[BETA.DAWN] Afghanistan lodged an official protest with Pakistain on Monday after troops exchanged fire at the border between the countries.
Kabul's Foreign Ministry said no one was maimed in the incident, which took took place in the early morning in the same location where a firefight between Afghan and Pak forces killed an Afghan border policeman and maimed two Pak soldiers last week.
During that incident, a border gate built by Pakistain was damaged in the fighting, and Afghanistan had warned Pakistain not to repair it.
Afghan and Pakistain troops exchanged fire on Monday at a contested border area in eastern Afghanistan days after an Afghan border policeman was killed, Afghan officials said.
Two bigwigs from Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province where the clash took place told Rooters that fighting resumed after Pak troops attempted to repair a gate damaged in the previous clash.
The clash on Thursday, in the border district of Goshta, drew nationwide condemnation in Afghanistan, and saw protests in the east and in the capital, Kabul.
Moreover, the Spokesperson of the Foreign Office said responding to a query regarding President Karzai's recent presser in Kabul that Durand-line is a settled issue. Opening discussions on this issue is a distraction from the more pressing issues requiring the priority attention and cooperation of Pakistain and Afghanistan.
On President Karzai's remarks regarding Pak posts on the border, the Spokesperson recalled that Pak post in Gursal had come under attack from Afghan forces and there had been several threatening and provocative statements made by Afghan leadership in this regard. The Spokesperson reiterated that the posts on Pakistain-Afghanistan border ...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons... are serving the useful and mutually beneficial purpose of better border management, which is crucial for interdicting cross border undesirable activity. He reaffirmed the need to use bilateral channels including military to military contacts to resolve the issues relating to posts.
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[Tolo News] A number of Afghan coalition leaders and members of political parties on Monday criticised President Karzai's recent remarks on Durand Line and calling it an attempt to increase public support in the elections.
These political parties said that President Karzai wants to make himself a hero with such slogans now that little time is left of his presidential term and that the presidential election is also ahead.
Political parties and political coalitions expressed surprise at why President Karzai was silent in the past eleven years and they said that such speeches only have advertising aspects and with such slogans problems of Durand Line will not be solved.
A leading member of Afghanistan National Front Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq said that Pakistain in the last ten years had constructed military border check posts and military installations in Afghan territory, and criticised why Karzai was silent so far.
"These remarks more seem like fables. If president Karzai wanted to work to clarify this event, he should have worked in the past ten years," Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq told TOLOnews.
These party members called Karzai's recent speeches demagogy and added that in recent eleven years, he has not done anything about the issue but even four years ago he impeded negotiations for Durand in Jirg-e Amn.
"By benefiting from such national issues, the President wants to stir people's emotions in his own interest in the election," Ahmad Zia Masoud leader of Afghanistan National Front told TOLOnews.
"Durand Line issue will not be solved with such slogans. There must be diplomatic talks between both countries," Fazil Sancharaki National Coalition front man said.
"President Karzai must find a rational and fundamental solution for this problem and this problem had to be solved 11 years ago. Now such speeches are useless," Moien Marastyal member of Rights and Justice party said.
"I think President Karzi can talk about this issue, well he is the president and he has the right to talk about it,"Parliament's First Vice speaker Mirwais Yasini said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the precinct, Lieutenant Queeg was stumped. Who could be leaking Mahoney's information like that?... some residents of Kabul city expressed different views about the Durand Line.
"Although these parts belong to Afghanistan, but I think now it is not the time to raise this issue," a Kabul resident told TOLOnews.
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Mr. Bolton said these witnesses' testimonies could prove explosive. Especially when juxtaposed with the congressional testimony of the Hildebeast and the continued narrative of the odious Jay Carney.
"The three witnesses who have been identified are not bystanders," he said in the Newsmax report. "These are not people who are going to report on hearsay of what somebody in Tripoli told somebody that they heard from. These are people who are directly involved in different capacities before, during and after the attack."
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It's too early to make any kind of determination whether the testimonies of these three will amount to something of significance on their own.
