A Islamist militant group has threatened to turn Iraq into a "hell" for Salvadorean troops if their government goes ahead with plans to send a new contingent, according to an Internet statement posted on Thursday. "If you send troops to Iraq we will not be merciful nor will we refrain from responding and your fate will be hell," said the group calling itself Islamic Tawhid. The authenticity of the statement could not be immediately verified. "We advise the people of El Salvador not to send their sons to Iraq as we only understand the language of rigged cars and blood. This is just one of several simple messages we have sent to countries that have sent troops to Iraq," it added.
At least one other Islamist group -- the Mohammed Atta Brigade, al Qaeda of Jihad -- has also threatened to attack El Salvador if the small Central American nation did not cancel plans to send soldiers to Iraq. But El Salvador has shrugged off the threat and said it would go ahead with its deployment. Last month, a group also calling itself Islamic Tawhid threatened to attack Muslim countries that send troops to Iraq in a statement posted on a Web site used by Islamists. In Thursday's statement, the group said it had earlier warned Australia, Italy and Denmark against keeping forces to Iraq.
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I envision a tactical strike on the Mohammed Atta Brigade launched from the USS Scott Beemer (CVN 90.)
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August 12, 2004: Even before September 11, 2001, FBI agents, and security officials from several other countries, have been searching for Islamic terrorists, or their supporters, in Ciudad del Este, a small Paraguayan town on the "Triple Frontier" (where the borders of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet.) The area, and especially the town of Ciudad del Este, has long been known as a center for smuggling, and all sorts of illegal activity. Many of the practitioners in the illegal trade are from Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt, or descended from Middle Eastern migrants. The Middle Eastern community in the area amounts to over 12,000 people. Not all of them are there legally. There is a brisk trade in false passports and other documents. Weapons, drugs, money laundering, human trafficking (for body organs and prostitution) cassette, CD and DVD piracy and consumer goods, are what keeps this place going. Oh, and lots of corruption.
Book your flight now, operators are standing by.
The FBI is finding that "law and order" has a different meaning here. Even before September 11, 2001, the area was known to be popular with Islamic terrorists. Iran even helped set up a branch of its Hizbollah terrorist organization in the area. But the corruption has, in a perverse way, helped. After September 11, 2001, Paraguayan police began arresting Middle Eastern merchants and accusing them of supporting terrorism. Some were guilty as charged, others were not. Payment of a large bribe was required to get released. Unfortunately, a large enough bribe can make the cops forget their Islamic prejudices and look the other way while Islamic terrorists do as they wish. While only a minority of the Moslems in the area are pro-terrorism, there is a reluctance within the Moslem community to informing on one of their own. Paraguay doesn't want to become a center for international terrorism, but it doesn't want to lose the economic benefits of Ciudad del Este, or the Moslem community that helps keep it going.
American Special Forces troops spend a lot of time in Paraguay "training." The FBI moves around openly, and it is assumed that the CIA is all over the place as well. Making the most of a bad situation, all these undercover cops are trying to develop an informer network within the Moslem community. No one is issuing press releases about how successful this has been. However, there have not been a lot of attacks, by Islamic terrorists, in South America in the past three years. So whatever is being done about Ciudad del Este, it's having some effect on terrorism.
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The French are just about at the end of their rope with regards to anti-Semitism in their precious Ripoublika Franska. In the face of ever rising levels of anti-Semitic violence they are doing the only thing they can do: blame America. French press Pravda (Le Monde, for those unfamiliar with NoPasaran's vocabulary)
is now reporting that the criminals responsible for the defacing of graves in Lyon are under the influence of US extremist web sites. With no shortage of anti-Semites of all stripes on French soil, and with steady influxes of anti-Semites from Germany, the best France can do is blame the States. Lame.
A SENIOR planner of the September 11 attacks said the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell was smaller than investigators believe, consisting only of him and three of the suicide pilots, a court was told today in the first public release of statements by suspects in US custody. In the eight-page US Justice Department summary of interrogations, accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed supports the contention that while the core cell members had violently anti-US discussions with other Muslims in Hamburg, they kept the plot to attack the US secret. However, the Justice Department cautioned that the interrogated captives may have wanted "to influence as well as inform" and that they may have withheld information or used "counterinterrogation techniques".
The Philippine government and Muslim separatist rebels plan to jointly inspect suspected training camps of the regional terrorist group Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) in the southern region of Mindanao, an official said on Thursday. Defense Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the inspection was part of efforts to gather more information on the presence and activities of JI in Mindanao, where the group was reported to betraining locals in terror operations. He said the ceasefire committees of the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) were planning a joint trip to Mount Kararao, a suspected lair of JI on the boundary of Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao provinces.
JI, considered as the regional arm of al-Qaeda, has been held responsible for the worst terror attacks in Southeast Asia, including the October 2002 bombings that killed more than 200 people on the popular Indonesian resort island of Bali. Ermita said the proposed inspection of Kararao also aims to determine if the MILF has really taken steps to flush out JI militants from the area amid intelligence reports that some of its commanders were coddling the terrorists. "We have not been able to penetrate the area and JI has taken advantage of that situation," he told a forum with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines. "What we are doing now is intensifying our intelligence gathering."
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The Al Mukmin Muslim boarding school in Ngruki is striving to improve its image, battered by a series of terrorist activities in the country. One attempt at transforming the image of the school, which is led by jailed Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, was to hold a seminar titled, "Islam, Sharia and Challenges of Globalization", on Thursday. The organizing committee of the event invited representatives not only of Muslim organizations and institutions, but also others associated with non-Muslims, as well as Jakarta-based diplomats from a number of countries. School director Wahyuddin expressed satisfaction at the enthusiasm and willingness of the invitees, especially the non-Muslims and representatives from foreign embassies, in attending the seminar. "Everybody should know that sharia, which we fully back, constitutes an alternative for the existing secular system. The latter has failed to lead the country to better times," Wahyuddin said.
