Following are excerpts from an interview with Hamas MP Salem Salamah, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on April 23, 2008.
Salem Salamah: There are companies established by the colonialists and occupiers - large companies with branches all over the world, like Pepsi, Pepsi Cola. This is a well-known company. Pepsi is an acronym. P-E-P-S-I - Pay Every Pence to Save Israel. Pay every pence - pence is one hundredth of a dollar to save Israel. Pay every pence to save Israel. Shouldn't the Muslims have a fund, a company, or a large project to save the Al-Aqsa Mosque?
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Yeah, wait until they find out what adidas stands for.
Didn't the ceo of poopsi denounce the actions of the US, which is of course controlled by the zionists, thus contridicting this statement? So confused.
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I seem to remember the CEO of Pepsi is an Indian woman who, even as she was taking the oath of allegiance as a new-made American citizen, was pondering how much she despises the U.S. Or was that Coke?
At one time some Jews boycotted coke, cause they had set up a bottling plant in Jordan, and boycotted Israel. Then that bottling plant ended up under Israeli control (it was in the WB, IIUC) and we got shirts with Coca-Cola spelled out in Hebrew. Then we boycotted Pepsi cause they made the most visible investment in the USSR during the first detente period.
The secret meaning of "Pepsi" is just the tip of the camel's nose in the tent. There's so many more:
"Disney" means "Defend Israel: Send Nukes Every Year." Yes, it's true, Mickey Mouse is providing weapons of mass destruction. (What's Hannah Montana's rile in the Zionist plot? You don't wanna know.)
"iPod" means "Israel: Power, Opression, & Dominance." Every iTunes download is another MP3 nail in the Palestinian coffin!
"ZEBCO," the fishing reel company, stands for "Zionist Entity Becoming your Conquering Overlord" (the "Y" is silent).
"Honda" means "Hebrews Own Nagasaki too, DumbAss!" Insidious of these Zionists, buying up Japan and then boasting like that.
It's been said that "Oldsmobile" was a secret Israeli acronym, too, but the meaning remains hidden. Is it mere coincidence that GM stopped making Oldsmobiles just after the Second Intafada?
You need to go back on TV and let people know.
Thank me later.
Cheers.
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you think that Disney thing is joke? Think - Mickey Mouse = (Col.) Mickey Marcus
Ariel - A mermaid, or the largest settlement in Samaria?
As for Oldsmobile, well go to Miami Beach. What do you see? old Jews.
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Just wait until Salamah finds out what Vernor's Ginger Ale has in store for the Hamas and Hezbollah fifth columnist sympathizers in the Dearborn, Michigan area. Now there's a conspiracy worthy of the arab mind.
NATO isn't battling Taliban militants in Afghanistan as aggressively as U.S. forces did after the 2001 invasion and toppling of the Islamist regime, according to two provincial governors from the country's mountainous east.
Hampered by self-imposed restrictions, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been slower to coordinate a response to the Taliban, Lutfallah Mashal, governor of Laghman province, told reporters today in Berlin. ``The U.S. forces who took over after the Taliban started to be very aggressive against the Taliban, and were very close to the communities,'' Mashal said. ``But NATO is not doing as aggressive a job as the Americans used to do.''
NATO has struggled to turn back a guerrilla war by Taliban- led insurgents targeting foreign troops and the government of President Hamid Karzai. Crossing the mountains from Pakistan, militants have stepped up attacks on civilians and police in the south and eastern regions along the border.
NATO leaders should coordinate their strategy better, said Gul Aghan Sherzai, governor of Nangarhar on the Pakistani border, where a suicide bomber killed seven civilians and 11 police officers on April 29. Alliance troops should be in every province, he said.
With a third governor, Abdul Jabar Haqbeen of Baghlan, the Afghan regional leaders demanded more troops and development aid. They laid blame on Pakistan for allowing Taliban militants to cross the border and carry out attacks.
The three had delivered a proposal to the German government on expanding police training beyond the capital, Kabul, which Berlin is coordinating. Police academies should be located in regional centers such as Kandahar, Jalalabad and Herat instead of only northern Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul, Mashal said.
NATO members must loosen their restrictions, or so-called caveats, and move troops out of confined areas, Mashal said. Without explicitly asking Germany to send troops south from positions in the relatively peaceful north, Mashal pointed to its confinement of soldiers to Kunduz province. ``If they go to Kandahar, that would send a strong blow to the Taliban -- the enemies are also thinking that `some countries are friendly toward us and some countries are very aggressive toward us','' Mashal said.
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Every piece of captured land that NATO turned over to the Karzai circus, was handed back to the Taleban.
Opium tapping ends this week in Afghanistan. Generally, Taliban recruits from the tappers at this time, in preparation for the Summer offensive. If the NY Times is right in claiming that Taliban is taking 20% of the billion dollar heroin industry, the jihadis will be loaded. There could be some surprises this Summer, if we continue to let Karzai interfere with operations against his fellow Pashto druggies.
It is a vast expanse of desert where conditions are so inhospitable that almost no one lives there. But for al-Qaeda on the run in Iraq and under attack in Pakistan and Afghanistan this stretch of the Algerian Sahara has proved fertile ground in its quest to open a new front on Europes southern doorstep.
THE NORTHERN FRONT
Morocco Moroccan Islamic Combat Group (GICM) is believed to have orchestrated the 2004 Madrid bombings, killing 191 people. Salafia Jihadia, an offshoot, was also involved in the 2003 Casablanca bombings that killed 33
Libya The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, founded in 1995 by veterans of the war against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, has been linked to al-Qaeda. This month Colonel Gaddafi released 90 imprisoned members, saying they had reformed
Tunisia Last year security forces killed 12 Islamic extremists linked to Algerian terror groups. They had been plotting to attack the British and US embassies in Tunis as well as hotels and nightclubs
Algeria Al-Qaeda-linked group has carried out a series of spectacular suicide attacks including assassination attempts on President Bouteflika
Mauritania Security forces this week arrested five al-Qaeda militants suspected of killing four French tourists in December. The Dakar Rally was cancelled this year because of terrorism fears
Mali North Mali serves as a logistics and training base for the AQIM, according to Western intelligence sources. Its leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar reportedly operates from the region. He was responsible for the 2003 kidnapping of 32 tourists in southern Algeria
Intelligence sources and Western diplomats have told The Times that a new force an Algerian group calling itself al-Qaeda in the Land of Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) aims to create an arc of influence throughout North Africa by spreading Osama bin Ladens brand through a fusion of disparate fundamentalist groupings.
Ernst Uhrlau, the head of the German foreign intelligence agency, said recently: We are watching the activities of al-Qaeda in North Africa with great concern. A handful of groups have become ensconced there, largely unobserved, and are strengthening bin Ladens terrorist network. What is evolving there brings a completely new quality to the jihad on our doorstep.
In Tunisia this week the French President echoed this nervousness. Who could believe that if tomorrow, or after tomorrow, a Taleban-type regime were established in one of your countries in North Africa, Europe and France could feel secure? President Sarkozy asked.
In 2006, on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat a fundamentalist group that has rejected an Algerian offer of an amnesty and pardon announced its merger with al-Qaeda and an oath of allegiance to bin Laden. Since then they have adopted wholesale the tactics, techniques and procedures that al-Qaeda has successfully used against coalition forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, an intelligence source said.
