[Tolo News] The Afghan government has failed to step up a serious measure to track those behind the death of the Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, said his brother Wali Massoud on the eve of the 10th death anniversary of Massoud.
Speaking in joint presser with spokesmen for Isaf and Ministry of Defence on Wednesday, Wali Massoud said 21 terrorist groups were behind the death of his brother. He blamed Pakistain, UAE and Soddy Arabia the only countries refusing to probe into his brother's death.
Massoud was assassinated with two Arabs on September 9, 2001, two days before the 9/11.
MoD front man, Gen Zahir Azimi, said that security preparations are taken to mark the death anniversary of Ahmad Shah Massoud.
"A broad security plan has been prepared with details," Azimi told the presser.
"Interior ministry along with National Directorate of Security (NDS) has also taken part in the plan."
"Isaf is with you on the ninth of this month on the remembrance of the loss of your national hero in an act of terror," Isaf Spokesman Brig Gen Carsten Jacobson said.
"And we are also remembering the act of terror on Sunday, September the 11th that brought us together in the war against terrorism to support Afghanistan in the war on terrorism. We will continue to build up Afghan national security forces."
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Joe Leaphorn told me to look no further beyond the fact that Massoud -- a popular, charismatic leader and potential US ally -- was killed two days before 9/11. Thus, Bin Laden believed that he would eliminate a homegrown threat to his budding Caliphate/Umma when everyone began their "rush to Islam" after Sept. 11.
[Tripoli Post] The Libyan central bank governor, Qassem Azzoz said on Thursday said that former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... had sold more than 20% of Libya's gold reserves, worth more than $1bn, in the final days of his regime,
Azzoz said 1.7 billion dinars worth of gold, or about 29 tons, were sold to local merchants as the regime ran short of cash. "The gold was liquidated in order to pay salaries and to have liquidity, in Tripoli in particular," Azzoz said.
According to central bank officials the gold likely made its way out of the country to neighbouring Tunisia and beyond.
Azzoz added that the bank's total assets now stand at around $115bn, of which $90bn is abroad.
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[Tripoli Post] Libya's central bank, on Thursday sought to reassure "all foreign partners of Libyan banks who are operating in Libya, the agreements will be honoured."
Now under the control of the new leaders, the central bank also said it was having no liquidity issues, thanks to a delivery of bank notes from Britannia, and that none of its assets had been stolen.
"No assets of the Libyan Central Bank have been stolen, gold or otherwise," the bank's new governor Gassem Azzoz told news hounds in Tripoli, adding that if, as reported, fallen leader Muammar Al Qadaffy ...Megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... had taken gold, it was not from central bank coffers.
Another assurance from the central bank concerns Italia's UniCredit SpA, the first overseas bank to get a licence in Libya, winning permission in August 2010.
It announced to foreign investors that it would not change the country's stake in UniCredit and will honour banking licences granted by the ousted Al Qadaffy regime
Asked about the roughly 7.5 percent UniCredit stake, Wafik Shater, a finance official in the National Transitional Council's stabilisation team, told news hounds in Tripoli: "All the stakes are as they are at the moment. This is an interim government - we will not take any major decisions."
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... UniCredit is said to have been granted the licence to open a bank with a local Libyan partner but that it had not started to operate in the country yet.
The Central Bank said it had sold 29 tonnes of gold to help pay salaries of civil servants back in April and May. Libyan merchants snapped up the precious metal in a sale that occurred in Libyan dinars, officials said.
Spot gold prices were at an average of around $1,500 an ounce earlier this year, meaning the gold sale would have been worth $1.4 billion (873 million pounds) on the international market.
According to a World Gold Council report issued in July, Libya was then the world's 24th largest official sector gold holder, with reserves of 143.8 tonnes.
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[Tripoli Post] Libya's interim health minister in the country's new leadership, Naji Barakat said that at least 30,000 people have been killed and 50,000 more maimed, including some 20,000 with serious injuries, during the over six-month conflict that began in mid-February in Benghazi.
Is that the official count or the Lancet count?
Barakat claims that this is first detailed estimate of the high cost in lives of ousting former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... from power after his 42-year rule. Up till now, the figures published and/or mentioned by various media had been rough estimates
The figures just announced, Barakat said, are based in part on reports from hospitals, local officials and former rebel commanders. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... he will only have a complete count in several weeks, expecting the final figure for dead and maimed to be higher than his current estimates after the battles expected in the last remaining l Qadaffy strongholds.