You still need statements from on-the-ground witnesses (important), DoS, DoD, and WH staff members on watch, copies of communciations, logs, video feeds, emails, etc.
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Yes, more testimony and information will certainly be needed but we do have the Congressional Interim Progress Report. I personally can't fault Bolton for speaking out. I wish more Washington insiders would speak out and get involved. I am disappointed that many senior military leaders both active and retired, who are very familiar with In-extremis force Tactics, Technique and Procedures (TTP) and Non Combatant Evacuation (NEO) operations have remained silent.
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Clint Eastwood said before the November election, this party will not give up its power no matter what. They have become corrupt enough to hold on to power by any means necessary, regardless of what happens to the American people. That is why Obama was in Mexico. Trying to round up more invaders. The Seals and the Military are one of the groups in his and the corrupt Democratic Socialist party's way.
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Not so sure, Allen. The Beast wants to be President. There is a battle royal between Obumbles and the Beast. Behind the scenes. The Secretary of State only does what the President says. Don't look for this to stick to the Beast.
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Deacon, I can't see Obama letting any of the sh*t get on him. He will probably throw Hilary under the bus first.
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If I were scoring this game from Chicago, I'd say Pennetta gets to check the muffler hold straps under the bus.
Thump thump
Who put the junk in the trunk?
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I agree, DB. Hilde is a lot smarter than BHO, has a lot more experience and broader connections, and also does not work for him or hold an official position anymore. Likely she is also displeased with OfA's brazen attempts to hijack the Democrat party. A toilet bug with delusions of grandeur. If there is a way she can shift her malfeasance to him, I am confident she will find it.
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given who he's shackled married to, he would make a LOT more sense as a suicide....although the narcissism aspect prolly stops that being done voluntarily
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[Al Ahram] A front man for Egypt's Cabinet said on Monday that there were no political motivations behind an incident the day before when gunfire was directed at Prime Minister Hisham Qandil's convoy.
A pickup truck fired birdshot pellets at Prime Minister Hisham Qandil's convoy as it was passing through Giza's Nahda Square on Sunday night.
Spokesperson Alaa El-Hadidy explained in a press statement that the attack was a criminal act, saying that the truck had obstructed the convoy as the prime minister was on his way home, and bumped into one of the security cars accompanying the convoy. Pellets were then shot from inside the pickup truck at security.
El-Hadidy also confirmed that the prime minister was not harmed. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... two passersby were hit by the pickup truck trying to escape, and a police officer and a police conscript were maimed.
One of those hit by the truck, Taha Hassan, died of his injuries on Monday at 6 October Hospital in Dokki. Hassan, his brother told Ahram Arabic, was a street vendor who was passing near the site of the incident.
Five people inside the pickup truck were incarcerated Please don't kill me! and two birdshot guns were found in their possession.
Initial investigations revealed that the five arrested inside the car were on their way from a street fight in Cairo's Manial district when they encountered the convoy, and they mistakenly thought that the convoy's security car belonged to the police, according to the Ahram's Arabic website,
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The Xinjiang Police have blamed the clash on a new terrorist group headed by one Qasim Muhammat, which, according to them, was founded in September 2012.
..members of this group used to gather at the house of one Muhanmetemin Barat..
The World Uighur Congress (WUC) based in Munich and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples' Organisation (UNPO) based in Holland have strongly questioned the police version and called upon the European Parliament to urge an international inquiry into the incident.
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[An Nahar] U.N. leader the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... praised the "firm" stance taken by South Korea's new president Park Geun-Hye over provocation by rival North Korea in talks at the U.N. headquarters on Monday, a front man said.
North Korea dominated the meeting between the two South Korean officials before Park flies to Washington for her first summit with U.S. President Barack Obama Why can't I just eat my waffle?... Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, "praised the president for her firm, but measured response to recent provocative actions" by North Korea, said U.N. front man Martin Nesirky.
The U.N. leader "strongly supported her determination to resolve inter-Korean differences through building trust and dialogue."
