The New York Police Department's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims have undermined free worship by innocent people and should be declared unconstitutional, religious leaders and civil rights advocates said Tuesday after the filing of a federal lawsuit.
"Our mosque should be an open, religious, a spiritual sanctuary, but NYPD spying has turned it into a place of suspicion and censorship," Hamid Hassan Raza, an imam named as a plaintiff, told a rally outside police headquarters shortly after the suit was filed in federal court in Manhattan.
The suit asks a judge to order the nation's largest police department to stop its surveillance and destroy any related records. It's the third significant legal action filed against the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program since details of the program were revealed in a series of Associated Press reports starting in 2011.
The lawsuit said Muslim religious leaders in New York have modified their sermons and other behavior so as not to draw additional police attention. The suit was filed against Mayor Michael Bloomberg, police commissioner Raymond Kelly and the deputy commissioner of intelligence, David Cohen.
"Through the Muslim surveillance program, the NYPD has imposed an unwarranted badge of suspicion and stigma on law-abiding Muslim New Yorkers, including plaintiffs in this action," according to the complaint, which was filed on behalf of religious and community leaders, mosques and a charitable organization. The plaintiffs are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility project at CUNY School of Law and the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Senior leaders of the Islamist Hamas terror organization will meet on Tuesday in Ankara with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a diplomatic source told the AFP news agency.
The group's exiled leader Khaled Meshaal, along with Gaza's prime minister Ismail Haniya, will discuss Erdogan's planned visit to the Gaza Strip as well as the situation in Syria, the source said on condition of anonymity.
While in Washington in May, Erdogan said he would press ahead with a planned trip to Gaza, despite opposition from the United States, which along with the European Union and Israel long consider Hamas to be a terror organization.
Washington had urged the Turkish premier to postpone any visit to Gaza, saying it would be a "distraction" from its efforts to revive the moribund Middle East peace process.
While Erdogan claims his visit would be aimed at pushing for an end to Israel's blockade of the terrorist enclave, Washington fears it could damage a reconciliation brokered between Israel and Turkey, Washington's two key regional allies.
The once-close ties between Ankara and the Jewish state had deteriorated over the past several years, namely over the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla incident, which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish anti-Israel activists, who were seeking to infiltrate IsraelÂ’s borders and pose a threat to the safety and security of the Jewish state.
[THEAUSTRALIAN.AU] A SUICIDE bombing at a funeral in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 18 people, including a provincial lawmaker, and wounded 50 others, police say.
The attack took place on Tuesday in Shergarh town in Mardan district, 145 kilometres northwest of Islamabad, during prayers for the owner of a local fuel station.
The blast, which police said appeared to target the politician, highlights the security challenges facing the new government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sworn in earlier this month after winning the May 11 general election.
Local police chief Tahir Ayub told AFP "the blast killed at least 18 people and wounded 50 others" and said it was a suicide attack.
Another local police official Abdul Samad Khan confirmed the toll, while another police official, Jaffer Khan, confirmed it was a suicide attack.
"The bomber came on foot and blew himself up near Imran Khan Mohmand, who seems to have been the target," Khan told AFP.
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The Syrian regime asked Israel not to fire on its tanks in the Golan Heights buffer zone between the two countries during Thursday's internecine fighting in the area, according to a report apparently by the United Nations peacekeeping troops on the Golan.
The Syrian armed forces were battling opposition troops who had briefly seized control of the Syrian side of the Quneitra border crossing between Israel and Syria. Professional courtesy Per the Pournelle Doctrine, the Israelis should just blow up every other Syrian tank...
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There is a general rule about not interrupting your enemies while they're killing each other Sun Tsu or Tom Landry, I think..
SteveS, don't overlook Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm not worried - the Israelis will be careful, + iff Syria has malicious or hostile intentions the IDF has more than enough firepower + capability to deal wid it.
IMO what Tel Aviv is truly worried about is that widout Syrian preference for isolationism Israel + IDF will no longer be able to concentrate or focus on Egypt + the KSA, historically the two most MilPol aggressive Govts-States in the Arab League. THE THREAT OF A GENUINE, UNITED, SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-FRONT WAR, NOT HAPHAZARD, LOOMS FOR ISRAEL + IDF FOR THE FIRST TIME, + AT A TIME WHEN BOTH RADICAL ISLAM + THE ARAB-MUSLIM WORLD ARE INTERESTED IN PROCURING NUCLEAR WEAPONS PAR WID ISRAEL + US-WEST.
More impor, at a time when Israel may alleged have an alleged anti-Israeli POTUS in the US to support or cover its six.
Hyper stimulation, shrinking markets, excess capacity are looming problems in China. China cannot sell all that it produces. Inflation is increasing and growth decreasing. Housing prices are going up. They have troublesome bubbles too. A good companion article in "Financial Times" is referenced in the article.
Then just throw it away (what they've been doing, for practical purposes).
Or convert to producing war materials, and 'consume' them in a war someplace (what the world did 1939-45).
Or make lots of babies again to increase consumption.
Political appointees at the Defense Department, the CIA and the White House brushed aside concerns from career officials about helping two Hollywood filmmakers research their 2012 movie about the top-secret Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a report from the Pentagon's inspector general.
CIA Director Leon E. Panetta, who had been nominated to take over at the Pentagon; Mike Vickers, defense undersecretary for intelligence; and politically appointed public affairs staff in both agencies and the White House helped secure for the filmmakers a meeting with a participant or planner of the 2011 raid, the report shows.
"At the direction of Director Panetta, the CIA is cooperating fully" with the filmmakers, Mr. Vickers wrote to Douglas Wilson, who was assistant defense secretary for public affairs. In reply, Mr. Wilson promised to "check with the [White House] to update them on status." Eventually it will be revealed that the entire Bin Laden take-down was a made for Hollywood PR and presidential re-election event, start to finish. Eventually?
Congressional Republicans are advocating the full repeal of the federal governmentÂ’s ethanol mandate, which has been criticized for raising food and fuel prices, as well as forcing consumers to purchase a product. Small engine carburetors sure run poorly on it, until they don't run at all.
“I think we need to get rid of [the Renewable Fuel Standard) and we need to think of a better way to handle this,” Oklahoma Republican Rep. James Lankford told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “It is not that the fuel is economical, it’s not that the fuel is what the consumer wants, it’s that the federal government is requiring this much to be sold.” Good luck with getting rid of it. It's another sacred, Iowa, Illinois, etc. [buy the vote] farm subsidy, which has pushed the price of corn to record levels.
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The worst thing ever to happen to outboard engines was E-10. Now they want to make things worse, to keep a few large farmers and ag combines happy.
Two years ago the Feds approved E-15 in an attempt to provide even more demand and price supports. Thankfully, this was met with protest, derision, and outrage. The Feds replied that it would not be mandated as the ONLY fuel sold all pumps at a station, it would have to be available but E-10 would still be available. Trouble is, only a few stations have sufficient numbers of pumps and tanks to do the various E fuels in various octane ratings (not to mention diesel and kerosene), so if the Feds required that you offer E-15 a lot of stations would offer nothing else.
If E-15 became the only fuel practically available every outboard engine in the U.S. would become instantly obsolete.
Getting rid of ethanol subsidies would return things to normal, make the price of corn more reasonable, and provide less incentive for government agencies to require adding it to fuels and incurring more costs to end users for maintenance.
The fact that a farm state legislator is even talking about this is encouraging, Fred.
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Small engine carburetors sure run poorly on it, until they don't run at all.
That's a lie, the first engines burned alcohol.
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Today's small engines become gummed up on the stuff. My local Stihl and Deere dealers recommend 'alcohol free gas' for small engines. Our neighborhood BP station handles it. Costs a bit more, but it's all I use for mowers and trimmers. Seems to work fine.
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I had to change a few parts in our old analog truck's Carter carb (manual choke, too) when we started using E-10 as ethanol-free wasn't always available.
Redneck Jim is correct, alcohol damages many plastics and certain types of rubber gaskets (like what older 4-barrel carbs used to use).
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corn which is better suited to making CHEAP STEAKS.
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Small engine shop owning friend has about 50 4 cycle mowers sitting waiting for carbs/parts because of this crap. Our racing mowers don't like it neither. I have already R & R'd one carb and haven't even hit the track yet this year....
local 76 station used to sell non-ethanol gas ( big sign proudly told you so) but the WA eco-weenies gave him a choice, stop or shut down. no non-ethanol gas available now.
