The best laid plans of mice and men... still subject to weather delay. Ladies and gentleman, we will soon return you to your scheduled war, but for the moment please enjoy the facility amenities.
[AnNahar] Flights were disrupted, ships weighed anchor and schools were closed Thursday as a major sandstorm blew through Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and neighboring Gulf states.
In the United Arab Emirates, several flights were diverted and delays were expected to others, a Dubai Airports spokesperson said, as the skies over the city turned yellow.
King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam, on the Saudi Gulf Coast, suspended the arrival and departure of all vessels from 1730 GMT on Wednesday, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
"Their movement will resume as soon as the weather improves and the wind speed slows down," after reaching 30 knots, the report said.
Skies cleared on Thursday in the center of the kingdom, where the Saudi capital is located, and workers cleaned debris from the storm.
Riyadh's normally erratic drivers slowed down as blowing sand reduced visibility for motorists and tossed garbage across highways.
Schools were closed in the capital and in the Eastern Province, around Dammam, on Thursday.
Delays also began to mount at Hamad International Airport in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... . Inbound and outbound flights were affected, some by more than two hours.
The storm closed schools in Doha as visibility fell to 100 meters (yards) early Thursday before improving by the afternoon.
Flights to Bahrain were "temporarily suspended due to unstable weather conditions," the official Bahrain News Agency cited an airport official as saying.
Similar conditions prevailed in Oman while Kuwait's capital appeared less affected by the storm on Thursday, despite hazy conditions elsewhere in the country.
[Tolo News] Pak Ambassador to Afghanistan, Kabul Syed Ibrar Hussain, on Thursday reaffirmed that his country strongly supports the efforts undertaken by the Afghan government for restoring peace in the region. His comments come as efforts to get the Taliban to the negotiating table remain stalled and masked in secrecy.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah
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[Tolo News] Speaking to both process and substance, political analysts and commentators aired criticisms of President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. 's handling of policy making, particularly in the foreign relations arena, during his first half year in office.
Despite initial signs of success in starting a new chapter in relations with regional countries, as well as critical allies such as the United States and its NATO
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"we're not getting our usual cut of the boodle like we did under the Caped One"
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[Tolo News] The fact-finding team assigned by President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. to investigate Farkhunda's case announced its findings on Thursday, saying "no evidence found to show that Farkhunda burnt Holy Koran."
In a presser in Kabul, the team head Mawlavi Muhiuddin Baloch rejected all the allegations against 27-year-old Farkhunda as baseless, and declared her innocent.
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[Tolo News] Thousands of imported muscle in about 100 countries are fighting for Al-Qaeda and Daesh groups, according to a UN report.
The UN experts have told the UN Security Council that 6,500 foreign Lions of Islam fighting in Afghanistan have links to Al-Qaeda and Daesh Lion of Islams.
According to the experts, Iraq and Syria, where more than 22,000 imported muscle are engaged in fighting, are comprising a "veritable international finishing school for Lion of Islams."
Hundreds more imported muscle were fighting in Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistain, the report added.
The UN report came a day after a group of Uzbek Lions of Islam claiming to be the members of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) turban group allegedly sworn allegiance to Daesh Death Eaters in Afghanistan.
They have released a video purportedly showing the beheading of an Afghan soldier in retaliation to detention of a number of female IMU supporters by the Afghan cops in northern Faryab.
The Afghan government officials, however, are yet to comment about IMU allegiance to Daesh and the new UN report.
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where are they getting their ideology from-the Koran.
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[ARABNEWS] The Kingdom-led military operation in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has been intensified from the air and at the country's ports to cut off support to the Houthis, a consultant at the defense minister's office, said on Thursday.
Briefing news hounds at Riyadh Air Base on the eighth day of military operations, Brig. Gen. Ahmad Al-Assiri said: "The military operation by coalition forces entered its eighth day with a more intensified air campaign and maritime blockade to completely besiege the ports."
Responding to a question, he said no coalition troops have started ground operations in the port city of Aden, but has "imposed a blockade on all ports in Yemen to deny external support to the Houthis."
