[Libya Herald] Regarding the attack on the Ministry of Justice by militias this morning, both the Minister of Justice and Prime Minister condemned it at today's presser.
They both refused to give in to pressure to allow militias to control prisons or hold prisoners. Only the Ministry of Justice together with the Public Prosecutor's Office could be allowed to hold prisoners -- they both stressed.
The attack on the Ministry of Justice came after Minister Maraghni announced that any militia holding any prisoners is regarded as an illegal militia. The militias were unhappy with this decision and were concerned that the government, following a strict legal route, might be forced to release some of the more notorious members of the former regime under their custody.
The Minister of Justice and his Prime Minister were adamant at the presser. Maraghni pointed out that while buildings could be attacked and occupied and Ministers possibly killed, justice could not. He reminded that the 17th February revolution was for justice and the rule of law.
On the same topic, Zeidan assured that prisoners handed over by foreign states are held in official prisons with their full human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. guaranteed. He thanked Egypt and Morocco for their recent cooperation in handing over prisoners, but added they were handed over through a legal process (meaning that no deals were struck in exchange).
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Arab Spring
[Al Ahram] Egypt's presidency will not reconsider the decision to appoint Talaat Abdullah as prosecutor-general, despite a court verdict overruling his appointment, a source from the presidential office told Ahram's Arabic news website Sunday.
Abdullah is facing controversy after an Egyptian court reversed on Wednesday President Morsi's 22 November decision to dismiss former prosecutor-general Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud from his post and appointed Abdullah.
The source explained that Morsi had met with a group of legal consultants, who told him that the court verdict was non-enforceable.
They asserted that, while the court overturned the 22 November declaration, the constitution states that the "consequences" of that declaration -- for example the appointment of a new prosecutor-general -- remained in effect.
The source ruled out the possibility that an appeal on Wednesday's court verdict will be rejected.
"Worst case, the case will be referred to the Supreme Constitutional Court to review the legitimacy of the prosecutor-general's situation," he said.
A source close to Talaat Abdullah told Ahram Online Saturday that Abdullah is currently preparing an appeal against the court verdict.
Morsi's November declaration caused uproar among the Egyptian opposition and the judiciary.
Critics argued that its provisions had granted the president both executive and legislative powers. Morsi annulled the declaration in December, but the effects of the declaration are still legally valid.
Many opposition groups are demanding the dismissal of Abdullah on the grounds that he was appointed by the president not by the Supreme Judicial Council, as dictated by Egypt's legal system.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Arab Spring
Suez Canal Authority said early on Monday that inspectors did not find arms in a Tanzanian-flagged ship carrying an Iranian cargo destined for Syria. The authority had intercepted the ship as it crossed the canal following reports that the Tanzanian flag carrier had left an Iranian port on Saturday transporting weapons for the Syrian regime.
Suez Canal Authority Chairman Mohab Mamish was quoted by Turkey's Anadolu news agency as saying that the ship was carrying 7,479 tons of Urea chemical and was allowed passage to the Mediterranean Sea.
Urea is a useful basic chemical. You can use it to make fertilizer. Or explosives...
Syrian opposition military sources had said the ship was carrying 8,500 tons of weapons and ground missiles from Iran to be given to the Syrian regime.
"It is scheduled to make a 'fuel stop' at a Syrian port where it will unload its cargo," one opposition source told Al Arabiya on Saturday.
So were the inspectors blind? Or gagged?
There have been various media reports that the Islamic republic has been militarily helping the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which-according to the U.N.-has killed more than 70,000 people in the two years since the uprising began.
Posted by: Steve White ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Well the switcheroo on the weapons has already happened, somewhere further south in the Red Sea as the Iranians maybe crazy but certainly are not dummies and anticipated the inspection.
Also, urea is a basic component of many field expedient explosives. Mix a little urea with nitric acid and you have a nifty high explosive, urea nitrate with an explosive burn rate over 10,000 fps. Anything over 8,000 fps packs a nice wallop.
So the urea while it is excellent fertilizer, is a precursor to a pretty effective explosive.
BTW urea nitrate was the explosive used in the 1993 WTC bombing.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
04/01/2013 9:53 Comments ||
Top||
#2
BTW urea nitrate was the explosive used in the 1993 WTC bombing.
It's also a main ingredient in in hair removers such as Nair and Veet.
Not sayin' the Syrians are hairy or anything...
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
04/01/2013 11:52 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Double 'in in'.
Sorry
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
04/01/2013 11:53 Comments ||
Top||
CAIRO - A strike by border guards on Sunday forced Egyptian authorities to shut down an airport in the Mediterranean port of Alexandria and divert flights elsewhere, airport officials said.
The border police at the Borg El-Arab airport in Egypts second city were protesting against low salaries and demanding better working conditions, the officials said. An airport employee told AFP that the guards sat on the runway, preventing regional flights from taking off or landing.
