Two men were killed and a third was injured during a gunfight last Tuesday on the road from Sana'a to Mareb. The deaths come as result of tribal disputes that go back 17 years between Al Ali Bin Falah and Nehim tribe. A tribal source told the Yemen Times that tribal conflicts are rising these days, as 2003 parliamentary elections draw near, and there is dispute between GPC and Islah parties. Tribal efforts have failed to get reconciliation between the two tribes. Some tribes are accusing the authorities of inciting tribal conflict to weaken the power they have. Keeping tribes in conflict is believed to be of the best ways to avoid their attacks against the authorities. Every time they kill each other, that's fewer of them left to be shooting at the rest of us...
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North Korea is entitled to develop nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction because of a U.S. threat to its sovereignty, Pyongyang's Ambassador to Moscow said Thursday, in the first firm defense of its clandestine military program. "We unambiguously told the U.S. presidential special envoy that, facing a growing nuclear threat from the U.S., we have the right to possess not only nuclear, but even more powerful weapons in order to defend our sovereignty and the right to survive," Pak Hui Chun said. "Even more powerful" weapons than nuclear? Is he talking about a bio program? Or have the Paks taught them to harness the power of djinn?
"U.S. special envoy James Kelly absolutely groundlessly accused us of violating the U.N.-North Korea agreement by speeding up the implementation of a uranium-enrichment program to obtain nuclear weapons," Pak said in reference to the U.S. envoy's visit to Pyongyang earlier this month, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. The Ambassador further dismissed U.S. allegations that North Korea rejected a 1994 framework agreement in which Pyongyang agreed to halt development of its nuclear program, the Interfax news agency reported. The United States "had failed to present any proof" that North Korea is enriching its uranium to weapons-grade. "We violated the treaty because we have every right to violate it because of American threats, but you have no proof that we violated the treaty, so therefore we didn't. And we reject any proof they think you have." I think that's what he said, but he's not very coherent, is he?
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In all seriousness, he might be referring to fusion bombs, rather than the standard fission ones that the New Kids on the Block have.
Or then again, he might be talking out of his ass. That's a definite possibility.
A medical student found guilty of kidnapping and murder has been hanged in public in a stadium of northern Iran. It said the condemned man, named only as Saeed, was executed Wednesday in the town of Amol in Mazandaran province. The family of the victim, who was identified as Mohammad Javad Parvizi, refused to pardon the killer or accept blood money, as permitted under Islamic Sharia laws. Blood money in Iran is currently fixed at 150 million rials ( nearly $20,000) for killing a man and half that amount for a woman. I don't think anybody really objects to stretching a murderer's neck. It's the fact that it's the half-time show at the homecoming game that bothers most of us. That, and the cheerleaders. Oh, and they might want to work on that blood money pricing. Us men of the world know that killing a woman is much more of a waste than killing a man...
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Speaking of cheerleaders - Possibly the most destructive thing we could do to the Fundo regimes would be to beam 24/7 Coors Light Ads airing during the NFL games (Nobody really has as much fun/babes/beer as in those ads but we don't have to tell them that til the shootin's over)
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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has predicted an early violent overthrow of the Iranian government, or its collapse amid mounting problems and internal strife. The forecast, made Wednesday during a radio call-in show, came in response to a question on whether the administration of President George W. Bush planned to move on to Iran after achieving its goal of "regime change" in Iraq. Therefore, it appeared to suggest that the Bush administration saw no need to resort to overt or covert military measures to topple the regime in Tehran because it expected it to collapse under its own weight. How's it feel to be not important enough to worry about — for now?
"I suspect that during my lifetime we're going to see a change in that situation over there and that the young people and the women and the people who believe in freedom will overthrow that cleric government and it will fall in some way of its own weight," Rumsfeld said on "The Mike Gallagher Show." The defense secretary called Iran "an interesting place" controlled by "a very small clique of clerics. And the women and the young people don't agree with how it's being run." At the moment, the women and kiddies aren't the ones with the guns and ammuntion...
Iranian officials have been expressing heightened concern that if Washington decides to invade Iraq and maintain its military presence in Afghanistan, their country will end up sandwiched between two sizable contingents of US troops. "Is it just me, or do you feel... surrounded?"
Defense Minister Rear-Admiral Ali Shamkhani aired these worries earlier Wednesday, when he warned Iranians to be prepared for the possibility of a US attack. "The US government wants to reorganize the region and as a consequence Iran could constitute a target," Shamkhani said. "If the Americans are in both Afghanistan and Iraq, this represents a significant challenge." "Infidels to the west of us! Infidels to the east of us!..."
