Tribal elders in the Afghan city of Kandahar have sharply criticised President Hamid Karzai over issues of security and corruption.
On a rare visit to the area, the heartland of Taliban support, he was told few dared join the army for fear of being killed by the militants.
Others accused the president of failing to deal with bribery and nepotism.
Mr Karzai is in Kandahar with top US commander Gen McChrystal to win support for an anti-Taliban offensive there.
Unlike the last offensive in neighbouring Helmand province which began with a military push, the campaign in Kandahar is being led by a major emphasis on politics, says the BBC's Lyse Doucet in Kandahar.
At the first tribal gathering which is known as a shura, one tribal elder after another stood up, speaking loudly, angrily, some shouting at the president, complaining of police corruption, official bribes and insecurity, our correspondent says.
"Tell me what is in your heart," urged the president in the local Pashto language.
"I can't, I will be killed by the terrorists," retorted one tribal elder - a reference to the growing strength of the Taliban in the region.
But the message from this gathering of some 1,500 tribesmen is that they are not ready for any major military operation by Afghan and Nato led forces any time soon, our correspondent says.
The president assured them that no operation would be started without their support, and recognised there was a lot for him to fix first.
Indeed the message that came loud and clear is that his government is as much a problem as the Taliban, our correspondent adds.
[Al Arabiya Latest] In his unprecedentedly bitter speech to election officials on Thursday, the Afghan leader accused embassies of perpetrating election fraud in Afghanistan, bribing and threatening election officials and seeking to weaken him and his government.
"Obviously some of the comments of President Karzai are troubling. They're cause for real and genuine concern," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters, adding the White House was seeking clarification.
Later, Karzai's spokesman said the Afghan leader had spoken to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by telephone.
Officials said Karzai did not specifically apologize during the conversation with Clinton, but expressed "surprise" at the furor over his speech.
"President Karzai said the Afghan people and Afghan government were grateful for the support and sacrifice of the international community for peace in Afghanistan and the world," Karzai's spokesman Waheed Omer said.
Misunderstood
Omer said parts of Karzai's remarks had been misunderstood. "Obviously there is a difference of opinion on certain issues between Afghanistan and its international partners, but the president wanted the international community to pay attention to the concerns of the Afghan people and the Afghan government."
In his speech, Karzai accused foreigners of carrying out "massive fraud" in last year's presidential vote in a deliberate effort to undermine his authority, and said they also wanted to wreck a parliamentary election this year.
"Foreigners will make excuses, they do not want us to have a parliamentary election," Karzai said. "They want parliament to be weakened and battered, and for me to be an ineffective president, and for parliament to be ineffective."
At a news briefing, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley responded: "Suggestions that somehow the international community was responsible for irregularities in the recent election is preposterous."
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MOGADISHU -- A hardline Somali Islamist group issued a 10-day ultimatum Saturday to Mogadishu-based radio stations to stop playing all kinds of music or face unspecified penalties, an Islamist leader said. Did they need to specify?
The Hezb al-Islam group, which controls patches of the war-riven Somali capital, said playing music on radio stations was evil.
"We call on the local radio stations to stop broadcasting the songs and all music as well. We give them a 10-day deadline and any radio station found not complying with the orders... will face sharia action," said Moalim Hashi Mohamed Farah, a senior Hezb al-Islam official, referring to Islamic law.
"We also issue orders banning the local media from using the word 'foreigners' to refer to our Muslim brothers coming from outside the country to help us fight against the enemy of Allah," he told reporters. at the site you can see Jihadwatch's collection of anti music hadith - remember if Mohammud is the model and the best of men and he didn't like music, well that leads to the obvious final solution to the flutist problem
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A couple of people will be tortured and killed for this in grisly ways- the rest will get the message. One of the tricks of totalitarian systems is that you only need to be vicious to a few people at any one time- word gets around.
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if they limited the ban to Yoko Ono's music, I could get behind that
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I can't blame them. Ever heard of the Somali Top 40? And I doubt there's a lot of Mozart on Somalia Public Radio, just All Things Beheaded and Talk of the Tribe. They should get rid of the guy who hollers from the minarets, too. He can't carry a tune at all.
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#3 I can't blame them. Ever heard of the Somali Top 40? And I doubt there's a lot of Mozart on Somalia Public Radio, just All Things Beheaded and Talk of the Tribe. They should get rid of the guy who hollers from the minarets, too. He can't carry a tune at all. Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-04-04 10:03
[Al Arabiya Latest] Sudan's elections commission on Saturday said the first multi-party polls would go ahead on time, dashing an opposition party's demands for a four-week delay to address complaints of irregularities in the process.
