[TOLONEWS] The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday condemned the killing of a senior Haqqani network leader but said his death would not have any impact on the forces of Evil campaign of violence.
Unidentified gunniesbumped off Nasiruddin Haqqani, eldest son of the group's founder, as he bought bread on the edge of Islamabad on Sunday evening.
Haqqani was the chief financier of the Haqqani bully boy network who are affiliated with Afghan Taliban and are the most feared group fighting US-led and Afghan forces in Afghanistan.
They have been blamed for spectacular attacks on Afghan government and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... targets across Afghanistan, as well as for kidnappings and murders.
"We condemn the cowardly act of the defeated enemy and tell them that these kinds of terrorist actions will not have any negative impact on the current jihadi activities," the Taliban said in a statement.
"His death is a big loss for Islamic Emirate and all Afghanistan," it said.
Eyewitnesses described attackers on cycle of violences spraying Haqqani with automatic gunfire at a bakery in Bhara Kahu on the northeastern edge of Islamabad.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the killing, which came less than two weeks after a US drone strike assassinated Pak Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud in North Wazoo tribal district.
Washington holds the Haqqanis responsible for some of the most high-profile attacks in Afghanistan, including a 2011 siege of the US embassy and, in 2009, the deadliest attack on the CIA in 25 years.
The United States put the Haqqani network on its terror blacklist in September 2012, and the Pentagon said the group represented a "significant threat" to national security.
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Why are the Haqqanis living in plain sight in Islamabad when they are killing Nato troops?
[Al Ahram] Egypt's Salafist Nour Party described Wednesday deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... 's first public statement since his 3 July ouster as "unrealistic."
Nour Party front man Sherif Taha told Al-Ahram Arabic news website that Morsi's statement, which lawyer Mohammed El-Damaty read at a presser Wednesday, reflects "the absence of a realistic vision of the [current] situation."
Taha said that the content was not new and represents the same stance of the Moslem Brüderbund, the group from which Morsi hails and which has been calling for his reinstatement since his ouster.
Morsi remained defiant in his statement, saying the army staged an illegitimate "coup" when it deposed him 3 July amid mass nationwide protests against his rule.
"What happened is a crime and treason," Morsi said. "Treason to God and his prophet, and a breach of the oath sworn by Defence Minister [Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi] who pushed the army into politics ... It is also treason to the nation because it has divided the people."
Morsi added: "Egypt will not regain its power until the coup is overturned and those responsible for the bloodshed are held accountable."
Security forces have staged a crackdown on Morsi supporters, arresting hundreds of Moslem Brüderbund members and affiliates, mainly on charges of inciting violence. Pro-Morsi demonstrations often escalated into festivities with opponents or security forces. In August, police forcibly dispersed two large Cairo pro-Morsi sit-ins leaving hundreds dead.
Morsi is currently in jail pending trial, where he and 14 other Moslem Brüderbund members are accused of inciting to kill protesters during festivities at the Ittihadeya presidential palace in December 2012.
He is also currently being investigated on escaping from prison during the January 2011 revolution.
The Salafist Nour Party chose to be neutral during the 30 June protests that were calling for Morsi's removal from power. After his ouster, Nour said it accepted the interim roadmap announced by the army.
The party, currently Egypt's second largest Islamic bloc after the Brotherhood, also sits on the 50-Member Committee tasked with amending the constitution. Tensions have arisen between the party and the committee on articles dealing with the Islamic identity of the state and the sources of legislation.
The committee is set to make public its final draft 3 December, ahead of a national referendum on the charter.
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[An Nahar] Deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... plans to sue the army-installed authorities over his ouster, warning that stability will only return once their "coup" is annulled, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Mohammed al-Damati and a team of lawyers on Monday visited Morsi in jail, where he is awaiting the next hearing in a trial on charges of involvement in the deaths of protesters during his year-long presidency.
"The president plans to take legal measures against the coup, and this will be up to the defense team in the near future," Damati told news hounds.
"There are complaints which will be presented to the prosecutor general (to say) that what happened was a crime."
Damati also said complaints could be filed to the administrative court to annul "the move by (military chief) General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi" to topple Morsi.
Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, was removed from office by the army on July 3 after mass protests calling for his resignation.
