[Dawn] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... again ruled out peace talks with the Taliban until he knew how to contact the krazed killer group, and until then Afghanistan would talk only to Pakistain.
"We cannot keep talking to jacket wallahs, therefore we have stopped talking about talking to the Taliban until we have an address for the Taliban ... until that day we have said we will be talking to our brothers in Pakistain to find a solution to the problem that we have," he said.
Karzai was speaking at a presser in Istanbul alongside Pakistain's President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... following a summit hosted by Turkey to try to heal a rift over the September liquidation of Afghan peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... Shortly after Rabbani's liquidation in September, Karzai said there was no point talking to the faceless myrmidons and therefore it was best to talk directly with the Paks.
While Pakistain and Afghanistan agreed to set up a "joint mechanism" to investigate Rabbani's liquidation by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban peace emissary, Karzai's comments suggested the two countries were far from resolving their differences.
"We have been hurt badly, our desire for peace has been either misunderstood or misused and we have learnt a lesson from the manner in which we pursued the grinding of the peace processor," Karzai said.
Afghanistan accuses Pakistain of supporting the Taliban and has said that Rabbani's killer was sent from the Pak city of Quetta.
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Try Quetta or ISI HQ
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No doubt, Paul. If not there, they'll have the phone number on speed dial.
Military tells residents to avoid al-Shabaab camps as it mounts attacks to destroy weapons recently obtained by militants
Kenyan forces plan to carry out air strikes on Islamist rebel camps across southern and central Somalia to destroy weapons the military says were flown into the anarchic Horn of Africa country in the past two days.
Military spokesman Major Emmanuel Chirchir used Twitter to warn residents of 10 towns across Somalia that they would be "under attack continuously".
He told the Guardian that residents should stay away from al-Shabaab camps in the towns because Kenyan forces, which crossed the border into neighbouring Somalia in mid-October to battle the militants, would be attacking soon.
The locations include the port town of Kismayo, an al-Shabaab stronghold, Baidoa, Afmadow and Afgoye, near the capital Mogadishu.
Chirchir said two consignments of weapons had been flown into Baidoa, 170 miles north-west of Mogadishu, on Monday and Tuesday.
He said he did not know where the weapons came from but that they were destined for the southern frontline where Kenyan and Somali government forces, as well as allied militias, are trying to push al-Shabaab forces from the territory they control.
"If it is confirmed that a particular (al-Shabaab) camp has received those weapons, we'll get there," he said.
"We are asking the people of Somalia to avoid being close to al-Shabaab, especially the camps," he said.
ARAFAT, Makkah: Crown Prince Naif, deputy premier and minister of interior, on Tuesday ruled out any compromise with Iran over allegations of Iranian involvement in a plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
"There can be no compromise with Iran concerning the assassination bid because there is no need for it," the crown prince told reporters while addressing a news conference after inspecting Haj preparations.
"We are ready to deal with any scenario... with any means necessary," he added without further details. Iran has repeatedly denied any involvement in the alleged plot.
Prince Naif emphasized the strong bond between the Saudi people and their leadership, and ruled out possible public protests in the country.
“What has happened in some Arab countries is their internal matter and they know better. With regard to Saudi Arabia, the reality has proved the cohesion between its people and leadership,” Prince Naif said when asked whether he thought Saudi Arabia was protected against anti-government protests.
Prince Naif said the Saudi leadership has full confidence in its people. “The media has seen the strong bond between the government headed by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah with all sections of society. And we enjoy economic as well as social security and stability.”
Which is why you maintain a police state...
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[Dawn] Bahrain said on Tuesday it would push ahead with parliamentary reforms it hopes will end unrest in the Gulf Arab country in an announcement that came a day after the head of a rights commission said he had found evidence of systematic abuse.
The justice minister said constitutional amendments based on the results of a national dialogue launched this year to discuss reforms in the island kingdom would be presented to parliament after the Mohammedan Eid al-Adha holiday, which falls next week.
The statement came a day after the head of a fact-finding mission set up to investigate allegations of human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations in Bahrain during months of unrest said he now believed torture had been a systematic, though limited, policy.
The commission is due to present its final report to King Hamad ...King of Bahrain (since 14 February 2002), having previously been its emir (from 6 March 1999). He is a Sunni, while the rest of Bahrain is predominantly Shiite... on Nov. 23. Several months ago Cherif Bassiouni had said he did not believe maltreatment was systematic, comments that provoked an angry reaction from majority Shi'ites in the Sunni-run kingdom.
