Oxford University PhD student mistaken for jacket wallah after going for run in weights vest
An Oxford University was mistaken for a suicide bomber as he jogged around the city's streets - wearing a weighted vest.
Armed police stopped the Iranian man after reports of a suicide bomber, only to discover he was a jogger wearing an exercise vest.
The suspect was ordered to stop running, put his hands in the air and drop everything as officers approached him. The officers carefully took off the heavily padded vest and searched it, looking for explosives and a detonator. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... they found the Oxford University PhD student was wearing a training vest loaded with weights for added resistance when running.
Used by the likes of Prince Harry for his Armed Forces trek to the Arctic, the weight vest is becoming a popular exercise accessory.
Iranian student Goudarz Karimi said he was shocked by the police response even after they realised he was not a suicide bomber. He said he had gone out for a jog on Monday afternoon and was confronted by the armed response team in Southfield Road, East Oxford.
Mr Karimi said: 'They told me "Stop! Stop! Put your hands in the air. Drop everything you have". The police removed my weight vest and examined it. They started asking questions: "What are you doing?" They said they had a report of someone walking in a bomb suit. There were police cars and the street was blocked.'
The 25-year-old was then made to remove the 30kg vest so officers could check it for explosives. He said that when they realised it was an exercise vest they advised him to remove it to prevent any another call from a terrified member of the public. 'They told me I'd have to take my vest off, I didn't want to provoke anything else and that's why I put my jacket over it.'
Mr Karimi said he feared his ethnic origin had sparked the concerns.'I am 100 per cent sure that if I was blond with Caucasian skin type, nobody would have noticed and said anything about it. But I'm of dark skin complexion and from Iran and I'm sure that's related to it,' he said.
He said officers advised him not to wear it in the street in future but Thames Valley Police dispute this.
Mr Karimi, who is studying for a PhD in physiology, anatomy and genetics at Oxford University, said: 'I felt a bit like my rights were violated. The police told me to take my vest off and to go home and I don't see why I should.
'The point is the first time they stopped me, they asked me not to walk there anymore. They said "maybe it's better somewhere else, like in a park".
'Then later, when I wanted to do another round of the block and I was walking near the police car, the police officer said "You've got to stop".
'I said "I've not finished my work-out" and he explicitly said "Take off your vest".' Mr Karimi said that was when he covered the vest with his coat.
Superintendent Amanda Pearson, of Thames Valley Police, said: 'Police received a call from a member of the public who was concerned about a man walking in Southfield Road, with what he thought was a vest which may have contained explosives. Officers attended and spoke to the man, who explained he was wearing a weight vest for personal training reasons. The vest was checked and officers confirmed this was the case and there was no need for public alarm.
'While I appreciate that in this case being stopped and checked by the officers may have been unsettling to the gentlemen concerned, the officers were responding to a call from a member of the public who had a genuine concern and police are duty bound to investigate any calls of this nature to ensure public safety.
'In order to stop any further calls from members of the public, the gentleman was asked to put his coat on, which he agreed to do. There was no legal requirement for the gentleman to put on his jacket and he did not have to do so.'
She added: 'The officers have to weigh up a number of factors to determine if a stop and search is proportionate, and justified, and the decision to stop and search would not be made on ethnicity alone and wasn't in this case.'
Honestly, when they realized it was a guy jogging with a weight vest, they should have said "have a nice day" and left, not offered him advice about where he should and shouldn't go.
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Surely he was innocent but he shouldn't be playing up the victim role either. He was jogging around with what looked like a suicide vest and the bronze has a responsibility to check up on that sort of thing when they are called the same way they would be if anyone was running around in a way that scared people.
Yes the people should be better informed, should have gotten a better view of the vest before calling, but its not as if folks aren't blowing up buses and other things. The fear is legitimate and a decent citizen should accept that and move on.
24-Apr 2007, West London: Raids on the homes of three men found material "useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism", a court has been told. It included instructions on making a suicide vest, explosives and poisons.
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He shouldn't be annoyed at the cops. He should be annoyed at his co-religionists who put on suicide vests--looking a great deal like weight vests--and kill people. If it weren't for them, the cops would have no interest in him.
