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Pakistan rejects US bounty on Hafiz Saeed
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Afghanistan
16 Insurgents Killed In Ongoing Kapisa Operation
Sixteen hard boyz were killed and eight others were maimed in joint Afghan and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
troop operations in the Tagab district of Kapisa province on Tuesday, a front man of the Selab 201 military corps in eastern of Afghanistan, Noman Atifi told TOLOnews.

The operation, which was launched three days ago to clear rid the district of the insurgency, is continuing.

He did not provide any reports about the casualties of the Afghan, NATO and civilians in the operation.

Tagab district is considered insecure within the province.

Meanwhile,
...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!...
joint forces captured a Haqqani controller during an operation in the Pul-e 'Alam district of Wardak province on Wednesday, Isaf said in a statement.

According to the statement, the "controller" coordinated the placing of roadside kabooms for attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces throughout the district. An additional suspected cut-thoat was also jugged.

In the country's southern Daman district of Kandahar province, a joint Afghan-Isaf operation discovered a cache of 500 pounds of marijuana on Tuesday, which was destroyed at the scene, the Isaf statement said.

Also a routine operation in Chahar district, Nimroz province on Tuesday uncovered more than 3,150 pounds of narcotics in two vehicles while conducting an airborne patrol. The drugs were also destroyed on site. Isaf did not disclose which kind of drugs were found.
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Afghan suicide bomber kills 10
KABUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a park yesterday in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people, including three NATO service members, officials said, the latest in a string of attacks as spring fighting season gets under way.

Abdul Satar Barez, deputy governor of Faryab, said the attack occurred about 10:30 a.m. near a park in downtown Maimanah. The bomber was riding a motorcycle when he detonated his explosives at the gate of the park in Maimanah, the capital of Faryab province, police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmad Zai said. It was not clear what was targeted, but he said four of those killed were police officers.

Associated Press video footage of the scene of the attack showed what appear to be dead Afghan civilians, police and foreign troops at the explosion site. Body parts were strewn around the gate and on the ground and blood was spattered everywhere.

Faryab is relatively calm, but it is considered to be a stronghold of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, or IMU, an Al-Qaeda affiliated group that has been most active in the northern provinces of Afghanistan.

On March 26, a joint Afghan and coalition force killed the group’s leader in Afghanistan, Makhdum Nusrat and detained two other insurgents. The coalition said Nusrat had been leading attacks against Afghan and coalition troops in the north for the past eight months and had been plotting the assassination of a member of Parliament in Kabul.

NATO said three of its service members were killed in a bombing yesterday in northern Afghanistan. It provided no other details about the attack or the nationalities of the three and did not confirm a link to the Maimanah attack. It was the only attack in the north yesterday.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/05/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336064 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As spring fighting season gets under way, The Inconceivably Holy Lions of Islam can only bide their time (murdering infidels, beating female family members, and buggering dancing boys) salivating in anticipation of Opening Day.
Posted by: Gabby Cussworth || 04/05/2012 16:51 Comments || Top||

#2  All f'in crap our own people from the United States gave them a 3 month window before the invasion. None of them our allies it's called Jihad!
Posted by: Kofi Uleamp6157 || 04/05/2012 16:57 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
S. Sudan says it shot down Sudanese jet
South Sudan says it shot down a Sudanese fighter April 4th after two military planes dropped bombs around its oil fields. Sudan denied it.

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Africa North
Egypt army jails officers who joined protests
CAIRO - Two army officers who took part in protests against Egypt’s ruling generals last year have been jailed by a military court, an army source told Reuters on Wednesday.

Major Ahmed Ali Shouman, who joined crowds calling for an end to military rule following the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak, was sentenced to six years in prison, said the source.

Captain Amr el Metwalli, who also participated in rallies around Cairo’s parliament and cabinet buildings at the end of last year, was jailed for five years, the source added. “Ahmed Shouman was sentenced to six years in jail, charged with refusing to obey military rules and voicing political views in media outlets,” the army source said, asking not to be identified. “This was a violation of martial law that bans military personnel from communicating with the media,” the source said, adding Shouman’s sentence will be announced formally at a court hearing on April 11.

