Taliban militants has vowed to continue fighting in Afghanistan and ruled out peace talks with President Hamid Karzai's government as long as foreign troops remained.
Saudi Arabia hosted a meeting of pro-government Afghan figures and former Taliban officials last month which analysts say could be a first small step toward more substantial dialogue.
But the Taliban have denied any involvement in the Saudi talks and said news of the meeting was leaked to try to split the movement which has managed to launch more attacks this year and extend its influence to the outskirts of the capital, Kabul.
"It will be impossible for the invader armies to delay the progress of jihad and the stop Muslim ummah (nation) in Afghanistan," the Taliban said in a statement on their website. "The Islamic emirate wants to make it clear that the only solution and the most successful path for resolving the Afghan problem is for foreign forces to leave Afghanistan unconditionally," it said.
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Break out the napalm canisters and the flechette rounds. It's time to go mongol on the taliban.
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Break out the napalm canisters and the flechette rounds. It's time to go mongol on the taliban.
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RIYADH, Saudi-Controlled Arabia - A Saudi daily says that the 991 suspected militants indicted for participating in terrorist attacks over past five years, belong to 20 different nationalities. The Al-Watan daily however did not specified the nationalities of the militants in its Saturday report.
Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki declined to elaborate on the nationalities.
Latvians? Esquimaux?
The authorities accused militants of being responsible for more than 30 attacks in the kingdom since May 2003. Those attacks killed 164 people, including 74 security officials.
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Although the law-enforcement agencies have listed 29 Islamic organisations for suspected involvement in militancy, they have trained their focus only on outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji). Sources in the law-enforcement agencies say they are not in a position to take a tough line on the suspected outfits unless they get hard evidence of terror activities against them.
"A crackdown on the suspected organisations requires a government policy in this regard as the issue is linked to sensitive religious matters," says a top law enforcer. He however argues they are closely tracking these outfits since the official drive against militants started in 2005 following the synchronised country-wide blasts by already executed Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai-led JMB.
Of these listed organisations, some are large and the rest are minor, but all of their activities are apparently confined to mosques and madrasa-based discussions and Islamic 'dawat' (invitation).
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A FORMER Colombian politician kidnapped more than eight years ago by FARC guerrillas has escaped through the jungles with one of his rebel captors. Wearing a tattered black T-shirt and sporting a tangled grey beard, ex-congressman Oscar Lizcano, 63, marched for three days with his FARC jailer before reaching an army post yesterday where the guerrilla surrendered to troops.
"Thanks to the army post we found after that march through the harsh jungle, falling down, with my legs swollen," Mr Lizcano said, slumped exhausted in a chair, his voice weak after he was forbidden to talk for so long by his captors.
His escape follows the rescue of French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, three Americans and a group of other hostages who were freed in a surprise military operation in July after years in jungle camps.
Mr Lizcano's flight illustrates the military pressure facing the FARC and how rebels have been hurt by informants, bounties for deserters and improved intelligence under President Alvaro Uribe, who has received billions of dollars in US aid.
The FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, was once a powerful army that controlled large areas of the country. But the rebel group lost three leaders this year and hundreds of fighters have deserted.
Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said a rebel, known by his alias "Moroco," from the group holding Mr Lizcano escaped in early October and provided details about his camp. Troops and police began a rescue operation over the weekend but Lizcano was already on the run.
"The army were pressuring us, we were starving, that made me take the decision," said the rebel deserter, known as "Isaza," who escaped with Mr Lizcano. "Our group was abandoned, there wasn't much choice," he said in a video broadcast of him meeting with Mr Uribe.
On Monday, at the request of Congress, the RAND Corporation outlined the pros and cons of establishing a domestic intelligence agency. It also discussed different ways to organize a new entity, either as part of an existing department or as a new agency.
The RAND report focuses on two options to the current system.
In one, a new agency would be created using intelligence agencies from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and intelligence community. A second option is to create an "agency within an agency" in the FBI or DHS.
Which option gives Obama more ability to spy on dissident Americans?
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I thought we already had several with names like Experian and Equifax.
