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The head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR's parent and sugar daddy, said that only 2% of their funding came from government. When it was pointed out that if the public funding is only 2% of their budget then they shouldn't miss it if was then cut, she then changed her tune and said that the public funding was 'essential'.
If indeed it's only 2%, cut it and let's see what happens. But then, I'm a scientist, and I enjoy doing experiments.
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My understanding is that the deception is that although NPR only gets 2% of its direct funding from the government, through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, local stations are funded to pay for programming, which they then use to pay NPR for its programs at very substantial rates. SO the public financing of NPR though indirect means is substantial.
As usual with liberals/democrats, tricksie lawyer gimmicks hide the truth, and give them the ability to publicly lie through omission, fooling the rubes yet again!
[Al Arabiya] Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday the "heart" of al-Qaeda remained in the Afghan-Pakistain border area even as it spread its influence to the Arabian peninsula and northern Africa.
As al-Qaeda's leaders continued to operate out of the border area, "they provide the guidance, they provide the priorities, they provide legitimacy to other Al-Qaeda affiliates that are developing in other places, including in the Arabian peninsula, in Yemen in particular and in northern Africa, in the Maghreb," Gates told news hounds.
Gates, who met Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, is in Malaysia for a one-day visit to bolster defense ties amid concern in the region over China's growing economic and naval power.
However, The infamous However... in its fight against the al-Qaeda terror network, the U.S. had "strong friends", including France and predominantly Mohammedan Malaysia, he said.
"We're not in this fight by ourselves. We have some strong friends who see their own self-interest in dealing with this threat of bad boy terrorism. So I'm confident that we will have the resources and the capability to continue to deal with it," he said.
"When we point to the Maghreb, France is very much involved and when we are taking about Asia, this is one of the areas which the U.S. and Malaysia are co-operating in. So we are not in this fight by ourselves."
An overwhelming majority of Afghans support the government's efforts to negotiate peace with Taliban snuffys, according to a poll released Tuesday that ranks insecurity as the top concern among citizens, followed by unemployment and corruption.
Some 83 percent of Afghan adults back efforts to secure the country through negotiations with armed, anti-government groups, the survey conducted by the Asia Foundation said. That's up from 71 percent last year.
The report also said that 55 percent of Afghan adults had no sympathy at all for the armed opposition groups -- up from 36 percent last year -- and another 26 percent had only a little sympathy.
Moreover, 81 percent -- 10 percent more than last year -- support programs to lure Taliban foot soldiers off the battlefield by providing assistance, jobs and housing to those who lay down their arms and reintegrate into society.
President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai has made reconciliation a top priority and recently formed a 70-member High Peace Council to find a political solution to the war, now in its 10th year. Officials in both the government and the NATO military coalition in Afghanistan have confirmed that contacts are being made with top snuffy leaders, but say no formal peace talks are yet under way.
The Taliban has denied that any of their top leaders are talking with the government. However, The infamous However... reconciliation is gaining support across the war-weary nation, according to the poll. Nearly three quarters of all respondents think government reconciliation efforts will succeed in helping stabilize the country.
Support for a peace processor is highest in areas where fighting is the most intense with 89 percent of Afghans in the east, and 85 percent in the southeast and northwest backing reconciliation talks, the survey said.
NATO and Afghan forces have been trying to seize control of the Taliban heartland in south since July.
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Its about time we left out the word Afghanistan as Al-Qaeda/Taliban leadership are hiding in Pakistan not Afghanistan!
[Al Arabiya] Pakistain's former leader Pervez Perv Musharraf said Tuesday that India was trying to create a hostile state in Afghanistan as he hit back at criticism of his country's role in fighting snuffys.
Musharraf, who is touring the United States as part of a comeback bid, said he has seen photographs of Kabul-based "Pakistain terrorists" -- a likely reference to Baluchistan separatists -- meeting in India with intelligence agents.
"If I'm allowed to be very, very frank, India's role in Afghanistan is to create an anti-Pakistain Afghanistan," Musharraf, a military ruler who stepped down in 2008, said at the Council on Foreign Relations.