The interior ministry has been plagued by a wave of industrial action by police in recent weeks which boiled over earlier this month into an unprecedented nationwide strike.
Posted by: Steve White ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
[Pak Daily Times] Rising religious tensions in the Central African Republic could be a ticking time-bomb after a coup that left the chronically unstable nation with a Mohammedan strongman, despite his promises of secular rule.
"We are sitting on a bomb. An evil sorcerer could blow up the whole house. I don't want us to underestimate the problem," said Dieudonne Nzapalainga, the Catholic archbishop of Bangui.
Michel Djotodia, the self-proclaimed president, became the first Mohammedan leader of the country after seizing power in a bloody March 24 coup that ousted president Francois Bozize, creating days of chaos and looting.
"The Central African Republic is a secular state," Djotodia said on Friday. "It is true that I am Mohammedan, but I must serve my country, all Central Africans."
However he said that "some people with bad intentions want to lead the country into inter-religious conflict."
Since Djotodia and his Seleka rebel coalition began an offensive in December, Bozize's regime often accused them of "preaching Wahhabism" -- an ultra-conservative Islam often followed by fundamentalists -- or of being "Mohammedan terrorists."
During the crisis Bozize's supporters set up so-called self-defence committees which erected roadblocks around the capital Bangui and often lashed out at Mohammedans whom they associated with the rebels.
At the same time the rebels leaned on the Mohammedan community which carried out fundraising for them. Looters also ransacked Christian property after the coup, sparing Mohammedans and heightening tensions.
One resident of Bangui said that images of Mohammedans chanting "Allah Akbar" (God is great) when Djotodia arrived at the Bangui mosque for Friday prayers had "shocked" some Christians.
"We are no longer at home. They pillage our goods which are then sold by the Mohammedans who export them to the north (Chad and Sudan)," he said on condition of anonymity.
A woman from the Benz-Vi suburb added, referring to the Mohammedans: "They say, 'It's our turn now. We will make you pay'."
The country of nearly five million people is mostly Christian, with about 15 percent Mohammedans who are concentrated in the north where the rebellion started.
The different religions have always coexisted peacefully and leaders from both sides have urged people not to confuse the fact that there is a Mohammedan leader, with the "Islamisation" of the country.
"The new authorities are not there for a religious goal but a political goal. They must present their political agenda to convince the population," said Pastor Nicolas Guere Koyame, leader of the Alliance of Evangelists in Central Africa.
Imam Oumar Kobline Layama, president of the Islamic Community of Central Africa, said the rebels should not play into the hands of those "who want to turn this change into a religious problem."
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
[An Nahar] Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja held talks in Sanaa on Sunday on the fate of a couple from Finland held hostage in Yemen together with an Austrian since December.
State media said he met President Abdrabuh Mansour Hadi, who did not rule out the use of force to secure their release.
"The hostages must be released using all means possible, including the use of force, but with caution to make sure they remain safe," said Hadi, quoted on the defense ministry's website.
The three Europeans were kidnapped in the Yemeni capital on December 21 as they prepared to travel to the southern port of Aden.
In early January, Yemeni security officials said the Europeans were being held by al-Qaeda-linked rustics in Marib province of eastern Yemen.
Yemeni forces in January suspended an offensive aimed at freeing the hostages that cost more than 65 lives, and tribal mediators were allowed to attempt a negotiation with the kidnappers.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia
[Bangla Daily Star] Former 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... leader Farid Uddin Ahammad had decided to revive Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. ) in coordination with some Afghan war veterans, former Shibir cadres and leaders and activists of different Death Eater outfits, detectives say.
Apart from establishing Khilafat in Bangladesh, he was backing the anti-government movement and obstructing the war crimes trial, they add.
"Farid in his publications elaborated the ways of reviving HuJI, its reorganization and future activities," said a Detective Branch official close to the interrogation team.
Quoting Farid the DB official, who spoke anonymously, said: "Farid opted for reviving HuJI as there are similarities in the ideologies of the HuJI in Bangladesh, Pakistain and Afghanistan."
Since September last year, Farid built up communications with a dozen Afghan war veterans, a number of former and present Shibir cadres and many members of various Death Eater outfits like HuJI, Harkatul Mujahideen and Allahar Dal.
Detectives on Friday tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Farid, who is also known as the ideological guru of different Death Eater outfits like HuJI and Allahar Dal.
On the same day, law enforcers also held Afghan war veteran Farid Uddin Masud, who was a leader of HuJI in Pakistain, Shibir cadre Mizanur Rahman, Death Eater leader Mahfuzur Rahman and 12 others, including four Pak nationals from the capital.
"The tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Death Eater leaders directly and indirectly support the anti-government movement and they were working against the war crimes trial," Nazrul Islam Mollah, deputy commissioner of DB, told The Daily Star yesterday.
"Among them, Mizanur and Mahfuzur had been playing a vital role in supplying bombs, as they have expertise in making bombs," he added.
