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Note to Marines: Stick to local customs by cutting of their heads, hanging them from bridges or dragging them naked through the streets or something like that.
When in Rome...
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After Malmedy most Americans didn't take prisoners of the SS. The Canadians had already learned their lesson in Normandy. To paraphrase the Condottieri Carmagnola at Arbedo - men who did not give quarter did not deserve to receive it. Intentionally target and butcher women and children, burn schools, decapitate prisoners and you probably will be considered the barbarian you are.
CAIRO - Mohamed ElBaradei Egyptian law scholar and Iranian catspaw. He was head of the IAEA from December 1997 to November 2009. At some point during his tenure he was purchased by the Iranians. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for something in 2005. After stepping down from his IAEA position ElBaradei attempted to horn in on the 2011 Egyptian protests which culminated in the collapse of the Mubarak regime. ElBaradei served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a lefty NGO that is bankrolled by the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. Soros himself serves as a member of the organization's Executive Committee. pulled out of the race for the Egyptian presidency on Saturday, saying "the previous regime" was still running the country which has been without a head of state since Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was deposed last year.
"My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework," the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog said in a statement.
TOKYO — Kim Jong Eun, according to propaganda described in a recent Chinese magazine article, learned to drive at age 3. By 8, he could safely maneuver dirt roads at 75 mph. As a teenager, he mastered four foreign languages. He is now learning three more.
The emerging biography of North KoreaÂ’s new leader, considered fictitious in nearly every country but his own, portrays him as the ultimate quick study, a poet and a marksman, an economics whiz and a military strategist.
The mythmaking is particularly important because Kim Jong Eun, handed power in one of the worldÂ’s most secretive nations three weeks ago, has yet to publicly prove his acumen. His life has been turned into a hyper-choreographed showcase for his credibility, and Korea-watchers are scrutinizing his every move: He wears a black double-breasted coat much like his grandfather did. He tours military sites that were his fatherÂ’s favorites. Even his birthday, on Sunday, will be closely watched.
Analysts aren’t certain which birthday it is — maybe his 28th or 29th; perhaps his 30th — but they think the date could provide new clues about the pace of the succession and the extent to which North Korea is willing to toast its young heir while mourning his father, leader Kim Jong Il, who died Dec. 17. North Korea celebrates the birthdays of Kim Jong Il and founder Kim Il Sung as national holidays. But Jan. 8 hasn’t yet been declared as such.
The birthday serves as the first milepost in Kim Jong Eun’s brief tenure as North Korea’s supreme leader. Just weeks ago, he was a background figure — a trainee with some fancy job titles and an all-powerful dad. Now, after a series of rapid job promotions, he is in charge of a nuclear arsenal and a massive army.
He must also juggle the conflicting interests of the elite circle around him while looking out for the health of the nation. An economic opening could lift one of the worldÂ’s most impoverished countries, but it could also lead to calls for a democratic government instead of an authoritarian heir.
U.S. officials concede that they have scant insight into the country’s workings, particularly the small group of Kim family members and military generals who hold power. Still, some clues have emerged about the strategy for guiding the succession, with frequent official references to the “instructions” left behind by Kim Jong Il.
Analysts don’t know whether those instructions are written or recorded, real or invented. But North Korea, in its key New Year’s policymaking editorial, mentioned six times its intentions to carry out the precise instructions of the Dear Leader, allowing not even the “slightest vacillation.” That jibes with the country’s only previous power transfer, following the death of Kim Il Sung in 1994, when Kim Jong Il said that his father’s instructions would serve as the “only guideline for hundreds and thousands of years.”
As North KoreaÂ’s state media describes it, Kim Jong Eun is the lone inheritor of his fatherÂ’s vision. That narrative is aimed at boosting his legitimacy within the nation. But it also limits his ability to create policies that differ from those of the past 20 years, a period during which North Korea funneled money to its military, tested nuclear devices, lashed out against neighboring countries, suffered from chronic food shortages and punished government dissenters by sending them to labor camps.
So far, though, Kim Jong Eun has shown no indication of breaking from his father’s agenda. Last Sunday, Kim Jong Eun visited a military unit — the 105th Tank Division — that Kim Jong Il had visited almost yearly. During the Korean War, that division led the North’s invasion of Seoul.
