[Tolo News] Ghazni Deputy Governor Mohammad Ali Ahmadi on Monday raised concerns about a number of candidates from his province who were approved by election officials yet are affiliated with Taliban myrmidons.
His comments come after the Independent Election Commission's (IEC) release of the final list of eligible candidates for the spring Provincial Council elections last week.
Ali Ahmadi said that, "On one hand Mullah Mohammad Omar sends his candidates to go and run in the election but on the other hand he says that the election is only a foreigners' political game," Ahmadi said referring to the elusive man thought to be the leader of the Afghan Taliban. "Gulbudin Hikmatyar is also sending his representatives," he added regarding the founder of Hezb-e-Islami, another anti-government group.
Ahmadi declined to provide any specific names of candidates from Ghazni associated with the krazed killers.
Earlier this year, Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... denounced the elections as a "waste of time" and there have been multiple incidents of violence against election officials that the Taliban has grabbed credit for.
Security for the upcoming elections is a top priority, and anxiety, for Afghan officials. Many of them fear threats at the polls could repel voters from participating, and in turn, undermine the credibility of the elections.
Ahmadi's remarks come as the first time an Afghan official has claimed the Taliban is directly involved in the elections. Though previously President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... called on the bully boyz to lay down their weapons and engage the political process.
Ahmadi was optimistic was optimisitc about voter participation in the upcoming elections, which over three million Afghans have been registered to vote in this year. He said a good election cycle could mean all the difference in terms of the country's stability and prosperity in the coming years.
"The election is the people's moment, and the more public participation, the more legitimate the election will be," he said.
With the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... coalition withdrawing at the end of next year, and President Karzai stepping down, the April elections will come at a pivotal time for Afghanistan.
With a history of voter fraud and other improprities in past Afghan elections, especially the Presidential vote in 2009, many fear the upcoming elections will be similarly marred in illegitimacy. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... election officials have maintained that a high voter turnout would ensure credibility.
The IEC announced the final list of contenders after over a month of evaluations and assessments by the IEC and the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC). The final list contained a number of changes from the preliminary list released back in October, accounting for the findings of the ECC during its review of complaints against candidates and challenges from contenders who were previously disqualified by the IEC.
After 17 Presidential hopefuls who were cut from the preliminary list by the IEC last month filed challenges to the ECC, only one -- Daoud Sultanzoy -- was readmitted into the race. His addition brings the number of Presidential candidates for the April vote up from 10 to 11.
The number of Provincial Council candidates totaled 2,713.
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[Tolo News] A number of political parties and analysts have spoken out against President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... 's recent statements regarding delaying the signing of the Kabul-Washington security pact until after the April elections and the imperative of his numerous "preconditions" being met by the U.S.
A unanimous majority of the 2,500-member Loya Jirga in Kabul voted on Sunday recommending the Afghan government sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), which would ensure a close military partnership with the U.S. after the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... combat mission ends in 2014, by the end of this year. The BSA would guarantee some U.S. troops stay in Afghanistan post-2014.
But the Afghanistan's Caped President has announced he will not sign the accord until after the elections, despite the Jirga's recommendation. He further laid out three preconditions to the U.S. for signing the pact: transparent elections in April, no U.S. raids on Afghan homes and a breakthrough in talks with the Taliban.
Many experts have said Karzai is thinking emotionally rather than practically, overstating the leverage Afghanistan has in the negotiations, which began over a year ago. They have argued that Kabul needs the BSA more than Washington, yet Karzai persists with his demands out of pride instead of strategy.
"Unfortunately, as it is getting closer to the end of President Karzai's term, he is not thinking about the national interests of Afghanistan and is acting emotionally instead," Afghan political expert Jawed Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... i said.
The issue of U.S. unilateral operations in Afghanistan did not take center stage until just last week, days before the Jirga began. Reportedly, Karzai and his negotiating team raised issue with U.S. operations in villages and inspections of Afghan homes unexpectedly and refused to budge on it once debate began.
"If President Karzai asks the Americans to stop their operations in the villages of Afghanistan then he should have also asked Afghans to stop providing shelter to bully boyz in their homes," Afghan military expert Helaluddin Helal said.
Karzai's preconditions caught many by surprise, and have been called contradictory in part because they don't match-up to stances the President has taken in the past. Regarding the April elections and talks with the Taliban, in particular, Karzai has been adamant about those being Afghan-led and managed. Yet now he demands the U.S. get involved.
"This time, the elections will be under the leadership of Afghans, President Karzai didn't even accept the two members of United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... for the Independent Elections Commission," National Coalition Party front man Said Agha Sangcharaki said. "It wasn't the foreigners in the last elections who cheated in Kandahar and a number of other provinces, it was government and groups associated with the government."
Prior to the last week's Loya Jirga, President Karzai said that the decision of the Jirga, which was not required by law but rather was convened at the behest of Karzai himself, would be respected by the government. Although the National Assembly must still ratify the pact, it was expected that officials would go with whatever the Jirga recommended.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Karzai's announcement of his preconditions and that the agreement should not be signed until after the April elections caught most off-guard and led many to question the President's intentions.
"President Karzai has turned this agreement as a way to pressure United States and receive benefits from them...he wants assurances for his safety in the future or may be wants his elections team to be supported by the Americans," Sangcharaki said.
Following Karzai's comments about waiting until after the April vote to sign the accord, Sebghatullah Mujaddadi, the Chairman of the Loya Jirga, he might flee the country in the next three to four days.
Washington has said that it's "neither practical nor possible" to delay the signing. Although no public response to Karzai's preconditions has been offered by the U.S., it is likely they will be the subject of conversation between American National Security Advisor Susan Rice and Karzai this week as she arrives in Afghanistan to meet with him.