Shouman also took part in the uprising against Mubarak that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January last year.

He was pardoned for participating in those protests by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the ruling military council that took over from Mubarak. But the latest charges related to his decision to return to the square to join crowds calling for the ruling generals to hand over power to civilians.

El Metwalli, still in his first year of service, was accused of disobeying orders, abandoning his unit, wearing army fatigues outside his unit and publishing material on the internet that would demoralize the army during the protests that left 17 dead, said the source. The military council, which took over from Mubarak in February last year, has said it will hand over to civilians by July 1. A presidential vote will be held in May and June.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/05/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336064 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Means the Junta is not going down without a fight.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/05/2012 6:38 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Harum kills seven in Maiduguri market
Suspected members of Nigerian terrorist militant group Boko Haram have killed seven people in a market in Maiduguri.

Borno police spokesman Samuel Tizhe said, “Seven traders were shot dead by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram on Wednesday. Three other civilians also sustained injury during the attack at Monday Market."

Borno government chairman, Wanangu Kachuwa, was assassinated by Boko Haram members in Maiduguri on Sunday. Hours later two policemen and a Boko Haram member were killed during a siege on a police station. On Monday, a member of the state security service was gunned down while getting his hair cut in Maiduguri.
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Arabia
Yemeni tribesmen free three Filipino sailors
SANAA: Yemeni tribal militants freed three Filipino sailors they kidnapped last month in the central province of Maarib, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry gave no further details about the release, but it had said last month that the tribesmen held the sailors to press the government into releasing a tribesman held by the authorities.

In a separate incident, an Oil Ministry official said Islamist militants fired at a team of engineers as they attempted to fix an oil pipeline that the militants blew up on Monday. One person was injured in the attack.
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Europe
French police arrest 10 in crackdown on radicals
French police rounded up 10 suspected radical Islamists in their second countrywide sweep in several days Wednesday, leading to criticism that President Nicolas Sarkozy
...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit...
is ramping up raids to win votes in a tight election.
 
The arrests are part of a high-profile crackdown in the wake of attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school. They were carried out as part of a preliminary investigation opened Monday into terror-linked activity in La Belle France, a judicial official said.
An earlier Ynet article adds this detail:
Elite French police nabbed at least eight suspected Islamists in early morning raids on Wednesday in several cities, including Marseille, a police source said.
And Dawn further relates the following details:
Another official close to the investigation said the 10 were suspected of links to bully boy websites and of threatening violence in online forums. Some of them may have been trying to attend bully boy training camps along the Afghan-Pakistain border, he added. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity, citing policy. The operation was led by La Belle France’s counterespionage agency, DCRI, and targeted people authorities feared could turn to action, instead of just issuing idle threats, according to the judicial official. Police seized computer hardware in the raids. The raids in five cities, mostly in southern La Belle France, were the second in several days and appeared to be part of a new focus on rooting out radical Death Eaters in La Belle France.
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Home Front: WoT
CIA Facebook Project - Be advised, the source is Onion
One hopes they're at least looking in from time to time...
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#1  Like all good satire, a grain of truth. I also love the dis of twitter.
Posted by: Spot || 04/05/2012 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Next we're going to learn Hanoi Jane is the true power behind CNN.
Posted by: Shimble Guelph5793 || 04/05/2012 12:49 Comments || Top||

#3  They are doing it for exchanging make up tips with the fellas from the Pentagon map room!
Posted by: Ulinemp Hatfield6331 || 04/05/2012 17:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Good ole' ONION, like good ole' SCRAPPLEFACE, are absolutely positively categorically undeniably ....@etc. very reliable in their own way.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/05/2012 22:47 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Anti-Naxal ops: UAVs finally show results for CRPF
NEW DELHI: After almost two years of painstaking efforts, the CRPF has successful used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to pick up ground conversation and movement of Maoist cadres in terrains of Chhattisgarh.

