ISTANBUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday he would press for Taliban names to be removed from a UN blacklist, as he sought support for his country in talks with the leaders of Pakistan and Turkey. Karzai said he would ask for the names to be scratched at a major conference in London Thursday at which he hoped to win Western support for a plan to offer money and jobs to cajole Taliban fighters into laying down arms.
I will be making a statement at the conference in London to the effect of removing Taliban names from the UN sanctions list,' Karzai told reporters in Istanbul.
The idea had previously met resistance but as we are talking today, there is more willingness that this can be reconsidered,' he said.
The move is seen as a step towards persuading militants to accept peace talks. Karzai wants to bring low- and mid-level fighters into mainstream society to end the gruelling insurgency but the leadership of Islamist insurgent groups active in the battered country is hostile to negotiations.
The NATO military commander in Afghanistan has also voiced support for negotiated peace.
As a soldier, my personal feeling is that there's been enough fighting,' US General Stanley McChrystal said in an interview with Britain's Financial Times published Monday. I believe that a political solution to all conflicts is the inevitable outcome. And it's the right outcome.'
Karzai was in Istanbul for talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday to be following by a meeting with leaders of his country's neighbours on Tuesday. It was the fourth round of Turkish-sponsored fence-mending talks between the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2007, with Ankara pushing the two neighbours to enhance cooperation against Islamist insurgents.
Monday's meeting was also attended by Pakistan and Afghan military and intelligence chiefs, and in a joint declaration afterwards both parties stressed cooperation between their security forces and intelligence agencies.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Ankara would be ready to contribute to efforts to persuade the Taliban to lay down arms. Turkey has about 1,700 soldiers in Afghanistan and takes part in reconstruction and training Afghan police.
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It's a war without end and purpose, except to prop up the Karzai government, which no one including the Afghans wants.
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Important note for future failed states. The reason they failed is because ALL of their institutions are rotten, corrupt and archaic. Trying to preserve or reform such institutions, out of "cultural sensitivity", is like trying to "reform" and keep a malignant tumor, because you are "used to it."
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It's important to remember that the foundation for this development was laid as early as September/October 2001, long before BHO.
Think Operation Infinite Justice Enduring Freedom, the airdrop of supplies for enemy civilians, Powell endorsing government by "moderate Taliban", the president condemning "inordinate fear of Communism" declaring Islam a "Religion of Peace" etc.
Obama's election was a symptom of whatever is wrong with the west, not a cause.
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ION DAILY TIMES.PK > US TO SET UP ROZS IN PAKISTAN WAR-HIT AREAS [ROZ = Reconstruc Opportunity Zones]; + OSAMA'S SON SAYS: NO LOVE BETWEEN AL QAEDA AND TALIBAN.
*** cough*** cough *** on that last one from OMAR BIN LADEN, unless something has seriously majorly changed.
* THE HINDU > REUNIFY INDIA AND PAKISTAN, GOVINDACHARYA SAYS [former BJP Leader]. GOVIN-baby believes that PROPOSED OVERHAUL-REFORM OF INDIA'S NATIO CONSTITUTION WILL EFFEC DENY NON-INDIAN FOREIGN-BORN PERSONS THEIR RIGHT [Legal Indian Citizen-Resident, etc.] TO HOLD HIGH GOVT, MIL, OTHER STATE-PUBLIC OFFICE IN INDJUH.
Iranian First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi says the crisis in Afghanistan cannot be resolved through the military option. "There is no military solution for the problem of Afghanistan," he said in Tehran on Monday just before boarding a flight to Istanbul, where he will be attending a conference on Afghanistan. Of course not. But the ideal political solution is to kill all the al-Qaeda and all the Taliban and all of Hekmatyar's henchmen and then to let everybody else vote for something.
Rahimi strongly criticized the foreign forces occupying Afghanistan, saying they have been facing major problems because they are unfamiliar with the realties of the country.
"The occupying forces are now facing great problems since they do not have comprehensive knowledge about the situation of Afghanistan," IRNA quoted Rahimi as saying on Monday.
"We are quite confident that they will leave the country with regret," he added.
Rahimi said the Afghanistan crisis can only be solved through the efforts of the Afghans themselves and regional nations.
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ION WORLD NEWS > PRESIDENT SARKOZY: NO MORE FRENCH TROOPS FOR AFGHANISTAN.
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Right, just like there was no military solution to the Iraq crisis.
Or the Soviet Union crisis...
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basic Rule: If your enemy wants something...dont let him have it. Even if you dont need it...dont let him have it.
They dont want a "military solution" obviously. All we need is Leadership and we can have it. Barack Hussein is no leader, its as simple as that.
What we dont need is a leader who cant lead. Barack Hussein is a wuss and a narcissistic "mouth".
Its all he ever was.
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Now all the idiots parrot obama.
Only the ones on the same side.
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At least not for the Iranian VP. On the other hand, he fervently believe there is a military solution for "the Jewish problem".
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OPEN WARNING TO THE IRANIAN VP
Read history, Hitler tried it, now Hitler is DEAD, think hard on this tiny historical fact before you try repeating history with your name substituted for Hitler's.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > WHAT THE PAKISTANI TALIBAN WANT!
ARTIC > PAK TALIBS WANT POWER, BY AND FOR SAKE OF SAME + -SELVES, via PRO-WAR, NON-DEMOCRATIC/ELECTORAL-VOTER MEANS as they already well-recognize that their extremist or hardline ideology lacks mainstream support among ordinary Pakis + Govt. Politicos.
The TALIBS will NOT give up their insurgency until
* THEIR VERSION AND ONLY THEIR VERSION OF "SHARIA" IS IMPOSED ON THE WHOLE OF PAK GOVT-SOCIETY.
* END TO US DRONE STRIKES + WITHDRAWAL OF US-FOREIGN FORCES FROM PAK.
* END OF MIL OFFFENSIVE BY PAK ARMY + PULLOUT OF SAME FROM WAZIRISTAN.
