iran, the daily said, adding that bin Laden had taken a second wife in 1983 and they had three children before divorcing.
Numerous people had lived alongside bin Laden in his dwelling in Abbottabad, Pakistain. The compound housed three of his wives and a dozen of their children, according to Pak authorities. At least five people were killed during the US assault: bin Laden, whose body was taken by the Americans, one of his sons, his two bodyguards -- known as the "Kuwaitis" -- and a woman, according to Pak security sources.
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One can only hope that in the end she was glad her daughter and eleven grandchildren hadn't joined that man in his squalid life in hiding from the Americans.
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Moo-mar says they're all al Qaeda, the locals say they're just anti-Gadaffi, who hates all of them.
Half a dozen Italian nuns have lived here peacefully as long as anyone can remember. Mother Superior Celeste, 74, from Vicenza, snorts at the notion that the rest of the world should be afraid of Derna or that her adopted home was a hotbed of Islamic radicalism.
"Gaddafi speaks about al-Qa'ida. But he is the terrorist. He has attacked Derna many times, attacked the houses, taken the children in the night."
She rattles off a list of the city's ailments: no work, no schools, no proper healthcare, no sport, no money. Some of the young men had chosen to die, she said, because they thought: "We are dying anyway; let us go to die in Iraq."
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Half a dozen Italian nuns have lived here peacefully as long as anyone can remember. Mother Superior Celeste, 74, from Vicenza, snorts at the notion that the rest of the world should be afraid of Derna or that her adopted home was a hotbed of Islamic radicalism.
"Palestine" is full of Foreign Christians of this type (or was before it the advent of PA rule).
[Emirates 24/7] Clashes between Mohammedans and Christians in the Egyptian capital Cairo Saturday left nine dead, more than 100 injured and a church gutted, medical and security officials said.
The two groups clashed after Mohammedans attacked the Coptic Saint Mena church in the working class neighbourhood of Imbaba to free a Christian woman they alleged was being held against her will because she wanted to convert to Islam.
A parish priest, Father Hermina, said that at least five of the dead were Copts who died when "thugs and rioters fired at them" in the late afternoon attack.
The Gospel had been laid on a body wrapped in a sheet that was lying inside the church. The church floor was bloodstained as maimed Christians were brought in for treatment. Outside, military police parked several armoured cars to block off Mohammedan protesters.
They fired their guns into the air as Christians in front of the church and Mohammedan protesters down the street hurled stones at each other. The Mohammedan protesters threw Molotov cocktails, one of them setting an apartment near the church on fire. They scuffled with soldiers, blaming them for not doing enough to protect them.
The soldiers advanced at Mohammedan protesters who edged closer to the church, firing over their heads to repel them. Special forces were later deployed outside the church.
Hermina and witnesses said the Mohammedans tried to storm the church earlier in the day, claiming the Christians were holding a Mohammedan woman.
Elsewhere in Imbaba, Mohammedan protesters threw Molotov cocktails at another church, setting it on fire, police officials said.
They said the fire was put out.
At one of the cordons outside the St Mena church, Mohammedan protesters said they were first fired upon by the Copts, after they tried to find a Christian woman they say converted to Islam and was being held inside.
"They started firing on us. We were peaceful," said one of the protesters who gave his name as Mamduh.
"We won't leave until they give up their weapons and the people who killed us are tried."
Egypt's mufti -- the government's chief interpreter of Islamic law -- Ali Gomaa condemned the festivities and said they "were toying with Egypt's national security."
The violence could not have been caused by "religious people who understand their religion, whether Mohammedan or Christian," he told the official MENA news agency.
The injured, who suffered from fractures and gunshot wounds, were taken to four city hospitals, medical officials said.
Copts account for up to 10 percent of the country's 80 million people and they complain of discrimination, and have recently been the targets of sectarian attacks.
Claims that Christian women who converted to Islam were kidnapped and held in churches or monasteries have soured relations between the two communities for months.
Egypt's military rulers had warned on May 1 of strong measures against anyone inciting sectarian strife, in a bid to ease tensions between Mohammedans and Christians.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took power after president Hosni Mubarak's ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... ouster in February, said it was "exerting all efforts to end sectarian disagreements on the Egyptian street to protect this nation."
The statement came after a series of Mohammedan-Christian festivities and amid the growing public presence of Salafis -- a puritanical Islamist sect -- since the fall of Mubarak after a wave of mass protests.
The Salafis have held protests outside the Coptic Church's headquarters in Cairo to demand the release of two women they alleged were being held after converting to Islam.
The church denies the women converted to Islam.
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Egypt's government has announced a series of security measures to curb religious violence after 12 people died in festivities in the Cairo suburb of Imbaba, sparked by rumours that Christians had kidnapped a woman who converted to Islam.
The country's army also pledged on Sunday that 190 people will be tried in military courts over Saturday's violence.
The fighting was Egypt's worst interfaith strife since 13 people died on March 9 after a church was burned, and poses a new challenge for generals ruling the country since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... the president, in February.
Tension was high and the army cordoned off streets near the Saint Mina church, where about 500 ultraconservative Salafi Mohammedans had massed on Saturday to call on Christians to hand over the kidnapped woman.
Violence had broken out as more people converged on the church on Saturday. Both sides traded gunfire, Molotov cocktails and stones, witnesses said.
Soldiers and police fired shots in the air and used teargas to separate the sides but stone-throwing went on into the night.
A power cut plunged the neighbourhood into darkness, making it harder for the security forces to quell the violence.
"Ths Salafis are being blamed, but who exactly is responsible is not clear," Al Jizz's Rawya Rageh said from Cairo.
"The violence is symptomatic of a bigger poblem. In fact, it's about increasing lawlessness in the country since the revolution, and the perception that security forces are being quite lax - not just in dealing with petty crime but with sectarian tension."