Ban also reaffirmed his readiness "to contribute to defusing tension and promoting peace and stability on the Korean peninsula," added the front man. He also expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about "the serious food and nutrition situation" in North Korea.
Park outlined her "Korean Peninsula trust process" policy that calls for dialogue and exchanges to foster trust with the North to reduce tensions, South Korean presidential front man Yoon Chang-Jung was quoted as saying by the Yonhap news agency.
The president discussed her efforts with South Korean residents in New York after her arrival on Sunday.
"Should North Korea stop provocations and take the right path that the international community recognizes, I will open up a path of co-development of inter-Korean relations through the Korean Peninsula trust process," she was quoted as saying by Yonhap.
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In France, the path to radical Islam often begins with a minor offence that throws a young man into an overcrowded, violent jail and produces a hardened convert ready for jihad.
With the country on heightened security alert since January when French troops began fighting al Qaeda-linked Islamists in Mali, authorities are increasingly worried about home-grown militants emerging from France's own jails.
But despite government efforts to tackle the problem, conditions behind bars are still turning young Muslims into easy prey for jhadist recruiters, according to guards, prison directors, ex-inmates, chaplains and crime experts interviewed over the last few months by Reuters.
"I have parents who come to me and say: 'My son went in a dealer and came out a fundamentalist'," said Hassen Chalghoumi, imam of the mosque in Drancy, a gritty suburb north of Paris.
Malian Islamists have warned France it is a target for attacks, most recently in a video that came to light on Tuesday. This has added to concern in a country which, according to the Europol police agency, arrested 91 people in 2012 on suspicion of what it categorized as religiously-inspired terrorism.
[An Nahar] Turkish Armenians are on edge after weekend attacks against members of the community during Orthodox Easter raised fears about their security.
An unidentified assailant fired seven blank rounds outside an Armenian church in Istanbul's Kumkapi neighborhood on Sunday, causing panic among people celebrating Easter there, the Hurriyet newspaper reported.
A young Armenian was also beaten the same day by a gang outside a church in the nearby neighborhood of Samatya, Archbishop Aram Atesyan of the Armenian Orthodox patriarchate, was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
"These attacks are designed to intimidate members of our community and other minority groups," he said, appealing for greater security.
Last month, a group of about 30 to 40 people attacked an evangelical church shortly after it was inaugurated, the Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey said.
"The attackers smashed the windows of the church by throwing stones and eggs and tried to enter it," the association said in a statement.
Several attacks in recent years have targeted members of the Christian community, including priests, in predominantly Moslem but staunchly secular Turkey.
Turkey's Armenian minority numbers around 70,000 people, most of them living in Istanbul. They often complain of being considered second-class citizens in the country.
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[An Nahar] Chechnya's strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Monday called the two ethnic-Chechen Boston Marathon bombing suspects "devils" who had nothing to do with his republic on the southern edge of Russia.
"Today I can say in all confidence that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar (Tsarnaev) are real-life devils -- complete devils," Interfax quoted Kadyrov as telling news hounds in Chechnya.
"Tamerlan, thank god, was killed," he said. "Dzhokhar has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! . Otherwise, they could have brought grief to the families of completely innocent people."
The two brothers were brought up in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Elder brother Tamerlan is suspected of having visited Chechnya while paying a six-month visit to southern Russia last year.
U.S. security services are checking to see whether the brothers gained any bomb-making expertise from the local Islamic guerrillas who have been fighting Russian troops for most of the past two decades.
But Kadyrov -- backed strongly by the Kremlin even though he himself once fought with the rebels before switching sides -- said he had no intention of defending the Tsarnaev brothers despite their Chechen roots.
"I do not want to say a single word in their support," said Kadyrov.
He also suggested that any blame for the incident should be laid with the brothers' families and the countries in which they were raised.
"They were raised in Kyrgyzstan, and they underwent their preparations in some other countries," Kadyrov said without going into further details.
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Ship the corpse to him, he will know what to do with it.
The Obama administration wants to consign the Benghazi terrorist attack to the history books, but this week three State Department officials will tell Congress that the Obama administrations version of history is false and that the falsehoods it told the American people were willful and deliberate.