DB officials said the detained Pak nationals had close links with the Death Eater outfits in Pakistain and an intelligence agency of a neighbouring country.
"They were playing roles of carrying and passing information to them," said a DB official.
Former Jamaat-e-Islami leader Farid Uddin Ahammad had decided to revive Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI) in coordination with some Afghan war veterans, former Shibir cadres and leaders and activists of different Death Eater outfits, detectives say.
Apart from establishing Khilafat in Bangladesh, he was backing the anti-government movement and obstructing the war crimes trial, they add.
"Farid in his publications elaborated the ways of reviving HuJI, its reorganization and future activities," said a Detective Branch official close to the interrogation team.
Quoting Farid the DB official, who spoke anonymously, said: "Farid opted for reviving HuJI as there are similarities in the ideologies of the HuJI in Bangladesh, Pakistain and Afghanistan."
Since September last year, Farid built up communications with a dozen Afghan war veterans, a number of former and present Shibir cadres and many members of various Death Eater outfits like HuJI, Harkatul Mujahideen and Allahar Dal.
Detectives on Friday arrested Farid, who is also known as the ideological guru of different Death Eater outfits like HuJI and Allahar Dal.
On the same day, law enforcers also held Afghan war veteran Farid Uddin Masud, who was a leader of HuJI in Pakistain, Shibir cadre Mizanur Rahman, Death Eater leader Mahfuzur Rahman and 12 others, including four Pak nationals from the capital.
"The detained Death Eater leaders directly and indirectly support the anti-government movement and they were working against the war crimes trial," Nazrul Islam Mollah, deputy commissioner of DB, told The Daily Star yesterday.
"Among them, Mizanur and Mahfuzur had been playing a vital role in supplying bombs, as they have expertise in making bombs," he added.
DB officials said the detained Pak nationals had close links with the Death Eater outfits in Pakistain and an intelligence agency of a neighbouring country.
"They were playing roles of carrying and passing information to them," said a DB official.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami
Meherpur, Mar 31 (UNB) - Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir on Sunday said BNP chief Khaleda Zia will be brought to justice for pushing the country towards an anarchic situation through hatching various conspiracies.
The government is thinking of bringing to justice those hatching conspiracies against the country, he said while inaugurating Mujibnagar Police Station Complex Bhaban at noon.
IGP Hasan Mahmud Khandaker, DG of Rab Mokhlesur Rahman, Khulna range DIG Mesbah Uddin, BGB Kushtia Sector Commander Lt Col Farid Uddin, local administration officials and Awami League leaders were present on the occasion.
Criticising the BNP chief for her recent remarks in Bogra, the Home Minister said: People wont tolerate your conspiracies anymore.
The minister went on: If you continue your conspiracies, you should go to Pakistan. As the home minister, Ill make necessary arrangements for your migration to Pakistan if you face any trouble in doing so.
While addressing a meeting in Bogra recently, Khaleda Zia said the Army would play its due role in due time, triggering criticisms by the ruling party leaders.
Posted by: Steve White ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
In evidence to a parliamentary inquiry, a leading development economist said the Benazir Income Support Programme was being used to buy support for Mrs Bhutto's widower, President Asif Ali Zardari, and his party.
Thus allowing Zardari to invest his ten percent elsewhere...
Ehtisham Ahmad, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, said Britain's Department for International Development (DfID) was pouring money into a scheme riven by "clientelism".
"It is not stolen to the extent to which previous cash transfers were stolen, but this is the mechanism - which is funded partly by DFID - to make friends and influence people. This is the re-election campaign of Mr Zardari, which is funded by DFID," he said. "Well done."
The Select Committee on International Development is due to publish its report into aid to Pakistan on Thursday.
Britain has rapidly expanded its assistance in recent years. Pakistan is on course to become the biggest recipient of UK aid, receiving £450m per year by 2015.
* KYODO NEWS > US SEES NO CHANGES IN NORTH KOREAN MILITARY [Activity = Movements] DEPSITE HARSH RHETORIC.
Iff a mil conflict does break out, undoubtedly Cina will require DPRK military participation in any attack or campaign agz the US-Allies.
* SAME > [Ex-Obama WH Aide GARY[ SAMORE: NORTH KOREA AT CROSSROADS BETWEEN CONFLICT, PEACE OVERTURES.
IMO its more correct to say that the DPRK latent ability to wait a long time for peaceful reunificiation wid the ROK is now SERIOUSLY AT QUESTION GIVEN KNOWN OR PREVAILING CONDITIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
The thin tightrope that the DPRK = Kim Dynasty + Pyongyang Boyz have been walking on has now grown much much thinner where the DPRK is now walking on its tippy-toes - IMO KIM JONG-UN'S REALISTIC OPTIONS IS TO EITHER "ACCEPT" INEVITABLE CHINESE TAKEOVER OF NORTH KOREA, INCLUD POSSIBLE ANNEXATION; OR INDUCE A MAJOR WAR TO FORCE NATIONAL REUNIFICATION WID SOUTH KOREA IN ORDER TO PREVENT A CHINESE TAKEOVER.