ARTIC > PAK TALIBS DEMANDS are too dangerous for ISLAMABAD + ORDINARY PAKIS to accept; and unlikely to be accepted anyways in the whole by the US as per US-specific, anti-MilTerr National-Global Security + in-country Milops in joint wid PAK Army.
IOW, THE MOST REALISTIC OR PRAGMATIC SOLUTION FOR THE US, + EVEN PAK GOVT. IS THE "MILITARY SOLUTION".
[Al Arabiya Latest] The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan will seek closer cooperation in the fight against militants during a summit in Istanbul on Monday, but a plan to reach out to Taliban insurgents will likely dominate the talks.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will meet ahead of a London conference where Afghanistan and the international community were set to agree a framework for Kabul to take responsibility for its own security.
The two men will hold a bilateral meeting before three-way talks with host President Abdullah Gul of Turkey, which has been working behind the scenes to repair relations between Islamabad and Kabul, notably over negotiations with the Taliban.
"We have been working with the Afghans and the Pakistanis on this," said a Turkish official who asked not to be named.
Pakistan has long played an important role in Afghan affairs, having nurtured the Afghan Taliban during the 1990s, but Kabul remains suspicious that Islamabad is pursuing its own agenda in the country to the detriment of Afghanistan.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Yemen's embattled government links armed Shiite rebels in the north, southern secessionists and resurgent Al-Qaeda militants, saying all three belong to an "axis of evil" in the Arabian Peninsula state.
But analysts and diplomats say this is a willful deception intended at demonising even legitimate dissent and preparing the ground for a crackdown on challenges to the 31-year rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Earlier this month, Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Mujawar warned countrymen that the southern secessionists and northern rebels stood together in an "axis of evil" with Al-Qaeda.
But Mujawar, who will lead the government delegation to talks in London on Wednesday to seek support and foreign aid for Sanaa's anti-extremism drive, did not provide any evidence to prove such a link.
"The government rolls out this theory, which for the moment no one believes, that all this is a vast plot," said one diplomat in the capital who did not want to be identified.
The government claims that "the Shiites of the north are related to Al-Qaeda... and political opponents of any kind in the South also," he said. "I do not believe that at all."
Franck Mernier, the French co-author of "Contemporary Yemen", said that linking the southern and northern rebels to Al-Qaeda de-legitimises campaigns in the eyes of the international community.
"Putting everyone in the same basket and playing the Al-Qaeda card grants Yemen the authority to violently and arbitrarily suppress any challenge," he said.
"It de-legitimises any opposition and also makes it possible to obtain international support," Mernier added.
Yemen, the ancestral home of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and a staging ground for Islamic militants who hide in its largely lawless tribal regions, has been under intense international pressure to uproot the extremists.
Sanaa says it needs arms, money and training to do that. Yemeni officials have said they will insist on economic aid to fight extremism and poverty at the London conference.
The meeting, to be attended by about 21 countries, was called by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown after an alleged attempt last month to blow up a US airliner threw the spotlight on militancy in Yemen.
Long-standing concerns that Yemen has become a haven for Islamist militant groups materialised on Christmas Day when a Nigerian man allegedly trained in Yemen was charged with trying to blow up the Northwest Airlines jet.
But what could have been a Christmas catastrophe for the West was a windfall for Yemen, the diplomat in Sanaa said.
"This business of the young Nigerian... was a great windfall for the Yemeni regime," he said.
According to a European economist in Sanaa: "The official theory is that they (the movements) are all linked, that they are all together. In fact, they are incompatible."
Al-Qaeda chiefs and militants in Yemen and elsewhere are Sunni Muslims, while the rebels fighting in the north are Shiites and the southern secessionists are fighting not over religion but for more rights.
The northern Huthi rebels have agitated against the growing influence in the northern mountains of radical Salafi Sunnis who are largely sympathetic to Al-Qaeda.
The South was an independent socialist state and at war with the traditionalist North until unification in 1990, when Yemen became the only republic in the Arabian Peninsula.
Southerners complaining of discrimination and a lack of financial aid hold frequent demonstrations, demanding either increased autonomy or independence.
"I am a member of the socialist party, and yet they (officials) say that I am from Al-Qaeda," said Aidaroos al-Naquib, who heads the Yemen Socialist Party bloc in parliament.
"This is false, of course. We want nothing to do with terrorists. If you raise the spectre of Al-Qaeda, the whole world comes to your help and you can obtain a moral, political, financial and military backing," Naquib said.
"That is what Ali Mujawar will seek in London."
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"I am a member of the socialist party, and yet they (officials) say that I am from Al-Qaeda," said Aidaroos al-Naquib, who heads the Yemen Socialist Party bloc in parliament.
Well jeepers!
You want to try to run Karl Marx and Mohammed in the same election where there should be no election?
Sounds contradicting, and... IT IS.
Anyways, with all those crossed wires, should you be able to find fertile soil?
Well in Yemen, maybe. It's a shithole.
Let me help you.
All of it is rule of man and lawless so you shall do well there in the place where you do not educate anyone and are yourself an abomination. It worked so well for the democrats in the US, why not you?
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#3: Ever since Michelle Bachman one-upped him he's been looking for a party that keeps women in their place.
Michelle Bachman only had a 60-point IQ advantage over Bu-Bu-Bubba Biden to begin with. Biden can't STAND anyone that much more intelligent than he can - that's why he (re)joined the Demochump party.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Red Cross says humanitarian conditions in Yemen are at their worst after five months of fighting between Saudi forces and the Houthi fighters.
The Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Monday that the war in northern Yemen has dramatically worsened the fate of civilians in the area.
In a statement ahead of an international conference on Yemen in London this week, the body's deputy director of operations said ICRC workers are struggling to reach Yemenis in need of help.
The Red Cross also re-issued a warning that Yemen is facing a humanitarian crisis that will hamper its long-term development.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed and nearly 200,000 have been displaced in the ongoing war in northern Yemen.
A predominantly Shia region, Sa'ada Province in northern Yemen borders the southwestern Saudi Arabian provinces of Asir, Jizan and Najiran. The area has been the target of Yemeni government and Saudi airstrikes and bombardments.