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Exactly! To his credit, he must have screamed excessively load and long during the attack. They knew Hicks was would never be a good player. Excluding him from the initial coordination would buy them some much needed time.
[Dawn] A new jihadi magazine set up by gunnies in Afghanistan and Pakistain has appealed to Moslems around the world to come up with technology to hack into or manipulate drones, describing this as one of their most important priorities.
The first issue of the English-language online magazine, called "Azan", was published on May 5, the SITE intelligence monitoring group said. It compared Azan to "Inspire" magazine, set up by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
In what appeared to be an acknowledgement of the effectiveness of US drone strikes, the magazine said these were affecting the war in the Wazoo tribal areas of Pakistain -- where al Qaeda is based along with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and Afghan Taliban fighters.
Devoting a section of the 80-page issue to drones, it said these represented a challenge to the Moslem community, or Ummah.
"With the death of so many Moslem assets,
Interesting phrase in this context. Are we to understand that jihadis and their friends ought to be considered assets to the Ummah?
this is one of the utmost important issues that the Ummah must unite and come up with an answer to," said the magazine, which opens with excerpts from speeches from Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar and late al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... "Any opinions, thoughts, ideas and practical implementations to defeat this drone technology must be communicated to us as early as possible because these would aid the Ummah greatly in its war against the Crusader-Zionist enemy."
Western officials say drone strikes have been highly effective in disrupting the activities of al Qaeda and its allies in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Critics object to the secrecy of the drone programme, question its legality and raise concerns about civilian casualties.
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[BETA.DAWN] The 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 maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. 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... (JI) has reiterated its demand for deployment of army troops at polling stations in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... to ensure fair and transparent elections.
Speaking at an election rally at Bagh-e-Jinnah here on Sunday, JI leaders said that fair and transparent elections were necessary for getting Karachi rid of murder and extortion.
They warned that if army troops were not deployed in Karachi the 'thappa mafia' would hijack the polls.
JI Amir Syed Munawar Hassan ... The funny-looking Amir of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined the National Students Federation (NSF), a lefty student body, and was elected its President in 1959. He came into contact with the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi, The Great Apostasizer. As a result, he joined IJT in 1960 and soon he was elected as President of its University of Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistain in 1992-93, and became Secretary General in 1993. After years of holding Qazi's camel he was named Amir when the old man stepped down in 2009... said the future of the country was linked to fair elections.
Terming US intervention in the affairs of Pakistain the biggest problem faced by it, Mr Hassan said those who called themselves 'liberal' were in fact the supporters of the US policies and those who opposed US intervention were being called 'conservatives'.
"I want to make it clear to the so-called liberals that Pakistain was created so that [holy] Koran and Sunnah could be followed here," he remarked.
The JI chief held the PPP, Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... and the Awami National Party responsible for lawlessness in Karachi, saying "they are reaping what they sowed".
He urged the people of Karachi to reject in the elections the parties whose members were involved in criminal activities. The JI wanted to make Karachi a peaceful city once again, he added.
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[Dawn] Lashing out at Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... , Jamaat Ulemai-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief and candidate for NA-27 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 ... said on Sunday that instead of deceiving youths about a 'new Pakistain', the PTI chief should first make his sons Moslems and Paks.
"How can a person like Imran dream of becoming the prime minister of Islamic Theocratic Republic of Pakistain when his sons go to churches for worship," he said while speaking at separate public gatherings in Darra Pezu, Ummar Adda and Behramkhel.
The JUI-F chief said that Learned Elders of Islam had issued a decree that casting vote in favour of Imran Khan was 'haram' (un-Islamic). He alleged that the PTI chief was implementing Jewish agenda in the country and for this purpose he had sought the support from Ahmadis. The JUI workers, he said, would foil any move to declare Ahmadis as Moslems.
JUI-F candidate for PK-75, Malik Noor Saleem, Pir Fawad Raza Zakori, Naseer Mohammad Khan and Sher Afzal Marwat also spoke on the occasion.
