[Tolo News] TOLOnews received video clips from an anonymous source showing Parwan MP Abdul Sattar Khawasi calling on residents of Ghorband District to launch Jihad against the U.S.
Although the exact date of the video footage has yet to be confirmed, the clips clearly show Khawasi at a public gathering in Ghorband promoting Jihad against the U.S.
"Jihad is legitimate against the U.S., and silence against the U.S. is an act in violation of religion, I am obligated to tell you," Khawasi says in part of the video.
Reportedly, though it has yet to be verified, the video clips were taken after copies of the Holly Qur'an were burnt at Bagram Military Airbase by U.S. soldiers in early 2012, an incident that sparked protests around the country.
The footage also shows the MP, a member of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul since joining Parliament in 2004, accusing other government officials of being "collaborators" for working alongside the U.S.
"Now lets focus on the government officials, these corrupt miscreants have no right to fire on you, I promise Dire Revenge™," Khawasi said.
The clips were sent to TOLOnews just as Khawasi began work as a member of the commission assigned to investigate the recent civilian casualties in Ghorband District that resulted from a clash between U.S. and Afghan forces and turbans two weeks ago. Khawasi has strongly denounced the joint military operation, and argued that the civilians were targeted by the U.S.
Khawasi has also notably been a vocal opponent of the Kabul-Washington Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) and voted against the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) Law when it was up for vote in the Lower House.
Parwan Governor Abdul Basir Salangi has also denounced the Ghorband civilian deaths, but defended the operation and said that to do otherwise would be a favor to the myrmidons.
"We don't support civilian casualties, but in the operation dangerous turbans were killed," Governor Salangi said. "Those who cried before the President in fact cried for the Taliban and they didn't cry for the people," he said of Khawasi and the other officials who denounced the operation.
Salangi was accompanied by a large number of politicians who were saddened by the civilian deaths, but agreed that the joint operation was largely a success.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... 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... himself has come out publicly and criticized the U.S. for the operation, which lent him fodder for his demands that the U.S. promise to end all raids on Afghan homes before he signs a security pact dictating military relations between the two countries post-2014.
After the Taliban attack on a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul last week that left 21 people dead, including 13 foreign civilians, Karzai insinuated that the U.S. was responsible for the foreign deaths in Kabul because of the Afghan deaths in the Ghorband operation.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... a number of commentators have criticized the stance of Khawasi and others who have denounced the U.S. and its involvement in Afghanistan. If they are so committed to Jihad against the U.S., the argument goes, then they should not be a part of the U.S.-backed government and so comfortable with using financial assistance from the U.S.
"In principe, this is a crime against the national interests and security of the country, and against the security institutions of the country, so these kinds of people should be investigated," civil society advocate Ajmal Balochzada said of Khawasi and his fellow leaders who have denounced the Ghorband operation.
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I blame George W Bush!
Seriously, in this case it was the weak kneed non-reaction to thuggish threats emanating from Afghanistan's despicable illustrious ranks of religious scholars that established a dangerous precedent in 2005.
No wonder creeps like MP Khawasi feel empowered and enabled.
The West lost the 9/11 war because no Western government ever intended do to anything more than manage a dignified Western decline.
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"Manage a dignified Western decline" > hard to argue there. I remember both the LeftMedias + Washington Politicos publicly demanding to know what will be POTUS Dubya's = US' "exit strategy" even before the troops were deployed.
* OTOH TOPIX > [PhilNews] WANTED: A [US] PRESIDENT WHO WILL STAND UP TO CHINA [ + other?].
* RUSSIA TODAY > PENTAGON: LEAVE 10,000 TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN OR REMOVE THEM ALL.
* IIRC WAPO > ROSENTHAL: "AMEIRCA IS BECOMING MORE LIBERAL [Progressive]".
WINNER = RISING CHINA, RISING IRAN, SOON-TO-BE-NUKULAAR/NUCLEAR RADICAL ISLAM.
Ultimately, perhaps the biggest winner will be ANTI-US OWG-NWO + ANTI-DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM.
