SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- North Korea announced Friday that it has enacted new laws to facilitate trade with other countries, improve labor rights and protect the interests of economic entities under state supervision.
"The adoption of the laws provides a definite legal guarantee for improving the labor protection work, developing economic cooperation and exchange with other countries," the official Korean Central News Agency said in a report monitored in Seoul.
Oh, they shot all the communists?
The report did not go into further specifics, but added that the laws seek to protect "the economic interests of the industrial establishments, organizations, individuals and foreign investment companies belonging" to the chamber of commerce.
That could have been written by the Democratic National Committee ...
The laws were "recently adopted" by the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, the North's rubber-stamp parliament, the report said, adding that "principles" concerning labor matters were also set.
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ION CORYE, WMF > "WEI WEI PAO" HONG KONG MEDIA: US MAY RESPOND WID NUCLEAR WEAPONS IFF ITS AIRCARFT CARRIER IS ATTACKED BY THE CPLA DURING THE US-ROK YELLOW SEA DRILL. Unnamed USN Officer as source.
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* WMF > PLA DAILY: PLA GENERAl-SCHOLAR YUAN LI/YUAN YI WARNS THAT CHINA WILL MIL COUNTER-ATTACK IFF ATTACKED BY THE US IN THE YELLOW SEA, US WARNED TO RESPECT CHINA'S DIGNITY, INTERESTS, + NOT PROVOKE CHINA'S HAND.
ARTIC > IIUC the good PLA General warns that HE [China = Beijing?]DOES NOT + WILL NOT "TAKE ANY PRSONERS"???
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North Korea announced Friday that it has enacted new laws to facilitate trade with other countries, improve labor rights and protect the interests of economic entities under state supervision
[Ennahar] The right UMP party, in power in France, has strongly criticized Friday Expert of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), citing "people who come from countries" that do not respect Human rights and "a hundred miles of realities.
This committee, composed of 18 so called experts from different countries, denounced this week a "lack of political will" in France against a "surge" of racist and xenophobic acts.
What would we do without experts?
Its members have also criticized the recent statements of President Nicolas Sarkozy on Roms and the draft to deprive of French nationality some criminals of foreign origin.
Interviewed by radio RTL, the deputy spokesman of the UMP Dominique Paille said he was "surprised by the attitude of this committee" and especially "its composition", "with people who come from countries that do not absolutely respect the human rights".
For his part, the UMP North Christian Vanneste, known for his right hand cut, said on France Info radio that the "constitution" of this committee "makes it suspect": "all countries which are part are not examples of democracy alive or examples of respect for minorities: Algeria, Russia, Romania, dealing badly with Roms in these countries- we must see in what condition they are when they come to us.
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When Obama supports something, be it a candidate or policy, his side usually fails. He is the kiss of death. Obama's support for this mosque will cause the researchers to dig, the media to report and will eventually kill this thing. Thanks Obama!
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barak has opened a can of worms and should not be surprised at the vehemence of response from the infidels he has betrayed. His time is up. he is unmasked in the face of near 70% opposition to the location of this islamist victory mosque.
The response should be not just hundreds or thousands of american infidel protesters but millions. millions to protect this spot in New York. millions to protest this islamic victory. to deny this enourmous edifice of insular hatred and gloating. Bear in mind, infidels are not permitted entrance to any mosque, unlike the welcome offered by other religions. Islam is not a religion, it is a death cult. And as white supremacy, charles manson, kool-aid death cults are not supported or protected by "religous freedom" this cult should be erased as are other cults from protection. If Ohmyallah feels this cult that threatens the very existence of infidels throughout the world is worthy of protection, would he welcome a personal visit from the KKK? in his world, their beliefs should be as sacred as islam as it is practised around the world.
Or is he simply reveling in the deaths and terror visited upon democratic and free western nations - predominantly white?
San Francisco Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is ordering a review of the future role of the Marine Corps amid " anxiety" that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had turned the service into a "second land army."
The review would seek to define a 21st century combat mission for the Marines that is distinct from the Army's, because the Marines "do not want to be, nor does America need" another ground combat force, Gates said in prepared remarks for a speech at Marines' Memorial Theatre in San Francisco on Thursday to a group that included retired Marines and foreign policy experts.