Maulana Fazl said that previous governments of Pakistain People's Party and Awami National Party were responsible for lawlessness because they did not implement the unanimously passed resolution of parliament and continued with the pro-US policies of dictatorial regime of Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... Without naming PPP provincial president Anwar Saifullah, who had held Maulana Fazl and Pervez Musharraf responsible for militancy, the JUI-F leader said that militancy flourished due to the wrong policies of President Zardari, who always surrendered to the US pressure and tried to appease Uncle Sam.
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Imran Khan took a nasty fall off an inshallah lift earlier today . BBC source
[BETA.DAWN] A child has contracted polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... for the first time in Pakistain's jihad boy-infested tribal belt since the Taliban banned vaccinations a year ago, a UN official said Monday.
"The new case has been detected in North Wazoo where we had been denied access in June last year," the World Health Organization's (WHO) senior coordinator for polio eradication in Pakistain, Elias Durry, told AFP.
Tribesmen in North Waziristan, Pakistain's most notorious stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked jihad boys, endorsed the Taliban ban and stopped authorities from vaccinating children under a nationwide campaign.
"This has been the first case since we were stopped from vaccinating children in the region last year," Durry said.
The Taliban alleged that the campaign was a cover for espionage.
Efforts to tackle the highly infectious disease have been hampered over the years by local suspicion about vaccines being a plot to sterilise Mohammedans, particularly in Pakistain's conservative and poorly educated northwest.
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President Bashar Assad's regime has given a Palestinian militant group the go-ahead to set up missiles to attack Israel in the wake of recent Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday.
Syria has hinted at possible retribution against Israel since the Jewish state carried out the airstrikes over the weekend, although official government statements have been relatively mild. In that light, the Assad regime's decision to allow a minor Syria-based Palestinian group to prepare for attacks is largely seen as a face-saving gesture unlikely to escalate the confrontation with Israel.
"Syria has given the green light to set up missile batteries to directly attack Israeli targets," Anwar Raja of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command told The Associated Press.
He said authorities also told the PFLP-GC that the group could carry out attacks independently without consulting Syrian authorities.
"Practically, the Syrian stand has always been supportive of the Palestinian resistance and Syria provides the Palestinian resistance with all capabilities including all kinds of weapons," Raja said.
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The ravaged provinces of Thailand's Deep South lie less than 400 miles from the holiday-makers' utopia of Phuket, but for reasons that remain shrouded in mystery, the world of the bombs and the world of the beaches might as well be on different continents.
Obvious to anyone with a functional brain i.e. non liberal.
Bangladeshi opposition parties have called a two-day nationwide shutdown from Wednesday to protest what they describe as the "mass killing" of Islamists in a crackdown by security forces.
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its Islamist allies called the strike after saying that hundreds of people died on Sunday and early Monday, when police broke up a mass rally in central Dhaka.
According to an AFP tally compiled after talking to police and medical sources, 38 people are known to have been killed since Sunday afternoon when police first confronted Islamist activists who had blockaded the capital.
The Islamists are trying to pressure the government into introducing a new blasphemy law and have been calling for the execution of bloggers whom they accuse of having insulted the Prophet Mohammed.
A border guard succumbed to his head injuries Tuesday to raise the tally from Monday's 37, police inspector Mozammel Haq told AFP, adding dozens were still being treated in hospital.
[An Nahar] Myanmar's president on Monday pledged to uphold the "fundamental rights" of Mohammedans in strife-torn Rakhine state, in the wake of deadly religious unrest that has spread across the country.
In a speech to the nation following the release last week of an official report into last year's violence in western Rakhine that killed around 200 people, Thein Sein said the country should aim for "peaceful coexistence".
"Regarding Rakhine, our government will take responsibility for upholding Mohammedans' fundamental rights," he said, adding that ethnic Rakhines, who are mainly Buddhist, "will not be neglected".
Rakhine state remains deeply divided following major eruptions of unrest in June and October that saw mobs rampage through villages and torch thousands of homes, displacing 140,000 mainly Rohingya Mohammedans.