"... while the former has failed to lead any country to any times..."
"There should no longer be any fear that discussion on shariain Indonesia amounts to an intention to change the structure of the state. They are two completely different things," he said.
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Australia had made itself a terrorist target by joining the war on Iraq, Iranian nuclear chief Hassan Rowhani said. Visiting Australia for talks with Prime Minister John Howard and other senior government figures, Mr Rowhani said all groups involved in the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq were more at risk of terror attacks. "All the groups that now are involving in terrorist acts in Iraq seem to take all the groups that are participating and helping with the occupying forces as the targets of the attacks," Mr Rowhani, the secretary of Iran's National Security Council, told reporters when asked if Australia was more at risk since the war. "Al-Qaeda have declared all the countries that are participating in the Iraqi occupation as their targets."
In Canberra to lobby for Tehran to be allowed to continue its nuclear program, Mr Rowhani said Iran tested a ballistic missile also for electricity generation to strengthen its defence in the face of threats by Israel. He said his country's nuclear program was aimed solely at generating electricity and not at building nuclear weapons. Tehran has tested a Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile and defence experts said the weapon could reach Israel or US bases in the Gulf. "Iran has been threatened by some Israeli officials. It's very natural that when our country is being threatened by a foreign country we have to prepare ourselves," he said. "But Iran is totally opposed to weapons of mass destruction. The accusations and allegations raised by some of the countries against the Islamic Republic of Iran - all of them are totally baseless and unfounded." He said Iran did not feel threatened by the United States. "I think the experience of Iraq would be sufficient for the Americans for years to come not to think of invasion against any other country," he said.
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Tehran has tested a Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile ....(which) could reach Israel or US bases in the Gulf. Is that with a nuclear warhead er, generator on top?
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Australia should call on its good friend Crocodile Bushee to respond, "That's not a nuclear warhead. THIS is a nuclear warhead. Where would you like it delivered?"
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Time to start spinning the Black Turbines Turbans. They are staking everything on the fact that this is an election year, and the US is perceived as divided and impotent, WRT Iran, so they are pulling out the stops. Belligerent talk. Going ahead with Nukes, centrifuges, Bushehr. Sending men, materiel, and funds to destabilize Iraq. They are in deep, going for broke. They need to have the shoring kicked out from underneath them in key places.
Remember, anything an Islamist says that is a lie is OK as long as it is said to an infidelâ¢. Same applies to an apostate, and that is a person that is classified by the Black Turbans. In short, the BT's are full of sh*t, but they are very dangerous and need to be neutralized.
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they act like they are just wiping us out in iraq. i say we just nuke the whole damn lot of them then take their oil.too me sounds like their mouth writes checks their ass can't cash
In yet another clear violation of the human rights of the Baha'is of Iran, nearly 1,000 Baha'i university-age students in Iran have been told they must accept identification as Muslims in order to enter university this year, the Baha'i International Community has learned. Representatives of the Baha'i International Community heard yesterday about the action, which involves pre-printing the word "Islam" in a slot listing a prospective student's religious affiliation on national college entrance examination results, which were distributed to students recently. The move comes after Baha'i students were led to believe, through Government pronouncements in the news media and private assurances, that their religion would not be an issue on university entrance forms this year in Iran. "The Iranian Government is, in effect, attempting to force Baha'i youth to recant their faith if they want to go to university," said Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations. "This action goes against all the assurances that Iran has been giving the international community about its desire to respect religious freedom, and, indeed, against international covenants on human rights to which Iran is a party," said Ms. Dugal.
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Amnesty International is seriously concerned to learn of the deaths of two Syrian Kurds in one week, both reportedly following torture and ill-treatment in detention by the security forces. The deaths fit into a pattern of torture and ill-treatment of detainees in Syria's prisons and detention centres. Ahmad Ma'mu Kenjo, a 37-year-old father of three, is reported to have died on 3 August from a brain haemorrhage resulting from severe head injuries received in a beating by a security patrol in Ras al-'Ayn, north-eastern Syria, in late March, and by further beatings to the head sustained while detained incommunicado at an unknown location during April and May. The initial head wound - reportedly perpetrated by officers of Military Intelligence (al-Mukhabarat al-'Askariya) or of Political Security (al-Amn al-Siyassi) - was said to have caused severe head pains and serious brain damage - as a result of which he was released. He died at home. It is believed that Ahmad Ma'mu Kenjo was never charged with an offence; however, his brother Husayn Kenjo is currently held in 'Adra Prison, near Damascus, on charges connected to his alleged involvement in the Qamishli events in mid-March.
On 1 or 2 August, Ahmad Husayn Hasan (named in some reports as Ahmad Husayn Husayn) reportedly died in custody at the Military Intelligence Branch in al-Hasaka, also in north-eastern Syria, having been detained incommunicado since his arrest on 13 July. Ahmad Husayn Hasan, a father of four, was from al-Malikiye (known as Deyrek in Kurdish) near the borders with Iraq and Turkey, and is believed to have died due to torture. Military Intelligence officers told Ahmad Husayn Hasan's family that his body was buried at Tel Ma'teb cemetery, without allowing anyone to see the body or to have a post-mortem conducted. It is believed that Ahmad Husayn Hasan was never charged with an offence. He was reportedly a sympathiser of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, on organisation closely linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The above cases fit in with a consistent pattern of torture and ill-treatment of detainees by the Syrian security forces, and reports of increasing ill-treatment of Kurdish detainees, including children, since March. In 2004 alone, Amnesty International has received information on the deaths in custody of eight Syrians, of whom five were Syrian Kurds. No investigation is known to have been carried out into the deaths. Amnesty International calls on the Syrian authorities to establish an independent and impartial investigation into the deaths of Ahmad Ma'mu Kenjo and Ahmad Husayn Hasan, and into all recent deaths in custody in accordance with international standards. Amnesty International also calls upon the authorities to prosecute anyone found responsible for torture and ill-treatment, and to compensate the families of those who died as a result of torture and ill-treatment.