Gates is on a two-day trip to California. He met with sailors onboard the destroyer Higgins on Thursday and plans to attend a training ceremony for Navy Seals on Friday.
In ordering the Pentagon review, Gates was deepening a long-running debate about the role of the Marine Corps, including whether one of its main missions amphibious assaults against fortified coastlines has become obsolete because of the changing nature of warfare and advances in precision weaponry.
Gates is seeking $100 billion in budget savings from the military services and Pentagon bureaucracies, though he intends to invest the money in weapons programs. Given the unwavering support for the Marines in Congress, there is little chance the service would be eliminated or see its budget significantly reduced.
Gates noted that anxiety about the future of the Marines stems from the "perception that they have become too heavy, too removed from their expeditionary roots."
In a question-and-answer session with sailors aboard the Higgins earlier in the day, Gates said, "I think they've gotten too big," and he predicted that the service would shrink in coming years.
Such statements only intensify worries among serving and retired Marines about the future. But Gates sought to reassure his audience that he continued to see a major future role for the service.
The review will be conducted by Gen. James F. Amos, the incoming Marine commandant, and by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. The Marines are a component of the Navy Department.
The review, Gates said, would make recommendations about what "expeditionary forces in readiness would look like." It "should not lose sight of the Marines' greatest strengths," he said, including "a broad portfolio of capabilities" and its adaptability. Don't we need more ground troops of all varieties if we are in a long war that requires rotations?
President Barack Obama on Friday endorsed a controversial plan to build a mosque and Islamic center just blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan, despite the strong objections of conservatives, the ADL and those who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks."Ground Zero is, indeed, hallowed ground," Obama said at a White House dinner celebrating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. "But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances."Having steered clear of the controversy for weeks, Obama took on opposition to the mosque directly -- a move that many other Democratic lawmakers had been hesitant to do in the face of highly emotional appeals against its construction.
But polls indicate the issue could be a high-voltage third rail for politicians who support the project: a recent CNN poll found that 68 percent of those surveyed did not approve of building a mosque so close to where the World Trade Center towers fell, killing more than 2,000 people.
As perhaps the White House had anticipated, the reaction from conservatives and at least one 9/11 rescue worker was swift and angry. Most echoed Rick Lazio, the GOP gubernatorial hopeful who helped draw national attention back to the Ground Zero-area mosque by using it against his Democratic rival, Andrew Cuomo.
"President Obama and Attorney General Cuomo still are not listening to New Yorkers," Lazio said in a statement, suggesting that the backers of the project have obscured their true motives and funding.
There has been "a deliberate attempt to avoid transparency and a deliberate attempt to build the Mosque at this location," Lazio said. "Why?"
In recent weeks, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had deflected questions on the issue, insisting it is "a matter for New York City and the local community to decide." But Obama had been criticized for being slow to weigh in on the controversy, especially in light of his past statements in support of religious freedom and tolerance for Muslims in the United States.In his speech Friday, Obama called for sensitivity with respect to developing in lower Manhattan, but cautioned against drawing comparisons between mainstream Islam and the ruthlessly violent ideology of al Queda, which he said is a "gross distortion" of the faith."Our capacity to show not merely tolerance, but respect to those who are different from us -- a way of life that stands in stark contrast to the nihilism of those who attacked us on that September morning, and who continue to plot against us today," he said.
Obama spoke before a group of about 90 attendees, which included Muslim community leaders, ambassadors, dignitaries, and Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), one of two Muslim members of Congress. After his statement, a number of individuals reportedly rushed to the stage to shake Obama's hands following his unexpectedly direct endorsement of the mosque.
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What better way to celebrate Ramadan than to build a spite mosque?
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This is a wonderful development. Having Obama on record as supporting this mosque will be ideal fodder for his opponent in 2012.
I wonder what the quality of steel and cement is going to be on this mosque. Deliveries are going to be spotty too. Probably a lot of work accidents and lawsuits too.
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I wonder what the quality of steel and cement is going to be on this mosque. Deliveries are going to be spotty too. Probably a lot of work accidents and lawsuits too.
Wouldn't bother me a bit.
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What an insensitive jerk, but what a wonderful present to the next elections and those of 2012.
