(KUNA) -- Killing increasing numbers of Taliban capos makes a political settlement in Afghanistan harder to achieve, a former senior British envoy to the country said Wednesday. Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles praised the present government, saying Prime Minister David Cameron understood the situation in Afghanistan in a way the previous administration had not.
But he urged the premier to give US President B.O.'s administration "the cover and the courage" to pursue a political solution leading to the withdrawal of foreign troops.
Sir Sherard, who was the UK's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistain until earlier this year, delivered a similar message yesterday to the House of Commons foreign affairs committee. This morning he told BBC Radio: "The more Taliban we kill, the more difficult in the end it is going to be to negotiate a sustainable settlement.
"These people were never defeated in 2001, they were pushed down to the south and the east. Until they are brought into the political settlement there won't be peace in Afghanistan. "What we need to do, and what our Prime Minister understands, is give the B.O. regime the cover and the courage to get the political process going." He added: "This Government and the Prime Minister in particular 'get' Afghanistan in a way that perhaps others in the previous government didn't."
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Killing all of them would create a peace...
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Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles should get the Major-General William George Keith Elphinstone Award of Afghan competency.
"Only he could have permitted the First Afghan War and let it develop to such a ruinous defeat. It was not easy: he started with a good army, a secure position, some excellent officers, a disorganised enemy, and repeated opportunities to save the situation. But Elphy, with a touch of true genius, swept aside these obstacles with unerring precision, and out of order wrought complete chaos. We shall not, with luck, look upon his like again."
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"These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. The Taliban must act, and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists, or (...)"
George W. Bush, Statement To Joint Session Of Congress September 20th 2001
Quiz time for Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, fill in the blank (...):
(a) "they will share in their fate."
(b) "we will negotiate a sustainable settlement with the Taliban in order to bring peace to Afghanistan."
The Afghanistan war is not about Afghanistan, it is the United States' and NATO's response to an attack on the US originating from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
The Taliban were given an ultimatum after 9/11. They did not hand over the terrorists. President Bush threatened to eliminate the Taliban in this case.
If the Taliban survive as a political factor in Afghanistan (and beyond!) there won't be 'Peace with Honor', it will be a dangerous defeat for the US and NATO.
Nigerian officials have concluded that Iran was involved in a secret shipment of weapons that was discovered in Nigeria in October.
Rockets, arms and ammunition were contained in a shipment from Iran that was labeled as being building materials.
The arms are believed to have imported by Nigerian politicians to be used if they lost their elections. The Iranian foreign ministry is reported to have been behind a Nigerian visa application for one of the Iranians who organized the delivery.
The shipping containers discovered in Lagos may have been an attempt by Iran to find a new way to smuggle weapons to the Gaza Strip.
[Emirates 24/7] An expatriate Arab doctor in Soddy Arabia raided a packed mosque and interrupted its preacher during Friday prayers to call for conquering Rome before he was jugged by police, a local newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The unnamed dermatology doctor at a private hospital in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah snatched the microphone from the preacher and started to shout a sermon in which he called for "conquering Rome," Okaz said.
When he finished his "fiery" sermon, he headed for the women's section in the mosque and caused panic among them, the paper said.
"Police later jugged the doctor and subjected him to medical tests, which showed he is suffering from schizophrenia," it said."The hospital agreed to a police request to sack the doctor, who will be deported."
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Dermatologists are an odd breed. I don't think I have ever met one who was normal. They either have a complexion like Tutankhamen, or some pale, cave dweller never exposed to sunlight.
Most of the time, they diagnose venereal disease skin eruptions, burn or freeze off warts, and forward a lot of their patients for melanoma surgery. As well as deal with psoriasis victims that look like something out of a horror movie.
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Jeddah is the part of Saudi Arabia where Sunni theological diversity is the greatest. There are 'liberals' who are trying to create a homosexual-friendly interpretation of the Koran and also ultra Wahhabi-types who want to remove nationalistic and ethnic elements associated with Islamic practice.
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Sounds like a normal soddy to me. Crazy as a bedbug. I'm surprised he's not a psychiatrist.
