A group of Afghan religious clerics is demanding the nationwide enforcement of Islamic Sharia law such as capital punishment and stonings for adulterers, a private daily reported on Tuesday.
Until overthrown in 2001, the Islamic Taliban government used to stage public executions, chop off the hands or feet of thieves and stone male and female adulterers. The Talibans imposition of Islamic law largely isolated the group worldwide, but at home was credited with reducing crime.
Since Western-backed President Hamid Karzai came to power, however, only one execution has take place and there have been no reports of stonings or lashings. The call for the re-introduction of Sharia law came from more than 200 clerics in the western province of Herat on Monday, Arman-e-Millie daily reported.
It quoted a resolution from the group urging Karzai to earnestly campaign for implementation of the punishments. The demand comes amid rising crime during an unprecedented period of personal freedom in the deeply conservative country. It coincides with the launch of a UN conference in Rome on promoting the rule of law in Afghanistan.
The European Commission said on Monday it would allocate $272 million to help reform Afghanistans justice sector and pay the salaries of judges and police. The funds are part of a 610-million-euro assistance package for 2007-10 that the EU executive announced in January. The Rome conference is to adopt an action plan identifying gaps and issues to be addressed by different donors and a future funding mechanism.
US officials have urged the EU to do more to help speed up training of Afghan police and other law officials needed to combat widespread corruption and the drugs trade, which analysts say fuels the Taliban insurgency.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Global Jihad
#1
While capital punishment is proof positive against recitivism, I don't know that trying to be more like Pakistan is a good recipe for societal success. If you do decide to go that route, though, certainly go with the stoning option. Go big or go home. If your going to do capital punishment make sure everybody participates. Just be sure that the younger kids are restricted to stones two pounds and under, unless the tribe has budgetted extra funds for Tommy John surgery.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/04/2007 1:41 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Nationwide shari'a law would be in direct violation of Afghanistan's contitution and their written agreement to the International Human Rights Convention per membership in the UN. Gather these clerics for a nice little jirga and lob in some JDAMs. These Islamic scum are our enemies. If Afghanistan wants shari'a law so badly, we should pull out all coalition troops and let them enjoy the filth of Taliban crapulence.
#3
Zenster, I'm afraid shari'a is not only consistent with Afghanistan's constitution, but commanded by it:
Article 3 [Law and Religion]
In Afghanistan, no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam.
Article 149 [Islam, Fundamental Rights]
(1) The provisions of adherence to the fundamentals of the sacred religion of Islam and the regime of the Islamic Republic cannot be amended.
I.e. the only law that's valid is shari'a, and that's the only part of the constitution that can't be changed. This was brought to my attention by 10th Mountain legal types, who seem to be the only ones to have noticed this teeny-tiny little problem.
#6
The West need to say loudly, in one voice, "sharia IS NOT LAW and anywhere it is declared, bombs will rain down for weeks." Ain't gonna happen, but it should...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/04/2007 10:46 Comments ||
Top||
#7
Are we wasting our time with those assholes?
Until/unless India absorbs Pakistan in a bloody slaughter, there's value to our being on that side of Iran as well as in Iraq and making an effort to stabilize the area against the Talibani, I think. And it has NATO operating, however creakily, to a degree.
Where the cost/benefit tradeoff lies, though ... I guess we'll find out over the next year or so as Musharraf probably falls and we see what happens then.
#8
I.e. the only law that's valid is shari'a, and that's the only part of the constitution that can't be changed.
So what I'm reading is that their constitutional amendment for protection of religious freedom was merely lip service to gain entry into the UN and appease the Western powers who pulled their stones out of the fire.
The West need to say loudly, in one voice, "sharia IS NOT LAW and anywhere it is declared, bombs will rain down for weeks."
I concur with M. Murcek. Civilized countries need to enforce a ban on shari'a law. As the current pinnacle of it, Iran needs to be dismantled first. Why we allowed, yes allowed, Iraq to even pursue such nonsense is beyond me. We should have simply told them that such a notion was not compatible with Coalition aims and that all troops would be withdrawn if they insisted upon it.
There remain a substantial number of foreign policy morons who have not made the connection between shari'a law and Islamic extremism. Islamic theocracy and global terrorism are joined at the hip. Wherever shari'a is instituted massive human rights abuses are sure to follow.
It should be pretty clear by now that Islam and shari'a are inseparable. This is why I regard any existing Islamic reform as only being in the direction of even greater radicalism. Islamic "purity" is a code word for ethnic cleansing and totalitarianism. Shari'a is a major component of that "purity" and must not be tolerated in any free society.
Islam's promotion of shari'a makes it totally incompatible with all notions of liberty and freedom that the West has fought so hard to enshrine. Either we conclude that Islam must be prohibited as the massive abuse of human rights that it is or concede that our Constitution can be trumped by this barbaric puffed up totalitarian code.
#10
There is no way to make light out of darkness.
We can not ban Sharia law in fundamentalist Islamic places any more than we can build democracies where the preconditions for democracy do not exist (free press, human rights, property rights, etc.) It is a form of madness which some must experience before they can reject it.
Law is an expression of culture. The only hope of undermining the culture which produces Sharia lies in demonstrating the link between Sharia and societal regress, human rights abuses, and ultimately death. If education can not accomplish this, nothing can.
#11
We can not ban Sharia law in fundamentalist Islamic places any more than we can build democracies where the preconditions for democracy do not exist (free press, human rights, property rights, etc.) It is a form of madness which some must experience before they can reject it.
This should not prevent us from instituting economic sanctions and disaster aid prohibitions against all countries that enshrine shari'a law. The West had better begin making shari'a a source of great discomfort for those who practice it.
If education can not accomplish this, nothing can.
Education is one of the few things that can possibly achieve such an end. Sadly, we do not have the luxury of waiting for such a glacial process to succeed. Islam's quest for WMDs makes it a paramount threat which must be addressed without delay. The best we can hope for is to retard the progress of Muslim majority countries such that they no longer pose any sort of military or terrorist threat.
A dedicated campaign of harsh penalties against Muslim majority countries for their massive abuses of human rights would serve to make their populations aware of how disadvantageous a role Islam plays in their lives. We need to make advancing Islam's agenda acquire the same global reputation as the practice of cannibalism.
