Israeli and U.S. military officials are coordinating how to target and destroy Syrian president Bashar Assads arsenal of unconventional weapons under assorted scenarios, Israeli military and intelligence officials told TIME Magazine.
One scenario would be the sudden removal of Assad from the scene, the magazine said. That would prompt the allies to launch operations on the estimated 18 depots and other sites where WMDs are stored, Israei military and intelligence officials said.
Search and destroy operations would also be launched if the weapons appeared to be about to fall into the hands of the rebels, which include Islamist extremists aligned with al-Qaeda.
The Israeli officials emphasized, according to the magazine, that it has not been decided whether Israeli and U.S. forces would act together, and how the work would be divided between them if they did cooperate. But the U.S. plans called for deploying forces on the ground as well as waves of airstrikes, to assure that the chemical and biological components are neutralized, according to the Israeli officials.
The main arms of concern to us are the arms that are already in Syria these are anti-aircraft weapons, these are chemical weapons and other very, very dangerous weapons that could be game changers, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the BBC in April. They will change the conditions, the balance of power in the Middle East. They could present a terrorist threat on a worldwide scale. It is definitely our interest to defend ourselves, but we also think it is in the interest of other countries.
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The Balad Air Base burn pit was absolutely something else. The "Poo Pond" at Kandahar is nothing in comparison.
I had a buddy who was awaken in the middle of the night unable to breath properly. The electricity had gone off all over Balad and the AC in the CHU was TU. Half asleep, he opened a window and went back to his rack. He awoke a few minutes later breathless, coughing and weezing. It was 105 degrees f, and His room was full of soot from the pit. He said he thought he had gone to HELL. I arrived in November and he was still shaking his head over it.
Reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani has won Iran's presidential election, securing just over 50% of the vote and so avoiding the need for a run-off.
Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf was well behind in second place.
Turnout was estimated at 72.2% among the 50 million Iranians who were eligible to vote to choose a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is scheduled to ratify the vote on 3 August.
The new president will then take the oath in parliament.
Gunmen have attacked a hospital in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, hours after an explosion on a bus killed at least 11 female university students.
The interior minister says a siege of part of the hospital where the wounded are being treated has now ended.
Nurses, hospital security personnel and a senior city official were among the 10 people in the stand-off.
An extremist Sunni militant group, Laskar-e-Jhangvi, told the BBC it carried out both attacks.
A man calling himself spokesman for the group said they were a revenge for an earlier raid by security forces against the group in which a woman and children were killed.
The latest violence began when a bomb exploded on a bus carrying female students at a university.
"It was an improvised explosive device placed in the women university bus," police chief Zubair Mahmood said.
Later explosions rocked the medical centre where the students were being treated.
Militants armed with grenades were positioned there and exchanged fire with members of the security forces who rushed to the scene.
Go back a few years. Imagine a CIA plot to get Iran which considers us the Great Satan and hates us, to declare war on al Qaeda and expend blood and treasure on exterminating al Qaeda which long ago declared war on us, and which is the most easily defined enemy in our War of Terror. Imagine that al Qaeda might be induced to expend its resources fighting Hezbollah and Iran. Imagine that we could get our enemies to fight each other using whatever weapons they could muster, and expend their blood and treasure on exterminating each other, so that neither had very much to spend on killing Americans.
Come to the present, where that is happening. Israel after careful consideration has stayed out of the Syrian civil war on the grounds that the Assad Family has kept the peace with Israel for decades, while al Qaeda attacks Israelis. Imagine that somehow the trick has been made to work, and our enemies fight each other in a war in which the United States has no describable national interest.
Now imagine that having achieved that result we decide to enter the war.
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That would be the Assad family that provided a base of operations for the terrorists who infiltrated from Syria to Iraq resulting in the deaths of hundreds and wounding of thousands of Americans.
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You would think that Iran would have learned after the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).
Why would O get involved? Perhaps Hezbollah is making too much of a difference on the ground.
I still don't see how the US can keep its arms out of the hands of Al Qaeda. AlQaeda fighter will just attack the pro western fighters and take them; no honor there.
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How will they tell the 'good' rebels from the 'bad' rebels? Take their word for it?
h/t Gates of Vienna
Ben Rhodes, the White House national security advisor behind the claim that President Bashar Al-Assad used chemical weapons in Syria, is a fiction writer with zero educational background in government, diplomacy or national security who also played a key role in covering up the truth behind the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.
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Fiction Writer of all things. That makes sense. I hope this series of programing is is ended soon. OH my, then we will have years of reruns. OH my, cable deals. OH my, Internet Hulu deals and so on. Give me a cabin in the woods and while at the widow I stood. I saw a rabbit running bye frightened as can be. Help me Help me Sir he said. Come on in I completely understand I said.
(I needed a little something for the pot). They didn't tell you the Paul Harvey rest of the story did they.
The White House Friday defended the first familys upcoming weeklong trip to Africa, which could cost taxpayers up to $100 million, as great bang for our buck. Once again, defending the undefendable.
There will be a great bang for our buck for being in Africa because when you travel to regions like Africa that dont get a lot of presidential attention, you tend to have very longstanding and long-running impact from the visit, said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to President Champ.
The Champs trip, at a time of sequestration budget cuts, will take them to Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa from June 26 to July 3. Citing a confidential planning document, the Washington Post reported that the trip will cost between $60 million to $100 million.
The excursion will involve military cargo planes airlifting 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines, and three trucks to carry bulletproof glass panels to cover the windows where the first family is set to stay. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship with a fully staffed medical trauma center will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.
Fighter jets will fly in shifts to provide around-the-clock protection over the presidents airspace. The trip will reportedly involve hundreds of Secret Service agents. Long Street, here they come !
The president and FLOTUS also had planned to take a safari in Tanzania, which reportedly would have required a special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles in the event of a threat from wild animals. But the safari was canceled in favor of a trip to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner.
Watch out for the baboons. While on the Island, be sure to take in the Coastal Artillery site that the "racist, apartheid" government used to defend Allied shipping during WWII. At last count some 12,000 South Africans were killed fighting Axis powers during WWII.
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Yeah, sure - it's a business trip, not a vacation! After all, he might make a speech or sumpthin'.
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The president and FLOTUS also had planned to take a safari in Tanzania, which reportedly would have required a special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles in the event of a threat from wild animals.
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And for you NSA monitors out there - I meant that the idea of consuming the vice pres. would make the animals ill - not that they should actually eat the clown - he wouldn't even taste funny....
A terrorist militant was killed in a fight with security forces in Pattani province early Saturday morning.
The joint police and military force raided a house in Muang district after receiving a tip that armed men were hiding there. Upon seeing the soldiers and police, the armed men opened fire on them. Both sides exchanged gunfire for about 15 minutes, after which the terrorists militants retreated, leaving a body behind. The body was identified as that of Ameen Daleng.