Later on Sunday, hundreds of young Christian men ran through central Cairo towards the main state television building calling for the removal of Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who leads the military council ruling Egypt.
A crowd of Mohammedan men met them and some sought to calm the Christians' anger but fights broke out and the two groups pelted each other with stones.
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They had better do it quick. Things don't look good in the near future for Egypt. They seem to be running out of food and money;
[Iran Press TV] Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces says it will put on military trial 190 people who were incarcerated during Saturday's deadly sectarian festivities.
The military said on Sunday it has ordered "the transfer of all those incarcerated in connection with events... to the Supreme Military Court, as a deterrent to all those who think of toying with the potential of this nation," AFP reported.
It added that the level of damage to places and property will be assessed, warning the Egyptian people to stand together to counter the dangers that threaten the country's decampedging revolution.
At least 12 people were killed and more than 230 others were maimed in festivities in the capital's Imbaba district on Saturday. Salafis tried to free a Christian woman from a church as they claim she was being held there against her will because she wanted to convert to Islam.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... Egypt's Justice Minister Abdel Aziz al-Gindi said after a cabinet meeting on Sunday that the transitional government would "strike with an iron hand all those who seek to tamper with the nation's security."
A night curfew has been imposed around Imbaba district.
Egypt's military took over power before former President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was tossed in February in a popular revolution.
People have since demanded that the army hand over power to a civilian rule and urged the junta to disband the military courts which they say gave unjust sentences during Mubarak's three-decade authoritarian rule.
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[An Nahar] Bahrain's military prosecutor accused 21 political activists of seeking to overthrow the ruling monarchy with the help of a "foreign terrorist group" -- an apparent reference to Hizbullah -- in a widening crackdown on a pro-reform uprising by the island nation's Shiite majority.
The charges are part of fast-moving efforts by Bahrain's authorities to prosecute opposition leaders and others after months of festivities and protests in the strategic kingdom, which is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. Late last month, a special security court set up under martial law sentenced four people to death for killing two coppers in the unrest.
The latest cases were tried by the same court, according to the state-run Bahrain News Agency. Fourteen members of the group are in jug, including several prominent Shiite political figures. The others are charged in absentia.
The allegations include seeking to topple the 200-year-old Sunni monarchy and having links to "a terrorist organization abroad working for a foreign country." No addition details were made public, but Bahrain's leaders have claimed that the Iranian-backed Hizbullah in Leb has sought to make inroads in Bahrain with the protests.
Bahrain also is locked in a deepening quarrel with Iran, which has sharply criticized the waves of arrests and the dispatch of a 1,500-strong Saudi-led force in March to prop up the monarchy.
Protests began in February -- inspired by others across the Arab world -- by Shiites demanding a greater political voice and other reforms in the tiny Gulf nation. Shiites comprise about 70 percent of Bahrain's population, but are excluded from top government and security posts. More than 30 people have died in the unrest.
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[An Nahar] King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... on Sunday ordered an early end to Bahrain's state of emergency declared in mid-March to tackle Shiite-led protests, as leading opposition figures went on trial in a court set up under the law.
The announcement came as top opposition figures appeared in the court to face charges of trying to topple the ruling Sunni monarchy and of forming a terrorist organization.
"The state of national safety is to be lifted by June 1st across the kingdom of Bahrain," said a decree issued by King Hamad, according to BNA state news agency.
The three-month state of emergency was due to be lifted on June 15 and was imposed after the kingdom called in troops from neighboring Gulf states to help quash anti-regime protests.
It was declared on March 15 and gave the commander of the Bahraini armed forces a mandate "to take the measures and procedures necessary to preserve the safety of the nation and its people."
A day earlier, Gulf troops in armored cars rolled in from across the causeway linking Bahrain to Soddy Arabia to help Manama tackle pro-democracy protests which shook the kingdom.
Under the state of emergency, Bahraini security forces cracked down on Shiite villages and incarcerated hundreds of people, many of whom have been referred to the special courts. Security forces also rounded up several opposition leaders.
Authorities said 24 people, including four coppers, were killed in the unrest.
On Sunday, 14 out of 21 people accused of plotting to topple the monarchy and forming a terrorist group appeared in the court, while the remaining seven went on trial in absentia.
Ibrahim Sharif, the Sunni leader of Waed secular group, who played a prominent role in the protest, was among the defendants in court, BNA said.
Shiite opposition Haq movement head Hassan Mashaima and Abdul Wahab Hussein, leader of Shiite movement Wafa Islamic, and Shiite rights activist Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja were also in the dock.
Only their lawyers and two members of each family of the accused were authorized to attend the trial, for which the next hearing was set for Thursday, Bahraini rights activist Nabil Rajab told Agence La Belle France Presse.
BNA said the defendants were being tried by a special court made up of two civil and one military judge, on charges filed by Bahrain's military prosecutor.
Bahraini security forces on March 16 forcibly expelled protesters from Manama's Pearl Square, the focal point of demonstrations.
The unrest in Bahrain escalated tension between the Arab monarchies of the Gulf and their Shiite neighbor Iran, which slammed the heavy-handed crackdown on co-religionists in the kingdom.
Tehran has repeatedly called for a pullout of Gulf troops from Bahrain and urged Manama to respond to the "legitimate" demands of protesters.
On Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi warned during a visit to the United Arab Emirates that the continued presence of Gulf troops would "intensify the crisis."
Gulf nations, meanwhile, have called on Tehran not to meddle in Bahraini affairs, while Manama and Tehran have mutually expelled diplomats.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ... a Pakistani catspaw remaining active in Bangla politix, loosely affiliated with the Pak religious party of the same name and closely affiliated with most of the terror organizations in Bangla. A member of the BNP's four party governing coalition.... Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed yesterday said he regrets his anti-liberation role in 1971 and explained that it was played "out of emotion", said the agency probing war crimes.
The Jamaat leader made the statement during a daylong interrogation by the investigation agency at a "safe home" at the capital's Dhanmondi.