[PJM]
Despite longstanding opposition from Congress and human-rights groups that the U.S. shouldn't be funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to the Syrian regime's main arms supplier, the Pentagon announced today that it has awarded a contract to Russia's Rosoboronexport. The Afghan National Army couldn't use American or British or French helicopters?
The $572,180,894 firm-fixed-price contract modification is for 30 Mi-17 helicopters, spare parts, test equipment, and engineering support services. Obama to Medvedev: "After the Election, I'll Have More Flexibility."
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I understand, SteveW, that Russian choppers are less sensitive to careful maintainance than American or European ones - much like the AK-47 is more forgiving of dirt than the M-16.
[An Nahar] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, on Monday urged Hizbullah to withdraw its fighters from Syria, saying its involvement in that war is contributing to the "sectarian polarization" of the region.
Hizbullah should focus its efforts on fighting its arch-enemy Israel, said the Islamist Paleostinian movement in a statement released in the Gazoo Strip.
"We ask Hizbullah to withdraw its forces from Syria and to keep their weapons pointed at the Zionist enemy, namely because their involvement in Syria has contributed to an increase of sectarian polarization in the region," the statement said.
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The Lefty Commies-Globalists + Rightist Theo-Socialists-Nationalists are clearly in dire need of marriage counseling.
[Pak Daily Times] The police chief of Afghanistan's volatile Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province survived a suicide kaboom on Monday when his convoy was bombed in the city of Lashkar Gah, officials said. Nabi Ilham's armoured car was badly damaged by the early-morning kaboom in the picturesque provincial capital, and three of his guards were maimed. "At around 7am (0230 GMT) the motorcade was passing through the city. A suicide boom-mobile targeted it," Omar Zwak, the provincial governor's front man, told AFP. "The blast hit the second vehicle in the convoy and slightly hurt three of the guards. The police chief was unhurt." Militants have regularly targeted police and government officials as Afghan forces prepare to take over nationwide security from NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led international troops. Last Tuesday, a Taliban suicide boom-mobile killed 15 civilians outside the Supreme Court in Kabul.
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[Shabelle] Kenyan police said on Monday they had rubbed out a suspected supporter of the Somali myrmidon group al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... during a shootout and said he had been plotting attacks in the country.
Kenya has suffered a series of grenade and gun attacks since it sent troops into neighbouring Somalia in October 2011 in pursuit of Death Eaters it blames for kidnapping security personnel and Western tourists from its territory.
The attacks, which have targeted the capital Nairobi, Kenya's Indian Ocean coastline and its frontier with Somalia, have rattled investors and tourists in east Africa's biggest economy.
Police shot the suspect, Kassim Omollo, after he defied orders to surrender during a dawn raid on a house in the port city of Mombasa and instead returned fire, senior police officer Thomas Sangut said.
Police confiscated a sniper lens, two grenades, an AK 47 rifle, a pistol, more than 200 rounds of ammunition and an assortment of improvised bombs at the property, Sangut said.
The suspect was an al-Shabaab trainer and bomb making expert whom police had been trailing for more than a year, police said.
"He has been changing residence all the time. Today we would trace him in Kenya, tomorrow we would hear he is in Somalia. He is the main man who has been behind the radicalising and training of Kenyan youth in Somalia," Sangut said.
"We had information that he had come back here to plan terrorist attacks in Mombasa and Nairobi," Sangut said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Chairman Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani on Monday said the culture of respect of opinion and patience would help establish tolerance in the society.
"I say Israel, you say:"
*mass foaming at mouth*
"Ok, we won't even try Jooooos. Y'all clearly aren't ready for actual tolerance."
Addressing the inaugural ceremony of a workshop as chief guest, he said it was imperative to change ourselves first and than it would be possible to bring about a positive change in society.
The two-day workshop, "Role of Aima and Khutba in establishment of a society with mutual respect and tolerance" was organised by the Shariah Academy of International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) and International Forum for promotion of tolerance, Jordan.
The ceremony was presided over by Director General Shariah Academy Dr Muhammad Tahir Mansoori while renowned scholars including Maulana Mufti Muhammad Zahid of Jamia Imdadia Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , Maulana Abdul-Aziz Hanif, Khateeb Jamia Masjid G-6 Islamabad and Dr Sohail Hassan, Director General Islamic Research Institute IIUI were also present on the occasion.
Maulana Sheerani said if they did not impose their views forcibly on others they would be able to lead our society towards peace and prosperity.
...And unanimous Sunnism of the right sort?
"We should renounce sectarianism, lack of tolerance and bias attitude to face the upcoming challenges of the world, Ummah certainly needs unity
For a given definition of unity that shall remain undefined...
and in order to achieve this goal Mohammedans should mould their lives according to the teachings of Islam" he said.
He discussed tolerance with the references of various religions in his address and stressed upon the Mohammedans to apply this salient feature of Islam in their practical lives.
Chairman CII added that Aima could play vital role to produce a tolerant and cooperative society.
Maulana Mufti Muhammad Zahid and Maulana Abdul-Aziz Haneef also delivered speeches on the occasion and enlightened participants with valuable information on the topic.
Earlier, Dr Tahir Mansoori in his welcoming remarks said difference of opinion should not be a source of conflict but the society should discourage rigidity in views.
He also highlighted the goals and objectives of the workshop. The workshop will conclude on Tuesday.
Shiites, Ahmaddis, Christians, Hindus... Yeah, I thought so.
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Courtesy may be expected, in civilized areas. But Respect must be earned. Always.
[An Nahar] The National Security Agency is expected to reveal details Monday about terror plots it says were thwarted by its surveillance, part of an effort to assuage public concern that government is spying on innocent Americans.
In a rare move the NSA said last week it would declassify data on what its director told Congress were dozens of foiled plots, which could help justify its sweeping surveillance operations in the eyes of U.S. skeptics worried about the amount of information being scooped up by intelligence agencies.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, said she was told in a classified hearing that NSA chief General Keith Alexander aimed to release the information Monday.
The intelligence community offered a weekend primer on the two programs at the heart of the controversy: an NSA program that collects telephone "metadata" -- but not content -- of billions of calls, and the gathering of digital communications, such as emails, that helps target foreign terrorists.
Both were approved by Congress, but concern has been raised by some politicians that the programs under President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... 's administration are being abused.
"In recent years, the intelligence gathered under (these programs) has contributed to the disruption of dozens of potential terrorist plots here in the homeland and in more than 20 countries around the world," according to the overview released Saturday.
"We are working to be able to provide more information about this."
It also stressed that the phone program, authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, is subject to strict oversight and "does not allow the government to listen to anyone's phone calls."
Such action would require a secret FISA Court, set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to determined that there is reasonable suspicion to further monitor suspects.
"In 2012, less than 300 unique identifiers met this standard and were queried."
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In other words, following the abysmal narrative pursued followed the Benghazi cluster, we're making sure the story we come up with will last at least a couple of weeks before holes start showing up at which time no one will be paying any further attention.
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So if we assume there really were successful anti-terrorist actions as a result of Prism, we will add to the damage Snowden did to our security with his broad-based Prism information dump by adding in the details. Seems stupid to me. If the program works, keep as much secret as you can; if it doesn't, shut it down.
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They have a big credibility problem that doesn't need any paranoia to suspect: if there were a lot of terror plots that were "foiled", then where is the triumphant avertising by the arresting authorities? Operational security could be preserved by the NSA using anonymous "tip" lines to phone in their "information".
If there is not enough data to confirm that terror plots were actually credible, then what is the difference between the NSA actually aborting these plots and lying about aborting these plots to save a program out of which they are "ironing the bugs"?
Another issue: if many of the thwarted terror plots happened before the Boston Marathon bombing, then why didn't they detect that one?
Yet another issue: what if the revealed pattern of thwarted terror plots came from surveillance of "PC approved" suspects, and that the triggers are rigged to avoid being "PC racist"?
(PC racist ->>> pracist, not truly racist, but racist by accusation of a PC enforcer of a PC definition of racist that is, in itself, truly racist. cool term. I may use it again.)
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"sweeping surveillance operations" and "FISA Court" warrants are antithetical. Are you telling me that those same acts of terrorism could not have been prevented with legal FISA warrants?