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his own creation with all the expertise, ethics, and technology that allows Saddam Hussein to contibute via credit card to his campaign, but will probably know how much time you spend in that white racist church that opposes abortion.... Go figure
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Yeah, I imagine that idea will get a lot more traction under Obama. Ayers will probably head the department. It will be staffed by members graduating from the Obama Youth.
MALAPPURAM: The parents of Abdul Raheem, the youth from Chettippadi in Malappuram who was killed in an encounter in Kashmir a few weeks ago, have disowned the body of their son. His father, Koyasantakath Saidu, told the police here on Saturday that the body should not be brought home.
In a statement given to the Superintendent of Police, Mr. Saidu said that the body might be interred in a graveyard attached to any mosque in Kashmir. The police said they would fax the statement to their counterparts in Kashmir.
Mr. Saidu reached the police officers office, along with two relatives, in the afternoon but refused to talk to presspersons. He looked disturbed and rushed to his vehicle soon after giving the statement.
I am abandoning him. We learned from the police that he was killed. The police showed me the photo and I confirmed, he said tersely to one of the reporters.
Raheem, 28, was the only son among his four children. He had distanced himself from the family after the latter disapproved of his movements and habits.
A diploma holder in electronics, Rahim was a member of the Shikhwa Thwareekath, a body of a handful of youths, whose trail the State police are currently on.
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One of the most difficult decisions a parent might be faced with, especially the father of an only son in a society that values sons.
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Wonder if Dad will get a visit from the local Jihasi franchise master; as in burning down the house or worse. for 'dissing' his martyred son and what he stood for...
(AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - A dinner hosted by the Saudi King Abdullah for former Taliban leaders and members of the Islamic militant group, Hezb-E-Islami, in Mecca in September sought a solution to the recent resurgence of Taliban terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
But well-placed sources have told Adnkronos International that the success of the dinner was confined to the quality of the delicious Arab cuisine.
Militants with real firepower in Afghanistan and Pakistan all refused to lay down their weapons. Now a jirga or tribal meeting will bring together Afghani MPs and Pakistani leaders in Islamabad early next week, as the new head of Pakistan's intelligence services, Lt. General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, meets CIA director Michael Hayden in Washington to discuss the escalation of the conflict.
The Pakistani Parliament has voted in favour of a gradual withdrawal of security forces from the tribal areas and emphasised the need for dialogue, as a US predator drone once again struck North Waziristan and killed several people.
Pasha and Hayden are expected to finalise the new terms for strategic cooperation aiming at killing or eliminating top Al-Qaeda leaders and at least four top Taliban commanders to defeat the insurgency. Immediately after the meeting of intelligence chiefs, top American military commander David Petraeus will visit Pakistan to finalise new regional military operations.
Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani, spoke to AKI about the relationship between the two allies. "Pakistan and the United States are overcoming any differences that may have arisen in the recent past in all spheres," Hussain Haqqani said from Washington. "Pakistan and the US are close allies and strategic partners, and in our strategic partnership, military cooperation and intelligence cooperation are very important.
"It is unfortunate that in the recent past some doubts and misgivings have been expressed about cooperation in the intelligence field. We look forward to overcoming those differences in the days to come."
The dialogue initiative was a strong gesture that emanated from Saudi Arabia, and both Kabul and Islamabad were proactive in promoting dialogue through back channels at the behest of western coalition partners.
Powerful militant leaders, including Jalaluddin Haqqani, Baitullah Mehsud and Gulbadin Hekmatyar, warlord and leader of the Hezb-e Islami political party, were invited for talks and asked to stop the war and start negotiations. All three refused.
Hopes were high that former Afghan premier, Gulbadin Hekmatyar, a personal friend of President Hamid Karzai's would agree to dialogue. Such a move would have been a major breakthrough since over three-fifths of the Taliban force are comprised of former members of the radical Hezb-e-Islami group. The move could have split the Taliban led insurgency, but Hekmatyar firmly rejected the proposal.
Hekmatyar told Kabul that he would not negotiate until NATO troops left Afghanistan. Washington asked Islamabad to also engage in dialogue with Hekmatyar so that he could be distanced from the Taliban-led resistance. However, Hekmatyar refused to talk with the Pakistani administration led by President Ali Asif Zardari and described the whole military and political leadership as American proxies with whom he was not willing to talk. His reply has effectively shut the door on dialogue, despite the parliamentary vote.