"This is very clear to me. There are consulates in picturesque Kandahar and Jalalabad (which) are actually involved in creating trouble in Pakistain. They have no other role," Musharraf said.
"Why wouldn't the consulates be somewhere in the north facing Uzbekistan and Tajikistan?" he asked.
India has consulates in the southern cities of picturesque Kandahar and Jalalabad -- but also in Mazar-i-Sharif in the north and Herat in the west. The Indian embassy in Kabul was targeted in an attack last year claimed by Talibs.
Pakistain has long voiced concern about India's role in Afghanistan.
They do see Hindooz ev'rywhere, don't they ...
US officials have given little credence to the assertions, with President Barack B.O. Obama in a speech Monday to the Indian parliament praising New Delhi's assistance to the war-torn country.
India, not a traditional donor, has committed $1.3 billion to Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime and is building roads, power lines and a new parliament building.
Whereas the Paks contribute guns, ammo, intel and protection to the Taliban. It's a real division of labor ...
Pakistain had been the chief supporter of the Taliban but Musharraf switched sides after the September 11, 2001 attacks and assisted U.S. forces that overthrew the hardline regime.
Musharraf bristled at criticism that Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders -- including perhaps Osama bin Laden -- have been able to escape U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan by crossing into safe havens in Pakistain's lawless border areas.
They're not in the lawless border areas, they're at the guest suite in the Quetta Hilton ...
"Pakistain is trying its best. Why is the responsibility only on Pakistain?" Musharraf said. "Why is the responsibility of their coming into Pakistain not the fault of Afghan forces and US forces and coalition forces?"
"It should be shared at least 50-50 -- we are at fault, you are also at fault," he said.
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ION DAILY TIMES.PK > DAVID HEADLEY PLANNED TO ATTACK COPENHAGEN [Denmark]: REPORT.
* THAINDIAN NEWS > PAKISTAN MAY SEEK CHINA'S HELP TO STOP INDIA FROM BECOMING A PERMANENT [voting]UNSC MEMBER.
ARTIC = POTUS BAmmer's support of India's UNSC Bid, + lack of Obama plans to visit PAK, proves to many Pakis in Govt + Mainstream that OBAMA = USA'S INTERESTS IN PAKISTAN IS ONLY TEMPORARY + TACTICAL, NOT FAVORED OR LT STRATEGIC AS PER WID INDIA???
* SAME > KABUL: CERTAIN CIRCLES IN PAKISTAN FUNDING [Afghan]INSURGENCY, PROLONG WAR [intentionally] IN AFGHANISTAN. Militant-backed insurgency in Afghanistan will NOT, NEVER END unless PAKISTAN = ISLAMABAD TRULY DESIRES TO END SAME.
* SAME > AFGHAN WAR COULD SPILL OVER INTO PAKISTAN [widout Peace], WARNS DAILY [Daily Times.PK].
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A very good argument could be made to Perv, that an un-unified Pakistan is an inherent threat to all, and until the Pakistan government asserts full control over all parts of what is now only nominally a country, can other nations be blamed for regarding the place as a font of exported belligerence.
In other words, Pakistan deserves no respect until there is a Pakistan, not just fractious enclaves held together by string and bubble gum.
[El Universal] Minister of Defense Carlos José Mata Figueroa said that the Venezuelan government "has no relationship whatsoever" with any "group that promotes violence." "No, no! Certainly not!"
Mata said that his government rejects the "tendentious and dangerous campaigns" carried out by "some media corporations" which are "tools at the service of economic groups opposed to the interests of the Bolivarian revolution," Efe reported.
Minister Mata Figueroa insisted on saying that Venezuela "has no relationship whatsoever" with any group that promotes violence and added that his country "respects" the sovereignty of states. In the same way, Venezuela asks for "respect," he added.
The Venezuelan Minister of Defense said that the relations between his country and Spain are "excellent." Then his lips fell off.
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Venezuela's government will likely get the extradition to Venezuela of alleged narcoWalid Makled, as requested from Colombian court authorities; however, the final decision may last up to one year.
