KABUL - Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukarjee is due to visit Afghanistan Tuesday to invite President Hamid Karzai to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)summit to be held in India in April, an Afghan foreign ministry statement said. Mukarjee is expected to call on his Afghan counterpart, Dr Rangin Spanta to discuss regional cooperation.
Afghanistan is due to officially join SAARC in the organizations 14th Summit to be held in New Delhi.
Afghanistan, which is the only land link to central Asia, is due to officially join SAARC in the organizations 14th Summit to be held in New Delhi, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday. Member states of the organization approved Afghanistan as the 8th member during its latest summit in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital late last year.
India is one of the biggest donors for post-Taleban government with a 500-million-dollar pledge for reconstruction and 500 free scholarships for Afghan students to study in Indian universities.
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India on Thursday announced an increase of $100 million in aid to Afghanistan from the current level of $650 million, five days ahead of the visit of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee there.
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If they can tolerate the Afghans and afford it, India would do well to box the Pak mules in.
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They are slowly boxing the Paks in.
To the north India has an airbase at Farkhor in Tajikistan (the Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Masood was rushed to the Indian military hospital after the suicide attack on him). India reportedly has Mig 29s and helicopters there, along with special forces troops.
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Till now, who ever beat the limited US infocements became popular and gained power. USA has to change this tradition not by the chit-chat of military confrontations but by the massive destructive power of evaporating a whole enemy population or a piece of enemy land (for example Iran. If USA could do it again, the whole stupidity will stop but you must have to evaporate a whole bunch of things only once no matter who in the world says what. Do it once more after it was done in Japan and every one will say that there is no power other than USA. No one will ever dare to harm USA. But it has to be done at a very massive scale all at once.
Algeria has sought help from civilians to fight the nation's Al Qaida-aligned network. Algerian authorities have launched a campaign against the Salafist Brigade for Call and Combat. The Algerian military has called on people to provide information on Salafist operatives and strongholds. "The evolution of your country and its prosperity depend fundamentally on its stability and security, a duty for all Algerian men and women, regardless of differences in their opinion," an Algerian Army poster read.
The poster campaign has taken place in villages where the Salafists were said to operate. They included areas in the mountains east of Algiers.
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- USS Gladiator (MCM 11), an Avenger-class minesweeper mine countermeasure ship, arrived in Bahrain Jan. 23. The 1,300 ton, 224-foot Gladiator is one of two new Avenger-class minesweepers that will be forward deployed here.
Gladiator and another mine countermeasure ship are replacing two recently decommissioned coastal mine hunters. The arrival of the two sister ships will maintain the current U.S. Navy presence of four mine countermeasure ships in the region.
Mines are indiscriminate in their victims. They pose a threat to all maritime traffic, regardless of nationality or purpose, said Deputy Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Rear Adm. Scott Swift. Gladiator contributes to an important defensive capability for the coalition maritime force in our efforts to help safeguard the regions vital links to the global economy."
Gladiator joins USS Dextrous (MCM 13) and USS Ardent (MCM 12) in support of ongoing Maritime Security Operations (MSO). Mine countermeasure ships provide the ability to protect ships and their crews from seemingly invisible threats in the water. Additionally, seaborne mine countermeasure ships contribute to MSO by conducting waterborne security missions and protecting oil platforms. The ships also perform escort duties, direct liaison and joint operations with coalition patrol forces and combatants.
"Maritime security operations help ensure local commerce can benefit this region and the world. Gladiators capabilities demonstrate our commitment to freedom of navigation, said Swift. We work closely with regional partners to provide security from mines in international waters so all commercial shipping can operate safely while transiting the region."
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North Korea on Monday described US soldiers serving in South Korea as infected with an abnormal sexual desire and said sexual abuse was part of their daily routine. The ruling partys newspaper Rodong Sinmun was commenting on the alleged rape by a US soldier of a 67-year-old woman. The 23-year-old private soldier is in a South Korean prison awaiting trial. The 29,500-strong US military in South Korea has issued an apology for the incident this month.
The US forces in South Korea are infected with an abnormal sexual desire and sexual abuses are part of their daily routine, a Rodong Sinmun commentary said. It cited other atrocities by US forces in recent years and attributed them to the shackling alliance between the US and South Korea and the way of thinking of the occupation forces enjoying extraterritorial rights... The commentary, carried by the official (North) Korean Central News Agency, said South Koreans can expect neither genuine human rights nor social progress as long as the US imperialists policy of occupation of South Korea persists... The US has maintained tens of thousands of troops in the South since the end of the 1950-53 war with the North.
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It's an old complaint. The British in 1942–1945 felt the same way. Everything old is new again.
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Methinks had read DRUDGEREPORT on Robert Redford's? new film, which includes a BESTIALITY SCENE. See also WND.com > alleged "rape scene" for 12-y.o. minor actress.
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For some reason, the race of these rapists is never released.
Why? Is it relevant?
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Typical American ex-soldier movie star.
Korean women beware.
That pic always cracks me up. Damn, I really was heartbroken when they arrested him in pakistan after mistaking him with KSM, and for all I know, he's still inh club gitmo. Let my people go, dammit!
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Why? Is it relevant?
Yes. It is relevant.
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I don't know about this Korean one, but all of the rapist servicemen in Okinawa are the same race. When reporting, the local press plays this up, and the American press leaves out the fact.
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Gromky, if you have a point to make, please make it.
