[Bangla Daily Star] Detained Mufti Obaidullah, one of the most wanted Laskar-e-Taiyeba leaders in India, used six mobile phones and had regular contact with Ameer Reza, chief of Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF) working with the Pakistan-based Islamist militant outfit, said Detective Branch (DB) of police sources.
Obaidullah on Friday told The Daily Star at the DB headquarters that he knew Ameer Reza quite well. He had close relations with Ameer's brother Asif Reza, the founder of ARCF, who was killed in an encounter with law enforcers in Gujarat in 2001, said Obaidullah, who is fluent in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Persian languages. DB officials said Obaidullah sent SMS to Ameer Reza and others in Pakistan in Persian language using English alphabets.
Meanwhile, Obaidullah, a madrasa teacher at Shibchar in Madaripur, was placed on a seven-day remand after DB police produced him before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court with a 10-day remand prayer. Deputy Commissioner Monirul Islam of DB (South) told The Daily Star, "The call lists of the mobile phones used by Obaidullah show that he made calls to Pakistan regularly and often to India. He talked to Ameer Reza every day over the phone. But we are yet to find out the subjects of their conversation."
DB sources said there is a strong possibility that Laskar-e-Taiyeba, ARCF, Harkatul Jihad al Islami Bangladesh (Huji), and international mafia don Dawood Ibrahim's network are interconnected. Picked right up on that, didn't they?
Obaidullah's immediate boss and Laskar-e-Taiyeba leader Mansur Ali alias Habibullah, another senior leader and Pakistani national Khurram Khoiyam, and two other leaders of the militant outfit are still holed up in Bangladesh, said sources. They entered Bangladesh illegally at least three years before Obaidullah intruded into the country, added sources.
DB officials said they have been trying to track down the four most wanted Laskar-e-Taiyeba leaders in India. However, they suspect that Mansur Ali and Habibullah are two different persons. All of them receive financial supports from India, DB sources said. In this case that should likely read "entities within India"...
Monirul said, "He got Tk 7,000 as monthly salary from the madrasa. It is quite impossible to meet the expenditure of a seven-member family and six mobile phones."
Quoting Obaidullah, DB officials said his organisation has a firm footing at Shibchar in Madaripur, Srinagar in Munshiganj and Nababganj in the capital with a good number of 'Jihadis' (militants) at the madrasas there.
Laskar-e-Taiyeba has been active in Bangladesh for the last 14 years, said intelligence sources quoting Obaidullah. He was organising Bangladeshi 'mujahids' to wage 'jihad' following the directives from Ameer Reza, said the sources.
Obaidullah took part in Afghan conflicts four times. Besides, he carried out militant activities in India with the help of Islamist militants from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Obaidullah took part in Afghan conflicts four times. Besides, he carried out militant activities in India with the help of Islamist militants from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also collaborated with Islamist militants from Kashmir, Banaras, Punjab, and Hyderabad in India. He entered Bangladesh illegally in June, 1995 to evade arrest after the Indian government declared him most wanted in 1994.
DB identified Obaidullah on the basis of confessions of detained Indian national Dawood Merchant, a close aide to Dawood Ibrahim and one of the main accused in music baron Gulshan Kumar murder case. Dawood Merchant and his associate Zahid Sheikh, also an Indian national, were arrested in Bangladesh about one and a half months ago.
Obaidullah had been teaching at Jamiatul Sunnah Madrasa of Shibchar upazila in Madaripur since 2003. Earlier, he taught at different madrasas in Jessore, Moulvibazar and also at Nawabganj in Dhaka using fake name Abu Zafar.
Our Madaripur correspondent adds: The authorities of Jamiatul Sunnah Madrasa yesterday terminated Obaidullah from his post and expelled his son Matiur who was studying at the institution. Hussain Ahmed, principal of the madrasa, said the decision was taken after authorities became sure about the identity of Obaidullah and his son.
Obaidullah's wife Nasima Begum said her husband made frequent trips abroad in the name of attending religious function.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Shibchar Police Station Abdul Jalil said intelligence vigilance has been strengthened to monitor the activities of all madrasas in the area.
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Lashkar-e-Taiba
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Lashkar-e-Taiba
ASIF REZA
Lashkar-e-Taiba
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KHURRAM KHOIYAM
Lashkar-e-Taiba
MANSUR ALI ALIAS HABIBULLAH
Lashkar-e-Taiba
MUFTI OBAIDULLAH
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[Bangla Daily Star] Banned Islamist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami set up a charity called Faruqi Welfare Foundation last year to use it as a cover for receiving funds from abroad. The foundation however could not be in operation as it came under intelligence watch a few days after obtaining the certificate from the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSC) on June 29 that year.
Intelligence officials say the militants founded the charity to secure funds through a way around tight measures against terror financing in the post-9/11 years. They observe the Huji leaders are desperate for funds as they need the money to have a vast network of qawmi madrasas and fresh recruits for "jihad".
But the jihadis are the brave and noble Lions of Islam; they need nothing but a handful of dates and a cup of water to live on, a gun and some bullets with which to kill the kaffir, and a top of the line digital video/still camera and Apple laptop with satellite uplink to record and transmit videos to YouTube. Oh, and Mahmud Mahmudullah is blogging the entire experience for the lads back at the madrassah. When he dies while killing the infidels the headmaster will record him as 'graduated with honours'. (If he comes back he'll have to retake Basic Sharia... he kind of failed it the first time. Headmaster said no one has ever done so badly in the history of the school!) How can it be that much money is needed?
