We are in the era of jihad. The era of jihad has come over us, and jihad in the path of Allah is a pleasure. It is a real pleasure. The companions (of the Prophet) used to compete to (perform jihad). The poverty that were inis it not due to our abandonment of jihad? But if we could conduct one, two, or three jihadist operations every year, many people throughout the earth would become Muslims. And whoever rejected this dawa, or stood in our way, we would fight against him and take him prisoner, and confiscate his wealth, his children, and his womenall of this means money. Every mujahid who returned from jihad, his pockets would be full. He would return with 3 or 4 slaves, 3 or 4 women, and 3 or 4 children. Multiply each head by 300 dirhams, or 300 dinar, and you have a good amount of profit. If he were to go to the West and work on a commercial deal, he would not make that much money. Whenever things became difficult (financially), he could take the head (i.e. the prisoner) and sell it, and ease his (financial) crisis. He would sell it like groceries. Of those who are--(cuts off)
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It clearly hasn't occurred to the revered shaykh that the reason jihadis stopped returning with slaves and booty is because their opponents had become better at war than they, and no longer permitted such things. Think, dear shaykh, about the reason Viennese bakers make crescent cookies, why the Jews decide who may pray at the Al Aksa mosque, and why slavery was made illegal on the Arabian peninsula in the 1960s. A hint: it was not because Mohammed's rules for slave-taking and -holding were abolished, but because the potential slaves have bigger armies and better weapons than you who think yourselves the chosen of Allah. And also because the Arab princelings did not enjoy seeing their wives sniggered at as backwater barbarians when shopping in Paris.
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Don't make me show how many Israelis won Nobel Prizes, vs arab winners (all of whom were Secular). India is forced to subsidize a muslim "education" system where 40% of all indoctrination time is spent on worthless quran, hadith, islamic plunder history and arabic. If you put garbage into young people's heads, then garbage will come out.
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Ah. It's all clear now. Arabs == underwear gnomes!
A senior Egyptian general admits that "virginity checks" were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities.
The allegations arose in an Amnesty International report, published weeks after the March 9 protest. It claimed female demonstrators were beaten, given electric shocks, strip-searched, threatened with prostitution charges and forced to submit to virginity checks.
At that time, Maj. Amr Imam said 17 women had been arrested but denied allegations of torture or "virginity tests."
But now a senior general who asked not to be identified said the virginity tests were conducted and defended the practice.
"The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine," the general said. "These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs)."
The general said the virginity checks were done so that the women wouldn't later claim they had been raped by Egyptian authorities.
"We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place," the general said. "None of them were (virgins)."
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Is this where the TSA got the idea for its "Grope America" program? Sexually humiliating your own citizens - not just for 3rd world despots anymore.
The lifting of the siege of the embattled Libyan city of Misrata has revealed the disappearance of hundreds of people with many of them suspected victims of snatch squads loyal to the Gaddafi regime, relatives and rights workers said yesterday.
A desperate search has begun for "the disappeared", many of whom were reported to have been taken away to regime prisons or killed during some of the fiercest fighting of a three-month rebel uprising that has reduced parts of the city to rubble.
Witness accounts gathered by The Independent and rights groups indicate that there was a systematic attempt to kidnap men from parts of the city.
Sixteen members of one family were captured by troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi when they left their home to inspect a factory that had been destroyed in the fighting, according to their relative Salem, who declined to give his full name for fear of recrimination. After nearly two months of no news, he received word from a man who claimed to have escaped from Tripoli prison. "He told me my family members are there. But up to this day I cannot be sure they will come back.
The full extent of the missing has only been revealed as the city slowly comes back to life following the ferocious bombardment by forces loyal to Col Gaddafi.
Many families were unable to leave their homes after regime tanks entered the heart of the city and snipers took up positions on roof tops. Rebel fighters backed by Nato airstrikes forced regime forces to the outskirts of the city two weeks ago, allowing families to venture out again.
A newly opened missing persons office has registered 1,020 people with the number rising every day, said lawyer Tarek Abdul Hadi, organising the piles of forms detailing those missing. Most of the missing are men between the ages of 20 and 40. More than 40 children, some as young as six, and elderly people between 60 and 85 years are also missing, he said.
"Fighters report seeing some being used as human shields on the front lines, others have been taken away to fight for Gaddafi," he said. "But many, many are presumed dead."
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Libyas western-backed rebels have used up their stock of crude oil, with no certainty about when production can resume from vulnerable south-eastern oil fields, the main exporting company under opposition control has said.
The small refinery at Tobruk, the maritime export terminal near the Egyptian border, shut down late last week after using up the last oil in storage, according to Abdel Jalil Mayouf, spokesman for Arabian Gulf Oil Co (Agoco).
The new authorities in eastern Libya have held major oil fields roughly 500 kilometres to the south since the February uprising, including the countrys largest, Sarir, with potential output of more than 200,000 barrels a day in normal circumstances.
But forces loyal to Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyas ruler for nearly 42 years, hold nearby towns to the west, keeping the rebel oil fields exposed to surprise attacks across the open desert. Lightly armed mercenaries in small 4x4 vehicles have slipped through despite Nato air cover for anti-Gaddafi forces.
So the rebels need either to get some reliable forces into those fields to hold them against the mercs, or they need to hire reliable outsiders. But as they note --
Agoco halted production in early April amid fears about the safety of oil workers. Training troops to ward off assaults will take time. Yet officials in Benghazi, the temporary government centre for the rebels, have ruled out hiring private security firms to protect the oil fields.