Speaking to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on wednesday, the interim health minister said that at least 4 000 people are still missing, either presumed dead or held prisoner in remaining Al Qadaffy strongholds.
Others killed in fighting were hastily buried, and are now being exhumed for identification by specialised teams who also continue to find secret graves of detainees killed by retreating Al Qadaffy forces. One such grave just dug up unearthed more bodies in one area of the Libyan capital Tripoli and two other towns.
In an attempt to get a more detailed figure, Barakat said that next week, worshippers in local mosques will be asked to report the dead and missing in their families.
Barakat went on to say that of the estimated 30,000 dead, about half are believed to have been Al Qadaffy fighters. He added that he has also been told that by Libya's new military officials that the Khamis Brigade, commanded by Al Qadaffy's son Khamis and a core force in Al Qathaf's army, lost about 9 000 troops.
One of the hardest hit areas was the port city of Misrata, where former rebels and Al Qadaffy loyalist forces fought for two months. Citing new figures from the local council at Libya's third largest city, he said that at least 2 000 former rebel fighters and non-combatants were killed there. Thousands more were maimed, including 900 who lost limbs,
He said that reporting is incomplete for the western areas of the country that remained under Al Qadaffy's control until close to the end of the fighting, including the capital of Tripoli.
Barakat added that little is known about the number of people killed during a brutal crackdown on mass opposition protests in the spring in those areas.
The former rebels entered Tripoli on August 21, and up till the time they took control of the Libyan capital after a week of fierce street battles, at least 1,700 former rebel fighters died along with about 100 civilians
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[Tripoli Post] Although there have been lots of speculations and conflicting reports, the whereabouts of the runaway former leader, are still quite unknown. Most of the reports claim that he is still hiding in one of his last remaining strongholds, but others have speculated that he may have left the country.
If the latter is the case, Amnesia Amnesty International has urged countries that neighbour Libya, particularly Niger and Algeria, not to harbour Al Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... and his aides.
Algeria has already given sanctuary to Al Qadaffy's wife Safiya, and daughter Ayesha, and two of his sons, Mohammed and Hannibal, while Niger is reported to have given safe haven to his security chief Mansour Dhao.
Amnesty has reminded Libya's neighbours that Al Qadaffy, his son Seif al-Islam and his intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanussi, are accused of crimes against humanity and are on the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... 's wanted list.
Amnesia Amnesty International's senior director Claudio Cordone, said that no country should provide a safe haven to the deposed leader or others suspected of committing crimes under international law. "All African states should reaffirm their commitment to ending impunity for the most serious crimes under international law," he said.
He added that this also includes arresting and surrendering all ICC suspects to The Hague, and if they are found outside Libya, national authorities in that country must immediately arrest them and hand them over to the ICC to face trial for these crimes.
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Amnesty International has urged countries that neighbour Libya, particularly Niger and Algeria, not to harbour Al Qadaffy
How much money is Ammnesia International willing to shell out?
A U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft made an emergency landing during annual South Korea-U.S. military exercises in March when North Korea jammed its GPS device, it emerged Thursday.
According to a report the Defense Ministry submitted to Democratic Party lawmaker Ahn Kyu-baek of the National Assembly's Defense Committee, the RC-7B took off from its base at 8:30 p.m. on March 4 but had to make an emergency landing about 45 minutes later due to disruption of its GPS functions by jamming signals transmitted from Haeju and Kaesong in North Korea at intervals of five to 10 minutes that afternoon.
The jamming signals also disrupted the GPS devices of coastal patrol boats and speed boats of the South Korean Navy. Several civilian aircraft in the Gimpo area were also affected.
The North deploys vehicle-mounted jammers that can disrupt signals within 50-100 km and is reportedly developing a jamming device capable of disrupting signals more than 100 km away.
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Some one should tell the operators HARM don't use GPS.
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The RC-7B is a military version of the De Havilland Canada Dash 7. It is like a twin otter but has 4 engines. Saw some with Greenland Air last summer in Nuuk, Greenland.
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ION CHINESE MILITYA FORUM > JAPAN URGES RUSSIA TO STOP BOMBER FLIGHTS, despite flights technically being within Russ rights under international law.
