[Tolo News] Head of Afghan National Security Council, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, on Monday warned he will not allow neighbours to veto Afghanistan's strategic agreements with other countries.
Addressing the House of Representatives, Mr Spanta said until he is in charge of Afghan strategic talks, none of the neighbours will be given the right to veto the process.
He said Afghanistan has to make its decisions based on national interests and that the Afghan government and parliament should jointly decide on how to proceed.
Mr Spanta who appeared before parliamentarians along with Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rasoul, said Afghanistan should not seek any country's permission to decide about its internal affairs.
"Why should Afghanistan seek permission from neighbours or other countries including the United States to choose its friends and enemies?" Spanta said.
"I personally emphasise that we should decide our fates ourselves based on our national interests. Did Pakistain consult us before testing their nukes in Baluchistan? Did they ask us when they decided to hide the world terrorist leader in Islamabad for ten years?, Spanta further said.
Spanta said legalising international presence in Afghanistan, national illusory sovereignty, and equipment of Afghan security and defence system are all of vital importance to Afghanistan.
He said the Afghan government has put forward some conditions to the US government about strategic partnership.
He said the Afghanistan's Caped President has no intention to push holding a traditional gathering (jirga) to decide about the strategic partnership with the United States, as it would undermine authorities of the Afghan parliament that has the right to decide on such issues.
Meanwhile, ...back at the sea battle, the Terror of the Baltic's career had come to an abrupt and watery end... Afghan Foreign Minister, Zalmai Rasoul, told parliamentarians that neighbours have expressed some concerns that he has to share, but he emphasised that the final decision has to be made by Afghans based on their national interests.
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OK, so what intervened to enable free voting in Afghanistan?
[Tolo News] While senior Afghan officials and international community have accused Pakistain of having close links with terrorists, the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad has dismissed the claims.
Members of the diplomatic corps in Pakistan must be speaking especially carefully just noow, keeping in mind the warning tales of the American contractor Davis and the recently shot Saudi diplomatic type in Karachi.
Experts warn of much more stalemate in the country as long as officials in Kabul continue to make contradicting comments.
The death of the late Osama bin Laden ... he's rotten though not quite forgotten... in Pakistain, the biggest breakthrough in the drama of counterterrorism fight, has led to widespread concerns among Afghan and international officials, especially about the fact that al-Qaeda leader was found living for several years in the territory of a close ally of the US in the war on terror.
National Directorate of Security (NDS) Spokesman has earlier said bad turban leaders organise and sketch their devastating and deadly attacks in direct cooperation from Pakistain's military intelligence organisation on the other side of Afghan borders.
"All activities are organised by Serajuddin Haqqani, Salahuddin Haqqani and Badruddin Haqqani with direct cooperation of Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence and al-Qaeda network. We believe that they are either in Quetta, Bloody Karachi or in Miranshah," NDS Spokesman Lotfullah Mashal told a recent presser.
But newly appointed Afghan ambassador to Pakistain, Mohammad Omar Daudzai, has dismissed allegations about Pakistain government's involvement in some bad turban attacks.
"Some of the suicide kabooms and other bad turban operations in Afghanistan are planned on the other side of Afghan border, but they are not necessarily directed by Pak government, army or intelligence agency," Mohammad Omar Daudzai has told TOLOnews news hound in Islamabad.
Experts say contradicting comments of Afghan officials could raise questions about connection of leading Afghan officials with neighbouring countries.
A member of parliament Dr Zahir Sadat said it is surprising that "high-ranking Afghan officials, including the president and foreign minister made their comments clearly, but the Afghan ambassador in Islamabad dismisses the comments."
The comments come as the death of Osama bin Laden in the heart of Pakistain in an operation by US special forces was more than a shock to the world considering the cozy location the leader of al-Qaeda was living in for nearly a decade without apparently being detected.
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Police seized a nine-year-old and three others aged between 12 and 14 as they tried to cross into eastern Afghanistan. The child bombers are often lied to, brainwashed, or coerced inside Pakistan and have been responsible for several deadly bombings in recent months.
The boys had been given amulets containing verses from the Koran which they were told would protect them from the explosion. On their return, they would be hailed as heroes and their parents would be guaranteed entry into heaven.
Ghulam Farooq, the nine-year-old, said: "Our mullah told us that when we carried out our suicide attacks, all the people around us would die, but we would stay alive."
