Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will eventually cancel the Camp David Agreement, despite the group's announcement that it respects international agreements Egypt has signed, said Amin al-Sayed Ibrahim, head of Hezbollah's political council.
Hudnas are only good for a maximum of ten years, per Mohammed, and must end as soon as the Muslim entity involved is rearmed and capable of resuming the jihad. However, last time Egypt tried it, General Ariel Sharon nearly drove Israeli tanks through Cairo. That was back when Israel's arms industry wasn't anywhere near #4 in the world, and Egypt could still afford to feed its people...
Speaking to the "International Conference on Islamic Awakening and the Youths," Ibrahim said that the Egyptian military, so as not to lose its clout, would never allow the Brotherhood to write the constitution or even form a constituent assembly to write the constitution.
Following their electoral victories in Parliament, Egypt's most organized political group has offered assurances that it would respect the 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
When asked early this month whether Washington believed that the Islamist party would uphold the treaty, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the party "has made commitments to us in this regard."
Ibrahim said that the current unrest in Syria is a conspiracy and not a revolution, as western media claims. The Egyptian delegation clashed with him over the remarks.
"The Syrians transfer arms to the Palestinian resistance," he said.
Over 1,200 young people from Iran as well as 73 other countries are participating in the two-day conference, Iran's Fars news agency reported on Monday. Is anyone with a brain really surprised by this?
Boys talking big. The Muslim Brotherhood waited for eighty-something years to take power; they won't go to war until they are ready or their hand is forced, no matter their (very strong) private desires.
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Cancelling CAMP DAVID ACCORDS = Israel will the right to re-occupy the Sinai = new Israeli war agz Egypt + aligned.
The only way I see for Israel to not attempt to re-occupy the Sinai is for Israel to foprmally join NATO + EU, etc. - given the MSM-Net reported Israeli distrust of POTUS Bammer + Admin, a US-SPECIFIC/ONLY "GUARANTY" OF ISRAELI STATE SECURITY + EXISTENCE MAY NOT BE ENUFF TO ASSUAGE ISRAELI FEARS OF THE WORST CASE.
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The EU wouldn't have Israel, JosephM, and therefore NATO won't have Israel. And, given how hard President Obama has worked against Prime Minister Netanyahu, there really is nothing he can do to persuade Israel to trust their security to his decisions short of destroying Iran's nuclear capability before they do.
It does remain to be seen whether this trend leads only to warm winter quarters, or whether a tipping point of some sort has been reached.
A group of Death Eaters laid down its weapons and surrendered to the authorities in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province on Monday, the provincial governor said.
"A 27-member group of cut-throats - including its commander, Mullah Abdullah - renounced violence and joined the government in the Pashtun Zarghun district of Herat province on Monday morning," Provincial Governor Daoud Saba told TOLOnews.
The commander was active in the Pashtun Zarghun district and organised anti-government activities there, he added.
Herat officials had previously accused the commander of kidnapping and of terrorist activities. The commander survived several operations conducted by Herat security officials to capture him.
The commander and his men gave their weapons to the Zone Four Border Police in Herat province, officials added.
A week ago more than 20 Death Eaters in Herat laid down their weapons and surrendered to authorities.
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Why get oneself + Camels, Goats killed fighting the US-NATO when POLITICAL-LEGAL JIHAD = FORMAL GOVT. POWER-SHARING can achieve the same thingy(s), or better???
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WAFF > [KavKaz Center] EXPERTS PREDICT THE ISLAMIZATION OF ENTIRE EURASIAN CONTINENT.
* SAME > [Pravda.RU] TURKEY'S DEFENSE POWER [rate of growth] SHOULD CONCERN RUSSIA.
ARTIC = Russia + Turkey have fought roughly 30 conflicts oer the centuries, Turkey continues to court the Turkic peoples of Russia [Turkic Union].
* Also from PRAVDA > RUSSIA RISKS TO LOSE MANY DISPUTED TERRITORIES, to number of Countries asserting territorial claims.
* SAME > RUSSIA TO SELL DESOLATE LANDS TO CHINA?
ARTIC > PERT = describes RUssian labor force as mainly ALCOHOLIC, HIGHLY MARGINALIZED, wid LITTLE TO NO VALUABLE "HIGH WORKING SKILLS", + also TOO COSTLY VEE CHEAPER CHINESE, NORTH KOREAN, + OTHER FOREIGN LABOR.
