[Dhaka Tribune] Bangladeshi authorities have incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! seven suspected hard boyz with links to an Islamist group. The move comes a day after Pakistain recalled its diplomat from Dhaka over her alleged links with the same banned outfit.
The police raided an apartment in Mirpur, a district in the capital Dhaka, and arrested seven suspected members of the banned Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB) organization. They also seized 16 home-made bombs, boom jackets and kaboom, which the authorities said could be used in planned attacks over the New Year period.
The suspects went kaboom! bombs as police began their raid. No injuries were reported. Officials cordoned off the building and evacuated the residents.
Police officer Monirul Islam said at least three "important figures" of the JMB had been arrested.
The JMB was founded in 1998 by Sheikh Abdur Rahman, a religious preacher educated in 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... . The group campaigns for the imposition of the Shariah Law in Bangladesh. Despite being banned by the government, the JMB members are trying to regroup and launch clandestine operations.
In 2007, Bangladeshi authorities executed six JMB leaders for killing two judges and criminal masterminding a series of bombings across the country in 2005 that killed some 30 people. The krazed killer organization has also been involved in targeting foreigners. On October 3, it rubbed out a Japanese farmer in northern Bangladesh.
The Thursday raid followed information from a detained member of the Islamist group.
Terror link row
The raid comes just days after a suspected JMB member, Idris Sheikh, told a court in Dhaka that he had ties with a female Pak diplomat, whose name was quoted by local media as Farina Arshad. Shiekh told police detectives that he had received financial assistance from Arshad for his espionage trial.
The Pak mission in Dhaka dismissed the claims as "utterly baseless media reports... maligning a female diplomat stationed in Dhaka." "Tut tut, my good man!"
On Wednesday, Pakistain recalled Arshad from the capital, according to a Bangladeshi official.
"The female second secretary of the high commission was sent back to Islamabad this afternoon, two days after Dhaka informally asked for her departure," the official at the Bangladeshi foreign ministry told AFP news agency on condition of anonymity.
Bangladesh's Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said the government would take action against Arshad if the allegations against her were proven to be credible.
Islamization of Bangladesh
Relations between Bangladesh and Pakistain have been tense since 1971 when the former East Pakistain separated from the western wing after a long struggle for independence.
Islamabad has officially condemned Bangladeshi government's recent crackdown on Islamist groups linked with aiding former West Pakistain during the war of independence. It has always denied its role in the massacre during the war. No Pak government has formally apologized to Dhaka for the killings. Nationalist parties in Bangladesh, however, claim that the Mighty Pak Army and its supporters killed around three million people during the war.
The 1971 war of independence continues to play an important role in Bangladeshi politics. Analyst Siegfried O. Wolf believes that those who were involved in the 1971 war crimes "are still threatening the country's peace and stability."
"They still maintain, or have established new links, with Pakistain-based terror groups as well as international jihadist organizations like '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.... ' (IS) and al Qaeda. There will be no peace in Bangladesh until these people and groups are brought to justice," Wolf told DW.
Bangladeshi government has also intensified its crack down on Islamist groups involved in killing secular bloggers, but Wolf thinks it is far from enough.
"Bangladesh has effectively been transformed into an Islamic state. As a result, Islamist parties have been able to assume a bigger role in the country's politics. The situation is ripe for an international terrorist group like IS to establish itself in Bangladesh. It will surely describe the executions as a 'crusade against Muslims.'"
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PAKISTAN-vs-BFF-CHINA in Bangladesh + Myanmar???
[Dhaka Tribune] An autopsy on the youth killed in Friday's suicide kaboom on the Ahmadiyya mosque in Rajshahi's Baghmara upazila confirmed that the dead was the carrier of the improvised bomb.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... 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.... (IS) yesterday grabbed credit for the kaboom, SITE Intelligence Group said.
It quoted the Islamic State as saying that soldiers of the Caliphate in Bangladesh carried out the first suicide kaboom at the mosque during polytheist rituals.
Dr Enamul Haque, lecturer of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital's Forensic Department, yesterday said the boy was carrying the bomb against his left upper abdomen.
He said four splinters were recovered from the liver of the jacket wallah. "The man received severe wounds on the left part of his body as he was carrying the bomb on that side."
