(Sh. M. Network)- One of Somalia's Transitional Federal Paramount has on Monday warned TFG to grant land to the Turkish Agencies operating in the country for the past few months since the start of the drought and famine that hit south and central the country.
Sulayman Mohammed Ibrahim, the politician told Shabelle Media by phone urged Somali government not to hand out to Turkish Agencies to the base of Somali naval forces in the seashore Mogadishu known as (Mariiniska).
"It was really unfortunate that some parts of the naval base in Mogadishu have been already provided to these Turkish Agencies by TFG. They (Turkish Agencies) are just planning to get the rest of the building," Said the politician.
Mr. Ibrahim added that it will not be acceptable to sale illegally the national property. Former Somali government led by Aden Abdulle Osman which endorsed that it could not sale the property of the country without parliamentary vote.
It was immediately unavailable to reach the Turkish agencies for comments on the accusations so far. These agencies entered inSomalialast year to help the drought and famine stricken families in Mogadishu IDPs camps.
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(Sh.M.Network)-President Museveni has cautioned UPDF soldiers waiting to be deployed toSomaliathis week against involvement in sexual relationships with Somali women.
Engaging in extra-marital affairs, Gen. Museveni said, is indiscipline and would "jeopardise" the peacekeeping mission.
Gen. Museveni was on Friday officiating at the passout of 1,700 reservists at Singo Training Centre in Nakaseke District.
They will reinforce the twoUgandabattle groups inSomaliaas they prepare for offensives against al-Shabaab militants.
"General Museveni strongly cautioned the soldiers to be vigilant and desist from extra-marital affairs while on their assignment inSomalia. He commended the UPDF leadership for their role in the training of the soldiers," a State House statement said.
President Museveni attributed the "impressive success" registered by the UPDF inSomaliato its discipline, thorough training and solidarity.
Only one case of sexual misconduct has been reported since Ugandan troops were deployed inSomaliain 2007. It involved a UPDF peacekeeper who had a child with a Somali woman inMogadishu.
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The Muslim Brotherhood's main presidential candidate Khairat al-Shater seeks to fundamentally Islamize Egyptian society if elected, according to newly uncovered footage of an extended address he gave supporters last year shortly after his release from prison.
Egyptian activists have transcribed Shater's 90-minute address into English, offering a rare glimpse into the worldview of the normally tight-lipped candidate who is a frontrunner in upcoming elections to lead the Arab world's most populous state.
Shater delivered the address, entitled "The Islamic Renaissance Project," in Alexandria on April 21, 2011, less than two months after his release from prison. The veteran Brotherhood financier had served four years of a seven-year sentence for money laundering and membership in the once-banned Islamist group when he was freed in the aftermath of President Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
Footage of his remarks has been available on YouTube for the past year, but only in Arabic. Following Shater's announcement as the Brotherhood's candidate late last month, activists from the Egyptian Union of Liberal Youth translated and transcribed the video and last week posted it online. The English translation is now available on the homepage of Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, a journal published by the US-based Hudson Institute.
"Everywhere, the Brothers are working to restore Islam in its all-encompassing conception to the lives of people," Shater says in the address. "Thus the mission is clear: restoring Islam in its all-encompassing conception, subjugating people to God, instituting the religion of God, the Islamization of life, empowering of God's religion, establishing the renaissance of the ummah [worldwide Muslim nation] on the basis of Islam... Every aspect of life is to be Islamized."
"We call upon God Almighty to make this transformation the beginning of a new renaissance for the ummah and the shaking off of the state of backwardness from which it has suffered for decades," Shater says in the clip. "As Muslim Brothers, it is imperative that we, as well as the entirety of the ummah, God willing, take advantage of this revolution which took place in Egypt and continues in the countries surrounding us."
Libya's interim authorities have stopped paying bonuses to former rebels due to widespread fraud costing millions of Libyan dinars, the official LANA news agency reported on Monday.
"Payment of rewards to rebels has been stopped due to violations and abuses," Mohammed Harizi, spokesman for the ruling National Transitional Council, was quoted as saying.