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An official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has admitted to providing assistance to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to conduct attacks in Iraq, Asharq al-Awsat reported, citing an unidentified Iranian official. Brigadier General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the al-Quds corps in the revolutionary guard, confessed in a seminar to helping Zarqawi carry out suicide attacks to serve the interests of the Islamic Republic, the London-based Saudi newspaper reported, citing an Iranian official who was at the meeting.
Zarqawi and as many as 20 members of his Ansar al-Islam group can enter Iran whenever they want through certain border points that stretch between Halabja in northern Iraq to Ilam in the south, Suleimani said, according to the paper. Zarqawi went to Iran a few months ago where he spent some time in an Iranian revolutionary guard training camp in the area of Mehran near the border with Iraq and later returned to Baqubah, north of Baghdad, the paper said.
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It appears that the Black Turbans are using heavy equipment to dig that hole for themselves.
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About all that's left is for Iran to pull the dirt back in on top of themselves.
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It is interesting to see that this general believes that having a surrogate obliterate innocent Iraqis will make the new regime in Iraq more sympathetic to Iran than to the US. There is a percentage chance that he is correct.
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I've been telling Rantburg this for months: The IRG is behind almost all of this crap. And its pissing off the Iranian "Regular" Army (sort of an SS versus Wehrmacht thing). The professional soldiers in Iran are starting to get fed up with amateur crap like this - once word spreads that the Mullas and thier attack dogs in the IRG are tryign to start a war wiht Iraq and are bakcing boomers, the middle class in Iran will push even harder.
This will only add to the internal stresses in Iran.
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Carpet bomb the headquarters of the fools.
This stupid moron just signed his death warrant. Now we can be fairly certain of where many of the AQ types in Iran are holed up and with whom.
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Sure as hell sounds like an act of war to me...
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londonistan paper quotes an anonymous official who heard the general say this at a seminar.
I beleive it, as it fits well with other intell, but a smoking gun this aint. Faster please, yes, but we need more evidence to make this work diplomatically.
Al Qaeda has turned the Internet into a virtual classroom for its supporters around the world after U.S. troops drove Osama bin Laden's followers from training bases in Afghanistan, security experts say. The Internet played a key role in al Qaeda's planning and coordinating for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on U.S. landmarks. In the years since, the Web has taken on an even greater role in recruiting, spreading fear and propaganda, and executing attacks, according to the security experts. "The Internet is even more dangerous than it was in the past," said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, in a telephone interview from Washington.
"Whatever you had in Afghanistan in the training camps, you have today on the Internet," said Katz, whose nonprofit organization tracks militant Islamic sites and counts the U.S. government and major U.S. corporations among its clients. "Some of the manuals (posted on the Web) are the actual manuals from Afghanistan ... some written by Saif al-Adel, one of the most wanted military commanders of (Al Qaeda) who has not been captured. He's on the FBI most-wanted list," she said. A recent posting detailed how to use a mobile phone in a bomb attack, a method used to kill 191 people in March in coordinated blasts on Madrid commuter trains. "It was step-by-step, and to make sure you get the picture they had a video to demonstrate it. It's scary," Katz said.
A month before a wave of kidnappings in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, she said, manuals appeared on Jihad Web sites with precise instructions on how to seize hostages. One was posted by Abu Hajer, who later kidnapped U.S. engineer Paul Johnson and assassinated him, she said. "I was asking myself, 'Why are we getting so many warnings?' Maybe the answer is that this way they communicate with other members, saying look, this is our agenda."
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Remember "The Anarchist Cookbook", by person or persons unknown? Well, mysteriously, in the later editions, many chemical names were replaced with their German equivalents.
Guess what happens if you call up a chemical supply warehouse and ask for a large amount of certain chemicals using their German names?
Also, several of the recipes don't quite give you what you are hoping for--or do, just a lot sooner than you would like.
The Internet is like a library. There are lots of good books in it, and a lot of poorly written pulp. You have to take the good with the bad.
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goddamit! speking internet my goddamer boss is tell us today they are look at all places we are visit this wek and he is say rantburg inaproepriat. he is not mention any other blogs im visit just rantburg. this is goddam piss me off!
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bar the main problem was new peples they are hire kep playing yahoo games. so im can understand that. he is just want us lay low while on usage and isnt mind what we are do on free time. what ima not like is he is single out rantburg as an inapropate web site to visit. he isnt mention rest. that what is piss me off!
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If Al Qaeda relies so much on internet information I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA and the Mossad ran a few websites with bomb recipes in Arabic... with little errors...
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Editing your settings won't do jack if the network has a proxy that tracks usage.
Of course, often the "inappropriate" site lists are random or oddly skewed. For example, my current client blocks Daniel Pipe's site and a site called fxhome.com, which is the home site of a small video-effects software company.
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yep - most IT staff has the ability to completely track usage. I'm constantly using unattended fellow worker's computers to keep my RB usage below the "high stakeout" level LOL
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Mucks, tell boss no:1 to take favourite MSM rag, roll it up, light it and put it up his arse.
