(Ma'an) -- Eight Paleostinian political factions have walked out of a reconciliation meeting meant to represent all parties after being told they could not participate because they were not part of the PLO.
Sources who wished to remain anonymous told Ma'an that the Popular Resistance Movement, the Popular Resistance Committees, the Al-Ahrar Movement, Fatah al-Intifada, As-Saiqa and the Popular Struggle Front, were among the parties forbidden from taking part in talks.
Head of the Fatah delegation Azzam al-Ahmad had informed the groups that they could not participate.
"The insistence by Fatah to exclude eight Paleostinian factions from reconciliation dialogue, thus denying them their historic role as representatives of the Paleostinian people, casts doubt upon Fatah's attitude to reconciliation," a statement from the Popular Resistance Movement said.
Once the People's Front of Judea were splitters, full of vim and vinegar. Now nobody so much as curses as they pass, not even their mothers.
"Such an attitude only maintains a state of disagreement," the statement added.
Fatah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leaders had met on Sunday and other political parties were to join the Egypt-brokered talks on Tuesday.
The reconciliation accord aims to unite the parties after Hamas seized control of the Gazoo Strip in 2007, a year after winning national elections.
[An Nahar] Egypt's foreign minister on Wednesday slammed foreign "interference" following impassioned comments by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Bainbridge Colby ... denouncing the stripping and beating of a female protester.
"Egypt will not accept any interference in its domestic affairs," Mohammed Amr told news hounds.
He said Cairo was seeking "clarifications over any statements by any foreign official regarding internal Egyptian matters."
On Monday, Clinton accused Egypt's new leaders of mistreating women both on the street and in politics since the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in February.
"This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonors the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of a great people," Clinton said in a speech at Georgetown University.
In images widely seen over YouTube, helmeted troops were shown beating a veiled woman after having ripped her clothes off to reveal her bra and stomach.
Other pictures circulating on social media networks that have enraged protesters include one of a military policeman looming over a sobbing elderly woman with his truncheon.
"Recent events in Egypt have been particularly shocking. Women are being beaten and humiliated in the same streets where they risked their lives for the revolution only a few short months ago," Clinton said.
"Women protesters have been rounded up and subjected to horrific abuse. Journalists have been sexually assaulted and now women are being attacked, stripped and beaten in the streets."
On Tuesday, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces which took power when Mubarak was ousted, apologized to "the great women of Egypt over transgressions that occurred during recent incidents in the protests outside parliament and cabinet."
At least 14 people have been killed in five days of the latest festivities pitting police and army troops against protesters demanding an end to military rule.
Protesters have called for a mass rally on Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square to denounce the military's heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators.
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Stuck her nose where it does't belong, and got it slapped.
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[Tripoli Post] Russia has stepped up its demands for a probe into civilian casualties in Libya caused by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... air strikes in the conflict that eventually led to the downfall of the dictatorial regime of Muammar Al Qadaffy. Doesn't Vlad have enough trouble at home...
That's Moscow's reaction to a report by human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups that claim that dozens of non-combatants were killed in air strikes - despite the alliance saying its operation was almost flawless.
The campaign by Britannia, La Belle France, the United States and their allies severely divided the UN Security Council with NATO's opponents blaming the strikes for the failure to condemn Syria's clampdown on demonstrators.
Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said he would speak to the UN Security Council this week about estimates saying that NATO bombing in Libya had killed between 40 and 70 civilians. He also criticised UN chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... for supporting the strikes against Al Qadaffy targets after his clampdown on opposition protests.
"We hope that NATO is going to revisit this entire problem, is going to investigate this matter," Mr Churkin told news hounds, adding that unfortunately, "NATO adopted a pure propaganda stand claiming zero civilian casualties in Libya which was completely implausible first of all and secondly not true."
He said that to avoid any misunderstanding, " this issue has to be faced squarely and seriously and needs to be investigated."
The alliance leaders have often said that while they regret any civilian deaths, they have no figures for the number of casualties for the campaign, which started after the UN Security Council resolutions in February and March allowing sanctions against the former Libyan leader.
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Investigation into the invasion of Georgia and civilian deaths will not be raised.
[Yemen Post] The Joint Meeting Parties "JMP" in Yemen said on Tuesday that they would work to ensure the success of the next presidential elections scheduled next February and will support Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi as a consensus candidate.
The head of the Executive Authority of the JMP and its mouthpiece Dr. Abdu Ghaleb Odaini briefed the head of the International Foundation for Election Systems "IFES" mission, during their meeting, on the JMP political role in the 1st and 2nd transitional periods.