Security forces cleared the area and arrested Sagariya Tohtayong, a top member of the RKK separatist group wanted under an arrest warrant for killing six people in a grocery store in Pattani province recently.
Pentagon prosecutors and defense lawyers in the USS Cole death penalty case held the first closed hearing of the Obama war court Friday, a 78-minute secret session that excluded both the public and the accused al-Qaida terrorist.
Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor, disclosed the length of the national security session but gave no details. He said the judge ordered production of a redacted transcript but gave no timetable for release.
There was a secret session. Thats all I can say, said veteran criminal defense lawyer Rick Kammen after the hearing on a subject so sensitive the motion being argued was called CLASSIFIED on the war court docket. In red.
For the occasion, Kammen was sporting a kangaroo lapel pin. Real justice occurs in the sunshine, not in secret, he said, ducking every question about the first closed hearing of President Barack Obamas war court.
How long did it last? No comment. Were there witnesses? He would not say. Neither would the general, who said a transcript of any unclassified portions might make clear if anyone testified.
It was the first closed hearing under the Military Commissions Act of 2009, the war court Obama reformed to give the accused terrorists greater rights. Kammen said, however, the closed hearing violated the rights of his client, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, who got to Guantánamo in 2006 after four years of secret CIA custody that included waterboarding and interrogating with a revving power drill and racked pistol.
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Of course it is a calculated scandal distraction. Look at the media and broadcast air time the story is consuming. Some sort of "no fly zone" will eventually come as well, but it must be bled out over time, discussion, and much media debate. I'm waiting to learn that he's buying small arms ammunition from Vlad to give to the rebels.
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Actually I am willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, in Syria there is no good side for the West. Although I will say that part of the reason for that is Obama policy. However using nerve gas is wrong and Obama is not alone in this view.
As far as this claim of being a distraction, this is a frequent claim is made of Britain in WW1, FDR foreign policy before WW2, etc. Its probably nonsense
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The timing of the statement, of course, was calculated. But if noticed it wasnt the POTUS or even a Cabinet member making the announcement. It was late in the week and he used a lower advisor as his mouthpiece. Now, if the President actually takes ownership then people should start to question motivation. Until then this is classic Obama pretending to do something while really not doing anything.
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Is Obama Starting A War With Syria Just A Distraction From All The Scandals?
No. The scandals are a factor in that they've caused a loss of Mr. Obama's domestic and foreign political capital - especially the latter. That and his off-hand declaration of a 'red line' with Syria is forcing him to provide support the rebels.
As far as this claim of being a distraction, this is a frequent claim is made of Britain in WW1, FDR foreign policy before WW2, etc. Its probably nonsense
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Yes, it's all in the line of "President Forever" And he;s good for it.
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"in Syria there is no good side for the West"
All the more reason we should stay the hell out of it.
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I'm sure Champ's motivation has something to do with his "line in the sand" statement and creating yet another media distraction. The fella that I can't figure out is McShame. In spite of the obvious and quite bitter consequences, do we have the benevolent grace and understanding of an all mighty Gott to thank for McShame losing his bid for the presidency? Sometimes I wonder.
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Like the Iran/Iraq war this was one we should have let played out. We have no responsibility to be the worlds police man as we have been told over and over again by our allies and enemies for the last decade. Those applauding our getting involved now will be the same calling us warmongers in a few years when we have no way to cleanly get out of the mess.
Bad call, very bad call, to get involved. Turkey stayed out of the Iraq war when we needed them. Let them deal with this mess on their border if they want to.
Egypts ruling Muslim Brotherhood blamed Shiites Friday for creating religious strife throughout Islams history, as the movement joined a call by Sunni clerics for jihad against the Syrian government and its Shia allies.
In a striking display of the religious enmity sweeping the region since Lebanons Iran-backed Hezbollah committed its forces to back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a Brotherhood spokesman in Cairo told Reuters: Throughout history, Sunnis have never been involved in starting a sectarian war.
Until recently, Egypts new Islamist President, the Brotherhoods Mohammed Morsi, was promoting rapprochement with Iran, the bastion of Shia political power. In February, he hosted the first visit by an Iranian president in more than 30 years.
But spokesman Ahmed Aref said Hezbollah had launched a new sectarian war last month by joining Tehrans other key ally, Mr. al-Assad, in a fight that pits mainly Sunni rebels against a Syrian elite drawn from Mr. al-Assads Alawite minority, a Shia offshoot.
For that reason, Mr. Aref said, the Brotherhood, which emerged from oppression after the fall of military rule two years ago to run the most populous Arab state, had joined a call made on Thursday by leading Sunni clerics for holy war in Syria.
[An Nahar] Shells hit a United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... base in Sudan's troubled South Kordofan state on Friday, killing one peacekeeper and wounding two more, a U.N. front man said.
Two shells struck a U.N. logistics base in South Kordofan's main city Kadugli, U.N. peacekeeping front man Kieran Dwyer told Agence La Belle France Presse. Rebels have been fighting Sudanese forces in the state for the past two years and the U.N. says there is a major humanitarian crisis there.
"One United Nations peacekeeper was killed in this shelling and two more injured. We condemn in the strongest terms this shelling," Dwyer said.
The U.N. was not able to immediately say who carried out the attack. But there has been fierce fighting between rebel fighters and government forces around Kadugli in recent weeks.
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[Tolo News] In a shocking incident, a man killed six coppers in the southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province early Thursday.
"The incident took place in the Mousa Qala district of the province, when the man was called at a check post by the officers. He rubbed out six coppers," the Provincial Governor's Spokesman Omar Zowak said.
"The man fled from the scene of the crime along with their weapons and a police vehicle," Zowak said.
"The police have started investigating the incident," he added.
No group including the Taliban has grabbed credit for the incident.
Previously, an incident similar to this had happened where a man killed seven coppers in the southern Kandahar province.
The incident took place when the man was invited for dinner by the officers.
In both cases it could have been planned, or it could have been the Afghan version of a sudden emotional outburst. They're prone to suddenly up and killing whoever annoyed them and all of their companions, 'tis said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Kuwait now stands at a political crossroads ahead of a crucial court ruling on Sunday on a controversial electoral law, with the decision affecting the future of democracy itself in the oil-rich state.
The constitutional court, whose verdicts are final, will rule whether an amendment decreed by the emir last October to the electoral law is constitutional or not.
His decree intensified a bitter political crisis that had engulfed the emirate in 2006, sparking a wave of street protests, some of which turned violent.
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[Ynet] Syrian hospitalized in Safed brings note in Arabic from physicians who treated him before his transfer to Israel. 'Patient was hit by bullet that penetrated his chest and caused a fracture in the lungs. Please do what is needed. Thank you in advance,' note reads.
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[An Nahar] Former prime minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. snapped back on Friday at Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... , accusing him of replacing the entire Lebanese state with "Hizbullah's Shura Council."
