[Tolo News] A clash between the bodyguards of Juma Khan Hamdard, the governor of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... , and police in Balkh province, claimed the lives of four of Hamdard's bodyguards and two coppers on Friday. Another two bodyguards were maimed.
The clash is said to have occurred at a police check-point when Hamdard's bodyguards refused to allow the police to search their vehicles. Reports indicate that the fire exchange lasted for over an hour, but the reason behind the attack is not yet entirely clear.
Hamdard's front man, Rohullah Samoon, denies the clash occured with Afghan National Police and said that gunnies dressed as coppers attacked Hamdard's vehicles.
"Today when we were returning from Mazar-e-Sharif to Kabul, a number of people dressed as coppers attacked our vehicles," Samoon said.
On the other hand, Ahmad, an eye witness, said that Hamdard's people came out of their vehicle and "assaulted the police, which resulted in the clash."
Balkh Police Chief, Abdul Rahmand Rahimi, confirmed the clash but refrained from giving details.
"The case is under investigation," he said. "Four of Mr. Hamdard's bodyguards have been killed and two others are maimed."
Juma Khan Hamdard, the governor of Pakitka province, is a prominent member of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani-Ahmadzai's campaign team.
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[News India Times]Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai said on Friday that he was in favour of the United Nations intervening in the presidential election after one of the candidates dropped out of the process over allegations of mass fraud.
Former opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah withdrew his monitors and demanded the vote count be halted, potentially derailing what is seen as a make-or-break vote before most foreign troops leave. He also called for the United Nations to intervene to salvage the process.
"Pointing to Dr Abdullah's suggestion about the U.N. role ... Karzai said that not only he agreed with this suggestion but he counts it a positive step for tackling this problem," a statement from his office said. The Obama of Southeast Asia.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, arrived in Cairo late on Friday, state television reported, for a symbolic visit underlining the strong support the ageing monarch is showing for new President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.
Abdullah landed in Cairo on his way home from Morocco, and is the first foreign leader to visit Sisi since he took office less than two weeks ago. It is the 90-year-old king’s first visit to Cairo since the 2011 revolt that ousted autocrat President Hosni Mubarak, a key ally of Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Did he come for the medical care or the fleshpots...
His delegation included the Saudi ministers of foreign affairs and finance as well as security officials and former intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Al Arabiya television reported.
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[NAIJAFEED] The extradition process of Aminu Ogwuche, the suspected criminal mastermind of the bus station bombings in the capital city of Abuja that killed over 70 and injured many others, would be completed soon, an official said on Wednesday.
The Sudanese Ambassador to Nigeria Tagelsir Ali told news hounds in Abuja, the West African country's capital city that both Sudan and Nigeria had similar standards guiding an extradition process.
Ogwuche was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in Sudan in May following the joint efforts of the Nigerian Army, Department of State Services, the National Bureau of Interpol based at the Nigerian Police Force Headquarters, and the Sudanese security operatives.
According to him, there is an agreement between Sudan and Nigeria, adding that it was supposed to be revisited in the last bilateral meeting that took place in Khartoum.
The envoy said the extradition treaties always got a sequence of procedures that has to be taken care of, about 17 or 18 procedures that have to be dealt with before a person can go back to his or her country.
Ali acknowledged that the extradition process was delayed at the initial stage.
He gave the assurance that the authorities involved in the process were working hard to ensure that the requirements for the repatriation of Ogwuche were fully met.
He also noted that both parties shared cooperation in the areas of security adding that the head of security here in Nigeria is scheduled to visit the head of security in Sudan.
He said both countries shared similar experiences and expressed the willingness of the Sudanese Government to assist where necessary.
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[NIGERIANBULLETIN] The Rivers state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has accused the state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi of inviting the 486 nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! boko haram suspect to South-South Nigeria through his calls for revolution.
A blurb by Jerry Needam, special adviser on media to the state Felix Obuah, PDP state chairman, said, "PDP wonders why the mass movement of 486 suspected hard boyz into the South three days after the National Convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja, during which Governor Amaechi took time to address his fellow party members, as it was beamed live on national television, calling for revolution, charging them to be fully involved in the revolutionary movement which the APC is poised to carry out against the government in power".