* SAME > WHAT MAKES JAPAN CLING TO RUSSIA'S KURIL ISLANDS?
versus
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [University of Windsor, Canada Study] AMERICAN MUSLIMS SAY THEY REJECT "SEPARATE" SHARIA SYSTEM, in US Courts espec as per Morals, Marriage + Divorce.
[An Nahar] Up to half a million starving refugees could flee violence in Sudan within months, sparking a massive food crisis in newly independent South Sudan, the U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) has warned.
WFP's Deputy Executive Director Ramiro Lopes da Silva said relief agencies were preparing for the worst, with Sudan's government in Khartoum blocking emergency aid into border regions where it is battling rebel forces.
"The numbers being used for planning purposes in the context of a worst case scenario, we are speaking of somewhere between 300-500,000 people" set to flee to South Sudan, Da Silva told news hounds.
"In a couple of months we are in what is typically the hunger season, both in Sudan and South Sudan, and obviously the impact on those populations is potentially very serious," he added.
South Sudan -- which declared independence from former civil war enemies in north Sudan in July -- is already reeling from multiple crises, including ethnic festivities, rebel attacks and some 3 million people needing food aid.
Over 80,000 refugees have already decamped Sudan's civil war regions of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile since last June, where Khartoum is battling rebel forces formerly allied to the now independent South Sudanese army.
The U.N. estimates that more than 500,000 people have been displaced or severely affected by the fighting, but the government, citing security concerns, continues to bar U.N. and foreign aid workers from the war zone.
The area is at risk of famine if substantial aid deliveries are not delivered by March, the American ambassador to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , Susan Rice earlier this month, a warning backed by the U.N.
The numbers of people arriving into South Sudan seeking aid has at times been as high as at the peak of last year's Horn of Africa crisis, when extreme drought struck the region and famine zones were declared in Somalia.
"In the last week, we had days of influx similar to the peak of influx to Dadaab (refugee) camp in Kenya, so we are speaking of over 1,000 people a day", Da Silva said.
Da Silva said WFP had only until May to pre-position enough food for the rest of the year, before rains in the grossly underdeveloped South made roads impassable.
Over 300,000 people are displaced by internal violence in the South, which also hosts over 100,000 displaced people from Abyei, a border region both sides claim ownership of.
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and obama's position is...
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Ankara dismisses reports suggesting Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal will set up movement's new headquarters in Turkey; further denies pledging $300M in aid funds to Hamas
Ankara will not allow Khaled Mashaal to relocate Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' Politburo to Turkey, the Turkish website Today's Zaman reported on Monday.
According to the report, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arınc said that Meshaal's stay in Turkey was "out of question."
He also denied reports suggesting that Ankara had pledged $300 million in aid funds to Gazoo Strip's rulers.
The Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... -based Hamas Politburo has decided to relocate following the growing unrest in Syria. It has been looking for another Arab country to host its headquarters, but has so far failed to find one.
Mashaal had recently visited Turkey which, unlike its fellow NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... members, recognizes Hamas as a legal political party. The West considers Hamas a terror organization.
Still, Arınc insisted that the relocation was out of question.
Arınc stressed that Turkey's ultimate goal was "to realize grinding of the peace processor between Israel and united Paleostinian political factions," adding that Turkey believes that "strengthening the Paleostinians unity will benefit the Paleostinian people and the grinding of the peace processor."
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... left Gazoo for a regional tour Monday.
Haniyeh's tour is expected to include stops in Iran, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.
Haniyeh is travelling with his political adviser Yussef Rizq, his minister of housing and public works Yussef al-Mansi and two key Hamas members -- Yehia Sinwar and Rawhi Mushtaha. The latter were released from Israeli prison in 2011 as part of the Shalit deal.
The trip is Haniyeh's second since his appointment to Hamas PM.
"It's bad planning by the military, when coming up with the initial design, and bad planning on the part of the few manufacturers that have a monopoly on building certain types of weapons systems. Monopolies do not encourage efficiency."
The Pakistani Supreme Court has ordered an inquiry into the case of the alleged murder of four prisoners under detention of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), throwing a spotlight on the secretive agency.
