Hat tip: Six Meat Buffet
...he had seen former President George W. Bush once say that people who buy drugs off the street were supporting terrorism, so he decided to grow his own.
Afghanistan's two top security officials resigned on Sunday, hours after President Hamid Karzai ordered a judicial review of all cases against suspected Taliban insurgents, promising that those incarcerated because of doubtful evidence will be released.
Mr. Karzai's office said Interior Minister Hanif Atmar and intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh were asked to quit because they failed to ensure security around a nationwide assembly, or peace jirga, in Kabul last week. The Taliban attacked the gathering with rockets and suicide bombers, causing minor disruptions but no fatalities.
Two Afghan officials close to the situation, however, said that tensions had been building between Mr. Karzai and the security chiefs for some time. Mr. Karzai's order of the prisoner review Sunday was the final straw, they said.
Messrs. Atmar and Saleh resigned after a meeting with Mr. Karzai at the presidential palace Sunday afternoon, an encounter that one adviser close to Mr. Karzai described as stormy. "Both of them told Karzai that it is not fair that our men are risking their lives to arrest terrorists and insurgents and that he was then releasing them," the adviser said.
At a press conference on Sunday, Mr. Saleh, who headed the National Directorate for Security, said he offered his resignation because he "failed to provide proper security" for the peace jirga. He added that there were also "hundreds of other reasons" for quittingreasons he said he didn't want to discuss.
Mr. Karzai's decree on Taliban prisoners was his first official response to the peace jirga, which explored ways to end the country's nearly 9-year-old insurgency.
The conference recommended that all militant suspects being held in Afghan jails and in U.S. military custody be released if allegations against them aren't substantiated.
Mr. Karzai's decree called for that prisoner review process to begin with the establishment of a committee led by the Ministry of Justice, which would review the cases of Afghan prisoners who had been detained without "sufficient legally binding criminal evidence."
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Cairo court on Saturday upheld a ruling to strip Egyptian men married to Israeli women of their citizenship in a case that has highlighted national sentiment towards Israel.
Judge Mohammed al-Husseini sitting on the Supreme Administrative Court
Administrative court? What on earth is that?
said the interior ministry must ask cabinet to take the necessary steps to strip Egyptian men married to Israeli women, and their children, of their citizenship.
The court said that each case should be considered separately, in a ruling that cannot be appealed.
The ruling reflects Egyptian sentiment towards Israel, 30 years after Egypt signed an unpopular peace deal with the Jewish state.
Lawyer Nabil al-Wahsh said he originally brought the case to court so as to prevent the creation of a generation "disloyal to Egypt and the Arab world."
Children of such marriages "should not be allowed to perform their military service," he said.
The number of Egyptian men married to Israeli women is thought to be around 30,000, according to Wahsh,
That seems like rather a lot.
only 10 percent of whom are married to Arab Israelis.
Interesting...
A lower court ruled last year that the interior minister must look into the cases of Egyptian men married to Israeli women, and their children, in order to "take the necessary steps to strip them of their nationality."
Wouldn't such children have Israeli citizenship anyway?
The interior and foreign ministries had appealed the case, saying it was for parliament to decide on such matters.
Thousands of Egyptians, particularly a large number who lived in Iraq and returned after the 1990 Gulf War over Kuwait, moved to Israel in search of work and married Israeli women.
Went native, did they?
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Lets do the math:
30,000 Egyptian men - no citizenship
30,000 Israeli women - no citizenship
3.1 children per average Egyptian household 90,000 potential children - no citizenship
Seems like a small number but, when the Egyptians get around to the next group say Egyptian Christians or Egyptians married to other "haram" groups, then what ?
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There must be 10 or 12 American males married to Mexican ladies in my small town of 500 people and they seem to be as well adjusted as the rest of us.
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seriously, sometimes those hard-line Arab countries do things that I would love to see in the U.S.. Can you imagine all of the disloyal generations of Americans we could've avoided if we had started revoking citizenship away from people who were married to foreigners? Of course I never would've been born but... just think of the possibilites.(sarcasm)
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30,000 Israeli women - no citizenship
Goodluck Smock1954, nothing in the article indicates the Israeli women lost or gave up their citizenship, and I'm not aware that their children would not automatically get Israeli citizenship, regardless whether they were reared as Jews or Muslims... or even as worshippers of Moog the Great Destroyer, which religion as far as I know I just invented. Am I mistaken? (It has been known to happen, much more often than I like...)