[MAGHAREBIA] Ten years after losing the Algerian presidential race to Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... , former premier Ali Benflis on Sunday (January 19th) declared his intention to run again.
But no one can predict a rematch of the 2004 ballot, since Bouteflika has not said whether he would seek re-election.
The health of the 76-year-old president continues to dominate politicBouteflika returned to Algeria last Thursday from La Belle France, where he had been undergoing medical tests. The next day, he announced that the next presidential election would be held on April 17th.
When the Algerian president was admitted to the Val-de-Grâce Hospital in Gay Paree last Monday, speculation arose that the election might be postponed.
Medical tests showed a "clear improvement" in Bouteflika's health, according to the president's office.
The news sparked commentary from politicians and the public.
"The date of the presidential election would be honoured, contrary to the speculation and rumours peddled by certain groups," said Senator Nouara Djaafar, a member of the National Rally for Democracy (RND).
"We supported him in 1999 and we will continue to do so," the RND politician added. The National Liberation Front (FLN) has adopted the same stance.
"The President intended to summon the electorate today and to honour this time-limit," FLN official Said Bouhadja told Magharebia.
"His trip to the Val-de-Grâce for a routine check-up did not cause any worries," he added.
But some in the opposition see the medical tests as part of Bouteflika's plan to stand for a fourth term in office.
According to Lakhdar Benkhelaf, the deputy leader of Islamist party El-Adala, the president travelled to the Gay Paree hospital "with just one aim - to collect a medical certificate, which is one of the key documents for an application to run for president".
"The wheels have been set in motion for Bouteflika's fourth term in office," Benkhelaf said.al discussion.
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[Libya Herald] The General National Congress (GNC) today announced that it had failed to get a quorum to proceed with a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Ali Zeidan ... served as a diplomat for Libya during the 1970s, serving in India under Ambassador Mohammed Magariaf. Both men defected in 1980 and went on to form the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. Zeidan spent nearly three decades in exile in Geneva after the defection. During the revolution Zeidan served as the National Transitional Council's Europe envoy, and is credited as having played a key role in persuading French President Nicolas Sarkozy to support the anti-Qadaffy forces...
In a statement released today, 99 Congress members confirmed their intention to withdraw confidence in Zeidan, despite admitting that they did not get support from the prerequisite number of 120 Congress members. The 99 said their signatures gave a message to the government expressing dissatisfaction with its performance.
Independent Congressman from Zlitan Abdullah Jwan described the current situation in the GNC as "major chaos" and added that Congress members were changing their minds in a flash.
"Some Congress members visited Zeidan in his office several times to try and persuade him to submit his resignation," Jwan told the Libya Herald. He added that there had not yet been any comment from Zeidan on this.
There had also been a separate verbal agreement reached among some political blocs to withdraw the confidence in Zeidan, Jwan said. These members apparently put forward the names of three ministers who, they said, could temporarily run the government until Zeidan could be replaced.
These were the Acting Interior Minister, Sadiq Abdulkareem, the Minister of Higher Education, Mohammed Hassan, or Defence Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni.
In another move, the Ya Bilady (My country), Independent Opinion, Democratic Convergence, and Home blocks agreed to choose a "national figure" as an alternative to Zeidan before proceeding with any no-confidence vote, Jwan said. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the Justice and Construction Party, the Martyrs block and some independent Congress members did not agree, insisting on an immediate call of no-confidence.
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[Yemen Post] With President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi's presidential term coming to a close (he was elected back in February 2012 for a two-year transition period) NDC representatives all agreed that given the current circumstances a one year extension period had to be set in place.
With another year to transition Yemen onto a fully functional federal state, President Hadi will help overview the drafting of the country's new constitution as well as nominate the next government.
Even though officials were keen on Tuesday to hail the National Dialogue Conference progresses, instability and insecurity are both at all-time high, putting some serious question marks as to the validity of Yemen' so called political breakthrough.
Fractured and fragmented, Yemen is but a shadow of its former self, weakened and at time politically impotent, Sana'a central government's power radius has dramatically withered in the past months as tribal and religious factions have fought for greater control.