Intelligence sources contacted by The Times in London, France, Spain, Germany and the US as well as in North Africa show a remarkable uniformity when describing the threat posed by AQIM. At present it is not the size of its membership that is causing alarm one Western intelligence source said that its hardcore numbered about 200 fighters but the speed with which it has reorganised itself in a region emerging from a conflict that has claimed up to 200,000 lives in the past decade.
While it has continued to attack Algerian forces AQIM has widened its range of targets including Westerners using tactics honed in Iraq: suicide attacks and a variety of bombing techniques. They are definitely growing in sophistication and, taken as a whole, this presents us with a very disturbing picture, the source said.
Theyve done all this in a relatively short time, some of it through the use of the internet where they can organise, download training videos, recruit via encrypted forums.
There are disturbing trends that suggest they have been training others from both the Sahel and the Maghreb countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Senegal, Mauritania and Burkina Faso.
Although the emir of AQIM, Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud, was hiding in the mountains of the Kabylie region, the strategic base of the group was far to the south, across the lightly guarded border with Mali, the source said. Its that ungoverned space across the Sahel. You dont need a cave to hide there, all you need is to keep on the move its a vast, empty space.
If youve got a small group of four to five trucks with fifteen to twenty men, a few indigenous people, in a huge area all you have to do is keep on the move.
Chemicals for making bombs such as those used in the double suicide attack in Algiers in December, which killed 41 people in a UN compound are arriving in Algeria along traditional Saharan smuggling routes from West Africa. These routes are bringing nomadic Tuaregs into AQIMs sphere of influence, a relationship described by the intelligence source as a marriage of convenience.
A big part of this trade is drugs, with cocaine featuring ever more strongly as a financial source for the terrorists.
Last month twenty-four al-Qaeda militants were killed; ten were allegedly planning to carry out suicide attacks in the capital. The past twelve months have been bloody, with eight suicide attacks killing more than a hundred people. Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Ladens deputy, justified the attacks via an internet forum last week, describing them as jihad to liberate Algerians from America, France and the children of France.
A recent report by Europol, the EU crime intelligence agency, claimed that most of the 340 people arrested on terrorism-related charges between October 2005 and December 2006 inside Europe came from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Many of them had ties with the Salafists and AQIM.
Under the sands of the Sahara lies the source of wealth in Algeria: huge reserves of oil and gas. Sonatrach, the state energy group in Algeria and the biggest company by revenue in Africa, has just announced record earnings of $19 billion (£9.7 billion) in the first three months of 2008. The country has never been wealthier, yet unemployment is rampant among young men, prompting the popular newspaper cartoonist Dilem to portray the choice facing them as one teenager with a suicide belt, labelled kamikaze, and another with a lifebelt, labelled harraga the term used to describe those who try to make it across the Mediterranean.
There is a lack of hope among young Algerians for the future, a Western diplomat said. One of the suicide bombers here was only 15 and al-Qaeda is stepping up its propaganda efforts to recruit the very young.
It remains the biggest challenge to the Algerian authorities to make these people feel that they have a stake in society.
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See also TOPIX > US:IRAN WANTS AN UNSTABLE AFGHANISTAN; + JIHAD AND OIL: AL QAEDA EXPANDS IN AFRICA.
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My sympathy meter remains pegged at zero where EUrope is concerned.
If they're not willing to get off their dead asses and defend themselves and their culture, why should I?
It'll be a shame to lose the art in the great museums of Europe, but maybe somebody there can get most of it out before the islamonazis completely take over.... :-(
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Perhaps Europe should be creating a foreign legion filled with angry Islamics currently filling their prison. A paradrop over North Africa (sans parachutes) would send a powerful message that European soldiers are not afraid to die either and I have to say it would probably freak out the bad guys something fierce.
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Maybe the French with their new President can finally renew the French Foreign Legion back to what it was BEFORE De Gaulle gutted it : 25,000 troops which included its own air wing with fighters and transports, a true mechanized division, and what was effectively a helioborne brigade. Fill it mainly with Balkan discontents from Serbia and the like, and then let it loose against the Islamonazis in Francephile zone of Africa.
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ION CHINESE MIL FORUM > CHINA EYES NATO OPERATIONS, i.e. REVIEWING SCRUTINIZING + EVALUATING, ANALYSIS AND INTENTIONS, along its Western Borders e.g. in Afghanistan, Kosovo, etc.
North Korea has agreed to give the US records from its nuclear complex to back a declaration of its atomic program, a US paper reports. The Washington Times, quoting administration and congressional officials, reported Thursday that Pyongyang has "tentatively agreed to give the United States thousands of records from its key Yongbyon nuclear reactor dating back to 1990."
However, the White House said it had no new information from North Korea on when it might provide the declaration, which was due by December 31, 2007. A US State Department official declined to comment on the report but noted that a US team visited Pyongyang last week to discuss the declaration and ways to verify it.
The North shut down the Yongbyon plant and is in the process of disabling it under a deal reached with the US, China, the two Koreas, Japan and Russia, AFP said. The final phase of completely dismantling the plant and surrendering all nuclear material will be implemented after it hands over the declaration.
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N. Korea to give nuclear records to US
Just a minute, just a minute, the typing's not done yet, give us another day and we'll have them faked up correctly.
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And I have several records from Spike Jones; probably contains more useful information.....
Somewhere, Fallaci is smiling
(ANSA) - Rome, May 6 - Political polemics and security concerns continued to mount on Tuesday ahead of this year's edition of the Turin Book Fair, which is commemorating Israel's 60th birthday with a celebration of its literature. Although a boycott of the fair in protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians was planned months ago, tension has climbed a notch in recent days, ahead of the event's inauguration this Thursday.
Last week, left-wing activists and the Free Palestine association burned two Israeli flags in a central Turin square, and on Monday, a leading Swiss Muslim academic, Tariq Ramadan, attacked Italian President Giorgio Napolitano for his involvement in the fair. Sun rises in the east ...
Ramadan accused Napolitano, a former communist, of conflating criticism of Israeli foreign policy with anti-Semitism, and said the president's decision to inaugurate the fair was ''an extremely political act''. The president's office responded with a sharply worded statement underlining that Napolitano's attendance was routine at cultural events and dismissing as ''entirely false'' Ramadan's comments on anti-Semitism. ''Criticism of the Israeli government's policies is entirely legitimate, particularly its actions within Israel,'' the note said. ''What is not acceptable is any position that denies the legitimacy of the state of Israel, set up by the United Nations in 1948, and its right to exist in peace and security''. Long live Italy!
On Tuesday, other political figures weighed into the debate, mostly expressing support for Israel and the president's decision to attend the fair despite the boycott. Rome's new right-wing mayor, Giorgio Alemanno, said the burning of Israeli flags was ''a disgrace'', adding that criticism of Israel was acceptable ''but no one can be allowed to question Israel's right to exist''. A group of MPs issued a cross-party statement of support for the president, describing it as ''a political and moral duty'' to attend the inauguration. The message, signed by members of Italy's main centre-right and centre-left parties, underscored the importance of protecting freedom of speech and ''condemning extremism in all forms''. Israel's ambassador to Italy, Gideon Meir, also discussed the boycott for the first time on Tuesday, saying it was an act by extremists ''who want to deprive Israel of its legal status''.
