[Daily Caller] Are these the same people who are calculating the current 3 million new Obamacare enrollees? Nothing found, no need for TSA and monitoring right ?
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So, of the 638,000,000 people they scanned, they found 1800 firearms. Were any of these people actual terrorists who were planning on using the weapons aboard the plane? Or were they people who were just too effing stupid to realize that they had a firearm in their carry on luggage?
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How many were half eaten PB&J's that some lad ate into the shape of a Walther PPK? These often cause mayhem at elementary schools.
Or how many were 'test guns' sent into the system to cause the alarm to go off and awaken slumbering agents? Those could have been counted as well I suppose.
[Tolo News] The US government is pressuring the Afghan government through 'all means' to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), said President Hamid 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, criticising Washington for engaging in a "psychological war", which he said was not an act of a "friend", but a "rival". Goodbye, Afghanistan. Thank Hamid for us, okay?
He said that his pre-condition to resume peace talks with the Taliban is firmly in place, adding that peace in Afghanistan was in the hands of the US and Pakistain.
In an hour long presser, the Afghan leader said he doesn't want the BSA to become a second Durand, referring to a deal made by former Afghan King Abdul Rahman Khan with the British India on what is now a disputed border between Afghanistan and Pakistain.
"We want security for the people of Afghanistan after signing of security agreement, not bombings. If the Americans want to leave, they may do so," Karzai said.
President Karzai comments comes a few days before President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... 's State of the Union address in which he is long expected to announce the future footprint of the US military in Afghanistan. But without a BSA in place, President B.O. is unlikely to do so.
Friend, not rival
Mr Karzai said the way the United States is engaging with Afghanistan is act of a rival, than a friend. He said he is in favour of a US presence in Afghanistan after 2014, but it should on his terms. If not on his terms, he said the US may go.
He criticised the recent "bombing" of US troops in Ghorband valley, north of Kabul last week, in which a number of non-combatants were killed along Taliban Death Eaters.
"The US troops are awarding some of our people with multi-million dollar contracts, and some others with bombs," said Mr Karzai. "If BSA was signed and the Ghorband was bombed, it was the Afghan government who was responsible."
The US military had said that it was the Taliban who opened fire from residential areas and Afghan forces called for air support which resulted, according to US military, in three civilian deaths.
'Taliban making factory'
Mr Karzai was challenged by a news hound that the Taliban fighters who were engaged in Ghorband fighting with Afghan and US troops were released from Bagram prison. He ruled out such reports, saying that Bagram itself was a "Talib-making factory".
"Bagram [prison] is a place where innocent people are tortured and insulted and made dangerous criminal," he said.
The US military handed over full control of the only US-run prison in Afghanistan to the Afghan government nearly one year ago, easing tensions over one of the longest-running standoffs between Kabul and Washington.
Over 500 prisoners, many of which captured under the suspicion of being Taliban or other Death Eater group members, have been released since last August.
After controversy erupted surrounding the planned release of some 88 prisoners from Bagram prison, the committee assigned to sifting through Bagram inmate cases by Karzai announced recently that it would reopen the files of 10 new detainees under consideration for release.
On 2014 elections, the Afghanistan's Caped President said it would happen on time on April 5th, praising the Afghan cops to guaranteeing to protect nearly 95 per cent of the nearly 7,000 polling centres.
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[Egypt Independent] Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim has said that the United Nation's culture body will send experts this week to assess damages sustained by Cairo's Islamic Art Museum after an kaboom hit the nearby Cairo Security Directorate Friday.
An kaboom claimed by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis hit the directorate Friday, killing four people.
Ibrahim, during a tour at the museum Saturday morning, said UNESCO's team will measure the damages before deciding the size of aid needed for renovations.
The minister revealed that UNESCO's chief, Irina Bokova, had offered an urgent US$100,000 aid from the organization's budget for restoration purposes. He said the grant is a prelude to an international fundraising campaign for restoring the museum, which seeks to collect a preliminary LE100 million.
Ibrahim noted that only the museum's eastern area was relatively damaged and parts of its wooden ceiling fell down, adding that workers are taking stock of its contents.
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Simply make your tax deductible contributions payable to either the Islamic Art Museums International, or here at home to the Obama Presidential Library.
[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister the loathesome 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.. yesterday said the wrath of the BNP-Jamaat-Shibir cronies would not continue further as they would have to answer to the people one day for their acts of violence in their bid to foil the last parliament election.
Reaffirming her government's strong commitment, she said there would not be any place for terrorism and militancy on the soil of Bangladesh.
"Their [BNP-Jamaat-Shibir] wrath will not continue further as there will be no place for terrorism and militancy on the sacred soil of Bangladesh. Inshallah! We will ensure peace and security of the people," the premier told a huge public rally at Shah Abdul Hamid Stadium in Gaibandha.