I am sure that if the police broke down the doors of every dwelling in your city that they would uncover and perhaps prevent a lot of crime.
However, recall the words of the 4th amendment.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The Congress, the President, the courts, and NSA chief General Keith Alexander all swore an oath to uphold the constitution which includes the 4th amendment.
I think that Ben Franklin said it best.
"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither. "
I hope a federal indictment for some sort of wrongdoing is forthcoming. I suspect Much could be learned from this young lady. Won't happen, the FBI has been busy digging up Jimmy Hoffa...
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There's always some B.S. cover-up story--here it is rogue agents in Cincy--Anything but the truth. Someone (Congressional committee, special prosecutor, criminal prosecutor, grand jury) needs to work their way up the food chain. Graybar Hotel for the crooks and liars.
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There needs to be a good house cleaning and fumigation in D.C. Trust in the Republic is eroding day by day. There is the law of unintended consequences. These control-freaK statists have embarked on a path of secrecy, deceit and cover-up and they cannot predict the end result. As Forrest Gump said: "It is like a box of chocolates. You open the box and you never know what you are going to get."
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JQC, the best fumigant you could use would be the sunshine that would shine in after you cut back the thicket of laws and regulations and spending that makes all the graft, corruption, rent-seeking and power grabbers descend on the carcase.
All of the problems stem from the size of gov't. Greedy, power hungry people are like vultures, they go where the carcase is biggest. What the gov't has turned into is whole herds of elephants rotting on the plains of Africa. Every scavenger on the continent is running/flying in to join the feast.
Bob: "Did you hear about the Obama administration scandal?"
Jim: "You mean the Mexican gun running?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean SEAL Team 6 Extortion 17?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the State Department lying about Benghazi?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the voter fraud?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the military not getting their votes counted?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the president demoralizing and breaking down the military?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the Boston Bombing?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the president wanting to kill Americans with drones in our own country without the benefit of the law?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "You mean the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The IRS targeting conservatives?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The DOJ spying on the press?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The NSA monitoring our phone calls, e-mails and everything else?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's ordering the release of nearly 2,000 illegal immigrants from jails and prisons and falsely blaming the sequester?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in order to bypass Congress?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The president's unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate's advise-and-consent role?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "HHS employees being given insider information on Medicare Advantage?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "Clinton, the IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?"
Bob: "No, the other one."
Jim: "I give up... Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters stuck us again with the most corrupt administration in American history?"
Bob: "THAT'S THE ONE!"
The proliferation of nuclear technology in the politically volatile Middle East greatly increases the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear war. It is widely accepted, while not openly declared, that Israel has nuclear weapons, and that Iran has enriched enough nuclear material to build them. The medical consequences of a nuclear exchange between Iran and Israel in the near future are envisioned, with a focus on the distribution of casualties in urban environments Quite interesting.
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Or you can calculate these things for yourself, if you have your handy dandy Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer. I was given one from a retired physicist.
And HERE is a site with background information on the computer and the 700 page report.
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Don't fergit China-vs-india-vs-Pakistan, espec iff China + Japan andor China + PHIL start shoting at each other.
The three above are more likely to nuke each other in any East-South Asia Crisis as long as the US + Russia aren't involved.
We already know about China-vs-Japan, but come 2014 will begin the formal Govt-sharing, Coop in Nuke-armed Pakistan between Islamabad + the Taliban, etal. insurgents. MOST ANALYSTS ANTICIPATE THE TALIBAN, ETAL. TO EVENTUALLY DOMINATE THE PAK GOVT LIKE HEZBOLLAH DID, + STILL DOES, IN LEBANON.
* FYI DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > KARACHI AT RISK OF BECOMING ANOTHER "BEIRUT", SAYS FRENCH POLITICAL SCIENTIST.
* SAME > [Post-2014] PAK TALIBAN MAY BECOME SEPARATISTS.
* SAME > [Middle East Online] EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ATTACK [critixize] UAE AS THEY REACH TO ANNEX EGYPT IN SHIA CRESCENT.
Sunni Egypt + Egypt's Oil-Gas + World-vital Suez Canal under Iran, Hezbollah, + IRGC Quds Force control or domination???
In summation, IRAN may get ...
> Eastern Mediterranean = Atlantic Ocean presence in LT, as sttaed by Iran's Govt, Navy Officios + Top Eggs???
> Own Nukes.
> Iran BFF Pakistan's LR nuclear arsenal to defend the Persian Gulf regions agz the US Navy-DOD.
> Shia Islamist Iranian Control or domination of the Suez Canal???
D *** NG IT, ITS GOOD FOR THE OWG NUCLEAR CALIPHATE?
Once again, Sunni KSA can no longer afford to stay on the sidelines.
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Let's see...Israeli capacity: known, Irani capacity: none. Guess we know first strike results. Seems prevailing wind patterns may cause secondary fallout effects for Saudis.
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Bes stategy agaisnt Iran is not threatning on bombing it since Ahmedinajad told eradicating Israel is well worth the price of several million dead (what ordinary iranians think of having millions of them killed for an Arab cause, that is people who hate their guts is not known). Not the real deterrent against Iran would be to threaten Mecca and Medinah.
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...You know, I've always thought that at least a few Israeli warheads are aimed at the Iranian oil fields and infrastructure. No way to get the oil out means the Iranian leadership will get at least one chance to reconsider their foolishness.
Mike
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The Lord is our shepherd says the psalm, but just in case....
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God has weapons, his rod and his staff, so us having weapons is just us being like God:p
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Better think twice, Iran about these nuclear threats, a la Kimmie. One false step and yer Mahdi and his well go up in a mushroom cloud and come down as nasty radioactive daughters. And Qom becomes a glass roentgen soup bowl.
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If the Israelis are feeling really nasty they'll set off a couple of high altitude nukes for a big EMP foot print and kill off all of the Arab's cell phones. The Arabs would go into severe withdrawal symptoms, loss of appetite, depression, nausea, and flatulence.
[An Nahar] A Libyan court acquitted two former aides of slain dictator Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... on Monday of charges connected to the deadly 1988 bombing of a U.S. airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.
But the two remain, however, in detention in connection with a separate case involving their role in repressing the 2011 rebellion against the slain dictator's regime, a prosecution official said.
"On behalf of all people, the court decides to acquit Abdelati al-Obeidi and Mohamed Belgassem al-Zwai of all charges against them," the judge said to shouts of "Long live justice!" from the defendants' families, an Agence La Belle France Presse journalist witnessed.
In 1988, a bomb struck Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie killing 270 people in the air and on the ground.
Qadaffy's regime eventually paid 2.7 billion dollars (2.1 billion euros) in compensation in 2003 as part of a raft of ultimately abortive measures aimed at a rapprochement with the West.
"We are satisfied that the verdict proves that Libyan justice is transparent and equal," said Sami, a nephew of Obeidi, as he left the courtroom.
Obeidi and Zwai had been accused of mismanaging public funds in compensating families of victims of the Lockerbie bombing.
The prosecution had charged that Obeidi and Zwai were responsible for negotiating settlements with the Lockerbie families and had paid out double the amount originally planned.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Seddik al-Sur, a member of the prosecutor's office, said later on Monday that the two men will be tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! as part of an investigation into their involvement in the suppression of the 2011 revolt against Qadaffy.
"Today's verdict is for a separate case," he said, referring to the Lockerbie bombing.
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[An Nahar] Mali security forces are detaining children they accuse of working with krazed killer groups, a U.N. envoy said Monday.
Leila Zerrougui, U.N. special representative on children in conflict, called for international pressure on the Mali government to stop detentions and the use of under-age soldiers in the country's conflict.
"We continue to receive worrying information on children being tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by the Malian security forces for alleged association with gangs," Zerrougui told a special U.N. Security Council meeting on children in conflict organized by Britannia.
She said there were also "children hiding in their communities in fear of being jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for association with gangs."
The security forces have been widely accused of rights abuses in recent months. Mali has been in turmoil for more than a year with Islamists taking over the northern half of the country until January when French forces intervened. A U.N. peacekeeping force is scheduled to take over in July.
But the country has been added to a U.N. "list of shame" on children in conflict for the first time.
"I call upon the Malian authorities to treat these children in line with international standards," the envoy said. Accusations that hospitals and schools have been attacked and children killed and raped during the conflict must also be investigated, Zerrougui said.