Eleven people were arrested by the ISI in 2007 for their alleged role in a failed assassination attempt on the former military chief and president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, in 2003. In 2010, an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi freed them due to a lack of evidence. On May 29, 2010, these people were again taken into custody by the ISI. This time the ISI officials claimed these people were linked to militant Taliban groups and were involved in terrorist activities in the country's restive tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
In the past six months, four out of these 11 men, aged between 20 and 30 - Muhammad Aamir, Tehseen Allah, Syed al-Arab and Abdul Suboor - have been mysteriously found dead during ISI detention. The ISI said these people died due to ailments.
On Monday, Pakistan's highest court ordered an investigation into these alleged murders and asked the ISI to bring the remaining detainees to the court on February 9, acting on the request of the relatives of the deceased. The court also asked the military intelligence agencies to submit written explanations about the deaths.
Advocate Tariq Asad, a lawyer representing the men's families, told Shakoor Rahim, Deutsche Welle's correspondent in Islamabad, that it was "abnormal for such young men to die like this in the hospital." He said he believed the men were killed and that he would file a murder case accordingly.
[Dawn] Pak Sherlocks and lawyers will visit India next month to gather more evidence for the prosecution of seven suspects linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, they said Monday.
Pakistain indicted seven alleged perpetrators over the attacks but says that its own commission needs to gather more evidence in India.
Delhi has called for "decisive" action from Pakistain against the perpetrators of the attacks and accuses its efforts so far of being a "facade", saying it has already handed over enough evidence to convict the accused men.
"If all goes well, the visit will take place between February 4 to February 10," senior public prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali told AFP.
Both sides, he said, agreed that the Pak commission could visit India between February 1 to February 10 to cross examine witnesses of the carnage in which 166 people were killed.
But Ali said there is a "possibility that the visit may be delayed" by the death of the lawyer representing alleged criminal mastermind, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.
The dear departed's son, Khwaja Harris Ahmad, has applied to replace his father and the issue would be taken up by the court on February 4, Ali said.
The commission is made up of two senior prosecutors, a director from the Federal Investigation Agency and five lawyers representing the suspects.
"We can proceed to India before February 10 if our authorities address all the legal requirements," Ahmad told AFP.
Pakistain had wanted Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks, to testify.
But Ahmad said Kasab, who has appealed a death sentence in India, was not included on the list of witnesses whom the panel wish to cross-examine.
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[Dawn] The Sunni Tehrik, hitherto known as a religious organization, announced on Sunday that it was converting itself into a political party to be called Pakistain Sunni Tehrik. ...formed in Bloody Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and liquidations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... The announcement was made by the head of the Tehrik, Maulana Sarwat Ejaz Qadri, who was addressing the "Pakistain Bachao Janisaran-i-Mustafa Conference" held in Nishtar Park among slogans of "Pakistain ki safety, PST, PST".
Mr Quaderi said the PST would launch its political campaign on March 23 with a rally at Minar-i-Pakistain in Lahore and unveil its manifesto and programme which would aim at ushering in a 'Mustafvi Revolution' to eliminate injustices and terrorism.
He said the party would strive for the supremacy of law, adding that student wings of the party had already been set up in colleges and universities under the name of Pakistain Islamic Student Federation.
He said the PST would field its candidates throughout Pakistain.
There will be no hereditary politics and the only criteria for leadership will be commitment to service, sacrifice and fear of Allah Almighty.
"Our journey will be for martyrdom for the glory of Islam and survival of Pakistain," he said. The main objective of the party will be to turn Pakistain into a welfare state.
Maulana Quaderi said that although 63 leaders and workers of the party had been killed it had not given up its message of peace, love and fraternity. It upheld the rule of law and continued its struggle against soaring prices, terrorism, oppression and injustices by organising rallies in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Sukkur, Lahore and Islamabad.
He said that everyone talked about accountability, but no-one took the first step of starting it from himself or from his own party.
"But from here, I start accountability of our leaders who neither own any plot or asset nor any bank accounts within the country or abroad. Their total assets and accounts are the people of Pakistain and the motherland."
He criticised the PML-N and JUI, without naming them, and accused them of using the sacred name of Islam for their political ends. He said Islam could not be enforced by people sitting in Islamabad.
He said when the aspirations of the party (meaning JUI) were not met its leaders quit the government and started exploiting the sacred name of Islam. These people, he alleged, were in politics for the sake of dollars and riyals and not for Islam.
He accused another political party of 'providing oxygen' to banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations which were involved in acts of terrorism across the country and said that his party had decided to join politics to eradicate the menace of terrorism and "enlightened tsunami".