Pointing out that that JMP would work to the success of the presidential elections. Confirming that JMP will support the candidate of national consensus Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi based on its commitment to the implementation of the Gulf initiative and its executive mechanism.
He added that the JMP responded to the message received of the Supreme Committee of Elections and Referendum and agreed to participate in the electoral main and sub-committees and the observation committees as well.
He also called the JMP members and supporters to participate actively in the presidential elections for the success of the first transitional period.
Stressing on the need for order for the success of the transitional period, which includes the restructuring of the Supreme Committee of Elections and implementing dialogue on the identity of the political and electoral system.
On her part, Head of IFES Mission Zainab Noor Abdul Karim praised the JMP cooperation and its commitment to the requirements of the Gulf initiative and its mechanism. And expressed IFES readiness to support the forthcoming elections in different fields.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... and collaborator Moslem Mawlana raped a Hindu girl (we are not disclosing her name on ethical grounds) over and over again at Parerhaat of Pirojpur during the Liberation War, a prosecution witness said.
Forth prosecution witness Sultan Ahmmed Hawlader yesterday said this in his deposition at the International Crimes Tribunal in the case filed against Sayeedi in connection with crimes against humanity during the war in 1971.
Sultan, who was 20 years old during the Liberation War, told the court that the Jamaat leader and Moslem also forced the victim's family members including her father and brother to convert to Islam. They were later forced to pray in the mosque.
The girl and other rape victims left the country for India after the war and they never returned, he said.
The three-member tribunal headed by its chairman Justice Nizamul Huq recorded the witness' deposition yesterday after Sayeedi's defence finished cross-examining third prosecution witness Mizanur Rahman Talukder.
Sayeedi is among five Jamaat and two BNP leaders who are facing charges of crimes against humanity at the court. Nearly 30 lakh Bangalees were killed and two lakh Bangalee women were violated by the Pakistain occupation forces and their Bangladeshi collaborators during the nine-month-long Liberation War in 1971.
Recalling the events of the day, which he believes to be May 8, 1971, Sultan said he saw fire and heard screams and cries from his neighbour Manik Poshari's home.
"As I approached Manik Poshari's house, I saw flames in the houses of Manik Poshari, Raijuddin Poshari, Shaheeduddin Poshari and 15 to 20 other houses," he said.
As he went near the houses, he saw Sayeedi, Sikandar Sikder, Danesh Ali Mollah and Moslem Mawlana among other collaborators and Mighty Pak Army personnel taking away Manik Poshari's cousin Mafiz and his employee Ibrahim towards Parerhaat. Both of them had been tied up.
Sultan and a few others discreetly followed them to Parerhaat. They saw Sayeedi talking to some Pak soldiers. And all of a sudden, there was a deafening gunshot followed by a loud cry.
"The next day, we came to know that Ibrahim was shot and his body was thrown into the water and Mofiz was taken to a camp set up at Parerhaat," Sultan told the court.
Manik Poshari of Chitholia village on August 12, 2009, filed a case against Sayeedi and four others in connection with war crimes during 1971.
According to a report in The Daily Star, the case summery is that Sayeedi and the other accused along with the Mighty Pak Army stormed Poshari's house around 3:00pm on May 8, 1971. They looted the house and set it on fire. The collaborators also handed Poshari's caretaker Ibrahim over to the Mighty Pak Army to have him killed. The Mighty Pak Army personnel shot Ibrahim dead in Parerhaat.
"Delwar Hossain, also known as Sayeedi, along with loyal collaborators continued committing the crimes including arson, killing, looting, abuse of women and handing over women to Mighty Pak Army for rape," Sultan said.
"I demand Sayeedi's punishment."
Unlike the other collaborator leaders of Pirojpur, Sayeedi was fluent in Arabic and Urdu. This helped him maintain good communication with the Mighty Pak Army and encouraged them in different misdeeds.
Sultan will face cross-examination from Sayeedi's defence today as the court adjourned yesterday's session following a prayer from the defence.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics...... the tribunal directed the jail authorities to make arrangements for physiotherapy of Sayeedi before he is brought to the tribunal. The court will, however, continue its proceedings as per schedule, 10:30am, even if Sayeedi is absent.
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Let me guess. Nature is showing her unhappiness by not suddenly making Nork agriculturally prosperous, as nature would have done otherwise to show its approval of Pugsley's ascent.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death has put some international spotlight on his eldest son Fredo Jong-nam, who lives in virtual exile overseas. Born to Song Hye-rim, Kim's second wife who died in 2002, Jong-nam had been regarded as a potential heir until the late 1990s.