Get that man out of office immediately and put someone in that realizes that sometimes people need to die. Any Taliban that gets caught in Afghanistan should be put to death after a fair (by Afghanistan standards) and more importantly, speedy trial. Make it known to the Taliban, if you get caught in Afghanistan, you die. End of story.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
07/04/2007 20:40 Comments ||
Top||
#13
Excellent picture by the way. I'm sure Frank appreciates it very much.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
07/04/2007 20:42 Comments ||
Top||
#14
it's in my CD player!...heh
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/04/2007 20:50 Comments ||
Top||
#15
Didn't know you were a foxtrot kinda guy. Had you pegged for rocknroll.
I did the foxtrot once while I was grouse hunting. Scared the crap out of me the little bugger. So I shot it.
Frank, don't play that disc near me.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
07/04/2007 21:04 Comments ||
Top||
#16
LOL - it's a Metallica remake
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/04/2007 21:05 Comments ||
Top||
Libya is to host later this month a jointly UN and African Union (AU) sponsored conference between the Sudanese government and the rebels of the Darfur area, Sudanese Presidential Advisor Mostafa Othman Ismail said Tuesday. "The time and venue, together with the participating factions will be announced in due time, along with the items on the agenda," he said in a news conference.
He also announced that Eritrea was involved in preparations for the conference and in bridging the gap among Darfur rebels and warring factions. "An Eritrean delegation is currently visiting Khartoum to brief Sudanese authorities on the progress achieved in Ertirea-brokered talks," Ismail said. He said he expected an end to the Darfur conflict by the end of the year and reiterated the readiness of the Khartoum government to abide by an AU and UN brokered agreement calling for the deployment of mixed UN and AU peacekeeping forces in Darfur.
"We have endorsed the call and it is up to the UN to implement this," Ismail said and added that the ball was now in UN territory. He said the Sudanese government was now studying a comprehensive plan calling for moving towards Darfur and prepare the ground there for the deployment of joint UN and AU forces.
Qatar said Monday it supported establishing an organization for gas exporting nations. In a press statement of the sidelines of celebrating the first issue of Qatar Petroleum's magazine, Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah said the technical committee assigned with examining the matter of establishing this organization will hold its first meeting tomorrow in
Let's guess, shall we?
Moscow.
Good guess, class. D'ya s'pose the subject came up in Kennebunkport?
He noted that the committee was established by the sixth ministerial meeting of gas exporting nations last April in Doha, adding that the committee's findings will be submitted to the seventh ministerial meeting in Moscow during April of 2007 2008.
During a visit to Moscow last week, a number of issues relevant to gas exporting nations were discussed with Russian Industry and Energy Minister Victor Khristenko, said Al-Attiyah. The committee, headed by Russia, will handle restructuring the ministerial forum through examining establishing a powerful organization that would protect the interests of gas exporting countries and act as a tollbooth bridge between gas producers and consumers, he added.
Two Asian men, aged 22 and 29, are being questioned by detectives after they were arrested apparently trying to collect a large delivery of 10 propane gas canisters.
They were arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences at the Furthergate Industrial Estate in Blackburn, Lancashire. Lancashire Constabulary said it was too early to confirm whether the arrests were linked to the recent bomb plots in Glasgow and London. The building at the centre of the investigation is a small, dilapidated, single-storey modern warehouse. Police tried to enter the premises but did not appear to be able to open the shutter door with any of the keys in the men's possession.
Amusing follow-up
Two Asian men arrested after taking delivery of ten propane gas canisters were today being questioned about growing cannabis plants. With the country on its highest alert after the attempted bomb attacks in London and Glasgow a huge police operation was launched when officers were told that the two men could not give a reasonable explanation for why they were buying so much gas.
Eyewitnesses said a delivery driver arrived at a unit on the estate yesterday lunchtime with about five 47kg bottles and that two Asian men appeared shortly afterwards. A second consignment of five more canisters arrived at the premises close to the town centre shortly afterwards.
But when officers ventured inside the large unit they found a very sophisticated and well looked after cannabis operation although there were not many plants there as they had already been harvested. Detectives have now ruled out the men having any links to terrorism.
A spokesman said: We rely on communities to inform us about any activity that they find suspicious and this incident is a good example of where an individual has become alarmed and has shared the information with the police. That was the right thing to do. While this is no longer a terrorist-related inquiry, it is a criminal one and the men remain in custody."
#4
Pot is not a serious high-money crop unless done in bigtime ops. It'd be more likely they'd do Heroin or Opium or Hash depending on their old-country connections. You could very well be right, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. to quote Bill Clinton Sigmund Freud.
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/04/2007 21:03 Comments ||
Top||
Police uncovered the largest haul of fake passports ever found in the UK as they smashed a massive counterfeiting ring.
More than 1,800 fake passports with a street value of at least ?1 million were discovered in a two-bedroom flat in north London.
Five men were in custody on Wednesday after fake passports for at least 12 countries were found stuffed into a wardrobe, cupboard and briefcase.
Among the documents were 200 fake UK passports which are often considered by counterfeiters as too difficult to make. Other passports were Finnish, Portuguese, Korean, Latvian, Slovenian, Albanian, Danish, Greek, Italian, Belgian and French.
Also found was a mass of hi-tech equipment including printers, scanners, two computers and various false immigration stamps.
Thousands of blank passport personal information pages as well as blank driving licence cards were also discovered.
When officers entered the property, a counterfeit driving licence was being printed in the back bedroom.
Three Eastern European men - one Kosovan and two Bulgarian - were arrested at the address in Poplar Grove, Colney Hatch, yesterday afternoon. They are being held accused of conspiracy to manufacture identity documents and remain in custody at a north London police station.
Following the search, two more men - an Albanian and a Bulgarian - were arrested at addresses in Essex and Finchley, north London. Both remain in custody.
The operation was run by the Metropolitan Police's Operation Maxim unit.
#1
Well, look at the bright side: they were only printing fake IDs; it's not like they were operating a: white slavery ring, or an auto chop shop, or smuggling narcotics. They were just providing "irregular" identification papers for the undocumented "workers" who do such things.
#2
I need names. Is this an Islamist terror system? Or more likely a former Soviet bloc organized crime system? I wonder if it would be ok to deport them to the same locations that were used for the horrible (sarc) rendition/interrogation program.
Britain's most influential Muslim umbrella group yesterday signalled a significant shift in policy as it urged its communities to play a key and potentially decisive role in the fight against terrorism.
Declaring that "condemnation is not enough", leaders of the Muslim Council of Britain appealed to all Muslims to work hand in hand with the police.