In an interview with El Universal, Makled's attorney Miguel Angel Ramírez elaborated on the case. However, The infamous However... the subject matter is somewhat complicated because two countries, Venezuela and the United States, are requesting for his client's extradition. "Venezuela first submitted the documents, but, honestly speaking, the United States first filed the request for the arrest warrant for extradition purposes. Therefore, they required him first," the lawyer explained. We could just pretend he's a wishbone ... Or take the King Solomon approach...
The defense lawyer of the accused found in the documents that Interpol had issued in 2009 a red notice at the request of Venezuela.
Makled, his attorney said, "was jugged in Colombia, on August 22, 2010 based on the US request arrest warrant for extradition purposes." Therefore, he expected "a procedural court debate to decide on this situation."
"The steps for extradition in Colombia might last 12-14 months, and so far three months have passed; therefore, this will linger a little while," Ramírez added.
Venezuela has one card on its behalf though, that is, the crimes for which Makled is required. In addition to drug trafficking and money laundering, he is charged with the murder of journalist Orel Zambrano and veterinarian Francisco Larrazabal. The United States accuses the Venezuelan only of sending tons of drugs to its territory. "When two countries require an individual, the requested government, according to the law, should first take into account the most serious crime," Ramírez explained.
Anyhow, if an individual is required for the same crime, the place of origin of the crime should be taken into account, and Makled, according to the evidence, engaged in drug traffic from Venezuela.
"Based on my experience, the requested government will have no choice but extradite Mr. Makled to Venezuela," Ramírez conceded.
Advocating expulsion
Defense lawyers asked, at the request of the accused, for the deportation to "the country of origin" (Venezuela), as set forth in Decree 4000 of DAS, the Colombian migration service.
However, Another infamous However... DAS already advised Ramírez "that it will wait for all the steps related to extradition to decide on the expulsion."
According to Ramírez, Makled is not afraid of being extradited to Caracas and being accountable to the Venezuelan justice.
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Another pro-Islamic rally is going to take place tomorrow in the UK . The Muslims Against the Crusades organization is set to protest against the filthy soldiers of the UK.
[Yemen Post] Human rights busybodies revealed on Monday that the fate of 57 of Yemen's citizens who remain nabbed at the US-run prison at Guantanamo Bay has been largely put into question, something they said it was even less likely that the men would be released in the near future.
A US official was quoted as saying that the release of Yemeni detainees was by far the difficult problem the US had.
He further said that the new Al-Qaeda's suspect plot was harming news for the Yemeni Guantanamo inmates who now appear less likely than ever to be released in the near future.
Last week, two parcels sent from Yemen were addressed to Jewish institutions in Chicago and containing the lethal explosive PETN hidden in ink toner cartridges were uncovered on cargo planes en route to the United States in Britain and Dubai.
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Put them to work opening suspicious packages, no training, of course.
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[Emirates 24/7] Sikh Americans are protesting at what they say is a new policy at US airports to screen their turbans systematically, voicing fear the move would further stigmatize their faith.
US officials have not confirmed a change in policy and insisted they respected religious beliefs. But they said security measures necessitated checks on "bulky" clothing such as turbans, which Sikh men are required by faith to wear.
A group of Sikh American groups said they met several weeks ago with representatives of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) who told them that airports would now screen turbans with hand-wands at all times.
Current policy is erratic, with New York City airports rarely conducting secondary searches on Sikhs but airports in other cities such as Chicago and San Francisco doing so routinely, said Amardeep Singh, co-founder of the Sikh Coalition advocacy group.
"The TSA told us, point blank, that turbans will now be screened 100 per cent of the time," Singh told AFP on Monday.
The community suffered a wave of hate crimes in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks by assailants who mistakenly associated Sikh men - who are also required to wear beards - with Osama bin Laden and radical Islam.
"To have the government at an airport pulling the turban aside specifically and screening the turban only reinforces that view that many people already have," Singh said.
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First rule of search club is "do not talk about search club in front of TSA".
Second rule of search club is "do not talk about search club in front of TSA".
Welcome to search club. You won't be the only ones stripped searched at an airport.
Maybe get mad at the idiots that bomb airliners and the governments that support those said individuals.