As said times before, DPRK = ROK - it is in both their "core/strategic interests" to prevent a Chinese takeover of the DPRK aka North Korea.
#3
Caught a quick glimpse of the ship on FOX NEWS this AM - looked like an AEGIS-CAPABLE "OLIVER HAZARD PERRY/PERRY"-CLASS vessel.
AEGIS read, ANTI-AIRCRAFT + BMD-CAPABLE.
What us different from past DPRK bellicosities is that DPRK overlord China aka "Mahanist" China has failed to diplomatically or peacefully procure "strategic access" = overseas PLA Milbases into WESTPAC + SOPAC vee the "First Island Chain", espec as per stalled reunification efforts wid TAIWAN AKA THE ISLAND THAT WILL MAKE-OR-BREAK CHINA'S "MANIFEST DESTINY" AS THE WORLD'S ONE-N-ONLY SUCCESSOR TO THE "WEAK/DECLINING" SOON-TO-BE-GLOBAL-EX-NUMBER-ONE USA, SO NOW IS WILLING TO FORCE THE ISSUE WID AGGRESSIVE MILITARY OR MILPOL FORCE. As wid any new or resurgent Nation-State in World History, Old World Power China wants its New "Manifest Destiny" ASAP AMAP ALAP, + not have to wait until Year 2050 or 2100 to achieve it.
IMO the DPRK covertly does NOT genuinely want war, but as Rising China's vassal it may have no choice but to militarily support China's war for strategic access thru the "First Island Chain".
THE KEY OR DECIDING FACTOR, THEN, IS WHETHER CHINA IS COVERTLY WILLING TO RE-PRIORITIZE, DELAY OR AMEND, ITS AGENDA = "MANIFEST DESTINY" IN ORDER TO AVOID A MAJOR MIL CONFLICT THAT HAS THE POTEN TO DEVOL INTO A LIMITED OR FULL-SCALE NUCLEAR CONFLICT???
This situation isoccurring at atime when both the DPRK + ROK desire to prevent any kind of Chinese takeover of North Korea, while the US on its part faces the the prospect of being suborned under ANTI-US OWG + VARIOUS "GLOBAL FEDERAL UNIONS" E.G. NAU 2015, TRANS-PAC, TRANS-ATLANTIC, ETC. + ANY RELATED INTERIM LEVELS OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE/GLOBAL GOVERNING AUTHORITY(S).
Where the US is led by a POTUS Obama + Admin that many ordinary or mainstream Americans + Netters proclaim NOT to trust to promote or defend America's interests vee "ulterior motives".
E.G. DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > INDIA WILL LOSE ITS GEOPOLITICAL BATTLES AGZ CHINA WID A WEAK ECONOMY?
Substitute INDIA wid Debt, Sequester-ridden USA???
* WORLD NEWS > [WND.com] IRAN: 2013 WILL BE THE "FALL OF AMERICAN EMPIRE", BASIJ COMMANDER [BGEN. Mohammad Reza Naghti] GIVES MICHELLE OBAMA "WET GUNPOWDER" AWARD, as the Personage most unlikely, unknowingly, or unsuspectingly to aid Islam or Radical Islamism, BUT DID.
Comments + Award to FLOTUS Michelle approved by Iran El Supremo the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei.
[Straits Times] One of North Korea's top decision-making bodies is setting guidelines that call nuclear weapons "the nation's life" that won't be traded even for "billions of dollars."
The statement on Sunday came after a plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party attended by leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the hereditary potentate of North Korea... and other officials.
It says nuclear weapons aren't "goods for getting U.S. dollars" or a "political bargaining chip."
Outside analysts have said Pyongyang raises worries over its nuclear ambitions to spur nuclear-disarmament-for-aid talks.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Commies
#1
The DPRK's war rants is coming at a time when overlord mainland China's efforts at formal reunification wid Taiwan is stalled seemingly indefinitely, in addition to China's efforts to acquire overseas Milbases for the PLA vee the "First Island Chain", etc. also coming to naught.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. F-22 stealth fighter jets arrived in South Korea on Sunday for exercises as part of an effort to demonstrate advanced military capabilities, seeking to deter provocations from North Korea, according to reports.
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the arrival of the stealth jets came after previous examples of U.S. air power that included B-52 bombers and B-2 stealth bombers. The F-22 steal jets are normally stationed in Japan at Kadena air force base but flew to a South Korean base for continuing military exercises.
The Wall Street Journal reported that White House and defense officials said they expected more threats from Pyongyang. The report cited a senior administration official who said that while the White House does take North Korean threats seriously the rhetoric does follow a pattern that we have seen for decades.