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Anybody know of any nice muslim neighborhoods where a church or synagogue might be built near a mosque?
- against the will of the local population?
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama says Muslims have the right to build a mosque near ground zero in New York, but he's not saying whether he thinks it's a good idea to do so.
Obama's comment Saturday during a trip to Florida expanded on a statement he made at a White House dinner on Friday. At that event, he said Muslims have the same right to freedom of religion as everyone else in America.
Obama said Saturday that he didn't comment on "the wisdom" of putting a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks but rather was commenting on "the right" to build a mosque there.
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Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances
Is this an inaccurate statement?
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Is this an inaccurate statement?
No.
Now explain to me why it's okay for Muslims to threaten a Danish cartoonist and Salman Rushdie with death for exercising their rights.
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Gaz, its called a victory mosque. Being built by a terrorist supporting anti American Muslim cleric, he's not a radical cleric, he's an average Judo-Christian hating Muslim cleric. Do you get that? Or are you just too stupid to understand what is going on? Islam, not radical Islam or terrorist Islam, but average ISLAM soldiers are operating in where we call the seams. Where they can play our laws and good christian beliefs against us. That is whats happening here.
Go to Saudi, go to UAE, go to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Qatar, and on and on and the one thing you will find is their outright hate for Christians. I have been there and I have seen it, not as a soldier in uniform either. If you think for one second they are here to coexist in peace your wrong, fucking dead wrong. Your comment is that of a child that cant see the real issues at hand. I reccommend you take a hard look at your family, your community, your way of life and ask yourself if living in Saudi is how you desire to live and for your kids to live. If you have ever been there, and you think its ok then move and leave our society alone.
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I shall pray very hard that God smite this mosque with a large meteorite on the day it's officially opened - if it ever reaches that point. I'm sure islam will get the message, whether they wish to acknowledge it or not. Islam is a Satanic death cult, and it needs to die.
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President Barack Obama on Friday endorsed plans for a Muslim mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, declaring that "Muslims have the right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country." and if you say anything bad about them, they'll kill you...
Speaking at a White House dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Obama said all Americans have the right to worship as they choose.
"That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances, Obama said. "This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable."
Obama emphasized the point as New York City is immersed in a deeply sensitive debate about whether a mosque should be built near the site of the World Trade Center's twin towers.
His remarks drew agreement and vilification.
It was the president's first public remarks about the mosque controversy. The White House previously called the matter solely a local one. like cops arresting some loud mouthed moron professor in Mass?
The dinner was attended by over 100 guests, including two Muslim-American congressmen and ambassadors and officials from numerous Muslim nations, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. Wonder boy just can't seem to get enough of having muzzy ass on his nose... this guy is really doing everything he can to ensure being a one-term president...
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Muslim Mafia allied with the Chicago Mafia. Also note that as Iran starts to bring on their Nuclear Reactor, President Hussein wants to meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which is symbolic support of the policies of Ahmadinejad's hatrid of Israel.
President Hussein and the Democratic Parties only true enemy is America.
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so which is this for you, Barak? Conversion or jizya? For the majority of amercians, this represents defeat at the hands of islamists. That's how muslims will see it and the celebrations can begin.
Barak's pronouncement may have little to do with "religious freedom" and more to do with fear muzzies will kill him should he support a different location for the mosque.
One would think "mainstream muslims" would themselves feel that the placement of an islamic mosque and playground so near ground zero would be in extreme bad taste. As a symbol of their "moderation" and respect for those who were slaughtered - by muslims - would oppose such a provocative act. But no. No reciprocity. No respect. No acceptance or undertanding.
Gun sex from the islamists at this news from their biggest supporter. and smirky smiles from muslims who embrace the islamists goal with full support, if not the means.
The decision may well increase the number of attacks on the infidel world - both at home and abroad - now they know POTUS supports rewarding terror. Their global caliphate has grown several leaps forward, in their minds.
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According to the guest list several ambassadors from OIC states were present.
When Obama addressed the topic of religious tolerance he could have condemned the legally mandated murderous intolerance in places like the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan or the Saudi Entity.