"Millions of (Libyan) dinars allocated to revolutionaries were lost in (illegitimate) payments to non-beneficiaries," he said.
The interim government had been handing out cash payments of up to 4,000 Libyan dinars ($3,200, Dh11.75) to civilians turned fighters who took on the forces of Moamer Gaddafi last year.
But the system -- much like a scheme to finance the treatment of the country's war wounded abroad -- proved vulnerable to false claims.
Violations were referred to the offices of the attorney general and audit bureau for investigation, the spokesman said.
No further payments would be made until distribution mechanisms are revised and the lists of beneficiaries approved by local military councils across the country, Harizi added.
He stressed that the main purpose of the cash scheme was to encourage rebels to join the official institutions of the state and hand in their weapons.
Militiamen angered by non-payment have recently staged small protests in front of the headquarters of the interim authorities in Tripoli and raised checkpoints blocking traffic in some neighbourhoods of the capital.
All in one short article we have ex-fighters , revolutionaries, rebels, civilians turned fighters, and Militiamen . And officially, there deemed the list of beneficiaries Hows bout we just call em what they really are...Radical islamic thugs. Thanks NATO.
[Tripoli Post] Libya has once again confirmed that it will not send Seif al-Islam Qadaffy to the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) in The Hague, but will instead be put on trial in his own country by Libyan judges, on charges of financial corruption, murder and rape, the country's justice minister Ali Ashour has said.
Although the ICC says it has jurisdiction in the case and wants Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... to hand him over. Mr Ashour said Seif remains in a secret prison in the custody of the Zintan rebels who caught him last year.
The ICC ordered Libya on Wednesday to "comply with its obligations to enforce the warrant of arrest" and surrender Seif al-Islam to the court's custody without delay, and rejected Libya's request to postpone his surrender. Then on Sunady an ICC delegation arrived in Tripoli to discuss the case with the justice ministry.
Ashour also denied allegations by an ICC defence lawyer that Seif was being mistreated and beaten. "He eats with the people who guard him, and he is in good condition," Ashour said.
Pressure is mounting on Libya to hand Seif to the ICC. The court says that a UN Security Council Resolution obliges Libya to cooperate with the court, and Tripoli's failure to hand over Seif al-Islam could result in it being reported to the council. Human rights organizations say the country is unable to give him a fair trial.
The ICC says it has jurisdiction over the case because it issued warrants last year for the arrest of Muammar Qadaffy ... the like of whose wardrobe will never be seen again. At least that's what we hope... , Saif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, who was tossed in the slammer last month in Mauritania.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Ashour said on Sunday that there is no intention to hand him Seif over to the ICC, and "Libyan law is the right system to be used to try Seif Qadaffy".
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The man set to be sworn in as Mali's interim president to oversee the country's return to democratic rule met Monday with the army captain who seized power with other soldiers on March 22.
Dioncounda Traore, who is currently Mali's speaker of parliament, arrived at a military camp near the capital Bamako to meet with Captain Amadou Sanogo.
The meeting, in Sanogo's offices, lasted for about an hour.
Afterwards, Sanogo told news hounds the meeting "went well", adding that more information would be released soon.
Other officials, including Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now... 's Foreign Minister Djibrill Bassole and Ivory Coast African Integration Minister Adama Bictogo, who are acting as mediators, declined to comment.
The meeting came the day after Amadou Toumani Toure, who was ousted in the coup, formally resigned Mali's presidency.
Under the transition deal, the move means Sanogo must prepare to step down and allow for Traore to be sworn in as interim president, but it was not immediately clear exactly when that would happen.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Police fired tear gas Monday to disperse a rally on a central Tunis avenue where demonstrations are banned.
Hundreds of demonstrators, marking Martyrs' Day and protesting against the ban imposed on March 28, sought shelter in neighbouring streets and shops from baton-wielding riot police who beat and jugged protesters.
Wrapped in Tunisian flags and shouting "We're not afraid, the people are here", the demonstrators had begun running up Habib Bourguiba Avenue around 10:00 am (0800 GMT), defying cop shoppeed along the main thoroughfare with helmets and batons.