The main candidates for the presidential elections, apart from the opposition Umma party leader, withdrew from the race this week, saying the vote was already "rigged" for incumbent President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to win.
Umma party head Sadeq al-Mahdi, Sudan's last democratically elected leader, listed eight demands including a four-week delay to be agreed to before April 6, or his party would boycott all parts of the presidential, legislative and gubernatorial votes.
"The National Elections Commission (NEC) is working to have the elections on the dates we specified on April 11, 12, 13," deputy head of the NEC, Abdallah Ahmed Abdallah, told reporters after meeting U.S. envoy Scott Gration.
"The NEC confirmed to Gration that it had completed all the necessary procedures to have the elections on the specified dates," he added.
The Umma party leader said on Friday Gration had told him he would try to achieve the four-week delay. He flew into Khartoum after the opposition boycott threats.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Two men arrested for breaking a ban on Muslim prayers at a Spanish cathedral which was once a mosque, sparking fights with police, will be prosecuted, a report said Saturday.
The Europa Press agency, quoting sources in the Andalusia High Court, said the two Austrians had been freed Friday but their passports had been confiscated.
The trouble broke out on Wednesday when six members of a group of 118 Muslim tourists who were visiting the cathedral in the southwestern city of Cordoba knelt to pray and were promptly ordered to stop by security guards. As they refused to stop praying, they were "invited to continue with their visit or leave the cathedral," the diocesan office said in a statement.
The security guards then called in police, who were attacked by the visiting Muslims, it added. Two policemen were injured and two of the tourists were detained.
Church authorities claimed the incident was premeditated, while the Austrian Muslim youth group which organized the visit said it was spontaneous.
Split the difference: spontaneously premeditated on the bus ride over from Vienna, which is likely what happened.
Cordoba's Bishop Demetrio Fernandez Gonzalez recently said that a ban on Muslim prayers must remain in place at the former mosque, which was turned into a Christian cathedral in the 13th century with the ousting of the Moors from southern Spain.
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The experiment has failed, send every Muslim in the Western World to a Muslim country of their choosing.
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What the article fails to state is that the mosque was built on the site of romanesque church with materials from said church. So yes, the mosque has always been a mosque but only because muslim conquerors tore the original church down. Good for the spanish government. It took them 700 years to get rid of them [muslims] and then they ask them back.
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Try saying the Rosary or a Mass at Hagia Sophia and see how long you last.
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Fly low level over Italy and see first hand
how the medieval Europeans lived...
ON TOP OF HILLS AND RIDGES
Why?
To escape Barbaresque muslim slavers.
Europe coastline was mostly deserted, hundreds
of millions where kidnapped, raped, tortured
and worked to deaths in slaver's galleys
or in fields in the hot african sun.
We should seize all the oil fields as all the slavers where subsidized by the Saudis
because due to their numbers, an European slave
was said to be worth less than an onion...
And for every black slaves that the ay-rabs
bought from their cannibal owners, they enslaved a thousand Europeans!!!
More realistically, buy lots of popcorn and
enjoy the spectacle when the Israelis
nuke them all 'slimes and make them glow in the dark!!!
Muslims living in the United States, the call to prayer requires a response at least five times a day. But when the U.S. Census Bureau comes calling once every 10 years, some Arab-Americans still hesitate to return the survey.
"There's a fear factor that this information may be used against you, or used for inappropriate reasons," said Rami Nuseir, president of the American Mideast Leadership Network. He said a misunderstanding of the census translates into some Arab-Americans simply not filling out the form.
His organization is working directly with the Census Bureau to educate the Arab-American community about the importance of the survey.
"By law, the Census Bureau cannot share this information with the IRS, FBI, CIA or any other government agency," said Nuseir. "We've been complaining about discrimination, we've been complaining about lack of resources, and here this is a chance to tell the whole world we exist."
The 2000 census estimated there were 1.2 million Arab-Americans living in the United States. But the Arab American Institute says that number is too low. Based on community surveys and immigration data, the nonprofit group says the real number is closer to 4 million.
Mailing back the census form has benefits for the entire country. Data gathered from the survey helps disburse nearly $400 billion in federal funding. In addition, legislative districts are redrawn based on population change, providing important adjustments for representation in Congress.
Recently, high school students at the Razi School in Queens, New York, attended a presentation on the census, given by Nuseir. The Muslim school is just one of many institutions where the Census Bureau is conducting sessions on the survey, hoping to reach parents through their children.
Amirelsamad Isi is a senior at the Razi School. After the presentation, he was optimistic his parents would return their household's census form.