Referring to US drone attacks, he said these were not the result of policies of the GHO or agencies, but a reaction to acts of Islamic fascistiwho did not hesitate to kill their fellow Mohammedans by declaring them infidels and cutting their throats and limbs by using the sacred name of Islam.
They were now planning to impost their ideology by force in Sindh and Punjab, he said.
Maulana Quaderi referred to liquidation of two activists of the party on Sunday and warned the government that if their killers were not locked away within 24 hours, his party would hold a sit-in outside the CM House and Governor House.
Earlier, Allama Shah Turabul Haq said that the wave of terrorism could have been checked by arresting the culprits behind the Nishtar Park kaboom.
The real assassins who organised the suicide kaboom, he said, were yet to be locked away.
Haji Hanif Tayyab said the country was in grip of soaring prices, corruption and mismanagement, but the government had no time to pay attention to problems which had hit all segments of society, especially the poor and lower middle classes.
Other leaders who addressed the conference were Ali Nawaz Khaskheli, Shahibzada Rehan Nomani, Shabbir Abu Talib, Pir Rizwan Jeelani and Tariq Mehmood.Strict security arrangements had been made at the venue of the meeting to avert any untoward incident. Besides Rangers and police, activists of the party manned all entry and exit points.
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The Supreme Court on Monday directed the intelligence agencies to produce seven people in their custody on Feb 9, DawnNews reported.
An apex court bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez heard a petition filed by a woman whose three sons had been picked up by intelligence personnel for their alleged role in the Oct 2009 attacks on the army GHQ and the Inter-Services Intelligence agency's Hamza Camp in Rawalpindi.
The woman had alleged that her sons and eight other people had been kept in illegal confinement since May 29, 2010, and four of them, including one of her sons, Abdus Saboor, had died in mysterious circumstances.
Raja Arshad, the lawyer of Judge Advocate General (JAG) Branch and chiefs of the ISI and MI told the bench that the four had died due to illness.
Arshad further said that he was not aware of the nature of the illness but that his clients were ready to conduct port mortems of the bodies.
The chief justice mentioned that the prime minister had appeared before the court and told the lawyer that no one was above the law and the Constitution.
The Constitution provides people protection and guarantees their independence, he added.
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The Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... (HRW) in a news release on Monday said that the inability of the commission, formed to investigate the death of Pak journalist Saleem Shahzad, in naming those responsible was a matter of concern.
The HRW moreover stated that the Pak government should "redouble efforts" to find responsibility for the death of the journalist who had reported that forces of Evil had infiltrated the military.
Shahzad, who used to worked for an Italian news agency and a Hong Kong-registered news site, had told the Human Rights Watch that he had been getting threats from intelligence agents.
"The commission's failure to get to the bottom of the Shahzad killing illustrates the ability of the ISI to remain beyond the reach of Pakistain's criminal justice system," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
"The government still has the responsibility to identify those responsible for Shahzad's death and hold them accountable, no matter where the evidence leads."
The commission which didn't single out any person or organization for the murder, in turn, left the room open for further probe.
"The commission appeared fearful of confronting the ISI over Shahzad's death," said Adams.
"Shahzad had made it clear to Human Rights Watch that should he be killed, the ISI should be considered the principal suspect. He had not indicated he was afraid of being killed by bad boy groups or anybody else."
The ISI has in the past denied as "baseless" allegations that it was involved in Shahzad's murder.
Shahzad, a 40-year-old father of three, had vanished in May last year after leaving his home in Islamabad to appear on a television talk show, two days after writing an article about links between rogue elements of the navy and al Qaeda following an attack on a naval base.
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ION MANILA, INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA SEEKS CALM AFTER US, PHILIPPINES TIES GROW.
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > "GLOBAL TIMES" SAYS CHINA SHOULD PLACE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON THE PHILIPPINES | CHINA CALLS FOR CALM AFTER PHILIPPINES OFFER [epxanded troops rotation]TO US
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > REPORT: CHINA SHOULD PUNISH THE PHILIPPINES OVER US OFFER | MAKE PHILIIPINES PAY FOR [anti-China] BALANCING ACT.
* SAME > PHILIPPINES SEEK TO STRENGTHEN ["maximize"] US DEFENCE TIES.
* SAME > US-PHILIPPINES RELATIONS BUILT FROM POOR [Chinese] PUBLIC IMAGE, among many Filipinos.