"I'm here to honour our deaders, and to protest against the ban on demonstrating here. We're the ones who freed Tunisia, they don't have the right to ban our peaceful marches," septuagenarian protester Mohsen Ben Henda told AFP.
Other demonstrators said they were protesting against governing Islamist party Ennahda.
"We came here today to demand our freedoms, to denounce the repression that Ennahda militias inflict on us every day," said Raed Korbi, a young doctor who had taken refuge in a cafe.
"What's happening today is terrible," said a woman who gave her name only as Yamina and said she was a lawyer, tears welling in her eyes.
"We are peaceful people and they bar us from using Habib Bourguiba Avenue, but they gave it to the Salafists," ...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them... a Moslem fundamentalist group, she said.
Tunisia's interior minister banned demonstrations on Bourguiba Avenue, a symbol of the Tunisian revolution and a common site for rallies, shortly after Islamist protesters demanding sharia law last month attacked actors who had gathered for a separate rally for World Theatre Day.
Saturday, police forcefully dispersed a protest by thousands of unemployed graduates who tried to march on the avenue, wounding about 20, according to organisers.
"I'm shocked," former Tunisian Human Rights League chief Mokhtar Trifi told AFP. "The people whom the revolution swept to power are now those who stop us from demonstrating. This is a really sad day."
"Look, this is the free Tunisia, the Tunisia of Ennahda," shouted another demonstrator.
A correspondent for French news weekly Le Point and the editor in chief of Tunisian online news service Kapitalis were roughed up by police.
The front man for the interior ministry, Khaled Tarrouche, meanwhile defended the ban.
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[Yemen Post] The Saudi Ministerial Council on Monday called on all Yemeni political forces to support the efforts of President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi to continue the implementation of a power transfer deal brokered by the GCC and backed by the US, media outlets reported.
In a statement at the end of its meeting, headed by King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah ... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old... , the Council stressed the importance of the power transfer deal to put an end to Yemen's problems, they said. The deal was signed in November after months of turmoil in Yemen.
The statement coincided with a strongly worded warning from the countries backing the deal including the GCC, the US and others to ex-president Saleh and his loyalists that international sanctions will be imposed against them if they hinder the deal and the UN resolution 2014.
Under the deal, Saleh was given full immunity from prosecution and his aides were given immunity but not from terrorist crimes.
The Saudi al-Madina newspaper quoted a diplomat who was not named, as saying the warning came after half-brother of Saleh resisted a decree by Hadi sacking him from his post as the commander of the Air Force, and reappointing him as an advisor to the Defense Minister.
Some senior commanders in the armed and security forces are still relatives of Saleh and those who are very loyal to him including his son, Ahmed, the commander of the elite republican guard.
After he was removed, Saleh's half-brother, Muhammad Saleh, refused to hand over the post to his successor and his supporters surrounded Sanaa International Airport threatening to shoot down any leaving or incoming planes. The airport suspended all flights on Saturday and reopened the next day.
Other commanders were also reported to have resisted Hadi's decrees, which come within reforms in the army.
Since he took office, Hadi has also fired other bigwigs in civil offices, known as very loyal to Saleh.
All decrees have been applauded by the Yemeni people and other countries, especially those sponsoring the power transfer deal.
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The judges gave a final ruling on six extradition cases in a verdict which effectively passed judgment on whether America's treatment of terrorist suspects amounts to "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" in breach of the European human rights code.
Human rights judges have this morning ruled the Government can lawfully extradite radical preacher Abu Hamza
...Abu Hamza el-Masri, the radical Egyptian cleric with alleged al Qaeda ties who used to preach at the Finsbury Park Mosque in London and whose followers included convicted terrorists Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui...
to America to face terrorist charges.
The judges gave a final ruling on six extradition cases in a verdict which effectively passed judgment on whether America's treatment of terrorist suspects amounts to "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" in breach of the European human rights code.
They decided it would be lawful for five of the six to be jailed for the rest of their lives in a so-called 'super-max' prison.