He absolutely should have told these ambassadors publicly that the rights and freedoms of the American people (and of US allies) are non-negotiable, and that demands by foreign powers to abolish the 1st Amendment (and similar guarantees) will be punished as unfriendly acts.
As he did not, I can only conclude that his commitment is to the promotion of Islam not to freedom of religion or freedom of speech.
It is no coincidence that major institutions in the US (Yale, nearly the entire MSM, even Comedy Central) are already obeying Sharia speech restrictions.
This administration is not likely to protect American's rights and freedoms from interference by foreign governments.
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mark Levin had a great point yesterday while discussing the 14th amendment and how it doesn't convey birthright citizenship to those here born to illegal parents.
His point was that EVERYTHING in the Constitution is based on the "consent of the governed" and our obendience to laws is based on that collective consent.
Barak Hussein Obama no longer has the consent of the governed.
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You do not build a 150 megadollar mosque on contributed dimes from schoolchildren. Follow the money. This mosque is not a religious center. It is a base for infiltration operations. Our so called leaders are selling us out. Who are the enemy? Dhimmi leaders.
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"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
--Omar Ahmad,
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"Muslims have the right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country."
FTFY.
AFAIAC, Islam is more of a socio-political system than a religion. If they would just behave more as religious folks do and stop being so political. Their political activism as a function of population is way too high.
Do I remember maybe this Imam saying that they were trying to reach out to Americans with this mosque? Well, Americans don't want it. This mosque works directly against their stated goal. Yet they still push forward with it. Why? (Yes, that's rhetorical.)
And Obama, if you are such an idealogue about the Constitution of this country, why are you running roughshod over it when it suits your purposes, and out of the other side of your mouth you are espousing it when it suits other purposes of yours? Pick a side.
Obama said he would prefer to be a good one term president. That means he thinks we'll figure out how good he was after the fact. I don't think so.
The humanitarian and economic disaster caused by the worst floods in Pakistan's history could spark political unrest that could destabilize the government, dealing a major blow to the Obama administration's efforts to fight violent Islamic extremism.
The government's shambling response to floods that have affected a third of the country has some analysts saying that President Asif Ali Zardari could be forced from office, possibly by the military, which has ruled Pakistan for more than half its 63-year history.
Other experts caution that the state itself could collapse, as hunger and destitution trigger explosions of popular anger that was already seething over massive unemployment, high fuel prices, widespread power outages, corruption, and a bloody insurgency by extremists allied with al Qaida.
"The powers that be, that is the military and bureaucratic establishment, are mulling the formation of a national government, with or without the PPP (Zardari's ruling Pakistan Peoples Party)," said Najam Sethi, the editor of the weekly Friday Times. "I know this is definitely being discussed.
"There is a perception in the army that you need good governance to get out of the economic crisis and there is no good governance," he said.
The Obama administration stepped up emergency aid this week to $76 million, anxious to counter the influence of Islamic extremist groups that are feeding and housing victims through charitable front organizations in areas the government hasn't reached.
Some U.S. officials worry that those groups could exploit the crisis to recruit new members and bolster their fight to impose hard-line Islamic rule on nuclear-armed Pakistan.
"I think the mid- to long-term radicalization threat accelerates because of the mass migration and the frustration that is coming from this," said Thomas Lynch, a research fellow at the National Defense University in Washington.
Pakistan is battling militant groups led by the Pakistani Taliban, whose strongholds on the country's northwestern fringe also provide bases to al Qaida, the Afghan Taliban and allied extremists fighting NATO and Afghan troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
The Pentagon announced Friday that a three-ship taskforce carrying 2,000 Marines, Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, transport helicopters and relief supplies is sailing for Pakistan. It will replace the U.S.S. Peleliu, an amphibious assault vessel steaming off the port of Karachi that's lent 19 helicopters and 1,000 Marines to the aid operations.
U.S. officials, who requested anonymity so they could speak more freely, downplayed the threat of near-term political upheaval, and they dismissed the danger of a coup, saying that the army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, wants the military out of politics.
"The military is perfectly happy to let the civilian government screw up," one U.S. official said. "The military does not want to take over because they get blamed for all the deficiencies in government."