BTW, as an aging jock, I wonder if the cumulative trauma of running in a weight vest is going to have him sounding like a bowl of Rice Krispies before his time.
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If he's so intelligent (an Oxford University PhD student), then he should have and no doubt did figure out what the consequences of his actions would be. This is just another in a long list of contrived grievences from the usual suspects.
From Rep Labrador's office
Thursday October 06, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Idaho First Congressional District Congressman Raúl R. Labrador called for the resignation of United States Attorney General Eric Holder after evidence of discrepancies in his previous testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary was brought to light by a national media outlet.
Mr. Labrador has been critical of potential abuses of the Bureau of Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BAFTE) since his March 17, 2011 letter to Oversight Chairman Darrel Issa urging his committee to conduct in-depth investigations into allegations of weapons being sold, with federal government complicity, to Mexican cartels. Over 1,500 such weapons remain unaccounted for and already one was found at the scene of the death of an American law enforcement officer.
Labrador stated, "I first learned about Fast and Furious early this year from several of my constituents. I then asked Chairman Issa to hold hearings on the topic. As I attended the hearings and reviewed the evidence, I was careful to not jump to any conclusions about the extent of Mr. Holder's involvement. However, the recently published documents that directly link Mr. Holder to Fast and Furious have convinced me that he is either lying or grossly incompetent."
Rep. Labrador continued, "The Attorney General of the United States has an obligation to provide truthful and accurate testimony to Congress. When Attorney General Eric Holder testified before Congress on May 3, his statements were either untrue or deliberately misleading. It is clear from recently-released documents that Mr. Holder did in fact know about Fast and Furious well before he publicly admitted.
Attorney General Holder has a troubling pattern of failed cooperation with the legislative branch. Because of this intentional stonewalling and his misleading testimony, I now call for Mr. Holder's resignation. It is clear he has not been honest about the extent of his involvement with the failed Fast and Furious program and should not be entrusted with managing the Department of Justice."
"He cannot avoid responsibility for his involvement with a government program that directly led to the tragic death of a decorated U.S. Border Patrol agent. As our nation's top enforcer of the principles of law and justice, Mr. Holder has lost all credibility and should step down immediately. The question now is if Mr. Holder is he only protecting himself or is he also protecting others - perhaps all the way to the top of the administration," Labrador concluded.
Documents linking Eric Holder to Fast and Furious can be seen at CBS News
Key Facts about Fast and Furious from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's Joint Staff Report (available online) full report
ATF agents are trained to "follow the gun" and interdict weapons whenever possible.
Operation Fast and Furious required agents to abandon this training.
ATF agents complained about the strategy of allowing guns to walk in Operation Fast and Furious. Leadership ignored their concerns. Instead, supervisors told the agents to "get with the program" because senior ATF officials had sanctioned the operation.
Agents knew that given the large numbers of weapons being trafficked to Mexico, tragic results were a near certainty.
Agents expected to interdict weapons, yet were told to stand down and "just surveil." Agents therefore did not act. They watched straw purchasers buy hundreds of weapons illegally and transfer those weapons to unknown third parties and stash houses.
Jaime Avila was entered as a suspect in the investigation by ATF on November 25, 2009, after purchasing weapons alongside Uriel Patino, who had been identified as a suspect in October 2009. Over the next month and a half, Avila purchased 13 more weapons, each recorded by the ATF in its database within days of the purchase. Then on January 16, 2010, Avila purchased three AK-47 style rifles, two of which ended up being found at the murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The death of Border Agent Brian Terry was likely a preventable tragedy.
Phoenix ATF Special Agent in Charge (SAC) William Newell's statement that the indictments represent the take-down of a firearms trafficking ring from top to bottom, and his statement that ATF never allowed guns to walk are incredible, false, and a source of much frustration to the agents. Despite mounting evidence to the contrary, DOJ continues to deny that Operation Fast and Furious was ill-conceived and had deadly consequences
American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials.
There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and former officials said. Neither is there any law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it is supposed to operate.