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Muslim "Rights," are subject to whim.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was looking to strengthen ties with Russia as he tries to put an end to the dictatorial regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but instead he was met with the coldest of receptions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin kept Kerry waiting three hours before their meeting at the Kremlin on Tuesday and continuously fiddled with his pen as the top American diplomat spoke about the ongoing crisis in Syria.
Kerry's visit to Moscow comes as he seeks Russian help in ending Syria's civil, telling President Putin that common interest in a stable Middle East could bridge divisions among the big powers.
Putin, however, made no mention in his own public remarks of the conflict in Syria, which has generated some of the frostiest exchanges between Washington and Moscow since the Cold War.
Yet with the killing now in a third year and no end in sight as U.N. intervention remains stymied by international arguments, Kerry struck a positive tone as he set about trying to narrow differences sufficiently to agree a plan for a settlement that proved out of reach at talks in Geneva almost a year ago.
Turkey's prime minister, a staunch critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, on Tuesday called Israel's recent airstrikes in Syria "unacceptable."
Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the statement in the capital, Ankara, during a Justice and Development Party group meeting in parliament.
"The air attack by Israel on Damascus is unacceptable. No rationale, no reason can excuse this operation. These attacks are a bargaining chip, an opportunity delivered on a silver platter to the hands of Assad, to the illegitimate Syrian regime," he said.
[Al Ahram] A top Iranian general said any arms Israel targeted in Syria did not come from the Islamic republic, in remarks published on the Revolutionary Guards website on Monday.
Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri "denied Western and Israeli media reports that an Iranian weapons depot has been targeted in Syria," the website reported.
"The Syrian government does not need Iran's military aid, and these sorts of reports are propaganda and psychological war," added the deputy chief of the armed forces.
A senior Israeli source said the Jewish state carried out an air strike near Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... before dawn on Sunday, targeting Iranian missiles destined for Leb's Hezbollah in the second such raid on Syria in three days.
The attack targeted a facility just northwest of the Syrian capital, very close to the site of a similar attack late in January which was implicitly confirmed by Israel, the source said.
He also confirmed Israel was behind an earlier strike on a target very close to Damascus airport which took place early on Friday, which also struck Iranian arms destined for the Lebanese Shiite movement.
Iran's Defence Minister General Ahmad Vahidi on Monday urged the international community to stop Israel from carrying out such attacks.
Unless they are halted, "events may occur in the region in which the Zionist regime (Israel) and the US would not be victorious," said Vahidi.
"Certainly the Syrian government in an appropriate time will respond to the Zionist regime. The Zionist regime will receive decisive responses from Syria," he added.
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And if you can't trust an Iranian general on this matter, who can you trust?
[Al Ahram] Turkey's support for the Syrian rebels in the neighbouring country's civil war has led to a policy of choosing between "bad and worse", say analysts urging Ankara to come up with an impartial approach to the crisis. What happens when a good idea is turned into a bad idea when the reason it was a good idea in the first place remains unchanged.
The Islamist-rooted government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has shunned dialogue with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... and explicitly called for his ouster after diplomacy failed to convince him to adopt democratic reforms.
And Turkey, already home to thousands of Syrian refugees, has also become a base for Syrian rebels and army defectors who form the very core of the opposition Free Syrian Army.
A recent article in the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... was among many to claim that Ankara's Esenboga Airport was now a major hub for arms supply to rebel factions -- though Turkey denies arming the rebels.
"Turkey's Syria policy has been full of mistakes since the very beginning," Professor Huseyin Bagci of the Middle East Technical University told AFP.
"Turkey is perceived to be a contract killer in Syria backing the radicals," he said.
Witnesses have said they've seen a group of jihadist fighters staying in hotels in Turkish border towns, shuttling back and forth from Syria.
The merger of Al-Nusra and Al-Qaeda, considered terrorist groups by Washington, has bolstered the Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... claim that the rebels are snuffies and raised fears in the West. Al-Nusra has been playing an effective role in the fight against Assad's forces.