Lotfullah Mashal, spokesman for the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said the four had been captured at the Torkham border crossing trying to pass into Nangahar province. He said: "In the past we have had suicide attackers from Waziristan and Bajaur, but this is the first time we have arrested child suicide attackers from the settled areas of Pakistan ... They are brainwashed and shown films on mobile phones about supposed atrocities.
"They were told there were rapes and the Koran was being burned by Americans. They were told Kabul had become a Western city, there was no Islam there and whoever went to blow himself up there would go to heaven."
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See also DAILY TIMES.PK > [post-Osama/Abbottabad] AL-QAEDA "CADRES" STILL HELP AFGHAN TALIBAN. Coalition Commander believes there are roughly 100 AQ or less remaining in Afghanistan, but are remaining active in Afghan insurgency despite the death of Osama Bin Laden.
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Ghulam Farooq, the nine-year-old, said: "Our mullah told us that when we carried out our suicide attacks, all the people around us would die, but we would stay alive."
How is THIS not a crime against humanity?
Mike
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They must be running low on volunteers to start using nine year olds?
More proof that the war is carried out in the wrong country!
[Arab News] A Sudanese official wanted by the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... in The Hague on war crimes charges has been re-elected governor of a central state in Sudan, according to the country's electoral commission.
Ahmed Haroun, the candidate for the ruling National Congress Party, defeated the candidate for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement by 6,500 votes in an election Sunday. That allows him to remain governor of Southern Kordofan state, a post he was appointed to in 2009.
The opposition party said the elections were rigged, allegations which the electoral commission denied.
The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... mission in Sudan said it welcomed the completion of the elections, and said they "were conducted in a peaceful manner monitored by a large number of observers." Both the UN and the National Election Commission urged anyone with complains regarding the election process to address them through legal channels.
Haround faces charges of murder, rape and the forced expulsion of civilians in Darfur.
He is a staunch ally of Sudanese President Omar Bashir, also wanted by the Netherlands-based tribunal over the conflict in the western Darfur region.
Sudan does not recognize the court in The Hague and has refused to hand indicted officials over.
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[An Nahar] The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... has asked satellite operator Arabsat -- which it owns -- to stop transmitting Libyan state-owned channels, the 22-member bloc said in a statement distributed on Monday.
The Arab League's council of ministers "has requested the Arab Satellite Communications Organization to halt the transmission of the Libyan Jamahiriya ... An Arabic neologism coined by Muammar al-Qadaffy. The word jamahiriya was derived from jumhuriya, which is the usual Arabic translation of republic. It was coined by changing the component jumhur ‐ public ‐ to its plural form, jamahir — the masses. Thus, it is similar to the term People's Republic, only more denigrating to the actual inhabitants of the country... channel and all television channels affiliated with the Libyan authorities, in compliance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973," it said.
Arab League members meeting in Cairo made the request late on Sunday, after talks to elect a new secretary general.
Protests against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi that erupted on February 15 have turned into a full blown conflict with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... conducting a bombing campaign against Gadhafi's military installations, communication centers and troops as part of a U.N.-mandated air campaign to protect civilians.
In the rebel-held east of the country, lawyers have accused regime broadcasters -- Al-Jamahiriya and Al-Jamahiriya 2 -- of inciting hatred and violence by painting rebels as hard boyz seeking to split the country in two.
Although Gadhafi has made only a handful of speeches since the protests erupted, Libyan broadcasters are widely viewed as an extension of the regime.
Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting, which transmits news on several channels inside Libya and via satellite across the Middle East, is already under U.S. sanctions.
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[An Nahar] Iran on Monday ordered the return home of two boats carrying Iranian "activists" to Bahrain to express solidarity with Shiite-led protests there, the English-language Press TV said.
The channel's news hound traveling with the activists said in a live broadcast that the boats had been ordered to return and activists were throwing in the water letters they were carrying as "moral support" to Bahraini Shiites.
Earlier Monday, the network showed live footage of the boats setting sail for international waters from the port of Dayyer in the southern province of Bushehr.
The 120 "activists" featured students, scholars and physicians as well as women and kiddies who hoped to be cleared to enter the Sunni-ruled Gulf state, it said quoting the activists.
Press TV had said the boats would return to Iran should they be denied entry.
One of the organizers of the trip, Mehdi Eqrarian, told Fars news agency that no "armed personnel" were on board the boats.
The activists were only carrying the Iranian people's "moral support" in the form of 5,000 letters to show solidarity with the silenced Shiite-led uprisings in Bahrain, Eqrarian said.