[Bangla Daily Star] BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami have agreed to forge a joint movement against the government.
The decision came when top leaders of the two parties met at BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office last night.
The government move to try war criminals also came up for discussion at the meeting, which began at around 9:00pm, said meeting sources.
Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami led a nine-member delegation that included party stalwarts Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Delwar Hossain Saidee and Azharul Islam.
Khaleda was accompanied by BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain, Senior Joint Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members RA Gani and Nazrul Islam Khan, among others.
Asked if they have discussed the trial of war criminals, Mojahid said, "We don't have any disagreement on any issue."
The meeting sources said Jamaat leaders raised the trial issue and stressed the need for joint efforts against the government move. They said Awami League has political intention behind the move for trials.
Khaleda told the Jamaat leaders that BNP is talking about the issue from its viewpoint and Jamaat should go ahead with its own strategies.
During the meeting, Khaleda asked for all-out support from Jamaat for June 27 hartal.
Jamaat leaders said they would finalise their stance on the issue today.
Talking to reporters after the meeting, Nizami said, "There is no alternative to waging a movement. BNP has already announced programmes to that end and we have taken those positively."
He also said that after discussing overall political situation they have agreed with BNP to forge a movement, as "the government has failed miserably and been persecuting the opponents".
This is the first meeting since the two parties sat before the general election in 2008.
Yesterday's was in a series of view-exchange meetings that the opposition chief has been holding with like-minded parties to drum up support for the programmes she announced last month.
Khaleda has already met leaders of Islami Oikya Jote, Bangladesh Jatiya Party, Khelafat Majlish, Jatiya Gonotantrik Party, National Peoples Party, National Awami Party, National Democratic Party and other pro-BNP organisations.
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Schools have been accused of ignoring the views of their Christian pupils while paying careful attention to children of other faiths.
According to Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, teachers are failing to educate children in the core beliefs of Christianity, ignoring their legal obligation to do so.
An Ofsted report released today says stories from the Bible are often used simply to teach children about their feelings or about how to empathise with the sick, but their religious significance is neglected.
The inspectorate finds there has been a sharp decline in the quality of religious teaching, particularly in secondary schools, over the past three years.
Insufficient attention was paid to ... pupils who were actively engaged in Christian practice,' the report notes. Often, their experience was ignored ... this sometimes contrasted sharply with the more careful attention paid to the experiences of pupils from other religious traditions.'
Critics argue that too many teachers are both ignorant and embarrassed about Christianity and are frightened of causing tension in multi-faith schools.
However, supporters of the approach identified by Ofsted argue that teachers are simply reflecting the secular views prevalent in society.
Christine Gilbert, the chief inspector of schools, said: All young people should have the opportunity to learn about religion [and] learn from religion. This requires good teaching based on strong subject knowledge and clarity about the purposes of religious education.'
The teaching of religion has become increasingly fraught. Last year, a primary school teacher from Tower Hamlets, east London, claimed he had been forced out of his job because he had complained to his headmistress about an anti-Christian bias among pupils. Generic pupils.
Pupils of no specified faith or background, one notes.
Some had allegedly praised the September 11 hijackers, while one boy had said he was glad about the death of a lawyer who had been stabbed because he's a Christian'.
Ah yes, those pupils.
Schools are obliged to teach religion, although it is not part of the national curriculum. Lessons are also supposed to reflect the fact that Christianity is the main religion in Britain, while taking account of the other leading faiths.
LIAM FOX, the defence secretary, is facing questions after installing an American aide with links to US intelligence services in the heart of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
MPs have raised concerns about Luke Coffey, a former US army captain, who has been appointed to a highly sensitive role as Fox's special adviser. He has not yet been given full security clearance.
Coffey set up the London chapter of an American think tank, many of whose members have backgrounds in the CIA and other American military defence intelligence agencies.