Posted by: Steve White ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
#2
They work in coordination with AWACs. Let us know when they show up. Otherwise it's pretty much just posturing, which the Norks will ignore. Of course, if there wasn't money spent on endless vacations of the WH, there might be money to run joint exercises with the SKoreans while waiting around for that 'oops' moment.
#3
The time to use the F22's was on Pudge's inauguration day parade. Half a dozen jets up the parade route, line astern and supersonic would have caused serious festivities in NKor.
#4
Get all the good shit back to Guam right now dumbass.
The extra few hours that it takes to fly from there means nothing on the mission, but giving those commie bastards a chance to pick up a few pointers on our really good stuff is the whole point of these shenangians.
South Korea is loaded with Nork commandos and Chinese spies.
34 members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, an especially violent "White Supremacist Gang" were indicted by the US Justice Department after an investigation involving Federal, State and Local law enforcement including prosecuters in Kaufman County, Texas.
3 months later, a Kaufman county prosecuter who worked on the case was assassinated in broad daylight at the court house. Then a major Denver Corrections Official was murdered at his home. Denver Corrections Facility is where three founders of the national Aryan Brotherhood are serving life sentences. An Aryan Brotherhood member who is believed to have assassinated the Denver Corrections Official was killed in a shootout with back down in Texas with Texas lawmen one week later.
This past Friday, March 29, an elected official, the Kaufman County, Texas District Attorney and his wife were murdered in their home.
The Feds boasted on November 12 that a major blow was successfully carried out against ABT. Apparently they may not have realized that ABT may possibly respond in a very violent manner as what MAY be happening now.
Breitbart has more here. They interviewed D.A. McLelland recently, some of it on the record.
#3
The ABT are some seriously bad folks, not your run of the mill WS group. They are also a natural response the war being waged against Whites and Christians by the Left in general and the Obama Admin. in particular.
I expect to see this grow and escalate. I doubt things will play out quite the way they expect.
Posted by: SAM work. ||
04/01/2013 8:51 Comments ||
Top||
Explain to me why we don't have an active death penalty, but we'll hunt down other death dealing threats outside our borders. 'Affiliated' with AQ is enough to get you targeted.
#5
P2K, the remora is not a protected species. It wisely derives it's protection through mutualism.
The relationship between shark and remora is one of commensalism or mutualism, depending on the species. In the case of commensalism the remora benefits by getting transportation and food from the shark while the shark is neither harmed nor aided. In the case of mutualism, the remora actually cleans bacteria and parasites from the shark, which benefits both species.
"When you hate others so much, you become dangerously close to being just like them."
In the video Procopius2k linked to, several very badass AB members interviewed quite the AB because they began to kill more white people than anyone else. All the victims in this latest outbreak of AB violence are white.
Bottom line, AB has become nothing more than a bunch of decadent cockroach scumbags.
#11
They may be scum, but I can't be moved to care. The left scream "WOLF! WOLF!" and calls anyone who won't commit fellatio on government bureaucrats on demand a "white supremacist", so I take this "fright" with a truck load of salt.
How many cops and prosecutors and others are killed by black gangs? Why is this worthy of national news? Because it so unusual? Yeah. Precisely.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
04/01/2013 16:08 Comments ||
Top||
#12
White Supremacists are always the least likely person(s) I'd pick to represent my race
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/01/2013 16:34 Comments ||
Top||
#13
Why would an Aryan supremacist and a Radical Islamist meet up!?!
The Iraqi justice ministry Monday said it has executed an Al Qaeda leader and three others convicted of terrorist and criminal activities.
The four included Munaf Abdul Raheem al-Rawi, the top leader of the militant group in Baghdad province. He was arrested in March 2010 over masterminding massive attacks in the capital, including against ministries, hotels, foreign embassies, mosques and churches, Xinhua reported.
"The executions for the four terrorists were carried out by hanging, for their role in leading terrorist groups which planned and carried out a large number of criminal acts against the people in a number of provinces, including bombings in Baghdad and (the western province of) Anbar," the ministry said in a statement.
However, the increase in the number of executions in Iraq has sparked calls from the UN mission in Iraq, the European Union and international human rights groups to stop Baghdad's use of capital punishment. The recidivism rate after capital punishment is zero.
The death penalty in Iraq was suspended for over a year after the US-led invasion. Paul Bremer, then US administrator for Iraq, suspended its use in June 2003.
However, the Iraqi government reinstated the capital punishment in August 2004, saying that it would curb the widespread violence in the country. Since then, scores of people have been executed, including toppled president Saddam Hussein.
Iraq has said it will step up searches of Iranian flights via its airspace to Syria, days after US Secretary of State John Kerry publicly criticised Baghdad for turning a blind eye to them, Aljazeera reported.
But while Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's spokesman spoke of newly tightened restrictions on Iranian flights to Syria, the head of Iraq's civil aviation authority acknowledged that no planes had been searched since October.