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"We all Iranians + Shias now", which AFAIK was the original intent to begin with.
US ALLIES IN EAST-SOUTH ASIA ARE PROB FEELING NERVOUS-N-TWITCHY RIGHT NOW.
[Pak Daily Times] Police have registered a case against more than three-dozen members of Air League for disrupting law and order and beating rival group members in Airport area. Several people were wounded during a clash between two groups of Pakistan International Airlines at the PIA head office on Thursday. Police on Friday registered the FIR on the complaint of senior vice president of Peoples Unity Forum, Zameer Chandio against about 45 workers of the rival group, Air League. SHO Khalid Mehmood said that the members of Air League were accused of creating law and order [violation], beating the rival group members and attempt to murder by the complainant, adding that no arrest has been made and further investigation is underway.
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[Pak Daily Times] South Korean prosecutors on Friday charged the former head of the country's spy agency with trying to influence last year's presidential election.
Ex-director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) Won Sei-Hoon is accused of ordering agents to post stories and comments under aliases attacking opposition candidate Moon Jae-In on popular websites.
Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said Won broke a law that bans NIS staff from intervening in politics and breached another which prohibits government employees from taking advantage of their position to electioneer.
The prosecutor's office added that it would not seek to have Won, who denies the charges, placed in jug pending trial.
Several days before the election on December 19 the allegations that NIS agents were trying to manipulate voters online emerged, sparking a police probe. Prosecutors have also brought charges against Kim Yong-Pan, the former head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, for obstructing that investigation.
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[Pak Daily Times] Project Engineer of Katchi Canal was kidnapped near Bara area, in the jurisdiction of Shaheewali cop shoppe near here Friday. Engineer Mohammad Afzal was moving back along with driver and two other workers from the site of project when they were intercepted by five motorcyclists. The motorcylists tortured them after dragging outside of the vehicle and took them away. Later, the outlaws left the driver and other fellow workers and kidnapped the engineer. Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else and began investigation.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah will stay involved in the Syrian conflict, after having helped regime forces recapture the key town of Qusayr from rebels, party leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... said Friday, noting that Hizbullah is "open to any discussion over Syria."
"Before Qusayr is the same as after Qusayr. Nothing has changed," Nasrallah said in a televised speech marking the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... Wounded Fighter Day.
"Isn't the conspiracy the same?... Have the facts changed? On the contrary, the other side is stirring up this conflict even more," said Nasrallah.
"Where we need to be, we will be. Where we began to assume our responsibilities, we will continue to assume our responsibilities," he added.
"To defeat this very, very dangerous conspiracy (against Syria) we will bear any sacrifices and all the consequences."
But the Hizbullah chief stressed that his party is "open to any discussion over Syria," revealing that "some scholars are sending us initiatives."
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I hope they bear many sacrifices and many consequences. The more the better
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Sorry, the communications and data-sharing "shortfalls" theory has....shortfalls. There is a well established national agency process for documenting and reporting meets with non-US persons with the placement and access, contacts, and travel history of persons like Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
We have access to all the databases, but we were not in fact informed of that particular development, the police commissioner told a congressional committee in May, according to a CNN transcript. He added that his officers on the task force tell me they received no word about that individual prior to the bombing, the Associated Press reported.
Simply throwing the Tsarnaev information into a data-base and not tipping local law enforcement is indeed telling. Quickly picking out the Tsarnaev bros. foto's from the thousands of Boston Marathon attendees is equally as telling. Immediately posting the foto's on teevee and requesting assistance from the public before contacting the Boston PD is well....beyond belief. Flushing potential suspects can produce useful communications data but can also produce grave consequences. In this case it provided both.
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The testy dialog between FBI Director Mueller and Rep. Louie Gohmart, TX said a great deal about the failure to pay attention to the signals that were readily available prior to the Boston bombings. Here. Seems no one is minding the store.
[An Nahar] Thousands of Islamists rallied in the Egyptian capital on Friday in support of calls by Sunni Musselmenholy mans for a holy war against the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... The demonstration took place outside a Cairo mosque where Saudi preacher Mohammed al-Oreifi called in a sermon for a "jihad in the cause of Allah in Syria."
Oreifi urged worshipers to "unite against their enemy."
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... , like Egypt, is an overwhelmingly Sunni Musselmen country, and Sunnis are the backbone of the revolt against Assad, whose Alawite sect is an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Demonstrators, most of them bearded and wearing the traditional white galabiya, shouted "there is no God but Allah, and Bashar is his enemy."
People waved not only the Egyptian flag but also the one adopted by the Syrian opposition.
On Thursday, influential Sunni holy mans from several Arab states called for a holy war against the "sectarian" regime in Syria.
"We must undertake jihad to help our brothers in Syria by sending them money and arms, and providing all aid to save the Syrian people from this sectarian regime," they said in a statement at the end of a gathering in Cairo.
They called the "flagrant aggression" of Iran and Leb's Hizbullah -- both Shiite -- and their "sectarian allies" in Syria "a declaration of war against Islam and Musselmens."
Hizbullah has been fighting alongside Assad's forces, and its leader, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... , said on Friday it would continue to do so.
Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia's top holy man Abdulaziz al-Sheikh has urged governments to punish the "repulsive sectarian group" while Qatar-based Sunni holy man Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... has called on Sunnis to join the rebels.
Hizbullah's intervention in Syria, which helped Assad's troops overrun the strategic town of Qusayr, has been roundly condemned by Arab countries.
In Cairo, a senior aide to President Mohamed Morsi demanded on Thursday that the group "immediately end" its involvement in Syria.
The Shiite group's assistance to Assad could "further turn this conflict into a sectarian conflict that will spill over into the entire region," Khaled al-Qazzaz said.
Qazzaz, Morsi's secretary on foreign relations, said the government was not trying to stop Egyptians from volunteering in Syria, mostly in relief work.
"The right of travel or the freedom of travel or taking certain positions is open for all Egyptians," he told news hounds at a briefing.
"But we did not call on Egyptians to go and fight in Syria," he said.
Egypt believes the conflict will have to be resolved politically, he added.
The conflict has drawn Sunni volunteers from several Arab countries to join rebel ranks. In addition to Hizbullah, Shiites have traveled from Iraq to support Assad.
During Friday's rally, 22-year-old student Ossam Zeyd said "I am here to support the Syrian people. I am participating in jihad in Allah's cause by prayer and by sending money."
A number of Egyptian humanitarian organizations have set up stands outside mosques to collect funds for Syrians.
And Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund, from whose ranks Morsi comes, will hold a gathering on Saturday at a stadium in Cairo under the slogan "in support of the Syria revolution."
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"there is no God but Allah, and Bashar is his enemy."
No one's all bad.
[Ynet] White House Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said Thursday that 100-to-150 Syrians have died from Assad's use of chemical weapons, which has taken the US intelligence community nearly two months to confirm.