Fox, who has strong links with Washington through his Atlantic Bridge charity, has defended Coffey's appointment and dismissed concerns of spying. He has highlighted the importance of the so-called "special relationship" between Britain and America, saying: "It's not as if he is Russian."
American is worse, to some. There have been Russian moles wandering freely through the marble halls of the British government for several generations with very little protest.
A number of MPs have warned that the access to confidential briefings and paperwork Coffey will enjoy as one of Fox's closest aides could create a serious conflict of interest.
There is particular concern about his role in the forthcoming strategic defence review. Central to the review will be Britain's relationship with America and the future of defence procurement programmes. Critics already accuse Fox of being biased towards purchasing cheaper military equipment from America in favour of supplies from the UK defence industry.
Michael Dugher, the Labour MP who once worked as a special adviser in the MoD, said: "This raises serious questions. At a time when the MoD is undertaking a sensitive defence review, vital to British national interests, is it really appropriate to have a foreign national and a former member of the US military employed by the taxpayer as a special adviser to the British secretary of state?
"It will only fuel fears that Liam Fox plans to tear up important contracts with UK-based suppliers -- supporting thousands of British jobs -- in favour of buying 'off the shelf' from the Americans."
This is the real issue, not security.
Coffey has a masters degree in European politics from the London School of Economics. He arrived in Britain in 2006 and began working for Mark Harper, the Tory MP, before applying to work in Fox's office.
The theory of nefarious influence is easy to test then: how did MP Harper vote on the subject?
He runs the London branch of an organisation called Censa (Council for Emerging National Security Affairs), whose mission is to "shape US national security policy" and to "become the premier venue for virtual collaboration in addressing national security affairs and policy renewals". About a quarter of the members listed on its website have a background in intelligence.
Although the special adviser has been issued with a pass giving him access to all areas of the MoD, he has not yet been "defence vetted". Only a handful of special advisers in the most sensitive departments, such as No 10 and the Foreign Office, undergo this process.
It is understood that the security clearance process, which can take several months, has been delayed because of Coffey's nationality. MoD sources say that until he has been cleared he will be working on a restricted computer and will not be allowed into the most confidential meetings.
Since Fox became defence secretary there have been two highly sensitive briefings -- on special forces and Britain's nuclear deterrent -- which Coffey was not allowed to attend.
However, Whitehall insiders say he will still have ready access to highly confidential documents relating to security and commercial contracts.
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I like the sound of this. All I've been hearing lately is how England is going to put our "special relationship" up for review soon. So happy to see cooler heads will (probably) prevail. IMHO the U.S. and England need each other more than ever.
Rinsed through Babelfish... yada yada, you know the drill...
"The arms are entering by parts", assured secretary of the Chihuahua State Public Security, Gustavo Zabre Ochoa.
Ochoa detailed in a press conference Friday how firearms parts are ending up in the CERESO prison at Serdän Aquilles.
"...all penitentiaries are vulnerable", said Ochoa.He added that the dismissal of the prison director, Ochoa added problems in prison in Chihuahua would not be solved with the dismissal of its director Raúl Platón del Cueto. Rather it would be resources used to contain rival prison gangs, which comprise some 70 percent of the federal inmates.
"We did not doubt the complicity of the personnel with the guards, for that reason a ministerial investigation is realized already to analyze this situation in detail", added Ochoa.
The CERESO riot midweek claimed two lives and eight more injured by firearms within the walls the facility..
Ochoa said investigations would focus on how the gun parts were smuggled into prison. He said he has information that food and personal hygiene objects were used to conceal the weapons that were brought in.
Ochoa announced that soon two modules of high security in the penitentiary of Juärez City will be ready with capacity for 120 inmates, consequently problems at the penitentiary facilities of Serdän Aquilles will ease.
"At the moment, Ochoa said, "rival gangs continue to be in the same high security modules."
"... we had to divide to the two antagonistic gangs to avoid these confrontations, but they continue being in a same module".
"They have been other directors and the things are continued presenting/displaying", affirmed Ochoa when asked if the departure of the director would fix prison problems in Juarez, emphasizing the arrival of major resources likely the most feasible solution to this problem, along with already announced installation of a tunnel of detection with X-rays.
