[Dawn] Britannia is holding up to 90 people at its main base in Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond admitted Wednesday, as lawyers claimed they were possibly being jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! unlawfully.
British lawyers representing two of the men being held at Camp Bastion in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... claim their cases could amount to internment.
Hammond told BBC radio that those being held included people suspected of murdering British troops who will be passed on to the Afghan authorities.
He said Britannia would normally expect to be holding around 20 Afghans at Camp Bastion at any one time, but concerns about a particular facility they might be transferred to had created a hold-up in the system.
"These are people suspected of murdering British troops, of facilitating or planting or being involved with IEDs (improvised bombs)," Hammond said.
"Our attention was drawn to some concerns around one particular Afghan facility. We were unable to obtain cast-iron guarantees that the prisoners that we were transferring wouldn't be transferred into that facility.
"And so I decided last November that we had to stop transfers until we had sorted that out and got a safe pathway."He said he hoped to restart transfers within days.
"That will resolve the conundrum and allow us to get these detainees transferred into an Afghan facility with proper overwatch and a proper judicial process," he said.
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[Al Ahram] An Egyptian criminal court ordered on Wednesday the release pending trial of Mohamed Ayoub, who is being retried on charges of membership of a jihadist group and terrorism-related offences.
Ayoub, who was a medical student at the time of the offences, was tried and convicted of the charges by a military court in the 1990s, and released after the January 25 revolution like many Islamist prisoners.
After Morsi took power, Ayoub was relocked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! , to be retried in front of a civilian court.
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] In an extraordinary 10-page letter that reads like an employee's disciplinary hearing, the veteran Jihadist fighter was criticised by the Shura Council, the 14-man governing body of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, in which they called him a "bleeding wound" among the then thriving Islamist factions in North Africa when he threatened to form a breakaway group.
"Your letter ... contained some amount of backbiting, name-calling and sneering," they write. "We refrained from wading into this battle in the past out of a hope that the crooked could be straightened by the easiest and softest means. ... But the wound continued to bleed, and in fact increasingly bled, until your last letter arrived, ending any hope of staunching the wound and healing it."
Referring to Belmokhtar by his nom de guerre, Abu Khaled, the letter, obtained by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named last year in Timbuktu when Islamist gunnies were driven out of the Malian town, said he had a long history as a trouble maker.
"Why do the successive emirs of the region only have difficulties with you? You in particular every time? Or are all of them wrong and brother Khaled is right?" it asked.
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"Difficulties wid you" > its in the gene pool.
He decided to declare Jihad after tasting Blatz Beer back in Milwaukee - clearly the man is innocent.
[BETA.DAWN] The leader of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Salafist tough guys said on Wednesday that the Nigerian military offensive is failing in its goal of crushing the four-year-old insurgency.
Abubakar Shekau's statement, in a video seen by Rooters, was the first word from Boko Haram since President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... declared a state of emergency on May 14 in the three northeastern states worst hit by the insurgency.
Thousands of extra troops were sent to the region and Boko Haram camps were hit with air strikes. The military has since claimed that gunnies have been halted.
Shekau denied he was losing the battle.
"My fellow brethren from all over the world I assure you that we are strong, hail and hearty since they launched this assault on us following the state of emergency declaration," he said, dressed in camouflage with an AK-47 rifle resting behind him.
"When they launch any attack on us you see soldiers fleeing and throwing away their weapons like a rabbit that is been hunted down," he added, speaking in a mixture of Arabic and the Hausa language common in northern Nigeria.
Shekau asked his "brethren" in Iraq, Pakistain, Afghanistan and Syria to join what he called Boko Haram's Holy War.
The video goes on to show apparently dead bodies in military uniform and charred camouflaged vehicles which Shekau said were evidence of victories in festivities with soldiers.
The military assault in the semi-deserts along the borders with Cameroon, Chad and Niger is Jonathan's biggest effort yet to end the insurgency. Security sources said soldiers from Niger and Cameroon are also involved.
It follows a surge in violence in Nigeria's northeast by Boko Haram, which wants to establish an Islamic state there.
Nigeria's population of 170 million is split roughly evenly between Christians, who dominate in the south, and Musselmens, who are the majority in the north.
