[TOLONEWS] The Afghan Interior Minister Mojtaba Patang on Saturday warned that Pakistain will face military reaction "if it tries to rebuild military installations in border areas."
Saying that Afghanistan owns modern equipment for defending border areas. Mr Patang stressed that until foreign hands work in Afghanistan, the country will never reach lasting stability, the Interior Minister said.
The building of the Pak military checkposts in the Afghan border areas has tanked relationship of the two countries as both sides' militaries engaged on Wednesday night in Ghoshta district of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, but finally Afghan border police succeeded to clear Pak installations from Afghanistan's soil, according to officials.
"Afghanistan citizens will stand beside security [police and army] forces and will jointly defend," Mojtaba Patang said.
His comment come as, the Provincial governor Gul Agha Shirzai Gul Agha Shirzai is the former governor of Kandahar province. The Taliban actually got their start chasing him from office -- his corruption and cruelty got them lots of local support. After the Talibs were chased out Karzai appointed somebody else as governor of Kandahar and Gul Agha chased him out. He was eventually enticed out of his old stomping grounds by giving him the governorship of Nangahar. has said the Pakistain should stop interfering in Afghanistan, otherwise, it will face serious reactions."
"There is no need for the United Sates' tanks and artilleries. We defend the country ourselves and Pakistain can not do anything," Gul Agha Shirza said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... the brother of Mohammad Qasem, Afghan border policeman who was killed during the Wednesday border conflict, said that his brother's "death is a pride."
"This martyrdom is a pride not only for me but also for all Afghan people," said Qasem's brother, Parwiz. "It was the beginning of the night when Pakistain's military attacked and we also opened fired. We defended strongly defended our country." The maimed border police said.
The Afghan government has said that both sides' activities across the Durand Line should be confirmed by two sides. But it is not yet clear when the border challenges will end.
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As per CHINA-VS-JAPAN-VS-THE-DEBT/SEQUESTRATION-RIDDEN-USA, meanwhile out from left field where no one was looking save for a Madonna fan from Guam .... ...
[TOLONEWS] A number of Afghan MPs on Saturday said that many boundary parts of the country are sold to Pakistain by some government circles.
Afghan MPs who went to Goshta District of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. for investigation, believe that secret protocols were signed in eastern Nangarhar and Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... s, based to the protocols, Pakistain claims its territory up to Kama district's bridges in Nangarhar.
The MPs said that "dealers should be identified and introduced to the country's courts.
"The building of the gate in Goshta district [ by Pak military] is not only the subject, as well, many parts of the boundary districts of Nangarhar province up to the bridge of Kama district are sold to Pakistain through signing protocols. The people who committed such treachery should be tried," MP Naeem Lalai Hamidzai said.
"Pakistain is building its military installations in boundary parts of Kunar province and they already founded their installations in Narai district of the province," said another MP Ghulam Sakhi Mashwani said.
"The protocols were signed in Goshta district and the government tries to hide these realities," said MP Abdul Latif Pedram.
Meanwhile, ...back at the buffalo wallow, Tex and his new-found Indian friend were preparing a little surprise for the bandidos... some other MPs have said that "there is national unity against Pakistain but at first, diplomatic ways should be sought to find a solution to the problem."
" There is a motivation to unite against Pakistain but Afghanistan's government should try to find lasting diplomatic solution for the problem, otherwise all Afghans will stand against Pakistain military's aggression," said MP Fawzia Kofi.
"Pakistain's servants in Afghanistan and the Taliban who are supporters of Pakistain's interests, should know that any country that tries to attack Afghanistan will face serious strikes and also security forces will give them mutual responses," said MP Baktash Siawash.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... the House Speaker, Abdul Raouf Ibrahimi accused Pakistain of obvious aggression on Afghanistan soil, saying that Pakistain supports the Taliban.
"Pakistain has violated international norms and provides equipment to beturbanned goons for dispatching to Afghanistan. Pakistain's military move to our border parts is obvious aggression and they must be prevented." Abdul Raouf Ibrahimi said.
The MPs said that many other significant issues and national betrayal which are done in border areas will be disclosed on Monday, asking parliament speaker to openly hold Monday's meeting.
The comments come after officials in eastern Afghanistan criticized Pak military over building of check-posts in Goshta district of eastern Nangarhar and Narai district of eastern Kunar province.
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[TOLONEWS] The Pak military has started building up check posts in Narai district of eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , provincial governor said Saturday.
An Afghan delegation's investigations show that the Pakistain military have entered about 300 meters in Narai district of the province and started building military check-posts, the provincial governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi told TOLOnews.
"We have decided and ordered our military forces to stop them and push them back to their areas," Wahidi said.
He said the people informed authorities about the building up of the new military check-posts in Narai district and that they had also seen helicopters bringing equipment.
"We sent a delegation led by the provincial police chief in the area. Their investigation says that Pak military have entered about 300 meters and built a military check-post," he said.
It comes as, the Afghan officials have warned that if Pakistain's military violation continues in the border area, Afghan cops will strongly react against them.
The Afghan border military officials claimed to have killed at least seven Pak soldiers in the clash which took place between Afghan and Pakistain Border Forces late Wednesday night in Goshta district of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
One Afghan border police was killed and three others maimed, officials added.
Afghanistan has the longest border with Pakistain and this border has always been full of risk for the security of the country.
Alongside terrorists' infiltration from Pakistain into Afghanistan, Pakistain's military have also been problematic for Afghanistan.
The exchange is the latest incident in a series of cross-border attacks, which Afghan and Pakistain authorities have traded blame for initiating.
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[TOLONEWS] The 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... on Saturday has said that Afghanistan has never recognised the Durand Line.
Speaking at a presser in Kabul after the recent border festivities between the Afghan and Pak forces, President Karzai said Pak military installations across the Durand Line in the Afghan territory was an "futile attempt" to push Kabul to discuss the border issue with Islamabad, something President Karzai said his government "will never be ready for it."
"They [the Afghan people] should stand with this young man who was martyred in defending his soil," Karzai said, referring to a slain Afghan border policeman, Mohammad Qasim, who was killed Wednesday night in a border gunfire with Pak forces.
There were reports that two Pak soldiers were also maimed in the exchange of fire.
The Afghan president praised a nation-wide reaction of the Afghan people in encouraging their armed forces to defend their country, calling on the Taliban to "turn their weapons against the enemies of their properties."
Karzai's remarks are likely to unsettle already shaky ties with Pakistain and come as the US wants Pakistain to help Afghanistan persuade the Taliban to engage in peace talks ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign troops by the end of next year.