The ruling stated that the five, including radical preacher Abu Hamza, would not be subject to "ill-treatment" at ADX Florence, a so-called 'super-max' prison. The court adjourned its decision on Haroon Rashid Aswat pending consideration of further complaints lodged by him.
The ruling granted the men the right to appeal to the court's Grand Chamber, meaning any extradition could be some time away.
Al-Qaeda has warned Britain against handing over a radical Islamic cleric to Jordan after his release from prison, saying such a move will open the "door of evil" for the British government and its people, according to an Islamist website.
Britain freed Abu Qatada from prison in February to live under virtual house arrest after a court ruled that his detention without trial was unlawful.
"It has come to our attention that the British government intends to hand over the honorable Sheikh Abu Qatada al-Filistini to the agent Jordanian government, claiming it had secured assurances and covenants not to torture him," the group said in a statement posted on an Islamist site late on Monday.
"Based on all that, we in Qaedat al-Jihad (Al-Qaeda) place the responsibility on the British government of handing over Sheikh Abu Qatada to the Jordanian government, and let it be known that by doing so, under any pretext, it will open the door of evil for it and its citizens, which it can do without." Okay, just shoot Abu Qatada...
It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the statement in Arabic.
Twice convicted in absentia in Jordan of involvement in terrorist plots, Britain says Abu Qatada is still a national security risk and should be deported before London hosts the Olympic Games in July and August.
The 51-year-old, whose real name is Omar Othman, has been in and out of jail since he was first detained without charge under British anti-terrorism laws in 2002.
The United States urged North Korea on Monday not conduct a nuclear test or launch a satellite and called on China to exert its influence over its neighbor to try to ward off such "provocative actions."
"Our position remains: don't do it," said spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. "North Korea's launch of a missile would be highly provocative, it would pose a threat to regional security and it would be inconsistent with its recent undertakings to refrain from any kind of long-range missile launches."
Yes, that will definitely take care of it. Tea, anyone?
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Got some secret info everyone in South Korea in the U.S. Military is going to have to start wearing polyester leisure suits and black platform shoes in the DMZ!
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They had an opportunity to get tons of free food and threw it in the trash. Why even bother with the formalities with this regime? Blast them and be done with it.
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I'm shocked, shocked!
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While, we may have suspended food aid, our Chinese brothers have probably not. Also, they would really like to see if our anti missile system really works and what exact frequencies our space radars use from which orbits...
that is, do not expect the Chinese to suppress their little brothers nor for their little brothers to suspend their business.
He's likely as good as his dad in consuming cognac...
New North Korean leader Suet Face Kim Jong-un is staying well away from the impoverished country's economic affairs and concentrating on the military. Out of 35 public appearances Kim made this year, only one -- a visit to the building site of a folk village in Pyongyang on Jan. 11 -- had nothing to do with the military. But even that, according to a Unification Ministry official, "should in fact be classified as a military-related activity as the aim was to boost the morale of soldiers who'd been commandeered to work on the building site."
By contrast, Kim has made 22 visits to Army units and the like, suggesting that the military is the absolute priority as he seeks to consolidate his rule.
Besides economics is so complicated, and Pudgy didn't do well in math at the Swiss school...
His father, former leader Kim Jong-il, paid a lot more attention to economic matters, however unsuccessfully.
That's putting it mildly...
Out of 145 public activities Kim Jong-il carried out last year before he died, 61 were so-called on-the-spot guidance tours to businesses and other economic projects -- pictures of Kim senior looking blankly at vegetables or machinery made him something of an Internet phenomenon -- as against 39 military-related events.
A South Korean government official said, "There's a lot of circumstantial evidence that the younger Kim has abandoned economic issues. Notice that he didn't attend the ceremony marking the completion of Huichon Power Station in Jagang Province on Thursday last week" -- even though the power station had been widely publicized by the regime as a pillar of the impoverished nation's goal to become "a powerful and prosperous nation" this year.
Kim senior was very keen on the project, visiting the building site no fewer than eight times. But Kim Jong-un instead visited Naval Unit 155, which has the distinction of capturing an American naval destroyer, the USS Pueblo, a full 43 years ago. A South Korean intelligence official said Kim Jong-un seems to have delegated economic issues entirely to the Cabinet. In his place, Premier Choe Yong-rim has toured the factories and business projects.