As a result, Rhodes said in a statement, President B.O. has decided to provide direct non-lethal assistance to Syria's Supreme Military Council.
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If you 'sign on' to the WMD theory, you must ask the next question which is exactly where did it come from, where was it manufactured? WMD coming from the former Saddam regime in Iraq would obviously not be the desired answer.
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For years the Israeli assessment (as was the NATO assessment) was that Syria possessed CBWs; then when I lived there in the late 90s Israel stated publicly they had made a big mistake all along (really!) and there were no CBWs. So which is it lol, Iraqs fabricated WMD evidance is not that long ago remember and I also wouldn't put it past bent Islamic believers to do it to their own, as investment, religious sacrifice dumb lamb thinking.
Anyway these are Jihadis we are all talking about arming. These are the same people that beheaded Lee Rigby in Woolwich London. These people and their beliefs are in the same vein as the mujahideen the CIA so perfectly setup to attack NY in 2001.
Does this not worry anyone?
Sorry but for now I am with Russias thinking on this one. If we need to dismantle Iran and Hezbollah then using Syria as the proxy is not the method and is totally spineless, despicable and nonsense.
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Cret Hum, Don't give the Syrian rebels enough weapons to win, just enough to not lose too quickly. And don't include anything you cannot readily defend yourself against. Buy up some AK-47s and ammo for them.
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"just enough to not lose too quickly" Ditto that. Rebels are a hodgepodge of people from all over the world. Better to draw the baddies there in a waisted effort. What are they fighting for. Those from England and Norway have got to be thinking for themselves about now. Poorly supplied and poorly directed. Easy to get in but I'd bet impossible to get out, alive.
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How can Ben Rhodes be so certain of Syrian chemical weapons when they say they don't know zip about Benghazi, the IRS, Aye Pee, James Rossen, Fast and Furious, and the No Such Agency snooping? Like the public, they read about it in the newspapers or saw it on T.V.
[Pak Daily Times] The Islamabad Inspector General of Police (IGP) informed the Supreme Court on Friday that the killer of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar had been incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in an injured condition. Zulfiqar was the prosecutor in the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... murder and Mumbai blast cases. The IGP told the three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistain Iftikhar Muhamamd Chaudhry that the killer was a member of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and was also behind a blast in the federal capital.
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[An Nahar] Two people were maimed on Friday as nine rockets fire from Syrian territory landed in the Bekaa city of Baalbek, shortly after Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... vowed in a speech to put an end to rocket attacks against the Baalbek-Hermel region.
"Five rockets fired from the Syrian side of the border fell on the Baalbek area of al-Kayyal," state-run National News Agency reported.
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The weasel Hassan Nasrallah needs to have has testes removed as soon as possible.
[An Nahar] The Independence Movement on Friday hit back at Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... leader MP Suleiman Franjieh, accusing him of forgetting "a country called Leb" and voiced surprise that he linked the anniversary of the liquidation of his father Tony Franjieh to the battle of "blood and shame" in Qusayr.
Franjieh "has crossed the ethical limits and the most basic rules of political conduct," the Independence Movement said in a statement.
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Most of the people he used to interact with are long gone -- like Snowden, they grew up, and receded back into the real world. But he took with him the set of values he either learned or became comfortable expressing online: A keen interest in rights and speech, particularly where they concern the internet and privacy, suspicion of government and authority, a belief in both free markets and free-flowing information, and a set of cultural and aesthetic values that both set him apart from the mainstream and endear him to his people -- the internet people. [BuzzFeed]
A whole group of people out there are just like Snowden, says BuzzFeed's Herman, and that should make the NSA, and any organization with secrets, a little nervous. Because when you move from how to why, the answer is a little unsettling, Herman says: "This isn't about 'hacktivism' or some kind of unified cause. This is about the children of the internet coming of age."
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We have our hippies running things now. So now educated youth in politically correct thought.
Somehow I don't think these youth will be as bad as drug brain fried hippies. Gene pool errors accumulate. I do see more of a zombie like behavior or group thought.
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Snowden is a narcissistic little buffoon, like most of the self-described libertarian programmer-types who think the world is an extension of a multiplayer online video game and that all information, everywhere, should belong to everyone and no one.
These are child-men. Their understanding of the social contract is a ridiculous cartoon borrowed from Ayn Rand's crackpot novels and the paranoid literary genres.
Outside of his deyond his delusions of grandeur, Snowden has no connection or loyalties - not to his employers, whom he's cheated and screwed, or to a wife or family (he has none), or to a community of any kind - least of all to his nation.
He is now a pathetic pawn of Chinese intel, hostage to a chess match that far exceeds the cunning and subtlety of him or his foolish admirers.
Clue: the information gathered by the likes of Axciom is orders of magnitude more intrusive and damaging than the metadata stuff scooped up by the NSA....
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"Children of the Internet coming of age" my ASS!
The 'internet' has nothing to do with what he did - he appears to be a traitor and (as lex mentioned) a "narcissistic little buffoon" with an inflated idea of his own skills who goes around calling himself a 'hacker' - much like a script kiddie would.
There isn't anything 'special' about what he did and he's really no different than someone who stuffs secret documents down his pants or takes photographs and he should be treated no differently. The 'NSA' stuff is simply a smokescreen to cover his treason IMHO.
It is especially difficult to hire a non-leaking 'hacker' when your first hiring criteria is "Is he part of the right ethnic group?" and little things like loyalty and character are down around number 47 on the list.
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Gov't hiring brings this little story to mind. I do hope no one is offended ;-)
A guy goes to the Post Office to apply for a job. The interviewer asks him, "Are you allergic to anything?" He replies, "Yes, caffeine. I can't drink coffee."
"OK, have you ever been in the military service?"
"Yes," he says, "I was in Iraq for one tour."
The interviewer says, "That will give you 5 extra points toward employment."
Then he asks, "Are you disabled in any way?"
The guy says, "Yes. A bomb exploded near me and I lost both my testicles."
The interviewer grimaces and then says, "Okay. You've got enough points for me to hire you right now. Our normal hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.
You can start tomorrow at 10:00 am, and plan on starting at 10:00 am every day."
The guy is puzzled and asks, "If the work hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, why don't you want me here until 10:00 am?"
"This is a government job", the interviewer says. "For the first two hours, we just stand around drinking coffee and scratching our balls.
No point in you coming in for that .....
[An Nahar] Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Prime Minister Ismail Haniya denied on Friday that members of the Paleostinian movement were fighting in the Syrian civil war.
He also rejected reports of internal divisions within the Sunni Moslem group over its ties with Shiite Iran and its ally, Leb's Hizbullah.
"There is no truth to (claims) that Hamas fighters are in Syria, although we stand on the side of the Syrian people and condemn the brutal attacks they are exposed to," Haniya said at a mosque in Rafah, on the border with Egypt.
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[An Nahar] The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... commander in Afghanistan warned Friday that gains secured in 12 years of fighting could be lost if donor nations cut back support when troops leave next year.