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[DAILYCALLER] Unionized local employees repeatedly harassed and intimidated non-union workers of a private disaster cleanup firm that won a government contract to restore Long Island, New York, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
The vice president of the union even made threats against the wife and kids of one of the workers. That worker felt it necessary to call the police and pursue other security measures to protect his family, a source told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
After Hurricane Sandy devastated the New York and New Jersey shoreline in late October, Looks Great Services (LGS) won a bid to haul away debris, clear roads and remove damaged trees. New York's Nassau County hired the company to complete $70 million worth of repairs.
Soon thereafter, representatives of Local 138, a union representing heavy equipment operators, began visiting construction sites, demanding that the company hire unionized employees to help with the job.
But LGS was paying its workers -- some of whom came from out of state -- market-based wages, rather than union wages, in compliance with federal law regarding disaster recovery jobs.
"If the contract is union, we are union, if it's not, we're not," said Kristian Agoglia, president of LGS, in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.
His answer didn't satisfy the union, which began making inflammatory statements to workers at LGS construction sites.
One of LGS's contract workers recalled a union heckler telling them to "take your country ass back to Mississippi," and "get your dumb Tennessee ass off that piece of equipment."
"What they would say is, 'It sure would be sad if your trucks caught on fire,'" recalled the LGS worker, who spoke to TheDC News Foundation on condition of anonymity because the union also made threats against his wife and children.
Local 138 vice president Phil Capobianco made the threats, said the source.
"[He] called and said, 'Look you have to get us involved,'" recalled the source. "I said, first of all, I don't have to; second of all, we've tried; and third you've said you refuse to work for the rates we can pay."
Then Capobianco said something that the source would never forget.
"He said, 'I would just hate for anything to happen,'" recalled the source. Capobianco then rattled off a list of the source's home address, his wife's name, his kids and their current whereabouts.
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Well, we know that the DoJ won't give LGS any help with the thugs. If anything Obastard would be using the NSA to find all the wives & kids for the unions.
[An Nahar] Relatives of Yemenis being held at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention center protested outside Washington's mission in Sanaa on Monday, calling on U.S. President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... to free the detainees.
"Freedom, freedom for the detainees!," chanted dozens of protesters, some dressed in orange -- the color of jumpsuits worn by Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
Four American activists, including anti-war activist Madea Benjamin, took part in the demonstration, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound said.
Yemeni inmates, in all 84, represent the majority of the 166 detainees still held in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Fifty-six Yemenis have been cleared for release.
Most detainees were seized more than a decade ago.
Obama in May repeated a pledge to close the detention center.
Repatriations to Yemen were halted after a Nigerian man trained in Yemen tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear on a flight to bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... in the United States on Christmas Day 2009.
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[Shabelle] Kenya will host a major international conference in August to discuss on modalities of repatriating more than one million Somali refugees to their country.
The conference, which will be held in the second week of August, will be co-hosted by the Governments of Kenya, Somali and UNHCR with the International Organization for Immigration (IOM) being invited.
Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed Monday revealed that a group of international organizations are already mapping out safe places for the refugees to resettle; saying the exercise will be conducted in the most humane manner.
Ambassador Amina said that currently there are over one million Somali refugees, of which 600,000 are formally registered.
She said that the organizations have already compiled documents and reports on the places of origin for the refugees, a half of whom he added crossed the border to Kenya in the last two years.
"What I am happy about is that 50 percent of these are willing to voluntarily return but we want to do it in an orderly and most humane manner which upholds the dignity to our visitors," the minister said.
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End the racist, colonial diaspora. Bring the Kogelo village families home NOW !
Automakers are coming under increasing pressure to sell zero-emission vehicles to U.S. consumers who haven't shown much interest in them, with more states following California's lead in setting sales targets.
Nine states, including New York and New Jersey, have adopted versions of California's goal of having electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen-powered models reach 15 percent of its new-car purchases by 2025. Automakers face fines and potentially restrictions on sales for not reaching the targets.
One model made to meet the standards, Honda Motor Co.'s plug-in electric Fit, had total U.S. sales of 83 through May 2013.
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Congress should end this charade of making automakers meet specific sales goals.
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... meanwhile my electric company (Edison) is telling me that I should prepare for blackouts and brownouts lasting for up to an hour, this Summer during peak times.
Reason?
The current electrical grid can no longer handle the amount of electricity the grid is being asked to handle.
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Or, uses those dastardly atoms, which is also taboo. Mewonders how many of these "leading" enviros have a carbon footprint like Sir Al's.
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I have a zero emissions car. It's rusting in the yard. Of course, if I ever put it back together and start it up there will be emissions, but the chances of that happening are very low...
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Iff the Perts are going to be saying or arguing that there is no real "Peak Oil" or Other "Peak" crisis/crises, i.e. that the US-World have more than enough resources for a long long L-O-N-G while to come yet, then no one should be surprised iff Amer car affecionados are unwilling to give up efficient fossil fuel-based systems.
[MIGHTY HOMER SIMPSONIAN "DOH"! here].
VICTIM(S) OF THEIR OWN ARGUMENT + PREMISES.
This is a major reason, in part, why I argue the US needs = M-U-S-T go back to the Moon [ + beyond] ASAP AMAP, as opposed to unilaterally idling our Space Progs in deference to the Space Progs of our Overseas Allies + International Community. WE ARE DETRIMENTALLY [intentionally?] DELAYING OR OBSTRUCTING THE TIMELY/PROPER DEV OF FREE "SPACE MARKETS" [Space/Star Capitalism = Free Trade] THAT WOULD JUSTIFY THE DEV OF VALUABLE EARTH-BASED "GREEN TECHS" + RELATED.
As things stand there is no genuine or valid free market(s) Consumer-Industrial need for "Green Techs" in lieu of traditional or contemporary fossil-fueled systems, + LIKELY WON'T BE UNTIL SOME TIME AFTER 2050 AT THE EARLIEST.
To paraph Krauthammer = SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA, WE M-U-S-T RE-START OUR SPACE PROGS + GO BACK TO THE MOON + BEYOND IFF WE WANT MARKETS FOR "GREEN TECHS"!
[Jpost] The Egyptian army will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, the state news agency quoted a military source as saying on Sunday, one day after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi backed the idea of a no-fly zone in Syria.
"The Egyptian army is to protect Egypt and its national security only ... The Egyptian army will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and will not be lured or used in any regional conflicts," the military source said.
A military front man declined to comment.
The remarks came one day after Morsi cut all diplomatic ties with Damascus, backed a no-fly zone over Syria and said: "Egypt, its nation, leadership ... and army, will not abandon the Syrian people until it achieves its rights and dignity."
[Bangla Daily Star] Grameen Bank Inquiry Commission is set to recommend restructuring Grameen Bank in the shape of Bangladesh Shilpa Bank or Rural Electrification Board in order to give the government absolute control over the micro-lender. Grameen Bank is a microlender, formed outside Bangla govt channels, to make small loans to poor people without any collateral. It was founded in 1975 by Mohammed Yunus as a project to deliver banking services to the rural poor. In 2006 the bank and its founder were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for what that's worth. The Bangla govt nudged him out of his place as head of the bank last year and now they're nationalizing it, so there must be a good-sized boodle there. So they won't be a microlender much longer, at least when dispersing said boodle...
The recommendations will be unveiled at a workshop "Future Structure of Grameen Bank: Some Options" at the Biam auditorium in the capital on July 2. Finance Minister AMA Muhith will give the keynote speech there.
The government-sponsored commission has already sent invitations to a number of experts to attend the event, said sources.
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, termed the commission's suggestions completely irrelevant and unworkable.
"The government takeover of a sound financial institution owned by 8.4 million poor women will be a case of an extreme abuse of government power. Options offered by the Inquiry Commission are totally irrelevant and unworkable. They do not deserve to be discussed with any seriousness," he said.
According to the paper to be presented at the workshop, the Grameen Bank's legal structure should be similar to that of Bangladesh Shilpa Bank (BSB).
"In order to keep the Grameen Bank base of at least 540,000 shareholders under a single state institution, it would be necessary to amend the Grameen Bank Ordinance to bring it closer to the legal format of BSB," it said.
