[Quqnoos] NATO defence ministers on Friday endorsed the broad counter-insurgency approach for Afghanistan. The ministers, including US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in a meeting at the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, said winning the Afghan battle requires a broader strategy which stabilises the whole country.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the defence ministers have a "general shared view" that the alliance must make Afghanistan strong enough to defend itself against militants.
The top US military commander in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, has warned the White House of a possible mission failure unless an additional 40,000 troop are deployed to Afghanistan. President Barack Obama has not yet made a response to the request from his hand-picked commander, as he is mulling over the request with top US cabinet members and national security advisors.
"There is the support of this counter-insurgency strategy, which means that ministers agree that it does not solve the problems in Afghanistan just to hunt down and kill individual terrorists," Rasmussein said.
Secretary Gates said he wouldn't discuss whether the troop-intensive counter-insurgency strategy is best or whether a more limited commitment involving air strikes and Special Forces operations would be better. He described any conclusions on that issue as "vastly premature," and said key presidential decisions are two or three weeks away.
But the secretary stressed that the United States has "no intention" of withdrawing from Afghanistan, and said even a US troop reduction is "very unlikely."
Also on Friday, Secretary General Rasmussen said the NATO defence ministers agreed to begin a process of identifying criteria for an eventual handover of security responsibilites to Afghan forces.
"Let me be clear, we have not agreed to start handing over the lead," Rasmussen said. "The conditions are not yet right. The Afghan security forces are not yet strong enough. And I must also stress that transition, when it happens, doesn't mean NATO forces leave. It means they go into a supporting role."
There are currently more than 100,000 international troops stationed in Afghanistan, most of them American.
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WMF > TALIBAN ARE ABLE TO HOLD THE USA BY ITS NOSE.
ARTIC >
* Talibs have successfully changed or adapted from avoiding US Tech to using it agz US-NATO forces in Terror + Conventional Operations, includ UV + Advanced IEDS.
* US INTEL Agencies allegedly have calculated that the Talibas have grown in size from 7000 persons in 2006, to approxi 2.5Milyuhn.
* OBAMA's new US troop levels [ redux from IRAQ, GERMANY?] will raise US-ALLIED milpres to approxi 70,000.
* DRUG TRADE > remains LUCRATIVE to many NON-MILTERR AFFILIATED = MAINSTREAM AFGHANS as PERVASIVE/PERENNIAL UNEMPLOYMENT affects 1/3 of the population, while PER CAPITA INCOME IS ONLY US$350.00.
IOW, DRUGS = JOBS, AS NORMALLY PEACE-MINDED LOCALS WILL WANT TO JOIN = SUPPOR THE TALIBAN + other MILITS BECUZ THEY NEED THE $$$ THAT ONLY THE LATTER, NOT THE GOVT-STATE OR EVEN THE USA, CAN PROVIDE VIA THE REGIONAL, GLOBAL DRUG TRADE.
The Taliban has threatened to launch a fresh wave of violence at next month's presidential run-off in Afghanistan, and urged voters to boycott the poll.
The August vote passed off without major violence, but there were sporadic attacks by Taliban militants.
The warning came as campaigning opened. Incumbent President Hamid Karzai faces Abdullah Abdullah in two weeks' time.
"The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan once again urges their respected countrymen not to participate," the Taliban said in a statement emailed to news agencies.
The Taliban called the elections an "American process" and said its fighters would "launch operations against the enemy and stop people from taking part".
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Sudan "rejects" the new U.S. policy toward Khartoum although it acknowledges the importance of its ties with Washington, an advisor to President Omar al-Bashir said in remarks published on Saturday.
"We categorically reject the U.S. strategy in its current form," said Mustafa Osman Ismail, a former foreign minister, quoted in local newspapers.
" We thought the Obama administration would pay attention to the credibility of the United States, but it has taken the same direction "
Mustafa Osman Ismail
The United States on Monday announced a new policy of "broad engagement" with Sudan but warned of a tough response if Khartoum ignores incentives to stop "abuses" and "genocide" in Darfur.
