If you read this post at all, please do so carefully. It is as painstaking a construction as it was possible for me to make in an internet essay given my limited energy and attention. You neednt follow all the links, but they were valuable resources in my quest for comprehending and attempting to come to terms with the travesty inflicted on one particular man an otherwise anonymous man whose situation was cynically used to further a pernicious end.
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I think the key to understanding the behavior of the media and government is to see this as massive "emotional abuse" being directed at the middle class, with the object of preventing the middle class from refusing, resisting, and reversing the hold the abusers have on them. English doesn't have a term for it, and there is a lot of obfustication going on in Psychology to avoid even acknowledging but a good one is "soft dhimmitude" because the abusers are a true minority in America and cannot afford to show their hand to the actual majority. Remember, Obama did not win because the minorities voted for him, but that the 12 million that voted republican in 2008 class did not vote at all in 2012. P*ss those people off and its game over.
Holder is NOT going after Zimmermann because he believes justice has not been done: He's sending a message to anyone who might "get uppity" from the verdict. "Pour discourager les autres."
The jury made the right decision in the George Zimmerman murder trial, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.
I think the jury made the right decision based on the evidence presented, because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by Zimmerman that he was not at all defending himself, and so forth, Carter told Atlanta news channel WXIA. Its not a moral question, its a legal question and the American law requires that the jury listens to the evidence presented.
Carter said he agrees with President Barack Obama and accepts the jurys decision.
When asked if the trial says something about the state of racial relations in the United States, Carter said he feels America will put aside the feelings about the past.
Ive seen outbreaks of this before, in California when a man was beaten up by police and when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated; there were terrible race riots. And I think eventually no matter how deep the emotional feelings and moral feelings might be, with time passing, we start seeing what we can do about the present and the future and put aside the feelings about the past, Carter said.
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I don't care if he's right or not, I still think he's a mad cow. If Roslyn wasn't nuts herself she have him committed. I just wish he'd shut up and go back to his little farm.
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The gentleman certainly has managed to assemble the facts. But he seems to have missed all the new oil and natural gas discoveries that will soon render Saudi Arabia, et al superfluous -- just the day before yesterday there was an announcement of a field in Australia that, if I understand correctly, may be the biggest in the world -- and change the importance of current internecine Muslim struggles to that of massacres in the Congo... barring those pesky Pakistani and future Iranian nukes, of course.
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I think the extent of new petro discoveries outside of the Islamic world is vastly over-stated. The new discoveries help, but only a bit. The price of petro is strangling the world economy, whose growth over the last century has been predicated on CHEAP petro, regardless of the source. The CHEAP stuff is gone.
-- There has been & still is a great deal of self-deception on the role petro prices play in economic growth.
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another incredibly poorly written asia times opinion piece with some serious facts, some serious analysis but also some misunderstandings and some sentences with no clear meaning at all
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I think the extent of new petro discoveries outside of the Islamic world is vastly over-stated.
Sure. Uh-huh. Right.
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Umm, no - not as long as Obama and the enviros continue to block extraction (permits) and transportation (pipelines).
He and they can only temporarily stop things on public lands in the U.S., Old Spook. They can do nothing about finds abroad, and as I understand it, production and shipments from private property within the U.S. has been growing rapidly over the past two years or so.
[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] Emerson W. Begolly, a former jihadist webmaster whose rants under the screen name Abu Nancy called for the destruction of schools and day care centers, apologized Tuesday in a childlike voice shortly before he was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison.
"I'd like to sincerely apologize for the things that I said on the computer and for biting the policeman in the scuffle," Begolly, 23, told U.S. District Judge Maurice B. Cohill. "I shamed my family."
Assistant federal public defender Marketa Sims argued that Begolly has Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum, and other mental health problems. She said the case stemmed from "a toxic brew of crime, politics, religion and mental health."
We're going to have to bring back locked psychiatric institutions.
Sorry to hear about the mental health issues. Politics and religion he's allowed to have. But we'll still punish the crime part...
This article starring:
Emerson W. Begolly
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[Ynet] A Saudi who was freed by US authorities from detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to become second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been confirmed dead, AQAP said on Wednesday.
Said al-Shehri was killed in a US-led drone strike in Yemen, senior AQAP official Ibrahim al Rubaish said in a video statement posted online. He did not say when the strike occurred.
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The Daily Mail points out this is the fourth time we have killed the gentleman in question...
In January, Yemen's official Saba news agency reported that al-Shihri died of wounds from a drone strike three months earlier.
In 2009 it was announced that he was killed by an American cruise missile and in September 2012, Yemeni news sites reported he was eliminated by a U.S. drone strike.
[Dawn] Police confirm a group of around 15 armed men kidnapped and raped four teen girls in India's Jharkhand Province. [Video] A dozen armed tough guys head out to the next village, where they kidnap a dozen girls aged twelve to fourteen from a vo-tech school and rape them. Naturally, when the cops show up at their village they bravely beat feet. Demonstrations ensue, which may do something to nudge the Jharkand govt into tracking down and trying the culprits, but probably won't. A couple weeks from now the whole thing will have been forgotten by everybody but the girls.
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Four "Youths" from a "Nearby" area. (No names)
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QUETTA: A 12-inch diameter gas pipeline was blown up near Mach town in the early hours of Tuesday. According to details, unidentified miscreants planted an explosive device on the main gas pipeline supplying gas to various areas of Balochistan, in Jetani near Mach. The bomb went off with a big bang, destroying a portion of the pipeline. The miscreants managed to flee from the scene. Later, levies personnel carried out a search operation in the area to arrest the culprits but to no avail. The explosion disrupted gas supply to several areas in Balochistan.
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Same idea, Destroy the progress and die.
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Interesting. Immigration helps the U.S. to do what very few other countries, including China, has yet figured out: how to be a rich country with a growing population.
Also intriguing is the US continues to expand its dependent class - the poor. I didn't see that in the charts.
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I spoke too soon. The last chart touches on the "Dependency Ratio". Not exactly the "poor", just the young and the old, who are dependent on others.
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Yes, because we all know that trends continue forever without variance.
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Sorry I cant make heads or tails out of these charts, they say they chart one thing, and then the chart shows another. (Just a Redneck, I suppose) but to me ALL the charts seem to suddenly jump upward, and then say "STEADY", or worse to peak, then say "NOT peaking", I surrender, they're screwed.
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It would be intersting if a wave of immigrants from Africa arrived to the US. Without the baggage of slavery. Would it have much effect on the current African-American culture?
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"Would it have much effect on the current African-American culture?"
There are already plenty of studies which show that black immigrants succeed at a rate similar to other (legal) immigrants. The problem in the US born black community is not racism. It's US black culture.
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Nigeria is screwed. 1 billion people in the area the size of Texas? Whoa! Today a failed state with lots of money and graft. When the oil runs out a failed state with land denuded and no oil. What could go wrong?
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There are already plenty of studies which show that black immigrants succeed at a rate similar to other (legal) immigrants.
Anecdotal to be sure, but I've worked with a number of Africans and Jamaicans who were openly contemptuous of American blacks.
And ditto to what iblis said in #4. Ah, the joy of drawing a straight line on a logarithmic graph,
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The problem with the dependency chart and the prediction that England and France will continue to "benefit" from Immigration is that there are two kinds of Immigration: smart and stupid. Smart immigration is carefully screening applicants and letting in people "who can help row the boat". Stupid immigration is letting "applicants" jump the line, violate the law, get on welfare, get their behavior legalized by "immigration reform", and let them "refuse to help row the boat".
The "under 15" demographic didn't ask to be born and thus is our responsibility to "row the boat" while they get old enough to help "row the boat". The over 65, for the most part in the United States, are those on SS who "rowed the boat" in the past while we were "under 15", and so DESERVE a well-earned rest (doubly so to those who "protected and defended the boat"). And there are those who "can't row the boat" due to verifiable health issues.
Its the ones who are "able to row the boat but don't" who are the problem, and England and France are getting those in spades. In fact, the ones they are getting are those who are "trying to sink the boat".
Iran welcomes Jack Straw's intention to visit Iran, the spokesman of Iran Foreign Ministry Abbas Araqchi told on July 16 during a live press conference on Iran state TV IRIB. During an interview with BBC the former British foreign secretary Jack Straw said on July 4 that he was not naive about Iran, but things were looking "more hopeful" with the new president-elect Hassan Rouhani. He said that there was no evidence that Iran has been building a nuclear bomb.
ISNA quoted Straw as saying he plans to travel Iran soon with the aim of improving ties between London and Tehran.
Is he meddling or is this a back-channel visit?
Before that the Guardian newspaper reported in September 2011 that Jack Straw is to make the first visit to Iran by a British foreign secretary since the 1979 Islamic revolution with an attempt to build support for a US-led coalition against terrorism. However, he has not visited Iran so far.
Regarding Straw's intentions to boost Iran-UK relation Araqchi said that, he should start this attempt from London.
The spokesman of Iran Foreign Ministry said that Iran hasn't received any request from Straw officially, but we would be happy if he visits Iran, because Iran policy is aimed at relaxing tensions between Iran and the EU.
Iran and Britain cut diplomatic relations after British embassy in Tehran was stormed by some Iranians who were introduced as "demonstrator students" by Iranian Government in 2011.