The military has said it has locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... more than 100 krazed killers, freed hostages and killed several Boko Haram members in recent days. But its statements made no mention of the sort of counter-strikes Boko Haram have launched in the past.
Shekau said only seven Boko Haram members have been killed since the offensive began.
The Defence Ministry said last week that the gunnies had been dislodged but security experts doubt it will be easy to defeat an enemy adept at re-arming and counter-attacking in remote regions where they have operated in for years.
It has been impossible to verify the claims of Shekau or the military because telephone services have been disconnected for 12 days in Borno state, where the bulk of the fighting has taken place.
Jonathan said last week he would free a number of locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Islamist suspects, mostly women and kiddies, in what security sources believe was a move to build popular support. He has also offered amnesty to gunnies who lay down their weapons.
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MI5 faces growing questions over the Woolwich murderers after it emerged that Michael Adebolajo was left free to return to Kenya despite the fact the country had deported him as a terrorist.
Adebolajo, seen wielding a knife with his hands covered in blood after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, was booted out of the African country in 2010 after he was caught attempting to enter Somalia to fight with Death Eaters.
Kenya warned Britannia that he was a 'dangerous radical' intent on waging war on the West -- but he was free to return at least once last year to meet with fellow jihadists, the Daily Mail understands.
Sources in Africa say the 28-year-old was seen in Kenya as late as last November, in the company of a radical holy man who was also being monitored by security forces.
Adebolajo is also suspected of making a third visit to the country, which has become a gateway for young radicalised Britons wishing to fight alongside jihadists in Somalia.
The British police and security services now face questions over why they did not do more to stop Adebolajo and his accomplice, Michael Adebowale.
Despite a string of warning signs stretching back ten years, Adebolajo is said to have been considered to be 'low-risk' by MI5.
Police may have known about his extreme beliefs as early as 2003, when he joined Al-Mahajiroun, an Death Eater group which was monitored by the security service and later banned.
He was photographed at high-profile protests -- even standing next to hate preacher Anjem Choudary -- and was tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in 2006 after an ugly scuffle at the Old Bailey.
Seven years later, the Kenyan authorities returned Adebolajo to Britannia, warning that he was a dangerous terrorist intent on waging war.
Sources in the Kenyan capital Nairobi claim Adebolajo may have gone on to enter Kenya on two occasions in 2012 using false passports.
It is claimed that he was arrested with five others last February, as he tried to reach Somalia once again.
Instead of being taken to court, he would have been put straight on a flight to the UK, under a new policy which sees all foreigners attempting to cross the border removed from Kenya.
A second claim is that Adebolajo entered Kenya even later, again using a false passport, to meet with a holy man named Hassan Makbul. The pair are understood to have realised their cover had been blown, and fled to Tanzania in November.
The Mail understands the security forces were aware Adebolajo had left for Africa on at least one occasion, and may have allowed the journey to monitor who he would meet.
MI5 chief Andrew Parker is set to present a report to a Parliamentary committee on the case this week.
Kenya claims the British security services 'ignored' warnings about Adebolajo. An immigration official said: 'This man had a mission to complete so we work on the assumption that he would have come back.'
Court documents seen by the Daily Mail reveal how determined Adebolajo's gang were to join the Al Qaeda linked al-Shaabab in 2010.
When they were arrested police also found al-Shaabab flags and uniforms.
The Kenyans also discovered Adebolajo had been radicalised by Sheikh Aboud Rogo, a holy man who was also close to Samantha Lewthwaite, the 'white widow' of 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay.
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Sounds like he's absolutely perfect for the Death Penalty.
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Oh, no, Jim. The Europeans are ever so much more sophisticated than we are. They would never do something as base as put a man to death, even when he butchers an innocent soldier.
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Two imams in the city of Novosibirsk in western Siberia have received suspended sentences for spreading extremist views. The court on May 27 sentenced university professor Ilkhom Merazhov and Imam Komil Odilov to one year in jail each.
The two went on trial in February after being charged with propagating the ideas of the Turkish cleric Said Nursi, the founder of the banned Nurcular movement. The movement was banned in Russia in 2007. Officials say it aspires to create an Islamic state on lands where indigenous peoples speak Turkic languages.
Merazhov and Odilov pleaded not guilty, and promised to appeal the sentence.