"Because of a lot of information which referred to transportation of weapons, we have increased the activity of inspections," Maliki's spokesman Ali Mussawi said on Saturday. "We will carry out more random searches, to be assured that there is no weapons transfer."
Asked if the move was in response to Kerry's comments last Sunday during a surprise visit to Baghdad, Mussawi replied: "No one has provided us with evidence, just information."
This will be almost as good a performance of security theater as the TSA...
Posted by: Steve White ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
"No one has provided us with evidence, just information."
Short-term mooslim memory and instinctive gratitude. So heartwarming. Nurse, please mark the chart DNR. The patient obviously wills it.
#3
Its like back in the day schoolyard football where that crappy kid who insists on being QB complains that 10 mississippi is being counted too quickly, then gets on the WRs for not getting open enough when the dude is just sitting there showboating.
Senior Hamas figures gathered for the last stage of internal elections on Monday in Cairo, where two officials in the Islamic militant movement said a new leader may be announced later in the day.
Qatar-based Khaled Mashaal, who has run the Palestinian movement since 1996, is seen as the front-runner. Mashaal, 56, is backed by regional powers Qatar, Turkey and Egypt.
His re-election could revive stalled reconciliation efforts between Hamas and political rival Mahmoud Abbas, the Western-backed Palestinian president.
Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from Abbas by force in 2007, leaving Abbas with a self-rule government, the Palestinian Authority, in parts of the West Bank. Both sides have become entrenched in their territories, hampering reconciliation.
Mashaal has pushed for reconciliation, but has been blocked by Hamas hardliners in Gaza who fear a unity deal will give Abbas a new foothold in Gaza and weaken Hamas' grip on the territory.
Last year, Mashaal and Abbas, who have cordial relations, reached a deal whereby Abbas would head an interim government of technocrats in the West Bank and Gaza. This government would have paved the way for general elections.
However, the deal never got off the ground because of opposition from Hamas leaders in Gaza and senior figures in Abbas' Fatah movement.
Last week, the emir of Qatar proposed holding a reconciliation conference in Egypt in the coming weeks to set up a timetable for forming the interim government and holding elections.
Asked about the conference Monday, Abbas seemed ambivalent. Speaking in the West Bank city of Ramallah, he said he would attend such a conference if invited, but that "in principle, there are no problems between us that require all these efforts."
[An Nahar] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... signed a deal with King Abdullah II on Sunday confirming Jordan's historic role as custodian of the holy sites in Jerusalem, the palace said.
Outlining their coordination, the two sides stressed their "common goal to defending" Jerusalem and its sacred sites against attempts to Judaise the Holy City, particularly the flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound.
"In this historic agreement, Abbas reiterated that the king is the custodian of holy sites in Jerusalem and that he has the right to exert all legal efforts to preserve them, especially al-Aqsa mosque," the palace said in a statement.
"It is also emphasizing the historical principles agreed by Jordan and Paleostine to exert joint efforts to protect the city and holy sites from Israeli Judaization attempts."
The agreement confirms "Jordan's role since the era of the late King Hussein," Abbas was quoted as saying in the statement.
"It consolidates what the two sides (Jordanians and Paleostinians) have established decades ago."
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority
[Al Ahram] A senior member of Paleostinian movement Fatah described a Qatari call for new reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Cairo as "suspicious and unnecessary," Egypt's state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... MENA reported on Sunday. Hamas has reportedly welcomed the offer of talks.
Azzam Al-Ahmed, a member of Fatah's central committee who is in charge of reconciliation efforts at Fatah, said that the reconciliation process with Hamas is moving forward through a "specified timetable."
"Too much discussion about this issue is a waste of time; we are very optimistic about the reconciliation process as we are in constant contact with Egyptian officials," Al-Ahmed said.
The Fatah leader said he expected that talks with Hamas over a national government would take place at the same time as discussions over the updating of the voter registration list.
"We might just need 24 hours for government talks; President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said before that he would issue two decrees, one calling for elections and other on the formation of a new government," he said.
At their first meeting in almost a year, Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal agreed in January to revive a stalled reconciliation deal between the rival Paleostinian factions
On their visits to Cairo, Abbas and Meshaal both held separate talks with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
"Morsi promised to work towards lifting the Gazoo blockade and helping Paleostinians out of their financial crisis, lobbying donors and our Arab brothers," Al-Ahmed told AFP at the time of the meeting.
Yusef Rizq, political advisor to Hamas's Ismail Haniya, prime minister of Gazoo, said Abbas wanted the election committee to end its work creating a "consensus government" and move towards holding elections, so as to activate the 2011 Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal.
The two Paleostinian leaders also agreed to allow Hamas a degree of representation in the Paleostine Liberation Organisation, which has historically been led by Fatah.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Fatah
Hamas will hold elections to chose its new political leadership in Cairo Monday, Turkish news agency Anadolu reported on Sunday.
