Twenty six North Korean defectors who sought refuge at South Korean and Canadian Embassies in China arrived in Seoul yesterday via third countries, ending the diplomatic row between South Korea and China. Twenty three North Koreans, who sneaked into the South Korean mission in Beijing on 11 occasions since May 23, and another man, identified as Won, who had been in detention by Chinese security guards, arrived at the Incheon International Airport yesterday morning on a Korean Air flight from Bangkok, Thailand. But they'll be wooed back home by the promise of chicken. Once that chicken ranch is going, there'll be no stopping 'em...
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General Secretary Kim Jong Il on June 20 received a letter from the participants in the world conference on the cause of independence in the 21st century in Colombo. The conference was a conference of unity which fully demonstrated the iron will of the independent forces to build a new independent world under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, the letter said, and went on: Juche idea followers and progressive people believe that a new independent world will surely be built under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, a great man born of heaven, and the 21st century will be recorded forever as Kim Jong Il's century. Pretty big time, huh? Did you know about a world conference in Columbo? I'm hurt. Nobody invited me.
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Mongolia has agreed to the establishment of a camp for North Korean refugees on its soil if it can get financial assistance from abroad, a German doctor said. Norbert Vollertsen said that he would renovate a military base, which was used by soldiers of the former Soviet Union, to set up the camp to provide accommodation for up to 1,200 North Korean defectors. The German said that he has already secured some money to begin the renovation work. Vollertsen said that he would visit Mongolia in August for the project, for which he has consulted with the Mongolian government through a South Korean nongovernmental organization. I guess I'd rather be in Outer Mongolia than North Korea, too.
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Come to think of it, so would I. Mongolia's got real _history_. It's the stamping grounds of Genghis and Kublai Khan. These days, I understand it's even got some decent Internet connections. And I expect the Mongolians will have plenty of yak milk available for the refugees (just a teensy bit snarky, but I couldn't resist :) ).
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Ah, Ulan Bataar in the winter! The vistas of Ulan Udeh! The heart sings!
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All kidding aside, this is significant. Remember how East Germany fell? In part it was because Hungarian leaders decided that they would no longer detain East Germans trying to flee to the west via Budapest. Once the neighbors refused to help, the Ossies were doomed. So too in North Korea: Wonderous Leader depends on all his neighbors to the north and west to back him up on the defector issue. The Chinese are tacitly allowing some N.K.'s to slip out, and now Mongolia will allow refugees to stay. I don't care how backward N.K. is, word is still going to get back home. There could be plenty of N.K.s sneaking out to adore the vistas of Ulan Udeh, and that could hasten the end of Wonderous Leader's time on earth. I sure hope so.
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Unfortunately the Dear Leader is no Egon Krenz. If Dear Leader or Dear Leader, Jr. - he probably won't kick off for another 30 or 40 years unless his liver goes - does give up power it will be in the manner of Ceaucescu.
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The NWFP Jamiat Ulama-i-Islam (F) Deputy General Secretary, Mufti Kifayat Ullah, has said that there is no Al Qaeda network in the world. It's all a figment of our collective imagination. Don't believe them when they say they exist. Nothing they do has anything to do with them.
He said that Al Qaeda was just an imaginary tool in the hands of the West and US to blackmail Muslims and to justify their illegal operations against them, their Madaris, and Jihadi outfits. He said Al Qaeda was a label created by the US to declare the Muslims as terrorists. We only do it 'cuz we don't like them...
Talking about the tension on the India-Pakistan border he said that it was a conspiracy against Pakistan and that it had been created to justify military rule in the country. To a question about the Kashmir problem he said that it was a tripartite issue and should be resolved according to the resolutions of the UN. That's right. It's an evil conspiracy. It was hatched at a secret meeting in the fastnesses of Bilderberg on August 9th, 1959...
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No, no, no. It's the fault of the Council on Foreign Relations, or going back even further, J.P. Morgan, Colonel House, the Fabians and Max Warburg, who hatched the concept of al-Qaeda with the Rothschilds and the rest of their Illuminati buddies in between sessions where they plotted to get the United States into World War I and keep Taylor Caldwell in business for life writing trashy romantic novels.
By the way, did you know the CFR has its own website? I wouldn't like to be the guy who's assigned to answer their email...
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Three persons, including two Hizbul Mujahideen gunnies were waxed and a tough guy arrested in Jammu and Kashmir since Sunday night. The Hizbul Mujahideen militants, Nizam Din of Serhi village of Doda and his Pakistani accomplice Tufail, were iced in an encounter with police and security forces at Loom Butta in Poonch district.
