[KMBZ] Just days after an attack on the International Committee of the Red Thingy, the Taliban denied responsibility for the suicide kaboom on Friday.
The Red Thingy, which is one of the largest and most effective non-government organizations in Afghanistan, had been considered "off-limits." Because the Red Thingy treats Taliban and civilian injuries alike, the Taliban says that their fighters were under orders not to attack Red Thingy workers, says the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
The Taliban made a public statement last year praising the work done by the Red Thingy, have instructed their fighters to allow Red Thingy vehicles free passage in Taliban territory and have even given escorts to Red Thingy workers in Taliban-controlled areas.
According to the New York Times, a Taliban spokesperson said that his organization "wants to clarify to everyone that it was neither behind the May 29th attack on the I.C.R.C. office in Jalalabad city nor does it support such attacks."
It is not common to see the Taliban deny responsibility for an attack in this way, which raises additional questions. Not the least of those questions is who, if not the Taliban, was behind last week's attack and why they have not grabbed credit.
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I wonder if we could get them to agree in public that whomsoever would be part of such behavior would be lower than pigs, dogs and monkeys.
[An Nahar] Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly on Saturday completed the long-delayed draft of the country's first post-revolution constitution, its brass hats said.
NCA president Mustapha Ben Jaafar "signed on Saturday the final draft of the new constitution," said the body's vice president, Meherzia Laabidi.
Jaafar's office, quoted by state news agency TAP, added that the text will now be presented to President Moncef Marzouki and Prime Minister Ali Larayedh.
No details were given on the final form of the new charter, the drafting of which has been held up primarily by disagreement over what form of government Tunisia should have -- presidential or parliamentary.
On May 3, the head of the Islamist ruling party Ennahda, Rached Ghannouchi, said a compromise had been reached under which neither the president nor the prime minister would have complete control over the executive.
In March, the NCA had set a non-binding April 27 deadline for completing the draft, hoping that it could be put to a vote in early July.
In order to be adopted, the draft must obtain the votes of two thirds of the assembly's members.
Larayedh has promised that the constitution would be adopted and parliamentary and presidential elections held before the end of 2013, nearly three years after dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was tossed by a popular uprising.
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[An Nahar] A draft law regulating Egyptian civil society groups has become a barometer of the Islamist government's commitment to the ideals of the democratic uprising that brought it to power, with the text raising concerns both at home and abroad.
President Mohammed Morsi, who referred the bill to the Islamist-dominated senate on Wednesday, pledged that he "does not aspire to control civil society," in a departure from his tossed predecessor Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... 's strongman tactics.
NGOs in Egypt have denounced the bill, which regulates the funding and activities of non-governmental organizations, going so far as to condemn it as "aggression against civil society".
Western powers such as the United States, a major funder of NGOs in Egypt, are closely monitoring the issue.
In a statement, the US State Department said it was "concerned" by the civil society draft law which "imposes significant government controls and restrictions on the activities and funding of civic groups".
"The United States believes the proposed law is likely to impede Egyptians' ability to form civic groups that are critical to advancing freedoms, supporting democracy, and acting as appropriate checks on the government," it said.
Before Mubarak's ouster in early 2011, many rights groups failed to secure operating licences, and their activities were monitored by the then all-powerful security services.
The interim military government which then took power ordered raids on the offices of foreign NGOs in which Americans were among staff members referred to trial on charges of receiving illicit foreign funds.
The raids dealt a serious blow to relations between the military and Washington, its main foreign aid donor.
Morsi, once a political prisoner under Mubarak and leader of the formerly banned Moslem Brüderbund, has insisted that he must reform a corrupt inherited bureaucracy and instil transparency.
His aides say that the NGO bill, which will be discussed in the senate, was drafted in that spirit. But many NGOs, already wary of the Islamist president, say it is an attempt to assert control over the foreign funding of projects such as human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... advocacy.
The draft law will create a steering committee, headed by the social affairs minister, that must approve requests for foreign funding.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... , a pro-Jamaat body, will enforce a six-hour hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... (shutdown) in Noakhali, Feni and Laxmipur on Sunday protesting the arrest of its three leaders.