Afghanistan and Pakistain have had testy relations since Pakistain was formed in 1947, at the end of British colonial rule over India.
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HHHHMMMM, HHHMMMM, I'm not sure but as per various Net Artics I'm not confident that Karzai was referring only to Pakistan when he called on the Taliban ro fight Afghanistan's enemies.
[Al Ahram] 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... on Saturday denied that CIA cash delivered each month to his office was used to buy the support of warlords who could tip the country back into civil war.
The US Central Intelligence Agency has secretly handed over tens of millions of dollars to Karzai's office over the last decade, the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... said recently in a revelation that provoked anger in both Washington and Kabul.
But Karzai said the bundles of cash -- allegedly packed in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags -- were used for health care and scholarships, and that full receipts are issued to the Americans.
"This money was not given to warlords," the president told a presser in Kabul. "The major part of this money was spent on government employees such as our guards... it has been paid to individuals not movements.
"It is used for different issues such as treating patients, scholarships for youths... we give receipts for all these expenditures to the US government."
The New York Times alleged that some of funds were used to bribe warlords into supporting Karzai's US-backed government as the international coalition tries to stabilise the country before NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... troops withdraw next year.
Warlords who fought against both the Soviet occupation in the 1980s and Taliban regime retain huge influence, and many have close links to Karzai's government that rose to power after the Taliban were ousted in 2001.
With the NATO-led mission winding down after more than 11 years of fighting, the warlords look set to renew their battle for power in Afghanistan and the weak central government faces a tough challenge to impose stability.
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No, it goes right into Karzai's Swiss bank account.
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Purchased loyalty requires that at least a portion of it be pushed down to the user levels, that being provincial governors [warlords], intelligence service, Afghan National Security Forces [ANSF], police and Border Patrol. These are the structures holding Karzai up.
[TOLONEWS] Afghan Minister of Economy Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal told at ceremony that was held for apparition of governors in Kabul on Thursday that a lack of reward and punishment widened corruption in the country.
Economy minister considers absence of the rule of law as the main barrier ahead of development in the country and added that International Community's assistance has been wasted so far.
"If there is a fight against any kind of corruption it the country, we will have a free and glorious Afghanistan," Afghan Economy Minister, Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal, said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... Karzai's brother, Mahmood Karzai, expressed his concern over the country's security situation and said that less attention has been paid to enforce law in country.
"One of the main challenges is security; in my view the security is going failed and we must find a solution, Mahmood Karzai said.
On the other hand a number of governors and parliament members considered existence of corruption shameful and they are emphasising on elimination of corruption in the country.
The governors and representatives believe that regular monitoring is effective in supervision of government functions.
"Afghanistan is in the lead of corrupt countries in the world which is very shameful for Afghan people," MP Nadir Khan Katawazi said.
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The more serious, + potentially catastrophic, issue is whether the Bammer deliberately sacrificed or refused any rescue to the Benghazi holdouts.
The Bammer Admin's argument is that their failure at Benghazi relief was a BASIC/SIMPLE
"MISTAKE/ERROR IN JUDGEMENT", PERCEPTION + CALCULATION + FINAL ACTION, N-O-T "DERELICTION OF DUTY/RESPONSIBILITY" LET ALONE "INTENTIONAL" OR "DELIBERATE" "MURDER".
Besides the Democrat-controlled Senate + pro-Bammer special interests, any attempt to formally impeach the Bammer has to defeat the above arguments.
As said before, IMO the only way to impeach the Bammer is to find someone(s) deep in the inside who knows the real truth + is willing to testify before the Congress andor Federal Courts. ANTI-BAMMERS NEED SOMETHING AKIN TO THE 1960'S
"VALACHI" HEARINGS + RELATED.
As things stand, the Bammer will no longer be POTUS + a Grandfather before the Anti-Bammers find anything to impeach him with.
The Amer People can forgive an honest albeit deadly or mortal mistake, but they won't forgive deliberate murder + cover-up.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's ruling Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) denies that the killing of the son of one of its leaders in Egypt's Nile Delta Sharqiya governorate is political.
Hundreds of El-Qataweya village residents dragged 16-year-old Youssef, son of Rabie Lasheen, head of the FJP office in the village, onto the street and beat him to death on Friday.
The secondary school student was accused of shooting a 28-year-old man for insulting his father in a Facebook post. An auto rickshaw (tok tok) driver in his '40s was accidentally bumped off, too.
"The incident is not politically-motivated" reads the statement flatly on their office's Facebook page.
A fight happened to break out Thrusday afternoon between a young man of El-Qataweya village and Youssef Lasheen, says the head of the Sharqiya FJP office, Ahmed Shehata in the post.
"During the fight, a passer-by was killed by mistake," he concluded, omitting anything related to the 28-year-old shooting victim's reported politically-natured Facebook post.
Shehata also called for calm: "We hope that issues are put in their appropriate context and we call on everyone for self-restraint."
"The [FJP] condemns all kinds of violence and emphasises the need to respect the law and for it to apply to everyone," he added.
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[Nigerian Tribune] THERE are strong indications that veterans loser remnants of Mali anti Islamist war are already finding their way into Nigerian Northern borders, just as reports indicated that the Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) has activated its sleeping cells across Northern Nigeria.
Security agencies are also said to be in dilemma over the best approach to the counter-terrorism efforts, especially as the jihadists are not just Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters, but Islamists from AQIM and other sects alleged to be involved in attacks on security agencies.
These indications emerged at a meeting of the Maghreb Union held in Rabat, Morroco, last week where Maghreb countries assessed the fallout of the French intervention which led to the exit of Islamist fighters from Northern Mali.
Outcome: Al Qaeda in North Africa was quickly driven out of Mali, to the relief of the locals, or at least those who weren't killed. The French took care of the war, and left rebuilding to the locals.
Though Nigeria was not part of the meeting, reports indicated that the ministers and counter-terrorism officials at the meeting reviewed the war efforts and concluded that Islamist fighters had retreated to parts of Algeria, Libya with substantial numbers heading back to border regions of Northern Nigeria via Niger and Chad republics.
The meeting, which agreed on a number of security measures to contain the fallout, was also said to have hinted that AQIM had refocused its operations, which involved kidnapping for ransom, among others, with the retreating fighters said to be attaching themselves to the sleeper cells of the jihadist sect across the identified countries.
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[An Nahar] A leader of Yemen's Southern Movement said on Saturday he was withdrawing from talks to draft a new constitution in protest at a "plot against the southern cause," he said.