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The problem with Sikh turbans is that anyone can create one whether or not they're Sikh. Nothing held against Sikhs, just big lumpy items can conceal a lot.
What's the TSA policy on Burkha beings? Total body scan or grope-downs, or both?
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Lotta people consider their air jordans to be sacred, but they take them off. If I went into an airport wearing a trash bag for the good reason of not having a rain coat, if security wasn't eyeballing me to take it off asap I would be concerned about security.
This is what Juan Williams was saying...he said he was concerned when any group, not just muslims, or Sikhs, or glee club takes themselves to be more important than the security measures and proper behavior of boarding a passenger airliner.
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They could take the train. or boat. or walk.
i wanna know when the PC crap will end and we start profiling and not feeling up ordinary citizens. glad i no longer work for the tsa
(new acronym: titz, sna!!ch and a55?)
If you and your noble countrymen invade Pakistan and slay the beast, we will permit you wear anything you wish. Turbines, a Cowboy hat and a diaper, ANYTHING!
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The community suffered a wave of hate crimes in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks by assailants who mistakenly associated Sikh men. Not true.
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday cautioned other countries not to encourage Christians to abandon their homeland, after France took in dozens of people wounded in a bloodbath at a Baghdad church.
*speechless*
"The countries that have welcomed the victims ... of this attack have done a noble thing, but that should not encourage emigration," Nuri al-Maliki said on a visit to the Syriac Catholic cathedral where the massacre occurred.
It would help if you could protect your citizens ...
On his first visit to the church since the October 31 incident, Maliki said that when he last met Benedict XVI in 2008, he asked the pope "not to let the east be emptied of Christians, nor the West of Muslims."
Notice that the West is not booming Muslims, nor are we beheading and slitting throats ...
It wouldn't be up to the pope even if all the Christians in the East were Catholics, which most aren't.
In all, 44 worshippers, two priests and seven security forces personnel died during the seizure of the cathedral by Islamist militants and the ensuing shootout when it was stormed by troops. Around 60 people were wounded in the bloodbath and France swiftly offered to provide specialist treatment for those with the most serious injuries.
France is the only country to have offered to take in victims of the attack.
Thirty-four Iraqi Christians and a Muslim guard wounded in the incident flew in to France overnight on Monday for admission to hospitals for treatment. French Immigration Minister Eric Besson has said this fitted France's "tradition of asylum" to take them in, and that asylum would be "handed out generously" to those who seek it.
The Christian refugees are likely to try to be good citizens, unlike certain others.
An estimated 800,000 Christians lived in Iraq before the US-led invasion of 2003 but that number has since shrunk to around 500,000 in the face of repeated attacks against their community and churches.
Christians in Baghdad have now dwindled to around 150,000, a third of their former population in the capital.
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If he's serious, he should ask the Pope to encourage Roman Catholics to immigrate to Iraq to support the Chaldean community there.
The Chaldean have an unusual relationship with the Roman Catholics. The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous, self-governing (in Latin, sui iuris) particular churches in full communion with the Bishop of Romethe Pope. Along with the Latin Rite, together they compose the worldwide Catholic Church.
The Patriarch of the Iraqi Christians, Mar Emmanuel III Delly, has been elevated to cardinal by Pope Benedict, so there is a pretty good relationship there.
So it could be a bold move for the Pope to encourage Roman Catholics "of means" to set up shop in Iraq. Delly has been masterful with making generally good relations with most Muslims, so it would be up to him to sell the idea of Christian immigrants with money coming to Iraq to boost the economy.
While it would enrage the fanatics, the typical Iraqi understands that religion is one thing, and business is another, and this is good for business.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held on Tuesday a meeting with a U.S. Congressional delegation, led by Senator John McCain, according to an official statement.
Al-Maliki discussed with a delegation of U.S. congress, led by Senator John McCain, the development of bilateral relations and the ongoing political process, said the statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The premier underlined the importance of boosting ties with Washington in all fields, and the signed strategic agreement, it added.
We are keen to form a government of national unity, which includes all political blocs, the statement quoted the premier as saying.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday said Washington was open to keeping troops in Iraq beyond a 2011 deadline, but it was up to Baghdad to make a request, according to AFP.