Several sources in the police said they suspected involvement of banned myrmidon outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh The JMB is said to be the youth front of Al Mujahideen, the parent organization that began working toward establishing Bangladesh as an Islamic state in the mid 1990s which remains obscure even today. Other organizations, such as Jama'atul Jihad, JMB, Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), Hizbut Tawhid, Tawhidi Janata, Islami Jubo Shangha, Islami Shangha, Al Falah A'am Unnayan Shanstha and Shahadat-e al Hiqma are believed to be part of the Al Mujahideen network. The JMB at its peak was reported to contain at least 100,000 members, and an alleged 2,000-man suicide brigade, few of whom actually exploded. JMB allegedly received financial assistance from individual donors in Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Libya. Reports have claimed that funding of JMB by international NGOs like Kuwait based Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage (RIHS) and Doulatul Kuwait, Saudi Arabia based Al Haramaine Islamic Institute and Rabita Al Alam Al Islami, Qatar Charitable Society and UAE-based Al Fuzaira and Khairul Ansar Al Khairia. The top leadership of JMB was captured in 2005 and hung in 2007, which pretty much shot their bolt. (JMB) in the kaboom as the locality is known as a den and breeding ground for JMB cadres.
A high official of an intelligence agency requesting not to be named told the Dhaka Tribune that they are mainly focusing their investigation on JMB involvement.
An eyewitness said just a couple of moments before the blast a cycle of violence whizzed past the mosque. Law enforcers suspected the attackers had planned to escape with the motorbike but the bomb accidentally went off before the time.
Motiar Rahman, officer-in-charge of Baghmara cop shoppe, said police are patrolling the area.
Earlier, on Friday around 1:20pm during the Jumma prayer, a bomb went kaboom! at Ahmadiyya mosque leaving a youth dead on the spot and several others injured badly.
Of the injured, condition of Moyez Uddin, 40, Sayeb Ali, 36, and Nayon, 12, were stated to be critical. They are now undergoing treatment at RMCH.
Injured Moyez Uddin told the Dhaka Tribune that they saw a boy enter the mosque just after the Jumma prayer call. "He said he was from Mohonpur and studied in Rajshahi Polytechnique Institute and he came to visit a friend in the area."
Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the sub-inspector of Baghmara cop shoppe filed a case around 2.00am yesterday accusing two unidentified youths, said OC Motiar Rahman.
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Republican terror groups are capable of carrying out “one-off” attacks on the British mainland, the Government has warned, and are sufficiently armed to pose an “enduring threat”. Threat assessments have concluded that the Real IRA and other dissident republicans still “aspire” to target the UK even if Northern Ireland remains it main focus.
It comes as MI5 warned the threat from such groups is four times greater than figures suggest and some are reverting to old Provisional IRA methods. For every dissident attack in Northern Ireland last year the Security Service helped foil three to four, the head of the spy agency said.
In October, a review for the Government concluded that all the main republican and loyalist paramilitary terrorist groups remain in existence, 17 years after the Good Friday peace deal. The review by police and MI5 said all the paramilitary groups that declared ceasefires during the peace process in the 1990s have since gone on to commit murders. And while none of the groups were currently planning or conducting terror attacks, individual members with histories of violence remained a threat to national security, it said.
[THETIMES.CO.UK] Muslims are boycotting the country's key anti-radicalisation programme, The Times can disclose, after it emerged that less than a tenth of extremism tip-offs were coming directly from the community or faith leaders. The revelation that there were fewer than 300 community tip-offs in six months to the government's Prevent programme will raise concern that the police are being denied information that might prevent terrorist attacks.
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Gee. You'd think that these folks would be aware of about 99% of what is going on in their communities.
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As with areas here in the States, there are 'enforcers' who will do some very nasty things to persons AND their families who dare to tip-off the law.
We hear this from Muslim people we know in the upper Midwest, so I'm sure it is prevalent elsewhere as well.
Not much different MO than the inner city gangs. At least the Mafia (usually) left the women and children alone.
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A group of Filipino protesters has landed on a disputed Philippine-held island in the South China Sea, a local government official said on Sunday, in a risky expedition that may trigger a strong reaction from China. can't Preznit Zero just enjoy his Hawaiian Holiday without you meddling kids stirring things up?