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Mike don't be disingenuously naive. You would know this if you spent any time there. There have been many articles published about it for those who haven't lived there. In Asia there is a very obvious racial ranking scheme: National race, whites, other Asians, blacks.
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gromky, are you saying that by definition if the man was Korean or white it was consensual regardless, but if he was black the definition is changed to rape (again regardless)?
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Shipman: Don't ever assume somebody gets a joke.
Some people have a hard enough time with reality that humor is just lost on them. On a different forum a know a guy who gets very upset when anyone uses an analogy, even common analogies, because analogies just don't compute with him. He insists that people are just talking nonsense.
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Good clarification. FYI if the U.S. released him to the Koreans they are pretty sure about his guilt. I bet we will find out a lot more details during the trial that shed a pretty bad light on this soldier.
Researcher Marion Van San has been commissioned with another scientist to carry out a new study into illegal immigrants in Belgium, reports Belgian newspaper De Standaard. The Flemish paper reported Friday that Van San (40) considers Belgium a sensitive country when it comes to carrying out investigations between immigrants and crime. Apparently, in 1999 by the previous Minister of Justice Marc Verwilghen (VLD), had asked her to investigate the share foreign youth had in crimes carried out in Belgium, compared to the share of the total population. The report was written; however, its official release was constantly put off for political reasons. She later learned that the rather critical and detailed investigation was being politically blocked and finally ignored, only because it proved the connection between foreigners and crime.
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Maybe if we don't KNOW about the link between immigrants and higher crime rates, it won't really be happening, because we don't want it to happen, because we're involved in a social experiment that has gone wrong, because we weren't approaching it with open minds, because our false morality has replaced reasoned and informed morality, because we need to feel superior and progressive, because we have uncertainty about out self-image and our global image and perceptions about us by our enemies, because . . .
ISTANBUL, Turkey --A nationalist militant convicted of bombing a McDonald's restaurant in 2004 has confessed to inciting the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist last week, police said Monday.
Yasin Hayal told police he provided a gun and money to the teenager who is suspected of carrying out Friday's shooting, the Hurriyet newspaper reported, citing police records. The teenager, Ogun Samast, was arrested over the weekend along with several other people and has confessed to fatally shooting the journalist, according to a chief prosecutor. Police confirmed the confession, but gave no details.
The #7 truncheon, works every time.
Police Chief Celalettin Cerrah of Istanbul said Monday that the suspect was linked to Hayal. If accurate, Hayal's reported statements to police would be a strong indication that the journalist, Hrant Dink, was targeted because of his public statements on the mass killings of Armenians by Turks in the early 20th century, one of the nation's most sensitive and divisive issues.
Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said prosecutors were still investigating whether the suspect was linked to any organization, although Police Chief Celalettin Cerrah had said earlier that there was "no political or organizational dimension" to the slaying.
Since he doesn't consider Islam to have any political organizational dimension, he might actually have been sincere with that statement.
Hayal was convicted in the bombing of a McDonald's restaurant in Trabzon in 2004 that injured six people. He was released after serving more than 10 months in prison. At the time, police could not establish a link between Hayal and any underground groups, and his motive was never clear.
This is what happens, Europe, when you let terrorists out of prison after a few months.
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Better get started on that koran memorization.
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/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The investigators of Hrant Dinks assassination informed that a group of nationalist teenagers are involved in the crime. The criminal grouping was headed by Yasin Hayal, who was earlier tried for setting a bomb at a McDonald's in Trabzon. According to Milliyet newspaper, 17-year-old Ogün Samast, arrested yesterday over suspicion of Dinks killing, received the gun from Hayal. At that both were members of the Center of Islamic Order ultra-right organization.
You don't really think the kid got the idea all by himself, do you.
The edition reminds that after the arrest in Trabzon Hayal shouted out in the court, I did it to punish Americans. Ill get free in three years and will blow up HSBC Bank and the Russian Consulate.
Meanwhile Istanbul Prosecutor Aykut Cengiz Engin told journalists on Sunday that the investigation did not reveal involvement of any organization in Dinks killing. The investigation is carried out in all directions. Presently seven people are being vigorously interrogated, he said. Samast said he committed the crime because of the journalists writing. I am not sorry, he added, reports RIA Novosti.
International Herald Tribune says Yasin Hayal was trained to make bombs at a camp of Chechen militants in Azerbaijan.
We're supposed to have a decent relationship with the Azeris. We ought to be talking with them about these camps.
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WE have a decent relationship with the Azeris. I doubt panARMENIAN.net does, though. Wait for confirmation from a more reliable source.
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The Turkish govt may try to play down any jihadist influence in the accused. However, the judiciary in Turkey has sometimes taken investigations into its own hands resulting in embarrassing truth to come out.
Did Jimmy Carter do it for the money? Thats the question making the rounds about Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, an anti-Israeli screed recently written by the ex-president whose Carter Center has accepted millions in Arab funding.
Even in Carters long history of post-presidential grandstanding, this book sets fresh standards of irresponsibility. . . . If there is a silver lining to any of this, it is that Carters book has drawn much-overdue attention to some of the funding that pours into the Carter Center, whose intriguing donor list includes anti-Israeli tycoons and Middle East states. Founded in 1982 and appended to Carters presidential library, the center has served for almost a quarter century as the main base and fund-raising magnet for Carters self-proclaimed mission to save the world.
