[MAGHAREBIA] The leader of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party was forced to flee Thala on Sunday (March 3rd) after angry residents hurled stones at his car, Mosaique FM reported.
Residents reportedly shouted "Get out!" when they spotted Rachid Ghannouchi and then threw rocks at his vehicle, breaking a window.
The leader of the Ennahda party was in the Kasserine town with Religious Affairs Minister Noureddine Khademi and other officials for the reburial of Ahmed Rahmouni, executed in 1963 under the Habib Bourguiba regime.
Last December in Sidi Bouzid, President Moncef Marzouki and parliament speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar were heckled and pelted with stones.
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[News24] More than seven weeks into its intervention to root out Salafist tough guys in Mali, the French army keeps a tight lid on details of the operation - a policy some call a public relations fumble.
Instead of using the chance to portray itself in a good light, the military is keeping the public in the dark and rubbing the media up the wrong way, say observers and industry commentators.
"The army is missing out on a chance to put itself forward at a time when it is doing something impressive all on its own, without our American allies," said Michel Goya of the IRSEM defence research institute, who described the information blackout as "counter-productive".
"The defence ministry and the army have always had a defensive take on communication, of which they only see those aspects that are negative, disruptive and need to be restricted," he added.
The French military has kept the area where the main fighting is taking place, around the city of Kidal in Mali's far north, virtually off-limits. Three television crews were allowed into Kidal early last month but were confined to the airport.
Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last month criticised La Belle France for an "excessive" media lockout.
"We've never seen such unanimous frustration among news hounds on the ground," said Ambroise Pierre, head of the RSF Africa desk, condemning a "serious attack on the freedom of the media".
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"The defense ministry and the army have always had a defensive take on communication, of which they only see those aspects that are negative, disruptive and need to be restricted," he added.
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portray itself in a good light, the military is keeping the public in the dark and rubbing the media up the wrong way, say observers and industry commentators.
It's all about how we the elite media perceive you. You don't count. Real accomplishments don't count. Real failure doesn't count (see Zero).
The only thing that counts is how the elite, as buffered by the MSM, perceive you and how that perception can increase the elites power & money.
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From the nuus you've read time and time again section:
Red Arsenals Arm The Simbas
Russian and Chinese weapons airlifted to the Congo Rebels.
These warriors are Congolese rebels, the dreaded Simbas. Not long ago they and thousands like them were rag-tag renegades who ranged over countless square miles, making a sport of butchering and pillaging. Now they are bcomeing a coordinated fighting force - with the full and open backing of the Soviet Union and Communist China.
Massively, and competitively, the two Communist countries are supplying the Simbas with guns and ammunition. The new weapons - plainly marked by the manufacturers - come chiefly from stockpiles to Communist-oriented Algeria and the United Arab Republic, and are flown into areas in countries bordering the Congo.
From there the consignments are carted overland to Simba strongholds. The best efforts of the Congo's army and its tiny hired air force to halt the traffic are of little avail, and even the recent expulsion of the Red Chinese from neighboring Burundi made scarcely a dent.
To document this menace, Life sent a team of four correspondents into areas where the build-up is taking place. Their eyewitness accounts, whjich appear on the following pages, underscore the dilemma facing the U.S. and her allies: whether to go openly to the aid of the Congo's Premier Tshombe and further alienate the African nations which regard him as a white man's puppet, or see the Congo go to default.
For the entire article and lekker fotos see: Vol 58, No. 6 'LIFE' February 12, 1965
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they are fighting a vicious barbarian horde. Nobody needs a bunch of p[anty-waist hand-wringers mewling about ROE and tactics and giving away Ops/Tactics to the enemy
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Fuck the media, we're fighting a war.
Good for the French and good for the French Military. Dang they really hitched up their britches and became hard headed about all of this. The Moslem dickheads that started all of those riots are going to regret that action. The riots were a wake up call and the French have answered it.