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Dear Mr. O'Reilly,
Last week you read a letter from a viewer who said that the solution to the immigration problem is to enforce the laws already on the books. As someone who retired as an immigration officer with over 20 years of service (Border Patrol Agent, Deportation Officer and Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer), I let your snarky retort about immigration officers kicking in doors slide. Then I started talking to friends and acquaintances...
Your mischaracterization of what Border Patrol Agents and ICE enforcement officers do on a daily basis was taken as gospel by some of the people I talked to who are not in law enforcement and only seem to know what we do from TV shows and newscasts. Currently, ICE is not enforcing immigration law as it was or was trying to do when I served. In fact, last year ICE agents sued the administration over the order to not put people in proceedings.
In an April 24th ruling Federal Judge Reed O'Conner wrote: "The court finds that DHS does not have discretion to refuse to initiate removal proceedings," While the case is far from over, it does indicate that the plaintiffs (the ICE agents) are likely to win on the merits as only Congress and not the administration can write law.
The current Senate bill is a new version of Simpson-Mazzoli on steroids. It would be a service to your viewers if you investigated how that 1986 law signed by President Reagan failed to prevent the jump from an then estimated 4-5 million illegal aliens to the current estimates of nearly 15 million. Perhaps bringing ICE union president Chris Crane in for an extended interview might be helpful.
Moreover, you do owe an apology to the agents, officers and their families for your characterization of how they do their best (despite the efforts of both political parties) to enforce our nation's laws and keep us safe. Remember, the fact that we didn't enforce our laws as written, left us vulnerable to attack by terrorists who overstayed their visas.
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Like the Mainstream Media, FOX News has taken the bait and made the Zimmerman trial a successful media distraction. O'Reilly [and others] have become fixated with race at the expense of legitimate news issues. Just my humble opinion.
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Quote used last evening by Congressman Alan West:
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
- Booker T. Washington, 1856-1919
"You NEED my services and you MUST finance my lifestyle to keep me around so you can use them."
The hustlers are merely a small subset of so-called Americans who seek to use flim-flammery or the force of government either directly or by regulation and rent-seeking behavior to coerce others into funding their material worth.
It's the bane of our times. It is the personality type of the race/gender/orientation hustlers. It explains the lobbying and rent-seeking behavior that has exploded over the past forty years.
It is the attitude of 99% of the nonmilitary government employees in this country, at all levels of government - the new clerisy. It is the sole motivation of nearly all public school teachers in this country. It's the main reason (yes, I know there were others) that Obama got reelected.
The race hustlers, the gender hustlers, the whole lot of them are merely reflecting a society wide trend to become their own little corner of the coerced sector instead of being in the voluntary sector. As your quote shows, people like that have always existed. They are sadly in the majority of the electorate now, in various forms and expressions.
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Simply put, I don't listen to those folks, and I try not to associate with them.
When Jesse Jackson rallies, you won't find me there.
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it does indicate that the plaintiffs (the ICE agents) are likely to win on the merits as only Congress and not the administration can write law.
OR OBAMA EITHER.
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I assume we're talking about Bill O'Reilly here. I can't watch him. There was a time when I tried but every time he interviews someone it turns into a shouting match. The result is I can't hear what they're saying because they shout each other down. O'Reilly is a bully and a pompous buffoon who would rather listen to the sound of his own voice than any of his interviewees. Yesterday I saw on Drudge that he is number one among cable news shows. That doesn't say much for people who watch cable news. It's kinda sad, really.
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Link's dead.
Good catch, Redneck Jim! But there never was a link, as this was from a private correspondence Besoeker received. Mostly we don't publish those, but every once in a while there is something particularly interesting to this group.
DIAMER: The law enforcement agencies personnel have nabbed eight people accused of the murder of former Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) deputy speaker and recovered arms from their possession, on Tuesday.
According to details, police conducted a raid at a house located in village Darail of Chilas, the headquarters of district Diamer of GB. During the raid the LEAs personnel arrested eight proclaimed offenders, including Pir Muhammad, a key accused in the murder of former GB deputy speaker Syed Asad Zaidi who was shot dead in 2009. The security personnel also recovered arms, including a machinegun, Kalashnikov, hundreds of rounds and armed forces uniforms from the possession of the accused.
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[An Nahar] ndian police investigating kabooms at one of Buddhism's holiest sites released sketches of a suspect on Tuesday and offered a reward for information about the attacks.
Ten small devices went kaboom! on July 7 in the Bodh Gaya temple complex in the eastern state of Bihar, wounding two monks, while three others were defused at the historic shrine.
The National Investigation Agency released two sketches of a man suspected of planting the bombs at the complex, a UNESCO World Heritage site, which was not badly damaged in the blasts.
One sketch showed the suspect wearing a mask, while the second showed a clean-shaven face. The suspect was "wearing the dress of a Buddhist monk", the agency said on its website.
It also announced a reward of one million rupees ($16,900) for information leading to the arrest of the bombers.
Police studied CCTV footage of the complex immediately after the early morning attacks and jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a man for questioning, but no charges were laid.
No one has grabbed credit for the attacks. But police say they had received intelligence that Islamic forces of Evil could target the site as Dire Revenge™ for Buddhist violence against Mohammedans in neighboring Myanmar.
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[An Nahar] Egypt's first government since the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi almost two weeks ago was officially sworn in on Tuesday, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
The 35-member cabinet, including caretaker prime minister Hazem al-Beblawi, individually took their oath before army-appointed interim president Adly Mansour.
Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general behind the popularly backed coup that toppled Morsi on July 3, was appointed first deputy prime minister and minister of defense.
A former ambassador to Washington, Nabil Fahmy, took the post of foreign minister, while Mohammed Ibrahim, who served as interior minister in Morsi's government, retained his job.
There are three women ministers in the new cabinet, including health minister Maha El-Rabat. One of the women is a Coptic Christian.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... the Moslem Brüderbund rejected later on Tuesday the legitimacy of Egypt's newly appointed cabinet soon after it was sworn in Tuesday, two weeks after the military ousted Morsi.
"We don't recognize its legitimacy or its authority," front man Gehad El-Haddad told Agence La Belle France Presse, speaking after the 35 ministers took their oath before army-appointed interim president Adly Mansour.
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It's nice to recall that Egypt was once civilized, though modern Egypt has as much in common with the land of the Pharaohs as modern Italy has in common with Rome...
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir activists continued to be on the rampage and clashed with law enforcers in different parts of the country yesterday, the second day of hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... in protest at the verdict in the war crimes trial of ex-Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Ghulam Azam.
The violence left three persons and a child dead and scores of others, including 10 coppers, maimed in the districts of Satkhira, Dinajpur and Gazipur yesterday. The corpse count rose to nine in two days.
In contrast, the hartal called by the youths of Shahbagh and 10 left-leaning student organizations passed peacefully.
They observed the shutdown yesterday demanding the death penalty for Ghulam Azam, who was sentenced by International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday to 90 years in prison for criminal masterminding genocide and other crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
The Jamaat has also called for another daylong shutdown today and threatened to extend it to 24 hours, if the party's secretary general, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, is convicted of wartime offences by the tribunal which is set to deliver the verdict this morning.
The country virtually has fallen into a hartal trap with five continuous shutdowns beginning from Sunday. There will be no working day until next Sunday if the Jamaat enforces hartal tomorrow.
Already suffering from the heat of political unrest, the economy is facing another spell of damage when the country is trying to get rid of a stigma by holding trials of those who actively opposed the birth of Bangladesh and collaborated with the Pakistain occupation army.
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[Dawn] Police in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... say they have jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! the criminal mastermind behind a deadly bombing which killed nine people and injured senior Sindh High Court (SHC) judge Justice Maqbool Baqar.
In an operation carried out early Wednesday in Karachi's Surjani Town area, police arrested Bashir Leghari, suspected of being the criminal mastermind of the attack on the judge's convoy last month, along with two of his accomplices, said DIG South Dr Ameer Sheikh.
The operation was carried out with the help of of an intelligence agency, said the senior police official.
Leghari was injured in the exchange of fire during the operation, while a policeman was also maimed, he said.
The suspect is said to belong to the 'Asif chotu group' of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... , a banned bully boy outfit involved in several sectarian killings.
On June 26, a powerful bomb kaboom had targeted Justice Baqar's convoy as it was passing through the busy Burnes Road area. The senior judge was maimed, but his driver and eight security personnel escorting him suffered fatal wounds.
The bomb was reported to have been planted in a parked cycle of violence and detonated by a remote control on the busy road in a high security zone of the city, yards from the Sindh High Court building and close to the Sindh Assembly, the Sindh Secretariat, and the headquarters of the provincial government.
Justice Baqar, a member of the Shia community, was said to be on the hit-list of religious bully boys, including the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
A front man for Tehrik-e-Taliban had grabbed credit for the attack on the senior judge, claiming he was targeted due to his "anti-Taliban and anti-Mujahideen decisions".
The jurist had served as the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Karachi and initially heard terrorism cases in this capacity.
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Military equipment found by Panamanian authorities on a North Korean boat consisted of "240 metric tons of obsolete defensive weapons" sent to North Korea for repair, Cuba's Foreign Ministry said.