Until I saw this I was going to take the kids to Disneyland.
Think I am going to risk them getting singled out for full body scan? Think I want them to witness someone else getting one of their new, improved, punitive pat-downs (in full view of all other passengers who go skating by) that are designed to intimidate onlookers into complying rather than deal with what they end up putting you through? Think I want them to be subject to some perv patting them down? Think I want them to watch me or my wife having to submit to this?
It was my understanding that this was to be an alternate route for people to take who didn't mind getting ogled to go through that was quicker than dealing with the metal detector/pat down thingy.
What if someone opts out because they don't want to get ogled and they just went through some kind of surgery recently and can't be manhandled?
AFAIAC, the whole industry can now go fuc& themselves until this whole thing is reworked. Sometimes I need to fly, oh well. But they can forget any elective travel on my part. Everything from the travel agencies to the economies at the destination of my would-have been travel can forget my money. As can everything in between.
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That's what she get for not going to Burquas R US Rental first cuzz you know that a Muslim would never be treated that way, right CAIR?
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Another reason not to fly again. I use my travel trailer to get from here to there. So, when they build that six lane interstate between home and anywhere else, I'm stuck in North America.
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I fly every week across America. On one occasion I forgot to remove my knife. The TSA allowed me to throw it in the amnesty box and away I went. Most people I see that have problems with the TSA arrive with an attitude. They try to sneak stuff through or when pulled for screening they get ugly with the TSA. They try to argue with the agents over the policies. I have been through the getting pulled aside and searched a couple of times. They try to keep the searches timed so to not slow the flow of passengers and not make the random selectees have to wait. Each time they have explained very carefully what was happening. I have watched them screen women and they offer to move them to a private area for the search. And not they never grabbed and twisted some woman's breasts. Once this girl realized she was being screened developed an attitude. I've seen it before. She's lucky she did not go to jail.
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I fly a good bit, and the TSA folks are generally pretty decent. Last week, though, they all had their frownie faces on because, I suspect, they had been told to expect trouble over the new scanners.
The problem is (a) only a bureaucrat could think it was rational idea to give the same amount of security attention to a five-year old girl from Nebraska as to a 20-year old Yemeni named Mahmoud and (b) it's fascist and demeaning in the best of circumstances.
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As much as I always loved flying in the past, I'm glad I've been able to drive everyplace I needed to go in the last 9 years.
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Only a bureaucrat would think it was appropriate to allow any kind of Yemeni on an aircraft in the first place.
I stopped flying in 1994 altogether after a particularly provoking flight experience. If I can't get there by driving or sailing, I'm not going.
(KUNA) -- US President Barack B.O. Obama called on Wednesday for resolving any mistrust between the US and the Islamic world, adding that the US is not, and never will be at war with Islam.
The US has developed firmer relations with the Islamic world, "but we have much more work to do," Obama said in speech to Islamic world at the University Of Indonesia in Jakarta.
"All of us must work together to defeat Al-Qaeda and its affiliates, who have no claim to be leaders of any religion -- certainly not a great world religion like Islam," Obama said.
The US administration is working with the Afghan government to bring peace and not to become a refuge for hard boys, and it IS also working on ending the war in Iraq, where 100,000 soldiers withdrew from Iraq since Obama took office, it added.
He said security issues would not be the sole focus for the US as it moves ahead to build bridges with the Mohammedan world, in his June 2009 speech in Cairo.
On the other hand, dozens of demonstrators raised hostile slogans against Obama and his administration in front of the US embassy in Jakarta, although the demonstrators were peaceful amid the tight Indonesian police.
Indonesia is his second stop within the framework of his four-nation tour of Asia after India. The next stops are South Korea for the summit of G20 leaders and finally Japan.
Obama has been forced to leave Indonesia about two hours early due to volcanic ash cloud thrown up by the recent deadly eruption of Mount Merapi.
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"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
Yeah; we haven't surrendered totally to his Muslim faith.
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the US is not, and never will be at war with Islam.
You had better re-think that statement Obama. You been had. We will fix that in 2012.