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I take Rumsfeld's comments to mean that once there are sizable contigents of American troops on both sides of Iran, we will assist the young people and the women in their revolt against the clerics.
Why would the SecDef tip the U.S.'s hand so blatantly - admitting that the mullahs can rest easy because we won't do anything? The only other possible purpose of such a statement would be to reassure the clerics that we have no beef with them, so their "assistance" against Iraq remains forthcoming. But that cuts against the substance of Rumsfeld's words, which clearly indicate that we would be in favor of regime change in Iran. Leaving misinformation as the sole reason for the remarks.
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Or it could be just a simple statement of confidence...
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What're they going to replace it with? Drawing and quartering?
Iran's reformists are seeking to end the practice of stoning for adultery and other offences, a reformist leader said Wednesday, while not saying if another form of death penalty might be substituted. "Concerning punishments that are enshrined in the Sharia (Islamic law), we cannot say that they are unconstitutional, but we think we must make some revisions in certain domains," Mohammad-Reza Khatami said in an interview published on the Internet. "That's because we look like idiots when we pretend it's still A.D. 622..."
Khatami, brother of reformist President Mohammad Khatami and head of the main reformist Islamic Iran Participation Front, said on the Womeniniran.com site there was currently "a judicial debate" over the use of stoning."Some religious leaders believe we can replace stoning with other punishments. As a result, we are considering the use of other punishments." "These include kicking them to death, gutting them, flinging them down a long flight of stairs, or putting them in a sack and beating them to death with a club."
"The Imam (the Islamic regime's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini) believed that if something damaged the image of the Islamic regime, we should not practise it," he said. Stoning is used to punish mainly adulterers, but the president's brother questioned whether the Sharia's strict precondition for dealing out such a punishment — the testimony of four respected witnesses to an adulterous act — was always respected. Sometimes you have to cut a few corners, or you won't get to have any fun at all...
The death penalty is implemented frequently in Iran for a range of crimes, but usually by hanging. Men sentenced to stoning are buried up to their necks in a pit, and women up to their armpits, but according to Islamic tradition they are acquitted if they succeed in pulling themselves free before they are killed. In one case last year a 35-year-old woman convicted of acting in pornographic films was stoned to death for adultery and "corruption on earth" in Tehran's Evin prison where she had been held for eight years. The Entekhab newspaper said she had been tracked down after investigators noticed the serial number of an electricity meter that was in the background of a scene in one of her films. I don't think I ever even noticed if there was an electric meter in a skin flick I watched, much less that the serial number was. And they say Westerners are perverts...!
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Using this technique it wasn't difficult tracking down Alec in "Smart Alec" as a sock salesman at Robert Hall.....
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From the Russian newspaper Argumenty i Fakti. Forgive my rusty translation skills...
"Chechnya is an Islamic country, united to Russia by force..."
"the Chechens have been slaughtered..."
"the events in the Moscow theater have shown that the Chechen resistance movement has not been choked off, but is flowing like lava, which which awaits its opportunity and ignites everything in its path..."
"the Chechen people had no choice, the Chechens attempted to grab the eyes and ears of the world and to awaken their sleeping conscience...".
All of these statements come, not from internet sites controlled by Movlad Udugov, the main ideologue of Chechen independence. On the contrary. This is an excerpt from the leading Iranian paper "Jomkhuriye Eslami." It is a semiofficial publication, reflecting the views of Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his conservative circle. They are the people who in the Islamic Republic of Iran possess the real power, which is supported by the army and the special services.
It appears the Danes aren't the only ones who haven't been tactful lately. Or maybe the Medes and the Persians don't expect to have their papers read by the infidels...
Misfortune reveals to people who their friends â and enemies â are. International reaction to the tragic events in Moscow was an outstanding demonstration of this old saw. The responses of the Teheran press ("Jomkhuriye Eslami" in this sense is not an exception) do not leave any doubt on whose side sympathy and public opinion in Iran. It is clearly not on our side.
Well, by golly. They've noticed.
Does it seem we don't have any sympathy from Iran? We've lived without it, and we'll probably continue to get by without it. There's only one "but." Iran today is a heavy problem for Russian-American relations. Teheran is to Washington a part of the "axis of evil", a "sponsor of international terrorism". But for Moscow, Iran is (still) our most important partner in the region. But some of our politicians (recently, it's true, they've slipped into the shadows) have even proposed to erect a multipolar world, relying on "strategic alliance" with China, for some reason with India and... with Iran.