"In terms of the future strategic relationship beyond the end of 2011, I would say that the initiative clearly needs to come from the Iraqis," Gates said at a press conference.
"We are open to discussing it," he said.
Gates, however, said any talks on the issue would have to wait until Iraqi leaders agree a power-sharing deal and name key ministers, amid months of stalemate following parliamentary elections.
"We'll stand by and we're ready to have that discussion if and when they want to raise it with us," he said.
A security accord requires all U.S. troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2011, but officials in both countries have suggested a smaller US mission will probably stay on after next year to provide air power and other military assistance.
US soldiers will eventually view duty in Iraq as they did in South Korea in the 1970s ...
Thank goodness President Obama seems to have finally figured it out.
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The fierce moral urgency of more of the same, in spades.
[Al Arabiya] Israel on Tuesday rejected global criticism of moves to build 1,300 new homes in occupied east Jerusalem, insisting it would never limit construction in its "capital," the premier's office said.
"Israel sees no connection between the peace processor and the planning and building policies in Jerusalem that have not changed for the last 40 years," said a statement from the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"Jerusalem is not a settlement -- Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Israel," it said, adding that no Israeli government had ever curbed building in the Holy City since taking over and annexing the eastern sector during the 1967 Six Day War.
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See also TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > NEW ISRAELI SETTLEMENT PLANS PART OF JUDAISING OF EAST JERUSALEM.
(KUNA) -- Officials from Paleostinian Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Fatah movements resumed their second session of inter-Paleostinian conciliation dialogue here Tuesday amidst hopes of acheiving a breakthrough ending the state of division.
Hamas Deputy Politburo Moussa Abu Marzouq and head of Fatah bloc in the Paleostinian Legislative Council Azzam Al-Ahmad co-chaired the talks.
Both sides will discuss security issues, like the formation of a joint security committee which would be assigned to place the security policy of the security bodies in the West Bank and Gazoo Strip.
It is still unknown if there will be a joint statement out of the meeting.
The two factions -- during past conciliation talks -- have already resolved major sticky points, elections committee, elections court and a commission tasked with activating PLO's institutions.
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(KUNA) -- Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the ongoing efforts to move the Middle East peace processor forward, the UN press office said in a statement.
Ban emphasized to Netanyahu, during a meeting late Monday, that it was "vital to break the current diplomatic stalemate, resume negotiations and produce results," the statement added. Israeli-Paleostinian direct talks have been stalled for the last few months due to Israel's decision to resume settlement activities in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Ban expressed concern to Netanyahu at the resumption of the settlement activity and recent announcements of further settlement construction in East Jerusalem, the statement noted. Both officials also discussed the latest report on Security Council resolution 1701 concerning Leb, including current proposals to make Israel withdraw from the northern part of the Lebanese village of Ghajar. Ban expressed hope for further measures by the Israeli Government to ease the movement of people and goods to and from Gazoo which is under siege for the last few years. The statement said both officials also reviewed the regional situation, including the Iranian nuclear file.
Netanyahu is in the US where he addressed earlier Monday in New Orleans the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America.
"The greatest danger facing the world is the prospect of a nuclear Iran," he was quoted as telling the Assembly. "It (Iran) sponsors terror in Leb and Gazoo, confronts the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, establishes beachheads in Soddy Arabia. Its influence has spread even to this hemisphere in South America. It has done all this without nuclear weapons. Imagine what it will do with them."
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[Emirates 24/7] Israel's plan to build new homes on occupied land should be countered by international recognition of a Paleostinian state, the chief Paleostinian negotiator said on Tuesday.
Raising the stakes in the deadlock over stalled peace talks, Saeb Erekat said it was clear from the latest announcement of building plans that Israel wants settlements, not peace.
"Israeli unilateralism is a call for immediate international recognition of the Paleostinian state," he said in a statement.
The world paid little attention when the late Yasser Arafat declared a Paleostinian state in 1988. But political winds have shifted and Israel today is seriously concerned that Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas might win recognition.
Abbas has floated the idea of "going to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society" to declare statehood as one option if peace talks collapse, but only after first seeking support from Washington.