In a statement obtained by Agence La Belle France Presse, Ahmed bin Farid al-Suraimah said he had pulled out of the talks, which began on March 18, because they "avoid tackling the rights of southerners to self-determination."
"The current dialogue is aimed only at reproducing a system similar to the one that exists now," he said.
But Suraimah, who presided over the committee responsible for the southern question, said his withdrawal was personal and not on behalf of his group which is led by Mohammed Ali Ahmad and is still represented at the talks.
Most southern factions finally agreed to take join the national dialogue after months of negotiations and under U.N. pressure.
But Southern Movement hardliners led by the former South Yemen's ex-president Ali Salem al-Baid have dug in their heels, insisting instead on negotiations between two independent states in the north and south.
Supporters of southern independence often stage demonstrations against the national dialogue, especially in Aden.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Hefajat-e Islam on Saturday rejected the prime minister's call for withdrawing its May 5 Dhaka siege programme, saying that she failed to give any guideline regarding its 13-point demand.
"In her speech, there was an effort to confuse the nation through contradictory and wrong interpretations (of the demands)," said Mufti Fayzullah, joint secretary general of Hefajat-e Islam.
"That's why, we have decided to continue with the May 5 Dhaka blockade programme," he said.
He was reading out a written statement while addressing a press briefing at Lalbagh Madrasa in the capital.
Any activities related to the rescue operation at the collapsed Savar building, Rana Plaza, will remain out of the purview of Hefajat programme, said Mufti Fayzullah.
The organization demanded compensation for those who laid their lives during the ongoing Hefajat-e Islam movement for the fulfillment of its 13-point demands and better treatment for the injured.
It also demanded release of the organization's members tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... during the movement.
Party secretary Junaid Babunagari, who was also present at the briefing, said they sought permission from Dhaka Metropolitan Police for holding a rally in front of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque for 3:00pm Sunday.
The Hefajat had announced the siege programme at its rally at the capital's Motijheel on April 6 to press home its 13-point demand, which included punishment to bloggers for "defaming" Islam and Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!).
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Qawmi madrasa-based Islamist group Hefajat-e Islam is to lay siege to the capital today.
The organization claimed that it would mobilise several lakh workers and supporters at Amin Bazar, Abdullahpur, Demra, Jatrabari, and at Kanchpur, Postogola and Babubazar bridges to make the Dhaka siege programme a success.
The organization has recently been campaigning to realise its 13-point demand that includes stern punishment to "atheist leaders" of the Shahbagh movement.
Hefajat Secretary General Junaid Babunagri told The Daily Star yesterday that their programme would begin at daybreak. He said Hefajat's ameer Shah Ahmad Shafi would say when to end the siege.
With the country's main opposition BNP rendering its support to the siege, Hefajat-e Islam yesterday rejected the prime minister's call to call off the programme.
It said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. had not given any assurance of meeting its 13-point demand.
"In her speech, there was an effort to confuse the nation through contradictory and wrong interpretations [of the demands]," said Mufti Fayezullah, joint secretary general of Hefajat-e Islam.
"That's why, we have decided to continue with the May-5 Dhaka blockade programme," he said.
Additional Secretary Khandakar Mainuddin of the home ministry said law enforcers would cooperate with Hefajat in holding peaceful rallies at the entry points of the capital.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... Hefajat's appeal for permission to hold a rally in front of Baitul Mukarram mosque this afternoon was turned down.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hassan Mahmood Khandker, who yesterday had a meeting with different deputy commissioners of Dhaka and superintendents of police of different districts surrounding the capital, told The Daily Star that public life would not be disrupted during the siege.
Asked whether people would be able to get in and out of the capital, the IGP said they would try their best to make sure people do not have to suffer.
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SEOUL, May 3 -- China's chief nuclear envoy has told his South Korean counterpart that Beijing will not accept North Korea as a "nuclear-armed state,"
A little late for that...
a high-ranking Seoul official said Friday, adding that Seoul, Washington and Beijing reached a consensus on the stance.
The Chinese envoy Wu Dawei made the remarks when he held talks on Thursday in Beijing with his Seoul counterpart Lim Sung-nam, said the official at Seoul's foreign ministry who is familiar with the Lim-Wu talks. The remarks come amid signs that recent tensions might hurt ties between Beijing and Pyongyang, highlighting China's waning tolerance for its neighbor's provocations.
"During the talks, Wu made it clear that China will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state," said the official.
"With regard to the issue, I think that we, the U.S. and China have shared a united stance," the official said, adding he "sensed" a growing impatience by China with North Korea's increasing saber-rattling, particularly after the North's December rocket launch and its third nuclear test in February.
The official said Chinese officials have shown a "significant difference" in their attitude toward North Korea's provocations during the Beijing talks.
Wu's comments also echoed remarks made by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry when he visited Beijing and Seoul last month and told reporters in Seoul that, "The United States will not accept the DPRK (North Korea) as a nuclear state."
The Seoul official also confirmed some media reports that China has ordered its provincial government to strictly implement the latest U.N. sanctions that punished the North for conducting the third nuclear test.
"I think that China has been increasingly disappointed by the North's provocations, including the December rocket launch and the third nuclear test," the official said.
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China is putting a shorter leash on a rabid dog which will likely bite them.
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The Norks will be a nuclear armed state, but the ChiComs will not accept it.
Nice little semantic throw away line.
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[MIGHTY HOMER SIMPSONIAN "DOH"! here].
Perhaps as best illustrated by Pudgy's "AUNTIE/
UNCLE DEAREST", whom by most accounts do China's will, CHINA ALREADY CONTROLS THE DPRK MILITARY + ROCKET FORCES = STATE POWER CENTRES/LOCII, NOT KJU = PUDGY. Pudgy's job is to smile for the Diplomats + Media cameras, + pretend the DPRK military, etc. will actually obey + follow him into battle widout China's orders.
DPRK = Cold War Soviet Eastern Europe/WARSAW PACT = are allowed certain/select local autonomies which they can do on their own, BUT NOT ENOUGH TO DO WIDOUT BEIJING'S OR MOSCOW'S KNOWLEDGE + CONTROL. Strategic + Tactical Nuclear-Conventional Forces is one of the things local Govts are nevar! allowed "sole" local control.
Lest we fergit, PERTS, MSM-NET > THE COLD WAR NEVER ENDED WID NORTH KOREA.
Unfortunately, as wid the now-former Warsaw Pact nations, the US-NATO/Allies still have to "go through the motions" + pretend Beijing + Moscow don't have the high or prohibitive levels of local control we know they do, + act accordingly.
I guess its hard to find a pig farmer that would subject their charges to such humility.