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Let it collapse and disappear from the world maps. Its creation was an affront to reality from the beginning. Divide the territory between Afghanistan and India along the Indus River. The Indians will do a he$$ of a lot better at managing the territory, and Afghanistan will get a sea port.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi army's ground troops are ready to fill the vacuum that would follow the U.S. forces' withdrawal by the end of this month and until complete pullout from Iraq in late 2011, according to Commander General Ali Ghidan on Friday.
Let's hope so, because Bambi sure isn't going to help you ...
The old Iraqi army was actually pretty good at taking care of little domestic problems. It just wasn't good for anything else.
"The U.S. forces implemented the first part of the status of forces agreement (SOFA) by withdrawing troops from cities and districts in mid-2009 and now they are implementing the second part, that is the gradual reduction of troops to reach to only 50,000 by the end of August 2010," Ghidan told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He added that his forces will receive security and administrative tasks at the military bases occupied by the U.S. army outside cities and districts.
"The Iraqi ground troops' efficiency and abilities to carry out military missions continued to increase during the past years, in addition to performing other tasks without reliance on backing by the U.S. army for more than one and half years," said General Ghidan.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about issues blocking direct peace talks with the Palestinians as the Obama administration boosted pressure for talks to begin, the State Department said on Friday.
Even though Benji's not the problem, he's the only one we can prod ...
Clinton telephoned Netanyahu on Thursday evening, and also discussed the issue with the foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.
"We continued to discuss with the parties the basis for the launch of direct negotiations," he said.
Clinton's calls followed a trip to the region by U.S. Mideast negotiator George Mitchell this week in which he sought to overcome final barriers to direct negotiations, which U.S. President Barack Obama hopes to see launched in coming weeks.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas indicated on Monday he could go to direct talks, provided they were based on a Mar. 19 statement by the "Quartet" of Mideast peace mediators -- the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.
But Israeli newspapers said Netanyahu told Mitchell on Wednesday he wanted talks to start immediately without any such "precondition" -- dimming hopes for an imminent breakthrough.
"We believe they are committed. It is just a matter of working through a few details. They are important, but we are very, very close," one senior U.S. administration official said, speaking on condition he was not named.
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Given how unimpeded Iran's nuclear program is going, I have a feeling the Paleostinians and the rest of the ME are just biding their time. Either way, it will be bad for Israel.
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Any story that begins with "Clinton prods" has a 50/50 chance of being in dubious taste. I don't even want to imagine Hillary Clinton prodding someone, or what she would wear to prod them with.
[Ennahar] The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is "about to accept" direct negotiations with Israel, said the head of EU diplomacy Ashton in a letter to Foreign Ministers of the EU.
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An Iranian diplomat says the United States is not in a position to invade Iran, downplaying US and Israeli threats of war as efforts to cover up their internal crises.
"We do not see the US in the position to start another war in the [Middle East] region," Iran's Ambassador to Venezuela Abdolreza Mesri said on Thursday.
"The US situation in Afghanistan is very unfortunate," Fars News Agency quoted Mesri as saying.
Referring to newly leaked data on the US-led war in Afghanistan, the Iranian envoy ruled out the possibility of a new war due to Washington's undermined position in Afghanistan, and its plummeting popularity in Pakistan and Turkey.
"Iran is not Afghanistan nor is it [like] Iraq and they (the Americans) know well that [if] they were the ones to start and finish in Iraq, in Iran, the end of war will be determined by Iran."
Mesri further downplayed the US war rhetoric as a policy adopted by US President Barack Obama and the Israeli regime in Tel Aviv to bridge their divisions with their rival political parties.
Obama has been facing rising criticism over his administration's handling of the war in Afghanistan as well as his failure to mend the country's stagnant economy and solve the unrelenting unemployment in the US.
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I think the French call it a coup d'état. The people would thank us.
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The Iranian foreign minister says attacking Iran would throw the US into a quagmire of greater magnitude than the situation it is struggling with in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"The Zionist regime (Israel) and the Americans know entering a battle with Iran would not be a limited conflict rather it would be an all-out one," ILNA quoted Manouchehr Mottaki as saying on Friday.
Mottaki added that invading Iran would be very destructive for Israel, and it would cost the US much more than the "pathetic overall situation it is grappling with in Afghanistan and Iraq."