The panel was behind the decision to add Awlaki, a U.S.-born militant preacher with alleged al Qaeda connections, to the target list. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen late last month.
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Doesn't bother me so much. If you are actively warring against the US even the most liberal fellow would have to consider that treason. The punishment for treason is the death penalty.
Being an American citizen should not grant you some kind of force field of protection your co-psychos don't have.
If such a panel ever makes a bad call and puts an innocent, non treasonous person, on such a kill list they should be put on trial.
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Granted that Al Q and other groups are at war with us.
Granted that they have recruited American citizens.
Still, it seems to me that there should be some judicial review of the executive branch 'death' determination here. The reviewer should have a clearance and the results of his/hers review (not the material he reviewed) should be public.
Giving the Executive branch the power of judge, jury and executioner is dangerous, very dangerous to the constitution and tradition.
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Need the return of "Outlaw" status. Whereby those listed do not get the protection of the law.
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I am not against a panel like this, that can look over the classified feeds and make decisions. However, once such a decision is made it needs to be explained in plain language to the US citizens on why one of their own is on the list. Most people will agree that turning your coat, moving to enemy camps and working to actively kill Americans and supporting people who want to makes a good reason why a hellfire needs to be shoved up the traitor's ass.
This should only be for Americans that are outside our borders and not in a country that can extradite them for legal punishment. It will be the last option available for taking them out.
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All i want is Sarah Palin to look over the list and say, "I agree".
Or Herman Cain, GW Bush, GHW Bush - even Mitt Romney - anybody I could trust as an upright citizen not under the influence of the Manchurian Candidate. Michael Yon. Colin Powell. David Petraeus. Herbert Hoover. Bugs Bunny.
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anyone figure out where we can send suggestions for the list?
#7
Suppose Awlaki is in the first vehicle of a five-vehicle convoy and a Yemeni terr operator with some international ops to his credit is in the last vehicle.
Does Awlaki get a break by virtue of being an American citizen that the guy in the last vehicle does not? If so, why?
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Please delete #8. On second thought, that could be misconstrued to those close to the reins of power.
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It seems all to easy to stack the "panel". It's a tried and true method of ridding one of political opponents.
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Make public the list and the evidence they need to be killed. The vast majority of Americans who reasonable will concur the traitors need killing or will vote out the scoundrels in the next election.
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If i have to go to trial and face a jury of my peers, muslims are way down on my preferred juror list. if that's considered a sinktrap offense, so be it.
#2
I'm surprised that someone has not created psychology tests of different pools of jurors to search for inherent bias and prejudicial decision making by different ethnic and religious groups. Such information would be invaluable to both prosecutors and defense counsels, as well as to litigation attorneys.
That is, set up a fake jury trial, a recreation of a previous jury trial, that is a "slam dunk" for one side or the other, and see if race or religion determines the outcome.
The only real difference would be the race and religion of the participants in the trial: judge, prosecutor, defense counsel, and litigants; and the jury pool. And that the deliberations and arguments of the jury pool, as well as *individual* votes, would be recorded.
What the study would be looking for are "absolutes".
For example, despite the evidence, would Muslims *always* vote to convict a Jew, a Christian, or an avowed atheist? Or would they *refuse* to convict a Muslim despite all evidence?
Such a psychological test, done under strict criteria, could be invaluable in upholding any semblance of just and fair law in the US.
#3
Inherent world views affect every decision we make, whether Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist, or agnostic. Islam and the US Constitution ARE incompatible; the question is what one truly believes to be true, as both liberty for all and intolerance of kufirs cannot logically be so. Glad someone in the DoJ gets it.
#4
Islam and the Constitution need not be incompatible, so long as Muslims accept that the laws of the land override Shariah, not the other way round. Christians, Jews, and followers of other faiths have come to terms with this. Those Muslims who cannot, do indeed unacceptably threaten our values and our way of life.
File under "Nobody suffers like we do!"
[Dawn] President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... on Wednesday said Pakistain has been paying heaviest price in the war against terrorism and said it was determined to pursuing the struggle till its logical conclusion.