"It is not possible to justify torture in any way, and despite the small number of cases, it is clear there was a systematic policy," Bassiouni said in an interview with Egyptian daily Almasry Alyoum on Monday.
"I investigated and I found 300 cases of torture and I was helped in that by legal experts from Egypt and America".
Bahrain crushed a pro-democracy protest movement earlier this year which was led mainly by Shi'ites, saying the uprising was sectarian in motive and backed by Iran.
Around 40 people have died, more than 1,000 jugged and thousands lost their jobs in the unrest, which has continued despite the reforms promised by the national dialogue.
Bahrain invited an independent panel of high-profile international lawyers to look into protests and crackdown.
Bahrain has admitted there were isolated violations of human rights, but denies there was ever a policy to use excessive force against protesters and detainees.
The commission's final report was due in late October, but the deadline was pushed back by a month at the last minute, two days after the U.S. State Department said a $53 million arms sale was being put on hold until it had seen the findings.
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Claims Chinese Troops Were Part of Pakistani Army Exercise along India Border
In a recent article, renowned Pakistani journalist Amir Mir made startling disclosures that China is seeking to establish military bases in the Pakistani border region along Afghanistan, where U.S. troops are deployed.
These Chinese military bases could be established in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) or in Gilgit Baltistan, a region that borders China and has traditionally been considered as part of Jammu & Kashmir.
Indian Army chief V.K. Singh has said that around 4,000 Chinese, including soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), are present in Pakistani Kashmir.
Amir Mir, who is an author of several books on militancy in Pakistan, also noted that the Chinese first want to establish these military bases, giving a lower priority to the Pakistani request to take over the strategically important Gwadar port. The Gwadar port on the Baluchistan coast seeks to undermine Indian naval dominance in the region. In his article, Amir Mir also revealed that Chinese troops also took part in a Pakistani military exercise which was held along the Indian border in August.
These revelations are likely to heighten the tension between India and Pakistan, as several Indian military leaders have warned in the recent past that Pakistan and China pose a joint threat to the security of India. Indian Army chief V.K. Singh has said that around 4,000 Chinese, including soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), are present in Pakistani Kashmir.
Ideally if i was Chinese i would want bases to keep Pak militants out of my country!
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What are the Chinese getting out of this?
Apparently China is tired of the stream of jihadis coming home from the training camps of Pakistan, Pablo, ie from the hands of the ISI. China is not as understanding of the little dilemmas pricking the Army of the Pure as is the West.
[Dawn] Prime Minister Gilani replying to a question said since the present government is entering its fifth year of rule and was preparing to present its fifth budget in June 2012, so talking about early elections is a "joke."
"How you can afford to dislodge an elected government. It would be inviting a third party," he remarked and advised the opposition parties to follow constitution and mobilize masses for the next elections, which would be held in 2013.
Gilani said since the president has surrendered his powers of dissolving the assemblies in favour of the prime minister, why he would advise for dissolving the assemblies.
"There is a constitutional process. If they (the opposition parties) do not like me they can bring a no-confidence motion against me in the assembly", he remarked and added, similarly the Constitution also provides a process of impeachment of the president.
To another question, the prime minister said due to dictatorial interferences there have not been frequent elections in Pakistain, adding, frequent elections are 'a filter' in politics, through which good people come to power and the bad people are rejected by the masses.
In response to a question about PML-N's intentions to hold rallies in front of the Parliament and the Presidency after Muharram, the prime minister said, when all of their options will exhaust, he would talk to them and tell them that "the only way forward is democracy".
About Pak-US relations and contacts vis-a-vis Afghan solution, Prime Minister Gilani said despite the political opponents' accusations of selling the country and strains in Pak-US relations, the present government took courageous stand on various issues including the Raymond Davis incident, Haqqani network and Pakistain's illusory sovereignty, and continued its contacts with the US through diplomatic channels with responsibility.
He said Pakistain shared its concerns with the US, informed it about the resolution adopted by All Parties Conference and told it that Pakistain is not a part of the problem, but solution in Afghanistan.
The prime minister said Pakistain supports an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan and was ready to support any effort for peace, "provided we are in the decision making and we should be part of it."
In response to another question, Gilani said, Pakistain desires good relations with all its neighbours and regional countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, China and the Central Asian Republics, but these should be on the basis of equality and honour.