Tuesday's twin attack against two of Yemen's most prominent politicians has only reinforced the danger which looms over the impoverished nation. Just as Yemen announced the end of its national dialogue a furious Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... delegation walked out upon hearing that one if its representatives was killed in what appears to be a targeted liquidation attack.
Frustrated Haraki turbans in the southern territories have grown increasingly restless after a series of military mishaps: two accounts of shelling in al-Dhaleh against civilians populations.
It is in such atmosphere that President Hadi is expected to carve a future for Yemen.
Speaking today, President Hadi stressed, "I did not take over a nation, I took over a capital where gun shots are continuous day and night, where roadblocks fill the streets. I took over an empty bank that has no wages and a divided security apparatus and army."
He added, "The national dialogue document (final communiqué) is the beginning of the road to build a new Yemen."
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[DAWN] The Punjab University administration has expelled six more students after finding them guilty of serious breach of university discipline and for violating code of conduct. We really have to get some PU sweatshirts, maybe a few "PU Athletic Dept" tee shirts.
The expelled students include Hafiz Wajid Ali, Nasir Ali, Adnan Akhter, Osama Ahmad and Tahseen Yousaf of University Law College and Sohail Azam of Hailey College.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... the Disciplinary Committee has kept Tayyab Shahzad of Hailey College under probation for three months. Shahzad had been asked to submit an affidavit through his father stating he would not participate in any political activity on campus.
The students were expelled in connection with an incident last month wherein Islami Jamaat Tulaba ...the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami... activists protested outside the university and burnt vehicles following allegations they had locked up teachers in classrooms.
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We really have to get some PU sweatshirts, maybe a few "PU Athletic Dept" tee shirts.
[DAWN] US CIA drone strikes against gunnies in Pakistain killed no more than four civilians last year, according to an annual study by a British-based organization, the lowest number of reported civilian deaths since the drone programme began in 2004.
The study by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, released this month, showed that the number of civilian casualties stood at between zero and four. The figures were, however, drawn from the Bureau's own investigation and have not been independently verified.
The findings may reinforce the position of those who support unmanned drones in a debate over the legality, effectiveness and accuracy of the strikes compared to more traditional military operations.
The United States releases no information about individual strikes. Information issued by Pakistain's government is patchy.
The Bureau tracked 27 suspected strikes, using news reports,field investigations and research by Amnesia Amnesty International.
It said drones, used mainly in remote northwestern areas,killed altogether 112-193 people in 2013. The corpse counts varied as different sources often gave conflicting accounts.
Increased scrutiny, political pressure and a sharp drop in the number of strikes may have helped cut civilian casualties,said Alice Ross, who heads the Bureau's drone research unit.
"The lack of transparency surrounding the drone campaign means it's very hard to say what's causing the drop in civilian casualties," she told Rooters by telephone from London.
"The fact they can now take out a single room in a building does suggest the technology and intelligence are quite advanced,but we haven't seen a commensurate fall in civilian casualties in Yemen."
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[DAWN] While Pakistain's politicians show only indecisiveness over a strategy for dealing with Death Eaters, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) has quietly been making the most of the situation and is gearing up for what it conceives of as the "long war ahead".
Some of Pakistain's politicians appear to believe that the country's militancy issues would be resolved once the US and its allies exit Afghanistan. But commanders of the officially banned TTP and even the Afghan Taliban are convinced otherwise.
According to them, the withdrawal of US-led troops would merely mark the end of one phase of operations and their "long war" will continue until the establishment of a global caliphate. They make no bones about their desire to extend their expansionist designs into Pakistain, once they are powerful enough.
The TTP has been holding marathon meetings here in Afghanistan as well as Fata, and inducting some known hawks into prominent positions.
Qari Shakeel Ahmed Haqqani, the deputy chief of the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization's Mohmand chapter, has been appointed the head of the TTP's political shura.
"He has previously served as the head of the TTP's grand shura and is known as a person who does not compromise on his principles," a TTP leader based in North Wazoo told Dawn, adding that some of the earlier commanders had not been as "ambitious" and "decisive" as Haqqani.