He, however, denied his involvement in killing and other crimes against humanity during the Liberation War.
Jamaat-e-Islami, an anti-liberation force, remains unremorseful and unapologetic till date for its misdeeds of that time.
Mojaheed in November 2007 claimed that Jamaat never worked against the independence and there is no such thing as war criminals in the country. "In fact, anti-liberation forces never even existed," said the Jamaat leader.
The investigation agency said they would again appeal to the International Crimes Tribunal for permission to quiz Mojaheed as he yesterday avoided several significant queries on his anti-liberation role.
The investigation team got some significant information from him [Mojaheed], said M Sanaul Huq of the five-member team after the interrogation ended at 5:15pm.
Talking to news hounds, Huq, however, declined to disclose further information.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee yesterday in separate petitions pleaded with the court not to interrogate them in connection with war crimes charges anymore.
Talking to The Daily Star, a member of the investigation agency on condition of anonymity said the Jamaat leader admitted that genocide and other atrocities took place during the Liberation War.
Mojaheed said he was in Dhaka during the war time and was also a leader of Islami Chhatro Sangho. But he denied his involvement with auxiliary forces of Pak occupation army.
"When we showed books of different Pak general where his name is mentioned as Al-Badr leader, he avoided the issue," said another member of the investigation team.
He was also shown newspaper clippings of daily Sangram, mouthpiece of Jamaat, which quoted his speeches identifying him as an Al-Badr leader. He questioned the authenticity of such news and declined to comment on the matter, said the investigation member.
Like Nizami, Mojaheed also said Pak occupation army threatened him not to go against them.
Asked whether his reply was satisfactory, Sanaul Huq said, "We accepted some of his replies." But Huq did not elaborate.
Mojaheed's counsel Ahsan Kabir, who was in a room adjacent to the interrogation room, told news hounds that his client did not say anything about his involvement with Al-Badr or his role in 1971.
He, however, said the investigation team did not threat or pressurise the Jamaat leader into giving any statement.
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The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has told the White House that he intends to stand shoulder to shoulder with President Obama as the United States steps up its global hunt for leading jihadists.
It is understood that the Prime Minister has given his approval for the elite British troops to be used beyond Afghanistan in order to "decapitate" the al-Qaeda leadership.
Britain already has counter-terrorist teams located in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan and in Yemen, where they are responsible for training indigenous troops in counter-insurgency, counter-IED and counter-intelligence techniques.
Defence sources have said that the hunt for leading jihadists, such as Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, and Mullah Omar, the former Taliban leader, will continue in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.
The SAS are already working closely with the US Special Forces in Afghanistan where they have spent the last year conducting hundreds of search and destroy operations in a bid to break the back of the Taliban. In the past nine months more than 1,000 Taliban and al-Qaeda "high value targets" have been killed or captured by the multinational special operations task force.
General David Petraeus, who will take over as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency in June, developed a deep affection for the SAS when he was the coalition commander in Iraq. He often praised the role and success of Task Force Black, the counter-terrorist task forces composed of the SAS and US Delta Force commandos. Gen Petraeus also worked closely with British special forces commanders when he took over control of Nato operations in Afghanistan and sanctioned the approval of the search and destroy operations which are believed to have severely weakened the Taliban.
But a senior officer warned that despite the death of al-Qaeda's leader, the terrorist organisation will still remain a potent threat for years to come. He said: "Al-Qaeda has lost momentum, and the death of bin Laden will only make it more difficult for the organisation to conduct attacks. It will hard for al-Qaeda to find another iconic figure but despite this we should avoid talk of 'winning'.
"This is a useful military event which should be used to help deter the threat. It demonstrates the reach and persistence of the US government to achieve justice. But, overall, I believe this is a case of 'situation, no change'. This was a significant event during a long campaign."
But it is understood that the US and British special forces could also be deployed to conduct strike operations in Yemen.
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The movement was there before UBL, and will still be there. It would be nice to put the military arm of this hydra into disarray, but the movement itself needs to be discredited and to subsequently evaporate over time.
For that to happen, a few key spiritual leaders will have to be caught in a compromisins situation. Perhaps with a male goat. Some imams will need to just disappear or maybe get incurable cancer or something.
Or we could just drill and end our dependence on foreign oil.
[Al Jazeera] Thousands of Mexicans have marched into Mexico City, the capital, to protest against the wave of killings that has claimed 38,000 lives since Felipe Calderon, the president, launched his war on narco gangs in late 2006.
Local media said the march was about 20,000 strong as it closed in on the city's huge Zocolo central square.
Demonstrators, many wearing white and walking in silence, held up placards that read "Not a single more death," "Enough already" and "No more bloodshed".
"We've come from San Juan Copala [in Oaxaca state], seeking peace, because we're also suffering violence and injustice," said Mariana, a 21-year-old from the Triqui tribe, wearing indigenous clothing.
The march started on Thursday about 72km from the capital in the tourist city of Cuernavaca, which has been rocked by drug-related violence.
Javier Sicilia , the Mexican poet and journalist, called the protest after his son and six others were found killed and tortured in March near the resort city of Cuernavaca, about 90km from Mexico City.
Sicilia set off with several hundred people from Cuernavaca, and many Mexican cities also planned to hold similar protests for "peace, security and justice" on Sunday.
'Mortifying strategy'
Participants are showing their frustration with growing violence between warring narco gangs and security forces that has left thousands dead.
More than 1,400 are reported to have been killed last month.
They also called for Calderon to withdraw about 50,000 troops deployed across the country since the start of the crackdown five years ago.
"We want to give the faces, names, dates and stories of each of the 40,000 victims that this mortifying strategy has left behind," Sicilia said at the start of Sunday's march.
Helped by friends, Carlos Castro, 49, held up a large blanket with photos of his wife and two daughters.
They disappeared one January night in Xalapa, in the east of the country, and he has not heard anything of them since.