Because you always send military gear to Nork-land for repair. Who else could do it?
The equipment, hidden beneath packages of brown sugar on the boat, was manufactured in the mid-20th century and included two anti-aircraft missile complexes, nine missiles in parts and spares, two MiG-21 jets and 15 motors for this type of airplane, the foreign ministry said.
That's not 'obsolete' in Nork-land...
"The agreements subscribed by Cuba in this field are supported by the need to maintain our defensive capacity in order to preserve national sovereignty," the statement said. "The Republic of Cuba reiterates its firm and unwavering commitment with peace, disarmament, including nuclear disarmament, and respect for international law."
The writer was a professional diplomat. Not only did his lips not fall off, they never even moved...
The Cuban government's revelation, which was also read on state television, is the latest chapter in an international drama that has all the elements of a thriller: a violent confrontation on a detained North Korean ship, a suspected missile onboard, a heart attack and an attempted suicide.
Calling Daniel Silva...
Panamanian authorities on Tuesday were examining the military equipment, discovered late Monday during an anti-drug inspection.
Because it is pursuing nuclear weapons, North Korea is banned by the United Nations from importing and exporting most weapons.
Even obsolete ones for repair...
Few details of the confrontation were available, but the ship's North Korean crew of 35 resisted arrest, said Panama's security minister, Jose Raul Mulino. He described it as "violent," saying that the crew tried to sabotage the ship by cutting cables on the cranes that would be used to unload cargo.
Bill Pudgy for the repairs, and hold the ship until the check clears...
During the struggle with Panamanian authorities, the ship's captain suffered an apparent heart attack and then tried to kill himself, according to President Ricardo Martinelli.
The crew also refused to raise the ship's anchor, Mulino said, forcing Panamanian authorities to cut the anchor loose to move the ship.
As of Tuesday, authorities had not identified the military equipment or its country of origin, Mulino said. Those details would not be known until all the sugar was unloaded and the objects removed from the ship.
Military analyst IHS Jane's released a statement Tuesday identifying the equipment shown in the photos as "fire control" radar equipment for surface-to-air missiles.
Similarly obsolete...
Jane's proposed two theories about why the equipment was on board the ship.
"One possibility is that Cuba could be sending the system to North Korea for an upgrade. In this case, it would likely be returned to Cuba and the cargo of sugar could be a payment for the services," the statement said.
Jane's other theory was that "the fire-control radar equipment could have been en route to North Korea to augment Pyongyang's existing air defense network. North Korea's air defense network is arguably one of the densest in the world, but it is also based on obsolete weapons, missiles and radars."
So it makes sense for them to obtain more obsolete equipment to go along with their currently obsolete weapons...
U.S. officials said the radar, which tracks targets for the missiles, is believed to be the major piece of military equipment on board the North Korean freighter.
Panama said it will ask a United Nations technical support team to inspect the cargo to determine what type of weaponry it is.
"Honestly, this kind of military equipment can't go through the country while declaring that it is something else, especially hiding it as you can see here," Martinelli said. "We will continue to empty the entire ship to see what's in it, and the relevant authorities will determine what exactly is on this ship."
"If it is confirmed that the vessel was carrying arms or related materiel and that the shipment was part of a purchase or sale to or from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, then there would indeed be a breach of the U.N. sanctions regime relating to that country," spokeswoman Morana Song said.
Members of the U.N.'s North Korea sanctions committee have seen media reports about the boat and are awaiting a formal notification with details from Panama.
"We are following it closely," said Jacques Flies, a spokesman for Luxembourg Ambassador Sylvie Lucas, who chairs the committee.
Investigators spotted the boat going through the Panama Canal to Havana and then back toward the canal, according to two senior U.S. officials who said the United States had been tracking the ship along with the Panamanians for some time. Another senior U.S. official said the United States had been tracking the ship for several days and knew that Panamanian authorities were going to stop it.
State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell declined to describe U.S. interactions with Panama concerning the ship, but noted that the vessel has a checkered past connected with drug smuggling.
"Public reports from 2010 and also a U.N. panel of experts report from 2012 cite this history," he said Tuesday. "So this vessel has a well-known history in this regard."
Cuban state media reported late last month that North Korean army Chief of Staff Gen. Kim Kyok Sik visited the island and had high-level meetings, including one with Cuban leader Raul Castro.
To negotiate to purchase obsolete anti-air radar systems...
Chang, author of "Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World," said the Panamanian president's dramatic description of how the ship's crew members handled the incident didn't surprise him.
"They are bat-shit crazy do not want anybody on their ships," he said. "Whether it's carrying melons or nuclear technology, the North Koreans would act pretty much the same way."
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I thought "obsolete" stuff generally got "retired", not "repaired".
Unless you're the Mad Mullahs, in which case, you'd love to have your obsolete F-14's repaired.
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"They do not want anybody on their ships," he said. "Whether it's carrying melons or nuclear technology, the North Koreans would act pretty much the same way."
Because they're usually carrying drugs, counterfeit money, and slaves.
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Weren't the missiles suppose to have been removed after the Cuban Missile Crisis? Just asking.
At least nine Syrians, including a child, were executed by regime forces at a checkpoint in Damascus province, a watchdog said on Tuesday.
"Nine citizens, including a child, were shot dead by regime forces near the town of Qara, in the Qalamun area of Damascus province, yesterday (Monday) evening," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The nine were "executed" at a military checkpoint in the area, the group said, citing local activists.
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QUETTA: A complete shutter-down strike was observed on Tuesday in parts of the provincial capital against the killing of four Hazara men on Monday.
The Hazara political leaders have accused the state institutions of direct involvement in the killing of their communitys members. The call for the strike was given by Hazara Democratic Party following the targeted killing of four Hazaras at Masjid Road.
All major shops and the shopping malls remained closed on Toghi Road, Abdul Sattar Road, Alamdar Road, McChongi road and surroundings. Stringent security measures were taken by the government to meet any untoward incident. Backed by FC and Anti-Terrorist Force, police kept on patrolling the provincial capital to ensure calm.
On the other hand, the Hazara political parties threatened civil disobedience over the targeted killing of the members of their community. Speaking at a press conference at the Quetta Press Club Hazara Political Workers chief Muhammad Tahir Khan Hazara, Hazara Jirga chief Qayyum Chengaizi, Shia Conference President Daud Agha and MPA Agha Muhammad demanded an immediate halt to the killing of the Hazara youngsters.
They said if this killing spree does not stop, they would jam the entire city with other parties. They added that the killers of the four persons on Masjid Road are also the killers of three persons at Khuda-e-Dad Chowk. According to them, this was all done as a part of conspiracy to promote sectarian violence in the city. They further said that they were in a fix as to where they should go to secure their constitutional and human rights. The leaders said that thousands of Hazara youngsters have been killed during the past few years.
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The number of people seeking political asylum in Germany has soared, and the largest group by far was from Russia. Many this year came from the Chechnya region.
The figures for refugees from Chechnya perplex analysts because there has been no perceptible deterioration of the situation there. Russia insists that it has stabilised Chechnya, "normalizing" the situation along with its Chechen allies.
You have to be dense or a socialist (but I repeat myself) to miss what the Russians are saying...
One theory to explain the surge is that, exactly a year ago, Germany's top court ruled that asylum seekers waiting for their applications to be processed should receive the same social benefits as Germans.
So easy to give away other people's money...
This is an election year in Germany and politicians are nervous about the issue. There have been protests by asylum-seekers at makeshift camps set up in the middle of Munich and Berlin. The government is concerned about being too generous, with the election just two months away.
Some officials believed there was a danger of Germany getting a reputation as over-generous to people who turned up for economic reasons rather than from true fear.
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Hmmm, the Russians mount a campaign to tidy up jihadi-infested Chechnya and environs, and Germany gets an influx of Chechens. Pure coincidence, I'm sure.
Gunmen backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have killed seven members of a reconciliation team working in Homs province.
The killings happened Monday in the village of Hajar Abyad. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the area is a stronghold for pro-government militia, and that the men were Sunni Muslims.
The reconciliation committee members were part of an effort to convince warring parties in Syria to halt the fighting that has stretched on for more than two years.
Homs is located at a strategic crossroad linking the capital, Damascus, with army bases in coastal regions controlled by Mr. Assad's Alawite sect. The Alawites are an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam that has dominated majority Sunni Syria for decades.
[An Nahar] The president of the Central African Republic, Michel Djotodia, said Tuesday that the leader he ousted in a violent coup can return from exile when the situation in the country stabilizes.
Djotodia, who toppled president Francois Bozize in March, made the comments during a visit to Benin, his second stop on a west African diplomatic tour.
"Bozize is Central African. He can return home when calm is restored. He is free and we will not oppose his return," Djotodia told journalists ahead of his meeting with Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi.
In May, Central African authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Bozize on charges of "crimes against humanity" and "inciting genocide."
Djotodia made no comment on whether Bozize would be jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! upon his return.
Bozize's whereabouts are unknown, although there are indications that he is still in Cameroon, where he fled after being ousted.
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[An Nahar] Iraq's cabinet sent a draft law to parliament on Tuesday that would bar top government officials and officers in the security forces from holding dual citizenship, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's front man said.