We dont want to repeat the debacle weve seen, for example, in Iraq, said Ali Tarhouni, provisional minister of finance and oil. Some US security firms antagonised Iraqis after the US-led invasion in 2003.
Fair enough. Hire some reliable Arabs (I know, I know, sometimes the humor just flows...)
The provisional government is low on money, despite intensifying discussions about financial assistance with Arab and western allies. The Transitional National Council has so far failed to obtain loans against frozen assets tied to the old regime.
The rebels have partly refilled their treasury with three tanker shipments out of Tobruk: two fulfilling earlier contracts and the latest under a deal with Qatar, the gas-rich Arab state keeping the uprising afloat financially, Mr Mayouf said.
While the last export shipment netted $150m, the provisional government has spent $480m on fuel, Mr Tarhouni said. Eastern Libya imports much of its gasoline, while maintaining the rock-bottom subsidised price of 0.15 cents a litre at the pump.
There's something that they should fix immediately. It's time for the population to understand the concept of 'total war' -- everything for the war effort.
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Oh, Boo.Hoo,Hoo, so nobody's manning the pumps.
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An awful lot of Italians probably won't be driving much this summer as a result, Redneck Jim. Libyan oil goes by tanker elsewhere, but I seem to recall there's a direct pipeline under the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy.
[Bangla Daily Star] Investigators have found evidence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee's involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
"We have got evidence and documents that Delawar Hossain Sayedee was involved in crimes against humanity including genocide, rape, torture, looting and arson in Pirojpur during the Liberation War," Motiur Rahman, member of the agency probing the crimes against humanity, told The Daily Star yesterday.
The Sherlocks have already finalised a report on the allegations against Sayedee, and will turn it to the prosecutors today for submission to the International Crimes Tribunal, he said.
On receipt of the report, the prosecutors will scrutinise it before placing it to the tribunal, the investigator said.
M Sanaul Haque, coordinator of the investigation agency, told news hounds at his Bailey Road office yesterday that the allegations against Sayedee have been proved in primary investigation.
He said the final probe report on allegations against Sayedee will be submitted to the prosecutors in 15 parts.
The Jamaat leader yesterday sought bail from the tribunal on medical grounds. Sayedee's counsel Tanvir Ahmed Al Amin filed a petition with the tribunal on his behalf, saying his client has been suffering from ailments.
The tribunal fixed today for hearing the petition, said tribunal Registrar Shahinur Islam.
Prosecutor Zead-al Malum submitted a petition to the tribunal to allow the Sherlocks to interrogate Jamaat leader Md Kamaruzzaman for three days at the Dhanmondi safe home, where war crime accused were quizzed earlier.
The tribunal set June 1 for hearing the petition, said the registrar.
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[An Nahar] North Korea said Monday it would no longer deal with South Korea and threatened to retaliate against any moves by Seoul to wage "psychological warfare".
The North's powerful National Defense Commission (NDC) said in a statement it would also cut a military communications line on the east coast and shut a liaison office at the jointly-run Mount Kumgang resort.
The statement came just days after leader Kim Dear Leader Jong-Il
... hereditary dictator of North Korea. His definition of reunification isn't the same as the definition in Seoul... , who chairs the NDC, returned from a visit to his country's key ally China. Kim was quoted by Beijing's media as saying he wants to improve cross-border relations.
"The army and people of the DPRK (North Korea) will never deal with traitor Lee Myung-Bak and his clan," said the statement on the official KCNA news agency on Monday, referring to the conservative South Korean president.
It castigated recent statements by Lee's government, accusing it of "driving the inter-Korean relations to uncontrollable catastrophe".
The NDC also reiterated threats of "physical action without any notice" to halt psychological warfare.
The North has repeatedly threatened to open fire at sites used by South Korean activists to launch leaflets criticizing Kim's regime across the heavily fortified border.
It has also been pressing its neighbor to resume lucrative cross-border tourist trips to the east coast resort of Mount Kumgang.
The South suspended visits by its nationals after a North Korean soldier rubbed out a Seoul housewife there in July 2008.
Cross-border relations have been icy for over a year, since the South accused the North of sinking one of its warships and imposed trade sanctions.
The North denies involvement in the sinking which cost 46 lives. But last November it shelled a South Korean border island, killing four people including civilians.
Seoul says its neighbor should accept responsibility for both incidents before any serious dialogue can resume.
The dispute is complicating efforts by China to revive six-nation nuclear disarmament talks also grouping the two Koreas, the United States, Russia and Japan.
China and other parties say the North should discuss its nuclear program with the South as a prelude to full six-party talks.
"North Korea is pressing South Korea to resume cross-border contacts," said Yang Moo-Jin of Seoul's University of North Korean Studies.
"It has little room to maneuver against South Korea in protest at Seoul's consistent policy of no engagement.
"It (the statement) is also seen as a warning that cross-border tensions could escalate, especially along the eastern section of the border, unless South Korea changes its policy."
Yang told AFP he does not expect any immediate and dramatic escalation of tensions.
"But the statement is worrisome as it comes amid a flurry of diplomacy to resume six-party talks by U.S. and China," he said.
"The statement followed Kim Jong-Il's trip to China. It indicates that Kim might have secured China's pledge to provide economic assistance and guarantee the security of his regime."
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"Psychological warfare" > HHHMMM, HMMMM, I've read various News Artics that says "Physical action/retaliation" agz the ROK???