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[NY Times] President B.O.'s national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, imposed an ultimatum on President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... of Afghanistan on Monday, telling him to stop his delay in signing a security agreement or potentially face the complete and final pullout of American troops by the end of 2014, according to American and Afghan officials.
But while Mr. Karzai was said to have assured her he would sign the deal at some point, he gave no time frame for it. And over dinner at the presidential palace in Kabul, he later insisted on difficult new conditions as well, including the release of all inmates at the American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, adding to the perception of crisis between the two nations, officials from both countries said.
"Ambassador Rice reiterated that, without a prompt signature, the U.S. would have no choice but to initiate planning for a post-2014 future in which there would be no U.S. or NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... troop presence in Afghanistan," according to a summary of the meeting released by the White House.
The meeting comes a day after Mr. Karzai rejected a recommendation from his own handpicked assembly of Afghan leadership figures, a loya jirga, that by year's end he should sign the bilateral security agreement, which would allow for an extended American military presence in Afghanistan after 2014. Mr. Karzai told the loya jirga that he wanted to wait to sign it until after the Afghan presidential elections next April, while continuing to negotiate with the Americans.
In response, the White House summary said, "Ambassador Rice stressed that we have concluded negotiations and that deferring the signature of the agreement until after next year's elections is not viable, as it would not provide the United States and NATO allies the clarity necessary to plan for a potential post-2014 military presence."
Ms. Rice arrived in Afghanistan under a cloak of secrecy on Saturday, and the White House did not confirm she was here until after she was already meeting with Mr. Karzai on Monday evening, along with other brass hats from both Washington and Kabul, and Mr. Karzai's senior aides.
The meeting lasted several hours, and it continued into what Aimal Faizi, Mr. Karzai's front man, who was there, described as a working dinner. And while the tone was said to be generally diplomatic and polite, the president at one point became angry at the American ambassador, James B. Cunningham.
Mr. Cunningham voiced objection to an extra demand by the loya jirga: the release of all Guantanamo inmates. He insisted that United States law governs the release of the prisoners and that the issue had no bearing on the bilateral security agreement, or B.S.A.
"That made the president very angry; his reaction was very strong and intense," Mr. Faizi said.
"That made the president very angry; his reaction was very strong and intense," Mr. Faizi said. "The president said we cannot separate the recommendations of the loya jirga from the B.S.A. now -- we cannot pick and choose. All those recommendations have to be taken seriously."
He was referring to all 31 recommendations issued by the loya jirga on Sunday, the main one being that the Afghan president should sign the agreement within one month.
Nearly all 50 committees of the jirga recommended that deadline, while the other recommendations came from various committees and ran the gamut from allowing Afghan observers to attend American military trials to banning Christian religious observances on American military bases. Another recommendation was for an American military base in the remote province of Bamian, the most peaceful place in the country.
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Threaten Karzai and insure you get what you want - an immediate pullout.
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Isn't Karzai's security provided by U.S. troops? Maybe, they just don't show up for work one day.
Then see how he likes his backside hanging in the breeze. Piker!
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Mr. Cunningham voiced objection to an extra demand by the loya jirga: the release of all Guantanamo inmates
"In Canada, the five imprisoned leaders of Liberte de Quebec. In Sri Lanka, the nine members of the Asian Dawn movement... "
I think that's what the called themselves after splitting with Tony Orlando.
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Fear notteth, Amerika, our new BFF in Syria + OWG "Co-Superpower" IRAN will keep those wily dastardly Jirgas in Kabul + Islamabad in check after 2014.
RELAX, ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAY TURKEYS + OBAMA'S DEBT-BUSTING NEW QES COME JANUARY - IRAN'S GOT THE BALL NOW AGZ THE HARD BOYZ IN ME + AFPAK.
SNIFF, SNIFF, OBAMA KEPT HIS PROMISE, OUR BOYZ CAN FINALLY COME HOME!
[Al Ahram] The US national security adviser met Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... Monday in Kabul, while the Pentagon urged the leader to change his mind and sign a security pact that would allow thousands of American troops to stay in the country beyond a 2014 withdrawal deadline.
Karzai's decision to ignore Sunday's recommendation to sign by an Afghan assembly of dignitaries has cast doubt on the future presence of thousands of American and allied troops with the main mandate of training and mentoring Afghan soldiers and police to face a persistent Taliban insurgency.
The two-term Afghan leader insisted that the winner of an April 5 election to succeed him should be the one to sign the deal. But the US administration says insists the deal must be finalized by the end of this year to give enough time for planning to keep the troops in the country. More than $8 billion in annual funds for Afghanistan fledgling security forces and development assistance also is at stake.
Col. Steven Warren, a Defense Department front man, told news hounds in Washington that it's very difficult for the US to plan troop movements if the deal is not sealed by year's end.
The Pentagon hopes Karzai will sign the agreement "as quickly as possible," he said.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice met with Karzai at the end of a previously unannounced three-day trip to Afghanistan to visit US troops and civilians for the Thanksgiving holidays, the White House said, adding that the meeting was at Karzai's request. Her front man, Patrick Ventrell, said the meeting was the last stop on her trip.
The US Embassy said the meeting was held in the heavily fortified presidential palace in downtown Kabul, but it gave no further details. Karzai's front man Aimal Faizi did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Karzai rebuffed the American demands Sunday at the end of a four-day meeting of 2,500 tribal elders and regional leaders known as a Loya Jirga, which not only overwhelmingly approved the deal but urged him to sign it by Dec. 31.
Karzai, who had convened the assembly, complicated the debate by announcing on the opening day that he wanted delegates to endorse the deal but he would not sign it.