About 50 protesters, most of them students, reached Pagasa island in the Spratly archipelago on Saturday in a stand against what they say is Beijing's creeping invasion of the Philippine exclusive economic zone, said Eugenio Bito-onon, the island's mayor.
"The 'freedom voyage' arrived at about 8:30 a.m. on Saturday from Balabac island on a motor launch," Bito-onon told Reuters, adding the protesters left southern Palawan on Thursday in fine weather to make the long sea crossing.
China claims almost all the South China Sea, believed to have huge deposits of oil and gas, through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims on the strategic waters.
Describing their expedition as a "a patriotic voyage", the protesters, led by an ex-marine captain, planned to camp on Pagasa for three days in a symbolic act of defiance against China.
"We encourage the highest leadership of the country to inform the people correctly without sugar coating the truth about Chinese invasion of our exclusive economic zone," the protesters said in a post on Facebook.
Government and military officials had tried to prevent the group from sailing to the disputed waters, citing security and safety reasons after a storm in the South China Sea earlier this month.
The Philippines was also concerned about China's reaction to trip as Manila has been trying to calm tensions heightened by Beijing's rapid expansion in the South China Sea - building seven artificial islands in the disputed waters.
The Philippines has challenged Beijing before the arbitration court in The Hague, a case Beijing has not recognized.
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If a storm comes US forces from Subic Bay will be close enough to rescue in plenty of time, let the kids have their fun.
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As per the MSM-NET, CHINA = has repor demanded at China-SOKOR bilateral talks that SOKOR give up a large part of its claimed EEZ in the Yellow Sea.
Won't be too long before JAPAN gets the same "request" from "US-style/par" OWG Co-Superpower CHINA.
* WORLD NEWS, TOPIX > [Sputnik News] CHINA ASCENDANT, GROWING COMFORTABLE INTO NEW [Co-Superpower?] SUPERPOWER ROLE.
Lest we fergit, China is a member of the "Nuclear Club" + was already considered a Nuclear Superpower during the US-Soviet Cold War, since the mid-1960's + POTUS Nixon's China visit = "Ping-Pong Diplomacy".
[TOM HANKS = TEAM USA MEMBER "FORREST GUMP" STEALS A POST-PEKING/NIXON US ARMY PING-PONG PADDLE + RUNS AWAY here].
* SAME > JAPAN BUILDS A MAGINOT LINE IN THE SEA/EAST CHINA SEA.
Tokyo plans to construct a line of Anti-China, AADS + ASBM Batteries, etc. on various Nippon-held islands.
* JAPAN TIMES > ARMED CHINESE SHIP [1 of 3 ea. China CG?] INFILTRATES WATERS OFF SENKAKUS, JAPAN COAST GUARD SAYS.
* RELATED TWITTER > CHINA PATROLS JAPANESE WATERS IN EAST CHINA SEA.
* Also from TWITTER > CHINA IMPERIOUS: AFTER SOUTH CHINA SEA, YELLOW SEA + EAST CHINA SEA WILL BE CHINA'S PRIVATE LAKES!? | Telegraph.UK] BEJING LAYS CLAIM TO SOUTH KOREAN WATERS.
* FINANCIAL TIMES > JAPAN GROWS AN ISLAND TO CHECK CHINA'S PLANS.
* ZERO HEDGE > JAPAN PREPARES MISSLE BLOCKADE IN EAST CHINA SEA [circa 200 Islands, Islets, + Reefs-Shoals] TO HALT CHINA'S "MARITIME AGGRESSION".
* SAME > [Repost = ZH News Artic dated 11/17/2015] CHINA HAS RIGHT TO SEIZE [disputed] NEIGHBORING ISLANDS, OFFICIAL SAYS.
NOT necessarily in just the South China Sea from the PH andor VN, etc.
