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Not trying to rain on anyone's parade here, but don't both the sender and the recipient of the money have to have a Gpay (or PayPal) account for it to work?
I'll just keep sending checks to Fred, thanks.
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I'm looking at leaving PayPal after this. Taking a look at Gpal now.
U.S. Army General David Petraeus sought to assure lawmakers that he backs President Barack Obama's plan for a drawdown from Afghanistan starting in July 2011 with the pace determined by conditions on the ground.
Resuming testimony cut short yesterday when he almost passed out during questioning, Petraeus, 57, told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that the timeline is not the date when the U.S. heads for the exits.' Obama set the date in December as he announced the addition of 30,000 U.S. troops.
I did believe there was value in sending a message of urgency with July 2011 as well as the message the president was sending of commitment with the additional substantial number of forces,' Petraeus said. But it is important that July 2011 be seen for what it is, a date when a process begins based on conditions.'
[Dawn] The Afghan Taliban is denying a report that it receives funding, training and protection from Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, a US monitoring group said Tuesday.
"No, no, perish the thought!"
A message viewed by the US-based SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors communications linked to international terrorism, said the Afghan Taliban described the reported link this week as "void of all truth, false and untrue propaganda."
The comment came in reaction to a report for the London School of Economics (LSE) based on interviews with nine Taliban field commanders in Afghanistan between February and May of this year.
That report claimed the relationship between the ISI and the militants goes far beyond current estimates and that the Pakistani intelligence agency "orchestrates, sustains and strongly influences the movement."
But the Afghan Taliban, according to SITE, said that "no sound mind" would accept that Pakistan, which supports the United States, would back the jihad against the US presence in Afghanistan.
The message from the self-proclaimed Shura leadership in Afghanistan also alleged the report was concocted by the London School of Economics to "protect" American and British interests in the country.
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[Ma'an] Egypt's prosecutor general has reportedly opened an investigation into complaints filled by activists and MPs, calling for the arrest of Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak upon entering Egypt.
According to Egypt's Daily Star, the complaint, submitted on 3 June, accuses Israeli officials of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla, which left nine Turkish nationals, including a dual US citizen, dead.
Citing international laws and conventions on the protection of civilians, including the statute of the International Criminal Court, which allows countries to arrest war criminals and subsequent trials in international courts, the complaint was filed by 51 activists and members of parliament.
Petitioners include civil rights activists Ibrahim Yousri, Abdel-Halim Qandil, coordinator of the Kefaya movement for change, Hamdi Qandil, journalist and spokesman for the National Association for Change, and opposition and independent MPs Saad Aboud, Gamal Zahran and Hamdin Sabbahi, will be heard by Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud on Saturday, Qandil said.
Qandil told the Egyptian newspaper that "the decision is a surprise and I don't have any explanation for it," while Yousri, who filed the complaint, said the decision was a "positive step" and told Daily News Egypt "the decision isn't something new for the Prosecutor General."
"He [Prosecutor General] is a man who does his job with integrity and objectivity and implements the law."
An arrest warrant was issued against former Israeli Defense Minister Tzipi Livni in the UK in December 2009, after a British lawyer filed a complaint on behalf of victims of the Gaza war, citing international jurisdiction and allegations of war crimes as the basis.
The move prompted the British government to enforce a veto on all arrest warrants against international leaders accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity.
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One of the UK's top comedians, satirists and impressionists, Rory Bremner, says he's afraid to write jokes about Islam because he fears death threats.
Bremner was discussing the future of satire with David Frost on Frost on Satire, a BBC documentary.
"The greatest danger now is that one of the toughest issues of our time is religion," says Bremner, as quoted in the Daily Telegraph.
He says that, when he's writing a sketch about Islam, "I'm writing a line and I think, 'If this goes down badly, I'm writing my own death warrant there.' Because there are people who will say, 'Not only do I not think that's funny but I'm going to kill you' -- and that's chilling."
Bremner cites the case of a Danish cartoonist, who isn't named in the Telegraph article, but is likely to be Kurt Westergaard, who drew a cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. His life changed after that and other cartoons appeared in Jyllands-Posten, and Muslims reacted with violence.
"If you're a Danish cartoonist and you work in a Western tradition, people don't take that too seriously," Bremner tells Frost in the interview, to be aired Thursday. "Suddenly you're confronted by a group of people who are fundamentalist and extreme and they say, 'We're going to kill you because of what you have said or drawn.' Where does satire go from there, because we like to be brave but not foolish."
Frost comments that he finds it surprising that Bremner thinks a joke could put his life in danger.
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"Frost comments that he finds it surprising that Bremner thinks a joke could put his life in danger."
God save us, where has the man been living for the last twenty years, under a rock? Wasn't the Affair of the Danish Mo-Toons something like a clue? Not to mention the fatwa on Salman Rushdie?
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"Frost comments that he finds it surprising that Bremner thinks a joke could put his life in danger."