He insists that he remains the president of Egypt and has rejected the legitimacy of the court trying him.
In a letter read out by his lawyers, he reiterated his rejection of the process and warned of continuing unrest.
"Egypt will not regain its stability except by annulling this coup," Morsi said.
Unrest has spiked in the country since Morsi's overthrow, and the bitter divisions between his supporters and opponents have deepened.
Morsi's supporters have been holding near-daily protests around the country despite a massive crackdown by the authorities that has killed more than 1,000 people.
Another 2,000 people, including the top leadership of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, are behind bars.
Morsi was catapulted from the long-banned Moslem Brüderbund to the presidency after winning Egypt's first free elections in 2012.
His victory was made possible by the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak. ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
But his short-lived presidency was marred by political turmoil, deadly festivities and a crippling economic crisis, prompting millions to take to the streets in June to demand his resignation.
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[Al Ahram] Nigeria's army offensive against Islamist snuffies has pushed nearly 40,000 refugees over its northern border into Niger, a UN agency said, in a drive that is straining food supplies in the drought-prone country.
The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... estimated in June there were 6,000 refugees from Nigeria but the figure has soared as President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... has stepped up attacks on Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... bad boys.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest monthly report that of a total 37,332 refugees, nearly 29,000 are officially Niger nationals and the rest are Nigerian.
"These figures, three times above the level the humanitarian workers were planning for, give an indication of the difficulties of developing a humanitarian response," it said.
Boko Haram is seen as the biggest risk to stability in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and top oil producer, which shares a 1,500 kilometre border with its landlocked northern neighbour Niger along the edge of the Sahara Desert.
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40,000, huh? the pond in which Boko Haram swims
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I prefer counter-attacks vs. Boko Haram, who recently shot up a mall full of moms and kids.
Give'm hell Nigeria, because that is exactly what they asked for.
[ABCNEWS.GO] Lawmakers who had long pushed for U.S. action against Nigerian Islamic faceless myrmidons welcomed the State Department's decision on Wednesday to designate two krazed killer groups as foreign terrorist organizations blamed for the deaths of thousands of people in Africa's most populous nation.
Ansaru and Boko Haram, ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... which have links to al-Qaeda, are waging a brutal campaign against military, government and civilian targets, including Christians like Habila Adamu, who delivered emotional congressional testimony about being shot in the face because he refused to renounce his faith.
Adamu recounted how masked gunnies came to his home in Yobe state around 11 p.m. on Nov. 28, 2012.
"I told them 'I'm ready to die as a Christian.' Before I closed my mouth, one of them fired at me with an AK-47. It passed through my nose," Adamu said, holding up photographs taken of the entry wound on his nose and exit wound on the side of his neck. "I fell down. ... Blood is rushing everywhere. One of them followed me, stepped on me two times to confirm whether I am still alive or I am dead."
When they assumed he was dead, they shouted "Allah akbar," which means "Allah is great."
Even his wife thought he was dead. When she learned he was alive, she rushed to find help, only to learn that their neighbors, who also were Christians, had been killed. About seven hours later, Adamu was taken for medical treatment and survived.
Today, he has a message for anyone who will hear his story: "Do everything that you can to end this ruthless, religious persecution in northern Nigeria." Adamu testified at a joint hearing of two House Foreign Affairs' subcommittees, on Africa and terrorism.
New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith, who chaired the hearing, said Boko Haram also is targeting their fellow Musselmens who do not agree with their bully boy views, Musselmen religious leaders who criticize violence and people affiliated with the Nigerian government, which they see as corrupt and unjust. Smith said the two groups also participate in the global Islamic bully boy movement.
Boko Haram was responsible for a suicide kaboom of the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... building in the capital, Abuja, in August 2011, which killed 21 people.
In addition to being labeled foreign terrorist organizations, Boko Haram and Ansaru also were named to a list of specially designated global terrorist groups under federal law. The two designations mean that business and financial transactions with the organizations are blocked.