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[Shabelle] News from Baledweyne city, the capital of Hiran region confirm that the federal government troops gained control of some more districts in Hiran region after forcing out Alshabab militia.
Luq Jenow and Baro districts have fallen under the federal government troops peacefully after the militia group withdrew their forces out the 2 districts.
Eyewitness who contacted Shabelle radio station said that the government troops and AMISOM troops from Djibouti established bases in the two districts.
Large parts of Hiran region are still under Islamists but government officials in the region are currently extending efforts to retake Alshabab occupied districts.
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The IRS has disabled the computer accounts of Lois Lerner, the director of exempt organizations who's been put on administrative leave, and Holly Paz, the former director of the Office of Rulings and Agreements, according to an IRS source familiar with the situation.
The source says that their accounts were shut down shortly after 10:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, at the request of Glenn Melcher, who identifies himself as a lawyer with the office of the IRS's chief counsel. That's the same day that National Review Online reported that, contrary to the IRS's blanket denial, Lois Lerner was continuing to access the agency's computer system, where she has access to private taxpayer data, while on leave. That is also the day we reported that Holly Paz, the Washington, D.C., administrator who sat in on so many of the Treasury Department inspector general's interviews with her underlings, may have been, according to IRS sources, fired by the agency.
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Leaving open access provides plausible denial for the email scrub findings of the ediscovery process.
[Shabelle] disputes have erupted in Somalia's Ministry of information between the minister and his two deputies.
Abdullahi Elmoge who is the minister is being accused by his deputies Mr. Abdishakur Ali Mire and Ibrahim Isaaq Yarow of monopolizing the ministry .The two deputies are believed to be furious about the minister's dictatorship and obstruction of national responsibility by hijacking all the duties the two deputies were assigned to.
The prime minister of the federal republic of Somalia intervened before the matter went kaboom! after he paid unexpected visit to the ministry headquarters yesterday.
Wrangles began when the minister named his own men to perform assignments and duties meant for the two deputies after which the two deputies complained to the prime minister.
Eyewitness at the ministry of information informed Shabelle media station that the prime minister held a closed door meeting with the three senior government officials but the outcome of the meeting is not yet known.
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[LATIMES] Riot police in Istanbul fired water cannons and tear gas Monday to disperse pockets of protesters on the sidelines of a demonstration called by labor groups hoping to capitalize on weeks of activism to register broader discontent.
Two major labor groups urged their members to hold a one-day strike and participate in demonstrations in response to a police crackdown against activists who have led protests centered on Istanbul's Taksim Square and nearby Gezi Park in recent weeks.
A rally in Ankara, the capital, took place peacefully, and there were no immediate signs that the police operation in Istanbul had provoked major festivities in the afternoon. Earlier, Turkey's interior minister warned that anyone joining unlawful demonstrations would "bear the legal consequences."
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed his guard using the bludgeon the faithful Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... in a sign of tension between rival groups, images from the Dogan news agency showed crowds of government supporters facing down some protesters. Some chanted, "The hands targeting the police should be broken."
The government has expressed increasing exasperation over more than two weeks of street demonstrations, including a sit-in in Gezi Park and occasional festivities between stone-throwing youths and riot police.
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[Shabelle] Kenyan intelligence officials snatched documents and electronic gadgets belonging to Somali parliamentarians as they spent the night at Serena hotel in Nairobi.
The parliamentarians attended a meeting opposing Ahmed Madobes administration in Kenya which was attended by various diplomats.
The intelligence officials assaulted the 3 parliamentarians and later on took off with their passports and laptops.
The three members of parliament who also held different ministerial roles in the previous regime include Abdullahi Qothah Bare, Abdirahman Hosh Jibril and Hussein Arab Isa.
Additional reports say that the intelligence officials were accompanied by the son of former Kenya's defense minister Yusuf Haji known as Nuradin Yusuf Haji
This could worsen the relationship between Nairobi and Mogadishu as the Kenyan government keeps on interfering with the Somalia's internal politics especially the Juba land state.
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In 1941, Faith Domergue began an on-off relationship with Howard Hughes. After she discovered that Hughes was also seeing Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and Lana Turner, the couple broke up in 1943. She later wrote a book about her relationship with Hughes entitled My Life with Howard Hughes (1972).
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[Pak Daily Times] All the parliamentary parties in the Lower House of parliament rallied behind the government on Monday to effectively deal with lawlessness, especially in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , by pledging to refrain from political point-scoring over it for the sake of the country.
The new PML-N government, which faces the tough challenge of precarious security situation with the latest Balochistan attacks, looked relieved in the House when the opposition and its allied parties resolved to back it. The gesture was reciprocated by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan who said that he had listened to the real patriotic leaders talking on the issue.
Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Ackakzai, however, cautioned that time is fast running out and only "truth" can reverse the fast deteriorating situation. The outspoken Pakhtun leader also urged involving the US in talks with Taliban and suggested that it should stop the drone attacks unless the talks came to a conclusion.
The fragile security situation, particularly the latest Balochistan incidents, took the centre stage right from the start of the session when the interior minister presented the preliminary report about the Ziarat Residency and Quetta terror attacks. Nisar promised that he would not conceal anything and would present all the facts on these incidents once the findings are completed. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... he said that the security cordon around Quetta is such that no additional measures are required and questioned the ability of security agencies to nab the terrorists.
He also announced that he is not afraid of anyone getting annoyed by him protecting the lives of the people and he would only heed the advice of the House. Nisar told the House that 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... is also considering to seek guidance from all the parliamentary heads to resolve this issue. The interior minister said a joint investigation team had been constituted to investigate the attack on the building in which the Quaid-e-Azam spent the last days of his life in 1948. Nisar said two of the security guards posted at the Ziarat Residency had been taken in for questioning.
The minister questioned the guards' failure to inform police after hearing suspicious noises at the Residency which indicated that an attack was taking place. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... opposition leader Syed Khursheed Shah said that his party did not see the Balochistan incidents as the government's failure and put the blame on security agencies for not stopping the acts of terror.
He recalled that the previous PPP government also tried its best to bring the situation under control in Balochistan to remove the sense of deprivation among the people of the province. He urged the government to bring forth all the facts regarding these incidents and said that opposition would not indulge in political point-scoring on these issues.
PkMAP chief Mahmood Khan Ackakzai said all stakeholders needed to take a united approach to deal with this crisis and remarked that if parliament cannot control the agencies then the politicians should better leave for their homes.
He said, "We should confess that we have been intruding in Afghanistan and stressed that once we start respecting the illusory sovereignty of the others then they would do the same." On the drone attacks he noted that Americans were not "mad" that they are using their multi-millions dollars drones on our territory and said that there are suspicious activities in these areas.
Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI)'s Deputy Parliamentary Leader Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi assured full support to the government to deal with law and order, terming it a matter of national interest. He sought assurance from the interior minister that responsibility would be fixed in Balochistan incidents and it would be determined whose failure resulted in such tragic acts.
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Has anyone told Mehmood he has a highly collectable edition of the RDS&TP? Unsoiled copies of that Number are very rare.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited Auschwitz on Thursday, saying one of the key lessons the Jews took from the Holocaust was not to expect "others to do the work for us."
"The leaders of the Allies knew about the Holocaust in real time," Netanyahu said at the opening of a permanent exhibit called "Shoah" in Block 27 at the Auschwitz- Birkenau State Museum.
"They understood exactly what was happening in the death camps. They were asked to act, they could have acted, and they did not.
"To us Jews the lesson is clear: We must not be complacent in the face of threats of annihilation. We must not bury our heads in the sand or allow others to do the work for us. We will never be helpless again."
Netanyahu, who in the past has drawn parallels between Iran's nuclear march and call for the destruction of Israel, and the Nazi intention to wipe out the Jews, said, "Even today we hear threats of the destruction of the Jewish people, and the world behaves as usual.
"From here, Auschwitz- Birkenau, the place that attests to the desire to destroy our people, I -- the prime minister of Israel, the state of the Jewish people -- say to all the nations of the world: The State of Israel will do whatever is necessary to prevent another Holocaust. Even today there is someone who declares his intention to destroy millions of Jews and wipe their state off the map."
Netanyahu said the difference between then and now was that today, "we have an independent state and a strong army, which allows us to protect our people and to stop this criminal intent."
He disputed the notion that the world's attitude toward the Jews has changed since the Holocaust.