Billions of dollars in military and civilian aid have been promised to Afghanistan after the NATO-led combat mission ends, but many Afghans fear they will be abandoned by the war-weary international community.
U.S. General Joseph Dunford said that further investment was needed to turn the Afghan army and police into a modern fighting force that could protect its people and defend progress made since the Taliban regime was ousted in 2001.
"The gains that we have made to date are not going to be sustainable without continued international commitment," U.S. General Joseph Dunford told a group of foreign correspondents.
"We are not where we need to be yet".
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Afghan Gains Not Yet Sustainable No Longer Sustainable.
[MAGHAREBIA] Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan wrapped up a two-day visit to Tunisia on Thursday (June 13th) that focused on strengthening economic and security co-operation.
"The meeting addressed security challenges and responsibilities of the interior ministries of the two countries on the prosecution of crime and in tackling violence and counter-terrorism," Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said.
During a press conference held with his Libyan counterpart on Wednesday at the Government Palace in Tunis, Larayedh mentioned the need to confront smuggling. He also touched on the use of expertise available to the two sides, especially in the field of security training.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Rebels from Mali's minority Tuareg group are ready to sign a regionally brokered peace deal with the government paving the way for the conflict-torn country to hold elections, a source in their delegation said Tuesday.
"We won't obstruct the process," the source told AFP. "When the time comes, we'll sign no problem," he added in neighbouring Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , where a source in the Malian government's delegation earlier said the other side was also ready to sign a deal but wanted some final changes made.
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I think they are. The Tuaregs got burned by their supposed Islamist allies (go figure) and Mali has had a change in government since the initial rebellion.
The French are also likely putting a little pressure...
[An Nahar] Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday agreed to halt plans to redevelop an Istanbul park at the center of two weeks of mass anti-government unrest, in a move protesters welcomed as "positive." He could have done that in the first place and nobody would have turned a hair. Now he's bitten himself in the small of the back. Islam turned out not to be the answer.
I believe you are referring to what used to be described as the fleshy upper portion of the thigh, Fred, and at other times as the pride when the subject had been hurt in his.
It marked the first easing of tensions in the standoff, which has presented the Islamist-rooted government with the biggest challenge of its decade-long rule and earned it criticism from the West.
Hours after giving a "last warning" to defiant demonstrators camping out in Gezi Park, Erdogan made the concession in his first talks with a key group of protesters to defuse tensions in the crisis.
"The positive outcome from tonight is the prime minister's explanation that the project will not continue before the final court decision," Tayfun Kahraman, a front man for the Taksim Solidary group, seen as the most representative of the protest movement, said in televised remarks.
An peaceful sit-in to save Gezi Park's 600 trees from being razed prompted a brutal police response on May 31, spiraling into nationwide outpourings of anger against Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), seen as increasingly authoritarian.
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At first he blamed opposition, hooligans, foreign governments, now Turkey's PM charges Western, Jewish financiers of scheming to topple economy through prolonged demos.
*sigh* It always seems to come down to that. Given all they're accused of, one would think the susceptible would be smart enough to keep their heads down and their mouths firmly shut.
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This is an old story. Erdie (my pet name for him) Well I could have called him poopie lumps!. The blame game. They all have ghosts under their bed. Obama is Bush, far right, GOP, Tea party, Rich people, conservatives, Constitution, huff, huff, let me catch my breath. "Jewish investors behind protests" come on. That is so lame. Erdie is the one who has directed things so poorly.
[An Nahar] The six contenders for Iran's next president issued a joint appeal for calm Friday as officials extended polling hours in the first election since outgoing President Mahmoud's Ahmadinejad's 2009 re-election sparked mass protests.
Polling stations remained open four hours longer than initially scheduled as officials reported a turnout almost as large, or bigger, than that for the controversial vote of four years ago.
Representatives of all six remaining hopefuls approved by the conservative-dominated body that vets candidates for public office urged their supporters to remain calm until the official results are known.
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[DETROIT.CBSLOCAL] There's still a 50-50 chance bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Ford and the Purple Gang... will file for bankruptcy.
That's according to Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who has detailed a plan for the city's financial future in a 134-page proposal to creditors.
Orr on Friday sat down in a closed-door meeting with about 150 creditors, bond holders and unions to discuss the city's fiscal situation, seeking concessions that would save Detroit millions of dollars in payments.
Perhaps the most dramatic aspect of his plan: Orr said, starting now, there will be a moratorium on debt payments for all unsecured funded debt. Creditors are being asked to take about 10 cents on the dollar of what's owed them. Underfunded pension claims would get less.
This latest comes as Detroit continues to spend more money than it takes in as revenue. The city's budget deficit could top $380 million by July 1, and Orr now estimates the city's long-term debt at $20 billion.
"This is not a jaded effort just to get to a bankruptcy filing," said Orr, addressing news hounds following Friday's meeting. "I sincerely want people to behave rationally and take this opportunity to work together."
As part of the proposal, Orr said he wants to invest $1.25 billion in the city for police and fire; and $500 million to fight blight.
The plan also includes sweeping changes to pension and health care benefits, which Orr said he'll discuss at a meeting with unions and pension leaders next Thursday.
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Investment advisers often recommended investing in safe secure government bonds even though the returns are not great.
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tax-free muni bonds aren't such a great deal if you're forced to take a 90% haircut, are they?
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If we can't bail out of the U.N., moving the U.N. to Detroit might be considered. Both are failed, corrupt, organizations that are unlikely to get better.
[MAGHAREBIA] A number of salafists just joined Moroccan political life, signing up with the Party of Renaissance and Virtue (PRV). I give them six months at the outside before they're demanding somebody be killed.
On Saturday (June 8th), the Islamist party welcomed Mohamed Abdelouahab Rafiki (aka Abu Hafs), Naima Daher, Hicham Tamsamani, Jalal El Moudden, and Hassan Aasri to its ranks. "Hi! Welcome to the party!"
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[Pak Daily Times] Police officials on Friday successfully averted a threat by having a 10-kilogram remote controlled explosive defused in Kishan Garh, Mattani. The bomb, planted along the roadside, was aimed at causing damage to the paramilitary forces who were also present in the area. The device after being spotted was defused by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) who reached the site immediately. "It was a powerful device which was planted either to hurt the police or the paramilitary forces," a police official told newsmen.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan cannot argue at trial that he was defending the Afghan Taliban when he opened fire in a 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people, a military judge ruled on Friday. "There was no evidence that there was any immediate threat to others from your fellow soldiers," Colonel Tara Osborn said, denying Hasan's request to use the defense as he represents himself at his upcoming trial on 13 counts of first-degree murder.
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The "Taliban defense" would be an admission of terrorism. We cannot have that.