Geez, the Fucking French are now the tough guys of the Western World while we have a guy hiding under his desk wanting to fight a war with drones and tersely written letters.
AND oh please don't forget the ROE. We suffered terrible casualties in Nam because of those obscene ROE and we did the same damn thing to ourselves in Afghanistan.
Can we keep the press out of one war just long enough to finish one without whining and sniveling over casualties, civilians, puppies, bunnies, and collateral damage?
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Hey Jacques ... tighten the thumbscrews - he's not talking yet. And pass the cognac.
[Bangla Daily Star] BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... last night condemned Thursday's attacks on religious minorities at different parts of the country.
In a statement, signed by her Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan, she also demanded punishment to the perpetrators.
She, however, made no mention of BNP ally Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... which, according to victims, unleashed terror
against the Hindus, burning down houses and temples, shortly after a war crimes tribunal gave death sentence to Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... On March 1, the opposition leader categorically blamed the government for the "planned attack aimed to divert people's democratic movement and destroy the country's communal harmony".
Now, four days after the atrocities against minorities, Khaleda demands the government identify and punish the perpetrators through neutral investigation and compensate the victims.
The statement urged the media not to publish anything with prejudice or get confused with propaganda from a certain quarter.
Saying attempts were being made to destroy the existing religious harmony, Khaleda called for restraint.
She also said attacks on minorities were taking place at a time when people were waging movement against the "government's fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... and indiscriminate killings across the country".
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[Bangla Daily Star] Hot on the heels of bloody violence for two days elsewhere in the country, Jamaat now plans to wreak havoc on Dhaka and make BNP's today's hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... equally violent, according to intelligence sources.
Jamaat does not want to take the blame alone for the recent spate of terror across the country and plans to associate BNP with the violence by filling their shoes, the sources add.
"Jamaat-Shibir men may unleash terror tomorrow [today] in the capital and parts of the country. As part of their ploy, they may even use firearms to kill BNP activists forcing them to go for a tougher stance against the government," a National Security Intelligence official told The Daily Star yesterday on condition of anonymity.
A top official of the intelligence wing of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) also apprehends Jamaat-Shibir may unleash massive violence in the city cashing in on BNP's hartal today.
Speaking anonymously, the Rab official said Jamaat's main target would be Projonmo Chattar at Shahbagh intersection where the youth have been demonstrating for capital punishment to war criminals and banning of Jamaat.
"We will beef up our security and our top level officials will be on the field to ward off any such subversive activities," he added. The Rab official said Jamaat-Shibir men remained almost silent in the capital for last few days which is not a good sign.
Against this backdrop, BNP would enforce its countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal in an already tensed situation when Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... unleashed a wave of terror during its 48-hour shutdown that ended this morning.
The main opposition, which is considering a hard-line stance, said it would form countrywide "committees for public safety" to, what it said, counter the ruling Awami League's threat to resist opposition movement.
"We will build resistance through these committees," said BNP Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed at a presser yesterday without elaborating on the matter.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir activists on their Facebook page Basher Kella have urged their comrades to stand behind the BNP to make its today's hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... a success.
A post on the page hails the main opposition party, saying: "The government will see a new situation in the March 5 hartal. All activists will become leaders. If big shots are enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , the junior leaders will give leadership. The grassroots leaders had saved the BNP after the 1/11 changeover, and they will make this movement a success."
The moderator of this page yesterday in a post termed "yellow" all the pro-liberation media. Interestingly, The Daily Star website was hacked in the evening by unknown hackers who replaced all news headlines and texts with a message: we hate yellow journalism.
In another post, the Jamaat-Shibir activists asked their IT experts to set up secret radio stations as an alternative media to air their activities against the government and to instigate religious sentiments of the people as the mainstream media are not broadcasting their views.
"The government would not be able to jam or stop frequency of radio channel very easily like any other websites and social media Facebook, twitter or television channels," says one post.