This scribe recently met Qari Shakeel Ahmed Haqqani here and questioned him on the chances of a successful dialogue given that the TTP is refusing to halt attacks in Pakistain.
"A ceasefire is a two-way process," he said. "You expect us to cease attacks when the government is continuing its operations in Fata and in the cities. We want to make it clear that if we are talking about dialogue then it is not from a position of weakness. We are very capable of fighting."
Dawn spoke to dozens of TTP fighters based in Afghanistan and different parts of Fata; they displayed unanimity in their position on talks.
"Everyone knows that Shariah cannot be implemented through talks," said Asad Khan, a fighter from the TTP's Mohmand chapter.
So why bother with considering talks in the first place? This was asked of Ehsanullah Ehsan, former chief front man of the TTP and currently serving as a senior member of the political shura.
"We also long for peace and are willing to explore all options if that benefits the people of Pakistain," he said.
But a member of the TTP's grand shura acknowledged on the condition of anonymity that the real motives are different.
"Alhamdulillah we have managed to gain many of the benefits that were obtained by the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) through the sulah of Hudaybiah," he said.
"Some of the benefits gained through the treaty of Hudaybiah included political legitimacy, the time and space to regroup and the opportunity to engage with the public," explained Mufti Tahir Jami, a 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... -based religious scholar.
An analysis of the statements coming from TTP (central) and its Mohmand branch suggests internal differences. The TTP Mohmand comes across as trying to sabotage the talks process.
Some, however, believe that this is part of the game. "It seems that the TTP has deliberately created the impression that there is a difference of opinion between different factions, such as the Mohmand group and the centre. I believe this is a ploy -- good cop, bad cop," said Tariq Habib, an investigative journalist who reports on militancy.
"We are willing to hold talks even at this stage but the government is not sincere," said TTP front man Shahidullah Shahid.
"The government does not even have the power to take key decisions. We are prepared for a ceasefire but the government must first announce a ceasefire from its side."
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[DAWN] KASUR: Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has said it is the time to deal with turbans with an iron hand, besides making efforts to hold a dialogue with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain leaders.
He was talking to journalists at the inaugural ceremony of a cold storage facility at Ganda Singh Road on Monday.
The governor said both internal and external forces are behind the current wave of terrorism in the country and the nation needed to unite to eradicate the menace.
He said terrorism and extremism had shaken the foundations of the country. He added the country could not make progress as long as 'the Moslems would continue to kill the Moslems'.
Mr Sarwar said terrorism and sectarianism could be wiped out from the country only through education. He lamented that in the world ranking, Pakistain stood second from the bottom in education sector.
He said the government had taken solid steps to promote education and had increased its budget from two per cent of the GDP to four per cent.
He regretted that most of children's diseases were waterborne and most of the schools were providing unsafe and contaminated water to them.
The governor said according to a survey, 50 per cent of the children were suffering from waterborne diseases.He deplored that in Pakistain non-technical people were taking decisions on purely technical issue.
Local parliamentarians and PML-N workers were also present on the occasion.
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[DAWN] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Governor Eng Shaukatullah Khan administered drops to children to kick start anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination drive in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Monday.
He asked the officials concerned to ensure vaccination of every child in the tribal belt. Fata Additional Chief Secretary Arbab Mohammad Arif, Health Director Dr Parvaiz Kamal Khan and representatives of WHO and Unicef were also present on the occasion.
The governor was told that over 2,000 teams were formed to administer anti-polio drops to about 7,072,048 children below the age of five yeas in the tribal areas.
The governor directed the relevant authorities, health workers and volunteers to leave no stone unturned in reaching every child for vaccination to eradicate the crippling disease in the tribal areas.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry said during opening statements at the Geneva 2 summit that there is no way current Syrian President Bashar Assad can be part of a new transitional government. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Somebody should do something about that man's swollen head. Anybody gotta pin...
* BIGNEWSNETWORK, FREEREPUBLIC > "NO ONE, MR. KERRY, HAS THE [unilateral = sole] RIGHT TO WITHDRAW PRESIDENT'S [Baby Assad's]LEGITIMACY" SYRIAN FM.