Pundits speculate Kim Jong-un is steering clear of economic matters to avoid the blame for the country's signal failure to become powerful and prosperous. One North Korean defector who held a senior position in the North said, "Kim Jong-il carried out a purge of economic officials whenever he failed to achieve economic goals, and I expect Kim Jong-un is going to do the same."
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Kid, were I you, I would study why you have alleged 12 million working and the rest starving - according to you.
Your ass may have "power", but it's not time to play military games with FAR FAR FAR superior powers. Ok?
Yeah, I know the drill, launch a rocket saves the republik - but it's lost. Lets face it man, you are not too young to incur a cure from the TRUE ABOVE. So, do you or your damn uncle want to remedy this like tonight?
We are feeling bored these days. Grow up quick kiddo. It was not really you to be King of that shithole but your brother kind of grew up and ... ummm left. But you cancelled his cards.
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CHINA is already the DPRK's preeminent trading partner by a vast margin - again, by most accounts the Sino-DPRK FTAS will only expand China's influence + control, not lessen it. Ina way, I can understand Jong-un's focus on dev Nukes AMAP ASAP, as the latter may in reality be the Kim Regime's only real hedge agz China. ANY SEEMING "ECON AUTONOMY/INDEPENDENCE" ISSUES AS PER THE DPRK WAS LONG LONG L-O-N-G AGO DECIDED IN CHINA'S FAVOR, LONG BEFORE LATE BIG DADDY JONG-IL WAS EVEN BORN.
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As for China ...
* ION DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > CHINA: PHILIPPINES IS FACING ITS "LAST CHANCE" OER [Spratlys + SCS]TERRITORY DISPUTE | [Business Insider] AN OUTRAGED CHINESE GENERAL TELLS PHILIPPINES ITS THEIR "LAST CHANCE".
PLA MGen Luo Yuan.
The Good General doing an Obama + Hillary [Obillary = Iran]???
* SAME > CHINA CLAIMS 90% OF SPATLYS, BUT ACTUALLY CONTROLS 13%.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PLA GENERAL [Luo Yuan]: PHILIPPINES WILL PAY FOR ITS SOUTH CHINA SEA AGGRESSION.
* SAME > AFTER WARNING INDIA, CHINA ASKS RUSSIA TO STAY OUT FROM SOUTH CHINA SEA.
This has got late 1960's-style SINO-SOVIET BORDER/RIVERINE CLASHES written all over it.
As per SINO-SOVIET NAVAL, AIR CONFRONTATIONS, usually Red China + PLA backed away when the Soviets' heavy stuff appeared.
HOWEVER, THAT WAS THEN - MAY NOT BE THE CASE NOW, despite the SCO-CSTO???
Lest we fergit, MIL FORUMS + NET > Empowering of post-Cold War/9-11, Sino-Russia strategic cooperation + partnership, espec agz the US = US + NATO-EU, is deemed the best Policy course for China despite its historical or on-going differences wid Russia.
versus
* SAME, CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > JAPAN'S POTENTIAL NUCLEAR ARSENAL IS BIGGER THAN CHINA, INDIA, + PAKISTAN | US CIRCUMVENTED LAWS TO HELP JAPAN ACCUMULATE TONS OF PLUTONIUM: DC BUREAU.
Approxi 70 tons of Weapons-Grade Plutonium since the 1980's.
* WAFF > RUSSIA PREPARES FOR GENERAL MILITARY CONFLICT FROM CAUCASUS TO PERSIAN GULF, VIEWS US MILITARY INVOLVEMENT AS INEVITABLE.
* CHINESE DAILY FORUM > "RUMORS ABOUT NATO MILITARY BASES [Bases] IN RUSSIA" - A PROVOCATION!? As per Russ Commies = Communist Party of the Russian Federation [KPRF].
Moscow says are MINOR/TEMPORARY STORAGE FACILITIES located at Ulyanovsk AB are under Russian control = tote security.