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Mucky, be sure to remember "arse." Ass is only if he has a favourite quadroped, and the results would certainly not be appropriate for the office ;-)
An Islamist website said Thursday that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden or his number two was due to release an audiotape to declare an end to the truce he offered to Europe if it pulled troops out of Iraq. "Expect an audio message from Sheikh Osama bin Laden or Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri," said a statement on the Minbar Ahl al-Sunna wal Jamaa website, which has repeatedly posted terror-related news and videos by various shadowy groups. "To all Muslims: expect an audio message from Sheikh Osama bin Laden on one of the satellite channels during which he will announce the end of the truce that he has given to the Europeans for a pullout from Iraq," it said.
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What FNUCKING truce?
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"In the name of Allah the merciful...My fellow Muslims...I hereby announce the end of the tru...OMG what's that noise (SWOOSH CRASH BANG gurgle silence)..."
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#1.OBL magnanimously arrogantly offered European Nations a 3 month truce on April 15,2004 provided they pull out of all Muslim countrys. Some where along the way OBL must have added a one month extension or perhaps it's just that calendars are sparse in the Iranian/Pakistanian caves.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to extend the world body's beleaguered Iraq mission, which is trying to thwarthelp the country establish a democratic government at a time of heightened violence and insecurity. But whether the United Nations will be able to play the leading role the council envisions remains to be seen, because Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he is sending only a small U.N. team back to Baghdad as a result of the difficult security situation. "We only deal with thugocracies thatkil people other than U. N. employees and who have the good taste to do so out of camera range," said Annan.
Annan pulled the world body's international staff out of Iraq in October after two bombings at U.N. headquarters in Baghdad and a spate of attacks against humanitarian workers proved the U. N. should have relied on the U. S. for security services instead of third world thugs who had never face an enemy with guns before. - and he said last week the United Nations will remain "a high-value, high-impact target for attack in Iraq unlike American troops" for the foreseeable future.
The meaningless Security Council resolution adopted Thursday by a 15-0 vote reaffirms "that the United Nations should play any leading role in assisting the Iraqi people and government in the formation of institutions for representative government." It gives the United Nations another year to assist Iraq through elections, the drafting of a new constitution, and its reconstruction.
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WHAT commitment?
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Hmmm, I didn't poke around the site far enough to get the target audience, but is this taqqiyah (sp?), delusion, denial, or simple moonbattery? Enquiring minds want to know.
And shouldn't that be mullahing around some shia site?
...US Marines-Iraqi National Guards cordons thrown up around Shiite city - one external, second enclosing Old City where fighting rages around Imam Ali Mosque... A "double cordon" is called a "contravallation" and was first used by Julius Caesar. It serves a double purpose. It both prevents a breakout in force from the besieged area, but more importantly, it prevents a break-in from outsiders trying to relieve the siege. If you recall, the "siege" of Fallujah was partially broken with convoys of supplies and fighters coming in from outside. The Marines aren't going to let *that* happen again.
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keep multiple cameras on that shrine - if he blows it, we'll wanna saturate the air with that tape!
"Wudn't us!"
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Let's see,now, 2000 martyrs times 72 virgins each equals 144,000 = one very busy day in Paradise. Some of these guys may have to settle for a box of Sunkist.
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"Gimme me that ol' time warfare
"Gimme that ol' time warfare
"Gimme that ol' time warfare
"Its good enuf fer me
"It was good enuf fer Caesar
"It was good enuf fer Caesar
"It was good enuf fer Caesar and its good enuf fer me!"
Editting out what we already know ...
Until recently, Charles Taylor's direct links with the notorious al-Qaeda terrorist movement was considered part of international conspiracy to discredit and topple his government. Taylor himself alluded to such scheme and did not only call for proof from his accusers but also proffered to help the Bush administration bring al-Qaeda suspects to justice.
"Top al-Qaeda terrorists were sheltered by former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor while he built up a war chest from trading in diamonds," UN prosecutors in Sierra Leone claimed in a recent report that is yet to be released. The report said al-Qaeda paid Taylor for protection and lived under his shield for more than five years, at a military camp near the border with Sierra Leone, in government-run hotels in the capital of Monrovia and at one of Taylor's residences in Congo town. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, one al-Qaeda operative who hitherto had a US$25 million bounty on his head and only recently arrested in Pakistan, according to the report, was hidden out in Liberian military camps from late 1998 until shortly before Taylor was forced to step down.
The Associated Press, in a dispatch Tuesday this week, quoted a "confidential report" by UN-backed prosecutors in Sierra Leone as saying that a series of witnesses placed six top al-Qaeda fugitives in Africa buying up diamonds before the September 11 attacks on the United States. It said during al-Qaeda's operations in Liberia, millions of United States dollars were laundered in terror funds before launching its deadliest offensive that rocked the heart of America's security citadel - the Pentagon. "Al-Qaeda figures, including those already wanted in pre-September 11 attacks on U.S. targets, dealt directly with Liberia's former President Charles Taylor and other leaders and warlords in what was then a rogue West African nation from 1999 onwards, according to witness accounts of meetings and sightings in the blighted Liberian capital's seedy hotels and safe-houses," the AP dispatch said. "Witnesses say Liberia's former President Taylor himself gave al-Qaeda operatives entry to the shady West African world of guns, cash and diamonds before September 11, according to the dossier," the AP dispatch noted.
It said having paid for protection, ex-president Taylor allegedly brought rebels, state leaders and Islamic extremists under the common goal of cash and introduced them to rebels controlling fine-gem mining next door, in diamond-rich Sierra Leone, it quoted sources as telling investigators. The dispatch however noted that those that were making the link between Taylor and al-Qaeda charged that the US government had turned its back on the case in part over discomfort over the CIA's own alleged Cold War-era links to Taylor.
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Taylor was ousted because we refused to make his ouster an American priority... making it OK for everyone else to admit he was bad.