Islamist spokesman Muslim Anjem Choudary [On muslim apologist Christina Amananpour in October] openly admits that he and other Muslims believe that one day an Islamic flag will fly over the White House. Here is more of what Choudary said:
“We do believe, as Muslims, the East and the West will one day be governed by the Sharia. Indeed, we believe that one day, the flag of Islam will fly over the White House. Indeed, there’s even an oration of the Prophet where he said, “The day of judgment will not come until a group of my oma… [interrupted] Conquer the White House.”
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This statement is stupid on so many levels.
First, Obama's giving Carte Blanche to 'Islam.'
He's telling the world that whatever 'Islam' does to the US or an ally of the US, 'Islam' will never have to face the US as an adversary in a war.
Goodbye 'deterrence'!
Goodbye 'umbrella' for non-nuclear allies!
Second, this commitment is obviously one that he cannot force the US to honor. He won't be President for all eternity. A future US government, be it in 4 years or 400 years, might very well decide to declare war on 'Islam.'
So Obama's statement is both ill-advised and objectively nonsensical. That's quite and achievement!
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"So Obama's statement is both ill-advised and objectively nonsensical. That's quite and achievement!"
That's our President, OW. ;-p
"He won't be President for all eternity."
Not for lack of his trying. :-(
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Wee President Obama is right- we dohave much more work to do.
We haven't come close to killing the large numbers of Talib and fundamentalists in Pakistan that it will take to destroy their organization and capabilities, we haven't taken out the Mohammadean slave traders in Africa, we haven't bombed out of existence the vipers nest that is Iran theocracy...
We have a lot more killing to do since that is all the fundamentalists know, the president is right (even though not in he way that he thinks)
(KUNA) -- US President Barack B.O. Obama warned that continuous Israeli settlement activities may lead to undermining confidence with the Paleostinian peace negotiators.
Speaking at a news conference, held in Jakarta on Wednesday, Obama vowed anew to exert further efforts for achieving peace in the Middle East. However, The infamous However... he cautioned that major obstacles continued to block the peace path.
Obama renewed the call for the establishment of an independent Paleostinian state and warned that the resumption of the construction of settlements would not help in realizing the objectives of the peace negotiations with the Paleostinians.
Israel has declared fresh plans for building 1,300 residential units in East Jerusalem, despite robust Paleostinian opposition to the new escalatory move.
Obama, who started his era with an address, full of diplomatic overtures, to the Mohammedan nation, is positively eyed by many Mohammedan Indonesians. Moreover, his personal desire to establish peace in the troubled Middle East has been very much applauded by many quarters in the Mohammedan world.
There are mixed sentiments in Indonesia toward the US regional policies. Over the past years, US and western interests were attacked in the country. The most ferocious ones were the blasts in Bali that resulted in the killing of 200 people.
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(KUNA) -- The federal cabinet of Pakistain Wednesday expressed serious concern and strong disappointment over the US decision to support a permanent seat for India at the UN Security Council and warned of implications for peace, security and stability in Asia.
"This decision has grave ramifications for the direction and prospects of the system of multilateral cooperation as envisaged by the founding father of UN Charter," according to a resolution adopted by the Cabinet and released to the media.
The Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani stated that it was incomprehensible that the US has sought to support India, whose credentials with respect to observing UN Charter principles and international law are at best checkered.
"This is most explicitly illustrated by Indias disregard of Security Council Resolutions on Jammu and Kashmire and gross and systematic violations of the fundamental human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... of the Kashmiri people." "The future of the UN and of succeeding generations cannot and must not be premised on considerations of power politics, politics of expediency, bereft of morals and ideals, which must be the guiding spirit for an enlightened international order," the resolution said.
The resolution stated that Pakistain, along with a large number of members of the international community, supports a principled process of reform of the Security Council.
"This process should be based on respect for the cardinal principles of UN Charter including the principle of sovereign equality of states."
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How to lose the peace in Iraq? Elect Obama president
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, one of America's closest allies in the country, has rebuffed the personal request of President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to relinquish his post as Iraqis form a new government in Baghdad.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani rejected a request by President Obama to give up his post in the new government. The U.S. wanted ex-Prime Minister Iyad Allawi to take the presidency.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, one of America's closest allies in the country, has rebuffed the personal request of President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to relinquish his post as Iraqis form a new government in Baghdad.