Houthi fighters charge that Saudi Arabia has provided the Yemeni army with military equipment and encouraged the government to destroy Houthi positions in the north.
They also accused Riyadh of targeting civilian areas far from the Saudi-Yemeni border.
Saudi Arabia joined the war in November 2009 -- three months after the Yemeni government intensified the fight against the Houthis.
Sana'a accuses the Shia fighters of breaching terms of a ceasefire agreement by taking foreign visitors hostage in 2009 -- a charge the Houthis deny.
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And by 'Red Cross', we mean those ICRC wankers.
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"... that will hamper its long-term development." Where do they get off projecting that Yemen will have long term development? Where's the evidence for that? The slope on that line has been level since they ran off the Jewish silversmiths.
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North Korea's weapons exports have reportedly dropped 90 percent since the UN Security Council slapped unprecedented sanctions on the communist regime last year that included the banning of all arms exports from the country.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute says even African countries and Vietnam, which used to import small weapons from North Korea, have stopped their transactions with the reclusive country.
However, the institute said Iran may still be receiving weapons from North Korea as it has long been a key supplier of missile technology to the Middle Eastern country.
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A Chinese Communist Party editorial says the election unrest in Iran was an example of US 'naked political scheming' behind a facade of free speech.
The United States used "online warfare" to stir up unrest in Iran after last year's election, the Guardian cited from a Communist party newspaper article published on Sunday.
The People's Daily editorial said the US had launched a "hacker brigade" and used social media such as Twitter to spread rumors and create trouble in Iran.
"Behind what America calls free speech is naked political scheming. How did the unrest after the Iranian election come about?" asked the editorial, signed by Wang Xiaoyang.
"It was because online warfare launched by America, via YouTube video and Twitter micro blogging, spread rumors, created splits, stirred up and sowed discord between the followers of conservative and reformist factions."
At the time of the unrest, Washington had asked Twitter, which was embraced by Iranian anti-government protesters, to remain open.
The author of the editorial posed a question about whether activities promoting terrorism would be allowed on the net in the US.
"We're afraid that in the eyes of American politicians, only information controlled by America is free information, only news acknowledged by America is free news, only speech approved by America is free speech, and only information flow that suits American interests is free information flow," it added.
It also said that the decision to cut off Microsoft's instant messaging services to nations covered by US sanctions, including Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan and North Korea, was hypocritical considering America's stated desire for free information flow.
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The People's Daily editorial said the US had launched a "hacker brigade" and used social media such as Twitter to spread rumors and create trouble in Iran.
Sounds like some are worried about a brew-up like this in the homeland... typical Commie double-talk.
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Wonder how much oil prices would drop if the US quit trading with China. Kill two four birds with one stone.
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CHINA will likely change its view once it sees that it, RUSSIA, + INDIA, ETC. ASIAN STATES are unable to effec contain simmering SOON-TO-BE-NUKULAAR-AFTER-2012 ISLAMIST, COMMIE, + ETHNIC MILITARISM-TERRORISM.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [Guardian.uk]US NOT READY TO DEAL WITH [major] BIOLOGICAL TERROR ATTACKS. Serious lack of US Medical, etc. preparedness, Threat of NEW DOMESTIC TERROR ATTACKS [all types] IN THE US GREATER THAN 9-11 REMAINS REALISTIC.
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ION CATHAY-SINA WMF > "INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE" MEDIA: CHINA'S NEW ANTI-CARRIER ASBMS WILL CHANGE THE RULES OF WAR AND US-CHINA GEOPOL STRUGGLE IN THE PACIFIC; + CHINA'S CARRIER WARNING TO TWO OPPOSING ARMIES: JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA FEAR A MILITARILY STRONG, AGGRESSIVE CHINA, JOINTLY ENGAGE IN NEW COOPER IN THEIR COMMON STRUGGLE AGZ THE CHINESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER.
Also, US MEDIAS: [Malaysia]CHINA DID COVERTLY FIRE FOUR DF-21/CSS-5 MBMS IN PRECISION TEST-STRIKES AGZ SIMULATED US CARRIERS, BATTLE FLEETS.
China's desire for ASBM missle techs can be traced back to POTUS CLINTON + 1995-1996 TAIWAN STRAITS CRISIS.
* SAME > IN 2010 CHINA'S SECOND ARTILLERY CORPS WILL BEGIN CREATING NEW ANTI-USN CARRIER ASBM BRIGADES, + CHINA'S CMC, R & D WORKS TO RENOVATE OLDER BUT STILL POTENT MISSLES, AND CONVERT THEM FOR ANTI-CARRIER WARFARE.
* SAME > IN 2010 CHINA WILL REVEAL TO THE WORLD FIVE STRATEGIC MILITARY DECSIONS OF GEOPOL IMPORTANCE.
To wit,
* Confirmation of Chin intentions, designs for indigens Aircraft Carriers for the PLAN.
* Advanced AIR, SPACE, + COMME PROJECTS, OTHER IMPOR R & D?
* DF-41 Strategic Missles.
* F-14 Advanced mil aircraft
* MILITARY DEMONSTRATIONS [Pan-PLA? MilExs] in DISPUTED CHINA SEA REGIONS.
* SAME > US MEDIAS: US WILL WORK TO PREVENT CHINA FROM DEPLOYINIG ITS OWN LARGE-SCALE MISSLE DEFENSE.
Instead of prohibiting women from wearing a potato sack full face veil, pass a law requiring that all men who are kin to a veiled woman have to wear a veil in public, too.
And that it's OK for normal people everybody else to point and laugh.
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@#1 all the Best!!!!!!!!!
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[Asharq al-Aswat] A French parliamentary panel will recommend a ban on face-covering Muslim veils in public areas from hospitals to schools but will stop short of pressing for the garb to be outlawed in the street, the panel's president says.
The 32-member panel's report due Tuesday culminates a six-month inquiry into the wearing of all-encompassing veils that began after President Nicolas Sarkozy said in June that they are "not welcome" on French territory.