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Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr's group has called on Arab governments to intervene and work out a ceasefire in Najaf immediately.
Is this sequence on tape or something?
Abd al-Hadi al-Darraji, official spokesman of al-Sadr in Baghdad, told Aljazeera in an interview on Thursday that the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf was surrounded by US occupation troops. Najaf is cut off completely and under heavy bombardment, al-Darraji said. "A shell was fired at the main entrance of the Imam Ali shrine indicating they have surrounded it," he said. "I call on the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) to save the day issue a fatwa preventing the the US occupation from entering the shrine," he said. Muslims must also condemn this "criminal acts", the spokesman said. "The entire Arab and Islamic world should refuse this tyranny. They should try to work out a ceasefire immediately," al-Darraji added.
"Otherwise we're toast!"
Al-Darraji warned that if US occupation forces entered the Imam Ali shrine or tried to capture Muqtada al-Sadr, there will be bloodshed all over the country. "We will not stay silent. We will liberate Iraq fighting under al-Sadr," he said. "I warn the US occupation forces if they approach Imam Ali shrine, Baghdad and all governorates will carry out operations to eliminate these forces."
Been there, done that. That's how you got the occupation forces, remember? Dumbass.
"Chaos and unrest will spread all over Iraq. Attacking the shrine is similar to attacking the Shia themselves, and they will take revenge," he added. Al-Darraji said the government and the US forces were responsible for the safety of civilian families in Najaf.
"It's not like we can be expected to take control of anything ourselves..."
Commenting on the resignation of Najaf's deputy governor, al-Darraji described it as a positive action to condemn the US occupation operations targeting not only al-Sadr movement but also the holy shrine. "Any official, who has honour and pride, should resign and quit rather than abide by the demands of the occupation forces," he added. Al-Darraji said the absence of religious authorities enabled the US occupation forces to repress the al-Sadr movement and attack the Muslim holy shrines. "Their absence has played a major role in the US raid of Najaf and the attack against Imam Ali shrine," he said. "I call on all religious scholars to issue clear statements and fatwas condemning the US raid of the city, in order to prevent bloodsheds in Najaf and other Iraqi cities," he added.
"And to save our... ummm... bacon."
Al-Darraji said he believed that the current events form a historical turning point for the al-Sadr movement. "It is a revolution against corruption. It is an honour for al-Sadr movement," al-Darraji said. The interim government wants to totally destroy al-Sadr movement, proving it only seeks to achieve its own targets and serve its own interests, he said. "We will continue fighting until the last drop of our blood, until the occupation forces pull out of the country dragging their tails behind them," al-Darraji said. "Our blood will pave the way for those who will liberate Iraq and protect the holy shrines and for those who have refused to disgrace themselves through collaborating with the occupation forces," he added. Commenting on talks to halt fighting, al-Darraji said that all these talks lacked seriousness. "They (negotiators) are all doing nothing but watching us," he said.
"... while we're getting bumped off right and left!"
"If they really want to do something other than talking, they should head towards Najaf and stop the gunfire. Otherwise, there will be a disaster in Najaf and the whole of Iraq," he added.
"I mean, we're really getting waxed here! A little help would be appreciated, y'know!"
Meanwhile, AFP news agency said Iraq's National Security Advisor Muwafaq al-Rubaie was in Najaf to inspect the rubble meet al-Sadr amid a local initiative to stop the US-led assault on the city. Earlier Shaikh Fayed al-Shamari, head of Najaf's provincial council, said he was working on an initiative to end the fighting. Najaf's governor Adnan al-Zorfi confirmed the initiative and said the council was awaiting the response of al-Sadr's office but stressed his fighters must leave the city without preconditions.
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Sounds like a good sign. Wonder if Tater has any particular countries in mind. At least all he's asking them to do is talk. If he thinks they'll take action he is sure to be disappointed.
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He's appealing on Al Jazeera for Arabs to come and fight for his effort to turn Iraq into an Iranian colony?
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SADR: "I don't want to die!!! WAAAAHHHHH!!! Somebody save me."
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Well, he should look at the bright side... if he spills that last blood drop, he shouldn't have to worry about going to the dentist for a bazillion root canals, extractions and some hardcore evil tooth cleaning (if he has any left after that). I'd think the only gas they have over there is some poison gas, no happy gas... much less some novacaine.
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Fox had UAV video of two hard boyz firing a mortar from the Ali shrine yard... think Al-Jizz will show that?
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Sounds like we got the rat cornered. It's awesome that he sees it coming and it's inevitability. Make him suffer and make him and example... even better would be if we capture him, the iraqis put him on trial and then execute him.
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Frank - I saw that too and thought, awright, gonna see Predator some output... then the perspective didn't change - or at least that was my memory a few minutes later when it hit me. I think that was a chopper, consequently. Not sure, of course, but...
BTW, here's a pic I uploaded of Tater from better days when he thinks his ass is covered... [also on another thread, but for those who miss it there...] It's funny enough to keep, heh.
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have you seen the pictures of these so called hard boyz firring mortars? i saw one where the guy pulled back so far that the mortar was launched almost parallel to the ground..lololol...
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Any word on those two boys from UK? Are they defiant or running like scared rabbits to the nearest UK Consulate? Whats a matter tater a little too hot for you? mmmm mashed taters!
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News of the Najaf offensive against Al-Sadr on the same day that the New Jersey Governor came out on the radio gave me an idea-you know, we really need a Daily Globe or Star-like rag covering Middle Eastern celebs... a really raunchy rag covering all the scandals of these god-pretending Muslims in the WoT. Wouldn't that be some fun?