Relations between Iran and Gulf monarchies, including Manama, greatly deteriorated after Tehran strongly criticized the brutal crackdown against pro-democracy protests in Bahrain.
Iranian media reported in late April that the Islamic republic coasties had stopped two boats carrying Iranian students from the southern port city of Bushehr to Bahrain.
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[Arab News] Presiding over a Cabinet meeting on Monday, King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah reiterated that Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) would stand united against those who threaten the security and stability of a member country.
He thanked GCC leaders for their active participation in last week's consultative summit conference in Riyadh.
He said the half-yearly summit discussed ways and means to strengthen the six-member bloc and reaffirmed its support to Arab and Islamic causes. The king briefed the ministers on the content of messages he received from King Muhammad of Morocco and Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... . He also spoke about telephone conversations he had with US President Barack B.O. Obama and Jordan's King Abdallah.
Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja said the Cabinet endorsed an agreement with Japan for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of tax evasion. It also reshuffled the Health Service Council, which is chaired by Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah.
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Compare wid MEMRI.ORG > SAUDI-BORN LIBERAL: THE PERSECUTED SECTORS - SHIITES, WOMEN, + ALIEN WORKERS [+ Other] ARE THE FUEL FOR THE COMING SAUDI REVOLUTION.
DUBLIN (AP) -- Undeterred by real or fake bombs, Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday began the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland, a four-day trip to highlight strong Anglo-Irish relations and the success of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
The queen arrived 100 years after her grandfather George V visited Dublin and an Ireland that was still part of the British Empire.
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According to The News, Saif al Qaeda, the top al Qaeda strategist and a senior military leader, has been appointed as the temporary emir for the terror group after Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of US commandos on May 2 in Abbottabad.
Ayman al Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy, will remain second in command and will serve as the chief of military operations. For the shortlist of bin Laden's potential successors, see LWJ report, After bin Laden: who will lead al Qaeda? Saif al Adel is second on the list, after Zawahiri.
Keep in mind that the report has not been confirmed, nor has al Qaeda made any official announcements in a change of its command structure. The report below from The News, in full:
Saif al Adel (Abu Saif), one of the pioneers of al-Qaeda, has been made chief of the party Command of Control for the time being, sources told The News.
The issue of the succession of Osama bin Laden was resolved in a meeting of al-Qaeda held at an undisclosed location. However, Muhammad Mustafa Yamni is likely to be made al-Qaeda chief after the grand consultation. Yamni is currently residing in an African country.
Saif al Adel is an Egyptian and has served at key posts in Egypt forces. He worked with Ayman al-Zawahiri in the al-Jihad group of Egypt, which was reportedly formed against Anwar Sadat.
The sources said Ayman al-Zawahiri would continue holding his posts of al-Qaeda patron, and the chief of the al-Qaeda Militant Command. Zawahiri will also monitor the international contacts. Earlier, Saifal Adel performed this job.
The sources said Adnan al-Kashri had been made in-charge of the general information affairs. Muhammad Nasir al-Washi Abu Nasir has been made in-charge of al-Qaeda Africa affairs, while Muhammad Adam Khan Afghani has been appointed as in-charge of Afghanistan-Waziristan affairs.
The sources said Fahad al-Qava had been appointed as the Urgent Operational Commander. The command of al-Qaeda has now been transferred to Egyptians. None of sons of Osama Bin Laden has shown willingness to join any post in the al-Qaeda.
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Ladies and gentlemen, your targets have been named. Those among them who are real, as opposed to imaginary people, are to be found and eliminated by whichever means are quickest -- without harming non-human shield innocent bystanders, of course.
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Al-Adel fought the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 1980s. After the fall of the Taliban in the winter of 2001 he fled to Iran. [Where he was a guest w/ other AQ VIPs at a Caspian Sea villa.] According to senior Saudi counterterrorism officials, from there al-Adel authorized al-Qaida's branch in Saudi Arabia to begin a campaign of terrorist attacks in the Saudi kingdom that began in Riyadh in May 2003, a campaign that killed scores. [Let's not forget Iraq.]
Some reports in the past year have suggested that al-Adel had left Iran for Pakistan.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's visit to China from Tuesday allows Islamabad to show it has another major power to turn to just as relations with the United States have faced intense strain after the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The visit is part of long-planned celebrations for 60 years of diplomatic ties but the vows of support from Beijing will be especially timely for Islamabad.
"We are proud to have China as our best and most trusted friend and China will always find Pakistan standing beside it at all times," Gilani told China's Xinhua news agency before leaving for China.