"That is the reason why Israeli leaders have promised their American counterparts in their recent summits not to attack Iran without consulting one another [first] ...because they are well aware of the consequences [of such an attack]," Mottaki told reporters upon returning to Tehran from his Syria tour.
The Iranian minister said the US had used every opportunity over the past 30 years to conspire against Iran and pressure the country, adding that Washington's recent unilateral sanctions against Tehran are "unfair, illegal" and in line with past US actions.
He said imposing pressure on Iran over its nuclear program was part of the policy by US's Democratic administration to conceal one and a half years of failure in its domestic policy ahead of the November's midterm elections.
Mottaki further criticized the European Union (EU) for behaving like White House. He described Europe as the real loser regarding its recent US-backed sanctions against Iran. "We will make the West regret such illegal acts," he said.
In addition to a fourth round of the UN Security Council sanctions on Iran, approved on June 9, the US and the EU have imposed tougher measures on Tehran.
The new EU sanctions target the financial, transport, and banking sectors as well as investments in or the sales of equipment to Iranian oil and gas companies. The US sanctions include blacklisting one state bank and a group of companies, as well freezing any Iranian assets that may be under US jurisdiction.
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Baghdad Bob style enemy propaganda.
I still like the odds of a few thousand armed Herons getting through to targets of interest.
Followed by volleys of Tomahawk and Cruise missiles.
F22s and F18 hovering overhead to make sure.
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I'm all for a decapitation strike in parallel with serious strikes on their Republican Guard and all known nuclear facilities. Let them clean up the mess. The people would be happy to get out from underneath the theocracy they've been living under, and they'll know what to do to stay alive until existing revolutionary forces can put together a better oligarchy.
The first is that there are two vital regions in Iran that are critical to their rebuilding their nuclear and missile program once it is destroyed. Khuzestan, in the southwest, next to Iraq, which has the bulk of their oil; and Iranian Baluchistan, next to Pakistan, which has the bulk of their minerals. If denied those two, it would be almost impossible to rebuild their nuclear program.
The second reason is that Khuzestan is populated with Arabs, not Persians, who are much closer to Iraq than Tehran. They are a hated and unhappy minority that would be glad to become part of Iraq.
And Baluchistan is populated with equally despised and powerless Baluchis, who would be happier living with the other half of Balunchistan in Pakistan.
In addition, and while we're at it, Iranian Kurdistan could be chopped off as well, and given to Iraqi Kurdistan, which would make the Turkish and Syrian Kurds extra pestiferous, as an added bonus. From that point, Kurds would be America's "bestest buddy". And they get along with Israel, as well.
In any event, Iraq controlling Khuzestan means Iran can no longer effectively menace the Persian Gulf, and under the sway of the Pakistani government, Baluchistan will be less able to sponsor al-Qaeda.
So the bottom line is a quick, surgical invasion, to remove any Iranian military and IRGC from those two regions, and to decimate both organizations elsewhere while destroying the nuclear and missile sites. Then we turn over the two regions to Iraq and Pakistan, respectively, so we can leave.
Yeah, complicated and full of holes, but that's why we have a Pentagon, to figure these things out first.
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Who needs to invade? They are thinking wrong. We don't want yout pissant country, we just want your leadership dead and your country knocked prostrate and crippled for decades.
In 72 hours we can destroy every major electric power plant, power transmission station, water processing plant, rail & highway bridge, rail yard, port facility and TV & Radio station in Iran.
Put up a fence, only allow refugees out. Your cities will disintegrate, without electrictiy, modern medical facilities and water treatment, disease will do the rest. Your society will self destruct in weeks and the revolution will come on its own. We will not need to set a single foot in country - your own people will hang you by your own intestines for leading them into this.
Mullahs ask for it Mullahs get it: Welcome to 600 AD bitches.
Bombing a country rarely turns that country's people against their leadership. It never happened in Britain, Germany, Japan or North Vietnam. Bombing a country makes the inhabitants mad and causes them to rally, almost instinctively, around their leadership. The inhabitants may hate their leadership but they hate being bombed even more.
I do NOT want to bomb Iran. It will NOT work in the long run.
