Cadres of Hizbut Towhid, an Islamist militant outfit, are regrouping in remote areas of Tangail district.
All those JMB hard boyz gotta have someplace to go...
They have resumed organisational activities and are recruiting members, intelligence sources said. Their number could be over 1,000 across the country. Tangail being its birthplace it may have a good number of activists, they said. They are under watch and law enforcers will son launch a drive to nab them and dismantle their dens, a source said. They had gone into hiding after the August 17 serial bomb blasts across the country last year.
And here August 17th of this years gone by without any major explosions...
The organisation headed by Bayezid Khan Panni of Karotia started its activities in Bangladesh in 1991. Chittagong Metropolitan Police in raids in different areas of the port city on the night of August 10 arrested seven Hizbut Towhid men including an engineer of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited (CUFL) and sales manager of a soft drink company. Police also seized from them 200 leaflets and books, calling for establishing Islamic rule in the country through armed revolution.
Is there nothing else these knuckleheads thinnk about?
During a primary interrogation the arrestees confessed to have been working for Hizbut Towhid in Chittagong for two years but denied having any link with outlawed Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
"No, no! Certainly not! Their headbands are green! Ours are blue!"
Most of the armed activists of Hizbut Tawhid hailed from Basail upazila in Tangail district, a senior police official in Tangail said seeking anonymity while talking to this correspondent. "Hizbut Towhid recently recruited armed activists from different parts of the district including Bathulee Sadi, Kashil, Kamutia, Basail and adjacent villages in the district", an intelligence official said. They went into hiding after police arrested seven activists of the organisation from Chittagong recently, he added. Maolana Abul Kalam Azad, an Imam of a mosque in Karotia, while talking to this correspondent said a good number of people including some educated persons from Karotia and adjacent areas joined Hizbut Towhid in last few months. "A good number Hizbut Towhid men are active in all the 11 upazilas of the district. They are doing organisational activities secretly", he said.
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Ima thinker he looks more like Johnny Carson as Karnak
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You know, Frank, you'd be dating yourself with that Karnak reference, save for the simple fact that Carson could scrape more class from between his toes than a dozen modern late-night show hosts put together.
British member of the House of the Commons George Galloway said it was time for the world to pressure Israel to establish the just and comprehensive peace which should have been brought about four decades ago in the Middle East. In a lecture entitled "where to After Israeli Defeat in Lebanon?" delivered at al-Assad National library in Damascus overnight, Mr. Galloway said peace should be comprehensive and had to restore all the occupied Arab territories to their owners as well as the return of Palestinian refugees and the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as capital. He added that the Palestinian state should be a real one based on a solid geographical, sovereign and with land bordering Arab countries without settlements and military roads otherwise war and the conflict would continue until Israel is defeated.
Mr. Galloway said Israel has been defeated in Lebanon by the national resistance there, and all the circles and forces in Israel have been discussing the defeat now amidst obvious political chaos. He said that this victory by the resistance constitutes a new dawn and would have its own outcomes. He also criticized some Lebanese sides which seek to extract defeat from the achieved victory.
Mr. Galloway said the vast majority of the British oppose the policy of prime Minister Tony Blair in the Middle East, pointing out to the emergence of forces that oppose attempts to dominate the world, particularly attempts by the US. He added there are forces that advocate justice and right, pointing out in this regard to the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez whom he described as the patron of the poor in his country and in Latin America.
Mr. Galloway addressed the audience saying that "you have to be proud of your country because it stood by the resistance for peace Syria is the capital of Arab dignity."
And it's probably where his checks are signed, too.
I don't remember the year, could be 2001 or 2002 (yacoub ibn shiraq president once again), but french intelligence was asked then to survey the antiglobo/Tobin tax proponent "attac" org's income; this was killed real quick (antiglobos = de facto allies against the US Hegemon) but the initial results were that the leaders had open ideological close ties to cuba and the syrian baas, and that it was likely they were bankrolled that way too. Follow the money. Galloway is not only an ideological traitor to the western civilization, I have no doubt he's bought as well.
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So George, are you going to return to visit the US and maybe a perjury trail for lying before Congress? Yeah, I know its sort of crap that they can lie through their hats day after day, but when you do the same thing in one of their rooms you get hammered. That's just the quirkiness of our culture.
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Galloway needs to have a few of those Hezbullah rockets land in his yard and have Ahmanutjob talk about exterminating him. Then he'd know something about pressure.
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Yes, I know that the red leotard picture bring up an image that makes some of us want to scour our eyeballs with a brillo pad... but the man deserves to be mocked, loudly, richly and repeatedly. He deserves to be made a laughinstock, a punchline, the target of overripe fruit and vegetables, the punchline of jokes, and a regular feature of amateur night at every comedy club in the land.
Now, if someone could only lure Ahmed-dinner-jacket into doing something preposterously lame as this... maybe an episode on the H&G Channel... a remake of his Bad Bad Bath, maybe. Or his crib, priced to sell...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that his government is united with Syria in strong opposition to the United States' "imperialistic aggression" in the Middle East.
These two countries are strongly united against the imperialistic aggression and hegemonic pretensions of the US empire...
"We are here in Damascus to call for peace," Chavez told Syrian state television on Tuesday night. "These two countries are strongly united against the imperialistic aggression and hegemonic pretensions of the US empire." Chavez said that during his visit in Syria officials of both governments will sign a document opposing Washington's "aggression" in the Middle East.
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Must want to be as successful and wealthy as the Commie Cubans are, where Fidel can routinely import expensive hams while the rest of Cuba can't.
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Instead of sending unconventional weapons by sea as in the past, North Korea now is shipping missiles and missile components on planes that fly via Russia, landing at Russian airports for refueling and possible transshipment to Mideast clients.
RasPutin. Is there nothing that he will not whore himself for?
FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer has rejected fresh claims about the Bali bombings by firebrand Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir as "preposterous". Mr Downer also said he was happy with the way Indonesia was monitoring the movements of Bashir, despite the cleric suggesting he faced no travel restrictions. Bashir, convicted of having prior knowledge of the 2002 attacks which killed 202 people including 88 Australians, now claims US ' top spy agency was involved in the attacks.
Bashir claimed the device that killed most people in the attack was a CIA micro-nuclear bomb...
The cleric, who is the alleged spiritual leader of terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah, was released from prison in June after serving nearly two years. In an interview with ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent, Bashir claimed the device that killed most people in the attack was a CIA micro-nuclear bomb. In the ABC interview, Bashir also attacked the Australian Government, saying it wrongly continued to hound him and treat him as an enemy.
Mr Downer said the cleric's comments should not be believed. It's a free country and he can say what he likes, and of course some of the comments that he made yesterday were fairly preposterous. I don't think anyone would much believe anything he was saying, Mr Downer said on ABC radio.