"In the beginning they might be a little scared, because everyone is scared. But when you learn the positive effects ... they'll learn, and they can tell other people," he said.
In addition to sending its message into schools and mosques, the Census Bureau also has workers hitting the streets.
Ahmed Shedeed, a Census Bureau partner specialist, was hired to specifically work the Arab-American community. For the past several months, he's visited New York and New Jersey neighborhoods, encouraging households to return their forms.
In Astoria, Queens, Shedeed handed out flyers printed in Arabic to bolster participation and dispel anxieties about the census.
"I came to this country almost three years ago, and I know the fear," he said, handing the flyer to a young man outside a coffee shop. "Everyone's information is well-protected." Yeah. Right. And it won't be used against them in any way.
The results of efforts put forth by census workers like Shedeed are already being measured. The 2010 Census Web site has an interactive map that shows what percentage of any U.S. region's population has returned the survey -- http://2010.census.gov/2010census/take10map/.
As of Thursday, the national return rate was 52 percent. New York State trailed the national rate, at 46 percent.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told CNN Thursday the rate of returns still lags in his city compared with the rest of the country. Thirty-seven percent in New York City have filled out the survey so far.
Shedeed said he hopes his work pays off for Arab-Americans not just in Queens and not just in New York, but everywhere in the United States when the April 15 mailing deadline comes.
"It's our participation that will make everybody's life better," said Shedeed. "It's important for our community to be known." We know you, Shaheed Shadeed. We know you.
Maoist guerrillas are cowards as they hide in the forests and the campaign against them will be long drawn, Home Minister P. Chidamabaram said in this rebel bastion Sunday.
The minister also urged people in the area not to support the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), which the government says is posing the biggest internal security threat to the country.
"They (Maoists) are cowards," Chidamabaram told reporters here in West Midnapore district after a three-hour tour of an area where the guerrillas hold sway. "Why are they hiding in forests? If they really want development, they can just come forward for talks."
The minister said the only condition the government had put forward for talks to take place is that the guerrillas should shun violence, which has left hundreds dead in recent years.
He said the record of the security forces against the Maoists in various parts of the country was mixed.
"There has been improvement in Chhattishgarh and certainly in Andhra Pradesh. There is concern over the situation in Orissa and Jharkhand," the minister said.
"But it's a long-drawn struggle. It will take two-three years' time."
He said he had mixed feelings about the situation in West Bengal, where the Maoist movement originated in 1967 before spreading to the rest of the country.
"There are good points and weak points. The record has to improve," he said. "The good point is the central and state security forces have been able to arrest a number of people. The weak point is that the Naxalites (Maoists) are still getting away by killing people."
The minister, the spearhead of the government's nationwide anti-Maoist Operation Greenhunt, said he had noted the weak points of the crackdown in Lalgarh. "Some mistakes they have to rectify."
Chidambaram arrived here in a Border Security Force (BSF) helicopter from Kolkata and was driven in a bullet-proof car to the Lalgarh police station. He interacted with villagers and visited a primary health centre.
Later, he flew to Midnapore town for a luncheon meeting with police and other officials engaged in fighting the Maoists in West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura districts.
He said the villagers knew the Naxalites cannot bring development.
"They understand the difference between the government and the Naxalites.
My appeal to them is if the government is ineffective, we will make the government effective. The solution does not lie in helping Naxalites. They should not extend material or moral support to them."
He said the government was also open to discussions with the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) to discuss "police atrocities".
But he criticised the PCAPA for helping the Maoists. "Why is PCAPA acting like a front organisation of Naxalites? What have they got to do with the Naxalites? It's a great mistake they are making".
Asked about the Maoist strategy, Chidambaram said: "They are perhaps regrouping. We have to be vigilant."
He ruled out involving the military to flush out the Maoists. "Only the central paramilitary forces and state armed policemen are being deployed."
He said these forces would not be withdrawn.
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lets call them what they are : Chinese Communists in Nepali Maoist disguise
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This isn't Nepal. It is in West Bengal (bordering Bangladesh).
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See also ONE INDIA > GOVT: MAOISTS ARE PLANNING TO STRIKE MAJOR CITIES [ in order to divert GOVT, MAINSTREAM FOCII AWAY FROM GOVT'S ANTI-NAXAL/MAOIST CAMPAIGNS IN VARIOUS INDIAN STATES.
BUT-T-T
To wit, ION NEPAL PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [Former Nepal Ambassador to INDJUH]"INDIA, US PLANNED 2001 NEPAL ROYAL PALACE MASSACRE", where most of Nepal's Roayls were violently killed ostens by one of their own [disgruntled] Relatives.