A civilian, Mohammad Yousuf Malik succumbed to splinter injuries he had received in a grenade attack by incompetent crazed killers at Sangloo Bridge in Pulwama district on Sunday. Malik was among eight persons injured in the explosion aimed at a police party. Among the injured two were police personnel.
Security forces apprehended a thug from Chak Dangerpora in central Kashmir on Sunday. Three rifle grenades, a wireless set and some Nepalese currency were recovered from him.
Security forces recovered two wireless sets, two pistol magazines, seven rounds and a sticker of Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit during search operations in Banihal area of Doda on Sunday night.
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Five suspected Al Qaeda members are being interrogated by Pakistan intelligence experts, police said on Sunday. Two Arabic-speaking men, two Afghans and one Pakistani were arrested in an overnight swoop on the Afghan Support Committee(ASC) â a non-governmental organisation in Pabbi. A computer desk, CDs and files were seized and the suspects have been handed over to a joint civil and military interrogation team. The ASC is a Kuwait-based group reportedly set up by Osama bin Laden. Senior ASC official Hussein Halil, from Jordan, is still in custody after being arrested in Pabbi on suspicion of Al Qaeda links in the last week of May. The US government blocked the ASC's assets in January because it said it had "financed and facilitated terrorism," according to the state department website. Sounds like the logjam is at least temporarily broken. I'll bet those FBI guys are having fun right now...!
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Unknown assailants® fired two rockets at a remote northwest Pakistan base where US forces are believed to be staying. The rockets exploded late on Sunday just 50 metres from the headquarters of the paramilitary Tochi Scouts in the town of Mir Ali, near Miranshah on the Afghan border. "The rockets caused no loss of life or property," a local official said. Security forces also recovered two unexploded rockets from fields near Datta Khel, five kilometres from a vocational institute in Miranshah believed to house US Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. The timer-fitted rockets were aimed at the Miranshah building but security forces defused them before they went off. Yesterday's assault was the sixth rocket attack against the US presence around the tribal town since last month. There have been no casualties. The Pakistani government today denied a Pentagon report that 1,100 American troops are operating inside the country but said US intelligence and communications experts were advising local forces. I guess if we're going to have people firing rockets at us, it's best that they're too incompetent to actually hit anything.
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Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Husain Ahmed has warned that if people were not allowed to cast vote in the October elections according to their will, it would lead to civil war in the country. Who the hell suggested they won't be? Qazi and Fazl keep using term "civil war" while setting up strawmen of secularism and thumping them really hard.
Speaking at a news conference on Sunday, the JI chief alleged that the rulers were trying to postpone October elections to perpetuate their rule. "If the rulers continued to play in the hands of anti-democratic forces, there will be direct clashes between the people and the armed forces. This would be dangerous for the federation." According to him, the entire government machinery was being used for the character assassination of religious scholars and jihadi organizations. That's what we live for, beppy: character assassination of wild-eyed lunatic religious "scholars" and organizations made up of crazed killers. First ya gotta have a character for it to be assassinated.
He said that the imposition of graduation condition through promulgation of an ordinance was a clear violation of fundamental rights and an attempt to keep a vast majority of popular political leaders away from elections. "This is nothing but pre-polls rigging, an attempt to create chaos and pave the way for the postponement of October elections." I suppose in a devout nation with such a strong religious character, where fully half the population is illiterate, having a requirement that legislators have a minimum of education seems pretty outlandish.
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Reminder: until he was jailed from Nov 3, 2001 to Feb 27, 2002, for incitement of violence against US airmen in Pakistan, Qazi had a Pakistan diplomatic passport, and provided paid ($$$)consultation to the US State Dept at their Washington headquarters. (He stayed at the residence of the Ambassador of Pakistan to America, while soaking US taxpayers) Qazi also regularly attended US conventions of his American puppet wings, the Islamic Society (Jamaat) of North America and the Muslim Students Association. Check it out for yourself at the JI website: www.jamaat.org.
A pro-Pakistan terrorist group said on Monday that more than 20 militants had recently crossed into Kashmir from Pakistan occupied Kashmir. "In the recent days two dozen militants associated with Jamiat-ul-Mujahedin have reached different parts of Kashmir after completing their arms training in Azad Kashmir (PoK)," the deputy chief of the group, said. I'm not surprised that they're still trickling across, given that
General Iftikhar Khan, who commands a 75-kilometre length of the Line of Control... said his troops have never caught a single militant crossing to or from India.
I think both sides realize that Perv views his promise as temporary at most, non-existent if he can verbally contort his way out of it.