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Funny. I was just reading yesterday about a Winchester trench gun that a guy had acquired while in Vietnam. He went through the parts bins and mailed himself the shotgun, one piece at a time. He used the gun until he passed away, and then it went to his best friend who asked the questions about it. Obviously, none of the serial numbers matched.
Russia is giving discreet advice to US officials on Afghanistan but will "never again" send troops to the war-torn country, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Sunday.
"By the way, next year I think the ISAF will break the Soviet record of the duration of stay in Afghanistan," Ivanov said during a question-and-answer session with delegates to a regional security conference in Singapore.
He was referring to the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operating in Afghanistan since a US-led invasion toppled the hardline Taliban regime in the wake of the September 2001 attacks in the United States.
Ivanov, a former defence minister, declined to comment on US tactics in Afghanistan but called for more to be done to improve the socio-economic infrastructure to back up military efforts against militants.
"I can't give advice, particularly publicly," Ivanov told an audience of defence ministers, military officials and scholars as the annual forum known as the Shangri-La Dialogue drew to a close.
"I have to confess... meeting American defence secretaries, central intelligence chiefs, state department chiefs, we discussed it.
"If we are asked, we answer, but it's difficult to comment publicly, really difficult."
Ivanov said Russia was providing various forms of support to the ISAF including logistics, transport and intelligence, but ruled out Moscow ever sending its troops into Afghanistan.
"Never again a Russian soldier would enter Afghanistan," said Ivanov.
"I think you understand why. It's like asking the United States whether they will send troops to Vietnam," he said.
"It's something like that. It's totally impossible."
The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which lasted from from 1979-1989, cost over 13,000 Soviet lives and contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union.
This needs emphasis. Sometimes I think the US is going to do the same thing nearly the same way. Bloomberg this week: U.S.s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP. Forbes.com: Six Giant Bank Holding Companies Made $51 Billion Last Year; The Other 980 Lost Money. Karl Denninger:if you are currently spend 11% of GDP by borrowing money and blowing into the economy to prop it up and you achieve "fiscal sustainability" (defined as not doing that any more) GDP will inevitably contract by the amount of stimulative borrowing you withdraw.
The Soviet Union was not defeated militarily, but spent itself to death.
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Well, the difference between Russia and the U.S. in regard to Afghanistan is that we will actually leave victorious. And I don't think invading Vietnam again is totally off the table (especially if we end up in a new Korea/China conflict).
[WSJ] SAYLORSBURG, Pa.--Imam Fethullah Gülen, a controversial and reclusive U.S. resident who is considered Turkey's most influential religious leader, criticized a Turkish-led flotilla for trying to deliver aid without Israel's consent.
Speaking in his first interview with a U.S. news organization, Mr. Gülen spoke of watching news coverage of Monday's deadly confrontation between Israeli commandos and Turkish aid group members as its flotilla approached Israel's sea blockade of Gaza. "What I saw was not pretty," he said. "It was ugly."
Mr. Gülen said organizers' failure to seek accord with Israel before attempting to deliver aid "is a sign of defying authority, and will not lead to fruitful matters."
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[Dawn] Pakistan Muslim League - N chief, Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday that it is the nations, not the governments who have to fight the war against terrorism. Seems to me that governments and nations might have some sort of subtle relationship that binds them together. I'm not too sure how it works, but it doesn't look like Nawaz is, either.
Sharif urged the federal government to remove the flaws in the war against terrorism. "Terrorists have neither religion nor state. Nation and institutions are united in war against terrorism," he added. Except that the turbans are conducting terrorist campaigns in the name of their religion. And the Pak state has been giving the terror orgs aid, comfort, money and shelter for many years now.
Answering a question he said that Ahmedis are also citizens of Pakistan. Persecuted citizens. Oppressed citizens. But citizens nonetheless.
He said that talking against the Parliament was insult to the Parliament as well as the nation itself. Seems like the Pak parliament's real touchy about its image.
Speaking about the budget, Sharif said that the government has so far been unable to eliminate the problems of the common man. He said that the budget must help solve the problems of the poverty-stricken people.