Iraqi leaders are expected to announce Thursday a new government in which Mr. Talabani remains president, Nouri al-Maliki remains prime minister and Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya party, which won the most votes in March's election, will control the speakership of Parliament and the presidency of the National Security Council, according to Iraqi and U.S. officials familiar with negotiations that ended Wednesday in Baghdad between Iraq's major parties.
Last Saturday, Mr. Obama phoned Mr. Talabani and asked him to give up the seat he has held since 2005 so that Mr. Allawi could be Iraq's president, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials familiar with the diplomacy. Mr. Obama on Saturday also urged the president of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, to accept Mr. Allawi in the role of the presidency.
Qubad Talabani, Mr. Talabani's son and the Washington representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government, said the Kurds were disappointed with the United States.
"As the deadlock continues, Iyad Allawi has said the only post he wants is prime minister or president. The Americans have come to us and have asked us to step aside and relinquish the post of president to Iraqiya and specifically to Iyad Allawi, which we find very disappointing," he said.
Mr. Talabani, however, said the pressure on his father to resign was reigniting old fears for many Iraqis.
"The Kurds have been the strongest ally and partner of the United States since before the liberation and certainly during it," he said. "And for the United States to be leaning on us, as they are now, in effect handpicking the new leaders of Iraq, is not respectful of Iraq's parliamentary system and touches on all of the insecurities of the Kurds, that the United States will once again betray us."
According to U.S. and Iraqi officials, Mr. Biden in a phone call last week offered the Kurds the speakership of the Parliament and the Oil Ministry and also a public statement offering the Kurds a security guarantee.
Mr. Biden's office declined to comment for this report.
On Tuesday, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, urged Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan region, to replace Mr. Talabani as well.
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c'mon guys. Obama is a Citizen Of The World™. State sovereignty means little to him in the U.S., and even less elsewhere. Elections? See: "Acorn". If you didn't want him to organize your community for ya, you should've voted against him, Iraq. And Kurds? You think he'd side with you against "authentic" muslims?
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(KUNA) -- Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry ... the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the empty broghans of Joe Biden...
said Wednesday that the window of hope for achieving peace is closing.
During his meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, Kerry said: "I believe there are real opportunities, but obviously as you know there are also real dangers. So this is a moment for statesmanship, it is a moment to try and define the opportunities and move forward rapidly."
Kerry expressed hope of US President Barack B.O. Obama's administration for ensuring security for the Middle East nations and finding solutions to the needs and concerns felt by all parties.
The US will help the peace processor whenever necessary, Kerry pledged.
On his part, Peres said that the difficulties face the peace processor but it would be wrong to lose patience.
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(KUNA) -- A Paleostinian official called on Wednesday for addressing the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Security Council to seek "decisive resolutions" against Israel's settlement policies in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, the secretary of the executive committee of the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO), said in remarks to Paleostine Radio, "Peace in the eyes of Israel does not mean the end of the occupation and the establishment of a (Paleostinian) state.
"Currently, the stalemate cannot be broken with mere rhetoric, and there must be practical steps and there must be reference to the Security Council to take resolutions compelling for Israel," he said. "This is the available option now to stop the arrogant Israeli practices against the Paleostinian people," he added.
Israel has revealed plans to build 2,100 new settlements and the Israeli television declared that 66 Israeli families have recently settled in East Jerusalem.
Abed Rabbo denied reports that the US would inform the Paleostinian leadership about a conciliation formula for resuming the negotiations soon.
Washington had asked to be given a month to find such a formula for ceasing the construction of settlements, and the Arab follow-up committee agreed to the request.
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[Emirates 24/7] Jordanians voted in large numbers to elect a parliament dominated by pro-government loyalists, with 13 women winning seats, after a boycott by opposition Islamists, official results showed on Wednesday.
In the new 120-member lower house, 78 MPs are newcomers, Interior Minister Nayef Qadi said, adding that 17 politicians are members of political parties.