During his visit, Kim Jong Eun visited the barracks and posed for photos with service members. A documentary of the trip, later broadcast on the North’s state-run television station, showed Kim Jong Eun gesturing and making comments — but it included no audio of his remarks, just a soaring musical score. Published photos of the visit showed him testing the temperature of running tap water at the military camp, examining a spread of food and checking out an e-library.
“Asking in detail about the use of computers in the e-library,” the state-run news agency reported, Kim Jong Eun said that his father “would have been pleased, if he had looked at them.”
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Bullshit, organized but Bullshit none the less.
Have a linguist question him bet he fails.
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I remember telling my daughter when she wanted to drive at three years old "But you can't reach the pedals and see where you are going at the same time!" Even she saw the logic at the time.
Europe will agree sanctions banning the purchase of oil from Iran by the end of the month, William Hague, the foreign secretary, said on Sunday as Saudi Arabia promised it could boost output to make up the shortfall.
Mr Hague was speaking as part of what appeared to be a concerted ramping up of pressure on Iran from the EU. His German and French counterparts sent the same message in separate interviews, insisting that the Iranian regime was continuing its work on nuclear weapons and additionally threatening to block dealings with its Central Bank.
He repeated long-standing government policy that military action was being neither ruled in or out, but said: "This is an increasingly dangerous situation that Iran is developing a military nuclear programme.
"Our sanctions are part of getting Iran to change course and to enter negotiations."
A judge in Norway ordered Friday that confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik be given another psychiatric evaluation amid criticism and doubts over a previous diagnosis of insanity.
Breivik will now undergo more tests by two doctors to determine whether he is of sound mind and therefore able to stand trial for the July 22 bombing and shooting rampage in Norway that killed 77 people, most of them young people. It was the Scandinavian nationÂ’s worst peacetime massacre and left the nation stunned by the carnage and BreivikÂ’s fanatical right-wing, anti-Muslim views.
In November, a psychiatric assessment concluded that Breivik was clinically insane at the time of the attacks, a finding that would most likely entail medical treatment and internment for him rather than a full trial and imprisonment.
But the diagnosis came under heavy public criticism, including from some experts who questioned whether a deranged man could orchestrate such a well-planned attack. Breivik has confessed to setting off a massive car bomb in the center of Norway that served as a diversion while he went out to the nearby island of Utoya where, dressed as a police officer, he gunned down dozens of youths at a political summer camp.
On Friday, Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen in Oslo, the Norwegian capital, told reporters that the conflicting opinions warranted her order of a second evaluation for Breivik, 32.
Breivik has rejected descriptions of himself as psychotic or insane. He says that his methodical rampage had a clear-headed goal: to inspire “indigenous” Christian Europeans to rise up in a revolution to throw out Muslim settlers on the continent. Shortly before the attacks, he posted a manifesto hundreds of pages long referring to himself as a crusading “knight” and urging Christians to join him in reclaiming Europe.
After surrendering to police on Utoya, Breivik confessed readily to the killings. But he admits no criminal responsibility for them. Despite efforts to sweep him under the rug, he is still fighting the Norwegian government, and they are deeply frightened of him and what he says.
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A criminal trial is a real gamble for the government. At first, he will be tried in the Tingretten, or District Court (all felony cases since 1995).
"Regular trials are usually held before a panel of three judges, one professional and two lay judges. In particularly difficult cases the bench may consist of five judges (two professional and three lay (non-lawyer) judges).
"Verdicts and sentences are determined by a majority vote, with the lay judges' votes counting the same as the professional judge."
So this means his *first* trial will have two Norwegians selected like jurors as two of three, or three of five judges.
Then his almost automatic appeal to the Lagmannsretten, or Appeals Court.
"In criminal cases where more than six years of prison can be handed down, the court will have a jury of ten people deciding the guilt, as well as three professional judges who preside over the case and determine sentencing. In order to convict, at least seven of the jury members need to vote for conviction. The verdict of the jury is usually final, but can be overturned by the professional judges who then order a retrial."
From there it could very well go to the Norwegian Supreme Court, or the always-hoping-to-interfere European Court of Human Rights.