In recent weeks, a number of articles have noted that Carters anti-Israeli views coincide with those of some of the centers prime financial backers, including the government of Saudi Arabia and the foundation of Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, whose offer of $10 million to New York City just after Sept. 11 was rejected by then-mayor Rudy Giuliani because it came wrapped in the suggestion that America rethink its support of Israel. Other big donors listed in the Carter Centers annual reports include the Sultanate of Oman and the sultan himself; the government of the United Arab Emirates; and a brother of Osama bin Laden, Bakr BinLadin, for the Saudi BinLadin Group. Of lesser heft, but still large, are contributions from assorted development funds of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, as well as of OPEC, whose membership includes oil-rich Arab states, Nigeria (whose government is also a big donor to the Carter Center), and Venezuela (whose anti-American strongman Hugo Chávez benefited in a 2004 election from the highly controversial monitoring efforts of the Carter Center).
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Ms. Rosett is one of my heroes. She's worth a unit of fighting troops all by herself, given what she's done to ferret out criminal malfeasance in UN/NGO circles.
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Frankly, I am sick and tired about hearing about Jimmy Carter. The only news article I want to see about him should also include one the words "died" or "dead".
(Of natural causes, of course.)
PHOENIX -- A Mesa City Council member refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance before a meeting to protest American involvement in what he calls an Iraqi civil war. "If you're not willing to stand up for what you believe, you don't belong in politics," Tom Rawles said.
Rawles told Mayor Keno Hawker of his intention before Monday's meeting but surprised the other five council members with an announcement during a study session before the meeting. "Although I love my country and respect our flag, this is my way of protesting America's continuing involvement in the civil war in Iraq," Rawles said in a written statement hours before the meeting.
Rawles said he has been thinking about making such a protest for about five months.
Prob'ly consulted with Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink.
He said he favored the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, predicated on President Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction and posed a threat to the United States. "I didn't have a problem with going into war," Rawles said, "(but) that's not what we're doing now. Now we're into nation-building and acting as a policeman in a bloody civil war. That's the part that bothers me."
Rawles said he will refrain from saying the Pledge until U.S. troops are called home or he's no longer in public office. This jackass is out of office now but he and his idiot constituents apparently don't realize it yet. An affirmation of loyalty, usually an oath, is a common-law requirement for holding public office. Citizens may not be required to give loyalty oaths, but it is mandatory for public officials. This dates back more than a thousand years and is supported by precedent and various constitutional requirements from the beginning of United States history. Publicly repudiating that affirmation, as in declaring a refusal to pledge allegiance, is an instant disqualification. He has effectively resigned from office.
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Jeeze I didn't know that this country had so many diplomatic and military experts. Why doesn't Mr Rawles and the rest of his ilk lend their experise to the State department or U.S. Military? Gosh wouldn't we all feel safe if more people like him were in power?
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This is the kind of crap that just pisses me off about not having a agreesive leadership. These as*hats get away with outright Seditionist-Treasonist acts yet "don't question thier patriotism" somehow shields them for being called out as what they are. Democracy means we debate, we disagree, we vote, BUT being a NATION means once the decision is made even if we disagree we are all obligated to work towards makeing it succeed for the NATION's sake. Hence many but one.
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WTF is it with people and "civil wars"? There's nothing inherently better or worse, easier or more difficult, about civil wars vs. international wars (or the many variants involving various degrees of both). The only question is what is our interest, and how is it served in a particular situation (that interest may be defined to include some compelling humanitarian issue).
If our interests are best served by a long, difficult, bloody engagement in a civil war, or in an intergalactic war, or even in a pie fight between orcs and pink fluffy bunnies - then we're in. If our interests are not best served that way - we're out (or never in to begin with, or in only via proxies and $$$$, or whatever).
Back a few months when NBC or some media nitwits solemnly pronounced Iraq a civil war, I spoke to a college class and explored their understanding of a civil war and why such a consideration mattered - or didn't - in the case of Iraq. As I suspected, there was a very strong and utterly illiterate presumption that a civil war was something we couldn't/shouldn't get involved in. I was somewhat heartened by the fact that, when walked through the logic of the general question and then the facts of Iraq in particular, most of them had a very different take.
Iraq post-invasion has had strong elements of a civil war since the get-go. This mattered not because of semantics or abstract taffy-yanking over civil vs. other sorts of wars, but because MNF-I and DOD/WH/State seemed not to realize that an incredibly barbaric, relentless terrorism war by Sunni against Shi'a would have consequences if not dealt with (umm, focusing on making Sunnis love us and entangling them in a democratic political process, both worthy goals that would take about 27 years to bear fruit, were not the obvious call, explaining the despair many of us felt going back over a year).
As always, it's a judgment call about whether, and how, we should be involved in a conflict, whether it be pure civil war, pure inter-state conflict, or the more common mix somewhere along the spectrum in between. People ought to toss out their lazy and illiterate analytical crutches and deal with specific situations seriously.
OK, class dismissed ..... (will this guy ever shut up??)
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Didn't see a party affiliation in the story. Let me try to guess...
Mr. Rawles sounds like and old line conservative Republican. "I didn't have a problem with going into war," Rawles said, "(but) that's not what we're doing now. Now we're into nation-building and acting as a policeman in a bloody civil war. That's the part that bothers me."
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I never much cared for the idea of pledging allegience to a FLAG either. Getting killed over a piece of cloth doesn't make a lot of sense. But the COUNTRY (for which it stands), that is worth pledging allegience to, and worth it even if one disagreed with involvement in Iraq.
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Uh . . . Glenmore buddy . . . isn't it "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"?
