[Asharq al-Aswat] The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has warned Afghan officials that President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai's latest public criticism of U.S. strategy seriously undermines the war effort, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
U.S. General David Petraeus on Sunday expressed "astonishment and disappointment" with Karzai's call to "reduce military operations" and end U.S. Special Operations raids in southern Afghanistan, the newspaper reported, citing Afghan and U.S. officials.
In a meeting with the official leading Afghanistan transition planning, Petraeus made what officials described as "hypothetical" references to an inability to continue U.S. operations in the face of Karzai's remarks, the Post said.
Petraeus's comments reflected his desire to ensure that the Afghans understood the seriousness of the situation, a senior NATO military official told the newspaper.
Karzai, said in a interview published on Sunday, that he wants the U.S. military to reduce its visibility and the intensity of its operations in Afghanistan and end the use of night raids.
Such raids incite Afghans to join the insurgency, Karzai told The Washington Post.
"The time has come to reduce military operations," Karzai said. "The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan ... to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life."
A foreign diplomat in Kabul, speaking . said Karzai's comments at this stage undermine Petraeus's endeavors, the Post reported. "Not only his personally, but the international community," the diplomat was quoted as saying.
A bigwig told the newspaper that it was "categorically false" to interpret Karzai's remarks as a "vote of no-confidence in Gen. Petraeus."
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Just have a predator target his heroin dealing brother...
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Karzai is no dummy. He can smell that the US is itching to bug out, leaving him holding the bag. Just like Nguyen Van Thieu in Vietnam.
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"Astonished and disappointed" were you? I'll bet General Stan McChrystal was not.... "astonished." Pardon me General, but I'm getting a little weary of the phrase...."Petraeus says." Perhaps you should concentrate your efforts on the warfight and leave the politics to the politicians. Just my penny farthings worth.
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If it weren't for Petraeus, we'd have declared defeat and pulled out by now, I suspect. Or worse - we'd stay but hamstring the troops with ROEs disastrous to their safety and success.
[Geo TV] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai on Tuesday urged the Taliban to join talks to bring peace to the war-torn country, despite the beturbanned goons' leadership ruling out negotiations.
"On the day of Eid-ul-Azha I once again call on those compatriots who are unhappy, I request them to join the peace efforts," Karzai said in a statement to mark the Eid festival.
Karzai has previously appealed to the Taliban to come to the negotiating table and low-level commanders are said to have already spoken to the government in Kabul.
But leader Mullah Omar said on Monday that reports of their involvement in peace talks to bring an end to the bitter, nine-year conflict were "misleading rumours".
In his statement, Omar also dismissed the surge of tens of thousands of coalition troops as ineffective and again predicted defeat for foreign forces.
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[Tolo News] Dr Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Hamid Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
has criticised president Karzai's recent comments to ban the US forces' night raids in Afghanistan
Leader of the Coalition for Change and Hope, ... which is not the same thing as the Hopey Changey Movement in the U.S...
Dr Abdullah Abdullah, criticised Afghan president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai's recent comments about the United States military operations in Afghanistan, especially night raids.
He said that Afghan cops are not able to take security responsibilities alone.
President Karzai in an interview with the Washington Post on Saturday had said that the US forces must put an end to their night raids and that they must be more careful about the lives of Afghans in carrying out their military operations.
"I don't know if Mr Karzai has got Taliban's guarantee that they will not continue their night raids or Mr Karzai is making these comments without taking into account the realities in Afghanistan," Dr Abdullah told TOLOnews news hound.
"Now is the time to reduce foreign forces' operations. This is the time to reduce the presence of American troops in the public that the daily life of Afghans should not be interrupted," president Karzai was quoted by the Washington Post on Saturday.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the top US commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus had said on Sunday that the killing and arrest of beturbanned goons was the main purpose of the United States military strategy in Afghanistan.
A US senator said he was astonished about president Karzai's recent comments and cited ending night raids disastrous for Afghanistan.
"We have reports from our commanders about night raids which have a major impact on eradicating Taliban," the US Republican senator, Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... said.
Mr Graham said these issues have not been discussed with president Karzai, but he said in a recent meeting with the Afghan president, the US government promised to establish two new permanent military air bases as part of its long-term commitments to Afghanistan.
The leader of the Coalition for Change and Hope, Dr Abdullah Abdullah also criticised president Karzai's comments about presidential elections.