He repeated that stance Sunday laying down a series of ill-defined conditions and promising to continue negotiations with the United States. They included demands that America ensure peace in a country that has been at war for more than 12 years and guarantee transparent elections.
Karzai, who is constitutionally barred from running in the upcoming presidential vote, also accused the United States of meddling in the 2009 elections, which were marred by fraud, and said he wanted to keep that from happening again.
Even if the mercurial president changes his mind and signs the document, it still must be approved by the Afghan parliament, then finally signed into law by Karzai.
"The critical next step must be to get the bilateral security agreement signed in short order, and put into motion an agreement which will lay a firm foundation for our two countries to continue working together toward a more secure and prosperous future for Afghanistan," 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... said Sunday in a statement.
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[Libya Herald] A representative of the Libya-based Death Eater group Ansar Al-Sharia said today in a live television interview that those who did not comply with Sharia Law would be fought and killed.
During the telephone interview on Libya Al-Ahrar TV, Derna-based Death Eater Mahmoud Al-Barassi declared that anybody against Ansar Al-Sharia was an enemy and said the group would "fight people who seek democracy, secularism, and the French." He added that the group took its legitimacy from Allah.
He spoke out against the Libyan authorities and said that Libyans "know very well that they chose the wrong people" to rule the country. He called the government, the General National Congress (GNC) and the Libyan Armed Forces "apostates."
Barassi also accused Prime Minister Ali Zeidan of "knowing nothing about Islam". He added that the revolution was fought by Libyans while Zeidan was "living among women in a foreign country".
He was speaking following the festivities last night and this morning in Benghazi between Ansar Al-Sharia and the city's Saiqa Brigade Special Forces which left at least nine dead and up 50 more injured.
The statement, and the air-time Barrasi was given, provoked an angry response from Benghazi residents and across the country. Feelings are running high against groups that threaten the stability and future of Libya, after the bloody festivities between peaceful protestors and armed militias in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which 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... 's Gharghour district, when 48 people were killed some hundreds injured.
Shortly after the interview with Barassi, former first Deputy President of the GNC Juma Ateega was interviewed by telephone on the same channel. He said Barassi's comments underlined the seriousness of the threat that Ansar Al-Sharia posed to Libya.
Barassi had, however, given a clear message to all Libyans about who was responsible for the liquidations in Benghazi, Ateega said.
He added that Barassi was "a victim of the Islamist groups in Libya" and suggested that he should read more abut Islam since he appeared to be merely repeating what he had learned.
The belligerent comments by Barassi are thought to have caused huge embarrassment to Ansar Al-Sharia, which is now believed to be trying to mount damage-limitation action.
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Knowing the Libyan mentality toward Islamic extremism...they want none of it, and look upon terrorism as contrary to the Quran, this bit of foaming at the mouth barking dog mad drivel from Ansar Al-Sharia is not going to play well on the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, with the true motives of these Islamic militias being very much anti-democratic pseudo-Taliban Sharia nonsense, I bet the momentum against the militias will increase and we may yet see Libya turn the corner. The militias have stood in the way of progress in Libya in the transition to a constitutional democracy.
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[Libya Herald] Reports that Tunisians were involved in Benghazi's festivities between the Saiqa Brigade and Ansar Al-Sharia Libya have been denied by a Tunisian Salafist living in Benghazi.
It was reported on Libya Al Ahrar TV that Tunisian passports were found in Ansar Al-Sharia's headquarters in the city when it was stormed this morning.
"They actually belong to Tunisian workers in a Libyan-Tunisian construction company in Benghazi," claimed the man, said to be close to Ansar Sharia in both Libya and Tunisia and who wished not to be named.
He told the Libya Herald that the passports had been "seized by an unknown group". He also denied that Ansar Al-Sharia in Tunisia had any links to today's festivities today.
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[Al Ahram] A Cairo airport official says a prominent Bahraini activist was barred from entering Egypt, but denies opposition claims that he was mistreated.
A statement issued on Monday by the Waad political society in Manama said its deputy head Abdulla Janahi was interrogated for hours.
The official said Janahi was barred from entry on Saturday upon the request of a security agency, but said he was allowed to move freely inside the transit hall until his departure. The official spoke anonymously as he is not authorized to brief the media.
Last year, another prominent Bahraini activist was barred from Egypt.
Bahrain has seen nearly three years of unrest, pitting mostly Shiite protesters against its Sunni rulers.
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[Al Ahram] Nasserist leader Hamdeen Sabbahi chosen by Revolution's Candidate campaign as potential presidential candidate to represent revolutionary current
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[JPOST] The al-Qaeda-linked Islamic group 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... unleashed a new tactic in its war to obliterate Christianity in northern Nigeria: convert or die.
Two gunnies from Boko Haram kidnapped Hajja, a 19- year-old Christian in July as she picked corn near her village in the Gwoza hills, a remote part of northeastern Nigeria where a six-month-old government offensive is struggling to contain an insurgency by Boko Haram.
"If I cried, they beat me. If I spoke, they beat me. They told me I must become a Mohammedan but I refused again and again," Hajja told Rooters in an interview.
The Islamists threatened her with a knife pressed to her throat and said her options were to convert to Islam or die.
Aaron Jensen, a front man for the United States government's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, "We have seen reports of forced conversion and enslavement.
The United States strongly condemns any acts of forced conversion or enslavement if true. These alleged actions violate fundamental human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , including the right to freedom of conscience."
Boko Haram is generally translated as "Western education is sinful." In a telephone interview with the Post about Boko Haram and radical Islamist groups, David Cook, a professor of religious studies at the Houston-based Rice University, said Boko Haram's methods are "part of a pattern you can find in a lot of groups, Salafi Jihadists, for example, in Syria."