* WAFF > REPORT CALLS FOR STRENGTHENING DEFENCE BASES IN NORTH AUSTRALIA, espec close to the key West AUS NW Shelf Petrol, Mineral Resources
Zone.
Read, CHINA + in lessor REGIONAL BURQUA/HARD BOYZ.
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > AUSTRALIAN NAVY TOLD TO BE MORE VISIBLE NEAR RESOURCE PROJECTS.
* worLD MIL FORUM > RAND: CHINA'S STEADY IMPROVEMENT OF DF-21D ANTI-CARRIER ASBMS INDUCING THE US NAVY TO BREAK UP + "SCATTER/
SPREAD" ITS COMBAT ASSETS AROUND ASIA-PACIFIC.
Lots of smaller-sized TG's + TF's, EBG's - organized mass formations of USN Fleet-Ship units likely to be held off until last possible moments. TRICKLING/CREEPING INTO THE BATTLE ZONES.
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FTA: "Iqbal said the MILF has always been ready to dialogue with non-Moro sectors in keeping with a strong Islamic tradition of consensus-building to formulate policies meant to foster harmony among local communities."
America's top intelligence official has claimed that Iran's leadership was now more willing than before to carry out an attack inside the US, and that intelligence agencies were worried about plots against US and allied interests around the world.
In a report to Congress, the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said a plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador in a Washington restaurant - which the US blamed on Iran's Revolutionary Guard - "shows that some Iranian officials, probably including supreme leader Ali Khamenei, have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived US actions that threaten the regime".
Clapper added: "Iran's willingness to sponsor future attacks in the United States or against our interests abroad probably will be shaped by Tehran's evaluation of the costs it bears for the plot against the ambassador as well as Iranian leaders' perceptions of US threats against the regime."
US officials have expressed concern that the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, responsible for external operations, could have sleeper cells in the US or over the border in Mexico and the rest of Latin America.
Clapper's statement was the latest salvo in a war of words between the west and Iran over Tehran's nuclear programme and planned oil embargos by both the US and European Union.
Clapper said Iran was "keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons".
To a cheering audience that at several points erupted with chants of "death to Israel, death to America, death to England", Ahmadinejad continued, "Once, his eminency Imam [Ruhollah] Khomeini - leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution], stated that the illegal regime of the Pahlavis must go, and it happened. Then he said the Soviet empire would disappear, and it happened. He also said that this evil man Saddam [Hussein] must be punished, and we see that he is under trial in his country. His eminency also said that the occupation regime of Qods [Jerusalem, or Israel] must be wiped off from the map of the world, and with the help of the Almighty, we shall soon experience a world without America and Zionism, notwithstanding those who doubt."
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Even if they're rational actors why should they fear the consequences of a massive attack in the US?
After 9/11 the US declared that the Taliban would be destroyed. Now the US & NATO are begging the Taliban to accept our protection money join peace talks.
The risk to the Iranian leadership is calculable and not too great. The potential reward is enormous, hegemony over ME oil.
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This is self-obvious already.
IMO Iran per se will hold off doing anything unilateral + military for ALAP AMAP for a while yet. AGAIN, AS LONG AS USN, NATO WARSHIPS STAY OFFSHORE + NO GROUND ARMIES INVADE, OWG SHIA-LED CALIPHATE = UMMAH-HAPPY IRAN CAN STILL GET ITS NUKES.
And while also still attempting to empower regional, global pro-Iran policies + geopol influence.
IOW, IN IRAN'S VIEW IT LOSES NOTHING AS PER ITS NUCPROGS BY ALLOWING US-NATO WARSHIPS TO STAY IN THE GULF.
* INTERNATIONAL ANALYSTS PAST + PRESENT > NUCLEAR DETERRENCE = ONCE ANY NATION ACQUIRES DE FACTO [reliable] NUCWEAPS MIL CAPABILITY, ITS ALL BUT ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE FOR SAID NATION TO BE ATTACKED BY OTHERS, BE THE LATTER NUCLEAR OR NOT.
MULLAHS = Iff the US, etc. want to stop Iran from going nuclear, IT WILL HAVE TO DE FACTO INVADE + OCCUPY IRAN.
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America proper is just a [expletive deleted] to pull off an unconventional attack.
In past, I've mentioned the US has 16 major intelligence agencies, and 100+ federal police agencies, some of which are downright scary when they set their mind to it.