The Prime Minister recalled that after the Mumbai incident his meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh led to the restoration of dialogue process between Pakistain and India. He said, "We want to discuss all issues with India including the core Kashmire dispute."
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[Dawn] A Pak militiaman who allegedly shot to death a US Army officer in a 2007 ambush near a Pak border town acted alone and not as part of a coordinated Mighty Pak Army plot, according to an investigation details released Monday by the Pentagon.
Army Maj. Larry J. Bauguess Jr. was bumped off as he and other US officers were headed toward helicopters that would take them back across the border following a meeting with Afghan and Pak officers in the frontier town of Teri Mengel. The meeting was meant to calm tensions along the border.
In reporting Bauguess' death on May 15, 2007, one day after the incident, the US military said he died of wounds sustained from "enemy small arms fire," without mentioning that the gunman was Pak.
Pakistain is a US counterterrorism ally and receives billions of dollars in aid from Washington, but relations are badly strained.
Pakistain has resisted strong US pressure to expand its military counterterrorism operations to include areas and hard boyz that pose direct threats to US soldiers in Afghanistan.
The Army investigation conducted in the days following the attack was withheld from public release until Monday, when declassified excerpts from an executive summary were released.
The probe said none of the other Americans with Bauguess at the time could have done anything to prevent the killing. No follow-up US investigation was done, according to the US Central Command.
Pak authorities suggested at the time that the soldier acted alone or in concert with a small number of individuals.
It is unclear from the US investigation report whether the gunman was killed in an ensuing exchange of gunfire with US soldiers.
For years, Washington sought to play down any signs of duplicity by Pakistain, whose alleged tolerance of havens on its side of the border is widely seen as aiding the Taliban and other hard boyz who are fighting and killing American and Afghan forces in Afghanistan.
The May 2007 killing of Bauguess raised tough questions about Pak motives. A September 2011 New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report, based on interviews with Afghan and Americans officers who were at the scene, portrayed the attack as a deliberate, planned assault by Pakistain, possibly as an act of Dire Revenge™.
But excerpts from the US Army investigation discount the notion of a Pak conspiracy. It said the man who shot Bauguess with an AK-47 was wearing the uniform of a local militia, known as the Kurram militia, which is part of the larger Frontier Corps. The militia reports to the Mighty Pak Army.
"This appears to have been a premeditated event on the part of the initial shooter," the report said. "There is little evidence to support collaboration within the Pak militia or military. Based upon this finding, there is little the coalition forces could have done to prevent the ambush."
Bauguess, 36, was assigned to the 4th Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division.
He was among a group of American officers who attended what is known as a Border Flag meeting to discuss with Afghan and Pak officers how to tamp down tensions and lessen fighting along the border.
"There were no indications of hostile intent or suspicious activity before, during or immediately following" the talks "that would have led to a heightened security posture on the part of the coalition forces," the report said.
After the meeting, the Americans were getting into vehicles for a short drive to their helicopters when the lone gunman standing eight to 10 feet from Bauguess's vehicle launched a burst of automatic gunfire.
One of the Americans in the bed of a pickup truck leaped to the ground and returned fire. That precipitated a "sporadic engagement" of fire between US and Pak personnel for about 10 minutes. As many as seven Paks were killed.
The report concludes that the Paks who fired on the Americans after the killing of Bauguess were reacting to the US shots and were not in concert with the gunman.
Although the US government had not previously revealed any details of its investigation, the top US commander in Afghanistan at the time, Army Gen. Daniel McNeill, briefly mentioned the attack in a June 2008 interview with Pentagon news hounds. He called Bauguess's death an "liquidation" and he said the killer was himself "immediately shot down" by an American soldier.
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1.4 billion Muslims: each, and every one, acting alone.
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Even the NY Times isn't stupid enough to believe this. Pakistanis Tied to 2007 Border Attack on Americans American officials familiar with Pakistan say that the attack fit a pattern. The Pakistanis often seemed to retaliate for losses they had suffered in an accidental attack by United States forces with a deliberate assault on American troops, most probably to maintain morale among their own troops or to make a point to the Americans that they could not be pushed around, said a former American military officer who served in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The attack in 2007 came after some of the worst skirmishes along the ill-marked border. By 2007 Taliban insurgents, who used Pakistan as a haven with the support of PakistanÂ’s military and intelligence establishment, were crossing the border, frequently in sight of Pakistani border posts, and challenging the Afghan government with increasing boldness. American and Afghan forces had just fought and killed a group of 25 militants near the border in early May.