When the intelligence chiefs conclude their talks in Washington next week, Petraeus is likely to be finalising a new strategy during his visit to Pakistan.
This article starring:
Baitullah Mehsud
Gulbadin Hekmatyar
Jalaluddin Haqqani
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Unveiling its 'self-rule' document ahead of the upcoming state election, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday called for a 'Greater Jammu and Kashmir' and a common currency.
Though the party, led by former chief minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, would formally announce its participation in election on Sunday, it released the 'self-rule' document in Srinagar as its poll agenda.
The PDP had earlier demanded suspending the elections until April or May 2009.
The self-rule that the party proposed is a trans-border concept, envisaging constitution of a cross-border institution or a regional council of Greater Jammu and Kashmir (GJAK), which will replace the existing Upper House of Indian-held Kashmir (IHK). Mufti envisages that the regional council will comprise members from both IHK and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
The document also envisages a phased economic integration of IHK and AJK that transcends borders, and electing the head of GJAK from the two regions on a rotation basis. This would provide "an equal and equitable sense and feeling of empowerment" to the people of both regions.
Dual currency: The party also proposed using 'dual currency' that would accept both Indian and Pakistani rupees as legitimate legal tenders. It also proposed that both the Indian and Pakistani rupees should be the medium of exchange in GJAK.
The PDP makes it clear while presenting its paper that it is offering only an act of home and "not presenting a solution nor pretending to have one" but an indicative direction for resolution of the six-decade long problem and tension in the region.
"The Kashmir issue cannot be resolved on the basis of exclusively intra-state level initiatives, as it requires a combination of intra-state measures with inter-state and supra-state measures," the document stressed, pointing out that the concept of self-rule is the only way to eliminate the sources of ethno-territorial conflicts.
A new political superstructure of GJAK regional council will integrate the region and also empower all sub-regions. The council, which will replace the IHK Upper House, will be like a regional senate.
Presently, the IHK state assembly holds 20 seats for representatives from across the Line of Control (LoC), but these will be given up and replaced by the same number of seats in the regional council, the PDP document said.
It said such an institutional structure would provide a framework within which certain matters between the two parts of the state will be sorted out to infuse a sense of empowerment in the people.
A critical element of self-rule is the economic integration across the LoC, which starts with a declaration of intention and an agreement for a common economic space, harmonised economic legislations and synergised regulations.
The document says the process of economic integration of IHK and AJK can start with the easiest form of integration, a Preferential Trade Agreement, in which India and Pakistan would offer tariff reductions, or eliminations, confined to the geographical boundaries of GJAK and restrict it to some product categories.
"Stage II would be to make GJAK a regional free trade area, with no tariffs or barriers within GJAK, while maintaining their own external tariff on imports from the rest of the world, including India and Pakistan. GJAK will set a common external tariff on imports from India and Pakistan," the document said.
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There should be no dialogue with the Taliban, as they are extremists killing innocent people, said elders from Bajaur Agency's Salarzai tribes on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference, the Salarzai elders claimed that some political parties were criticising tribal lashkars without any justification, while it was only because of these armed tribesmen that the Taliban had fled the agency.
Major (r) Malik Karim Khan defended the decision to raise tribal lashkars, as 'the Taliban are killing innocent people'. He said a tribal lashkar had become a necessity for the Salarzai tribes to defend themselves.
Former MNA Shahabuddin Khan defended the military operation in the Tribal Areas. The Salarzai elders called on the government not to replace the NWFP governor for some time.
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Makes sense to me.
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Taliban announced a change in their strategy, declaring that from now onwards they would kill any government official taken hostage, Dawn News reported.
The channel quoted Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Swat) spokesman Muslim Khan saying that security forces should pull out of Swat or face the consequences. Analysts are interpreting this as a warning and see it as an attempt to scare the local population away from security forces, the channel said.
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Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariah-e-Muhammadi chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad has rejected the amendments to the Shariah Regulation Act for Malakand, saying his organisation had not been consulted on the issue, Dawn News reported.