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First we want to see a Hamas/Fatah reconciliation.
[Emirates 24/7] Jordanians turned out in numbers on Tuesday to vote in elections likely to produce MPs with tribal links and loyal to the government that faces little challenge after opposition Islamists pulled out.
Senior election official Saad Shehab announced a 32 per cent turnout by 1.30pm (1130 GMT).
"Voter turnout is reassuring so far. It's expected to increase in the coming hours as everything is going smoothly," Interior Minister Nayef Qadi told news hounds.
The polls come as Jordan faces an economic crisis with a record budget deficit of two billion dollars and a foreign debt of 11 billion dollars, or nearly 60 percent of GDP.
Around 2.5 million Jordanians are eligible to vote at 1,492 polling stations, choosing from 763 candidates vying for a four-year term in the 120-seat lower house of parliament, with 12 seats reserved for women.
Nearly 100 candidates are former MPs, and 134 are women.
"We hope the lower house will represent all Jordanians and enhance the country's achievements," Prime Minister Samir Rifai told news hounds after casting his ballot at a school in Jabal Al-Hussein, near Amman's city centre.
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Once again, to paraph MASTER YODA > BEGUN THE JORDANIAN JIHAD HAS ... AROUND THE ISRAELIS A PERIMETER CREATE [Arab-Muslim Nukes, Missles, Militants]???
* MEMRI > {Deputy IRGC Cdr] IRANIAN OFFCIAL: US FORCES IN MIDDLE EAST ARE OUR HOSTAGES. As per US SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM's calls for the US to "neuter" Iran's milfors for the sake of defending Israel + preventing Iran NNUkes, IFF ATTACKED IRAN WILL STRIKE AT US TARGETS INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF THE MIDEAST.
* SAME > {Turkey] AL QAEDA OPERATIONS IN TWO CITIES.
* TOPIX > TURKEY SETS CONDITIONS BEFORE NATO FOR DEPLOYMENT OF MISSLE DEFENSE.
To wit,
* Proposed system must be "NATO" controlled + purposed, not "US"-only, MISSLE DEFENSE SHIELD.
* Missle Shield must effec COVER THE TERRITORES OF ALL THE NATO COUNTRIES, NOT JUST SELECT.
* Turkey must not be a NATO "Front State" as during the Cold War. IIUC, meaning Turkey will NOT-THE-FIRST-NATO-STATE-TO-DIE-OR-BE-NUKED-IN-MAJOR-WAR like Bundeswehr FRG Germany = Cold War Fulda Gap + Central German Plains.
* CERTAIN STATES that TURKEY does friendly bilateral Bizz wid, i.e. RUSSIA + IRAN + SYRIA, NOT TO BE SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED AS TARGETS OR ENEMIES, ETC. IN DOCUMENTS REALTED TO THE MISSLE SHIELD.
JERUSALEM - Israel's plan to build new homes on occupied land should be countered by international recognition of a Palestinian state, the chief Palestinian negotiator said on Tuesday. Raising the stakes in the deadlock over stalled peace talks, Saeb Erekat said it was clear from the latest announcement of building plans that Israel wants settlements, not peace.
Since there doesn't seem to be be a hope in hell that the Palestinians will settle for peace in this generation.
"Israeli unilateralism is a call for immediate international recognition of the Palestinian state," he said in a statement.
Oh, we recognize you for what you are ...
The world paid little attention when the late Yasser Arafat declared a Palestinian state in 1988.
But did the English match the Arabic? With dear, dear Yasser Arafat, it usually didn't.
But political winds have shifted and Israel today is seriously concerned that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas might win recognition.
Abbas has floated the idea of "going to the United Nations" to declare statehood as one option if peace talks collapse, but only after first seeking support from Washington.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad embarked on a two-year plan in 2009 to construct the complete institutional framework of a state by mid-2011. It has won European Union backing and warnings from Israeli analysts that Fayyad should be taken seriously.
"I firmly believe this can happen, that it will happen. We need to build up a sense of inevitability about this. I think it will happen next year," Fayyad told Reuters in an interview earlier this month.