Meanwhile, security preparations are being stepped up, amid fears about demonstrations planned in protest at the fair. A number of commentators have predicted a repetition of the disturbances that marred the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa.
Between 300 and 400 officers will police a national pro-Palestine demonstration on Saturday, which hundreds are expected to attend, while the route of the march, originally scheduled to finish outside the Book Fair, has been altered.
Security will also be tight at the inauguration of the fair but Turin's chief of police Paolo Padoin said the event would not be ''sealed off'' for Napolitano's visit. ''We are taking each day as it comes and we are feeling confident,'' he said, adding that his officers were working closely with police stations across Italy to prepare for Saturday's event.
But the security arrangements have drawn criticism from those opposed to the Israeli focus, with complaints that police have shut off all access to protest. ''We don't want to create further aggravation or conflict but we must highlight the fact that the fair has effectively been sealed off,'' said the boycott's organizers. ''The police have banned leafleting or information stands in front of the fair, effectively creating a red zone''.
Turin's International Book Fair, which runs until Monday, is the largest publishing event in Italy and the second largest in Europe after Frankfurt.
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I'd like to see the Alan Dershowitz piece on why anti-Zionism is really anti-Semitism replayed at least once a quarter.
The days that these a**holes start applying their same standards to all countries, THEN I might believe that their criticism of Israel isn't Jew hatred in disguise.
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I'll believe someone's criticism of Israel when they criticizes all the other nations that actually torture, rape and imprison people that speak out against the government. Otherwise, they are nothing more than anti-Semites.
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This is the same country whose main newspaper, in recent years, had a cartoon showing the infant Christ asking, while threatened by an evil Jewish/Israeli character, "Will they crucify me again?" Congratulations, Italy, on the movement of your national consensus!
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So here is this guy named Tariq Ramadan and he's trying to act like a normal human being. He's trying to act as if he thinks that civilized people should give a rat's ass what he says and I'm thinking to myself, "WTF is he doing in Switzerland?"
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"WTF is he doing in Switzerland?"
Poor Professor Ramadan is over there because the State Department denied him a visa to come over here and teach at one of the big private universities. If I recall correctly, they objected to his jihadi friends... although the State Department called them terrorists, or something like that.
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Poor Professor Ramadan is over there because the State Department denied him a visa to come over here and teach at one of the big private universities.
The University of Notre Dame. The Lefties there were disappointed when the DHS said "ain't gonna happen".
For the best background on Tariq Ramadan (who happens to be the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt)) and his US visa rejections, Daniel Pipes provides the skinny.
An Islamic convert facing terrorism charges was rearrested after trying to walk out of his own trial yesterday - saying simply that "I'm outta here" - after telling the court he wouldn't recognize Canadian law.
I'll have to give that a try next time I'm arrested...
The 20-year-old, who can't be identified because he was underage at the time of his arrest two years ago, had been released on bail. But he spent last night in jail, and his legal future is unclear.
Oh. Well. If it worked that well, maybe I'll try something else.
At the time proceedings broke down, a police officer had been on the stand, and the court was discussing the young man's mental status, including whether he was suicidal.
"Officer Friendly, what was the defendant doing at the time you arrested him?"
"He was frothing at the mouth and biting himself in the small of the back, yer honor!"
The only youth among 11 Toronto area suspects accused of a variety of conspiracies is also the only one whose case has got to its trial phase. He faces charges of attending a terrorist training camp. The court has heard only preliminary motions so far, and has yet to delve into evidence or testimony. While on bail, the young man had been living with his Hindu parents.
"Son, stop bonking your head on the floor and say 'ommm,' dammit!"
A Toronto Muslim preacher told The Globe that the suspect had been coming to Friday prayers, saying that he would rather return to jail than live in a non-Islamic household. "He said, 'In jail, I can at least pray,' "
"It ain't so much the head-bonking that bothers us, but he's our boy. We don't want him to explode."
Aly Hindy, imam of the Salahuddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, said in an interview. "I said 'Don't do this!' " Mr. Hindy said.
"Oh, yasss! I was against it from the first!"
He added that he counselled the young man to pray in secret, but tensions between the suspect and his father had reached a boiling point. The man's family did not comment last night.
"We got nuttin' to say."
Mr. Hindy added that the young man is "confused" and that "lots of young people, they need guidance." The young man had lately been expressing an interest in circumcising himself, the imam said, consistent with his understanding of what the Prophet Abraham had done.
"Put your pee bug back in your pants and put the knife down!"
After the youth announced that he was firing his lawyer and didn't recognize the court led by Mr. Justice John Sproat, officials urged him to reconsider.
"You might want to think about that, Beauzeau. That's assuming you think, of course."
Dan Brien, a spokesman for the federal prosecutors, said only that the suspect had been remanded into custody, but he would not be giving any further details. A hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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Stupid puppy! I think self-circumcision is exactly the punishment he needs, followed by a nice, quiet jail cell where he can think things through while he recovers.
The U.S. Marine Corps has had more success than expected in attracting recruits, and has moved up the date for completing their current expansion. Last year, Congress ordered the marines to expand their strength from the current 181,000 to 202,000. At first, the marines thought it would take them four years to do it. But between the large number of recruits, and the many current marines who are staying in, the expansion will be accomplished by next year. Obviously all these young men and women thought they were filling out pledge cards at Berkeley's I Felta Thi frat, but since they can't read (per Stephen King) they are now stuck in boot camp.
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Perhaps they should pick up the slack for the Army. Let the Army shift back to the heavy stuff and let the Marines handle the small wars. Specialization of labor and all that.
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The high numbers of re-enlistments & retention of good Marines in general is great. Sadly though we have lowered a few standards to get more new folks in. I hope that the impact of that in the long run is negligible but I am not holding my breath.
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I suspect that the commandant is going to get his wish, and that all of Afghanistan will become a Marine mission, "their country".
The Marines are still annoyed that their other opportunity of nation building, Haiti, was taken from them before it was finished and descended back into the hell it remains.
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Suggests that those inclined to sign up want to fight. If all you want is to learn a career and get you GI Bill then you don't volunteer for the Marines.
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The relative lack of infrastructure, the terrain and the more stark tribal basis of much of Afghanistan suggests that the Marine's expeditionary skills are needed contra the Talibs.
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Sadly though we have lowered a few standards to get more new folks in.
Maybe the Marines figure they have a pretty good handle on the process of making more Marines and think they can do it with slightly less pristine starting materials. Like others have pointed out, the new folks still need to make it thru the pipeline.
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Back in the 1920s and 30s, the Marine Corps had a very successful program of recruiting guys from Southern chain gangs and sending them over to fight in the State Department wars in Central America. Could never do that now, of course, but those troops were what was needed.
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NET > the AUSSIE Navy, FRENCH Navale-Marine, CANADA, and even the RUSSIANS are having probs recruiting. IFF THEY HAVE THE $$$ = BENEFITS PROMO, AMERICA HAS THE MANPOWER???