A special squad of the anti-Naxal force recently undertook an operation in the jungles of Narayanpur district during which a UAV was not only able to pick up "real-time imagery" of movement of Naxal cadres but also relayed the conversation among them.

"The conversation picked up by the radars of the UAV was immediately routed to a squad of CoBRA commandos. The UAV experiment has finally worked with all the devices of the machine functioning optimally to give the forces an edge in anti-Naxal operations," a senior CRPF officer said.

The CRPF field commanders have also begun using the modern Android phones for co-ordinates of the difficult terrain and other Naxal hotbed locations in the state.

"The images gathered by the UAV are much better than what is available on Google map and Terra explorer. The Android phones are giving us good information about the inhabited areas," the officer said.

The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), along with other forces and technical experts drawn from the Army and the NSG, has been trying to deploy UAVs for operational planning since April 2010, when 75 CRPF men and a state police personnel were killed in a deadly Naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada area.

The force has also begun providing its strike units with global positioning system (GPS) locators which keep alive the line of communication when radio sets and mobile phones go dead deep inside the jungles.

A CRPF official, involved in anti-Maoist operations, said personnel of the force have also begun sending SMSes through the GPS devices to their control rooms and command headquarters which continuously keep a track of the patrol units.

The force has also successfully tested a mini-UAV 'Netra' in the jungles of Bijapur. It will be exclusively used for reconnaissance of Naxal hideouts.

'Netra' runs on a small payload of chargeable batteries and it was, according to sources, able to give exact grid co-ordinates and imagery of the areas to the CRPF and state government authorities.

They said the UAV will also help security forces like the CRPF, BSF and ITBP, along with state police units, to detect laying of mines and IEDs by the Maoists.
Posted by: john frum || 04/05/2012 15:01 || Comments || Link || [336072 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If we defeat the Naxalites what tier pieces can we get?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/05/2012 21:14 Comments || Top||


Karachi Korpse Kount
KARACHI: Five people, including an activist of Awami National Party (ANP) and Rangers sepoy, fell prey to separate acts of target killing in the metropolis on Wednesday.

An activist of ANP, Omar Malook, 30, resident of Sector 36, Taiser Town, was sitting in front of his house when unidentified armed men riding a motorcycle shot him dead and fled to unknown destination. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate medical Centre (JPMC) for medico-legal formalities.

A police official said the victim was the area president of ANP and was working at a bus stand as a clerk. The victim was the father of three children. Initially, police revealed that it was the target killing incident.

Soon after the incident, tension engulfed surrounding area of Surjani where all shops were closed due to uncertain condition. Heavy contingents of police and Rangers were deployed in the troubled area to avoid any untoward incident. The victim hailed from Bajaur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Later, police handed over his body to heirs. No case was registered till filing the report.

In another incident, a 26-year-old man, Sher Hakeem, was standing near New Sabzi Mandi, Super Highway, within the limits of Sohrab Goth police station when unidentified armed men opened fire on him; resultantly he received bullet injuries and died on the spot. On information, police rushed to the scene and shifted the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for medico-legal formalities.

A police official said the victim was the resident of an area near Bismillah Market where the incident took place. He was labourer by profession. The official said the victim’s younger brother Wazeer Malook received his body from ASH. Malook told police that his brother had no affiliation with any political or religious party.

Police believed that personal enmity was motive behind the incident. Police have registered a case against unidentified men on the complaint of Malook and initiated a probe into the case.

Separately, police found body of a man packed in a gunny bag from Karimabad, within the jurisdiction of Azizabad police station. SHO Haseeb Qureshi said the victim had several torture marks on his body and a nylon rope was also in his neck. He said the victim appeared to be 25-year-old Balochi speaking. The body was shifted to ASH for an autopsy, where doctors said he died due to suffocation.

Later police moved his body to Edhi Morgue for identification and registered a case against unidentified men on the complaint of state.