A Massachusetts state senator says the federal government should intervene in the quest to find a final resting place for the elder Boston Marathon bomber. How about an open field in Guantanamo?
State Sen. Harriet L. Chandler, D-Worcester, said Uncle Sam needs to alleviate a Wochester funeral home's onerous burden of having accepted Tamerlan Tsarnaev's corpse on Friday after it was released by the state medical examiner. Burial at sea?
"The federal government needs to step in," said Chandler. "But I'm not sure what they're going to do or where will they go. Peter Stefan is a very respected and respectable funeral home director in Worcester. He's a good man. This can't continue. He's taking a financial loss as a result of this." New Joisey Meadowlands?
Stefan accepted Tsarnaev's body Friday after it was initially sent to a North Attleborough funeral home, where it was greeted by about 20 protesters. I would guess 20 protesting pigs. I hear that they have a fine sense of dignity.
"My problem here is trying to find a gravesite," Stefan added. "A lot of pig farms
people don't want to do it. They don't want to be involved with this. Plus their pigs would probably go on strike in protest.
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Cremate him and dispose of him like any indigent or John Doe. I am sure the State or City has standing contracts for this stuff. Or bill his wife or whatever. No heroic measures.
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"Use them to feed the prisoners at Guantanamo."
Hell, grom, use him to feed them. >:-(
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What did the swine ever do to you to deserve that fate Redneck?
Federal officials investigating the Boston bombings have discovered radical Islamist materials on a computer belonging to the widow of the deceased suspect, it has been revealed.
Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, 24, has repeatedly claimed through her attorney that she knew nothing about the deadly April 15 bombings allegedly set off by her late husband, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar.
However, the discovery of al Qaeda's Inspire magazine on Russell-Tsarnaev's computer, along with the presence of explosive residue throughout their home, have raised new questions about Russell's possible involvement in the act of terror.
According to a government document obtained by NBC News, an analysis of the bombs used at the Boston Marathon and pipe bombs that the Tsarnaevs had allegedly thrown at police may have been built following instructions that appeared in an Inspire article titled: Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.
Officials have yet to determine whether the Islamist files found in Russell-Tsarnaev's possession belonged to the 24-year-old mother, her late 26-year-old husband or a third party, a source told The Washington Post.
Russell-Tsarnaev's attorney, Amato DeLuca, had previously said his client was kept in the dark about the deadly plot, and she was shocked to learn that her husband and brother-in-law were allegedly responsible for the attacks.
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The hunt for who or what radicalised alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev is focussing on two young men who were in the Russian region of Dagestan during his visit there last year, and who were killed by security forces shortly before his sudden return to the US.
Russian media reports say anti-terrorism investigators became concerned about Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shoot-out with Boston police four days after the April 15th bombings, when they discovered he had made contact with Islamic radicals William Plotnikov and Mahmoud Nidal.
Tsarnaev travelled from the US to Dagestan in January 2012, and for about six months stayed with relatives in the regional capital, Makhachkala, and in neighbouring Chechnya. A member of the antiextremism unit of Dagestan's security forces told Novaya Gazeta newspaper that Nidal met Tsarnaev several times last April.
Nidal (18), who was of mixed Dagestani and Palestinian parentage, was suspected of being a recruiter for Islamic militants fighting Russian rule across the North Caucasus.
Tsarnaev was also seen at a Makhachkala mosque, which has a reputation for fundamentalist preaching. According to Novaya Gazeta, Tsarnaev had first come to the attention of Russian authorities in 2010, when his name was given to them by William Plotnikov.
Plotnikov (23) was a young man from a Russian family who emigrated to Canada in 2005. According to his father, he converted to Islam in 2009, quickly became radicalised and made his way to the North Caucasus.
Russian security services briefly detained Plotnikov in December 2010 and vigorously asked him to make a list of people he knew who, like him, had a Russian background but were living in North America or Europe. One of the names he gave up was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, with whom he regularly exchanged messages on a web forum for young Muslims.
It is not known whether Plotnikov and Tsarnaev actually met or conversed, but the similarities between them are striking: they were young Russian emigres to North America with an interest in conservative Islam and the insurgency in the Caucasus, and both were accomplished boxers.
Let's see how close we have to nudge the dots before they become connected...
Furthermore, Plotnikov lived in Toronto, where Tsarnaev went to visit an aunt. Plotnikov's contact list prompted the Russians to ask the US for information about Tsarnaev, but the FBI said it did not find evidence of "any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign".
On May 19th, 2012, Nidal was killed by Russian security forces in Makhachkala. On July 14th, Plotnikov and seven other people died in a special forces raid on a house in the Dagestani village of Utamysh. "The Canadian", as locals nicknamed him, was buried there.
Two days later, Tsarnaev abruptly fled left Makhachkala, flying back to the US via Moscow. He departed without collecting his new Russian passport, even though acquiring it was the main reason for his visit to Dagestan, according to his parents.
"It seems Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to Dagestan to link up with the militants. But it didn't happen," said Novaya Gazeta's source. "After Nidal and Plotnikov were wiped out, having lost his 'contacts', he got scared and ran away cleared off."
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One of the names he gave up was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, with whom he regularly exchanged messages on a web forum for young Muslims.
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Two days later, Tsarnaev abruptly fled left Makhachkala, flying back to the US via Moscow. He departed without collecting his new Russian passport, even though acquiring it was the main reason for his visit to Dagestan, according to his parents.
Thanks to the Spetsnaz, ole Nidal was TANGO-UNIFORM. Fok the RU passport, time for Tsarnaev to unass the AO and get back to the big PX.
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The Russians have been steadily attriting jihadi higher-ups in Chechnya and vicinity. Never shows up in the MSM, but you see it on the 'burg. Maybe we should be outsourcing some of our problems to the Rooskis.
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Interesting question Anguper. I believe standard procedure nearly everywhere is to turn in your old passport, prior to getting a new one. It would be quite interesting to discover [as a non-US person] he already had a US Passport.....or perhaps the 6 month trip to RU to "get a new passport" was BS? A new passport could be had through a visit and applicaation to a RU mission anywhere in the States.
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The American procedure is to turn in your old passport with the renewal application. And yes, it can be done at an American embassy while abroad. But it could easily be that other countries do not have the same procedures.
Update before posting:
I decided to google the question, and it turns out Besoeker is correct: Passports can be renewed at the Russian consulates in the U.S. However, it is very definitely not clear from the Russian embassy site that this is so.