"By cutting these terrorist organizations off from U.S. financial institutions and enabling banks to freeze assets held in the United States, these designations demonstrate our strong support for Nigeria's fight against terrorism and its efforts to address security challenges in the north," Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... 's top counterterrorism adviser, said in a statement.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told the politicians that the government of Nigeria needs to not only stop Boko Haram's attacks, but address long-standing complaints about government corruption and unfairness that attracts disaffected youth in northern Nigeria to the krazed killer groups. Both citizens and security forces have been attacked, yet she said the U.S. remains concerned that some heavy-handed Nigerian security forces have committed human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations in response to Boko Haram.
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[An Nahar] A Musselmen attacker at the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo in 2011 told a court on Wednesday that he was a victim of radical Islamists who pushed him into committing the crime.
"I have been a victim of those who were telling me it was necessary to fight for Islam, to lead jihad," Mevlid Jasarevic told a Sarajevo court at his retrial.
"How is it possible that all those who were telling me about jihad are now playing with their children and live free, with their wives, while I have not seen my child for months?" the 24-year-old said.
In 2012, a local court sentenced Jasarevic to 18 years in jail for a "terrorism act".
But the verdict was annulled due to a failure to respect his legal rights and the retrial opened in September.
Jasarevic fired 105 bullets at the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo in October 2011 with an automatic weapon for almost an hour before being shot by police. One police officer was injured in the attack.
He was a member of an Islamist group in Gornja Maoca, a hamlet in northeastern Bosnia, considered to be the stronghold of the Bosnian Wahhabi movement, the ultra-conservative branch of Islam that dominates in 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...
The group was targeted in several police actions in the past years.
Jasarevic, a Musselmen originally from neighboring Serbia, told the court how he had adopted a radical interpretation of Islam while he was in an Austrian prison, after taking part in a Vienna bank robbery in 2005.
After being released from prison, he moved to Gornja Maoca where "they told me about sufferings of Musselmens throughout the world," Jasarevic said.
"I was told I should do something that the whole world will talk about," he said.
During the first trial, a shaggy bearded Jasarevic was dressed in ankle-long trousers and spoke very little.
But on his latest court appearance, he appeared before the judges freshly shaven, in jeans and white shirt, openly talking about his experiences.
"Psychical changes are certainly visible on my client, but interior changes are far more important," his lawyer Senad Dupovac said.
Saying that he was abandoned by his former "brothers", Jasarevic asked Sarajevo citizens, embassy staff and injured policeman for forgiveness.
He said he was "ready" to cooperate with the authorities in order to "prevent a similar act to be committed by any other young man".
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Four U.S. Marines were killed at Camp Pendleton Wednesday morning during a range maintenance operation, base officials confirmed. According to Camp Pendleton officials, the deadly incident happened around 11 a.m (Wednesday).
NBC News reports that a U.S. military official said the incident involved the detonation of some unexploded ordnance on a range at the base. The Marines involved in the accident were Explosive Ordnance Marines, NBC News reported. Sources inside the Pentagon said the Marines were not clearing the range, but instead doing some sort of training when the deadly detonation occurred.
An official from the public affairs office told NBC 7 San Diego that the incident happened in the Zulu impact area, which is located roughly at the center of the base. The impact area is where Marines fire artillery and drop bombs from aircraft. The official said there was artillery training on base today, but not in that specific area. He said there was no firing going on at the Zulu impact area at the time of the fatal incident.
The official also clarified what is meant by the term "range maintenance," saying it's a fairly broad term used to describe a variety of upkeep on those firing ranges and can include anything from mowing the grass to actually clearing artillery.
Deepest condolences to the families, the units involved, and all Marines.
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That's one of the things that people don't realize about the military: even in a peacetime environment, it is dangerous. This sort of accident can happen anytime.
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Unlike many other dangerous professions, you can't give 2 weeks notice to leave at will. Something about desertion and the UCMJ.
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Stuff like this happens, and it can happen when you forget to do something you've done for years and it's never been necessary and you just forgot.
Just once.
At Ft. Jackson in 1970, the mortar committee instructors were settling the baseplates to prepare for a class by firing max charges at high elevations. Done it probably since 1939. Happened at that point, on that day, when they didn't clear the range, there was a detail down range painting the derelict armored vehicles used as targets. Done once a year, if that. Killed a couple of guys, wounded others.
All you have to do is blink once. Or do everything right and be unlucky.