In 1988, the Japanese intelligence informed the FBI that a terrorist of the Japanese Red Army, Yū Kikumura, intended to fly to Canada in a month, drive to the US, buy bomb supplies and blow up something.
The FBI decided to make a dramatic example of him.
From his point of view, everything went off without a hitch. He drove across the US border. He stopped at different places to buy parts and chemicals at hardware stores.
After a while, he was pulled over by a state trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike, who told him he had made a minor traffic mistake and was getting a warning. After talking to him, he said that he suspected he might be intoxicated, so asked him to exit his vehicle for a sobriety test.
Then a platoon of FBI came out of nowhere and grabbed him, but *didn't* arrest him. They took him to an isolated house, where he had to wait an hour. Then they sat him in a chair to watch a movie.
The movie began with him going to the airport in a taxi in Japan. After he had left the taxi, the driver held up his Japanese government ID for the camera.
From that point, each and every person he met, from ticket agents, other passengers on the flight, the custom officials in Canada, the car rental agency, the US border personnel, even gas station attendants and hardware store employees who sold him stuff, and finally the state trooper all showed their IDs or badges.
Then they placed him under arrest, and took him into federal detention. A member of the Japanese consulate was waiting for him in booking. Then he was given a telephone and told to call his lawyer in Japan, and tell him about *everything* that had happened to him.
With full knowledge that his lawyer would tell all his Japanese Red Army buddies about it.
He was prosecuted by Samuel Alito and sent to ADX Florence. He is one of the few to have come out of it alive. He was deported to Japan, where he was rearrested and served another sentence. He finally got out in 2007.
[An Nahar] Swedish immigration authorities said Monday they were temporarily halting all deportations to Syria due to growing violence as Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike... 's regime continues its deadly crackdown.
"The Swedish Migration Board has now temporarily stopped all deportations ... to Syria. The reason is the dramatically worsened security situation in the country," the agency said in a statement.
The Migration Board had decided on December 16 last year the situation in Syria was so dire Sweden could hike the number of Syrians granted asylum.
"Now, the violence has worsened further, meaning no deportation rulings (to Syria) can be carried out," the agency said.
In 2011, 640 Syrian nationals sought asylum in the Scandinavian country -- a 52-percent increase over the previous year, according to Migration Board statistics.
More than 5,400 people have died in Syria in 10 months, including 80 on Sunday alone, as Assad continues to crack down on protests inspired by uprisings that have ousted authoritarian leaders in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad says US Republican and Democrat parties are two sides of the same coin, and freedom and democracy are nothing but "a big lie" in the country.
The two US parties have been ruling the United States for more than a century, but they pursue the same goals and only differ in their agents, Ahmadinejad said on Monday.
"There is one group behind the curtain that leads the people on, but their objective is one," he added.
The Iranian president said whenever US officials run out of logic, they resorts to threats of using bombs and imposing an economic siege "and if any one supports them, it's because of fear."
The United States and its allies accuse the Islamic Theocratic Republic of potentially pursuing a militarized nuclear program and have accordingly used the allegation to push for four rounds of Security Council sanctions and a series of additional unilateral embargoes against Tehran.
Washington and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... recently stepped up the pressure on Iran to unprecedented levels by imposing sanctions on the country's crude oil imports and Central Bank. The US-led sanctions have further been accompanied by repeated threats of a military strike against the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
Iran has categorically denied the charges and maintains that its nuclear program is geared towards civilian purposes including generating electricity. Tehran says as an ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency member and a signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty it is entitled to use civilian nuclear technology.
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Moud, Moud, Moud - its LISA, CAROL + MILWAUKEE TWAS DONE IT!?
[Iran Press TV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... says uprisings in the Middle East region are part of the battle against Zionist autocracy in the world.
Good luck with that. Thus far Allah has shown himself to be on their side, which means by fighting them you are fighting against your god.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the Zionists, US, and Western powers feel weak in the face of Islamic Awakening and "this feeling of weakness and defeat will grow by the day."
Please don't be concerned -- we'll have a chocolate bar, and the feeling will go away.
The Leader said humanity is standing at a critical juncture and is on the verge of a "grand development."
"Humanity has passed all material and ideological schools such as Marxism, Liberal Democracy and Secular Nationalism and is at the beginning of a new era," the Leader said.