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President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said Islamabad will not accept the Line of Control dividing Kashmir between Pakistan and India as the international border. In an interview with the Washington Post, the president said accepting the LoC as a border or granting some sort of autonomy to Kashmir would not solve the problem. "If the Line of Control were the border, what have we fought two wars for?" he asked. Thought you guys were fighting for Kashmir self-determination? "Self-determination" doesn't include any options but joining Pakland, does it?
President Musharraf also said that Pakistan might boost its military capabilities, citing increases by India in defence spending. "If they tilt the conventional balance, we shall have to restore it." Better start doing some serious breeding to catch up, too...
President Musharraf said the United States was the only country which could persuade India to start a dialogue as "bilateralism has not worked." Normally we don't define "bilateralism" as carrying on a covert war against one's next-door neighbor.
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India on Monday warned Pakistan against going back on its promise of ending cross-border terrorism and infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir. "If Pakistan is reneging, we'll have to take a closer look at what needs to be done," the ministry of external affairs said. We'd assume they're doing exactly that right this moment...
The Indian reaction follows a virtual volte-face by Musharraf who, in the recently conducted interviews, denied that he had promised to permanently end infiltration. "I never said that. If I did say that, I didn't mean it. I meant... uh... something else."
"The promise by Musharraf has been conveyed to India by Secretary of State Colin Powell, Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld as well as Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage. There is no question of going back on the commitment," the spokesperson for the ministry of external affairs said. Go ahead. Cheese us off. Give us an excuse to dump your Islamic ass.
Reacting to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's interviews to Newsweek and the BBC, the spokesperson said, "Musharraf is indulging in occasional verbal callisthenics that cannot dilute the commitment that Pakistan has made to end infiltration across the LoC." It'll be interesting to watch him talk his way out of it without dislocating his back. My guess is that he'll let the matter drop for a month and then pick it up again and see if anybody remembers. Chances are only the Indos will.
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Two banned sectarian outfits, Sepha-e-Sehbha of Pakistan, (SSP) and its armed wing Lashkar-e-Jhanghvi, (LJ), have been identified to be behind several terrorist attacks across Pakistan, including the recent car bomb blast near the US consulate in Karachi. "Both SSP and LJ were involved in the recent chain of terrorist attacks, including the firing at Lahore International Airport, carnage of Christians at a Bahawalpur Church, bombing at Church in Islamabad, and bloody attacks on French Naval officers and US Consulate in Karachi," Pakistan daily The News quoting police officials said on Monday.
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Pakistani authorities working with the FBI have detained 45 Muslim militants for questioning about deadly car bombings at a U.S. Consulate and a Karachi hotel. The men were detained late Sunday in the eastern city of Lahore. They have not been charged in either attack. An official said the men belong to two banned Sunni Muslim groups â Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba. The detentions were based on leads from some of the 28 men â including several Arabs â rounded up last week as part of a crackdown on Islamic extremists and al-Qaeda members believed hiding in Pakistan.
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Maoist rebels have taken control of a large area of northwestern Nepal home to some 200,000 people, a report said Monday. "Taking advantage of the political turbulence in the country due to the rift in the ruling Nepali Congress, the Maoists went ahead and seized Jumla, Humla, Kalikote and Mugu districts of Karnali zone paralysing life there," the Nepali-language newspaper Samacharpatra reported. As well as fighting the increasingly violent Maoist rebellion, Nepal is in turmoil politically with the Prime Minister's decision to call early elections leading to a split in the ruling Nepali Congress party. Brilliant. Simply brilliant. From today's Nepal News:
'A two-day central committee meeting of the Nepali Congress faction led by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba ended Monday with a decision to hold party rallies at major urban centers beginning June 28 from Nepalgunj, the party said. The rallies will begin from Nepalgunj in far west Nepal, the base of a Maoist rebellion, and conclude in Kathmandu; the date for the Kathmandu rally was not announced.'
That should certainly take care of any rebellion, by golly.
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Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera said paramilitary police have uncovered a plan to raid Bologna's cathedral through intercepted telephone conversations between several Tunisians and Moroccans with links to a Libyan known as Amsa, considered one of Osama bin Laden's chief operatives in Europe. The targeted cathedral is dedicated to Bologna's patron saint, San Petronio. Its controversial fresco, painted in 1400 by Giovanni da Modena, shows Mohammed being set upon by demons. Being Muslims, they will miss no opportunity to engage in barbarism...
Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, the fresco has been condemned by some Muslims as offensive. Italy's Union of Muslims has asked for Mohammed's face to be wiped out. The Italians looked at them like they were crazy, and probably they are...