On the other hand, BNP and its associate bodies have called an eight-hour hartal in Rangpur for Monday demanding release of its seven leaders.
Our Noakhali correspondent reports, Shibir called the hartal protesting the arrests of former president of its central committee Dr Fakhruddin Manik, office secretary Atikur Rahman and foreign affairs secretary Mohsinul Kabir.
Neyamat Ullah Shaker, president of the Noakhali district unit of Shibir, confirmed it to the correspondent over telephone.
In Rangpur, police placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! seven leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal ...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)... , Jubo Dal and Swechchhabesok Dal along with a cocktail on May 19.
BNP, JCD, Jubo Dal and Swechchhabesok Dal decided to enforce the hartal demanding immediate release of the seven leaders.
Md Mozaffar Hossain, convener of district BNP, announced the hartal at a press briefing at the party office at Grand Hotel intersection in the town on Saturday, reports our Rangpur correspondent.
Mahfuzun Nabi, vice-president of JCD central unit; Mahir Alam Nayan, vice-president of JCD district unit, Rois Ahmed, president of Jubo Dal Rangpur district unit, and its secretary general Anisur Rahman are among the detainees.
BNP leader Mozaffar Hossain on Saturday also announced to hold demonstrations in all the upazilas of the district on Sunday.
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I'm seriously thinking about calling a Hartal on Monday which is a Holy day for me. How do I do it? Do I go from door-to-door this afternoon giving out Pro-hartal brochures to my neighbors and talking up the benefits of a general strike/riot? Or do I go buy 12 kegs and a bullhorn? I really want Monday off.
[An Nahar] Dozens of people were incarcerated Please don't kill me! in London on Saturday as rival far-right and anti-fascist groups faced off over the murder of a British soldier by suspected Islamists.
London's Metropolitan Police said 58 people from the Unite Against Fascism pressure group were arrested after they gathered to oppose a rally by the far-right British National Party (BNP) near the Houses of Parliament.
The arrested UAF protesters, who were part of a group of around 300 people opposing the 150-strong BNP rally, were enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on suspicion of breaching the Public Order Act, Scotland Yard added.
The rallies came as 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo, one of two prime suspects in the killing, was held for questioning for a second day following his release from hospital.
He and the other prime suspect, 22-year-old Michael Adebowale, were shot and injured by police at the murder scene, shortly after 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death in broad daylight near his barracks in Woolwich, southeast London.
Adebowale has been charged with murder and possessing a revolver.
Both suspects are Londoners who converted to Islam after growing up in Nigerian Christian families.
Rigby's family had issued an appeal for calm following a number of attacks on mosques and a rise in anti-Moslem incidents since his murder, the first fatal Islamist attack in Britannia since the 2005 London bombings.
On Saturday, the rival BNP and anti-fascist protesters traded chants, held behind opposing metal barricades with police separating them.
The BNP had hoped to march in Woolwich but were banned from doing so by the police, fearing public disorder.
Many of their protesters carried the British flag and some had signs saying "Hate preachers out".
"Britannia is a tinderbox waiting to explode," BNP leader Nick Griffin told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"We are here -- I hope -- starting a debate to point out the only way out, or the best way to get peace, is to disengage so there's a peace treaty between the West and Islam.
"We leave their lands -- we stop attacking them, we stop bombing their wedding parties -- and in turn, they leave ours. Then we can have peace."
He added: "We absolutely agree with what Lee Rigby's family said that nobody should use his death as an excuse or a reason to attack anybody else."
UAF demonstrators held up banners reading "Say no to Islamophobia". ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do...
"They're trying to take advantage of the very sad murder of a young soldier," UAF chair Steve Hart told AFP.
"We don't allow the BNP on the streets without opposition.
"In this city, London, the vast majority of the population supports multiculturalism. We're a multicultural city. We like it, we love it, it's the way we want to live."
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... two men arrested on suspicion of being involved in supplying illegal firearms in connection with the murder were released on bail Saturday.