"Our sacrifices exceed any other nation and Pakistain deserves and expects recognition by the international community," the President said while talking to Douglas Alexander, British Shadow Foreign Secretary at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.
Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said the meeting discussed Pakistain-UK enhanced strategic dialogue, war against turbans, recent floods, UK assistance and regional situation.
The President termed the Enhanced Strategic Dialogue (ESD) of the two countries as a milestone in bilateral relationship that aims at intensifying mutual interactions in the realm of security, trade, health and other sectors including education.
He said that enhanced and regular interactions as envisaged by the Dialogue would help to maintain momentum in the relationship and in convergence of point of views on important issues concerning the two states.
The President also stressed the need for further enhancing economic cooperation. He said Pakistain was passing through one of the difficult phase when its economy was under great stress due to recent jolt to it by yet another devastating floods.
The President said an economy, already bearing the brunt of war and last year's natural calamity, has once again been hit by rains and floods where around 08 million people have been affected.
The President said that Pakistain looked forward to continued international support in trade and enhanced market access for its products in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . He also appreciated the UK's support at the FoDP platform.
The President reiterated that poverty, lack of opportunities and sense of deprivation were among the main causes that contribute towards turban mindset.
He said in order to find a permanent solution to these problems the international community needs to assist all those who were struggling to overcome these root-causes that breed turban mindset.
The President said a nation who has been worst hit by the scourge of militancy and turban mindset expects recognition of its countless sacrifices, both in human and material terms.
He said Pakistain wishes to have friendly and peaceful relations with all the countries based on equality and mutual respect.
Douglas Alexander expressed sympathies over the devastation caused by the recent floods. He said there was a general appreciation for the sacrifices made by the people of Pakistain in the ongoing war against terror and expressed the hope that the international community would assist Pakistain in the capacity building of its institutions as well as in exploring trade opportunities and better access to the market for its products.
Douglas Alexander was accompanied by Adam Thomson, UK High Commissioner, Tom Price, Senior Advisor and Jasper Thornton.
Pakistain side included Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Federal Minister for Finance, Salman Faruqui, Secretary General to the President, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar.
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Mr 10% Zardari:
Please elaborate in detail about your country's sacrifices in the war against terrorism. We understand the sources of income that you get from this situation, but we are at loss to the sacrifices.
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I think parts of the international community are coming to understand that it may will probably be necessary to sacrifice pakistain to the Greater Good(tm)
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As Groucho Marx said of Margaret Dumont in Duck Soup, "Remember men we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she ever did."
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You reap what you sow Mr Zadari
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Zardari Asks Intl Community to Recognize Pakistan's Sacrifices Legerdemain.
In which the FM whistles the theme from The Addams Family past the graveyard...
[Dawn] Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar Wednesday said the recent strategic partnership agreement between India and Afghanistan would not have any effect on Pakistain.
Talking to media in Islamabad Khar said Pakistain, India and Afghanistan understand the present situation and will face the challenges together.
She said Pakistain wanted to remove the trust deficit among neighboring countries. She said that a better relationship between Pakistain and India needed.
Khar said the international community recognized the sacrifices and the role Pakistain played in the Aghan grinding of the peace processor.
She said that Pakistain and Afghanistan have confidence deficit and efforts are being made to improve the relationship.
If Afghanistan is secure then Pakistain is secure, she stated. Khar also stated that during her visit of New York, Pakistain's point of view was being listened to and understood.
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[Dawn] A Pak commission investigating how the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... lived undetected for years in the country has interviewed the al Qaeda leader's widows and daughters for the first time, it said Wednesday.
The "exhaustive interview" of bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters took place on Tuesday, the commission announced in a brief statement.
Officials refused to divulge any further details.
Pakistain took custody of bin Laden's widows, two Saudis and one Yemeni, and around 10 of their children, after US Navy SEALs killed him and flew off with his body from the army town of Abbottabad on May 2.
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"C-Music" is scheduled to be installed on all the country's airliners; foreign airlines hesitant to purchase due to lack of clear threat, cost. Cheaper to pay Jazia
[An Nahar] The United States said Wednesday it was "incoherent" That means it doesn't make any sense...
for UNESCO to back the Paleostinian Authority's bid to join the cultural body with the rights of a state and said it could fuel tension.