* ION YONHAP NEWS this AM > SOUTH KOREAN BUSINESSMAN CLAIMS NORTH KOREA HAS DEVELOPED SMALL NUCLEAR WARHEAD, which can be placed atop DPRK LRBM = ICBM that can reach the US???
By most accounts Beijing has snubbed Kimmie's demand for advanced military wares as well as econ assistance - IMO this means that, short of war, the DPRK will have to rely on the leftovers from the new, mainly China-benefitting RASUN Sino-DPRK free trade zone which is deemed to likely to increase China's hold = control? over the DPRK, NOT reduce it.
Unless something changes, SEOUL HAD BETTER PREP FOR NEW + WORSE MIL INCIDENTS THAN "CHEONAN" + "YEONGPYEONG", ESPEC IFF IT DESIRES US MILFOR UNITS TO BE BASED ON SMALL ISLANDS IN THE AREA OF THE MARITIME NLL.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > FORMER US GENERAL [Mosley, USAF]THE POSSIBILITY OF FUTURE WAR WID RUSSIA [+ China] IS ALMOST 100%.
Lest we fergit, 1990's NET > RUSSIA-CHINA = [Year 2018] WAR AGZ THE USA NOT ONLY POSSIBLE, BUT DESIRED, as early as 2014 NLT 2022.
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ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > POSTER OPED = WHY DOES CHINA HOT HAVE TERRITORY ACCESS TO SEA OF JAPAN?
Because Russia took over part of Chin Yakutia-Siberia centuries ago + the remainder later in the 19th century, China did not formally annex the two Koreas, Typhoon sank the Yuan Mongol fleet attempting to invade Japan, + China does not control present-day Taiwan.
* SAME > CHINA-VIETNAM WAR IN SOUTH CHINA SEA VERY SOON? | VIETNAM SAYS IT MAY DEPLOY ARMED PATROL BOATS TO [defend]SPRATLEYS IN SOUTH CHINA SEAS. Vietnam is warning that it will use "any means necessary" to defend its interests in the Spratleys = Nanshas, which prsumably includes military options, ee VIET PATROL GUNBOATS VERSUS PLA PATROL GUNBOATS???
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > CHINA BEHIND MASSIVE FOREIGN BUYING OF JAPANESE BONDS [Notes = mature in 01 year or less].
Besides other, methinks China has found a powerful econ way to pressure EQ, Tsunami, + Radiation-damaged Japan into close MilPol cooperation, espec as per desired Trade + "Sole" PLA Base Rights, Access as per the strategic Okinawa-Senkakus-Taiwan corridor into WESTPAC.
* SAME > CHINA AT A TIPPING POINT: WHAT IS THE US TO DO? Ordinary China increasingly demanding their natural Human Rights + less Regulatory Government despite the hardline in Beijing agz ME-style "Jasmine" reforms.
* SAME > POSTER > [YouTube Video] AMERICAN MILITRAY PERSONNEL CONVERT TO ISLAM + CALL TO FREE SIANKING [Chunking] FROM CHINA.
* SAME > RIOTS EXPLODE IN [China's]INNER MONGOLIAALSO CALLED NEI MONGOL: AMNESTY.
Amnesty International.
Minority ethnic Mongols demand cultural protection, political rights vee Han Chinese, etc. non-Mongol majority.
* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > CRITICAL DIESEL SHORTAGE THREATENS MONGOLIA.
* RENSE > {Japanese senior politician Ichiro Ozawa]"ONE DAY WE [Japanese people] MAY NOT BE ABLE TO LIVE IN JAPAN ANYMORE", iff the post-03/11 radiation ala Fukushima nucplant cannot be effec controlled or cleaned up.
* RENSE > CHINA'S DROUGHT THREATENS 23.0MILYUHN PEOPLE IN SHANGHAI.
* CHINESE MILITRAY FORUM > PLA RESERVES ACTIVATED TO HELP FIGHT [severe] DROUGHT.
* SAME > [World] DEPENDENCY ON OIL WILL [begin] END IN 2012, as electricity-, water-powered POVS begin to flood world markets.
POSTERS = Muslims = Govts-States fear the coming future obsolescence of Arab, Middle East Oil due to NT = New Technologies.
GEORGE JETSON-IAN MASS RETAIL CONSUMER NUCENERGY + SOLYENT OIL-LUBE???
Various US Communities have already abandoned "Big Nuclear/Elex/Gas" in favor of SMALLER COMMUNITY NUCPLANTS.
["RUTHLESS PEOPLE" BETTE MIDLER crying that
D **** IT she deserves better than to be kidnapped by "NUCLEAR KMART" here].
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Pyongyang,May 30 (KCNA) -- The moves of the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors to escalate confrontation with the DPRK have reached an extreme phase. A spokesman for the National Defence Commission of the DPRK issued a statement condemning them on Monday.
The group is doing sordid things only while escalating the accusation of the headquarters of our revolution and the sacred socialist system, reminding one of a puppy knowing no fear of the tiger, the statement notes, and goes on:
The Lee Myung Bak group of traitors fakes up false stories and whitewashes its misrule, undermining national reconciliation and unity and deliberately laying a hurdle in the way of peace and prosperity.
It is impertinently talking about what it called "true intention" of the "Berlin proposal", crying out for somebody's dismantlement of nukes and apology for no reason. It is busy pulling up the DPRK under the pretext of false case and over its legitimate measures for self-defence, driving the inter-Korean relations to uncontrollable catastrophe.