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If Mr. Rawles would consider what the impact of our pulling out and allowing the various Iraqi and infiltrator factions to battle it out, would have on our international reputation, I'm sure he would at least pledge allegiance to our flag.
After all, we are not there to rape and pillage. We are not there to install a puppet dictator. We are not there to assume control of their lives, but to help them assume such control. To do so requires the presence of some muscle, and the application of law and order over time.
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I live in the metro Phoenix area and this guys is a moron. He was a county commissioner until they gave him a tar and feather bath. How these morons keep coming out of the wood work is beyond me. I hope they recall his rear end and toss him out.
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Verlain, STFU would ya? It herts wen eye lern.
On a serious note, I'm a little skeptical of your claim. I find it hard to believe that logic can be spoken to college students.
Whenever I try to talk to a college student I get, "Bush lied! 600,000 died!" Has anyone else noticed that the 600,000 number makes liberals brains go into a smoking panic mode and suspends their ability to function mentally? I suggest we break out the siege engines and send them to every campus in America. And every news outlet. And Noam Chomskys house. And Congress. And the U.N. And.... How many siege engines do we have? We might need to have Chrysler help out another war effort.
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Rawles is a longtime gadfly who's popular with libertarians. He has a blog at one of the Arizona Repugnant subsidiary-paper sites. I won't honor it by providing a link, but any search engine will find it.
Congressional Republicans pushed back Monday against President Bush's decision to deploy additional troops in Iraq, some voicing opposition while others called for the administration and Iraqi government to be held accountable. In the Senate, three GOP lawmakers joined one Democrat in unveiling non-binding legislation expressing disagreement with Bush's plan and urging him to "consider all options and alternatives" to the planned increase of 21,500 troops.
In the House, members of the leadership drafted a series of what they called "strategic benchmarks," and said the White House should submit monthly reports to Congress measuring progress toward meeting them. The developments occurred on the eve of Bush's State of the Union address, and as Democrats pointed toward votes in the House and Senate in the next few weeks declaring that the troop increase was "not in the national interest of the United States."
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We could sure use Hercules right now. The Augean stables D.C. is really stating to stink.
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Yeah, go ahead. A meaningless, non-binding resolution will look soooooo good on the six o'clock news.
Meaningless, that is, to all but our enemies. They're the only ones with a plan besides Bush.
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"strategic benchmarks,"
strategic benchmark (n) : A thoroughly pointless metric that will have no real validity but can be used to beat the Administration over the head at least once a month.
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I'm torn. On the one hand, I'm against one single drop of American blood ever being shed for a raghead. Let them rot. On the other hand, once you are there, you should finish what you start.
Still, these sand monkeys are completely unworthy of America's efforts to bring them into the 21st Century. We should shed blood for our friends, not our enemies.
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Still, these sand monkeys are completely unworthy of America's efforts to bring them into the 21st Century.
We aren't doing it for them, we're doing it for ourselves. I'm tired of having the world's oil supply controlled by people living in the 7th century. We need to get off the oil or get them into the 21st century, or preferably both.
The Terror-Free Oil Initiative is planning to open the nation's first "terror free" gas station in Omaha. The Florida-based group claims U.S. dollars used to purchase gas made from Middle East oil funds terrorism. It urges Americans to only buy oil products that originate from countries that do not support terrorism.
The Terror-Free Oil station in west Omaha will sell gas from oil companies that do not do business in the Middle East. Signs calling for the use of non-Middle Eastern oil were up at the station today. What about Venezuela. That's a terror-supporting state, too, as long as Hugo is in charge. Come on CIA/Cheney/Halliburton, get on with it!
Spokesman Joe Kaufman says the station will open Feb. 1, with a grand opening scheduled for Feb. 12.
Other Terror-Free Oil stations are planned. Which is good, as it would take 4 tanks to get there from home.
Fox News.
An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground.
What he got, instead, was a swift kick from the company's Web site, which not only refused the request but added insult to injury with the admonition, "If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq."
Army Sgt. Jason Hess, stationed in Taji, Iraq, with the 1st Cavalry Division, said he emailed his request to Discount-mats.com because he and his fellow soldiers sleep on the cold ground, which contains sand mites, sand flies and other disease carriers.
In his email, dated Jan. 16, 2007, he asked the Web-based company, registered to Faisal Khetani, an American Muslim of Pakistani descent:
Do you ship to APO (military) addresses? I'm in the 1st Cavalry Division stationed in Iraq and we are trying to order some mats but we are looking for ships to APO first.
On the same day, Hess received this reply:
SGT Hess,
We do not ship to APO addresses, and even if we did, we would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq.
Bargain Suppliers
Discount-Mats.com
Khetani on Monday told FOX News that the person responsible for the email reply had been fired. We hope that's true. If Khetani had any sense, he would have donated a whole mess of free floor mats to the troops in atonement. The positive PR would be worth the cost.
The Web site, meanwhile, has been temporarily taken down. Guess he closed the site to "spend more time with his family."
Hess emailed that he has since found two mat suppliers willing to ship to an APO address in Iraq. The free market works, kids!
One point to note: while Mr. Khetani's ethnic origin might explain his lack of solicitude to potential customers of the military persuasion, there are quite a few non-Pakistani,* non-Moslem Americans who would do the same. Sad, but true.
*On the other hand, there's that Pakistani kid who was in my law school class. Observant Moslem, member of the Federalist Society, and Ronald Reagan's biggest fan. Couldn't wait to be naturalized so he could register to vote. You'd love him.