The widows need more ammo ...
On paper, Faruqi Welfare Foundation's objectives however are building mosques, madrasas, orphanages and Islamic research centres and facilitating religious education. Already struggling to start functioning, the foundation suffered another blow after its Chairman Sheikh Abdus Salam was arrested on March 23 for suspected links to the CPB rally blast that killed five people at Paltan Maidan on January 20, 2001.
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Seeing as the Afghans don't have Stinger missiles anymore to shoot them down, this must be OK.
BTW, they should also hire Chinese helicopters with Chinese crews, in case the Chicoms decide supplying some anti-aircraft missiles to the Taliban might be to their advantage.
It's not like anyone is going to hand out these missiles to the Uighurs or Tibetans anytime soon.
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Sov's landing on Brize Norton....WHO KNEW? Well, everyone knows Russian aviation enjoys the most rigorous safety regimes in the industry. Nothings too good for the ranker, and that's what he gets!
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In Afghanistan, if given a choice, I would probably prefer a Russian built helicopter, for several reasons.
First of all, a big Russian priority is avoiding maintenance and training, so their stuff is inherently simple, across the board. Ideally, with an hour's training, anyone should be able to fly that helicopter reasonably well.
They get around a lot of maintenance by sealing parts like bearings, and making high maintenance parts easy to replace. A US helicopter has to get serious maintenance after every flight. A Russian helicopter after every half dozen flights.
The biggest downside is that the quality control on their spare parts stinks, so when you replace parts, you have to test them to make sure they work.
Another advantage is that they are armored, so can take a lot of small arms fire. And while a Stinger, with a 3kg warhead, can usually take one down, even that is not a guarantee.
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The Brits Have used Russian transport as far back as the early 90's. They might have used them earlier but that was the earliest I was exposed to it. Using the MI-8 is a lower profile aircraft when your flying around Africa and othe areas that have a Soviet influence. The heavy transports are run out of a company in Ireland. The crews are mostly Russian with a couple Britts to keep everything in line.
The aircraft are built like trucks. Lots of heavy castings and thick bulkheads. They fly like trucks as well. They are heavy and cumbersome in the air and not a joy at all to pilot. The HIND-D for example is very fast, never run from it in a straight line. It is so heavy it can not hover unless empty, requiring a runway for takeoff. It can not trurn with more than a 30 degree bank or it will spin and crash. Back in the 90's they use a fish based oil, and man it stings like rot in the aircraft. While they are big, they do crash a lot, they just dont make the news much. We lost a group of American soldiers in one in Viet-Nam ten years ago on a full accounting mission.
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49Pan's choppers are a lot cheaper.. and have that nasty Ti mini-gun.
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seen a Hind grab dirt with its rotor and slam into the ground sideways back in the 80's. During a border trace in the first days of the Apache, they used to send out helicopters to mirror us. So our guy turned partially toward the border (pointing the nose completely at the border was forbidden) which caused the Hind to try to pivot faster, after which our guy lifted off sideways and up. Naturally the Soviet pilot tried to follow, tilted the Hind too far, and eventually caught a tip of the main rotor, slamming into the ground on its side just on their side of the Czech border.
Hinds are big and tought but not the most maneuverable birds off-axis.
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > ONE-HALF OF ALL PERSONNEL THE US HAS WORKING IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN ARE PRIVATE [240,000 Contractor employees > approxi 80* are FOREIGN NATIONALS in suppor of USDOD, USState, + USAID Programs and Agendums.
To wit,
* KBR = the largest PContracting Company.
* AFGHANISTAN > 68,197 Private Ctrs versus 40,000 US troops.
* IRAQ > 132,197 Private Ctrs versus roughly SAME.
Lest we fergit, US is planning to downsize to NMT approxi 50,000 troops in IRAQ come Year 2010; and ZERO come 2011???
** PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > SECDEF GATES: AMERICANS WON'T BACK LONG AFGHAN WAR/US FORCES MUST GAIN GROUND NLT SUMMER 2010 TO AVOID US PUBLIC, MEDIAS PERCEPTIONS THAT US IS LOSING IN AFGHANISTAN [+ by extens AFPAK]???
St. Paul, Minn. -- Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison said the U.S. government is trying to ensure the safe return of some of the young Somali-American men believed to be fighting with a terrorist group in their homeland. I don't suppose that means so they can stand trial for belonging to an international terrorist organization, does it? Ellison said he has been included in classified briefings about efforts to bring the missing men back to the Twin Cities.
Which he promptly blabbed about to NPR ...
At least four Somali-American men from Minnesota who left to fight in the Horn of Africa have died there in recent months. Hurrah!
One of youngest, a skinny teenager from Minneapolis named Burhan Hassan, was trying to leave the fighting and make his way to the U.S. embassy in neighboring Kenya, according to family members. Awww... The heart [urp!] bleeds...
They believe a fellow member of the extremist group Al-Shabaab shot Hassan to death when the group learned of his plans to escape.
Tough luck, Burhan, next time pick your friends better. And was he too 'skinny' to pick up an AK-47?
Congressman Keith Ellison thinks the U.S. should try to retrieve the Minnesotan men who may have been misled into joining Al-Shabaab and want out. Since they either immigrated here or were born here they've got a country. Too bad they were "misled" into further failing somebody else's failed state.
"We can't have a knee-jerk emotional reaction," Ellison said. Why not? I can't think of any reason not to. They came here, then left to join the enemy. My knee's dancing its own jig...