LOCAL, INTERNATIONAL GEOPOL + ROYAL-ON-ROYAL COUSIN-SEX/PASSION is a dangerous, Made-for-Cable-TV mix.
[Geo News] On the eve of the 31st death anniversary of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here on Saturday visited mazar of the founder of Pakistan People's Party (PPP). Gilani termed late ZA Bhutto's death an act of judicial murder and said the government was considering to reopen the case. About BB's probe report he said soon to be released UN report would be made public. PM Gilani rejected media reports about inviting PML-N to rejoin government.
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[Dawn] Chief Minister Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Amir Haider Hoti said on Saturday that the entire nation was fighting against terrorism and the government had decided to deploy the Frontier Corps in the region to block entry of the militants into the settled areas of the province.
Hoti was addressing the media at the Badhber police station, where earlier eight suspected militants and three policemen had been killed in an attack in Shekhan village.
Hoti said that 16 checkposts will be established on the outskirts of Peshawar and miscreants will be defeated at every level.
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IIRC PAKSITANI DEFENCE FORUM > {Poster Op-Ed] WE/PAKISTAN NEEDS A NEW HARZA PROVINCE TOO.
It is not possible for Iyad Allawi to become the Iraqi prime minister according to Iraq's constitution, an Iraqi political expert has told National Iraqi News Agency (NINA).
"According to Article 77 of the Iraqi Constitution, Iyad Allawi can not become the country's prime minister," Tariq Harb, an independent political expert, said in an interview with NINA on Friday.
"Article 77 says the Iraqi president and prime minister must have Iraqi parents, but Allawi's mother is Lebanese," he added.
Meanwhile, some Iraqi sources have also said that it is impossible for Adel Abdul-Mahdi to become the prime minister due to the same reason since his mother is a Syrian citizen.
Allawi is a Shia who served as the Iraqi prime minister in 2004-2005.
In the meantime, incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called for unity and constructive talks among political blocs to form a coalition government.
Maliki further pointed out that the talks must be based on the Iraqi constitution and not on individual interests.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Nearly four years after Israel littered southern Lebanon with mines during its devastating war with Hezbollah, teenager Mohammed al-Hajj Mussa can barely bring himself to speak of the day he lost his legs.
On August 11, 2006, the lean, dark-haired boy was riding behind his father on a motorbike to deliver food to a nearby town badly hit in the Israeli raids when a cluster bomb went off under one of the tyres.
"Later, I was told that I was found in a creek about four hours after the explosion," Mohammed, now 15, told AFP at his rundown home in the Palestinian refugee camp of Al-Bass, located in the southern coastal town of Tyre.
"I came to when they were pulling me out of the water, and I knew it. I could see my legs falling apart."
That same night, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1701 calling for an end to the hostilities and three days later, the month-long war was over.
But Israel left a deadly legacy: the United Nations estimates that Israeli jets dropped more than four million cluster bombs in southern Lebanon in the summer battles.
Ninety percent of the bombs were dropped in the final 72 hours before the ceasefire after Resolution 1701 was adopted, the United Nations says.
Around 40 percent of the munitions failed to detonate on impact, rendering them de facto anti-personnel mines.
The munitions have killed 46 and maimed over 300 civilians since 2006, according to Lebanese army and UN figures.
Most of the victims are sappers, farmers and unsuspecting children, who mistake the shiny objects for toys.
April 4 marks the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action and in Lebanon activists plan to plant trees in cleared minefields.
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Cheer up Mohammed. Now you can become the Uma's first wheelchair suicide-boomer.
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Yet not a mention of the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers that caused Israel to attack.
No mention of the barrage of missiles Israel and its citizens have had to endure for years.
No mention of the poor Israeli children maimed and murdered by homicide bombers deliberately aiming at civilian targets, like busses and pizza joints.
Israel's cluster bombs were dropped during a war against enemy troops.
Must suck to be a kid in Lebanon when your elders attack a neighboring country and then bring harm to you by their foolish actions.
And the Lebanese seem to have plenty of time to dig bunkers and re-arm Hezbollah , but no time to de-mine their country.
I also dispute the assertion that 40% of cluster munitions didn't detonate when originally dropped.
More biased reporting and propaganda lies.
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To add.. of course it has to be Israeli cluster bombs always killing these kids.
It could never be any buried mines or munitions put there by Hezbollah.
Nope couldn't be [sarc]
[Al Arabiya Latest]
Someone in the middle east needs to start an honest truthful TV network to counterbalance all this biased crap reporting.
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No possibility that these are Hizb'allah's bombs/mines, of course.