A cautious Washington is opposed to arming the rebels out of fear the weapons may turn up in the hands of bad boys, though the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's two heavyweights La Belle France and Britannia are pushing for the lifting of an arms embargo.
Ankara is betting on the likelihood that the radical elements on the rebel side will not fit into Syrian society, and when the conflict is over, they will be "weeded out" naturally.
But meanwhile Turkey's leaders who initially claimed that Assad's days were numbered now avoid setting a deadline.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has admitted Turkey would face "extraordinary security risks" whether or not Assad remains in power in Syria as the two countries share a 910-kilometre (560 mile) frontier.
"Turkey is a frontline state in the Syrian crisis. Whatever happens has a direct effect on Turkey," Professor Carlo Masala of the University of the German Armed Forces, told AFP.
Turkey makes its decisions based on its own perception of the Syrian situation, and its policy on Syria is the "result of a hard choice between bad and worse," said Masala.
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[An Nahar] U.N. Sherlocks into rights abuses in Syria stressed Monday they had no conclusive proof that either side in the conflict has used chemical weapons, after a team member cited "concrete suspicions" that rebels have used sarin gas.
"The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic wishes to clarify that it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syria by any parties to the conflict," the commission said in a statement.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... the United States said it was "highly skeptical" of an assertion that Syrian rebels had used chemical weapons, after a U.N. human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. investigator suggested the opposition had deployed sarin gas.
"We find it highly likely that any chemical weapon use that has taken place in Syria was done by the Assad regime. And that remains our position," said White House front man Jay Carney.
Late Sunday, Carla del Ponte, a former war crimes prosecutor and a member of the commission, told Swiss public broadcaster RSI that "according to the testimonies we have gathered, the rebels have used chemical weapons, making use of sarin gas."
She acknowledged there was "still not irrefutable proof, (but) very strong suspicions, concrete suspicions that sarin gas has been used... by opponents, by rebels, not by government authorities."
Her comments come amid growing Western suspicions that Assad's regime has used chemical weapons in the 26-month conflict and follow Israeli raids on military sites near Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... over the weekend.
The commission of inquiry did not mention del Ponte's comments specifically, only stressing that it was "not in a position to further comment on the allegations at this time".
The commission's Brazilian chief Paulo Sergio Pinheiro reminded "all parties to the conflict that the use of chemical weapons is prohibited in all circumstances under customary international humanitarian law".
Set up two years ago at the behest of the U.N. Human Rights Council, the commission has so far been unable to gain access to Syria as Damascus has ignored repeated requests for entry.
Instead, it has interviewed over 1,500 refugees and exiles as a basis for its reports and its charges that both the government forces and their allies and opposition forces have committed war crimes in Syria, where more than 70,000 people have been killed since the violence went kaboom! in March 2011.
The commission is set to publish its next report on the situation in Syria at the end of May and will present its findings to the Human Rights Council during its next session in June.
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UN covering for Cmdr Zero until he actually does something to merit his Nobel Prize?
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It's funny, the MSM went wild when fewer than expected WMDs where located in Iraq, but The US regime's manufacturing use and then covering for WMD users isn't even reported.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... condemned on Monday the Israeli attack against Syria, saying it further complicates the conflict in the neighboring country.
"The attack offers the Syrian regime an excuse to accuse the opposition of collaborating with Israeli," Jumblat told al-Anbaa.
He pointed out that "whatever the stance was regarding the Syrian regime it doesn't justify the Israeli attack."
Israeli raids on Sunday hit three military sites outside Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... , the second such reported attack in 48 hours, reportedly targeting weapons bound for Hizbullah which is an ally of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... 's regime.
The Syrian government warned that the regional situation was "more dangerous" following the raid as fears grew of a spillover of the conflict.
The Jewish state has frequently warned it would act to stop the transfer of advanced weapons systems or chemical weapons to Hizbullah, with which it fought a devastating war in 2006.
Jumblat lashed out at the international community of inaction in Damascus as it is "overlooking the daily massacres in Syria."
He also slammed the international community for "magnifying the threats that would be carried out by the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... groups to justify its why it's refraining from arming the opposition."
