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Africa Horn
No rush to vote in Sudan after polling extended
[Al Arabiya Latest] Sudanese trickled into polling stations on Tuesday to vote in the country's first competitive elections in 24 years, after polling was extended by two days due to a chaotic start.
When the fix is that obviously in it's hard to get the rubes fired up.
Never stopped Hizzoner Mayor Daley ...
"There are few people this morning. There is no rush because people have two more days to vote," said Fawzia Ahmed Mirghani from a polling station in Khartoum.

There were no queues as just a handful of people went into the polling station in a local school to cast their ballots in the landmark election where Sudanese are asked to choose a president, as well as local and legislative representatives.

"There are 1,020 people registered voters in this office. In two days, about 450 people have voted," said Yasser Abdallah, who oversees registration.

"The pressure is off now because of the extension. People don't have to rush in, they can take their time," said Ghada Abdul Baset, one of the staff on hand.

The national election commission on Monday announced an extension of the three-day vote until Thursday, after a chaotic start due to logistical problems on the first day of voting on Sunday.

Before polling started, the credibility of the vote had already been marred by a pullout of the opposition, who accused President Omar al-Bashir's National Congress Party of rigging the election. With the withdrawal of key presidential challengers, Yasser Arman of the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement and former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, Bashir looks to secure a comfortable win.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Algerian passport photo changes trouble Islamic groups
[Maghrebia] Any woman seeking a new biometric passport in Algeria must remove her hijab for the official photograph, Algeria's interior ministry confirmed last week.

"The government will not back down on its decision; veiled women are expected to observe this law," Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni announced at a press conference on Thursday (April 8th).

"Any woman who does not submit to the rules imposed by the International Aviation Organisation must take full responsibility for her actions when she travels."

Algeria introduced the new biometric passports, designed to heighten security and close the security loopholes of traditional passports, on April 6th.

Islamic groups are mobilising protests against the requirement. Four groups -- the Council of Algerian Ulemas, Al-Nahda, the Society Movement of Peace (MSP) and El Islah -- gathered in Algiers on April 7th to plan protest activities.

"This campaign will rely on the support of political figures and associations and religious leaders to distance itself from the interior ministry's stance and repeal the law," said Al-Nahda general-secretary Fateh Rebaié.

"We're calling on the government to respect the Muslim religion, the appeal of 1 November and the Constitution, which clearly stipulates that Islam is the state religion," said MSP president Bouguerra Soltani. He expressed "surprise" at statements "from certain officials on the subject of the need to remove one's veil or shave off one's beard in order to obtain biometric passports and identity cards".

El Islah leaders released a statement the same day denouncing the minister's attitude, saying that he had tried "to defend the indefensible". The statement called on the Religious Affairs minister to "defend the Muslim woman's Khimar (headscarf) rather than putting down all those who are devoted to their religion".

Religious Affairs Minister Bouabdellah Ghlamallah stood behind the government ruling.

"If the law obliges a woman to have a photograph taken in which her features must be visible for the biometric passport, then she must comply," he told journalists at an April 4th press conference. "But the law gives her the choice, and so she's free to decide for herself."

Women must respect the law "or go without a passport," Ghlamallah said.

Religious affairs ministry advisor Adda Fellahi said that his department had nothing to do with the ruling and is not in a position to "contradict a state institution".

"Veiled women can seek advice from muftis or imams on the issue in a personal manner," he said, adding: "Algeria is obliged to comply with international security standards, which require the top of the head, chin and ears to be clearly visible."

The Islamic High Council has abstained from the debate. Chairman Cheikh Bouamrane said it is not the institution's place to weigh in on a purely administrative matter which, furthermore, was imposed by international rules.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And, of course, since the picture has a face, they would have to show one at the airport.
Posted by: mojo || 04/14/2010 17:51 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Top Saudi religious authority defines terrorism
[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi Arabia's supreme religious body, the Senior Clerics Council, issued a Fatwa on Monday defining the term "terrorism." While defining terrorism as a whole the Senior Ulema Council decided that the events of Sept. 11, 2001 in the United States were indeed terrorist attacks.
Gosh. And it hasn't even been nine whole years. Have they decided it wasn't the Jews that engaged in that act of terrorism?
The reason it has taken years to define terrorism was because of the difficulty to separate from liberation or independence movements.
Kinda hard to contort your lips, much less logic and reason, far enough to ensure that the guys you pray for in the Grand Mosque every Friday aren't included under the umbrella.
Included in the definition of terrorist acts in the new fatwa are, "targeting of public resources, hijacking of airplanes, blowing up buildings and also al-Mofsdon fe al-Ard (to do mischief on earth)," according to the London-based newspaper Asharq Alawsat.
What about hunting down cartoonists?
All 20 members of the council met under the chairmanship of the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al al-Sheikh and all signed the final version of the fatwa.
Which in Islam means that 20 guys signed something. Good luck enforcing it ...
I'll believe it's not taqiyya when it's added to the curricula for every grade from kindergarten to twelfth year, both within Saudi Arabia and the materials prepared for mosques in the U.S. and elsewhere in Dar el Harb.
The council members based the fatwa on religious texts from Quran and the Sunnah that all criminalize financial support for terrorism as well as any theoretical or intellectual material that attempts to legitimize it.

The council's fatwa does not only cover Saudi Arabia or the Islamic countries but defines terrorism in the whole world.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No no, only an official council can issue a taqiyya fatwa...

