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Yemen's Ruling Party and Opposition To Sign Deal in Riyadh soon
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Africa North
How the 'Humanitarian' Intervention in Libya Made Our World Infinitely More Dangerous
North Korea's lesson from Libya is that if you give up your WMD programs peacefully, you may have lost your best defense from invasion.
Posted by: tipper || 04/27/2011 01:17 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  infinite is a lot. i don't think you mean what you say. there is a big difference between worse and infinitely worse.
Posted by: rammer || 04/27/2011 22:43 Comments || Top||


Britain
WikiLeaks: fear of offending Muslims allowed extremists into Britain ahead of 7/7 London bombing
A fear of offending Muslims allowed extremists into Britain before the 2005 London Tube and bus bombings, a former Labour minister with close links to the intelligence services has admitted.
Posted by: tipper || 04/27/2011 14:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other shocking news, water is wet.

The sun rises in the east, too.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/27/2011 19:04 Comments || Top||


Europe
Hannan: Zut alors! Now France wants less integration
Eh bien, je jamais. The French government is demanding less European integration.

President Sarkozy, furious at the sight of Tunisian migrants being waved through by Italian carabinieri, and uncomfortably aware that opinion polls put him behind the Front Nationale’s Marine Le Pen, is demanding that the Schengen Treaty be revised to allow countries to reimpose frontier controls.

He is reacting to Italy’s decision to grant six-month residency permits to thousands of North African refugees. Such permits, intended for tourists, allow the bearers to travel freely throughout the Schengen Area – a border-free zone that takes in most of the EU, but from which Britain and Ireland wisely stood aside. Since most of the recipients are French-speaking, it’s not hard to guess where they will end up.
Posted by: tipper || 04/27/2011 01:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile, oer at PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUM > TURKEY, IRAN, IRAQ, + SYRIA TO CREATE COMMON VISA SYSTEM, patterned on the Euro "SHENGEN TREATY/ZONE".

Move along, people, clearly no [proto-]RISING OWG Caliphate here, espec after ...

To wit,

* USKOWINONIRAN BLOG > AHMADINEJAD WARNS OF ARAB-IRANIAN AND SUNNI-SHIA CONFLICT, as conspired + induced by the wily dastardly imperialistic Zionist Crusader US-WEST.

* ION LES FRANCAISE, PRAVDA > FRANCE QUESTIONS FUNDAMENTAL EUROPEAN [EU] PRINCIPLES.

* SAME > BOSNIA CAN BE EXPLODED BY [internal/domestic] CROATIAN "BOMB". Bosnian Croatminority unhappy wid current state of affairs in mostly Muslim Bosnia.

* SAME > DENMARK: ANOTHER POINT OF CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS [Increasing Muslim inflows from various Regions, i.e. Africa, Eastern Europe, Chechnya, + ME-Asia Minor].

* SAME > ARAB REFUGEES DESTROY EUROPEAN UNION.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/27/2011 22:47 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Sun CEO calls out planted Ignatieff Iraq photo
Posted by: ryuge || 04/27/2011 10:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Call for Congress to investigate Islamist influence
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Time for legislators to do the job the executive branch won't.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/27/2011 06:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Jim Jacks [the U.S. attorney in Dallas who prosecuted the Holy Land
Foundation executives] and his team were ready to go. There’s a mountain of evidence against all of these groups that was never introduced
during the Holy Land trial and it is damning. We’ve got them on wiretaps. That’s exactly why many of these leaders and groups were named
unindicted co-conspirators in the first round of prosecutions.


Don't expect anything from Harry Reid, the Obama administration, or Holder's Justice Department. Better clean house in 2012 if you want anything to be done. Some of the States are trying to pass legislation regarding Sharia Law but they are running into opposition. The difficulty is that of insuring First Amendment rights of speech and freedom of religion while at the same time preventing Sharia Law from slipping in under the radar. Islam is wrapped up in religion, politics, islamic law, punishment, rules for personal behavior, banking, jihad, etc.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/27/2011 12:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't expect anything from Harry Reid, the Obama administration, or Holder's Justice Department.

Agreed. The key, then, is to preserve the evidence (and whatever else comes up in the meantime) and be ready to go when the next president is sworn in. The other option is a civil suit, I suppose -- although who would have standing is beyond me.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2011 15:31 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan's challenge to U.S. Afghan strategy
The Pakistani military leadership wishes to draw a redline for the U.S.' covert operations so that Washington will be compelled to deal with militant Afghan groups through the single window of the ISI.

The U.S. intelligence network within Pakistan has penetrated the range of insurgent groups — the Afghan Taliban, the “Pakistan Taliban,” and non-Taliban (Afghan and Pakistani) militant groups. Evidently, if the drone attacks are becoming more “result-oriented,” it is due to real-time intelligence inputs. During the six weeks of gruelling interrogation of U.S. intelligence operative Raymond Davis, the Pakistani military caught on to a host of home truths. By now, the Pakistani military would have a fair idea of the extent of the American intelligence network and its potential to play merry havoc by splintering insurgent groups, pitting one group against another, manipulating factionalism within groups, monitoring the terror network and, conceivably, even turning some of the insurgent groups into instruments of U.S. regional policies.
If what this Indian journalist believes is true, the CIA has quietly done considerably better than previously revealed. Or perhaps it was the DoD, in which case sending General Petraeus off to reorganize the CIA is even more important than we realized.
To be sure, Pakistan is insisting on the need to reset the ground rules as the endgame advances, in order to avoid the horrible prospect of its so-called “strategic assets” in Afghanistan — which it created at enormous cost and sacrifice and at great risk over the past three decades — getting systematically cannibalised by the American intelligence operatives scavenging the Pakistani territories, on one side of the Durand Line, and by the Special Forces under General David Petraeus relentlessly scouring the Hindu Kush, on the other — the famous “hammer and anvil approach.”
Posted by: ryuge || 04/27/2011 09:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Pakistani military leadership wishes to draw a redline for the U.S.' covert operations so that Washington will be compelled to deal with militant Afghan groups through the single window of the ISI.