"I've not found any other way to protest, nobody has spoken to me and the authorities know nothing about them," he said.
"The idea of coming here with this blanket is to send a message to the people that have them. So they give them back to me."
Calderon's policy has led to the killing and capture of dozens of drug kingpins since December 2009 but the bloodletting has hurt Calderon's conservative party and Mexico risks losing control of large areas to narco gangs near the US border.
"We've had it with this terrible government that goes unpunished. We want peace," said Araceli Vazquez, 60, as he held up an improvised placard with his demands.
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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak announced that he is ready to invite North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il to a security summit if he agrees to renounce nuclear weapons and apologises for clashes last year.
In a Berlin news conference, South Korea's president said he would extend the invitation for the summit next March only if all the conditions were met.
"North Korea should say clearly beforehand that it renounces nuclear weapons. Only when this pledge has been made will we extend the invitation," he told reporters through a translator.
"An apology by North Korea is the basis for the six-party talks," he added.
The successful operation to kill Osama bin Laden has not changed Obama's plan to eventually close Guantanamo, Eric Holder said on Monday.
Speaking to reporters in Paris, Holder said: "It is still the intention of the president, it is still my intention, to close the facility at Guantanamo, and we will continue our efforts in that regard.
"We think that by closing that facility the national security of the United States will be enhanced," he stated, after a meeting with French Interior Minister Glaude Gueant.
When he was asked whether Bin Laden's death made it more or less likely that the jail would be closed, he said, ""I'm not sure that the death of Bin Laden will have an impact on the timing of the closure. Many of those who have opposed the closure of Guantanamo within the United States have done so on a basis that I'm not sure is affected by the death of Bin Laden."
"But the president feels, as do I, that we can close Guantanamo and maintain the safety of the American people and ultimately make the United States more secure," Holder concluded..
The US and Pakistan struck a secret deal almost a decade ago permitting a US operation against Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil similar to last week's raid that killed the al-Qaida leader, the Guardian has learned.
The deal was struck between the military leader General Pervez Musharraf and President George Bush after Bin Laden escaped US forces in the mountains of Tora Bora in late 2001, according to serving and retired Pakistani and US officials.
Under its terms, Pakistan would allow US forces to conduct a unilateral raid inside Pakistan in search of Bin Laden, his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the al-Qaida No3. Afterwards, both sides agreed, Pakistan would vociferously protest the incursion.
"There was an agreement between Bush and Musharraf that if we knew where Osama was, we were going to come and get him," said a former senior US official with knowledge of counterterrorism operations. "The Pakistanis would put up a hue and cry, but they wouldn't stop us."
Pakistani media has aired the name of a man they claim is the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief. The U.S. is looking into the matter, but says there are no plans at this time to withdraw the station chief. If the government has attempted to publicize the name, it would be the second such outing in the past six months.
The CIA declined to comment. Neither did the ISI respond to a request for comment.
The alleged name of the station chief was first reported Friday by ARY, a private Pakistani television channel. The station was reporting on a meeting between the ISI and the station chief. ARY's Islamabad bureau chief, Sabir Shakir said, "If we did not mention the man's name, the credibility of the story would have been reduced."
The story was picked up by the Nation, a newspaper that has often accused Americans in Pakistan of working for the CIA. The Nation's editor, Salim Bokhari, said he didn't know how the name became public.
"It has to have been released by some government agency. Who else would know such information," said Mr. Bokhari.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US DEFIES PAKISTAN [sovereignty] AGAIN: FIRST DRONE STRIKE SINCE BIN LADEN RAID KILLS TWELVE, "suspected Militants" in Darta Kel region of North Waziristan.
Death toll has since been reduced to EIGHT.
* SAME > WHITE HOUSE: NO APOLOGIES FOR VIOLATING PAKISTAN AIRSPACE [or SSSSHHHHH Pak sovereignty].
* TOPIX > WHITE HOUSE: DRONE STRIKES + [Abbottabad-style]SPECOP RAIDS TO CONTINUE DESPITE PAKISTAN PROTESTS.
* SAME/TOPIX > PAK AIR CHIEF: AIR DEFENSE RADARS NOT ACTIVE BEFORE BIN LADEN RAID [05/2nd] | NO FOREIGN AIR FORCES OR HELICOPTERS ALLOWED TO VIOLATE PAK AIRSPACE IN FUTURE.
Hence, of course, the post-Abbottabad US Drone strike.
PAK Air Force to shoot down US Drones from now on iff ordered by Islamabad.
* TOPIX > ANALYSTS: PAK GOVT. ROLE IN HIDING BIN LADEN SHOWS JIHADIST INFLUENCES.
Islamists, MilTerrs in the ranks.
IIUC, Radical Islam's = MilTerr's Banzai Camels,etc. wear Pak Mil Armor, Hoofs, GPS which were prolly purchased by Pak wid Milyuhns-n-Dilyuhns of US $$$ Aid???
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Better to out him in the paper than try to whack him in the street using the now-discredited "robbery gone wrong" scheme.
Assuming they don't get the head of some NGO killed, I can see a certain advantage to having the Chief of Station being well known:
"Hey, look! Isn't that the CIA Station Chief?"
"Ah, the game is afoot. Let us follow him!"
Meanwhile, on the other side of town...
[Dawn] Pakistain on Sunday said if it knew the late Osama bin Laden ... doesn't live anywhere anymore... was hiding in the country, it would have acted against the al Qaeda leader, who was taken out by US forces in an operation in Abbottabad.
"If any member of the Pak government, the Pak military or the Pak intelligence service knew where Osama bin Laden was, we would have taken action," Islamabad's ambassador in Washington Husain Haqqani told ABC This Week.
"Osama bin Laden's presence in Pakistain was not to Pakistain's advantage," he added.