The two unnamed men, aged 46 and 42, were arrested on Friday. They have been bailed to return to a south London cop shoppe in late June, pending further inquiries.
Twelve people have been arrested as part of the probe by Scotland Yard's counter-terror branch.
Two women were released without charge and six men accused of conspiracy to murder are out on bail.
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[An Nahar] Two men placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! on suspicion of being involved in supplying illegal firearms in connection with the Islamist murder of a British soldier were released on bail Saturday.
The two unnamed men, aged 46 and 42, were arrested on Friday. They have been bailed to return to a south London cop shoppe in late June, pending further inquiries.
Michael Adebolajo, 28, a convert to Islam who was shot and injured by police in the May 22 incident, is still being held for questioning over the killing of Lee Rigby and the attempted murder of a police officer.
His fellow suspect Michael Adebowale, 22, was discharged from hospital on Tuesday and charged the following day with murder and possessing a revolver.
The far-right British National Party is holding a march in central London on Saturday. They had originally planned to march in Woolwich in southeast London where Rigby was killed, but police stepped in, fearing it could ignite community tensions.
Events have also been planned in various towns by the anti-Islam English Defense League, while protest group Unite Against Fascism was due to hold a demonstration in Woolwich.
Twelve people have been arrested as part of the probe into Rigby's murder by Scotland Yard's counter-terror branch.
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His fellow suspect Michael Adebowale, 22, was discharged from hospital on Tuesday and charged the following day with murder and possessing a revolver
If convicted, he'll probably get a longer jail term for the possession charge than for murder. After all, murder is part of his culture.
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A great deal of movement but as planned, little progress.
The polio disease was on the verge of eradication when Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, president of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria and a physician, suggested at about this time in 2003 that the vaccination program in his country was part of a Western conspiracy to render Muslim children infertile. His call for an end to the polio immunization campaign touched a nerve and spread to other Muslim religious leaders in Nigeria, causing the vaccination process to slow down and incidences of the disease to pick up...So closely connected have Islam and polio become that the Muslim-only pilgrimage to Mecca became a major mechanism of transmitting the disease to faraway places like Indonesia.
By now, Ahmed's paranoia has sent the new wave of polio from Nigeria to Muslim populations in at least 17 other African countries and 6 Asian countries:
Asia: Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.
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(1) A single conspiracy-obsessed Islamist, equipped with an organization and credentials, has caused polio not to be eradicated but instead to win a new lease on life.
(2) Thus has radical Islam brought misery to another aspect of human life -- and made fellow Muslims its principal victims. (June 1, 2013)
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We have our own anti vaccination crowd in this country as well, we just use celebrities rather than Imams to spread the luddism. google - anti vaccination celebrities
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we should change the name (kinda like "Spanish Flu") to "Allah's Polio"
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Here's a true "crime against humanity," up there with producing, storing, transporting or deploying chemical / biological weapons. But from the usual self-appointed squawkers, not even *crickets*
[An Nahar] Influential Moslemholy man Youssef al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... has called on Sunni Moslems to join the rebels fighting the Syrian regime, as he lashed out at Leb's Hizbullah for sending its men to fight the mostly-Sunni bully boyz in Syria.
Qaradawi, a controversial figure in the West but who has millions of supporters, mostly from the Moslem Brüderbund, also hit out at Iran for backing the Syrian regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
"Every Moslem trained to fight and capable of doing that (must) make himself available" to support the Syrian rebels, the holy man said at a rally in Doha late Friday.
"Iran is pushing forward arms and men (to back the Syrian regime), so why do we stand idle?" he said, branding Hizbullah, which means the party of God in Arabic, as the "party of Satan".
Hizbullah, a close ally of Iran and the Syrian regime, is openly engaged in the fight against the rebels in Syria. It has also fought for years against Israel, arch rival of Iran and Syria.
"The leader of the party of the Satan comes to fight the Sunnis... Now we know what the Iranians want... They want continued massacres to kill Sunnis," Qaradawi said.