"Voters have showed their desire for change by electing new faces, which is a positive thing," Taher Masri, president of Jordan's appointed Senate, or upper house, told AFP.
"People chose those who are professional in public work, and they did not vote for those who have focused on their personal interests and not parliamentary work."
The house, with a strong showing by tribal-linked candidates, will have 13 women MPs. Reem Badran, an economist and daughter of a former premier, won a seat in Amman outside a quota system which reserves 12 seats for women.
"This parliament will be manageable by the government," said Mohammed Momani, a political science professor at Yarmuk University. "The lower house is likely to react to the government and its initiatives and follow its lead."
The government on Tuesday announced a 53-percent turnout, similar to the figure recorded in the elections of 1989, when Jordan launched the democratic process.
Prime Minister Samir Rifai said the turnout showed that "the boycott did not have an impact on voting," but the Islamist camp doubted the high turnout figure and also made charges of vote-buying and fraud.
"In my opinion the actual turnout did not exceed 30 percent," said Hamzah Mansur, leader of the Islamic Action Front (IAF), Jordan's main opposition party.
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The March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... General Secretariat stressed on Wednesday its commitment to Christian-Islamic equality as it is the strongest guarantee for maintaining coexistence in light of the internal and regional disputes.
It rejected in its weekly meeting subjecting Leb to armed powers following political and factional agendas.
In addition, it criticized the March 8 forces' ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hezbullies and its allies, so-called in commoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... "lack of the minimum amount of sense of responsibility" due to its insistence on making the government take a position that contradicts the Lebanese state's pledges over the Special Tribunal for Leb.
Furthermore, it said that their position "should they succeed, will only lead to Leb being labeled as a failed state, which will not in any way affect the course of international justice."
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The Loyalty to the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... bloc noted on Wednesday that the media leaks over the indictment in the investigation into the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri confirm without a doubt that it is politicized.
It said after its weekly meeting that the politicization of the indictment is aimed at achieving Israeli interests and those of the international powers supporting its plans against Paleostine, Leb, and the region.
"Some sides' insistence on protecting the false witnesses and thwarting all attempts to try them and uncover those behind them is suspicious," it added.
"Settling the matter and referring it to the justice council is the first step on the road to finding out those behind the crime and revealing the truth," the bloc said.
Addressing the brief visits by foreign envoys to Leb, it said: "They are aimed at increasing tensions on the internal scene and turning the Lebanese against each other ... they are not aimed at supporting some Lebanese, but they seek to sabotage attempts to reach an understanding among them."
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[An Nahar] Representatives of 16 Arab states meeting in Doha for an Interpol general assembly have contested the validity of 33 Syrian arrest warrants mostly against Lebanese, Leb's police chief said Wednesday.
"I was the target of one of these arrest warrants, and I raised the issue at this meeting," Major General Ashraf Rifi, leading the Lebanese delegation in Doha, told Agence France Presse.
"All the (Arab) representatives of their countries said they did not recognize the validity of the Syrian arrest warrants.
"The participants agreed that the Syrian judiciary was not authorized to issue such arrest warrants against Lebanese and foreign nationals," he added.
Rifi said the 16 Arab Interpol member states held a meeting chaired by the Saudi secretary general of the council of Arab interior ministers, Mohammed Ali Kuman.
Syria did not attend the meeting.
In October, Syria ordered the arrest of 33 people over alleged false testimonies given in the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Leb (STL), which is probing the liquidation of Lebanese ex-premier Rafik Hariri.
The Lebanese defendants include Rifi, deputy Marwan Hamadeh, top prosecutor Saeed Mirza and former justice minister Charles Rizk as well as politicians, journalists and other Lebanese, Arab and foreign officials.
Leb's cabinet was to hold a crucial meeting on Wednesday on the alleged false testimonies, as the STL is reportedly set to indict members of Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hizbullah in connection with the 2005 Hariri liquidation.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has warned the court against any such accusation and said further cooperation with the tribunal would be tantamount to an attack on his powerful group.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri, son of the slain former prime minister, has vowed to see the U.N.-backed investigation through.