KPRF = demands Vladvedev Govt in Moscow to D *** NG IT, GET 'EM OUTTA HERE - NO IFFS, ANDS, MAYBES, PERHAPS, ... ... OR BORSCH!
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Who cares the stupid F'in losers make the women in the military wear head coverings and support a government that cuts the clitoris of children. (1.5 billion) Who ever is in charge of the chicken s t outfit needs to go south with the rest of the ghoul zombies from Chicago to L.A. The next recruiting poster for the U.S. Military a free head covering with every FGM carried out. At what point does it occur to people that our own leaders are demoralizing our own troops with their Bull Sh ! When do our Generals take liitle children to marry like their favorite religious leader and commander!???????! F Them ALL! Health care bill - have to have it down the road have to have it cut off clitoris, it always happens in very obfuscated small pieces the more coming at the public the better the GHOULS LIKE IT GET IT!
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer does not mean to adopt them and their beliefs or sell out your own country in the process. I remember our troops wearing black PJ'S in Nam and the men storming the beaches in lederhosen and all the women looking like the Saint Pauli Girl in World War 2. Our leaders SUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The most transparent administration ever has just invoked Executive Privilege in refusing to allow Congressman Issa and Senator Grassley to question former NSA White House staffer, Kevin O'Reilly regarding Operation Fast and Furious.
Kathryn Ruemmler, counsel to the president, denied Issa's demand to speak with O'Reilly.
Over six months ago, the White House produced documents responsive to your prior request for communications between Mr. O'Reilly and ATF agent William Newell that relate to "Operation Fast and Furious" or any ATF gun trafficking cases in Phoenix, AZ... none of these limited communications between Mr. O'Reilly and Mr. Newell revealed the existence of any of the inappropriate investigative tactics at issue in your inquiry, let alone any decision to allow guns to "walk."
O'Reilly was transferred to Clinton's State Department in late spring 2011 and then sent to Iraq in September after documents released to the House Oversight Committee revealed extensive communications between himself and ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office Bill Newell who led Fast and Furious.
Emails show Newell was in routine contact with Kevin O'Reilly, then White House director of North American Affairs for the National Security Council.
In September Issa sent a letter to National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon, a top aide to President Obama requesting all communications between the White House and the Phoenix ATF office. The request came after Issa determined some of the emails between Newell and O'Reilly contained information directly linked to Operation Fast and Furious.
In the letter Issa referred to an email in which Newell told O'Reilly about a "specific case ATF agents had been aware of for three months involving a 22-year-old illegal gun purchaser whom the ATF allowed to buy nearly 700 firearms."
Emails show Newell was in routine contact with Kevin O'Reilly, then White House director of North American Affairs for the National Security Council.
In September Issa sent a letter to National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon, a top aide to President Obama requesting all communications between the White House and the Phoenix ATF office. The request came after Issa determined some of the emails between Newell and O'Reilly contained information directly linked to Operation Fast and Furious.
In the letter Issa referred to an email in which Newell told O'Reilly about a "specific case ATF agents had been aware of for three months involving a 22-year-old illegal gun purchaser whom the ATF allowed to buy nearly 700 firearms."
The purchaser was on food stamps and, Newell said in a follow-up email to O'Reilly, "when a 22-year-old kid on State financial assistance walks into a gun store and plops down $12,000 in cash to buy a tripod mounted .50 caliber rifle that's a clue even for us that he's involved in trafficking firearms for a Mexican DTO cartel.'[sic]
According to Issa, that exchange of information makes it "clear the case Mr. Newell and Mr. O'Reilly were communicating about Fast and Furious."
The emails link the operation that ended up killing two federal agents and hundreds of Mexican citizens (where're La Raza and MALDEF?) directly to the White House.
I'm no lawyer but in the 2006 U.S Attorney firing scandal "the court held that the privilege over presidential communications can never be used to withhold information on matters that do not call for the President's direct involvement."
Instead, the court adopted an organizational approach based on proximity to the President, and affirmed what it 'saw as Espy's holding: that the presidential communications privilege extends only to those documents and communications authored by or "solicited and received" by the President or immediate advisers in the Office of the President who have "broad and significant responsibility" for advising the President.