The Mr. Bremner should make a joke about mo-ham-head and/or i-slam and say that Mr. Frost was the originator of the joke, and that Mr. Bremner condemns it. If Mr. Frost is correct that a joke can't put someone's life in danger, then he'll be OK - right?
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Then Mr. Bremner
PMIF...PMIF :-(
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I thought David Frost was a muslim. I thought all the BBC-aljazeera types plus the royals, the lords, and the progressives were all muslims. That would explain a lot.
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Rory is not alone. Smpsons, South Park, comedy central.... none dare poke the bear. not a draw mohammad day, not a word against "honour killings" not a word aginst genital mutilation. never speak out loud the 7th century barbarianism towards women and female children.
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This is why I supported the "Draw Mohammad Day" last month. I posted some art online and got a TON of hate mail from the Moose-limbs. It was really rather funny.
Muslim hecklers drowned out by counter-protesters singing "God Save the Queen" and flinging pork sausages at the hecklers.
A group of extremist Muslims prompted violent clashes at a homecoming parade for British troops today after they heckled soldiers and called them 'murderers.' Members of the Muslim Against the Crusade group clashed with far right protesters as they shouted 'murderers, murderers, murderers' and 'British troops go to hell' as members of the 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment paraded down the streets of Barking, Essex.
The chants were drowned out by a large mob on the opposite side of the street who retaliated with jeers of 'Traitors' to the Muslim protesters.
The hour-long parade had been delayed due to growing tensions between the two sides, with anti-Mac protestors singing God Save the Queen and drinkers at a nearby pub hurling frozen pork sausages at the Muslims.
Moments after the soldiers passed through tensions reached boiling point and the anti-Mac campaigners broke through the barricades, charged across the road and traded punches with the Muslim throng.
Police quickly separated the mob, with one man wrestled to the ground, handcuffed and led away while the police made a ring surrounding the Muslim group. They then had to hold back the anti-Muslim group as the Mac protesters made their way to a tube station.
Two men were arrested after the violence, for public order offences.
One member of the Mac group used a megaphone to shout: 'This is a protest against parading in a Muslim area. We love death the way you love life.'
The Muslim protesters chanted 'Democracy' as they had an uneasy stand-off against a mob, some waving St George's Crosses, Union flags and an English Defence League flag. Anti-Mac protesters sang 'I'll be English 'till my dying day,' and jeered 'We pay your benefits'.
The soldiers remained undaunted by the abuse, and marched through the town centre with fixed bayonets, accompanied by the Minden Band, a Colour Party and two guards of 70 officers and non-commisioned officers.
The Freedom parade stopped briefly in Barking Town Square where the Mayor, Councillor Nirmal Singh Gill, General Sir John McColl and the Queen's deputy Lieutenant Major Anthony O'Hagan took a salute and inspected the troops.
Good photos at the link. There were a couple of Mac signs I can't quite read, although it's clear they all came from the same source, unlike the EDL side. Jihad is holy war, and the Mac bunch clearly fancy themselves something of an army.
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"anti-Mac campaigners broke through the barricades, charged across the road and traded punches with the Muslim throng." Find out who they are and have them Knighted.
They keep saying it and we keep ignoring it. Nothing short of death will stop the muslim agenda. Waiting for them to love life more than they hate infidels isn't going to work. There is no "middle ground". So consumed by hatred that violence is life's blood and slaughter their daily bread.
One doesn't negotiate with weeds in the garden. One pulls them up by the roots.
The correct response to this is "OK" followed by a .45 to the back of the head. If charged, the proper defense is "I was only helping him do what he loved".
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'This is a protest against parading in a Muslim area. We love death the way you love life.'
Fine by me bastards DIE.
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The last thing the muzziesneed is the soccer and rugby fans to break through.
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More than one fifth of the municipal police force of Huixquilucan, Mexico have been released from their positions in a program of action officials characterize as a purge, according to the Mexican news daily, El Porvenir.
The terminations were carried out as part of an antigang program called Seguridad, Cerca de Ti, which calls for ordinary citizen and civic group involvement in dealing with drugs and criminal gangs.
A group of 136 municipal police were placed under a battery of tests, of which 110 were terminated for various reasons including evidence of criminal conduct. Of those 110, 28 were charged with actual crimes.
Huixquilucan, Mexico municipal police number about 500 officers.
About 150 municipal police officers were fired from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon municipal police last month after failing a similar battery of tests. Additionally about 50 officers quit before undergoing the tests.
[Dawn] The UN political chief called on Monday for the urgent creation of a humanitarian corridor for aid to be delivered in Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic violence has killed at least 124 people. The official, Lynn Pascoe, made the call during a briefing to the Security Council on the situation in the Central Asian state. The members of the 15-nation body condemned violence in Kyrgyzstan and called for calm, the council president said.
Clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbek residents in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad began late on Thursday and escalated over the weekend.
A UN statement said Pascoe told the council the United Nations was trying to help people affected by the violence and by shortages of food, water and electricity, especially in Osh.
A UN emergency global appeal was expected to be launched this week, it said.