"The more it is seen to be inevitable, the more likely it will get to a resolution," he added.
The prospect of the United States recognising an independent Palestine without the agreement of Israel seems very remote. But Israeli analysts speculate that President Barack Obama could threaten to abstain rather than veto a UN resolution if he believes Israel is obstructing the path to a peace treaty.
A World Bank report last month said that if the Palestinian Authority keeps up its "performance in institution-building and delivery of public services, it is well-positioned for the establishment of a state at any point in the near future".
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There is a Palestinian state. It's called Jordan.
Bring this up every time.....
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Don't the Palestinians have two states these days - West Bank and Gaza? Which one would be the Palestinian states.
And, if they became a state, and it attacked Israel, Israel would have a right to respond against an attacker, just like they did every time since Israel became a separate country.
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[Al Arabiya] United States President Barack B.O. Obama finally made a much-delayed homecoming of sorts to Indonesia on Tuesday, seeking to engage Mohammedans and cement strategic relations on the second leg of his Asia tour.
Obama arrived in Jakarta under stormy skies on Air Force One from India, as his nine-day Asian odyssey took him from the world's largest democracy to its most populous Mohammedan-majority nation.
The president spent four years in Indonesia as a boy with his late mother, though he will have little time for tourism on the 24-hour visit in which he will attempt to renew his outreach to the Mohammedan world while courting new markets and business opportunities for U.S. companies.
White House front manMinister of Information Robert Washington Bob Gibbs told news hounds that volcanic ash spewing from the mouth of Mount Merapi in central Java could force Obama to cut back the whirlwind trip even shorter.
"The modeling for the volcanic ash will likely necessitate that we leave Indonesia several hours earlier than the schedule had it laid out tomorrow," he said, adding however that a keynote speech scheduled for Wednesday would still take place.
Remembered by his old Indonesian schoolmates as a chubby boy called "Barry", Obama will hold talks and share an official dinner with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday, focusing on economic and security issues.
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ION BAMMER, MEMRI > [Punjab Muslim protests] INDIAN CLERICS: OBAMA IS A PUPPET IN THE HANDS OF THE JEWS, AMERICA IS AT WID MUSLIM WORLD, ISLAM WILL BE VICTORIUS.
Also in ARTIC = "JEWS ARE THE GREATEST TERRORIST RACE", + POTUS OBAMA symbolizes the RETURN OF THE [British]"EAST INDIA COMPANY" TO ENSLAVE INDIA.
[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... on Tuesday urged President Michel Suleiman to settle the thorny issue of false witnesses during Wednesday's decisive cabinet session.
Briefing the media after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, Aoun declared that the Opposition was determined to resort to a vote in Cabinet on referring the false witnesses issue to the Judicial Council.
Asked about the possibility of Premier Saad Hariri's withdrawal from the session should the Opposition insist on voting, Aoun said: "In that case, we'll know that the government is evading its responsibilities and that the cover up the judiciary has been offering to false witnesses is in collaboration with the government."
Commenting on the issue of the highly-anticipated indictment to be issued by the Special Tribunal for Leb, Aoun said: "We have never demanded the annulment of the tribunal, but we've been always asking for matters that reflect the tribunal's credibility."
"False witnesses were induced by someone and we want to know who was behind them," he added.
"When the STL declared that it has no jurisdiction to look into this file, we decided to resort to the Judicial Council," said Aoun of the false witnesses issue.
Aoun reassured that the Opposition has "the sufficient strength to preserve the country's unity."
Asked about the broad Christian meeting that was held in Bkirki on Friday, Aoun described it as an expression of "premonitions," noting that it was not fit to declare a "call."
"I don't have concerns at all, and I don't need to be afraid of Hizbullah. To those who say that Hizbullah is illegitimate, we say that all the resistance movements on earth are legitimate for the sake of defending one's country," Aoun stressed.
"Since 2006, we've been domestically arguing whether we will defend ourselves, surrender or let the U.N., whose decision was defied by (Israeli Premier Benjamin) Netanyahu, defend us."
Aoun described the national dialogue sponsored by President Suleiman as "dysfunctional," saying it "has been revolving around the same issues since four years."