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Jules, you mean we should sic the paparazzi on Sadr and his kinfolk? "Sadsack's Alien Love Child"
I thought JFK wanted us to fight a more "sensitive" war.
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Tater should be offed for his whining alone...!
The authorities in Mauritania yesterday detained the leader of an Islamic opposition over suspicion of being involved in the coup attempt which Nouakchott said that opposition Islamists and army officers were planning for. The authorities linked between the planners of the coup and the threats made by one of the "Islamists" groups in one of its sites on the Internet on July 29 to Nouakchott because of its relations with Israel. In its statement on the Internet, the group which called itself " the Jihad - Tawhid group, Omar al-Mukhtar groups " said " we will attack with an iron fist all hireling Arab governments which deal with the Zionists in open or in secret."
The statement in particular mentioned Libya and Mauritania and threatened to attack the government in Mauritania which it said it meets " with Zionists in front of TV cameras." The defense minister in Mauritanian, Baba Weld Seidi, told journalists that there is a link between this threat which he said that the presumed leader in al-Qaida organization Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is behind and the coup plan, in addition to the formation of a new opposition front abroad. The police in Nouakchott yesterday detained the Islamic opposition member Muhammad Jamil Weld Mansour before his release and broke into his house over suspicion of his involvement in the coup attempt.
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give us ur gold or else
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But Shep...we don't want their oil or gold.
We're after their Lucky Charms.(tm)
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"We were small men with burning feet and hairy faces."
And they came from strange places with names like Smegma, Spasmodic, and the far flung Isles of Langerhans. And we took unto them, and they took unto us. And what did we take?
[chant] Oil from Canada! Gold from Mexico! Geese from the neighbor's back yard! Boom, boom! Corn from the Indians! Tobacco from the Indians! Dakota from the Indians! New Jersey from the Indians! New Hampshire from the Indians! New England from the Indians! New Delhi from the Indians! . . . INDONESIA FOR THE INDONESIANS!
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Zenster, wasn't part of that from Firesign Theatre?
Absolutely, Alaska Paul, in fact, all of the quote is. It's from "How Can You be in Two Places at Once when You're not Anywhere at All?" Their erudite and rapid-fire brand of comedy permanently warped shaped my own sense of humor.
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Yes, Zenster, it has permanently twisted influenced my thinking, too. Just read my posts, heh heh.
Needless to say (then why say it?), seeing them perform live on two different occasions didn't help things either. To continue ...
And in 1939 Chester Allen Arthur climbed to the top of his bedroom wall, thrust his defiance at the Javanese and shouted, "Give me them, or I'm going over there!"
But in 1943 the shrouded spectre of doom raised its head in agony over Germany;
"Das ist immer alles un aulung rauschmit neimenstinzt, ein potzen Volkswagen und schwell pizza!" [/AH]
Speaking of ""Don't crush that Dwarf, hand me the pliers."
George Tirebiter: Boy, defoliating a victory garden sure works up an appetite!
Porgy Tirebiter: Hi Mom! Bombs away Dad! Oh boy, groatcakes again, heavy on the 30 weight!
George Tirebiter: Don't eat with your hands son, use your entrenching tool!
Porgy Tirebiter: Aw come'on Dad, it's not every day a boy graduates from high school!
George Tirebiter: How many times have I heard that before!
Ethel Tirebiter: My, my ... just look at the time. I'm going to be late for my bridge club!
Porgy Tirebiter: Gee Mom, isn't that bridge built yet?
George Tirebiter: No son [smack!], and it won't be [whap], until free hands [biff!] on both sides of the big ditch can press the same button at the same time! [thwap!] ...
Six persons are awaiting amputation of their hands in Zaria, having been convicted by an upper sharia court in Tudun Wada, Zaria, Kaduna State. President of Civil Rights Congress (CRC), Malam Shehu Sanni, who disclosed this in Kaduna yesterday said the convicts had been detained at the Zaria Prisons for one year, after conviction. According to Sanni, "the convicts were tried and sentenced in one day. "The convicts revealed that they were not given the right and opportunity to engage the services of legal counsels and were deceived by the prosecution counsel to plead guilty so as to be gven reprieve. "They have for over one year, remained in Zaria Prisons, a period long enough for them to have served prison terms. "In a country with glaring evidence of persuasive corruption and impunity at all tiers of government, it is morally unjustifiable to amputate the hands of these impoverished people for petty theft, in the name of puritanism. "We challenge state governments implementing sharia legal code, especially in the north, to come out with purposeful and meaningful projects and policies that will free our people from abject poverty and misery, Sharia law is not practicable or enforceable in a society deeply stagnated in shackles of penury and soulless poverty," he said. Sanni said the CRC and other civil society groups in the north were set to challenge the judgment of the upper sharia court. As he puts it, "we will not in any way condone violation of fundamental and constitutional rights of citizens or the sanctioning of the poor through repressive kangaroo trials which negate the basic principles and ethics of fairness, objectivity and justice."
Iraq's delayed national conference to select an interim national assembly will convene Sunday, Minister of State Qassim Dawoud announced Thursday. The conference, considered a crucial step in the country's move toward democracy, was to have been held in late July, but was delayed to allow more time for preparations - a postponement encouraged by the United Nations. Key political groups had said last month that they would boycott the conference, some areas of the country complained they hadn't been given enough time to agree on delegates, and officials expressed worries the gathering would be a target for terror attacks. U.N. officials hoped to persuade resistant factions to attend, but it wasn't immediately clear if they had changed any minds. "We invite everyone to take part in the political process," Dawoud told reporters.
"Even villianous scum are welcome to take part!" he added.