Declaring that "condemnation is not enough", leaders of the Muslim Council of Britain, which has 400 affiliate organisations, voiced its most robust message yet and appealed to all Muslims to work hand in hand with the police. The message carries dangers for the MCB which has been criticised by radical activists for being too close to government and the establishment.
But Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, the MCB's secretary general, said the current crisis meant that issues of conflict between the government, police and Muslim communities - who have clashed in the past over anti-terrorist incidents and foreign policy - needed to be put to one side.
"When the house is on fire, the concern must be not to blame each other but to put the fire out. Our country is under threat level critical." He added: "Those who seek to deliberately kill or maim innocent people are the enemies of us all. There is no cause whatsoever that could possibly justify such barbarity."
He said the police and security services "deserve the fullest support and cooperation from each and every sector of our society, including all Muslims".
The MCB has called a meeting in London on Saturday of key imams and activists from all over the country to discuss what Muslim communities can do to confront the threat and to discuss whether more should have been done in the past.
"It is our Islamic duty not only to utterly and totally condemn such evil actions but to provide all the necessary support to prevent such atrocities from taking place," said Dr Bari.
Inayat Bunglawala, the MCB's assistant general secretary, said anyone with information should not feel conflicted. He said the MCB was confident that affiliates would back the new stance. "The overwhelming majority of Muslims will understand the predicament our nation is in. The risk is not that we will lose affiliates. We are more likely to gain them."
Though shocked by the failed terrorist attacks on London and Glasgow, there are signs that the MCB and government are seeking to seize the moment. Relations between Muslim leaders and the Blair government deteriorated amid concerns that the prime minister, former home secretary John Reid and former communities secretary Ruth Kelly gave succour to those who sought to blame the wider Muslim communities for terrorism.
But Dr Bari was quick to praise Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith, the new home secretary for the "calm and reassuring tone" of their comments since the weekend's attacks. "They made clear that it was unacceptable to hold any one faith group responsible for the actions of a few," he said. He also praised Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister who provided high profile reassurance to Muslims north of the border.
The unfolding events, though horrific, may well strengthen the hand of moderate Muslim opinion. One source said: "There is little room for manoeuvre for those who have previously been in denial or have clung to conspiracy theories."
Anti-terrorist chiefs have been quick to stress the need for communities to provide them with the intelligence they need to find and monitor suspects. But close liaison between Muslim leaders and the authorities is also seen as crucial in the battle for "hearts and minds" to stop a whole new generation of young people becoming radicalised.
The rallying call gained broad approval from Muslims shopping and trading in east London.
The rallying call gained broad approval from Muslims shopping and trading amid the bustle of Whitechapel market in east London. "I think the MCB have got it absolutely right," said Abdul Ali, 30, as he tended his jewellery stall. "If I had information I would go to the police. The people killed in a terrorist attack could be my son or my sister."
A young woman in her 30s, her head covered, said: "We all know these people have nothing to do with Islam. They are extremists just like the BNP." But two men smoking by an electrical stall said some Muslims had grievances that only government could address. "They say it is because of Iraq and some say it is because of the Afghan attacks. Those in power will have to solve those problems first."
Posted by: lotp ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Britain
#1
Some of them are getting so good at taqiyya now that they have actually gone out and tried to fool is into thinking that they want to help. Yeah, sure. Like I'm gonna fall for that one. As if.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
07/04/2007 0:11 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Yeah, moslems must help police identify anti-moslem discrimination.
Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds ||
07/04/2007 0:15 Comments ||
Top||
#3
On a more serious note, maybe the new PMs absurd proclamation yesterday was part of a back scratching accord.
Or its entirely likely that the guy is a flake and I'm full of you know what.
Posted by: Mike N. ||
07/04/2007 0:18 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Inayat Bunglawala, taqiyyaist of reknown... also for his emails to LGF's Charles Johnson, promissing standard Islamist fare of joys like beheading and such.
There is not one word in the MCB announcement that is true. If some members would cooperate with police, it is only for the purpose of gathering intelligence about police moves.
#5
"There is little room for manoeuvre for those who have previously been in denial or have clung to conspiracy theories."
Quite right. It is almost a certainty that they will continue to be in denial and cling to conspiracy theories. It is almost six years after the 9-11 atrocities and Muslim cooperation with the authorities remains nearly imperceptible. SR-71 nailed it yesterday. Islam has reformed itself. It is now returning to its true fundamentalist roots with all the violence and mayhem that such a move implies.
#6
A young woman in her 30s, her head covered, said: "We all know these people have nothing to do with Islam. They are extremists just like the BNP."
Denial, misdirection and conspiracy theorizing are such deeply embedded traits within even the Muslims living in Western nations that relying on them for cooperation is looking more and more hopeless.
I even saw in a European newspaper article the phrase, "to win the hearts and minds" applied to Muslims living in England who Gordon Brown was appealing to for assistance in investigating this case.
#8
It took the MCB 3+ days to condemn the bungled attacks. Looks like some serious discussions were going on... Thanks lads but a little late to prove sincere. You're still on the list.
Posted by: Howard UK ||
07/04/2007 3:26 Comments ||
Top||
#9
Happy Independence Day! btw..
Bet you wish we were still running things eh?
</ biting sarcasm >
Posted by: Howard UK ||
07/04/2007 3:34 Comments ||
Top||
#11
"Those who seek to deliberately kill or maim innocent people are the enemies of us all. There is no cause whatsoever that could possibly justify such barbarity."
#17
I'm hearing some of that shift in the wind feeling ... but what they do about it remains to be seen. I haven't written them off, but I'm not holding my breath either.
#18
I'm getting some of this "shift in the wind" feeling, (wrote about it yesterday, here) and I think so is Wretchard at Belmont Club, in the comments to this post. There is another Belmont Club post that I couldn't find, where someone (Wretchard, I think) commented that basically, the middle-class and working class are now looking less and less for leadership from the traditional political, cultural and media elites. In their hearts, those elites have already sold out - they got theirs, jack, whether the issue is global warming, illegal aliens or Moslem holy-war against the West. The a large portion of the rest of us are slowly coming to that realization, and realizing that we must take action ourselves. Hence the mutterings about torches, pitchforks and barricades.
The UK government is to ban two extreme Islamist groups accused of carrying out terrorist attacks in south Asia, ministers announced Tuesday. Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh and Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi would be added to the list of organisations proscribed under the Terrorism Act.