Unnamed sources told the news agency that Hamass current political chief, Khaled Mashaal, had arrived in Cairo from Qatar, along with Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who arrived from Gaza. Other members of Hamass Shoura Council the movements decision-making body also reportedly arrived in Cairo Saturday from across the Arab world to take part in the vote.
It'd be a real shame if the natural gas line to the Hamas safe house were to leak just as all those guys were gathering inside...
The election of Hamass highest political position has been postponed numerous times since last April amid rumors that regional players were pressuring Mashaal to stay on for another term, despite his wish to retire.
The sources told Anadolu that the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian regime, Qatar and Turkey would all like to see Mashaal remain in office given the complicated and dangerous situation the movement faces.
We at the Burg would like Khalid to retire: in fact, we'd be happy to raise the funds necessary to send him off, IYKWIMAITYD...
Other candidates include Mashaals Cairo-based deputy Moussa Abu-Marzouq, as well as Haniyeh.
Hamas elects its political leadership every four years from the regional command to the leadership of the political bureau under a shroud of secrecy. Voters must belong to three regions; Gaza, the West Bank and Mauritania the diaspora.
That last one allows the vote-counters to work their magic...
In January 2012, Hamas shuttered its political headquarters in Damascus. The movements leaders have been on the run dispersed throughout the Middle East ever since.
Posted by: Steve White ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
[An Nahar] The Syrian regime and rebel opposition forces on Sunday traded accusations of blame for a "massacre" of at least 10 people in the town of Tal Kalakh in the south of the conflict-ridden country.
"Last night, gunnies committed a new massacre against peaceful citizens in the city of Tal Kalakh in the Homs countryside, storming the Burj neighborhood and killing a number of citizens, including women and kiddies," state news agency SANA reported.
The agency said "terrorists," the term by which the Damascus ...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy... regime and official media refer to rebel forces, had also looted homes and shops.
"An official source said that the terrorist group stormed the Burj neighborhood and killed 10 people, most of them children and women, before one of the units from our armed forces intervened," the agency added.
Activists pointed the finger of blame at government forces.
"The bodies of 11 people, including eight women, were recovered after they were executed during a raid by regime forces in the Burj neighborhood of Tal Kalakh today, according to activists in the area," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog said.
Tal Kalakh, near Syria's border with Leb, was among the first Syrian towns to rise up against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... in 2011, and regime forces have laid siege to it several times.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
[An Nahar] Deputy head of Hizbullah's Executive Council Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Sunday stressed that any new government "is required to refrain from stabbing the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... in the back," accusing the rival March 14 camp of betting on the Syrian crisis to "change the domestic political equations."
"The Resistance is vigilant on the border as Israel bets on the Syrian crisis to change the conflict's equations and as the March 14 forces -- who are drowning in their illusions -- are betting on that crisis to change the domestic political equations," said Qaouq at a memorial service in the southern town of al-Sawwaneh.
March 14 is "delusional to believe that the equation in Leb can change under the influence of the Syrian crisis and to believe that the doors have become open to a new American hegemony and to continuing the seizure of power," Qaouq added.
"March 14's illusions and their foreign commitments made them bet on toppling the equations," the Hizbullah official charged.
He noted that the rival camp believes that the upcoming parliamentary elections are a "strategic chance to topple the domestic equations, which reflects political ignorance and proves that the lust for power has blinded them."
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11 views]
Top|| File under: Hezbollah
[An Nahar] Head of the Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... MP Suleiman Franjieh contacted on Saturday Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... to inquire about his health.
The MP reassured that the Syrian president is doing well, denying recent reports of his liquidation.
"Assad is in complete health," he stressed.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[9 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
Long piece from NBC World News about the man the Syrian opposition 'elected' as a 'leader'. That he would be the Muslim Brotherhood's pick is enough for me to know what we need to know about him. He's likely very pious, too.
He is a straight shooter from Texas who worked as a telecoms executive until November. But Ghassan Hitto now finds himself the presumptive caretaker-leader of Syria as world powers plot the end of Bashar Assads crumbling regime.
The American citizen, born in Syria, is the new prime minister of the oppositions interim government the apparatus that the international community hopes will seal the end of Assads rule. Friends describe Hitto, 50, as sincere and practical, but the charismatic technocrat will need all the charm he can muster to unify Syrias fragmented opposition.
His rapid rise has prompted questions about how the deadly conflict should end and has cast a light on infighting, fueled by regional countries purportedly supporting certain opposition figures.
The Free Syrian Army, one of the key rebel groups fighting Assads forces on the ground inside Syria, responded to Hittos appointment in Istanbul on March 18 by refusing to recognize his authority.
The situation there is so dire, Im afraid for him, said Mustafa Carroll, who worked alongside Hitto in Texas as a volunteer at Muslim advocacy groups. Its a big responsibility and its very complicated.