Meanwhile, a Shahbaz Rangers sepoy, Irfan, 34, son of Abdul Rehman, who injured on April 1 near Met office, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, succumbed to his injuries at private hospital on Wednesday. A police official said Irfan was crossing the road along with his wife, when unidentified men targeted him. Resultantly he received four bullets. Police shifted him to a private hospital where after three days of treatment, he breathed his last. The victim was posted in Shahbaz Rangers, Sukkur.

Police have registered an FIR against unidentified men on the complaint of victim’s wife. The victim was the father of two children and police have initiated a probe into the case.

In yet another incident, an owner of PCO was shot dead at his shop near Al Asif Square within the precincts of Sohrab Goth police station. The incident took place at a PCO situated at the backside of Al Asif Square, where 32-year-old Noroz Khan was sitting, when unidentified armed men opened fire on him. Resultantly he received bullet injuries and died on the spot. The body was shifted to ASH for medico legal formalities.

SHO Abdul Ghaffar Jumani said the victim was the resident of same area where the incident took place. The victim hailed from Afghanistan. The victim’s family gave statement to police that the victim had some enmity in his community that might be the motive behind the incident. Later, police handed over his body to the heirs.
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Bomb blast kills seven in Jamrud
LANDIKOTAL/Islamabad: A remote-controlled bomb attack killed seven people and injured another two on Wednesday in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency. Two tribal elders were also among the deceased.

Officials said a passenger vehicle was targeted in Kharkiabad Jaba area of tehsil Jamrud. Sources said that the double-cabin passenger truck (P 4311) was on its way to Jamrud Bazaar from Gunj Gari when the roadside bomb exploded. Seven people were killed on the spot. Two people received fatal injuries and were rushed to the Bara Headquarters Hospital and the Hayatabad Medical Complex.

Jamrud Assistant Political Agent Muhammad Jamil confirmed the incident and said that it seemed to be a target killing. Locals and Khasadar officials said all the deceased were relatives and had been supplying goods to NATO forces in Afghanistan. A Khasadar official, requesting not to be named, said that some of the deceased had been receiving threats for allegedly supplying goods to NATO. No one has claimed the responsibility for the attack so far.
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Pakistan rejects US bounty on Hafiz Saeed
ISLAMABAD: Reacting to the US bounty on Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Pakistan on Wednesday said the United States must provide “concrete evidence” if it wanted Islamabad to act against Saeed.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said Islamabad would rather be presented with evidence about Hafiz Saeed than have a public discussion on the matter. “In a democratic country like Pakistan, where judiciary is independent, evidence against anyone must withstand judicial scrutiny,” the spokesman added in a statement.

The United States on Monday slapped a $10 million bounty on Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the banned organisation accused of masterminding the carnage that killed 166 people in Mumbai four years ago. The reward was announced by US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman in India on Monday.
Paks don't want to turn him over? Make the bounty $20 million...
Meanwhile, Saeed made a defiant public appearance mocking his US bounty. He said he was ready to face “any American court” to answer charges. The 62-year-old former engineering and Arabic professor appeared on stage at a specially-convened press conference in the Flashman Hotel, close to the headquarters of the Pakistan Army in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. “If the United States wants to contact me, I am present, they can contact me. I am also ready to face any American court, or wherever there is proof against me,” he told reporters in the hotel named after a fictional colonial hero.

Saeed lives openly in Pakistan and has spent recent months making a number of high-profile appearances at demonstrations calling on the government not to reopen NATO supply lines to Afghanistan, which have been closed since November.