"To test a friend whether true or not, it needs time and means under crisis," he said.
"This visit will be a show for the U.S., the Pakistani public and the wider world that Pakistan has other options," said Andrew Small, a researcher at the German Marshall Fund think tank in Brussels who has studied China's role in Pakistan.
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For us? not much, at least immediately. For India, lots. And the Pakis would find, after a while, that the Han chinese have just as much respect for their rich cultural traditions as they do for the Tibetans'.
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...yes, Rage Boy(tm) would find a down side [like ten feet under] when he tried the usual crap on the Han, as his brethren have already discovered in the present western territories of the Empire People's Republic.
[Tolo News] US Senator John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the vacated wingtips of Joe Biden... told TOLOnews in an exclusive interview on Sunday that it is an important moment for the relationship between Pakistain and the world and that Pakistain needs to make a decision about what kind of country it wants to be.
Mr John Kerry said the US government is anxious to engage in a dialogue with the government of Pakistain and the people of Pakistain about future relationship.
He said building trust should be based on actions and that this moment now is "a moment of importance for the relationship between Pakistain and the world, Pakistain and Afghanistan, Pakistain and India, Pakistain and the US, Pakistain and our allies".
"Pakistain needs to make a decision about what kind of country it wants to be and what side they are on in this struggle," Mr Kerry further said.
As we go forward, as I said they have been helpful in the past I think its important for calm and thoughtful leadership to find the way forward so that you build trust through actions that prove what your intentions and what your goals are. And we will work through hopefully those kinds of issues in the next days, he said.
Senator John Kerry said the US has great respect to illusory sovereignty of Pakistain and for the role Pakistain has played to help fight terrorism.
The truth, he said, is that Pakistain has suffered losses of its own troops and its civilians at the hands of bully boyz and the US has reached a difficult moment because of the events around Osama Bin Landen. But he said he was convinced that a new way forward can be found with good discussion and with good well so that cooperation on priorities that are important for both countries can be continued.
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Islamic State or Democracy is what the whole WOT is about!
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I wonder how much it would cost us (the free people of the United States, not the government) to get Pakiwakiland to keep John F sKarey and any 'friends' he has travelling with him. I'm willing to chip in...
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Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif said Monday that the Punjab cabinet has decided to reject foreign aid, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to the media in Lahore, Shahbaz called for the country to focus on trade rather than aid.
The chief minister said that foreign aid has increased the country's problems instead of helping solve them. He added that the issues the country will face after denying foreign aid will only be temporary and the new policies should focus on building trade instead.
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Yokay, I'll bite, PUNJAB IS A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY???
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Problem is, I'm not sure India wants them back and Afghanistan can't absorb another 160,000,000 people.
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There's always the ocean. It did quite well for OBL.
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[Dawn] Pakistain said Monday it would work together with the United States on any future operations against high-value targets in the country, in the wake of the row over the late Osama bin Laden's Osama bin Laden is dead.
He took two shots to the head.
That made him frown
and he had to lie down.
Osama bin Laden is dead. killing.
"It was agreed that all tracks of US-Pakistain engagement need to be revisited, with a view to creating a clear understanding on ways and means to carry forward their cooperation," said the foreign ministry.
"It was also agreed that the two countries will work together in any future actions against high-value targets in Pakistain."
Pakistain has been in the grip of domestic and international crisis since US Navy SEALs flew in, seemingly undetected, from Afghanistan to kill the Saudi-born Al-Qaeda terror criminal mastermind two hours' from the capital on May 2.
Paks have expressed horror at the perceived impunity of the raid, furiously asking if their military was too incompetent to know he was living in a garrison city near the capital, or, even worse, conspired to protect him.
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WORLD NEWS > [Siasat Daily]"INDIA A BIGGER THREAT THAN AL-QAEDA, TALIBAN", as far as Pakistan is concerned as per House INTEL SUBCmte. Chair Mike Rogers.
versus
* SAME > [Newsvine] CONGRESS TO VOTE ON DECLARATION OF WORLDWIDE PERPETUAL WAR WID NO CLEAR BORDERS + NO CLEAR ENEMIES.
ALLEGEDLY AT ANYTIME AGAINST ANYONE, ANYTHING, + ANY THREAT OR ENEMY,ETC. FOERIGN ANDOR DOMESTIC???
"Q-E" = Cold War, Soviet-style Govt. Accounting methods for the future OWG-NWO MiGHTY USSA, versus the OWG-NWO WEAK United Soc Republiks of Amerika [USR/USRoA] Global SSR.