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[Pak Daily Times] At least two persons were killed in separate incidents of firing in Quetta on Friday. According to media reports, the first incident took place in Kali Ismail area, where unknown men riding a bike opened fire on a guard, thus killing him on the spot. The victim was identified as Muhammad Umar. After the information, police and security forces reached the scene and shifted the body to Civil Hospital. In another incident, gunmen shot to death Deedar Ali in Faizabad area. Police said raids were being conducted to apprehend the culprits.
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[Pak Daily Times] "Happy Birthday to You", the ditty sung around the world in tribute to everyone from toddlers to centenarians, belongs to the public, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday. The proposed class action asks a federal court to declare the song to be in the public domain and that Warner/Chappel Music Inc, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, return "millions of dollars of unlawful licensing fees" it has collected for reproductions and public performances of the song. "More than 120 years after the melody to which the simple lyrics of 'Happy Birthday to You' is set was first published, defendant Warner/Chappell boldly, but wrongfully and unlawfully, insists that it owns the copyright to 'Happy Birthday to You,'" the lawsuit said. A representative of Warner/Chappell was not immediately available to comment on the lawsuit.
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IIRC the original copyright length established was 14 years with a 14 year extension by the original owner/artist/inventor [who were individuals, not mega corporations]. The Founders loathed the old Royal Patents which were hereditary. However, enough gold plied upon the palms of Congresscritters can get modern copyright extended indefinitely.
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it'll take at least a couple hours before those fines are waived
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Were going to end up borrowing money like we do now for 40 cents out of every dollar, and I want to prevent that from happening.
Congratulations Sen. Rubio. Your false choice question officially grants you passage into the GOP establishment. (Aka; the Dark side). We eagerly await the time when you wax nostalgic about your family history as you conflate legal immigration with illegal aliens.
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I agree, Rubio has shown himself to be a candidate I can't follow. We agree on some big issues and on those I'd welcome his support, but we disagree on a pretty major one here. He just doesn't get the way the bulk of Americans feel on the matter and I hope it costs him when the time comes.
If Rubio wants to champion immigrants he should try to fix the system for guest workers and LEGAL immigrants (and promote Americanization instead of balkanization). Leave the illegal immigrant issue alone because they are ILLEGAL, they broke the law and there is nothing you can do to get most Americans to accept that somehow making them legal is a good thing.
[An Nahar] La Belle France said Friday that it was unlikely the U.N. Security Council would agree to impose a no-fly zone in Syria, as Washington dramatically toughened its line on Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's regime.
"It seems unlikely such a measure will obtain the agreement of the Security Council," French foreign ministry front man Philippe Lalliot told news hounds.
"The problem is that this kind of measure can only be put in place with international authorization," he added.
Russia and China have repeatedly used their vetoes on the Security Council to block measures against the Syrian regime.
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Russia has rejected US claims that Baby Assad used CHEMWAR agz the Rebs.
* FREEREPUBLIC > [Russia Today] JORDAN WARGAMES: F-16'S, PATRIOTS, + 4,500 US TROOPS.
* IIRC RELATED SAME > US LEAVES BEHIND F-16'S, PATRIOT BATTERIES, + US MARINES IN JORDAN.
versus
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > [Die Welt] SYRIA WAR: 95% OF FSA TERRORISTS ARE NON-SYRIAN.
* SAME > [Russia Today] IRAN HAS URANIUM FOR FOUR NUKES [Nuclear Bombs], BUILDS MISSLES THAT CAN REACH USA - ISRAEL.
IDF Military Intelligence Chief GEN. Aviv Kochavi.
[Tolo News] n an exclusive interview with TOLOnews on Wednesday, a number of political parties raised their voices against the comments made by the first Vice-President of Afghanistan, Marshall Mohammad Qasim Fahim about changing the political system of the country.
The politicians said, "If efforts are made to stay in power under the name of changing the political system of the country, it will not be acceptable to the political parties, coalitions and the people of Afghanistan."
A number of political parties and coalitions warned that any kind of efforts to hold Loya Jirga (traditional gathering) and bringing changes in the Constitution is against the national interest of the country.
It comes in after, the first Vice-President of Afghanistan Marshall Mohammad Qasim Fahim while speaking at the Governors' National Conference on Tuesday about changing the political system of the country, gave clear indication of internal differences within the government and the war for power inside the Presidential Palace.
The National Coalition of Afghanistan warned that any kind of efforts put in by the government to stay in power will be detrimental for the people of Afghanistan and nobody will let them do that.
Fazlur Rahman Orya, Spokesperson of Afghanistan National Coalition said, "These efforts are being made to stay in power under the name of changing the political system of the country. And, if this is implemented, it will not be acceptable to the political parties, coalitions and the people of Afghanistan. The government should not waste its time in this regard."
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Changing Political System of Afghanistan Will Not Be Accepted:
Unless it's OUR change.
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[An Nahar] The U.N.'s top human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... forum on Friday condemned the involvement of imported muscle in Syria's civil war, singling out the pro-regime forces sent across the border by Leb's Hizbullah.
The 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council backed a resolution from the United States, Britannia, Qatar, Kuwait, 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 Turkey, with 37 votes in favor, nine abstentions and just one member, Venezuela, against.
The text said that the council "condemns the intervention of all foreign combatants in the Syrian Arab Republic, including those fighting on behalf of the regime and most recently Hizbullah".
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"Slams" ? Hahahahahahaha
since when has the UN ever had any teeth? SUCK, maybe...but "slam" ?
And who ISN'T aware that the Arabs won't and can't fight and all they are good for ( much as Obama is also good for ) of just waving a finger in the air and going,"Hey ! Hey!".
Obama and his Red Line? Yeah? Hahahahahaha. He won't DO anything. Sell guns to al-Qaeda? That should work.
Now privately I would be meticulously careful and add just enough and no more American "help " to keep BOTH sides in business, neither one getting an active advantage on the other. And keep them slashing each other till they bleed each other white. The more dead the better. I would even sell them Nerve Gas to use in downtown Damascus. Just ship it to them in Cyrillic labeled cases and have it manufactured by Bulgaria or somebody. They can put that in their Hookahs and suck it up.
We don't want a war in which WE are involved....but it is nice to have a war in which only Moslems kill each other. Keep it going for ten years. What is the population of Syria? That many?
Nice. Hizbullah is in it? That is a PLUS. Iran is paying real money to supply the killing too. Love those people. Make sure the money gets there. Sell them Soviet ( stored in Fairfax warehouses just across the river from Obambam's house) flamethrowers and ask to get paid in wheelbarrow loads of Iranian silver.
Then Bambam can go on another $100 million Vacation and get in a good round of Golf.
[An Nahar] A Gazook man was maimed on Friday when he set himself on fire over a property dispute with the authorities , and his brother was hurt trying to save him, a relative said.
Ibrahim al-Tarturi, 20, "set himself on fire to protest against the seizure of his house by members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,," the Islamist group that rules Gazoo, the source said.
His brother Mohammed, 30, "tried to extinguish the fire to save him and suffered from less serious injuries."