But he fell out of favor in 2001 when he was arrested at Narita International Airport in Tokyo traveling on a false passport. Kim senior then turned his attention to his younger sons Jong-chol and Jong-un by his third and favorite wife Ko Yong-hui.
Kim Jong-nam regularly visited Pyongyang until his father had a stroke in summer 2008. But since Kim Jong-un was anointed heir to the hereditary throne in January 2009, he lived an itinerant life in mainly in Macau and Beijing and stayed well away from North Korea. Experts say he may not be safe and there have been rumors of assassination attempts by his younger brother, who is desperate to consolidate his position. I can handle things! I'm schmart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm schmart and I want respect!
A source familiar with the internal North Korean affairs said China prefers Kim Jong-nam, who is pro-Chinese and reform-minded, and could end up backing him for the leadership in case the Kim Jong-un regime fails.
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Maybe prove to be a moot point becaUSE, AS PER world mil forum, HU JINTAO'S MOST LIKELY 2012 SUCCESSOR amy have to decide on China's response to post-JONG-IL NORTH KOREA, i.e. IIUC whether to continhue proping up the Kim Regime ["business as usual"] or else treat the DPRK AS A DE FACTO, ALBEIT "AUTONOMOUS", CHINESE PROVINCE???
Iff The Kim Family-Regime are lucky, a best-case scenario may see the DPRK end up as a COUNTRY-SCALE, CHINESE VERSION OF [post-UK] HONG KONG OR SHANGHAI???
A French doctor who treated North Korean leader Kim Jong-il after his stroke in 2008 said Kim's son and heir Jong-un had "deep respect for his father."
Neurosurgeon Francois-Xavier Roux told the Chosun Ilbo at Sainte Anne Hospital in Paris on Tuesday, "Kim Jong-un gave a very stern impression because he was always wearing the same uniform."
And he smelled ripe...
Before Kim's stroke in 2008, his eldest son Jong-nam also came to see Roux at the hospital. Roux did not know who he was until he saw his picture later. "When he came to the hospital, Kim Jong-nam discussed his personal problem, not his father's." Roux declined to reveal what those were.
It has been reported that Kim Jong-nam was in Pyongyang when his father had his stroke, but Roux said, "I didn't meet Kim Jong-nam in Pyongyang. I never saw the whole Kim family gathered in one place."
North Korean diplomats first contacted Roux in 1993, when Kim Jong-il sustained a small head wound when he fell from a horse. The Sainte Anne Hospital is just 1.5 km from the North Korean mission in Paris. It was set up by Napoleon III in 1867 to treat mental diseases, and is famous across Europe in the field.
When Roux went to North Korea at the request of North Korean diplomats in 2008, Kim was unconscious and in critical condition. "I didn't know why I was going to Pyongyang until I was on my way. I just had a vague feeling that it must be someone high up," Roux said. After he arrived at Pyongyang Red Thingy Cross Hospital, Roux was handed only the medical records of a patient, and was not allowed to see the patient, but insisted on seeing him in person because they worried him.
After many hours of discussion amongst North Korean doctors, Roux was able to see Kim. "He was unconscious and his life hung by a thread. My job was to bring him back to life with another doctor. It was the worst situation," Roux recalled.
Citing patient confidentiality, Roux declined to say what he did for Kim. But by the time he was on his way back to Paris after 10 days in Pyongyang, Kim was able to speak. Roux went back to Pyongyang in September and October that year to check Kim's condition. "In my last visit in October 2008, he was nearly fully recovered from the stroke. But I wasn't able to predict his health because stroke has high risk of reoccurrence."
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I'm thinkin' Kimmie Jong-un may have been the prototype for a slightly-less "high and tight" Chaz Bono.
As long as he's really dead, where he died is of less importance...
According to the official account, Kim Jong-il died at 8:30 on Saturday morning from a heart attack on a running train, but North Korea experts here say there are several aspects of the story that do not add up. Some believe the North Korean regime for obscure reasons gave a false time and place.
◆ Freezing Weather
A military officer here said the temperature in Pyongyang the morning Kim died was -12 degrees Celsius. Cold weather is bad for patients with a weak heart, so Kim's doctors would have discouraged him from going outdoors.
Moreover, Kim is famous for his nocturnal lifestyle and normally gets up around noon. Therefore it seems unlikely he was on a train that freezing morning. National Intelligence Service Director Won Sei-hoon told the National Assembly on Tuesday there were no signs that Kim's special armored train ever moved out of the station over the weekend.