Cook, a leading expert on Boko Haram, estimates core membership to be a few thousand to perhaps as many as 5,000.
Tiffany Lynch, senior policy analyst at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, told the Post by email that "Boko Haram's stated goal is the implementation of Shari'a nationwide and in 2012 called on all Christians to leave northern Nigeria. With this goal, Boko Haram attacks churches during worship services to maximize its killing, kills individual Christians, forces Christians to convert to Islam or die, kills persons engaged in what it believes is 'un-Islamic' behavior, and kills Mohammedan critics."
Lynch added that from January 1, 2012 through July 31, 2013, USCIRF found that Boko Haram had initiated religiously motivated attacks on 50 churches that were "bombed, burned or attacked, killing at least 366 persons." She continued that there were 31 seperate attacks on Christians or southerners perceived to be Christian, "killing at least 166 persons."
Lynch added that "23 targeted attacks on holy mans or senior Islamic figures critical of Boko Haram" resulted in the killing of at least 60 persons.
Hajja said, "I can't sleep when I think of being there," about her captivity during the three month period of forced slavery.
She had watched Boko Haram members slit the throats of prisoners that were captured.
The US designated Boko Haram a foreign terrorist organization in November. The United Kingdom outlawed the organization in October. Neither the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... nor Canada have placed Boko Haram on their terrorism lists.
Hajja, whose last name cannot be disclosed because of remaining family members in northern Nigeria who could face retaliation from Boko Haram, currently lives in the capital Abuja.
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[THISDAYLIVE] The Nigerian Army yesterday demanded discipline from the youth vigilante group, popularly called Civilian JTF, which has been assisting security agents to smoke out 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... bully boyz from Borno State.
The General Officer Commanding 7 Division of the Nigerian Army, Maj, Gen. Obidah Ethan gave this warning while paying a follow-up visit to the training site of the youth.
It would be recalled that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika had earlier visited training camp this week during a tour of military formations in Borno State.
Ethan while commending the impressive zeal demonstrated by the youth presently undergoing empowerment training, said he cannot but be satisfied with the training package and conduct of the youths at the training Camp.
The GOC equally commended the Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima for the laudable step taking towards giving the youth reorientation through Borno State Youth Empowerment Scheme (BOYES) so as to achieve good things in their lives.
He urged the youth to pay good attention to the training package and lectures which was aimed at changing their mindset for a positive development.
"The youth have proved to the world that they are formidable partners in the fight against insurgency" he said, adding that: "You have equally proved that you are agents of developmental change in Borno State."
He tasked the youth to continue to be disciplined, while acknowledging the efforts of the trainers and resources persons from the military, police, paramilitary organizations and other security agencies in the training camp.
Over 800 Youths are current undergoing training under Borno State Youth Empowerment Scheme.
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[DAILYPOST.NG] Alhaji Abubakar Gula, Chairman of the Borno State butchers association has denied the allegation by the Gwoza Christian Community Association (GCCA), that they were using the Maiduguri abatoir as a breeding ground for the Islamic sect, 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... .
He described the allegation as reckless, false and a misrepresentation, under the guise of religion, advertently to disrupt the relative peace being enjoyed by the citizens of Borno State.
The Christian Community in Gwoza Local Government Council of Borno State had in the recent past suffered numbers of attacks, which they claimed was caused by some politicians, who allegedly use the butchers of Gwoza community in Borno to slaughter Christians.
The butchers' association in a statement made available to DailyPost in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital on Monday, also stated that the sum of N25, 000,000 (twenty-five million naira) given to the butchers by Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, was a grant to the National Butchers' Union of Nigeria, Maiduguri Branch.
"It is a common knowledge that such a gigantic commercial site cannot be said to have consist of only people from Gwoza, but it comprises of people from different states of the federation irrespective of their religion or tribes as well as people from the neigbouring countries of Niger, Chad and Cameroon republic", the statement signed by Alhaji Gula stressed.
They condemned the allegation that the abattoir was a breeding ground for insurgency in the state, describing it as malicious, baseless and devilish, intended only to instigate hatred and disaffection among the peace loving people of the state.
Also, Alhaji Mala Modu, the Chief Butcher at the Borno Abattoir, said the allegation by GCCA was a deliberate attempt to paint the group black and also tarnish the image of its operators.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance this evening announced a 48-hour countrywide blockade from tomorrow rejecting the parliamentary polls schedule.
In a press briefing arranged minutes after the schedule announcement, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam called upon the Election Commission postpone the polls schedule until a consensus on polls-time government is reached among the political parties.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed in an address to the nation declared the schedule of the parliamentary polls.
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[Al Ahram] Bangladesh announced plans Monday for a general election in early January but they were rejected by the main opposition party, which called for the polls date to be suspended and declared fresh protests from Tuesday.
In an announcement on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, Chief Elections Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad urged all parties to take part in the contest for the 300-seat parliament and said that the army would be deployed across the volatile nation to prevent festivities between political rivals.
"The election will be held on January 5," Ahmad said in his widely-anticipated address.
An alliance of 18 opposition parties immediately rejected the plans and called a 48-hour nationwide blockade of roads, railways and waterways from Tuesday morning in protest to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. to quit and make way for a caretaker government to oversee the election.
"We reject the election schedule. We ask the election commission to suspend the date until a political consensus on election-time government is reached. We won't take part in any farce in the name of elections." opposition front man Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told news hounds.
Commissioner Ahmad said he had asked President Abdul Hamid -- whose post is largely ceremonial -- to negotiate an end to the dispute between Hasina's Awami League and the opposition which is dominated by former premier Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... 's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
"We've asked the president to personally initiate special steps and end this unbearable impasse," Ahmad said.