"In light of the security situation in the South, Pascoe said the creation of a humanitarian space or corridor in Kyrgyzstan for the UN and others to deliver assistance to people in need is an urgent necessity," the statement said.
"We talked about the need to get something in there right away to make it so we could get the humanitarian stuff through," Pascoe told reporters after the meeting.
"It's also a great concern of ours about the refugees -- whether they can get across the border," he added, referring to the Uzbekistan border to where thousands of ethnic Uzbeks have fled.
"What we are trying to do is get (Uzbekistan) enough assistance there that they can feel comfortable with additional refugees coming through."
The statement said Pascoe told the council the situation in Kyrgyzstan demanded "urgent action by the international community" to help the Kyrgyz government prevent the situation from deteriorating further.
But it remained unclear what action the Security Council could take. A group of ex-Soviet states on Monday proposed sending helicopters and equipment to help the government in Bishkek.
Mexican Ambassador Claude Heller, current president of the council, said the body expressed support for efforts by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "and different regional organisations in order to deal in a proper way with the situation."
Council members "condemned continued acts of violence in the Kyrgyz Republic and noted the need to support the delivery of humanitarian assistance in an urgent manner," Heller told reporters.
They also "called for calm, a return of rule of law and order and a peaceful resolution of differences," he said.
That'll work. Problem all fixed now -- y'all can stand down.
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[Dawn] Uzbekistan closed its border to refugees fleeing the deadly violence in Kyrgyzstan, some of whom have accused government forces of helping armed gangs slaughter ethnic Uzbeks.
Aid agencies handling the emergency meanwhile reported fresh allegations of atrocities from the survivors.
Bodies littered the streets of the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh where fresh gunfire rang out, and more fighting was reported in the nearby city of Jalalabad. Scores are reported killed in four days of clashes.
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Uzbekistan closed its border to refugees fleeing the deadly violence...
Hmmm...compared to our southern border, I wonder what it takes to actually accomplish that feat...
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This is somewhat grosser, in that these are Uzbeks fleeing to Uzbekistan. I suspect that of lot of them left Uzbekistan in the first place because they were Islamists driven out in a crackdown, after they tried to overthrow the government.
This cost Uzbekistan plenty, as it soured relations with the US, that was trying to build up the Uzbek economy, and had plans to establish a large military base.
Though it is not surprising that the Kyrgyzs tired of these Uzbeks as well, because they probably kept at their Islamist stunts, and tried to overthrow the Kyrg government.
[Kyodo: Korea] The U.N. Security Council expressed grave concerns Monday about the March sinking of a South Korean vessel allegedly by North Korea and agreed to continue holding discussions to respond to the incident. ""The Security Council is gravely concerned with this incident that caused the death of 46 sailors, and its impact on peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula,"" Mexican Ambassador Claude Heller, the current rotating president for the month, told reporters after listening to presentations from both South and North Korea.
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[Kyodo: Korea] The U.N. Security Council expressed grave concerns Monday about the March sinking of a South Korean vessel allegedly by North Korea
That sentence fairly screams "Don't bother me with facts, My mind is made up"
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North Korea's UN ambassador is warning his government's military could respond if the UN Security Council takes action against Pyongyang for the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan.
North Korea's UN Ambassador Sin Son-ho said the sinking of the Cheonan had nothing to do with his government. He said he does not want to see the Security Council take "any measures provoking or inciting" Pyongyang. He added his government would categorically reject any "document" the Security Council issued against North Korea.
Asked what Pyongyang's response would be to additional sanctions or a Security Council statement condemning the regime for the sinking, he said the answer would be in the hands of the military.
"I am diplomat, ambassador and permanent representative. I don't have any guns in my hands. You know, if the Security Council releases any documents against us, condemning or questioning us in any document, then myself as a diplomat, I can do nothing. But the follow-up measures will be carried out by our military forces," he said.
Asked to clarify he replied, "If any action is taken by Security Council against us, I lose my job. (laughter) The military will have its own job. I mean follow-up."
A reporter interrupts, "Do you expect any military action in case?"
"That is, that is, I gave you the answer. You can prejudge what is the meaning I have told you," said the ambassador.
Asked if North Korea would rule out the use of nuclear weapons as part of any possible military retaliation, Ambassador Sin said such weapons are his country's "deterrent" because it is always "threatened by outside forces."
During a lengthy statement the North Korean diplomat reiterated his government's innocence in the shipwreck that killed 46 South Korean sailors. It is one of the most deadly incidents involving the two Koreas since the end of the Korean War in 1953 and has significantly raised tensions on the peninsula, especially since South Korea released a 400-page report last month blaming the North for the torpedo attack.
Ambassador Sin repeatedly said his government wants to be allowed to send its own investigation team to the site where the Cheonan sank, despite the fact that the area has been cleared of the ship, torpedo and other debris.
He said the ship may have sunk because it became grounded on rocks. He also appeared to blame South Korea, saying the sinking was designed to "evade responsibility" for the deterioration of inter-Korea relations.