◆ Witnesses
South Korean intelligence believes that only very few top officials around Kim knew of his death. But on his so-called on-the-spot guidance tours Kim was always accompanied by hundreds of people including medical staff and bodyguards. Four of the train's 20 carriages are a mobile hospital. One source on North Korea said "If Kim died on the train, all medical staff must have been mobilized, and it would have created quite a stir stopping the train. There must be hundreds of people who witnessed it. Would it have been possible to keep this secret for over 50 hours?"
In addition, another train with bodyguards usually went ahead of Kim's wherever he went to check the safety of railroad.
◆ Death at Home
Kim's last public appearance, according to the North Korean media, was at a large supermarket in Pyongyang on Thursday. If he did not leave Pyongyang immediately afterwards, he must have been resting in his residence or office in Pyongyang. Because Kim made nine public appearances this month alone, he would have been tired. "It may be that his aides did not know of Kim's heart attack or found out too late because he would have been sleeping in his bedroom," a source said.
◆ Why the Need for Fabrications?
One senior South Korean official said, "Death on the train is possibly the best story that the North Korean regime can use to promote Kim as a hardworking leader who worked for the people until the moment he died. North Koreans would feel there's a huge difference between an easy and peaceful death in his bed and death at work far from home."
A North Korean defector said, "Unlike when Kim Il-sung died, North Koreans have virtually no respect for Kim Jong-il. The regime must have felt the need to make his death look better and find a way to glorify him." But a researcher at a state-run think tank said, "It's a great risk to the credibility of the regime if it's later revealed that Kim died in his bed. They would think twice about lying about it."
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A NEW York man is suing two airlines for $US10 million in damages for injuries he says he incurred when he jumped on a Nigerian man who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner with a bomb in his underwear.
Theophilus Maranga filed the lawsuit Wednesday (local time) in federal court in Manhattan.
He named as defendants Delta Air Lines, Inc., Air France-KLM and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who awaits sentencing after admitting he tried to blow up the plane.
Maranga claims the airlines were negligent to let Abdulmutallab aboard.
The Wappinger Falls man says he suffered numerous injuries after jumping on Abdulmutallab when he tried to bring down a Christmas 2009 Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight with 290 people aboard.
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That was my first reaction as well. But i suppose it is possible he might have been injured somehow, so I have shelved my first reaction until I learn more. Unfortunately first reactions are usually the right ones.
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Guy saves the airline from millions in lost publicity and life insurance claims, and they can't even spring for a band-aid once it's all over and done with. If corporations weren't such assholes all the time, they wouldn't get sued so much.
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suffered numerous injuries after jumping on Abdulmutallab
But he wouldn't have those problems if he hadn't jumped the guy. Of course the bomb might not have gone off anyway - maybe it fizzled 'cuz Abdooodoo pizzled on it...
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He's suing the airlines rather than TSA because he stands to get much more money. The Feds liability is capped in the courts. Meanwhile, if he loses or wins, the rest of the airline travelers pay more for tickets and add-ons.
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An additional thought. The airlines don't have the investigative where-with-all to check each and every passenger. TSA is charged with the task of screening and investigating passengers. Take it up with big Sis.
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Again, it strikes me the motive is deeper than a bandage. Maybe that just hope for the Christmas season.
The civil court is an excellent forum for public examination of service responsibility. I don't believe TSA as a National Defense filter abrogates the airline industry's responsibility to provide a safe service environment.
In a microcosm, similiar rules are applied at 'last call' and bartenders empowered to 'cut off' patrons.
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Hey, if the dude was injured doing his good deed I don't begrudge him a healthy payday in the courts. Having an impartial judge decide this kind is thing is exactly why we have a legal system instead of just shooting it out in the streets like Somalia -- or Iraq.
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I don't believe TSA as a National Defense filter abrogates the airline industry's responsibility to provide a safe service environment.
I don't either but the Feds have eclipsed that responsibility much like they have taken kept States from enforcing immigration laws. The Tenth Amendment has been much weakened.
After they were cleared to board, they claim a Delta pilot barred them
The men were headed to a conference on anti-Muslim bigotry, the suit says
More details at the link. But they were in full regalia, primed to see discrimination. What were they discussing, and how did they behave, as they boarded the plane?
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They can sue all they want, but if Delta offered them another flight, or a ticket refund, they will lose.
The bottom line is that airline tickets have a fairly substantial use agreement that passengers are under.
One rule is that pilots are in control, like ship's captains, and can refuse passengers or refuse to fly without retribution. And another is the catchall, that airlines may refuse service at their discretion.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that conspirators are plotting to bring down his government. Outstanding analysis there, Einstein. When have conspirators not been plotting to bring down a Pak government?
He also declared that the military has to be accountable to parliament and that no institution can be a state within a state. I dunno, youse guys and Lebanon seem to be pulling it off pretty well...