Oh, wait...
Posted by: mojo || 04/14/2010 10:37 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Jamaat on Pak side
[Bangla Daily Star] Chittagong city unit Jamaat-e-Islami leaders yesterday said Jamaat was in the Pakistan's side during the liberation war of Bangladesh and they don't accept the issue of trying war criminals.

"None of our organisations was involved in war crimes and trial of war criminals is a mockery as the issue is now settled one," said city unit Jamaat ameer Mohammad Shamsul Islam.

He said this at a press conference at its Dewan Bazar office protesting, what they said, Monday's police attack on Jamaat-Shibir men at city's Anderkilla intersection.

"Jamaat was in the Pakistan's side during the liberation war as then the country was Pakistan. There is no war criminal in our party and the government is trying to stage a drama of mockery in the name of trail of war criminals to divert their failures," Shamsul said.

He alleged that police foiled their conference where Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid was the chief guest on Sunday and attacked on a protest rally on Monday.

"Police arrested our 11 party men and filed a false case," he alleged.

Whether their stance for Pakistan during the war was wrong or right, Shamsul Islam avoided the query saying that central leaders can make the remark.

The Jamaat leaders also announced a five-day programme demanding withdrawal of the case and release of the arrested party men. The programmes include view-exchange meetings with professional leaders and protest programmes at upazila level.

District ameer Jafar Sadek, city unit general secretary Nurul Islam and Nayeb-e-ameer Afsar Uddin Chowdhury, among others, were present.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


China-Japan-Koreas
Seoul 'Hampered Its Own Ability to Spy on N. Korea'
Unification Minister Hyun In-taek on Tuesday admitted that the fiber optic cables South Korea provided have made it more difficult to spy on North Korea. Hyun was answering a question from a lawmaker at a session of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee. "I understand that there is a problem or a loophole" in South Korea's intelligence-gathering ability, he said.

Grand National Party lawmaker Chung Jin-suk expressed worries that South Korea's ability to gather intelligence was weakened by fiber optic cables which the South Korean government supplied to the North in the past. "I suspect that some of the 45 km-long fiber optic cables may have been diverted to lay a communications network between frontline Army units in the North," he said.

Hyun said Seoul has "no plan as of now to comply with an additional request from the North for more fiber optic cables."

The South Korean government sent 20 km, 15 km and 2 km-long copper cables to the North in 2002, 2005 and 2007, which were meant to be used for inter-Korean military communications. Last year, the South supplied the North with 45 km-long fiber optic cables, two sets of optical termination equipment, and two sets of optical measuring instruments.

Under an agreement, a 25 km portion was supposed to be laid on the east coast, and another 20 km portion on the west coast. It is difficult to wiretap a network of fiber optic cables, Chung said.

"We haven't checked yet whether the cables were used simply for the inter-Korean military communications network or for the expansion of a new communications network for frontline units," Chung said.

He said if copper cables were replaced with fiber optic cables, then that would make intelligence gathering much more difficult in cases like the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan, where there is a suspicion of North Korean involvement.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Kim Jong-il Imports Hundreds of Cars for Loyal Officials
Around 100 Chinese-made cars have been brought into North Korea through a checkpoint on the border with China, probably for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to give to favored officials. The delivery was made on Tuesday, two days before former leader Kim Il-sung's birthday, which is the biggest holiday in the North.
These are for lower level officials. The big boys get a Benz ...
A North Korean source saw around 30 identical vehicles crossing the bridge across the Apnok (or Yalu) River into Sinuiju at around 9 a.m. The vehicles were the Chinese compact sedan F3 manufactured by BYD, referred to as the "people's car" in China due to its popularity. Around 100 cars reportedly crossed the border into North Korea on Tuesday alone. Starting last week, North Korea brought in more than 200 cars, including luxury foreign cars, jeeps and large vans. The total value of the imported cars is believed to be around US$5 million.

The North Korean regime often seeks to ensure the loyalty of senior officials by handing out the latest foreign-made cars on Kim Il-sung's or Kim Jong-il's birthday, but the Chinese-made cars imported this time are believed to be gifts for the middle ranks. "To my knowledge, the latest cars are gifts for mid-level officials at North Korea's prosecution and state security agency and have been allocated to specific people in different regions," the source said.

North Korea watchers believe the cars were bought to boost the morale of such officials, who were hit hard by the botched currency reform in December. "Failing to take care of mid-ranking officials could jeopardize the transfer of power to Kim Jong-il's third son Jong-un," said one North Korea expert. "The purpose of the gifts is to appease discontent."

Do Hee-yoon of the South Korean activist group Citizens Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees, said, "Public discontent is extremely high in North Korea right now as people see the lavish spending and gifts being given to high-ranking officials amid forecast that many people will starve to death during the spring dry season."
Posted by: Steve White || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Rip-off of the Toyota Corolla. Sells for about USD $9,300. Popular for taxis in some parts of China. 4 cylinder, 1.5 liter engine. One common complaint in the BYD F3 is a "shake" on hard acceleration. This has been isolated to a combination of tire pressure and faulty engine mounts.
Posted by: gromky || 04/14/2010 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Not GM cars, though.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2010 4:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Tire pressure? That's the old reliable for commies.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/14/2010 4:06 Comments || Top||

#4  You sure this isn't an indication of a purge?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2010 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Kinda like Oprah. Sorta.
Posted by: mojo || 04/14/2010 10:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Cars for Kim. Certified to run on G100(grass).
Posted by: Skunky Glins**** || 04/14/2010 19:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Awlaki lied to qualify for U.S.-funded college scholarship
The American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, considered by some to be one of the most wanted terrorists behind Usama bin Laden, was educated in the United States with taxpayers money, an ongoing Fox News investigation has found.