Mr Downer said he would be very surprised if Indonesian authorities had not restricted Bashir's travel. We're happy with the way the Indonesian Government is approaching that issue, he said. The proof of this is that Abu Bakar Bashir hasn't left Indonesia at all.
While Indonesia did not comment publicly on the way it was handling Bashir, Mr Downer said he thought Jakarta had done a good job.
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd called on the Government to ensure Bashir was not able to travel to Australia. ``When it comes to (Bashir's) future freedom of operation, the opposition has already said on many occasions that the Indonesian Government should be asked to put the tightest possible restrictions on him within Indonesia and withdraw his passport,'' Mr Rudd said in Sydney. Asked if the federal government should refuse Bashir entry to Australia, he replied: ``Absolutely''.
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Nerts. Everyone knows it was a Mossad job, and besides, Bashir likes working for the CIA. He especially enjoys playing the back nine at Langley when they let him drive the cart. He told me so himself.
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Downer, who has otherwise seemed to be in possession of his faculties, must be the one on Kool Aid to suggest that Indonesia has done anything right regards this murdering scumbag. That he still breathes suffices to prove the point. Grab a clue, Downer - your statements here are total shit.
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Funny how this utter scumbag steals from the anti-nwo/antiglobo/PCT crowd...
I like conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but I'm perfectly aware it is most often (almost always) a smokescreen and a vehicle for an antiwestern, anticapitalist agenda, be it progressive or reactionary... the "micro-nuke" is a classic, I refer you to this article by an anti-illuminist/anti-NWO chrisitan conspiracy website I get a newsletter from : WAS A MICRO-NUKE WARHEAD USED IN BALI BLAST
Oh, and yes, the december 2004 tsunami was of course caused by the Evil US Hegemon, with a thermonuke on a geologicla faultline, I've seen it in a french conspiracy site right after that, so it must be true...
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Yes, they're a tad paranoid, I'd venture. I've never read Cooper, his writing is at the heart of the illuminated NWO; my reading on the subject have been more mundane, Epiphanius and Jacques Bordiot, and I'm planning to (finally) read Sutton. IMHO, the NWO is balloney, and this theory itself is a memetic war(Tm) tool, but the globalists are quite real, if only in their tranzi guise.
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All the same, it's hard single this clown out when the same and worse is spewed in our own newspapers and universities, sometimes at American taxpayer expense.
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Ya know, about 20 years ago, we were gonna simulate a nuclear explosion with an ammonium-nitrate/fuel oil explosive (ANFO), the same as used in Oklahoma City.
Ya get enough of that stuff, it's close enough to simulate a direct hit on a missile silo. It's all about energy released within a certain time-frame.
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And don't we all understand that anyone who thinks the CIA can do anything is a tad bit short of a full deck?
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All the same, it's hard single this clown out when the same and worse is spewed in our own newspapers and universities, sometimes at American taxpayer expense.
For Bashir, I'm willing to make an exception. This scumbag is waaaaaay overdue for an acute case of swift onset lead poisoning.
Richard L. Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state, has acknowledged that he was the person whose conversation with a columnist in 2003 prompted a long, politically laden criminal investigation in what became known as the C.I.A. leak case, a lawyer involved in the case said on Tuesday.
Mr. Armitage did not return calls for comment. But the lawyer and other associates of Mr. Armitage have said he has confirmed that he was the initial and primary source for the columnist, Robert D. Novak, whose column of July 14, 2003, identified Valerie Wilson as a Central Intelligence Agency officer.
The identification of Mr. Armitage as the original leaker to Mr. Novak ends what has been a tantalizing mystery. In recent months, however, Mr. Armitages role had become clear to many, and it was recently reported by Newsweek magazine and The Washington Post.
In the accounts by the lawyer and associates, Mr. Armitage disclosed casually to Mr. Novak that Ms. Wilson worked for the C.I.A. at the end of an interview in his State Department office. Mr. Armitage knew that, the accounts continue, because he had seen a written memorandum by Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman. Rest at link.
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Mr. Armitage graduated in 1967 from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. He served on a destroyer stationed on the Vietnam gunline and subsequently completed three combat tours with the riverine/advisory forces in Vietnam. Fluent in Vietnamese, Mr. Armitage left active duty in 1973 and joined the U.S. Defense Attache Office, Saigon. Immediately prior to the fall of Saigon, he organized and led the removal of Vietnamese naval assets and personnel from the country.
He's a warrior, she's arm candy. Leave him alone. Drop it.
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What this reveals is the 3 years of Democratic party and allied media hysteria completely missed the target. If this news had come out 3 years ago, instead of ensnaring Cheney or Rove, this would have damaged Colin Powell, the most Democratic party friendly Mr. Big in the administration. Now that no official in the administration is implicated, there is only a deafening silence. As the Bard wrote, 3 years full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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Frog march that blubberous buffoon to the court now!
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James Lehrer News hour said tonight Armitage remembered telling Novak about it after he read Novak's second article on the subject. He then went to Justice and was interviewed by the FBI. Nothing will come of it, no indictment, zilch, zero, nothing. See "red herring" in Webster's. Add "it's a democrat" to the front of "red herring," add a period at the end and you have constructed a complete and truthful sentence.
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In case you missed it, the Slimes reporter says that Madam Phame Wilson was "covert".
Don't know what this reporter's source is but that is a judgment not even the special prosecutor is making
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The other thing they said on the "News" Hour was that Fitzgerald knew Armitage was the leaker even before his investigation began. The NYT reporter and Jim L said that the investigation continued because of the possibility that other people leaked Plame's name too, cause they were, you know, in the administration and mean and vindictive and Republican and stuff.
What horseshit. Fitzgerald and Armitage both owe the taxpayers millions. What a friggin waste. To think that Armitage, a former warrior, would put his country's goverment through all this shit in a time of war is just awful. He is scum in my book. Nothing but political scum.
Santorum's position is not identical to that of the President, but it will likely be the majority position when the public has more knowledge of the Iran threat. Kudos for the realism and willingness to play the Clash of Civilizations card.
HARRISBURG Sen. Rick Santorum highlighted Iran as the next front on the War with Islamic Fascism, saying the country's nuclear-bent leader is attempting to destroy the West in his apocalyptic beliefs over the return of a messiah who will make Islam the global religion.
In a speech before the Pennsylvania Press Club, the two-term Pennsylvania senator offered a broad historical context to the enemy of our generation by saying the war against Islamic fascists didn't begin on Sept. 11, 2001.
Santorum said the U.S. embassy takeover in Iran 27 years ago was part of this war, as were the Marine killings in Beirut, the bombing of the USS Cole and the 1993 World Trade Center attacks.