Under the proposed law, ministers, MPs, governors, ambassadors and security officers would have to choose between giving up their second citizenship or leaving their post, Ali Mussawi said.
Mussawi said the law was to enact a provision of the Iraqi constitution.
Article 18 of the constitution says Iraqis can hold dual citizenship, but not those who have senior positions.
Several senior Iraqi officials hold dual citizenship, including Vice President Khudayr al-Khuzaie, who has Iranian nationality, and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who is also British.
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[An Nahar] An Afghan accused of torturing and murdering civilians while working for U.S. special forces denies the charges and says he followed American orders, according to a report obtained by Agence La Belle France Presse on Tuesday.
Zakrya Kandahari, who worked as an interpreter, was nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by Afghanistan's premier intelligence agency around six weeks ago.
According to a copy of an investigation report confirmed as authentic by a security official, intelligence agents have a video showing Kandahari beating a prisoner.
Afghan authorities are investigating allegations that armed Afghans working with U.S. special forces harassed, tortured and murdered civilians in Wardak province, a Taliban flashpoint on the doorstep of Kabul.
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... ordered U.S. special forces to leave Wardak in February, although a compromise deal later announced that they would leave only Nerkh, one of eight districts in Wardak and the district where Kandahari worked.
"Zakrya himself has denied the accusations, saying he was under the command of others," said a copy of the report obtained by AFP.
Instead he blamed the murders on three Americans, whom he named as Dave, Hagen and Chris, and whom he said were fluent in Afghanistan's two main languages Dari and Pashto.
"'I was simply a low-rank translator and did not have authorization to roam around inside the base, or (go) to interrogation sections," the report quoted Kandahari as saying.
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Nice Lie, Can you prove it?
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Depending on the definition of torture and civilian, he could be telling the truth.
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Must have seen "WHITE HOUSE DOWN", where highly-trained USA Delta Force, etc. Soldiers-Commandoes are deliberat compromised + their covert identities exposed by the Black POTUS + Admin in Washington, + whom ultimately are forced to to suffer two years? incarceration in a violent Afghan prison, wid no help from either the WH + US Congresscritters because the latter wish to pretend the Commandoes + their secret activities in the name of the US never e-v-a-r existed.
[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... on Tuesday noted that the new cabinet will not be formed anytime soon due to conditions and counter-conditions as well as foreign dictates, warning that the hard boy al-Nusra Front has started infiltrating the country from neighboring Syria.
"I don't know who will the cabinet consist of if it will not represent the political parties. They are also speaking of a rotation of portfolios and this is shameful, that's why we realized that no one wants the cabinet to be formed and let the Lebanese act accordingly," Aoun said after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc in Rabiyeh.
"We discussed several issues during the meeting, topped by the issue of security, as al-Nusra Front members have started arriving in the country with their suicide belts and equipment and certain parties are offering them a safe haven in Leb," Aoun warned.
"Where are all the security agencies? The police, the army, the General Security and the Judicial Police? It turned out that al-Nusra Front is present in Leb and we can't remain silent," he added.
The army announced on Sunday the arrest of a number of individuals for transporting weapons in the Bekaa region of Arsal.
The Beirut-based, pan-Arab television al-Mayadeen later reported that the army jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... five people -- two Syrians, a Lebanese and two Paleostinians -- who were carrying "boom jackets."
"Uniforms carrying al-Nusra Front badges were found in their possession and they were on their way to Arsal's barren mountains with the aim of infiltrating Syrian territory," the National News Agency said.
"We mentioned the refugees and their numbers and we tackled the security aspect of the issue, but they accused us of racism and here we are now sitting on a keg of gunpowder," Aoun warned.
He stressed that the caretaker cabinet "can't resign from its duties regarding the security issues."
Asked whether Hizbullah's military intervention in Syria was the reason behind the deteriorating security situation in Leb, Aoun said: "Prior to Hizbullah's intervention in Syria, acts of sabotage started in the North and liquidation tools were stockpiled in Sidon, that's why we are not surprised that these incidents are happening."
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[Dawn] The Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday that all secret funds be audited by the Auditor General of Pakistain (AGP).
In its judgment in the media commission case, the court declared illegal and unconstitutional Rule 37 (5) of the General Financial Rules (GFR) which is currently being used to exempt secret services funds from independent audit by the AGP.
It said all expenditures from the public exchequer must be made in a transparent manner and each rupee must be audited by the AGP in order to ensure compliance with the law.
The secret funds allocated to about 27 ministries in the budget 2012-13 totalled over Rs3.57 billion.
The 20-page verdict was issued on petitions filed by journalists Hamid Mir and Absar Alam seeking abolition of secret funds maintained by the Ministry of Information.
Authored by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, the judgment said that after the 18th Amendment under Article 170 (2) of the constitution, the AGP enjoyed a strong constitutional mandate to audit all public expenditures without exception.
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So now the auditors want in on the boodle.
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[An Nahar] Security forces on Tuesday managed to arrest an inmate who had escaped Monday from the Roumieh prison, where he was spending a jail term over several crimes, including identity fraud.
"Following a surveillance operation, the Judicial Police's regional anti-drug bureau in the Bekaa managed to arrest Lebanese prison escapee Abdullah Ahmed al-Hshimi, 30, on the al-Karak-Zahle public road at 5:30 p.m., after he escaped on Monday from the convicts' building of the central Roumieh prison," the Internal Security Forces said in a statement.
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[An Nahar] The Syrian government approved on Tuesday a law imposing penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment for people caught hoarding food in the war-torn country, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported.
"A draft law penalizing those who raise food prices or hoard food has been approved" by the cabinet, said the broadcaster.
The decision was passed amid an unprecedented financial and food crisis sparked by the 28-month conflict that a monitoring group says has killed more than 100,000 people.
The penalties "range from imprisonment to a fine, depending on the crime committed," said state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Some traders in Syria are trying to take advantage of the civil war, hoarding food until they are able to sell them at higher prices.
"There is no difference... between those who carry weapons to kill people and those who prevent others from living by blackmailing people," state news agency SANA quoted Industry Minister Adnan al-Sukhni as saying.
State media says the price of raw materials has risen by 300 percent in recent months, though residents say they may have soared by 400 percent in the past few weeks.
The government has imposed several increases on the price of fuel in recent months, which has impacted prices in general.
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Just friggin' great! Now Champ will find this out when somebody reads the news to him, and anybody who has been prudent and doing some stocking up will be punished. especially those fly-over house wives that will be doing a lot of canning real soon......
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I would strongly encourage you to withdraw that fear crime posting USN, Ret. While so-called home canning may be prohibited under the Equal and Fair Calories clause of the provisional constitution, the Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty) oversees shortage and famine. Private ownership of weapons ammunition is already prohibited. Your concerns regarding food are totally unfounded.
[Ynet] An Egyptian military source said that heavy military equipment and soldiers have arrived in the city of El-Arish in Sinai. According to the Paleostinian news agency Maan, the forces include more than 25 tank carriers, armored vehicles and rocket launchers, as well commandos, paratroopers and soldiers from the Egyptian infantry.
Maan reports that these are the first reinforcements sent to the border of the Gazoo Strip to deal with what was defined as an "outside disturbance."
[An Nahar] President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday inspected huge military exercises Russia's army is carrying out close to the borders with Japan and China, in one of its biggest shows of force in the Asia-Pacific region of recent years.
Thousands of tanks, 160,000 servicemen, 130 aircraft and 70 ships are involved in manoeuvres which extend over a vast area from southeastern Siberia on the border with China to Sakhalin Island north of Japan.
Putin on Tuesday visited Sakhalin Island and state television showed him peering through binoculars at the operations alongside Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu before taking to a helicopter to watch from the air.
Despite the proximity to two of Russia's most important neighbors, Moscow insists that the exercises carry no hostile intent and are within international law.
"I can report that no actions that would violate international obligations have been allowed," said Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, quoted by the Interfax news agency.
The manoeuvres are part of a series of last minute drills that the military was ordered to carry out in order to check out their battle-preparedness.
The forces involved had to mobilize swiftly after receiving orders this weekend to carry out the war games.
Antonov said foreign military attaches in Moscow were then immediately informed about the tactical exercises which are due to end on July 20.
The defense ministry said that two Russian Tu-95 fighter jets, which carried out a seven-hour flight as part of the exercises, were accompanied part of the way by a pair of jets from both the Japanese and South Korean airforces.
"The flights were made in strict accordance with international rules using airspace over neutral waters, without violating the borders of other states," the defense ministry said.
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Then he rolled a 0 on a D-10 and suffered cascading morale failure.
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"Pootey Bear" is no fool - he knows both China + Japan are seeking to deny the other access to Sakhalin in case a shooting war breaks out in the East China Sea.
TRIPOLI: A Libyan air force colonel was shot dead in the eastern city of Derna, a military spokesman said on Tuesday, an Islamist stronghold plagued by attacks on security officials. Unidentified assailants shot Colonel Fathi al-Omami on Monday evening after as he visited a shop he owned in Derna, overlooking the Mediterranean coast.
He was trying to open the shop. A car was apparently waiting for him and those inside shot him, said Ali Sheikhi, spokesman for the army chief of staffs office.