* CHINAMIL [PLA Daily OL] EXPERT: AMERICAN BOMBER ENTERS SOUTH CHINA SEA WID [Beijing's = China's] PERMISSION. US has over-stepped its authority + China will NOT accept it.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > YOMIURI SHIMBUN: DECLASSIFIED COLD WAR DOCUMENTS DENOTES THAT IFF NO SOVIET-CHINESE SPLIT HAD OCCURRED, COMMUNIST CHINESE CONTROL OF TAIWAN COULD HAD LED TO THE SUCCESSFUL ISOLATION OF JAPAN BY SOVIET SUBMARINES, THE STRATEGIC PULLOUT OF US FORCES FROM EAST ASIA, + THE INCREASED DEPLOYMENT OF SOVIET NAVY MISSLE AND ATTACK SUBMARINES TO THE SOUTHERN OCEANS.
* WORLD NEWS > [Sputnik News] "EQUAL RIVALS"? CHINA MAY PUSH OUT US AS THE [World's] SOLE SUPERPOWER.
However, as per God + 1960's-1970's Guam Taotamonas, CHINA HAS TO TAKE GUAM, ETAL. PACIFIC ISLANDS FIRST.
GUAM won't "capsize" = sink like the Pearl Harbor USN Battleship USS Oklahoma, + the US won't be a DE FACTO "WEAK-N-DECLINING" [Self] RETREATING-CROSS-THE-PACIFIC-TOWARDS-EASTPAC-N-CONUS DYING SUPERPOWER???
THE US MAY STILL EXIST BUT NO LONGER AS A SUPERPOWER OR EVEN OWG CO-SUPERPOWER.
Hence China has ...
* STRATEGYPAGE > THE CHINESE GUAM ATTACK FORCE + THE CHINESE PLAN FOR ABSORBING NORTH KOREA.
[Breitbart] "I am profoundly convinced that we are facing an organised invasion and not a spontaneous movement of refugees," said Zeman in his Christmas message to the Czech Republic released Saturday.
He went on to say that compassion was "possible" for refugees who are old or sick and for children, but not for young men who in his view should be back home fighting against jihadists.
"A large majority of the illegal migrants are young men in good health, and single. I wonder why these men are not taking up arms to go fight for the freedom of their countries against the Islamic State," said Zeman, who was elected Czech president in early 2013.
He added that their fleeing their war-torn countries only serves to strengthen the IS group.
The 71-year-old evoked a comparison to the situation of Czechs who left their country when it was under Nazi occupation (1939-1945) in order to "fight to liberate the country and not to receive social benefits in Great Britain."
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Nothing to see here, move along. The Czech have just had a run of bad luck over the past 80 years and are projecting their ire on a few hundred thousand unskilled (but talented in their own way ) young male sons of the soil.
ZF: Fetch my Triumph, I must ride around Broooooding Castle Rantburg in it.
[AlAhram] An armed Kurdish group on Saturday claimed an kaboom near a plane at Istanbul's second international airport which killed a female cleaner and maimed another.
"We ... claim the attack carried by mortar bombs at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport," on Wednesday, the Freedom Falcons of Kurdistan (TAK) said on its website.
Airport cleaner Zehra Yamac, 30, died of head wounds hours after the blast on the tarmac at the airport on the Asian side of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's largest city. The maimed victim was also a cleaner.
The attack came as Turkey wages an all-out offensive against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which launched an armed insurgency against the Turkish state in 1984, initially fighting for Kurdish independence, then pressing for greater autonomy for the country's largest ethnic minority.
Turkish officials say TAK is a front for PKK attacks on civilian targets and the PKK claims TAK is a splinter group over which it has no control.
On its website, TAK lashed out at what it described as a "war coalition" between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and 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.... group against the Kurds.
It also said the airport attack was a response to the "fascist attacks that turn Kurdish cities into ruins."
The gang, which had been silent for some time, claimed the attack had inflicted "serious damage" to the airport and that five planes were "heavily" damaged.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has told Al Arabiya News Channel that the Middle East is suffering from sectarian plots to divide the region. Oh, no! Not plots! Oh, hold me, Ethel!
In a preview of the interview with the leader, to be aired fully on Sunday, Erdogan demanded that countries in the region come together to address this plot to stir sectarianism.
He said there were "disagreements" between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iran over regional issues.
"There are disagreements between Turkey and Iran, but I do not want these disparities to affect good neighborly relations ... sectarianism should not prompt us to become enemies, Islam must be our reference.