Jumblat said that the regime is waging a "cleansing campaign across the country,"
He reiterated calls on Druze in Syria to join the Free Syrian Army.
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Said it times before + I'll say it again - IS JUMBLATT THE DOPPELGANGER OF THE ACTOR-COP FROM "NYPD BLUE"???
[An Nahar] The Syrian opposition National Coalition on Monday condemned any use of chemical weapons in the country's conflict and said only the regime had such capabilities.
The statement came after a U.N. investigator said there was evidence that Syrian opposition forces had used the deadly nerve agent sarin.
"The Coalition condemns all use of chemical weapons, whoever uses them and it will pursue its investigation and collect evidence on this issue to present to the international commission of inquiry," the umbrella grouping said in a statement.
"If the inquiry proves that any party other than the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons, the Coalition will take all legal and appropriate measures whoever the party is and whatever the reason or motive for the usage might be," the statement added.
Earlier Monday, U.N. rights investigator Carla del Ponte said there was evidence that rebel forces had used sarin.
But her team later said there was no "conclusive" proof that those allegations were true.
The Coalition said the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... "is the only party with the necessary technology to produce chemical weapons.
"It is the only one with the means to stock, assemble, transport and use these weapons and it increasingly has the desire to do so," the statement added.
Del Ponte's commission, which was set up two years ago at the behest of the U.N. Human Rights Council, has so far been refused access to Syria.
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Syrian state TV announced today that President Bashar al-Assad was activating Palestinian groups to retaliate against Israel.
Al-Ikhbariya announced that the government had given a green light to Palestinian groups to conduct operations against Israeli targets on the Golan Heights. Hezbollah-linked media, meanwhile, reported that Lebanon and Syria had established popular committees ready to fight Israel in the region.
The Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al Rai, quoting sources close to Assad, reported that the Syrian leader had used Russian backchannels to tell the Israelis that Damascus would react if Israel struck Syria again. Syria, they said, would consider any such act a declaration of war and would contemplate firing surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles at Israel.
Syrian sources told a range of media outlets that Damascus had deployed missile batteries aimed at Israel that could respond to any further Israeli actions.
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Oh yeah, BASHIR, well the Bammer says ....
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [JTA.org] ISRAEL HAS RIGHT TO HIT MISSLES, OBAMA SAYS AFTER SYRIA STRIKE.
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MOSCOW SEES SIGNS OF FOREIGN MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA CONFLICT: FOREIGN MINISTRY.
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President Bashar al-Assad was activating Palestinian groups to retaliate against Israel.
What is Arabic for "Hey, let's you and him fight!"?
Let's face it - the last thing PencilNeck needs now is yet another front to fight on. And when it comes to pointless violence, the Paleos are your go-to guys. Bashir looks tough, the Paleos get their ass kicked and a lot of hardware destined for Hezbollah gets destroyed. It's a win-win-win.
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If Assad makes a move, ie activates Hezbollah he will need the okay from Tehran. Israel is ready for a fight with these guys and will crush the Hez'es. Then they will occupy a major portion of southern Lebanon for a long, long time and no blue helmets need apply. Where this leaves the Druze I have no idea.
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TOPIX > [Arutz Sheva] ASSAD: ATTACKS ARE PROOF ISRAEL SUPPORTS REBELS.
NO surprise here - IMO, in Syria view iff the US is going to arm the anti-Assad Rebels e.g. FSA, + Israel is going to attack Syrian-controlled targets, then by definition the US is for The Rebels + intervening anti-Assad foreign Militant
groups e.g. AL-QAEDA + AFFILIATES [Al-Nusra Front].
FYI ditto as per HEZBOLLAH whom accuses Israel of supporting Sunni Rebels vee its air strike.
and
* SAME > [JPost] US PRESIDENT SAYS DECISIONS MUST BE BASED ON HARD ANALYSIS.
* SAME > [Daily World] PALESTINIAN GROUP [PFLP-GC] SAYS SYRIA OK'S [independent] ATTACKS AGZ ISRAEL.
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