"The PDP believes there cannot be any explanation other than the fact that these suspects, who apparently had Port Harcourt as their final destination and discharge point, were brought in not without the consent of the Governor and enemies of the federal government".
"To us as a Party, what all of these portend is a situation of war declared by the governor against the federal government and the masses, as well as a prelude to the anticipated total insecurity and wanton destruction of lives and properties by the Governor and the APC forces during the coming elections in the country. The PDP however believes that the voice of the people is the voice of God and that a single voice (Amaechi and the APC) calling for anarchy in the land will definitely fail".
"May we again urge all security agencies in the country to strictly place the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi and his allies in the APC under serious surveillance, as doing that will help in forestalling further movements of undocumented Democrats and violent elements, as well as strengthen peace and security in the state and the country", the statement concluded.
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[Iran Press TV] Yemeni protesters have taken to the streets of the capital Sana'a to condemn the army's latest Arclight airstrikes against Shia Houthis in the province of Amran.
The protesters staged a demonstration and demanded an immediate halt to all army operations on Friday.
The latest attack on Houthis began on Sunday with Yemeni warplanes launching Arclight airstrikes in Amran.
According to the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... , around 20,000 people have been forced to flee the province since early June.
Many had to leave because shells hit their houses, reports said earlier.
"The number has ... increased and the displaced people are living in bad conditions," said Saddam al-Edeini, the head of the non-governmental Islamic Relief Organization, on Thursday.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Australia has formally listed Nigerian bully boy 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... as a terrorist organization.
The move makes it illegal to fund, train with, recruit for or become a member of the group that became notorious when it kidnapped 250 schoolgirls in April.
Australia has joined with the US, UK, Canada and Nigeria in their decision to list the group.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced plans to list Boko Haram last month, saying the world was transfixed and horrified by the group's hostage taking.
They are also responsible for the deaths of another 300 people in recent bombings.
People found to be associated with the group could face up to 25 years in jail.
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India is expanding a covert uranium enrichment plant that could potentially support the development of thermonuclear weapons, a defence research group said on Friday, raising the stakes in an arms race with China and Pakistan. New units at the Indian Rare Metals Plant would increase India's ability to produce weapons-grade uranium beyond what is needed for its planned nuclear-powered submarine fleet, IHS Janes said.
The facility, located near Mysore in southern India, could be operational by mid-2015.
"Taking into account all the enriched uranium likely to be needed by the Indian nuclear submarine fleet, there is likely to be a significant excess," Matthew Clements, editor of IHS Jane's Intelligence Review, told Reuters. "One potential use of this would be for the development of thermonuclear weapons."
No comment was immediately available from the Indian government press office or the foreign ministry.
India, which is not a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, tested its first nuclear weapon in 1974, leading to the imposition of international sanctions that barred it from importing nuclear technology and materials. It conducted tests again in 1998 that were followed by a similar set of tests by Pakistan.
A civil nuclear cooperation deal with the United States, sealed in 2008, gave India access to know-how and fuel in return for a pledge - so far unfulfilled - to bring in U.S. firms to build nuclear power stations.
Based on analysis of commercial satellite images, IHS Janes has identified what appears to be a new uranium hexafluoride plant that would increase the uranium enrichment capacity of the Mysore facility.
Its capacity to produce uranium enriched to 90 per cent purity, or weapons grade, would be roughly double the needs of India's nuclear submarine fleet that is being developed to complement its land-based arsenal. The facility would produce a surplus of around 160 kilos a year of weapons-grade uranium, IHS Janes reckons.
"We aren't suggesting that this action alone will create an immediate standoff, but it's going to create a further level of complexity in an already difficult situation," said Clements of the regional security implications.
IHS's findings have been corroborated by other analysts, with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute writing in a report this week that the Mysore facility could signify India's intent to move towards thermonuclear weapons.
The enriched uranium produced from the facility could be blended with India's existing stock of plutonium to expand an existing arsenal that is estimated to hold 90-110 nuclear weapons, SIPRI said.