"How could 100 million Shiites (worldwide) defeat 1.7 billion (Sunnis)?" he exclaimed, "only because (Sunni) Moslems are weak".
The holy man blamed himself for previously backing Hizbullah and its leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... who gained popularity after steadfastly leading his group in the fight against Israel in 2006.
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[An Nahar] Tension was high on Saturday along al-Wazzani region in southern Leb as the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Interim Force in Leb and Lebanese army deployed heavily in the area after Israeli soldiers crossed the barbed wire border fence.
Israeli troops crossed the fence, infiltrating 10 meters into an area along al-Wazzani River after expressing reservations over a cleaning process by a Lebanese bulldozer of the riverbed.
The Israeli army argued that the Blue Line that separates the border passes in the middle of the river, informing UNIFIL that it rejects such endeavors and demanding the Lebanese authorities to halt it.
According to the state-run National News Agency, UNIFIL swiftly contacted the Lebanese army to avert any negative repercussions.
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[An Nahar] U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on Saturday demanded that both sides battling for the strategic Syrian town of Qusayr allow civilians to flee the fighting, his front man said.
"He urges all sides to do their utmost to avoid civilian casualties," Ban's front man, Martin Nesirky, said in a statement.
"He also reminds the government of its responsibility to protect civilians who come under its control, including from the threat of militias. He calls on the warring parties to allow trapped civilians to escape the town."
Ban's comments came as the Syrian army, backed by Hizbullah fighters from neighboring Leb, bolstered its positions in Qusayr, as rebels prepared for a renewed assault, raising fears for trapped civilians.
Qusayr, which is considered a key prize by both the regime and the rebels, sits on the route between the capital Damascus and the coast, near the Lebanese border, providing a key rebel conduit for weapons and fighters.
Ban warned that as preparations for an international conference on Syria intensify, all parties to the conflict "will be held accountable for any acts of atrocity carried out against the civilian population of Qusayr."
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[An Nahar] Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Syria's former ally Turkey on Saturday of "terrorizing" his own people and called on him to resign.
"The demands of the Turkish people do not justify this violence, and if Erdogan is incapable of using non-violent methods, then he should quit," state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
cited Zohbi as saying after rioting in Istanbul.
"Erdogan is leading his country in a terrorist way, destroying the civilization and achievements of the Turkish people."
Zohbi's remarks came as Erdogan vowed to press ahead with a controversial plan to redevelop an Istanbul park, calling for an immediate end to violent protests against the project that have spiraled into anti-government demonstrations.
On Saturday police used tear gas against protesters in Taksim Square, the epicenter of the protests that have left dozens of people injured and have earned Turkey a rare rebuke from its ally the United States.
Erdogan admitted there had been cases of "extreme" police action against demonstrators.
"The fact that he suppresses peaceful demonstrations proves that Erdogan is disconnected from reality," Zohbi said, adding: "The Turkish people do not deserve such savagery."
"We wish the Turkish people only stability and calm, and urge that Erdogan act wisely and not treat the Turks the way he has treated the Syrians," he added.
Ankara, formerly a key ally of Damascus, supports the rebels battling to oust Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's regime. Some 400,000 Syrians who have fled the violence at home are now refugees in Turkey.
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Need some more pictures to illustrate the nuances of the internecine Muzzie war.
Got any of Pencilneck flicking boogers? How about Tayyip blowing rasberries? I'm thinking something like the French in MP & the Holy Grail.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[An Nahar] Two men 
The polio disease was on the verge of eradication when Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, president of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria and a physician, suggested at about this time in 2003 that the vaccination program in his country was part of a Western conspiracy to render Muslim children infertile. His call for an end to the polio immunization campaign touched a nerve and spread to other Muslim religious leaders in Nigeria, causing the vaccination process to slow down and incidences of the disease to pick up...So closely connected have Islam and polio become that the Muslim-only pilgrimage to Mecca became a major mechanism of transmitting the disease to faraway places like Indonesia.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[An Nahar] Tension was high on Saturday along al-Wazzani region in southern 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