"There are intentions in the world to divide us and we need to join our efforts and come together. Look at what is happening in Iraq, Syria, Paleostine and Libya ... we have to overcome these problems and if we manage to do so, the Islamic world will be more powerful," Erdogan added.
Turkish presence in Iraq On the Iraq crisis, the president said that Turkish forces currently training Iraqis in the Bashiqa Camp near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , came at the request and knowledge of Iraqi authorities. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... he did not say whether these stationed forces will withdraw.
"Iraqi-Turkish relations are good. We tackled developments in Iraq during [Iraqi Prime Minister] Haidar al-Abadi's visit to Turkey," he said.
"When ISIS entered Iraq, the Iraqis asked for our help and we told them we were ready. We asked them to assign a suitable site to set up our base and so they did. It all began at the end of last year, and in March, we were allocated the Bashiqa area."
He added: "The Iraqi defense minister visited the training camp, but it seems that the developments in Syria have affected the situation in Iraq. Syria, Iran, Iraq and Russia have formed a quartet alliance in Baghdad and asked Turkey to join, but I told President [Vladimir] Putin that I cannot sit alongside a president whose legitimacy is distrustful."
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"There are disagreements between Turkey and Iran, but I do not want these disparities to affect good neighborly relations ... sectarianism should not prompt us to become enemies, My Islam must be our reference."
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Translation "Turkey is up sh*t creek sans paddle".
The Turkish police are searching for Mahimr Ulash, who is suspected of preparing a terrorist attack, the Turkish newspaper Milliyet reported Dec. 26.
Ulash with his family has recently attempted to travel to Syria to join the militants of the IS terrorist organization. Members of his family were blown up on a mine at the border crossing.
Drone-zap the funeral...
Some 97 people were killed and more than 240 people were injured as a result of the terrorist act committed in Ankara October 10. According to the Turkish National Intelligence Organization, the IS committed this terrorist attack.
Earlier, the Turkish National Intelligence Organization warned of the possibility of committing other terrorist attacks in the country. Some 20 more suicide bombers are preparing to commit the terrorist attacks in different cities in Turkey, the statement said.
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[DAWN] Province-wide protest demonstrations and sit-ins of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) came to an end on Saturday evening after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah promised to send the murder case of the slain leader Khalid Mehmood Soomro to a military court for trial.
A large number of JUI-F workers erupted into the streets across Sindh cities and towns demanding trial by a military court of those tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for their alleged involvement in the killing of Dr Soomro, who was rubbed out in Sukkur on Nov 29, 2014.
In Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , JUI-F workers and leaders gathered in front of the Karachi Press Club to stage a protest demonstration.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: After a lull ostensibly arising out of perceived controversy over Rangers' policing powers between the Centre and the Sindh Government, the paramilitary force has vowed to continue the operation with "full force" against hit mans, Lions of Islam and other criminal elements.
According to a statement issued by Rangers, it has started conducting targets raids for the arrest of suspects belonging to banned religious outfits and 'militant wings' presumably associated with the political parties. Wouldn't it make sense to dismantle any political party that has an "armed" or "militant" wing?
The paramilitary force claimed on Saturday to have conducted targeted raids on alleged hideouts of banned outfits and 'militant wings' and announced the arrest of six suspects.
"These arrests were made in Bilal Colony, Lyari, al-Falah, Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Gulberg respectively," the statement added.
The Rangers spokesperson said that the apprehended suspects belonged to banned holy warrior groups and one of them was an 'extortionist' belonging to 'the holy warrior wing' of a political party. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the official declined to name the political party.
The paramilitary force vowed to "continue the operation with full force till arrest of last terrorist, targeted killer and other criminals".
The Rangers urged the citizens of 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... to keep strict vigil on suspicious persons in their surroundings and inform them on Rangers helpline 1101 through phone or SMS.
After much deliberation, the interior ministry gave a 60-day extension in the special policing powers of Rangers in Sindh, after a meeting at the ministry chaired by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... .
"The provincial assembly does not reserve the authority to amend the federal laws," the interior ministry said in a statement.
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Tehran has confirmed its intention to withdraw its lawsuit against Russia over the non-delivery of the S-300 air defense systems, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said in an interview aired Saturday, Sputnik reported.