Today's aggression by Hezbollah against Israel in Lebanon is also part of the picture, he said, as are Iran's efforts to gain a nuclear bomb. The 1,000-year-old messianic legend of the return of the Twelfth Imam is driving Islamic radicals in their larger mission to destroy the West, Santorum said.
They're in a holy war, said Santorum, the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate. These people are after us not because we oppressed them, not because of the state of Israel. It's because we stand for everything they hate. We stand for modernity; we stand for freedom; we stand for truth. But they don't. They want to destroy everything we have built here in the West.
Santorum, who's running a tough re-election battle against Democrat rival Bob Casey Jr., said all other issues from the economy to federal spending and the direction of our culture pale in comparison to national security at this time.
As part of the picture, Santorum also staked his support for energy independence through drilling for oil in Alaska and other places and exploiting remaining coal reserves in states such as Pennsylvania.
He said he's calling for everything short of military intervention to handle Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear capabilities, from sanctions to backing regime change.
We cannot have a nuclear Iran. Period. No option, said Santorum. A nuclear Iran changes the world forever. The life you live today is not like the life you would live after.
He called Iran's radical president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, one of the greatest threats to this country.
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apocalyptic beliefs over the return of a messiah who will make Islam the global religion.
Then it really isn't goinig to happen? What about the "great faith of Islam?" Why do we continue to get these mixed messages from Washington? Next thing you know, they'll be putting troops on the Mexican border and erecting chain-link fence.
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I wish I could vote for Santorum. He says what's important and he states very plainly what he believes. Thankfully, he has all but wiped out the lead his opponent held early. Gap is 3-5 % now, so looks very good for him.
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They're in a holy war, said Santorum, the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate. These people are after us not because we oppressed them, not because of the state of Israel. It's because we stand for everything they hate. We stand for modernity; we stand for freedom; we stand for truth. But they don't. They want to destroy everything we have built here in the West.
Santorum, who's running a tough re-election battle against Democrat rival Bob Casey Jr., said all other issues from the economy to federal spending and the direction of our culture pale in comparison to national security at this time.
This needs to be Bush's message as well. Anything less is a disservice to America and soft-pedaling the threat that Iran poses.
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* RUMMY > America's enemies wish to "divide America".
* FREEREPUBLIC.com > "UNDECLARED WWIII" article.
* "All Muslims are NOT terrorists, but all/most terrorists are Muslim".
Lawyers for an Illinois man accused of funneling millions of dollars to a Palestinian Arab militant group, Hamas, are asking a federal judge in Chicago to hold a hearing examining the prosecution's connections with the Israeli government.
In a motion filed yesterday, attorneys for Muhammad Salah asked to call witnesses and present other evidence to prove that the criminal case is the product of "the joint venture, cooperation, and partnership" between the American and Israeli governments. The defense lawyers said Israel should be compelled to turn over evidence favorable to Mr. Salah because the Israeli and American governments have acted in lockstep in the case. . . .
A defense lawyer, Michael Deutsch, described a "longstanding and profound political military and law enforcement relationship" between Israel and America. One authority he cited is a load of fetid dingoes' kidneys an academic paper published in March, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." The hotly disputed treatise by a political science professor at the University of Chicago, John Mearsheimer, and the academic dean at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Stephen Walt, argues that pro-Israel elements have effective control over American strategy in the Middle East.
Mr. Deutsch also asked to present evidence about the role of the Anti-Defamation League as a "conduit and facilitator" between Israeli and American authorities.
I suppose he'll also be calling Pat Buchanan and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as character witnesses.
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What lawyers and muslims have in common?
The 95% that are giving bad name to the remaining 5%.
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actually, it would be great if they DID bring in Mearsheimer and Walt's "treatise." It would be GREAT to see it torn to shreds in a court of law, since they make declarations that are not at all based on facts.
I guess they'll also be referring to the Protocols and the writings of Ahmadinijad as evidence?
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Which Jewish Cabal? There are so damn many and they compete like hell. I figure eventually they'll all merge into a Big Box Cabal where all the conspiracies can be bought at damn near wholesale.
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We know these people are nutters, but this bit of moonbattery goes way beyond sanity. The judge should give this all the attention it deserves - NONE.
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It's times like this I start to get ashamed of my profession.
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The Darul Uloom of Deoband, the supreme body of the majority Sunnis, has declared life insurance as illegal but prominent Shia leaders have opposed the decree.
The Darul Ifta of Deoband, the body authorised to issue fatwas, issued a fatwa saying that interest earned on bank deposits as well as insurance of life is illegal as per the Shariat, the supreme law for Muslims. And that Muslims should not go in for insurance or assurance of life which has been given to them by Allah.
The fatwa, issued by Mohammad Zafeeruddin non August 7, in consultation with the two muftis of Darul Uloom, Deoband says: Life insurance is not permissible because there is interest income in it as well as gambling, which are illegal under Shariat.
The fatwa was issued in response to a question from one Saleem Chisti from Lucknow who was approached by an insurance company to buy a policy and become an agent.
It is najayaz as per the Shariat, said vice-president of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) Maulana Khaleed Rashid. It amounts to not believing in the supreme status of Allah, he said. But his colleague and noted Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Sadiq disagreed: There is nothing wrong in taking an insurance policy. I can say it in the light of the laws followed by the Shia sect. But if another sect has views against it, one should respect that too.
The chairman of the All India Shia Personal Law Board, Maulana Mirza Mohammad Athar, too, said such fatwas are not binding on Shias.
Support for the fatwa among Sunnis, however, was strong. Said Rukhsana Lari, a member of AIMPLB: Insurance is illegal as per the Shariat. Those who are covered under group insurance in their jobs should donate the interest and the maturity benefits. Mufti of Nadwa College too has said that if under certain circumstances one has to take life insurance policy, the interest should not be accepted.
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Good , clear islamic thinking. No one in their right mind would insure any muzzies anyway. They'd be bankrupt within one week.
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all about interest. Well, who should invest in you if you shall not live a long and good life anyway? I have no interest in islam. Nothing to lose there.
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Let the lack of any possible interest keep these loons marooned in the 7th century. What could be better than a murderous martyrdom-obsessed culture of suicide-enamored f&ckwits making ZERO profit from any and all monetary investments?
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Is it possible that this mullah was bribed by Mutual of Gaza, or Jenin Casualty & Life? I'm guessing those guys are paying through the nose these days and would be thrilled if they didn't have to write any more policies.
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I distinctly see all insurance baned in that story so...
No mortgage on any home (even the weird Islamic Mortgages) since any lender will require them. Also no flood or hurricane or earthquake insurance... Guess you will need to live in a tent.
If you are in Illinois and other states that require it - No driving for you!
Good Luck when you get sick - Its all co-pay! And No Hospital for you!