His government is struggling with a memo scandal that has forced the resignation of the Pakistani ambassador to the US and threatens the president. The leaked memo allegedly asked for US help to prevent a military takeover. That would be embarrassing...
Pakistan's President, Asif Ali 'Ten Percent' Zardari, has recently returned to the country after hiding from an assassination attempt seeking medical treatment in Dubai. The 56-year-old denies any role in the memo.
His illness and the scandal surrounding the memo have led to speculation that he might be forced out of office. Beats getting killed. Ask his wife...
Pakistan's supreme court has opened a hearing into the memo and demanded a reply from the president.
Tensions are high between the civilian government, which has ruled since elections in February 2008, and Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence services, after US forces killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad in May.
Mr Gilani also referred to the controversy over the late al-Qaeda leader, querying how he had managed to get into Pakistan and live there for six years apparently undetected. With a military escort, of course...
[Dawn] Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... on Wednesday said Pakistain wanted new rules of engagement with the Untied States with a guarantee to respect the country's illusory sovereignty and assurance of "no Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... -like unilateral action in future."
You don't hide them, we won't need to do the cowboy thingie. Oh, and there is no plausible deniability -- it's your job to keep order within your borders. That's our guarantee.
The prime minister said in case any credible and actionable information was available, it must be shared with Pakistain for necessary action.
He stressed that the drone attacks must be stopped, which were causing collateral damage and were grossly detrimental to the government's efforts to isolate gun-hung tough guys from local population.
The prime minister was addressing the meeting of Afghan and Pak parliamentary delegations held under the auspicious of Pakistain Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) at the PM House.
Pakistain cut off NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... supplies, got Shamsi airbase vacated, and boycotted the Bonn Conference in the aftermath of the NATO attack on Pak Army checkpost on November 26.
He said Pakistain wanted sovereign, independent, prosperous and stable Afghanistan, which was in its interest.
"Pakistain is a part of the solution and not part of the problem," said the prime minister.
Gilani said the liquidation of Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... , Head of the Afghan High Peace Council, was a severe setback to the peace and reconciliation efforts as he was a great supporter of friendship between Pakistain and Afghanistan.
He accepted the suggestion of one of the co-chairmen of the delegation to inaugurate the Engineering University being built in Balkh, Afghanistan with the assistance of Pakistain with a cost of US$ 10 million.
Gilani said Pakistain believed that political process also needed to be underpinned by economic development and therefore was carrying out reconstruction work in Afghanistan out of the US$330 million pledged money.
He said Pakistain plans to build a new block at Mazar Sharif Hospital and a 50-bed eye hospital at Gardez.
He said Pakistain had additionally pledged construction of 50 primary schools and 50 basic health units across Afghanistan.
Initially, these primary schools will be built in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Baghlan and other provinces, he added.
Gilani said Pakistain was offering 2000 fully funded scholarships to Afghan students. Around six thousand Afghan students are enrolled in Pak universities and colleges while about 500,000 Afghan refugee children attend government or other schools in Pakistain.
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[Dawn] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... has claimed that drones are still flying over tribal areas despite what he said clear orders issued by the chief of the army staff to shoot any intruding aircraft after the Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency incident.
"We have reliably learnt that drones are still flying over Wazoo even after the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... air strike and orders issued by the army chief to shoot them down as soon as they enter and violate Pakistain's airspace in future," the JUI-F chief responded to a query when asked as to how he would prove his information as credible at a presser at Alhamra Arts Council here on Tuesday
Shall we assume that the army is either unwilling or incapable of shooting down the drones?
He said after a detailed deliberation in various sessions of a three-day consultative meeting, the JUI-F leadership had reached a consensus to demand of the government to immediately rescind hidden accords made with the United States and India during Musharraf's regime.
"We demand of the government to immediately rescind all such hidden agreements that put the country's illusory sovereignty at stake," he said.
"The agreements, which have no record in black and white, not only led to the death of 35,000 innocent people in the ensuing war against terror but also caused financial loss of $80 billion. We consider it not only a sensitive national issue but also an offence," he added.
Rehman said that in 2001, the then government had made two accords, one with the United States about war on terror and second with India about Kashmire issue that consisted of four points.
He said his party questioned the government as to why it became a US ally and started working on Kashmire issue despite knowing that no record relating to aforementioned agreements existed.
He said his party had also decided to continue having dialogue to revive Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal as it had produced good results in the past. "We have reached a final stage to revive the MMA," Mr Rehman responded when asked about the results of continued dialogue/meeting in this regard.
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Shall we assume that the army is either unwilling or incapable of shooting down the drones?