"We have confirmation from the Iranian side of the withdrawal of the lawsuit, and i believe that it will take place in the near future," Manturov said in the interview with Vesti v Subbotu (Saturday News) show on Rossiya-1 television.
Last week, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the "unconditional withdrawal" of the lawsuit was one of the conditions for delivery of the S-300 systems that, according to Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanai, started in November.
Moscow and Tehran signed an $800-million deal for the delivery of five S-300 missile systems in 2007. In 2011, Iran sued Russia after Moscow suspended the contract in 2010, citing a UN Security Council resolution that placed an arms embargo on Tehran over its nuclear program.
In April 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted the S-300 delivery ban, shortly after the six world powers and Iran reached a framework nuclear agreement to remove all economic sanctions against Tehran in exchange for guarantees of the peaceful nature of its nuclear activities.
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Iran’s media reported on Saturday that the price of the country’s heavy crude oil had plunged to below $30 per barrel for the first time in almost 20 years, Press TV reported.
Shana news agency – affiliated to Iran’s Oil Ministry – said in a report that the country had sold heavy crude at $29.4 per barrel. The price had been registered in the week ending 18 December. The report added that Iran had also sold its light crude at $35.1 per barrel over the same period.
Both figures show major drops from normal levels of the previous months. The average price of Iran’s heavy oil stood at $48.6 since March, added Shana. The average price of the light oil stood at $50.6.
Iran last saw record low prices in 1998 when its oil was traded in markets at below $10 per barrel.
We live in hope...
Officials in Tehran had earlier said they expected the prices to plunge below $30 per barrel.
“Oil producing countries will suffer serious blows under the current conditions and with [further] plunges in prices of this product (oil),” said Iran’s First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri on 19 December.
For a country that has devised its budget based on $100 for each barrel it expects to sell, it will be hard to change the calculations to $30 per barrel, Jahangiri added.
Nevertheless, the country’s Finance Minister Ali Tayyeb-Niya later emphasized that Iran had provided the required preparations to deal with the economic impacts of oil prices even as low as $30 per barrel. Tayyeb-Niya said a large part of those preparations focuses on the implementation of a comprehensive national taxation program which is already on the agenda of the government.
Cutting off funding for Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorists would free up some cash for the home front...
Petrodollars provide the lifeline of the Iranian economy and officials have already emphasized that oil production as well as oil exports will increase even in face of falling prices.
“Considering that the costs for the production of oil in Iran are low, further drops in oil prices will not undermine Iran’s oil export plans,” said Rokneddin Javadi, the managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).
Javadi emphasized that Iran is still eager to regain the oil market share it has lost as a result of the US-engineered sanctions against the country. Nevertheless, he warned that OPEC’s failure to devise an appropriate policy to accommodate the incoming Iranian oil supplies will push the prices to even lower levels.
“OPEC member states should keep their output within the quotas that have already been defined,” said Javadi.
“We are ready to increase Iran’s total oil production by 500,000 barrels per day within a week after the removal of the sanctions,” he has been quoted as saying by IRNA news agency.
Iran’s oil production, the official added, will rise to above 2 million bpd in less than six months afterwards.
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...Given the Inshallah attitude of Iranian technology, you gotta believe that under $30 means they're losing money on every barrel.
Popcorn, anyone?
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According to this Yahoo Finance article from October, Iran's production costs currently average $15/barrel. The break-even cost to open a new field would be $30/bbl once sanctions are removed. The problem is, the best price at which to run the country and foreign ventures as the Mad Mullahs would like is about $136/bbl, as I understand it -- the $100/bbl budget mentioned in the article was from the revised budget when the price dropped from peak (input from those who know more about this would be greatly appreciated!). The government will no doubt raise domestic oil and natural gas prices again, also no doubt to a chorus of dismayed shrieks from the populace, but that will just be moving spending from one category to another.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] "I am profoundly convinced that we are facing an organised invasion and not a spontaneous movement of refugees," said Zeman in his Christmas message to the Czech Republic released Saturday.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish President 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
Tehran has confirmed its intention to withdraw its lawsuit against Russia over the non-delivery of the S-300 air defense systems, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said in an interview aired Saturday, Sputnik reported.