Two Russ AF TU-95MS' repor flew around mainland Japan yesterday Thursday???
versus
* SAME > POSTER QUESTION = IS JASMINE REVOLUTION ABOUT TO HIT [Communist]VIETNAM, vee [pro-democracy?]Viet Youth + Young Adults???
[LATE 1960's - MID 1970's "GENERATION GAP" here].
* IIRC DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > VIETNAM: INDIA WELCOME TO SEND TO AS MANY WARSHIPS AS POSSIBLE INTO SOUTH CHINA SEA, + BTW Vietnam Ports = e.g. Saigon + Cam Ranh Bay.
* TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > VARIOUS = POLL: JAPANESE SUPPORT FOR US BASES GROWING; CHINA, NORTH KOREA SEEN AS THREATS.
* WORLD MIL FORUM > [PLAN Naval Engineers]CHINESE EXPERTS: NUCLEAR-POWERED CONVERSION OF CHINA'S NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER [Ex-VAYRAG = PLAN "Shileng"]OR FOLLOW-ON CONVENTIONAL CARRIER COSTLY/EXPENSIVE, BUT POSSIBLE.
* SAME > DEPLOYMENT OF DF-21 ASBM + LR CRUISE MISSLE-ARMED [anti-Naval, Land Attack] SURFACE "ARSENAL SHIPS" IN SUPPORT OF PLAN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS COULD BEGIN NLT 2015.
PLA, State "Dual Use" "Oil Rigs" = Sea Forts, + CVT in WESTPAC + South China Seas.
D *** NG IT, A GOOD ASBM IS GOOD OIL + VICEY VERSEY!
Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Al-Jazeera television on Thursday.
"Turkish warships, in the first place, are authorized to protect our ships that carry humanitarian aid to Gaza," Erdogan said in the interview. "From now on, we will not let these ships to be attacked by Israel, as what happened with the Freedom Flotilla."
Erdogan also said that Turkey has taken steps to "stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean."
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor responded to the Turkish premier' statement by saying: "This is a statement well-worth not commenting on."
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Are the Turks really that stupid? You send warships into a declared blockade and they even look like they are going to bother the ship inspections, you have a shooting incident that involves actual navies. And the Israelis do have some very good anti-shipping missile systems.
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Why not just tell them there are mines deployed?
I mean, just to see how serious they are!
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Underwater divers should be able to pop a small enough hole in the flotillas boats to force them to turn around and give plenty of time to evacuate people.
When all is said and done Turkey is saying they will go to war against Israel because that is what they are doing if their warships force a declared blockade. Israel should take that up with the UN and force a vote. Most powers would not want such a precedent and would be forced to vote with Israel. Or take it off line, slap the Turks about the head and neck, and force them to stop this idiocy.
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I'm all for the proactive approach. Remember when the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in port in Auckland?
Unfortunately their agents were captured and ended up serving two years for arson, conspiracy to commit arson, willful damage, and murder, which is not that bad a deal, if you think about it. As well as the resignation of the French Defense Minister. Easy come, easy go.
But the end result was quite satisfactory. Greenpeace has never again pestered the French about *anything*, and it was also one in the eye to the obnoxious NZ government, that just loves to try an impose its opinions on other countries with the use of eco-proxies.
In this case, they had to spend a LOT of lettuce to get that ship up and that pier back in operation.
Now, in the Israelis shoes, I think I would use the "MacArthur method", and hit 'em where they ain't. That is, Erdogan is obviously bored and restless, so he needs some kind of annoying, if not lethal, disaster for him to fret about.
Something like a slow, but inevitable and unrepairable, dam break. With enough time to evacuate everyone downstream, but resulting in a major catastrophe, costing their economy many billions of dollars, hurting their energy grid, causing a drought, etc.
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I wonder if the Turks are hoping Israel will attack and bring NATO in. The UN has already said the blockade is legal, so I think it would be a long shot.
Either way, Turkey is apparently itching for a war against the Jews. My money is still on Israel.
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Turkey likes to think of themselves as an empire still. Their navy really is nothing more than a coastal defense force and not really capable of projecting power.
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"So the Erdogan Regime believes that Israel has neither territorial waters nor an exclusive economic zone."
Like most of his co-religionists, he believes they shouldn't exist at all, EP. >:-(
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Erdogan also said that Turkey has taken steps to "stop Israel from unilaterally exploiting natural resources from the eastern Mediterranean."