Lest we fergit, ITS CALLED THE OWG "GLOBAL TASK FORCE" etc., what I like to label the "100" or "1000-FLAG/NATION NAVY" = MARITIME FOREIGN LEGIOn for HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS + FIGHTING INSURGENCIES???
D *** NG IT, HOW CAN THE FUTURE OWG FORCE THE EARTH'S CORE TO SURRENDER WIDOUT THE GLOBAL TASK FORCE!
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Wel-l-l, REDDIT/TOPIX/OTHER > GORBACHEV ACCUSES US OF ENGAGING IN IMPERIALIST CONSPIRACY AGZ RUSSIA + US INTENTIONALLY/WILFULLY DASHING HOPES FOR PEACE WITH RUSSIA + GORBACHEV: US PUSHING RUSSIA INTO NEW COLD WAR.
India has test-fired its longest-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile, Agni-III, officials said. The surface-to-surface missile was test-fired off the coast of Orissa state in eastern India. With a range of more than 3,000km (1,865 miles), the missile could hit targets as far off as Beijing and Shanghai, analysts say.
Indian defence spokesman Group Captain Ramesh Kumar Das said the latest test was launched from the interim test range at the Wheeler's Island in the Bay of Bengal. The intermediate range ballistic missile is capable of carrying a 1.5-tonne nuclear payload. When deployed, it will boost India's second-strike capability as it can be launched from anywhere using a mobile launcher. It will need a few more tests before it can be inducted into the armed forces, Group Captain Das said.
Possession of the Agni-III will give India deep strike capability because it would have Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai and the US island base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean well within its striking range.
Agni-3 flight tested successfully for the third time
The DRDO conducted a launch of AGNI 3 Missile system to a Range of 3000 kms at 09:56 hrs today from the Wheeler Island, about 12 kms from Dhamra off Orissa Coast.
It was a text book launch and followed the trajectory with single digit guidance accuracy. All the subsystems of the Missile functioned in a copybook manner giving an outstanding integrated performance of the Missile in terms of Range and accuracy. The Missile reached the pre-designated target in a time of 800 seconds, travelling through a peak height of 350 km with a velocity of more than 4000 metres/second. Two Indian Naval Ships positioned near the target location South of equator, have confirmed the impact of the Missile. This is the third flight test in the series of AGNI-3, which was carried out to establish the repeatability of Missile performance.
The Missile system is equipped with sophisticated Navigation, Guidance and Control systems along with advanced distributed architecture based On Board Computer Systems. The electronic systems are hardened for higher vibration, thermal and acoustic effects. A high performance indigenous Ring Laser Gyro based Navigation System is flight tested for the first time in AGNI Missile Systems.
The Missile was tracked by various telemetry stations, electro optic systems and radars located along the coast, Port Blair and by the downrange ships positioned near the target location. The data from the various stations is transmitted in real time through an advanced communication network of DRDO for online performance evaluation and range safety.
AGNI 3 Missile is a two stage solid propellant system with a length 17 metres, diameter of 2 metres and launch weight of 50 tons, carries a payload of 1.5 tons. The Missile Re-enters into the atmosphere with a very high velocity and experiences a deceleration of more than 35 g and a temperature of more than 2500 °C. The payload is protected by Carbon-Carbon all composite heat shield. The A3 is Rail Mobile System capable of being launched from any where in India.
The complete Integration and launch activities are carried out under the leadership of AGNI Programme Director, Sri Avinash Chander, who declared the AGNI 3 flight test a complete success and met all the Mission objectives. He also said that, with this flight, the developmental flights of AGNI 3 are complete and the system is ready for induction.
The successful launch of AGNI 3 was witnessed by Sri M Natarajan, Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri, Sri Sundaram Krishnan, Advisor to Raksha Mantri, Sri Shekhar Dutt, Deputy National Security Advisor, Dr V.K. Saraswat, Chief Controller (R&D) and other senior officials of the Forces. Defence Minister Sri A.K. Antony congratulated the Mission Director and all the scientists of DRDO for the successful launch of AGNI 3.
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Congratulations to India for her ongoing modernization and technical expertise.
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Agni III could have 5,000 km range: Russian General
A top Russian General on Wednesday said that India's Agni-III ballistic missile, which has a range of 3,000 kilometres, could strike targets upto 5,000 kilometres, similar to that of Soviet designed SS-20 nuclear missile.
The Russian General's remarks came as India on Wednesday successfully test-fired its surface-to-surface nuclear capable Agni-III missile for the second time giving the country a capability to hit targets as far as deep inside China.
"The parameters of the missile disclosed by the Indian defence officials... provide solid ground for presuming that Agni-III is similar to the Soviet Army's first twin stage solid fuel propelled BRSD "Pioneer" (NATO codename SS-20) missile with a range of upto five thousand kilometres," Maj Gen Yevgeny Borodunov was quoted as saying by ITAR-TASS.
Gen Borodunov was formerly commander of the 33rd missile division of the Strategic Missile Force, which was the first unit to induct 'Pioneer' missiles in the Soviet Army. He also noted that Agni-III is the first ballistic missile tested on the trajectory crossing the equator.
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Nationalist Pashtun senators from Balochistan accused religious extremist and foreign elements on Tuesday of defying government authority, especially in the NWFP and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
During a debate on the law and order situation in the country, moved by Leader of the Opposition Senator Kamil Ali Agha, the senators expressed their concern over the fast deteriorating law and order in the country. They took particular note of the incidents of kidnapping for ransom.
The state administration has completely collapsed. Government writ is not seen anywhere, especially in the Pashtun-dominated areas of NWFP. Outlaws are kidnapping, looting and killing innocent people at will. And our Corps Commanders and inspector generals are bargaining for the release of the abducted rather than taking action against criminal elements, said Pushtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP)s Senator Abdul Rahim Mandokhail in his opening remarks.
Expressing disappointment over the law-enforcement agencies inability to trace abducted Pakistani Ambassador Tariq Azizuddin almost two months after his kidnapping, he also questioned whether the agencies were sponsoring such elements themselves.
Strength: Mandokhail said that the religious extremists had become so strong in the Tribal Areas that they were now implementing their own version of Islam by force. He alleged that the most people of the region, including parliamentarians, were aware of the identities of the kidnappers. Senator Azam Swati of the JUI-F, however, said that Pakistan had made two major mistakes in its foreign policy by first joining the Afghan war in the 1980s, and then joining the war on terror on the behest of the US. The first policy resulted in Klashnikov culture and the second in suicide attacks in Pakistan. He urged an immediate review of the countrys policy on war on terror.
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The political wing of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) will be handed over to the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in a major reshuffle of the countrys intelligence apparatus, Dawn News reported on Tuesday. According to the channel, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani decided to make major changes in the intelligence machinery after consultations with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in an attempt to tighten the new governments grip on the countrys affairs.
The government decided to end the political role of the ISI and hand over its political wing to the IB, which is now being headed by Wing Commander (r) Tariq Lodhi, a close friend of Zardari.