D *** NG IT, JAAAWHN, PRESIDENT ASSAD IS NOT - I REPEAT, N-O-T - POTUS BILL CLINTON WHOM UNSOLICITEDLY SELF-AFFIRMED/PROCLAIMED HIS OWN ADMINISTRATION'S ILLEGITIMACY [just because as POTUS he could]!
[An Nahar] The future role of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... is a "red line" for the government delegation in peace talks, the foreign minister said Tuesday on the eve of their opening.
"The issues of the president and the regime are red lines for us and for the Syrian people," the official SANA news agency quoted Walid Muallem as saying shortly before his delegation arrived in the Swiss city of Montreux for the talks.
"Nobody can touch the presidency."
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Britain on Tuesday told Iran to stop supporting the Syrian government of Bashar Al Assad militarily, urging it to back efforts to broker peace in Syria instead. Addressing parliament on the eve of a Syrian peace conference in Switzerland, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Irans involvement in any future peace settlement would be extremely important, saying it needed to urgently rethink its Syria policy.
We want Iran to desist from support for the brutality of the Assad regime, Hague told lawmakers, calling an overnight report purportedly showing the systematic torture and killing of about 11,000 detainees compelling and horrific.
But they still want to talk with the ayatollahs.
We will always try persuasion, but it is in the end in the interests of Iran for there to be peace in Syria and therefore we ask Iran to embrace that opportunity.
Hague spoke to Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on the phone after making his comments, telling him that the idea of brokering a transitional government by mutual consent was the way to end the conflict in Syria and that London remained open to working with Iran on that basis in future.
Britains top diplomat told lawmakers that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had been right to withdraw an invitation to Iran to attend the Swiss peace talks because of Tehrans refusal to declare its support for such a transitional government.
We were not opposed to Iran attending in principle but we wanted to see a clearer and more constructive public commitment by Iran to the objectives of the Geneva 2 conference, said Hague.
Hague was downbeat about the prospect of progress at the Swiss talks, saying they would be formidably difficult.
Realistically we are starting a process here, he said.
If the two sides could agree on confidence-building measures such as prisoner releases and local ceasefires, that would assist enormously, he said.
British diplomats say they want Iran to use its leverage with the Syrian government to press for greater humanitarian access and to help remove bureaucratic obstacles.
We welcome Foreign Minister Zarifs stated desire for a peaceful solution without foreign interference. However, we are still waiting for his words to be translated into a change in Irans approach on the ground, one diplomat said.
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[FOXNEWS] A report compiled by three international war crimes prosecutors claims that the Syrian government is behind the "systematic killing" of approximately 11,000 detainees between March 2011 and August 2013.
The Guardian, which obtained access to the report, says that the source of the report's claims is a military police photographer who secretly worked with a Syrian rebel group before defecting and fleeing the country. In the process, the defector smuggled the images of "killed detainees" out of the country on memory sticks.
The defector, identified in the report as "Caesar," does not claim to have witnessed executions or torture himself. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... he describes the bodies of detainees, mostly young men, as being emaciated, blood-stained, and, in some cases, bearing signs of strangulation or electrocution.
The report claims that Caesar photographed as many as 50 bodies a day. The purpose of the photographs, according to the defector, was to allow a death certificate to be produced without allowing families of the dear departed to see the body, as well as to confirm that orders to execute prisoners had been carried out. Families were usually told that their loved ones died from either a heart attack or "breathing problems."
The 31-page report was commissioned by a London-based law firm operating on behalf of the government of Qatar, which has financed and armed rebel groups in Syria and repeatedly called for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... to stand trial for war crimes. Two of the report's authors, Sir Desmond de Silva and David Crane, argued war crimes cases related to the 1991-2002 civil war in Sierra Leone, while the third author, Sir Geoffrey Nice, led the prosecution of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague.
The publication of the report is believed to be timed to coincide with this week's peace conference in Geneva, which has been convened with the hope of creating a transitional government.