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If you refuse to sale to someone because they were black you'd be a racist. If you refused to sale to someone because they were Jewish you'd be an anti-semitic. If you refused to sale to someone because they were soldiers you'd be ....
Wouldn't the first two acts get your business license pulled?
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Othman Atta, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, said he would fault the worker for his lack of tact but defended his right to speak his mind. "If you look at the polls, his opinion is reflected by a majority of Americans now," Atta said. "In the United States, everyone one is free to speak their opinion."
Atta appeared concerned that the controversy might fuel anti-Muslim and anti-Middle Eastern sentiment."Some people will look for any excuse to target people from the Middle East," he said.
I think that's right out of the CAIR Handbook:
"Islamic Fuckups, Responding to"...
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Anyone with the last name "Atta" needs to thank his lucky stars he is living in the only country on Earth that would have left him unmolested after 9/11.
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Othman Atta, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, said he would fault the worker for his lack of tact but defended his right to speak his mind.
So Mr. Atta thinks it good business practice to deliberately drive away potential customers... not to mention all their friends and relations? There is a reason why successful businesspeople choose to enjoy their personal opinions after hours, and why bankrupt, former businesspeople learn the hard way why they shouldn't have let their employees mouth off to customers. Even if it is poor cousin Ahcmed, who is too sensitive to get a job at the McDonalds down the street.
The Web site's owner, 23-year-old Faisal Khetani, fired the employee who wrote the e-mail. Khetani told TODAY'S TMJ4 the e-mail does not express the views of his company. The Khetani family immigrated from Pakistan in 1992. They became U.S. citizens. [F.K.'s father] Ramzan Khetani insisted his family supports the troops in Iraq and feels patriotic about the United States.
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This Mooslum is a real piece of work. I finally tracked down the threat he made. Faisal Khetani is one busy boy. His family, or him sell electric scooters. On that site they state outright they won't ship to APOs.
Resa LaRu Warchick Kirkland, one of our correspondents here on Publius Forum, has been trying to clear up a wretched email that was sent to one of our boys in Iraq refusing him service and telling him he should pull out of Iraq.
In that same letter, Khetani also threatened Kirkland with unleashing the wrath of major muslim organizations on her for her insults. He closed by telling Kirkland, you can be sure that there are million of muslim activists as well that will do something about your foul statements . your statements against Muslims and your direct insults will not go unheard, I assure you.
There you have it. It's all her fault and now he's threatening an American with Islamic retaliation. How pathetically typical.
Here are his other two business:
Contact Us - Quality Discount Scooters
Bargain Suppliers 3259 S. 106th Street West Allis, WI 53227. You can count on Quality-Discount-Scooters to be here before and after the sale
http://www.quality-discount-scooters.com/contact.html
contact@quality-discount-scooters.com
1-800-351-3494
http://www.basketball-drills-and-plays.com/elite-player-system.html
Basketball-Drills-and-Plays
3259 S.106th Street, West Allis, WI 53227, USA
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The kid is 23, AlmostAnonymous5839. Likely he either fired himself or poor cousin Achmed... or his former best friend and partner. But I'm sure Daddy is even less happy with the situation than poor Faisal is.
MIAMI (AP) - Prosecutors on Monday asked the judge in the Jose Padilla terrorism-support case to punish a defense attorney who leaked transcripts of Padilla's intercepted phone conversations, saying the leak violated a court order and could jeopardize selection of an impartial jury.
``There is no question that the disclosure was calculated and deliberate, with the effect of exposing potential jurors to evidence before it is introduced at trial when both sides will have the opportunity to argue its significance,'' prosecutors said in court papers.
The transcripts were part of a Jan. 4 New York Times story that raised questions about the strength of the case against Padilla. On the transcripts, Padilla is not heard discussing any violent acts or terrorist plots, and many of the conversations seem to be relatively harmless.
And what do you know, the NYT was involved.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke has scheduled a hearing Wednesday on the issue, the latest in a string of complications to arise in the case of the suspected al-Qaida operative.
Three Miami-based public defenders representing Padilla - Michael Caruso, Anthony Natale and Orlando do Campo - acknowledged in court papers that ``one of Jose Padilla's counsel'' provided the transcripts to a Times reporter. The lawyer responsible was not identified. Padilla is also represented by attorney Andrew Patel of New York, but his name does not appear on the document acknowledging responsibility for the leak.
The seven transcripts were covered by a 2005 order by Cooke prohibiting dissemination of ``sensitive'' evidence. The transcripts are of declassified telephone intercepts on which Padilla's voice is heard that were obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Prosecutors accused defense lawyers of ``whipping up a media frenzy'' that could taint the pool of prospective jurors, and contend that the disclosure violates state and U.S. bar association rules. Penalties for such violations vary greatly, from jail time in extreme cases to a judicial reprimand.
I'd say that leaking sealed information in a terrorism case leans more to the extreme end. How 'bout a little jail time for the responsible mouthpiece?
The defense lawyers said in their own court papers that because the 2005 order had been replaced in 2006, not everyone on Padilla's team understood that the rules regarding sensitive material still applied.
Isn't a responsibility for a lawyer on the case to understand all the rules and orders? Would the defense allow a prosecutor to say something like that? I'm just asking.
A spokeswoman for The Times declined to comment. None of the four defense lawyers responded to e-mail messages seeking comment about the latest government claims.
Yet another example that demonstrates that the NYT is on the other side.
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an officer of the court, eh? Jail time and permanent loss of license.