And the United States came in for criticism for its alliance with Seoul, with the envoy saying the two allies "cooked up" the story for political purposes. He said it was a "foolish attempt" to drive a wedge between China and North Korea, which he said have "excellent relations."
While the North Korean ambassador questioned the motives of other countries and the way in which the investigation was conducted, he offered no substantive evidence to vindicate Pyongyang.
On Monday, the UN Security Council held its first informal discussion of the sinking, at which both Koreas made separate presentations. Diplomats said Seoul's presentation was "very convincing,'' but that there was nothing on the North Korean side, just "allegations, accusations, no science.''
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Versus
PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > IS TAIWAN MOVING TOWARDS "FINLANDIZATION"?
aka NORTH KOREA II = CHINA's "OTHER" VASSAL/BUFFER STATE + UN-ANNEXED CHIN TERRITORY?
The two Koreas took turns Monday briefing the UN Security Council on the sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan. UNSC members expressed confidence in South Korea's findings but found North Korea's denial of involvement unconvincing.
So expect a sternly worded statement of concern ...
Accompanied by international investigators, Yoon Duk-yong, the head of the investigative team, briefed a session of the UNSC for two hours and answered questions. "UNSC members asked many good questions," he told reporters afterwards. "They understood the scientific, physical cause of the sinking of the Cheonan."
The French, Austrian, Turkish, and Japanese ambassadors to the UN described the briefing given by the South Korean team as "scientific," "thoroughgoing" and "convincing." The envoys from China and Russia, which have sat on the fence so far, reportedly raised no further doubts in the session.
North Korea's UN ambassador Sin Son-ho was up next and claimed that far from sinking the ship, the North is the victim of South Korean "fabrications."
Austrian ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting called the South Korean testimony a presentation based on a thorough "investigation" but the North's briefing an "allegation."
Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico, the current UNSC chair, in a statement said that the UNSC is "seriously concerned" about the Cheonan sinking and its consequences for the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula. He urged both Koreas to refrain from action that could heighten tensions in the region.
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A giant "sausage and wine" party planned later this week in a Paris neighbourhood with many Muslim residents risks sparking disturbances and will therefore be banned, police in the French capital announced on Tuesday.
The event, announced on the social networking site Facebook late last month, had drawn growing criticism from politicians and civic groups in recent days as its page containing barely disguised anti-Muslim slogans attracted over 7,000 members.
The event, called an "apero geant" (giant cocktail party), was due on Friday, a date seen as highly provocative because that will be the day of the weekly Muslim prayer and the World Cup soccer match between England and majority Muslim Algeria.
It is also the 70th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's famous 1940 "Appeal of June 18" from London calling on the French to resist the German occupation of their country.
"This open-air event creates serious risks of disturbances to public order," the police said in a statement, noting the symbolism of the time and place chosen for the flash mob-style party. It also said counter-demonstrations were planned.
The main organiser, Sylvie Francois, wrote that she wanted the event to be "a joyous protest" against the closing down of roads in the Goutte d'Or neighbourhood every Friday by Muslims praying in the street outside the overcrowded mosque there.
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The Facebook page also appeared to signal the party's thrust with appeals to "native Parisians" and complaints about "the resolute foes of our local wines and pork products."
In a statement before the ban was announced, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said the party was "clearly inspired by extreme right-wing movements" and seemed to be "designed to degenerate, possibly into violence."
Fadela Amara, secretary of state for urban policy and a practicing Muslim, denounced the planned event as a bid by the extreme right to spread hatred.
"I'm all for people getting together, having a drink and a good time, but when it's organised like that ... it's very dangerous," she told RTL radio.
After the ban was announced, supporters of the event wrote on the Facebook page that they would still gather on Friday in Goutte d'Or, a poor mixed-ethnic area of northeastern Paris.
"It's official -- Muslims can pray in the street but we don't have the right to eat pork there. France is now ruled by sharia," one supporter named Antoine wrote.
The "apero geant" plan, a takeoff on flash mob drinking parties that have become popular in France, recalls earlier events such as winter soup kitchens serving only dishes containing pork so neither Muslims nor Jews would eat them.
The Paris event page also carried announcements of similar "sausage and wine" parties in Lyon, Toulouse, Brussels and London, where the event is called a "bacon and beer" party.
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I find it disturbing that Paris will shut down streets every Friday to all traffic so muslims can spread their prayer mats and boink their heads on the pavement in safety. This is preferable to telling the overflow to get on the metro and head to the next closest mosque? Complete shut down on a workday. The area muzzies must be laughing their heads off at the power they have over the French.
I'd believe a large group of muzzies praying on the streets is provocative. Nothing an SUV with a stuck gas pedal can't solve.
Stories like this should go under Home Front: WoT, please. I made this one red. If it's about our southern border and violence, it's potential WoT.
Stories that fit the "More Mexican Mayhem" go under Latin America and generally are blue. Thanks, AoS.