Dawn News said the government had decided to end the political role of the ISI and hand over its political wing to the IB, which is now being headed by Wing Commander (r) Tariq Lodhi, a close friend of Zardari. Citing unidentified sources in the Presidency, the channel said President Pervez Musharraf was not receiving fortnightly intelligence reports from the ISI and the Military Intelligence (MI) any longer. The president was now relying only on the reports from the IB, which also shares information with the prime minister, the channel said. It said the ISI would now send intelligence reports to the prime minister and the MI to the army chief and the corps commanders. All civilian intelligence agencies would report to the prime minister, the channel added.
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Iraq's ambassador to the U.S. said yesterday that a high-level committee will investigate Iran's role in arms trafficking across his country's borders, after the discovery of large caches of weapons and explosive devices recently manufactured in Iran.
"It's a bit disingenuous to believe such quantities of up-to-date weapons manufactured this year, last year, can flow into the country without the knowledge of the Iranian government," Ambassador Samir Sumaida'ie told editors and reporters at The Washington Times.
"However, I understand that the prime minister ordered the formation of the committee only in the last 48 hours to put facts together, to establish where the connection is between these weapons and evidence of training so that we can basically confront our Iranian neighbors," he said.
Mr. Sumaida'ie said the Iraqi investigative committee, appointed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, will include the ministers of interior and defense and will gauge the full facts of the situation.
The committee was established on the heels of a parliamentary delegation that traveled to Tehran last week claiming to have evidence that Iran was providing mortars, rockets, small arms and armor-piercing roadside bombs known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, that troops have discovered in recent months.
Iranian officials have denied accusations that they are supplying weapons to militias in Iraq.
U.S. counterterrorism officials said Iran has increased weapons supplies in recent months, adding that the Iranian government wants to diminish U.S. and Iraqi coalition efforts in the region.
"There continues to be a disturbing flow of arms from Iran to Iranian-backed groups inside of Iraq and there are some indications that the flow is increasing," the counterterrorism official said.
However, the fact that the al-Maliki government is investigating Iran is a sign of "increasing maturity," the official added.
Mr. Sumaida'ie said that, despite an eight-year war with Iran during the 1980s under the Sunni-dominated regime of Saddam Hussein, the current Iraqi Shi'ite militias and specifically anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have formed close ties with Tehran.
But he said the majority of Shi'ites in his country maintain strong nationalistic ties to Iraq.
"In fact, the Iraqi Shi'ite presents a threat to the Iranian state rather than the other way around," he said.
Mr. Sumaida'ie said that a warrant for the arrest of Sheik al-Sadr in 2004 may have avoided the current militia uprising. He said the United States was only moments away from arresting Sheik al-Sadr when "somebody in Washington got cold feet."
"Maybe that was a mistake because, had he been taken out at that time, specifically in April 2004, he would not have had the time to build up this huge capability," Mr. Sumaida'ie said.
He added that the Iraqi government could not carry out Sheik al-Sadr's arrest after the U.S. backed down because it did not have the necessary strength at the time.
Mr. Sumaida'ie said the Iraqi government is trying to recover from mistakes and must deal with many complex social, political and economic issues.
He said American military forces were sufficient to topple the former regime but insufficient to keep the peace.
"The disbanding of the police was much more catastrophic than the disbanding of the army because at the level of local neighborhoods we lost control of law and order," he said.
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"The disbanding of the police was much more catastrophic than the disbanding of the army because at the level of local neighborhoods we lost control of law and order," he said.
I believe that:
1) He's correct but,
2) in a tyrranical dictatorship like Hussein's the police is an arm of the tyrrany and can't be left alone.
3) The difficulty of reestablishing law and order is inversely proportional to the severity of the thumping of the population in the war. We really ran this war with kid gloves vis a vis the civilian population therefore there was a lot more energy left in the society to feed the bad guys.
KUWAIT CITY A Sunni fundamentalist from Kuwait who has been linked by the United Nations and the United States to Al Qaeda, said in an interview published Wednesday that Iran is supporting Sunni Arab insurgents fighting American troops in Iraq.
The comments by Mubarak al-Bathali came just days after reports surfaced here that three Kuwaitis recently carried out suicide bombings in Iraq, including a Kuwaiti who was a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner. Kuwaiti authorities have not confirmed those reports.
The U.S. has accused Iran which is predominantly Shiite like Iraq of supporting Shiite militias in Iraq. Iran denies this and blames the U.S. troops presence for the violence in Iraq.
The accusations by al-Bathali were a rare occasion that a Sunni fundamentalist claimed Tehran also backs Sunni extremists, linked to Al Qaeda. In the battlefields of Iraq, Sunnis and Shiites are archenemies.
In the interview in Kuwaiti Al-Qabas daily, al-Bathali said that Tehran is supplying Al Qaeda fighters and other Jihad movements in Iraq with "weapons and money" and claimed he has personally sent fighters to Iraq by way of Syria.
Al-Bathali alleged that Iran's motivation for backing both the Sunnis and Shiites opposed to Washington, was because Tehran is eager to "place hurdles in front of America" so that the U.S. would be "too busy to fight" Iran. He also said Iran facilitates the entry of fighters into Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Any person who wants Jihad (holy war), is of age and responsible and honest in his intent, I send him and prepare him," al-Bathali said. "I guarantee passage into Syria and reception there, until he finds himself in Iraq carrying a weapon and fighting."
Al-Bathali, whose remarks were unusually bold, said he has also sent Kuwaitis to fight in Kosovo and Chechnya.
He gave no evidence of his claims and provided no further details. But he mentioned his son, Abdel Rahman, who was captured in Iraq in 2004 and sentenced there to 10 years for working with Al Qaeda.
"If I had sons other than Abdel Rahman, I would have sent them to fight the Americans until doomsday," he said in the interview. Al-Bathali could not be reached by The Associated Press for comment.
In January, the U.N. Security Council added al-Bathali and two other Kuwaitis to a list of about 480 individuals and businesses linked to Al Qaeda and its sponsor the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Treasury Department has said al-Bathali is a fundraiser and recruiter for Usama bin Laden's terror network and has facilitated travel for extremists planning to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Al-Bathali told Al-Qabas that he doesn't send fighters to Iraq through the Iraq-Kuwait border because the area beyond the boundary in southern Iraq is controlled by "Shiites and British forces." Instead, the "easiest borders have been the Syrian and Saudi," he said.
The U.S. has chastised Syria for allowing foreign fighters to cross into Iraq. Syria denies the charges and claims it's impossible to seal its border completely.
Small oil-rich Kuwait has been a major Washington ally since the U.S.-led 1991 Gulf War that liberated it from a seven-month Iraqi occupation. However, some of its fundamentalist Muslims disapprove of U.S. forces being based in their country or any other in the area.
Media reports have said that three Kuwaitis, including Abdullah al-Ajmi who was released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantnamo Bay in 2005, carried out suicide bombings in Iraq recently. The families of al-Ajmi and another alleged bomber, Bader al-Harbi, said they received anonymous calls informing them the men died in Iraq.
Al-Bathali told Al-Qabas the three left Kuwait "only after a martyrdom operation was prepared for them in agreement with coordinators" in Iraq. He did not say if he had a role in sending them himself.
CAIRO (AFP) An Iraqi Sunni delegation on a visit to Cairo on Wednesday urged Arab countries to act against what it called the "Iranian occupation" of Iraq.