Hes a straight shooter, very sincere, very well-regarded and a very active community person, said Carroll, who is director of the Houston chapter of the Council for American-Islamic Relations.
Seen as Muslim Brotherhood's pick
Hitto, a father of four, lived in the U.S. for three decades, most recently on the outskirts of Dallas working as director of operations for telecoms supplier Inovar, where co-worker Arshad Syed remembers him as "honest" and "personable."
He left Syria in the early 1980s and received an MBA at Indiana Wesleyan University on top of a degree in computer science and mathematics from Purdue University in Indianapolis. Strongly active in community groups, he was a member of the board of directors at the private Islamic school Bright Horizons Academy, in Garland, Texas, where his wife Suzanne still teaches English.
In November, he made the decision to get involved in the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces -- the international grouping that seeks to end Syrias civil war on the condition that Assad is removed from power.
Like a lot of people living away, he just wanted to help his homeland, said Carroll.
Hittos wife did not return calls, but the academy issued a statement describing him as a practical man with great management experience.
It said: He was always open minded and open to debate. He conducted himself with the highest honesty and integrity. His talent for bringing people together for the common good will be missed in our community.
He wanted to help safely from Dallas. That's the exact reason why I don't think he'll be the man in the end: the people fighting on the ground, whatever their politics and ideology, won't want a leader who led from 5,000 miles away.
Hitto, a respected technocrat but an inexperienced politician, won the overwhelming number of votes from those who cast a ballot -- other possible candidates that included a former Syrian regime official -- but some members of the Coalition boycotted the vote in protest at the process.
Not everyone was convinced the opposition needed an interim government, seeing it as yet another organization that could compete for control of a post-Assad Syria. Official spokesman Walid al-Bunni walked out of the vote in protest and Moaz al-Khatib, president of the Coalition, resigned and had to be persuaded back on board just in time for the Arab Summit in Doha, which began Tuesday.
Hittos whole role has been undermined from the start, said Christopher Phillips, associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at U.K. think tank, Chatham House. Hes very much the Muslim Brotherhoods man, and is seen as such. There was a lot of pressure to get an interim opposition leader in place ahead of the Doha talks, but the way in which it was done, and the choice of very much the man that Qatar and Turkey wanted, has infuriated and alienated just about every key player in the process.
Represents 'the some of the some'
Salman Shaik, director of the Brookings Center in Doha, said many Syrians "still regard the appointment of Hitto with suspicion." Even if Assad is toppled from power, Hitto is by no means certain of the authority he needs to implement free and fair elections.
Why would he need that kind of authority? The Brotherhood has no plans whatsoever to 'implement free and fair elections'. Any 'election' they help sponsor will go the way the recent Egyptian election went.
The huge elephant in the room is that there is no guarantee that, if and when the Assad regime falls, that any of the groups fighting in Syria will gather around this official opposition, said Phillips. There are huge uncertainties in all of this.
Abdulrahman al-Rashed, commentator and general manager of the Al Arabiya news channel, wrote: I am confident that Mr. Hitto is a respectable person and that he cares about Syria. But during this difficult time, we want a person who represents everyone and not only some Syrians. Some members of the Syrian coalition decided to choose Hitto but the coalition itself only represents some Syrians. Therefore, Hitto represents the some of the some!
But that may be enough of the enough if the Brotherhood is part of the 'some'...
Yasser Tabarra, the Chicago-based legal adviser to the Coalition, says the interim government will focus on managing the 60 to 70 percent of the country that is liberated and controlled by opposition rebels.
That much territory? That's more than I thought. We need a current map.
The government would coordinate local management efforts, including establishing law and order, and delivering basic goods and services, Tabarra said.
Two key stumbling blocks remain: whether the Coalition should enter into any form of negotiations with the regime while Assad is still in power, and whether Hitto, an ethnic Kurd viewed as the Muslim Brotherhood's favored candidate, can unite the ideological differences between its liberal and Islamist members.
In his task, Hitto at least has the backing of the U.S.
We're backing the lightweight. How typical...
This is an individual who, out of concern for the Syrian people, left a very successful life in Texas to go and work on humanitarian relief for the people of his home country, said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland after Hittos election.
Were very hopeful that his election will foster unity and cohesion among the opposition.
Posted by: Steve White ||
04/01/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under:
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.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's presidency will not reconsider the decision to appoint Talaat Abdullah as prosecutor-general, despite a court verdict overruling his appointment, a source from the presidential office told Ahram's Arabic news website Sunday.
North Korea
WASHINGTON -- U.S. F-22 stealth fighter jets arrived in South Korea on Sunday for exercises as part of an effort to demonstrate advanced military capabilities, seeking to deter provocations from North Korea, according to reports.
[Al Ahram] A senior member of Paleostinian movement Fatah described a Qatari call for new reconciliation talks between Fatah and 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