A slain Canadian jihadi gave Russian counter-terrorism agents the tip that put alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev on their radar two years ago, Bay State U.S. Rep. William R. Keating confirmed yesterday — raising questions about whether Tsarnaev’s direct link to the known militant was ever passed on to the FBI or local authorities.
Keating told the Herald yesterday his staff in Russia has learned William Plotnikov, while under interrogation in the militant hotbed of Dagestan, named Tsarnaev as a fellow extremist.
“That’s when the Russian government started looking at Tamerlan and he showed up on a jihadist website,” Keating (D-Bourne) said. “That’s when they contacted the U.S.”
The interrogation prompted Russian authorities to ask the FBI to investigate Tsarnaev in 2011. It is unclear whether the Russians told the FBI that Tsarnaev was associated with Plotnikov or another suspected extremist, Mansur Mukhamed Nidal.
An FBI spokesman yesterday did not respond to the HeraldÂ’s request to view the Russian authoritiesÂ’ plea for help.
Both Nidal and Plotnikov were killed in police raids last summer, and Tsarnaev fled back to the United States shortly thereafter.
The detail of the information from the Russians to the FBI — and whether the feds passed it on sufficiently to local authorities — is sure to come up next week on Capitol Hill, where the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on the bombings.
“I have no idea what the Russians did or did not share, but the fact they brought up his name should have been a flashing red light,” U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a member of the committee, told the Herald last night. “You combine that with international travel, and somebody’s going to have to answer some questions.
“The information is only good if it gets to those who can actually act on it,” he said. “I want to know specifically if they shared that information with the authorities in Boston.”
The link between Tsarnaev and Plotnikov implies that Tsarnaev may not have been totally self-radicalized, said Craig Albert, a Georgia Regents University professor who testified about radical Islamists in the Caucasus region at a Congressional committee hearing last week.
“You don’t go to Dagestan and just meet a jihadist,” Albert told the Herald yesterday. “If Tamerlan was able to go there and make contact with this individual, somebody else must have known about him as well, which implies a larger connection than we’re aware of.”
It's almost as if there's an organization dedicated to bringing together planners, hard-boyz and facilitators to make terrorist events happen. Wonder what that organization would be named and who would be leading it?
Another expert on Muslim extremists in the region, Georgetown University professor Christopher Swift, was more cautious about interpreting PlotnikovÂ’s identification of Tsarnaev as a potential terrorist.
“This is a fishing expedition the Russians were on for possible radicals, rather than a hunting expedition for known militants,” he said. “If the Russians had any evidence that Plotnikov was involved with militant activity, they would have detained him rather than interrogating and releasing him.”
Or maybe they knew and they set him free to see where he'd lead them...
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It seems everybody knew about Tamerlan except Big Sis and Eric Holder.
But Sis and Eric knew all about those mythical Christian terrorists. Yes they did.
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"I have no idea what the Russians did or did not share,
If the RU shared nothing more than a cable or phone warning, we are now led to believe the US intelligence and Law Enforcement ignored it. If the RU shared operational data, electronic intercepts, video, and files.... we are now led to believe these were ignored as well.
In either case, I will never believe Tsarnaev was ignored.
Too many news outlets are leaving off Mrs. Tsarnaev's proper last name these days. Can't imagine why...
Federal law enforcement officials are sharpening their focus on the widow of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing after finding al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine and other radical Islamist material on her computer, according to law enforcement officials.
The probe of the computer belonging to Katherine Russell Tsarnaev,
See what I mean? It's like WaPo is trying to help her distance herself from her late, not-lamented husband. Why is the MSM doing that?
24, widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is part of the effort by investigators to determine whether Russell-Tsarnaev knew anything about the April 15 bombing plot or helped her husband and his brother, Dzhokhar, hide from authorities, according to the officials.
Officials have concluded that fingerprints and female DNA found on fragments of the pressure-cooker bombs do not match Russell-Tsarnaev's, but they say they are continuing to investigate.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the surviving suspect, has told investigators that he and his brother learned to build the bombs from an English-language Inspire magazine and that they were partly influenced by the online sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaeda propagandist who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
According to officials, DzhoÂkhar Tsarnaev also told investigators that he and his brother built the bombs in Tamerlan Tsarnaev's apartment in Cambridge, Mass., where the elder brother lived with Russell and their daughter. Officials said that Russell-Tsarnaev called her husband when she saw his photograph on television -- following the FBI's release of the pictures of the suspects -- but did not notify authorities.
That's likely a crime right there and is a logical reason for her not to be cooperating with authorities, as noted here. She's lawyered up and clammed up.
One of the key questions for investigators is whether the radical Islamist materials on Russell-Tsarnaev's computer belonged to her or were downloaded by her husband or someone else.
Russell-Tsarnaev's attorney, Amato DeLuca, did not return phone calls seeking comment. DeLuca had previously said his client played no role in the plot and was shocked to learn of the involvement of her husband and brother-in-law.
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Jeff Foxworthy observed that women who like bad boys usually wind up hanging out of a trailer in a tube top, screaming "lock his ass up!"
But Mrs. Tsarnaev stayed in her burqa like a good girl. Why? Was it (1) active complicity; (2) fear of retaliation by Speedbump and/or his associates; (3) Stockholm syndrome? She had to have been pretty brainwashed to live as she did.
Whether she committed a crime isn't immediately evident to me. Depends on what she said when she called hubby: she may have told him to turn himself in, before he got killed. She may not have known his location, thus, no relevant information to report. Even if she was actively complicit, proving that she had the requisite intent could be difficult.
Don't mean to defend this dumb, screwed-up lady, but I'm not ready to condemn her either.
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Here in Riverside, at University of California, Riverside, we easily have about two dozen young ladies running around dressed like Mrs. Tsarnaev. They extoll the virtues of Islam and how the religion respects women. Seems most of these misguided women are in gender studies, and the radical feminists and critical theory crap leads them to believe that hiding in a burqah makes them less of a sex object to men.
I gained some insight into why the academics and lefties like Islam with that, it fits their narrative of white men and Christian white men at that oppressing women and minorities...what they carefully edit from the narrative is the arab slave traders and how women are treated as livestock in the Middle East. The westernized misrepresented religion bears no resemblance to that actually practiced in the ME.
Mrs. Tsarnaev may be one of those ladies who was originally brainwashed by a radical feminist professor.
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Hard to carry weapons in a tube top, Random.
Well,...umm, uh...never mind.
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I don't know about that. Once saw and advertisement for a holster which fits it right up between the bumpers. Woman could reach up, draw [down], and fire in about 1.5 seconds...