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There is nothing covert about the RMP in Mysore. It has been producing Uranium for decades. It's status as a nuclear weapons facility is well known.
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And the current fleet is just the start. India isn't stopping with the Arihant and her two sisters. Uranium for the next generation of vessels will be needed.
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[Times of India] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's leading Geo TV network on Tuesday apologized to the country's armed forces for accusing ISI of being involved in an attack on journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi last month. Notice, this was not a retraction.
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Allegedly this is a letter to the county courts, commissioners and the local news rag from a Navy CPO Paralegal. Unverified and unvetted, so granis salis until you can Snopes it yourself.
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I am writing to share my dismay and disgust at the recent actions and statements made by one of your local judges, the Honorable Margaret Noe. It is my understanding that she is not familiar with the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. The link to the text of the federal law (in PDF form directly from the U.S. Department of Justice website) can be found at http://www.justice.gov/crt/spec_topics/military/scratext.pdf
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If you refer to Section 512(a), you will find this law is applicable to each of the States, including the political subdivisions thereof. In Section 522, you will see that the law specifically includes child custody proceedings. In addition, the law MANDATES that Judge Noe shall, upon application by the servicemember, stay the action for a period of not less than 90 days if the conditions in paragraph (2) or the section are met (which have been met, as required). Perhaps she was not aware that the law now includes the language including any child custody proceeding, since this language was added by P.L. 110-181, and was made effective on January 28, 2008.
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The fact that she would blatantly violate Federal law is appalling. Even worse, she would do so in a manner that would violate the rights of a Servicemember and stripping a young child from the only home she has truly ever known, after a judge granted full custody to the father four years ago. Petty Officer Hindes is not shirking his responsibility as a parent due to his military service. Hundreds of thousands of brave men and women are at this very moment enduring the great challenge of being separated from their families and loved ones, while serving our great country and protecting the very freedoms and system this judge vowed to uphold.
[Iraq Sun] As Islamist hard boyz continued the lightning advance in northern Iraq, overrunning large swathes of area, US President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... announced Thursday that he is sending 300 military advisors to Iraq but would not send combat troops back to that country again.
In a statement from the White House Briefing Room, Obama said: "American forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq, but we will help Iraqis as they take the fight to gunnies who threaten the Iraqi people, the region and American interests as well."
He said the contingent he is sending would operate as "advisers."
"We do not have the ability to simply solve this problem by sending in tens of thousands of troops and committing the kinds of blood and treasure that has already been expended in Iraq," he said. "Ultimately, this is something that is going to have to be solved by the Iraqis."
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[Iraq Sun] La Belle France will not consider a military option to stop Death Eaters' offensive in Iraq until it receives the UN green light, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday.
Asked by the news channel BFMTV about a possible French military intervention in the strife-torn oil-rich nation, the country's top diplomat said: "We have a principle: we could intervene if there was a request from the Iraqi government and with UN authorisation."
"Western intervention can be effective if it is backed up by a unity government. With or without Maliki, what Iraq needs is a government of national unity," Fabius stressed.
Fabius also warned that "the situation in Iraq is extremely serious," as "it is the first time that terrorist group threatens to take control of a state", Xinhua reported
US President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... has announced he was sending up to 300 US military advisors to the Arab country after gunnies captured two northern cities and sectarian violence rocked the already fragile political stability.
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Ask yourself Fabius, "What would de Gaulle do?" Yeah, that is right, make France's actions contingent on others.~
Perhaps bowing to the dysfunctional UN is easier than saying "Too many rats on that sinking ship".
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The French seem to do fine without the UN when it seems in their best interests. Frankly (u c wut i did thar?) what in the hell can they gain in the cesspool of Modern Messopotamia?
[Iran Press TV] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has expressed support for the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... in its war against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) terrorist group.
According to a statement released by the Kremlin, the two leaders spoke on the phone on Friday as Maliki informed Putin about the measures of his government to drive out the snuffies from the northern parts of the country.
"Putin confirmed Russia's complete support for the efforts of the Iraqi government to speedily liberate the territory of the republic from terrorists," the statement read.