ARISE, POLITBUROS [global] OF SOVIET AMERIKA, ARISE.
* MEMRI.ORG > [Pakistan Spy Agency] ISI ISSUES STATEMENT ON BIN LADEN DEATH, OFFERS SUPPORT TO [Ayman]AL-ZAWAHIRI.
[Dawn] US Senator John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the vacated wingtips of Joe Biden... on Monday called Pakistain and the United States "strategic partners with a common enemy" as he sought to ease distrust in the wake of the killing of the late Osama bin Laden ... who sleeps with the fishes... .
Kerry also said that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Tallyrand ... will soon announce plans to visit Pakistain.
Kerry said he had held "constructive conversations" with Pakistain's leaders but reiterated "grave concerns" over the presence in Pakistain of the al Qaeda terror chief and sanctuaries of US adversaries in Afghanistan.
"More importantly I explained that I am here with the backing of President (Barack) Obama, (US) ambassador (to Pakistain Cameron) Munter and their team to find a way to rebuild the trust between our two countries," he said.
"We must never lose sight of this essential fact. We are strategic partners with a common enemy in terrorism and extremism.
"Both of our countries have sacrificed... so much that it just wouldn't make sense to see this relationship broken or abandoned," he added.
Kerry said Pakistain had "recommitted to find more ways to work against the common threat of terrorism" and to increase cooperation on intelligence sharing and operations to "defeat the enemies that we face".
In one tangible, concrete achievement, Kerry said Pakistain would return on Tuesday the tail of a helicopter. Navy SEALs destroyed the chopper during the operation that got bin Laden after a hard landing.
Pakistain, which has lost thousands of soldiers and civilians in the fight against homegrown Taliban and to Al-Qaeda-inspired kabooms, said the allies would work together on future high-value targets in Pakistain.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani joined forces with Kerry to say that the two countries now needed to rebuild trust.
"It was the need of the hour that Pakistain and US should rebuild the trust and confidence between their governments and institutions," his office said in a statement released after his talks with Kerry.
There have been heightened security fears in Pakistain since the bin Laden operation and the killing of a Saudi diplomat in a hail of gunfire Monday was the second attack on Saudi interests in Bloody Karachi in less than a week.
Last Wednesday, drive-by assailants threw two grenades at the consulate in Bloody Karachi in what officials said could have been a reaction to Saudi-born bin Laden's death.
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We are strategic partners with a common enemy...that make sense (for a change), John ole buddy, the Paks are blowing themselves up willy nilly and they are trying to blow us up so we have a common enemy...Pakistan??
Speaking of biting the hand that feeds, at the rate the Paks are going, the entire US DoS will need rabies shots very soon.
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"I would like to talk, representing all those veterans... They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."
By BILL ROGGIO May 16, 2011This is one bad dude -- read it all
The US Department of Justice is planning to prosecute Ali Mussa Daqduq, a dangerous Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian Qods Force agent who is responsible for organizing the Shia terror groups in Iraq and the kidnapping and murder of US soldiers.
The proposed prosecution was disclosed in a letter written by five US senators to US Attorney General Eric Holder, asking the Justice Department to clarify the status of Daqduq and inquiring why Daqduq will not be transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The letter, which was signed by US Senators Charles Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Jeff Sessions, John Cornyn, and Tom Coburn, was sent to the Department of Justice this evening. A copy of the letter was obtained by The Long War Journal [see Threat Matrix report, Text of letter to the Department of Justice on Ali Mussa Daqduq].
"We are deeply concerned that the Administration and the Department of Justice are moving forward with plans to prosecute Ali Mussa Daqduq in federal court for clear violations of the laws of war that occurred in Iraq," the senators said.
The senators believe that Daqduq should be prosecuted by a military commission and not in a federal court as "his actions clearly defy the laws of war." The senators are also concerned that Daqduq would eventually be freed if transferred to the Iraqi government.
"Moreover, we are concerned that if Daqduq is left in the custody of the Iraqi government, AAH [the Asaib al Haq or League of the Righteous] will successfully negotiate his release," the letter continued. "There is little doubt that Daqduq will return to the battlefield and resume his terrorist activities against the United States and our interests."
Daqduq is perhaps the most dangerous of the Shia terror commanders captured by US forces in Iraq since 2003. Daqduq has a pedigree with Lebanese Hezbollah, Iran's proxy militia and terror group that is based in Lebanon. At the time of his capture in March 2007, he was a 24-year veteran of Hezbollah. He has commanded both a Hezbollah special operations unit and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's security detail.