To stem the flow of militants, the Afghan government was building more border posts, including one at Gawi, in Jaji District, one of the insurgentsÂ’ main crossing points, according to Rahmatullah Rahmat, then the governor of Paktia Province in eastern Afghanistan.
Pakistani forces objected to the new post, claiming it was on Pakistani land, and occupied it by force, killing 13 Afghans. Over the following days dozens were killed as Afghan and Pakistani forces traded mortar rounds and moved troops and artillery up to the border. AfghanistanÂ’s president, Hamid Karzai, began to talk of defending the border at all costs, said Gen. Dan K. McNeill, the senior American general in Afghanistan at the time.
The border meeting was called, and a small group of Americans and Afghans — 12 men in total — flew by helicopters to Teri Mangal, just inside Pakistan, to try to resolve the dispute.
Then, just as the American and Afghan officials were climbing into vehicles provided to take them the short distance to a helicopter landing zone, a Pakistani soldier opened fire with an automatic rifle, pumping multiple rounds from just 5 or 10 yards away into an American officer, Maj. Larry J. Bauguess Jr., killing him almost instantly. An operations officer with the 82nd Airborne Division from North Carolina, Major Bauguess, 36, was married and the father of two girls, ages 4 and 6.
An American soldier immediately shot and killed the attacker, but at the same instant several other Pakistanis opened fire from inside the classrooms, riddling the group and the cars with gunfire, according to the two senior Afghan commanders who were there. Both escaped injury by throwing themselves out of their car onto the ground.
“I saw the American falling and the Americans taking positions and firing,” said Brig. Gen. Muhammad Akram Same, the Afghan Army commander in eastern Afghanistan at the time. “We were not fired on from one side, but from two, probably three sides.”
TWO ships carrying medical aid and activists have set sail from Turkey in a new bid to to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, pro-Palestinian activists say.
The Freedom Waves group said the mini-flotilla made up of one Irish ship and one Canadian ship had left Fethiye on Turkey's south coast on Wednesday afternoon (local time) and planned to arrive in Gaza on Friday.
The group said the two boats, the Canadian Tahrir and the Irish Saoirse were carrying 27 people, including journalists and crew members, along with $US30,000 ($29,127) worth of medicines.
"Two civilian boats, the Canadian Tahrir (Liberation), and the Irish Saoirse (Freedom) ... are currently in international waters making their way to the beleaguered Gaza Strip to challenge Israel's ongoing criminal blockade of the territory."
Activists organised a major attempt to break Israel's blockade in May 2010, when a flotilla of ships led by the Turkish Mavi Marmara tried to sail to Gaza.
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Boy o' boy, ships are everywhere around GAZA + CYPRUS, BUT NONE ARE IN BRITAIN ...
To wit,
* VARIOUS > NAVY SAYS NO SHIPS TO DEFEND BRITAIN'S SHORES AFTER DEFENCE CUTS [+ Libyuh Operations].
Looks like the UK + NATO proper may have to depend on FRANCE to protect agz post-EURODOLLAR/FUND CRISIS GERMAN-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE - you know, Radical Islam.
[OLD DREAMS/VISIONS = ISRAEL SURROUNDED, FRENCH MIL here].
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is seeking cabinet support for a military strike on Iran, Haaretz newspaper has reported after days of speculation on plans for such an attack.
The report, citing a senior Israeli official, said Mr Netanyahu was working with Ehud Barak, the defence minister, to win support from sceptical members of the cabinet who oppose attacking Iranian nuclear facilities.
Israel test-fired a ballistic missile from a military base in central Israel on Wednesday, Israel Radio said.
The report said the launch was carried out from the Palmachim facility. It quoted a Defence Ministry statement as saying the launch was aimed at testing the missile's propulsion system. Israel has Jericho missiles widely believed to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
The reports of Mr Netanyahu pushing for a military strike on Iran came after days of renewed public discussion among Israeli commentators about the possibility that the Jewish state would take unilateral military action against Iran.
Haaretz said that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Barak had already scored a significant win by convincing Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to throw his support behind a strike.
We can now kill them all. Exterminate all the shiites, flatten the sunnis, incinerate the christians - ensure our security - kill them all. They had their chance but their empires are finished, their land will be ours we will exterminate them all like animals and they can prey to their fake prophets all they like but they will know then they burn that they have been preying to an illusion.