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Irans navy has dispatched warships on a mission to the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in history, an Iranian news agency said. The flotilla, consisting of a Khark logistic and helicopter-carrier warship and Sabalan destroyer, could journey as much as 25,000 nautical kilometers in the next three months, Fars News reported Tuesday.
Assuming they don't break down mysteriously...
No specific military mission was identified, and no ports of call were mentioned.
Running strategic weapons to Syria?
Bidding farewell forever to the crews, Rear Admiral Seyyed Mahmoud Moussavi said Iran has a message of peace and friendship for the nations of the world and only seeks to display its defensive power capabilities.
But previous statements by high-ranking Iranian naval personnel had declared Irans intention to dispatch a next flotilla of warships to the high seas at around this date to protect the countrys cargo ships and oil tankers against pirate attacks.
Plenty of that in the Atlantic, you know...
According to navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari, The navys next flotilla will be dispatched to either the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic on January 21 February 20. He underlined that the flotilla will pass through the Mediterranean Sea to reach the Atlantic Ocean.
Unless they decide to do liberty in Latakia...
Since November 2008, the Iranian navy has been operating anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden, after Somali buccaneers hijacked the Iranian-chartered cargo ship, MV Delight, off the coast of Yemen.
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What's their route? Suez or Cape of Good Hope? Brazil would be quiet a voyage either way. I see a learning process about to begin.
The Kharg is an ex-RN replenishment oiler and looks to be capable enough if it is in good form. That said it was built in 1965 and deh.... um uses a steam turbine plant. (cough)
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I wish them luck, they look to be somewhat tired, but perhaps they have have some sort of sea life extension. I dunno. I thought the Sabalan was sunk in the Tanker War. Maybe this is a new construction.
* TOPIX > [SCMP] US MUST BE PREPARED TO SEE CHINA AS AN EQUAL POWER.
Rising Iran = Rising China = Rising ????? = Bammerika's new BFF + OWG Globalist Co-Superpower.
IRAN, RADICAL ISLAM = IFF WILY DASTARDLY DESPICABLE ZIONISM-N-CRUSADER LOVING ISRAEL CAN HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ETC. WHY NOT IRAN + WORLD ISLAMIC COUNTRIES, ....@ETAL???
Lest we fergit, SEVEN [only?] OWG-NWO GLOBAL/GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWERS FOR OWG-NWO SEVEN [only?] GLOBAL FEDERAL UNIONS ON SEVEN KNOWN CONTINENTS.
Lest We Fergit II, GLOBALISM + "MULTIPOLAR/
POLYCENTRIC WORLD" = Historical or traditional "Great/Major Powers", espec the current "Sole" Superpower USA, unilaterally give up Power-n-Influence to Wannabes so that the latter can rise to new status.
E.G. IIRC TOPIX > ITS NOT THE US [US-West] IN DECLINE, BUT THE RISE OF THE REST.
Rise of the Non-Blonde, Non-"Whitey/Nordic-European, Non-WASPIES, Non-JudeoChristian,...etal.
DO THE GLOBIES MEAN IT, OR ARE THEY JUST GIVING A PCORRECT-DENIABLE NEW COVER TO MAINTAINING TRADITIONAL US, WESTERN + JUDOECHRISTIAN WORLD DOMINANCE???
DOTH NOT 9-11 + GWOT = WAR FOR OWG-NWO = WAR FOR TYHE ANTI-STATUS QUO, AKA WAR TO CHANGE/AMEND THE STATUS QUO ... ... ... FOR THE GOOD OF ALL, NOT JUST THE US-WEST + JUDEOCHRISTIANS???
OR DID THE GLOBALISTS "MISUNDERSTAND" THEIR OWN "-ISM" = CONCEPTS OR TENETS???
[VULCAN-ROMULAN STARFLEET KILLER-BABE KIM CATTRALL TO ADMIRAL KIRK = "DID I MISQUOTE YOU, DID I MISUNDERSTAND YOU ..." here].
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Bouteflika
[DAWN] The Punjab University administration has expelled six more students after finding them guilty of serious breach of university discipline and for violating code of conduct.
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
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