I'm betting it happened in an area not even near where Israel dropped munitions.
It never ceases to amaze me how middle east muzzies always seem to let their children play in live war zones.
And how Israels' munitions are always defective or only manage to hit soap factories and wedding parties.
Never any intended target. [sarc]
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to add part II...
Aug. 8, 2006
The UN Security council meets and representatives of the Arab League presents it with a new ceasefire plan, which involves Lebanon deploying 15,000 of its troops along the Israel-Lebanon border.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel is seriously considering this proposal, calling it "interesting," but says Hezbollah guerillas must be disarmed and removed as a threat first.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military drops leaflets in the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, warning people not to drive or their vehicles will be bombed. And Israeli air strikes hit Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, as Israeli forces also try to get control of the militant group's villages and sites used to launch rockets at northern Israel.
Hezbollah and Israeli troops exchange gunfire in near Bint Jbail, a militant stronghold that Israeli troops have been trying to capture for weeks. Hezbollah reportedly attacks Israeli troops near the town of Naquora, killing two Israeli reservists. The militant group fires about 90 rockets on northern Israel by the afternoon.
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Can't say I feel sorry for people that are fully aiding and abetting Hamas.
Iran said on Sunday China would take part in a nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran later this month, to be held just days after Chinese President Hu Jintao is due to attend a nuclear security summit in Washington.
Iran, embroiled in a deepening nuclear row with the West, says experts and officials from some 60 countries have been invited to the April 17-18 meeting in Tehran, called "Nuclear energy for everyone, nuclear arms for no one".
"The Chinese have welcomed the Islamic Republic's initiative and the idea of calling on the world to disarm and will take part in the Tehran conference," chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was quoted as saying by official IRNA news agency. Jalili, who visited Beijing last week, did not say at what level China would be represented.
Jalili told reporters on Friday, after meeting the Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Beijing, that the two sides agreed sanctions had "lost their effectiveness".
Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, said "senior officials and ranking experts from various countries" would attend the international disarmament and non-proliferation meeting in Tehran, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected a renewed call from the United States to engage diplomatically to overcome the nuclear standoff, saying he saw no change in Washington's hostile policy.
Speaking at a factory inauguration on Saturday, Ahmadinejad said a message by U.S. President Barack Obama to mark the Iranian new year last month contained "three or four beautiful words" but nothing new of substance.
"They say that 'we have extended our hands to the people of Iran but the government of Iran and the people of Iran pushed it back'. What hand did you extend toward us?" Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech.
"What changed? Your sanctions were lifted? The adverse propaganda was stopped? The pressure was alleviated? Did you change your attitude in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine?"
After taking office last year Obama indicated he would engage with Iran if it "unclenched its fist". But, accusing Tehran of rejecting diplomatic approaches over its nuclear program, which Washington says aims to create a nuclear bomb, Obama is pushing world powers to impose new U.N. sanctions.
Iran would easily cope with any new sanctions on petroleum imports, Ahmadinejad said, adding that such measures would only serve to strengthen his people's resolve.
"You should know that the more hostile you are, the stronger an incentive our people will have, it will double," he said.
"They said 'we want sanctions on petroleum'. Why don't you do it? The sooner the better."
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Sanctions don't mean jack in the end. When have they ever?
[Iran Press TV Latest] Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, an Iranian diplomat abducted in Pakistan in 2008, says he believes the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, and the Central Intelligence Agency were behind his abduction.
Attarzadeh, who was abducted on November 13, 2008, was rescued last week by Iranian intelligence forces in Pakistan.
In an interview with Press TV, he said Mossad and the CIA, under orders from the United States, were behind his abduction.
"America is behind this incident (his abduction)," he said.
Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said following the failure of the Pakistani government to secure the release of Attarzadeh, his ministry took the initiative and managed to rescue the diplomat after a series of complicated operations.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Al Arabiya Latest] In his unprecedentedly bitter speech to election officials on Thursday, the Afghan leader accused embassies of perpetrating election fraud in Afghanistan, bribing and threatening election officials and seeking to weaken him and his government.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Two men arrested for breaking a ban on Muslim prayers at a Spanish cathedral which was once a mosque, sparking fights with police, will be prosecuted, a report said Saturday.
Muslims living in the United States, the call to prayer requires a response at least five times a day. But when the U.S. Census Bureau comes calling once every 10 years, some Arab-Americans still hesitate to return the survey.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Nearly four years after Israel littered southern Lebanon with mines during its devastating war with Hezbollah, teenager Mohammed al-Hajj Mussa can barely bring himself to speak of the day he lost his legs.