"We would like a common Arab position to save Iraq and its people ...(in the face of) the Iranian occupation," Sheikh Majid Abdel Razzak al-Ali Suleiman said after a meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
"Such an Arab position, led by Egypt, is necessary to weaken Iran's role in Iraq, because if Tehran occupies this country, it will occupy other Arab countries too," said the head of the Dulaim tribe, which is concentrated mainly in Anbar province, west of Baghdad.
Sunni tribes from Anbar, a onetime stronghold of the anti-US insurgency, have recently allied themselves with US troops against Al-Qaeda militants, while keeping their distance from the Baghdad government dominated by Shiites.
The delegation also called on Arab countries to re-open their missions in Baghdad "so that the territory is not left to Iran."
Suleiman said that all Iraqis, whether from north or south, "are ready to guarantee Arab diplomats' security."
For his part, Abul Gheit said his country was seriously considering sending a security mission to Iraq in order to assess conditions for re-opening an embassy in Iraq, according to his spokesman Hossam Zaki.
CAIRO, Egypt Al-Arabiya television reports it has identified the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the network broadcast his photograph.
The Dubai-based network, citing an Iraqi police official, said the real name of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who allegedly heads the Islamic State of Iraq, is Hamid Dawoud al-Zawi.
Originally from Haditha, al-Baghdadi served in the Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein, then joined Al Qaeda in 2003, the police official told Al-Arabiya.
The U.S. has described al-Baghdadi as a fictitious character.
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One of Saddam Hussein's officers? (The Al Qaeda snobs would never have made an enlisted man figurehead of the Iraqi branch office.) Need one wonder precisely which part of the Ba'athist forces he was an officer in?
(AKI) - Al-Qaeda has used 6,000 suicide bombers in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, according to records discovered in a terrorist training camp in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad.
Half a line division blew themselves up?
A spokesman for the local Sunni tribal militias, Sheikh Shaker al-Shamri, told the Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah, his men entered an al-Qaeda training camp for female suicide bombers near Baaquba. In the camp they found correspondence belonging to a group of leaders from the terrorist organisation that calculated the suicide attacks conducted by the group since 2003. The majority of the 6,000 suicide bombers used by al-Qaeda until now are Arab and Afghan citizens, not Iraqis. The documents confirmed claims made by Iraqi secret services. According to the document many young people, in particular 15 women were recruited to carry out attacks in the Sunni province.
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That's a lot of people to be used up and will take some time to refill, especially with the backlash. I wonder how many of them knew they were going to be blowup when they drove to the "location"?
The following is the transcript of an Interview with Sheikh Salih al-Obaidi, Moqtada al-Sadr's spokesman:
Q. A meeting was held on Monday between the Sadr Party and President Talabani to discuss the ongoing violence in Baghdad's Sadr city. Clashes have been ensuing between Iraqi and US-led forces and armed groups including members of the Mahdi Army for a month. Would you please tell if during the meeting yesterday there were any new proposals laid out that might lead to the establishment of peace in Sadr City?
A. The meeting with President Talabani was according to a proposal suggested by the parliament. A committee from the parliament visited Sadr City three days ago and they became informed about the miserable situation of the city, the sufferings of the people and the American snipers. So the parliament decided to draw up a proposal to president so that he can set up a meeting between the Sadrists and government to solve the ongoing problem. The meeting should [have] been comprised of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki and three presidential office members as well as the parliament speaker and a committee or a league from Sadr office, and some others from Sadr group in the parliament highlighted the current problems in Sadr city. To hold the meeting an official procedure had to be followed. The proposal had to be submitted to President Talabani through the parliament speaker.
Q. Prime Minister Nouri-Al Maliki has set up conditions for the Sadr movement in order to stop the ongoing military operation inside Sadr City including dismantling the Mahdi Army. Does the Sadr party have any plan to consider or accept any of these conditions?
A. We really didn't reach to that point to discuss those conditions to see if we can accept or refuse them. However, we reject Maliki's attitude towards the issue for setting up the conditions for us. Maliki has behaved like a dictator in putting these conditions, because he thinks that the government can do anything to anyone and has official rights to do what it likes to do and no one can question the government's actions. This style, we think, is a dictator style. Furthermore the Maliki has adopted another policy which we refused to follow, which is that when he sets conditions, the Sadrists are obliged to accept them. This indicates that the Sadrists have not followed or refused to accept those points before. He has to set conditions to stop military operations while in reality we have already followed and practiced the things he wanted us to do and we have been very cooperative to reach a kind of peace inside the Iraqi society. The security measures which were implemented since last year have been far from reality in 2006. Security was restored earlier when Sadrists froze their military actions in the first six months of the year, but Maliki ignores these points, trying to say that the Sadrists have done nothing for the security of Iraq. The Sadr movement has done its best.
Q. Have any negotiations taken place between the Sadr movement and the Maliki government?
A. There have been channels and kinds of attempts in order to quell the tensions, but such attempts have not been practical and we have achieved no results. Our problem with the government is the lack of trust. We need guarantees from the government to take our ideas into consideration. We really hope that the new meeting with President Talabani would build trust among us.
Q.What is the significance of the timing of this military operation both in Basra and Sadr city?
A.We really think some political sources provoked or pushed Maliki to do this campaign against our people. We think he has two important political reasons to do this campaign. Firstly, the upcoming elections in October which are very important because they determine who will control the governors and popular Sadr movement is [a source of concern for them], so they try to weaken the movement and impose limitations on it so that it can not participate in the elections. Secondly, there is a future agreement between the US and Iraqi government over the economic and security future of Iraq. We think that the new agreement would a more aggressive occupation. The Sadr party may be the first party to refuse the accord. This has put great pressure on the Sadr movement.
Q. Since Moqtada al-Sadr's ceasefire has entered its eighth months and with respect to Sadr's recent statement which warned of an open war, have the majority of the followers been thinking about the ceasefire. How long will the ceasefire last if the raids and attacks on Sadr's supporters continue?
A. the ceasefire was a decision by Moqtada al-Sadr and the average of the obedient reacted well as Moqtada al-Sadr himself told in an interview with Aljazeera TV. However we can't avoid protecting ourselves at the time of aggressions by the US occupiers or some Iraqi troops who take part in US operations against our people. So they have the right to protect themselves. The ceasefire and freezing Mahdi Army actions would be more practical if both sides don't target the Sadrists. They have to stop the campaign against the Sadr movement. Yes, they have the right to fight the gangs and criminals, but they use the title of gangs and criminals to fight Sadr's supporters. It is not obvious for the observers that Sadrists are the targets of the occupation forces and Iraqi government for political reasons.
Q. Prime Minister Maliki has recently announced that the United Iraqi Alliance cabinet is complete with a notable exception of the Sadr party. Why has the Sadr party chosen to stand back from this particular political process?
A. We decided not to participate in the government to insist our position as opposition to the government. This does not mean that we intimidate the government. We gave Maliki the opportunity to choose professionals for six ministries, but we saw that he did not choose professional people. He chose people who belong to this or that party and four ministries have been without ministers by now. So we concentrate on our opposition to the government and occupiers in order to have a free space for movement against them.