"We've got to have an intelligent reaction. If a young person says, 'I have been lied to. I don't like these people. I want to get away from them,' we should help them do that, as long as we know that does not create a public safety issue for Minnesotans and Americans."
Because skinny youts with rifles aren't a threat ...
Can't recall any skinny yoots who ran off to join the Nazis and then changed their minds being welcomed back with open arms.
Ellison wouldn't offer more details of the plans, saying the discussions were classified. But he said the efforts involve private non-governmental organizations as well as government entities. A State Department official did not respond to requests for interviews. What NGOs? Hizb-ut-Tahrir?
The Widows Ammunition Fund?
Ellison, whose district includes the largest concentration of Somali-Americans in the country, said the U.S. government has a vested interest in bringing the men back to safety.
I fail to understand what our 'vested interest' is other than making sure they don't kill Americans, and that doesn't include bringing them back to safety.
The FBI is investigating how and why about 20 men left the Twin Cities to join the chaos and bloodshed of a homeland they barely knew. Somebody fired 'em up at the mosque. Somebody else signed 'em up. Somebody else arranged passage for them.
Ellison said the U.S. should send a message to the young fighters. "If you've learned the truth about these exploitative organizations like Shabaab, who are so dangerous, then abandon them and then help tell the truth about what these groups are really all about," Ellison said. I don't think that's the right message. How about "drop dead"?
How about "drop dead, and if you don't we'll make it happen?"
The Minneapolis office of the FBI has encouraged any of the Minnesota fighters who have had second thoughts to find their way to "the nearest friendly diplomatic agency." "... before arriving in Somalia. Once you're there you're on your own. Foreveer."
"If these men did come to a point where they wanted to return home, that they were disenchanted with the situation over there, tired of the fighting and wanting to come home, we'd certainly like to get the word out that they should do that," said FBI spokesman E.K. Wilson. "Or even if they just wanted to take a break. Or if they decided they don't want to jihad in Somalia but they'd rather do it in Afghanistan or Iraq or someplace else."
But Wilson also added that the FBI remains focused on the investigation, "and that focus has not changed at all." "Yeah. We're focused like a laser here at the Federal Bureau of Ineptitude."
Asking a fighter to simply walk away from Al-Shabaab because he had a change of heart is a tall order. Families have heard that the men are being closely guarded.
Almost as if the brave lions of Islam don't quite trust their new recruits ...
Mogadishu has been under siege in recent weeks as groups like Al-Shabaab vie for power. The U.S. has no diplomatic presence in Somalia; however the FBI has staff and agents in neighboring countries that are assisting in the investigation. At least two men with Minnesota ties were able to escape Al-Shabaab, back in December 2007. Court records released this week say Abdifatah Isse left for Somalia in hopes of fighting against the Ethiopian troops who invaded the country.
Got his shooting iron and went after infidels. We're supposed to want him back?
According to the documents, only after Isse arrived in Somalia, he realized he joined a movement connected to Al-Shabaab. At the time, the U.S. had yet to declare Al-Shabaab as a terrorist group. Isse and another Minnesota man were able to flee Al-Shabaab soon after arriving. "Xenophobic slippers, don't fail us now!"
A friend identified the other man as 26-year-old Salah Ahmed of New Brighton. The friend said Ahmed told the other Minnesota fighters that he needed to seek treatment for his allergies. Then Ahmed and Isse escaped to Kismayo, and eventually returned to the United States. "Mom! I'm home! What's for dinner?"
Now, the two men are back in Minnesota -- behind bars. ... which shows extraordinary good sense on our part...
Authorities this week released indictments charging each of them with providing material support to terrorism and conspiring to kill people abroad. At least one of the men, Isse, is cooperating with authorities. A trial for Ahmed is scheduled for October. Sometimes I have a glimmer of hope for our government. They usually move quickly to extinguish it, but still the spark sometimes alights.
But bringing the remaining recruits back to the U.S. isn't without risk. For us or them?
John Radsan, a former assistant general counsel for the CIA, said the U.S. government is taking such a heightened interest in the case of the Somali-American fighters because of broader concerns on global terror. "These people are trained, perhaps over there. They become radicalized over there," Radsan said. "They are engaged in combat, and if those people can be put on that cycle, it's only another step before they might come back here to do bad things in the Twin Cities."
There's a voice of reason -- note that he's a 'former assistant' general counsel for the CIA. Why can't we have a voice of reason within our government?
Counterterrorism officials have said they have no evidence that the young men were plotting attacks on the U.S.
So let the little buttercups go, it's not like they'd hide anything from us ...
Congressman Ellison agrees that the U.S. government's first responsibility is to protect its residents.
He says in order to be re-elected ...
I thought it was to "form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense" in that order?
But he also thinks if the recruits pose no threat to national security, they should be allowed to re-integrate into the American culture they left behind.
Not a chance. They screwed up when they decided life in the old country was better than life in America. Let them stay in Mog or let the Kenyans have them.
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al-Shabaab
BURHAN HASAN
al-Shabaab
Keith Ellison
SALAH AHMED OF NEW BRIGHTON
al-Shabaab
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At least four Somali-American men from Minnesota who left to fight in the Horn of Africa have died
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perhaps Abu Ellison (D-POS) can go get them back himself? Or just stay over there too?
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But he also thinks if the recruits pose no threat to national security, they should be allowed to re-integrate into the American culture they left behind.
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Good point Frank, he could take lessons from Jesse Jackson ...