"I don't have any extra time to waste in this regard," the FPM leader declared.
Turning to the economic issue, Aoun said that "the State's pillars are all shaken, from finance to security and judiciary, and this is what makes the country vulnerable to unrest."
"That's why we call on everyone to realize what's happening."
"We are the victim and we have the right to resort to the judiciary, at least to safeguard the rights of the people. The state finances are in a mess and I repeat: the country is robbed, not bankrupt."
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[An Nahar] Druze leader Walid Wally Jumblat ... who's been on every side in Leb at least four times... will visit Damascus on Tuesday for talks with Syrian Vice-President Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nassif.
As-Safir newspaper quoted Jumblat as saying that there is a "historic moment" represented in talks between Syrian and Soddy Arabia. "Let us profit from this meeting between Damascus and Riyadh in order to avoid the damaging outcomes of the indictment," Jumblat said.
He accused the United States of seeking to torpedo the Syrian-Saudi rapprochement, pointing to the"clear" visit by US Senator John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry.
Kerry's statements "aim to torpedo this rapprochement as if they (US) don't want to help Leb and strengthen its stability," Jumblat said, stressing that stability comes before justice.
He criticized statements made by Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... following his meeting with the U.S. ambassador.
"He (Geagea) is not to blame, but blame should fall on those who support him," Jumblat believed.
On Monday, Geagea said that if he had to choose between the Government and the Special Tribunal for Leb, then he would choose the Tribunal.
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[An Nahar] The cabinet session tomorrow will possibly determine the path of the ongoing conflict between the parliamentary majority and minority on the one side, and between the Syrian-Iranian axis and the American-Arab axis on the other, according to Western diplomatic sources.
The sources told the Central News Agency that French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's description of the situation in Leb as "extremely dangerous" is accurate, noting that "nobody knows if there will be security risks or political risks."
"There is a camp that cannot stand waiting anymore that is facing another camp that has no alternative but to wait", sources added.
On the other hand, as majority sources did not rule out that the recent visits to Leb by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and U.S. Senator John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry would represent an issue of debate in Cabinet and regarding the false witnesses issue, they noted that the Opposition believes that "these two visits have put Leb back, even in theory, in the international sphere."
These sources added that the Opposition saw in these visits a defusing of the momentum created by Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad's landmark visit to Beirut and the visits of some Lebanese officials to Damascus.
In this context, Grand Serail sources denied a circulated scenario of a possible postponement of Wednesday's cabinet session, stressing that "all things are subject to developments and change."
The sources stressed that Premier Saad Hariri will not attend a session that would witness a vote in favor of the March 8 forces.
"There is a tendency to hold the meeting without resorting to a vote," Opposition sources told the agency, pointing out that "the Opposition does not mind referring the issue of false witnesses to ordinary courts if it could not be referred to the Judicial Council."
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[An Nahar] The Israeli Yionot Ahronot paper reported on Tuesday that individuals close to Prime Minister Saad Hariri have relayed to the U.S., France, and Soddy Arabia warnings that he is on the brink of looning out as a result of the pressure being exerted on him over the Special Tribunal for Leb's report on the liquidation of his father. That's kinda the intent of Hezbollah's program, isn't it?
The paper mentioned that the premier may go into hiding or leave Leb in the wake of threats against his life that he may receive. If he hangs around long enough his car's eventually gonna go boom.
It said that Hariri is being pressured by the U.S. and France to announce the STL's finding and ignore Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's threats of strife in Leb.
Soddy Arabia, on the other hand, has joined Iranian-Syrian pressure to prevent Hariri from announcing the findings and instead deem it as a "conspiracy aimed at destroying Leb," the paper reported.
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Hezbollah
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Correct me if I am wrong but was not Hezbunni3s at syr!a's urging responsible for booming previous fiefdom ruler?
Nasrallah, Iranian jersey shore boy or housewife of damascus?
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[An Nahar] The cabinet session tomorrow will possibly determine the path of the ongoing conflict between the parliamentary majority and minority on the one side, and between the Syrian-Iranian axis and the American-Arab axis on the other, according to Western diplomatic sources.
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