Andre Gerin, a Communist lawmaker who heads the multiparty panel, said the report contains a "multitude of proposals" to ban such garb in places like schools, hospitals and other public buildings, but not private buildings or on the street. He said the proposals would cover "domains that concern everyday society," a phrase that would seem to include public transportation, although he did not mention that specifically.
Gerin stressed the need to move "progressively" toward a law banning the attire in the streets and to work "hand in hand" with Muslim leaders and associations.
Critics of the veils call them a gateway to extremism, an insult to gender equality and an offense to France's secular system. A 2004 French law bans Muslim headscarves from classrooms.
Muslim religious leaders have warned that a law banning face-covering attire in the streets could stigmatize Muslims and drive some to extremism. They were joined last week by Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders who said they consider such a drastic step unnecessary.
France has Western Europe's largest Muslim population, estimated at some 5 million. Only a tiny minority of Muslim women wear such attire, usually a "niqab" pinned across the face to cover all but the eyes.
"It is perhaps a marginal problem, but it is the visible part of the iceberg," Gerin said in a Friday interview. "Behind the iceberg is a black tide of ... fundamentalism." He denounced those he called "gurus" or "French Taliban" who, he claimed, promote a radical brand of Islam that forces women and girls to hide themselves.
Critics of a formal ban have raised concerns about the constitutionality of state mandates on dress.
"I don't think an ideology should be fought through constraining measures but through ideas," Mohammed Moussaoui, the head of a coalition of Muslim organizations, said in an interview. "It's very difficult to talk about the liberation of women through a law that constrains."
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Muslim religious leaders have warned that a law banning face-covering attire in the streets could stigmatize Muslims and drive some to extremism.
The burqa and full face niqab stigmatize muslim women. Remove the veils and she's just another women among many.
As for driving to extremism... The full-body covering of a burqa is a sign of extremism and is an islamist tool. It is an indicator of slavery, abuse and fear. Authorities might consider following a burqa home and flush out the islamist nest.
The ban would be a sign of freedom. it lifts "constraints".
As usual, Moussaoui and others like him, have it ass-backward.
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To Swanimote:
Y not your mother run naked on the streets. Dats gonna lift a lot of constraints. Ask your ancestors y they used to cover themselves. Surely they will spank you for even asking that question. Grow up. Freedom of expression means it is every right of an individual to do whatever they want. It is not for a government to decide whether its people should fully cover their body.
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No Dabeer, your freedom of expression doesn't include calling for my enslavement or death. It will be answered in kind. What you are seeing now is the name calling before the fight begins.
a law banning face-covering attire
Join the modern world and layer on the makeup. Nobody will recognize you. Really. Oh, and don't forget tank tops.
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Oh, and don't forget tank tops.
Ed, for God's sake. No more visuals of that type please.
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Freedom of expression means it is every right of an individual to do whatever they want. It is not for a government to decide whether its people should fully cover their body.
O ignorant Dabeer! Freedom of expression means that one can say the words one pleases, accepting that others might very strongly disagree, and understanding the risk that if the words one says are annoying enough, physical harm might ensue. Freedom of expression does not mean one may break the laws of the country in which one finds oneself, no matter the customs back home.
No doubt in your studies you've read the ancient expression, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
In the case of the ban on the burqa and the niqab, Europeans have learnt the hard way that often enough the person underneath is not a shy and retiring female hiding her beauty from covetous male eyes, but a covetous male seeking the cover of anonymity to steal from shops and escape from the police. Did not Osama bin Laden do the very same when he and his henchmen ran away from Tora Bora pursued by the Americans in 2002, and do not the Taliban do so even now, when the foreign soldiers surround the village they happen to be pillaging? Why then should the French allow cowards hiding under women's veils to pillage their country? Those who dislike it, after all, can come stay with your family in Karachi, where the men are like ravening beasts should they see even the suggestion of a female hair or cheek, so afraid their women will revolt they burn girls' schools to keep them from learning to read and think. And so the girls believe the Quran, Sunna and Hadith demand such walking purdah, instead of knowing your prophet wanted his women to dress modestly instead of like dancing girls.
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Freedom of expresskion? I know of Magrebi wiomen who wear burka for fear of agresssion. And I doubt thare Magrebi husbands and fathers who were told they would be considered apostates if they allowed their daughters/wives not to veil.
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IOn "LES FRANCAIS" [1990's "Last of the Mohicans" flick], ANSAMED > FRANCE: ONE OUT OF EVERY THREE MARRIAGES IS MIXED, MASS PHENOMENON [84,000 = 27% of all new Marriages 2009].
ARTIC > More and more Frenchies are choosing [secular?]CIVIL UNIONS, NOT MARRIAGE [IMO read, NOT CHURCH].
IFOP Research Institute > Back in 1984, over 50% of Frenchies did not want their children to marry a Person of ARAB ORIGIN - in 2009, the same is now down to 24%.
Nearly half of western Europeans believe Jews exploit their 'past persecution' in order to extort money, a new Israeli report says.
The report, which the Jewish Agency conducted jointly with Israel's Information and Diaspora Ministry, found that 42 percent of those polled by the University of Bielefeld in Germany agreed that "Jews exploit the past to extort money," Haaretz reported on Monday.
The countries in which the highest percentage of the population agreed with that statement were Poland and Spain.
There were more anti-Israeli incidents in 2009 than in any year since World War II, according to the annual Jewish Agency report released January 24.
During the first three months of 2009, immediately following Israel's three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip, there were as many "anti-Semitic" incidents recorded as there had been for the entire year of 2008.
"With the start of the Operation, a wave of acts of anti-Semitism started across the world," the report said, referring to last winter's Operation Cast Lead, during which over 1,400 Palestinians were killed.
At the press conference in which the report was released, officials also referred to a film that accuses Israel of stealing human organs at the field hospital set up by the Israel Defense Forces in Haiti.
The Jewish Agency is in charge of immigration and the absorption of Jews coming into Israel.
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I always thought it was a bad idea for Jews to harp on the Holocaust, especially from those with no hand in it. There should not be a Holocaust memorial in Washington, D.C., unless it is solely to honor US soldiers who ended part of it, which is a sketchy reason at best.