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"Four Marines were killed trying to clear live ordnance from a training range at Camp Pendleton near San Diego on Wednesday, according to officials.
The Marines were sweeping a range of unexploded munitions at roughly 11 a.m. local time to make it safe for future training when the deaths occurred"
This is why EOD earns their nickle even in peacetime.
[An Nahar] A father said Tuesday that federal prosecutors have falsely accused his Pakistain-born son of planning to join an al-Qaeda-linked bad turban group that was trying to topple Syria's Bashir al-Assad in that country's civil war.
Javed Sheikh rejected FBI statements that his 29-year-old son Basit Javed Sheikh was on his way to Leb, where he'd connect with members of the group Jabhat al-Nusra, when he was tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! at Raleigh's airport. The U.S. government considers the radical Islamic group a foreign terrorist organization
"These are false allegations," Javed Sheikh said in a brief telephone interview. "It's in the court and I hope they will justify the position and all these are false accusations. No reality in that."
Javed Sheikh says he has confidence that U.S. courts will handle the case fairly. Court documents describe Basit Sheikh as a Pakistain native with permanent, legal residency in the U.S.
Basit Sheikh was assigned two federal public defenders to represent him. They are unable to comment on Sheikh's behalf due to a rule established by local federal judges prohibiting them from discussing active cases, said Elizabeth Luck, a spokeswoman for the federal public defender's office in Raleigh.
Sheikh's case is at least the third this year in which the U.S. government has charged U.S. residents with providing material support to a terrorist group based on their alleged efforts to join Jabhat al-Nusrah.
Sheikh was assigned two federal public defenders to represent him and they did not return messages seeking comment Tuesday.
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, an 18-year-old from suburban reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , was arrested in April at O'Hare International Airport as he prepared for the first leg of a trip to join the group, authorities say. The American-born Tounisi pleaded not guilty. "Wudn't me."
Sheikh told an FBI informant he was going to join Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria, where a 3-year-old civil war has killed more than 100,000 people, an FBI agent said in a sworn affidavit.
In August, Sheikh began an online relationship with an undercover FBI employee on a Facebook page promoting Islamic extremism, the affidavit said. Sheikh told the covert informant he had traveled to Turkey last year hoping to join the fight in Syria, but became dispirited by his experience with people who claimed to be part of the Free Syrian Army.
If convicted, Sheikh could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison and fined $250,000.
In September, federal authorities in northern Virginia released a U.S. Army veteran accused of fighting alongside the jihadi group after a secret plea deal. Eric Harroun, 31, had faced up to life in prison. But defense lawyers argued there was confusion about which rebel group Harroun had joined, that Harroun traveled to Syria planning to fight with the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, and that fighting with the FSA was not a crime.
The Sheikh case points out the "hypocrisy" of prosecuting people who support an anti-Assad group the government judged as snuffies while the B.O. regime favors other fighters in the same bloody conflict, said Jeff Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University in San Antonio.
The anti-Assad forces include some "that are out-and-out terrorist groups, that are designated by our state department as linked to al-Qaeda. Some of them aren't," Addicott said. "The hypocrisy is that you're going to prosecute someone for taking up arms against the Assad regime that may simply be caught up and labeled as a member of one of these Islamic groups."
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[Pak Daily Times] Polio is on the rise in Pakistain, health officials said Wednesday, as the number of infections in 2013 passed the total for the whole of 2012.
Pakistain is one of only three countries in the world where the highly infectious disease which cripples limbs remains endemic. Opposition from Death Eater groups has hampered efforts to vaccinate children against polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... in Pakistain and officials said violence was part of the reason for the increase in cases. "Last year there were a total of 58 cases, but 62 fresh victims of polio have already been reported in 2013," a senior government official, who works with international donors working to eradicate polio, told AFP.
Six cases were in Punjab, four in Sindh and nine in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , but by far the bulk of the infections -- 43 -- were in the tribal areas along the Afghan border. The Pak Taliban banned polio vaccinations in the tribal region of Wazoo last year, alleging the campaign was a cover for espionage. "The main reason for the outbreak is militancy in the northwest. Vaccination teams are unable to reach the tribal areas because of risks to their lives," the official said.