The plotters were said to be linked to Algeria's radical "Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat." Two months ago Amsa fled to Holland after realizing he was under investigation. He was arrested three weeks ago in London for possession of false identity papers. No right-thinkingMuslimwouldthink ofhavinggenuineidentitypapers...
From the taped conversations in Milan, the authorities also interpreted what they believed to be signs of plans to attack the U.S. embassy in Amsterdam. "Uh, Mahmud? Whattya wanna do tonight?"
"I dunno, Rashid. What do you want to do?"
"I dunno. Go to the movies?"
"We did that last week. Let's bomb an American embassy."
"Hokay."
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CNN's coverage of recent suicide bombings has provoked anger in Israel and led a local cable company to start carrying CNN's chief US competitor, Fox News Channel. Fox said it expects others to follow suit. Recent comments from CNN founder Ted Turner describing both Israel and the Palestinians as terrorists have fueled Israeli anger. Interviewed on Israel Television, Eason Jordan, CNN's president of newsgathering, said his company strives for fairness. Regardless of what Ted sez. Guess one man's fairness is another man's condescending partisanship...
''On occasion we make mistakes but that's not because there's any bias,'' he said. ''CNN is not pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli. We're fair, we're responsible in our reporting, we try to be as accurate as we possibly can be.'' "I'll admit we screw up regularly, though. Why once... No. You wouldn't want to hear about that. But we're nothing like Ted. Honest we're not."
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We're not fools. We just work for one or two... or three.
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The Palestinians and the Israelis are "terrorizing" each other? How could anyone be so incredibly deluded as to refrain from expressing homicidal rage on behalf of their preferred contender?
Missiles fired from Israeli helicopter gun ships hit two cars in the Gaza Strip Monday, killing at least six Palestinians and wounding several others. Combat helicopters fired on the cars in the southern Gaza Strip near Rafah. Hamas says senior members of its military wing were killed in the attack including Yasser Rezik, a militant wanted by the Jewish state for allegedly killing Israelis in the past and for planning future suicide attacks. Hamas officials are vowing revenge for the helicopter assault. So, what else is new? They get hangnails, they vow revenge. Isn't Hamas the Arab word for "guys who hop around rolling their eyes and firing their guns into the air swearing revenge at least once a week"?..
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If nothing should happen in Gaza some day, Hamas will vow revenge for that too.
This just in from ace Xinhua correspondent D.J.Wu:
Israeli tanks and troops have raided the West Bank city of Ramallah, surrounding the already battered headquarters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, imposing a curfew and taking control of strategic points in the city. Arafat is inside the compound. He was not hurt during the military operation.
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Fred: Did you hear how the closed the gate to the compound? They dumped a load of dirt and rocks in front of the gate! Mary Lu
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"I come to bury Yasser, not to praise him..."
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Palestinian police surrounded the Gaza City home of Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, and Palestinian authorities said he was under house arrest. However, Yassin invited journalists inside and said he was unaware of any such order. After brief scuffles between Hamas supporters and police, masked Hamas gunmen patrolled the sandy streets outside the house, while police pulled back several hundred yards. "Nobody messes with our spiritual leader, suckahs!" Of course, as long as they know he's home, why doesn't the IDF bring him a little package?
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President Bush urged the Palestinians Monday to replace Yasser Arafat and adopt "a practicing democracy" that could produce an independent state within three years. Finally came out and said it. I knew he would...
"Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a Palestinian state can be born," Bush said. In his long-anticipated speech, Bush said "reform must be more than cosmetic changes or a veiled attempt to preserve the status quo" if the Palestinians are to fulfill their aspirations for a state alongside Israel. Paleostinians? Obligations? Paleostinians have no obligations! Everyone else has obligations!
Elections should be held by the end of the year for a legislature with normal authority and there also must be a constitution, Bush said. If they even bother with that idea, it'll set the sonsofbitches arguing among themselves...
"When the Palestinian people have new leaders, new institutions and new security arrangements with their neighbors, the United States of America will support the creation of a Palestinian state, whose borders and certain aspects of its sovereignty will be provisional until resolved as part of a final settlement in the Middle East." Yeah, and after they put on clean underwear they'll feel much fresher and cleaner. This'll be the part the Bad Guys use to scuttle the whole thing. Take the worst interpretation of "provisional" and then stretch it even further...
Senior administration officials said they envision the Palestinians being able to reach provisional statehood within 18 months and full permanent statehood in as soon as three years. And the Bad Guys are determined that it'll be a chill day in the nether reaches of Gehenna...