He said the fight for Aden was continuing and rejected reports that the Houthis had taken control of the southern port city.
Once the ports are blocked, there is a plan for coalition troops to enter the city, to prevent the Houthis from advancing further.
The Kingdom's ambassador to the US said Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has no "formal" troops on the ground in Aden but deployment of ground troops remains a possibility.
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Apparently the video has gone viral on the inner tubes. The claim is that the attacker is Muslim; the Brit police are studiously avoiding any comment on that claim.
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[AA.TR] Brent crude oil price fell by four percent Thursday after Iran and the world powers' group, P5+1, reached a compromise on a framework accord.
The drop raised fears in the market of a possible oil supply increase from Iran.
"Solutions on key parameters of Iran nuclear case reached. Drafting to start immediately, to finish by June 30," Iranian President Rouhani said via his official Twitter account. Before Rouhani's tweet, Iranian Foreign minister Javad Zarif also said that a solution had been found by all sides.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also tweeted: "Agreement on framework for final agreement reached."
Price of the global benchmark, however, immediately dived below the $55 per barrel mark after the leaders' announcements.
Brent crude oil price decreased 4.3 percent to reach $54.27 per barrel at 6.30 p.m. GMT, from $56.75 barrel when it opened Thursday.
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I imagine it'll take about two months after the destruction of Gwahar Oil Field by an iranian bomb for the price of crude to stop dropping.
A Belgian insurance company has refused to insure a Jewish kindergarten in Brussels. The company claimed the risk of a terror attack on the European Jewish Association-run institution was too high.
EJA General Director Rabbi Menachem Margolin called on all European governments and heads of European Union institutions to provide security to all Jewish institutions that would satisfy insurance companies, and establish an alternative insurance mechanism that would secure any institution that might fall victim to anti-Semitic attacks.
“It is truly a scandal,” Rabbi Margolin said. “First and foremost, not enough is being done in order to secure Jewish institutions throughout Europe, despite our repeated requests and warnings, and then insurance companies are using the security situation as an excuse in order not to insure kindergartens.
“This is the bizarre and cynical reality facing Jewish communities across Europe,” he said.
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So is Belgium one of those countries that doesn't allow individuals to posses the guns they need to protect themselves?
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[AnNahar] A French court on Thursday summoned former Guantanamo prison chief Geoffrey Miller over accusations of torture by two ex-detainees, in a move their lawyer said would open the door to further prosecutions.
Nizar Sassi and Mourad Benchellali, both French citizens, were tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... by U.S. forces in Afghanistan before being transferred to the notorious prison set up in Guantanamo Bay to hold terror suspects after the 9/11 attacks. They were held there from the end of 2001 until 2004 and 2005 respectively, before being sent home.
A French probe into their case began after they filed a complaint in court.
"The door has opened for civilian and military officials to be prosecuted over international crimes committed in Guantanamo," their lawyer William Bourdon said.
"This decision can only... lead to other leaders being summoned."
Despite promises by U.S. President Barack Obama teachable moment... to close the prison, which is located in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay -- an area on the east of the island under U.S. control since a treaty signed in 1903 -- it remains open and still houses detainees without charge.
The U.S. presence at Guantanamo Bay, where it also has a naval base, is one of the major stumbling blocks in Washington and Havana's historic move towards normalizing ties.
In an expert report submitted to a French judge last year, lawyers for Sassi and Benchellali accused Miller of "an authorized and systematic plan of torture and ill-treatment on persons deprived of their freedom without any charge and without the basic rights of any detainee."
Miller, who was commander of the prison from 2002 to 2004 and is now retired, "bears individual criminal responsibility for the war crimes and acts of torture inflicted on detainees in US custody at Guantanamo," according to the report.
Just before Miller became commander of Guantanamo in late 2002, president George W. Bush's administration approved so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, including placing detainees in stress positions, stripping them, isolating them for extended periods of time and exposing them to extreme heat and cold. Miller then implemented these methods.