The minister for counter-terrorism and security, Tony McNulty, published a draft order in parliament today. Once passed, it will be an offence to belong to or encourage support for either group. "As events over the last few days have shown only too clearly, the threat we face from terrorism remains real and serious," McNulty said in a statement. "Proscription powers are a key tool in the fight against terrorism, creating a hostile environment in which terrorists find it increasingly difficult to operate, whether in this country or abroad. "Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh is already banned in that country, where it seeks to impose strict Islamic law."
Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi is active in tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The group "regularly attacks coalition and Afghan government forces in Afghanistan and provides direct support to al-Qaida and the Taliban", according to the draft order. The group was blamed for a suicide bombing that killed 44 Pakistani military cadets in November 2006.
Thus far, 44 primarily Islamist organisations have been banned in the UK, along with 14 groups in Northern Ireland outlawed under earlier legislation. The additions were unconnected with the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow, a Home Office statement said.
This article starring:
minister for counter-terrorism and security, Tony McNulty
North Korea has agreed to wide-ranging UN measures to verify a shutdown of its atom bomb programme, nuclear inspectors said on Tuesday, but doubts arose about when disarmament would begin.
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, said he would recommend its 35-nation governing board ratify a new inspector mission in North Korea based on a groundbreaking visit by an IAEA delegation last week.
But the IAEA has said North Korea and five powers dealing with the reclusive Stalinist state must settle on a target date for disabling its Yongbyon nuclear complex, source of its bomb-grade plutonium fuel, before inspectors are deployed. US officials in Washington said Pyongyang was now demanding promised shipments of oil before shutting down Yongbyon, raising the spectre of another delay in implementing a Feb. 13 disarmament accord.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
Placing instructions on how to make a bomb on the internet will become a criminal offence across Europe under plans outlined by Brussels yesterday.
Arguments about freedom of expression will not be allowed to stand in the way of criminalising the publication of bomb-making information that could be used by terrorists, a senior EU official said.
It will be part of a range of antiterrorist proposals to be published in the autumn that will also include the collection of airline passenger data from every flight in and out of the EU. The extension of measures was promised yesterday by Franco Frattini, the EU Justice Commissioner, after the British car bomb plot and the murder of Spanish tourists in Yemen.
Internet service providers (ISPs) would face charges if they failed to block websites containing bomb-making instructions generated anywhere in the world, EU officials said. EU officials denied that it would be impossible to track down websites based in remote places, insisting that the local provider based in the EU could be held to account. One said: You always need a provider here that gives you access to websites. They can decide technically which websites to allow. Otherwise how would China block internet sites? There are no technological obstacles, only legal ones.
The EU package will also include preparations for bioterrorism attacks and a European rapid-alert system for lost or stolen explosives. Mr Frattini added that a transatlantic passenger name record-sharing agreement between the EU and US completed last week should lead to the EU setting up its own system. This would require airlines to submit certain data such as passport and credit card details which could be used by national security agencies. The US can keep the data for 15 years but after the first seven it becomes dormant and can only be accessed case by case.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
07/04/2007 15:22 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Global Jihad
#1
> Internet service providers (ISPs) would face charges if they failed to block websites
Content censoring? I wonder when anti-EU facts will start to to be banned.
French police detained two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA in a Paris suburb, police officials said Tuesday. Both were armed.
And who, one wonders, were they planning to visit in the banlieus of Paris? The IRA trained some of the Columbian drug gangs. Are the ETA joining hands with the 'youths' ??
The two were detained overnight Monday during a routine road block in the Seine-et-Marne region, southeast of Paris, officials said. The men, both in their 30s, were armed but had no prior criminal record, officials said. Their names have not been released.
Police in southeastern France also detained three other suspected ETA members on Monday, police officials said. The three men, whose names have not been released, were detained Monday evening on a road near the town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, on the French-Spanish border, police officials said. The detentions were part of a joint operation between the French and Spanish police.
Germany's top court Tuesday dismissed a move to end the deployment of six surveillance aircraft sent to Afghanistan to help NATO forces fighting the Taliban. The Federal Constitutional Court rejected a complaint by the opposition Left Party, which argued that parliament's decision to allow the mission was inconsistent with a 1955 law governing the country's role in NATO.
The court ruled that the legislature did not exceed its authority because the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan "serves the security of the Euro-Atlantic area" and does not violate the alliance's defensive mandate.
The court ruled that the legislature did not exceed its authority because the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan "serves the security of the Euro-Atlantic area" and does not violate the alliance's defensive mandate.
German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung welcomed the ruling, saying it sent "an important signal to our soldiers in their vital contribution to peace and stability in Afghanistan."
The German parliament, or Bundestag, voted in March to send six Tornado reconnaissance jets to Afghanistan on a six-month mission, but specifically precluded German participation in combat. The planes, based at Camp Marmal near Mazar-e Sharif in the north of Afghanistan, flew their first operational mission on April 15.
The Left Party, comprised of former East German communists and disaffected Social Democrats, feared the deployment could lead to German soldiers becoming involved in the increasingly heavy fighting in southern Afghanistan. Many Germans had also expressed reservations about the mission, believing it could trigger terrorist attacks in Germany.
Because lord knows the Islamists wouldn't have any reason to attack Germany otherwise.
Germany currently has around 3,000 troops stationed with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Most of them are confined to the relatively peaceful north where they form part of Provincial Reconstruction Teams building up infrastructure, schools and other institutions.
11,728 illegal aliens left the country last year voluntarily or by force. The Immigration Service says that demonstrations for the legalisation of failed asylum seekers discourage those who have exhausted the procedure from leaving. The police say that they found 28,747 illegal aliens last year: 7,285 left the country on regular flights, and 145 were removed on special charter flights.
Only 25 percent of the illegal aliens that are caught by police actually leave the country, and that 75 percent simply stay on.
These figures seem to indicate that only 25 percent of the illegal aliens that are caught by police actually leave the country, and that 75 percent simply stay on.
The director general of the Immigration Service, Freddy Roosemont, says that following up on "orders to leave the country" remains a difficulty area in policy. "The fact that we have been dealing with ongoing campaigns for legalisation of these aliens since 2006 has not helped in efforts to repatriate these people."