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“Congressman Keith Ellison thinks the U.S. should try to retrieve the Minnesotan men who may have been misled into joining Al-Shabaab and want out.”
How exactly were these poor men mislead congressman? Did they think Al-Shabaab was the Somalian equivalent of the Rotary Club? Maybe they were led to believe that employment opportunities were finally starting to boom after decades of endless drought, famine, and Civil war. Or maybe they were told the nightlife in Mogadishu blows away Minneapolis. Yep...that's it...it's gotta be the that easy Somali tail.
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There is a Somali family three doors down from me that Mr. Ellison can return to Minnesota. They hate Jews (me); Mexican -Americans (my wife); and our three girls because they were shorts out here in the Arizona heat. The Somali females were full burquas - and the men cover their faces when driving past our house. BTW, they live in a government subsidized house and have four cars after being here only two years. The adults work as housekeepers at resorts - how they maintain their lifestyle (legally) I have no idea. But this is southern Arizona - 60 miles from Mexico Lindo and quite a few residents here in Tucson have no visible means of support but drive Cadillac Escalades and etc...
FIVE alleged 9/11 plotters who were to appear before a judge at Guantanamo Bay disrupted the US military court yesterday. The five accused, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, refused to attend the hearing, the BBC reported.
The judge rejected prosecution calls for them to be compelled to attend but three did appear after a two-hour delay.
If they want to be judged without being present, fine by me ...
Walid bin Attash, Ali Abdul al-Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi entered the courtroom. But Mr al-Hawsawi asked to leave after he was refused the opportunity to speak. He was escorted out by military guards.
Mr bin Attash asked the judge whether he could question a witness. When told he could not, he asked: "Even if he told lies?" When the judge insisted he could not question the witness, Mr bin Attash replied: "This is good justice!"
Yesterday's hearing was meant to focus on whether Mr Hawsawi and another defendant, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, were mentally competent to represent themselves.
The military lawyer representing Mr bin al-Shibh said he suffered from a delusional disorder. When the lawyer went into detail about how he had been deprived of sleep, her microphone was cut off by a censor.
"The government can't hide the fact that they used sleep deprivation," she said before the audio feed outside the courtroom was cut. The audio is on a 40-second delay that allows a security officer to block material believed to be classified.
Sleep deprivation is an 'enhanced interrogation technique'. Works, too ...
The prosecutor later said Mr bin al-Shibh's complaints of sleep deprivation could be explained by the diagnosis that he suffers from delusions.
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Don't want to come to their hearings? Gee, my heart bleeds. Break both their kneecaps and bring them to the hearing in a wheelchair. Oh, and no pain meds, because that may distort their understanding of what's happening to them. After they're found guilty, give them a nasty scalp wound, take them about 25-30 miles off the coast, and dump 'em in the water. If any make it back alive, God is indeed with them, and they can go free. Those that end up in a shark's belly can complain to Himmler about their poor treatment.
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LONDON: Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf said dialogue had to be established with the Taliban and political progress, rather than military might, would achieve a solution in Afghanistan.
"I think the strategy is right but we need to put in a little more input, more forces required, and maybe we need to concentrate also on the long-term strategy. We are following a short-term military strategy only," the former general told Britain's Sky News television.
"The Taliban have done wicked things. But then we have to come to a solution.
"Military is never the ultimate solution. The military can buy you time, it can create an environment, but ultimately it is the political instrument which has to be used. I personally think that you need to establish a political dialogue and political dialogue with senior elements within the Taliban.
"Unfortunately, the Taliban or the senior elements in the Taliban, I don't think are open at the moment to any discussions or any negotiations with (Afghan President Hamid) Karzai. We need to have people, whether through a jirga or whether it is the president himself, to have access into the Taliban."
Musharraf said the Taliban's influence in Pakistan's Afghan border areas had strengthened since he resigned the presidency in August last year.
"There is a degree of instability that has come up because of this resurgence of Talibanisation activity in the settled districts of the frontier, especially Swat, but I am very sure as long as the armed forces of Pakistan stay and they are strong, Pakistan will remain stable," he said.
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Pakistan has undergone a dramatic policy shift to recognise Taliban rebels as a major threat, but is more ambivalent on liquidating Islamists trained to fight the ultimate nemesis: India. Almost from inception, Pakistani spies and soldiers have actively armed, sponsored, encouraged or turned a blind eye as Islamist-inspired militant outfits turned their guns on India to the east and Afghanistan to the west. But the civilian government this summer ordered the military to crush Taliban militants in the northwest after the rebels made further territorial gains in April, accusing them of holding the entire country hostage. "It is absolute reality that the terrorists of today were the friends of yesterday. The immediate threat is the insurgents challenging the writ of the state," said retired army general Talat Masood.
The Taliban may be the largest Islamist group in Pakistan, but the ability and willingness of the civilian, military and intelligence authorities to crack down on other groups, particularly those targeting India, is unclear. "They want these militant organisations to remain under their control but many have become somewhat autonomous. They are in dilemma how to control them. I am not sure they are willing to eliminate them," said Masood. "India asks that these groups be dismantled. While the government would like that to happen, they don't have the ability or resolve to liquidate them. The military does not want to take them on when engaged on the western front."
The most prominent example is Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which India and the United States accused of killing 166 people in Mumbai last November. Pakistan went further than ever before to arrest LeT members, close the charity considered its front and arrest suspects, but it has yet to put them on trial and the charity has reportedly resurfaced under a new guise.