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The Hard Boyz to one day "attack where the Russian Army + Chinese PLA aren't".
Looks like Japan + SDF just got another reason to get back into Sakhalin andor set up Russo-Nippon "coastal republics" [base(s)-sharing] for the security of the Russian Far East - 'TIS NOT ABOUT JUST CHINA ANYMORE???
A survey of Dutch attitudes towards Islamists who travel from the Netherlands to Syria to fight the Assad regime shows that 75 per cent of Muslims regard them as heroes – while almost half the non-Muslim population believe they should be stripped of their citizenship.
The survey shows that while there is widespread agreement in both communities – 87 per cent of Muslims and 66 per cent of non-Muslims – that Assad should be removed, on virtually every other question there are significant differences.
For instance, on the question of arming Syrian rebels, 49 per cent of Muslims were in favor, while just 6 per cent of the dwindling majority population supported the decision. Asked whether recruiting fighters should become a criminal offense, 61 per cent of Muslims were opposed – while 58 per cent of non-Muslims were in favor.
While 75 per cent of Muslims believed those who went to fight in Syria were “heroes”, 70 per cent of the native Dutch disagreed. On the other hand, while 43 per cent of non-Muslims thought that jihadis who traveled to fight in Syria should be stripped of their Dutch citizenship, 90 per cent of Muslims disagreed.
The Counter-terrorism Coordinator in The Hague recently confirmed that about 100 Dutch-born jihadis, including at least two young women, have so far joined armed opposition, making the Netherlands the largest European recruiting ground for anti-Assad militants. Three are believed to be dead.
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Well, I'm all for Islamists GOING to Syria to fight, I am completely opposed however to their return if they survive the bad tactics, poor leadership, and political sniveling and ceremonial games that seem to characterize the rebels these days.
Popcorn anyone? The salt is over there.
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[Beirut Daily Star] A Muslim convert arrested on suspicion of stabbing a French soldier in a Paris suburb was motivated by religion and had shown some signs of radicalisation, French authorities said on Wednesday.
The attack took place on May 25, three days after attackers chanting Islamist slogans killed a British soldier in London.
France has been on a security alert since January, when its troops began fighting al Qaeda-linked Islamists in Mali.
Prosecutor Francois Molins said authorities were treating the Paris attack as a terrorist act.
The suspect had been seen on a surveillance camera saying a Muslim prayer minutes before the assault on a soldier on patrol in the La Defense business district of Paris, he said.
"The nature of the incident, the fact it took place three days after London, and the prayer just before the act lead us to believe he acted on the basis of religious ideology and that his desire was to attack a representative of the state," Molins told a news conference.
"It seems clear the intent was to kill."
The soldier, who was attacked from behind with a knife, was released from hospital on Monday.
The suspect, identified by police as Alexandre Dhaussy, was arrested in a Paris suburb on Wednesday after being identified through fingerprints.
His age was originally given as 22 but authorities later clarified that he would reach that age on May 30.
Molins said the suspect was known to police for crimes such as theft and possession of firearms and that he converted to Islam as an adult. No details of his ethnicity were given.
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[Chicago Tribune] Accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan will ask a U.S. military court on Wednesday to rule he can represent himself at his trial this summer which could bring the death penalty on charges he killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting rampage.
Jury selection in Hasan's military trial at Fort Hood was delayed until next week after he asked the judge, Colonel Tara Osborn, to let him fire his lawyers and represent himself. The trial is scheduled to start July 1.
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HHHHMMMMM, HHHHMMMMM, whut does Penn State + Carlyle Group remember of He-Wasn't-a-Major-Back-Then Major Nasan ... ... and will their Law Dept-Students help him out???
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I'm sure the numerous rolling delays in justice and continued bullshi* will ensure COL Osborn finds a comfortable federal post-retirement position. Keep milking colonel, there could be a star in this as well.
[BETA.DAWN] The 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... (MQM) has decided to sit in the opposition benches at the federal and provincial level, DawnNews reported.
The decison was made by the the MQM's Rabita committee, after days of speculation.
MQM leader Faisal Sabzwari will be the party's parliamentary leader in the Sindh Assembly, whereas Syed Sardar Ahmed will participate in the election for chief minister Sindh.