The murder this spring of southern Arizona rancher Robert Krentz fueled a nationwide political furor over border violence, security and illegal immigration. His death also became a crucial factor in the debate over and passage of Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's controversial new immigration law.
Now, it appears that Krentz was trying to assist an illegal immigrant when he was shot and killed March 27.
About 10 a.m. that day, Krentz radioed his brother and asked him to contact authorities because he was with an immigrant "in need of help," according to a Cochise County Sheriff's Office's homicide investigative file. The file says several people heard that transmission.
The file was released Tuesday in response to a public-records request by The Arizona Republic, as well as a letter by the paper's lawyer, demanding that the office make the public documents available for inspection.
The file was heavily redacted, with all details about evidence blacked out. It sheds no new light on what happened to Krentz. But it does offer a more detailed timeline of events that day.
According to the file, Krentz's call to his brother was the last time anyone heard from the 58-year-old cowboy.
At 6:45 p.m., his wife phoned authorities, who began a search of the ranch near the Chiricahua Mountains. Krentz's body was spotted by a Department of Public Safety helicopter shortly before midnight, about 35 miles northeast of Douglas. He was lying next to his all-terrain vehicle, his wounded dog Blue in the back.
The ATV was still running, and Blue, who was shot during the attack on Krentz, was still trying to defend him, according to the homicide investigative file.
Though authorities made no arrests and have no suspects, Krentz's slaying was instantly attributed to drug smugglers. Repercussions were felt almost immediately from Phoenix, where lawmakers approved a controversial new immigration bill, to Washington, D.C., where politicians cited the slaying in their calls for increased border security.
According to the homicide file, investigators found one set of footprints near a stock tank on Krentz's ranch. The prints lead to the ATV Krentz was riding, where they are joined by dog prints. Tire treads show rapid acceleration, and footprints leading from that spot head south. Investigators traced the footprints about 20 miles south, losing them about a mile from the border.
Deputies said Krentz managed to drive 1,100 feet after he was shot.
According to the homicide report, there are no known witnesses.
The day before Krentz was shot, his brother, Phil Krentz, had spotted marijuana smugglers on the family's ranch and notified the Border Patrol. Agents seized 200 pounds of contraband. They also arrested eight undocumented immigrants in the area.
After the shooting, ranchers in southeastern Arizona's drug-smuggling corridor condemned the U.S. government for failing to protect them and their lands. Their complaints were picked up by politicians, bloggers and anti-immigration advocates.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., sent a letter to President Barack Obama, asking for deployment of the National Guard. "This cold-blooded murder is a sober reminder that the safety of U.S. citizens on American soil is under attack," she wrote.
Republican Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl also called for the Guard to be sent in, as did Republican Gov. Jan Brewer.
Obama announced last month that he would send 1,200 troops to the southwestern border.
Krentz's death also became a crucial factor in the passage of Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's controversial illegal-immigration law, which makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally. It states that an officer engaged in a lawful stop, detention or arrest shall, when practicable, ask about a person's legal status when reasonable suspicion exists that the person is in the U.S. illegally.
Supporters of the measure carried signs and wore buttons in honor of the fallen rancher as they lobbied the Legislature. Two weeks after the shooting, Arizona's House of Representatives approved the statute. Brewer signed the bill 10 days later, setting off a nationwide debate about immigration enforcement, border security and racial profiling.
Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, now a U.S. Senate candidate, described Krentz as "a martyr for this cause," a symbol of efforts to combat illegal immigration and border violence.
Krentz, regarded as a soft-spoken leader among southern Arizona ranchers, had complained publicly about damage done to his fences and water systems by illegal immigrants. Krentz was shot several times with a rifle when he had gone to render aid to an illegal lying down to lure him in. I doubt his fellow ranchers are going to continue to play nice. They are hard men.
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Shocked? I guess they are used to acting with impunity. Since DHS counts on the Muslim community to police themselves to counter radicalization, and the Student Union failed to do so, collective punishment and suspension is the only reasonable way to get the point across.
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Here goes... There will be repercusions against the infidels. That is how Islam works. So how's that multi-culturalism working out for you liberal? The scourge of Islam will be a thorn in the side that will not go away. Ask Israel.
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The findings in the PDF document are pretty damning. I don't see how they only got a years suspension, the evidence shows that the organization is about stopping the free speech of other (at minimum) or spreading terror at events (more probable). They should be banned from ALL campuses.
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I wonder how long it will be until the ACCCPLU sends a nice loiya to defend these poor, innocent, misunderstood, little darlings.
It's funny that in the west, they need an "association" to have a sense of community. But in Dogdickistan, all they need is some hash, a water pipe and a couple of sheep.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday described his meeting with a Kurdish parliament's delegation as positive and friendly', according to a statement of his media office.
The premier received at his office in Baghdad a delegation from the Kurdistan parliament, led by Speaker Kamal Karkouki,' said the statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The meeting tackled the latest developments in the Iraqi arena,' the statement added. Karkouki expressed hope to solve all pending issues between the federal and regional governments."