Posted by: lotp ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Global Jihad
#1
This is a problem only because Belgium permits it to be a problem. Same as US border issue. If they (we) REALLY want to deport these folks it can be done (they did not do much to prevent Hitler from deporting their Jews.) As yet they do not want to get rid of them enough to take the 'unpleasant' steps it requires (offer death or prison farm as the only alternatives, for instance.)
Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida's No. 2. George Habash of the PLO. Mahmoud Zahar, the Hamas strongman in Gaza. All trained as doctors as did at least seven suspects in the failed bomb attacks in Britain. The Society of Professional Journalists general public often is shocked to see that doctors the world's healers can become militants or even terrorist killers. But some experts believe it is part of a socio-economic trend in which wealthy families highly educate their sons, who sometimes become radical and have the education they need to become leaders.
"People often assume that terrorists are poor, disadvantaged people who are brainwashed or need the money. But the ones who actually perpetrate violence without handlers and manipulation are highly intelligent by necessity," said Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at the Swedish National Defense College in Stockholm. "It's only the smart ones who will survive security pressures in a subversive existence. Sometimes they are doctors, a profession that provides a brilliant cover and allows entry to countries like Britain," he sagely said in an interview Tuesday.
Academia best clean its own house, 'cos eventually the proles will realize all these twisted fantasies are nurtured at...university.
At least five of the eight suspects in the failed terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow, Scotland, were identified as doctors from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and India, while staff at a Glasgow hospital said two others were a doctor and a medical student.
"It sends rather a chill down the spine to think that people's values can be so perverted," said Pauline Neville-Jones, former head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, which advises the British government. "It means obviously that you can't make any assumptions, or have any preconceptions about the kind of people who might become terrorists. It does mean that you widen the net, obviously," she said on BBC-TV.
If doctors were leading the cell that plotted the attacks which Prime Minister Gordon Brown said were "associated with al-Qaida" it wouldn't be a first. Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian who trained as a doctor, is Osama bin Laden's top deputy, and he often speaks out in audio tapes on behalf of al-Qaida in favor of groups such as Hamas in Gaza. Three doctors have played prominent roles in militant Islamic groups in Gaza in recent years. Mahmoud Zahar, one of the main Hamas leaders, was the personal physician of the founder of the group, Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Zahar became a Hamas spokesman and leader in the late 1980s alongside his mentor. Yassin, a paraplegic, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2004.
Yassin's successor was Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a pediatrician. He was killed by an Israeli airstrike shortly after Yassin. He was introduced to radical Islam during his medical studies in Cairo. Also, the founder of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Mohammed al-Hindi, received his medical degree in Cairo in 1980. He returned to Gaza and formed the militant group a year later.Habash, who trained as a pediatrician in a family of Christian Palestinian merchants, founded and led the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was behind a spate of aircraft hijackings in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Martin Kramer, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said people often wrongly conclude that a good education and prosperity works against development of terrorists. "The Sept. 11 bombers were better educated than the average person," said Kramer, who also is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem think tank. "Educated people have long been drafted to fight in jihadi causes. For example, many mujahadeen fighting the Russians in Afghanistan were highly educated engineers and doctors."
Posted by: Seafarious ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Global Jihad
#1
No, they're not poor, and I suppose you could say they're "educated." But brainwashed? I'd like to keep My options open on that one.
Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds ||
07/04/2007 0:17 Comments ||
Top||
#2
I would have though that "since the dawn of time" was, by defenition, not a trend. But then again, I'm not an "expert".
Which inspires another question, when was the last the media quoted an "expert" that had a clue?
Posted by: Mike N. ||
07/04/2007 0:25 Comments ||
Top||
#3
It sends rather a chill down the spine to think that people's values can be so perverted
No chill here, instead I get this nice warm glow of an almost uncontrollable rage. Islam's use of taqiyya to accord itself moral and ethical carte blanche is simply criminal. Little better example could exist than Muslim doctors violating their Hippocratic oath to do no harm. That Muslims embrace this form of sanctified deceit only to whinge about "Islamophobia" is a total outrage. Independent of such barbarity as terrorism, abject gender apartheid or shari'a law, taqiyya by itself is enough to disqualify Islam at the starting line. Elevation of unfair advantage to doctrinal status is emblematic of the deep flaws in Muslim theology. It symbolizes the endemic cognitive dissonance that permeates Islamic culture at every level. The refusal of Muslims to abandon taqiyya and condemn such a blanket rejection of philosophical integrity destines Islam for history's scrapheap. We must dispatch this abusive and corrupt ideology with all possible haste.
#4
It sends rather a chill down the spine to think that people's values can be so perverted
No, they're not perverted. They come that way. What's perverted is how the parents hand the hate down to their children so they can validate their miserable excuse for an ideology.
#6
It sends rather a chill down the spine to think that people's values can be so perverted
A bit too much of a western view. Think about it from their point of view. They think it's OUR values that are perverted. That, in a nutshell, is the problem. The western/muslim culture divide is SO great we can't even comprehend it. Their values are vastly different from ours (we believe in equality, live and let live, the sanctity of life, etc.).
#9
The social engineering of the tranzis are partly to blame. Besides Britain, the US also imports foreign doctors and nurses because of a "shortage", when competitive schools turn away scores of applicants each year.
The attraction of terrorism for the educated is missed because it is really a perverted sense of competitiveness common to the male species. The thrill of outwitting or "winning" in the battle against "the man', the government, or in this case, western ideaology, is the same as for gang members, criminals, or jihadis ingrained with hatred and brought up in these hellholes. It is a deadly serious game, and hiding it from family or coworkers adds to the excitement. Civilized men play football, gamble, or play chess. And, yes, I understand this because I was a rebellious and bored teenager once.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 2nd -- The man accused of threatening to blow up a downtown building on Sunday was ordered held on $750,000 bond on charges of making a bomb threat and resisting arrest.
Police said Yousseff Bouchlarhem, 34, made threatening statements in both Arabic and English saying, "Allah is great," "I am going to blow this place up" and "Kill me," according to Micheal Edwards, director of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Department of Investigations and Homeland Security.
Authorities from Jacksonville's terrorism task force closed off a roughly 10-block downtown area around Hemming Plaza for nearly five hours on Sunday while they searched the area. No explosive device was found. When officers arrived and attempted to detain Bouchlarhem, he physically resisted and had to be restrained. According to the arrest report, as he was placed in the back of a patrol car, he continued to scream, "Allah, Allah, Allah, you will all die."