The group went the lengths of malignantly slandering the DPRK's magnanimous proposal for bringing about a new phase of reconciliation, cooperation, peace and reunification through wide-ranging dialogue and negotiations without any pre-conditions in a bid to create impression among the domestic and foreign public that its delaying tactics would help "contingency" occur as it desires.
During his recent trip to Japan he made no scruple of taking issue with the DPRK's nuclear issue and back in Seoul he even said that he would try to persuade someone with "affection", the statement said, and continued:
It was against this backdrop that the puppet military warmongers hurled a great number of soldiers into holding firing exercises in ranges in Yangju and Inchon Kyonggi Province from May 23.
And anti-DPRK conservative forces of south Korea during their foreign trip described the May 18 Kwangju massacre as "an act done by a special unit of the north" though it was perpetrated by the Chun Doo Hwan military fascists.
The statement clarified internally and externally the following principled stand of the DPRK:
1. The army and people of the DPRK will never deal with traitor Lee Myung Bak and his clan.
It is our stand to let them wait for "contingency" as long as they please according to their "waiting strategy," sticking to their "theory of principle" on the basis of their own judgment till they face their self-destruction.
2. The DPRK will launch a nationwide offensive to put an end to the moves of the Lee group to escalate the confrontation with the DPRK.
The all-out offensive of the army and people of the DPRK is a merciless one.
The trend of the times will prove that hot waves for genuine democracy will rage in the base of the group.
3. The army and people of the DPRK for the present will take practical actions to cope with the confrontation racket of the group.
As the group put a check bar on reconciliation and cooperation, denying dialogue and contacts, the Korean People's Army will cut off the north-south military communication in the area along the east coast which has been maintained to provide a military guarantee for the north-south passage and close the communication liaison office in Mt. Kumgang area as the first step.
As already warned by the DPRK, it will take a physical action without any notice any time against any target to cope with the anti-DPRK psychological warfare persistently perpetrated by the group with a foolish aim.
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North Korea said Monday it would no longer deal with South Korea and threatened to retaliate against any moves by Seoul to wage "psychological warfare".
So the Norks are admitting the only thing they have left to throw at the south is harsh language?
Summary: General Bilgin Balanli, commander of Turkey's military academies, was imprisoned on Monday, charged with involvement in that semi-mythical coup attempt against the Islamist government in 2003 allegedly called Operation Sledgehammer. The number of current and retired military officers jailed and awaiting trial on this charge currently approaches two hundred.
Pakistani intelligence officers continue to offer to support to terrorist groups threatening regional security, according to a diplomatic cable circulated by Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state.
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According to the article, the cable was dated December, 2009. But thanks to WikiLeaks, those who resolutely ignored the copious evidence before can no longer do so.
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Didn't the top US DOD dude say that any future President who puts a large army in Asia, "should have his head examined"? Hell, we of the NUKEM group opposed field operations from day one.
FYI: the pak-terror-entity was near bankrupt on 9-11, in face of US sanctions. Now everyone has cell phones in the Wazoos.
I say: destroy the Pashtun savageries and deal with Northern Alliance elements on the Lithium properties.
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The problem in Pakistan today is not that state collapse has created the space for violent jihadi elements to operate as they please rather, the problem is that the militarized state itself has created, perpetuated, and cultivated these elements.This was written by a Pakistani so gives me a little hope of optimism in this mess of a country!
Also a good read below-
http://ibrahimsajidmalick.com/why-doesn%e2%80%99t-pakistan-arrest-hafiz-saeed/226/
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Why was Pakistan blocking sanctions against a terrorist group?
And this takes me back to Pervez Musharrafs first visit to the US after his coup. At a meeting with a group of journalists among whom I was present, my dear and much lamented friend Tahir Mirza, then the Dawn correspondent, asked Musharraf why he was not acting against Lashkar-e Tayba and Jaish-e Muhammad. Musharraf went red in the face and shot back, They are not doing anything in Pakistan. They are doing jihad outside.
Khalid Hasan was Daily Times US-based correspondent.
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An interesting article, indeed, Paul D. The thing is, the progressives won't speak up so linig as it's likely to get them killed.
A journalist working with the Italian news agency Adnkronos (AKI) who had previously reported links between the Pakistani military and Al-Qaeda has been found dead in Pakistan.
Syed Saleem Shahzad's body was found near his abandoned car in Sarai Alamgir, some 150 kilometres southeast of Islamabad, AKI reported. A photo of the corpse was identified by the man's brother.
Saleem Shahzad had written an investigative report published on May 27 for Asia Times Online about ties between Al-Qaeda and the Pakistani navy after an assault on a naval base in Karachi earlier this month.
[Dawn] Humanitarian agencies active in Pakistain's northwest have been quietly told to prepare for up to 365,000 displaced people in advance of a military offensive against North Wazoo, a bigwig with an international humanitarian agency said on Monday.
The official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, was responding to a media report in a local newspaper that Pakistain will launch a military offensive against al Qaeda and Taliban safe havens in the Afghan border regions.
"Humanitarian agencies operating in FATA and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... were given the heads up two weeks ago by the authorities of a possible displacement of up to 50,000 families," he said, referring to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and the northwest province.
A similar tip-off in 2009 preceded a military offensive in neighbouring South Waziristan by about five months, he said.
Other aid agencies were not immediately available for comment. The report comes just days after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another William Jennings Bryan ... reiterated a US demand to tackle sanctuaries for al Qaeda and the Taliban on the Afghan border.