Bibi will tell them where the fuck to stick their fucking Church of the Nativity!!!
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wow -- sink trap used to contain really offensive comments...looking at them today why would they be in the sink trap? rantburg PC? say the f word or some islamo terrorist should be killed and your in the trap......let the true emotions of america shine through....the american problem with the WOT is it is being sugar coated....
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Dan, IsraelForTheJews is a race-hater, a moby, and a just plain asshole. He's going to be sink trapped each and every time he posts until we get a block on him.
AoS
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The question for Benji + Knesset is whether the reelection-minded POTUS Bammer + Admin will mil support wid Israel agz any Iranian military or terror counter-response.
Lest we fergit, among other WE ARE ALSO TALKING ABOUT RETALIATORY TERROPS, TO INCLUDE NUKES-WMDS, AGZ THE US GOVT. + NCA PERSONAGES PER SE INSIDE CONUS, NOT JUST US TARGETS OVERSEAS. The Bammer will become a de facto terror targets along wid every other US Representative + Senator, etal. in the Fed-level.
As for Israel, the IDAF certainly can carry out such a strike, but IMO a large-scale Commando or Joint Operat would be more thorough + espec DISCREET/SILENT = PDENIABLE. The next alternative would be two or more accurate, non-nuclear LRBM Strikes. ALL OF IRAN'S NUCPLEXES, ETC. WOULD NEED TO BE STRUCK SIMULTANEOUSLY.
As a general rule, HUMINT + HUMACTS on the ground is far more accurate in regards to actions agz hardened = undergound targets.
AGZ IRAN, BENJI = ISRAEL WILL HAVE TO "GO FOR BROKE" [all-out], AS PARTIAL OR LIMITED DAMAGE AGZ IRAN'S NUCPROGS WON'T BE ENOUGH.
The expulsion of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leadership from Jordan 12 years ago, was a political mistake made illegally " Jordanian Prime Minister Awn Shawkat Khasawneh said Tuesday.
Khasawneh said that expelling Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and his advisors was a political and legal error.
A report by the UN's nuclear watchdog due to be circulated around the world next week will provide fresh evidence of a possible Iranian nuclear weapons programme, bringing the Middle East a step closer to a devastating new conflict, say diplomats.
The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the latest of a series of quarterly bulletins on Iran's activities, but this one will contain an unprecedented level of detail on research and experiments carried out in Iran in recent years, which western officials allege could only be for the design and development of a nuclear warhead. "This will be a game-changer in the Iranian nuclear dossier," a western official predicted. "It is going to be hard for even Moscow or Beijing to downplay its significance."
The key passage of the "safeguards report" will be a summary of all the evidence collected over the years by UN weapons inspectors, including a substantial amount of hitherto unpublished data pointing to work in the past seven years.
[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... slammed on Tuesday the Internal Security Forces, describing them as an armed gang.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting: "If only it were a militia because it is an armed gang that is working against the laws."
On Minister of the Displaced Akram Chehayeb's statements on state appointments, he noted: "They are waging a preemptive war against us and others."
According to media reports, the minister had said: "A certain faction among the Lebanese is seeking to hoard all the appointments and shape administrative and electoral issues to its liking in order to eliminate another political camp and assume power."
Addressing the dispute between Change and Reform bloc MP Nabil Nicola and Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, Aoun remarked: "This is an individual incident, but it may affect our ties with the minister."
"Why should the MP be blamed? Is it because he labeled the ISF as a militia?" he wondered.
"They are an armed gang working against the laws," he noted.
"If only they were a militia, because a militia liberates land, but the world has wronged militias," Aoun said.
"Militias have a national goal to confront an occupier," he stressed.
Nicola had told al-Jadeed television on Tuesday that Charbel "is ignorant of Lebanese laws."
"I had hoped that the interior minister would have been more aware of the laws," he added.
Furthermore, he urged him to "perform his duties in protecting the citizens and implement the laws."
On the investigations with retired Brigadier General Fayez Karam, Aoun said: "We have spoken of flaws in the investigation and we have concluded that there is no evidence."
"They have spoken of recordings but we have not been shown anything," he added.
"They are pressuring the judiciary and violating its jurisdiction," stressed the FPM leader.
Addressing former Premier Fouad Saniora's comments on the Appeals Court's approval to review the verdict in Karam's case, Aoun said: "Saniora is not being accused, but he is being condemned."