A former diplomatic security agent who was tasked with investigating Awlaki immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks told Fox News that the Yemeni-American national apparently lied on his visa application to attend Colorado State University, where he studied engineering. Rather than tell U.S. immigration officials that he was born in Las Cruces, N.M., in 1971, Awlaki stated that the was foreign born, the security agent, Ray Fournier, said.

Awlaki received $20,000 in scholarship money from a U.S. government program for his schooling in Fort Collins, Colo. When asked if Awlaki was eligible, Fournier said, “No, he is absolutely forbidden to have it.' "That's the taxpayers' money," Fournier added, saying Awlaki knew that lying about his birthplace would help him get the scholarship money.

A spokesperson at Colorado State University confirmed that Awlaki listed himself as an international student during his years there. The school would not comment on his financial records citing privacy issues.

Fournier came across the scholarship information as part of a larger investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, based in San Diego, in the months following 9/11. He says a large team of agents worked together tirelessly to find a reason to arrest or detain the American-born cleric because of his ties to at least two of the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. The task force was “a robust group of individuals,' Fournier said. “We had ATF, DEA, local and state organizations, California Department of Motor Vehicles, to the Social Security Administration, the INS and the FBI…about 70 people.'

Awlaki was of special interest to the task force because he was the iman at the Rabat mosque in San Diego from 1996 to 2000 where the two hijackers worshipped. “He would meet with these two -- al-Hazmi and al Mihdihar -- in a small ante-room off the main floor,' Fournier told Fox News, adding that the contact was on a regular basis. “The two terrorists had a special relationship with the imam where they met frequently, in private meetings, after Friday prayers.'

Fournier was asked to specially look into passport and visa fraud. The Diplomatic Service, where Fournier worked at the time, is the law enforcement branch of the State Department. “I traveled to New Mexico. I went through the Bureau of Vital Statistics records and secured his birth certificate," Fournier told Fox News. “Clearly he was born here. It (the birth certificate) looked valid to me. There was nothing out of the ordinary. His parents were here as graduate students at New Mexico State University at the time.'
Posted by: ryuge || 04/14/2010 09:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I've read Bambi did the same--foreign student scholarship money funded his education. Producing a legit birth certificate is a "damned if U do, damned if U don't" for POTUS.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 04/14/2010 11:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, I consider the fact that he claimed to be a foreign student to be more damning than the phantom birth certificate.

If he calls himself a foreigner, he's a foreigner. As POTUS, he definately does not have America's interests in mind.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 04/14/2010 11:42 Comments || Top||

#3  My guess, and it is ONLY a guess, is that he held both a US Passport and an Indonesian passport. The question of how he visited Pakistan as a student has yet to be answered as well. Using an Indonesian passport could, I say again could, account for it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2010 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Taqiyya, so it's OK.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 04/14/2010 18:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Aside from the POTUS mess. Seems like all we do now is allow ourselves to derail into the Obama is a zero mode and slip from the real WOT issues. This guy Awlaki has been on the radar for a lot longer than Bambi has been around. We knew, through open sources, he was involved in 911. We knew his Mosque in the DC area was involved. We should have put a bullet in his head a long time ago. Instead, our FBI gatered evidence, interviewed people, acted like beat cops at a robery, built a case -or not- against him and let this guy escape the US. We have not heard the last of him or felt the last of his violence. We now have the even tougher task of finding him, try Yemen Mr OGA director, hunting him down and killing him. Because he will be back, and more Americans will die.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/14/2010 20:00 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan Opposes Talks to Taliban
[Quqnoos] Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said he opposes talks between Kabul government and the Taliban
Well, sure. The Taliban belong to Pakistan and the ISI, they don't get to negotiate with with outsiders, especially when the outsiders are trying to run what Pakistan considers its private backyard.
"Militants just want to destabilize the system," Gilani told reporters at a lunch in Washington on Monday.
Which system might that be, pray tell?
President Hamid Karzai has campaigned for inviting Taliban leaders to negotiations to broker an end to an almost nine-year conflict.

Gilani's government itself negotiated cease-fires or peace deals with the Pakistani branch of the Taliban in 2008 and 2009, pacts that later fell apart.

Still, Gilani said, socio-economic investments to address the root causes of the insurgency are as essential as military action. Militant violence and suicide bombings have spurred the "flight of capital and there is no investment in Pakistan," he said, calling for international capital to return.
That was certainly a change of subject. I think I have whiplash.
Gilani is attending President Barack Obama's two-day nuclear security summit that brought leaders and senior representatives from 47 nations to Washington.
And very interesting it is, too, to see which countries sent only senior representatives instead of leaders.
The Pakistani leader said he told Obama that the "biggest mistake of the US" after its military campaign that ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan in 2001 was to leave "a vacuum" that allowed militants to return.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Karzai to meet UN Commission probing Benazir murder
[Dawn] On the request of President Asif Ali Zardari, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has shown willingness to meet the UN Commission probing the assassination of Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Why would they interview President Karzai? Wasn't the assassination of former PM Bhutto an internal Pakistani affair?
Karzai has agreed to meet the commission on any day before April 25 in Kabul.

Pakistan Permanent Representative in New York, Ambassador Hussain Haroon has been advised by the Foreign office to convey the willingness of the Afghan president to the Chairman of the Commission.