But that being said, a large percentage of Europeans are doggedly antisemitic, and for them to resent the Jews pointing this out, and responding with *more* antisemitism, just points out their own sanctimonious deficiencies.
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If it all true, and I have my doubts, the "exploitation of the past" for financial gain is not an exclusive phenomena of the Jew. If valid, they are in the minor leagues when compared to those who would through government fiat and self-righteous indignation, lay claim to the jobs and career advancement of your children.
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Very often the extortion is along the lines of, "You've had the free use of my property that was stolen from my parents by the Nazis, and now I would like it back or I would like you to pay for it." A year or two ago a major German department store chain was hit with a lawsuit like that: the Jewish husband was forced by the Nazis to give control of the successful department store to his Aryan wife, who then married the Aryan accountant while husband was either in a concentration camp or fled abroad. After the war wife and accountant refused to return the store, and in fact became very rich indeed, while the children of the husband grew up in penury in America, although through education and hard work they rose to the ranks of the middle class. The children filed suit to get the store back, now grown to a national chain, but the German government -- last I heard -- is not willing to hear the case. At least that's how I recall the story. Not to mention all the Swiss bank accounts and Italian life insurance policies that they refused to pay out to the survivors or their heirs on the grounds that death certifications and personal paperwork were inadequate to identify the individuals... and the art gallery collections whose last documented provenance was this or that Jew before the war, which if returned would leave entire gallery walls bare...
The Europeans enjoy their stolen prosperity and see no reason why those who should have remained quietly dead should get a share of it. They argue, of course, that so much of their own possessions were destroyed during the war, and they worked hard for their current prosperity while the Jews left for America and other places; and they see the the lawsuits as a war of revenge by the now-foreign Jews against the Volk of Europe.
Fifty-four members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to put pressure on Israel to ease the siege of the Gaza Strip. Good grief. Name that party...
The letter was the initiative of Representatives Baghdad Jim McDermott from Washington and Keith Ellison from Minnesota, both of whom are Democrats. Ellison is the first American Muslim to ever win election to Congress. Fancy those two paring up.
McDermott and Ellison wrote that they understand the threats facing Israel and the ongoing Hamas terror activities against Israeli citizens but that "this concern must be addressed without resulting in the de facto collective punishment of the Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip."
"We ask you to press for immediate relief for the citizens of Gaza as an urgent component of your broader Middle East peace efforts," they wrote, adding that the siege has hampered the ability of fifth columns aid agencies to do their work in Gaza. Since everything else Obama has been doing has turned out so rosy.
The congressmen urged Obama to pressure Israel to ease the movement of people into and out of Gaza, especially students, the sick, aid workers, journalists and those with family concerns, and also to allow the import of building materials to rebuild houses. Israel has warned that such materials would be used to rebuild Hamas infrastructure and not civilian homes.
Ellison has harshly criticized the House of Representatives decision to reject the Goldstone report, arguing that the report "only presents facts and raises recommendations for the future." He cast doubt that members of Congress who voted to reject the report even took the time to read it and that the rejection hurt the Obama government's role as an honest broker in the Middle East conflict.
In addition to members of Congress, several leftist organizations also signed the letter, including Americans for Peace Now and J Street. Look! J Street showing up on the anti-Israel line again!
The Israeli Embassy in Washington responded to the letter: "The Israeli position is that the Hamas government in Gaza does not meet the conditions set forth by the international community and the Quartet. And as long as Hamas continues to attack Israel with missiles and other means, Israel will not open the border crossings. With this, Israel is doing everything possible to ensure that humanitarian aid enters Gaza in a controlled manner so that it is ensured that the population receives what it needs, including medical care in Israel. But Israel will not allow a neighbor that calls for its destruction to enjoy the benefits of an open border."
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Just another reason to horse-whip McDermott - with a live horse. We knew that with Ellison' election, he was going to be a running sore of anti-semitism in the US government. The unity and dignity inspired by our Declaration of Independence and Constitution has been so diluted that things that once would have had not chance of being elected are sitting in Washington, DC, demanding they receive the "respect" their position "demands". ANYONE that signed that "letter" should be forced to spend the next 30 years living in Gaza.
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@#1 --> Someone refresh my memory: Gaza is that place where the inhabitants have sworn to destroy neighboring Israel and its citizens, right?
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@#2 Just another reason to horse-whip McDermott - with a live horse. We knew that with Ellison' election, he was going to be a running sore of anti-semitism in the US government. The unity and dignity inspired by our Declaration of Independence and Constitution has been so diluted that things that once would have had not chance of being elected are sitting in Washington, DC, demanding they receive the "respect" their position "demands". ANYONE that signed that "letter" should be forced to spend the next 30 years living in Gaza.
(saved me the typing)
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Let's see: PM Netanyahu told President Obama's envoy a blunt no about not building in the settlements. What do you suppose he'll say about the Gaza thingy?
Somerset County investigators seized a cache of weapons including a grenade launcher and hundreds of rounds of ammunition today from the Branchburg motel room of a Virginia man, who also had maps of a U.S. military facility and an out-of-state civilian community.
Detectives found weapons including a .308-caliber semi-automatic assault rifle with a defaced serial number, a grenade launcher, hundreds .50-caliber and .308-caliber rounds, a police scanner, and the maps of a U.S. military installation and an out-of-state civilian community
Lloyd Woodson, 43, whose last known address was Reston, Va., today faces multiple offenses, including second-degree unlawful weapons possession and fourth-degree possession of prohibited weapons, Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said.
At the time of his arrest, Woodson was wearing a military-style ballistic vest with a reinforced steel plate and carrying a .223-caliber assault rifle that had been altered to fire .50-caliber ammunition, Forrest. He was also carrying four loaded magazines with hollow-point ammunition, Forrest said.
Branchburg police confronted Woodson at 3:55 a.m. at the Quick Chek convenience store on Route 28 after receiving a call reporting a suspicious person. Branchburg Patorlman Steven Cronce noticed a large bulge beneath the green, military-style jacket that Woodson was wearing, which was later determined to be the assault rifle with a defaced serial number, Forrest said.