I don't know how much this reflects official opinion in Russia, but it would seem they're not pleased with the reaction of the Ayatollahs, and they're clearly not happy with the Chechens â there probably aren't many in Moscow who are right now, and they're probably keeping their mouths shut. For what it's worth, they also carried this in the same issue â LGF beat me to it, picking it up from Arutz Sheva...
As reported in today's issue of the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets", Russian special services have decided to bury the Chechen terrorists killed in the hostage release from the Dubrovka theater wrapped in pigskin. The purpose of this is to prevent further terrorist actions. The "shahids," the "martyrs of jihad," believe that if they sacrifice their lives murdering infidels they immediately go to paradise, to a sweet life in the arms of 72 houri-virgins. However, in the same popular beliefs, bodies buried in "unclean" pigskin are forever deprived of eternal bliss
There were stories, perhaps apocryphal, of General Pershing doing the same thing when fighting the Moros in the Philippines. I wonder if the Russers also oiled up their bullets with lard, as Pershing's men were also reported to have done?
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The "houris" at heaven's gate appear to have loose morals. Maybe they are real oinkers. A good shaheed wants to smell right.
Federal forces killed three insurgents from a group that had been headed by Movsar Barayev, who led the hostage-takers in Moscow. Colonel Ilya Shabalkin said federal forces clashed with the rebel band in forests between Argun and Grozny. In televised comments, he said they recovered maps with plans for attacks on targets including federal checkpoints and a railroad in Chechnya. The targets included federal checkpoints and the railroad linking Mozdok in North Ossetia and Gudermes, Shabalkin said. Meanwhile, a Chechen administration official said investigators had found flight data recorders from a Mi-8 helicopter that was shot down Tuesday near Chechnya's main military base, killing all four people aboard. He said Grozny had been sealed off while forces searched for the suspects. This is not a good time to be a crazed Chechen killer... Link is courtesy of Steve...
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Source: ChechenPress.info
The main subject discussed in the British press on Monday was tragic consequences of the raid on theatre in Moscow. It should be noted that all newspapers without exclusion draw the readers attention to the fact that the operation resulted in heavy losses not through the terrorists or special forces but unknown gas that poisoned at least 155 people, according to the latest data. Notice they folded their own dead into the number...
The most pessimistic picture is that of the Guardian's, according to which 150 hostages died as a result of the hostage releasing storm, and all of them except two people fell victims of the gas, which, the authorities of Russia stubbornly refuse to name. The situation is aggravated with the fact that people are not allowed to see their relatives in the hospital. Their people also seem to have become "hostages." The Russians are probably still not completely sure that none of the people in hospital are snuffies mingling with their intended victims...
According to the newspaper, owing to the results of the operation military triumph has gradually turned into a political catastrophe. The Independent notes that people are discontent with the decision of their President and require of him to explain why he refused to negotiate and gave an order to storm the building with application of chemical weapon. Thought there was nothing to negotiate? The offer was "get out of Chechnya or we kill the hostages." They didn't, they did, so the Russers stormed the building. It's a pretty well established principle of criminal law that if you undertake a felonious action and somebody gets killed as a result, you're the one responsible, even though it might have been from a stray bullet from the other side. The idea is that if you hadn't been an ass in the first place, there wouldn't have been a dangerous situation to kill the innocent bystander. The Times officially declares that it is Russia's internal affair how to settle the problem. Moreover, the newspaper refers to the official position of Downing Street, according to which, the Moscow crisis, as well as the war in Chechnya, is an internal affair of Russia, and the tactics of the Russian authorities should not be discussed. At the same time, British government does not hurry to admit direct links of the Chechen terrorists with Bin Laden. They're indirect only. All the links meet in Soddy Arabia. There's a certain interchange of personnel between the al-Qaeda gunnies and the Chechens, and the funding is all from the same trough.
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A suspected Chechen terrorist was arrested in Moscow carrying 18 pounds of poisonous mercury while allegedly planning a new attack. Sergei Krym-Gerei, allegedly a member of a gang led by prominent Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, was carrying the mercury in a bottle when he was arrested. He has refused to answer questions. "Such an amount of mercury would poison a very large number of people," police spokesman Filipp Zolotnitsky said on NTV television. Krym-Gerei, 36, from Russia's North Caucasus region, was detained several days ago by police acting on a tip, he said. I'm not sure if I'd make him drink the entire 18 pounds or just dunk him in it a couple times. Luckily, I'm not in charge, so I don't have to make the decision...
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In addition, there's also the little-known, but extremely painful, Mercury enema procedure.