As far as India is concerned, Pakistan has not gone far enough, but many in Pakistan want India to ease nerves over its superior size, wealth and military might so Islamabad can focus on the militant threat in the west. "Indian army troops are camped on the Pakistan border. The defence increase in this year's budget was more than Pakistan's total budget," Pakistani security analyst Ikram Saigol told AFP. "If India was not such a threat to Pakistan, why should it keep troops along the Pakistan border in such big number? It is a four-to-one ratio," he said.
Possibly because Pakistan keeps sending over ISI-traiined jihadis to terrorize Indians, such as the recent Mumbai incident, Mr. Saigol. Perhaps if Pakistan abjured such activities, India would not feel the need to be up in arms.
India and Pakistan have gone to war Pakistan has attacked India three times since 1948 -- twice over the disputed territory Kashmir. Pakistan lost each time, culminating with the loss of a sixth of its land as East Pakistan became Bangladesh. In 2002, India and Pakistan went to the brink of nuclear war as hundreds of thousands of soldiers were mobilised. It took direct intervention of then-US secretary of state Colin Powell to avert conflict.
Critics of the Pakistani military say their refusal to divert the bulk of the 700,000-strong army from east to northwest is proof that commanders are not fully committed to crushing the Taliban, and are merely window-dressing. But Pakistani analysts say India could do more to appease Pakistani fears, thereby allowing a military -- trained since inception to consider India the primary threat -- to redeploy more of its forces against the Taliban threat.
In the last two years, around 2,000 people have died in bomb and suicide attacks across an increasingly isolated Pakistan.
"As long as India does not return its forces to normal peace-time locations (in Kashmir and Siachen), Pakistan will not be in a position to withdraw its troops from eastern borders," said analyst Hasan Askari.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid tribute to Mumbai victims Saturday calling for a global fight against terror as she aimed to finalize a defense agreement essential to allowing U.S. companies to sell sophisticated arms to India.
On her first trip to India as Washington's top diplomat, Clinton linked the attacks which left 166 people dead to those in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 and Friday's deadly hotel bombings in Jakarta.
"These events are seared in our collective memory," she told a news conference at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel, where she is staying and where 31 guests and staff lost their lives during the Islamist militant siege. "The United States will work with the Indian government, the Indonesian government and other nations and peoples to seek peace and security and confront and defeat these violent extremists."
Clinton denied that President Barack Obama's administration was pressuring India into seeking peace with Pakistan so the latter could focus entirely on beating an Islamist insurgency on its border with Afghanistan, a U.S. priority. "The U.S...is very supportive of steps that the governments take but we are not in any way involved in or promoting any particular position," she told the news conference.
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The Special Investigation Group (SIG) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday submitted an updated supplementary charge sheet in court against five persons suspected of involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
Court sources said the SIG also presented a confession statement of the sole surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Kasab, before the court, which he made before an Indian magistrate.
The sources said the FIA had also acquired arrest warrants for another 22 suspects wanted in connection with the Mumbai attacks. The FIA also requested the court to allow an in-camera trial of the accused.
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A two-decade-old insurgency may not end in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) unless Pakistan stops arming, training and sending militants to the disputed region, Kashmir's police chief said on Saturday. "Infiltration from across [the Line of Control dividing Kashmir] is on, the training camps ... for terrorists are still functional, and launching pads are on," Director General of IHK Police Kuldeep Khuda told Reuters in an interview. "The perpetrators of terrorist violence in India and particularly in Jammu and Kashmir are still openly propagating and supporting terrorism from Pakistan land. In this situation we should not expect that terrorism can be finished."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iraq's first major religious festival since U.S. troops pulled out of its cities ended largely peacefully on Saturday, officials said, a sign Iraqi forces may have passed a first serious solo test.
Over the weekend, millions of pilgrims, mostly dressed in black, streamed to the golden domed Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in northern Baghdad, site of some of the deadliest attacks on Iraqi civilians since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Police and troops were deployed heavily across the main routes leading to the shrine and where the commemorations were taking place. "This is the first 100 percent Iraqi security plan. The forces are Iraqi, even the helicopters," said Baghdad security spokesman Major-General Qassim al-Moussawi.
Guarding the ceremonies, which are due to finish by the afternoon, was a key test for Iraq's police and army after they took over full control from American forces of security in the country's urban centers at the end of June.
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Sure. They're afraid of the Iraqis!
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-- Israel on Sunday rejected a U.S. demand to suspend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem, threatening to further complicate an unusually tense standoff with its strongest ally over settlement construction.
Israeli officials said the country's ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, was summoned to the State Department over the weekend and told that a project made up of 20 apartments developed by an American millionaire should not go ahead.
So it comes down to this: we're ordering the Israelis around. And they just told us to stuff it. Smooth move, Bambi, smooth ...
They just told us to stuff it, again. They'd already nixed a complete halt on building in the settlements.
Settlements built on captured lands claimed by the Palestinians have emerged as a major sticking point in relations between Israel and the Obama administration because of their potential to disrupt Mideast peacemaking.
Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently yielded to heavy U.S. pressure to endorse the establishment of a Palestinian state, he has resisted American demands for an immediate freeze on settlement expansion. On Sunday, Netanyahu told his Cabinet there would be no limits on Jewish construction anywhere in "unified Jerusalem."
"We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy anywhere in Jerusalem," Netanyahu declared, calling Israeli sovereignty over the entire city "indisputable."