Polio cases reached a low of 28 in 2005 but have risen since, reaching a peak of 198 in 2011. In August health officials warned of a serious polio outbreak in the northwest, saying more than 240,000 children had missed vaccination because of the Taliban ban. Elsewhere in the country, health workers giving out polio drops have been attacked and killed, including in the largest city 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... . On Monday the World Health Organisation linked an outbreak of polio in Syria that has paralysed 13 children to a strain of the virus from Pakistain.
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[Al Ahram] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has enjugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! and tortured dozens of Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip over the past few weeks on political grounds, a Paleostinian rights group said Wednesday.
The Gazoo-based Paleostinian Centre for Human Rights condemned the "arrest campaign launched by the Internal Security Service (of Hamas) against dozens of persons, including members of (the) Fatah (party) and children."
It said arrests had been stepped up to coincide with calls for demonstrations against Hamas on the anniversary of the death of Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat.
The protests were called by the Tamarrod movement, which is inspired by the Egyptian group of the same name that organised the mass protests attending the army's ouster of president Mohammed Morsi. ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
Morsi hails from the Moslem Brüderbund, an organization with branches across the Middle East whose Paleostinian affiliate is Hamas.
Detainees told PCHR "that they were subject to torture, including being hit on hands and feet by a stick, punched all over their bodies, shackled, and forced to stand for long hours."
Others were "forced to sign oaths to abide by (the) law, not to assemble for participation in demonstrations, not to be in areas of friction with the police, and not to incite people against the government," the PCHR said.
On Monday Hamas forbade commemorations of Arafat, who died in 2004, accusing its West Bank-based rival of trying to organise "only a Fatah ceremony" in Gazoo and excluding the territory's Islamist rulers.
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[REUTERS] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said on Wednesday his delegation of peace negotiators has resigned over the lack of progress in U.S.-brokered statehood talks with Israel that have been clouded by Jewish settlement building.
The development would mark a new low point for the talks with Israel that resumed in July and which officials from both sides have said have made little headway.
In an interview with Egyptian CBC television, Abbas suggested the negotiations would continue even if the Paleostinian peace delegation sticks to its decision.
"Either we can convince it to return, and we're trying with them, or we form a new delegation," he said.
It was unclear from Abbas's interview when the Paleostinian negotiators quit, but Abbas said he would need about a week to resume the talks.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah Chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... assured on Wednesday that the resistance will emerge stronger in case a deal was struck between Iran and international powers.
Nasrallah surprised his supporters on Wednesday evening when he made a rare public appearance in the Beirut neighborhood of Rweiss, on the tenth night of Ashura.
A day before the annual popular procession is expected to take place, he warned that "bombings, bloodshed and booby-trapped car kabooms" could take place, but he stressed, however, that nothing will stand between "people and (Imam) Hussein."
"If after the negotiations with Iran things head towards a war, everyone must get worried, although others will become more preoccupied than us," Nasrallah said in his speech.
"But if an accord was reached, our party will become stronger and with a better presence locally and regionally," he added.
He elaborated: "When negotiations take place, usually allies of the communicating poles get worried but we are not. Our allies do not worry us and we have two allies only, Syria and Iran, that both never abandoned us."
"Do you expect that Iran will ask Hizbullah to abandon its rights, resistance and hand over the country to the other faction? Those who know Iran's history know that this will not happen."
Iran and world powers failed to agree a deal on Tehran's disputed nuclear program at talks in Geneva at the weekend but are planning to meet again on November 20 for further negotiations.
Western diplomatic sources say the two sides were close to a deal, but that Iran backed away because it was unhappy with some of the wording in the text presented by the six powers.
They have been negotiating with Tehran for years over its nuclear program, which some suspect is aimed at developing a nuclear weapon -- a claim Iran vehemently denies.
Nasrallah had started his Wednesday speech by pointing out to Israel's "efforts to push for a war in the region."
He said: "There is no doubt that Israel is pleased to observe what is happening in the Arab and Islamic world, and to see the killings and the disputes between nations and inside each country and each society."
Nasrallah continued: "It used all its power lately to prepare for an attack on Syria and today while the P5+1 are negotiating with Iran, (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu gets furious and tries to obstruct an accord and reaches out to his Arab allies."