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On a historical note, insurance has existed since antiquity, and periodically insurance has come under attack for moral hazard. In other words, folks who are insured for fire might not be as cautious as they should.
Obviously, this fatwa is firmly in the camp of "If Allah wills it, who are we to oppose it?"
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hell, I'm surrounded by uninsured drivers here stateside. That's why insurance has risen so much.
When these suicide idiots have their pictures on billboards in praise and are honored and to recruit more, their families are given much I'm sure. So they don't need "insurance", they already have that in the bag.
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They are just upset because life insurance doesn't pay out in cases of suicide. Most of their future plans involve lots of suicide bombers I'm sure.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz outnumbered the opposition as the no confidence motion against him was defeated. One hundred and thirtysix members voted in favor of the motion whereas it needed 172 to oust Shaukat Aziz. Aziz made a brief comment, saying,
... todays no confidence motion and my victory will strengthen democracy...
todays no confidence motion and my victory will strengthen democracy.
As the opposition legislators finished their speeches during the debate on the motion, Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain gave the floor to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to defend himself. In his speech he said, I am a born Pakistani and I studied in Pakistan. I never retained any foreign nationality. He said when in 1999 Gen. Musharraf took over, Pakistan was about to be declared a failed state. We worked hard to strengthen Pakistans economy. We gave a new look to the countrys economy, he added.
"Now it's a failed state with a crutch!"
He said, I have listened to all the speeches of the opposition speakers and this reflects that democracy was working in Pakistan in a vibrant manner.
"Vibrant" appears to be a synonym for "goofy" in Urdu.
The fractious opposition united last week to lodge the motion against Aziz, accusing him of neglecting the poor and of corruption, but opposition politicians launched the debate yesterday with criticism of the militarys involvement in politics. Pervez Musharraf and military intervention in politics is the root of the evils plaguing Pakistan, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, leader of an alliance of six religious parties, told the Parliament.
The target was Perv, of course, not Aziz, who's a nobody.
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Large numbers of Taliban are living in Quetta and adjacent areas of the city, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor on Tuesday. The newspapers correspondent, David Montero, who talked to one member of the Taliban by the name of Imdadullah, quoted him as claiming, We are fighting. We have a lot of ammunition in Afghanistan. When the Taliban fell, we kept a lot of ammunition in the mountains. The reporter noted that Quetta, only 60 miles from the Afghan border, is the base of operations for the Taliban. Insurgents, they say, cross into Afghanistan for deadly attacks, then recuperate and plan back in Pakistan - where they are safe from allied troops and feel little pressure from Pakistani forces.
The newspaper report said Pakistani officials admit the presence in their country of some Afghan Taliban, but testily deny that Pakistan has become a Taliban base. Such allegations, they suggest, cannot be corroborated for the same reason that Pakistan has not been cracking down more: There is no simple way to identify who is and who is not a Taliban fighter. (Taliban fighters) may be coming. Im not disputing that, according to Chaudhry Muhammad Yaqoob, inspector general of police. The border is porous. People keep moving in and out, he said. But he denied that any Pakistanis were going to Afghanistan to fight. He and other local police stressed that they cannot arrest everyone in Quetta who wears a turban, which is traditionally associated with the Taliban. There are 400,000 Afghans living in the area and almost all the men wear the traditional headdress, along with many Pakistanis.
The report recalled that when the police arrested 29 wounded Afghan men from Al-Khair, a private hospital in Quetta, it claimed that 10 of them had been fighting NATO forces in Afghanistan, and hailed the arrests as a symbol of their crackdown on Taliban fighters. But hospital officials at Al-Khair said they had no reason to believe the men were fighters. We havent seen anything that will give us the sense that these are Taliban. They are simple Afghans. All have long beards and turbans, one person said. Paul Fruh, ICRC head in Quetta, added that innocent civilians are wounded in southern Afghanistan every day - and that many of the men are afraid to seek medical help because they are often falsely accused of being Taliban.
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Balochis and Pashtos and Waziris and Sindhis, have little use for the majority Punjabis. Sindhis gravitate toward less stringent Islam and liberal politics, while Balochis and Pashtos play both the Taliban and Iran cards.
As for the "deadly attacks" made from cross-border safe harbors: Taliban isn't doing much killing. In fact, they are doing much more dying.
Suspicious crafts
August 27 2006 0045 LT in posn: 13:15.5N - 047:13.2E, Gulf of Aden. Two speedboats approached a bulk carrier underway. Crew mustered, took anti piracy measures. Fifteen minutes later boats moved away. A second attempt was made at 0430 LT when several speed boats approached the vessel and followed for 40 minutes but due to anti piracy measures boats aborted attempt and fled.
Recently reported incidents
August 24 2006 at southern Kien Giang province, Vietnam. Pirates armed with AK-47 rifles attacked and boarded fishing boats from a speedboat. Pirates tried to abduct them into Cambodian waters but were intercepted by a Vietnamese patrol boat. Some pirates escaped but four were detained for investigation. Authorities recovered arms and ammunition from pirates.
August 22 2006 at 0200 UTC in posh: 09:25.25N - 013:44.30W, 2.5 nm south of Conakry, Guinea. Robbers in a motorised boat boarded a tug at anchor and stole stores. Crew raised alarm and robbers escaped.
Hard to believe, I know. From an August 9, 2006 post a newsbusters. Apparently a letter to the editor. I can't find it in the WaPo archive. Maybe I missed it on the 'burg?
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.
WASHINGTON - Iraqs government has resolved a dispute over the sharing of oil revenues across the country but differences remain over who will hand out lucrative oil contracts, a senior Iraqi official said on Tuesday.
Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said the contentious issue of oil revenues was resolved during recent negotiations for a new law to regulate Iraqs oil and gas industry. Remarkably we have been able to settle oil revenues, said Salih in a video conference from Baghdad with reporters based in Washington.
Salih, the most senior ethnic Kurd in the cabinet, did not provide details on how oil revenues would be distributed or which areas would get the most money. We have the danger of oil turning into a divisive issue that everyone will fight over. By agreeing to share the revenue we have the potential of turning oil into a unifying element in Iraq society, Salih said.
There has been some dispute, particularly among those who live in the oil-rich regions of the north and south of Iraq, over who controls oil fields and their revenues. The semi-autonomous Kurdish regional government in the north has signed oil deals with foreign companies, bypassing the central government and raising fears such agreements could fuel tensions that have pushed Iraq close to civil war.
The Sunni Arab community, which is concentrated in resource-poor, education-poor, commerce-poor, intelligence-poor, central Iraq, fears it will be left behind as the Kurds, as well as the Shiites in the oil-rich south, cash in on exports and exploration deals.
Salih said there was still a dispute over who should be responsible for handing out new oil contracts that will develop Iraqs vast oil fields. I believe we will be able to bridge the gap, he said.