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Right, I'm well aware of those bizarro leftie/muzzie feminist types, and the fanaticism of recent converts. I'm just evaluating this from a prosecutor's standpoint.
I'm just sayin, given the information available so far, I'm not convinced Mrs. Tsarnaev is guilty of any crime. Specific intent is an element of any crime she'd be charged with, and so far I'm not seeing proof of that. Her motivations remain unclear and other explanations remain plausible. For now.
If anything is a red flag, it's that her parents immediately mortgaged their house, presumably to pay for her legal defense. If she's truly as innocent and clueless and shocked as her lawyer says, why would that be necessary?
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If anything is a red flag, it's that her parents immediately mortgaged their house, presumably to pay for her legal defense
Speaking as a parent with reasonable news awareness, RandomJD, that's what I would do, regardless of guilt or innocence. Actually, especially if I believed my young and stupidly naive offspring were innocent. Look at poor Zimmerman, down in Florida, will likely have lost everything, along with his parents, defending himself against a legal lynching. After all, if the money turns out not to be needed, it can be used to pay off the mortgage that provided it, for only the cost of the application. But after the hue and cry is raised, it may be impossible to find someone willing to loan the parents anything at all.
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they probably just got a great rate and wanted the interest deduction for taxes...
*snort*
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#7 Go Crazy
Good God - that's one of the most dangerous holsters I've ever seen! Any holster that requires you to point a gun at your chest should be avoided at all costs! Especially by a novice!
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Hm, good point, TW. Except, I can't imagine that any offspring of yours would make such an appalling series of bad judgments, that would necessitate such action on your part.
IMO, the extent of Mrs. Tsarnaev's radicalization is difficult to determine. I do not know if or where she went to college, or what she may have studied, which would be interesting information.
Because otherwise, she fits a pretty classic abused-wife profile. Apparently Speedbump was abusive to women long before he got religion. At the time she married him and had a baby, he was a garden-variety wife-beater, not an Islamonazi. Later, she busted her hump at a menial job to support him, which she was upset about, and may have started dressing as he demanded just to keep his anger in check.
I can only speculate, but it seems most of Mrs. Tsarnaev's life activities were coerced. If so, it would follow that any aiding/abetting may also have been out of fear of what he'd do to her if she didn't. Hard to say, without more information.
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I'm not cutting her any slack. Husband's gone to Russia and you didn't leave/divorce him? You can only play the abused wife card til you had a chance to run
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If anything is a red flag, it's that her parents immediately mortgaged their house
Katie is coming home to live in the basement. We'll need new laptops and pressure cookers !
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Pretty harsh there, Frank. Even General Patton recognized that PTSD/battle fatigue is distinct from malingering.
More to the point, I can't identify any acts of omission or commission that amount to an offense to charge her with (yet). And there's still the issue of requisite intent. Maybe she had it. Maybe she didn't.
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Harsh? at some point you have to take responsibility, even if it's for failure to act. We aren't talking a cultural scene that would've punished her for bailing out. SHE is an adult. SHE should be blamed for
1) not getting out if it was an abusive relationship - she had 6 mos to do so
2) not seeking help if she was oppressed to the point of PTSD. There's no dearth of available help, especially when your oppressor is GONE for 6 months
3) possibly participating
Quit giving camp followers and co-conspirators a pass because they're wymyns. They demand equality, I want to give them that
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Back up a sec, Frank. You're talking about judging her as a human being. I'm talking about charging her with a crime and getting a conviction that will stick. Not seeing how a case can be made just yet.
Don't get me wrong, I loved putting people in prison for a living. Guilty ones. Not innocent ones, whose way of life happened to offend me.
For example, I got forced into one of those by a superior with an attitude like yours. There was zero physical evidence, and the "victim's" testimony changed every time she opened her mouth. So I made damn sure the charges got dismissed. That was a guy charged with rape, by the way. A scumbag, and maybe he was guilty. But I couldn't prove it.
Believe me, you want federal prosecutors with a sense of ethics and restraint like that, who can check their prejudices and emotions at the door, especially with an administration like the one we have now.
[Pak Daily Times] 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... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman has issued a decree (fatwa) against Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... , saying that vote to Imran is 'haram'. Good idea. Voting for other than Fazl is un-Islamic. Allen just loves fatwas.
Talking to news hounds on Saturday, he assured that Imran was an agent of 'Ahmedi' and Zionist lobbies.
Moreover, Fazl reminded that Imran gave a fake decree with the reference of Maulana Saeed Ahmad Usmani, who had passed away in 2010.
A few days ago, the JUI-F leader had accused Imran of being supported and funded by Ahmedis, saying that the PTI chief had promised to benefit the lobby if voted to power. Fazl had predicted a bloodbath if Imran came into power.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain's tribal belt may have been dubbed the world's most dangerous place by the United States, but enthusiastic rustics are defying the Taliban to vote for change at next week's polls.
More than 60 people have been killed in jihad boy attacks targeting politicians and political parties since April 11, but amazingly, no one in the seven districts that make up the semi-autonomous region on the Afghan border.
One of the most remote and undeveloped parts of the country, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) provide rear bases for the Afghan Taliban, the Pak Taliban and other al Qaeda-linked groups.
But after years of army offensives designed to clear out Taliban hideouts, some of the 1.7 million registered voters in FATA say they feel safe enough to vote and even that women, normally kept in purdah, will vote.
For the first time, political parties can campaign directly in FATA -- a reform introduced by the outgoing government in 2011 in an effort to give rustics more of a stake in the country and curb militancy.
"People want change. They want a change in the system not just a change of faces," said Miraj Ali, a doctor who runs a clinic in the village of Michni in the district of Mohmand.
Tribesmen in the districts of Mohmand, Khyber, Bajaur and North Wazoo who spoke to AFP accused the outgoing government of doing nothing to improve their lives and blamed it for fighting that has displaced hundreds of thousands.
Instead they are looking to the religious parties, cricket star Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... , looking to make a political breakthrough at the May 11 polls, or opposition leader 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... bidding for a historic third term.
"The two party leaders with the most support are Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif," admitted Ali.
All main parties are visibly campaigning, but of the 339 candidates competing for 12 National Assembly seats from FATA, only 81 represent parties -- the rest are officially independents, even if some privately favour one party over another.
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[Pak Daily Times] 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 ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... on Saturday pledged that if voted to power his party would abandon the war on terror as "it was an American war being fought on Pakistain's soil."
"I will order the army to shoot down the US drone if it crosses the Pak border," Imran Khan said while addressing election rallies in Buner, Swabi, Charsasda and Nowshera districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... .