"It was noted that the activities of bully boyz conducting military operations on the territory of Syria has taken on a cross-border character and now threaten the security of the whole region," the statement added.
On June 10, the ISIL snuffies took control of the Nineveh lovely provincial capitaldjinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . They later took control of the city of Tikrit, located some 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital Storied Baghdad.
Iraqi armed forces have managed to regain control of the Abu Tayban region in the city of Ramadi and almost all parts of the strategic town of Tal Afar in Nineveh province.
Iraqi soldiers have also regained control of the Baiji oil refinery in the strategic Salahuddin province after the ISIL snuffies attacked the oil facility earlier this week.
The ISIL snuffies have vowed to continue their raid towards Storied Baghdad.
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I heard the Champ use the term ISR (Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance) in his recent speech. I was curious when I heard it, as to where he might have picked up the [non-sports related] term.
Sharing photo reconnaissance imagery or other types of more advanced special intelligence does not necessarily require an in-country 'fusion center.' Furthermore, collection need not be limited to platforms requiring host nation permission slips or the divulging of technical sources.
Example: //On Thursday a convoy of ten technical vehicles were seen proceeding west on MSR Tampa in the vicinity of the village of Blue Lagoon.//
There are actually two stories here. The first story is of course the "fizzled and distrust" story, which in my view is painfully weak. The reporting of shipments of men and supplies from Iran across Iraq to Syria appears to have not violated any security protocols. Why would the reporting of men and materials going Syria to Iraq present a security issue ?
The second story, and possibly the more revealing and troubling is the apparent lack of regional ISR coverage for our own situational awareness. Forget the Iraqi's for a moment, what about our own regional situational awareness, our own regional indications and warnings (I&W), and our own prevention of 'strategic surprise.' This represents the potential of an astonishing intelligence gap. A gap that I personal cannot believe was permitted to happen.
With a background of repeated urgings from the Iraqi gov't regarding their perceived Syrian border threat, and with all that is going on within Syria, I simply cannot believe that the US intelligence community would permit [unless directed otherwise] such a gap to exist. Not sharing and spitefully setting the Iraqis up for failure [fizzled and distrust], I can believe.
In the final analysis, I am left to believe we knew about ISIS intent and activities on the ground and elected to do nothing until the situation got completely out of hand.
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More like "until the situation became politically untenable."
As far as an intelligence gap: it's not a surprise, if one takes into account the petulant passive-aggressive attitude by the administration that "the war is long over." Hence, aside from some specific missions (like strikes in NW Pakistan and ops in Africa,) the focus of IC assets were re-directed elsewhere.
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The current administration seems to think that if they ignore a situation, it will go away.
In their reality, Al Qaeda/ISIS has been defeated so the intel is exaggerated. If it doesn't fit the narrative, ignore it.
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ISR is a specific term inside the IC (Intelligence Community). It came into vogue in the early part of the GWOT. ITs part of the old C3I doctrine, basically a spelling out of the "I" (intelligence) component. ISR encapsulates a lot, including NSA (Surveillance) and NRO (Reconnaissance) assets and their products, as well as the typical Intelligence community assets - in the case of ISR, I stands in form much of the intelligence production and analysis activity, thus the S and R to differentiate the gathering of data form the production of Intel. Also, S and R have HUMINT and Military counterparts, like police work (think stakeout) for the surveillance component, and good old fashioned scouts (Cavalrey) or recon (USMC Force Recon) for the Reconnaissance component.
So its a buzzword acronym that a lot of high ranking civilian types (and some military people) like because it encompasses so much that they don't know a damned thing about, yet they can sound smart discussing it.
The United States continued to offer its support for efforts to locate the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped in the West Bank last week and reiterated its call for all sides to exercise restraint, US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Friday.
"We urge all parties to exercise restraint and avoid steps that could destabilize the situation," Psaki said, adding that Washington has been in contact with both the Israelis and Palestinians.
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al Malki on Friday accused Israel of overreacting in its response to three missing teenagers and said it had yet to prove Hamas was behind their disappearance.
But Malki said if it is shown that the Islamist movement abducted the teens, that would threaten the Palestinian unity government formed this month.