Diplomatic sources informed that President Zardari has written a letter to former US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice requesting her to meet the Commission for providing a perspective on the back ground and context of the assassination.
That would certainly prove to be an interesting meeting, should Dr. Rice agree to attend.
Sources told that the president wants the senior officials of Afghanistan, US, UAE and Saudi Arabia to cooperate with the UN Commission in preparing its report.

Officials of UAE and Saudi Arabia have already provided their information in this regard.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Mumbai attackers to be punished, says Gilani
[Dawn] US President Barack Obama conveyed India's concerns over the Mumbai terror attacks when he met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday evening, and the Pakistani leader reiterated a pledge that those responsible for the attacks would be brought to justice.
"Should any such persons be proved to exist," he added. "Of course, the evidence provided by kufrs has a priori no validity. Perhaps if some Muslims in good standing were to stand witness..."
Briefing journalists on the Obama-Gilani meeting, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told journalists that Mr Obama also brought up some of the issues he had discussed with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier Sunday. "President Obama told us, he believes Mr Singh is sincere in his desire to engage Pakistan," Mr Qureshi said. "But Mr Singh also wants Pakistan to bring to justice those responsible for the Mumbai attacks."

Mr Obama told the prime minister that he too believed that any action against the Mumbai suspects would be a positive step, Mr Qureshi said.

Later at a dinner he hosted for the Pakistani media, Prime Minister Gilani said he too believed that those responsible for the Mumbai attacks should be punished.

"Certainly," he said, adding "I am against terrorism and always of the opinion that those who are the culprit they should be brought to justice."

During his meeting with President Obama, the Indian prime minister also demanded the extradition of Pakistani-American terror suspect David Coleman Headley and claimed that the US military aid to Pakistan would ultimately be used against India and that Pakistan-backed groups were trying to oust India from Afghanistan.

According to the Pakistani delegation, Mr Obama did not raise any of these issues in his meeting with Mr Gilani but he did tell the Pakistani leader that better relations between India and Pakistan would have a positive impact on the entire region. "Mr Obama said that while he realised both India and Pakistan were sovereign states, he also wanted to see them improve their relations," said Mr Qureshi. "Mr Obama said that better relations will bring more opportunities for both the countries."

President Obama's remarks, as reported by the Pakistani foreign minister, indicated that the US was playing an undeclared mediatory role between India and Pakistan.

India opposes any mediation in its talks with Pakistan. Yet the Indian prime minister raised its issues with Pakistan with the US leader, showing that like Islamabad, New Delhi also realises that their disputes were too complex to be resolved without outside help.

But in deference to India's public position on third-party mediation, the White House press statement on Mr Obama's talks with Mr Singh does not mention Pakistan and the statement on the Obama-Gilani meeting does not mention India.

The statement on the Obama-Singh meeting, however, did mention that "the two leaders also discussed the situation in Afghanistan and their shared vision for a strong, stable and prosperous South Asia. In this context, President Obama welcomed the humanitarian and development assistance that India continues to provide to Afghanistan".

Despite India's opposition to international mediation, President Obama issued a secret directive to his diplomats in December, urging them to push for reducing tensions between India and Pakistan.

And, as the Wall Street Journal pointed out on Sunday "he found himself spending Sunday in Washington navigating between simultaneous visits by the prime ministers of India and Pakistan".
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba

#1  A very stern talking to?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2010 4:07 Comments || Top||

#2  More like a letter of commendation in their personnel file at ISI HQ.
Posted by: Spot || 04/14/2010 8:04 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Nuclear summit told how Georgia 'foiled plot to sell weapons-grade uranium'
Georgian president tells nuclear summit of sting as Barack Obama calls on rest of world 'not simply to talk, but to act'

Georgian security forces have foiled a criminal plot to sell weapons-grade uranium on the black market, the country's president told a gathering of world leaders today.

The revelation brought a sense of urgency to the Washington summit on nuclear security, where Barack Obama called on the rest of the world "not simply to talk, but to act" to destroy vulnerable stockpiles of nuclear material, or to safeguard them against theft by terrorists.

The US president reminded leaders and ministers from 46 other nations that the world's stores of plutonium and highly-enriched uranium (HEU) -- both of which can be used in the core of a nuclear weapon -- were scattered around more than 40 countries. He pointed out that it only took a lump of plutonium the size of an apple to make a warhead.

Pakistan came under particular scrutiny in Washington because of widespread fears that extremists could steal a weapon from its nuclear arsenal, and because of its opposition to a treaty that would ban the production of fissile material.

But the revelation from Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili of a nuclear smuggling case served as a reminder that there is still considerable uncertainty about whether the weapons and fissile material left behind when the Soviet Union collapsed have been fully accounted for.

Georgian sources said the HEU was intercepted in a sting operation carried out by the Tbilisi authorities in March without international assistance. They said the uranium was more than 70% enriched. The exact analysis is expected in a few days, but it appears to have been pure enough to use in a crude nuclear weapon.

The amount seized was small, measured in grams, so nowhere near the 25kg minimum needed for a functioning bomb, but Georgian officials said the gang was offering the HEU as a sample of a bigger quantity available for purchase. The officials would not comment on the nationality of the gang.