Iraq straddles the worlds third-largest oil reserves but the sector has been undermined by decades of underinvestment, war, sanctions and mismanagement.
Decades? You mean it started before April, 2003? Who knew?
Salih said he expected the new hydrocarbon law, which the government discussed in an economic retreat last week, would be presented to parliament before the end of the year. This new law, he said, would restructure the oil industry and provide a positive environment for badly-needed foreign investment.
Iraq wants up to $20 billion in investment to boost its oil production but multinationals eyeing Iraqs oil fields are waiting until a new investment code with a legal and regulatory framework is in place. Iraqs oil sector has been hit by repeated attacks and many foreign oil companies are also nervous to invest because of the dangers to their staff. Salih, who argues that restored prosperity will rein in the violence, said an improved investment environment would have a dramatic impact on boosting oil production.
Currently Iraq exports 1.7 million to 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil and Salih said production was about 2.2 million to 2.5 million bpd, with plans to double that by 2010 to 4.3 million bpd. By 2012, he anticipated restructuring and investment would push up production to 6 million bpd. If we get the politics right and the right type of investment environment we will be able to reach those targets a lot earlier, said Salih.
Pre-war output was just under 3 million bpd and exports were around 2 million bpd.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has launched a scathing attack on armed groups that are firing rockets from the Gaza Strip, saying Wednesday they were responsible for bringing death and destruction to the Palestinians. uh oh. he's dead.
Addressing thousands of demonstrators outside his office in Ramallah, Abbas said, "So far we have about 250 martyrs in the Gaza Strip and thousands of wounded people and destroyed houses. Why? What are the reasons for this? Let's start searching for the reason for all this." wow. 35 words strung together dealing with paleo complaints and not one mention of "Jews"
Abbas was referring to the number of Palestinians who have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit in June. His comments, which were interpreted as criticism of Hamas and its government, came hours before Abbas headed to the Strip for talks with PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on forming a national-unity government.
Abbas described the rockets that are being fired into Israel as "pipes" that provided Israel with an excuse to carry out military operations in the Gaza Strip. "Our people don't deserve these tragedies," he said. "If these pipes provide an excuse, it's time to stop using them." "excuse?" try "reason."
Last week, Abbas's Fatah party, after three days of discussions in Jordan, authorized him to open negotiations with Hamas and other Palestinian factions. It's not clear how long Abbas will stay in Gaza, but one of his aides told The Jerusalem Post that he was "very serious" about striking a deal with Hamas as soon as possible.
"The negotiations with Hamas could take one day or one month, but this time the president is determined to reach an agreement on the national-unity government because of the deteriorating situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip," the aide said. "The financial and security deterioration cannot continue for long and the pressure from the people is growing." interesting that it's still deteriorating after Israel pulled out
Abbas told the demonstrators, who came to demand their salaries, he supported the establishment of a national-unity government because it would convince the international community to resume financial aid to the PA. "We will continue with our efforts to achieve national unity," he said. "We want a government that would be able to bring us money."
Earlier, Abbas met with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and urged him to get Israel to halt military operations in PA-ruled areas and to release Palestinian prisoners. Abbas also called for an end to the construction of settlements and the security fence in the West Bank.
Abbas told reports he had briefed Annan on his efforts to establish a national-unity government and to secure the release of Shalit. "Military force and the continued occupation of Palestinian lands won't bring peace," he said. "Security and stability will be achieved only if the legitimate rights of the Palestinians are achieved." sounds like a threat to my untrained ears . . .
Annan said after the meeting that the IDF had killed more than 200 terrorists Palestinians since the end of June, adding that this "must stop immediately." He said he fully agreed with Abbas that "the end of occupation and the creation of a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel is the key to resolving all the problems of the region. he left out where they live together side by side, except without the Israel side there. We have to implement all Security Council resolutions and that includes, of course, Resolutions 242 and 338." of course. how kofi of him.
Annan said he had also discussed efforts to release Shalit and to end rocket attacks with Abbas. He called on Israel to reopen the main crossing points to the Gaza Strip. I guess reopening the main crossing points to gaza would decrease rocket attacks from gaza, actually (unfortunately, we're stuck with more of those pesky suicide bombers, though)
"Beyond preserving life, we have to sustain life. The closure of Gaza must be lifted [and] the crossing points must be opened, not just to allow goods but to allow Palestinian exports out as well," he said.
Annan also voiced support for a PA unity government.
"If "if." heh. "if" pigs fly (inshallah) the Palestinians can unite around a common and realistic program, and if there's that word again. I do not think it means what he thinks it means this can help bring the security situation under control, it would be a very positive step, and the UN would want to do what it could to support this," he said. "I fervently support all efforts to allow Palestinians to achieve this dream and to live in peace and dignity. They deserve nothing less." he closed out his comments with "death to joos" and then he took a few questions.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied yesterday that Israel had aimed to destroy the Hezbollah Shiite militant group during the monthlong Lebanon war.
"Nope. Nope. Never said it. Wudn't me. It wuz Livni!"
The government made a decision on the 12th of July. They never said the goal was to destroy Hezbollah.
"Livni, see? Not the government. It wasn't me, really."
It was to implement UN Resolution 1559, to have the Lebanese Army in the south and that was achieved, he said here.
"So, y'see, really we did what we set out to do..."
UN Resolution 1559, adopted by the UN Security Council in September 2004, called for all foreign troops to leave Lebanon and for all militias there to disband.
Hezbollah hasn't disbanded...
Olmert spoke a day after he admitted for the first time to failures during the 34-day offensive against Hezbollah. It is true that not everything worked as we wished. We were not ready. We did not always achieve the aims we hoped for. Not everything worked properly. There were problems and failures, he said late Monday in the northern port of Haifa. When Israel launched the Lebanon offensive on July 12, it said the main aims were to recover two soldiers captured by Hezbollah the same day in cross-border raids, which left eight other troops dead, and to prevent the group from firing rockets into Israel. The two Israeli soldiers remain missing and Hezbollah pummeled northern Israel with rockets right up to Aug. 14, when a UN-brokered cease-fire came into force on the ground.
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Yep, twasn't SYRIYUHN HEZBOLLAH, but'n IRAYNUHN HIZABULLAH dem dwats the tergit. D *** et.
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Now you're starting to make things up, Zenster!
Anyway, destroying Hizb'allah wasn't the war's aim. The aim was to get back the soldiers Hizb'allah kidnapped; destroying Hizb'allah was to have resulted been taking advantage of unexpected access. Of course, PM Olmert and his people managed to accomplish neither.
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Exactly. And they gave Hezb'Allah a big PR boost, though the magnitude of the boost is proportional to the distance from HA. Feel good efforts are now being made to show that things were worse for HA than its media allies revealed. But knowing that HA was hurt does not change the fact that Israel did not achieve its major publicly stated war aims and had its military forces humiliated on the field of battle.