Let em do legal document service for a living
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The Foreign Office has rejected reports that Taliban leader Mulla Omar is in Pakistan and said he is probably leading the Taliban resurgence from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, Reuters reported.
A Taliban spokesman captured in Afghanistan last week claimed that Omar was living in Pakistan under the protection of Pakistani intelligence. Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam rejected the claim and said Omar was most probably in Kandahar. We have very regular meetings, intelligence sharing with the US, to some extent with Afghans. Nobody has any information about the whereabouts of Mullah Omar, she told a weekly news conference in Islamabad. But, generally, the likely scenario is that he is in Kandahar where hes marshalling his fighters.
Staff Report adds: She said Afghan allegations that Pakistan was supporting the was an attempt to shift the blame for failures inside Afghanistan. She said over 1.2 million movements take place monthly across the 2,560-kilometre Pakistan-Afghanistan border. She pointed out that despite all its resources, the United States had failed to stop movement on its border with Mexico, and it would be naive to expect Pakistan to fully control the movement of so many people across such a porous border. She said Pakistan had taken a number of measures, such as the introduction of a bio-metric system at the Chaman border check post, to control illegal movements.
Aslam also said terrorist activities were originating in Afghan refugee camps near the border and asked the international community to help relocate them inside Afghanistan. We have 3 million Afghan refugees and we also suspect that the refugees camps which are close to the border, three or four, are the hub of these activities, undesirable activities, she said.
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The FO can FO. After we lose a city, Pakistan will be Pakwastan.
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The whole bunch of Muslim nations are engaged in the proxy wars since those stupid never asked what was good for them. The whole world knew that that USA will retaliate with massive power in Afghanistan after 9-11 bombings in USA. Unfortunately, USA never did so. Well what could I say, If you are stupid, you are a stupid.
NEW DELHI - Indias foreign minister has asked for neighbouring Myanmars help in cracking down on separatist rebels from Indias troubled northeast who are seeking refuge across the border, a government spokesman said on Monday.
Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjees visit to Myanmar this weekend came after reports from Indian security officials that around 200 rebels from Assam state have run away fled to Myanmar since India launched a military campaign against the insurgents earlier this month.
The rebels from the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) are blamed for the killing of over 70 migrant labourers from other parts of India in recent weeks. Rebels from some of the several other separatist groups in Indias northeast are also thought to use Myanmar as a refuge.
In general, anti-Indian groups are trying to take shelter across the border, a foreign ministry spokesman said. This makes continued cooperation between neighbours essential.
India welcomed Myanmars commitment not to allow its territory to be used for activities inimical to India, a statement from Indias embassy in Myanmar said.
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Project started eight years ago, opened for business four months after first round of 2006 invasion to shut down Hizb'allah. Modelled after Ramallah, some of you will appreciate the artistic details described in the article.
o One of the mosques have been declared the 43rd most holy place in Islam, just after Mohammed's crapper.
o Twelve Palestinian families have shown up at the gate carrying keys, claiming the homes were their grandparents.
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"During the exercise, 350 soldiers were spread out in the fake town, some playing the role of civilians while a few women, dressed in American uniforms and armed with laser target rifles, acted as Hizbullah fighters."
I'm not sure about the American uniforms, but I like women playing the role as Hizbullah fighters.
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The town looked WAY too clean and orderly. Just like an Israeli or American city. But arab towns are complete shitholes with broken streets, half-finished housing, sewage in the streets, etc.
Palestinians in the northern West Bank have named a major street after late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein that was funded along with the surrounding municipality by the United States Agency for International Development. The Palestinian daily Al-Hayat al-Jadida stated the street's dedication was meant to emphasize the "values of Arabness and Jihad, which (Saddam represented).
Masked Palestinian gunmen blew up a vacant resort in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, claiming they belonged to Al Qaeda and that the holiday complex is owned by Fatah kingpin Mohammed Dahlan, its manager said. Dahlan is a top adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
They destroyed the large wedding and conference room with several huge bombs. They planted bombs in some of the rooms, destroying the southern part of the resort, said Bashir Thari, manager of the Al Waha complex. Thari said about 40 gunmen, masked and heavily armed, took part in the attack and abducted, but later freed, three guards.
They asked them whether the resort belonged to Dahlan, Thari told Reuters. The guards said no, Al Waha belongs to a Palestinian businessman," He said the gunmen told the guards: Al Qaeda has arrived in Gaza and we will destroy every place owned by Dahlan and bomb him, too. Officials close to Dahlan denied he has any stake in the resort.
Palestinian officials have denied any Al Qaeda presence in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, and Abbas and security officials have said they were working hard to prevent the group from establishing a foothold in the two territories.
In an effort to establish more effective deterrence in the face of Iran's race to obtain nuclear weapons, government ministries are, for the first time, working on drafting a position paper that will include guidelines and a strategy for turning Israel into a full-fledged member of NATO, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The paper is being drafted by an interministerial committee made up of representatives from the Defense Ministry and the Foreign Ministry and headed by the National Security Council. The committee plans to complete the paper by the end of February and present it to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for approval.
Meanwhile Monday, in an exclusive interview, former Spanish prime minister Jos Mar a Aznar told the Post that "Israel needs to join NATO as soon as possible." According to Aznar, the Iranian threat serves as "an excellent occasion to enforce [Israeli] deterrence by making Israel a member of NATO."
The former Spanish leader and current president of the FAES Spanish think tank said that if Israel became a member of NATO, "the perception in Iran would change, knowing that it's not only Israel [they are dealing with], but all of NATO."