"What has really changed?" he asked. "The hatred of Jews changes form, but it remains -- if not [based on] racial superiority, then [on] religious superiority. And the world's apathy toward this hatred remains the same."
This is so true. I had a conversation with a colleague today: Jewish, liberal, extremely well educated. He was dumbfounded when I said that there were progressives in the U.S. who would rejoice if the Palestinians conquered Israel and killed all the Jews. He had no idea that there were people in his own party who thought that way.
Then there is the IRS, which routes approval of charities aimed at Israel to their anti-terrorism unit, and stringently questions other Jewish charities to make sure they are not acting to support Israel's existence...
Netanyahu said the world has swiftly become accustomed again to those declaring that they want to destroy millions of Jews. Likewise, he said, "the indecision of the enlightened countries regarding whether to act against extreme regimes that threaten us and the peace of the world is also something that has not changed."
The only thing that has changed, he continued, "is our ability and determination to act to defend ourselves and prevent another Holocaust."
The prime minister's visit to the site came on the final day of his two-day visit to Poland. On Wednesday, he, along with five other cabinet ministers, met their Polish counterparts in the second government-to-government meeting between the two countries. The delegation returned to Israel on Thursday night.
The exhibition that Netanyahu opened was designed and built by Yad Vashem, in coordination with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. According to Yad Vashem, the previous exhibition, dating back to the communist era, was outdated both in content and in display methods, and most visitors to the site bypassed it.
Following prime minister Ariel Sharon's visit there in 2005 as part of the March of the Living, the government charged Yad Vashem with renovating the exhibition. Funding for the NIS 30 million project came from both the government and the Claims Conference.
The 1,000-square-meter exhibition in the two-floor block consists of several spaces, each dedicated to an element of the Holocaust, including one devoted to the 1.5 million Jewish children who were killed. The exhibition also includes a 2- meter high Book of Names that lists the names, compiled by Yad Vashem, of 4.2 million Jews murdered by the Nazis. The book includes empty pages at the end, leaving room for additional names as Yad Vashem continues collecting the names of victims.
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[An Nahar] Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam slammed on Monday the murder of four Shiites in the northeastern Bekaa town of Arsal on Sunday, saying that it is aimed at creating strife in Leb.
He urged in a statement all sides to "exercise restraint and reason" in order to thwart strife.
"Those behind the crime do not seek the well-being of Leb or the Lebanese people and they should be dealt with firmly and according to the law," he declared.
He called on the residents of the Bekaa regions of Baalbek, al-Hermel, Arsal and all other areas to exercise calm and avoid falling victims to the attempts to create strife in the country.
Salam demanded that the security and judicial agencies be allowed to perform their duties in investigating the incident and apprehending the assailants.
He hope that the residents of the region would distance themselves from the crisis in Syria and support the army that has long defended Leb and its people.
Four people -- two from the Jaafar family, one from the Amhaz clan and a Turk whose mother is Shiite - were killed on Sunday in an ambush in a barren terrain near the northeastern towns of al-Qaa and Arsal.
The Jaafar and Amhaz clans are well-known Shiite families in the regions of Baalbek and Hermel.
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[An Nahar] A Fatah Movement member was rubbed out on Monday in the Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon, state-run National News Agency reported.
"Ahmed Saleh Shikhani, the bodyguard of Fatah Movement's Talal al-Ordoni, was rubbed out in the Ein el-Hellhole camp at the hands of Hussein al-Tawil, a member of the group of Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred. ex-official Bilal Bader," NNA said.
"The situation is tense in the camp and Paleostinian leaders are trying to contain the incident," the agency added.
Al-Jadeed television reported earlier that the clash was of a personal nature.
On May 19, a man was killed and two others were maimed in festivities between the Fatah Movement and Bilal Bader's group in Ein el-Hellhole's al-Sefsaf area.
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[An Nahar] The Lebanese army intelligence tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a Paleostinian national suspected of belonging to an bad turban group plotting to carry out a "terrorist act" in the southern portal city of Sidon.
According to al-Akhbar newspaper published on Monday, Mohammed A. H. was locked away You have the right to remain silent... while he was entering Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp.
The Paleostinian is a supporter of Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir and he was said to be killed in battles in the Syrian town of Qusayr near the Lebanese border.
The suspect was detained over "links to an bad turban plotting to carry out a terrorist act in Sidon to create a sectarian strife," security sources told the newspaper.
The sources pointed out that "the group is recruiting several men to carry out the scheme."
Asir, the imam of Sidon's Bilal bin Rabah Mosque, announced in April the creation of the "Free Resistance Brigades," urging whoever is capable of heading to Syria to go there to aid "the oppressed" in Qusayr and Homs.
Asir's announcement was to protest Hizbullah's involvement in the neighboring country Syria.
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[An Nahar] A Taliban office, touted as a tool to help facilitate talks between the gunnies and the Afghan government, will open on Tuesday in Doha, the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... television reported.
Al-Jazeera cited anonymous sources for its Monday report and gave no further details but a Taliban front man in Kabul told Agence La Belle France Presse he was "unaware" of any such development.
In April Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said the opening of a Taliban office in Doha could "facilitate the grinding of the peace processor".
He made the remarks in an interview with Al-Jazeera following talks in Doha with the ruler of the energy-rich Gulf state of Qatar.
The Afghan president previously opposed a Taliban office in Qatar over fears that his government would be frozen out of any future peace deal involving the Islamic gunnies and the United States.
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Locate them next to a girl's school. Let the seething commence
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[MAGHAREBIA] An Algiers court on Sunday (June 16th) began the trial of seven terror suspects charged with plotting attacks against state institutions, APS reported.
The case dates back to 2010, when security services dismantled a clandestine cell in Baraki.
The suspects, who had earlier been convicted for terrorism, allegedly recruited young people to join terrorist groups in the Khemis El-Khechna region.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Libya's General National Congress on Sunday (June 16th) postponed the vote on a new president in the wake of another round of Benghazi festivities, Libya Herald reported.
The vote was postponed at the request of some Benghazi congressmen, according to the paper, who remain in the eastern city to deal with the security crisis.
The latest violence erupted in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday in Benghazi's al-Lithi district, not far from the city centre. Libyan Special Forces fought it out with rogue gunnies, leaving at least six soldiers dead and several injured.
An kaboom also occurred at the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation.
"Militias occupied the river road and aimed their heavy weapons at the camp of al-Saiqa," Salah Ashaba said. "We were in the Lithi neighbourhood, meaning between the two. They kept shooting until dawn and at this point, the al-Saiqa troops came like the shining sun of Benghazi and burnt the bats of darkness who fled into the old streets of Lithi."
Tarek Mohamed Sahati commented that "it seems unfortunately that Benghazi will be the scene of settling accounts these days, and this time between illegitimate militias and the legitimate National Army."
"To say that Libya is a state is a lie," said Ali Makhlouf, an Arabic language instructor. "The course of events this morning shows clearly that state structures are fragile. The second largest city in Libya is facing great risk in the form of fighting between legitimate forces and rogue ones, and the state is neutral and keeps silent."
Colonel Ali Shikhi, front man for the General Staff of the Libyan Army, said authorities had not yet identified who launched the pre-dawn assault.
"There were hundreds of them and they assaulted camps after midnight and in a very strange way. Whoever carries out this kind of activities wants to destabilise security and order and wants to force this city into chaos," the front man said.
"We are trying actively to identify them. We have the license plates of the cars they used and some pictures. The investigation will certainly uncover and identify the perpetrators," he said.
As for securing order in Benghazi, Shikhi said, "The plan is designed to enhance security and to secure military sites and important locations in the city of Benghazi and to continue protecting city exits and entrances."
"Orders were issued to reinforce these activities and to implement the plan. We will reinforce military units with weapons and troops and we will try to implement order with all our strength in the city of Benghazi," he noted.
Colonel Mohamed Sherif, head of the Joint Security Task Force in Benghazi, issued a statement saying authorities had apprehended one group but the investigation was still on-going.
Meanwhile Libyan Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadeq al-Ghariani called on people "to exercise responsibility; to exert wisdom, patience and restraint; and to protect their triumphant revolution."
"This is the time, O people of Benghazi, and O people of Libya, when you are most in need of a unified stand. Do not listen to calls for division. Do not listen to calls of regionalisation. Do not listen to sectarianism or tribalism," the mufti added.