Dr Farooq Sattar will be the MQM's parliamentary leader in the National Assembly while Rashid Godal will be the party's deputy leader.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... the MQM's Rabita Committee held a presser 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... on Wednesday during which the party's leader Haider Abbas Rizvi appealed to the citizens of the city to setup a vigilance committee in the city.
Rizvi requested Karachiites to record videos of cars plying on Karachi's roads without number plates and those carrying suspicious persons and post it on social media websites.
The MQM 's activists were being targeted in the city which was actually 'genocide' against the Urdu-speaking community, according to the party's Rabita Committee.
Rizvi also requested those in power to take notice of the illegal activities of the law enforcement personnel.
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"I would be very surprised (you are talking about the S-300 anti-aircraft missile) -- if the Russians actually transfer these missiles to Syria as I think that they know that it will turn out that our Air Force can deal with them. This wouldn't be good publicity for a product that is their export product. They are selling this product to many countries and it won't help their export."
[IsraelTimes] Kidnapping Israelis is a source of pride, not shame, declares front man in rebuttal to PA president's speech
The kidnapping of IDF soldiers is at the heart of Paleostinian culture, a military Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,front man said on Tuesday, responding to a speech by 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 which Abbas called such abductions alien to Paleostinian norms.
"Those who refuse to abduct Zionist soldiers renounce the pain and suffering of thousands of prisoners yearning for freedom," wrote Abu-Ubaida, a front man for the Izz ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, on his Facebook page, negating the words used by Abbas in his speech.
"Operations to capture enemy soldiers and trade them for our heroic prisoners are at the heart of our people's culture, and are a source of pride for them and their resistance," Abu-Ubaida added.
At the "Breaking the Impasse" session closing the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in Jordan on Sunday, Abbas pleaded with Israel to release pre-Oslo Paleostinian security prisoners. He criticized Israel for only releasing large numbers of prisoners to secure the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held hostage by Hamas in Gazoo for five years. The Paleostinians he spoke for were not capable of or interested in carrying out such actions, he said. "Do you want us to abduct other Shalits?" Abbas asked. "This is not part of our culture. We cannot do this."
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... responding to a proposal by Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... to boost the Paleostinian economy through a mega-investment of $4 billion and jump-start peace talks with Israel, Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum said the plan merely "markets an illusion, deceives public opinion and wastes time for the benefit of the Zionist entity."
"Everyone should beware [of this plan] and not cooperate with it, so long as American administrations promote these kinds of misleading plans under the guise of which the Israeli occupation completed all of its hard boy Judaizing racist projects," said Barhoum.
Abbas's speech was not attacked only by the Islamic right, however. The pan-Arabist daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi dedicated its editorial on Tuesday to tearing the speech apart as well.
"Paleostinian President Mahmoud Abbas uses every opportunity to stress his friendship with Israel, his care for its security, and his readiness to negotiate with it," read the editorial.
"Moreover, he said that settlers and Israeli soldiers are not kidnapped, referring to the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in the Gazoo Strip. President Abbas forgets that this kidnapping brought about the release of more than 1,000 Paleostinian prisoners, a large number of whom belong to Fatah."
[Ynet] French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Hezbollah transferred between 3,000 and 4,000 fighters to Syria to boost Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's military.
This seems a suitable number to remove from the gene pool in this iteration, not to mention a matching number of Sunni jihadis going up against them, How many in the next round, d'you think, dear Reader?
Yes, but the problem is getting it done, and quickly...
[Al Ahram] The UN's top rights body on Wednesday voted to condemn the Syrian regime's use of imported muscle in the besieged town of Qusayr and ordered an urgent probe into the killings in the town.
But the influx of foreign jihadis joining Al Qaeda in Iraq's Syrian branch is just fine?
Thirty-six of the UN Human Rights Council's 47 member states voted in favour of the resolution that implicitly refers to the involvement of fighters from Leb's bad boy group Hezbollah in the fierce battle for the strategic town.
Eight countries abstained, two refrained from voting and only Venezuela cast its vote against the resolution.
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[Al Ahram] Syria's foreign minister says his government will attend planned Syrian peace talks "with every good intention" to reach a deal. But he says the Syrian opposition is setting preconditions.