In all cases, there will be lots of opportunities for Breivik to spout and cause further distress and embarrassment to the government, and possibly sway other Norwegians to interest in what he was fighting, namely immigrants and the far socialist/communist left.
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"In all cases, there will be lots of opportunities for Breivik to spout and cause further distress and embarrassment to the government, and possibly sway other Norwegians to interest in what he was fighting, namely immigrants and the far socialist/communist left."
Popcorn alert, 'moose?
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In AGW/Moderate Islam/Keynesian Economics/Human rights/ world he's barely mildly disturbed.
[Dawn] In a bid to defuse tension between the civilian government and the nation's powerful military, whose relations are at their lowest since 1999, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... struck a conciliatory tone with the army chief at a defence committee meeting on Saturday.
"Our government and parliament, and above all our patriotic people, have stood fully behind our brave armed forces and security personnel," said the prime minister.
"It has been my government's policy to allow and enable all state institutions to play their role in their respective domains," he added.
Gilani said that Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity are non-negotiable.
He was addressing the meeting of Defence Committee of the Cabinet which was held here at Prime Minister House under his chairmanship.
The meeting was attended by Senior Minister for Industries and Defence Productions, Minister for Defence, Foreign Minister, Finance Minister, Interior Minister, Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Chief of Army Staff, Air Chief, Naval Chief, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, Cabinet Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Director General of Intelligence Bureau.
"It has been our consistent endeavour to safeguard Pakistain's supreme national interests in a most effective and inclusive manner," said the prime minister.
He said terrorism and the continued strife and conflict in Afghanistan have impacted directly and severely on Pakistain.
He said thousands of people and officers and soldiers of the armed forces and security personnel fell victim to terror and militancy.
"We have achieved notable success in dealing with the menace of terrorism and we have done so in our national interest," he said.
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[Dawn] President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... met on Saturday, DawnNews reported. The meeting was held on the request of the army chief.
Television reports said the two discussed the memo scandal and issues related to national security.
Sources told DawnNews that the meeting between the army chief and the president lasted for over an hour.
Sources said General Kayani told the president that he had reservations over Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... 's statements in a Chinese daily regarding the replies submitted by the army chief and DG ISI in the memo case.
The military chief reportedly requested the president to direct the premier to retract his statements made to the newspaper.
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[Dawn] Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. on Saturday denied that any negotiations were taking place between the government and the bad turbans, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to the media in Islamabad, the interior minister said that the hard boyz have again resorted to targeting security forces.
"We will not negotiate with these hard boyz until they agree to disarm themselves," he said.
Answering a question about Mansoor Ijaz, Malik said that Ijaz would be issued a visa according to the law when he applies for one.
"The people know who he (Mansoor Ijaz) conspired with to bring down Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... 's government," remarked the interior minister.
Malik said drone attacks had started during former president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... 's rule, adding that the US had not halted drone strikes despite the current government's efforts.
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[Dawn] Pakistain's top military and civilian leaders were set to meet Saturday in a closed-door session to discuss new rules on coordinating with the United States and 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... , officials said. Islamabad's uneasy alliance with the US was brought to the brink of collapse by November Arclight airstrikes which killed Pak soldiers.
The meeting could also provide an opportunity for reconciliation between the military and the civilian government after a week of escalating tensions and rumours of a coup on the horizon.
Saturday's meeting of the government's defence committee was called to discuss recommendations from parliament about new terms of engagement with the United States and NATO, according to a security bigshot and defence ministry official. Both spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Pakistain set up this committee after errant Arclight airstrikes near the Afghan border killed 24 Pak troops. The incident prompted Islamabad to shut NATO and US supply routes running into Afghanistan through Pakistain.
Khursheed Ahmed, a member of parliament's national security committee, said politicians had recommended that Islamabad seek "guarantees" from Washington that it would respect Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and avoid any future violations of the country's borders. He declined to say what such guarantees would look like or any other details.
Both army chief Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... are expected to attend, bringing the two men into the same room together at a time when the civilian and military sides of the government have appeared increasingly divided.
The army has staged at least three coups in Pakistain's six-decade history. On Wednesday, it warned of "grievous consequences" for the country in an unusual statement, setting off the latest round of coup fears.