Q. What is the latest on the ground in Basra? We are hearing reports now that the whole area is under the control of the Iraqi army and western media are telling us that is a great success. In late March resistance fighters including Mahdi Army did went into a serious war with Iraqi, US and British forces. So what is exactly the situation now, as it is so quiet, have the fighters simply laid down their arms or they continue raids and attacks?
A. Our people are obedient to the agreement to stop all tension in Basra which happened at the end of March and they have not violated it so far, despite the fact that the Iraqi government and troops have violated the agreement. Moqtada al-Sadr made the decision to stop all tension in Basra in order to give opportunity to the government to fight criminals and gangs, but the government has used the media claiming that it has fought with Sadrists and Mahdi Army and has managed to control the situation. These are totally lies, because our people stopped fighting after the end of March and they obeyed the decision of Moqtada al-Sadr. The Iraqi government and security troops have launched several aggressive actions against our people, for instance the house of three important figures of our office in Basra came under attack and their families were arrested several times for one or two days. They have also prevented us from performing Friday prayers in two or three places in Basra for two weeks without any reasons. What kind of obstacles do the prayers put ahead of security process there? This is an aggressive action. They also destroyed the places and tents that we have built for the prayers in two important places in Basra. So we are now under security forces' attacks in Basra, but the government refuses to accept it, telling media that it has achieved a big victory. The victory has been achieved because we provided them with the opportunity. We have also suffered from being targeted by killers. Some of our people have been killed by gangs in Basra before Maliki's actions and two days ago one of senior figures in Basra office was killed when he was going around with his family. So we have been targeted until now in Basra.
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One last question. Saddam Hussein's last non-prayer words were to question the manhood of Moqtada Al Sadr. Should he be considered a prophet for predicting Tater's cowardly behavior of staying in Iran while his homies get creamed by the Iraqi Army?
Sorry, one more question. What's with the use of the word occupiers? If it weren't for your liberators, half of the Mahdi Army would have plunged feet first into a plastic shredder by now.
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Moqtada al-Sadr's spokesman, Sheikh Salih al-Obaidi, couldn't whip my grandmother in a game of s'tud poke'r... he's a natural born 'tell'.
Most of us RBees are lucky to have access to excellent Intel from open sources like Bill Roggio and Chuck Simmins etc. so that when we read statements from Sheikhy Salih al-Obaidi he appears quite transparent as he inadvertently spills all the beans in every one of his answers.
/and being a nattraul-born Skeptic of Middle-Eastern types 'taint hurt ya none Ithur!
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they became informed about the miserable situation of the city, the sufferings of the people and the American snipers
They have to stop the campaign against the Sadr movement. Yes, they have the right to fight the gangs and criminals, but they use the title of gangs and criminals to fight Sadr's supporters.
Sounds like the spokesman is exposing cracks the Sadrist's confidence. I believe the media definitely hypes up Al-Sadr.
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Furthermore the Maliki has adopted another policy which we refused to follow, which is that when he sets conditions, the Sadrists are obliged to accept them.
It's almost as if he thinks he's prime minister or something like that, the presumptuous fool!
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According to Palestinian sources quoted in the Arab newspaper, al-Quds al-Arabi, Kaddoumi intended to go to Damascus in a bid to resume dialogue between the ruling Fatah and the Islamist Hamas movement. Kaddoumi is known for being very critical of the president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. According to the newspaper, Kaddoumi was reportedly looking to revive internal divisions within Fatah to create a new organisation to counter the line taken by Abbas.
It is the third time that Syria has rejected a visa request from Kaddoumi.
It is the third time that Syria has rejected a visa request from Kaddoumi. On the other two occasions he tried to go to Damascus not only to resume dialogue with Hamas but to look at uniting his group with dissidents who left Fatah in 1982 to create Fatah al-Intifada, whose headquarters is based in Syria. It seems that the Syrian authorites do not want to be responsible for a new internal division in the Abbas government.
The PLO, founded in 1964 is the Palestinians' highest decision-making body and considered the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.
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Iran's parliament speaker has called on leaders of Islamic states to counter 'plots orchestrated by the enemies of the Muslim world'.
Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel made the remarks in a meeting on Tuesday with Mahmut Erol Kilic, secretary general of the Parliamentary Union of OIC Member States (PUOICM) . Fortunately, today signs of an awakening are emerging in the Muslim world. It is the responsibility of the leaders of Islamic countries to strengthen this awakening and guard it from diversion, Haddad-Adel noted. However, we can not achieve this goal without Islamic unity, the speaker added, stressing that the PUOICM, as an international parliamentary institution, can and must play a significant role in fighting division among Muslims.
Kilic also underlined the importance of the PUOIC in creating unity among Muslims and urged member states to help the union gain its true standing through efforts and cooperation.
The Tehran-based parliamentary union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference includes 50 member states. Its main objectives are to introduce the fundamentals of Islam, implement the Islamic principle of consultation (Shoura) among OIC members, provide a framework for cooperation between members' parliaments and support human rights, peace, and justice in the world.
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Lebanon's Cabinet decided Tuesday to remove Beirut airport's security chief over alleged ties to the militant Hezbollah group, the country's information minister said. The decision is expected to exacerbate tension between the Western-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition.
Information Minister Ghazi Aridi read a statement at the end of a marathon Cabinet meeting that began Monday evening and lasted nearly 11 hours, saying the security chief, Brig. Gen. Wafiq Shoukair, would rejoin the army. He also said the Cabinet declared that a telecommunications network used by Hezbollah for military purposes was illegal and a danger to state security.
A top Shiite cleric, Sheik Abdul-Amir Kabalan, had dismissed allegations of Shoukair's links to Hezbollah and warned Monday against any government decision to punish the airport security chief. "If there are any changes made, the airport will be out of control," Kabalan warned.
A Hezbollah spokesman said the group had no immediate comment on Tuesday's Cabinet decisions. The group's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, was to respond at a Thursday news conference, Hezbollah said in a statement.
But in a televised interview aired Monday night, Hezbollah deputy leader Naim Kassem warned the government against being taken in by false allegations.
The Cabinet decisions come a day after Lebanon's top prosecutor began investigating allegations that the militant group backed by Iran and Syria set up cameras near the airport to monitor the movement of anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians and foreign dignitaries. The allegations were first levied by anti-Syrian leader Walid Jumblatt, who on Saturday accused Hezbollah of placing the cameras and suggested Hezbollah was planning to assassinate senior leaders by bombing aircraft.
The airport is located in the predominantly Shiite southern Beirut suburbs where the militant group has wide support. Many buildings in the area overlook the runways.
Jumblatt also said Saturday that Shoukair, whom he described as a Hezbollah loyalist, should be fired and called for the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador in Lebanon. Hezbollah dismissed the allegations concerning airport surveillance and fired back with its own accusations against Jumblatt.
Kassem, the Hezbollah deputy leader, said the group's telecommunications network was a necessity for the group's deterrence capabilities in the fight against Israel and "complemented" Hezbollah's arsenal of weapons.
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Iran says should the enemies of the Islamic Revolution have the effrontery to confront Iran, the nation will bring them to their knees. "The Iranian nation is standing fast with all fortitude against any act of aggression," Iran's Prosecutor General Qorban-Ali Dorri Najafabadi said in an address to members of the country's Armed Forces.