"Mr Karzai has said that Afghanistan's last year's presidential election was stolen by the United States. Anyway, this action has benefited Mr Karzai and today he is leading a government that was shaped as a result of these elections," Mr Abdullah told TOLOnews.
The US president Barack B.O. Obama has pledged to begin withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan in July, 2011, although the US administration has said that the drawdown process will be based on the conditions on the ground.
President Karzai has said before that Afghan forces will be ready to take security responsibilities by 2014.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Iran said on Monday that an arms shipment sent from an Iranian port and discovered in Lagos was heading to a West African country, and the "misunderstanding" had since been cleared up with the Nigerian authorities. Ummm... Nigeria's a West African country...
"A private company which had sold conventional defence weapons to another country in West Africa had transferred the shipment via Nigeria which raised some doubts with relevant officials," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told news hounds.
Mottaki said an Iranian national who was in Nigeria as the representative of the company "had offered explanations (to Nigerian authorities) and I believe the misunderstanding has been cleared." "We'll wait and see, once the check clears..."
He did not specify whether the firm was Iranian.
On Friday, Nigeria threatened to report Iran to the UN Security Council if the arms shipment, which included rockets and grenades, violated sanctions over its sensitive nuclear programme.
Iran is under four sets of UN sanctions for pursuing the atomic programme, which the West suspects is masking a drive to build weapons, a charge Tehran denies.
Nigeria had backed the latest round of UN sanctions against the Islamic republic on June 9.
Nigerian security agents last month intercepted 13 containers discharged from the vessel CMA CGM Everest at the country's busiest port of Apapa in the economic hub of Lagos.
Shipping firm CMA CGM said the containers had been loaded and sealed in Iran by an Iranian businessman who does not appear on an international list of prohibited traders.
CMA CGM, which is based in France, said the shipment was loaded in Bandar Abbas, a southern port city of Iran, and discharged in Lagos in July.
But some time last month the shipper sought to have the containers reloaded and sent to Gambia, a tiny West African country wedged inside Senegal, according to the firm.
Nigeria's intelligence agency said it had been monitoring the shipment, which was disguised as building material, before it arrived in the country.
It also said the shipment's destination was Nigeria, and "any argument that the cargo came into the country by mistake is false".
The intended recipient and the clearing agent have been jugged, the agency said.
Illegal weapons are widespread in Nigeria, but the recent discovery led to major concerns, with elections set for early next year and following independence day twin car boomings on October 1 that killed at least 12 people.
Elections in Nigeria have often been tainted by violence.
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[El Universal] Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos informed on Tuesday that his government would extradite Syrian-born businessman Walid Makled to Venezuela. Makled has been accused of drug trafficking.
During the presentation of his report entitled "100 Days in Office," Santos said that he had made that commitment to his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez.
"I gave my word and after the required legal proceedings, he will be extradited to Venezuela. I am a man of my word," Santos said, as reported by the TV news channel Telesur.
"We will await the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice and when we have its approval we will extradite him," the Colombian president said. Santos added that the legal proceeding takes between six and 18 months, AFP reported.
"When we captured (Makled), Venezuela's request for extradition came long before the US' request. Venezuela's petition is not only related to drug trafficking but also to other crimes."
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[El Universal] After some controversial statements, according to which Major General Henry Rangel Silva, the head of the Strategic Operational Command (SOC), said that the Venezuelan armed forces would not allow an opposition government in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez ordered the Ministry of Defense to promote him to General-in-Chief, the top military rank in Venezuela.
General Rangel Silva has stirred up controversy, particularly since 2005, when he was the director of the Directorate for Intelligence, Security and Prevention (Disip), the Venezuelan intelligence police.
In 2008, the new General-in-Chief, was described as "Tier II Kingpin" by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control for his alleged links to drug trafficking.
"Rangel Silva has materially assisted the narcotics trafficking activities of the FARC," said the US agency, which ordered to freeze the accounts or assets that the Venezuelan general could have in the United States.
Additionally, Major General Henry Rangel Silva allegedly offered help to Venezuelan-US businessman Guido Antonini Wilson, who tried to smuggle USD 800,000 in a suitcase into Argentina. The cash apparently came from state-run oil holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pvdsa) to finance the presidential campaign of then candidate Cristina de Kirchner.
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The North Korean regime has been investigating senior officials for corruption since early November in what appears to be a purge led by Kim Jong-il's son and heir Jong-un, a defector organization said Tuesday.