I want a very quiet, focused plot against the Mad Mullahs. I want them to have traffic accidents, have them lost in the desert, have them choke on chicken bones, have them slip and fall in the shower. I want their nuclear program to have a whole series of unfortunate accidents. I want their gasoline refineries to go 'kaboom' for unexplained reasons. I want their toadies inside the country to be embarrassed by all sorts of newly-found photographs, and I want their toadies outside their country to be too embarrassed to open their mouths.
I want Iranian dissidents supported, nourished and protected. I want ordinary Iranians to get outside news. I want ordinary Iranians to feel emboldened.
I want ordinary Iranians to fix the problem.
But don't bomb them thinking that bombing will overthrow the Mad Mullahs. It won't happen.
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They only have one - ONE - gasoline refinery. If I was in charge, I would tell them through channels if they fark with anybody, it will be gone. And the Iranian populace will take care of the rest.
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There is ample evidence that significant portions of the Iranian people are ready for regime replacement. If we take action, and we certainly won't for the next two years, we should take it against the Iranian leadership, not the Iranian nation. The bigger the mess we make, the greater the responsibility to clean it up.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says unity among Muslim nations will lead to the elimination of inequality and oppression everywhere.
The Iranian chief executive made the comment in a telephone conversation with his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Friday, IRNA reported.
President Ahmadinejad stressed the holy month of Ramadan could provide a better atmosphere for the proximity of Islamic nations.
He also exchanged congratulatory remarks with the Algerian leader for the advent of the holy month of Ramadan.
President Ahmadinejad also held similar phone conversations with Saudi Arabia's King Abullah and the Qatari emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, on Thursday.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Hezbollah says it is ready to hand over evidence proving Israel's involvement in the murder of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri to Lebanese authorities.
Hezbollah officials said on Friday that since the resistance movement does not trust the tribunal investigating Hariri's assassination, they would pass the sensitive material to the Lebanese judiciary.
"What Lebanon's jurisdiction asks for we will provide, and what they do with that is their responsibility," State Minister for Administrative Development Mohammed Fneish told AFP.
"Our position has not changed, however. Our evidence is in the hands of the Lebanese government... but that does not alter our view of the tribunal, which is that it has no credibility," the Hezbollah minister added.
Hezbollah lawmaker Nawaf Mousawi also said that it is up to Lebanese authorities to give the information to the UN tribunal.
Hezbollah's Friday decision came after the UN tribunal probing the murder of former Lebanese premier called on the Shia group to submit all the information it has and assist the inquiry.
Some political analysts, however, believe Chief prosecutor Daniel Bellemare's request was "merely an attempt to enhance the credibility of the tribunal."
Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday presented new indications of Israeli involvement in the killing of Hariri in a massive car bomb explosion in 2005.
The evidence included footage from Israeli spy drones of routes used by Hariri and recorded confessions by Israeli spies substantiating that the assassination of Hariri was carried out on orders from Tel Aviv.
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Why does this all sound so very staged?
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Kinda reminds me of the inquest in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. With the intent for the same staged outcome: "Kill the Jooo."
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Since there is a Facebook page for supporting PFC Manning, maybe somebody should set up a page in support of convicting him of treason, accessory to murder, and other crimes.
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isnt' that nice. I'm sure these people will all be there for him when he is either alone in the prison shower or in a dark alley running scared from the shadows of dead seeking revenge against him. This planet is not big enough for this guy to find safe hiding place.
Enjoy the 15 minute parade, Manning.
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His is a one way ticket to ADX Florence. There is no other future for him in the stars. Jonathan Pollard lives in FCC Butner, John Walker is at MCFP Springfield (because he has throat cancer), but like former FBI agent Robert Hanssen, PFC Manning will spend the rest of his natural life in ADX Florence.
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well, that's about the best he can hope for, isn't it? I suspect that he will try to law low from those whom he betrayed by his actions. But one day, some low level bureaucrat, entrusted with keeping his information private, will dump on in the internet for all of his enemies to see, resulting in his own betrayl.
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In the logs, Manning said he had seen "incredible things, awful things" in classified government files. It's "important that it gets out . . . I feel, for some bizarre reason," he said.
I would think creating a situation where troops, ours and allies, are put in imminent danger could be called ... "some bizarre reason."
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