"The Georgian ministry of interior has foiled eight attempts of illicit trafficking of enriched uranium during the last 10 years, including several cases of weapons-grade enrichment. Criminals associated with these attempts have been detained," the Georgian president told the summit. "The most recent case of illicit trafficking was the attempted sale of highly enriched uranium in March of this year."The seizure echoes the case of Oleg Khinsagov, a North Ossetian smuggler who was arrested in 2006 trying to sell 100g of HEU in Georgia. He also claimed to his would-be buyers that the sample, which was found to be nearly 90% enriched, was just a sample from a bigger batch. Khinsagov is now serving an eight-year sentence, but that this latest case suggests a bigger batch of stolen HEU may well exist.

Since 1993, the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed 15 cases of smuggling of weapons-grade HEU or plutonium, but UN investigators admit they have no idea how much of the trade they are seeing. There are fears that only petty operators are being caught and that more organised gangs are evading capture.

Matthew Bunn, a leading expert on nuclear security at Harvard University, said: "One of the troubling things about past cases in Georgia is that there was some evidence that this was the activity of an organised criminal group and they were selling lots from the same batch of material. Its an interesting question whether this is the same group."

Bunn added: "I hope this puts the fear of God into other leaders and convince them that this a real problem and an ongoing problem."US officials pointed to some concrete successes from the summit. Ukraine and Canada said they would no longer use HEU in research reactors, and switch to low enriched uranium (LEU) -- which is much harder to turn into a bomb. Canada's HEU will be shipped to the US, from where it originally came, for safekeeping. The Ukrainian HEU originally came from the Soviet Union and will be returned to Russia.. Malaysia announced it had enforced tougher controls on the shipment of nuclear equipment.

The summit's final communiqué affirmed the support of the 47 nations for Obama's goal of securing the stockpiles of fissile material within four years, and called for more countries to switch from HEU to low-enriched uranium reactors. It also called on the ratification of UN conventions aimed at setting international standards for nuclear security. Some countries, including France, pledged to accelerate the ratification process.

There were also pledges of more financial support for the International Atomic Energy Agency, which will play a newly enhanced role in monitoring and reinforcing global security standards.

There were no binding commitments in the communiqué or a more detailed workplan that was issued alongside it, but rather a political pledge to deliver results in the two years before the next summit, to be held in South Korea. Meanwhile, agreement was reached that top officials, or sherpas, from the 47 countries would meet every six months.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Poll: 91% against Obama imposing deal
A huge majority of Israelis would oppose an attempt by US President Barack Obama to impose a final-status agreement with the Palestinians, a poll sponsored by the Independent Media Review and Analysis (IMRA) organization found this week.

Leading American newspapers reported last week that Obama was considering trying to impose a settlement if efforts to begin indirect proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinians proved unsuccessful. The option was discussed in a meeting with current and former advisers to the White House.

Asked whether they would support Obama imposing a plan dividing Jerusalem and removing the Jordan Valley from Israeli control, 91 percent of Israelis who expressed an opinion said no and 9% said yes, according to the poll of 503 Israelis, which was taken by Ma'agar Mohot on Sunday and Monday and had a 4.5% margin of error.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2010 03:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama is rapidly pushing the region into another war.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2010 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  This is a new one on me. How the hell could he impose a deal? Invade the west bank? This makes no damn sense unless it's just wishful thinking on the part of O-worshippers.
Posted by: Spot || 04/14/2010 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  How the hell could he impose a deal? Invade the west bank? . Because Obama is just another third world, two-bit dictator, that this got himself behind the controls of the worlds only Super Power a year and a half ago. Someone is going to have to knock this idiot onto his *ss.
Posted by: wp || 04/14/2010 9:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Identity politics maybe? Because Obama is the right *kind* of President, he can do something like that.

Bu I don't know- ID politics sort of catches me off guard every time.
Posted by: Free Radical || 04/14/2010 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Someone is going to have to knock this idiot onto his *ss.

I'll settle for him getting his teeth knocked out to the tune of 100 or so seats in November.

Seeing him get knocked on his ass would be icing, though.
Posted by: Gomez Threter7450 || 04/14/2010 13:32 Comments || Top||

#6  "impose"?? WTF?

This is getting weirder and weirder. Is this little man insane? Who is he, anyway?
Posted by: lex || 04/14/2010 13:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Yup, what arrogance! BO is a wanna-be dictator masquerading as President.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2010 15:21 Comments || Top||

#8  ...wanna-be? It hasn't been for the lack of trying. Thank God for that checks n balances thingy - there is still a slim chance to save the Republic.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/14/2010 19:00 Comments || Top||


Haaretz Defends Treason and Espionage
The partial lifting of the gag order on the Anat Kam espionage affair, which had already been exposed to the world media in March by Judith Miller, is stirring up a storm in Israel. The charge sheet accuses Kam of “divulging secret information with the intent to harm the security of the state,' which falls under “serious espionage' and carries a maximum life term. Haaretz, Israel's left-wing daily, is at the center of the storm — and tying itself in knots to defend Kam, its journalist Uri Blau, and itself.

When sources in the defense establishment saw the stories, they worried about where they could have come from. The Israel Security Agency, better known as Shin Bet, eventually worked out a deal with Blau where he returned his documents and was promised they wouldn't be used to incriminate him or his sources. A few months later, in December 2009, the Shin Bet identified Kam as the source of the documents — but the problem was that she admitted to giving Blau far more documents than he had turned over.

Kam was put under house arrest; Blau fled the country and is now in London. The Shin Bet negotiated with Blau's lawyers in an attempt to retrieve the documents. It was when they concluded this was futile that the gag order was lifted.