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Warms your heart doesn't it?
That some wazoo would do that for Justice...
And Allah stood there and picked his Arab nose.
I love the Middle East. And now for some Coffee...
[An Nahar] Representatives from countries that support the Syrian opposition met Friday in Istanbul with rebel military chief General Selim Idriss, to discuss the possible delivery of weapons, a Syrian opposition front man said.
"Over the next 24 to 48 hours, there are going to be several meetings between the Syrian Military Council (SMC) and different countries to understand the needs of the SMC and to begin to really satisfy those needs," said Khaled Saleh, a front man for the opposition Syrian National Council.
"At this stage, we expect that the international community would begin to supply the SMC... with sophisticated arms, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles because that is what the Assad regime uses," Saleh added.
Up to now the Western countries backing the opposition against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... have refused to supply the rebels with weapons, fearing they could land in the hands of Islamist bad turbans.
But the United States has now toughened its line on Syria, promising rebels weapons for the first time, after saying it had evidence the regime had used chemical weapons, a charge Damascus dismissed on Friday as "lies."
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[Pak Daily Times] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Friday approved Rs 2.50 per unit increase in electricity tariff. The decision was taken by the prime minister at a high-level meeting aimed at reviewing the energy crisis. Nawaz decided to take comprehensive steps to increase power generation. Issues relating to power theft, uniform tariff and line losses came under discussion. The meeting also decided to start talks with neighbours, including India, to import energy. According to the Water and Power Ministry, the government has to give a subsidy of Rs 350 billion because electricity, which is being purchased at Rs 14/unit, is sold at Rs 9/unit to the consumers. It said that up to Rs 150 billion could be saved by increasing the power tariff by Rs 2.50/unit. The meeting was told that a new energy policy would be devised by the month-end.
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[An Nahar] The White House on Friday all but ruled out the notion of mounting a no-fly zone in Syria, billing it as difficult, dangerous and costly, and unsuitable to halting close quarters ground battles.
A day after U.S. officials pledged to stiffen military help to Syrian rebels, likely moving towards sending some form of arms for the first time, they made it clear that swift U.S. mission creep in the country is not on the cards.
Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said mounting a no-fly zone in Syria poses significant logistical and strategic challenges that are more acute than those faced by NATO
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"Its more difficult and dangerous and costly ... for a variety of reasons" > ...
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > DAGONG CREDT RATING AGENCY: US HAS ALREADY BEEN DEFAULTING ON ITS LOANS TO CHINA DUE TO ITS INTENTIONAL WEAKENING OF THE VALUE OF ITS DOLLAR CURRENCY IN RELATION TO INTERNATIONAL COMPETITORS.
* FREEREPUBLIC, TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > OBAMA AFRICA TRIP TO COST US TAXPAYERS US$100.0MILYUHN [$50-100.0M].
China + East-South Asia aside, even iff the Syrian Rebs per se are defeated by Assad it still leaves Al-Qaeda, Taliban, + Hezbollah, ETAL. FOREIGN MILTERR GROUPS THAT ARE NOW ESTABLISHED IN SYRIA. Is the Bammer + NATO-EU still going to try + have Assad forcibly removed while he goes after AQ + the others [except likely Hezbollah]???
Lest we fergit, both Al-QAEDA + HEZBOLLAH NOW HAVE SET UP IN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD-CONTROLLED POST-MUBARAK EGYPT.
THE SAUDIS CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO N-O-T INITIATE ANY UNILATERAL REGIONAL MILACTIONS in its own defense as well as the security of Sunni Islam + Saudi Royal Family.
The Bammer = USA cannot ignore it as the world -vital Suez Canal poten falls under a OWG Islamic Caliphate - its only a question iff the Caliphate will be Sunni Islamist or Shia Islamist.
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* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > JAPANESE PM SHINZO ABE WORRIES THAT POTUS OBAMA + CHINESE LEADER XI JINPING WILL MAKE A SECRET DEAL OVER THE DISPUTED DIAOYUS ISLANDS, OBAMA UNDER INCREASING CRITICISM BY THE US CONGRESS FOR "EVADING" IMPORTANT ISSUES.
* Also from SAME > US THINK-TANK ARGUES THERE WILL BE NO NEED FOR US-CHINA WAR IN EAST ASIA IFF THE PHILIPPINES CAN ALLOW CHINA NAVAL ACCESS INTO WESTPAC FROM A NUMBER OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
IIUC ARTIC, PHIL = should allow the PLA major "base rights" in lieu of need for Taiwan + Okinawa + Senkkaus/Diaoyus.
Handover of PHIL islands to China + PLA???
VERSUS
* SAME > PREPARE FOR WAR! ON-GOING NATIONAL RESISTANCE BY BOTH CHINA + JAPAN TO MUTUAL SETTLEMENT OF THE DIAOYU ISLANDS ISSUE LEADS TO AN INCREASINGLY PROBABITY OF RESORT TO A MILITARY SOLUTION(S).
* SAME > HONG KONG "MIRROR": CHINA DESIRES TO SECRET BUILD TWELVE "SPECIAL AIRCRAFT CARRIERS", WHITE HOUSE IN RESENTMENT, PANIC MODE.
Chinese version of high-tech, multi-mission capable, "integrated combat platforms".
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worried about who our new "friends" will use their ex-Libyan manpads against
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Latest idea from the mavens at the Puzzle Palace is a 25-mile no fly zone (NFZ) into Syria, along the Jordan border. Said NFZ to be enforced by aircraft in Jordanian airspace, from Jordan airbases.
[Pak Daily Times] About 400 families have been affected due to floods in Jala Bela, Bela Niko Khan, Mian Gujar and Islamabad Korona villages 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. district.
Standing crops in the area have also been damaged due to flood in Shah Alam and Naguman Rivers.
Official sources say, 20 families from Jala Bela have been shifted to safer places and food items are being provided to them. Protective bunds are being strengthened to protect these villages from further flood devastation.
According to Flood Cell Peshawar, River Kabul at Warsak and Nowshehra is in high flood. Panjkora River at Dir, Shah Alam River at Takhtabad and Naguman River at Charsadda Road are under medium flood. Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... River at Khawazakhela and Amandara are in low flood. Besides, Indus River at Tarbela is in low flood. In District Charsadda, protective bunds at Jamat, Dalazak and Garhi Mohkam Shah villages are being strengthened which have been damaged due to diversion of River Kabul. A portion of road near Kalam has been washed away by floods due to which traffic to Kalam Bazaar has been suspended.
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[Ynet] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, says Iran reduced monthly cash transfers because it refuses to side with Assad regime; ministries ordered to slash operating costs by 50%.
A refugee from Syria recently opened a bakery here, drawing long lines of customers eager to taste meat and cheese pastries with the special flavors of Damascus - a rare bright spot in the long shadow that the Syrian civil war is casting over the Gazoo Strip.