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[Pak Daily Times] Rebels fought to halt an advance by President Bashar al Assad's forces into northern Syria on Monday while US President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... faced a showdown with Russia's Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... over Obama's decision last week to arm the bully boys.
New evidence emerged of escalating foreign support for the rebels, with a Gulf source telling Rooters that 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... had equipped fighters for the first time with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, their most urgent request. Rebels said Riyadh had also sent them anti-tank missiles.
European nations backing the rebels would "pay the price" if they joined those sending weapons to Syria, President Assad told a German newspaper.
The Saudi weapons deal was disclosed as rebel fighters confront government troops and hundreds of hard boyz from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia seeking to retake the northern city of Aleppo, where heavy fighting resumed on Monday.
After months of indecision, the B.O. regime announced last week that it would arm the rebels because Assad's forces had crossed a "red line" by using nerve gas. That has put Washington on the opposite side of the two-year-old civil war from its Cold War foe Moscow, which supplies weapons to Assad.
The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... has urged all sides to stop sending arms to a conflict that has killed at least 93,000 and shows no sign of abating. But those calls have been ignored, with regional and global powers doubling down on support for either side.
The White House said last week Obama would try to persuade Putin to drop support for Assad at a summit of the G8 group of world powers in Northern Ireland.
Putin showed no sign of being convinced. Speaking on the summit's eve, he hammered home his point that arming fighters was reckless, zeroing in on an incident last month when a rebel commander was filmed biting a piece of an enemy's entrails.
"One does not really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front of the public and cameras," Putin said after meeting British host David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was equally blunt, saying Putin was supporting thugs. "We are not -- unless there is a big shift in position on his part -- going to get a common position with him at the G8."
Russia says it is unconvinced by US evidence accusing Assad of using chemical weapons, and said on Monday it would block any attempt to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, a step Washington says it has not yet decided on but is on the table.
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Putin showed no sign of being convinced. Speaking on the summit's eve, he hammered home his point that arming fighters was reckless, zeroing in on an incident last month when a rebel commander was filmed biting a piece of an enemy's entrails.
Wrong tactic Vlad. You probably just made Champs stomach growl a bit.
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I seldom agree with Putin, but he's less wrong than Obama on this. The only reason to arm the Syrian rebels is to allow the conflict to last longer before Pencil-neck wins (because his opponents are worse), and openly backing the side you want and expect to lose is counterproductive in the long run. If Benghazi was about clandestinely providing arms to the rebels, but not sophisticated ones, and not enough to do more than prolong the war, then it was - hard to admit the possibility - probably not unreasonable.
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Is it not a good thing to have Iran commit funds and fighters to the conflict, thereby keeping them busy at least for a time? My gut says the longer this goes on the better it is for us.
[Jpost] It's easy to see why Egyptian Cleric Sheikh 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.... , chairman of the International Union of Musselmen Scholars is the leading Sunni Islamist thinker in the world today.
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[An Nahar] Phalange Party The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology. MP Sami Gemayel accused Hizbullah on Monday of "gambling with the Lebanese people's fate," urging President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... and the cabinet to "assume their responsibilities."
"(Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hasan) Nasrallah has transformed Leb into a battlefield instead of a democratic country," Gemayel said after the political bureau's weekly meeting.
"Hizbullah is bringing the war in Syria to Leb."
Gemayel explained: "The party is imposing a fait accompli on the state because of its possession of arms and no one can hold it accountable except in a civil war. And we do not want this option."
"How can he (Nasrallah) control the fate of all the Lebanese?"
The Phalange MP said that "Hizbullah's cabinet" controls the country.
"As a Lebanese, I have no authority to hold the party accountable. And we are not held responsible because we are part of the opposition."
Gemayel slammed the current situation as "unacceptable": "The Lebanese people are no longer able to bear this."
"Daily essential matters have become secondary amid the current security fears," he noted.
Gemayel urged President Suleiman "to stop the collapse of the state," demanding more powers to be given to the president.
"We also urge the executive authority to assume its responsibilities because it is the power in charge of controlling the border, preserving the Baabda Declaration and taking control of the security situation."
Gemayel stated that the executive authority must admit "its failure and to announce Leb a failed state."
"During the war we did not lose hope but today Leb has become a hopeless state," he expressed.
He called on Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam to form the cabinet "as soon as possible because vacuum does not serve the country."
Gemayel remarked, however, that "some factions do not want a state," explaining that their goal is for all the country's institutions to collapse."
Regarding Foreign Minister Adnan Mansours's stances towards Syria's conflict and Hizbullah's ivolvement in it, Gemayel lamented that he (Mansour) is acting based on "his affiliation with a party and with his sect."
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[PJM and Victor Davis Hanson]
The CIA and FBI knew of the suspicious activity of the Boston bombers, of Major Hasan, and of Anwar al-Awlaki. And they did nothing to preempt their violence. The FBI is said to be carefully avoiding monitoring mosques, although all of the above terrorists were known by many fellow Muslim worshipers to be either disturbed or extremist or both. Successful ornithology requires that nests be watched at a great distance and not be disrupted, but I doubt this was actually the case.
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I would have thought it was the PTA, the local Christian Bible study groups, returning veterans, Mormons, the NRA, and of course any name with "Patriot" or "Tea Party" or "Conservative" in the title.
[AlArabiya] Saudi Arabia says four more people have died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths to 32 in the kingdom at the center of the growing crisis.
Overall, nearly 40 people have died from the virus since September, mostly in Europe and the Middle East. That's according to local officials and the World Health Organization.
The Saudi Health Ministry also said on Monday that it confirmed three more cases of the virus, including in a 2-year-old child. Officials are still seeking clues on how easily it is spread between humans.
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"Come for the Hajj. Take home a virus!"
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[Jpost] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s chief in exile Khaled Mashaal and leader of Hamas in GazooIsmail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... and a delegation of 24 Hamas officials were in Cairo on Monday and were warned by Egyptian security that there were protests planned against them, Paleostinian News Agency Ma'an reported, citing sources.
According to the report, protesters asked Egyptian security to "send Hamas leaders out of Egypt" for the Islamist movement's "intervention in internal Egyptian affairs." The report cited former Egyptian Interior Minister Muhamad Wagdy who recently said that Hamas took part in prison riots during Egypt's revolution, remarks that led to widespread criticism against the movement.
Egyptian security asked the Hamas delegation to change the hotel that it was staying in, in light of the intelligence it had about the protests, Ma'an reported. The sources told Ma'an that the change in hotel was necessary because Egyptian security did not "have the situation under control."
[An Nahar] A Moroccan editor was handed a two month suspended prison sentence on Monday for defamation, after writing that an Islamist minister had organized a lavish, alcohol-fueled dinner during an official trip abroad.
The court in a suburb of Casablanca also fined Youssef Jajili, the director of Al-Aan magazine, 50,000 dirhams (4,500 euros), and ordered him to pay a symbolic dirham to the plaintiff, Minister of Industry and Trade Abdelkader Amara.
Jajili, who had been charged with disseminating false information, was not present in court when the ruling was announced, but his lawyer said he would appeal.
"This ruling is unjustified. The court did not consider our requests... We will continue to fight for the freedom of expression," Brahim Rachidi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Amara, who belongs to the ruling Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD), filed a complaint after the publication last year of an article claiming he had organised a sumptuous champagne dinner during a trip to 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... that cost 10,000 dirhams of public money.
The minister said at the time that the magazine supported its claims with "false witnesses and a false copy of the bill," calling the article "an attack on his honor and dignity" that was aimed at "undermining the PJD."
During the five month trial, the editor defended the claims, saying he had a supporting document which he refused to show the court, arguing that to do so would endanger his sources.
His lawyer emphasized that the article had not accused the minister of consuming alcohol.
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The name of the horse is "Maine Dash Ta Fame"
So If you lead a horse, say his name is Abdelkader Amara, to a watering hole and organize a lavish, alcohol-fueled dinner during an official trip abroad, do you think he will drink ?
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Defamation of an Islamist minister? Kind of boggles the mind. Might have thought it was the buggering of goats, camel or little boys that was discovered in the minister's background that was discovered by the editor? Instead the editor criticized the ruling class for lavish spending on un-Islamic things such as alcohol.