He said that peace could be restored to Swat only through the implementation of shariah law. He supported the fatwa (edict) issued by the Muttahida Ulema Council declaring suicide bombings un-Islamic.
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JERUSALEM Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni of Israel ran out of options in her efforts to form a government and decided her only choice would be to press for early elections, now likely to be scheduled for February, party officials said Saturday night.
An associate of Ms. Livnis, Otniel Schneller, a legislator from her party, Kadima, said by telephone that after the ultra-Orthodox party Shas turned her down on Friday, the hope was that another religious party, Yahadut Hatorah, would join in addition to the leftist Meretz party. But while Meretz said yes, Yahadut Hatorah said no on Saturday, leaving her with too few votes in Parliament to govern comfortably.
The move to elections effectively ends any slim hope that existed for a peace deal with the Palestinians before President Bush leaves office in January. Israels elections were due to take place in 2010.
After consulting her closest aides at her home in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, Ms. Livni called the Labor Party leader, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, to inform him of the decision because he had agreed to join with her in a coalition. An associate of Mr. Baraks said that he simply wished her luck.
Ms. Livni has an appointment with Israels president, Shimon Peres, on Sunday afternoon, at which she is expected to give him formal notice that she has failed to put together a viable coalition and favors early elections. Once Ms. Livni takes that step, the president can, in theory, ask someone else to try to form a government. But most politicians and analysts doubt he will do so. In all likelihood, he will take a few days or at most three weeks to tell Parliament that a government cannot be formed. Parliament will vote to hold elections 90 days later, probably in mid-February.
It will be a high-stakes election, in which Ms. Livni is expected to face two candidates who have already been prime minister: Mr. Barak, of Labor, and Benjamin Netanyahu of the opposition Likud, the current front-runner in election surveys.
Ms. Livni is expected to run with the message that she has been leading negotiations with the Palestinians and should finish the job. Mr. Netanyahu has told associates that he hopes ultimately to form a national unity government to face the countrys challenges. He is more hawkish than the other two. Mr. Barak is expected to assert that Israel should seek an overall settlement with all parties simultaneously the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon and that he is the candidate with the experience and strength to do it.
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HEBRON, West Bank - More than 500 Palestinian security reinforcements deployed in the southern West Bank town of Hebron on Saturday as part of a widening crackdown in the occupied territory, officials said. Around 500 Palestinian security forces took up positions before dawn in the flashpoint town without incident, Hebron police chief Samih al-Saifi told AFP without specifying the exact number.
An Israeli security official confirmed the deployment and said it had taken place with the coordination of the Israeli army. Five hundred and fifty extra armed police were deployed in Hebron in coordination with the Israeli army to strengthen the Palestinian Authority in its fight against Hamas," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Israel has long feared a repeat in the West Bank of the Islamist movement's takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, when it routed forces loyal to the Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in a week of bloody battles. The latest deployment is part of a widening crackdown that has seen hundreds of Palestinian security forces deploy in the northern West Bank towns of Jenin and Nablus, both of which were once militant strongholds.
Not a smart idea arming your enemy in the hopes that he'll take on your worser enemy ...
It is also aimed at underpinning the US-backed Middle East peace process which was formally relaunched nearly a year ago with the aim of creating a Palestinian state -- talks which have thus far made little visible progress.
The Palestinians have not said that the security plan is directed at Hamas, and Saifi would only say that the troops in Hebron were there to "provide order and security in the town." In recent months, however, Palestinian forces have arrested dozens of members of the Islamist group, shuttered several of its charities and organisations, and confiscated weapons and explosives.
With more than 160,000 Palestinian residents, Hebron is the largest town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and has long been a flashpoint in the Middle East conflict because of a settlement of around 800 hardline Jews in the heart of the town. The settlement is guarded by hundreds of Israeli soldiers who will remain in Hebron despite the deployment of the additional Palestinian forces.
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For the skullcapped students of the Darusy Syahadah Islamic school, there is no question that the three radical jihadis behind the 2002 bombings on Indonesia's Bali island are heroes. Sheltering from the equatorial sun on the steps of the school's mosque, the students crowd to offer their approval of bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra. Authorities said this week the three bombers will face the firing squad by early November for their role in the attack, which killed 202 people.