He mocked the idea of offering a bounty for someone who lives so openly. “Americans seriously lack information. Don’t they know where I go and where I live and what I do?” he said. “These rewards are usually announced for people who are hiding in mountains or caves. I wish the Americans would give this reward money to me. The US decision is aimed at silencing the Defence Council of Pakistan and to ensure resumption of supplies through backdoor channels and increase interference in Pakistan,” he said.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/05/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336094 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How many fugitives live openly in Pakistan?
Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303 || 04/05/2012 7:55 Comments || Top||

#2  "In a democratic country like Pakistan, where judiciary is independent, evidence against anyone must withstand judicial scrutiny,"

Tjey actually said this without Giggling?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/05/2012 9:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel presents new deterrence policy
IDF chief Gantz unveils new policy whereby any firing from Gaza, Sinai will be met with attack on Hamas, fire from Lebanon will result in attack on Hezbollah and any overseas attack will prompt response against Iran.
About time IMO.
Posted by: phil_b || 04/05/2012 17:35 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's a pretty deep line in the sand they've drawn.
But I did notice in the article nowhere were any of the folks quoted as saying, " I don't bluff."

Think they are serious this time. Snug your lap belts a bit more.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/05/2012 22:45 Comments || Top||

#2  'Bout damn time!
Posted by: Barbara || 04/05/2012 22:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Let's hope they follow through.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/05/2012 23:18 Comments || Top||

#4  and from Egypt?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/06/2012 0:00 Comments || Top||


Rocket fired from Egypt hits Israeli city of Eilat
A Grad rocket has landed in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, but has caused no damage or injuries, Israeli security officials said.

District police chief Ron Gertner told Israeli radio the rocket had been fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula. He said it struck a construction site close to a residential area shortly after midnight (21:00 GMT).

The blast took place as thousands congregated in the resort town for the Jewish holiday of Passover.

Rocket attacks from Egyptian soil are uncommon. Attacks on Eilat and the nearby Jordanian town of Aqaba in 2010 killed one person and injured another four.

Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzhak-Halevy told the Jerusalem Post that the city would function as normal despite the attack.

A wave of unrest has hit the restive Sinai peninsula recently. Israel says militants have become active in the region since former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011.

In August 2011, an armed group crossed the border into Israel from the Sinai peninsula and killed eight Israelis. Israel blamed Palestinian militants but five Egyptian policemen were killed as Israeli forces pursued the gunmen, sparking a diplomatic row between the two countries.
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#1  So how fast are the camp David accords going to be tossed out the window?
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/05/2012 11:47 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/05/2012 17:50 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Thai police arrest two in hotel bombing
Police have arrested seven suspects thought to be involved in the deadly bomb attacks across southern Thailand on Saturday.

In the Hat Yai bomb incident, Narathiwat police said three of the suspects surrendered after a combined military-police team surrounded a house at a village in Rueso district yesterday. A task force had been sent to the house following a tip that suspects might be using it as their hideout.

The three - Dulloh Haseng Yamaska, 50, Abdul Asis Hatama, 41, and Adnan Duramae, 31 - emerged from the house after a half-hour of negotiations with the officials.

Police said they found a pickup truck belonging to the head nurse of a local hospital in Yala province during a search of the property. The nurse was killed in an Oct 19, 2011 attack. The truck was allegedly stolen by her attackers. The license plate of the pickup truck had been found on a stolen Honda which was used to carry one of the bombs at the Hat Yai hotel.

The arrest of the two other suspects in the Hat Yai bomb attack was announced at a separate press conference in Bangkok by national police chief Priewpan Damapong earlier yesterday. Pol Gen Priewpan declined to reveal their identities but said the two were being interrogated.

He said, "Preliminary findings from the investigation show there are 20 others who were involved in the attack."

Pol Gen Priewpan's disclosure came as military and police officers continued their hunt for suspected bomb plotter Jehma Wani and a suspected bomb maker identified only as Mr Baeyu. Both are suspected of being behind Saturday's car park bombing.

Police investigators called Mr Jehma a former Islamic teacher and soldier and a hardcore terrorist insurgent. They said Mr Baeyu is a reclusive bomb maker. They believe both were trained to make bombs in a foreign country and are transferring their knowledge to terrorists insurgents in southern border provinces.

The car park bomb killed three, injured hundreds more and caused heavy damage to the hotel. The car that supposedly carried 50-60 kilograms of radio-detonated explosives was deliberately parked on the third basement parking floor which is the middle floor of five underground floors of the hotel. The blast was meant to create maximum impact to vehicles parked on other parking floors to trigger chain explosions.