A process is underway at the U.N. Security Council to study the Paleostinian request to be admitted as a member state, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told news hounds.
"So it's incoherent to be making decisions about constituent agencies of the U.N. before the U.N. Security Council has even had a chance to deliberate," Nuland added.
Backing Israel, the United States has vowed to use its veto if the Security Council votes on the Paleostinian request, formally submitted last month, to be admitted as a member state.
But Paleostine won a first diplomatic victory in its quest for statehood on Wednesday when the UNESCO executive committee backed its bid to become a member of the cultural body with the rights of a state.
Paleostine's Arab allies braved intense U.S. and French diplomatic pressure to bring the motion before the committee's member states, which passed it by 40 votes in favor to four against, with 14 abstentions.
The Paleostinian bid will now be submitted to the UNESCO general assembly at the end of the month for final approval.
"We will use the time between now and then to make our case to the countries that... this is not the way to go" to help the Paleostinians achieve their goal of statehood, Nuland said.
"It creates tensions that add to the environment and makes it harder," she said.
The United States argues that only direct negotiations between Israel and the Paleostinians can produce a two-state solution, with a Paleostinian state living alongside a secure Israel.
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[Dawn] UN chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... "regrets" the Security Council's failure to agree a resolution on Syria and believes there is a "moral obligation to prevent further bloodshed," his front man said Wednesday. The diplomatic concept of "regret" involves placing the tips of all five fingers on the forehead and heaving a heavy sigh. One may then order lunch.
"The secretary general regrets that the Security Council has not been able to agree and hopes that it will overcome its divisions and find a collective way to address the situation," front man Martin Nesirky said of Russia and China's veto of a European-backed resolution on Syria.
Ban "believes that the violence in Syria is unacceptable and cannot continue like this and he has been calling on the international community to speak and act in a coherent manner," the front man told a briefing.
"He believes we have a moral obligation to prevent further bloodshed and help the people of Syria out of this dangerous crisis."
Russia and China vetoed a Security Council resolution late Tuesday which would have threatened possible measures against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... government.
Western nations have expressed anger at the veto, but Russia and China said any hint of sanctions is unacceptable.
According to the UN, more than 2,700 people have died in the crackdown on protests in Syria over the past seven months. Ban himself has said that Assad has "lost all humanity".
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At least the UN Secretary chose the right side this time.
[An Nahar] Vetoes by Russia and China of a U.N. Security Council resolution against Syria marked a "historic day," President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's aide Bouthaina Shaaban told AFP on Wednesday.
"This is a historical day that Russia and China as nations are standing for the people and against injustices," Shaaban said after the veto of the resolution, which had called for "targeted measures" against Syria if Assad's regime pursued its deadly crackdown on protests.
"I think that all the Syrians are happy that now there are other powers in the world to stand against hegemony, against military interference in the affairs of countries and people," she said.
"I feel that the veto that Russia and China have used, of course with our thanks to Russia and China, is a veto that stands with the Syrian people and gives the time for us to enforce and enhance reforms," she said.
Shaaban said the council's decision not to threaten punitive action gave space for Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... to carry out promised reforms and "reach political pluralism without having to suffer, hopefully, from what Iraq had suffered or Libya suffers or Pakistain and Afghanistan has suffered."
"I feel that the future is Russia and China and the East," she said.
"That is the future and I am very happy with that, because we had enough of colonization from the West."
Russia had proposed an alternative resolution, which condemns the opposition violence as well as that of the government and calls for dialogue to end the crisis, although Western powers refused to back it.
Meanwhile, ...back at the scene of the crime, Lieutenant Queeg had an idea: there was a simple way to tell whether Manetti had been the triggerman -- just look at his shoes!... Russia will receive a delegation from Syria's opposition council in the foreign ministry in October, ministry front man Alexander Lukashevich said Wednesday.