Also Wednesday, Gilani fired the defence secretary. And then on Thursday, President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... flew to Dubai for a wedding. He returned the next day, but the trip renewed speculation that he might flee Pakistain if he felt he was about to lose power.
On Friday, Gilani called for a "show of confidence" vote in parliament to support of the government. Lawmakers will vote on the resolution Monday.
Gilani said then that the parliament must choose between "democracy or dictatorship."
The current standoff between the military and the government can be traced back to a scandal last year in which an unsigned memo was allegedly sent to Washington asking for its help in heading off a supposed coup.
Analysts say Gen. Kayani has little appetite for a coup, but they say the generals may be happy to allow the Supreme Court to dismiss the government by "constitutional means." The court has legitimised previous coups.
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'Sasti Roti' lost Punjab Rs 3.64 billionÂ
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt cheap bread scheme called Sasti Roti was run at the cost of billions of rupees but according to an audit report there was a net loss of Rs 3.64 billion due to irregularities.
 Afaq Ahmad attacks MQM
Daily Express reported that MQM (Muhajir) released from jail in Karachi after many years was unrepentant and had gone on the attack against Altaf Hussain. He said the 25 seats of MQM at the National assembly were gained at gunpoint. He also revived the accusation that the MQM had plans to separate Karachi from Pakistan Muhajir Province.
 Resume Nato supply, lose government!
Quoted in Jinnah retired ISI Brigadier Muhammad Yusuf said that if Nato supplies are resumed the PPP government will fall. He said Haqqani network was not active in Mohmand Agency and America was changing its views on a daily basis. It was foolish to trust America whose demands cannot be met.
 Hindu girls being Islamised in Sindh
Daily Mashriq reported that Hindu girls in Sindh were being kidnapped by Muslims and converted to Islam before wedding. The Hindus said they were a poor minority and could do nothing to stop the Muslims from carrying away their children. This statement was actually made by MNA Khattu Mal at the National Assembly.
 Madrassas are castles of Islam
Daily Jinnah reported various clerical leaders as condemning federal interior minister Rehman Malik's negative comment about madrassas and asserted that the madrassas were castles of Islam and anyone colliding with them would be smashed to pieces. They said that the PPP government was extending the policies of Musharraf and will be opposed.
 Kashmiris protecting our throat
Leader of Jamaat Islami Munawwar Hasan was quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that the Kashmiris were not fighting for their independence abut actually protecting the jugular vein (shah-rag) of Pakistan from being slit by India. He said that the war to liberate Kashmir must go and was a duty of Pakistan.
 Al Qaeda rising again in Fata
Daily Mashriq reported that Al Qaeda was once again reorganising its subordinate cadres among the Taliban in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan, as opposed to one report in London Guardian that Al Qaeda was finished in Pakistan. According to German media, Abu Yahya who might be the next leader after Osama had been assigned the task.
 Women die to maintain 'ghairat'
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that in the last 9 months 675 women had died at the hands of men killing in the name of honour (ghairat). Out of the murdered women, 71 were younger than 18 years. Nineteen women were killed by their sons, 40 were killed by their fathers, and 169 were killed by their husbands.
 Rana Sanaullah blamed for 'loot-maar'
Daily Pakistan quoted Churched Mahmud Kasur after 25 thousand chairs were carried away by fans of Tehreek Insaf by its followers in Kasur, his constituency. Kasur who has joined Insaf said that theft of chairs was organised by the Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah. The police stood aside and did not stop the people from carrying off the chairs on their heads. The chairs were worth rupees one crore. JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman was quoted by Express as saying Tehreek Insaf was being backed by secret agencies.
 Chairs on hire with guarantees
Daily Mashriq reported that after the famous chair theft at Kasur the suppliers of chairs for Tehreek Inset's next rally in Karachi were most reluctant to provide chairs without being guaranteed cost if the Karachi supporters of Insaf also decided to take the chairs away as mementos. The chairs in Karachi were estimated to number 80,000.