"Any accord that prevents a war in the region is rejected by Israel. It wants a war that secures its power and security."
Nasrallah accused some Arab countries of acting similarity to Israel by rejecting any political solution in Syria and an international agreement with Iran.
Addressing Saudis, Qataris, Omanis, Kuwaitis and Emiratis, asked: "Where would a war in the region lead to? Israelis know very well, and their allies as well, that they can start a war anywhere but they cannot limit it to a certain region."
Regarding reports saying Israel has installed devices to spy on Lebanese communications, Nasrallah remarked that Leb "has always been under threat."
"The Lebanese must know that everything, from phone calls to things shared on the internet, is spied on," he said.
The Hizbullah chief announced his readiness to confront this issue, if the Lebanese state fails to do so.
"If the state does not do anything to deal with this matter, the resistance will do so many things," he stated.
"When the state is incapable, the resistance will not give up its responsibility and we are ready to assist in this respect."
Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... revealed last Wednesday that Israel had set up a number of espionage stations along its border with Leb, starting from al-Naqoura passing by Khayyam all the way to Sheba.
The biggest espionage station is allegedly installed in al-Abbad and Jan al-Alam areas, which are located near the U.N. demarcated Blue line.
Tackling local political concerns, the Shiite leader accused 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... of obstructing the formation of a new cabinet.
"There is a Saudi decision that calls on the March 14 alliance not to form a new cabinet," he said
He continued: "We have advised them (March 14) to separate Lebanese matters from the Syrian crisis and not to bank on the developments of the neighboring country's war."
"All facts indicate that things are heading towards a direction that is not desired by Saudi Arabia. All those waiting for a victory in Syria to form a cabinet, we tell them you will not win in the Syrian war."
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Hezbollah El Supremo Nasrallah also says that the only alternative or outcome to the P5+1 Powers having no nuke deal wid Iran is Israel, WEst-desired REGIONAL WAR.
[An Nahar] State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr rebutted on Wednesday pleas submitted by Arab Democratic Party leader's attorney, citing their "illegality" as a reason.
"Saqr examined a report of defenses submitted by Ali Eid and (tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! suspect) Ahmed Ali's lawyer Huyam Eid and rebutted them for failing to conform to legal conditions," the state-run National News Agency said.
The NNA added that a request to free Ali and another to lift the investigation and search warrant issued against former MP Eid were also rejected.
Saqr referred the documents to First Military Investigation Judge Riyad Abu Ghida to take the necessary decision in this matter.
On Tuesday Eid evaded a summons to undergo questioning by a military tribunal judge over his alleged aid to a suspect in the mosque bombings of the northern city of Tripoli. ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
Eid's attorney handed Abu Ghida a report claiming that the suspect cannot attend the questioning session for medical reasons.
Lawyer Eid submitted the alibi to Abu Ghida, who referred it to the military prosecutor, Judge Saqr, for the appropriate response.
Abu Ghida had issued on Thursday a subpoena against Eid and his drives Ali, on charges of helping Ahmed Merhi escape justice by smuggling him to Syria.
Merhi is the suspected driver of the explosive-laden vehicle that blew up near al-Taqwa mosque.
Huyam Eid called on Tuesday for Ali's release and said the military tribunal should withdraw the arrest warrant issued against the Arab Democratic Party leader.
The twin boom-mobileings that targeted the Sunni al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques on August 23 have left hundreds of casualties.
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[Al Ahram] Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance on Wednesday night, delivering a speech in Beirut on the occasion of a major Shiite Mohammedan religious commemoration. Nasrallah, who normally appears via video link for fear of a possible liquidation attempt by arch-enemy Israel, spoke in Hezbollah's southern Beirut stronghold to mark the Ashura holiday.
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[Al Ahram] The main Syrian opposition alliance dubbed as "hostile" forces Wednesday Kurdish groups that control large swathes of the country's north after they proclaimed provisional self-rule.
Kurdish militia, dominated by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), sister party of veteran Turkish rebel group the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), have held the Afrin region of northwestern Syria and big chunks of the northeast for more than a year.