"I've asked all political parties to uphold the will of the people, maintain peace and compromise."
Hasina has rejected the calls for a caretaker government, and instead formed a multi-party interim cabinet last week which is largely made of her allies.
She asked the BNP to join the cabinet but her invitation was bluntly refused by the opposition.
While previous elections have been organised by non-party caretaker governments, Hasina scrapped the arrangement in 2011.
She argued that the system had previously paved the way for the army to seize power in a country which has witnessed at least 19 coups since 1975.
The announcement of an election date is expected to add to the tensions in the violence-plagued country, after weeks of deadly protests by the BNP and its Islamists left at least 30 people dead and hundreds injured.
Security has been tightened with the deployment of paramilitary border guards in major cities, private television station Somoy said.
A police front man told AFP that a senior BNP leader was tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on Monday night.
This year Bangladesh has been reeling from the worst political violence since its independence after a controversial war crimes court handed down death sentences to the leaders of 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... , the largest Islamic party which is banned from fielding candidates on January 5.
At least 150 people have died in the festivities, pitting tens of thousands of Jamaat supporters against police, paramilitaries and ruling party activists.
US Ambassador Dan Mozena met Bangladesh's new Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali Monday, stressing the need for dialogue between the two major parties.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government Monday asked for nomination of the US and CIA in the FIR registered against the Hangu drone strike.
The provincial government Monday handed the US consul general a memorandum against drone strikes, asking Washington to halt these attacks. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Sirajul Haq and Information Minister Shah Farman led a joint team of 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.... and 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... to the US consulate in the red zone of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. cantonment where they delivered the memorandum. The move comes four days after the first-ever drone strike inside Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa when a madrassa was targeted in Thall Tehsil of Hangu District on November 21, leaving six dead and scores injured.
"The resolution, which the KP Assembly passed on November 4, had demanded of the federal government to take action against drone strikes by November 21, otherwise, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa will take its own course against the drone strikes," Shah Farman told media after the memorandum was handed over. US diplomat Christopher Beacon received the memorandum at the main gate of consulate general.
"We made it clear to the Americans the drone issue is serious and sensitive and we will not let such attacks happen again," the provincial information minister said, adding that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government would protest against the drone strikes outside parliament and the UN office in Islamabad. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... he did not give a date for these protests. The PTI and JI ministers, and the two parties' supporters rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud after the American diplomat received the memorandum.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Police chief Monday directed the police to take further legal steps in the Hangu drone attack case after "proper verification and investigation". IGP Nasir Khan Durrani issued the order after the ruling Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf submitted an application, becoming party to the November 21 attack by the US on a madrassa in Hangu District that killed six dead and injured scores. PTI Central Secretary (legal affairs), Barrister SLearned Elders of Islamn Afridi submitted an application with the police chief.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain on Monday inducted the first fleet of indigenously developed strategic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), namely Burraq and Shahpar, in the Pakistain Army and Pakistain Air Force.
The induction of UAVs, which are very effective force multipliers, to the inventory of armed forces is a landmark achievement. In the future these UAVs can also be gainfully employed in various socio-economic development projects. The induction ceremony was attended by Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... , Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, Strategic Plans Division Director General Lieutenant General (r) Khalid Ahmed Kidwai and senior officers from the armed forces, scientists and engineers, said an ISPR blurb.
While appreciating the work of National Engineering and Scientific Commission's scientists and engineers, Kayani noted that the induction of the indigenously developed surveillance capable UAVs in the armed forces was a force multiplier, and would substantially enhance their target acquisition capabilities in real time. The announcement comes as some of the country's political parties and thousands of people have protested US drone strikes in the tribal region.
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Again, 'tis Pakland whom historically hoped to become the world's first true Islamic Superpower - IMO Islamabad's pwers that be in the Govt-Army must covertly be cursing Allan for Shia Iran's successes agz the Bammer.
Iff the Sunni KSA, Egypt, Turkey, + Gulf States etal. all go Nukulaar in response to the rise of Nuclear Shia Iran, PAKISTAN COULD EASILY ITS POSITION OR RANKING IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD + INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DEGRADE TO ONLY ALLAN KNOWS WHERE.
[Pak Daily Times] A special court will start functioning in the first week of December for the trial of former military ruler Gen (r) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... on treason charges.
The federal government on Monday issued a notification regarding appointment of Akram Sheikh as special prosecutor in the case but the lawyer could not obtain a copy of the notification.
Akram Sheikh had also represented Mansoor Ijaz in the memo commission case, which was filed by incumbent Prime Minister 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... in November 2011.
Sheikh is known as a pro-judges lawyer and has appeared in several high profile cases, including those involving the Sindh High Court Bar Association, NRO and 18th Amendment.
Sources told Daily Times that Pervez Musharraf was contacting senior lawyers, who had played a pivotal role in the lawyers' movement, to evolve a strategy for his case. Earlier, the Law Ministry on November 18 sent a one-page letter to the Supreme Court requesting the chief justice of Pakistain (CJP) to propose the names of judges for the special court.
CJP Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, instead of deciding the names himself, asked the chief justices of all the high courts to nominate a judge of their respective courts. On receiving the names from all the high courts, the CJP sent them to the federal government for selection of three.
Out of the five nominees, the prime minister nominated Justice Faisal Arab of the Sindh High Court, Justice Mohammad Yawar Ali Khan of the Lahore High Court and Justice Tahira Safdar of the Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... High Court for the special court. A three-member bench on July 3, 2013, in view of the federal government's undertaking given on June 26, 2013, while disposing of the petitions that demanded registration of high treason case against Musharraf, directed the government to conclude the investigation without unnecessary delay.