Walid al-Moallem said in a TV interview Wednesday that U.N.-sponsored peace talks, tentatively to be launched next month in Geneva, present a "real opportunity" for ending the country's civil war.
Al-Moallem says Syria rejects the opposition's apparent condition for attending talks, that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... step down at the start of any transition period. Al-Moallem told the Lebanese TV station Al-Mayadeen that "only the Syrian people can decide who is to rule Syria."
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[Al Ahram] Reda Fahmi, the head of the national security committee within Egypt's Islamist-led Shura Council, denounced the ongoing intervention by Hezbollah fighters in Syria, accusing the Lebanese political group of committing "criminal actions against the unarmed Syrian people."
"The intervention by Hezbollah is a serious threat to the region's peacefulness and security," said Fahmi in a press statement released on Wednesday, stressing that the Lebanese fighters "will pay a high price for their intervention."
On Saturday, secretary-general of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah officially declared that members of his group are involved in the fighting in Syria "against Islamic gunnies who pose a danger to Leb."
As a result, Hezbollah has been slammed with criticism for supporting the regime of Bashir al-Assad.
Nasrallah responded to the criticism by saying that Hezbollah is accused of intervening in the Syria conflict by "sending a few fighters" when none have spoken of the tens of thousands of "Islamic bully boys" from all over the world that have gone to Syria to fight the regime.
On Sunday, a source close to Hezbollah revealed to AFP that the at least 110 members of the group have been killed in Syria in recent months, most of them in the town of Qusayr.
Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi is scheduled to attend the Geneva 2 peace conference on 15-16 June that will looks at ways of putting an end to the conflict.
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See also FREEREPUBLIC > [LonG War Journal]EGYPTIAN JIHADISTS CALL FOR ATTACKS ON SHIITE COUNTRIES.
versus
* MEMRI.ORG > IRAN CALLS ON SHIITES IN BAHRAIN TO TOPPLE THE COUNTRY'S SUNNI AL-KHALIFA REGIME.
* EINNEWS > IRAN IN "LATIN AMERICA TERROR PLOT".
RELATED TOPIX > ARGENTINA:IRAN INFILTRATING CONTINENT FOR TERRORISM.
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* TOPIX > MANSOOR: MUSLIMS [Laborers-Workers] BUILT FRANCE, ISLAM THE FUTURE OF FRANCE + EUROPE [+ all Humanity].
* SAME > TURKEY'S NEIGHBORS HAVE TO CONFRONT SUNNI INTEGRATION: POLITICAL ANALYST.
ARTIC = Middle East chaos + rise of Radical Sunni Islamism due to the US ostensibly having insufficient military forces to unilater impose World Order [NWO].
[Al Ahram] Embattled Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , who is facing a two-year rebellion against his rule, will run for a third term in 2014 if the people want him to, his foreign minister said on Wednesday.
"Will President Assad run for a third term or won't he, that will depend on conditions in 2014 and the will of the people," Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told the Beirut-based Arab news channel Mayadeen, which is close to Syria and its ally Iran.
"If the people want him, he will present himself, and, if they don't, he won't. Mr Assad is in constant touch with his people," Muallem said.
"The Americans have no say on who governs Syria," he added.
Western and Arab governments are demanding that Assad step down as part of efforts to end the deadly conflict in Syria which activists say has killed more than 94,000 people since it erupted in March 2011.
Earlier this month, Assad told Argentine newspaper Clarin that he had no plans to resign.
"To resign would be to flee," he said when asked if he would consider stepping aside as called for by US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... "I don't know if Kerry or anyone else has received the power of the Syrian people to talk in their name about who should go and who should stay. That will be determined by the Syrian people in the 2014 presidential elections."
Assad has ruled Syria since 2000, when he took over on the death of his father Hafez.
He was elected in 2000 and again in 2007, virtually unopposed.
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.. if they don't, he won't.
I guess 90,000 of his citizens dying to try and rid themselves of him is not enough of a sign.
[Al Ahram] Syria's opposition coalition said on Wednesday it would only take part in a planned peace conference in Geneva if a deadline was set for an internationally-guaranteed settlement based on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... leaving power.
In its first official reaction to the conference being prepared by the United States and Russia, the coalition voted to adopt a declaration seen by Rooters that said it was committed to the aim of removing Assad and his most bigwigs.