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Israel's security cabinet was meeting on Wednesday to reportedly consider an international proposal for significantly easing its Gaza blockade, after weeks of global pressure to scrap the measure. The 15-member body was expected to vote on a proposal put together over several weeks of intense consultations between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mideast Quartet envoy Tony Blair, the daily Haaretz reported.
The security cabinet began meeting early on Wednesday, a government official confirmed, for what was understood to be a debate on "matters related to Gaza" without giving any specific details of what they were debating nor when they were likely to vote.
If approved, the "Blair-Netanyahu understandings" would see Israel adopt a new approach to those goods which have been kept out of Gaza since the blockade was imposed in 2006, Haaretz and other media outlets reported.
Under the new proposal, thrashed out in three face-to-face sessions with Blair as well as multiple telephone calls, Israel would allow in everything -- except for items on a "blacklist," the paper said. It would also allow for the entry of much-needed building materials for UN-sponsored construction projects. And it would see Israel agreeing to examine a proposal for stationing EU and Palestinian Authority inspectors at the border to inspect incoming goods, Haaretz said.
Israeli media said the proposal was widely expected to be approved by the security cabinet, with Blair telling Haaretz it was "a very important step."
"It will allow us to keep weapons and weapon materials out of Gaza, but on the other hand to help the Palestinian population there," he said. "The policy in Gaza should be to isolate the extremists but to help the people."
However, army radio said Netanyahu was expected to stress the naval blockade of Gaza would remain in place -- a measure he said was crucial for preventing Gaza from "turning into an Iranian port" through which arms would flow freely.
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Make sure to have in place a set of consequences for when Israel gets attacked by the "Palestinians" again. And make sure that if any sanctions or security measures are lifted that it is tied to Bambi's recommendations.
[Iran Press TV Latest] A charity organization joins a campaign for the legal prosecution of Israeli authorities behind the recent bloodshed and mistreatment of Gaza-bound activists.
Israeli forces on May 31 attacked the international Freedom Flotilla aid convoy which had set sail to break Tel Aviv's siege of the Gaza Strip. The assault in international waters claimed at least 20 activists, including eight Turks and a US national of Turkish origin.
The UK-registered Palestine Legal Aid Fund's (PLAF) president Mary Nazzal-Batayneh said on Tuesday that it is going to initiate court action on behalf of the Turkish families who lost their loved ones, AFP reported. It would as well represent the hundreds of activists who were subsequently arrested and subjected to violence, she added.
Batayneh said the activists had been "abducted and imprisoned, many of whom were beaten and wounded and nearly all their belongings confiscated."
She said the group would employ internationally-recognized lawyers and begin later in the month to raise funds for the legal action.
"A trial should be held in Britain based on the British legal system," Batayneh added.
Even before the assault, the PLAF head had said that the charity was going to sue Israeli authorities, enterprises and organizations whom, she believes, are to blame for the Palestinian suffering.
Israel, meanwhile, has rejected the United Nations call for an international probe into the carnage, insisting it would run its own examination.
French survivors of the attack have also said they would push for legal action against Tel Aviv through the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak cancelled a scheduled trip to France after the activists demanded the French police to detain him upon his arrival.
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ION GAZA ISRAEL NN > SECURITY CHIEF:HAMAS STILL STRUGGLING, CAN STRIKE TEL AVIV. HAMAS dir controls 80% or 4000 rockets [of 5000 Rockets] in Gaza; + [Israeli MOSSAD/INTEL] NATO SUBS WATCHED SYRIA SMUGGLE WEAPONS TO HIZBOLLAH [SCUDS + M-600 MR Missles].
* SAME > [UK INTEL] AL QAEDA TRAINING BRITISH MUSLIMS FOR ANOTHER "MUMBAI", + NEXT HIZBULLAH WAR MAY BE FOR ISRAEL'S OIL + GAS FIELDS [Hizzies-vs-Lebanon-vs-Israel].
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So they are going to invent a court to go with their made up international laws. Makes sense. Can I coin the phrase "Israeli Derangement Syndrome" or simply "IDS".
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How about a trial in Israel based on the criminal violation of a naval blockade?
"According to the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea, 12 June 1994, a blockade is a legal method of warfare at sea, but is governed by rules.
"The blockading nation must publish a list of contraband. The manual describes what can never be contraband. Outside this list, the blockading nation is free to select anything as contraband. The blockading nation typically establish a blockaded area of water, but any ship can be inspected as soon as it is established that it is attempting to break the blockade.
"This inspection can occur inside the blockaded area or in international waters, but never inside the territorial waters of a neutral nation.
"A neutral ship must obey a request to stop for inspection from the blockading nation. If the situation so demands, the blockading nation can request that the ship divert to a known place or harbour for inspection.
"If the ship does not stop, then the ship is subject to capture. If people aboard the ship are resisting capture, they can be attacked. It is still not allowed to sink the ship, unless provision is made for rescuing the crew. Leaving the crew in life rafts / lifeboats does not constitute rescue.