An understanding for an offensive in North Waziristan, the main sanctuary in Pakistain for Islamic fascistifighting in Afghanistan, was reached when Clinton and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen visited Pakistain last week, the News reported.
The United States has long demanded that Pakistain attack the region to eliminate the Haqqani network, one of the deadliest Afghan bad turban factions fighting US troops in Afghanistan.
Pakistain has been reluctant to do so, but it has come under more pressure and its performance in fighting militancy is under scrutiny again after it was discovered that the late Osama bin Laden ... who knows that it's like to live in the belly of a whale only he's not living... had been living in the country.
Some analysts say any joint US-Pak operation would subject the army to even more public criticism in a country where anti-US feeling runs deep.
"The reaction could be even more vociferous, just because everybody is so suspicious, as well as dismissive of American interference," said Imtiaz Gul, author of "The Most Dangerous Place", a book about Pakistain's bad turban strongholds.
"People already feel so humiliated because of this Osama bin Laden thing and now they will have another reason to react."
But the South Asian nation, dependent on billions of dollars in US aid, is under more pressure than ever to show it is serious about tackling militancy.
Attacking US enemies in North Waziristan may be one way of repairing ties with Washington which were badly damaged by the bin Laden affair.
Pakistain maintains about 140,000 troops in the northwest, including about 34,000 in North Waziristan, but says they are too stretched fighting Pak Taliban cut-throats in other parts of the region to tackle North Waziristan.
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The PAK Govt wants US to stop initiating Drone strikes widout Islamabad's consent.
Many of the MilTerrs will likely "split the scene" + skeddadle to fight another day, as opposed to fighting regular troops wid high certainty of self-death. In any case, since the fall of Egypt's MUBARAK, Radical Islam's focii is POLITICAL OR POLITICAL-LEGAL JIHAD [electoral power = formal Govt-sharing], NOTSOMUCH INSURGENCY = FIELD COMBAT.
Prob is where over-the-PAK-borders will they escape to, namely AFGHANISTAN, WEST CHINA, INDIA, + CENTASIA = FORMER SOVIET SSRS???
[Dawn] The Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) on Monday declared former military ruler Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... a Proclaimed Offender (PO) in the Benazir liquidation case, DawnNews reported.
Taking notice of Federal Investigation Agency's special public prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar' request, Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed declared the former president a PO.
Earlier in April, Mr Zulfiqar had requested the court to start the process of declaring Musharraf proclaimed offender because his arrest warrants could not be served on him and that he was wilfully avoiding them.
According to legal experts, declaring the former army chief a proclaimed offender would enable the court to attach his immovable property in Pakistain and proceed with the trial of other accused in the case, leaving the authorities to seek other means for his arrest.
Mr Musharraf has been accused of failing to provide adequate security to Benazir Bhutto and conspiring to kill her.
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Islamist in the Pak army must be strong contestants for her as they couldnt stand having a secular shia women in charge!
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Political analysts agreed today that the U.S. forces did not respect the security agreement signed with the Iraqi government, and its airborne operations in some Iraqi cities is a greater proof of this violation.
Legal advisor Ismael Alwan told Aswat al-Iraq said that "the airborne operations in some Iraqi cities is a violation of the agreement, as it does not allow the U.S. forces to carry out such operations and arrests unless they were under direct aggression."
"If the U.S. forces encountered an attack, they have the right to defend themselves and arrest the attackers, otherwise they do not have the right to arrest without accompanying Iraqi forces," he added.
Alwan said "If the U.S. violated the agreement, the matter shall be referred to a higher committee between the two governments, but if the operations are done with the knowledge of the Iraqi government, then it is within the capacity of the agreement and Iraqi request for American assistance."
A Karbala official said that the U.S. forces carried out an airborne landing on 28 May, 2011 against a residence without reasons given for such operation. The source added that "the targeted person had died four days prior."
Prior to the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from Kerbela province, they suffered many attacks in the same area as the airborne operation.
Secretary General of Al-Ahrar bloc, affiliate to National Alliance, Ameer Al-Kinani demanded a firm stand by the Iraqi government against U.S. forces' violations and to respect the security agreement signed between the two governments. He added that many statements were raised before the parliament, particularly after the killing of many civilians in Anbar, Diala and Missan provinces.
On the other hand, MP Juma' Al-Atwani of the National Alliance said that "America, from the first date of endorsing the agreement, did not abide by it and made many human rights violations."
"We do not expect anything from the government, more than raising questions for these violations," he added.
U.S. forces withdrew from Iraqi cities on 30 June, 2009 in preparation for the withdrawal of combat forces in August 2010 as planned according to the security agreement signed on 13 December, 2008.
Political analyst Al-Nasir Duraid has a different view when he said that "the United States has the right to arrest any person it believes to be a danger to its existence or a threat to the political scene."
"We do not have the right to put it into account or sue it by any means," he added.
He referred that some of the political forces have definite desire that the U.S. forces remain in the country, while there is an Iranian desire to terminate this presence at the soonest. Duraid added that "this stage witnesses some kind of conflict between Iran and America, which will lead to the increase of attacks against the U.S. forces, which will result in more arrests for those who, as the U.S. believes, have contacts with the Iranian side."
Missan Security and Defence Commission member Sarhan Al-Musawi said to Aswat al-Iraq Sunday denouncing the US-Iraqi military air borne operation to arrest five persons, including a 13-year child. He added that the provincial council threatened to suspend its work if such incidents will occur, particularly without the knowledge of the local government or existing military and police organs.
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I have a huge problem with one word that's repeated in this. Arrest.