Aznar said that NATO needed to change its focus to counter the growing threat of global terrorism. "The threat today is terror and we need to restructure NATO to deal with this threat," he said. Aznar said he believed diplomatic efforts and sanctions - at the current level like those passed last month - would not succeed in getting Iran to suspend its nuclear ambitions. Later, speaking at the Herzliya Conference, Aznar said: "We must do everything we can to prevent a nuclear Iran, but we must also prepare to seek a possibility to make a nuclear Iran act appropriately."
But he won't support military action, nope, nope ...
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Screw NATO, go for Commonwealth status. The Paleos have always screamed it was an American colony why not make it so. As a commonwealth they can keep their 'unique' character. That all in one act will severe the links that has existed among the Paleo symp Donks, State Dept, and the university union of socialist professors from the American Jewish community for good.
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No way in hell would "Old Europe" allow Israelis into NATO. But I do see it as a good opportunity to close US bases in Europe and move them to the Middle East. And trade follows the troops.
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xbalanke,
Meanwhile, the Boy Sprouts are attacking to control the Semiconscious Liberation Army with the aid of the Republicans and the Girlie Magazines, right?
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Eric Jablow,
Shhhhhh. You should be very careful where you mention things like that. Isn't that plan part of MK-ULTRA?
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Can you see NATO invoking Article V (?) if the Persians have a run? I rather see a US-Israeli mutual defense agreement (yep one of them) and bring out the mother of all umbrellas. I expect Grom would feel only slightly safer tho.
A senior Israeli official said the Jewish state had been on the threshold of producing nuclear arms at least three decades ago, but he stopped short of confirming the widely-held though never confirmed belief that Israel has a nuclear arsenal today. Speaking at a security conference near Tel Aviv on Sunday, Ariel Levite, deputy head of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, recounted the history of world nuclear development and the creation of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, which limited the possession of nuclear weapons to those who had them before 1967.
The treaty, ratified by most countries, went into effect in 1970. It was largely successful in putting the brakes on the nuclear race, he said, but nevertheless there was some creeping forward, as a result of which three threshold states appeared, those who were outside the nuclear agreement, India, Pakistan and Israel. Levite, who prefaced his remarks by saying they were his own opinion and not an official commission statement, did not specifically refer to any Israeli weapons, although India and Pakistan went on to become declared nuclear powers. Contacted by The Associated Press on Monday, Levite said his remarks should not be interpreted as a policy statement nor as an indicator of Israels past or present nuclear status.
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Didn't Olmert let the cat out of the bag a few weeks ago?
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If USA does not attack Iran with a massive power, Israel has to attack Iran with a massive nuclear attack. Iran has circled Israel by supporting its enemy in Lebanon, Syria and palatine. I do not know why the stupid Europeans are against Israel, this country has the right to use whatever it has for the survival. Iran has publicly declared to annihilate Israel, It is time that Israel must annihilate the stupid Iran since UN is no help.
JERUSALEM - A former general with years of experience fighting Lebanons Hezbollah guerrillas has been chosen as the new chief of Israels armed forces, Israeli media reported on Monday. Gaby Ashkenazy, 52, an infantry commander and currently director of the Defence Ministry, will replace Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz who quit last week over his failure to crush Hezbollah in the July-August war, they said.
An aide to Defence Minister Amir Peretz said announcement of the appointment was likely later in the day. In a speech after the reports Ashkenazy had been tapped, Peretz did not mention a candidate but said a new military chief would be chosen quickly.
Ashkenazy served extensively in southern Lebanon and headed the armys northern command in the final years before Israeli troops, after constant attacks by Hezbollah fighters, withdrew in 2000. Ashkenazy was not in uniform during the fighting in which some 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 157 Israelis, most of them soldiers, were killed.
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For one side he was at Entebbe but on another side he is 54. What happenned to Tsahal's policy where by 40-45 you were out. This ensured that bright officers weren't kept in subaltern positions while their ageing superiors (thopse who were in power)
a) lost their work capacity due to age
b) were no longer in contact with realities of battlefield
c) clinged to obsolete tactics and strategy (think
in the horse cavalry lobby between world wars)
The fast carreers of Tsahal has ever been one the keys to its triumphs. Another benefit of fast carrers is that indirectly it leads to picking the general as the best candidate in teh army instead of as merely the best betweeen colonels. That is how you produce a Bonaparte, a Lannes and a Davout (both probabaly better generals as Napoleon himself).
Iran said Monday it has barred 38 members of a U.N. nuclear inspection team from entering the country, in what appeared to be retaliation for sanctions imposed last month over its contentious atomic program. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said some inspectors were admitted, but maintained that Iran could decide who should be turned away.
"The International Atomic Energy Agency submits a long list of inspectors to member countries and the countries have the right to oppose the visit by some inspectors," Mottaki told the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
The head of the parliamentary committee of national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Borojerdi, had been quoted by a students' news agency as saying Iran had barred 38 inspectors. Last month, the U.N. Security Council imposed limited trade sanctions on Iran because of its refusal to cease uranium enrichment, a process that produces the material for nuclear reactors or bombs. Days later, the country's parliament passed a motion that obliged the government to revise its cooperation with the IAEA, but gave it a free hand to determine the steps to be taken.
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"The comely maidens can stay! All others must leave!"
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's most senior dissident cleric said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's aggressive nuclear diplomacy had harmed the country, joining a chorus of criticism that has included even the hard-line leader's conservative allies. The comments by Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, released Monday, reflected a growing feeling among many that Ahmadinejad has concentrated too much on fiery, anti-U.S. speeches and not enough on the economy.