A Unification Ministry official speculated, "Like his father, Kim Jong-un will probably try to consolidate his hold on power through bloody purges in his early days in office."
Dictatorship 101 ...
Quoting an internal North Korean source, North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity said the Workers Party's North Hamgyong provincial committee inspected Musan-gun for a week since Nov. 5 and caught more than 15 senior party and security officials who turned a blind eye to defections or took bribes. Many of the arrested officials were apparently in charge of supervising border garrisons and security agencies.
"Led by Kim Jong-un, a search for corrupt senior officials is underway across the country," it said. "Senior officials are trembling with fear because they don't know where heads are going to roll."
Since he took power Kim Jong-il has tightened his grip with purges whenever he faced critical moments. In October 1992, the year after he became supreme commander of the Army, he purged about 20 military officers who had studied in the Soviet Union for criticizing the regime. In April 1995, the year after regime founder Kim Il-sung's death, he detected suspicious movements in Sixth Army Corps in North Hamgyong Province and executed hundreds of soldiers there.
Kim had So Kwan-hi, then party secretary in charge of agricultural affairs, publicly executed in Pyongyang during the famine in 1997 that killed more than 1 million people, branding him a "spy of the U.S. imperialists." In the same context, the Kim dynasty had Pak Nam-gi, the then director of the party Planning and Finance Department, shot in March, calling him to account for the botched currency reform.
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The butchery of medical doctors was the last Stalinist purge, when he died on the operating table. His chief of secret police died shortly after that.
Though he was probably just shot, the story that leaked out at the time was that he was summoned to a closed door meeting of the Politburo, and his bodyguards were ordered to remain outside. Then he was disarmed, and the other Politburo members beat him to death with their shoes. A lot.
The bottom line was that just before his heart surgery, Stalin had planned to hold yet another massive purge that would have killed tens to hundreds of thousands. It was one purge too far.
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Um, with all due respect, Stalin is widely believed to have died from a cerebral hemorrhage at his dacha. Of course, there will always be speculation that there was some other cause. But everything I ever read about him says cerebral hemorrhage.
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Although, when you're as paranoid as he was and responsible for as many deaths as he was, it's probably only natural that you would also be a little leery of doctors. Maybe if he'd gone for regular check ups he would have lived longer.
Heh heh. Mica is quite disappointed by how his legislation has created such a monster that he never envisioned. He's even called it a Kabuki dance himself, and that the TSA just humiliates passengers. He has written a letter to over 150 major airports to let them know about the opt-out clause in the legislation, and recommending that they consider doing so in favor of private security, which has been shown to do somewhat better than the TSA has been doing.
Says Mica: "It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done."
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Yes, kiss the ring, kiss it! May have to weigh that vs a mass balk of passengers during peak travel and likely for a long time afterwards. See next week or maybe sooner; I'm sure the airlines and airport venders and taxis and limos and food service and hotels and rental cars companies have an opinion as well.
A shootout inside a mosque in southwestern Pakistan wounded 18 people Wednesday in a dispute over who should lead prayers for one of Islam's most important holidays, police said.
Followers of the two rival religious leaders pulled out weapons and started shooting Wednesday morning after arguing over which one should start the prayers at a small mosque in remote Khuzdar district of Baluchistan province, police official Javed Ahmed said. The district is about 550 miles (900 kilometres) southwest of Islamabad.
Many of the region's ethnic Pashtuns typically carry rifles in daily life.
Millions of other Pakistanis peacefully celebrated Eid al-Adha on Wednesday, joining Muslims the world over for the three-day festival, known as the Feast of the Sacrifice, that involves slaughter of sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son.
Pakistan kicked off the holiday a day later than many other countries because of local authorities' interpretation of when the new moon was sighted.
Celebrations were muted in some areas of Pakistan because of devastating floods that affected 20 million people, of whom 7 million remain homeless.
[Geo TV] The Jammu and Kashmire dispute remains on the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Security Council's agenda, a UN front man categorically stated Monday, while rejecting as "inaccurate" reports that it has been removed from the list of unresolved issues.
"Some articles today on Kashmire are inaccurate," UN Spokesman Farhan Haq said, referring to those reports.
He said the latest list of matters the Security Council is seized of "continues to include the agenda item under which the Council has taken up Kashmire which, by a decision of the Council, remains on the list for this year," the front man added.