"I can only imagine what would happen if someone suggested Jews could not live in certain neighborhoods in New York, London, Paris or Rome. There would certainly be a major international outcry," Netanyahu said.
Also at the Cabinet meeting, the head of Israel's Shin Bet internal security service, Yuval Diskin, said both the Western-backed administration of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the militant Islamic Hamas were carrying out "covert activity" in east Jerusalem to stop Jews acquiring property there. An official present at the meeting, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with Cabinet rules, did not elaborate on what the activity entailed but quoted Diskin as saying that hardline Egyptian cleric Sheik Youssef al-Qaradawi earmarked $25 million to be funneled to Hamas activists in Jerusalem. Al-Qaradawi is a well-known terrorist figure in the Arab world and a regular on the satellite Al-Jazeera network. Diskin told the Cabinet that the money was to be used by Hamas to buy apartments and plots of land and "build charitable institutions to broaden its base in the city," the official said. Diskin did not provide evidence. Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group and bars it from operating in Jerusalem.
Abbas aide Rafiq Husseini dismissed the report. "We wish there was Arab money to buy threatened houses," he told The Associated Press, "but that's not the case." Qaradawi could no be reached for comment.
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Good for Bibi. In-your-face "f*ck off" is the only way to deal with the empty suited socialist
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The Israelis should just smile, and ask Obama where in the US he would like to relocate the 100,000 Paleos that Israel will be sending.
"If you love them so much, let them live in your house."
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If the Israelis want us to be nice to them, they should seize an embassy or declare war on America. Look what hostility has done for Chavez, the Rooskis, the Castro bros. and the Norks!
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Earlier this month George Stephanopoulos asked Biden if the US would stand in the way of Israel decided it was time to take out Iran's nuke program. Said the Veep: "We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do ..."
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Said the Veep: "We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do ..."
And my best guess is that the press didn't call him on this with regard to Honduras. What the veep said doesn't apply to Honduras. The veep may have said this on a Tuesday and it only applies on Tuesdays.
It is widely believed that the reason this whole mess started was because Khameni wanted his son to succeed him. Ahmadinejad was supposed to help that happen is return for the hijacked election. Mojtaba Khameni needs all the help he can get because he (like his father) is not trained enough to be the spiritual leader of anything.
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A probe will be launched into the assault on one of the presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi in Friday prayers on July 17, Tehran Governor General says.
Morteza Tamaddon told Fars news agency that the attack will go under investigation as it was considered "suspicious." He also called on security forces to identify and arrest those behind the attack. "In our opinion, this incident is not a usual one. Suspicious elements have surely had a hand in masterminding and carrying out the plan," Tamaddon said.
Defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi was attacked by unidentified men without uniforms on his way to Friday prayers, the website of his party Etemad-e Melli reported on Friday. The website quoted his son Hossein Karroubi as saying that the veteran reformist cleric was beaten by men without uniforms when he got out of the car in front of Tehran University where the public prayer was being held. "His turban fell. They insulted him and called him very offensive and outrageous names," his son added.
Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi took part in this week's Friday prayers led by the Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council, Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani.
Hundreds of thousands of people attended the prayers, the first since the disputed election led by Rafsanjani, with thousands of Mousavi supporters taking to the streets after the prayers in a spontaneous demonstration. The security forces responded by the use of tear gas and baton charges to disperse the protesters.
Despite the official confirmation of the June 12 presidential election results which gave a second term to the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with two-thirds of the votes, Karroubi and Mousavi and many of their supporters continue to reject the veracity of the results.
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Iran's Intelligence Minister provides his views on the post-election events, and seeks to explain the role of both domestic and foreign elements in creating the unrest.
In Friday comments, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i claimed that close aides to the defeated candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi knew that he would lose the presidential race so they tampered with the election polls prior to the June 12 vote. "The balance tilted heavily in favor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from June 3 onwards in such a way that some key members of Mir-Hossein [Mousavi]'s campaign were sure of his defeat," he said. "But, they would, by no means, allow Mir-Hossein to know the situation. To keep up his morale, they even tampered with the opinion polls," he added.
According to the minister, the president's provincial visits had compelled Mousavi's supporters to relinquish the idea that the former premier would win the elections - an idea that they had formed after some of the candidate's provincial campaign tours. "Three days prior to the elections, when they were sure of Mousavi's defeat, they started a series of activities such as creating doubt about vote rigging," said Mohseni-Eje'i. "On the Wednesday and Thursday leading up to the elections, they reached the conclusion that they must disrupt the atmosphere by presenting the idea of vote rigging. And they kick-started the plan straight after the elections," he added.
Mohseni-Eje'i went on to add that the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei met with some of figures who had objections to the election results "modestly and from a completely caring stance," and asked them to say whatever they pleased without any restraints. "[In the meeting], those individuals made some rude and insolent remarks. The Leader listened to their comments and advised them, but they continued to pursue their illegal path," he explained. The Intelligence Minister said that those who had tried to imply that the 'Republic' aspect of the government had been undermined must answer to the nation and God for their actions.
Mohseni-Eje'i also accused the influential Iranian cleric and politician Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani of trying to prevent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection. "One of Hashemi-Rafsanjani's top priorities was to prevent Ahmadinejad from winning the elections, and a long line of Ahmadinejad opponents was formed wherein certain individuals and groups sought the same goal for various motives," he said.