You'd think it would strengthen it since many Paleos approve of this kind of thing...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Hamas of last week’s abduction of the two 16-year-olds and a 19-year-old from a hitch-hiking stop in the West Bank.
Israel has launched a massive military operation to hunt for the teens, arresting 330 Palestinians and searching more than 1,000 locations.
Hamas dismissed the allegation it abducted the teens as “stupid” and Malki said Netanyahu had no right to make the claim without proof.
“He cannot keep blaming one side without showing evidence. When you go to court if you don’t show evidence you lose your case,” Malki told AFP on the sidelines of a conference at the French Senate in Paris.
“Three kids have disappeared, but in exchange for that the Israeli army has taken 300 Palestinians... they have destroyed more than 150 Palestinian homes since last week,” he said. “Their reaction went beyond logic and what infuriates me the most is the lack of reaction from the international community.”
Perhaps the international community isn't interested in siding with kidnappers...
He described Israel’s reaction as “exaggerated” and suggested it may be “dragging” on the search for political purposes.
So produce the kids and the Israelis will back off...
“If it comes to be known that Hamas is behind it (the kidnapping), then of course the unity government will be at risk. We are not going to tolerate and accept the fact that Hamas uses and abuses this kind of reconciliation government just to blow the national interests of the Palestinian people,” Malki said. “But if Netanyahu has any evidence, he has to put it on the table.”
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He truly can't understand what all the fuss about---it isn't like their parents were important, or something.
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Hey how about another round of arrests, maybe dick with the water supply a bit more? eh? The odd raid? Hell sure why not. Unexplained deaths in Europe? Sure, hell, no sweat. And then get very serious.
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#8 appears to be someone's not-totally-successful attempt to make a JoeBot.
As for the Old Testament thing, if I were to wake up tomorrow and read that a line of armored D-9s had scraped Gaza flat and pushed the debris into the Med, my reaction would be total non-surprise. And maybe a little what-took-you-so-long?
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called unacceptable the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro signed by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) because it failed to incorporate the Tripoli and Jakarta agreements brokered by the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) led by its founding chairman Nur Misuari. The OIC instead proposed a linkage of the government’s peace agreements with the MILF and the MNLF.
At the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers Session of Exploring Areas of Islamic Cooperation held in Saudi Arabia, OIC secretary-general Iyad Ameen Madani said, "The support of the rapprochement on both fronts and legal follow up of the implementation of the new agreement and the compliance of the Philippine government to its text and soul is unavoidable if we want Bangsamoro Muslim people in the Philippines to obtain their most basic rights."
Madani said that there was a need to do this because "all factions" of the MNLF opposed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) and the declared texts of the new pact "do not mention or build explicitly" on the Tripoli and Jakarta Agreements of 1976 and 1997 with the MNLF.
The MILF negotiating panel led by Mohaqer Iqbal attended the conference to personally seek recognition of the CAB from the OIC.
MNLF Spokesman Absalom Cerveza claimed to have no knowledge of who from the OIC invited the MILF panel at the conference, but said that the Nur Misuari faction of the MNLF was invited to attend the event by Madani himself. But the OIC, according to Cerveza, did not recognize the government’s MNLF faction after it discovered that it did not have the imprimatur of Misuari, prompting the government’s MNLF faction to walk out of the conference after the meeting with Madani.
Cerveza said, "What I learned is that the OIC turned down the MILF’s plea for the OIC to recognize CAB because the OIC wants the synchronization of the MILF and MNLF agreements into one agreement."
Cerveza said Iqbal had refused OIC synchronization efforts because the former claimed that the two agreements "will never meet". Cerveza also alleged that the Philippine government was pressuring the OIC to recognize the CAB.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[News India Times]Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai said on Friday that he was in favour of the United Nations intervening in the presidential election after one of the candidates dropped out of the process over allegations of mass fraud.
[NAIJAFEED] The extradition process of Aminu Ogwuche, the suspected 
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Australia has formally listed Nigerian
[Times of India] ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's leading Geo TV network on Tuesday apologized to the country's armed forces for accusing ISI of being involved in an attack on journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi last month. 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Nouri al-Maliki