Woodson appeared "extremely nervous" as Cronce questioned him, and he ultimately ran from the convenience store toward the Regency Trailer Park on Route 22, Forrest. Officers found Woodson hiding in the bushes and he attempted to run, Forrest said.
Officers tackled him and used pepper spray to subdue Woodson, Forrest said.
Detectives later searched Woodsons room at the Red Mill Inn on Route 22 and found weapons including a .308-caliber semi-automatic assault rifle with a defaced serial number, a grenade launcher, hundreds .50-caliber and .308-caliber rounds, a police scanner, and the maps of a U.S. military installation and an out-of-state civilian community, Forrest said.
Investigators also found Middle Eastern red and white traditional headdress, Forrest said.
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A .223 made to fire .50 ammo?
he knows little of metallurgy, if it didn't blow up on the first round, it'd break bones for sure.
I have this mental image.
Puts modified rifle to shoulder fires and entire arm and shoulder flaps brokenly like a chicken wing.
OR,
Raises modiied rifle to his shoulder and BOOM there's a red mist where his forearm and chest used to be.
There's a hell of a lot of charge (Powder) behind a .50, you cannot compare it even to the old Sharps .50 Buffalo rifle, Much, Much, more power.
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ION NOT-JOISEY, WORLD NEWS > [Ainsworth]DEFENCE SECRETARY: BRITAIN FACES DECADES OF CONFLICT IN COUNTRIES THAT SUPPORT TERROR. UK Citizens can be protected ONLY by PREEMPTIVE STRIKES agz hostile/opposing Regimes suppor AL-QAEDA or those enemies seeking to dev NBC warheads, + by the UK unilater projecting its military power abroad.
* SAME > [Harvard University] REPORT: AL QAEDA STILL DETERMINED TO ATTACK THE USA.
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Didn't state whether he was a prison convert or race. Developing?
The article at the link has a photo of a black man in a wife-beater undershirt, tipover. I s'pose the police made off with his green, military style jacket and military style ballistic vest with reinforced steel plate. He is supposed to be a Navy veteran.
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An 8:17am update at nj.com, "FBI finds NO Terrorism link to VA man with weapons cache in NJ motel room." The update was by-lined by AP.
The original article was by a Newark Star Ledger reporter. (LINKY)
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Branchburg Patorlman Steven Cronce noticed a large bulge beneath the green, military-style jacket that Woodson was wearing
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I knew plenty of Black Folks in thee NAVY, none wer assholes until they got some rank, or maybe only the assholes advanced, unknown?
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01/26/2010 12:48 Comments ||
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(sigh) SPELLCHECK JIM.
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My my. The muslim murder mob is just coming out of the woodwork since the media picked Obama to be President. I think the number of actual and attempted attacks already exceed all during the post Sept. 11, 2001 Bush presidency.
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An 8:17am update at nj.com, "FBI finds NO Terrorism link to VA man with weapons cache in NJ motel room."
Really? Is this: Investigators also found Middle Eastern red and white traditional headdress (i.e. the Wahabi hat) the common headgear for the wife-beater crowd. Further investigations please Mr G-man.
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Interesting gear check there , Mr Woodson..
Sounds like an unhinged loony drifting for public attention , riding on the back of all this dubious activity as of late .
Am hoping Fridays big meeting in London isnt going to attract a large amount of nutters .. ooh wait, theres 'anti-war march' at the same time as Blair takes on the Iraq Inquiry
Something not good is going to happen , prime time :(
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There are a couple of .50 conversions for AR platforms, though they are not cheap.
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So - the local cops "confronted" him at 0355LT. By 0817LT the FBI issues a statement that this is definately not terrorism. Nice of them to wait ALMOST five hours before coming to that conclusion. He probably isn't even completely processed yet!
Re the 50 cal assault rifle; there are a several after-market platforms that shoot 50 (kinda) in an assault rifle configuration. Not preferred by operators, but probably very attractive to wannabes.
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The latest update @ 3:00pm, (nj.com), the original newsperson reports his bail is set at $75K.
While detectives also found a map of a U.S. military base and a civilian community, the FBI has determined there does not appear to be any link between Woodson and terrorism, said FBI Special Agent Bryan Travers.
Woodson does not appear to have a link to any known terrorist groups, nor a specific terrorist plot, Travers said. However, the matter is still under investigation and these should only be considered preliminary findings.
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court adjourned hearing on Monday of the federal government's petition, praying to restrain nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan from media interaction and meeting people without security clearance, till February 3.
The judge deferred the hearing, as Barrister Syed Ali Zafar, counsel for the scientist, was not available. The court was informed that the counsel was out of the country so the matter should be adjourned. High Court, now defunct, which restricted the scientist from moving without security clearance and giving statements to the media.
In this petition, Dr Khan had already filed his reply negating the government's plea that he had been giving interviews to local or foreign media. He said it was merely an allegation that he had been in direct or indirect communication with any foreign journalist. The federation had taken a plea that different foreign journalists in their articles had written that they were in communication with Dr AQ Khan. It said that Dr Khan should either deny or admit the claims made by foreign journalists. Soofi pleaded that the matter being of utmost importance and relating to the national security deserved to be investigated thoroughly.
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[Dawn] The alleged gunman in the 2008 bloody siege of Mumbai said Monday he should be tried by an international court because he does not expect justice in India.
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, told a special court that police had falsely implicated him in the case. ''I should be tried in an international court,'' he told Judge M.L. Tahiliyani.
Last month, Kasab retracted his confession that he sprayed gunfire into a crowd at the railroad station. He also said police tortured him into admitting having a role in the attacks.
Kasab also said Monday he wanted to call witnesses from Pakistan for his defense, and that he should be allowed to meet Pakistani officials. Witnesses would include a passport officer, he said, without providing other details. The judge asked him to file a petition through his attorney.
Kasab could face the death penalty if convicted. Murder and conspiracy to wage war against India are among the charges he faces.