Ismail condemned the use of the genocide label for the war in Darfur, western Sudan.
"We thought the (Barack) Obama administration would pay attention to the credibility of the United States, but it has taken the same direction" as his predecessor, George W. Bush, he said.
Ismail said the international community has confirmed that the Darfur conflict did not amount to genocide.
"Our relations with the United States are undoubtedly important," he said, while stressing that ties must be based on mutual respect, common interests and non-interference in each other's affairs.
U.S. officials said Washington would engage in talks with members of the Khartoum government other than Bashir, who faces an International Criminal Court arrest warrant on charges of war crimes in Darfur.
Washington also said it would watch for "credible elections" scheduled for next year under a fragile 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended a north-south civil war.
In Khartoum, a top advisor to Bashir, Ghazi Salaheddin, on Monday described the genocide label as "unfortunate" but said that Obama's policy shift had "positive points."
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Another stroke of brilliant diplomacy by BOA (Big O Administration).......laughed at ridiculed snickered at rejected by our wonderful adversaries.
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Smart policy is total succession of the south of Sudan.
[Bangla Daily Star] Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh is now providing money along with motivation to entice new recruits in the banned outfit.
In the past, only motivation would do the trick but now it has changed its recruitment strategy, said law enforcers dealing with the militants.
The dawati (invitation) unit of the outfit first select young simpletons from ultra poor families in rural areas or by visiting mosques. After that the militants get close to the target people and start discussing about Jihad.
"If the targets respond positively the JMB operatives start giving them some religious books, particularly those on Jihad. They also give them a certain monthly amount to gain their confidence and slowly make them dependent on the outfit," said a senior official of the Rapid Action Battalion intelligence wing.
"At one stage the targets become infatuated with the JMB," he said, adding that some of the recently detained militants told them that the outfit would spend a monthly amount of Tk 500 per target.
He, however, could not say exactly how many targets JMB has across the country.
Sub-Inspector of Boalia Police Station Hafizur Rahman, who is investigating the case filed following the arrest of seven JMB members in Rajshahi and nearby districts, told The Daily Star that each of the arrestees have so far recruited new members numbering between 30 and 50 before their arrest.
The Rab intelligence official said the militant organisation's outgoings for new recruitments are adding to the outfit's other traditional expenditures like organisational and operational costs, living costs of many of its full timers and their family members.
The change in the JMB's recruitment strategy has increased the organisation's overall expenditure, the official said adding that alongside JMB's traditional source of income, a few NGOs and charity organisations are suspected to be providing funds to JMB.
"We've already got primary information about three to four such NGOs and charity organisations and are trying to get evidences against them," a senior Rab intelligence official told The Daily Star wishing anonymity.
He, however, would not give the names of those NGOs and charity organisations before the investigation is over.
The traditional sources of JMB funding are its members' contribution, Usl (zakat on harvested crops), Zakat, Fitra, leather of sacrificial cattle and contribution of local and foreign supporter and well-wishers. Besides, counterfeiting of currencies, particularly Indian rupees and US dollars, is also a source of money. JMB also owns some taxicabs and rickshaws from where some more fund is generated, said sources in the law enforcing agencies.
"We have so far detected at least one gang involving JMB members in counterfeiting currencies. The gang used to pay the outfit Tk 50,000 per month," said an official at the Special Branch (SB). He, however, said funding from the sources has shrunk significantly following the arrest of the gang members.
As an impression of JMB's monthly expenditure the official said during interrogation Zahidul Islam alias Boma Mizan, JMB's military commander, told them that JMB used to provide him Tk 1,200 for food, Tk 1,200 for each of the operatives under him, Tk 11,000 as houses rent, Tk 15,000 annually as pocket money, medical allowance as required time to time and Tk 2,000 as outfit allowance per month.