On Monday, they announced that after talks in Qamishli, on the Turkish border, they had decided to declare provisional self-rule in areas under their control, modelling neighbouring Iraq, where the Kurds have had nominal autonomy from Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... since 1970.
Both Afrin and the whole northeast region around Qamishli are mainly populated by Kurds, who form 10 percent of Syria's population and are significant minorities in Turkey, Iran and Iraq -- all major players in the 32-month conflict.
The Sunni Arab-dominated main opposition alliance, the Syrian National Coalition, has been at pains to keep the Kurds on side. Its main faction, the Syrian National Council, even named secular Kurdish dissident Abdulbaset Sayda as its leader last year.
But mounting violence between the Kurds and Al-Qaeda loyalists -- who form a major battlefield component of the Sunni Arab-dominated rebellion -- has sparked a deepening rift between the Kurds and the mainstream opposition to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad. Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
"The PYD is a group hostile to the Syrian revolution," the National Coalition, the opposition group recognised by most Arab and Western governments, said in its statement formalising the breach with the main Kurdish militia.
"Its declaration of self-rule amounts to a separatist act shattering any relationship with the Syrian people who are battling to achieve a free, united and independent state, liberated from tyranny and sovereign over all its territory," the alliance said.
It accused the main Kurdish faction of "attacking units of the Free Syrian Army... and of shirking the struggle against Assad's regime.
This public breach threatened to add grist to the Damascus government's longstanding argument that its nominally secular leadership provides vital protection to the Kurdish, Druze and Christian minorities, as well as the Alawite community of Assad himself.
It also threatened to fan the flames of ethnic conflict in northeastern Syria where Al-Qaeda loyalists have assumed the banner of the Sunni Arab majority in its deadly battle against Kurdish militia that has driven tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians to seek refuge in neighbouring Iraq in recent months.
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[An Nahar] The principal of a Christian school in Damascus denied on Wednesday reports that shelling there two days earlier had killed any of its students.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... four pupils and driver were killed when a shell hit a school bus in the Christian Bab Sharqi area of the city on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
That same day Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said fire had killed five people, "all of them children", and maimed 27 at the St John of Damascus school in the Qassaa district.
On Wednesday, however, the school's principal, Father Stefano, told AFP "eight of our pupils were maimed, but none killed".
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... the Britannia-based Observatory said the shell in Bab Sharqi had struck near a military building.
Government newspapers also reported on Wednesday that "four schoolchildren and a driver were killed" at Bab Sharqi.
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[An Nahar] Turkey has asked NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... to extend for another year the deployment of surface-to-air Patriot missiles to protect its troubled border with Syria because of a continuing "serious" threat, officials said on Wednesday.
"We have received a letter from the Turkish government requesting the continuation of the Patriot mission," a NATO official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
"The North Atlantic Council has regularly assessed the situation and the implementation of the Patriot mission. It is clear that the overall risks and threats to Turkey remain serious," the official said.
A Turkish foreign ministry diplomat, contacted by AFP, also confirmed Ankara's request.
Turkey turned to its NATO allies after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory killed five Turkish civilians in the border town of Akcakale in October last year.
Since the deadly attack, Turkey has retaliated in kind for every Syrian shell that has landed on its soil and beefed up its volatile 910-kilometer (560 mile) frontier.
The six batteries of the US-made missiles, effective against aircraft and short-range missiles and dispatched by the Netherlands, Germany and the United States, are deployed in the southern city of Adana and the southeastern cities of Kahramanmaras and Gaziantep.
"Allies have shown a strong commitment to protect and defend Turkey," said the NATO official.
"Any continuation of the deployment would reaffirm the determination of NATO to deter threats and defend Turkey, reflecting and confirming once again NATO's solidarity with Turkey."
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[Al Ahram] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... urged politicians to "calm down" Wednesday over proposed new sanctions on Iran, warning they could scuttle diplomatic efforts to rein in Tehran's nuclear drive.
"The risk is that if Congress were to unilaterally move to raise sanctions, it could break faith with those negotiations and actually stop them and break them apart," Kerry said.
Washington's top diplomat was speaking before beginning a closed-door meeting with senators, many of whom are skeptical of the White House's request for a freeze on new sanctions.