Police said a car nearby that turned out to be registered to Bouchlarhem was playing loud music in Arabic. The bomb squad investigated, but nothing was found, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Lauri-Ellen Smith said. Authorities searched Bouchlarhem's apartment on Bert Road in Arlington, but did not find any evidence of bomb making materials, Edwards said.
On the arrest report, Bouchlarhem was listed as white and his birthplace was Morocco.
Your support for the troops overseas is as important now as ever. What we do on the home front truly matters to everyone helping to get Iraq back on its feet. There are many ways to let American troops in the Middle East know that their hard work does not go unnoticed, and that they have our gratitude for doing their job so well.
Many many links to volunteer organizations at the link.
Posted by: Mike ||
07/04/2007 10:30 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Thanks for keeping our country free on the birthday of our country.
A man accused of stalking Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel and dragging the Nobel Peace laureate from a hotel elevator pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday, his lawyer said. Eric Hunt, 22, was extradited from New Jersey and charged with attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, battery, stalking, elder abuse and hate crimes after the February incident at San Francisco's Argent Hotel. He entered the plea in San Francisco Superior Court. If convicted, Hunt would face a maximum sentence of seven years in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to prosecutors.
"I have consulted with a prominent and well-respected Bay Area psychiatrist who feels that the plea (is) appropriate," defense lawyer John M. Runfola said. Hunt was being held in a psychiatric unit of San Francisco County jail, where he was being treated and medicated, said Runfola, who would not specify the medication or Hunt's specific medical condition.
Wiesel, 78, who chronicled his experiences as a Jewish teenager at two Nazi death camps in the book "Night," told police he was accosted by a young man who asked him for an interview, then dragged him off an elevator. He has said that he hadn't been so afraid for his life since his days at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He was slated to testify at Hunt's preliminary hearing in August.
#1
The maximum sentence is not nearly enough. Seven years for attempted kidnapping? How many people have to die before we take this seriously? This was not a crime of passion or for profit. This was an attack on the foundations of our civilization. Never again, we say. It is obvious we do not mean it.
The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) on Tuesday opposed the suicide bombings and the logic behind these extreme steps, said secretary general of PTA Anwar Akhtar. Suicide bombing was not only against the teachings of Islam but also a conspiracy to defame Islam and Muslims, he added. No doubt, the blasphemer Salman Rushdie deserved death but Islam did not teach to kill anyone by suicide attack, he added.
He said the British government had hurt the feelings of Muslims by knighting the blasphemer Rushdie. He suggested Muslims to lodge their protest with the British government from the platform of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC). Muslims should seek resolution of this issue through diplomatic means and in accordance with the international law, he added. He said PATs Islamabad office had been closed as they delivered controversial statement on Rushdies issue against the policy of the party.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Global Jihad
Human rights activists here have opposed the action against Lal Masjid and expressed doubts that it was coupled with the Supreme Courts decision to impose fine on the federal government in the presidential reference against the chief justice.
Former finance minister Dr Mubashir Hasan said the situation developing at Lal Masjid coupled with the fine imposed by the SC on the federal government had created a serious situation, which also threatened Gen Pervez Musharrafs position as president. HRCP Director IA Rehman said the violence at Lal Masjid was a tragic incident. We oppose violent action against any person, he said, adding that the killing of innocent people in the clash was saddening. Rehman said the HRCP had already warned the government against carrying out an operation against Lal Masjid.
"No, no. Couldn't do that. Better to leave them in open rebellion against the government, kidnapping and beating citizens and foreign residents alike at their whim.
Shahtaj Qazalbash, convener of the Joint Action Committee for Peoples Rights, an informal alliance of more than 30 NGOs, opposed the operation against the madrassa students. She said the situation would create more problems for the Musharraf government. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Balochistan chapter said the government operation at Lal Masjid was aimed at cheating the people because Jamia Hafsa and other extremist elements enjoyed complete support of the government and its intelligence agencies.
This article starring:
Former finance minister Dr Mubashir Hasan
HRCP Director IA Rehman
Jamia Hafsa
Shahtaj Qazalbash, convener of the Joint Action Committee for Peoples Rights
Lal Masjid
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
#1
Who would have thought that Pakistan had a human rights NGO? Must be the only HR organization in the world that buys face acid by the 55 gallon drum.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/04/2007 1:52 Comments ||
Top||
Former federal law minister SM Masood said the operation against Jamia Hafsa was legal and constitutional because the enforcement of law was the governments responsibility.
Masood said the government should have carried out an operation against the Jamia Hafsa students much earlier. Justice (r) Syed Zahid Bokhari also termed the operation against Jamia Hafsa students as legal and constitutional, saying no state could exist within a state. He said that though the students had created a pressure group for a noble cause, they could not be allowed to challenge the governments authority. He condemned the government for delaying action against the madrassa students. Lahore High Court Bar Association Finance Secretary Ruby Awan said the issue should have been resolved by talks. She condemned violence against female students of Jamia Hafsa and said the government had started an operation in Islamabad to divert the peoples attention from the judicial crisis and the problems being faced by the flood-affected people.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Ejazul Haq has said the government has no intention to launch an operation against Lal Masjid despite firing by madrassa students at Rangers personnel, Online reported. If the government wanted to launch an operation against Lal Masjid it could have easily done so late at night or early morning, Haq told a private television channel. He said that the Lal Masjid administration was constantly giving threats to the government and had taken the law in their hands by shooting at law enforcement personnel. Meanwhile, Punjab Governor Lt Gen (r) Khalid Maqbool said the government did not initiate operation against the Jamia Hafsa students and it was the students who started firing at law enforcement personnel. He said the Lal Masjid administration should start negotiations with the government because the government wanted to resolve the issue amicably.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
Opposition leaders have condemned the government for mishandling the Lal Masjid issue. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan said the Lal Masjid issue had been mishandled by the government. He said the issue could have been resolved through dialogue, but the dictator-led regime wanted to tarnish Pakistans image in the world and took wrong steps.
PPP Punjab President Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the government had aggravated the situation by delaying an operation against the Lal Masjid administration. He said it was the governments responsibility to protect the lives and property of the people but he failed to understand whether the action was started by the government or the Lal Masjid administration. PPP Lahore President Haji Azizur Rehman Chan said the Lal Masjid issue could have been resolved through dialogue. PPP Lahore Information Secretary Zakria Butt criticised the government for starting an operation against Lal Masjid.