As things now stand, Kam has been indicted and the trial is supposed to begin in May; the head of the Shin Bet, Yuval Diskin, has warned that Blau is endangering himself and the country by holding onto his documents in a foreign location, but Blau still has not agreed to return to Israel and give them up.

Haaretz is rattled, and a sense of shock is said to hang over its editorial offices. It's not only that Kam acted out of what the charge sheet called “ideological motivations' arising from the extreme left — an outlook given much voice in Haaretz. It's also that Haaretz's own journalist, Blau, is involved — and people are good and mad. Yisrael Hasson, a former deputy head of the Shin Bet and a Knesset member from the center-left Kadima Party, called on people to cancel Haaretz subscriptions until Blau is fired and returns all the documents.

And yet, amid the storm, Haaretz is sticking to its guns and to its reporter. On Sunday it published a piece called “Haaretz Answers Four Key Questions on the Anat Kam Case' that shows how low Israel's security actually ranks in its priorities. “Haaretz,' the article states, “believes that it cannot pass on all the documents Blau has to the defense establishment because its senior officials may use them to trace his sources.' The article also accuses the Shin Bet of “reneging' on its agreement with Blau — even though it was Blau who hoodwinked the Shin Bet by handing over only a fraction of his contraband. Yet Haaretz admits that it “decided to instruct Blau to remain abroad' despite the danger entailed. (It's even speculated that Diskin, out of desperation, sought to scare Blau into returning.)

Also on Sunday Haaretz ran an op-ed by its columnist Yossi Sarid, a former leftist politician, arguing that what Kam did was fine because the institutions and country whose laws she violated aren't worth much anyway. “Let every Israeli mother decide,' Sarid intoned, "if she has entrusted her sons to an army and government worthy of her trust."

By Monday Kam had waived her journalistic immunity, and her lawyer was trying to convince Blau to return to Israel and hand over the documents on the understanding that he wouldn't be charged. But even if such a deal is reached, Haaretz, for the bulk of the Israeli public, won't smell like roses in this affair.

Indeed, the Israeli left as a whole has fallen on hard times lately. In the 2009 elections the two parties that most embody it, Labor and Meretz, won a total of 16 seats out of 120. Last February it was revealed that the New Israel Fund, a major and wide-ranging left-wing NGO, had supplied most of the false information enabling the Goldstone Report — recognized as an anti-Israeli calumny across the Israeli spectrum, that is, except for the far left.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well poisoners.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2010 4:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Well poisoners.

Yes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2010 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Israel's own NY Times
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2010 11:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Isn't it odd how the Left - the self-styled 'socialists' - get enraged about all sorts of things and yet actual treason - betrayal of one's own society - is something they have no problem with whatsoever. In fact they glorify it.

The Politics of Perverts.
Posted by: Bulldog || 04/14/2010 12:48 Comments || Top||

#5  If cancelled subscriptions or legal expenses lead to Haaretz closing at least some good could come out of the affair. Gideon Levy's column could then originate in a Syrian newspaper where it belongs.
Posted by: Odysseus || 04/14/2010 18:31 Comments || Top||


Arab League slams new Israeli plot
[Iran Press TV Latest] Hundreds of Palestinians hold a rally against a new Israeli threat to expel West Bank residents after the Arab League declared full support for their resistance.

Palestinians attended the sit-in demonstration on Tuesday after the 22-member Arab organization called on them to resist any order that could cause their expulsion from their homeland.

"Smash Israeli apartheid, free Palestine," chanted more than 200 demonstrators in the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah.

In a statement released Tuesday, the Arab League in Cairo pledged "full support for Palestinian steps in the occupied territories to resist" any order related to the regime's new plan for the expulsion of thousands of residents from the territory.

It called on the Palestinians "to reject and not cooperate and acquiesce in it."

The Israeli military issued a new decree under which thousands of Palestinian residents of the West Bank would be defined as infiltrators.

"Under the new orders, anyone found without a designated permit, including Palestinians living in areas governed by the Palestinian Authority, can be imprisoned for up to seven years as well as expelled from the West Bank," said the Israeli decree.

Israel's army, however, denied reports of plans to carry out mass deportation of Palestinians from the West Bank.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Let's you and him fight!"
Posted by: mojo || 04/14/2010 15:42 Comments || Top||


Nativity Church deportees applaud PA aid
[Ma'an] Jihad Ja'ara, a Nativity Church deportee, on Tuesday expressed gratitude to the Palestinian Authority for assisting he and his fellow exiles in Europe after suffering for years without financial means to pay rent and other needs.

In an interview, Ja'ara, who also serves as a spokesman for the deportees, said the PA stepped in after Italy stopped paying compensation for the former militants, none of whom are permitted to work due to the terms of Europe's agreement with Israel.

Ja'ara thanked President Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad for "standing by the Nativity Church exiles," and expressed particular thanks to chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat and Major-Gen. Majed Faraj for their "continued efforts on behalf of the deportees."
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  "What do we have for them, Johnny?..."
"Nothing! Not even a copy of our lousy home game!"
Posted by: mojo || 04/14/2010 10:38 Comments || Top||


Damascus: Mashal, Moussa talk unity
[Ma'an] Head of Hamas' politburo Khalid Mash'al met with Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa in Mash'al's Damascus office Monday, where the two discussed a list of obstacles preventing Palestinian reconciliation.