The House of Representatives has already passed legislation that toughens already-strict sanctions on Iran, whose economy by all accounts is reeling from the punitive action.
The Senate Banking Committee is mulling new sanctions too, and some key members of President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... 's own Democratic Party back a tougher stance despite the diplomatic opening.
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urged politicians to "calm down" Wednesday over proposed new sanctions on Iran, warning they could scuttle diplomatic efforts to rein in Tehran's nuclear drive.
Whatever happened to the 'good old days' when Kerry could have simply blamed "Bush Derangement Syndrome" [BDS]?
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OTOH the Bammer may have no qualms or scruples about suspending or lifting previously imposed Iran sanctions widout consulting wid the Congress ... ... or did he???
To wit,
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [World Tribune] OBAMA SAID TO SUSPEND IRAN SANCTIONS WIDOUT INFORMING CONGRESS.
versus
* TOPIX > [Daily Times] IRAN'S ARAK REACTOR [under contruction] - NEW ROUTE TO [Plutonium-based] NUCLEAR BOMB?
* SAME > [Syria News] THERE IS NO POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE SYRIAN CRISIS.
Military only???
Something has to give as no side or camp is presently willing to compromise.
Wid the "moderate" dometic FSA all but gone or defeated, the Battle for Syria has now devol to ASSAD/IRAN-VS-AL-QAEDA, OR IN ALTERNATE THE SAME VERSUS THE KURDS.
* SAME > [Fox News] FROM SYRIA TO US: FEAR WESTERN-RAISED JIHADISTS COULD HIT AMERICA NEXT.
RELATED WORLD NEWS > AL-QAEDA'S E-N-G-L-I-S-H SOLDIERS FIGHTING IN SYRIA WARN "BRITAIN WILL BE NEXT" | Daily Mail.UK] "WE WILL RAISE OUR FLAG IN THE WHITE HOUSE, BRITAIN WILL BE NEXT" ... ...
Clearly the DemoLeft + Congress is once again correct in NOT securing Amerika's borders while also taking away the right of US Citizens to privaely own guns, etc. all in the name of good Socialism + OWG Globalism + Welfare-Nanny State + our glorious excessive National Debt.
Lets not fergit our RFID Chips + Domestic Drone Strikes.
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Are these new sanctions, or trying to re-impose the sanctions previously in place before the EO?
Break faith, you effn morons. Reeling. Iran is reeling. Seem to be able to get troops to Syria. Develop nukes. Beat up the US at the negotiating table. Beat down protestors on live world tv and laugh about it. Infiltrate and disrupt Iraq at will. If that is reeling then by sam giv'em some pods of cash and let's see what they can really do, or are we supposed to believe that all they will do is buy the photoshop activation code?
If we had a CIA worth anything we'd be pushing the story that the Stuxnet virus got into the Iranian air defense network. Ooops, this is what happened. Apologies to the poor pilot who got waxed. Let them sort it out...
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If we had a State Dept worth a damn, we would have been able to halt all the illegal sale activity of Tomcat parts and maybe, just maybe kept some flyable for a low level infil mission over Iran. but no, we just let anybody into Davis-Mothan strip the Kitties and then peddle the parts. Then we decided to shred all of them so nobody had any toys to play with. the remaining gate guards are hollow non-airworthy shells.
But the good news is that now there is one less F-14 for the Iranians to play with.
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USN Ret. If may memory is any good all of the F14 stengths were in its Phoenix missiles and in a radar far more capable then the one in contemporary and even of the one in newer fighters. And these were not sold to the Iranians. By itself, ie without the electronics, the missiles and the Navy pilots, the airframe, even the F14D, was not particularly good.
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Four U.S. Marines were killed at Camp Pendleton Wednesday morning during a range maintenance operation, base officials confirmed. According to Camp Pendleton officials, the deadly incident happened around 11 a.m (Wednesday).
[Pak Daily Times] Polio is on the rise in Pakistain, health officials said Wednesday, as the number of infections in 2013 passed the total for the whole of 2012.
[Al Ahram] The main Syrian opposition alliance dubbed as "hostile" forces Wednesday Kurdish groups that control large swathes of the country's north after they proclaimed provisional self-rule.
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