Both Holder and Obama said early on they had no knowledge of the gun walking program. Obama told CNN Espanol in March, 2011 he heard it "on the news" and "the attorney general has been very clear he knew nothing about it."
Then Holder contradicted the President's statement in a May 3 congressional hearing when he said he found out about the operation "over the last few weeks." Even worse when Newell was asked to explain why he broke the chain of command by communicating with a White House staffer he insisted that he and O'Reilly were just friends exchanging emails back and forth.
So how exactly does Executive Privilege apply in this situation?
A British Chinook helicopter made an emergency landing during an exercise in the Arizona desert, US and British military officials said. Seven people were sent to the hospital for evaluations but all were reported uninjured.
The crew was practicing how to land the aircraft 15 miles northeast of Yuma Saturday afternoon when 'something went wrong,' said a spokeswoman for Naval Air Facility El Centro in California. The facility hosts allied troops throughout the year for training over the California-Arizona border because the area's craggy mountains and hot, dusty conditions are similar to Afghanistan's harsh environment.
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Flying machines are not Hondas. The last crash Pilot was a Hero and dumped fuel and hit the only place he thought he could hit before ejecting. Then apologized for the crash landing. What awesomeness.
I hope the Brits continue training, and properly check this.
[Dawn] Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief 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 Monday said the United States should have taken Pakistain in confidence over announcing a bounty on Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... a (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives at the residence of MNA Afzal Khokar, he suggested that all outstanding issues should be discussed with India. "Cricket teams of both the countries should visit each other," he added.
Commenting on wide range of issues, the PML-N chief said that the decision over resumption of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... supplies must be in accord with will of people of the country.
The party chief assailed the government over ongoing confrontation with the judiciary. "Government has been engaged in a 'war' with the apex court," he added.
Sharif claimed that the PPP-led government was overcoming current fiscal debt by printing more currency notes.
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What? Did we do an end run around the formal boodle bureaucracy?
[Dawn] An Indian court convicted 23 people on Monday over the massacre of nearly two-dozen Moslems during religious rioting in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... state in 2002 that left more than 2,000 dead.
Another 23 people were acquitted for lack of evidence in the case, in which rioters in the small Gujarati village of Ode bolted the doors of a house where Moslem families had taken refuge and then set it on fire.
Of the 23 who died in what became known as the "Ode massacre", 18 were women.
The violence in Gujarat was triggered by the killing of nearly 60 Hindu pilgrims travelling in a train that was torched by a mob.
Some 31 Moslems were found guilty last year on murder and conspiracy charges for the train attack that sparked an anti-Moslem backlash.
Hindu mobs hungry for Dire Revenge™ rampaged through Moslem neighbourhoods in several cities across Gujarat during three days of bloodshed.
More than 2,000 people, most of them Moslems, were hacked, beaten or burned to death.
Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi --a prominent member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party --was blamed for failing to stop the riots, with some critics arguing that he actively encouraged the violence.
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[Dawn] Chairman Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... Monday said that his party was ready to face both PML-N and PPP in the forthcoming general elections.
Speaking at a news conference at PTI Central Secretariat on the occasion of Tashfeen Safdar's joining of PTI, he said that the motives of both parties were similar, adding both have to form a caretaker government.
He said that both parties will become coalition partners in the upcoming elections.
Imran Khan, lashing out at the PML-N, said that the party was playing a dual game, adding first it enjoyed power for three years and then separated and became part of the opposition.
He alleged that Nisar and Nawaz came into power due to the military. He further said that the Supreme Court should take notice of money given by the ISI to other politicians.
He claimed that he had not received a single penny, saying he will quit politics if it was proved that he was paid by the ISI.
To a question regarding Maulana Fazalur Rehman's opposition for the resumption of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... supplies, he said that he was the only person who has played "Noora Kushti" at a greater level then anyone else has ever played.