Not going to happen.

The U.S. intelligence network within Pakistan has penetrated the range of insurgent groups

How else could The USA be so successful in killing off the insurgent leadership, they ask. How indeed. :-)

The only reason Pakistan is helping us at all is that "W" explained the consequences of not helping.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey || 04/27/2011 21:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The U.S. intelligence network within Pakistan has penetrated the range of insurgent groups -- the Afghan Taliban, the "Pakistan Taliban," and non-Taliban (Afghan and Pakistani) militant groups.

Er, huh, er..... HORSE SHIT!
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2011 21:35 Comments || Top||

#3  CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [KARZAI TOLD TO DUMP US]PAKISTAN URGES AFGHANISTAN TO ALLY WID ISLAMABAD, BEIJING, iff it wants to make peace wid the Taliban + as per Econ development.

ARTIC = PAKISTAN. IRAN, INDIA, + RUSSIA are starting to jockey to acquire influence in Afghanistan, espec for after the Year 2014 maxima deadline when the bulk of US-led Coalition troops are supposed to leave.

* SAME > NOW THE YANKS ARE PAYING THE PRICE FOR SUPPORTING THE MUJAHIDEEN AGZ THE SOVIETS | AFGHAN OFFICE [Afghan Air Force] OPENS FIRE, KILLING NINE AMERICANS.

The Shooter is not known or believed to be a Taliban or other MilTerr sympathizer.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/27/2011 22:20 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Pastor Loon and the Dearborn Buffoons
Backlash?
Posted by: ryuge || 04/27/2011 09:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  George W. Bush (and many, many other respected and important people): "Islam is peace."

Terry Jones: "Islam is not a religion of peace."

Spot the loon(s)!
Posted by: Pliny Unolugum7323 || 04/27/2011 11:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey, Pastor Jones is framing the issue for many people. Let him have at it. There is too much effort to shut down any voices of dissent or opposition by PC and the MSM.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/27/2011 12:16 Comments || Top||

#3  As with Thoreau's "trout in the milk", sometimes a blatant, odoriferous and unsolicited stench is needed to remind us that not all men are brothers.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/27/2011 14:54 Comments || Top||

#4  All morality is based on reciprocity.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/27/2011 15:23 Comments || Top||


The American Soviet
Dear Professor Victor Davis Hanson thinks aloud again.
In our version of the Soviet, we know that Israel is supposed to be culpable and that we are asked to praise the "aspirations" of the Palestinians, but if we were to go to the Middle East we most certainly would not stay in Gaza or the West Bank or visit unescorted a Christian shrine. We would wish to dine with people like the Fogels, but not their killers or the people who ordered them to kill. We are also to understand that the Arab and Turkish worlds abhor Israeli violence, and so we nod our assent; but privately we know that the issue is really Jews, not savagery per se, and that an Arab dictator can murder 1.000 Arabs with less worry about Western condemnation than an Israeli soldier can shoot one Arab on the West Bank in self-defense. Publicly we accept that tiny Israel, a country of 7 million, is an overdog, the foreign-policy equivalent of the demonized "them" here in America, the people who make over $200,000 a year -- too successful, too Western, too unquestioning of their culture. Privately, we sort of admire Israel's courage and understand that anti-Semitism, oil, fear of terrorism, and demographic calculus construct Arabs as sympathetic victims and Israelis as neo-colonialists.
Posted by: Beavis || 04/27/2011 08:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Political correctness squelching public debate and morality because of apathy and affluence? Maybe but I don't think so?

How does one explain the Tea Party movement? How does one explain that people actively seek to be better informed and reject the MSM message? How does one explain that Donald Trump is gaining support because he is outspoken and not politically correct?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/27/2011 11:47 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2011-04-27
  Yemen's Ruling Party and Opposition To Sign Deal in Riyadh soon
Tue 2011-04-26
  NATO air strike pounds Gaddafi compound
Mon 2011-04-25
   470 inmates escape Kandahar jug
Sun 2011-04-24
  US carries out first drone strike in Libya
Sat 2011-04-23
  Yemen's president agrees to step down
Fri 2011-04-22
  Obama Authorizes Use of Drone Airstrikes in Libya...
Thu 2011-04-21
  Nigeria: Over 200 dead in the post-election riots
Wed 2011-04-20
  Syria government approves lifting state of emergency
Tue 2011-04-19
  Suicide Bomber Attacks Afghan Ministry of Defence
Mon 2011-04-18
  Five Hurt as Regime Agents Disperse Rallies in South Syria
Sun 2011-04-17
  Egypt: Justice orders the dissolution of the former ruling party
Sat 2011-04-16
  Qaddafi bombards Misrata
Fri 2011-04-15
  Pro-Hamas Italian activist hanged in Gaza
Thu 2011-04-14
  Pro-Hamas Italian Kidnapped By Salafists In Gaza
Wed 2011-04-13
  AU Libya Peace Plan Flops

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