Hamas officials in Gaza said Mash'al told Moussa that an American veto was the central issue in reconciliation,
It's all President Obama's fault? Interesting.
noting Palestinians - and certainly Hamas - were for Palestinian political unity in the face of continued Israeli occupation.

Moussa laid out possible mechanisms of Arab League support to foster unity, and bring acceptable conditions to all parties so a strong Palestinian agreement could be achieved, while Mash'al said solid Arab League support for the Egyptian unity initiative would help overcome division.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Jerusalem 'plans to build synagogue in settlement'
AFP - Jerusalem authorities plan to give the green light to build a new synagogue and school in east Jerusalem on land seized from Palestinians, Israeli army radio reported on Tuesday. The land was seized from its Palestinian owners shortly before planning for the buildings started in the 1990s, the radio said.
So many questions. To start:
  • What would a title search show? Had the land previously been seized by Jordan from Jewish owners in 1948?
  • Were the Palestinian owners reimbursed for the land at the current market price?
  • Had the Palestinian owners built unsafe or illegal structures on the land, as so often appears to be the case?
  • Were the Palestinian owners legally resident in Jerusalem
The construction project in the Gilo neighbourhood, a Jewish settlement, still needs final approval from the city's planning commission, whose head Kobi Khalon said this would be a formality.

But Khalon, who is also deputy mayor, added: "We must act with prudence and responsibility as Jerusalem is an explosive city."

Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's orders, Jerusalem's planning commission -- whose approval is needed for any construction project in the city -- has not met since the ill-timed announcement during Biden's visit, said city council member Meir Margalit. Its first meeting for more than a month will be on Thursday, when it is expected to approve the Gilo project, said the leftwinger.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


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World leaders to act against nuclear terrorism
[Al Arabiya Latest] U.S. President Barack Obama secured a pledge from world leaders on Tuesday to take concerted action to prevent nuclear terrorism, as he pressed for further support to tighten sanctions on Iran.
If furrowing the brow and issuing communiques ain't action what is it?
The final communiqué to be issued at a 47-nation nuclear summit promised greater efforts to block "non-state actors" like al-Qaeda from obtaining the building blocks for atomic weapons for "malicious purposes."

The work plan issued after the two-day summit in Washington listed steps nations should take to secure stocks of separated plutonium and weapons grade uranium and advises states on how to dispose of the dangerous materials.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  RUSSIA TODAY > EXPERT - THE NUCLEAR THREAT IS THERE [Nuclear Terror-Militancy + related].

and

SAME > AMERICANS PREPARE FOR DISASTER. Rise of the "PREPPERS" in the US whom fear perceived US FED-GOVT TAKEOVER OF EVERYTHING WILL RESULT IN YOU-NAME-IT-YOU-GOT-IT PEERSONAL, LOCAL, NATIONAL, ETC. CATASTOPHES???

D *** NG IT, 1980's GHOSTBUSTERS BILL MURRAY > "...DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER - MASS HYSTERIA"!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/14/2010 2:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Now I can sleep in peace.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2010 4:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Buy stock in International Paper.

cause that is all they're going to do.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/14/2010 8:56 Comments || Top||

#4  That promise and four bucks will get you a cup of coffee.
Posted by: mojo || 04/14/2010 10:34 Comments || Top||


China set to help craft UN sanctions on Iran: US
[Al Arabiya Latest] United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed late Monday to jointly push for new nuclear sanctions on Iran, U.S. officials said, heralding an apparent diplomatic breakthrough, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that his country will not give up its nuclear weapons.

Injecting momentum into the drive to punish Tehran, Hu and Obama instructed their delegations at the United Nations to work together on a draft resolution, the officials said, as Obama seeks to enact toughened sanctions within weeks.

Hu's entourage was less specific after the talks, but said that the United States and China shared the "same overall goal" on Iran, after months of U.S. efforts to secure Chinese cooperation on "biting" new sanctions.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Biting new sanctions...cooperation...less specific...yeah, looks like this week it is China's turn to play Nice Guy. Just as well. The rooskis are too busy trying to find the invoices for the those S-300s.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2010 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, sanctions worked so well for those willing to be bribed the UN when they applied them to Saddam.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Chilliwack, BC || 04/14/2010 2:14 Comments || Top||

#3  ION RIAN > RUSSIA MILITARY: US,ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN IS "UNACCEPTABLE".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/14/2010 2:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah. Things like no ipods, no Corvettes, no bibles, . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 04/14/2010 22:56 Comments || Top||


China always favors diplomacy on Iran
[Iran Press TV Latest] China says it will always favor "dialogue" for resolving the dispute over Iran's nuclear program because sanctions will not help solve the issue.

"China always believes that dialogue and negotiation are the best way out for the issue. Pressure and sanctions cannot fundamentally solve it," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Tuesday.

"The actions of the Security Council should help turn around the situation and properly solve the issue through dialogue and negotiation." AFP quoted Jiang as saying.

Her comments came after Chinese President Hu Jintao and US President Barack Obama held talks on the issue in Washington.

Hu said China recognizes "the equal right of all countries to the peaceful use of nuclear energy."
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Russia yet to decide on Iran S-300 deal
[Iran Press TV Latest] A senior Russian commander says the army cannot make an independent decision regarding the delivery of S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Iran.

Tehran has repeatedly voiced disapproval with continued delays in the delivery of the S-300 systems from Russia, which signed an agreement with Iran in 2005 to supply the country with the defense system.

Russia has denied that the repeated delays are related to Israeli pressures.

The chief of the General Staff, Nikolai Makarov, said on Monday the decision on the delivery of the system should be made by Russian leaders.