'They're holy warriors, that's how I respond, they're holy warriors,' said Sir Muhammad Royhan Syihabuddin Ar-Rohmi, a slight 18-year-old. His friend, Nawawi, also 18, leaned forward in agreement: 'They are like us, they wanted to do good deeds.'
With its peeling buildings, stray sheep and low-hanging mango trees, Darusy Syahadah in Central Java has long been a key hub for recruitment and indoctrination in the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant network, experts say. While authorities have wound up JI cells and killed and imprisoned key militants, JI-linked Islamic boarding schools across Indonesia have been left to spread the network's radical ideology. If a new generation of JI bombers were to emerge, it would be from schools like this. Alumni include Salik Firdaus, a suicide bomber who obliterated himself in the 2005 Bali bombing that killed 20 people.
However, analysts say the picture is not quite that simple. Hurt by the police crackdown and facing public disgust over bombings, JI is deeply split, said Ms Sidney Jones, a JI expert at the International Crisis Group think-tank. A small minority faction behind fugitive Malaysian Noordin Mohammed Top still supports and is working towards bombing local and foreign targets, she said. The other more numerous faction, dominating the schools, continues to glorify jihad, or holy war, but many of its members have been influenced by a government 'deradicalisation' strategy that has helped halt attacks. 'I think the schools are still problematic, they are inculcating the idea of the glory of jihad. But there isn't a jihad to fight now,' Ms Jones said. 'The question is: what will these graduates be doing five to 10 years from now?'
For Mr Mustaqim, the principal of Darusy Syahadah, the watchword is preparation. The school encourages exercise and self-defence and aims to strengthen and defend Islam, said Mr Mustaqim, sporting white robes, a wispy beard and bruises on his forehead from frequent prayer. 'It says in the Koran that infidels will strengthen each other and wage a war of falsehood. We have been instructed to strengthen Islam against falsehood,' he said. Outside the mosque, student Nawawi said it was 'up to God' whether he would follow the example set by the Bali bombers. 'Not everyone has to follow them,' he said.
At the al-Mukmin boarding school founded by alleged JI spiritual head Abu Bakar Bashir in the nearby town of Ngruki, the bombers are honoured but opinions are similarly mixed. About 1,600 students attend classes in rooms bedecked with cardboard cutouts of assault rifles and posters extolling the virtues of 'martyrdom.'
Sitting on the floor of his lounge in the school grounds, the acid-tongued Bashir blamed the main 2002 blast on a CIA 'micro-nuclear' device fired from a ship off the Balinese coast. 'The bomb Amrozi set off, the first one, at most it shattered glass and didn't wound people, or at most wounded them a little,' he said. '(The bombers) struggled in that way not as terror but with the aim of defending Islam, which is being terrorised by America and its friends... they are counter-terrorists, not terrorists,' he said.
But al-Mukmin school principal Wahyudin said the indiscriminate bombing of nightclubs on the island was a disproportionate response to the global oppression of Muslims. 'What I can fault is that Bali is not a conflict area, it's not an area of war. Although we can say there certainly were enemies there, there were also non-enemies. That has to be avoided. That was a mistake there,' he said.
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'They're holy warriors, that's how I respond, they're holy warriors,' Lord, there is our future enemies being trained to become Holy Warriors. While we are being wussified by the illuminati liberals in our school systems.
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Suppose he visited a nuke site and wanted to get close, real close to the material that would eventually either bring the Mahdi or bring down the infidels or destroy Israel or vindicate the Shia cause or....
Suppose the room wasn't cleaned that well and he inhaled.
On Drudge there was something (gone now) about Bush restoring relations with Iran before he leaves office.
It is pretty far fetched I admit, but maybe, and i repeat: maybe, there is a deal thingie going here and we just gave the right group the right nudge power, money, strippers, I don't really care witch, as long as assface just goes away.
I am getting mighty sick of looking at that uglie mut.
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mhw: nice, gives the scenario a nice " look mullah's look at the parts of the land & critcal state sectors that we control, now cooperate or die like assface twist.
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Ding dong the witch is ... well, at least he's sick. Considering how he's one of our main enemies you would think that this would make a mention on the front page news of some the illuminati press.