 Don't lean against graves
Famous religious scholar Ghulam Outbidding told express that it was wrong while in graveyard to lean against gravestones as the dead will feel insulted by this. He said it was okay to kiss the grave of the parents but doing these on women's graves was not okay. He said women should not be allowed into graveyards.
 Lal Masjid being rebuilt
Famous jihadi publication Zarb-e-Momin reported that Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Aziz was about to rebuild Jamia Hafza after it was destroyed in 2007 even though the government had not allowed its rebuilding by reason of it being illegally constructed in the first place. The 90 madrassas in Islamabad are mostly illegal.
 Secret agency rumours about Zardari
Writing in daily Jang Hamid Mir stated that one minister in the PPP cabinet who gets into all governments at the behest of secret agencies told him that Zardari will not return from Dubai and will in fact flee from there to London. It proved that the secret agency behind him was clueless about Zardari and strength of his character.
 Nawaz siding with erstwhile enemy
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that Nawaz Sharif was once against the establishment but now in order to get rid of Zardari he was standing in the same line as the agencies. The Supreme Court had told the PPP government not to give extensions to any government employees but the government did not listen and was now paying for it.
 Hindus flee Pakistan
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that 151 Pakistani Hindus had fled into India and asked to be absorbed because their lives in Pakistan were endangered. A court in Gujarat has asked the Indian foreign office to confirm whether the Hindus were really in danger in Pakistan.
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 Kidnappers of Shahbaz Taseer arrested
Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah told Mashriq that terrorists who kidnapped Shahbaz Taseer the son of the late governor Punjab had been arrested. The same terrorists had also kidnapped the American aid worker Weinstein whom Al Qaeda claimed to have abducted from Lahore. The job was done by Punjabi Taliban working for Al Qaeda but both the kidnapped persons were being held on the border with Afghanistan.
 When police beat Javed Hashmi with 'danda'
Columnist Hamid Mir wrote in Jang that he recalled the days when during Tehreek Nijat of Nawaz Sharif in 1996, the police put Javed Hashmi on the road at Regal Chowk in Lahore and beat him with sticks. When Hamid Mir tried to save himself he too received a few blows. When Musharraf took over, Nawaz Sharif gave the party over to Hashmi and fled to Saudi Arabia. Hashmi got together with Saad Rafiq and Parvez Rashid who was thrashed by Col Nadiem Ijaz. The tragedy was that PMLN had lost Javed Hashmi but for Imran the challenge was how to keep Hashmi under control.
 Plot of kidnapping prominent children
Daily Pakistan reported that a plot to kidnap the children of prominent citizen like Riaz Malik, Mian Mansha, and Hashwani were to be kidnapped for ransom by the terrorists who are short of cash. Five terrorists arrested from Rawalpindi confessed that they were moving to kidnap the children. The terrorists were arrested at the pointation of the terrorists of Shahbaz Taseer arrested earlier. They planned to ask for Rs one billion for each person abducted.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has decided to give back the villa belonging to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... in Gazoo City, Hamas official Khalil al-Haya announced Saturday.
Hamas beturbanned goons seized the villa during the 2007 coup they staged against the PA in the Gazoo Strip.
Abbas's residence and other PA installations have since been occupied by Hamas officials and activists.
The villa was empty when it was seized by Hamas. Abbas has since been living in his other house in Ramallah.
Al-Haya said that Abbas's villa would be handed over to Fatah representatives in the Gazoo Strip.
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No surpise here, as while The MILF proclaims to had dropped their formally demand for independence, they still demand a Muslim/Sharia -controlled "Substate" that for all practical purposes is sovereign or semi-sovereign from Manila + PHIL national laws.
* MILBLOGGS + are still repor that Malay-Indonesia Jihadis are covertly funneling $$$ + arms + fighters for jihad in the PHIL.
Iff correct, IMO the only reason for the Islamo-Jihadis to do so is because they are prepping for a de fatco failure of peace talks + resumption of insurgency agz Manila, albeit likely expanded moreso than ever before.
Iran's state television has reported that Tehran has evidence that the United States was behind the latest assassination of one of its nuclear scientists.
Earlier this week, an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a bomb blast in Tehran. It was the fifth attack of its kind in two years.
But not the last...