He alleged that JUI-F chief Mualana Falzur Rehman, ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan and 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... were dragging the country into a war of others.
The PTI chief alleged that Maulana Fazlur Rahman had enjoyed perks and privileges during the tenures of Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... and Asif Ali Zardari and now he was again fooling the masses in the name of religion to seek their support. He remained silent on drone attacks in Wazoo, but is now criticising the same, he added.
He alleged that some of the political and religious parties of the country were directly involved in the ongoing wave of militancy.
He said thousands of people were massacred during the Afghan war when they were misled by religious leaders during the US-Soviet Union war.
He said that according to US secret reports, Pak politicians had double standards as on one hand they supported the US aggression and on the other they spoke against the Americans in the public.
He further alleged that both Maulana Fazlur Rahman and Asfandyar Wali Khan had made huge assets abroad. Accountability of only 500 people after elections will put an end to the menace of corruption in the country forever, he added.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) had declared war against the state of Pakistain and killed about 40,000 Paks, and yet 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... was expecting to come to power on the crutches of the TTP, said Raja Riaz Ahmed, former deputy opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly.
In a statement issued on Saturday, he said that Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz's political selfishness had no parallel. "How many more cold-blooded murders by the TTP will melt the deep-frozen heart of Nawaz Sharif to condemn the barbarity of Death Eaters who were on a killing spree of candidates belonging to the moderate and democratic forces?" Raja Riaz said.
He said that the TTP killed an ANP's National Assembly candidate and his minor son 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... the other day, but Nawaz and his party leadership was not moved a bit over the tragic deaths. He said that Nawaz Sharif's moral bankruptcy had been exposed to the core and he had passed the test of inhumanity because he was not sharing grief with the victims' families who did not bow before the Taliban's enforced sharia. He said that a Moslem and good human being would not hesitate to share grief with other Moslems or fellow human beings in the moments of grief. He said that it was shocking that Nawaz and his party seemed to have been emasculated to the extent of indifferent entity, having no feelings for human tragedies.
He said the PML-N chief's silence was solely propelled by political self-aggrandisement to climb to the seat of power by using the TTP as a springboard. "But their calculations and obsession for power will definitely crash them in a quagmire of ignominy and derision on May 11." Raja Riaz said that the people of Pakistain were watching PML-N's moves and conduct, and would pay them in the same way on the Election Day. "It was naïve on their part to presume that they could enter the corridors of power by hoodwinking the masses," he said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Pak embassy officials visited a hospital in north India on Saturday where a Pak prisoner was at death's door in the intensive care unit after being attacked by an Indian inmate.
Sanaullah suffered multiple head injuries in a prison in India's northern city of Jammu in an apparent tit-for-tat attack after an Indian prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, was fatally assaulted in Pakistain.
On Friday, Sanaullah was airlifted to a government hospital in Chandigarh.
A spokeswoman for the government hospital said Sanaullah was in the intensive care unit and on a ventilator as his condition "continues to remain critical".
The Pak High Commission (embassy) officials "came to the hospital and we have given them Sanaullah's medical update", added Manju Wadwalkar, the spokeswoman of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Hospital.
Sanaullah, who hails from Sialkot in Pakistain, was attacked by a prisoner who was identified as a former Indian army soldier nearly 24 hours after Singh's death in Lahore.
India's foreign ministry said Pakistain High Commission officials had been given daily access to Sanaullah.
Pakistain's foreign ministry said earlier in the week in a statement that the "obvious retaliation to the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh is condemnable".
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"next!"
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[Al Ahram] Iraqi electoral officials say a coalition led by Iraq's prime minister has won the largest single bloc of seats in seven of 12 provinces participating in local elections, and tied in eighth, although it failed to achieve a majority in any of the districts.
The results announced Saturday showed little change to preliminary results released last week. Crucially, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.... 's State of Law coalition was the top vote-getter in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and in the southern oil hub of Basra.
The vote offers a measure of support for the country's political blocs heading into next year's parliamentary elections, which will determine who holds the prime minister's job and other federal posts.
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In which the Vicar of Christ -- will he, nill he -- takes a hand in this little world war of ours.
[Telegraph] The cathedral of Otranto in southern Italia is decorated with the skulls of 800 Christian townsfolk beheaded by Ottoman soldiers in 1480. A week tomorrow, on Sunday May 12, they will become the skulls of saints, as Pope Francis canonises all of them. In doing so, he will instantly break the record for the pope who has created the most saints.
I wonder how he feels about that. Benedict XVI announced the planned canonisations just minutes before dropping the bombshell of his own resignation. You could view it as a parting gift to his successor. Or a booby trap.
The 800 men of Otranto -- whose names are lost, except for that of Antonio Primaldo, an old tailor -- were rounded up and killed because they refused to convert to Islam. In 2007, Pope Benedict recognised them as martyrs "killed out of hatred for the faith". That is no exaggeration. Earlier, the Archbishop of Otranto had been cut to pieces with a scimitar.
Some accounts of the martyrdoms will raise a sceptical eyebrow: Primaldo reportedly remained standing after he was decapitated, a Pythonesque miracle that stretches credulity.
But the murders really happened, and their significance is immense. The Turks had been sent by Mohammed II, who captured the "second Rome" of Constantinople and planned to do the same to the first. His fleet landed in Otranto, Italia's easternmost city, and laid siege. The citizens held out for two weeks, allowing the King of Naples to muster his forces. Rome did not fall.
"All of this took place because of the indifference of the politicians of Europe to the Ottoman menace," wrote the conservative Italian senator Alfredo Mantovano in an article about the martyrdoms in 2007. You can guess where his argument was heading. "In Otranto, no one displayed rainbow pacifist flags, nor invoked international resolutions... Today Europe is under attack, not by an institutionally organised Moslem phalanx but by a patchwork of non-governmental organizations of fundamentalist Moslems."
Pope Francis desires warm relations with Islam -- so, as I say, I wonder how pleased he was to discover this event in his diary. Already the interfaith lobby is squirming, always a fun sight. But, equally, the Church can't allow the ceremony to be hijacked by rabble-rousers.
There are, however, good secular reasons for welcoming this canonisation. Our history is distorted by a nagging emphasis on Christian atrocities during the Crusades combined with airbrushing of Moslem Andalusia, whose massacre of Jews in 1066 and exodus of Christians in 1126 are rarely mentioned. Otranto reminds us that Islam had its equivalent of crusaders -- mighty forces who nearly captured Rome and Vienna.