He also told the interrogators that JMB also gave him around Tk 7 lakh in one year to buy bomb-making materials and chemicals before his arrest in May.
The sources said the organisation is now bearing all expenses of around 100 key members.
Bashar, son of JMB Maulana Saidur Rahman, is now looking after the financial affairs of the organisation and he sends the money to the outfit members. They never transact money through banks.
The banned outfit has already started to make their old tested but inactive adherents active. They became inactive due to the drives on the militants after the August17, 2005 synchronised blasts across the country, said sources in the law enforcement agencies.
"The JMB is now trying to strengthen its activities. Whatever they do they are under our careful watch and will be brought to book," Director Intelligence of Rab Lt Col Ziaul Ahsan told The Daily Star.
This article starring:
Maulana Saidur Rahman
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Unbelievable...that 20%+ of indigenous population in the UK would consider voting BNP, when this shit is going on? Only in as far as I am surprised the figure isn't higher. Labour's multi-cultural agenda, (revealed this week-end), coupled with politician's exspenses/ongoing bonus scandals for bailed-out bankers, along with MSM predjudice against the BNP, has made cherry-picking policies BY the electorate a factor for the election. People who vote BNP aren't, as a matter of course, Fascits/Nazis. BTW, they seem to be the only party advocating that citizens should be tooled up. That one gets my vote. Enough.
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Twenty percent of voters, rhodesiafever, from what I've been able to gather. Which means some number of them are not "indigenous" at all, an even more astonishing thought.
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Indeed, TW, but not surprising when 2nd/3rd generations already entrenched are threatened. I don't see them follöwing through, however. They will votd with the moneyed interests, i.e. Tory.
[Iran Press TV Latest] As Afghanistan's eight-year-old war continues, thousands of people have demonstrated in London to show their disapproval of the unpopular occupation.
Around 5,000 people took part in the demonstration from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, police said on Saturday.
Piffle. Back when George W. Bush was president, they could inspire half a million to march. London gets this many out for a good football riot.
This is while a spokesman for organizers of the rally, Stop The War Coalition, put the figure at 10,000.
Among those on the march was Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, a member of the Royal Logistics Corps who has served in Afghanistan before, but now is facing a court martial over refusing to return for another term. "It is distressing to disobey orders, but when Britain follows America in continuing to wage war against one of the world's poorest countries I feel I have no choice," he said in a statement issued before the protest.
The protest took place at a time when opinion polls show a further drop in public support for the war.
According to a recent poll conducted by YouGov for Channel 4 News, 62 percent of respondents wanted troops to withdraw from Afghanistan within a year. The survey also found that 48 percent were in the opinion that troops were not winning the war and victory "is not possible".
Britain currently has some 9,000 soldiers serving in Afghanistan. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier this month announced plans to send an additional 500 troops. So far, 222 British troops have been killed since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
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I support the war in Afghanistan but we are not helping ourselves supporting a corrupt govt in Afghanistan!
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That would depend on just who (race, religion, age, ethnicity, likableness, and a host of more criteria) Was selected as HNIC?
And exactly how long and hard the assholatoliahs tried to kill him.
Big kettle of fish we (USA) DON'T Need to get into.
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We should have just created a "Bactrian" Republic north of the Hindu Kush and restricted our aid efforts there, and told the Pashtun it was up to them to decide to fish or cut bait.
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my opinion has changed on the stan. I think we should pull out and let the tribal bastards kill each other for a few years and then if a threat reapears go in and kick its ass.
When the government falls seriously out of step with the needs, indeed the basic requirements, of its citizens then parties at the extreme become more attractive. If government won't do the minimum to ensure the safety and welfare of its citizens then they'll go with somebody who promises to go for more than the minimum.
(Bloomberg) -- One in five Britons would consider voting for the whites-only British National Party, a YouGov poll for the Daily Telegraph said, two days after BNP leader Nick Griffin appeared in a British Broadcasting Corp. debate.