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JERUSALEM (AP) Israel says U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is moving ahead with plans for an international commission to investigate Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
A Foreign Ministry official says Ban wants former New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer to head the panel, which would include Israeli, Turkish and U.S. representatives. All nine people killed in last week's raid were Turks.
SATURDAY: Israel remains defiant, seizes Gaza-bound aid ship
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because Ban has not officially announced his plans.
Israel has resisted an external investigation, but pressure is mounting because of outrage over the deaths.
On Saturday, Israel took over another aid ship without incident. The Interior Ministry says all 19 activists and crew will be deported Sunday.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Activist Idris Simsek, who was on board one of the six ships of the Freedom Flotilla during the Israeli attack, claims that four wounded activists were thrown into the sea.
The Israeli troops also put immense psychological pressure on the activists of the Freedom Flotilla, the Turkish daily Today's Zaman quoted Simsek as saying in an article published on Saturday.
Simsek said they expected some harassment from the Israeli forces but did not expect an armed attack.
He went on to say that he witnessed that the person who waived the white flag to surrender was shot by the Israeli troops.
Erol Demir, another activist who was on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, said there is film footage of the chaos and the carnage on the ship and stated that the footage will show the real face of the Israeli military to the entire world.
"They even shot those who surrendered. Many of our friends saw this. They told me that there were handcuffed people who were shot," he added.
Hakan Albayrak, a journalist from the Turkish daily Yeni Safak who was also on the ship, said, "It was an outright massacre what Israel did out there. They attacked us in international waters... We had no weapons. I think we lost more people."
The Israeli military attacked the Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea early on May 31, killing nine Turkish citizens on board the six ships and injuring about 50 other people.
The fate of three other Freedom Flotilla activists is still unknown.
Israel also arrested nearly 700 activists from 42 countries on board the ships of the Freedom Flotilla, which was attempting to break the siege of Gaza in order to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian assistance to the long-suffering people of the territory.
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700 people who long for the laws of an ancient era are still alive today. Only 200 years ago all 700 would have been tossed overboard, and the world would have called it justice.
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are ready to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza, a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday.
"Iran's Revolutionary Guards naval forces are fully prepared to escort the peace and freedom convoys to Gaza with all their powers and capabilities," Ali Shirazi, Khamenei's representative inside the Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency.
Any intervention by the Iranian military would be considered highly provocative by Israel which accuses Iran of supplying weapons to Hamas, the Islamist movement which rules Gaza.
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The Guards, with their own navy, air force and command structure separate from the regular armed forces, are seen as fiercely loyal to the values of the Islamic Republic.
"If the Supreme Leader issues an order for this then the Revolutionary Guard naval forces will do their best to secure the ships," Shirazi said. "It is Iran's duty to defend the innocent people of Gaza."
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Sounds like the Iranians have been taking lessons from Hugo Chavez.
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1. I don't think very many ships in the IRGC fleet can actually travel to the Mediterranean without frequent refueling even using the Suez canal.
2. I doubt whether Egypt would allow these craft passage through the Suez canal. In fact, Iranian ships trying to make this journey would be seen a provocation against the Arab world by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and others.
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Jeebus, think of the oil-slick coming off the crews
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Oh, Frank!
Iran may be out of position, but Turkey is not. And while driving ships you want to keep into Israeli air cover is a bad idea, it might be just the thing to kick off the festivities everyone seems to be gearing up for.
Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has called for the formation of a "Freedom Flotilla II" to break the siege of Gaza.
"There is a real opportunity today to achieve what the Freedom Flotilla aimed to do... and that is to break the siege on our brothers and sisters in Gaza," AFP quoted him as saying on Friday.
"This means we will need to form more flotillas of different nationalities and see them on to Gaza," he added.
Nasrallah was addressing thousands of supporters via video link in the southern suburbs of Beirut, at an event held to remember members of the Freedom Flotilla who suffered a deadly attack on Monday by Israeli soldiers.
According to the Hezbollah chief, the attack showed that Israel did not respect human rights. He also criticized Western countries, who claim to be advocates of human rights, for their silence on Israeli crimes.
Nasrallah further urged the people of Lebanon, including Christians and Muslims, to participate en masse in "Freedom Flotilla II" and again attempt to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The Hezbollah chief, however, said by suggesting the formation of more flotillas he did not intend to spark a renewed round of conflict.