The conference, made up of 1,000 delegates from Iraq's 18 provinces as well as tribal, religious and political leaders, is intended to help choose a 100-member national assembly that will counterbalance the interim govenment. The assembly will have the power to approve the national budget, veto executive orders with a two-thirds majority and appoint replacements to the Cabinet in the event a minister dies or resigns. The meeting is scheduled to last three eventful, violence-wracked days.
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I have a question about offensive Jihad. Does it mean that we are to attack even those non-Muslims which don't do anything against Islam just because we have to propagate Islam?
You should understand that we as Muslims firmly believe that the person who doesn't believe in Allah as he is required to, is a disbeliever who would be doomed to Hell eternally. Thus one of the primary responsibilities of the Muslim ruler is to spread Islam throughout the world, thus saving people from eternal damnation.
Thus what is meant by the passage in Tafsir Uthmani, is that if a country doesn't allow the propagation of Islam to its inhabitants in a suitable manner or creates hindrances to this, then the Muslim ruler would be justifying in waging Jihad against this country, so that the message of Islam can reach its inhabitants, thus saving them from the Fire of Jahannum. If the Kuffaar allow us to spread Islam peacefully, then we would not wage Jihad against them.
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In light of the UN telling Israel to remove their protective barrier, this is a perfectly fitting slap in the face for Kofi and the Euros*. "Sorry guys, we're more comfortable with people who openly avow our obliteration."
*I would also like to point out that "Kofi and the Euros" would make a great band name.
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In this war, the most important theater will be Pakistan . . . it has acted in recent decades as the world headquarters of the coming "Islamic Revolution"
And you thought the Cold War was long.
The recent arrest of two top Pakistani jihadis, Maulana Fazalur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Akhtar, marks the beginning of the end of an era that started in the mid-1980s when the dream of an International Muslim Brigade was first conceived by a group of top Pakistan leaders. The dream subsequently materialized in the shape of the International Islamic Front, an umbrella organization for militant groups formed by Osama bin Laden in 1998 and loosely coordinated by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) of Pakistan.
LeT is an organization the U.S. doesn't seem to be paying nearly enough attention to...
The arrests in Pakistan, made under relentless pressure from the United States, are aimed at tracing all jihadi links to their roots, which are mostly grounded in Pakistan's strategic core. As a former Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operator and air force official, Khalid Khawaja, commented in the Pakistani press on the arrests of the two jihadis, "Every link of the arrested jihadi leaders goes straight to top army officials of different times."
Hmmm... Surprise meter didn't budge...
At one level the arrests are linked to conspiracies against the government - including assassination attempts on President General Pervez Musharraf - and the recruitment of jihadis to fight against US troops in Afghanistan, but the real motives are much more far-reaching. The present problems in the "war on terror" are linked to the labyrinth of groups developed during the decade-long Afghan resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sponsored much of the jihadi movement, using the ISI as a front and a conduit. ... This modus operandi exposed a serious flaw in US strategic thinking. By not dealing directly with the Afghan groups, the US had no control over which ones benefited, and invariably only those factions that were both anti-Western capitalism and anti-Soviet socialism were cultivated by the ISI.
That was how Hekmatyar managed to achieve so much prominence...
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Wow! This is must reading for all Rantburgers. It details the involvement of the ISI and Pak army behind the jihadis. If what the article says about the CIA having been clueless (about the islamist movement in general) is true, then a clean sweeping for any remnant idiots need to be done in Langley.
(PS good to see you posting more Fred. Server demons tamed?)
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Server demons still awakening without warning. But I'm ahead of schedule at work, so I'm doing maintenance and debugging for the rest of the week.
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Great article, I've always though the entire Global Jihad project was basically a Saudi/Pakistani project simply redirected from Soviet Afghanistan, by the Princes and Generals, to other fields of battle like Kashmir, Philipines, Chechnya etc.
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Paul, I agree. It's taken me a while to figure out (needed a BIG clue-bat whacking), but it seems pretty obvious now. What two countries supported the Taliban? What two countries are the biggest sources of money, idealogy, and manpower for the jihadis? F*cking DUH! Now the question is, what are we going to do about it (other than "diplomatic pressure")?
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Perhaps the title might better read `Foreign' Muslims Face Persecution in Ivory Coast. (I put scare quotes because their citizenship is a disputed issue.)
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..and I care, why?
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Because you want to know if this "extra police attention" is a religious conflict or is simply a dispute over whether people from a different country and tribe are citizens. During the boom times nobody cared too much about the exact status of the immigrants, and I understand some of these foreigners are second generation residents by now.
Of course the imams can turn anything into a religious conflict, but this conflict didn't start out as a Muslim vs X.
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Obviously, there are some disconnects between the Interim Govt and the Iraqi Judiciary...
"The announcement came a day after Chalabi returned to Iraq from Iran to face the charges against him and underscored a lack of coordination between Iraq's Central Criminal Court and law enforcement here less than two months after the interim government took power here.
'There was and there is now no intention to carry out any measure in this regard until finalizing the legal measures,' Interior Ministry spokesman Sabah Kadhim said, referring to the arrest warrant."
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Why didn't we just ask him in the first place - he would have cleared everything up..
"Everything was destroyed, such that the programme couldn't be restarted at the time at all, and it never restarted," Jaffar said, adding that there was also no request to do more research.
but then again...
"We had 500 tonnes of yellow cake (uranium) in Baghdad at the time, so why should we go and buy another 500 tonnes from Niger?" he said.
But let me think for a minute... chemical plants in Sudan, nuke plants in Libya. So where are the bio plants? I bet they're not in Iraq either.
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Why did Bosh decide to bomb Iraq in the first place? In other words; WHAT has been accomplished by it? Besides all that crap about making it a better place.
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That, of course, is the question. It reminds me of the other question - how come this wasn't done in 1991?