Earlier, a front man for the Pakistain Mission clarified that Pakistain's Acting Ambassador Amjad Hussain Sial, in his speech to the General Assembly on Friday, November 12 had referred to the omission of Jammu and Kashmire dispute in a statement by the President of the Security Council, and NOT from the Council's Annual Report-as reported in a section of press.
"The agenda item entitled, 'India and Pakistain Question', which covers Jammu and Kashmire dispute, is duly mentioned in the Annual Report of the Security Council and is also present on its agenda," Spokesman Mian
Jehangir Iqbal said in a statement. In his statement, the 15-member Council's President for the current month, British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, while presenting the Annual Report to the 192-member assembly, did not mention the Kashmire dispute in the context of unresolved long-running situations, despite the fact decades-old issue is included in the Annual Report.
"We understand this was an inadvertent omission, as Jammu and Kashmire is one of the oldest disputes on agenda of the Security Council," Ambassador Sial remarked, after Grant's statement.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... Pakistain's UN Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon, who is on a visit to Pakistain, said there was no question of the Kashmire issue being dropped from the Council's agenda. "The Security Council Report in its annexures is explicit," he said in a statement.
"The President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of the UK, is amply clear on the subject and is cognizant of the matter. I would request all concerned not to speculate unnecessarily upon the subject".
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LONDON - The head of Iraqs main Sunni-backed political group said he did not expect a recent accord aimed at ending political infighting between the countrys main factions to lead to a stable government. Iyad Allawi, leader of the secular Iraqiya bloc, said the planned new government was not the power-sharing government that it had been billed as.
The formula for power sharing has been distorted and the issue of devolution has been distorted so I am not sure whether a coherent government (can be formed), he told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
Still we have some time to discuss issues and to see if this will happen or not, he added. When asked if the government could last long, he said: No.
He said he would not join a new cabinet. I am not going to be part, in any case, of the council of ministers. It is not currently suggested or offered or the Iraqiya list want me to be a member.
Allawi said he had not decided whether to accept a new senior new role offered to him, presumably the head of a yet-to-be-created policy council. This position was created for him as means of breaking the political deadlock between the Sunni, majority Shiite and Kurdish blocs that has left Iraq without a government for months.
However, Allawi downplayed the walk-out from parliament by members of his bloc last week, saying the disagreements behind it had been settled. He said he would not return to Baghdad for the opening of parliament on Nov. 21.
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(KUNA) -- The top Paleostinian holy man on Tuesday praised the leadership of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas for holding firm to the rights of the Paleostinian people.
Sheikh Mohammad Hussein, the Mufti of Jerusalem and the Paleostinian homeland, said the Paleostinian people and their "wise leadership set an example of patience and sacrifice" for the nations of the world.
The leadership of President Abbas has proven its solid commitment to the basic national principles and rights, that are also ensured by the international legitimacy, said the mufti, in an eid sermon, addressed at the "Protocols Mosque," located within the compound of the Paleostinian presidency headquarters.
Nations of the globe should take a fair stance toward the cause of the Paleostinian people who have remained steadfast on their territories despite "the racial practices by the occupation that are aimed at the misappropriation of their territories and driving the natives out of their lands through the construction of the racial fence and the settlements," said the top clergyman in the Paleostinian territories.
Abbas performed the eid prayers at the mosque, along with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and a number of advisors and officials of the Paleostinian authority. Following the prayers, the president laid a wreath of flowers at the burial site of the late president, Yasser Arafat.
Addressing attendees, Abbas stated, "I hope that the eid falls next year with the dream of our people for the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital realized .. a state free of settlements and settlers."
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(KUNA) -- The dismissed Paleostinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah said on Tuesday "gates for conciliation" with Fatah remained open despite what he termed a backward approach taken by the group during the latest round of the talks.
In the Eid Al-Adha address to worshippers at a stadium in the center of Gazoo city, Haniyah said Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement remained committed to the conciliation to preserve "the basic accomplishments of the Paleostinian people and confronting the Zionist entity.
"We are embroiled in deep divisions but we have a sole enemy, the Israeli occupation, and we are still keen on tackling the rifts and realising the conciliation despite the backdown steps and the allegiance to the Americans and other powers," he said alluding to Fatah movement of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas.
Haniya, also the chief of Hamas, expressed support for Paleostinian MPs of Jerusalem, poised to be extradited by Israel, and stressed that the Israeli siege of Gazoo would end as a result of the steadfastness and sacrifices of the Gazooks.
Haniya's group had held several rounds of conciliation talks with Fatah in a bid to tackle the inter-Paleostinian divisions.