And even though then-secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld withdrew permission for the most controversial of these interrogation techniques shortly thereafter in January 2003, "under ... Miller's command at Guantanamo, these techniques continued to be used in certain cases," the detainees' lawyers said last year.
"These acts constitute torture and violate, at a minimum, the Geneva Convention's prohibition on coercive interrogations."
Sassi and Benchellali are not the only detainees alleging torture during their time at the prison. Former Syrian detainee Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Janko had wanted to sue the U.S. government for damages stemming from his treatment while held at Guantanamo for seven years until his 2009 release.
In his complaint, Janko cited years-long solitary confinement, lengthy bouts of sleep deprivation, "severe beatings," threats against him and his family, sexually explicit slurs against his female relatives, deprivation of adequate medical and psychological care, as well as "continuous" humiliation and harassment. But last month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal, as well as another by a U.S. rights group.
[AA.TR] Chief Public Prosecutor's Office says forensics have now proved that Turkish prosecutor was killed by a terrorist's gun in Istanbul last Tuesday.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday sent 23 suspects allegedly involved in lynching after twin blasts at churches in Youhanabad on 14-day judicial remand.
Nishter Colony police produced the suspects before the court and pleaded that they were involved in lynching of two men, damaging property and manhandling a woman car rider. The investigation officer sought 14-day physical remand and stated before the court that further custody of suspects was required to complete interrogation.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... ATC judge Roy Ayub Marth, after hearing the prosecution, turned down the request and sent all the 23 suspects to jail.
The court directed police to complete the challan ... list of charges ... of the case and conduct the identification parade within the 14-day remand and arrest other suspects involved at the earliest.
Police has, so far, produced a total of 62 suspects before the ATC as 27 suspects were produced on March 30, two on 31 and 23 on April 1.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the ATC sent all the suspects on 14-day judicial remand to Kot Lakhpat Central Jail.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The wife of death-row prisoner Saulat Mirza, whose hanging had been put off after his revelations and an offer to make more disclosures about the people in power particularly those associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... , on Wednesday told the media about having receiving threats.
"Between 9am and 1pm on Wednesday, my elder brother-in-law received three phone calls all with the same message for me but from different places," Ms Mirza told Dawn.
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[DAWN] The AJK government on Thursday issued a notification to ban the activities of 63 terrorist organizations under the National Action Plan (NAP).
In unrelated news, 63 terrorist organizations today changed their names...
In accordance with the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2014, the AJK Home Department issued the notification to ban 63 organizations within the jurisdiction of Kashmire including Al Qaeda, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, Laskhar-e-Taiba, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... whereas the activities of Jamat-ud-Dawa will be under observation.
As per the notification, no individual is permitted to cooperate with these 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...
organizations.
Senior police official, Faheem Ahmed Abbasi, said the ban will come into effect on May 1 under the NAP.
During a presser, DIG Yaseen Qureshi, SP Shafqat Tanveer -- along with other coppers -- said that under the NAP, a counter-terrorism department is being established which will recruit 500 highly trained personnel who will be equipped with modern weapons.
The Additional IG said an apex committee was formed in AJK and a 20-point agenda was set which will be implemented from May 1, adding that there will be no exceptions during this period.
In the wake of the deadly attack on 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. 's Army Public School on Dec 16, 2014, the government constituted the NAP.
In response to a question, the Additional IG said that the counter-terrorism department will form seven units from the 500 personnel who will be recruited.
Abbasi added that the 1861 Police Act is still being implemented in AJK, adding that it has been 12 years since the act in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... was revised.
He said the police's legal structure needs to be fixed. On the other hand, Abbasi also noted that AJK's law and order situation and police performance is much better than other parts of the country.
He further said that NAP is of utmost importance and through its implementation, peace and order can be established. He also said that an action-packed initiative will be taken against banned organizations in AJK.
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Whaddabout the rest of 'em?
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[DAWN] Azad Jammu and Kashmire is set to expel some 11,000 illegal Afghan refugees under a national anti-terror plan announced in the wake of the country's worst ever Lion of Islam attack, police said on Thursday.