"So make all necessary arrangements so that we can use the 'alternative media' whenever we need it."
The page, which is run by the pro-Jamaat-Shibir online activities, is also trying to incite common people saying, there are some bus services, including Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation, plying the streets in the capital. "Brothers, show the Dhaka people what a hartal is."
A comment posted by one Aditya Sarowar says: "Shut everything down and chant slogans in the name of [Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain] Sayeedi."
According to another post, picketing is a sport. "So start picketing in lanes, by-lanes and streets nearby your house."
The Basher Kella administration also offered tips to the pickets in two posts around 12:00noon yesterday: "Be careful, now police are patrolling in press vans.... My dear picket brothers, get a pair of swimming glasses for only Tk 120. It will save your eyes from teargas shells or rubber bullets."
One Facebook user, Omor Muzahid by name, described the activities of the Jamaat-Shibir bloggers as their Islamic duty.
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Last Wednesday Home Secretary Theresa May had this to say in a speech (emphases added):
Speaking at the Community Security Trust annual dinner in central London on Wednesday evening, Mrs May said more would be done to stop extremists masquerading as charities in order to raise funds.
Mrs May praised the Charity Commissions efforts to take a more effective and aggressive line in seeking out and ejecting such organisations.
Too often organisations whose purposes have been the opposite of charitable and which have even been involved in sending money to straightforwardly terrorist organisations have been allowed to flourish as charities, said the Home Secretary.
These are welcome words. But they will be worthless if action does not follow.
Few abusers of charity are as blatant as Interpal, the biggest political and material supporter of Hamas among British charities.
Here is Interpal Vice Chairman and Managing Trustee Essam Mustafa embracing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza just a month ago. Mustafa was in Gaza for one of a score of Interpals Miles of Smiles solidarity visits to the terrorist group over recent years.
The US says it has tabled a UN resolution - agreed with China - for sanctions that would target North Korea's diplomats and cash transfers.
Washington's UN envoy, Susan Rice, said the move would "significantly impede" Pyongyang's ability to further develop its nuclear weapons programme.
Li Baodong, China's UN envoy, told Reuters the Security Council aimed to vote on the resolution on Thursday.
Earlier, Pyongyang warned it would scrap a 60-year Korean ceasefire.
North Korea's military command said it would end the 1953 Armistice Agreement with South Korea on 11 March because of the threat of sanctions and the current military exercises taking place in South Korea.
The UN draft resolution is in response to North Korea's third and most powerful nuclear test in February, which sparked worldwide condemnation.
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How is it we haven't sactioned everything already? It is amazing to me that back in the 90s when the US economy was booming (and not owned by China) that we didn't put massive sanctions on any country (that means China) that did business with North Korea. I mean after 50is years of war and all.
North Korea has changed the shape of warheads to improve missile accuracy. The expert said the accuracy of the North's missiles is likely to improve through the use of triconic instead of simple conic warheads, a change of shape which does not reduce the weight.
Triconic warheads were first used for the improved version of the Rodong missile in 2000 and are now also being used for medium and long-range missiles, he said.
Iran's Shahab missile, which is based on the North's Rodong missile, also has a triconic warhead, which shows connections between the two countries, the expert claimed.
The North has deployed around 1,000 ballistic missiles -- about 700 Scud-B/C missiles with a range between 300 and 500 km and some 300 Rodong missiles with a range of 1,300 km. The regime has also conducted about a dozen tests since 2005 of short-range missile with a range of about 120 km
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North Korea is constructing a new ballistic-missile launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Hamgyong Province, experts claimed Wednesday.
The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, on its blog 38north.org on Wednesday, claimed the new launch pad is for intercontinental missiles aimed at the U.S. and suggested a possible link with Iran. It said the facility can accommodate a more advanced missile than the rocket whose launch failed in February.