The minister counted the following as some of the alliances that had lined up against Ahmadinejad:
"-United States of America, Israel, and several Western countries,
-domestic and overseas opposition groups,
-various political factions such as the Nationalist-Religious Movement,
-certain outcast parties such as the Communist Party of Iranian Kurdistan (Komala), democrats, and monarchists,
-the Allameh [Tabatabaei University] branch of the Office for Consolidating Unity,
-the Islamic Iran Participation Front,
-and the Mujahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization"
"All these [groups] did not want to see Ahmadinejad in the presidential race. And for some people like Hashemi-Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad's defeat was a top priority," he said
The Intelligence Minister further accused the West of trying to "infiltrate" the Islamic Republic and "turn into an empty skin" through "soft measures."
"After failing in Iraq, Afghanistan, and their other attempts [to topple Iran's government], they found that they could by no means gain dominance over Iran through military means or economic sanctions," he explained. He even said that Israel had tried to assassinate President Ahmadinejad with the help of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) and other terrorist groups active in Iran's eastern regions. "The Zionist regime had met with the MKO on the sidelines of the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting in Egypt and in Paris to assassinate Mr. Ahmadinejad," said Mohseni-Ejeie.
The MKO had said, however, that they would only cooperate if the US and the West remove their name from their terrorist blacklists, he added.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A hard-line editor considered to be close to Iran's top authority accused a powerful cleric on Saturday of backing "law-breakers," in comments highlighting the deepening divisions in the Islamic Republic after a disputed election.
Hossein Shariatmadari, editor-in-chief of the Kayhan daily, also criticized former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani for saying Iran was in crisis during a sermon on Friday.
Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniIn apparent defiance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Rafsanjani said many Iranians had doubts about the official result of the June 12 vote and he also took issue with the way the authorities had handled the poll and its aftermath.
As he led Friday prayers at Tehran University for the first time since the election, tens of thousands of protesters outside used the event to stage the biggest show of dissent for weeks.
"Most certainly Mr. Rafsanjani is familiar with the definition of a crisis...[t]he most meaningful word to describe the current conditions is a conspiracy," Shariatmadari said in an editorial.
He said Rafsanjani, a moderate who backed Mousavi's election campaign, had done nothing to prevent the gathering of Mousavi supporters inside and outside Tehran University, where prayers are held each Friday and broadcast live on state radio.
Clashes erupted near the university between police and followers of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who came second and still contests official results that showed President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad had been re-elected by a wide margin.
The government has portrayed post-election mass protests last month as the work of local subversives, or "rioters," and Western powers seeking to topple the Islamic establishment.
"Supports law-breakers"
" Rafsanjani...not only disregarded what he had said but openly supported the law-breakers "
Hossein Shariatmadari
"At the same time he used every opportunity available to challenge the outcome of the election," wrote Shariatmadari, who earlier this month called for Mousavi and another leading reformist to be put on trial for "terrible crimes."
Noting Rafsanjani had urged everybody to abide by the law, the editorial added in a clear reference to Mousavi supporters, who have continued to defy a ban on demonstrations, that Rafsanjani "not only disregarded what he had said but openly supported the law-breakers."
The election stirred the most striking display of internal unrest in Iran, the world's fifth biggest oil exporter, since the 1979 revolution and exposed deep rifts in its ruling elite.
It has also further strained ties between Iran and the West, already at odds over Tehran's nuclear program. Western powers criticized the crackdown. Iran accused them of meddling.
Rafsanjani, who heads the Assembly of Experts -- a powerful body that can in theory dismiss the supreme leader -- in his sermon also demanded the immediate release of people detained in the unrest and called for press curbs to be relaxed.
The call for the lifting of media restrictions was welcomed by the United States on Friday. "There are universal principles that we feel are very important here... as Mr. Rafsanjani himself reflected today, freedom of the press and the ability of the media to fairly report what is happening there," said State Department spokesman Philip Crowley.
Rafsanjani however did not go as far as Mousavi in denouncing the conduct of the vote, but his remarks still posed a clear challenge to Khamenei, who has upheld the election result and accused foreign powers of fomenting the unrest.
According to Iranian media, at least 20 people died in post-election violence but some human rights groups say the actual number could be in the hundreds.
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Who has the guns---in Islam force is always the ultimate argument.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's choice of vice president has met with a hail of criticism, provoking calls from his Principlist supporters for the resignation of the newly appointed veep.
As part of anticipated changes in the structure of his new government, President Ahmadinejad appointed his close confidant Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei to the post of vice president Thursday night. Rahim-Mashaei, who has served as the head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, will replace the incumbent first vice president Parviz Davoudi.
New first vice president Rahim-Mashaie stirred up fierce controversy after saying earlier in 2008 that despite the conflict between governments, Iranians are friends with the Israeli people. "Today, Iran is friends with the American and Israeli people," Rahim-Mashaei was quoted by Fars News Agency as saying. "No nation in the world is our enemy."
Following the remarks, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was quick to react at the Friday prayers by saying, "Who are the Israelis? They are responsible for usurping houses, territory, farmlands and businesses. They are fighters at the disposal of Zionist operatives."
"The Iranian nation has nothing against Jews, Christians or followers of faith. However, it is mistaken to say that we are friends with the people of Israel in the same manner as we are friends with other people around the world," Ayatollah Khamenei said. Rahim-Mashaei later distanced himself from his earlier stance, saying that his comments had been misinterpreted.
The Islamic Society of Students Union on Saturday issued a letter to Rahim-Mashaei calling for his resignation. The union said Ahmadinejad supporters have already borne the burden of much insult against the president in the aftermath of the 10th presidential election.