Meanwhile, security officials are closing in on some suspects thought to be responsible for the bombings in Pattani and Yala provinces on Saturday.

Pol Maj Gen Pichet Pitisetpan yesterday brought to the press a male bombing suspect identified as Samlee Huluduereh, 34.

The man was arrested at his wife's house in Pattani province. Security officials confiscated from him a 100-meter length of cable, a set of pliers, nails and a mobile phone.

The suspect was identified from recordings of six surveillance cameras, witnesses' accounts and a record of his cell phone use. He is thought to be the man who detonated a bomb-laden motorcycle in front of a food shop in Pattani province on Saturday. The blast injured a senior police officer and damaged property.

Mr Samlee denied involvement in the bombing.

Investigators questioned a 22-year-old suspect identified as Anuwat Tohjeh about the bombings in Yala province on Saturday. The man had allegedly driven a vehicle following a bomb-laden pickup truck before the first car bomb went off. Police identified the man from recordings of surveillance cameras. He denied any involvement in the blast.

On Tuesday, soldiers, police and local administrators searched Ban Pongruerai village in Yala province and found what were believed to be components of improvised explosive devices.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia warns West, Arabs against arming Syria rebels
MOSCOW - Russia warned Western and Arab nations on Wednesday against arming opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, saying it would lead to years of bloodshed without helping the rebels to defeat government forces.
Bloodshed that the Rooskies will aid and abet...
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the "Friends of Syria" group of Western and Arab nations is undermining international envoy Kofi Annan's efforts to end more than a year of violence, and criticized countries that support arming the opposition.

"It is clear as day that even if the opposition is armed to the teeth, it will not defeat the Syrian army, and there will simply be slaughter and mutual destruction for long, long years," Interfax news agency quoted Lavrov as saying.
We'll be the judge of that...
Russia has emphasized that the efforts of U.N.-Arab League envoy Annan are the only path to peace and has stayed away from "Friends of Syria" meetings, saying the group is biased in favor of Assad's opponents and is not promoting peace.

Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said that Syrian forces has begun withdrawing from cities and towns in accordance with Annan's plan. Gatilov added that Russia hoped Syria would meet the April 10 deadline, but made clear it would be wary of any new formal action by the Security Council.

After the Council statement in support of Annan's mission, "we believe artificial prodding of this process does not foster conditions for realization of Annan's plan", Interfax quoted Gatilov as saying. "We do not accept any ultimatums."

"In principle we believe it is possible to do without any Security Council decisions. Kofi Annan is continuing his efforts, the Syrian side has begun withdrawing forces from cities. The main thing now is for all sides to carry out Annan's proposals," he said.

Gatilov said Russia would be willing to consider "additional impulses from the Security Council" if other members believe they are needed, but added: "Any reaction by the Security Council must be balanced and contain an appeal to both sides - the government and opposition."
Posted by: Steve White || 04/05/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mama Russia is essentially telling the anti-Assad US-NATO/EU + Arabs to butt out + leave Bashir + any Syria Peace to the UN + Kofi's Peace Plan.

ARTIC + RUSSIA also read, DITTO AS PER IRAN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/05/2012 1:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Gee, sure hope Kofi doesn't step into the fray.
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Good morning
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#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Élodie Bouchez (French) aka Isabelle 'Isa' Tostin in "The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)" aka Maïté Alvarez in "Les roseaux sauvages (Wild Reeds) (1994) " aka Marlene in "CQ (2001)" aka Louise in "Louise (Take 2) (1998)" aka Juliette in "Too Much Flesh (2000)" aka Cécile in "Je déteste les enfants des autres (I Hate My Best Friends' Kids) (2007)" (age 40)



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#2  GB... very hawt! All 3 -- visible, click-through, and linked! Bravo.
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#3  Ja, fokkin mooi very lovely indeed.
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#4  I've tried to read the 'burg three times today, but I keep getting stuck at Emmy Rossum.
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