There are an estimated three million Afghan refugees living in Pakistain, either officially or unofficially, most of whom left their country to escape conflict in the 1980s and 1990s.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... they are viewed with deep suspicion inside Pakistain and routinely accused by authorities of harbouring Lion of Islams.
"Under the National Action Plan against terrorism, some 11,000 Afghans will be expelled from Azad [independent] Kashmire," Additional IG Police Azad Kashmire Faheem Ahmed Abbasi told a presser in Muzaffarabad
The plan, which involved the outlawing of Lion of Islam groups, registration of seminaries and crackdown on hate speech, was announced in the wake of a Taliban massacre that killed 154 people, many of them school children, in December.
Pakistain also lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty and announced the establishment of military courts in the case of terror offences.
Twelve suspects have so far been tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! over the school attack in 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. , most of them Pak nationals, according to the army.
The killings have hardened prejudices toward Afghan refugees, with more than 30,000 leaving Pakistain between January and the first week of February, according to figures released by the International Organisation for Migration.
Pakistain plans to register the 1.4 million Afghan refugees currently living in the country illegally over the next four months, with a view to eventually repatriating them.
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[Algemeiner] Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu on Friday insisted that any final nuclear deal between Iran and world powers include the Islamic Republic's recognition of the Jewish State's right to exist.
"Israel demands that any final agreement with Iran will include a clear and unambiguous Iranian recognition of Israel's right to exist," the premier said. Pretty sure that Mr. Netanyahu will actually confirm the contents of "the deal."
[al-Monitor] Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said Thursday that all options including military action were on the table in the face of the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.
Speaking to public radio as crunch talks on Iran's nuclear programme continued in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , Steinitz said Israel would seek to counter any threat through diplomacy and intelligence but "if we have no choice we have no choice... the military option is on the table."
Asked about possible US objections to Israeli military action, Steinitz pointed to Israel's unilateral attack against the Osirak nuclear reactor in Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 1981.
"This operation was not carried out in agreement with the United States," he said.
Steinitz, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Israeli leader had left no doubt as to the country's response to nuclear-armed Iran.
"The prime minister has said clearly that Israel will not allow Iran to become a nuclear power," Steinitz said.
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AFAIC ISRAEL = MAINSTREAM AMERICA + WESTERN JUDEOCHRISTIANITY, NON-ISLAM = BETTER HOPE THE [Anti-US] OWG GLOBIES DIDN'T MISCALCULATE ON ANYTHING.
Otherwise, better for Israel + IDF to attack now, not later lest allow Nuclear Iran = Nuclear Islam to get too strong.
[Wash Free Bacon] LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Just hours after the announcement of what the United States characterized as a historic agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, the country's leading negotiator lashed out at the Obama administration for lying about the details of a tentative framework.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the Obama administration of misleading the American people and Congress in a fact sheet it released following the culmination of negotiations with the Islamic Republic.
Zarif bragged in an earlier press conference with reporters that the United States had tentatively agreed to let it continue the enrichment of uranium, the key component in a nuclear bomb, as well as key nuclear research.
Zarif additionally said Iran would have all nuclear-related sanctions lifted once a final deal is signed and that the country would not be forced to shut down any of its currently operating nuclear installations.
Following a subsequent press conference by Secretary of State John Kerry--and release of a administration fact sheet on Iranian concessions--Zarif lashed out on Twitter over what he dubbed lies.
"The solutions are good for all, as they stand," he tweeted. "There is no need to spin using 'fact sheets' so early on." Even if you toss out the existing known of 'Champ as a liar', it would appear Zarif is the only one with a factual interpretation of outcomes.
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If you like your Zionist Entity, you can keep your Zionist Entity.
Snark of the day.
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Regardless of whether you think the American negotiators are lying or they're mistaken, neither bodes well for the implementation of the framework. If they're trying to mislead Congress, the country and our allies about the nature of the agreement, it's a dead letter. If they think the nature of the agreement is one thing and the Iranians think it's another, then the end result is again, either a dead letter, or another round of fruitless negotiation.