Pakistain is pursuing an investigation to understand how the al Qaeda leader could have been hiding in a prominent town. It is premature to reveal the details of the investigation, said Haqqani. Punishment, if warranted, will be delivered, he added.
"Heads will roll once the investigation has been completed," Haqqani said.
"Now if those heads are rolled on account of incompetence, we will share that information with you, and if, God forbid, somebody's complicity is discovered, there will be zero tolerance for that as well."
The channel reported that Pak officials have interviewed at least one of Bin Laden's wives.
"We understand that one of the wives never left the same floor as Osama bin Laden because they were paranoid of physical movement, they didn't go to windows, they didn't have any fresh air," the Pak ambassador revealed.
US National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, appearing on the same program, said there is no indication that Pak political, military or intelligence leadership ever knew about Osama bin Laden's presence in a compound in the hilly town of Abbottabad.
Not yet, anyway.
As to whether Pakistain will grant the United States access to the wives and the material in Pakistain's position, Haqqani stuck to a diplomatic script.
"What we do, Mr. (Tom) Donilon will know," Haqqani told ABC host Ace newshound Christiane Amanpour.
Critics of the US-Pakistain alliance exist in both countries, Haqqani added, but at the end of the day, it is a mutually beneficial relationship that will continue despite "complaining and carping."
"We are allies and partners who need each other," said Haqqani.
He also asked people in the United States to understand the Pak perspective and the ground realities. Washington also has a job to reach out and clear itself to the Paks, he said.
Islamabad, he said, has noted with satisfaction that bin Laden has been eliminated but it objects to any foreign intervention into its territory.
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"We are allies and partners who need each other," said Haqqani
They need our money to survive but do we them post Afghanistan?Hence its in their interest to keep the war/jihadis going!
[Pak Daily Times] Without mentioning any further his first statement that killing of the late Osama bin Laden ... who has made the transition back to dust... was a great victory against war on terror, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani would reiterate his government's stated position in parliament on Monday (today) that no Pak intelligence agency, including the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), had the knowledge of Osama bin Laden's presence in a compound in Abbotabbad where he was killed by US SEALs on May 2.
The sources in the Prime Minister's Office told Daily Times on Sunday that the government's policy got a great support from a statement by White House National Security Adviser wherein it was admitted that Pakistain has no prior knowledge of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabd before the May 2 covert operation.
The sources said the PM's Office remained engaged in hectic activities with security officials and a presidential aide to work out the policy statement that prime minister would read out while summing up a debate about May 2 Abbottabad operation in the National Assembly on Monday.
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Uh, uh, YOUNG SHIRLEY TEMPLE + THE "BLUE BIRD OF HAPPINESS"???
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If the PM gives the "clean chit" out with his left hand, the potential receipients of such chit would be advised to say "No chit, Syedlock" or they will be chit outta luck.
[Dawn] Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali has said the intelligence agencies and the government are not on the same page as far as their policies are concerned, which is not good for the country.
He was talking to news hounds at the Allama Iqbal Airport here on Saturday where he had come to welcome his party (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Müslim League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on his return from London after undergoing a heart surgery.
Chaudhry Nisar said the intelligence agencies of Pakistain had changed the focus of their work. "The government and the agencies have separate polices which should not happen," he added.
Terming the Abbotabad operation by US forces personnel murder of Paks' honour, he said President Asif Zardari should tell the people about the facts of the incident or resign.
He said the PML-N would finalise its strategy on the issue in a meeting on Tuesday, adding Nawaz Sharif had recovered and would preside over the party meeting.
QURESHI: Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi finally declared an 'open war' on his party leadership on Saturday when he demanded resignation from President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani over Bin Laden debacle.
However, The punctuational However... he did not make such demand from the army top brass.
A visibly angry Qureshi said: "Today every Pak is angry (like him) and is feeling humiliated. Now time has come to forge national unity and there is a need to adopt a clear point of view on such matters." He was speaking at a presser at the Lahore Press Club.
Qureshi, who lost his ministry apparently for not agreeing to give diplomatic immunity to CIA spy Raymond Davis over two month ago, openly lashed out at his party leadership for the first time. Earlier, he would indirectly criticise the party leadership, especially over corruption allegation leveled against PPP-led government.
"I demand that the president and the prime minister must resign. The party's Central Executive Committee meeting should be called within seven days and I will make this demand in it too," he said.
But, when a news hound asked him that was not the violation of the Pakistain airspace (by US copters) a subject related to security forces and that could the army and ISI chiefs be absolved of the incident, Qureshi quickly responded that action should be taken against them if an inquiry held them responsible.
"Heads must roll after a thorough probe into the incident," he added.
Qureshi further said the US had crossed the "red line" by carrying out military operation to kill Bin Laden in Abbotabad without permission of Pakistain. He said Pakistain was a partner of the US in the war against militancy but, "is this (the US operation) an answer to our commitment and sacrifices?"
"We are their (the US) ally, can't they share intelligence with us," he asked. He said the prime minister should immediately call the meeting of Defense Committee of the federal cabinet over the issue.
The former foreign minister was very critical of his party co-chairman for keeping a 'mum' over the "sensitive" issue.
He said it was ironical that "President Zardari has time to write an article on the issue for a US newspaper but neither he nor the prime minister has time to take the nation into confidence."
He said "conflicting and irresponsible" statements were issued after the US operation. The prime minister congratulated the US and declared it a historic victory without thinking that it left several questions unanswered with regard to Pakistain's illusory sovereignty. "They (rulers) have taken this matter like business as usual. They are more concerned about saving their seats instead of saving the country," he said, adding if the rulers could not defend the people of Pakistain they had no right to stay in power.
He said Paks were looking for a leadership that could "feel and die" for Pakistain. "The operation is an aggression against Pakistain. No foreign army is allowed to carry out operation inside Pak territory. Today efforts are being made to isolate Pakistain," he said.
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He means, of course, "No foreign army other than the Taliban's army and the Al Q's army and numerous smaller unnamed armies".