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A Kremlin spokesman said Thursday the leader of the Chechen hostage-takers, Movsar Barayev, was heard on intercepted telephone conversations saying he acted on orders from Basayev, who in turn was carrying out an order from separatist president Aslan Maskhadov. At a news conference Thursday, officials played tapes of conversations between the hostage-takers and their contacts outside the theater. In one of the Chechen-language calls, translated into Russian, a voice identified as the attackers' leader, Movsar Barayev, said that "Shamil," meaning Basayev, was present during preparations for the hostage-taking. "Shamil was acting on Aslan's instructions," the voice said. Toldja they'd have those tapes. They're no longer just making the charges with them, they're proving their point. You can't argue with the gunny's voice on tape, and it'll take awhile to explain it away. A "smoking gun" seems kind of redundant in this situation, but that's what it is.
"There was other clear evidence that Mr. Maskhadov was fully aware of the developments and the people in the hall acted with his knowledge," Kremlin spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said. Moscow has sought to erase any distinction drawn by foreign governments between rebel warlords such as Basayev and those who also serve as political representatives, including Maskhadov and his aides. The tapes pretty well take care of that, don't they?
Russia will ask Qatar to extradite another top Chechen political representative, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Yastrzhembsky said. Hope they get him...
He also criticized Turkey for allegedly allowing funds for the Chechen rebels to be raised on its territory. Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit denied Thursday that Chechen groups in his country had links to the hostage crisis. "There's definitely no connection with Turkey," Ecevit told reporters, adding that Turkish intelligence agencies were cooperating with Russian authorities. If they're letting the Russers in, they should soon find out for sure...
The alleged evidence against Maskhadov and Zakayev essentially ruled out any peace negotiations over Chechnya, Yastrzhembsky said. "We can see that the image of Maskhadov — even in the eyes of those who pushed Moscow toward negotiations with Maskhadov — has seriously paled," he said. How's the evidence still "alleged" when it was on tape? I guess I don't understand newsroomese...
In another intercepted call played at Thursday's news conference, Abu Bakar, earlier identified in media reports as Barayev's deputy, claimed his band had more than 100 accomplices around the Russian capital ready to carry out suicide attacks. Yastrzhembsky said that claim could have been false and intended to frighten authorities because hostage-takers were aware their calls were being monitored. On the other hand, there was the guy they caught with the mercury today...
Moscow Prosecutor Mikhail Avdyukov said some of the 41 hostage-takers whose bodies were recovered from the scene were foreigners from former Soviet republics and beyond. He said two surviving hostage-takers, both Russian citizens, were in custody. They should be just as unhappy as can be right about now. The thought makes me positively gleeful...
Yastrzhembsky said the attackers had connections with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which is on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist groups. And they did have direct links with al-Qaeda, by the way.
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Source: Daily Islam, Translated By Jihad Unspun
Denmarkâs Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller has said that Islamic extremists are todayâs Nazis. Denmarkâs Foreign Minister, who holds the presidency in the European Union said these words while addressing a party convention. He said that extremists want to impose their decisions everywhere. In the end, he urged European Union to completely support the war against terrorism. Lessee, here. They've got plans for world domination, they consider themselves adherents of the Master Religion and want to kill or enslave everyone who's not, they're anti-Semitic, xenophobic... Yep. He seems to have it about right. The Nazis' uniforms were prettier, though.
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Oops, he made a harshly realistic statement. I presume that means he'll be fired.
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Wow, a Danish gov't official with a grasp on reality. I'm impressed!
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Wanna bet his family had to go in the witness protection program? This'll be good for a Fatwa or two
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*blinks* Well, so there ARE a few operational brain cells left in Europe! Too bad he'll soon be unemployed.
Oh, and these will be good for a half dozen riots of members of the Religion Of Peace (TM, Pat. Pend.)
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Denmark has had a center-right Government for about exactly one year. (Between the Liberal Party (Libertarians) and the Christian Democrats.) This is the fruits of that. The European center-right just is much more pro-American and pro-Western than their center-left opposition. (See also Bersculoni, Anzar in Spain, others.) Same applies to the contrast between John Howard in Australia and the Kiwi's Helen Clark.
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Correction, said part of that wrong. The Danish coalition is between the Liberal Party and the Conservative People's Party. (Silly me! Got the Danish parties briefly confused with the Dutch parties.)
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Pakistani police have arrested a suspected follower of an outlawed militant Islamic group in connection with a series of parcel bomb attacks earlier this month. Asif Shadman, said to belong to the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, is suspected of involvement in the attacks, which targeted police and other government employees. A total of 10 parcel bombs were sent to officials in Karachi on 16 and 17 October. Three of them exploded, injuring nine people, while the others were defused. Oooh! This comes as such a surprise. Who could have ever guessed that it would be a Lashkar i-Jhangvi thug?