About 22 percent of voters would "seriously consider" voting for the party in a future local, national or European election, the Telegraph said, citing the poll. The BNP, which bars all except "indigenous Caucasian" people from membership, gained its first two European Parliament seats in June.
Griffin used his appearance on the BBC's Question Time to tell a record audience for the show of more than 8 million people that the nation should "shut the door" on immigrants, Islam is incompatible with British culture, and war-time leader Winston Churchill would have belonged to his party.
The BBC's decision to allow a member of the BNP to be a panelist on the show for the first time prompted violent protests outside the company's west London headquarters and sparked criticism from members of the three main parties.
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...sparked criticism from members of the three main parties.
I'll bet it did. And what Fred said: you push people against a wall, and they'll grab the first rope that's lowered. I don't think I could bring myself to vote BNP if I were British, but I understand the "F-U" sentiment of doing it. What do our English Rantburgers think?
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Alot of English feel we have no identity.I travel to Scotland,Wales,Ireland and USA and see National flags everywhere.
Go to London,Birmingham or Manchester and you will struggle to see a St George flag as it may upset immigrants who live in OUR Country!
The average white feels like a second class citizen as Certain immigrant groups we treat with Kid gloves!
Labour has made a shamble of our immigration policy.Having been to New York recently i said to locals London is similar to New York re different nationalities.The New Yorkers were shocked by this news.Do they know anything outside USA?
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Do they know anything outside USA?
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No Paul, sorry for the inattention, but most of us are quite ignorant of the affairs of our European cousins and would be delighted beyond your wildest imagination to remain that way. We've actually got quite enough to be concerned about with our very won buggering politicians and current overseas involvement in the war on terror. Moreover, we've noticed that our American involvement in the affairs of others is seldom welcomed and is generally accompanied by a costly premium of blood and sorrow. Best to simply move along and let our neighbors sort it out as they know best.
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Some of us do indeed know a fair amount about places like London, including the wretched way we were treated there when it became known we were from the US.
Good luck with your domestic decisions. We've taken the hint and gone home as we've been so stridently requested to do.
Not a good thing for all concerned, I suspect, but there it is.
It was New York City, Paul2. A better question would have been, do they know anything outside their borough, whether Manhattan, Queens, or Brooklyn, never mind Staten Island. I found the same thing abroad among the natives. Most people anywhere are interested only in that which visibly affects their own lives. It's just that the rest of the world watches our films and television shows, and think themselves informed. The pontificating I had to endure, back in the day, over the trial of that black football player who'd murdered his white wife, from people whose own country had no concept of innocent until proved guilty!
Its funny how when staunch islamists appeared on question time it was quite a healthy civilised debate . When bnp come on its a lynch festival with what I would call "modern 5th columnists" combined with other nutters spilling vitriol hate .
What made me laugh was the anti facsists outside , screaming for the debate not to go ahead , yet we live in a democracy . Even the main political parties didnt want it to go ahead , scared ? yes . . Crazy.
Nick Griffin did get shown up for what he is , but hes obviously touched a nerve with a large segment of the population . Namely immigration and the spread of Islam . You cant turn for upsetting some freaking group of people . We used to have a humour and laugh at ourselves , its gone .Put a bunch of al guardian readers in the audience and create total non impartiality . I cringe that society has come to this .
As for the BNP - any publicity is good publicity. They wont be getting my vote but Im seriously considering moving abroad for some quiet life . Britian is too full of nutcases imported by Labour . Im embarrassed to have so many ungrateful , sponging wretches in my home nation. To think I , along with others have spilled blood for this country to get it thrown back in my face by a bunch of tossers , bigots leeches and "intellignet braindeads" makes me sick to the core .
Anyway , not a well constructed statement , but I have just got back from the pub and this article aroused my curiosity.