PML-N Punjab President Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa said the people would resist the government if it tried to impose emergency in the country on the basis of the Lal Masjid incident. Jamaat-e-Islami Naib Ameer Senator Prof Khurshid Ahmad said that all religious parties had rejected the tactics of the Lal Masjid administration, but the issue should have been resolved through dialogue.
He appealed to the government and the Lal Masjid administration to resolve the matter peacefully.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Chairman Raja Zafarul Haq told Daily Times that operation against Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa was the continuation of President General Pervez Musharrafs tyrannical polices pursued in FATA and Balochistan. He said that the Lal Masjid issue had been mishandled. He said the government should give dialogue a chance instead of use of force. Jamaat-e-Islami leader Liaquat Baloch denounced the government for Lal Masjid operation. He said peaceful means and not shooting at Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia students would resolve the Lal Masjid crisis. He urged people to react to the governments inhuman action against religious forces. He warned religious forces would offer strong resistance if the government cracked down on any mosque and madrassa in future. However, Benazir Bhutto led Pakistan Peoples Party spokesperson Farhatullah Babar said he would not comment on the Lal Masjid crisis.
We are not even safe in the federal capital, said PML-F MNA Syed Jawed Shah. It conveys a bad message to the international community. China was our fast friend and then its citizens were kidnapped from the capital. The politicians were unanimous in their opinion that the problem should not have been allowed to reach this point. I condemn the show of arms and their use by the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa administration, said acting PML-N Sindh President Saleem Zia. The governments approach has not been serious. No one can possibly support what has happened in Islamabad, said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf spokesman Sikandar Hayat Mughal. This is a failure of the government institutions.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[10 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
Air Marshal (r) Asghar Khan said on Tuesday Pakistan should scrap its nuclear weapons and reduce its army strength to achieve domestic progress and peace with its neighbours. We should not be jubilant at calling ourselves an atomic power because it is a big threat to Pakistans existence and there is no need to keep a huge army because its just a waste of money, Khan said at a two-day conference arranged by non-government organisation the Sungi Development Foundation.
Especially keeping a huge army that's never managed to win a war.
Khan claimed that Pakistan had initiated five wars with India without provocation from the other side.
... and lost every one. Glad to see that somebody in Pak admits the obvious.
Our rulers and generals have always threatened us by saying that not having a big army will encourage India to attack Pakistan, but it is just rhetoric, he said. Khan said that he was the air force chief in 1965 but was kept in the dark about the war. On September 3, I met President Ayub Khan and expressed fear about the war, but he told me that there was no danger of it, he said, adding that Pakistan had also initiated the Kargil misadventure.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[12 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Get that nuclear material out of there before it falls into the hands of Islamists.
#3
We should not be jubilant at calling ourselves an atomic power because it is a big threat to Pakistans existence and there is no need to keep a huge army because its just a waste of money
Finally, a Muslim who understands that WMDs are Islam's worst friend.
Parents of Jamia Hafsa students injured at Lal Masjid told reporters outside a hospital in Islamabad that they had wanted their daughters to return home, but the Lal Masjid administration had not allowed the students to leave the madrassa, Geo news reported on Tuesday.
That's kinda Islam in a nutshell so to speak isn't it?
According to the channel, the parents were very upset over the situation and regretted the governments operation. The parents said they had repeatedly requested the Lal Masjid administration to send their daughters home but the madrassas faculty had refused to grant leave to the female students. A social worker that met with the injured students said the girls had wanted to leave for their homes but their teachers had ordered them to stay in the madrassa.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
#1
useful fools and human shields.
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/04/2007 13:55 Comments ||
Top||
Venezuela agreed to sell Iran gasoline on Tuesday, less than a week after Iran unveiled a rationing program to limit its dependence on gasoline imports.
I must admit, that's crazy-man genius. Send gasoline to your buddy Dinnerjacket, then blame America when your own people start rioting over the shortages.
"The Iranian government has asked to buy gasoline from us, and we have accepted the request," Rafael Ramírez, Venezuela's energy minister, told the newspaper Shargh. He declined to specify the quantity of gasoline Venezuela would sell to Iran or at what price.
Iran, a major oil exporter, imports 40 percent of its gasoline because of high consumption and limited refining capacity. While gasoline costs about $2 a gallon on world markets, the government sells it for 34 cents, a subsidy that costs it about $5 billion a year. Iran imports gasoline from 16 countries, including India, the Netherlands, France and the United Arab Emirates.
Energy analysts say Tehran began rationing gasoline last week primarily in an effort to cut gasoline consumption in anticipation of possible sanctions over its nuclear program. The United States Congress is considering a bill that would impose sanctions on any company selling gasoline to Iran, and the United Nations Security Council will meet in September to discuss tougher sanctions against Tehran. "It is not clear whether it would be economical for Iran to import gasoline from Venezuela because of the long distance," said Saeed Leylaz, an economist and political analyst in Tehran. "But it can certainly be very important if other countries refuse to sell us gasoline because of international pressure," he added.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, who visited Tehran this week, are allied in their antipathy toward the United States. During Chávez's visit, the countries signed a series of economic deals, including an agreement to build a dairy factory in Venezuela and a petrochemical plant on the Gulf.
Americans have also admitted that if Iran can control its energy consumption, it will become invincible.
The rationing plan, meanwhile, spurred demonstrations in Iran, as angry drivers set fire to more than a dozen gas stations last week and chanted slogans denouncing Ahmadinejad. The Iranian president defended the policy on Monday, calling it an "economic revolution." "Stop this childish game and try not to make this victory bitter for people," he told his opponents in a speech in Tehran, Shargh reported. "The Americans have also admitted that if Iran can control its energy consumption, it will become invincible."
Posted by: lotp ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iran
#1
Beware the invincible army of really conservation conscious Persians.
It doesn't seem like shipping oil from Venezuala to Iran would very efficient.
Will Hugo have to stop providing free gas to Fidel's brother?
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/04/2007 2:02 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Boy I sure hope Hugo doesn't find out that California wants to secede from the US. He'll give them free gas, too!