Ayatollah Khamenei further urged the revolutionary youths to vigilantly guard the fruit of their efforts and not allow arrogant powers to "hijack" and "derail" their revolutions.
The Leader stressed that despite social, historical and geographical differences, Mohammedan nations are "everyone is against the satanic US and Israeli dominance and cannot tolerate the cancerous tumor of Israel."
Yes. A shame, that.
Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with foreign guests participating in the "Islamic Awakening and Youth Conference" in Tehran. The two-day event kicked off on Sunday with some 15-hundred participants from 73 countries.
The conference mainly focuses on the pivotal role of the youth in the wave of Islamic Awakening that is sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa.
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America should have made Ayatollah extinct long ago.
[An Nahar] The opposition Syrian National Council warned on Monday of a possible "massacre" of hundreds of young men rounded up by security forces in a town near Damascus. ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... It voiced "fears over a possible liquidation of hundreds of young men that Syrian security services have gathered in a public square in Rankous," 40 kilometers north of the capital, in a statement received by Agence La Belle France Presse.
The SNC called for the Arab and international media "to act quickly to follow this issue."
Security forces "raided Rankous this morning, backed by tanks and rocket-launchers ... and launched a campaign of arrests," it said.
"The authorities have cut off electricity, telephone lines and water. They have imposed a siege on Rankous, preventing food and medical aid from entering" the town of 25,000 inhabitants.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said earlier that troops penetrated Rankous after shelling the town which had been encircled for six days.
The rights group and activists at the scene said army deserters pulled out of Rankous as troops moved in. The assault reportedly cost the lives of two deserters and left dozens of civilians maimed.
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See also TOPIX > SYRIAN GOVT. FORCES CLAIM TO REGAIN DAMASCUS [outskirts = suburbs].
Yoohoo, Arab League = desired future NO-US-OR-NATO-REQUIRED OWG ISLAMIC UNION, I'm still a'lookin at you.
[An Nahar] Russia will not back a new draft resolution on Syria, its deputy foreign minister said Monday ahead of the U.N. Security Council's debate over the latest Western-backed proposal.
"The current Western draft has not gone too far from the October version, and, certainly, cannot be supported by us," Gennady Gatilov told Interfax news agency in an interview.
"The draft has statements in it calling on the member states to stop arms deliveries to Syria," he said.
"But there is no clear line between arms contraband that some countries engage in to support Death Eater forces in Syria, and the legal military-technical ties with this country," he said.
Gatilov said Moscow wanted any Security Council resolution on Syria to include "our fundamental guidelines: inadmissibility of violence..., appeal to the authorities and opposition to begin dialogue, unacceptability of foreign armed intervention ... and an imposition or threat of sanctions.
"It is not in our political practice to bargain over issues of principal importance," Gatilov said.
Russia, which has resisted Western calls to back U.N. sanctions against Syria, had suggested to both Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's regime and the opposition that they should meet in Moscow for "informal contacts" without any preconditions.
Russia and China placed a rare double veto on the first draft resolution last year, which placed the blame for the violence directly on Assad.
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So call their bluff. See what stage II looks like.
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If anyone read the piece by Putin in today's "The Washington Times", #1 Pencil may well be ignored and left to play patty-cake with the rest of his impotent hot-headed camel driving cretin brethren...Let's use our own oil, etc and give these scum enough room to wipe themselves out. Personally? I don't care if I ever hear an Arabic-sounding name or idiom the next millennium.
[An Nahar] News about the alleged liquidation attempt of the head of the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch, Col. Wissam al-Hassan, revealed that Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... and Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... might also be targeted, according to newspapers published on Monday.
An Nahar daily reported that security agencies urged Berri and Jumblat to take precautions as they move from and into their residences in Ain al-Tineh and Clemenceau.
According to the newspaper, the homes of the two officials are under "surveillance," as other officials are taking precautions and moving by taxis.
Jumblat told the daily that "the security coordination is very important, amid the stage that the country is passing through."
"Head of the ISF intelligence branch is playing his role, and we shouldn't forget the accomplishments made by the branch in revealing the identity of a number of Lebanese for collaborating with Israel," he noted.
According to As Safir newspaper published, Jumblat was informed of the security threats during his visit to Moscow last week.
Concerning the controversial telecom data that renewed the dispute between Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui and the Intelligence Branch, Berri called on officials to implement the law.
"A judicial authorization should be submitted to the phone call interception command center," the speaker told An Nahar.