Thanks for the link, Steve! I'll be over at Goddard for the rest of the afternoon. They need somebody to plot a few trajectories for them...
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The chief of Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and the MNA-elect, Azam Tariq, was released on Wednesday on the orders of Lahore High Court, Adiala jail authorities said. Azam Tariq, the chief of the defunct SSP, told reporters soon after he was released from Sihala resthouse that he had been offered to either leave Pakistan or not to contest general elections in lieu of his release, but he refused to compromise on principles. He said: "I am happy that people who were supportive of our policies have won elections in large number." And we're happy that people get the government they deserve...
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I believe his 'exterminate the filthy shia heretics' policy was particular popular among the people.
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Jordanian security forces have arrested a suspect in the Monday slaying of American diplomat Laurence Folly [Foley]. Sources in Jordan reveal that the suspect was arrested after a short gunfight, and has admitted his responsibility for the assassination. On Tuesday afternoon, Jordanian security forces closed in on a suspect in the killing in the city of Maan. Following a gun battle in which two Jordanian officers were apparently wounded, the suspect was arrested. Police told foreign correspondents that the man, Muhammad al-Chalabi, known as Abu Sayyaf, was wanted in connection with an attack on a police station in 2001. Rumors in Jordan first claimed that the killing of Folly was linked to the anticipated U.S. war against Iraq. Neighboring Jordan enjoys a long and relatively open border with Iraq, and has served as a base for anti-government groups. However, the country is also accessible to Saddam Husseinâs men. It was initially suspected that Folly had been in contact with Iraqi opposition elements and that this had lead to his killing, but this speculation has now largely been discounted. Of course Iraq wasn't involved. Chalabi obviously worked on his own, because, ummm... it was probably an angry white male gun nutâ¢. Another courtesy of Steve...
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Police told foreign correspondents that the man, Muhammad al-Chalabi, known as Abu Sayyaf, was wanted in connection with an attack on a police station in 2001.
Sounds like the John Muhammed, who shot up a police station in Washington State in one of the latest breaking items. Of course, the absolute latest, is that they've tied a murder in Baton Rouge to Muhammed.
A series of explosions tore through the home of a Palestinian Hamas member in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding three. The cause of the blasts was not immediately known. "Yasss... We don't know if it was dynamite or C4 or some other substance..."
The two-story home belongs to Salah Nassar, a Hamas member whose brother, Wael Nassar, is a senior official in the military wing of the Islamic group, local residents said. Salah Nassar survived the explosions but was burned along with his father. His brother was not in the house at the time. "We heard two big explosions inside the building on the first floor followed by a series of explosions," one witness told Reuters. That was their personal dynamite belts and the stuff they had stored in the closets going off... Thanks, Steve!
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You know, the IRA had this problem for a long time. There for a while, the IRA had killed more of its own members with bombs than it had killed Brits.
Evidently that whole black wire, red wire thing is a little complex for some people.
Source: Ummahnews/Malaysiakini
Malaysia's opposition leaders have hit out at the government for allowing the US-proposed regional anti-terrorism centre to be set up in the country. Parliamentary Opposition Leader and the Islamic Party (PAS) acting president Abdul Hadi Awang cautioned that the centre may open the door to the US to interfere in the countryâs security policy while DAP Wanita chief Chong Eng said the centre may make Malaysia more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. It's a lot easier to fix things when it's the local guys who're doing the investigating. They have wives and kiddies and such...
US Secretary of State Colin Powell had first proposed the idea of the anti-terrorism centre during a recent visit to Malaysia. US President George W Bush announced the centre set-up last Sunday at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation leadersâ summit in Mexico after procuring Malaysiaâs agreement to the proposal. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said at the same meeting that Malaysia had agreed to the proposed centre which is scheduled to start operation early next year. That's called "international cooperation"...
Abdul Hadi, in an interview with Malaysiakini and PASâ Harakah in his room in Parliament, said that the agreement had shown the weaknesses of prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's national coalition in handling international politics. âIt (proposal) would only give lattitude for the US to interfere in the countryâs administration. While the US can send their officers to investigate the recent attacks in Bali and the Philippines, we do not know if the establishment of the anti-terrorism centre will enable FBI and CIA agents to simply enter our country and interfere with the countryâs security,â he said. Probably not. But it's a great bogeyman to raise, isn't it?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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