The state news agency LANA said residents carried Omami to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Derna is known across the region as a recruitment centre for militants who have joined wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
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Turkish police arrested about 30 people in Istanbul on Tuesday after briefly detaining more than 1,000 in a widening crackdown after weeks of violent anti-government protests, lawyers and local media reports said.
An Istanbul prosecutor also rejected the release of detained members of Taksim Solidarity, an umbrella group of activists including trade bodies, political parties and non-governmental organisations that helped organise the demonstrations. Police have accused Taksim Solidarity of disturbing public order by organising the protests. Local media said several student dormitories were targeted in Tuesday's raids.
"We understand that about 30 people have been detained today," lawyer Hasan Kilic, a member of the Istanbul Bar Association board, told Reuters.
"In total, the bar association estimates 1,042 people were detained and that about 40 have been arrested, while the rest were released," Kilic said.
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Arrested 30, Briefly detained 1,000, sounds about right, Got the Agitators.
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Five thousand people a month are dying in the Syria war which has now thrown up the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN officials said on Tuesday. A host of top officials called on the divided UN Security Council to take stronger action to deal with the fallout from the 26-month-old civil war in which the United Nations says up to 100,000 people have died.
Stronger action? Like what, exactly -- a more strongly worded letter?
"The extremely high rate of killings nowadays -- approximately 5,000 a month -- demonstrates the drastic deterioration of the conflict," UN assistant secretary-general for human rights Ivan Simonovic told a council meeting on Syria.
Nearly 1.8 million people are now registered with the United Nations in countries around Syria and an average of 6,000 people a day are now fleeing, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres added.
"We have not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago," Guterres said. He said the gesture of Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and other countries to accept refugees was "saving hundreds of thousands of lives."
"This crisis has been going on for much longer than anyone feared with unbearable humanitarian consequences," he added.
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the international community may have to consider cross border operations to get aid into Syria.
Let the Turks and Jordanians lead it. We'll watch from way back here...
They call it leading from behind. It's all the rage in certain circles, donchaknow.
Amos said $3.1 billion was still needed for operations in and around Syria for the rest of the year. She said four million people inside Syria need assistance and "considerable restraints" have been imposed on aid agencies by the government and opposition groups.
Amos highlighted the Old City in Homs where the government has stepped up a siege in the past month. The UN estimates that 2,500 civilians are trapped.
"Opposition group have so far not enabled them safe passage to leave and the government of Syria has refused to allow agencies to deliver assistance into the Old City," she said.
Amos appealed for the lifting of bureaucratic obstacles but also the designation of "priority humanitarian routes" and prior notification of military offensives.
Just what the rebels want to do -- announce when and where they'll blow something up. Brilliant, Valerie, just brilliant...
Amos said there should be "humanitarian pauses" to allow aid access and "cross-border operations, as appropriate."
You see Valerie, the reason it's called a 'civil' war is that the two sides aren't too civil towards each other...
The cross-border aid is controversial as it is opposed by the Syrian government. Russia, President Bashar Al Assad's key international backer, has also resisted discussion of such operations at the United Nations.
Turkey's deputy UN ambassador Levent Eler backed the call, however. "The council needs to consider alternative forms of aid delivery, including cross-border operations," he said. Eler said the Syria crisis was turning into "the biggest humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century."
So just do it already. Russia can't stop you; you're next door.
They want our money. Turkey is living off Saudi loans, they haven't any money of their own.
Lebanon's UN ambassador Nawaf Salam told the meeting that it was now "urgent" for the Security Council to act on the refugee crisis.
"Increasing cross border fire and incursions from Syria in Lebanon are threatening the security and stability of my country," he told the 15 ambassadors on the council.
Salam said the UN has registered 607,908 refugees in Lebanon but the government estimates the true figure at 1.2 million. He estimated the number would grow 20-fold during 2013. Lebanon has a population of about four million and he said the influx was the equivalent of 75 million refugees flooding the United States.
I'd almost feel sorry for Lebanon if it weren't for the fact that a fair bit of the population actively canoodled with the Syrians for the past few decades...
Syria's UN ambassador Bashar Jaafari disputed the UN death toll as "unprofessionally sourced" and criticised the use of an American company to collect data.
But Simonovic said that "rigorous" methods had been used to check a death toll of more than 92,900 given one month ago. He said each death was checked by name and date and cross checked with at least three sources.
UN leader Ban Ki-moon has since said that "up to 100,000 people" have been killed in Syria.
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For lack of a better term, we'll simply call it man-caused natural selection. Removal of parasitic DNA is key to our survival. Leave it [the process] alone.
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Except Threater Flusoper9823, of course, for the remaining Christians and other infidels still trapped in Syria, or who still consider it home and would rather not leave.
But that's a big part of the problem, too - so many Moslems are "infidels" to other activist Moslems. Shia, Alawites etc. are not "real" Moslems to the Sunnis with an attitude problem.
It wasn't too long ago that Catholics were looked down on, (like 1960), and if you go back far enough, there were Christians killing other Christians for not being the right "flavor" of Christianity. Interesting parallel, eh?
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I don't recall ANY "Christians" Beheading anyone, and bystanders Cheering about it.
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Heretics were generally burned at the stake, though drawing and quartering did occur. And Charles I decapitation may have been accompanied by silence or moans, depending on your source. We don't do it any longer, but it wasn't that long ago.
[Ynet] Turkish FM Davutoglu vehemently denies Russia Today report that Israel used its base to attack Latakia arms depot.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, considered by many in Jerusalem as hostile to Israel, found himself in the unusual situation on Monday of having to deny reports that Turkey cooperated with Israel in an attack 10 days ago on three Syrian arms depots in the port city of Latakia.
I'd make him deny it three or four times, loudly...
A Russia Today report quoted a source as saying the IAF launched the attack, which allegedly destroyed three depots -- containing state-of-the-art, Russian-supplied Yakhont anti-ship missiles -- from a Turkish military base.
"Israeli planes left a military base inside Turkey and approached Latakia from the sea to make sure that they stayed out of Syrian airspace so that they cannot become a legitimate target for the Syrian air force," RT quoted "a reliable source" as saying.
Israeli officials declined to comment on this or any reports about the blast at the Latakia depots.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, when asked about reports of Israeli responsibility in a CBS interview Sunday, said, "Oh God, every time something happens in the Middle East, Israel is accused. I'm not in the habit of saying what we did or we didn't do. I'll tell you what my policy is: My policy is to prevent the transfer of dangerous weapons to Hezbollah and other terror groups. And we stand by that policy."
This was echoed Monday by International Relations Minister Yuval Steinitz who, when asked about reports of Israeli involvement in the attack, said that the Yakhont missiles -- with a range of 300 kilometers -- are a threat to Israel. He added that these missiles were among the best, if not the best, of their kind in the world.
"We set a policy," he told Israeli Radio. "That policy is not to intervene in the civil war in Syria. With that we also set a rule, that we will make an effort to prevent the leakage of quality weapons, game changing weapons, to organizations like Hezbollah. That is our position and our policy."
The Hurriyet Daily News quoted Davutoglu as furiously denying any Turkish involvement.
"Lies! All lies!"
"Turkey will neither be a part nor a partner of such 'attacks.' The ones who claim this want to damage Turkey's power and reputation," he said. "It is out of the question that Turkey and Israel are part of a joint military operation."
"No, no, certainly not!"
According to Today's Zaman, the Turkish foreign minister said that Turkish media outlets spreading those reports were committing "an act of betrayal."
Davutoglu and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have in the past ridden barely hidden animosity toward Israel to wide popularity in the Arab world.
According to foreign reports, when Israel allegedly attacked a Syrian nuclear facility in 2007, IAF planes on the way back to Israel jettisoned fuel tanks over Turkish territory. Indeed, it was the discovery of those fuel tanks that led to the disclosure of the attack, an attack neither Israel nor Syria were interested in revealing: Syria because of embarrassment, and Israel because it thought it could prevent a Syrian reaction if it did not "rub Damascus' nose" in the attack.
The Russia Today story adds yet another layer of fog to the Latakia attack. The Sunday Times had previously quoted Middle East intelligence sources as saying that Israeli Dolphin-class submarines had been behind the attack, while CNN quoted US officials as saying the strike was the work of the IAF.
Israel Radio, meanwhile, quoted a Syrian rebel website as saying a senior former officer in the Syrian navy defected to the rebels and passed on information about the location of the Yakhont missiles, making contact with US intelligence through a Turkish intelligence intermediary. This information, according to the rebels, allowed Israel to attack the depots through missiles fired from the sea.
Netanyahu said that the volatile situation in Syria had been behind his decision to make an apology [to Turkey], something he had previously avoided.
"The fact that the crisis in Syria is getting worse by the minute was the central consideration in my eyes," Netanyahu said. "Syria is disintegrating, and the huge advanced weapons stockpiles are beginning to fall into the hands of different forces."
The Syrian reality, which includes global jihadist elements on its border with Israel on the Golan, creates tremendous security challenges for Israel, he stated.
"It is important that Turkey and Israel, which border Syria, can communicate with each other, and this is true regarding other challenges as well."
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This was echoed Monday by International Relations Minister Yuval Steinitz who, when asked about reports of Israeli involvement in the attack, said that the Yakhont missiles -- with a range of 300 kilometers -- are a threat to Israel. He added that these missiles were among the best, if not the best, of their kind in the world.