I vote "Incapable".
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[Dawn] The political administration of Khyber Agency has warned Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... tribe of strict action if it fails to fulfil its collective territorial responsibility by expelling hard boy elements from its area.
Addressing a jirga of Kukikhel tribe in Jamrud on Tuesday, Assistant Political Agent Mohammad Jameel made it clear to the tribal elders that situation deteriorated in the area during the last few days as forces of Evil rubbed out a human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist and later blew up a high school for girls. "Such activities are totally unacceptable to the administration and if not checked on time, they will have bad repercussions," he said and called upon the tribal elders to extend help to the local administration in checking the movements of anti-social elements in the area.
Mr Jameel reminded the rustics that if they failed to respond to their collective responsibilities, the administration would have no other option but to launch a military operation in Jamrud.
"The responsibility would entirely rest with the Kukikhel tribe," he said. The assistant political agent added that the Kukikhel tribe must chalk out a comprehensive plan to purge their area of forces of Evil and outlaws.
Speaking on the occasion, Kukikhel elders Malik Mohammad Ismail, Malik Faizullah Jan and Malikzada Salahuddin assured the political administration of their full support and cooperation. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... they demanded of the political authorities to help them identify the unwanted elements in their area.
"We will not allow non-locals to live in our area if they fail to provide concrete assurance about their good conduct," they said. They added that they were mindful of their collective responsibilities provided the local administration also took sincere steps in combating militancy.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... local leader of Pakistain Tehrik-i-Insaf Wali Khan Afridi has demanded of the government to stop immediately the ongoing military operation in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency and resolve the issue through negotiations.
In a statement, he also demanded that all displaced families from Bara should be registered at the Jalozai camp and provided with all the basic amenities of life.
He lamented that thousands of displaced persons from different parts of Bara were still awaiting their registration at the Jalozai camp. They were also deprived of the assistance, which the government had announced for internally displaced families from tribal areas, he said.
Mr Afridi said that 28 months of continued military operation and imposition of curfew in most parts of Bara had badly affected the local economy. All the markets and business centres in the area had been closed since the launch of military operation, he added.
"Thousands of Bara students have been deprived of getting education as most of the educational institutions have either been closed owing to military operation or destroyed by krazed killers," he said.
Mr Afridi added that political administration should take local elders into confidence to resolve the Bara issue through negotiations.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Moslem League -- Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Wednesday said that the country's military did not recognise its democratic forces, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to DawnNews in an exclusive interview, the PML-N chief said that the military needed to accept the role of the civilian government. Moreover, civilian institutions need to be strengthened and political forces can achieve this objective through mutual trust, he added.
Existing political conditions require immediate elections, he said, adding that the ballot box was the best way to gauge the public's opinion.
Regardless of who wins the public's vote, it is imperative that the country's political forces work together, he added.
Answering a question on the 'memogate' scandal, Nawaz said he was unaware if such a memo was ever sent.
"I would not have taken the matter to the courts if the parliament was not dysfunctional," he said.
Nawaz said the support of Attaullah Mengal had been gained to deal with the insurgency in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... . He added that a 'package' was not enough and that Baloch leaders needed to be brought to the table for an effective solution.
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As a sectarian crisis deepened just days after the last American troops pulled out of the country, Nouri al-Maliki, a Shia, promised a fair trial for Mr Hashemi, who has fled to the autonomous Kurdish region after learning that he was wanted for plotting assassinations during the insurgency.
The prime minister's conduct has led to concern that he is attempting to exclude the Sunnis out of power and risks reigniting the violence between the two communities that scarred the middle of the last decade.
US troops completed their withdrawal on Sunday, leaving behind what President Barack Obama described as "sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq".
But Mr Obama has already had to call upon Vice President Joe Biden to try and cool tempers in Baghdad.
Mr Biden telephoned Mr Maliki and Osama al-Nujaifi, the parliamentary speaker, on Tuesday and "stressed the urgent need for the prime minister and the leaders of the other major blocs to meet and work through their differences together," the White House said.
Mr Maliki has also asked that parliament fire another rival, his Sunni deputy Saleh al-Mutlaq, after he compared Mr Maliki to Saddam Hussein.
There was some sign of an ameliorating effect on Mr Maliki, who invited the Sunni and Kurdish parties for talks, but he was promptly rebuffed by the Sunni party, Iraqiya.
It said that Mr Maliki represented "the main reason for the crisis and the problem, not a positive element for a solution".
Assuming we'll still want to after he establishes his own dictatorship...
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Premier Nouri al- Maliki said that 700 US trainers will work to train Iraqi forces, adding that the number of US embassy in Baghdad will not exceed 2000.