Kasab told the judge he came to Mumbai as a tourist and was arrested 20 days before the siege began. On the day the attacks started, Kasab said police took him from his cell because he resembled one of the gunmen. They then shot him to make it look as if he had been involved in the attacks and re-arrested him, Kasab said.
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Err.. no.
The former chairman of India's law commission has stated that as an armed irregular combatant, Kasab enjoys no protection under India's constitution or International law. He states that no trial is necessary. Kasab can be summarily executed.
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Preview pf the trials here. Then they would not have this problem if they would stop treating them like citizens and like the terrorists they are.
BAGHDAD - Iraq has reinstated 59 election candidates among more than 500 who had been blacklisted because of their alleged links to executed dictator Saddam Hussein, an official said on Monday. Ali al-Allami, a senior official from an integrity and accountability committee, said 150 people had appealed for their names to be removed from the controversial list of candidates excluded from the March 7 poll.
The blacklist includes Iraqis from the minority Sunni Arab community as well as dominant Shiites but analysts say the barring of those with links to Saddam could exclude Sunnis from the political arena and spark new sectarian tensions.
After we got new information, we decided to accept the requests of 59 candidates,' Allami told AFP, referring to errors in applicants' names, dates of birth or other personal details that have since been corrected.
We received a total of 150 requests,' he added, without specifying the status of the 91 appeals that remain active. According to Allami, 458 people are currently barred from contesting the election.
The move also threatens to damage the ballot by creating a campaign battleground where past quarrels will be exposed rather than healed under a much vaunted but stumbling national reconciliation process. The excluded candidates are accused of membership or other links to Saddam's outlawed Baath party, feared Fedayeen (Men of Sacrifice) militia or Mukhabarat intelligence agency.
The integrity and accountability committee whose probe has inflamed the political climate less than six weeks from polling day is headed by Shiite politician Ahmed Chalabi, who was deputy prime minister after the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam.
The election row sparked a flurry of diplomatic activity in the past week, including a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden at the weekend who said he was confident' that Iraq's leaders would resolve the dispute.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Ali al-Mousawi, the leader of the Iraqi delegation that is attending the Council of Arab Information Ministers in the UAE, told Asharq Al-Awsat that his country is keen on establishing a good relationship with Syria, and that the Justice and Accountability law does not prevent all Baathists from entering [political] life, but merely scrutinizes the background of electoral candidates standing at the forthcoming election for Baathist ties.
Al-Mousawi, who is the media adviser to Iraqi President Nuri al-Maliki, spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat on the sidelines of the Council of Arab Information Ministers meeting. He revealed that "Iraq is keen on establishing good relations with all countries, especially Syria, however at the same time Iraq asks and insists that its sisterly country [Syria] does not interfere in its affairs, and at the very least with those affairs that involve the media. For there are Iraqi channels that broadcast programs from Damascus that support the armed attacks [in Iraq] and attempt to mobilize the public, and this is something that cannot be tolerated. Even if the al-Maliki government went and another government assumed power, it can be assumed that it would make the same demands, for no government will assume power in Iraq and then forget the interests of the Iraqi people."
As for the Iraqi delegations priorities at this special meeting of Arab Information Ministers, al-Mousawi told Asharq Al-Awsat that "we are suffering from a problem which is that many Arab states continue to look at Iraq, intentionally or unintentionally, as if it is a country under occupation. However these occupying forces have now left as part of an agreement with an elected and legitimate government, and what remains [of these forces] are limited and [will remain] for a specific time...and at the end of 2011 the entire occupation force will leave, and in this case it is therefore not meaningful to talk about the occupation of Iraq."
Al-Mousawi also said that the Iraqi society "is diverse, and all Arab communities are included in it, all different races, religions, and sects, and we must protect this diversity, by respecting all [varieties] and not transgressing against one another. This is something that must be part of all media, and so whenever any media or party or sect has a media outlet it attacks others, and this is something that we reject because it creates chaos and disintegration."
Al-Mousawi also told Asharq Al-Awsat that he supports the idea of establishing a watchdog for Arab media, saying "I support the idea of encouraging all official and non-official media parties to form something similar to a task force, with a representative of the Arab League participating in this committee so that its decisions are binding, but when there are ministries of information doing anything [they want], then the issue is difficult."
As for Iraqi electoral candidates being prevented from standing for election as a result of Debathification, al-Mousawi told Asharq Al-Awsat that "the first step to resolve the problem must be to put this problem in its proper context, and this is that it is a constitutional issue, that is present in the constitution, and there is a constitutional body to resolve this issue. This body has issued decisions that some supports, and some others which some reject or oppose, but there are judicial authorities that are capable of resolving this dispute, therefore I think politicizing this completely invalidates it, and this is why a statement was issued by the president in which he called on the commission to adhere to professionalism and not to politicize its decisions so that its decisions are legal, and this is the correct way."
As for the security measures taken by the Iraqi government to protect the elections which are scheduled to take place in March, al-Mousawi said "we have full assurances that the elections will be held on time and in a good manner, and I will not anticipate events and say that nothing will happen, but certainly it will run more smoothly than the previous elections because the security apparatus are now more complete, experienced, and proficient due to the experience of the previous elections."
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Typical tripe from Awsh$$ al A$$wipe. They didn't ONCE realize (or at least acknowledge) that they were one of the suspect "media sources".
The Muddled East is the only place I've actually had a chance to check out that has more media bias than the United States.
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[Ma'an] Aziz Dweik, Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and Hamas affiliate, condemned on Monday what he described as an attack by security forces against his staff at the PLC headquarters, including the searching his car and detaining its driver for two hours, he said in a statement.
"This attack represents a clear policy undertaken by these parties, who seek to disable all efforts for the success of reconciliation efforts," Dweik's statement read.
"[searching my car] is a dangerous precedent, and a flagrant violation of the immunity granted me according to Palestinian Basic Law, which prevents the searching of my luggage, home, or car. This represents a personal attack on this constitutional institution [the PLC] and its president."
The statement added that the incident indicated a rejection of national reconciliation, having followed a news conference where Dweik discussed the need to promote dialogue and achieve national unity.