The conflict in Syria, some 300 kilometers (190 miles) away, is increasingly hurting Hamas-ruled Gazoo financially, according to several figures in the Islamic terrorist group and in Islamic charities.
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Remember when the Israelis GAVE the strip a big slice of coast with hotels and that nice Israeli Greenhouse complex that produced so much fresh vegetables? The Gazoos did what with it They broke all the windows and dug holes in the lobby and trashed the greenhouses because it all smelled too much like Jewwzzz.
But they take handouts for fifty years....and blame it all on other people. Arab values. Some people with two Left eyes eat that up.
When is the last time you bought something produced by Palestinians...something useful ? No? I wonder why.
They get 40% of their running expenses from handouts? !!!.
My dog has more self respect.
How does a person STAND being a Palestinian ? Garbage people.
And the Moslem world stands around sniffing the garbage with a big smile. Values. Can you spell i-n-f-e-r-i-o-r , boyz and gurlz?
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] South Africa President Jacob Zuma appeared on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Tuesday to reassure an uneasy nation that Nelson Mandela, although in a serious condition, is receiving the best of care.
In a brief recorded interview Zuma reiterated that the anti-apartheid icon and father of modern South Africa was in a stable condition.
"We are all feeling it, that our president, the real father of democracy in South Africa is in the hospital," Zuma, looking relaxed and clad in a sweater, told the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
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If Madiba passes and all hell breaks lose [as Zuma fears], having a few US Naval vessels, possibly an aircraft carrier and a few Marines nearby might not be a bad idea. Could come in handy for the pending POTUS visit as well.
[Pak Daily Times] A group of villagers in eastern India killed an elderly woman and her daughter-in-law after accusing the pair of practising witchcraft, police have said.
Police in the eastern state of Jharkhand said a group of mainly female assailants beat the pair to death, after earlier deciding that they were responsible, through their alleged witchcraft, for the recent deaths of several children from illness.
"A 70-year-old woman and her 42-year-old daughter-in-law were killed by a large number of village women, who accused the duo of practising witchcraft," district police chief Rakesh Bansal said on Thursday.
"We have arrested 19 women from Karonda Jor village for their involvement in the killing," Bansal told AFP. The incident highlights the persistence of witchcraft and occult beliefs in some impoverished and tribal-dominated areas of India, leading to crimes primarily against women accused of taking part in black magic.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Pakistain People's Party (PPP) on Friday threw down the gauntlet to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... asking him to publish the Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... Commission report, shoot down drones and prosecute former military dictator Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... for treason, to fulfil the pledges he made before coming to power.
Addressing a presser, PPP Secretary General and former Punjab governor Sardar Latif Khosa asked Nawaz Sharif to publish the report on the Abbottabad operation in which al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... was hunted down by the US whose forces intruded into the Pakistain airspace in the dark of night. "Mian Nawaz Sharif used to say that he would implement this commission's report. Now the time has come to fulfill his promise," Khosa remarked.
He asked what was stopping Nawaz from shooting down the intruding drones despite being the prime minister now. Khosa recalled that Nawaz had also pledged to prosecute Musharraf and should honour his commitment now. He also lashed out at the PML-N government for presenting what he termed an anti-people budget and said that the government has "slaughtered the masses" by presenting such an unjust budget.
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[Tolo News] In a shocking incident, a man killed six 
[An Nahar] Former prime minister 
[Pak Daily Times] Police have registered a case against more than three-dozen members of Air League for disrupting law and order and beating rival group members in Airport area. Several people were wounded during a clash between two groups of Pakistan International Airlines at the PIA head office on Thursday. Police on Friday registered the FIR on the complaint of senior vice president of Peoples Unity Forum, Zameer Chandio against about 45 workers of the rival group, Air League. SHO Khalid Mehmood said that the members of Air League were accused of creating law and order [violation], beating the rival group members and attempt to murder by the complainant, adding that no arrest has been made and further investigation is underway.
[Pak Daily Times] South Korean prosecutors on Friday charged the former head of the country's spy agency with trying to influence last year's presidential election.
[An Nahar] Hizbullah will stay involved in the Syrian conflict, after having helped regime forces recapture the key town of Qusayr from rebels, party leader 
[An Nahar] Thousands of Islamists rallied in the Egyptian capital on Friday in support of calls by Sunni 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Pak Daily Times] The Islamabad Inspector General of Police (IGP) informed the Supreme Court on Friday that the killer of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar had been 
[An Nahar] The 
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Rebels from Mali's minority Tuareg group are ready to sign a regionally brokered peace deal with the government paving the way for the conflict-torn country to hold elections, a source in their delegation said Tuesday.
[An Nahar] Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday agreed to halt plans to redevelop an Istanbul park at the center of two weeks of mass anti-government unrest, in a move protesters welcomed as "positive."
Erdogan claims Jewish investors behind protests.
[An Nahar] The six contenders for Iran's next president issued a joint appeal for calm Friday as officials extended polling hours in the first election since outgoing President Mahmoud's Ahmadinejad's 2009 re-election sparked mass protests.
[MAGHAREBIA] A number of salafists just joined Moroccan political life, signing up with the Party of Renaissance and Virtue (PRV).
[Pak Daily Times] At least two persons were killed in separate incidents of firing in Quetta on Friday. According to media reports, the first incident took place in Kali Ismail area, where unknown men riding a bike opened fire on a guard, thus killing him on the spot. The victim was identified as Muhammad Umar. After the information, police and security forces reached the scene and shifted the body to Civil Hospital. In another incident, gunmen shot to death Deedar Ali in Faizabad area. Police said raids were being conducted to apprehend the culprits.
[Pak Daily Times] "Happy Birthday to You", the ditty sung around the world in tribute to everyone from toddlers to centenarians, belongs to the public, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday. The proposed class action asks a federal court to declare the song to be in the public domain and that Warner/Chappel Music Inc, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group, return "millions of dollars of unlawful licensing fees" it has collected for reproductions and public performances of the song. "More than 120 years after the melody to which the simple lyrics of 'Happy Birthday to You' is set was first published, defendant Warner/Chappell boldly, but wrongfully and unlawfully, insists that it owns the copyright to 'Happy Birthday to You,'" the lawsuit said. A representative of Warner/Chappell was not immediately available to comment on the lawsuit.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Nawaz Sharif
[An Nahar] The White House on Friday all but ruled out the notion of mounting a no-fly zone in Syria, billing it as difficult, dangerous and costly, and unsuitable to halting close quarters ground battles.
[Pak Daily Times] About 400 families have been affected due to floods in Jala Bela, Bela Niko Khan, Mian Gujar and Islamabad Korona villages in 
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
[Ynet] 
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] South Africa President Jacob Zuma appeared on state television
[Pak Daily Times] A group of villagers in eastern India killed an elderly woman and her daughter-in-law after accusing the pair of practising witchcraft, police have said. 
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