The institute analyzed images taken by the commercial satellite Digital Globe on April 29 and said the new facility is being built 1.75 km east of the existing facility in Musudan-ri. The facility is twice the size of existing facilities in Musuan-ri and Tongchang-ri and has a bigger flame trench, launch pad and storage facility for fuel oxidizers.
Construction started last summer, the institute said, and predicted it will be operational in 2016 or 2017. It said the assembly plant at the new site is similar in design to Iran's Missile and Space Center at Semnan.
The Choson Sinbo, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan, quoted the chief of the Tongchang-ri launch facility as saying on April 16 that the North has "specific plans to launch a satellite not only at the Tongchang-ri site, but at Musudan-ri as well."
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The mother of one of the 50 to 60 Canadians being monitored by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) suspected of terrorist activities abroad says she no longer recognizes her own son. The Quebec woman said she wants to warn other parents about the risks awaiting young Muslims like her son.
The woman said after her son converted to Islam, he was recruited online by a radical Islamist group. She said her son was by nature a pacifist but was perhaps an easy target.
The mother said she watched her son change gradually after he converted. She said, "He stopped listening to music because it was a sin," she says. "He started to cut off contact with girls, then later, with boys who didn't share his vision."
She said he became more and more critical of Canadian society, saying, "Canadian laws are not good. It's Sharia law that should be applied."
"He is convinced that jihad is a part of the religion," she said, and added he told his parents he wanted them both to "burn in hell" if they did not convert as well.
Her son has left Canada for Syria, and his mother is aware that CSIS agents suspect him of involvement in radical Islamist activities.
Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former CSIS agent who is now president of a private security consulting firm, said, "CSIS knows of some 50 or so young people who have left Canada to join one of these groups."
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve John Brennan as President Barack Obama's new CIA director, after the committee resolved a dispute with the White House over access to classified legal opinions on the targeted killings of U.S. citizens overseas.
The vote clears a major hurdle for Brennan, currently Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser. While he seems likely to ultimately win confirmation by the full Senate, his nomination still could face further delays from Republican lawmakers.
The committee vote, at a closed-door meeting, was 12-3, according to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee's Democratic chairwoman.
The "no" votes were cast by Republican Senators Tom Coburn, Saxby Chambliss and James Risch. But other Republican committee members joined the panel's majority Democrats in voting to approve Brennan's nomination.
It was not immediately clear when the full Senate might hold a floor vote on the nomination. A Congressional official said a floor vote later this week might prove difficult due to an anticipated snowstorm in the Washington, D.C. area on Wednesday.
Some Republican Senators are seeking to delay that vote while they press the White House to release additional information on the U.S. response to the attacks last September 11 on U.S. official outposts in Benghazi, Libya.
Feinstein said after the committee meeting that while she expected a floor vote soon, she also believed that the Democrats would have to assemble 60 votes to ensure the defeat of a possible Republican filibuster, a delaying tactic. At least a handful of Republicans would have to vote with majority Democrats and two independent Senators to cut off any filibuster.
Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning next month under a policy change announced Tuesday by the head of the Transportation Security Administration.
The new policy conforms U.S. security standards to international standards, and allows TSA to concentrate its energies on more serious safety threats, the agency said in a statement.
The announcement, made by TSA Administrator John Pistole at an airline industry gathering in New York, drew an immediate outcry from unions representing flight attendants and other airline workers, who said the items are still dangerous in the hands of the wrong passengers.
Transport Workers Union Local 556, which represents over 10,000 flight attendants at Southwest Airlines, called the new policy dangerous and short sighted, saying it was designed to make the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer.
Funny how burning a single koran by one US preacher can cause a riot that kills 20 people and defacto end the 1st amendment protection that makes the US great. But hundreds of Korans can go up in smoke, (not to mention dozens of Muslims) when it is done by Muslims and no-problemo.
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[Dawn] Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. said on Monday that like Quetta the Punjabi Taliban was behind the attack in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Abbas Town on Sunday, DawnNews reported.