The de facto Ministry of Information condemned the searching of both Dweik and Mahmoud Ar-Ramahi, secretary of the PLC's vehicles in a separate statement.
"This incident represents strange behavior, far from Palestinian norms ... [we consider] the repeated violations of law in the West Bank conformation that, in reality, freedoms and rights are going through its worst phase."
Six staff members of the PLC member were arrested by Palestinian Authority police as they exited the PLC Headquarters in Ramallah on Sunday, lawmaker Ar-Ramahi reported.
Among the six was the driver of PLC Dr Aziz Dweik. The driver was detained along with the keys to Dweik's car, stranding the official in Ramallah.
The official term of the PLC came to an end Sunday, with sides calling into question the legitimacy of the PLO move to extend its term. One PLC member handed over his PA-issued vehicle in the afternoon, saying he was "no longer a PLC member."
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Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Monday that the White House policies in the Middle East are a "failure." We better listen up. He's never said that before, has he?
Mottaki said the war against terrorism and extremism is used as a pretext for the presence of the US military in the oil-rich region.
He made the remarks in a meeting with the visiting South African Parliament speaker, Max Sisulu, in Tehran.
In another meeting with German Ambassador to Tehran Bernd Erbel, the Iranian minister said if Washington fails to revamp its approach in Afghanistan, the future of the war-ravaged country would be in doubt.
US-led forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks on US soil, to allegedly root out terrorism and establish democracy in the country. However, none of the stated objectives have yet been achieved.
Mottaki said the American people and elites understand the severity of the situation in Afghanistan.
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WORLD NEWS > AL QAEDA IS LOSING, PREPARE FOR A DARING HIT; + [UK]LETS BRIBE THE TALIBAN: MANY ARE MERCENARIES WHOM PULL PUT DOWN THEIR GUNS FOR CASH, as due mainly to poor Personal-Family, etc. $$$ economics, NOT fanatical eliefs.
* SAME > ITS TIME FOR OBAMA TO TREAT/VIEW TERRORISM DIFFERENTLY | THE DEMOCRATS CAME TO POWER BELIEVING THAT DOWNPLAYING AND DOWNGRADING TERROR WAS BOTH RIGHT AND POLITICALLY SMART: THE FORMER IS DEBATABLE, THE LATTER IS UN-SUPPORTABLE.
Whew, Gaaawd, hope I got the long title correctly.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has praised the Mauritanian government for breaking diplomatic ties with Israel.
During a meeting with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in Tehran on Monday, Ahmadinejad called the move a valuable step which "should set an example for the rest of the Islamic countries."
Mauritania cut its ties with Israel during the December 2008-January 2009 Gaza war, during which over 1400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed.
The Iranian president also called Israel the "root of all the corruption in the region."
Mauritania's president is currently visiting Tehran with a high-ranking delegation.
Tehran began expanding relations with Nouakchott after the African nation severed its ties with Israel.
In 2009, Iran completed the construction of an ophthalmology center in the Mauritanian capital left unfinished by Israel.
During their meeting, the two presidents discussed bilateral ties as well as regional and international developments.
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Where IS Mauritania ( did I spell that right?)
Is it right next to Ruritania?
Arent they famous for sand covered Do-nuts?
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Mauritania is mostly famous for Female Genital Mutilation. A reported 65% of all women. Adding unreported cases, 80% is not an unrealistic number.
Islamic Republic of Mauritania is in Northwest Africa, on the coast, Senegal and Mali to the south west/east.
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Mauretania also has a good-sized population of black slaves, probably not stolen from other places anymore but local residents. A number of these slaves manage to escape south of the border into Senegal every year.
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There can be decreased blood flow to the brain, during water-boarding. I condone use of same in extraordinary circumstances, but vital signs should be closely monitored during the process.
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Damn!
I thought for a second he waterboarded ms Amanpour and I wanted to buy the video of it....
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"There can be decreased blood flow to the brain, during water-boarding."
Andy, since the bastards being waterboarded are intent on permanently stopping my blood flow - and that of everyone I love - I'm trying to figure out why I should give a rat's behunkus.
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Ms Amanpour is too "fragile" an individual to withstand even the THOUGHT of being water-boarded. Her hysterics would require a padded room - not a bad idea anyway.
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behunkus? That's a new one to me, Barbara. My vocabulary has grown so, since I found Rantburg!
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Got it from a Christian friend of mine, tw (the real kind who lives it, not the hypocritical kind who just runs their mouth). For some reason, she couldn't bring herself to say "rat's ass."
I obviously never had that problem.... ;-p
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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.
ISTANBUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday he would press for Taliban names to be removed from a UN blacklist, as he sought support for his country in talks with the leaders of Pakistan and Turkey. Karzai said he would ask for the names to be scratched at a major conference in London Thursday at which he hoped to win Western support for a plan to offer money and jobs to cajole Taliban fighters into laying down arms.
Iranian First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi says the crisis in Afghanistan cannot be resolved through the military option. "There is no military solution for the problem of Afghanistan," he said in Tehran on Monday just before boarding a flight to Istanbul, where he will be attending a conference on Afghanistan. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan will seek closer cooperation in the fight against militants during a summit in Istanbul on Monday, but a plan to reach out to Taliban insurgents will likely dominate the talks.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Yemen's embattled government links armed Shiite rebels in the north, southern secessionists and resurgent Al-Qaeda militants, saying all three belong to an "axis of evil" in the Arabian Peninsula state.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The Red Cross says humanitarian conditions in Yemen are at their worst after five months of fighting between Saudi forces and the Houthi fighters. 
[Asharq al-Aswat] A French parliamentary panel will recommend a ban on face-covering Muslim veils in public areas from hospitals to schools but will stop short of pressing for the garb to be outlawed in the street, the panel's president says.
Nearly half of western Europeans believe Jews exploit their 'past persecution' in order to extort money, a new Israeli report says. 
[Dawn] The alleged gunman in the 2008 bloody siege of Mumbai said Monday he should be tried by an international court because he does not expect justice in India. 