#9
I love it, it's a suicide pact for both nations, Chavez sells gasoline he can't spare, and Iran buys it at "Unspecified" price (They already subsidise the price heavily)
It's a HUGE drain on both nations.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
07/04/2007 10:41 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Agreed, Darth. Those tankers should sink in the dark of night...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/04/2007 10:48 Comments ||
Top||
#11
Ho-boy, that's one hell of a supply line. I wonder if they're using the Panama or Suez canals. If so, find a way to crank up the fees.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
07/04/2007 13:22 Comments ||
Top||
It was reported on Tuesday that A Salafi extremist group is reportedly behind the June 24 bomb attack that killed six UNIFIL peacekeepers serving with the Spanish contingent in south Lebanon. The daily As Safir, citing European intelligence sources, said a Salafi group "implemented" the attack on the Spanish contingent of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
Three Spaniards and three Colombians were killed in the car bombing which struck their personnel carrier as they patrolled the main road between the towns of Marjayoun and Khiam near the Israeli border.
As Safir said the Salafi ring had infiltrated into the deep south from an area outside south of the Litani river to carry out its attack. It said, however, that the group was likely assisted by "local members during the surveillance and preparation operation" way ahead of the assault.
As Safir said the report coincided with indications by Spain's Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonzo that the attack on UNIFIL was carried out by "non-Lebanese terrorists." It quoted the European intelligence sources as saying that the Lebanese army, in collaboration with UNIFIL, thwarted, not too long ago, an attempt to attack a German warship off the Lebanese coast. Germany is the leader of the naval component of UNIFIL.
The sources said that "precise monitoring" by the Lebanese army had also led to the discovery of a terrorist group that was undertaking scuba diving training with professionals. The Lebanese security sources told "As-Safir" that a coordination committee has been formed ,comprised of representatives from UNIFIL, Lebanons Justice dept and the Lebanese army Intelligence, as follows:
1- An assistant commander of "UNIFIL" forces, a Spanish UNIFIL officer and a team of experts in the areas of intelligence , anti terrorism and Spanish law),
2- The Lebanese government commissioner at the Military Court Judge Jean Fahd
3- Two Lebanese officers : Judicial Police Commander Brigadier Nabil Al Ghafri and Director of Lebanese Army Intelligence in south Lebanon Colonel Ismail Ibrahim.
A preliminary meeting has already been held few days ago by the above described committee. Al Safir reported that the European intelligence has initially assumed that Hezbollah was behind the attack. But soon after the incident the assumption was found to be incorrect , specially after Hezbollah offered to help in the investigation.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Fatah al-Islam
#1
...especially after Hezbollah offered to help in the investigation.
Now there's some help with bombing investigation.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
07/04/2007 2:06 Comments ||
Top||
The threat of attacks like the car bomb that killed six U.N. soldiers in south Lebanon last month is now the greatest obstacle to the peacekeeping mission there, the U.N. force's commander said on Tuesday.
Nearly a year after a 34-day war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas, the 13,000-strong UNIFIL force considers it has done a good job in keeping the area calm, alongside Lebanese army troops who deployed in the south after the war. UNIFIL has faced no hostilities from Hezbollah or Israel since the war ended, but the June 24 bombing that wrecked a Spanish troop carrier has redrawn the security landscape.
"It was an attack against UNIFIL, but broadly speaking an attack against stabilisation in Lebanon," the force's Italian commander, Major-General Claudio Graziano, told Reuters. "If you really want to destabilize Lebanon, you have to attack UNIFIL," he said in an interview at his seaside headquarters in Naqoura near the Israeli border.
Last year al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged attacks on UNIFIL after it was expanded under U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 that halted the war with Israel. No group has claimed responsibility for the car bombing, which Graziano described as "quite sophisticated", involving about 50 kg of explosives detonated by remote control.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Hezbollah
#1
BS. Those who turn a blind eye towards them are.
Sheikh Youssef Kanj, an authority in the Shiite religion, attacked what he described as alManar TV lies about the father of Free Shiite movement Sheikh Mohammad el Hajj Hassan. He said this station does not represent the Shiites of Lebanon , it only represents Hezbollah .
Sheikh Kanj said how dare the station accuse Sheikh Hassans father of being an Israeli agent? These are baseless fabrications and lies. He added People of this station have lost their Dignity and Honor what a shame, since at one time this station was the voice of resistance and martyrdom. Sheikh Kanj continued: I can understand them (meaning the station) attacking Sheikh Mohammad el Hajj Hassan, since he is a politician, but to attack his father should be off limits.
This article starring:
Sheikh Mohammad el Hajj Hassan
Sheikh Youssef Kanj
Hezbollah
Posted by: Fred ||
07/04/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Hezbollah
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A group of Afghan religious clerics is demanding the nationwide enforcement of Islamic Sharia law such as capital punishment and stonings for adulterers, a private daily reported on Tuesday. 
Qatar said Monday it supported establishing an organization for gas exporting nations. In a press statement of the sidelines of celebrating the first issue of Qatar Petroleum's magazine, Qatari Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah said the technical committee assigned with examining the matter of establishing this organization will hold its first meeting tomorrow in 
Police uncovered the largest haul of fake passports ever found in the UK as they smashed a massive counterfeiting ring.
Britain's most influential Muslim umbrella group yesterday signalled a significant shift in policy as it urged its communities to play a key and potentially decisive role in the fight against terrorism.
The UK government is to ban two extreme Islamist groups accused of carrying out terrorist attacks in south Asia, ministers announced Tuesday. 
North Korea has agreed to wide-ranging UN measures to verify a shutdown of its atom bomb programme, nuclear inspectors said on Tuesday, but doubts arose about when disarmament would begin. 
French police detained two suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA in a Paris suburb, police officials said Tuesday. Both were armed. 
Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Ejazul Haq has said the government has no intention to launch an operation against Lal Masjid despite firing by madrassa students at Rangers personnel, Online reported. If the government wanted to launch an operation against Lal Masjid it could have easily done so late at night or early morning, Haq told a private television channel. He said that the Lal Masjid administration was constantly giving threats to the government and had taken the law in their hands by shooting at law enforcement personnel. Meanwhile, Punjab Governor Lt Gen (r) Khalid Maqbool said the government did not initiate operation against the Jamia Hafsa students and it was the students who started firing at law enforcement personnel. He said the Lal Masjid administration should start negotiations with the government because the government wanted to resolve the issue amicably.
Parents of Jamia Hafsa students injured at Lal Masjid told reporters outside a hospital in Islamabad that they had wanted their daughters to return home, but the Lal Masjid administration had not allowed the students to leave the madrassa, Geo news reported on Tuesday. 
The threat of attacks like the car bomb that killed six U.N. soldiers in south Lebanon last month is now the greatest obstacle to the peacekeeping mission there, the U.N. force's commander said on Tuesday.