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While this is good news for the BNP, the real news is how it impacts the other parties. Hopefully Labour will drag down the Liberal party with it, but instead of the Conservatives getting all the benefits, the rightist parties will make inroads to drag the Conservatives to the right.
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Im seriously considering moving abroad for some quiet life . Britian is too full of nutcases imported by Labour . Im embarrassed to have so many ungrateful , sponging wretches in my home nation. To think I , along with others have spilled blood for this country to get it thrown back in my face by a bunch of tossers , bigots leeches and "intellignet braindeads" makes me sick to the core .
Stay there. Stay in England and help fix your nation. Running away is for tossers. You're in the fix you're in because all of you sat around and just watched as these idiots stole your country. Much like we did here. Only, we're about to do something about our idiots.
Getting rid of the Left is job one for a bunch of us. And we're going to borrow some pages from the Lefts playbook. My attitude, and the attitude of most of the group I am working with is: By any means necessary, the ends justify the means. It's for the children!
Try telling a lefty that sometime, their eyes bug out of their skulls and they start sputtering. It strikes fear into them, because they know it is coming and that they richly deserve what they are going to get.
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Stay there. Stay in England and help fix your nation. Running away is for tossers.
Ummm Ebbineter, I'll remind you that America is almost completely Furreniers who "Ran away", don't look down your nose at those who want a better life for their descendants.
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SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Yonhap) -- The International Federation of Red Thingy Cross and Red Moon Shaped Thingy Crescent Societies (IFRC) has earmarked US$17 million for humanitarian aid to North Korea over the next two years, the Voice of America reported Saturday.
IFRC plans to provide medical services to 8.5 million vulnerable people and improve water supply services in North Korea from 2010-2011, the broadcaster said.
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SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has ordered greater production of silk so that all his countrymen can have quality clothing, state media reported Sunday. They can always eat the silkworms ...
Kim made the remarks during a tour to the Huichon Silk Mill and several other industrial and educational facilities in the town of Huichon, Jagang Province, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said.
"The mill should provide silk fabrics works with larger quantity of quality silk to meet the lifelong desire of President Kim Il-sung, who took much pain to ensure that all the people wear silks and live on rice and meat soup in tile-roofed houses," Kim was quoted by the report as saying, referring to one of the foremost campaigns his father initiated while alive.
Kim also visited the Youth Electric Complex, which produces various electric goods, and a newly-built library. He watched a performance by the art squad at the complex and held a photo session with its workers, the report said.
Kim then visited the Huichon University of Technology and stressed the school should "turn out more technical personnel" to consolidate the nation's economy, it said.
"The striking changes taking place in Jagang Province are a vivid manifestation of our people's steadfast will to build a great, prosperous and powerful nation with our efforts and resources in this land at any cost," Kim said.
Kim was accompanied by Workers' Party Secretary Kim Ki-nam, party department directors Pak Nam-gi and Jang Song-thaek, first vice department directors of the party, Ju Kyu-chang, Ri Je-gang and Ri Jae-il as well as provincial officials, the report said.
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I'm of two minds here, on the surface all that seems both desirable and worthwhile.
It's the under the surface Economic Slavery that chills my soul.
Can't leave, can't own anything not "Approved" , Can't be able to read whatever they wish , own weapons, etc.
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Hear Hear RJ! You has had a St. Paulo momento prehaps?
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More silk so the womenfolk can all dress in the traditional costume. Pretty to look at, impossible to work in, but their quotas won't change. The objective is insane, just like the petty godling of North Korea, Kim jong-il himself.
The proposed Anti-Money Laundering Bill 2009 seeks the inclusion of financing of terrorism in the list of offences in the revised legislation to be enacted by parliament.
Do we have a useable definition of terrorism yet, or is this posturing for the Kerry-whatchamacallum crowd donating American money to the cause of financing Pakistani taxpayers?
It also seeks an increase in the amount of fine under the law from Rs 1 million to Rs 5 million for a company and its directors, officers or employees found guilty of the offence.