I think that means he doesn't want the Juices helping
Greek Cyprus drill for oil/natural gas. Either that or they're supporting Lebano's claims against Israeli drilling.
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Their navy really is nothing more than a coastal defense force
I dunno. We are talking a distance of 300 some miles, not exactly a blue water expedition. And, as someone pointed out here the other day, Turkey has quite the fleet of little submarines (yay, Rantburg U!). Turkey also has what seems to me a surprisingly large number of amphibious ships. You would think they are planning to storm a beach somewhere! Of course, equipment is one thing, capability is another, and the will to use it, a third.
On the other side of the board, the Juices have an experienced air force and a small handful of little subs armed with land attack missiles. Floating off the coast of Israel without air cover could be unpleasant.
In a perfect world, someone from NATO would quietly call his Turkish counterpart and explain why nothing good can come of this. Unfortunately, mass resignation seems to be the fashion of the day in the Turkish forces and Erdogan keeps writing ever larger checks with his mouth.
Seems to me this is one of those "this will get out of control and we will be lucky to live through the day" situations. Magic 8-Ball might be an optimist.
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This a check to Israel as well to Obama.
If Obama does nothing this means the end of USA influence in Middle East, it is also one more break of trust between USA and one of its allies
and it will mean the end of Obama presidency.
Israel can't resist Turkey power short of Nukes because Israel doesn't have resources to last long
without outside help. Turkey have 10 times Israeli population.
Of course that doesn't mean the attacks against Turkey will not spread everywhere.
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ION TOPIX > [Interview]ALIYEV: RISE OF TURKISH RADICALISM [vee historical secularism] A DIRECT TO AZERBAIJAN.
* SAME > WIKILEAKS: ALIYEV ACCUSES TURKEY OF EXPORTING RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM TO AZERBAIJAN.
* SAME > ALIYEV SAYS EUROS/EU "TOO PASSIVE" IN RESPONDING TO ISLAMIC THREAT TO TURKEY.
* SAME > ISLAMIC RADICALS [worldwide]COMPETING FOR LEAD TO ANNIHILATE ISRAEL.
IMO read, POTUS BAMMER = USA TO LEAD EFFORT TO SAVE BOTH ISRAEL + NATO ALLY TURKEY???
Turkey aiding + abetting its own future destruction ala Radical Islam = MORE SOVEREIGN NUCPROGS FOR THE HARD BOYZ TO [legally = electorally] ACQUIRE???
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WAFF > ISRAEL SAYS TURKEY NAVAL THREAT
"SERIOUS", BUT WILL RESPOND WID SILENCE.
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* SAME > ATTACK ON CYPRUS WILL BE AN ATTACK ON GREECE | [Defence.net.GR = Deputy Greek PM] PANGOLOS: "IFF TURKEY ATTACKS CYPRUS, GREECE WILL FIGHT"!?
Israeli PM NETANYAHU = ISRAELI AIR FORCE, NAVY are two "main hands" Israel has in the Eastern Mediterranean which any foreign state wid hostile intent should give proper consideration.
BENJI FORGOT TO SAY "ISRAEL ALSO HAS PLENTY OF NUKES", DIDN'T WE???
IMO Turkey will indeed fight Israel + Greece oer CYPRUS, but not as per GAZA???
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* NEWS KERALA > ABBAS: ITS "TOO LATE" FOR THE US TO STOP PALESTINIANS FROM APPLYING FOR UN MEMBERSHIP.
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No, he cites "Islamicism", i.e. the strain of "radical" Islam advocated by al Qaeda and the like, as the motivating ideology of the primary "terror" threat to Canada.
Islamicization and socialism, its companion ideology, are the actual threats to Canada.
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Yes, TW. Sometimes some of us grumpy old guys sit around our . . . . social club . . . and wonder what the heck has happened, not that it's a bad thing you understand.
Now if he'd just ditch that stupid, wasteful long gun registry!
The head of the U.S. Justice Department launched his strongest personal defense yet in the growing furor over Operation Fast and Furious, the controversial sting targeting Mexican drug cartels and American gunrunners.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said for the first time that not only he but also other higher-ups at the Justice Department were not aware of the operation as it was being carried out. Holder also suggested politics could be a driving force behind Republican lawmakers' forceful inquiries into the matter.
"The notion that somehow or other this thing reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that. ... I don't think is supported by the facts," Holder told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Washington.