He said during the Musharraf era, Fazalur Rehman was apart of a friendly opposition and after that became the right hand of President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... He further said that PML-N has secretly agreed to restore NATO supplies. Imran Khan said that the war on terror it was not our war, adding that billions of dollars have been spent and Pakistain has rendered sacrifices of thousands of lives.
When speaking about the head money announced by the US on Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... , he said everyone has complete confidence in the Supreme Court. He said it was common practise that if someone's crime was unproven, he could not be declared a criminal.
Imran Khan said that announcing head money for Hafiz Saeed was wrong, adding any sovereign country does not allow this kind of move.
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How many times do they need to fail before they give up? Last time most of them were stopped at point of departure at the request of the Israeli government, and almost all of the rest were turned round at Ben Gurion Airport and sent back. As I recall, it was less than a dozen who actually escaped into the wild, and even they were found in a few days.
Is a second fly-in underway? Hundreds, possibly thousands, of foreign pro-Paleostinian activists are set to arrive in Ben Gurion International Airport on Sunday ahead of trip to Paleostinian Authority.
The measure is perceived as having volatile potential, and police sources said Monday that security forces are gearing to stop the activists at the airport should they cause a public disturbance -- something authorities believe is very likely.
Police will beef up their presence at the airport and single out activists when they deplane with the intention of arresting them and deporting them back to their point of origin as quickly as possible, with minimum disruption to ordinary passengers in the airport.
Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch told Channel 1 news on Monday evening that Israel hopes it will succeed in preventing many of the travelers from boarding planes in their home countries, by sending blacklists with activists names to foreign airports like it did last year.
Welcome to Palestine 2012, the umbrella organization overseeing the initiative, calls on activists to challenge Israels policy of isolating the West Bank while the settler paramilitaries and army commit brutal crimes against a virtually defenseless Palestinian civilian population, according to a message posted on the groups website.
The group has received endorsements from Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu, former South African politician Ronnie Kasrils and linguist Noam Chomsky, among others.
In July, police arrested and deported 124 activists from the US, Spain, Belgium, France and the Netherlands.
A small number of activists managed to bypass police and walk out of the airport, though the police intercepted the majority of them. Beforehand, blacklisted activists were prevented from boarding Israel-bound passenger flights at European airports.
The organizers of this years effort said that they received promises from several European airports not to prevent travelers from boarding the planes, since this involves reimbursing passengers for the ticket prices.
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So what organization is buying the tickets? Follow the money trail.
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Looked at "Welcome to Palestine 2012" website. Saw a list of names of signatories. One of them was Hedy Epstein. Check out Harry's Place blog with a writeup on her: The sad case of Hedy Epstein . Again, who is bankrolling this outfit?
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Iran said on Tuesday it had identified a "major terrorist group" it said was affiliated to its arch-foe Israel and had arrested some of its members, the official IRNA news agency reported, citing a report by the country's Intelligence Ministry.
"Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced it has identified a major terrorist group from the Zionist regime (of Israel) and has arrested some of its protected operational members inside the country," IRNA reported without making clear when the arrests had taken place.
The semi-official Fars news agency said the suspects were arrested "while preparing to carry out terrorist acts", adding that a considerable number of bombs, machine guns, military and communication equipments were seized.
Tehran has in the past accused Israel of being behind the killings of its nuclear scientists.
The Islamic state blamed Israel in January when a nuclear scientist was killed by a bomb placed on his car by a motorcyclist in Tehran.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(Sh.M.Network)-President Museveni has cautioned UPDF soldiers waiting to be deployed toSomaliathis week against involvement in sexual relationships with Somali women.
International Criminal Court
King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah
They decided it would be lawful for five of the six to be jailed for the rest of their lives in a so-called 'super-max' prison. 
Al-Qaeda has warned Britain against handing over a radical Islamic cleric to Jordan after his release from prison, saying such a move will open the "door of evil" for the British government and its people, according to an Islamist website.
North Korea
The most transparent administration ever has just invoked Executive Privilege in refusing to allow Congressman Issa and Senator Grassley to question former NSA White House staffer, Kevin O'Reilly regarding Operation Fast and Furious.
Nawaz Sharif
Asif Ali 