"The participation of the Syrians in any conference is tied to the presentation of a deadline for a solution and giving the necessary binding international guarantees," said the statement, issued after seven days of meeting riven by internal dispute.
"The Syrian Coalition welcomes the international efforts to find a political solution to what Syria has been suffering for two years while being committed to the principles of the revolution," it said.
The declaration said "the removal of the head of the regime and the security and military command" was paramount.
The talks have been marred by disagreement within the coalition over broadening its membership and appointing a new leadership. Lack of unity has threatened to rob the Islamist-dominated alliance of international support.
The 60-member coalition has so far failed to agree on the wider involvement of a liberal opposition bloc, to the dismay of Western and some Arab backers keen to reduce Islamist influence.
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Again, no one seriously wants Assad + Regime to go given the nature, character, + behavior of the Rebel opposition; + as long as Russia + China + Iran support Assad wid $$$, advanced weapons, Russian Navy Med Squadron, Hezbollah + IRGC-Quds Force, ....@etc to come, there is little or nothing the UNO or UNSC, + NATO-EU, can do short of direct military confrontation which no one wants.
Bashir will leave when he wants to, or iff he is betrayed from widin like Uncle Muammar.
* FYI TOPIX > [Press TV] ISRAELI MILITARY COMMANDER [IDF MGEN. Amir Eshel] SAYS TEL AVIV IS PREPARED TO CARRY OUT ATTACK ON SYRIA IFF THE GOVT. OF SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHIR ASSAD COLLAPSES.
* SAME > SYRIAN REBELS THREATEN ETHIC CLEANSING.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SUNNI ARAB POLITICIAN TELLS KURDS TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM IRAQ |
... ..., SAYS IRAQ DEPUTY PM | KIPPREPORT.COM.
* TOPIX > IRAQI SHIITE MILITIA WARNS OF [nationwide] SECTARIAN FIGHTING, but one that is NOT yet at the level of a full-fledged/all-out Iraqi Civil War.
[CHRON] Syria's foreign minister laid out a hard line Wednesday, saying Bashir al-Assad will remain president at least until elections in 2014 and might seek another term, conditions that will make it difficult for the opposition to agree to U.N.-sponsored talks on ending the civil war.
Any deal reached in such talks would have to be put to a referendum, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem added in a TV interview, introducing a new condition that could complicate efforts by the U.S. and Russia to bring both sides together at an international conference in Geneva, possibly next month.
Drawing a tough line of its own, the main exile-based political group, the Syrian National Coalition, reiterated that any negotiations require "the head of the regime, security and military leadership to step down and be excluded from the political process."
While the Assad regime has agreed in principle to attend peace talks, the opposition has not, insisting it first get international guarantees on the agenda and timetable. The coalition has been meeting for the past week in Turkey but spent most of that time arguing about membership issues, rather than making a decision about Geneva.
In his wide-ranging comments, al-Moallem, an Assad stalwart with decades in top positions, reflected a new confidence by the government. The regime had seemed near collapse during a rebel offensive last summer but has scored a number of battlefield successes in recent weeks.
"Our armed forces have regained the momentum," he told the Lebanese station Al-Mayadeen, suggesting that the regime is digging in. Asked when the civil war might end, he said: "That depends on when the patience of those conspiring against Syria will run out."
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] In an extraordinary 10-page letter that reads like an employee's disciplinary hearing, the veteran Jihadist fighter was criticised by the Shura Council, the 14-man governing body of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, in which they called him a "bleeding wound" among the then thriving Islamist factions in North Africa when he threatened to form a breakaway group.
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[Beirut Daily Star] A Muslim convert arrested on suspicion of stabbing a French soldier in a Paris suburb was motivated by religion and had shown some signs of radicalisation, French authorities said on Wednesday.
"I would be very surprised (you are talking about the S-300 anti-aircraft missile) -- if the Russians actually transfer these missiles to Syria as I think that they know that it will turn out that our Air Force can deal with them. This wouldn't be good publicity for a product that is their export product. They are selling this product to many countries and it won't help their export."
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Al Ahram] Syria's foreign minister says his government will attend planned Syrian peace talks "with every good intention" to reach a deal. But he says the Syrian opposition is setting preconditions.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