Turning to the January 5 poll, the Awami League president said BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... had tried forcefully to stop the poll by unleashing terrorist attacks on police, presiding officers, voters, damaging polling centres.
But she failed to stop voting as the people had cast their votes "with a turnout of 40 to 45% not responding to her call."
Citing the incidents of violence unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat "hooligans" in Gaibandha district over the last few months, she said the local people did not want to see terrorism, conflict and militancy anymore.
Hundreds of tress felled, roads were cut and a number educational institutions selected as polling centres were razed, she said.
Hasina also came down harsh on the BNP chief for having several birthdays, particularly on August 15 the day when Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members in had been assassinated in 1975.
"Can you imagine, how sick she is!" said Hasina, one of the two survivors of that incident.
The three-time premier assured the people of improving their life standard through a number of programmes her government would take.
The initiatives include building at least a tin-shed house for all, introducing ferry service on the Balashi-Bahadurabad river route and a railway bridge, if possible, after feasibility study. She also said her government would set up mills and factories through establishing Special Economic Zone in this region as well as construct houses free of cost for the landless and homeless people in Gaibandha.
Hasina said it would be made a science- and technology-based educated nation when power supply would reach every house. She said computer education would be made compulsory at primary level.
Gaibandha district AL organised the rally with its acting president and Administrator of district council Syed Shamsul Alam Hiru in the chair. Health Minister Md Nasim, AL leaders Abdur Razzaque, Faruk Khan and Fazle Rabbi Mia, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, State Minister for Textiles and Jute Mirza Azam, Mahbub Ara Guinea, and NAP central leader Lutfur Rahman Ranju also spoke at the rally.
Earlier, the prime minister inaugurated and laid foundation stones of a number of development projects from the rally venue.
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The real problem is a whole lot of Moslems living side by side with a whole lot of Hindus. The Hindu remember the Moslems murdering 3 million Hindus back in 1971. And I don't think anybody since then has gone around collecting all the guns that were left over from that war. Plus you have a birthrate that replaces 4 million people in about three years. AND there have been about 28 military coups in the government in about thirty years.
They absolutely hate each other and the Moslems don't like elections. Its a fun place, beautifully green and they have tigers that actually eat people in some places. No, seriously.
Have I mentioned the ten foot lizards and the mugger crocodiles that weigh about 2,000 pounds?
Picturesque just doesn't cover it.
Plus does the term "rat-poor" have any meaning for you? How about not having any pants and it rains 100 inches a year.?
[Bangla Daily Star] The country remains vulnerable to militancy, as the government relies mainly on law enforcers to combat the menace while keeping shelved its nationwide socio-cultural and religious campaign against militancy.
The Awami League government launched the campaign in 2009, which quickly fizzled out for lack of political will, said officials involved in the campaign.
They identified militancy as a social problem that couldn't be uprooted by using Rab and police alone, and thought that a campaign to make people aware of the scourge of militancy would be more effective.
Moklesur Rahman, director general of Rapid Action Battalion, believes that it's not possible to cleanse the society of the malaise only by using the law enforcers.
"All of us -- the government, politicians, journalists and non-governmental organizations -- have a role to play. If we can create awareness among people through such a campaign, we will be successful in weeding out this menace," he told The Daily Star.
In the absence of a strong campaign, militancy has gained ground in remote villages, especially in south-western and northern districts over the last decade, according to law enforcers.
In April 2009, the government formed the Militancy Resistance and Prevention Committee comprising officials of different ministries, intelligence agencies and government institutions.
Though the committee headed by the state minister for home is supposed to sit every month, it held only 16 meetings in the last five years.
Initially, it came up with the idea of orienting imams and motivating them to deliver anti-militancy sermons during Juma prayers.
In line with a committee decision, the Islamic Foundation started providing orientation to imams. But it ran out of steam after interacting with only a few thousand of around three lakh imams in the country.
"Most imams refused to talk against militancy ... only a few liked the idea but they didn't continue giving such sermons for long," said an official of the organization on condition of anonymity.
Only a few imams, including Moulana Abdus Shakur, khatib of Darul Aman Trust in Pabna, have given sermons against militancy.
Shamim Mohammad Afzal, director general of the Islamic Foundation, said the organization didn't have the capacity to observe the imams in 2.60 lakh mosques across the country.
The committee asked the information ministry to make anti-militancy short films, advertisements and documentaries, and arrange for airing those regularly on state-run BTV and private TV channels, and screening those in educational institutions and public places.
But the ministry didn't do much except for making arrangements for broadcasting several documentaries on the BTV.
The education ministry was also asked to organise in all educational institutions discussions on impacts of terrorism and militancy. But that too didn't happen.