"If a neutral ship is captured, any member of the crew, resisting capture can be treated as prisoners-of-war, while the remainder of the crew should be released.
"A neutral nation may choose to send a convoy accompanied by warships. The warship can provide guarantees that the convoy does not contain contraband. in which case, the blockading nation does not have any right of inspection."
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The last provision is an interesting one, in the case of the Israel blockade. That is, both Turkey and Iran can initially claim to be "neutral" powers, and this would force Israel to declare them as aiding and abetting their enemy, so as to legally prevent their warships from entering Gaza waters.
Israel also has a legal port of entry for any ship willing to undergo cargo inspection, prior to its cargo being admitted to Gaza. This makes it especially difficult to legally break the blockade, since Israel has clearly published the contraband list, and does permit non-contraband cargoes to enter Gaza.
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Counterproductive. Cilantro and vinegar banned; frozen salmon and facial scrubs OK. No export of finished goods and no import of raw materials. "Give us Schalit, and we'll lift the blockade." Meanwhile, Hamas controls the smuggling.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Israel and Russia have failed to reach an agreement worth about $400 million over selling drones to Russia and setting up a factory in Moscow to produce them, a new report says.
Consequences for bad behaviour: Russia arms Israels enemies, Russia doesn't get the drone technology and jobs it wants.
According to a report by Russian sources, the joint production deal is facing opposition from the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli media reported on Tuesday that Tel Aviv was reluctant to provide Moscow with such valuable technology due to the United States' opposition to the deal.
The report came shortly after spokesman for Israel Aerospace Industries Doron Suslik said the firm was interested in doing business with Russia.
During the Georgia-Russia conflict in South Ossetia in the summer of 2008, Georgian forces used unmanned drones to identify Russia's force buildup. After the war Russia had felt the inadequacy of its capabilities in this regard and started negotiations with Israel to purchase and build drones.
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[Straits Times] FOREIGN militants are using mainly Muslim Malaysia as a base to beef up their violent struggle and recruit new members, a senior minister said on Tuesday.
Hishammuddin Hussein, in charge of domestic security, confirmed that there were Islamic and non-Islamic militant groups operating in the country.
The militants were using Malaysia to carry out financial transactions, information sharing and recruitment of new members, he said. 'Among those targeted for recruitment are students of local higher learning institutions,' he was quoted as saying by the official Bernama news agency.
Mr Hishammuddin's remarks come after Musa Hassan, inspector-general of police, on Monday said 10 foreigners had been deported for trying to recruit students to wage holy war overseas.
The militants were detained earlier this year for trying to revive the defunct Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group by attracting new members from Malaysian universities.
The regional organisation has been linked to Al-Qaeda and blamed for major attacks in South-east Asia, including the 2002 Bali bombings. Mr Hishammuddin said Malaysia was closely monitoring selected foreigners entering the country with the help of international intelligence agencies.
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Iran's nuclear chief says his country is designing a new atomic research reactor in another snub of international efforts to curb the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions. State TV's website quotes Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi as saying Wednesday the new reactor will be more powerful than the aging, 5-megawatt U.S.-made research reactor operating in Tehran that is used to make radioactive isotopes for medical purposes. He says Iran eventually plans to build four such reactors.
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Israel plans more powerful nuclear "research" reactor blast.
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Let them build it, then drop a penetrator on it.
Preferably in the core area, repeat as needed, bankrupt them.
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Let them build it, then drop a penetrator on it.
The issue, Redneck Jim, is that the last one they built, near Qom, is build under a mountain, which makes penetrating a bit difficult. Unless someone happens to prop open the backdoor, anyway.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Some 56 countries on Tuesday signed up to a declaration calling on Iran to investigate a deadly crackdown on street protests following the contested presidential election a year ago.
Norway and the United States have spearheaded a bid at the Geneva forum to chastise Iran for its violent suppression of demonstrations, including arrests and executions of dissidents, following presidential elections a year ago.
Some 55 states from across all regions -- half of them European Union (EU) members -- have endorsed the statement, which calls on Iran to uphold fundamental freedoms of expression, of the media and of assembly, diplomats say.
As Norway's ambassador Bente Angell-Hansen began to read out the text, Iran's ambassador Hamid Baeidi Nejad interrupted, invoking procedural grounds to object to being singled out.
Pakistan, speaking for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), as well as African and non-aligned countries, swiftly backed Iran. The objection was to Iran's record, a "country-specific situation", being addressed under an agenda item on a landmark human rights meeting held in Vienna in 1993.
"Allowing this to happen ... is leading to a repeat of the practice of the Human Rights Commission where 'naming and shaming' was the name of the game and led eventually to the demise of the Commission," Pakistan's envoy Zamir Akram said, referring to the Council's largely discredited predecessor body.
Belgium's ambassador Alex Van Meeuwen, who currently chairs the forum, said that as long as a text addressed a relevant human rights situation it was admissible. He adjourned the session for several hours to allow private negotiations.