Why the flaming hell does ANYONE arrest terrorists? They should be killed. Period, end of story, game over.
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All that after we taught them to read agreements...
To borrow from William Jacobsen at Legal Insurrection, perhaps Israel should recognize a Basque state.
Mahmoud Abbas met in Cairo on Monday with Ramadan Shallah, secretary- general of Islamic Jihad, and his deputy, Ziad Nakhleh, under the Egyptian patronage.
Meanwhile, the PA has announced that Spain will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines before September.
Abbas and the Syrian-based Islamic Jihad leaders discussed Palestinian national reconciliation and the PA security crackdown on Islamic Jihad operatives and supporters in the West Bank.
An Islamic Jihadi said the talks also focused on methods of "confronting future challenges and Israeli threats."
Hundreds of left-wing activists are expected to fly to Israel to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, Channel 10 reported Monday. The demonstrators are expected to arrive around the same date that a flotilla is prepared to break the IDF blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Do they think Israel can't run background checks before allowing strangers entry?
Israel working to amp up media exposure on organizations behind flotillas; 'Mavi Marmara' members were part of violent anti-Israel rallies.
Such lovely people.
As the IDF continues preparing to forcefully stop a protest flotilla planning to sail to the Gaza Strip in late June, Israel is intensifying its media campaign to expose what it believes is the true face of the organizations behind the initiative.
On Monday, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center revealed in a new report that a group of Turkish Islamic activists who are members of the IHH organization and were aboard the Mavi Marmara passenger ship last year as it was stopped by the Israel Navy on its way to Gaza, participated in a violent anti-Israel demonstration in Jordan earlier this month on the Palestinian Nakba Day.
According to the report, the bus carrying the delegation of 28 Turkish activists was detained in Syria as it made its way to Jordan, since some of the members had Israeli stamps in their passports, a result of their deportation from Israel following last years flotilla.
The delegation eventually arrived at the Israeli-Jordanian border opposite Jericho and began marching toward the fence while violently clashing with Jordanian security forces. Several members of the delegation were injured and treated in hospitals in Jordan before being ordered to return to Turkey.
During the demonstration in Jordan, the activists carried a banner with pictures of the nine men killed by commandos from the Israel Navys Flotilla 13 aboard the Mavi Marmara last May. Israel has provided video evidence that the commandos were attacked by the passengers, many of whom were mercenaries paid to attack the soldiers.
The delegations decision to participate in the demonstrations in Jordan was not spontaneous but is part of a larger campaign by radical Islamic elements from groups like IHH to try and breach Israels borders whether by land, air or sea, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center report concluded.
Due to the size of the flotilla planned for next month, which organizers hope will reach 15 ships, the navy has enlisted all of its Flotilla 13 commandos from the reserves and has conducted special training sessions in recent weeks in coordination with the IDFs Counter-Terrorism School.
If the government decides to stop the flotilla, the commandos will board the ships either by sea or air, similar to the operation that stopped the Mavi Marmara last year.
The commandos goal will be to complete the operation without casualties on either side, but they have received updated rules of engagement and will work quickly when boarding the ships to quell the violence. The IDF Operations Directorate recently drafted new operational guidelines for flotilla operations that involve coordination between various security organizations and government ministries. The new guidelines regulate the way the military and police are to handle the detainees as well as their belongings after intercepting a flotilla.
Hundreds of thousands join Facebook campaign to mark "setback" of Six Day War; IDF to deploy larger forces along northern frontiers.
Following the example of this months Nakba Day marches, Palestinians and their supporters are preparing to launch another multipronged assault on Israels borders this week to mark the Naksa, or setback, of Arab defeat and territorial losses in the 1967 Six Day War.
I vote for volleys of rubber bullets at kneecap level until they go away. Otherwise they'll keep coming, trusting that the evil Juices aren't really evil at all.
The website Third Palestinian Intifada and its Facebook page, Countdown to the Third Palestinian Intifada, have posted detailed plans for marches on Israels borders with Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Gaza, as well as processions to Jerusalems Al-Aksa Mosque, on three separate dates before and during the wars anniversary. The groups plan of action calls for mass rallies on June 3, 5 and 7 the Friday leading up to the Six Day War anniversary, the date on which the war began and the date Israeli troops took Jerusalem, respectively.
Thirteen people were killed on May 15, Nakba Day, while trying to breach Israels borders with Syria and Lebanon. Many of the protesters killed had been shot by the Lebanese Army as the group approached the border with Israel.
Similar rallies were held on Israels borders with Jordan and Gaza, and in the West Bank. In the days most dramatic incident, three people were killed by IDF fire when around 100 Syrians broke through the Golan Heights border fence at Majdal Shams. Another 10 were killed by Lebanese troops on the Israel-Lebanon border.
This time, military officials said the IDF will deploy larger forces along Israels northern borders to avoid a repeat of the Nakba Day disturbances. The officials said they expect the rallies to be relatively peaceful, and that they hope an effective troop deployment can prevent border infiltrations altogether. The goal is twofold, one defense official said. To prevent infiltrations, and at the same time, to try to ensure there are no casualties on either side.
The May 15 border rallies were coordinated largely through social media sites, and organizers predict an even greater turnout this time around. We will renew the memory of the Naksa, and we will make it a setback to the occupying entity, organizers wrote on Facebook. Thus we declare with all our strength and with our loudest voice that the seventh of June, which marks the rape of Jerusalem is a day of allegiance to Jerusalem in all countries of the world.