That last bit is the payoff to the Russkies. Gotta love that Pooty Poot.
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Israeli subs. The rest is propaganda. And thos emissiles are pure trouble - AFAIK the US has nothing widely deployed in that class - self-guided (inertial, lidar and GLASNOST) supersonic sea skimmer with 300km range and 250kg warhead, 50km terminal self guidance, frequency agile radar, and ECM resistant
BAIDOA, Somalia -- Ethiopian troops stationed in Bay regional capital of Baidoa in southern Somalia handed over their military bases to AMISOM peacekeeping forces on Monday, Garowe Online reports. The last battalions of Ethiopian troops left with their armored fighting vehicles, tanks and artillery trucks, according to eyewitnesses in Baidoa.
Ethiopian troops stationed here began to vacate Baidoa yesterday [Sunday], they had three military bases and following their recent preparations, the last group of troops vacated Baidoa today, witnesses said.
Local reports in Baidoa confirmed to Garowe Online that AMISOM peacekeeping forces immediately filled the military stations vacated by Ethiopian troops. Some of the troops walked out by foot and they were vigilant because they feared attack by Al Shabaab militants during the withdrawal, an eyewitness added.
On 10 July, Ethiopian troops vacated Bay regional districts of Bardale and Qansahdheere and their pullout was also felt in Baidoa as they retreated from major military bases including Hasey Factory station and 60th Somali Army Base.
Ethiopian troops intervened in Southern Somalia in Dec. 2006 and withdrew by Jan. 2009, but returned to Gedo, Bay, Bakool, Hiiraan and Galgadud border regions in early 2012 in support of Somali governments stabilization operations. In March 2013, Ethiopian vacated Huddur town of Bakool region, near the Ethiopian border, and Al Shabaab militants almost immediately seized control of Huddur to date.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal-2 is set to deliver today the verdict in the war crimes case against Jamaat-e -Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.
The alleged chief of infamous Al-Badr force is facing seven charges, including that of murder, genocide and conspiracy to kill intellectuals, during the country's Liberation War in 1971.
Forty-one days after the completion of the case proceedings, Tribunal-2 Chairman Justice Obaidul Hassan yesterday announced the verdict date in the courtroom.
On June 5, the court had shelved the case for delivering verdict.
During their closing arguments, the prosecution sought capital punishment for Mojaheed claiming that they had been able to prove all the charges against him while the defence claimed otherwise.
If convicted, Mojaheed might have to walk to the gallows.
Yesterday, he was shifted from Narayanganj prison to Dhaka Central Jail, reports our Narayanganj correspondent.
Narayanganj jail Superintendent Mustafizur Rahman said that amid tight security Mojaheed had been shifted to Dhaka in a prison van around 5:50pm.
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[An Nahar] Britannia is to give Syrian opposition fighters equipment to protect them against chemical weapons attacks "as a matter of special urgency", Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Tuesday.
The British government will supply "moderate" opposition fighters with 5,000 protective hoods, as well as pre-treatment tablets and chemical weapons detector paper to be used in a sarin gas attack.
Hague said the equipment costing some £657,000 ($991,0000, 757,000 euros) needed to be sent urgently as there was evidence that forces loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... were using chemical weapons against the rebels.
"We believe that the use of chemical weapons is sanctioned and ordered by the Assad regime," he said in a written statement to parliament.
"We plan to equip the moderate armed opposition with 5,000 escape hoods, nerve-agent pre-treatment tablets (NAPs) and chemical weapons detector paper."
The United States and La Belle France have also accused the Assad regime of using banned arms including sarin, but Damascus has repeatedly denied the accusations.
The hoods protect wearers against the effects of sarin for up to 20 minutes, Hague said.
Someone wearing a hood would be able to move away from the area hit by the nerve agent, but they could not continue to fight.
The tablets, meanwhile, could give those hit by a sarin attack time to get to a medical center to receive further treatment.
The equipment will be given to the Supreme Military Council of the Syrian National Coalition, which Britannia recognizes as the sole legitimate representatives of the Syrian people.
Hague has promised politicians that the government would seek parliament's consent before deciding to arm the rebels, amid concerns that they may fall into the hands of Islamist opposition groups.
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[Ynet] Armed cell takes over unmanned IDF post, Israeli force identifies cell, gunfire ensues; no injuries reported
Two armed Syrians, most likely affiliated with rebel forces, infiltrated an unmanned IDF post in the south Golan Heights Tuesday night.
During a routine patrol by an IDF Nahal unit, soldiers observed the suspects in the post in Tel Faris. The Israeli force was then fired at, most likely from Syria, by Assad forces targeting the rebels in the IDF post.
The IDF unit then fired back. No injuries or damage were reported.
The armed Syrians managed to flee the scene. ... as though they had never been... before additional IDF troops arrived. Soldiers were combing the area in search of the assailants.
Earlier Tuesday, Some 25 mortar shells went kaboom! in Israeli territory. The IDF said the firing was part of Syrian infighting involving rebels and army forces in the village of Al-Madriya.
The mortars hit open areas and no damage or injuries were reported.
#5
Hard boyz don't have to hit what they aim at, they just have to look muy macho when they spray rounds of bullet all over the place...
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"Aim," Steve?
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#4 u made me laugh, It is not that easy these days, thanks
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Why are Arabs such lousey shots?
It's hard to aim when you're firing over an obstacle such that your arms are exposed but not your head. With the exception of a tiny cadre of suicide bombers who are wasted in suicide attacks, Islamist warriors have a very well-developed sense of self-preservation. This is why the Taliban has inflicted fewer casualties on US troops in the course of 12 years than Communist Vietnamese troops inflicted in a single year. Taliban losses have been similarly been light compared to Communist Vietnamese losses of 100K per year. Bottom line is that the Taliban are way overrated.
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When the Special Forces went into Afghanistan during the start of US/Taliban festivities the Afghan allies never aimed. One SF soldier asked why they didn't aim. One Afghan said, "It is against Islam to kill another Muslim so we fire our weapons without aiming. If an enemy gets hit by a bullet it must be the will of Allah."
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[An Nahar] Lebanese citizen Rabih A., 39, who hails from the Akkar town of Hrar, was found maimed at the square of the Aley town of Baisour with his penis cut off, state-run National News Agency reported.
Lebanese Red Thingy medics rushed the man to the West Shahhar Hospital with life-threatening injuries, NNA said.
The agency said the incident happened after Rabih eloped with a woman identified as Rudeina M., who hails from the town of Baisour.
"When the relatives of the girl learned of the issue, they investigated the circumstances and found out that Rabih and Rudeina were at a chalet in Tabarja, so they went there and brought them to Baisour, where they severed the man's penis and left him at the town's square," NNA said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... security sources told LBCI television that Rabih arrived at hospital suffering from "extreme fatigue after he was severely beaten."
The man arrived at hospital "without his penis, which was chopped off, while his testicles were smashed," the sources added.
"After Rabih and his girlfriend agreed to tie the knot despite the objection of her family, her relatives telephoned him and said they wanted to make a reconciliation and agree to the marriage," LBCI said.
"They agreed to have dinner at a restaurant, but after the dinner the man was kidnapped and severely beaten," it added.
The relatives "severed his penis to punish him for marrying their daughter," LBCI said.
"The tragic incident caught the attention of the political circles and a high-ranking leader fiercely rebuked the girl's family and the group who committed the crime," the TV network revealed.
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Now THAT'S revenge.
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I guess the alternative would be to wack the daughter for disgracing the family.
Not very good choices...
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He won't do it again, will he.
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Thankfully my in-laws were 1600+ miles away in upstate NY when my wife and I eloped 35 years ago. Bavarians can be prickly as well. My defense to this day: She moved to Texas, I didn't go to NY and steal her.
In the past ten days alone Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates pledged $12 billion in cash, fuel, food, wheat, interest-free loans, and gifts.
We knew that. But somehow this important bit didn't make it over the transom:
Vast shipments of gasoline and wheat have poured in so fast that the four-hour standard waits at gasoline stations and a shortage of bread disappeared overnight.
Key graph:
In a new vernacular, radical Islam emerges as malevolent monster conspiring against multi-sectarian, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic societies, advocating Wahhabi Islam, civil wars, and financial ruin.
Wasn't that also the old vernacular?
The new pan-Arab cynicism is rooted in disappointments with such Islamist militias as Hezbollah and Hamas, piled upon multiple atrocities by Islamists against fellow Arabs in Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq and a loss of interest in the so-called "Peace Process" that has led nowhere.
Go read the whole thing. Also Mr. Ibrahim's previous effort, on the fate of the Egyptian Palestinians:
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This Egypt business is distant news and of little value as a media distraction. Properly stoked by DoJ and the regime, seething and anger from the Zimmerman trial will successfully smother legitimate dialogue [the economy, IRS scandals, Benghazi, F&F, NSA] for at lest a few more weeks. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
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Egypt's pre-crisis tourism revenues were 14 billion $. 12 billion aint going to last long.
Three to four months, it is being said. But the gasoline will allow Egypt's wheat crop to be harvested and factories to run, and the bread will calm things for the moment. Most importantly, it shows the army can do what the Muslim Brothers couldn't, get the world to cough up money instead of airy promises.