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Just as a general comment, does it makes sense to try former dictators for crimes after they step down? Doesn't that give them essentially a life or death choice on stepping down in the first place?
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We are taking Pakistain here - to steal a phrase from John Derbyshire - an anarchic slum populated by superstitious peasants and ruled by thieves. One might think they could find something more productive than chasing after Perv. IMHO, he was one of the better things to happen to Pakistain lately. And yes, that's a pretty low bar.
[Pak Daily Times] Lawyers for seven Paks accused of involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks Monday said the case against them "lacks evidence", a day before the fifth anniversary of the assault that left 166 people dead.
The three-day onslaught by 10 heavily-gunnies on high-profile targets in India's financial capital was blamed on the Pakistain-based Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) bad boy group and relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours plunged. Pakistain charged seven men in 2009 over the attacks, but has insisted it needs to gather more evidence in India before proceeding further, infuriating New Delhi. Rizwan Abbasi, a lawyer for the men, on Monday said the Indians only had themselves to blame for the slow progress.
"This case has many legal flaws and lacks evidence. It is being delayed in Pakistain because India has failed to provide required evidence against the accused," he told a news conference. The only gunman to survive the siege, Ajmal Kasab, was tried in Mumbai and hanged late last year for waging war against India, murder and terrorist attacks. "By hanging Kasab, India destroyed the only living evidence of these attacks and created problems for investigations in Pakistain," Abbasi said.
New Delhi has branded Pakistain's attempts at prosecuting the men a "facade" and has insisted it has already handed over enough evidence to convict the accused. In July last year Pakistain told India that fresh evidence in the case was inadmissible because Pak lawyers were not given the chance to cross-examine Indian officials. Abbasi claimed the dossiers handed over by India contained only "information and no solid evidence".
"There was also no proof that the attackers had any link with my clients because the phone numbers Indian authorities said were used for the contacts were not of Pak companies," he said. New Delhi has accused elements of the Pak state, - notably the Inter-Services Intelligence -- of involvement in the attacks, which Islamabad denies. The failure of the legal process in Pakistain to convict anyone over the bloodshed, which was broadcast around the world on live television, has hampered efforts for a lasting peace agreement with India.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Pakistain People's Party (PPP) on Monday submitted an adjournment motion in the Upper House of parliament against the US drone strike in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... 's Hangu District, which killed at least five people. The motion was submitted by senior PPP leader Raza Rabbani in the Senate Secretariat to be taken up for discussion in the next session. On Monday, President Mamnoon Hussain summoned the session of the Senate on December 2. The motion mentioned that drone strikes conducted in settled areas of Pakistain are a blatant violation of international laws and the issue needed immediate discussion in the Upper House. The PPP had already moved a motion against the drone attack in Hangu in the National Assembly. It was moved by MNAs Shazia Marri, Azra Afzal, Nafeesa Shah, Abdul Sattar Bachani, Syed Naveed Qamar and Imran Zafar Leghari and is to be discussed in the next session of the House that will be held on December 5. The US drone strikes are the hottest issue in the country, and another opposition party, 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.... (PTI), has taken the extreme step of blocking the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... supplies in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, presently ruled by it, against the Hangu drone strike, which also killed a key member of the Haqqani network, dreaded by the US and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
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[An Nahar] The EU ambassador-designate to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, on Monday sought to reassure the Israelis over a nuclear deal struck with Iran.
"You and what army, Lars-chen?"
Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program for the next six months in exchange for limited sanctions relief following marathon talks with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany in Geneva that ended Sunday.
But Israel slammed the deal as an "historic mistake," having urged for months to keep up sanctions pressure.
"We very much have Israel's security at heart," Faaborg-Andersen told a meeting of EU ambassadors with Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz in Jerusalem.
Really, Lars, how many battalions has the EU, and how does it plant to get them to Iran to fight? That new, "moderate" Iranian president is already crowing how he fooled the lot of you into going for a meaningless treaty.
Faaborg-Andersen condemned "inflammatory statements (on Israel) coming out of Iran," saying it was "only natural that Israel wants to weigh in on these important negotiations that have been conducted with Iran."
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"We'll build a beautiful museum, so Israel will never be forgotten."?
[An Nahar] President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... on Monday defended his administration's approach to Iran, insisting that "tough talk" alone would not guarantee U.S. security.
"Huge challenges remain, but we cannot close the door on diplomacy, and we cannot rule out peaceful solutions to the world's problems," Obama said following the landmark agreement reached in Geneva over the weekend concerning Iran's nuclear program.
"We cannot commit ourselves to an endless cycle of violence, and tough talk and bluster may be the easy thing to do politically, but it's not the right thing for our security."
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See FREEREPUBLIC > [Breitbart]DEAL LETS IRAN KEEP HALF OF 98%-ENRICHED URANIUM STOCKPILE.
and
* SAME > [NYT] OBAMA SIGNALS A SHIFT FROM MILITARY MIGHT TO DIPLOMACY.
Given the traditional reluctance of Muslim Govts-Societies to take direct action, espec Mil action, agz other Muslim Govts-Societies, BAMMERIKA'S NEW BFF + FUTURE OWG GLOBAL "CO-SUPERPOWER" SHIA IRAN MUST SHOW THAT THINGS ARE PROACTIVELY "DIFFERENT" NOW, OR WILL BE FROM TIME HENCE.
#4
Good that Obama rejects tough talk, because coming out of his mouth, nobody believed it anyway. That is, unless it was directed at the Tea Party and other domestic "enemies".