What does Israel have in the way of crowd control technology these days? That noise which only young people can hear, deployed by the posher San Francisco shops, might do nicely for this occasion...
In March, Facebook closed a page calling for a third intifada against Israel after Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein complained it was inciting violence.
The current Facebook page, under a slightly different name, was created in early April, and by mid-May had been followed, or liked, by 100,000 people. Over the last two weeks the pages following has grown to over 375,000.
Organizers wrote that the Nakba Day events prove historic Palestine can be liberated by mass unarmed marches, provided the umma, or Islamic nation, is willing to pay any price, including a million martyrs. Our intifada continues, Israel is about to depart, and with Gods help we will all pray in the mosques and churches of Jerusalem, they wrote.
Similar notices have been posted on other pro-Palestinian websites. On Sunday, June 5, the 44th commemoration of the Naksa, or setback Israels 1967 expulsion of 300,000 Palestinians following the Six Day War Palestinian refugees will return en masse to the borders, said an article on the International Solidarity Movement homepage. Meanwhile, the administrators of a popular Facebook page dedicated to the Prophet Muhammad have changed the profile picture to an announcement that the Continuing Palestinian Intifada will begin on June 7. The page, Rassoul Allah, is one of the most popular of thousands dedicated to the Muslim prophet, with 3.7 million likes.
Ofir Gendelman, the Prime Ministers Office spokesman for Arabic media, said Israel is ready to use any means necessary to protect its borders.
Activity on Facebook calling for people to march on the borders has grown in recent weeks, and there are pages telling people exactly where to go, he said. Of course were familiar with this activity both on Facebook and Twitter, and have been for some time. Were prepared for any eventuality, whether by use of the police, army, security forces, Foreign Ministry and of course the Prime Ministers Office, to provide a security response to attempts to enter into our territory.
These people want 300 or 400 casualties in order to create a media and geopolitical tsunami to distract the worlds attention from whats happening in Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority, and to direct it at Israel, he said.
We must remember that not all those who click like on Facebook are going to board a bus and ride to the border. Theres a difference between clicking like and taking the personal risk of trying to breach the border, he said.
Keyboard warriors.
Im certain the other side will get the message that we wont let anyone in, whatever the price. They wont get in. The borders under our sovereignty will be maintained, whatever the price.
According to Third Palestinian Intifadas plan of action, following prayers on Friday, Arabs in Israel, the West Bank and Jerusalem will march on the Al- Aksa Mosque to declare their allegiance to the holy city. Egyptians are instructed to gather in Tahrir Square to do the same, as are residents of the rest of the Arab, Islamic and Western capitals. Gazans and Jordanians are encouraged to march on their respective borders with Israel.
Two days later, Arab residents of Israel, the West Bank and Jerusalem are again instructed to march on Al-Aksa Mosque, and to clash with Israeli soldiers in contact areas, while in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, protesters are to march peacefully to their respective border with Israel.
In the capitals of Arab, Islamic and Western countries, rallies are planned outside Zionist embassies, including Israels diplomatic missions in Egypt.
On June 7, millions of Arabs, Muslims, Christians and liberals of the world, led by university students in different places will swear allegiance to Jerusalem on the day Jerusalem fell and the mosques and churches fell to the hands of the Zionists. Organizers are calling again for marches on Al-Aksa Mosque, and for a construction convoy from Egypt to Gaza to bring building materials to the Strip. The process of empowerment and liberation, which started in Tunisia and Egypt, should end with the liberation of Jerusalem and Palestine, organizers wrote. Palestine will be liberated from the river to the sea, and the sea to the river.
Eyal Zisser, a senior research fellow at Tel Aviv Universitys Dayan Center, said the association between Nakba and Naksa is problematic from Israels perspective in that it identifies the defeat of 1967 with calls for the return of refugees from the War of Independence. If we convince ourselves that our problem with the Arab world is not that they are unwilling to accept our existence, but that its over the West Bank and Gaza, then why are the Palestinians linking the return of refugees with the 67 borders? he said.
ISTANBUL - Pro-Palestinian activists told Israel on Monday not to interfere in a planned aid flotilla to Gaza in late June, barely a year after Israeli commandos boarded an aid ship killing eight Turks and one Turkish-American.
Holding a news conference on the deck of the Mavi Marmara where the May 31 2010 confrontation occurred, a coalition of 22 activist groups called on governments to ensure there was no re-run of the incident.
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has asked governments to discourage activists from sending a new convoy and Turkey has told them of the risks of trying to break Israels naval blockade of Gaza, but said they are outside government control. Well, there's one government that can control them...
They will not attack. We dont believe they will repeat the same big mistake against humanity, said Huseyin Oruc, a spokesman for the Turkey-based IHH Islamic charity.
It is the Mavi Marmara, it is a peace boat and the other 14 boats are also peace boats, he told the news conference on the ship, overlooking the Golden Horn inlet in Istanbul, as workmen carried out maintenance work on the decks below.
In an interview with Reuters on Monday Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the onus was on Israel to avoid any repeat of the bloodshed, adding it should abandon its illegal blockade of 1.5 million Palestinians living in the enclave.
We are sending a clear message to all those concerned. The same tragedy should not be repeated again, he said.
But Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon warned that future flotillas would be stopped for security reasons and accused IHH of provocation, setting the stage for a possible confrontation. He said Turkey was not acting responsibly.
No responsible country allows its citizens to go to conflict areas, areas under dispute and clashes, in which they can get hurt. We have had great success with all of the regions countries except Turkey, he told a TV interview in Jerusalem.