The ex-PM had recently voiced fears that the acceptance of the appeal is a precursor to politicizing Karam's case, noting that this would harm the credibility of the judiciary.
Addressing the call to resume national dialogue, Aoun said: "We have spent years discussing Hizbullah's arms. This is not a real issue."
"I have presented a defense strategy. Let them study it and present their own," he added.
"The greatest mistake lies in saying that the decision of war and peace lies in the hands of Hizbullah, whereas Israel holds this power," he noted.
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I thought that was the standard?
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[An Nahar] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he believes the Syrian opposition will be successful in their "glorious resistance" to the ongoing government crackdown, Turkey's English-language daily Today's Zaman reported Tuesday.
Speaking during his Justice and Development Party's parliamentary bloc meeting on Tuesday, Erdogan warned that Turkey cannot remain silent in the face of the events in Syria.
"We had a friendship that began nine years ago but Syria failed to appreciate this. They did not heed our warnings. ... We will continue to display the necessary stance. I believe that the Syrian people will be successful in their glorious resistance," Erdogan said.
On October 10 Syria warned Turkey against "inflaming" unrest in the revolt-hit country, where more than 3,000 people are estimated to have died in six months of protests against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... .
Buthaina Shaaban, political and media advisor to the Syrian president, who has repeatedly promised reforms, told news hounds in Kuala Lumpur that "armed gangs" were responsible for the violence.
"We had the best relations as you know and therefore we expected Turkey to support the march for pluralism and democracy in Syria rather than give statements that are helping to inflame the situation in Syria and to support the armed gangs there," she said.
Turkey, formerly an Assad ally, has kept constant pressure on 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... by hosting gatherings of Syrian dissidents and repeatedly calling on the regime to introduce reforms.
Turkey has expressed frustration with Assad for failing to heed its calls.
In September, Turkey stopped a shipload of weapons destined for Syria and Turkish Erdogan said in October that his government would announce sanctions against its neighbor.
Shaaban also said "some countries" were arming and financing gangs to incite sectarian violence to split the country.
"The problem we are facing is that there are other parties who are financing and arming groups in Syria, that are introducing sectarian violence ... in an attempt to try and tear the country apart," she said.
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Yea, succeed in making pencilneck surpass his daddy.
[Dawn] Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz on Tuesday ruled out any compromise with Iran over allegations of Iranian involvement in a plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
"There can be no compromise with Iran concerning the liquidation bid because there is no need for it," the crown prince, who also holds the interior ministry portfolio, told a news conference in Mecca.
"We are ready to deal with any scenario," he added without further details.
Iran has fiercely and repeatedly denied any involvement in the alleged plot, which the United States said implicated an Iranian-American car salesman in jug and Iranian officials in a plan to hire a Mexican narco mob to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
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Maybe a little too late?
* FREEREPUBLIC > [Wash Times]KAHLILI: IRAN ALREADY HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Presum that Reza Kahlili is correct or mostly reliable, it appears that Iran may have procured foreign = ex-Soviet NucWeaps [tactical only?] but does NOT yet possess the indigenous tech proficiencies to manufacture its own at will, which IMO infers that any NucWeaps it has will be used "defensively", in case of US-led ground invasion + occupation, or "offensively" vee MilTerr proxies e.g. Hezbollah, Other.
Iff Kahlili is correct, then by definition the US + UNO, etal. are also fighting the clock agz various MilTerr Groups dev their own proficiencies in same.
[1990's "DR. FEELGOOD" = HOW I LEARNED TO WORRY BY NOT USING THE BOMB here].
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which IMO infers that any NucWeaps it has will be used "defensively", in case of US-led ground invasion + occupation, or "offensively" vee MilTerr proxies e.g. Hezbollah, Other.
Depends on their success integrating the warheads with their missiles.
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"staging attacks against federal targets including the IRS". My neighbor just decided to close his landscaping business after 30 years due to harassing regulations by the State of CA and a $500K IRS lien, which he was able to reduce to 19K, after spending thousand litigating. There's some thing rotten in Denmark.
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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.
Asif Ali 
Bahrain said on Tuesday it would push ahead with parliamentary reforms it hopes will end unrest in the Gulf Arab country in an announcement that came a day after the head of a rights commission said he had found evidence of systematic abuse.
[Dawn] Prime Minister Gilani replying to a question said since the present government is entering its fifth year of rule and was preparing to present its fifth budget in June 2012, so talking about early elections is a "joke."
Michel Aoun
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