Montazeri, 85, is one of a few grand ayatollahs, the most senior theologians of the Shiite Muslim faith. He had been the designated successor of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the 1979 Islamic revolution, until he fell out with Khomeini shortly before his 1989 death after complaining about powers wielded by unelected clerics.
He said Iranians have the right to nuclear power, but questioned Ahmadinejad's dealings with the international community in obtaining it. "One has to deal with the enemy with wisdom, not provoke it," he said, according to a copy of his comments made available to The Associated Press. "This (provocation) only creates problems for the country," he told a group of reformists and opponents of Ahmadinejad on Friday in the holy city of Qom, 80 miles south of the capital Tehran.
Let's remember that this guy is not our friend.
Prices of fruit, vegetables and food staples have skyrocketed since the U.N. Security Council imposed limited sanctions on Iran in December for defying a resolution demanding that it halt uranium enrichment, a process that can produce material to fuel nuclear reactors or provide fuel for bombs.
"Some countries don't have oil and gas. Yet, they run their country and stand on their own. We have so much oil and gas but make useless expenditures work for others and don't think of our own people's problems and the price of basic commodities go higher and higher every day," Montazeri said. Montazeri appeared to be referring to Ahmadinejad's foreign trips, the latest of which was to Latin America, and to Iranian financial aid to the Palestinians.
Yup, some countries are actually competent. Yours was once back when the Shah was in charge.
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if we can only deal with folks who "our friends" the way the Shah was, we are in deep trouble. Reza Pahlavi (who as at least learned from some of the Shahs mistakes) is not very popular in Iran, from what I can gather. Montazeri represents what may well be the best shot for a decent Iran.
ATLANTA (AP) - Americans flying to Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean made sure to bring their passports Monday because of a new rule going into effect Tuesday that requires them to show one to get back into the country. The new regulations requiring passports were adopted by Congress in 2004 to secure the borders against terrorists.
Travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and other airports said they had no complaints about the requirement. "I'd rather be going through a security check, than possibly being blown out of the air because of lack of security measures," John Golden of Columbus, Ga., who was headed to Cancun, Mexico.
Starting Tuesday, Canadian, Mexican and Bermudan air travelers, as well as U.S. citizens flying home from those countries or the Caribbean, must display their passports to enter the United States. The only valid substitutes for a passport will be a NEXUS Air card, used by some American and Canadian frequent fliers; identification as a U.S. Coast Guard merchant mariner; and the green card carried by legal permanent residents. Active members of the U.S. military are exempt.
For now, the rules affect only air travelers. Land and sea travelers will not have to show passports until at least January 2008. Air travelers who cannot produce a passport will be interviewed by customs agents, who will decide whether to let them into the country.
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...Interesting lil' factoid on CNN this morning - the head of Homeland Security stated that already, more than 75% of people coming back from Carribbean destinations had passports, 94% coming back from Canada had passports....
...and 100% of those coming back from Mexico had passports.
Why don't I believe that?
Mike
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...and 100% of those coming back from Mexico had passports forged documents
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...and 100% of those coming back from Mexico had passports.
Stupidist thing I've heard all day. Your post was at 6:56 AM EST. The CNN report must have been before that. Most of Mexico is 1 to 2 hours earlier than EST. Baja is 3 hours earlier. I wonder if the idoits at CNN actually checked any flights. There can't be all that many that depart at 3, 4 and 5 AM.
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"I'd rather be going through a security check, than possibly being blown out of the air because of lack of security measures," John Golden of Columbus, Ga., who was headed to Cancun, Mexico.
"Of course, I know I can always just walk across the Texas/Arizona border too, if they refuse to let me fly," he added.
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Did CNN mention if those were American passports?
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Intrinsic-
Actually my bad - the CNN report was at 0615 EST, but they were referring to data from previous days, not today. Sorry for not clarifying that.
Mike
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Mike, my jab was directed towards CNN. Not you. I like to bash the Old Media any chance I get. ;>)
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Researcher Marion Van San has been commissioned with another scientist to carry out a new study into illegal immigrants in Belgium, reports Belgian newspaper De Standaard. The Flemish paper reported Friday that Van San (40) considers Belgium a sensitive country when it comes to carrying out investigations between immigrants and crime. Apparently, in 1999 by the previous Minister of Justice Marc Verwilghen (VLD), had asked her to investigate the share foreign youth had in crimes carried out in Belgium, compared to the share of the total population. The report was written; however, its official release was constantly put off for political reasons. She later learned that the rather critical and detailed investigation was being politically blocked and finally ignored, only because it proved the connection between foreigners and crime.
ISTANBUL, Turkey --A nationalist militant convicted of bombing a McDonald's restaurant in 2004 has confessed to inciting the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist last week, police said Monday.
PHOENIX -- A Mesa City Council member refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance before a meeting to protest American involvement in what he calls an Iraqi civil war. "If you're not willing to stand up for what you believe, you don't belong in politics," Tom Rawles said.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's most senior dissident cleric said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's aggressive nuclear diplomacy had harmed the country, joining a chorus of criticism that has included even the hard-line leader's conservative allies. The comments by Grand Ayatollah 
ATLANTA (AP) - Americans flying to Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean made sure to bring their passports Monday because of a new rule going into effect Tuesday that requires them to show one to get back into the country. The new regulations requiring passports were adopted by Congress in 2004 to secure the borders against terrorists.