In a press conference, held today, he added that they will be in their barracks, with possibilities to decrease this figure.
Parliament foreign relations MP Sami al-Askari said, earlier, that the number of diplomats will reach to 1500, while other employees do not have US citizenship and have no immunity.
Governmental responsible sources stated that 15.000 employees will remain in the US embassy after US forces withdrawal.
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Get them out of there, now. I smell hostages, in fact if not in name. We should have left after crushing their army, and should never have tried to civilize them. Crush, rinse, and repeat as required. Screw this pacification/rebuilding/democratization crap.
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I don't disagree with the Iraq war, I felt we needed to give Islam a reasonable chance at democracy (and killed a lot of Jihadi who were drawn in like roaches) and Iraq was the best case scenario for that. I now feel we can turn our back on the entire region with a clean conscience. They can stand or fall on their own.
Although, in hindsite, it might have been better, practical speaking, to smash Islamoids on the peripheries where Arab-imperialism is something we could have gotten support against. Little Turkish support for their brand of Islam to counter Wahhabism and we might have cut the worst of the cancer out of areas east of Pakistan.
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Without a SOFA covering them, Obama would be a fool to send those trainers in. What everybody forgets is that Maliki is an Islamist leading an Islamist party. It's kind of amusing how GWB ended up replacing a secular Sunni dictatorship with an Islamist Shiite-led democracy that is about to become an Islamist Shiite dictatorship. My bet remains that in the next decade, Iraq will revert to dictatorship, but this time, an Islamist one that is explicitly anti-American and expansionist rather than a secular one that merely has territorial ambitions in the region. It also looks as if we are about to replace a secular Alawite dictatorship in Syria with an Islamist Sunni dictatorship. The years ahead ought to be good for oil producers and arms manufacturers, as the Mid East prepares to fend off would-be Caliphs or Mahdis who now have resources of entire countries at their disposal, thanks to US.
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"Obama would be a fool to send those trainers in."
Then he'll send them, ZF. :-(
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The trainers are in Iraq w/ the embassy and have diplomatic immunity. Better than a SOFA but doesn't prevent them from being targets of Sunni terrorists or Iranian stooges.
[WSJ] Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.... warned that a challenge to his government by Sunni politicians could destroy the ethnic and sectarian power-sharing system that underpins Iraq's democracy--and take more power into the hands of the Shiite majority.
The threat signals the most dire political crisis Iraq has faced since an agreement on a governing coalition one year ago smoothed over a long-running conflict that has re-emerged with the official pullout this month of U.S. forces from Iraq.
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See also TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > IRAQI PM: SUNNIS COULD BE SHUT FROM POWER.
OOOOOO, you just know SADR + HEZBOLLAH will have something to say.
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That is a real danger now that our military is gone. We still have 16,000 embassy workers and contractors in Iraq that are at risk. Pulling the troops out was more of a political ploy by BHO than anything else.
Jerusalem calls off $141 milliion deal with Ankara over fears that Turkey could hand over cutting-edge equipment to hostile parties, officials say
The equipment in question is an aerial intelligence system based on electro-optic sensors and meant for Turkish aircraft. The advanced system has already been installed on Israeli jets.
A defense official stressed that the relationship with Turkey is very important to Israel, but added that "at the same time we have security responsibility for every product that receives an export license."
"Decisions on this matter have to do with the specific system, rather than with the overall relationship," the official said.
During the Second Lebanon War, Hezbollah missiles struck a few meters from the Carmel Medical Center.
Israel continues hardening itself for the next round. Sderot's bomb shelter/playground/old folks' activity center is open for business, all apartments are supposed to have a safe room in case of a gas attack, the anti-missile system is being debugged, the fence along the Egyptian border is proceeding apace, and the foreign ministry just told the four EU members of the UNSC to STFU. Link. Tzipi Livni is quite, quite upset.
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Is that the catch-all comment you've got mapped to the F5 macro key, g(r)omgoru? Or is this one on F4 and F5 is how shitty the stupid Americans are?
As the civil war in Syria continues and the ethnic tension is rising, the countrys Sunnis are threatening the Alawite minority against their continued support of President Bashar Assad, who is an Alawite himself.
Mamoun al-Homsy, a former Syrian MP and one of the countrys opposition leaders, has reportedly recently distributed a recorded message to the Alawite community in Syria, in which he warns its members against supporting Assad.
In the message, al-Homsy called on the Alawites to immediately renounce Assad, warning them that if they do not do so, Syria will become the graveyard of the Alawites.