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Hey look, a new "Aid" convoy, arm the torpedos.
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Sometimes hulls start leaking at seacocks and other places below the waterline. Especially in old rust buckets, like the Patna. Just sayin'.
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And there's all kind of stuff like fish nets floating around that could get caught in the screws. Would be real unfortunate if the Israeli Navy had to tow them in.
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What is the rationale for this convoy now that the Egyptian crossing in/out of Gaza is now open? They can get all the goods they need through that gate.
What??!! You mean this is all a publicity stunt!!! Shocked...shocked I tell you!
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I just had an incredible thought. These terrorists come equipped with their own prison hulk! Disable them out away from shore, too far to swim. air drop enough food to barely survive and simply leave them there. Sink any boat that tries to approach them.
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Iranian Ayatollah endorses evil: Radical religious cleric known as President Ahmadinejad's spiritual mentor says attacks on Israeli civilians permissible, suicide bombings a Muslim duty
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Frank G issues Fatwa (permission assumed from Al-Aska Paul) - hey! It's OK to kill Iranian Ayatollahs.
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So let's go, Ayatollah Guy! Get off your fat ass and lead the Muslim Duty parade!
Or are you an "idea man" too important to go "boom"?
More likely you're just another dime-a-dozen Muslim Holy Man with a big mouth.
NEW DELHI Egypt on Monday urged the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad to enact reforms to satisfy pro-democracy protesters as violence there saw another 15 people killed, according to activists.
There are few governments who know more about 'pro-democracy' reforms than the Egyptian one, huh...
We hope that the Syrians in a peaceful manner resolve their problems, Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi told reporters during a trip to India. Whatever reforms the people would like, it should be looked at in a positive manner, he added.
This would have nothing, nothing to do with the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the Mad Mullahs in Iran hate each other...
Arabi explained how the so-called Arab Spring pro-democracy movements in North Africa and the Middle East that have challenged autocratic regimes had changed the expectations of people across the region.
A wind of change has blown in the Arab world, he said. We have already seen changes in the region and therell be changes in other countries... it could differ, but change is where people can live in democracy, with good governance, the rule of law and be able to express themselves freely.
"So you Sunnis in Syria should throw off your Shi'a/Alawite masters and be more like us."
The United Nations on Monday condemned the shocking brutality of Assads regime as activists said at least 15 people were killed in the latest crackdown on protesters.
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[Iran Press TV] A top Syrian official has accused Perfidious Albion, La Belle France and the US of interfering in Syria's internal affairs in a bid to bring the country back to the colonial era.
Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad said on Monday that Western powers are trying to dominate Syria with the support of the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council.
The Syrian official also denounced the Western countries' efforts in the UN Security Council to condemn Syria's response to the current unrest in the country, Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported.
"It is about imposing hegemony on Syria and using the United Nations as a way of re-establishing colonialism and to justify interference," Miqdad said in Beijing during talks with his Chinese counterpart, adding that the recent unrest in Syria was "an attack on Syria that is aimed at destabilizing and weakening the country."
He also accused "extremist groups with foreign backing of spreading violence, terrorism and destruction... and murdering innocent Syrian citizens."
Perfidious Albion, La Belle France, Germany and Portugal believe they could get nine votes to pass a UNSC resolution against Syria but still fear a veto by China or Russia, two of the five permanent members who can block any resolution, diplomats said.
Since the beginning of unrest in Syria in mid-March, hundreds of people, including security forces, have been killed.
The opposition accuses security forces of being behind the killings. But the government blames armed gangs for the deadly violence, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... has announced the arrest of several members of armed terrorist groups, saying that they have confessed to receiving weapons and money from foreign organizations to kill civilians and security forces in a bid to cause chaos in the country.
Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... has vowed to bring those behind the killings to justice.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features. If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!... three more people were killed and many others maimed in a new round of festivities in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday, opposition activists said.
Syrian rights activists say they were killed by Syrian security forces in the town of Tablisah. The killings have brought to 14 the number of people killed in Tablisah.
The Syrian military has confirmed that its troops clashed with what it called cut-throats in the region. It says several Syrian troops were also killed in the fighting.
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[An Nahar] Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... on Monday expressed his belief that "the Cedar Revolution has set Leb back 60 years legally and demographically, squandered public money, and provided the suitable atmosphere for further foreign intervention in Leb's present and future."
"This is the reason behind its failure," Berri noted in a speech at a ceremony organized by the International Intellectual Conference to honor late Shiite holy mans Mohammed Makki al-Jizzini and Zeineddine al-Jabhi.
Berri said recent visits to Leb by foreign officials were aimed at "using our country as a platform for undermining Syria."
But he went on to say: "We are reassured that the Syrian army knows its national duties regarding the safeguarding of the borders and that Syria does not have a history of sectarian conflict."
"The recent events in Syria have opened the door for a second Corrective Movement that should be led by President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad," One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... Berri added.
"The political behavior of some parties has made us realize that some people are trying to defy geography and create frontlines in the North with Syria," Berri said.
On a separate note, he stressed that "Shiite Arabs, especially the Lebanese, will not fall into the sectarian trap or be dragged into civil strife."
"We in Leb will be the keenest on national unity and the coexistence formula," Berri noted.
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So how long is the UN going to put off releasing the results from the investigation into Papa Hariri's assassination? Forever?
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.
Investigators have found evidence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee's involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
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Spain to recognize PA state with 1967 borders