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The mullahcracy is our enemy, and Israel's, and the Iranian people's, not just this one man. If he should die before Iran's presidential election next June, the rhetoric might change, and perhaps some minor economic thingies, but nothing significant. Nor after the election, either.
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A-mahdi-jihad, much like Biden, is a gift for the way he says things out loud what his buddies would otherwise do quietly in the dark. He is much harder to ignore by westerners who otherwise would choose not to see what is going on. As a lightning rod he is almost indispensable.
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Mandrake!
Do you realize this is an American blog?
I can't shooooot it.
Well, I could I guess....
But you'll be answering to Fred Pruitt
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fallen sick from exhaustion but the illness is not as serious as political opponents suggest, an Ahmadinejad ally told Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). "The president will eventually fully recover and will continue with his work, but the shame of this thing will be left forever for some people," Mohammad Esmail Kowsari said in the IRNA report.
The rumor that Ahmadinejad is seriously ill "is an old ploy aimed at influencing the elections" which are set for next June, Kowsari -- a member of Iran's parliament -- was quoted as saying. Kowsari called it "psychological warfare" aimed at creating division among fundamentalists who make up Ahmadinejad's political base.
Another IRNA report said President Ahmadinejad missed several events in recent days because of his illness. It quoted Mansour Borghei, an official at the president's office, saying Ahmadinejad "was feeling ill because of being overworked."
The Associated Press reported that the Iranian president, who turns 53 on Monday, attended a religious ceremony Saturday in Tehran, though he looked tired as he greeted supporters.
On Sunday, state TV also showed him receiving credentials of three foreign ambassadors, AP said.
The next few months are viewed as critical for Ahmadinejad if he wants to try to rebuild his political base and rebut critics who point to his unfulfilled campaign promises, including extending Iran's oil revenues to poorer provinces around the country.
Criticism over his management of the country -- at a time when the country's unemployment rate is sitting at around ten percent -- has increasingly come from his conservative supporters.
Ahmadinejad is also confronting questions about his defiant stance with the West over Iran's nuclear program, which has severely soured international relations.
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Let us hope it's his HEART that is "exhausted", and he's not long for this world. If there's ever been anyone that deserves a seat in Hell, it's nutjob.
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Maybe he feels sick from the precipitous fall of the price of crude. He has come to the realization that he is in deep sh*t, and the billionaire MMs who have the money will not save his sorry a$$.
Maybe he realizes that he is going to be thrown under the bus instead of going to the well and saying howdy to the 12th Imam.
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he might be visiting that well, in an uncontrolled fall, when their economy craters this fall. Say hi to the Mahdi for us!
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The chief of Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah denied on Saturday a report posted on an Iraqi website that he had been poisoned and then saved by Iranian doctors, calling it "psychological warfare" against his militia. "This information is totally unfounded," Hassan Nasrallah. "Just a little distress of the lower bowel..."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Taliban militants has vowed to continue fighting in Afghanistan and ruled out peace talks with President Hamid Karzai's government as long as foreign troops remained. 
RIYADH, Saudi-Controlled Arabia - A Saudi daily says that the 991 suspected militants indicted for participating in terrorist attacks over past five years, belong to 20 different nationalities. The Al-Watan daily however did not specified the nationalities of the militants in its Saturday report.
(AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - A dinner hosted by the Saudi King Abdullah for former Taliban leaders and members of the Islamic militant group, Hezb-E-Islami, in Mecca in September sought a solution to the recent resurgence of Taliban terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
For the skullcapped students of the Darusy Syahadah Islamic school, there is no question that the three radical jihadis behind the 2002 bombings on Indonesia's Bali island are heroes. Sheltering from the equatorial sun on the steps of the school's mosque, the students crowd to offer their approval of bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra. Authorities said this week the three bombers will face the firing squad by early November for their role in the attack, which killed 202 people. 
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fallen sick from exhaustion but the illness is not as serious as political opponents suggest, an Ahmadinejad ally told Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). "The president will eventually fully recover and will continue with his work, but the shame of this thing will be left forever for some people," Mohammad Esmail Kowsari said in the IRNA report.