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Three Sulu-based leaders of the Abu Sayyaf, led by Galib Andang, alias Commander Robot, want to surrender, a government negotiator confirmed yesterday. The lede is on the front page of the Manila Times â and the rest of the story comes up blank!
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As doubts spread on the reported death of Abu Sabaya, Philippine and American officials expressed conviction that the bandit leader was killed in a clash with government troops Friday. "I am convinced of Abu Sabaya's demise," Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes Reyes said in a carefully worded statement. Uh, oh... Sounds like famous last words...
"I'll bet my month's paycheck on that," Brigadier General Donald Wurster, the commander of American forces taking part in the Philippine-US "Balikatan" military exercises, told reporters. Hey, I could use some extra cash...
Commodore Ernesto de Leon, head of the Task Force Kingfisher naval team searching for Sabaya's body, challenged detractors to prove that Sabaya was still alive. "Bring him out," De Leon said. "I challenge the Abu Sayyaf Group to prove" the military wrong. The Straits Times of Singapore reported Monday that Sabaya had allegedly been sighted in Maluso town in the island province of Basilan and was "expected to give a statement in coming days." I'd like that in $10s and $20s, please...
Reyes said: "I have no reason to doubt the findings of our field units that established the fate of Abu Sabaya and his two other cohorts. I'm confident in the capability of our men and the way they did the operation. I challenge the Abu Sayyaf to prove us otherwise. They may develop an impostor, but we are sure we got Sabaya dead!" Put his head on a stake, then.
Major General Ernesto Carolina, chief of the Southern Command, presented as additional proof the testimony of Abbas Samson, the village head of Matinbog in Sibuco, who was arrested last week for allegedly harboring Sabaya and his men. "The barangay (village) captain who is now with us and who is facing charges testified that Sabaya waited in his house for the pumpboat, and he saw Sabaya board the pumpboat last June 21," Carolina said. Oh, of course. Yeah. Sure. I believe him...
Aside from Abbas' testimony, the military is banking on the statements of the four captured bandits and the reports made by the Special Warfare Group specialists and Marines who took part in the encounter. These "corroborate that Sabaya was in that pumpboat," Carolina said. If he's actually alive, he'll make a statement out of vanity â some sort of "nyah!" at the government and the Merkins. If he's sharkfood, he'll keep popping up, rubbing elbows with Princess Anastasia and Martin Bormann and Elvis and probably Judge Crater and Ambrose Bierce.
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Armed rebels killed five employees of a state plantation in Aceh and kidnapped eight others on Saturday. All victims of the violence were employees of state plantation PT Perkebunan Nusantara I in Langsa district, East Aceh. "The five were shot while working at an oil palm plantation in Blang Tualang village, Bireum Bayeum district, some 450 kilometers east of Banda Aceh," Operations Command spokesman Maj. (Inf.) Zaenal Muttaqin was quoted by Antara as saying. Zaenal indicated that Free Aceh Movement (GAM) armed rebels were behind the attack and the abduction. "After cold-bloodedly killing the five, the rebels abducted nine others but one of them, identified only as AZH, managed to escape and has taken refuge at a security post," Zaenal said.
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The reestablishment of the Iskandar Muda military command in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province has failed to bring about peace in the restive region. Aceh human rights campaigner Maimul Fidar said the existence of the military command had instead limited the space for civilian activities in the province. "There is no free space for civilians in Aceh like there was (before the military command was revived)," Fidar said on Saturday, while pointing to a seminar that was recently banned by the authorities in Aceh. Fidar, coordinator of the Human Rights Aid Institute in Aceh, added that there had been no sign of decreasing violence since the reinstatement of the military command.
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Nur Misuari has asked President Macapagal-Arroyo to allow him to attend the 29th Session of the Islamic Conference to be held in Khartoum, Republic of Sudan. In his three-page letter, Misuari told Mrs. Arroyo that he was invited by the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) as head of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). He claimed being asked to discuss the Special Meeting of the Ministerial Committee of the Eight, steps to undertake to resolve the conflict in Mindanao. The steps, he said, would include the âfull and effective implementation of the Peace Agreement of 1996 between the MNLF and the government.â
Misuari is in jail facing rebellion charges for his menâs attack on a Jolo army detachment last year. The MNLF founder told the President his group is willing to forge a political settlement to resolve the conflict in Mindanao. He claimed the letter of invitation sent to Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor Parouk Hussin is âeither a mistake or forgedâ because it did not come directly from the Office of the Secretariat of the OIC.
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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
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