Hariri had initially blamed Syria, formerly Leb's military and political powerbroker, for the liquidation but has dropped his accusation. Damascus has consistently denied any involvement.
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Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... on Tuesday urged President Michel Suleiman to settle the thorny issue of false witnesses during Wednesday's decisive cabinet session.
Briefing the media after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, Aoun declared that the Opposition was determined to resort to a vote in Cabinet on referring the false witnesses issue to the Judicial Council.
Asked about the possibility of Premier Saad Hariri's withdrawal from the session should the Opposition insist on voting, Aoun said: "In that case, we'll know that the government is evading its responsibilities and that the cover up the judiciary has been offering to false witnesses is in collaboration with the government."
Commenting on the issue of the highly-anticipated indictment to be issued by the Special Tribunal for Leb, Aoun said: "We have never demanded the annulment of the tribunal, but we've been always asking for matters that reflect the tribunal's credibility."
"False witnesses were induced by someone and we want to know who was behind them," he added.
"When the STL declared that it has no jurisdiction to look into this file, we decided to resort to the Judicial Council," said Aoun of the false witnesses issue.
Aoun reassured that the Opposition has "the sufficient strength to preserve the country's unity."
Asked about the broad Christian meeting that was held in Bkirki on Friday, Aoun described it as an expression of "premonitions," noting that it was not fit to declare a "call."
"I don't have concerns at all, and I don't need to be afraid of Hizbullah. To those who say that Hizbullah is illegitimate, we say that all the resistance movements on earth are legitimate for the sake of defending one's country," Aoun stressed.
"Since 2006, we've been domestically arguing whether we will defend ourselves, surrender or let the U.N., whose decision was defied by (Israeli Premier Benjamin) Netanyahu, defend us."
Aoun described the national dialogue sponsored by President Suleiman as "dysfunctional," saying it "has been revolving around the same issues since four years."
"I don't have any extra time to waste in this regard," the FPM leader declared.
Turning to the economic issue, Aoun said that "the State's pillars are all shaken, from finance to security and judiciary, and this is what makes the country vulnerable to unrest."
"That's why we call on everyone to realize what's happening."
"We are the victim and we have the right to resort to the judiciary, at least to safeguard the rights of the people. The state finances are in a mess and I repeat: the country is robbed, not bankrupt."
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Osama bin Laden has appointed a new commander to spearhead al-Qaeda's offensive of operations against the West.
Known to western intelligence services by the alias Saif al-Adel, or "Sword of the Just", al-Qaeda's new chief of international operations is believed to have conceived of the wave of strikes that set off terror alerts across Europe recently, as well as last week's mid-air parcel-bomb plot.
US and Pakistani sources have told The Daily Telegraph that al-Adel is running several similar operations as part of a war of attrition intended to persuade Western public opinion that the war against terror is unwinnable. This would clear the road for al-Qaeda to capture power in fragile states such as Somalia and Yemen.
"His strategy", said Syed Saleem Shahzad, a Pakistani expert on al-Qaeda, "is to stage multiple small terror operations, using the resources of affiliates and allies wherever possible."
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"His strategy", said Syed Saleem Shahzad, a Pakistani expert on al-Qaeda, "is to stage multiple small terror operations, using the resources of affiliates and allies wherever possible."
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...As soon as you sign this double indemnity insurance policy, you can put on your red shirt. You get unlimited minutes on your cell phone and your own neon yellow limousine.
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Who was the old commander of spearheading war on the West?
war of attrition intended to persuade Western public opinion that the war against terror is unwinnable
They learned the lessons from Vietnam very well (get public opinion to handcuff your enemy and keep applying 'drip, drip, drip' operations against him.)
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I wouldn't call him a new commander. He was considered a #3 and operational in Somalia/Yemen back in the 90's. Once Egyptian special forces, he was one of those fleeing Afghanistan for Iran with OBL's sons and listed as a Most Wanted right after 9-11.
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Nigerian officials have concluded that Iran was involved in a secret shipment of weapons that was discovered in Nigeria in October.
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