"I do not intend to create a new problem," he said. "But we need to be part of this humanitarian struggle, and not leave it to those who traverse the sea to get here."
In his speech, Nasrallah also praised Turkey's tough stance against Israel, describing it as an "earthquake for Israel."
After the attack, Ankara recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv and said it intends to reduce economic and defense ties with Israel.
The Israeli military attacked the Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea early on May 31.
Israeli officials say nine people were killed in the Monday's deadly attack, but reports by Palestinian sources put the fatalities at around 20.
The three-year Israeli blockade of Gaza has deprived the territories' 1.5 million residents of food, fuel, and other necessities.
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don't expect that fat f*ck to put hisself in harm's way. He's too important and holy. He'll exhort others from his secure bunker
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ION TOPIX > NASRALLAH: STRIKE ON GAZA AID SHIP PROVES/SHOWS ISRAEL WILL ATTACK EVEN ITS OWN ALLIES.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned Israel against any new military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Speaking at the Mausoleum of Imam Khomeini on the 21st anniversary of the death of the Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmadinejad said Israel would have to answer to the world for its blockade of the Gaza Strip, IRNA reported on Friday.
He also praised certain European countries for their stance against Israel following Tel Aviv's attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla.
However, the Iranian President criticized the United States for its inadequate response and said that Washington's restrained stance could drive the administration of President Barack Obama into a dead end.
In addition, millions of Iranians staged massive demonstrations in several cities across the country to condemn Israel's deadly attack on the Freedom Flotilla and the continued blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday.
A six-point statement was issued at the end of the demonstrations, in which the protestors called on the international community and the UN Security Council to take "immediate and serious measures" to bring a halt to Israel's crimes.
The Israeli military attacked the Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea early on May 31, killing at least 19 people on board the six ships, including eight Turkish citizens, and injuring about 50 others.
The fate of three other Freedom Flotilla activists is still unknown.
Israel also arrested nearly 700 activists from 42 countries on board the Freedom Flotilla, which was attempting to break the siege of Gaza in order to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian assistance to the long-suffering people of the territory.
The world condemned Israel for the deadly attack, with the Arab League and many European countries calling for immediate action in response to the outrage.
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""the Arab League and many European countries calling for immediate action in response to the outrage. "
Like what, for instance...blowing spit out their noses?
Oh, in other news...Whose Noses are bigger the Arab Nose or the French Nose. Somebody go get a tape measure and a big bowl of snails and falafel.
And hold the Mayo.
1. You refine heroin for a living but have a moral objection to beer, pot and vaccines.
2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher but cant afford shoes for your children.
3. You have more wives than teeth. And more children then all your fingers, toes, teeth and wives combined.
4. You wipe your ass with your bare left hand, but consider bacon, dogs and women unclean.
5. You think vests come in three styles: bullet proof, suicide, and disguise.
6. You cant think of anyone you havent declared jihad against, and never stop trying to.
7. You consider radio and television seriously dangerous to the people, but routinely carry explosives in your clothes.
8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
9. You have nothing against women, if barefoot, pregnant and shrouded, and think every man should own at least two.
10. Youve always had a crush on your neighbors goat, camel and child.
11. You believe world civilization reached its peak of perfection in 632 CE, and plan to soon bring it back to that level.
12. Youve heard of books besides the Quran, and hope someday to burn some.
13. You think the Holocaust is a lie told by Jews in their evil plot to take over the world, but you long to make it true, after you succeed in your divine plot to take over the world.
14. You long, and fight, for a pure Muslim homeland, besides the 57 you already have. But the Jews dont get even one.
15. You say there is no compulsion in religion, but only when all other religions admit your superiority, or when there is only one religion.
16. You say that a few Jews and Christians (at best) will be saved from Hell, but only those who have who have followed the True Religion, i.e. Islam.
17. When questioned you always point to the ONE verse in the Quran that recommends peace, and ignore the 500 that recommended war. But not in practice.
18. Your God is merciful and good, but He spends 50% of His Holy Book drooling over the brutal suffering of non-Muslims in Hell, and the punishment He claims you will give US in this life.