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This is good news for the youth of Egypt. Most western of the Arab nations. The youth had it made before the Arab spring. Clothes, cars, night life, they see the future that was offered and it was all bad for them. With the work in Libya gone many many thousands of jobs were lost. Like here the youth now are waisted. The grains were vital. The money from fellow Arabs is what I would prefer to us footing the bill. The Arabs know the corruption. Ah, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia; clever fellow, this is good he is involved. The Arabs will best be able in delivering an effective assistance. Hopefully reborn. Hopefully not another Lebanon. The youth want a future of hope. They have tasted the good things of this life. The lure of Islam will fail because of the lack of hope and freedoms. Invite business, invite investments, and grow. Just the opposite of what we are doing here. With stability they will come. Their military is respected and is a stabilizing influence. Now they need a leadership with hope and vision for the future. Not an Obama, Not a Morsi, Not a Castro, Not a Chavez they are the biggest losers in this world. Certainly the Arabs fear Iran's influence. With good reason. Better to have Egypt in the fold for many reasons.
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I'm not sure the average Egyptian 'respects' the military. The Egyptian military has the usual issues of an armed service in a developing country: it's corrupt, filled with conscripts, diddles with politics, and in the end can't do the job it's ostensibly supposed to do in defending the country.
The average Egyptian may today view their military as the least evil choice but that isn't necessarily 'respect'.
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The failing lure of Islam is a long and very painful process. I hope humanity will survive it.
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I'm just happy that the Soddies, Kuwaitis, and other rich Gulf Arabs are taking up the slack instead of everybody looking to the United States to bail them out. I understand about the Suez Canal and the border with Gaza and Israel but otherwise I'm inclined to let the Egyptians figure it out for themselves whether that's even possible or not.
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It's still political Islam. Just a difference in methods.
The MB/Qatar/Turkish JDP and the Salafists/Wahabbis (Sauds) are at odds, not at the goal of establishing the dominance of Islam, but over the process of getting to that goal. The rather purist Salafists and Wahabbis don't like the Brotherhood's influence-buying, K-street Chicago-politics methods.
Methods, btw, that are probably what attracted the White House's support for a MB psuedo-caliphate in the Middle East.
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What what crop - everyone is fighting one another so local agriculture suffers. Women, Kiddies , + Senior Citizens affected most.
ION US-LED INTERNATIONAL "DITHERENCE" ...
* PRESS TV > WEST LOSING ON ALL FRONTS IN SYRIA.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > A MONTH AFTER THE US [ + also Turkey] PLEDGED MORE HELP, SYRIAN REBELS IN WORSE SHAPE.
RELATED ...
> FOX NEWS, AL-JAZEERA > UN NOMINEE [Samantha Powers] CALLS US [Obama Admin?] INACTION ON SYRIA A 'DISGRACE", in testimony before the US Senate FRC.
> DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > UK'S DAVE CAMERON ACCUSED OF BETRAYING SYRIAN REBELS - DAILY TELEGRAPH.
* STARS-N-STRIPES > OBAMA COMMENT [sexual assault widin US Military] COMPLICATES TRIAL | WHITE HOUSE SAYS OBAMA'S STATEMENT WAS NON-SPECIFIC.
Are we missing John Wayne yet - "not specific" is N-O-T what Japan, SOKOR, TAIWAN, PHIL, VEITNAM, ASEAN + INDIA wanna hear!
Apparently the Bammer's seemingly Wafflism is endangering more than just US Foreign Policy, OverSea Allies, National-Geopol Security, + US strategic interests.
* DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND > [WaPo] NETANYAHU: NO US [andor Internationl = UNO] URGENCY ON IRAN NUKES.
Also from BENJI > TOPIX, WORLD NEWS = NETANYAHU: IRAN "WEEKS AWAY" FROM CROSSING NUCLEAR "RED LINE".
RELATED WORLD NEWS > [The Independent] IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS: ISRAEL WILL NOT WAIT UNTIL ITS TOO LATE, WARNS BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.
Prob safe to say on or about the same time as Japanese Medias believe China make attempt a "forced landing" wid 1000 ex-PLA "concerned" Veterans-Cistizens on the disputed Senkakus/Diaoyus.
D *** NG IT, its NOT 2014 or the MidTerm Elex yet in the US.
* GLOBAL TIMES > OP-ED: MANILA BETTER OFF DEALING WID BEIJING THAN SEEKING US MILITARY HELP.
VERSUS
* DAILY STAR.LB > US REPEATS OFFER TO HELP END LEBANON, ISRAEL EEZ DISPUTE.
Whell, lets get Russia [again], China, Turkey, + Greece mad at the US besides everybody in Syria - PLEASE FORGIVE ME IFF I MISSED SOMEONE???
* MARIANAS VARIETY: US [to Putin = Russia]: TURN OVER SNOWDEN OR RISK "LONG-TERM PROBLEMS.
* WORLD NEWS > CHINA: JAPAN RISKING "STRATEGIC HOSTILITY" OVER DISPUTED ISLANDS.
RELATED SAME > CHINA WARNS JAPAN AGZ "PROVOCATIVE ACTS" ON DIAYUS.
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OOOOPPSIES, forgot RUSSIA BEYOND THE HEADLINES [RBTH] > WILL [Concepts-Premises of] "SUPERPOWER" SURVIVE IN NEW WORLD ORDER?
As per Pert Roundtable.
> "Big[er?] Govt" to thrive-n-survive but become more surreal.
> More "Poles" = IIUC aka MORE PAR CO-SUPERPOWERS = GLOBAL CO-LEADERS. NUCLEAR?
> More "Govts-without-Borders" > NO NEED FOR VISAS, PASSPORTS, ETC. = IMMIGRATION, TRAVEL DOCUMENTS AS TODAY.
Is "Many Chiefs, No Indians" less or more dangerous than "Many Indians, No Chiefs"???
MOGADISHU -- Explosions hit Mogadishu leaving several solar powered street lights destroyed on Monday, Garowe Online reports.
What idiot came up with putting solar powered street lights in Mog? Must have been a western NGO idiot...
Three of nearly dozens of street lights lined along Mogadishus 30th Street, one of the citys busiest roads, were destroyed. Local sources said "no one was targeted" as the explosive devices were detonated at recently installed street lights in Mogadishu.
I heard very big blasts after Fajr [morning] prayer and they rocked in Al Baraka village of Hodon district, we went out to see what happened but we saw the wreckage of the solar powered street lights witnesses reported.
Nobody claimed its responsibility but Banadir regional administration accused Al Shabaab extremists of detonating the blasts. A spokesman for Banadir regional administration said: Al Shabaab will take the explosions responsibility because they so far targeted those street lights and they oppose their installation for public safety."
The targeted road connects four districts in Mogadishu and local residents welcomed the installation of solar powered street lights to increase public safety and businesses stay open late.
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Good, Let the animals destroy everything.
No Benefits for you.
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Free lights at night, Why, THAT'S UNISLAMIC we have the right to slaughter anybody we want to, WITHOUT detection.
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Street lights prevent crime. Battle space prep.
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Juice cooties brought this to mind. Strangely, it fits:
Midnight
And I'm a-waitin'
On the twelve-0-five
Hopin' it'll take me
Just a little farther down the line
Moonlight
You're just a heartache in disguise
Won't you keep my heart from breakin'
If it's only for a very short time
Playing with the queen of hearts
Knowin' it ain't really smart
The joker ain't the only fool
Who'll do anything for you
Laying out another lie
Thinkin' 'bout a life of crime
'Cos that's what I'll have to do
To keep me away from you
Honey, you know it makes you mad
Why is everybody tellin' everybody
What you have done
Baby, I know it makes you sad
But when they're handin' out the heartaches
You know you got to have you some
Playing with the queen of hearts
Knowin' it ain't really smart
The joker ain't the only fool
Who'll do anything for you
Laying out another lie
Thinkin' 'bout a life of crime
'Cos that's what I'll have to do
To keep me away from you
QUETTA: Three persons, among them a religious scholar, were gunned down on Khudaay Dad Road in the provincial capital, between the night of Monday and Tuesday.
Police sources said that religious scholar Molvi Mohibullah, his brother Amanullah and a colleague were sitting at a cold drinks shop on Khudaay Dad Road when unidentified armed men on a bike came there and opened indiscriminate fire at them, leaving them dead and three others injured. The rescue teams shifted the dead and injured to Civil Hospital. The dead had received multiple bullets which caused their death on the spot, while the three injured received serious bullet wounds, doctors said. Later, the injured were referred to the Combined Military Hospital due to their serious condition.
The police have registered a case against unidentified accused and launched an investigation into the incident.
Meanwhile, police arrested two suspects and recovered bomb-making material from their possession from a village in Kuchlak teshil of Quetta District, on Tuesday.
Police told APP that a patrolling police team, on a tip-off, raided a house in village Killi Landi of Kuchlak Tehsil, some 25 km off Quetta city and arrested two suspects.
During interrogation, on the indication of the arrested suspects, the police also recovered explosives and the material used in bomb blasts that included time device circuit-167, remote control receiver-183, remote control signal-3, remote control double-5, pressure circuit shoes-20, remote control-20, batteries-9x volts and battery cell-30, police said.