Iranian state-run television reported that the Iranian Foreign Ministry gave a letter to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran which says: "We have reliable documents and evidence that this terrorist act was planned, guided, and supported by the CIA."
The Swiss Embassy represents U.S. interests in Iran.
The United States has denied involvement in the killing and condemned it.
Israeli President Shimon Peres has said Israel had no role in the attack, to the best of his knowledge.
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That's ok. I have evidence that says Iran was behind the JFK assassination.
And an Iranian shot JR
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Hillary strongly condemned the assassination which is a cuter way to point at the Mossad and say "it wasn't us".
For every threat of the Mullah's the Dem's respond with swome apology.
I now believe the US foreign policy is indeed based on empty words and delaying any serious response with the hope that the problem will somehow solve itself....
This is so embarassing to see a superpower grovelling at the feet of the Mullah's.
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Here's Our evidence, (Careful the prints not dry yet)
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Various Perts + Bloggers argue that Iranians have had enough LEU for a NucBomb(s) since 2010 -the Maha-Rushie question of the day is whether Roshan + the others had major or significant roles in same, + again in future as per any improved = more potent Iran NucBombs.
IFF ROSHAN, etal? has only MINOR OR NO ROLE IN THE ABOVE, THEN IMO THERE WAS NO VALID REASON FOR MOSSAD, etal. TO WHACK HIM BECAUSE OF HIS LACK OF IMPORTANCE TO IRAN'S NUCPROG.
Roshan's seeming or apparent importance would be his teaching of nuclear science = advanced methods at University to the younger or new generation of [pro-Govt/Mullahs?]Iranian young adults, but to off him would be rather meaningless for the US-Allies considering how many Iranians + Muslim ME'sters are educated overseas in US + Western schools, e.g. science + engineering.
OTOH, SAVAK [+ by extens the Mullahs = Iran Govt] may had decided to off him to score Diplomatic, Media points agz the US-Israel WIDOUT ENDANGERING IRAN'S NUKE PROGESS - IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT ROSHAN'S MURDER WAS A COVER STORY FOR THE MURDER OF SOMEONE(S) ELSE, e.g. ANTI-GOVT. IRANIAN NUKE SCIENTIST(S)???
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* ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN'S BOMB + PAKISTAN.
ME > Pro-Tehran or not, Iran is surrounded by various Muslim Countries, including those whom are Islamist-troubled, bent on dev indigenous nuclear arsenals. Pragmatically, PAKISTAN + faraway NORTH KOREA NEED NO LONGER BE IRAN'S 'SOLE" SOURCES FOR NUCTECHS, BE IT FOR NUCWEAPONS ANDOR CIVILIAN ENERGY.
In any case, PERTS = Iran should have the Bomb 2012 NLT 2015, to include reliable LRBM delivery systems.
Iran's effort to recover some $1.75 billion frozen in a US bank faces a new obstacle due to a law President Barack Obama signed last month, potentially further squeezing Tehran's economy and exacerbating tensions between the two countries.
When Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act on December 31, a provision required him to freeze any money held by or for Iranian financial institutions in the United States and to prohibit any future transactions
[Iran Press TV] Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman says confidential information on the country's nuclear experts has been leaked to the beturbanned goons by the so-called inspectors of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
"Certain individuals who came to Iran under the pretext of inspecting the country's nuclear facilities have identified Iranian scientists and given their names to the terrorist groups," Ramin Mehmanparast said on Friday.
The Iranian official highlighted that Tehran would pursue the case in relevant international bodies.
The comments came in the wake of the liquidation of Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan on January 11 when an unknown motorcyclist attached a magnetic bomb to his car near a college of Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran.
He was killed immediately and his driver, who sustained injuries, died a few hours later in hospital.
Ahmadi Roshan was a Sharif University of Technology chemical engineering graduate and served as the deputy director of marketing at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.
Mehmanparast also said the liquidation is the last-ditch effort of the enemies to stop Iran's scientific advancements, which is by no means untenable.
He went on to say that when "those who claim to champion human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and combat terrorism" commit such crimes, "they bring shame upon themselves."
The terrorist attack happened as some of the US presidential hopefuls openly called in November 2011for conducting covert operations ranging from assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists to launching a military strike on Iran as well as sabotaging Tehran's nuclear program.