He added that in any such case Iran will challenge the existence of oppressive powers, evoking memories of the victory of the Lebanese people over Israel; however, 'at a much more advanced level'.
The enemy is terrified by the spread of the message of Islam, the senior Iranian judicial official said, adding their only wish is to intimidate the countries of the Middle East into submission. "The Western hegemony will stop at nothing to secure its interests. Its domineering policies have provoked considerable hostility among the vigilant nations of the world," Dorri Najafabadi concluded.
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DEBKA > IRAN STANDS READY TO DEAL WITH ANY ATTACK.
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"The enemy is terrified by the spread of the message of Islam"
A bit of projection there, by the Iranian official. We're not scared of the spread of the message. In fact, the more people that hear and know about it, the better as far as I am concerned. The few folk who actually believe in it through lack of knowledge of its message are of concern, however.
Lebanon's Hezbollah says Fuad Siniora's government 'is playing with fire' and it have to face the consequence of its dangerous game. "The ruling faction in Lebanon is playing with fire and it has to face the consequences of its policies", Nawaf al-Musawi, the head of international relations department of Hezbollah told a Lebanese Radio station.
The remarks were made after the government decided to sack Beirut Airport's security head.
The Hezbollah official added the government had crossed the redlines through taking such a move.
Al-Musawi, however, declined to comment on the movement's reaction to the government.
He added certain groups were struggling to take the control of Beirut International Airport under the guise of internationalization of the country's problems and supporting government institutions.
He added that escalating tension among Lebanese groups could be dangerous at a time that some factions were relying on a US and Israeli military action against Lebanon.
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Harry Belafonte was reputed to have said, "Shake Shake Shake Siniora. Shake it all about."
In reaction to Walid Jumblatt's call for the ouster of Iran's envoy, Hezbollah MP al-Haj has called for the expulsion of the US envoy.
The Hezbollah MP, Hussein al-Haj, said that the Progressive Socialist Party leader, Walid Jumblatt, has aimed his arrow at Iran, calling for the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon; but it is the envoy whose country supplies Israel with weapons to kill and displace Palestinians that should be expelled from Lebanon.
Jumblatt's actions are not to the benefit of Lebanon; it only favors the Israelis and impedes the emergence of a Lebanese consensus over the establishment of a national unity government and the passing of a new election law, PRESS TV's Beirut correspondent quoted al-Hajj as saying.
The Hezbollah representative in the Lebanese parliament slammed his country's ruling party, saying that the existing illegal government aims to weaken the labor unions and trample on the rights of workers.
Since the commencement of his term as prime minister, Fuad Siniora's government has done nothing of any value, he stated, adding that it has only burdened the country with a back-breaking external debt to the tune of billions of dollars.
Addressing the Progressive Socialist Party leader, al-Haj noted that what the party's leader has said actually is a result of Lebanon's inequitable election law, adding, "We are not responsible for your sins."
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Former Lebanese minister says 'Saudi-funded militias' are active throughout Lebanon in an attempt to destabilize the fragile situation.
Wiam Wahhab accused Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal of financing activities that are pushing the country toward chaos, Lebanon's The Daily Star reported on Monday. "The orders given by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal are influencing the ground after they influenced politics especially following the sudden attacks launched by MPs Walid Jumblatt and Saad Hariri against Hezbollah and the opposition," he said. "Such remarks have obstructed all attempts at a solution," he added.
"This provocation requires that the Saudi ambassador in Lebanon, who is complementing the US ambassador's role, be chastised."
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Syria says Tel-Aviv is trying to pressure Damascus by stepping up its settlement activities in Golan Heights ahead of possible talks.
Syrian officials said the Zionist regime is expanding its settlement activities in the occupied Golan Heights in order to provoke and pressure Syria during possible negotiations, according to Syria's Tishrin government newspaper.
The daily said the Zionist regime was working on a huge settlement expansion campaign, according to sources from Golan.
Earlier, Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to discuss Israeli readiness for a full withdrawal from Syria's Golan Heights in return for peace.
Israel captured the heights in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move never recognized by the international community.
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A senior IRGC commander has described Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps as the main obstacle in the way of regional US hegemony. The IRGC is an organized and revolutionary armed force that is seen as the main obstacle in the way of US political and military dominance in the region, said IRGC Air Force Commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami on Tuesday.
The IRGC has immeasurable lengths and widths, he added, referring to the 'invisible but endless connection' that exists between the IRGC and the Iranian people.
Nowhere in the world is there a 'clear assessment' of IRGC's power, added the commander, stressing that the force has extraordinary depth in terms of morale levels and spiritual capacity. I personally believe that the IRGC's retaliatory force does not lie in the number of its tanks, missiles, or anti-aircraft weapons, but in forces' devotion and determination which can help them go beyond normal expectations on the battle field, he said.
Equipped with its own ground force, navy, air force, and intelligence, the IRGC is an official component of the Iranian military based on Article 150 of the Iranian constitution. The IRGC also controls the volunteer-based Basij force, which has the potential to bring together millions of soldiers.
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BREITBART/TOPIX > AHMADINEJAD: 12TH IMAM IN CHARGE OF WORLD AND IRAN, directing any and all the affairs of all. IRAN MUST BECOME PREOCCUPIED WID ITS NEW GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITIES.
IIRC/IICC MOUD > IMO, is indir recogizing that both the ISLAMIST JIHAD + ISLAMIST/REVOLUT IRAN's MANIFEST DESTINY [Nuclear Iran?]HAS REACHED A DETERMINATIVE POINT 2008-2012/13.
*2008-2012/13 + ISLAMIST-JIHADIST NUCLEAR SWORD > "MAKE-OR-BREAK" FOR BOTH IRAN-JIHAD + RISING US-LED OWG-NWO.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
"It's a bit disingenuous to believe such quantities of up-to-date weapons manufactured this year, last year, can flow into the country without the knowledge of the Iranian government," Ambassador Samir Sumaida'ie told editors and reporters at The Washington Times.
KUWAIT CITY A Sunni fundamentalist from Kuwait who has been linked by the United Nations and the United States to Al Qaeda, said in an interview published Wednesday that Iran is supporting Sunni Arab insurgents fighting American troops in Iraq.
CAIRO (AFP) An Iraqi Sunni delegation on a visit to Cairo on Wednesday urged Arab countries to act against what it called the "Iranian occupation" of Iraq.
CAIRO, Egypt Al-Arabiya television reports it has identified the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the network broadcast his photograph.
(AKI) - Al-Qaeda has used 6,000 suicide bombers in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, according to records discovered in a terrorist training camp in Diyala, northeast of Baghdad.
(AKI) - Syria has banned the president of the political office of the 
Lebanon's Cabinet decided Tuesday to remove Beirut airport's security chief over alleged ties to the militant Hezbollah group, the country's information minister said. The decision is expected to exacerbate tension between the Western-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition.
Syria says Tel-Aviv is trying to pressure Damascus by stepping up its settlement activities in Golan Heights ahead of possible talks. 
A senior IRGC commander has described Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps as the main obstacle in the way of regional US hegemony. The IRGC is an organized and revolutionary armed force that is seen as the main obstacle in the way of US political and military dominance in the region, said IRGC Air Force Commander Brigadier General Hossein Salami on Tuesday. 