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The colossal stupidity of Eric Holder continues to put me at the verge of a stroke.
Rumor has it that inspite of the death of OBL at the hands of intelligence gained from CIA rigorous interrogation techniques, Eric the simple persists in his intentions to prosecute CIA field agents who conducted the interrogations.
I swear none of these idiots have ever read the Geneva Conventions and continue to give it sweeping powers over common sense and the fog of war.
If he persists we will be reading Miranda rights to captured combatants and conducting deadly force investigations every time an enemy combatant is killed in an engagement.
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Obama needs to be put on the spot early and often: "Will you pardon Eric Holder for his crimes against America, yes or no?"
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The DOJ has no jurisdiction in the Middle East. Period.
[An Nahar] Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad branded Israel a cancer cell that must be removed Sunday, after Israeli gunfire killed 12 people and maimed hundreds as Paleostinians marched in a mass show of mourning over the creation of the Jewish state.
"On the anniversary of this regime, people demonstrated in various places, but there were dead and maimed and this regime once again showed its real nature," he said in a television interview.
"Like a cancer cell that spreads through the body, this regime infects any region. It must be removed from the body," he added.
His statement came after earlier calls for Israel to be wiped out.
Paleostinians on Sunday marched on Israel's borders with Leb, Syria and Gazoo to mark the anniversary.
Tensions along the Israeli-Syrian frontier spiraled as thousands of protesters from Syria tried to force their way onto the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, prompting the army to open fire in one of the worst such incidents there since a 1974 truce accord.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Israel would protect its borders faced with those who sought its destruction.
More than 760,000 Paleostinians -- estimated now to number 4.8 million with their descendants -- were pushed into exile or driven out of their homes in the conflict that accompanied the Jewish state's foundation.
Figures from the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees show there are one million refugees in the Gazoo Strip, 750,000 in the West Bank, two million in Jordan, 475,000 in Syria and 400,000 in Leb.
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I'd say Short Shit, the RG, and teh Mullahs are a cancer. I recommend treatment with Chemo and extreme radiation
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Good thing this isn't racism and won't be reported on the nightly news.
Me disagreeing with the President on social welfare policy IS racism however. It's been scientifically proven as of yesterday.
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Meanwhile, there are reports that the Guardian Council - all powerful wizards - want ahmadope arrested for pretending to have inside information on the return of islam's dubious "12th imam." He ain't coming.
[An Nahar] Hizbullah is reportedly mediating between Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... after the FPM asked for a "services ministry" alleging that it has no such portfolio as part of its shares in the new cabinet.
Sources involved in the consultations aimed at forming the government told al-Akhbar daily in remarks published Monday that Hizbullah made no major progress yet in its mediation efforts.
The sources quoted Aoun's envoy Caretaker Minister Jebran Bassil as saying in the last meeting aimed at finding a solution to the cabinet deadlock that the FPM has the right to get the public works ministry which is part of Jumblat's share in the cabinet.
Sources also told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat that Hizbullah does not fully agree with the FPM's demands but is not making the differences public.
They said the Hizbullah leader's aide, Hussein Khalil does not support most of Bassil's demands. This was clear in the last meeting held between them in the presence of Premier-designate Najib Miqati and the Speaker's advisor MP Ali Hassan Khalil.
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[An Nahar] The White House accused Syria on Monday of stoking protests in the Golan Heights as a "distraction" from its repression of anti-government protests and warned that "such behavior is unacceptable."
"It seems apparent to us that that is an effort to distract attention from the legitimate expressions of protest by the Syrian people and from the harsh crackdown that the Syrian government has perpetrated against its own people," said front man Jay Carney.
The United States is "strongly opposed to the Syrian government's involvement in inciting yesterday's protests in the Golan Heights," Carney told news hounds aboard President Barack B.O. Obama's official Air Force One airplane.
"Such behavior is unacceptable and does not serve as a distraction from the Syrian government's ongoing repression of demonstrators in its own country," Carney said.
Fourteen people were killed Sunday and hundreds injured in some of the bloodiest violence in years along Israel's borders, and police fanned out across the occupied Golan Heights on Monday in search of refugees who crossed over from Syria during the unrest.
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The White House accused Syria on Monday of stoking protests in the Golan Heights as a "distraction" from its repression of anti-government protests and warned that "such behavior is unacceptable."