The liquidation calls have not been hollow threats as a number of Iranian scientists have been killed in cold blood over the past few years. Professor Majid Shahriari and Professor Masoud Ali-Mohammadi are among the victims of these acts of terror.
On November 29, 2010, Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi were targeted by terrorist attacks. Shahriari was killed immediately but Abbasi, the current director of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, sustained injuries.
Iran's Foreign Ministry blasted on Friday the US and UK governments for their obvious roles in assassinating the Iranian scientist in two strongly-worded letters of protest to the two countries.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic reserves the right to follow up on the issue accordingly," Iran's Foreign Ministry said.
According to reports, Ahmadi Roshan had recently met ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, a fact which indicates that the IAEA has leaked information about Iran's nuclear facilities and scientists.
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I always felt that the IAEA was totally without a redeeming purpose. The fact that most UN institutions are totally corrupt could be an advantage in this case.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... stressed on Saturday that United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... 's concern about his party's arms gives him comfort and happiness, vowing that the party will grow stronger.
"I felt happy when I heard that he (Ban) said he was concerned about our military power," Nasrallah said in a televised speech during the commemoration of the Arbaeen in Baalbek.
He said that "this concern reassures and pleases us... We do not care if the United States and Israel are concerned."
Ban told a presser following talks with Lebanese leaders on Friday that he was "deeply concerned" about the military prowess of Hizbullah.
The U.N. chief is on a three-day visit to Leb.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Nasrallah vowed that his party will not give up its weapons, stressing that the "resistance, army and the people are the only guarantee" to safeguard Leb.
"We confirm that our choice is the path of resistance and the arms of the resistance," he told a crowd of cheering supporters via video link.
"The resistance is here to stay. Its power, its readiness, will continue to grow."
He accused the March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... -led opposition, without naming it, of wanting to disarm his party by using the national dialogue as an alibi. "But they won't be able to achieve this objective," he stressed.
Nasrallah said that he supports the resumption of the national dialogue at Baabda palace to set a defense strategy.
Concerning the security situation, Hizbullah's leader said that the party is keen to preserve the "civil peace and stability" in Leb
Nasrallah stressed that any "political dispute" shouldn't affect the civil peace, urging the security forces to take charge of the security situation.
He voiced support to the cabinet urging Prime Minister Najib Miqati and the ministers to give priority to social issues and people's living conditions.
On the controversial wage boost dispute, Nasrallah stressed the cabinet should resolve this "critical issue".
The dispute between the involved parties, the Economic Committees, the General Labor Confederation, the Syndicate Coordination Committee and Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas mainly focuses on whether the new wage hike would include the transportation allowance.
Nasrallah said that Leb should disavow itself from developments in Syria as the crisis will have negative repercussions on the situation locally.
"We call on the Syrian opposition to abide by (Syrian President Bashar) Assad's demands to engage in dialogue and cooperate with him to introduce reform that would resolve the country's problems."
Nasrallah tackled the death of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmedi Roshan, saying that Tahran will not stop its nuclear program and attempt to develop nuclear technology.
Ahmedi Roshan and his driver were killed on Wednesday when two men on a cycle of violence slapped a magnetic bomb on his car.
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[An Nahar] The Emir of Qatar has said that Arab troops should be sent to Syria to stop a deadly crackdown that has claimed the lives of thousands of people over the past 10 months.
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani's comments to CBS "60 Minutes," which will be aired Sunday, are the first statements by an Arab leader calling for the deployment of troops inside Syria.
They come amid growing claims that a team of Arab observers dispatched to the country to curb the bloodshed has failed in its mission.
Asked whether he is in favor of Arab nations intervening in Syria, Sheik Hamad said, "For such a situation to stop the killing some troops should go to stop the killing."
Excerpts of the interview were sent to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by CBS a day before it was to be aired.
Qatar, which once had close relations with Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... , has been a harsh critic of the 10-month crackdown by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... 's regime. The wealthy and influential Gulf state withdrew its ambassador to Syria in the summer to protest the killings.
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... observers began work in Syria on Dec. 27, to verify whether the government is abiding by its agreement to end the military crackdown on dissent.