"It's kind of something I think certain members of Congress would like to see, the notion that somehow or other high-level people in the department were involved. As I said, I don't think that is going to be shown to be the case -- which doesn't mean that the mistakes were not serious."
A spokeswoman for the Republican leading a congressional investigation described Holder's comments as baseless "whining," and earlier Wednesday the House Republican himself said the issue is about more than who knew what, when.
"Whenever you talk about human mistakes, you have to say, 'What was in the system that allowed that human mistake to go on and perpetuate itself?'" Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Fox News Channel.
The notion that somehow or other this thing reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that. ... I don't think is supported by the facts," Holder told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Washington.
"It's kind of something I think certain members of Congress would like to see, the notion that somehow or other high-level people in the department were involved. As I said, I don't think that is going to be shown to be the case -- which doesn't mean that the mistakes were not serious."
A spokeswoman for the Republican leading a congressional investigation described Holder's comments as baseless "whining," and earlier Wednesday the House Republican himself said the issue is about more than who knew what, when.
"Whenever you talk about human mistakes, you have to say, 'What was in the system that allowed that human mistake to go on and perpetuate itself?'" Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Fox News Channel.
"Our committee is the Government [Oversight and] Reform Committee," Issa said Wednesday. "We are about making sure that there is a system to prevent this in the future. When we have assurances that system is in place then our job is done."
But Holder seemed to question whether that is all Issa and other Republican critics are after.
"My hope would be that Congress will conduct an investigation that is factually based and not marred with politics," Holder said.
Holder has said repeatedly he was not aware of the operation as it was unfolding, and others have said no one at the Justice Department in Washington was informed of it, but Issa insists Holder at least "should have known."
Holder, however, noted he leads a massive department with all sorts of functions and obligations
"There are an awful lot of things that go on in the Justice Department," he said. "There's Operation Fast and Furious, [and] I'm sure there's Operation 'Fill In The Blank' going on right now that the people here in the department are not aware of."
Holder said he, as head of the department, has tried to "place in the field the responsibility and the discretion for enforcement activities," while setting "broad parameters here in the department" that he expects to be followed outside of Washington.
Holder has repeatedly denounced the tactics used in Operation Fast and Furious, calling the operation Wednesday a "flawed enforcement effort."
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These responses from 'government officials' starting to sound more and more like those in an Urdu Press release.
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the notion that somehow or other high-level people in the department were involved, I don't think is supported by the facts," Holder told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Washington. "I don't think that is going to be shown to be the case."
Sounds like he's pretty confident the cover up will work.
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The notion that somehow or other this thing reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that. ... I don't think is supported by the facts,"
How can anyone tell? You won't RELEASE the facts, even to the Congressional information demands? Guilt is certainly suggested by all the denials, delays, redactions etc.
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The notion that somehow or other this thing reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that. ...I don't think is supported by the facts.
As I said, I don't think that is going to be shown to be the case -- which doesn't mean that the mistakes were not serious.
Young Eric, The Master Bubba has taught you well in the acient art of Non-denial denial.
I did not have sexual relations prior knowledge with that woman flawed enforcement effort, Miss Lewinsky Operation Fast and Furious. I don't think.
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Attorney General Eric Holder said for the first time that not only he but also other higher-ups at the Justice Department were not aware of the operation
(justice.gov) Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels. My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner, DEA is adding 16 new positions on the border, as well as mobile enforcement teams, and the FBI is creating a new intelligence group focusing on kidnapping and extortion. DHS is making similar commitments, as Secretary Napolitano will detail.
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"It's kind of something I think certain members of Congress would like to see, the notion that somehow or other high-level people in the department were involved. As I said, I don't think that is going to be shown to be the case -- which doesn't mean that the mistakes were not serious."
The grammar of Obfuscese: use the vaguest subject possible, use passive voice to deflect blame, hide point, or lack of it, under murky prose.
[Dawn] The ISI officials on Thursday briefed the Chief Justice of Pakistain Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on the number of political parties involved in Bloody Karachi unrest, DawnNews reported.
"Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM), Muttahida Qaumi Movement -- Haqiqi (MQM-Haqiqi), Awami National Party (ANP), Sunni Tehreek A Brelvi political group founded in bloody Kärachi in 1992 by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. Its political wing is the Pakistan Inqilabi Tehreek. As the MQM's power declined it became the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque hard boyz in the heyday of Nizamuddin Shamzai. By coincidence, Muhammad Saleem Qadri was bumped off by Deobandi button men of the SSP in 2001. Even more coincidentally, SSP's funding comes from Kärachi, where - also strictly coincidentally - Binori Mosque is located. Go figure. (ST), Amman Committee and banned groups including Sipah-e-Sahaba, Sipah-e-Muhammad are involved in the Bloody Karachi unrest," the ISI officials informed the chief justice.
According to sources the ISI officials briefed the chief justice and other judges in his (CJ's) chamber whereas officials from IB were also present during the briefing.
Sources said that the CJ inquired the ISI if they had shared this information with the police and rangers on which the officials replied no.
The CJ ordered the ISI that all information should be shared with the police and rangers so that action can be taken against the accused to end the unrest in Bloody Karachi, sources said.
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[Dawn] Taking strong exception to the recent attacks on security checkposts in Chitral from Afghanistan, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... cabinet has warned that such incidents will not be tolerated in future.
"Pakistain will no more tolerate such incidents and our forces can take extreme step in this regard," Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain told journalists after a cabinet meeting here on Wednesday.
The 39th meeting of the provincial cabinet was held with Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti in the chair.
The minister said that such attacks could worsen ties between Afghanistan and Pakistain to an uncontrollable level. "The Afghan government and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces will be responsible for it," he added.
He said that Pakistain had also drawn attention of Afghan government and NATO forces towards similar attacks in Shaltalo Dara area of Upper Dir but to no avail.Mr Hussain demanded of the Afghan government, NATO forces and United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... to take note of the continued attacks by forces of Evil on Pak checkposts from the Afghan soil.
"The provincial cabinet was astonished to hear that forces of Evil were wearing uniforms of NATO and Afghan forces. It seems that the attacks have either been carried out in connivance with NATO and Afghan forces or they are incapable to stop them," he said.
The minister said that silence of NATO and Afghan forces about the cross border attacks created many questions. "The NATO forces are staying in Afghanistan under the UN mandate and action against forces of Evil is their prime responsibility. If NATO is not taking action against forces of Evil then it has some other agenda," he said.
Mr Hussain said that cabinet stressed on tight security in prisons as keeping forces of Evil with ordinary criminals could cause any mishap. "In fact forces of Evil cannot be kept with other prisoners but the provincial government has no separate jails for them," he said.
He said that government decided to keep prisoners placed in durance vile on charges of militancy in Kohat and Lakki jails. Army would be deployed for the security of the two jails, he added.
He said that government also decided to install jammers in prisons to stop forces of Evil from regrouping and contacting their colleagues because use of cellular phones was common in jails.He said that chief secretary was tasked to present recommendations till September 20 for improving security of prisons.
Regarding compensation to flood survivors, the minister said that the first installment was paid while second and third installment each of Rs20,000 would be given to them in the current month.
He said that provincial police chief also briefed the cabinet as after the liquidation of the late Osama bin Laden ... who went titzup one dark and stormy night... in Abbottabad, sharp increase was witnessed in sabotage activities. He said that 727 acts of terrorism took place in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in 2009, while in 2010 such incidents reduced to 252. "In 2011, so far 231 incidents have taken place," he added.
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NOT-YOUR-DADDY'S-OR-GRANDPA'S-MILITARY-KP
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* NEWS KERALA > AL-QAEDA'S ROOTS GROW DEEPER [+ stronger] IN PAKISTAN, SAYS JOURNALIST.
Al-Qaeda, first under Osama + now under Ayman Zawahiri, deems Pakistan as crucial = key to its LT survival.
ME = I broadly agree, + plus also as key to DESIRED ASIAN/EURASIAN + PRO-NUCLEAR JIHAD.
[Dawn] Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Pervaiz Kiyani has said that concrete steps will be taken to check the incursion of hard boyz from Afghanistan into Chitral and for this purpose the personnel of Chitral Scouts will be deployed along the border.
Addressing a darbar of Chitral Scouts and elite of the area in Drosh cantonment here on Wednesday, the army chief announced that all the six wings of Chitral Scouts deployed in different areas of the country will be called back.
He also announced a number of projects for the amelioration of the people`s life in the border areas which included widening and blacktopping of the 27-kilometre Mirkhani-Arandu Road, reconstruction of the suspension bridges over Chitral River which had been demolished on tactical grounds during the recent skirmish.