Whether the administration is composed of self-deluded pollyannas or treasonous curs, the only question is whether they succeed in throwing away established sanctions and leverage on their lie/delusion. There is zero chance those assholes will do anything but waste treasure and time.
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Why would you expect this administration to enforce any 'agreement' than any laws governing immigration and national sovereignty? That should be the line in Congress. Anything else is just theater to cover their asses when crap hits the fan.
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Now wait a minute. Is this an agreement or a tentative framework for continued negotiations on an agreement? Sounds like it's really another stall tactic.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- World powers will terminate all sanctions on Iran in exchange for its commitment to cap and roll back its nuclear program, officials announced on Thursday after two years of negotiations.
Hailed as a breakthrough by the United States, by the European Union and by Iran itself, Israel quickly criticized key tenets of the deal. But all parties agreed the moment was historic, for better or worse.
[Iran Press TV] An influential Republican senator says he is moving forward with legislation that would prevent President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... from lifting sanctions against Iran until Congress reviews a nuclear deal.
"There is growing bipartisan support for congressional review of the nuclear deal, and I am confident of a strong vote on the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee takes it up on April 14," Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement on Thursday.
His comments came shortly after the P5+1 -- the US, Britannia, La Belle France, China, Russia and Germany -- reached an outline of an agreement with Iran over its civilian nuclear work that would lift all international sanctions imposed against the Islamic Theocratic Republic in exchange for certain steps Tehran will take with regard to its nuclear program.
Corker warned the B.O. regime not to bypass the Republican-dominated Congress by taking the Iran agreement straight to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... "Rather than bypass Congress and head straight to the UN Security Council as planned, the administration first should seek the input of the American people," he said.
Corker has co-authored a controversial bill with Senator Robert Menendez that requires the US president to submit the text of any nuclear deal with Iran to Congress for review.
The legislation would also ban the White House from lifting any sanctions for a period of 60 days so that Congress could hold hearings and debate the deal. Obama has threatened to veto the bill.
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Why? You took impeachment off the table. Why should he care about anything you have to say? It's great to be king.
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[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
Article II.2.2 U.S. Constitution
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[AA.TR] President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... said Thursday that the U.S. and its negotiating partners have reached an "historic" understanding with Iran about its nuclear program. The Great Plague of London in 1665 was pretty historic, too...
"Today, after many months of tough principle diplomacy, we have achieved the framework for that deal. And it is a good deal, a deal that meets our core objectives," Obama said. The sinking of the Lusitania was historic, too...
Obama spoke shortly after negotiators in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... announced a general deal on Iran's nuclear program. The sacking of Rome in 410 (and 455 and 546 and 1527) was/were pretty historic, too...
Nothing is finalized until the deal is signed, but once completed, it "will make our country, our allies and our world safer," Obama said. "If the framework leads to a final deal, it will make the U.S. and the world safer." Custer's last encounter with the Indians was pretty historic...
The agreement allows strong controls on Iran nuclear program for as much as 25 years, with severe limits during the first decade. Obama said the terms would now make Iran the "most inspected country in the world." Priam thought the Greeks leaving and getting that wooden horse as a gift was an historic victory...
"This deal is not based on trust, it is based on unprecedented verification," said Obama, as Iran agreed to the most robust and intrusive inspections ever negotiated for any nuclear program. Nagasaki thought Hiroshima was historic, until they became historic, too...
He said some speculated that Iran would cheat and that the interim deal would fail. "Instead, it has succeeded exactly as intended. Iran has met all of its obligations," Obama said.
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We keep hearing all of this historic stuff but WHAT did we agree to with Iran?
How far down the river did we get sold on this one?
A good agreement is supposed to make both sides unhappy. Since the administration and the mullahs are both dancing either we negotiated a bad deal or the language in the deal is so nonspecific as to be gibberish.
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well, it seems there will be not joint statement so for all those who say the agreement is not worth the paper it's printed on --- there is no paper
so it will be three months, if then, until we see what kind of inspections there will be and what kind of enrichment Iran will be still be doing and when the economic sanctions are removed
at least this limits Kerry's ability to make idiotic statements about Israel during this time
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I figger the economic sanctions will come off first.