But far from bringing a halt to the violence, the mission has coincided with an apparent increase in killings. A U.N. official said Tuesday that about 400 people have been killed in the last three weeks alone, on top of an earlier estimate of more than 5,000 dead since March.
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#1
Is it just me, or Qatari been getting a bit megalomaniac lately?
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..or Qatari been getting a bit megalomaniac lately?
This may have something to do with it. When you can play little sister and go smack your big brother and then run behind mother's apron for protection, the game is easy.
[Dawn] The United States believes Iran is supplying munitions to aid Syria's bloody protest crackdown in an initiative spearheaded by Tehran's revolutionary guard supremo, senior US officials told AFP on Friday. Qasem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps elite Quds force, was in the Syrian capital this month, one official said, in what Washington sees as the most concrete sign yet that Iranian aid to Syria includes military hardware.
"We are confident that he was received at the highest levels of the Syrian government, including by President Assad," the official said on condition of anonymity.
"We think this relates to Iranian support for the Syrian government's attempts to suppress its people."
The official said Washington has reason to believe that Iran is supplying security-related equipment "including munitions" to Syrian forces.
"The US government believes Iran has supplied Syria with munitions" for use in the military crackdown, he said.
The United States has long suspected that Iran has been aiding Syria's purge against protesters as Assad tries to cling to power and avoid the fate of other Arab dictators felled by the Arab Spring uprisings.
Another official said Soleimani's visit marks the strongest indication yet of direct cooperation between the allies amid a purge that the UN estimates has left more than 5,000 people dead since March.
The officials did not give further details of the information that has led them to conclude that Tehran has indeed provided security equipment and munitions to the Syrian armed forces.
The powerful Soleimani has been mentioned by some observers as a possible successor to Iran's President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad and has repeatedly been the target of US sanctions.
Washington last year accused him of links to an alleged plot by the Quds force to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington by hiring assassins from a Mexican narco mob for $1.5 million.
The latest revelations come with the United States locked in a tense standoff with Tehran over its nuclear program and as maritime tensions between the two states simmering in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil shipping route.
Washington has warned Iran it will not tolerate any attempt to close the Strait, as Tehran becomes increasingly infuriated by the growing impact of US and international sanctions designed to deter its nuclear program.
The Revolutionary Guards maritime division, which handles military operations in the strait and the Gulf, is expected to hold maneuvers in the area soon.
Signs of direct cooperation between Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Syria came a week after Mahmud Suleiman Haj Hamad, a former official in Assad's regime, accused Iran and Iraq of financially aiding the Syrian crackdown.
He made the allegations at a presser in Cairo after announcing his defection from the regime, according to an Al-Jazeera report.
Iran has also been standing firm with Syria after 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... suspended Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... over the repression wracking the country and imposed fierce pressure on the Assad regime to accept a peace plan.
Tehran has been concerned about the possible collapse of Syria, its principal regional ally, a scenario that would leave it even more isolated in its own region as nuclear sanctions bite.
It has accused its traditional foes Israel and the United States of stirring up trouble in Syria.
In a televised speech lasting nearly two hours on Tuesday, Assad vowed to crush "terrorism" with an iron fist and accused outsiders of trying to destabilize his country.
That prompted opposition movements to accuse him of pushing Syria towards civil war and world powers to accuse him of trying to shift the blame for the 10 months of bloodletting in the protests against his regime.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... described the speech as "chilling" and the United States says Assad has long since lost political legitimacy after oppressing the hopes of Syrians for freedom and democracy.
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Iran's state television has reported that Tehran has evidence that the United States was behind the latest assassination of one of its nuclear scientists.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman says confidential information on the country's nuclear experts has been leaked to the 
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Najib Miqati
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Dawn] The United States believes Iran is supplying munitions to aid Syria's bloody protest crackdown in an initiative spearheaded by Tehran's revolutionary guard supremo, senior US officials told AFP on Friday. Qasem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps elite Quds force, was in the Syrian capital this month, one official said, in what Washington sees as the most concrete sign yet that Iranian aid to Syria includes military hardware.
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It has accused its traditional foes Israel and the United States of stirring up trouble in Syria.