The Islamic group had taken control of Gazoo, driving Fatah's followers out of the strip.
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Why pick on the Filipinos? Illegal aliens from Latin America have been sending TAX FREE dollars home for decades! At the Giant store where I shop, illegals (grannie & anchor babies in tow) pay for the groceries with food stamps and gummit coupons in one line and get in another line in the store to wire USD down south. I only wish I could come up with a scheme like it.
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Last evening I watched one of the patrons as listed above lift a Yoplait Smoothie she'd been sipping while shopping to the checkout clerk. She'd already paid with her food stamp credit card. He simply waived her through without a charge. Bits of food and wrappers from other shopping munchers litter the store.
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US DEBT-TO-GDP is 83% - 93%, + the Election-, Reelection-minded Pols only answer to is to keep SPEND-SPEND-SPENDING towards that magical, ALL-PROBLEMS-TO-BE-SOLVED 100% or higher TOTAL BANKRUPTCY = TOTAL PROSPERITY MINDSET, i.e. SOMEONE = ANYONE ELSE IS MORALLY, LEGALLY, + POLITICALLY, ETC. RESPONSIBLE FOR CLEANING UP THE MESS, WHERE THE PROBLEM-CREATORS STILL GET TO LORD + TELL THE PROBLEM-SOLVERS WHAT, ETC. TO DO.
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IN case people still don't get it, let me remind again, 9-11 GWOT = WAR FOR ANTI-US-VERSUS-PRO-US OWG-NWO + ANTI-STATUS QUO[among Other] = EXCUSES WILL NO LONGER STAND = YOU + WORLD CHANGE EITHER VOLUNTARILY, OR YOU + WORLD WILL BE CHANGED FORCIBLY.
IFF YOU DON'T, YOU WILL BE DESTROYED!
THERE IS LITTLE TO NO "MIDDLE GROUND" ANYMORE.
YOURS + AMERICA'S ENEMIES PREFER VIOLENT SELF, MUTUAL DESTRUCTION TO THE STATUS QUO = NOT-BEING-IN-CHARGE!
"CHANGE" = VIOLENTLY + MALICIOUSLY, UNILATERAL + ASYMETRIC, ETC. BY "ANY EACH + ALL MEANS NECESSARY".
GOD HAD HIS CHANCE + THEN SOME, THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE DEVIL!
It's a cultural thing. You wouldn't understand, Infidel.
Relations between Iran and the West have plunged again, with France accusing Iranian security forces of physically assaulting its diplomats in Tehran.
France alleges Iranian security agents struck at least two French diplomats and jugged guests of the French ambassador after they arrived at his residence on Sunday for a concert.
The French Foreign Ministry has summoned Iran's ambassador in Gay Paree to condemn what it calls "unacceptable violence".
It says similar incidents have happened at the Australian, British, Austrian and Dutch embassies, where security forces have targeted young Iranians invited to functions.
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Does this mean France will develop a "Ted Koppel"?
I doubt they are impacting their development work. Stuxnet is probably having more of an effect. But at least their economy is taking a good hit, FWIW.
(KUNA) -- Before travelling to New York to chair a session of the UN Security Council on Sudan, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague Tuesday announced additional financial support to the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Leb. In a statement, the Foreign Secretary said: "The UK will contribute a further one million pounds to the Special Tribunal for Leb in 2011. "This underlines our support for the tribunal, which is working to end impunity for political liquidations in Leb. It is important that international justice be done and that we hold those guilty of serious crimes to account," Hague affirmed.
"As I said to Prime Minister Hariri during his recent visit to London, the UK is committed to supporting the search for justice within Leb. This is the only way to ensure long term stability in the country." Hague said he will encourage the other members of the international community to do the same, and welcome further contributions by other donor states. The Special Tribunal for Leb was established by a UN resolution in 2007 to bring justice to those involved in the political murders in Leb, notably the 2005 liquidation of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The Tribunal is funded by both the Lebanese Government and the international community. Including this new commitment, the UK has committed 2.3 million pounds in support of the Tribunal over three years. The main contributor is the Government of Leb, and other contributors include the US, the Netherlands and France.
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[An Nahar] Hizbullah MP Nawwar Sahili said Hizbullah has appointed him as defense lawyer for radical Islamist preacher Omar Bakri.
Bakri was jugged by Lebanese police in Tripoli on Sunday, just days after the formerly Britain-based holy man boasted he would "not spend one day" of a life sentence behind bars.