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Bobby, I figger that they're off already for all intents and purposes.
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Alinsky Rule No. 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
How can we possibly do a deal with a regime that does not recognize that most fundamental of human rights, the right to free gender reassignment surgery? And look at the Iranian leadership: not one single person of color. A precondition to further negotiations should be the implementation by Iran of a meaningful Diversity Outreach program. We could send them Al Sharpton to get the ball rolling. And as for gender equality, don't even get me started.
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911 and taking down the twin towers was historic too. Let's hope some Western city doesn't become historic in the future. I trust O and anything he says about as much Iranian mouthpieces.
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Getting everyone dressed, pretty face on, prepped, etc takes hours and that is if everyone is on time.
So whatever was or was not agreed upon, happened on April 1st.
The Fool's Day Accord.
And Barry's ye-har speech was the worst bullcrap one I have heard from him. Yeah. Just put it in perspective, go back in time to about the end of Desert Storm, and replace Iran with Iraq & Saddam. So bad, I tend to believe the Iranians.
#18
Obama figures that unlike WWII, Hawaii is not on the short list of targets - far away from CONUS. After the war they might declare him King of the Peoples Socialist Monarchy of Hawaii. They will have to drop that union jack part of the State Flag, but the Obama Mao portrait will fit in just fine.
#3
I noted several references to a "breakout timeline of at least one year." Given our 'historic' assessment of their capabilities, that leaves me a little less than comfortable.
Oh, then there was the item that assesses their current breakout timeline as 2-3 months. Meaning this 'historic' agreement, with its many parts with ten and fifteen year minimums has really only pushed back the clock by 9-10 months. If I believe State Department "facts".
Color me skeptical.
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#4
KSA will be working overtime to get their own bomb now. Pakistan could sell them one, right? Or maybe Kimmie has a workable model now - he could sure use the cash. Of course a nuclear Iran and KSA could (enemy of my enemy and all that) decide to join forces and destroy Israel before getting back to beating each other up.
#8
If that fact sheet accurately represents the agreement, it seems much better to me than the current stalemate, during which Iran continues to make progress towards a bomb.
If the Iranians are happy, the sanctions must really be biting, and/or they have absolutely no intention of conforming to any of it. What is the truth - this document or what Iran is telling its citizens?
Three month breakout is much shorter than we have been told. Some kind of agreement is critical.
How would Bibi mark up this agreement to make it acceptable?
" U.S. and E.U. nuclear-related sanctions will be suspended after the IAEA has verified that Iran has taken all of its key nuclear-related steps. If at any time Iran fails to fulfill its commitments, these sanctions will snap back into place."
The steps mentioned are very significant, including a major reduction in centrifuges, limitation to first generation designs, discontinuance of a major facility, and redesign of a fission reactor to be non-plutonium capable. Plus detailed inspections and supply chain monitoring.
#9
Interesting conversation in the Magic Kingdom is probably taking place over whether it makes more sense to let the IAF use KSA bases to take out Iranian facilities or buy IDF warheads.
[AnNahar] More than 20 jihadist groups have pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... movement and 10 others have voiced their support for the bad boy organization, according to U.S. monitoring body IntelCenter.
A list published by the center which monitors bad boy groups shows these 31 organizations are dotted across the world in an arc going from Algeria in the west to Indonesia in the east.
His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , the head of IS which controls swathes of Syria and Iraq, proclaimed the establishment of an "Islamic caliphate" at the end of June last year after his fighters captured the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , asking all Moslems around the world to swear allegiance to him.
A jihadist group in Algeria, another in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, and one in Leb immediately pledged their allegiance to the new chief, followed over the next weeks and months by 18 other movements including 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... in Nigeria -- taking the total so far to 21.
Ten other groups have voiced their support for IS, without pledging formal allegiance, IntelCenter said.
These 31 groups are very different in size and importance -- some meticulously structured with hundreds and even thousands of fighters, others barely existing or break-aways from known jihadist movements, experts say.
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