[An Nahar] the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... had a "support network" in Pakistain but it is not clear if the Pak government was involved, U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama said in his first public comments on the issue.
The fact that bin Laden turned up in leafy Abbottabad, home to the Pak equivalent of the West Point and Sandhurst military academies, just two hours' drive north of Islamabad, has been greeted with incredulity.
"We think that there had to be some sort of support network for bin Laden inside of Pakistain," Obama told the CBS show "60 Minutes," according to excerpts of an interview released Sunday.
"But we don't know who or what that support network was. We don't know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government, and that's something that we have to investigate and, more importantly, the Pak government has to investigate."
The Pak government has promised a probe but rejected charges that faceless myrmidons like bin Laden are extended safe haven.
"They have indicated they have a profound interest in finding out what kinds of support networks bin Laden might have had," said Obama.
"But these are questions that we're not going to be able to answer three or four days after the event. It's going to take some time for us to be able to exploit the intelligence that we were able to gather on site."
Since the pre-dawn raid last Monday that killed bin Laden, the number one enemy of the United States, outraged U.S. politicians have called for billions of dollars in aid to Pakistain to be cut back or pulled entirely.
The B.O. regime last year said it would seek another $2 billion for Pakistain's military, on top of a five-year, $7.5 billion civilian package approved in 2009 aimed at weakening the allure of Islamic Islamic exemplars.
For a decade, Islamabad has been America's wary Afghan war ally, despite widespread public opposition and beturbanned goonkabooms across the nuclear-armed country that have killed several thousand people.
Pakistain has never been fully trusted by either Kabul or Washington, which accuse its powerful military of fostering the Afghan Taliban it spawned during the 1980s resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Pak intelligence officials deny the nation's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had any idea bin Laden was holed-up in a compound in Abbottabad, which was raided in 2003 while still under construction.
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BEIJING: China is shell shocked over the fact that it was kept in the dark about the US operations close to Islamabad. It has suddenly found that years of cultivating the political class and spending billions of dollars in Pakistan has proved futile.
Nice to see that we're not the only major power pissing away billions of dollars in Pakistain...
The operations showed the US commands a lot more influence in the Pakistani military than what Beijing had estimated during its several parleys and joint military exercises with its neighbour.
Below starts China's attempt to humor the Paks and the ISI, and thus curry some favor in the future...
Chinese officials and experts are privately asking why US raiders did not try to take Osama Bin Laden alive if they had known his whereabouts since last August. And whether there was an underhand deal involving the raiders, some elements in the Pakistani government and supporters of Bin Laden.
But the Chinese leadership is keeping up a brave front. It is backing Zardari's story that his government knew nothing of the operations.
"It would not have been possible for the US to carry out anti-terrorist operations without Pakistani government assistance. But in this particular case, I think the local government did not know about it," Rong Ying, vice president of the State-run China Institute of International Studies, told TNN.
It would be wrong to suggest the Zardari government knew about it, and kept China in the dark, Rong said. But one has to accept that the US showed total disregard for Pakistan's sovereignty by conducting the operations without keeping the local government informed, he said.
US agencies had installed sophisticated equipment close to the area of operations three years back, Hu Shisheng, deputy director in the State-run Institute of South and Southeast Asian Studies, pointed out. It is difficult to believe the Americans did not know about Bin Laden's residence until last August, he said.
"But I tend to believe the top leaders in the Pakistani government did not know about the operations. If some of them did know, it is a dangerous signal. It means the Pakistani government can be seized by dangerous groups," he said.
Rong said the killing of Bin Laden will have no affect on China-Pakistan relations which has a long history and several dimensions to it.
China has no problems with the US and Pakistan having close relationship in the battle against terrorism because it affects every country on the earth. But it wants Pakistan's sovereignty to remain intact, he said.
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The US didn't want China to tell Pakistan, as per that whole SINO-PAK, "BIG BROTHER CHINA, LITTLE BROTHER PAKISTAN" ALLIANCE thingy.
* OTOH, FIRST HEADLINES > WIDOUT BIN LADEN, [Afghan] TALIBAN MAY TALK PEACE.
I'll have to hear it personally from Mullah Omar, etal. on this before I'd truly believe it.
* SAME > [White House = USA] NS ADVISOR: AYMAN ZAWAHIRI NOW MOST WANTED TERRORIST.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > OSAMA'S KILING MAY WEAKEN AL-QAEDA INFLUENCE ON TALIBAN.
See above on Mullah Omar, etal.
In the wake of Osama's death + perceived new US willingness to violate State(s)-sponsors sovereignty iff necessary, IMO Al-Qaeda may attempt to decentralize further + survive under auspice of JOINT TOP LEADERSHIP, I.E TWO OR MORE TOP-TIER LEADERS SHARING ORGANZ COMMAND-N-CONTROL???
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The Chinese are mainly thinking about how they can reverse engineer the SEALs and the Nightstalkers.
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The Chinese are worried that their PAk/ISI weapon against Indian regional influence is either
a) not staying bought, or
b) incompetent beyond words, or
c) both
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Question... is it unusual that al-Qaeda hasn't named a Number 1? Or did I miss something?
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Well Sherry, seems the office accomodations for the #1 spot aren't quite up to snuff in spite of the high price - the office staff sucks as does the Janitorial services - and lets not start on the conditions of the executive washbasin washroom. And to top it off you only get swimming privledges after you're retired.
OnTheOtherHand - the retirement benefits are to *die* for!
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It would be wrong to suggest the Zardari government knew about it, and kept China in the dark.
Obviously. On the other hand - a
It is difficult to believe the Americans did not know about Bin Laden's residence until last August.
I know that's hard for you to grasp, but consider - what are the odds that Obama took, not 16 hours, but EIGHT MONTHS to make up his mind? So the Chicoms aren't buying any of it.