Iran turned into a scene of opposition rallies after the re-election of President Ahmadinejad -- with nearly two-thirds of the vote -- with defeated candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi reject the election results as fraudulent. "It is in the interest of the Principlist movement that you resign from the post of vice president," read the letter.
The student union added that the issue of "Iran's friendship with Israeli people" would provoke a divide in the structure of the 10th government. The union also warned Rahim-Mashaei of the serious consequences of his appointment as vice president, saying, "This position comes at a high price for you."
In separate remarks, Hojjatoleslam Hamid Rasaei, a ninth administration insider and a Principlist member of the 8th Majlis, said, "It would have been much better if this appointment had not been made." Hojjatoleslam Rasaei said, "The public opinion has grown sensitive toward Mr. Mashaei", adding, "It would be much better if Mr. Ahmadinejad paid more attention to public opinion and Majlis before making appointments."
A senior member of Jame-e Mmodarresin-e Qom (the Qom Seminary Teachers Association) Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Mohammad Gharavi, for his part, criticized the decision by President Ahmadinejad describing it as "inappropriate."
"Many of those concerned are worried about [the consequences] of this appointment," Hojjatoleslam Gharavi said.
President Ahmadinejad earlier talked of plans to make "considerable changes" in his government and pledged that his new cabinet, to be unveiled in the coming weeks, would be "10 times" more powerful than the previous one.
In his first televised speech after re-election, Ahmadinejad said the changes were aimed at meeting the needs of his second presidential term.
Hojjatoleslam Rasaei said Mashaei's promotion to the post of vice president does not agree with public opinion, adding, "Even many of Mr. Ahmadinejad's supporters [inside his government] are in some way opposed to this appointment." He added that it would be much advised that the president made the new appointment after his inauguration for his second term in office.
The move by the Iranian president for cabinet reshuffles comes as Iranian opposition figures Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi continue to demand a re-run of the presidential election.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says Paris has one condition to recognize Mahmoud Ahmadinejad re-election as Iran's president.
Speaking at a parliamentary session, Kouchner said France would recognize Ahmadinejad's re-election only if his presidency meets the approval of every Iranian. "If everybody in Iran acknowledges the election of a president, it would be unnecessary and futile to go alone in the opposite direction," Kouchner said.
The French minister went on to call for the continuation of support for the opposition movement "with a future among the Iranian people", and for a multiplication of "contacts with it."
Following the remarks by Kouchner, the French ministry of Foreign Affairs made it clear that the minister was referring to "a possible recognition, which would only happen in the event of an agreement from everybody in Iran, particularly other candidates in the presidential election."
The refusal of Western countries to acknowledge Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection as president comes as his rivals Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi continue to reject the vote result as fraudulent and demand a re-run. Following the defiance of the opposition figures, Iran turned into the scene of opposition rallies after the result of the June 12 poll handed President Ahmadinejad a second term in office with nearly two-thirds of the vote.
The post-vote unrest took a new turn when protesters gathered to hold a rally without an official permit from the country's Interior Ministry. The day turned bloody -- increasing the post-vote deaths to 20 -- when a number of protesters were killed by forces who according to Iranian officials were organized and controlled by foreign powers.
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Speaking at a parliamentary session, Kouchner said France would recognize Ahmadinejad's re-election only if his presidency meets the approval of every Iranian. "If everybody in Iran acknowledges the election of a president, it would be unnecessary and futile to go alone in the opposite direction," Kouchner said.
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which would only happen in the event of an agreement from everybody in Iran, particularly other candidates in the presidential election."
Not to mention the immediate construction of Huguenot cathedrals throughout Iran and French growth hormones which must also begin showing measurable results for President Ahmadinnerjacket.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Tehran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency has denied reports that Iran has restricted the agency's access to nuclear facilities in the country.
"The agency's surveillance cameras and inspectors are continuing to monitor Iran's nuclear program, especially in Natanz, without any interference or problem," Ali-Asghar Soltaniyeh told IRNA on Saturday.
On Friday, reports surfaced that Iran is resisting IAEA attempts to increase surveillance of uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, central Iran.
The move was meant to keep in pace with the plant's increased size and complexity, diplomats demanding anonymity told the Associated Press.
"It is really difficult for them to figure out what's happening, given the mix of different things going on," said one of the diplomats.
The report also echoed a similar report by a German magazine which had said Iran was capable of producing an atomic bomb within six months.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency (BND), however, denied that its experts estimated that Iran could make a nuclear bomb within a six-month period; as reported in the German weekly Stern.
The reports come as Iran's newly appointed nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, has expressed hopes that the West will make more efforts to end what he called "the last six years of hostility."
"We will enter the scene with a fresh perspective ... The Atomic Energy Organization will respect its international commitments as much as it will defend Iran's nuclear rights," he added.
Western powers accuse Tehran of secretly enriching weapons-grade uranium. Tehran asserts that its uranium enrichment is a peaceful drive to produce electricity.
Incoming IAEA Chief Yukiya Amano said last week that there is no conclusive evidence to prove that Tehran is enriching weapons-grade uranium.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Ellison said he has been included in classified briefings about efforts to bring the missing men back to the Twin Cities.
[Al Arabiya Latest] United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid tribute to Mumbai victims Saturday calling for a global fight against terror as she aimed to finalize a defense agreement essential to allowing U.S. companies to sell sophisticated arms to India.
The Special Investigation Group (SIG) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday submitted an updated supplementary charge sheet in court against five persons suspected of involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