19. Your God is forgiving and kind, but killing for Islam is the Only Sure Way to AVOID Hell. Like helping Humankind is for Jews (who dont believe in hell), or giving your life to Jesus is for Christians.
20. Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace and Backwards is Forewards make perfect sense to you.
21. You believe movies, music and unveiled women are snares of Satan, but violence is commanded by Allah for a higher place in Heaven.
22. You believe the Quran is for all mankind (whether they want it or not) but can only be read in medieval Arabic.
23. You claim Switzerlands vote to ban new minarets (but not new Mosques) is racist, but banning all Churches, Synagogues and Hindu/Buddhist/Shinto/Other Temples from even existing in Saudi Arabia, and most other Muslim countries, is the Divine Will of Allah.
24. You demand that Muslims be allowed unrestricted immigration to all Western Countries, but non-Muslims are forbidden to even enter the City of Mecca.
25. You know that everything that happens is Predestined by Allah, but that you must learn and follow a million pointless rules for every action of the day to avoid offending Him. And you dont want to offend Him!!
26. You believe that Muhammads Overnight-Flight from Mecca to Jerusalem on his Magical Flying Horse (I am not making this up) gives you the right to appropriate the 3000 yr. old Jewish Temple for yourselves. (yes, they really believe this).
27. You can recite from memory the entire Quran in Arabic, and someday hope to read a translation in your own language so you can find out what it says. (Until then youll take your Imams word its all good).
28. A few satirical Dutch cartoons drive you into a worldwide burning/killing rage, yet many weeks-long Muslim State-produced miniseries of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are educational. Yet there are no worldwide (or any) Jewish riots over them.
29. You think the separation of Church and State is a Satanic plot, yet separation of adult men and women is ordained by Allah, and if you disagree you must be killed. (an actual recent Saudi Arabian Religious Authority fatwa). And yet gays are killed too.
30. You think Adam (but not Eve), Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad were all actually Muslims, just like the Mormons know that they were all actually Mormons. And they also kill gays.
31. You know the Devil is not really hiding under your bed youre not children! You just believe He is hidng in your bathroom so He can see your pee pee. (A Muslim Imam told me this personally)
32. To you a central spiritual debate by religious authorities is whether all men will have permanent erections in Heaven, or whether they will get erect at will. Also whether women will be virgins perpetually or will be re-virgined after each use.
33. You believe that Moses (Jew-liberating, 10 Commandments giving), was a pious dolt, and that Jesus (loving your neighbor as yourself, giving up your life for a friend) was a fraud, who was never actually crucified, was not the Son of God, but gave a sermon immediately after being born. (Its in the Quran)
34. And yet you believe Muhammad: a mass murdering, woman raping, slave trading, caravan raiding, Jew hating, narcissistic, genocidal, pedophile Warlord is a perfect role model for all time. And Islam is the most peaceful of Religions.
35. Blowing up two 2000 yr old Buddhist statues is . I cant even think of a way to make this funny. Muslims.
An Islamophobe is a non-Muslim who wants to stay that way.
A Muslim extremist is the one issuing the death threats, a muslim moderate is the one explaing why you deserve it.
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TEHRAN TIMES > MP: RUSSIA HAS NEVER BEEN IRAN'S FRIEND, espec since the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrowing the Shah + establishing the Islamic Republic of Iran.
* SAME + RENSE > IRAN HAZE CONTAINS DEPLETED URANIUM | IRAN CLAIMS [US-made] DEPLETED URANIUM IS IN ITS AIR, via Iraq.
[Al Arabiya Latest] One French U.N. peacekeeper was killed and two others injured in a road accident in southern Lebanon on Saturday, officials said.
"One UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) peacekeeper died and two other soldiers were injured in a road traffic accident involving an armored personnel carrier on a routine patrol this morning," UNIFIL spokesman Naresh Bhatt said.
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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.
[Dawn] Pakistan Muslim League - N chief, Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday that it is the nations, not the governments who have to fight the war against terrorism.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Activist Idris Simsek, who was on board one of the six ships of the Freedom Flotilla during the Israeli attack, claims that four wounded activists were thrown into the sea. 