The interior minister said that the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LeJ) had its headquarters in Punjab and claimed that the province's ruling party the Pakistain Mohammedan League -- Nawaz (PML-N) was in an electoral alliance with the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
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Speaking to media persons at a private hospital after meeting with the victims of the tragic blast that occured in Karachi on Sunday, Rehman Malik said that the same group of hard boyz was involved in the Quetta and Karachi attacks.
He added said that terrorism in the country would be eliminated only if action was taken against hard boyz in Punjab.
The federal interior minister said that the terrorist forces wanted to delay the upcoming elections.
He claimed that the backbone of hard boyz has been broken and that 30 activists of the LeJ were apprehended in Karachi alone.
The LeJ had previously grabbed credit of two attacks in Quetta's Alamdar road and Kirani road this year.
A local daily newspaper had reported the chief of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, as saying that the PML-N was in talks with him for seat adjustments in the general elections.
The PML-N on the other hand had denied all links with jihad boys.
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Of course. Seeing he does just fine, it's thinking that he struggles with.
[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... said Monday that a larger "global conspiracy" exists behind fueling violence between Shia and Sunni sects in Pakistain, DawnNews reported.
"Similar to Iraq, Leb and Bahrain, sectarian violence in Pakistain is part of a larger global conspiracy," said Khan, speaking to news hounds in Lahore.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the PTI chief put responsibility of the country's security situation on President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... and Pakistain Mohammedan League -- Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
"Zardari does not have the time to pay attention to the situation in the country," he said. "These corrupt politicians have become billionaires in the past five years."
Khan accused the country's two biggest political parties of making seat adjustments with terrorist organizations for the coming elections. He also accused the political parties in Sindh of providing safe havens to terrorist elements involved in sectarian violence.
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[Dawn] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... has said that the country's western border has become insecure due to wrong policies of the government.
Addressing party workers here at Haq Nawaz Park, the JUI-F chief showed his optimism about restoration of peace in tribal areas, saying that the all parties conference in Islamabad in this regard had been successful.
He said that people wanted peace and stability and his party in collaboration with the tribal people would restore peace in the area. He said that the TTP had also welcomed the joint declaration of the APC, which was a positive development.
"I appreciate the Taliban's response," he said. On this occasion, former MPAs Abdul Halim Qasuria and Nawabzada Yameen Khan also joined the JUI-F.
Mr Rehman said that the coalition partners at the centre and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... had agreed for talks with the TTP, when the US started dialogues with Taliban in Afghanistan.
He said that the JUI-F was in favour of talks and opposed to use of force.
He said that the US started talks with Taliban after facing humiliation in Afghanistan and here the outgoing government was also begging for peace.
The JUI-F chief said that the federal government had announced package for Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , but could not end the sense of deprivation among the Baloch young.
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[Dawn] Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. has again attacked the PML-N's Punjab government alleging it has contacts with the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... terrorists, and urging it to arrest the accused to 'atone for' its past 'sins'.
The PML-N has hit back by terming the minister the most failed interior minister in the history of the country and asked him to take custody of LJ leader Malik Ishaq.
Talking to the media here on Sunday, Malik said LJ had its headquarters based in Punjab and all arms and ammunition were being supplied to its hit-men from here.
He said he had been urging the Punjab government for the last three years to take action against the terrorists. Extending a challenge to Shahbaz for a debate over the issue, he said terrorism could have been rooted out from the country had the Punjab government cooperated with his ministry.
He said the defunct outfit would also be dealt with an iron hand like the Taliban and that his ministry had provided a list of 734 hit-men belonging to the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi to the Punjab government and urged the provincial authorities to arrest these accused.
"The PML-N should atone for its contacts with the terrorist outfit by and capture these terrorists."
Replying to a query, he said the back of the Taliban had been broken and now there was no threat of the Taliban except in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Quetta.
Regarding the all-parties conference recently held by the JUI-F in Islamabad, he alleged that two banned outfits also participated in the moot and added that the organizers had better invited the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain too.