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Saddam had Jaffar working for him? And I thought it was a joke when Uday and Qusay became Deaday, that we had only gotten the host bodies and not the symbiotes.
Kree!
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Let's not forget the nuclear plans & materials the U.N. inspectors found in 1995 after being tipped off by Saddam's late sons-in-law. (Yes, it's hard to believe that there was a time when the phrase "U.N. inspectors found" was in vogue).
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Here's another question: Which of the two is more complicating: 1) that the 'President' of Iraq, when captured in his hole, said he wanted to negotiate; or 2) that this was the only statement attributed to him upon his capture.
Here's something that's not a question... An-Amn Al-Khas, Hussein's Special Security group, obviously had as its main mission the protection of Saddam Hussein. But a mission also thrown in for good measure was the concealment of WMD programs. I wonder why those functions were intimately connected (at least in the mind of Saddam Hussein)?
And don't forget, this security group was created partly by a dude who also said 'No WMD Here; Move Along'. Indeed, it was "Saddam's late son-in-law."
The Arab League and the Egyptian government on Thursday voiced their concern over the deadly fighting in Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf and called for the resumption of dialogue.
The guys with the turbans are getting whacked, are they?
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa issued a statement warning that any attack on the holy sites of Najaf could have "dangerous consequences". The head of the 22-member pan-Arab body urged "all the warring parties to immediately halt military operations under way in Najaf in order to allow the evacuation of the dead and wounded." US troops backed by Iraqi forces sealed off all approaches to the heart of Najaf, which includes the revered Imam Ali shrine, as US warplanes pounded militia positions and residents fled. The unprecedented intensity of the fighting in Najaf raised fears of a high casualty toll. Mussa also said he was "confident the interim Iraqi government could start an immediate dialogue in order to stop the fighting." Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit also issued a statement saying Cairo had "expressed its concern over the latest developments in Najaf ... and urged restraint on all parties."
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Of course they do. They can do nothing else, heh.
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We already have a dialouge in progress. Here's how it works:
1. The Mahidi Army fights the U.S. forces.
2. They die.
3. We keep a log of how many of them there were.
See?
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Ooooh! A warning from the Arab League! Let me go hide under my bed!
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Good article, but I think he overestimates Turkish support for the Pals, and thus underestimates the obstacles Turkey present to Israeli or pro-Israeli Jewish support for Kurds OUTSIDE of Iraq.
This was interesting Contrary to what is usually assumed, Israel maintains good relations with most Arab regimes. It would be somewhat strange if the two KRG:s had less relations with Israel than have Israelâs Arab rivals.
The âsecretâ cooperation between Kurdistan and Israel is mainly in two fields. The first is in intelligence cooperation and this is hardly remarkable as half the world including many Muslim states have such relationships with Israel.
Sudan on Wednesday told the United Nations to channel through one spokesman all comments on the war-wracked region of Darfur to avoid presenting a "bad image" of the situation there. Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told journalists that if this did not happen, Khartoum might have to reconsider commitments it had made to the UN. Ismail said his government had agreed with Secretary General Kofi Annan that his special envoy Jan Pronk would be the official UN spokesman. He pointed out that Annan's spokesman Fred Eckhard spoke of new incidents of violence on Tuesday in Darfur, alleging the government had launched helicopter raids while pro-government Janjaweed militiamen continued attacks on displaced persons. At the same time the refugee agency, UNHCR, issued a statement expressing its worry about alleged pressures being put by the government on displaced people to return to their villages in the absence of security there, Ismail said. He called upon the UN to control its statements as agreed "if it really wants security to prevail in Darfur, otherwise the government will reconsider its commitments."
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The Dutch(government) have set 100 mio Euro aside for the re- building of Sudan and Jan (looser) Pronk is the gate keeper. Jan Pronk has done that before in Africa, the result was that a few individuals went away with the money (I am talking millions of tax payers money). Keep a good eye on "good old tax money wasting" Jan Pronk as Dutch Catholic organisations have warned the money is coming in the hands of the Arab militia's already.....
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Sudan threatens UN
ROTFLMAO! Go away or I will be forced to taunt you a second time! You UN wipers of other peoples buttocks. I fart in your general direction!
The really sad thing is that the UN is actually scared.
The suspects behind last month's suicide bomb attack on Pakistan Prime Minister-designate Shaukat Aziz have been identified, state media said quoting a key cabinet minister. "We have reached those behind attack on Shaukat Aziz," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid was quoted as saying by the official Associated Press of Pakistan on Wednesday. Rashid declined to give details.
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Iran protested Iraq's arrest of four spies people working for the Iranian news agency in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and demanded their immediate release, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said. Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency cited Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran's envoy in Baghdad, as saying the head of the agency's bureau in Baghdad and three local spies workers were arrested on Monday by Iraqi police. They are being held at the Iraqi Interior Ministry and no reason for their detention has been given, Qomi said. The arrests are an ``illegal and unacceptable move,'' IRNA cited the Foreign Ministry as saying yesterday in Tehran. Iran also asked Iraq for clarifications about an Iranian diplomat missing since last week, the ministry said.
And who would know "illegal and unacceptable moves" better than the Black Turbans?
Relations between the neighboring countries were strained this week after Iraq's defense minister accused Iran of supplying arms to the militia of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which is fighting U.S.-led coalition forces in Najaf and the Baghdad district of Sadr City. Iran denied the charges.
Iraq tried to defuse the tensions with Iraqi Vice President Ibrahim Jaffari saying in an interview this week with IRNA that only the president and prime minister express the views of the government and not other ministers. Iran invited Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to visit Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Tuesday.
Mayhaps the "spy" charges will put an end to that.
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Hopefully the Iraqis won't give them the old duel-Canadian citizen treatment.
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