Amen. Oh, and don't forget "liar". He promised the families that the reason they went in was to free the kidnapped soldiers, and that they would NEVER stop until they were returned. Several of the soldiers' family members said he made a solemn vow.
Immoral men, I can learn to stomach for a while. Weak, vascillating men, I can put up with for a few seconds maybe. But I can't abide a bold-faced liar.
United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan told Defense Minister Amir Peretz during a meeting between the two on Tuesday evening that Israel is responsible for most violations of the UN-brokered cease-fire in southern Lebanon. He also called for Israel to lift its sea and air blockade of Lebanon, put in place at the start of the campaign against Hizbullah last month.
In a related development on Tuesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that plans to send German warships to patrol Lebanon's coast are on hold so long as Beirut refuses to make a formal request for the assistance. The ships would be part of the UN-brokered multinational force to be deployed in southern Lebanon after Israel's withdrawal. UN chief Annan said that he hoped French and Italian forces would arrive in the Lebanon by this Friday, doubling UNIFIL troops to 5,000.
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This guy makes Waldheim look philosemitic.
He's gone next January. After that his pronouncements will attract all the interest now afforded to the estimable Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
The UN will remain a wasteland, of course, but his departure will allow for a small ray of hope we can look forward to seeing cynically extinguished.
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Somehow, I sort of expected it. What do else would you expect from a guy who does this?
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Lebanon (Hezbollah) started this war but has paid no price for it. Israel is withdrawing from Lebanon, did not get back its soldiers, did not get Hezbollah disarmed, and now is expected to lift its air blockade and carry the blame for violating the ceasefire, while Lebanon has held up its responsibility of...what? Annan's bias against Jews is peeking out again. And the US govt says nothing about it.
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Annan: Israel is Greatest Violator of Cease-Fire
How is Annan able to spew this bullsh!t without his head exploding? All at the same time, this rutbag is a terrorist enabler, facilitator, abettor and appeaser. No small achievement for a man of his extremely limited skills.
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Several hundred teachers belonging to the ruling Hamas movement demonstrated in the West Bank city of Ramallh on Tuesday, demanding the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority if civil servant salaries are not paid. The 300 demonstrators carried signs, including one that read: Civil servants hunger + ministers detention = dissolution of the Authority.
The former being more important to these guys.
The aim of the demonstration is to demand from president (Mahmud Abbas), prime minister Ismail Haniya and the PLO executive committee to dissolve the Authority if the salaries are not paid, said a spokesman for the protestors, Yusef Abu Ras.
The protestors also called for Israel to release Hamas ministers who have been detained in a wide clampdown on the movement that followed the June 25 capture of an Israeli soldier near Gaza.
Sure, right away perfessor.
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From the looks of your people, I would say you have not taught them anything worthwhile.
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"Israel has detained more than 60 elected Hamas officials, including a third of the cabinet and 26 MPs."
If the Hamas officials in dentention are indeed a "Security concern" as Israel has asserted why isn't there any official charges? (individual or even collective) It's impossible to maintain the moral highground when detention for "Trade-Bait" is an acceptable negotiation policy.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday that he was not excited by the last interview given by Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah, as he was also not bothered by Nasrallah's "victory speech."
"I walk around freely, and he's still hiding in a bunker," Olmert noted. During a tour of the North, Olmert rejected claims that North was about to collapse economically, because of the recent fighting. "The problems supposedly caused by the war were problems before it, too," Olmert explained.
Hassan will no doubt still be in hiding when Olmert leaves office in a few months, too.
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I am not hiding! I'll have you know I'm right here under this bed!
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If I am hiding, it's only because you are the powerful opressor, whilst I am but a poor, weak, powerless man of the people, fighting for their allen-given rights to be ... uh ..controlled by Iranian Shi'ites.
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#1 I am not hiding! I'll have you know I'm right here under this bed!
#2 in Damascus...
In Assad's underground bunker...
With a sign on the door that says 'beware of the leopard'....
Last week a former junior member of the [first] Bush administration, Jeff[d?] Babbin, likened undertaking a military operation without the French to going on a deer shoot without an accordion ...
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Quote: ". . . you know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind."
Iran's hard-line president on Tuesday challenged the authority of the U.N. Security Council, two days before the council's deadline demanding Tehran stop uranium enrichment. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said no one can prevent Iran from pursuing a peaceful nuclear program. Ahmadinejad also proposed having a televised debate with U.S. President George W. Bush on world issues. "The U.S. and Britain are the source of many tensions. At the Security Council, where they have to protect security, they enjoy the veto right. If anybody confronts them, there is no place to take complaints to," Ahmadinejad said during a press conference. "This (veto right) is the source of problems of the world. ... It is an insult to the dignity, independence, freedom and sovereignty of nations," he said.
The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until Thursday to suspend a key part of its nuclear program the enrichment of uranium, a process that can produce either fuel for a reactor or material for weapons. But Iran has refused any immediate suspension, calling the deadline as illegal. "The U.S. and Britain take whatever actions they are interested in but resist against the interests of nations," Ahmadinejad said.
The Iranian president also said Israel's creation is a "tale" and called the Jewish state a threat to peace and stability in the Middle East. "The Zionist regime has deprived the Palestinian nation and other nations of the region of a single day of peace. In the past 60 years, it has imposed tens of wars on the Palestinian nation and others," he said.
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Does he not know that one Kim Jung is enough? Moreover Him equiping many, many more Kim jung Il's in the world? Proliferation and NPT and all that crap we worked so tirelessly on in the past 40 years?
As far as I can see, most wars are started by Islam.
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Now the demented twerp thinks he's in charge of the Security Council also ? I wish we could arrange a meeting between this POS and Koffee so we could off them together.
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Yaking a hint from the DemoLeft and doing a Clinton > Its Bush's = Israel's fault. AMERICA = AMERIKKKA NEEDS A DRAFT AND WAGE WAR = AATTTTTTTAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKK, INNNNVAAAADDDDDDEEEEEEEE, AS LONG AS WE DON'T HURT OR KILL ANYONE, DAMAGE OR DESTROY ANYTHING, POLLUTE THE ENVIRONMENT, HURT OUR ENEMY'S FEELINGS ESPEC AFTER THEY UNILATERALLY AND SINGULARLY ATTACK US, OR CAUSE A SOLAR FLARE. Yesssirreee, Bubba, the Sun will obey mortal Man iff only Amerika would just adopt OWG and Socialism, etal.
France is ready to have sex renew dialogue with Iran on ending the standoff over its nuclear program but will continue to insist that Tehran suspend uranium enrichment, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said.
"Really. Would we sell you out?"