About reconciliation between the PPP and the MQM due to his efforts, the minister said the government had been engaging the MQM in the best interest of the country and give and take on certain issues was part of politics.
He said he was thankful to MQM chief Altaf Husain who would always give a patient hearing to his arguments (and change the decision of divorcing the PPP).
Special assistant to CM Punjab Zaeem Hussain Qadri says Rehman Malik is the most failed interior minister who, instead of paying attention to law and order, is engaged in political points scoring.
In a statement issued in response to the minister's anti-PML-N remarks, he said that Quetta and Karachi were burning but the performance of Malik as interior minister was limited just to issuing press statements.
He said that as interior minister it was responsibility of Mr Malik to take strict action against Islamic fascistieven if they belonged to the Lashkar-e-Jhanvi. "Who have stopped Rehman Malik to arrest the elements involved in terrorism from any corner of the country?"
Qadri said it was on the record that a number of PPP parliamentarians were elected with the support of defunct organizations whereas Punjab government never supported terrorism and was crushing the elements involved in terrorism.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... Punjab government's front man Pervaiz Rashid says Malik Ishaq, alleged chief of defunct Laskhkar-e-Jhangvi, is in police custody for the last 10 days. He said if Rehman Malik considered that the captive was involved in Karachi and Quetta killings, why the interior minister was avoiding taking Ishaq into his own custody.
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[An Nahar] A "terrorist group" from Syria carried out a bushwhack in western Iraq on Monday that killed 48 Syrian soldiers being transferred to the border and nine Iraqi guards, the defense ministry said.
The ambush was carried out "by a terrorist group that infiltrated into Iraqi territory coming from Syria," the ministry said on its website.
It said a number of unarmed and maimed Syrian soldiers had fled to Iraq for medical treatment and were being transferred to al-Walid border crossing to be returned to Syria through "official channels."
But they were ambushed on the way, in what the ministry termed "an attack against the illusory sovereignty of Iraq, its land, and its dignity, and a clear violation of human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... , as (the soldiers) were maimed and unarmed."
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Hamas announces that the PA has arrested 66 of its supporters in W. Bank including 32 former prisoners held by Israel.
The Palestinian Authority security forces have arrested 66 Hamas supporters in the West Bank during the month of February, the Gaza-based Islamist movement announced Tuesday.
In a report, Hamas said that among those arrested were 32 former prisoners [held by Israel], three university students, a journalist and a teacher.
The report said that PA security forces also summoned another 38 Hamas supporters and leaders for interrogation.
Ten Hamas supporters were ordered remanded into custody despite court decisions to release them, the report said.
The arrests come as efforts to achieve reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah appear to have failed.
Hamas said Tuesday that the reconciliation efforts failed because of US pressure on PA President Mahmoud Abbas to refrain from reaching any agreement with the movement.
Salah Bardaweel, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, said that Abbas has "sold the reconciliation in return for an American smile."
Everything Israel does is denounced, why should this be different? It does illustrate that the Paleos are creating problems.
The measure, spurred by pressure from Jewish settlers in the West Bank, was decried by Palestinian officials and Israeli human rights groups as racist and illegal. It immediately drew bitching and moaning comparisons to one of the most hated fixtures of apartheid-era South Africa and segregation in the American South in the 1950s. "Hated" but in retrospect, quite effective when dealing with lawlessness and domestic terrorism.
It is the first time that Israel has, in effect, introduced Palestinian-only buses in the West Bank since taking over the territory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the rights groups said. They are quite safe and unlike the Jewish buses, not prone to unexpected exploding.
According to the Israeli transportation ministry, two bus lines aimed at serving Palestinians will run from the West Bank's Eyal checkpoint near Qalqilya into central Israeli cities like Tel Aviv. Eyal is a key crossing for thousands of Palestinians who travel to work within Israel's internationally recognised borders. Your choice, Paleo bus or leather cadillacs.