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Who does China think they are questioning why we didn't capture him alive? Hell, they execute ppl for corruption.
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what are the odds that Obama took, not 16 hours, but EIGHT MONTHS to make up his mind?
NEW DELHI: The US is turning the heat on Pakistan's ISI as it tries to establish the identity of those who sheltered Osama bin Laden in the garrison town of Abbottabad. And, going by reports in the US media and assessments made by Indian experts, the needle of suspicion is pointing at not just ISI boss Shuja Pasha but also two of his predecessors, one of whom is none other than Pakistan army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani.
Kayani was the ISI chief when Osama is said to have shifted to the Abbottabad mansion in 2005. Pasha is now said to be under pressure to quit as the ISI failed to detect Osama's presence for almost three years under him.
'failed' is not the word I would have used...
Kayani's successor in the ISI, Nadeem Taj who took over in October 2007, is the third and an equally strong suspect. Known as the most rabid anti-US and anti-India boss the agency has had in the recent past, Taj was eased out of ISI after a 10-month tenure in 2008 allegedly under pressure from the US.
The new boss not being any better than the old boss...
"In any enquiry regarding collusion between the ISI and Osama bin Laden since 2005, which enabled OBL to live in Abbottabad, the main suspicion has to be on Nadeem Taj followed by Pasha and Kayani," security expert B Raman said.
It was during Taj's tenure as ISI chief that the agency used David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana for reconnaissance missions in India and during which the July 2008 bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul took place. It is significant that Taj was heading the Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad before taking over as ISI chief.
The US has sought information about those senior officials who worked closely with militants in the past and Taj's name is likely to figure right at the top. As former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal put it, though, it is inconceivable that Osama continued to live right under the nose of the military establishment without the knowledge of Kayani who headed ISI in 2005.
"Kayani would have known and so would have Pasha. One can't dispense with reason and logic simply because there is no documentary evidence to prove it," Sibal told TOI. He added that he did not see anything relevant coming out of the US exercise to identify those who helped Osama hide in Abbottabad because the Pakistanis were not going to give any "self-incriminating" information to the US.
The New York Times earlier reported about the growing suspicion in the US security establishment that at least somebody in ISI was aware of Osama's whereabouts.
As in, all of them...
It said the US was frustrated as even in the past, Pakistani military and intelligence had failed to identify those ISI officials who had worked closely with Osama since the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. "There are degrees of knowing, and it wouldn't surprise me if we find out that someone close to Pasha knew," it quoted a US official as saying.
Former CIA officer Art Keller was also quoted as saying that, at best, it was a case of willful blindness on the part of the ISI. "Willful blindness is a survival mechanism in Pakistan," Keller said, adding that Osama wouldn't have ventured into Abbottabad if he did not have any assurance of protection.
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Abbottabad was a Pak Mil Region chock full of Pak Bases + Troops - what could possibly go wrong?
* WAFF > PAKISTAN MILITARY PLAYED KEY ROLE IN BIN LADEN RAID ... [Osama's Neighbors = Non-Mil Civilians-Locals] NEIGHBORHOOD CLAIMS.
ARTIC = IIUC, AREA CIVILIANS = LOCALS are saying that their own PAK MIL MAY HAD COVERTLY FACILITATED OR HELPED THE USN SEALS KILL OSAMA VIA "LITTLE THINGS" = STRANGE ACTIONS, ORDERS WHICH WEAKENED OR NULLED OSAMA'S SECURTY, MAKING IT EASY FOR THE SEALS TO GET HIM???
Osama had becom "expendable" as far as Islamabad was now concerned, + they made sure Osama could not escape.
I do feel sorry for my former Afghan war cohort as, in addition to his beliefs about Sudanese + Egyptian Muslims betraying him, now it appears also did the Pakistanis whom were supposed to helping + protecting him, + any "commmon cause" in Islam???
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It'd be a real shame if all of the former ISI bosses, as well as the current one, were to start having terrible accidents. Gul in particular needs the full "The Omen" experience.
F*ckin' A! I guess that since the British did it, Obama will ask to make up the difference?
Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boostand supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blowfrom an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.s staunchest supporters. sometimes the host wakes up to the parasite
In a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid program, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron has pulled the financial plug entirely on four U.N. agencies at the end of next year, put three others judged merely adequate on notice that they could face the same fate unless they improve their performance as a matter of absolute urgency; and issued pointed criticisms of almost all the rest. "time's up, get your own five-star lunches, bitches"
The major exception: UNICEF, the U.N. childrens aid agency, which got a strong endorsement and a funding increase.
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Jeez,
I consider UNICEF one of the worst UN agencies. Last time I checked more than 80% of donations went in 'expenses', which means 5 star living for cousins of third world dictators.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has stressed that Israel's security will remain a cornerstone of US foreign policy.
In a statement issued by the US Department of State Sunday night, Clinton said: "Sixty-three years ago the United States was the first country to recognise Israel's independence, and that spirit of kinship continues to guide us today. Our two countries are united by a deep, unshakeable friendship and bond. We are bound together by our shared values and history pursuing freedom, equality and democracy."
"This relationship is deepening every day. Whether it's our security partnerships or the expanding economic and trade collaborations -- our work together is securing a brighter future for all our people," she added.
"As you celebrate your independence, the Middle East is experiencing rapid change. This is a moment of uncertainty, but also of opportunity. The security of Israel is -- and will remain -- a cornerstone of US foreign policy, and we will continue to strive for a comprehensive peace between Israel and all of its neighbours," Clinton said.
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"The security of Israel is -- and will remain -- a cornerstone of US foreign policy, and we will continue to strive for a comprehensiveto bargain it away for peace between subjection of Israel andto all of its neighbors."
Sounds like a pretty one sided "gunfight"...
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Four armed men opened fire on an East Jerusalem resident near a restaurant in the town Al-Eizariya on Sunday, witnesses said. Hey...dinner and a show.