The arrested men have been shifted to police station where a special investigation team has been interrogating them.
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[An Nahar] 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... announced on Tuesday new rules to protect the rights of foreign domestic workers, most of whom are from South Asia, but stressed they must "respect" Islam and "obey" their employers.
Labor Minister Adel Faqih said the new rules require employers to pay workers "the agreed monthly salary without delay, and give them a day off each week," in remarks carried by the official SPA news agency.
Employers are also required to provide domestic workers with "suitable accommodations, as well as granting them time to rest for at least nine hours each day," Faqih said.
Under the new guidelines, workers are entitled to paid sick leave and a one-month paid vacation after putting in two years of work as well as end of service compensation equal to one month salary after four years, he said.
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This one's dead too, That's three.
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A roadside bomb exploded Tuesday beside a convoy of SUVs believed to be carrying members of Hezbollah, reportedly killing one man and wounding two others. The attack on a main road in eastern Lebanon is the latest in a slew of recent incidents targeting Hezbollah, marking the fulfillment of a long warned-about retaliation for its battlefield support of the Syrian regime. It was the fourth roadside bomb attack in five weeks to target suspected Hezbollah vehicles in the Bekaa Valley.
The bomb exploded mid-afternoon as three SUVs passed along the highway between Masnaa, a town on the Lebanon-Syria border, and Majdal Anjar, a town known to harbor Sunni radicals, according to local reports. One report claimed that the targeted SUV came under gunfire after the bomb exploded. Although the size of the bomb is unknown, it is believed to be the first to cause casualties since the roadside attacks began last month.
Although no one has claimed responsibility, it was almost certainly carried out by Sunni militants in retribution for the Lebanese Shiite militant groups help crushing the Syrian opposition forces.
[An Nahar] The Pak Taliban Tuesday rejected suggestions they were sending fighters to Syria, saying some have gone there independently but the movement's focus remained in Pakistain. "No, no! Certainly not!"
Taliban sources said some bad turbans, mainly Arabs and Central Asians, had gone to fight the forces of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... , but a big shot dismissed reports of them setting up camps in Syria. How can you be a "Pak" Talib if you're not a Pak?
The lawless tribal areas of northwest Pakistain along the Afghan border have long been a magnet for snuffies from across the Musselmen world eager to fight U.S.-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces in Afghanistan. Not that they would cross the Pak-Afghan border, no matter how poorly delimited. That would be a gross violation of both Pak and Afghan sovereignty. Not to mention each other's national dignity...
But since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, foreign jihadists have flocked to Syria, where disparate rebel groups are seeking his downfall. I think I've mentioned before that there are actually four sides in Syria: Pencilneck, the rebels, the Kurds, and al-Qaeda.
Some media reports say scores of Pak Taliban are among them and they have set up camps in Syria. Blend right in with the natives, don't they? "The guerrilla is the fish, the people are the sea," as Chairman Mao used to say.
A senior commander who sits on the shura or ruling council of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) told Agence La Belle France Presse there was no tactical shift and no decision had been made to send forces to Syria. And if you can't believe the Pak Taliban who can you believe?
"There is no reality in these reports, we have far better targets in the region, NATO troops headed by the Americans are present in Afghanistan," he said on condition of anonymity. "We are already in a war with Pak troops. We support the mujahideen's struggle in Syria but in our opinion, we have a lot more to do here in Pakistain and Afghanistan."
The TTP is an umbrella group for numerous factions trying to bring down the Pak state and impose sharia law. It has ties to the Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda.
"The great evil (America) is here in Afghanistan, troops from 30 kafir (non-believer) countries are attacking innocent people in Afghanistan, so Bashir al-Assad is not that important for us," the TTP commander said.
"Obama is the big evil, Americans are a much bigger evil for us. The Taliban shura has never discussed sending mujahideen to Syria."
Another mid-ranking TTP commander in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , the main town of North Wazoo tribal district which is a hotbed of Taliban and al-Qaeda activity, said some fighters had gone to Syria "in a personal capacity".
A third senior TTP cadre said those who went were mostly Arabs, Uzbeks and Chechens.
More than 100,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Assad erupted, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Ismail, an Arab fighter from al-Qaeda, told AFP in northwest Pakistain that he planned to join the fight against Assad.
"I am going to Syria in the next few days, my family will stay here," he said.
"Our mujahideen are going not only to Syria but also to Leb, Egypt and other Arab countries."
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We missed all of our Youtube + Liveleak, etc. Net Videos indic to the contrary, + CNN + CNBC this AM, didn't we???
[Dawn] Personnel of Rangers rubbed out a taxi driver in a Gulistan-e-Jauhar locality when he did not stop his vehicle on Tuesday, officials said.
It is the second such incident in recent weeks as last month another unarmed civilian was killed by Rangers in Shah Faisal Colony for the same reason.
"The taxi driver, identified as Murid Abbas, was buying fruit across the road near Kamran Chowrangi when the Rangers personnel signalled him to stop," said SSP-East Imran Shaukat.
The driver backed up and it appeared to the Rangers personnel that he was trying to escape, he said, adding that one of them, identified as Lance Naik Ghulam Rasool, fired five shots at him.
Mr Abbas, whose two-year-old son was also with him in the taxi, suffered multiple bullet wounds and was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! Later, the body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a post-mortem examination.
Gulistan-e-Jauhar SHO Malik Salim told Dawn that the victim sustained five bullet wounds in the abdomen, chest and arm.
The SSP said that three other Rangers personnel realised the gravity of the situation, disarmed the lance naik and produced him before their company commander, who handed over his custody to the police.
"He is in police custody and an FIR has been lodged against him on murder charges on a complaint of the victim's widow, Dua," said the SSP.
Three other personnel had been made witnesses of the incident, he added.
Ms Dua told the media that she was at her home and her husband along with their two-year-old son had gone to buy fruit when she got the tragic news of his killing.
"He was the sole breadwinner of our family and now we have been left abandoned," she said. "My husband was innocent, we are poor and we want justice."
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck in the tree roots and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... a Rangers front man said that the director general of the Rangers had taken serious notice of the incident and removed the company commander from his post. "The Rangers personnel have been taken into custody and an inquiry has been initiated. A legal action would be taken against all responsible personnel."
He said that the Rangers had intensified snap checks following continuous attacks on the paramilitary force. An armed suspect was placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Tuesday who wanted 'to attack the Rangers', he added.
"Today, during checking near Kamran Chowrangi, a cycle of violence squad signalled a taxi driver but he accelerated the car in reverse. The Rangers personnel opened fire on him, resulting in injuries to the driver who later on died in the hospital," said a press statement issued by the Rangers.
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[An Nahar] Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... has warned that preventing Hizbullah from participating in the new government would be dangerous, saying the exclusion would be considered directed at him.
"Those calling for Hizbullah's isolation are pushing towards Leb's destruction," Berri told As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.
"Let it be clear that the cabinet cannot be formed without Hizbullah," he said. "I consider the rejection to give it portfolios as directed at me personally."
Berri stressed that he has informed Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam that the current delicate stage requires an all-embracing government.
"If I reject Hizbullah's exclusion, I also reject the exclusion of (FPM chief Michel) Aoun or al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement or any other party," he said.
Conditions and counter-conditions set by the March 8 and March 14 alliances have so far prevented Salam from putting together a government.
March 8 wants a national unity cabinet that includes major political figures and is asking for the representation of its parties based on their parliamentary weight. March 14 on the other hand is calling for keeping Hizbullah away from it over the party's participation in the war in Syria alongside Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's troops against rebels seeking to topple him.
Berri reiterated that he disagreed with Aoun on several local issues but agreed with him on their support for the resistance and the army-people-resistance formula.
"There is no longer such thing as veto power even if Aoun gets five, six or seven ministers" in the new cabinet, Berri said.
"So there won't be any possibility for (the March 8 alliance) to have veto power or to act as a single ministerial bloc," he added.
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One terrorist militant was killed but another escaped in shootout with policemen in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday, July 15.
According to the statement, policemen were on patrol early Monday morning, when they detected a car parked near a forest. The statement said, As policemen attempted to check documents the driver of the car cast a grenade at them and opened fire. He was killed in return fire.
As the shootout began another assailant opened fire on law enforcers from the forest and then fled the scene. No police officers were injured in the shootout.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The jury made the right decision in the George Zimmerman murder trial, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.
[Ynet] A Saudi who was freed by US authorities from detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to become second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been confirmed dead, AQAP said on Wednesday.
[An Nahar] Egypt's first government since the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi almost two weeks ago was officially sworn in on Tuesday, state television
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir activists continued to be on the rampage and clashed with law enforcers in different parts of the country yesterday, the second day of
[Dawn] Police in 
At least nine Syrians, including a child, were executed by regime forces at a checkpoint in Damascus province, a watchdog said on Tuesday.
The number of people seeking political asylum in Germany has soared, and the largest group by far was from Russia. Many this year came from the Chechnya region.
Michel Aoun
[Bangla Daily Star] The International Crimes Tribunal-2 is set to deliver today the verdict in the war crimes case against Jamaat-e -Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Wazoo
[Dawn] Personnel of Rangers 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
One terrorist militant was killed but another escaped in shootout with policemen in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday, July 15.