Until now, many Palestinian workers who cross through Eyal walked or took a taxi or minibus to a bus stop near a Jewish settlement, where they boarded a bus along with Jewish passengers.
The ministry denied that the buses are "separate for Palestinians" but said they will "improve public transport services" offered to Palestinian workers by providing them with cheaper and more reliable transportation to their jobs in Israel, a statement said.
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Having lived through the Civil Rights era of the early '60s, I don't recall 'booming on buses' as part of the movement. Several 'booming churches', but never buses. The Klan terrorists did a lot to undermine their cause as well with their explosive practices.
#2
Segregation and separation can take various forms. Some can be government sponsored and funded, some can be voluntary. Chicago's violent South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood is a tragic examples of both. Terrorism aside, crimes such a robbery, rape, and murder tend to key decision making factors when deciding where to live, work, or travel. We should not confuse common sense, concern for our family, and human survival with racism.
#3
Thing is, if the Paleoswinians had their way, they'd have segregated buses anyway.
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The boomers self selected for apartheid so it's not a problem.
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See #3 - "apartheid" is proper when, despite knowing that their Arab-Muslim Muslims care little or nothing about them, the Muslim Paleos still wanna destroy the only real hand that will develop + take care of them as a sovereign nation.
[Ynet] Fearing kidnapping attempts by terror groups, military issues video warning against hitchhiking in West Bank. IDF says 20 terror cells plotting abductions nabbed in 2012
A new IDF campaign strives to warn Israeli teenagers living in the West Bank against the perils of hitchhiking due to a disconcerting rise in the threat level in the area.
Schools and youth movements are screening the video, which shows a boy boarding an unfamiliar car and then kidnapped at knife-point.
According to the IDF, since the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal, intelligence has indicated growing determination among the Gaza-based terror groups to abduct Israelis. According to the defense establishment, more than 20 cells plotting such attempts were nabbed in 2012.
A little confusing, that -- did the Gazans plan to execute kidnappings in the West Bank?
The IDF released a similar campaign directed at soldiers in early 2012.
[An Nahar] The head of the U.N. atomic agency called Monday on Iran to allow immediate access to the Parchin military base where it suspects nuclear weapons research took place.
Yukiya Amano said that this should be granted "without further delay" and without waiting for stalled talks to conclude an agreement on investigating other alleged "westernization" activities.
"I request Iran once again to provide access to the Parchin site without further delay, whether or not agreement has been reached on the structured approach," Amano told the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting.
"Providing access to the Parchin site would be a positive step which would help to demonstrate Iran's willingness to engage with the Agency on the substance of our concerns," he said, according to the text of his remarks at the closed-door gathering.
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So Mr. Amano when is Iran going to stop their development of a nuke?
Or that is a side show the real important stuff is the negotiations and the letters and the hours of work over lunch at the Ritz?
The IAEA has had ten freaking years to get this done. When is the UN going to quit shuffling desk chairs and DO SOMETHING?
I think we all know the answer. Action is not important, the negotiation is EVERYTHING.
We should just bomb the crap out of everything Iran has and just DARE someone to utter one harsh word. I fault George for part of this...he could have taken care of Iran's nuke program while we were in Iraq.
Now it all belongs to Bambi and the first target of an Iranian nuke will not be Israel, it will be either London or Los Angeles on a container ship they light off just out side the harbor beyond the scanners and detectors and inspectors.
If Iran gets a nuke and uses it on anyone we should close the UN by force and run the worthless drone asses out of town. BAH. This has gone on way too long.
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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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North Korea has changed the shape of warheads to improve missile accuracy. The expert said the accuracy of the North's missiles is likely to improve through the use of triconic instead of simple conic warheads, a change of shape which does not reduce the weight. 
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Hamas announces that the PA has arrested 66 of its supporters in W. Bank including 32 former prisoners held by Israel.