[An Nahar] Hassan Rowhani Monday warned against foreign intervention in Syria, insisting that the strife-torn country's crisis should be resolved by its own people, in his first presser since being elected Iran's new president.
"The Syrian crisis must be resolved by the people of Syria. We are against terrorism, civil war, and foreign intervention. Hopefully, with the help of all countries of the region and the world, peace and calm will return to Syria," the holy man said.
"The Syrian crisis must be resolved by a vote by Syrians. We are concerned by the civil war and foreign interference. The government (of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... ) must be respected by other countries until the next (2014 presidential) elections and then it is up to the people to decide."
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AKA the Year when Radical Islam begins its legal + contitutional takeover of Pakistan's nukes.
Rising Iran per se gets its desired ...
> Eastern Mediterranean naval, etc. presence.
> Persian Gulf region + peripherals covered by Pakistan's LRBMS + NucBombs in case of US invasion.
[Tolo News] President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said that the military and intelligence agency of Pakistain are adopting bad boy methods based on religion to destabilise Afghanistan.
In an interview with Pak private TV channel Geo, President Karzai said, "I have no complaints against the people of Pakistain because they shared their home and food with Afghans during the 'Jehad' years but we seriously have issues with the military and intelligence agency of Pakistain because they are using bad boy methods based on religion to destabilize Afghanistan."
"The use of extremism as a tool against Afghanistan will one day put Pakistain itself into trouble," Karzai's office said in a statement on Sunday.
President Karzai said that the military apparatus of Pakistain and its intelligence agency has been always misusing the Afghan good-will to make the Afghan government work as their puppet and surrender to the evil will of that country (Pakistain).
Afghanistan and Pakistain have had strained relations since the time Pakistain was formed in 1947, after the British colonial rule in India ended.
On the Durand Line issue, President Karzai said that Pakistain is trying to make Afghanistan recognise the Line.
"It is a clear fact that Pakistain is carrying out destructive activities to force Afghanistan recognise the Durand Line, but it will never succeed in achieving this evil goal," Karzai said in the statement.
He said that the people of Afghanistan will never allow the government to make their country a place for implementing Pak strategies.
"Despite all these differences the people of Afghanistan want friendly relations with Pakistain. A relation based on mutual respect, observing national illusory sovereignty of each other and safeguarding rights of the two nations, and not a relation of servant and boss," the statement said.
Karzai said that in the history of Pakistain no government in Afghanistan had such relations with the country which the Afghan government has had during the last ten years, and it should be mentioned that the Afghan government was the initiator of those efforts."
He said that Afghan government has strived hard by holding numerous meetings in Turkey, 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... , Britannia, the US and other countries to boost and improve bilateral and multilateral relations with Pakistain.
The comments came in at a time when the US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... is due to visit India and Pakistain later this month, to discuss about the crucial security and counterterrorism issues with the Pak civil and military leaderships.
The US Secretary of State during his visit will be discussing regional security issues, ways to reconcile with the Taliban, safe exit of the US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... forces by 2014 and counterterrorism cooperation.
John Kerry who sought to visit Pakistain shortly after his appointment as the Secretary of State could only have direct interaction with the Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... twice, once in Jordan and another in Brussels where he discussed the reconciliation process in Afghanistan.
In Brussels, he hosted talks between Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai and Pak Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani since both the neighbouring countries were locked in a state of mistrust over border disputes.
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Pakistan have been doing this for years.
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Karzai will play both ends against the middle and then bug out to some safe haven when things get hot for him taking a lot of the boodle we gave to him.
[An Nahar] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... warned Monday that European powers would "pay the price" if they sent weapons to rebel forces seeking to topple him.
"If the Europeans deliver weapons, then Europe's backyard will become terrorist, and Europe will pay the price for it," he was quoted as saying by German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Sending weapons to rebels would lead to terrorism in Europe, he said according to an interview to appear in Tuesday's edition of the newspaper.
"Terrorists will return, battle-hardened and with an Death Eater ideology," he was quoted as saying.
Assad pointed to one rebel faction, the Nusra Front, and said: "It represents the same ideology" as al-Qaeda and "aims to establish an Islamic state".
Assad also denied U.S., British and French claims that his forces had used chemical weapons against his people during the escalating conflict in Syria.
"If Gay Paree, London and Washington had any evidence for their claims, they would have submitted it to the global public," said Assad, whose comments were published in German.
"Everything that is being said about the use of chemical weapons is a continuation of the lies about Syria," he added. "It is the attempt to justify more military interference."
Assad added that the charges that his forces had used chemical weapons made no sense if the alleged corpse count from their use was 150 people.
"Weapons of mass destruction are capable of killing hundreds or thousands at once. That's why they are used," Assad said.
"It is therefore illogical to use chemical weapons to kill numbers of people that could be achieved with the use of conventional weapons."
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True enuff.
Espec given ...
* IIRC FREEREPUBLIC [2012 = paraph] > SYRIAN REBELS: "AFTER WE DEFEAT THE ASSAD REGIME, WE WILL TURN + FIGHT THE US"!
Title + Artic to that effect.
* VARIOUS MILBLOGGERS = ONCE THE US IS DEFEATED OR DESTROYED BY ISLAM, EUROPE + REST OF THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW.
Ditto.
* E.G. DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ENTIRE WORLD/PLANET IS A BATTLEFIELD FOR THE US PENTAGON.
Once again, what part of "9-11 + GWOT = WAR FOR OWG-NWO = WAR FOR CONTROL OF THE WORLD ..." DID WE NOT UNDERSTAND???
A Muslim policeman was gunned down by a suspected terrorist militant while praying inside a mosque in Yala province on Monday evening.
Pol Sen Sgt Maj Abdulkarim Patalu was attending a routine evening prayer at a mosque in Raman district when an armed terrorist militant posing as an adherent, shot him three times in the head with a 9mm handgun. He then fled while others in the mosque looked on in horror.
Police blame southern separatists for the brutal murder.
A terror suspect now in custody, Sakariya Tohtayong, has implicated masterminds of the insurgency in the far South, a senior official said yesterday.
Sakariya gave useful testimony that may allow the authorities to solve many security cases, including bombings at a hotel and a shopping complex, the robbery of a security van carrying cash for a bank, and an attack on a grocery shop in which six people, including a baby, were killed.
Colonel Komkrit Rattanachaya, head of the 47th Paramilitary Regimental Taskforce, said, "His answers during the interrogation have allowed us to know who are the masterminds and who are members of the movement."
Sakariya was arrested in Pattani province early Saturday in an operation that saw security officials kill Ameen Dareng during a 15-minute gunfight. Both Sakariya and Ameen, 31, were wanted for alleged roles in many incidents.
[An Nahar] Suspected Islamist Death Eaters have attacked a secondary school and military checkpoint in Nigeria's northeast, leaving 11 people dead including seven students, the military said Monday.
Details were sketchy and the information could not be independently confirmed. Mobile phone lines have been cut in much of the northeast since the start of a military offensive targeting Islamist Death Eater group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... on May 15 and access to the area is limited.
The attackers were said to have stormed student living quarters on Sunday night in the city of Damaturu and shot sporadically, killing seven students and two teachers. Two forces of Evil were also killed, the military said.
A military checkpoint was also attacked and soldiers fought a five-hour shootout with the Death Eaters, leaving three soldiers maimed, said Lieutenant Eli Lazarus, a military front man in Yobe state, where Damaturu is located.
"Two teachers and two forces of Evil were killed during the separate attack, while seven innocent students bit the dust," he said in a statement.
"Three of the Boko Haram Death Eaters were incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and are presently in (military) custody."
The sequence of events was unclear, including whether the shootout occurred around the school or at the checkpoint. Lazarus could not be reached for further information.
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I suggest the Nigerians counter it by gunning three madrassas and burning ten mosques for every Boko Haram attac.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Automakers are coming under increasing pressure to sell zero-emission vehicles to U.S. consumers who haven't shown much interest in them, with more states following California's lead in setting sales targets. 
[Bangla Daily Star] Grameen Bank Inquiry Commission is set to recommend restructuring Grameen Bank in the shape of Bangladesh Shilpa Bank or Rural Electrification Board in order to give the government absolute control over the micro-lender.
[Shabelle] disputes have erupted in Somalia's Ministry of information between the minister and his two deputies.
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...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
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