"The Iranian authorities say they are open to dialogue and ready to resume discussions," Douste-Blazy told a meeting of French ambassadors. "Without abandoning the demand to suspend sensitive activities, France is also ready to renew dialogue. But it must be a clear, concrete and responsible dialogue. We want this dialogue quickly, with a desire for serious discussion and with the concern to finally find solutions to the Iranian nuclear problem."
The UN Security Council has given Iran until August 31 to suspend uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities -- which Tehran says is part of a civilian nuclear programme -- or face the threat of sanctions. A package of incentives backed by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China -- plus Germany is dependent on Tehran first agreeing to suspend enrichment. Few details have emerged of Iran's response to the package but the United States has already warned it would lead moves to impose sanctions if the reply fell short of Security Council demands.
"At the moment, Tehran's response to proposals from the international community is not satisfactory," Douste-Blazy said. "It remains ambiguous and seems to continue to ignore the essential question of sensitive nuclear activities, that is to say enrichment and reprocessing. This move is essential to re-establish confidence between all the parties to the negotiations," he told the ambassadors at their annual meeting in Paris.
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Looks like history will put France back in the "don't count" column on this one too.
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Frogs out to make any simple things complicated and to the benefit of vampires.
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Sanction will not work unless Iran, like Saddam, agrees to accept sanctions [while simul complaining about sanctions]. Else, the UNSC/UNO either will do nothing, or [by unanimous decision] resort to military action ala the KOREAN WAR. Iff NK's KIMMIE suddenly decides to take NK's opportunity to "delink" from Beijing, CHINA espec may have nuclearized = nuclearizing hostile nations on both flanks. CSIS > Norkies already have nukes, at minima more nukes than any Radical Iran may have or could have before 2008. The "Islamist/Muslim Bomb" targets Russia-China also, NOT JUST THE USA-ISRAEL-WEST.
Based on their stunning success in Lebanon, it'll only be a few more meetings before France declares victory!
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Just as France was ready to talk to Hirler to end Czechoslovakian crisis. That really worked).
To say the whole truth it was Chamberlain who was for the settlement and it was the lack of British support who forced the French government to settle. But Daladier, the French negotiator was so persuaded that the Munisch treaty was a disaster that when on return he saw a crowd at Paris airport he assummed people were there to lynch him and was surprised when they cheered him. Enraged at the crowd he spent the next minutes repeating "Les Cons, les cons, les cons" (Morons, Morons, morons).
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Another ploy by France and Iran to give them more time to complete their nuclear weapon development.
France knows talks will go nowhere. I don't think they are stupid enough to think that talks without teeth will get anywhere. They have been well paid.
Look for Russia to join the 'talks'. Then Koffi will press for a delay in any UNSC action until cities are being nuked the talks are 'completed'
In a departure from language used by the U.N. Security Council, Secretary-General Annan yesterday linked the issue of releasing Israeli soldiers to freeing Lebanese terrorists held by Israel.
Hmmm... There was a reason that wasn't in the resolution, wasn't there?
You have to talk with those with the guns to stop shooting, whether they are Israelis or whether they are Taliban or anybody else...
Hezbollah demanded a prisoner swap when it kidnapped the two soldiers on July 12, launching a month-long war. Mr. Annan, speaking to the press in Beirut, retreated from several demands the Security Council made on Hezbollah and went as far as to equate the conduct of Israeli army soldiers with that of terrorists serving the Taliban regime. "You have to talk with those with the guns to stop shooting, whether they are Israelis or whether they are Taliban or anybody else," he said, referring to the United Nations's need to deliver assistance to victims at times of war.
When was the last time Kofi had a chat with the Taliban?
Despite those gestures toward Lebanese Hezbollah supporters and though he met with the Shiite speaker of Lebanon's parliament, Nabih Berri, and with Hezbollah's Cabinet minister, Muhammed Fneish, as well as Prime Minister Siniora a Shiite crowd booed the U.N. chief as he visited a hard-hit Beirut neighborhood.
"Kofi go home!"
"Get a rope!"
"Boo!"
Surrounded by armed guards, Mr. Annan was forced to retreat to his car after a crowd in the Hezbollah-controlled southern Beirut neighborhood booed and heckled him, according to press reports. A day after Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, said in an interview that German, Italian, and U.N. officials are mediating in a possible swap for the Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, Mr. Annan offered his organization's services as intermediary.
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Ya mean the Hezboolocks want to kill the worthless turd too. Hell, it's unanimous. Short straw gets to pull the trigger.
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"I find it hard to believe that people who were learning to fly in Florida could, within a year and a half, fly large commercial airlines and hit with accuracy the towers of the World Trade Center, which would appear, to the pilot from the air, the size of a pencil," President Mubarak of Egypt told Al-Ahram Weekly on October 25, 2001. "Only a professional pilot could carry out this mission, not someone who learned to fly for 18 months in Florida."
Spewing that sort of male bovine fecal matter should cost Hoser Hosni several million in foreign aid. What in hell is going on such that we do not attach direct and painful consequences to heads of effing state that disseminate this sort of terrorist propaganda?
Two weeks after the attacks, Sheik Muhammad al-Gameia an Egyptian imam at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York and the American representative to Al-Azhar University, the highest religious authority in Sunni Islam gave an interview to one of the school's Web sites. He said, among other things, "If the Americans knew that the Jews carried out the September 11 attacks, they would do to them what Hitler did."
But they didn't and we haven't. Or did you remain unconvinced by Osama's video taped admission of responsibility?
More recently, an American Muslim scholar who is active in prominent American Muslim organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Salah Sultan, gave an interview to Saudi Al-Resala TV. "September 11 could not have been carried out entirely from outside [America] by Muslims or others. The entire thing was of a large scale and was planned within America in order to enable America to control and terrorize the entire world," he said on May 17.
As always, got things a little turned around there, Sultan baby. It's time to ban CAIR if they promote these sort of outright lies.
On June 22, Pew released the results of a survey that asked Muslims if they thought Arabs carried out the September 11 attacks. Only 17% of British Muslims; 48% of French Muslims; 16% of Indonesians; 32% of Egyptians; 16% of Turks; 39% of Jordanians, and 15% of Pakistanis answered "yes."
Anyone else not surprised at how the most openly violent group, the French Muslims, are the most willing to attribute this atrocity to Islamists?
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Only muslims could in one breath blame the Jooooooos for perpetrating it as the product of a vicious conspiracy and in the other celebrate it as a great muslim victory.
By the way, I love how much of their argument goes like this: "Only Jews are capable of doing such a thing. There's no way we could do this because we're too stupid"
Belgrade, 30 August (AKI) - This month's foiled air terror plot in Britain is the latest reminder to Europe and the United States of their vulnerability, but a leading Serbian terrorism expert warns that scrutinising every Arabic or Asian face at airport security checks is pointless. "Terrorists are among us, and what has been smuggled across the border is invisible, the poisonous ideology which perceives the West as an emanation of evil" Darko Trifunovic told Adnkronos International (AKI). Trifunovic says the new al-Qaeda strategy is to "indoctrinate or poison the hearts and minds of youngsters to motivate them for the future terror operations."