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Its such a good deal, which is why is was signed at 03:00 local time, I think that would be right after the second half kickoff, in a palace on foreign soil, blindsiding the general press other than the morning bobbleheads who hardly anybody watches?
And with this administrations track record, and concerning Iran, the response to people who have questions or concerns is, "Shutup; we have to ratify the treaty for you to find out what is in it."
We have heard these promises before Mr. President. How about
"If you like your nuclear non-proliferation treaty, you can keep it. Period."
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Bobby, when Tel Aviv disappears under a mushroo cloud, Obama will be very, very angry at Iran. That's his red line. Of course he won't do anything about it other than to introduce a UN resolution condemning Israel for their response.
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I'm going to take exception to the general consensus here.
First, I'm not clear when the 'deal' actually begins. There have been no inspections scheduled and no sanction changes yet. It may be that another 'deal' implementing the 'deal' needs to be done.
Second, depending on the extent of the inspections, we could learn quite a bit about Iran's program including how to destroy key pieces of it, how to sabotage and the extent of damage done by malware attacks. The latter could be used relatively quickly in implementing follow up malware attacks.
Third, while it is true that the mullah economy gets some pretty big goodies, it remains to be seen how much they will actually benefit. Iran oil production has been ramped way down the past few months. It is obvious that sanctions are part of the reason but also, there may be long term damage to their oil reservoirs. Additionally, there are a lot of oil sellers (one big one in Saudi Arabia) who will be aggressively competing for customers and Iran might not be able to regain all the buyers they had two years ago.
Fourth, although the 'deal' doesn't cover ballistic missiles (unfortunately) and Iran will continue to develop those, Israel will continue to develop its ballistic defenses. I'm not sure who the timing favors here but it certainly is more of a mixed bag than a completely one sided Iran favored bag.
So it is not as gloomy as it could be.
Notwithstanding the above, I wish Iran was getting less sanction relief and I wish Iran would have been compelled to eliminate their enrichment capability.
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There may be more at play here than simple inspections and sanction lifting, especially since it has been made a big deal out of, rather than we agreed to some mutual concessions to be followed through we have policy dancing and detractor insulting - which will tie the administration to any threat of cancellation the Iranians wave about; can't have champ embarrassed and we have seen the lengths they go through to protect the image. IMHO, with the threat to walk away from talks, Iran also gets:
Assad will get to keep Syria, with Iranian reinforcements.
USA cannot get caught supplying weapons to anti-Assad groups.
Pappy pointed out yesterday Iran can increase its influence in Lebanon.
Iran has been working on the cheap for some time now, and now has a return on investment via military actions. Why not take the prize money and make other military investments?
Prevent the Washington carrier group from returning.
And Obama gets his piece of paper allowing him to not participate in any fighting, and to even scold governments who participate in any strikes or overt war.
If I have my timeline right, these negotiations were going on the same time there were war drums for Syria. I thought I saw something about this deal being a year in the making...if true, what happened just a bit over a year ago?
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Makes one wonder if perhaps the Iranians many have had a little something to do with events in Benghazi, or elsewhere. Certainly appears to be an ongoing reluctance by the regime to discuss the poo or provide an accounting. Just a thought.
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Makes for an interesting story. Iranian hit squad ambushes US Personelle supplying weapons to anti-Assad forces. Talks open after the election is concluded, in the meantime every effort possible is made to not have a finger point at anyone to avoid going to war comments until after the election results. Negotiations and ops continue in Syria's back and forth. The mysterious gas attack in Syria opens an opportunity for the US/Euro to use real force rather than proxy armies and get talked down by poor messaging and strong Putin, reducing the US hand at the negotiating table. Egypt boots Morsi, also eroding the US hand. Iran sees the ACA face plant, says they walk with everything if there are additional sanctions. So we get this.
We'll find out soon enough - iff Rising Shia Iran hopes to achieve + prove its worth as the World's first Islamic Superpower/Nuclear Superpower = OWG Global "Co-Superpower" par wid the US + Other, IT CAN DO SO HELPING TO DEFEAT OR DESTROY THE PRO-SUNNI, PRO-JIHAD QAEDA BOYZ + ALIGNED.
RISING IRAN + RISING CHINA = THE WORST-CASE? "LITMUS TESTS" FOR THE POST/EXTRA-NATIONALISM-SOVEREIGNTY-CONSTITUTIONALIST FUTURE OWG-NWO = FUTURE SPACE GOVT-ORDER + GLOBALIST PREMISE/CONCEPT OF A POST-COLD WAR "MULTIPOLAR/
POLYCENTRIC WORLD".
Thusly of course ...
* TOPIX > [Right Wing News = RWN] AMERICA'S ENEMIES ARE ACTIVELY PREPARING FOR NUCLEAR WAR.
* SAME > [Japan Times] CHINA PLAYS LONG GAME WID NEW AIR DEFENSE ZONE.
Ditto IRAN + IRAN'S NEW EXTERNAL PROTO-
"SUPERPOWER"? "SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE", I.E. IRAQ + SYRIA + LEBANON, ETC. TO COME???
* TOPIX > [Lucianne] IRAN, NORTH KOREA SECRETLY DEVELOPING LONG-RANGE ROCKET BOOSTER FOR ICBMS.
* SAME > IRAN, NORTH KOREA SECRETLY DEVELOPED NEW ROCKET BOOSTER DURING GENEVA TALKS.
As per the DPRK, NE ASIA = the only Pert-verified remaining region in the world where the POST-1945 = COLD WAR "STATUS QUO" still exists.
Something has to change the Balance of Power = Geopol/MilPol Calculus per the above in NE Asia, + THAT SOMETHING IS NOKOR HAVING NUKES.