According to the objectives of the amendments to be made in Anti-Money Laundering (AMLO) Ordinance 2007, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Asian Pacific Group (APG), raised serious reservations over certain provisions of the AMLO.
According to the draft, the definition of "financial institutions" was proposed to be substituted with an activity-based definition, as defined by the FATF.
The proposed definition includes any institution carrying one or more of the following activities: acceptance of deposits and other repayable funds from public; lending in any form; financial leasing; money or valuable transfer; managing credit and debit cards; cheques; travellers cheques; money orders; bank drafts and electronic money; financial guarantees and commitments; foreign exchange; exchange interest rate and index instruments; transferable securities; commodity futures trading, participating in shares issues and related services; individual and collective portfolio management; safekeeping and administration of cash or liquid securities on behalf of other persons; investing, administering or management of funds or money on behalf other persons; insurance business transactions; money and currency exchange; and carrying out of business as an intermediary.
Smuggling is one of the requisite predicate offences as per FATF. To include smuggling as such offence, certain provisions of Customs Act, 1969 are proposed to brought under the purview of AMLO.
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The NWFP government on Saturday decided to terminate the services of employees who had links with the Taliban and supported them during military operations.
The provincial government ordered all commissioners to submit names of all such employees. The decision was made in a cabinet meeting chaired by NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti.
Briefing the meeting, NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the chief minister had issued directives to all commissioners to send names of the government employees who supported the Taliban to the Home and Establishment departments of the province within 15 days. He said the government had decided to take action against employees who directly or indirectly supported the Taliban.
Regarding security measures, he said the meeting approved appointment of 2,000 additional policemen for Peshawar and 1,000 for Charsadda district.
An NWFP government spokesman said the cabinet also decided that all educational institutions would remain closed until November 1 due to security reasons. He said the provincial and federal governments had released funds worth Rs 415.88 million in the year 2008-09 for families of individuals who had been killed in various incidents of terrorism.
He said the government had approved recruitment of 11,500 Elite Force personnel to improve security. The spokesman said police personnel in the province had been issued Kalashnikov rifles. Bullet-proof jackets had been provided to around 70 percent of the policemen, the spokesman added.
Earlier in the NWFP cabinet meeting, the provincial chief minister said the NWFP government would continue operations against the Taliban in parts of the province.
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" It has non-Jews who live here with full, equal rights, but it has two things that assure its special character. It's the homeland of any Jew. And there is a very broad consensus in Israel that the Palestinian refugee problem should be resolved outside Israel's borders "
Israeli PM
[Al Arabiya Latest] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday Palestinians need to recognize Israel as a Jewish state in order to resolve their conflict as Hamas accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of seizing power after he called presidential and legislative elections for January.
Netanyahu told the Washington Post that "Israel is not a binational state."
"It has non-Jews who live here with full, equal rights, but it has two things that assure its special character. It's the homeland of any Jew. And there is a very broad consensus in Israel that the Palestinian refugee problem should be resolved outside Israel's borders."
Netanyahu said Palestinians will have to make a final peace deal with "the Jewish state of Israel."
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I agree with that.
Now... the hard part.
Getting the US to recognize Israel as a Jewsish State.
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He's not a "palestinian", g(r)om, but an "Obaman". The only thing he cares about is himself. The rest of the nutters there are much the same. They have no special interests beyond what they can get for themselves. Shootin's too good for them - they should all be made palestinians - in a Lebanese "refugee" camp.
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In the wake of the bloody attack in southeastern Iran carried out by the the Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorist group, Tehran and Islamabad have agreed to adopt joint measures to fight terrorism.
"A golden era will open in strategic cooperation between the two countries through the eradication of terrorism," Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said in a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday.
At least 41 people, including seven senior commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, were killed in a bombing on October 18 during a gathering of Shia and Sunni tribal leaders in the town of Pishin on the Iran-Pakistan border. Jundallah claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.