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Condemning IRAN for human rights is a joke, Not condemning ISRAEL for killing.these countries are having no respect in society.UN is of no value to the free world.having UN like org is a joke with world it needs to be abolished.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran on Tuesday rejected as "illogical and wrong" the European Union's plans for tighter sanctions against the Islamic state over its disputed nuclear activities, which the West fears is a cover to build bombs.
Moving beyond a fourth round of U.N. sanctions imposed on Iran last week, the EU will push ahead with plans for tighter sanctions against Iran on Thursday, including measures to stem investment in the energy sector, a draft obtained by Reuters showed.
European Union foreign ministers, who are responsible for agreeing a bloc-wide position ahead of an EU summit on Thursday, signed off on a statement on Monday that goes substantially beyond the fourth round of U.N. sanctions.
Iran has repeatedly shrugged off the impact of international sanctions, but analysts say the new measures could be more painful for the major oil producer because they target Iran's energy sector.
"The carrot and stick policy of the EU is wrong and illogical because such measures would not resolve the issue (Iran's nuclear row with the West)," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told a weekly news conference.
The EU sanctions will target Iran's "key sectors of the gas and oil industry," trade, including dual-use items, banking and insurance and Iran's transport sector, including shipping and air cargo. The U.S. Congress is also drawing up its own set of additional measures against Iran.
Iran, the world's fifth largest crude oil exporter, has so far refused to suspend its sensitive nuclear work, as demanded by the U.N. Security Council, and said the new resolution will not stop its uranium enrichment work.
"Sanctions will not stop Iran's nuclear work. Sanctions will make us more decisive to become self-sufficient," Mehmanparast said.
Iran sits on 11 percent of the world's oil reserves and has the second largest gas reserves. Sanctions imposed since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 have limited Iran's ability to develop its energy sector, including its refining capability.
Iran says it needs around $25 billion a year in oil and gas industry investment and could turn into an importer of oil because of the lack of such funds. But U.N. and U.S. sanctions are deterring energy companies, especially Western ones.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said the U.N. sanctions were like a "used handkerchief", criticized on Tuesday the "unstable behavior" of foreign companies over investment in Iran's energy sector.
"Big powers want to impose their will on other nations ... we do not need financial support of these countries," Ahmadinejad said, according to state television.
Ahmadinejad also said that Iran's nuclear fuel swap deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey last month was "still alive," state television reported on its website on Tuesday.
"The Tehran declaration is still alive and can play a role in international relations even if the arrogant (Western) powers are upset and angry," he said in a meeting with visiting Turkish parliament speaker Mehmet Ali Shahin.
The Islamic state has increasingly turned to Asian firms that are less susceptible to Western political pressure. But they often lack the technology to implement oil and gas projects.
The EU measures are likely to put strong financial pressure on Iran. Sweden, Cyprus, Spain were believed to be opposed to any EU measures that go beyond the U.N. sanctions and Germany was said to have concerns about targeting Iran's oil and gas sector, where it has large investments.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Wednesday she was ready to meet Iran's chief nuclear negotiator to discuss the country's nuclear work, which Iran says is aimed at generating power not weapons.
Mehmanparast said Ashton "lost the negotiations opportunity for some months". "Maybe she had some other priorities to deal with. Iran is reviewing Ashton's request for talks with Iranian officials," said Mehmanparast.
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ISRAEL NN > JORDAN CLAISM ISRAEL INTERFERING IN NUCLEAR EFFORTS,
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* YNETNEWS > [King]ABDULLAH: ISRAEL KEEPING JORDAN FROM DEV A PEACEFUL NUCLEAR ENERGY PROGRAM.
"THE REACTORS ARE COMING, THE REACTORS ARE COMING" - ISRAEL can try, but likely won't be able to stop, REGIONAL ARAB-MUSLIM ALLIES + MODERATES + FOES FROM ACQUIRING NUCTECHS IN THEIR INTERESTS.
IOW, THE FASTER TEL AVIV CAN FORMALLY JOIN NATO ANDOR [proposed]MEDITERRANEAN UNION, ETC. ORGS THE BETTER FOR ISRAEL.
The State Department has dispatched a high-level diplomatic and trade mission to Syria, according to senior U.S. officials, marking the latest bid by the Obama administration to woo President Bashar al-Assad away from his strategic alliance with Iran.
The U.S. delegation comprises senior executives from some of America's top technology companies, including Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and Symantec Corp., according to the U.S. officials. All these companies' businesses in Syria are constrained by U.S. sanctions.
The mission is controversial, given recent U.S. allegations that Syria transferred missiles to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Syria, Hezbollah and Lebanon deny the allegations.
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[Dawn] The Afghan Taliban is denying a report that it receives funding, training and protection from Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency, a US monitoring group said Tuesday.
Muslim hecklers drowned out by counter-protesters singing "God Save the Queen" and flinging pork sausages at the hecklers.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran on Tuesday rejected as "illogical and wrong" the European Union's plans for tighter sanctions against the Islamic state over its disputed nuclear activities, which the West fears is a cover to build bombs.