"In October we intend to receive in Moscow two Syrian opposition delegations: one from the domestic wing of the opposition based in Damascus, and the second from those who declared the so-called national council," Lukashevich told journalists in televised remarks.
Although officially invited to attend a public function, they "will be received at the foreign ministry", Lukashevich said without revealing the exact date of the visit.
"Attempts to turn what happened with Security Council decisions on Libya into some kind of model for the western coalition and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... ... of reacting to crises: that is an absolutely unacceptable model for Russia," Lukashevich said.
Russia and China previously abstained on the U.N. Security Council resolution that paved the way for western intervention in Libya, but later criticized the scope of the air raids and casualties in the conflict aimed to remove Moammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland... from power.
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[An Nahar] The March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... General Secretariat condemned on Wednesday the Syrian army's infiltration of Lebanese territory on Tuesday, "whether it was aimed at arresting Syrian citizens or attacking Lebanese citizens."
It urged in a statement after its weekly meeting the "Lebanese government and all its institutions to put an end to these violations and any future ones."
It also praised the formation of the Syrian National Transitional Council, interpreting it as a "major development in the Syrian revolution against oppression."
The General Secretariat slammed the slow Arab reaction in condemning the bloody crackdown against the revolt, saying that it is no longer acceptable.
Furthermore, it noted that as the international condemnation against the Syrian regime intensifies, the Lebanese government should respect international decisions "in order to prevent Leb from becoming a target of sanctions and preserve its security and interests."
On Tuesday, Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution threatening action against Syria's deadly crackdown on protests, while Leb, South Africa, India, and Brazil abstained.
Addressing the funding of the Special Tribunal for Leb, the March 14 General Secretariat said: "It is time for the government to determine its position on this matter."
"After Prime Minister Najib Miqati vowed before the international community to fund it, he should translate his words into actions and issue a government decision on the matter," it stressed.
Syrian troops infiltrated into Lebanese territory on Tuesday, raiding the homes of two brothers in the eastern town of Arsal, the third such infiltration in two weeks.
On Monday, more than 20 Syrian soldiers infiltrated 500 meters deep into Lebanese territory in the area of Rajam Beit Khalaf and al-Kalkha in Wadi Khaled in the northern province of Akkar.
Two weeks ago, a unit from the Syrian military accidentally fired at the Lebanese army after it infiltrated an area near the town of al-Mwanseh also in the north.
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[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... said on Wednesday that if he held talks with former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. the meeting will be announced and would not be "secret."
"We didn't hold a meeting, why are you making a big fuss out of it?" he wondered in remarks published in al-Liwaa newspaper.
Media reports had said that Hariri could meet with Jumblat during his visit to Gay Paree.
The reports said that Hariri will also hold talks with March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... officials who were converging on the French capital to attend the wedding of former Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh's daughter.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... sources close to Hariri denied that he would hold meetings with Lebanese officials in La Belle France.
In remarks to An Nahar daily Sunday, the sources said that Hariri is currently in Riyadh.
Sources close to Jumblat noted to al-Liwaa on Wednesday that the political situation is critical, stressing that the funding of the Special Tribunal for Leb probing the liquidation of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri has created a dispute.
"Hizbullah and its Syrian ally don't want to fund the STL amid fears that they would push PM (Najib) Miqati to resign," the sources said.
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[An Nahar] The March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... forces have criticized the government for remaining silent on the infiltration of Syrian troops into territories in eastern Leb, saying they will question the cabinet over its behavior.
High-ranking March 14 sources told An Nahar daily published on Wednesday that the official stance from Syrian infringement on Lebanese illusory sovereignty is similar to "hiding the head in the sand rather than taking the initiative to give information and adopting the right approach" to solve the problem.
The opposition "will question the government on its behavior and hold it responsible for any harm inflicted on the Lebanese citizens and their properties in addition to the Syrian families that have taken refuge in Leb to escape oppression and killing," the sources said.
They urged Lebanese authorities to take "preventive measures" to stop any international attempt to target Leb by "direct or indirect sanctions" over the events in Syria.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
President-for-Life Bashir 
President-for-Life Bashir 
Najib Miqati
Walid 