Najjar called his talks with Pakistani authorities on efforts to arrest Jundallah members constructive, adding, "The two countries reached promising agreements."
Gilani stated that Pakistan would not allow terrorists to use its territory as a base.
Tehran and Islamabad should boost security on their border as soon as possible, the Pakistani prime minister added.
The Jundallah ring, led by Abdolmalik Rigi, has staged a torrent of terrorist attacks in Iran.
In a recent interview with Press TV, Rigi's brother, Abdulhamid, confirmed that the Jundallah leader had established links with US agents.
Abdulhamid Rigi said that at just one of his meetings with the US operatives, Rigi had received $100,000 to foment sectarian strife in Iran.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A former Central Intelligence Agency officer has confirmed US' relations with the terrorist group Jundullah, despite the CIA knowing that the group has close links with the al-Qaeda.
"American intelligence has also had contact with Jundullah. But that contact, as Iran almost certainly knows, was confined to intelligence-gathering on the country," Robert Baer, a former Middle East CIA field officer wrote on the Time.com, IRNA reported early on Saturday.
However, he noted that the US-Jundullah relationship "was never formalized, and contact was sporadic."
The news comes amid US denial of any involvement in a recent terrorist attack in Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran, which Jundullah claimed responsibility for.
"I've been told that the Bush Administration at one point considered Jundullah as a piece in a covert-action campaign against Iran, but the idea was quickly dropped because Jundullah was judged uncontrollable and too close to al-Qaeda. There was no way to be certain that Jundullah would not throw the bombs we paid for back at us," said the former CIA agent who is a columnist in the weekly, and very probably an advisor in the Middle East.
Baer also noted that Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has had relations with the Jundullah leader, Abdolmalek Rigi.
"Pakistani intelligence has indeed had contact with Jundullah over the years, but there's no good evidence that Pakistan created Jundullah from scratch. And there's certainly no evidence that Pakistan ordered the attack," Baer said in reference to the terrorist attack that took place in Iran on Sunday, October 18, which killed 42 people including the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps commanders.
"In fact, Pakistani intelligence over the past few years has been arresting Jundullah members and turning them over to Iran," he claimed.
This is while earlier on Friday, Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi vowed to do everything in his power to hunt down the Jundullah terrorists and bring them to justice.
"This very incident unveiled the true nature of those who call themselves the pioneer in 'war on terrorism'," he said in reference to the United States.
A number of leading newspapers in the West, such as The Sunday Telegraph, have also declared Jundullah to be a CIA brainchild engineered to achieve the longstanding US goal of "regime change in Iran."
Iran's Interior Minister, Mustafa Mohammad Najjar, is currently in Islamabad to ask Pakistani officials to hand over Abdolmalek Rigi and assist Iran on cracking down on his terrorist group.
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It's a hardcore Sunni group that is offensive to the moderate people in Iran.
In the face of growing threats from Israel, Lebanon's Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun says that Hezbollah should remain armed and the Lebanese army should be well-equipped.
"We should bolster our defense forces at all costs; but I believe no matter how many weapons we obtain and how much money we spend, we will never have the potential to deter an Israeli attack. That is why, I believe, the resistance movement should remain armed" said Aoun in an exclusive interview with Press TV on Saturday.
"The best way to succeed against Israel is resistance-style asymmetrical warfare, therefore these artillery should be given to Hezbollah and should remain at its disposal until a peace deal is reached with Israel," the Christian leader explained.
The former general said he has decided to hold another meeting with prime minister-designate Saad Hariri, but refrained from elaborating on the exact time and venue.
"I am still waiting for Hariri's reply to the proposals I submitted in my latest press conference," he said.
Aoun was referring to demands that his party be granted six portfolios and be allowed to maintain the five ministries, including the Telecommunications Ministry -- which is of great security and financial importance.
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Aoun is a Christian - and a self-hating one at that by being a whore to Hezbullah.
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