He also stressed that Syrias Sunni Muslims will not remain silent over Assads crimes, adding that they intend to abide by the rule of an eye for an eye and will teach you (Alawites) a lesson that you will not forget.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese-based As-Safir newspaper has reported that the U.S. government is well aware of the danger of widespread revenge against the Alawite minority in Syria after the expected downfall of the Assad regime.
According to the newspaper, this issue was the focus of the talks that were held between U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and Syrian opposition leaders in Switzerland on December 6.
The report, which published the protocol of the talks, said that Clinton urged the Syrian National Council, which the U.S. recognizes as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, to work for unity and promise to act to protect minorities after the overthrow of the Assad government.
[Iran Press TV] The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed ...Tut tut, my good man!... the Persian Gulf Arab states' repeated allegations against Tehran of intervention in the countries.
In a statement on Tuesday, the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ... the Medes and the Persians are very sensitive on the subject of the Persian Gulf, which the Arabs refer to as the Arabian Gulf... ([P]GCC)'s member states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Soddy Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates again accused Iran of interfering in their internal affairs.
"The statement referred to fabricated and baseless allegations made by US officials," Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Wednesday.
He said that the claims "while null and void, indicate the unilateral stances of some of the council's member states."
The official denounced the council's statement as in contradiction with the spirit of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran's relations with these countries.
He noted that Tehran values goodwill, mutual respect, and avoidance of intervention in other countries' internal affairs and said the country considers these the fundamental elements of its foreign policy.
Mehmanparast as well renewed Iran's call on Arab regimes to meet their people's legitimate demands in condemnation of the violent suppression of popular protests underway in Bahrain, Soddy Arabia, Yemen, and Egypt.
"Violent confrontations and military crackdowns of nations will not only do nothing to help [relieve] the problems in these countries, but also will spread instability and insecurity across the region," he warned.
Mehmanparast also dismissed the Arab states' alleged concerns about Iran's nuclear program, insisting that the Islamic Theocratic Republic's nuclear activities were peaceful, transparent, and within the limitations imposed by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The Iranian front man was responding to a call by the [P]GCC on Tehran to "fully cooperate" with the IAEA.
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Iran of pursuing military objectives in its nuclear program and have used this pretext to push for the imposition of sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic as well as to call for a military attack on the country.
Iran, however, maintains that, as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the IAEA, it has every right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities, but has never found any evidence of diversion in Iran's civilian nuclear program.
His comments came following recent developments in which Iran announced that its military has downed a US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft, which had violated Iran's airspace and the Islamic Theocratic Republic's capture of a CIA agent, who was on a mission to infiltrate the Iranian Intelligence Ministry.
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Thus of course ....
* IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > HAMAS CALLS FOR CREATION OF [armed = al-Quds = pro-Iran?] ARMY FOR LIBERATION OF PALESTINE.
TEHRAN TO ARABS = "HMMMMM, HMMMM, WELL, ITS THE HOLIDAYS - JUST PUT HAMAS = PALEOS OUT OF YOUR MIND UNTIL AFTER JANUARY"!?
[Iran Press TV] Tens of thousands of Syrians have rallied in support of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... government in the capital Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... , chanting slogans in favor of his planned reforms.
Figures show that during the past weeks, plenty of pro-Assad rallies have taken place in cities across Syria.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March, with demonstrations being held both against and in favor of President Bashir al-Assad. Hundreds of people, including security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.
While the West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of the killings, Damascus blames ''outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups'' for the unrest that erupted in mid-March, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... welcomed on Wednesday Beirut politicians' calls for the establishment of an arms-free capital, noting that Leb would be living in "very flawed" circumstances if such a goal is not achieved.
He told Free Leb radio: "The whole of Leb, not just Beirut, should be stripped of weapons and gangs."
He questioned however the official authorities' ability to achieve this goal, saying that no arms had been confiscated and no gunnies have been incarcerated in any of the armed festivities that had erupted in Leb over the past few years.
The LF leader explained the authorities' failure to fulfill their roles can be attributed to the people, army, and resistance equation, "which some sides are exploiting" to legitimize any action.
On Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn's statements that al-Qaeda members had infiltrated Leb through Syria, Geagea remarked: "The army and security forces are obligated to tackle this issue."
"If the claims are false, then why are the people being intimidated?" he wondered.
"Why hasn't the army been deployed in the areas that have witnessed alleged infiltration of terrorists?" he asked.
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Good Luck.
It's been tried elsewhere.
With Little duccess.
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(Ma'an) -- Eight Paleostinian political factions have walked out of a reconciliation meeting meant to represent all parties after being told they could not participate because they were not part of the PLO.
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