"This decision should be made at state level. We, the military, will follow the leadership's commands," General Makarov said.

The sophisticated missile system, according to Western experts, would rule out the possibility of an effective Israeli airstrike on Iranian nuclear sites.

Iran, a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), says its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes. The West, however, accuses the country of seeking to develop an atomic bomb.

The report comes as the US has stepped efforts to garner international support for tougher sanctions against Iran in the UN Security Council. China and Russia, however, have opposed further sanctions against Iran, stressing that the issue should be resolved through diplomacy.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  The sophisticated missile system, according to Western experts, would rule out the possibility of an effective Israeli airstrike on Iranian nuclear sites.

LOL.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2010 4:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I give you Operation Opera, June 7, 1981. A huge success, which immediately drew the condemnation of the foreign governments including the US, and prompted UN Resolution 487 which condemned Israel. Nearly 30 years later the nuclear facility at Osirak remains closed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2010 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I think the funny thing is Putin talked Chavez into buying some after they haven't delivered in 5 years too the iranians
Posted by: chris || 04/14/2010 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Osirak was indeed a victory, Besoeker.

Iran's program is in deeply buried hardened tunnels, for the most part. While there are some things one can do they are not so easy a target as was Osirak was.
Posted by: lotp || 04/14/2010 21:00 Comments || Top||

#5  yeah the hard part is we ahve a pres who would NEVER back something like israel did too iraq
Posted by: chris || 04/14/2010 21:53 Comments || Top||


'US nuke threat is state terrorism'
Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaee describes the US threat of using nuclear weapons against other countries as state terrorism.

"Threats of using nuclear weapons against a nation are a clear sample of the state terrorism," Khazaee said at the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC).

He called for a frank fight against terrorism, saying, "Certain countries should not use the case as a political instrument to promote their expansionist goals and dispatch troops to remote parts of the world and to the Middle East in particular."

The Iranian envoy slammed such practices as adopting double standards and taking political advantage of the issue as well as making moves, which will actually serve to expand terrorism. He said, "Iran is a victim of terrorism and has always condemned acts of terror and the instrumental use of this phenomenon."

He urged all UN member countries to remain committed to legal and international regulations.

Khazaee said that state terrorism and the use of military force against poor nations under the pretext of a war on terror is a "serious danger" to global security and a clear breach of international rights and the Geneva Convention.

He noted that recent threats made by US officials about resorting to the use of nuclear arms against the Islamic Republic were a clear example of state terrorism and a violation of international rights.

The Iranian diplomat called on the international community to denounce the posing of threats against a country which is a member of the United Nations and a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Threats of any kind are against article two of the U-N charter. Tehran says it plans to submit a formal complaint to the United Nations.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Gee, Noobama, thanks for giving Iran yet another "excuse" to develop nukes. As if they needed it.
Posted by: gorb || 04/14/2010 22:58 Comments || Top||


Hezbollah MP warns about US meddling
Hezbollah lawmaker Nawaf Mousawi has warned the US about interfering in Lebanon's internal affairs ahead of the country's municipal elections.

Mousawi accused the US embassy of impeding national reconciliation in Lebanon, the Lebanese daily Naharnet reported on Monday.

He said the US embassy in Awkar, Lebanon is "harming" national reconciliation efforts "through the policy of sabotage and fragmentation it is adopting in Lebanon and the region."

"The Awkar den is also harming national dignity by turning its intelligence into tools to slaughter the Lebanese any time it wants," he added.

He also said any US intervention in Lebanon is tantamount to direct Israeli intervention in Lebanon.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  interfering in Lebanon's internal affairs
Has he notified the Syrians and Iranians, too?
Posted by: Spot || 04/14/2010 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't worry oBAMA WILL COME OVER THERE AND PERSONALLY KISS YOUR ASS SOON ENOUGH
Posted by: chris || 04/14/2010 10:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Has he notified the Syrians and Iranians, too?

That's what Arab Muslim brotherly love looks like, Spot. Who can object to such a wholesome thing as brotherly love, even if it comes with murder, mayhem, and arming a terrorist army?
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2010 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  not Obama
Posted by: chris || 04/14/2010 21:54 Comments || Top||


Iran President Urges Afghan War Probe
[Quqnoos] Iran's President called on UN chief Ban Ki-moon to set up an inquiry into the aims of Western military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq

A letter charged that US and NATO methods of dealing with terrorism in the region had failed and said it was up to Ban, as UN Secretary-General, to launch a probe whose results would be presented to the 192-nation UN General Assembly.

Nearly 120,000 foreign troops have been stationed in Afghanistan to fight Taliban forces. President Obama has approved to send an additional 30,000 troops on the ground as reinforcement.

Ahmadinejad said that as a result of the Western presence "a few million people" had been killed, wounded or displaced, illicit opium poppy cultivation had increased "and the peoples of our region continue to live under the shadow of threat."

"We have emphasized time and again that settlement of problems in our region does not need wide-scale military expeditions or actions," said Ahmadinejad, whose country borders Afghanistan to the east and Iraq to the west.

"Excellency, you are at least expected to appoint an independent fact-finding team which is trusted by the countries of the region, to launch a comprehensive investigation into the main intentions of NATO military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, the methods used, and the outcome of their presence and engagement," he told Ban.

Iranian media reports quoted Ahmadinejad's letter as also calling for an investigation into the Sept 11 attacks on the United States, saying they had been used as a pretext for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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