Trifunovic, a professor at Belgrade University's Faculty of Security Studies, was among the first to warn about the changing tactics of the international terrorist network and the role of the so called white Al-Qaeda in exporting terrorism to Europe and the United States.
Terrorists no longer come directly from the Islamic countries, but use local youths who have previously been indoctrinated with radical Islam, says Trifunovic. Most of the London bombers were of Pakistani descent but had were full British citizens. Some white Americans and Australians had fought for Al-Qaeda in Iraq and were now being processed at Guantanamo American base in Cuba.
In this new strategy Bosnia, alleges Trifunovic, has proven to be an ideal place for such activities and hundreds of Muslim war orphans have gone through indoctrination courses and terrorist training camps, operated by the mujahadeen who stayed behind after the 1992-1995 Bosnia civil war, where there was an influx of foreign Muslim fighters. "Can you imagine the motivation of a youth whose parents have been killed in the war? You can practically send them to any task and they will carry it out," says Trifunovic.
Trifunovic believes that Al-Qaeda already has "white cells" in every country with substantial Muslim population and that is what will make the fight against terrorism more difficult in the future. "Last years London bombings and recently averted air plots have shown that a terrorist could be your neighbour, just over your backyard fence, who until yesterday seemed to be a nice man, going quietly about his business," says
According to Trifunovic, the most precious contribution of the mujahadeen who went to fight in Bosnia wasnt in the battlefield but in the indoctrination of local Muslim youths, argues Trifunovic, who is also an associate of Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association.
Since September 11, 2001, U.S. peacekeepers in Bosnia have been tracking radical Islamists who remained in the country after the war and many have been questioned for links to international terrorism. Six of them, all Algerians, were arrested and handed over to the US Government and are still believed to be held in Guantanamo base in Cuba, Trifunovic says. Bosnian authorities are currently scrutinizing some 1,500 citizenships granted to foreigners, and 38 have already been revoked, Security minister Berisa Colak recently revealed.
Osama Bin Laden directly aided Bosnian Muslims financially, by procurement of weapons and by training, Trifunovic maintains, saying that aid was extended to the separatist ethnic Albanians in Serbias southern province of Kosovo and in Macedonia.
Last November Bosnian police arrested four local youths and a Turkish citizen, Abdukladir Cesur, on suspicion of plotting to bomb the embassy of a European country in Sarajevo. It later turned out they were connected with a similar group in Denmark. One local youth, Mirsad Bektasevic was only 18, and others were not much older. Trifunovic says they shouldnt be jailed but sent to some sort re-indoctrination to make them realize their mistakes. Jailing these youths would only further radicalize them and prepare them to be martyrs for the Islamic cause, sys Trifunovic.
Apart from Bosnia, another spring board for Islamizing Europe, according to Trifunovic, is Kosovo, whose majority ethnic Albanian Muslim population is seeking independence from Serbia. Besides camouflaged Al-Qaeda cells, two new, until now unknown groups, Gjurma and Tablighijammat, have been noted there, preaching radical Islam. Behind all these activities is Iranian intelligence and mostly Saudi cash, Trifunovic believes.
On the local scale, each country might breed its own seeds of terrorism, which is fed on real or perceived injustice, like the Basque issue in Spain, or the Kurdish problem in Turkey, says Trifunovic. But globally, it is a conflict of civilizations, in which Islamic extremists see the West and the United States as their deadly enemies.
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British member of the House of the Commons George Galloway said it was time for the world to pressure Israel to establish the just and comprehensive peace which should have been brought about four decades ago in the Middle East. In a lecture entitled "where to After Israeli Defeat in Lebanon?" delivered at al-Assad National library in Damascus overnight, Mr. Galloway said peace should be comprehensive and had to restore all the occupied Arab territories to their owners as well as the return of Palestinian refugees and the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as capital. He added that the Palestinian state should be a real one based on a solid geographical, sovereign and with land bordering Arab countries without settlements and military roads otherwise war and the conflict would continue until Israel is defeated.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday that his government is united with Syria in strong opposition to the United States' "imperialistic aggression" in the Middle East. 
FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer has rejected fresh claims about the Bali bombings by firebrand Indonesian cleric 
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Large numbers of Taliban are living in Quetta and adjacent areas of the city, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor on Tuesday. The newspapers correspondent, David Montero, who talked to one member of the Taliban by the name of Imdadullah, quoted him as claiming, We are fighting. We have a lot of ammunition in Afghanistan. When the Taliban fell, we kept a lot of ammunition in the mountains. The reporter noted that Quetta, only 60 miles from the Afghan border, is the base of operations for the Taliban. Insurgents, they say, cross into Afghanistan for deadly attacks, then recuperate and plan back in Pakistan - where they are safe from allied troops and feel little pressure from Pakistani forces.
Suspicious crafts
WASHINGTON - Iraqs government has resolved a dispute over the sharing of oil revenues across the country but differences remain over who will hand out lucrative oil contracts, a senior Iraqi official said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied yesterday that Israel had aimed to destroy the Hezbollah Shiite militant group during the monthlong Lebanon war.
United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan told Defense Minister 
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Several hundred teachers belonging to the ruling Hamas movement demonstrated in the West Bank city of Ramallh on Tuesday, demanding the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority if civil servant salaries are not paid. The 300 demonstrators carried signs, including one that read: Civil servants hunger + ministers detention = dissolution of the Authority.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday that he was not excited by the last interview given by 
Iran's hard-line president on Tuesday challenged the authority of the U.N. Security Council, two days before the council's deadline demanding Tehran stop uranium enrichment. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said no one can prevent Iran from pursuing a peaceful nuclear program. Ahmadinejad also proposed having a televised debate with U.S. President George W. Bush on world issues. "The U.S. and Britain are the source of many tensions. At the Security Council, where they have to protect security, they enjoy the veto right. If anybody confronts them, there is no place to take complaints to," Ahmadinejad said during a press conference. "This (veto right) is the source of problems of the world. ... It is an insult to the dignity, independence, freedom and sovereignty of nations," he said.
"Without abandoning the demand to suspend sensitive activities, France is also ready to renew dialogue. But it must be a clear, concrete and responsible dialogue. We want this dialogue quickly, with a desire for serious discussion and with the concern to finally find solutions to the Iranian nuclear problem."
In a departure from language used by the U.N. Security Council, Secretary-General Annan yesterday linked the issue of releasing Israeli soldiers to freeing Lebanese terrorists held by Israel. 