NOKOR NUKES = SOKOR, ETAL. HAVING NUKES + US-LED GMD-TMD = STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE, DEFENSIVE DETERRENCE AGZ CHINA = FORMAL KOREAN REUNIFICATION CAN FINALLY TAKE PLACE.
Again, as per the "Great Game" + "Murphy's Laws" [anything that can go wrong will go wrong], the danger for [pro-Parity] US Globalists is that such moves will be interpreted as de facto strategic weakness on the part of America's = Amerika's competitors + enemies, INSPIRING THEM TO ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER FROM THE US BY ANY AND ALL MEANS NECESSARY, PEACEFULLY OR MILITARILY.
REAGAN-BUSH 42 "PEACE THRU STRENGTH" + "TRUST BUT VERIFY" = OWG GLOBALIST, OBAMA "PEACE THRU WEAKNESS" OR "D *** NG IT, YOU CAN KEEP IT [SSSHHHH...CCCC NOT]"???
[An Nahar] Hizbullah on Monday noted that "the nuclear deal between the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran and the P5+1 world powers is an exemplary victory and outstanding global achievement which the Islamic republic has added to its record that is full of triumphs and accomplishments."
In a blurb, the party said Tehran's "active diplomacy managed to reach an agreement based on the firmness of the Iranian stance and principles regarding the issue of the peaceful nuclear program."
"This agreement is a major victory for Iran and all the peoples of the region and a defeat for the enemies of peoples and the forces that are plotting against the region," Hizbullah added.
It congratulated Iran's supreme guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani and the Iranian government and people on "this great achievement that will be added to the victories of our nation against the greedy powers and occupiers and all the forces of Istikbar and their proxies in the world."
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that his country's historic deal with world powers preserves the structure of the country's nuclear drive, while insisting the international sanctions regime had crumbled.
Iran has insisted that its "right" to enrich uranium as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty was accepted in the deal but U.S. 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... strongly denies this.
The long-elusive interim accord commits Iran to limit uranium enrichment and curb expansion of its nuclear drive in exchange for limited relief from the sanctions and the freeing up of some of its frozen assets.
The West and Israel suspect Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons capability alongside its uranium enrichment program, which Tehran insists is entirely for peaceful purposes.
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[An Nahar] Phalange Party The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology. MP Sami Gemayel slammed on Monday the actions of Hizbullah supporters at Universite Saint Jospeh, questioning the purpose of the party's provocations at the campus.
He declared: "The identity of USJ will not be altered and we will not remain silent against those who provoke us."
He made his remarks during a presser to address recent developments at the university's Huvelin campus in Beirut on Monday morning.
He revealed that Hizbullah supporters had written graffiti on the walls of the university hailing Habib al-Shartouni, who was convicted with the liquidation of former President Bashir Gemayel in 1982.
"The graffiti provoked all students at USJ regardless of their affiliations," added Gemayel.
Moreover, he said that the Hizbullah supporters continued on provoking the students for several hours until the security forces and army intervened.
He criticized the security forces' late response in containing the tensions, warning that the situation could have gotten out of hand.
"A major problem was averted in Ashrafiyeh today," he stated.
"The situation could have been contained as soon as the tensions began, but for some reason the security forces took at least four hours to intervene," remarked the MP.
"The army only intervened when it seemed that a clash was going to take place, which demonstrates that the state does not take immediate action to contain any tensions. Why do we leave matters to reach such a tense stage?" he wondered.
"We thank the army and security forces for containing the situation, but they could have been faster in doing so," he noted.
Addressing Hizbullah, Gemayel asked angrily: "Why are you creating hate among the people against you? What do you have to do with Habib al-Shartouni? What are the purposes of your provocations? What is the reason for this spite?"
"Do you seek to separate yourselves from the rest of the state? You must state your intentions openly," he demanded.
"Do we provoke you when it comes to your resistance and deaders?" he added.
"Why are you provoking and challenging us?" he wondered.
"I do not understand how Hizbullah is allowing its supporters to create such divisions among the people, instead of working on uniting them," he said.
"USJ is a symbol of civility and Leb and we will not allow anyone to alter its identity. We urge the administration to also preserve its identity," urged Gemayel.
"We will no longer remain silent over any provocation," he warned.
Later on Monday, the Army Command issued a statement clarifying that "the dispute that erupted at one of the universities over student elections did not involve any violation of security that requires the intervention of army units," noting that "the army's entry into any university requires a prior request from its administration or from the security forces tasked with protecting it.
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[Al Ahram] UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on Monday reiterated that a Jan. 22 international peace conference on Syria would seek to establish a transitional government in the war-ravaged nation and he left open the question of the attendance of Iran.
"We have a clear goal," Ban told news hounds. "The full implementation of the Geneva Communique of 30 June 2012, including the establishment, based on mutual consent, of a transitional governing body with full executive powers, including over military and security entities."
Ban said nothing about the list of invitees and took no questions from news hounds. The United States and European governments have said Iran could only attend the so-called "Geneva 2" talks if it embraces the outcome of the June 2012 conference in Geneva, which called for a transitional government to replace Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's cabinet.
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[Pak Daily Times] An international peace conference aimed at ending Syria's civil war will be held on January 22, the first face-to-face talks between the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... and rebels seeking to overthrow him, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said on Monday.
The United Nations is hoping for a peaceful transition in Syria, building on an agreement between world powers reached in June last year in Geneva.
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[Al Ahram] The US national security adviser met 
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Pervez 
Nawaz Sharif
[Pak Daily Times] The Pakistain People's Party (PPP) on Monday submitted an adjournment motion in the Upper House of parliament against the US drone strike in 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