The target, Samir Muheisen, sustained ten gunshot wounds to the torso and medics said he was declared dead in hospital. ...thereby qualifying for the prestigious "bullet riddled" list.
Clashes erupted in an area east of the incident, in Abu Dis near the campus of Al-Quds University. Students were evacuated from the campus by security until calm was restored, officials said. PA security forces and medical teams were called into the area to disperse the clashes, reporting several injuries from clubs and fire arms. Sounds like accounts are being settled before the great Palestinian Unity deal kicks in.
A police officer sustained a gunshot wound to the foot as he attempted to arrest a resident of As-Sawahreh Ash-Shaqeiyah. A gunshot wound to the foot? Must've been a Gaza hick visiting for Mother's Day...
He was transferred to the Al-Maqased Hospital building in Abu Dis, from where he was transferred to the Arab Society Hospital in Bethlehem. I guess Al-Maqased's trauma podiatrist must've been off today...
At least one other security officer was reported injured in the clash. Wonder what this was about?
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And yet, Schapelle Corby, framed for importing marijuana the crime of which she was innocent, remains behind bars, crazy as a loon ....
and this man who caused the death suffering and misery of many... spared the death penalty to live long and prosper using prison as a platform for his vile views
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In moderate Indonesia the killers of the four christian schoolgirls got off light as well - while at the same time a couple who simply invited their child's muslim's friends over for an Easter party almost got the death penalty.
Such is the worth of an infidel's life under Sharia Law.
Indonesian prosecutors dropped the most serious terror charges against Islamist cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for lack of evidence on Monday, leaving him facing a possible life sentence instead of the death penalty.
Whoooa! Bet you never saw that coming!
Prosecutors at his trial said the charge of providing firearms and explosives for terrorist acts, for which he could have faced the death penalty, "could not be proven convincingly".
A charge of inciting acts of terrorism was also dropped, leaving only a charge of providing funding to a terrorist group, for which the prosecutors seek a maximum life sentence.
That charge will be dropped later this week. Bashir's gonna walk...
Hundreds of Bashir's followers chanted their support for him, while some 2,500 heavily armed police were on hand to prevent violence.
Bashir is now accused only of providing funds to the Al-Qaeda in Aceh group that was planning Mumbai-style attacks in Indonesia.
Supporters of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have taken it to the mattresses. Many were severely injured with clubs and machetes. The clashes are said to have been so fierce that the security guards did not intervene and stood aside, watching the brawl.
[Al Jazeera] A dramatic feud at the highest level of Iran's government appears to be intensifying, with speculation that president Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad may be preparing to resign.
The speculation stems from a political dispute between Ahmadinejad and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Ahmadinejad sacked the country's intelligence chief, Heydar Moslehi last month, in a move that Khamenei quickly overruled, reinstating Moslehi.
Following the move, the president effectively went absent without leave, skipping cabinet meetings for 10 days in anger over the reinstatement.
Al Jizz's Dorsa Jabbari, reporting from the Iranian capital, Tehran on Sunday, said the president's decision to skip cabinet meetings is unprecedented in the country, where the supreme leader wields more power than the president and appoints military leaders and the council that passes laws.
"There was a lot of criticism from different camps in this country about his behaviour. He was ... accused of allegedly defying the supreme leader, [which is] equivalent to defying God in this country," she said.
"After allegedly meeting with the supreme leader, where he was urged to return to work, Ahmadinejad did - he returned to work on May 1st."
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[Iran Press TV] Hezbullies has taken a swipe at a recent UN briefing on the outdated Resolution 1559, describing the move as part of a hostile effort against the Lebanese resistance movement.
The reaction came after the UN's Special Representative for the Implementation of Resolution 1559, Terje Roed-Larsen, delivered a report on the document before the Security Council in a closed door session on Friday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Resolution 1559 was adopted by the Security Council in 2004, months before the liquidation of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri. It was co-sponsored by the US and La Belle France under Presidents George W. Bush and Jack Chirac during a period of intense animosity between the West and Syria.
In addition to demanding the disarmament of Hezbullies, the resolution also called for demarcating the border between Syria and Leb and the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Leb, which was carried out early in 2005.
The Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbullies slammed the briefing as unjust and biased, describing Roed-Larsen as an "international official servant in the Zionist media system that reflects the full participation of hostility towards the Resistance, That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... Leb, Arabs and all just causes in the world."
"The Secretary General remains convinced that the disarmament of the gangs in Leb, in particular Hezbullies, can best be achieved by a Lebanese-led political process," UN front man Farhan Haq said.
Roed-Larsen has delivered more than a dozen such reports to the Security Council, although 1559 was rendered obsolete by Resolution 1701, which was drafted with the intent to resolve the 2006 Israel-Leb conflict, triggered by a major Israeli attack against the Lebanese soil with the announced objective of taking out the Hezbullies resistance.
Roed-Larson's efforts to deliver briefings on an outdated resolution have raised serious questions among observers.
"The Security Council members want him to remain. The Secretary General wants him to remain. The major player, the United States, wants of course this 1559 to stay on in order to bring pressure on the resistance of Leb. They want to disarm the Hezbullies and they want pressure so they use these occasions in order to force such disarmaments," Nizar Abboud of Lebanese daily al-Akhbar said.
Abboud adds that the recent events across the Arab world make Roed-Larsen's work as the special envoy for Leb even more redundant.
Roed-Larsen has also labeled Leb as a dangerous place, where he reportedly does not visit -- which brings into question the sources of the information comprising his biannual reports to the Security Council.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Bangla Daily Star] 
Pakistani media has aired the name of a man they claim is the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief. The U.S. is looking into the matter, but says there are no plans at this time to withdraw the station chief. If the government has attempted to publicize the name, it would be the second such outing in the past six months.
Nawaz Sharif
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Indonesian prosecutors dropped the most serious terror charges against Islamist cleric 
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