On Monday, Bakri appointed Sahili as his lawyer for the retrial.
Bakri now faces a retrial before a military court in line with Lebanese law as he was sentenced in absentia.
Police said Bakri tried to flee in a car as the patrol closed in on his house in Tripoli, prompting an officer to open fire to prevent him from escaping.
Bakri, a Sunni Mohammedan fundamentalist, has appealed to Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for help.
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Why would a shiite represent a radical Sunni or is it a case like Iran and Alq an enemy of my enemy is my friend?
[An Nahar] Hizbullah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday before a number of the party's cadres at their graduation ceremony that Hizbullah and its allies have scenarios to implement after the Special Tribunal for Leb's anticipated indictment that vary between "staying idle, and causing a major political change in power," Al-Akhbar newspaper reported Tuesday.
Nasrallah asked the graduates to "return to mosques and feel the pain of the poor people in their communities, and to stay away from manifestations of luxury."
Al-Akhbar also reported that Nasrallah voiced his support for "an internal project in the party related to changing the organizational structure in a drastic way", but noted that "it appears that this project is not executable."
After two hours of religious-moral talk, Nasrallah started discussing the current political situation. "Ever since Hizbullah took its decision to engage in a battle against the Special Tribunal for Leb, it was able to defuse the indictment that is expected to be issued." Al-Akhbar quoted Nasrallah as saying.
The idea that this indictment is a "political decision" has been instilled in the minds of the public opinion, Hizbullah number one reportedly added.
Nasrallah stressed the importance of the Syrian-Saudi effort aimed at achieving a "fair settlement" in the country, pointing out that "what speeds up reaching results is the fact that the Saudi leadership is convinced that the situations are dangerous and that the indictment could ruin the country."
Nasrallah described the relationship between Hizbullah and AMAL Movement as "strategic," noting that the party's opponents and enemies had been wagering that Hizbullah's allies — 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... Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri, the Hizbullah sock puppet and its allies in the Sunni sect — would distance themselves from the party.
Nasrallah ruled out the possibility of an Israeli aggression against Leb anytime soon "because the Israelis have not yet finished their preparations to confront the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... , especially on their internal front."
He also noted that the Israelis are convinced that "any future war will require the evacuation of a large number of settlers."
Describing the political evolution of Hizbullah, Nasrallah said that the party has a large impact on the whole region, where "our word is heard in Iran, and in Syria President (Bashar) Assad consults us regarding many issues."
"We also have friends with whom we have been playing important roles in Iraq and Paleostine," Al-Akhbar quoted Nasrallah as saying.
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Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, MI November 18, 2010 8:00 AM -- 8:30 AM
Fred Phelps and the WBC will picket the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, MI, the largest mosque in North America, to remind the idolatrous, doomed Muslims that Mohammed was a pedophile and a false prophet. Like most other false religious systems of modern doomed america, Islam teaches rebellion against the Lord Jesus Christ. Muslims claim Christ was merely a prophet and that He did not die and live again. They claim His blood is not sufficient or even necessary for salvation. They shall learn the truth when Christ himself returns! Does it make me a bad person to hope they destroy each other?
Bible thumpers and pound you in the ass muslims all in Dearborn, Michigan. Well, the skeptics of religion have one thing right: Heaven is NOT a place on earth.
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"Who has the popcorn concession?"
At Rantburg, that would be me, H2O Modem. Luckily I have plenty on hand (I ordered extra boxcar-loads for the election).
I wish I had the popcorn concession in Dearborn tomorrow - I'd get rich.
DV - ya' beat me to the post by a few minutes. (Yeah, yeah - I snoozed, I losed. ;-p )
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Such is life, Barb!
I need to buy futures in popcorn. Things will get interesting. Not only with this but with Queen (demoted) Nancy still in charge of her party in the house.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Tolo News] Dr 
The North Korean regime has been investigating senior officials for corruption since early November in what appears to be a purge led by Kim Jong-il's son and heir Jong-un, a defector organization said Tuesday. 
"Led by Kim Jong-un, a search for corrupt senior officials is underway across the country," it said. "Senior officials are trembling with fear because they don't know where heads are going to roll."
A shootout inside a mosque in southwestern Pakistan wounded 18 people Wednesday in a dispute over who should lead prayers for one of Islam's most important holidays, police said.
Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, MI November 18, 2010 8:00 AM -- 8:30 AM