Berri's visitors told al-Joumhouria newspaper that the telecom data shouldn't be open to everyone.
For his part, Jumblat urged politicians, in remarks published in An Nahar, not to settle accounts with the ISF intelligence branch.
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Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines has renamed 90 of its 123 ships since 2008 in efforts to dodge sanctions, study finds; "Iranian ships are being shuffled like a deck of cards in a Las Vegas casino."
Using a series of legal loopholes, Iran has renamed over a dozen cargo ships in the past year as it seeks to circumvent sanctions on arms transfers and the supply of nuclear-related equipment, according to a new study released on Monday.
The report was published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and included an analysis of reported incidents of illicit arms and drug transfers in recent years.
According to the report, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) has renamed a total of 90 out of its 123 ships since 2008. The company has also reflagged a significant percentage of its fleet, which dropped off the list of the top 100 fleets in the world last April. It previously was ranked as the 23rd largest container line in the world.
Israel has captured a number of Iranian arms ships transferring weaponry to bully boyz groups in the region in recent years. Last week, The Jerusalem Post reported on efforts by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz to recruit EU countries to help counter Iranian smuggling throughout the region. Gantz raised the issue with European counterparts he met at NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... headquarters earlier this month.
Last March, Navy commandos seized the Victoria, which was transporting 50 tons of weaponry - including advanced radar-guided anti-ship missiles - to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the Gazoo Strip. The ship was owned by a German company and was flying a Liberian flag.
In late 2009, the Navy seized the Francop which was carrying hundreds of tons of weaponry en route to Hezbullies in Leb. It was also owned by a German company and was flying an Antiguan flag.
"The Iranian ships are being shuffled like a deck of cards in a Las Vegas casino," explained Hugh Griffiths, one of the authors of the report and an arms trafficking expert at SIPRI. "There is a constant game of cat and mouse being played and the renaming and reflagging of vessels of different states is a way of trying to avoid inspection because of sanctions."
The report, Griffiths said, was the culmination of two years of work by SIPRI during which it created the Vessel and Maritime Incident Database which contains information on countries and shipping lines suspected of illicit activity.
According to the SIPRI report, in October 2010 Germany removed ships suspected of being owned by IRISL from its shipping registry after the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... imposed sanctions on the state-owned shipping company. The report claims however that despite the sanctions, other EU member states -- Cyprus and Malta - continue to have Iranian ships on their registries.
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And this from Rooters--using the tactics of the cartels, they will be using Swift or Dole containers from South America to a terrorist near you:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/30/iran-smuggling-idUSL5E8CU42820120130
STOCKHOLM Jan 30 (Reuters) - Iranian traffickers, trying to dodge an embargo imposed by Western nations over Iran's nuclear programme, are smuggling weapons on container ships owned by firms from the countries that imposed the sanctions, a think-tank said on Monday. Before 2008, when the United Nations toughened arms embargoes on Iran, the majority of arms and dual-use goods shipments to and from Iran were being transported aboard Iranian ships, or ships chartered by Iranian companies, it said.
"By using respectable mainstream European shipping companies in countries such as Germany and France, they make them their unwitting accomplices," said Hugh Griffiths, a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Container shipping companies generally cannot verify the cargo they transport in the sealed containers..."What has been seized and is in our report is just the tip of the iceberg," said Griffiths.
"Like the Colombian cocaine cartels, they have in recent years come under increased pressure from a legal framework that allows their cargoes to be seized. So they have started to use ships which have no suspect profile," said Griffiths.
SIPRI said governments should discuss with the shipping industry ways of tackling the growing use of container shipping for smuggling.
"We suggest there should be more information sharing between the shipping industry and governments, because the shipping industry has a lot of valuable and currently untapped information - particularly ship security officers and the captains of certain ships," Griffiths said.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will eventually cancel the Camp David Agreement, despite the group's announcement that it respects international agreements Egypt has signed, said Amin al-Sayed Ibrahim, head of Hezbollah's political council.
Ankara dismisses reports suggesting Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal will set up movement's new headquarters in Turkey; further denies pledging $300M in aid funds to Hamas
[Dawn] The Sunni Tehrik, hitherto known as a religious organization, announced on Sunday that it was converting itself into a political party to be called Pakistain 
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The Supreme Court on Monday directed the intelligence agencies to produce seven people in their custody on Feb 9, DawnNews reported.
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