He also announced about 20 water supply schemes and schools for the area. The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar corps commander Lt-Gen Asif Yasin Malik was also present on the occasion. The Chitral-Peshawar Road remained blocked for more than four hours at Drosh due to the arrival of the army chief.
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[Straits Times] Filipino officials and the country's largest Mohammedan rebel group say a key terrorist suspect may have joined a renegade guerrilla commander who has vowed to carry on the battle for a separate Mohammedan homeland.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front front man Von Al Haq said on Thursday that his group received information that Abdul Basit Usman has been seen with the forces of Ameril Umbra Kato in the southern Philippines.
Usman is wanted in the Philippines for his alleged role in deadly bombings. The US added Usman to its list of most-wanted faceless myrmidons in 2008 and offered a US$1 million (S$1.2 million) reward for his killing or capture.
Kato recently split from the main Moro Islamic Liberation Front over its peace talks with Manila. The group no longer seeks a separate Mohammedan state.
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Specialists of the Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base have designed a space radar and now the construction process is in the final stage, the commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base, Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, said, IRIB News reported.
"This radar system will be capable to detect and to track cruise missiles, low-flying aircrafts and objects located at a distance of several thousands kilometers," Esmaili said.
"Tyrone, we got a new item for the target list!"
The system will be handed over to the Air Defense Forces soon, he added.
On Sept. 6. the 10-day exercises, called 'Defenders of the Skies of Velayat 3', started in Northwestern Iran. An array of fighter jets, fighter bombers, cargo and transportation planes, including F-4, F-5, Sukhoi SU-24 fighter-bombers, Mig-29 and the logistic C-130 planes, will be used in the exercises.
One of each...
Iranian fighter jets, including Saeqeh (thunderbolt), will carry out hundreds of sorties during the wargames and will drop high-tonnage smart and precision-guided bombs on mock targets.
Iran has recently made good progress in the air industry and has succeeded in gaining the technical know-how for producing stealth aircraft and drones.
Iran successfully tested a home-made radar-evading UAV with bombing capabilities. Also in 2008, the country's Defense Industries launched production of two well-known home-made fighter jets, namely Saeqeh (Thunderbolt) and Azarakhsh (Lightening). Saeqeh is Iran's first domestically manufactured fighter.
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home-made radar-evading UAV with bombing capabilities
Ahh, but can the new Mullah-Magic UAV evade the new Super Space Radar? Or is that the only radar it can evade?
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Ten days of localized aircraft activity seems like a good workout for the orbital targeting platforms.
Known sources: Indigenous manufacture based on reverse engineering, black and grey-market suppliers in Europe.
Former sources: Israel (early 1980s).
Possible other sources: Middle Eastern nations (Egypt, Turkey), black market purchases in the U.S. and Asia, reverse engineering and subsequent manufacture in Asia.
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If it's a space radar, how can it detect low flying cruise missiles?
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You know, we have some of those F-4s, F-5s and C-130s out in the boneyard. seems to me we could paint them up in Iranian colors, install a drone package in them along with some 'expired' ordnance and remotely fly them into the iranian airspace and then push the big red button. a work accident and its doubtful the iranians would say anything, since their super duper radar let the iinfidels aircraft in, and all.....
[An Nahar] Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Wednesday asked La Belle France and other world powers why doesn't the international community force "the implementation of resolutions issued by the U.N. Security Council in order to strip Hizbullah of excuses" to possess arms, LBC television reported.
There, that'll do it. Who wants tea?
LBC quoted al-Rahi as saying that "Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... must be given a chance because he is implementing reforms in Syria."
Following talks with French National Assembly Speaker Bernard Accoyer earlier on Wednesday, the patriarch stressed that he supports "all constitutional and political reforms, public freedoms, religious coexistence and the respect of minorities" in the Middle East.
"We must know where we are heading. Iraq's example is still in mind: are we heading towards civil wars whose price would be paid by the people, Christians in particular, as is the case in Iraq today?" al-Rahi wondered.
"Are we really heading towards the so-called New Middle East scheme -- the fragmenting of the Arab world into sectarian states?" the patriarch added, voicing "grave concerns" over such a scenario.
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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.
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Turkish warships will escort any Turkish aid vessels to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Al-Jazeera television on Thursday.
President-for-Life Bashir 