The Moslem Brüderbund is still committed to a restored Caliphate; this week its supporters prophesied the return of a Moslem paradise to Andalusia. These are pipe dreams, it goes without saying. But they matter because they inspire freelance Islamists whose fascination with southern Europe has nothing to do with welfare payments. They think of it as theirs because they know bits of history that we've forgotten.
Our amnesia comes in handy in dialogue with Moslems: we grovel a few apologies for the Crusades, sing the praises of the Alhambra, and that's it. But what does this self-laceration achieve? Arguably it's counterproductive, because it shows Moslems that we're ashamed of our heroes as well as our villains. Which is why the mass canonisation of 800 anonymous men is so welcome: it ensures that, even though the West has forgotten their names, it won't be allowed to forget their deaths.
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Given the occasion, the solemnity, the tragedy, I am ashamed that my first and primary thought is that this act of sacred honor is an up-yours to Muslims and their apologists.
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Works for me, Richard.
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I'm not ashamed. It's a confirmation of faith and renewal that Christianity will not yield like so many politicians.
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resistance to forced conversion to any faith is a right. Can you name any other current religions that are so insecure in their appeal and righteousness that they have to FORCE conversions and kill those who leave?
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Just to clarify, the "up-yours" part works for me. ;-p
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I suppose I could rationalize it by saying that any Muslim opposition would--possibly--straighten out some western apologists for the Religion of Peace My Sweet Aunt Fanny.
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Doubtful, Richard.
The only thing that will straighten out most of the Western useful idiots apologists is a scimitar applied forcefully to the neck - and then it will be too late for them.
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Well Richard it works like this... [takes deep breath... shuts down all logical thinking... enters liberal thinking mode....]
The 800 or so (And their archbishop) had it coming for creating a cathedral and bringing the church to what would eventually be part of the Islamic World. I bet they were worshiping in public, spreading the word, and displaying their crosses and religious symbols too! They pre-provoked the poor misunderstood members of the Religion of Peace! They DESERVED it!
Whew! [rubs head.. restores logical thinking...] Ok I have to go lie down now and recover.
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I seem to recall those Muslim Invaders having a rude welcoming from Naples forces, Jim.
And they were remembered, maybe not by the world, but by the town and the faithful of Italy. Otherwise their skulls wouldn't be there to be blessed. It's never sufficient for those who've stood for what is fundamentally RIGHT to be honored after the fact. But we who know, we who REMEMBER, will always honor them.
Might be little passionate, and 300 isn't the best example. But that darn poem in it's various translations stirs something in me. Perhaps the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington is more in-line.
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[TBO] ...Obama told the Spanish-language network Telemundo in an interview that he will defer to the Israeli government for comment. He also repeated his view that the Israelis justifiably have to guard against the transfer of advanced weapons to organizations like Hezbollah. The U.S. considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization...
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The heat is off O. The Israelis are defacto doing his policy work for O, though O was not going to do anything but stand off some 50,000 yards and look through heavy lenses.
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[An Nahar] Crouching, belly-crawling into sniper nests in their rugged mountain redoubt, Syrian rebels have started training for a prolonged guerrilla war against stubbornly resilient regime forces.
With Western reluctance to intervene militarily in Syria's civil war, the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) hopes to topple Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... by creating a skilled fighting force from mostly civilian recruits, some as young as 16.
The FSA granted Agence La Belle France Presse access to one of its training camps, where a motley group of fighters -- former shopkeepers, farmers, regime defectors -- were training to fight Assad's forces in the mountains and woods of northern Latakia province.
Sprinting up a wooded knoll, crisscrossing between trees, and diving into firing positions, rebels weighed down with guns and bandoliers of ammunition put on a swaggering show of defiance within range of regime troops at a nearby garrison.
But the rebels of the Al-Ezz bin Abdul Salam Brigade acknowledged they face a tough fight against a better-armed foe that enjoys total air superiority -- even above rebel-controlled areas -- as the civil war drags into its third year.
"We need anti-tank, anti-aircraft missiles, communication equipment, satellite technology to monitor the movement of regime fighters," said brigade commander Abu Basir, rattling off a list of much-needed hardware as his men practiced marksmanship behind him.
"If we had these, the war would be over by now," said Abu Basir, the former owner of a meat processing business, who was dressed in olive-green fatigues with a pistol tucked into his trousers.
Latakia -- the heartland of Assad's minority Alawite sect -- has fluid frontlines, unlike those in hotly-contested cities like Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... and Aleppo where fighting is largely being fought from sniper nests in civilian buildings.
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President Barack Obama came close to ruling out deploying US troops to Syria, saying he did not foresee a scenario in which that would be beneficial to the United States or Syria.
"As a general rule, I don't rule things out as commander-in-chief because circumstances change and you want to make sure that I always have the full power of the United States at our disposal to meet American national security interests," Obama said. "Having said that, I do not foresee a scenario in which boots on the ground in Syria -- American boots on the ground in Syria -- would not only be good for America but also would be good for Syria."
So having said that he does not, can not and will not rule things out, he rules out ground troops in Syria. Shrewd, real shrewd...
Good illustration of the diffo between stupidity and ineptitude.
This president covers both. Jimmy Carter would be a significant improvement.
Speculation has mounted that the Obama administration could reverse its opposition to arming the rebels after the White House said last week that President Bashar Al Assad likely used chemical weapons on his people.
Obama has been reluctant to intervene in the war but faces mounting criticism that he has allowed the Assad regime to cross his own declared "red line" on using chemical weapons.
But the US president has also stressed that more proof is needed for the United States to step up its involvement in a civil war that has already claimed more than 70,000 lives and is now in its third year.
"How much more proof?"
"A lot more proof!"
Speaking during a visit to Costa Rica, Obama said there was evidence that chemical weapons had been used in Syria, but that "we don't know when, where or how they were used."
So he moved the red line...
But he noted that any strong evidence of the Assad regime using such weapons would be a "game changer" because they could fall into the hands of groups like the militant group Hezbollah, based in neighboring Lebanon.
"In terms of any additional steps that we take, it is going to be based on, number one the facts on the ground, number two it's going to be based on what's in the interest of the American people and our national security," Obama said. "As president of the United States I'm going to make those decisions based on the best evidence and after careful consultation because when we rush into things, when we leap before we look, then not only do we pay a price but often times, we see unintended consequences on the ground."
Experts say a military mission to secure the chemical weapons would require a large ground force and pose huge risks, with the outcome hinging on the quality of Western intelligence.
Or we could just let the Israelis stomp the chemical weapons depots...
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"Having said that, I do not foresee a scenario in which boots on the ground in Syria -- American boots on the ground in Syria -- would not only be good for America but also would be good for Syria."
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