Moreover, the ministry was supposed to ensure that teachers give anti-militancy speeches in school assemblies. But it didn't monitor whether its instructions were carried out.
Considering the universities a potential target of bully boy outfits for spreading the malaise, the committee put emphasis on creating awareness among students, but failed to make any progress to that end.
It decided to involve about 3.5 lakh members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party in the campaign as their networks are stretched to remote areas. But it couldn't utilise them to gather information on forces of Evil or their activities.
The committee also moved to form anti-militancy cells with elected representatives, teachers and imams in all districts, upazilas and unions. But in reality, only a few committees were set up.
On the committee's inaction, a deputy secretary at the home ministry told The Daily Star, "The committee held its last meeting in June last year, and the date for the next meeting is yet to be fixed. The campaign now exists only on papers."
The minutes of the meeting show that the participants mostly discussed the same topics and took similar resolutions over and over again without following up whether their previous decisions were implemented or not.
Former state minister Shamsul Hoque Tuku, who led the campaign till the new government was formed on January 11, claimed the campaign had been successful in creating awareness among people against militancy.
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There is another Civil War coming and this country is REALLY CROWDED. I don't really know for sure but 79,000 people per square yard might not be off the mark by much.
Plus the high water mark the crabs and the ten foot lizards.
[Investor'sBusinessDaily] Moscow says it's looking for as many as four "black widows" sent to Sochi, Russia, to carry out terrorist attacks against Olympic athletes, including at least one female jacket wallah thought to have already slipped through security.
Wanted posters warn of suspected terrorist Ruzana Ibragimova, a 22-year-old widow of a terrorist killed by Russian forces last year. Chechen hard boyz are known to use such "black widows" in attacks, since they're more willing to carry out jihad to avenge the deaths of their husbands.
They're extremely dangerous because they're harder to spot. They don't fit the typical profile of a terrorist -- young, male and Mohammedan -- and they can get closer to their targets. Chechen women have been so successful as hard boyz that al-Qaeda in the Caucasus has now shifted to using them more than men to carry out attacks.
Last month, a female suicide bomber killed at least 16 at a train station in Volgograd. In October, another female suicide terrorist blew up a bus in the same city.
Until recently, Islamist women have largely stayed on the sidelines. But increasingly they are joining the jihad. And al-Qaeda is actively recruiting them.
In 2009, the wife of al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... went online to urge Mohammedan women to become more active in jihad. Al-Qaeda recently launched an Arabic-language magazine targeting women.
And the group has set up a training camp for them inside Syria known as the "sisters' base," where it hopes to inspire female fanatics seeking to copy British black widow Samantha Lewthwaite, now the most wanted woman in the world for her alleged role in terror plots. She's the widow of a 7/7 suicide bomber.
[FoxNews] Lawmakers are attaching some strings to $33 million in aid to Pakistain, making the funds contingent on freeing the doctor who helped the CIA find the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... The GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee inserted language that appears to withhold the foreign aid unless the State Department certifies Dr. Shakil Afridi is released from prison, where he's serving a 33-year sentence on a dubious conspiracy conviction. The condition left Pak officials fuming.
"Any linkage of US assistance to this case is not in keeping with the spirit of cooperation between the two countries," said Pakistain Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam.
President B.O. signed the bill on Jan. 17. As so-called omnibus legislation, it includes appropriations for all federal agencies, including the State Department. While the overall foreign aid appropriation would be left to the State Department to dole out, the Pakistain portion can be made conditional on a determination by Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... that Afridi has been released and cleared of all charges.
The State Department has repeatedly decried Pakistain's treatment of Afridi, but officials did not say if Kerry is prepared to withhold the funding.
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Don't make us come over there! You know what happened last time.
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If Dr. Afridi is released, Pakistani loses plausible deniability. They desperately need an Abbattabad scapegoat. I hope I am wrong, but I do not see Afridi being freed anytime soon.
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...big surprise that the Paki's got their noses out of joint by our, in their eyes, interfering with their internal matters. Although I agree with the intent of the legislation, it would have been better to handle it in a less-public manner. With this preening a$$ of an SOS in charge of the task, however, I am compelled to agree with 'soeker...
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The only way Congress can influence foreign affairs is through funding, or denial of funding.
That said, Dr. Shakil Afridi isn't going to see daylight for years, if ever. The Klingons got their use out of him; State has more important things to worry about. Ensuring that green-measures like electric vehicle charging-stations are taking place at the 'better' embassies, for example.
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Exactly, if Pakistan's complicity with regard to the UBL mission is revealed, the "GM is alive - UBL is dead" meme, and all of the pre-election media and Hollywood drivel comes unraveled.
Risked virtually all on the Abbattabad raid. Couldn't venture a low-level fly over during the Benghazi annex siege. Strange, very, very strange.
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So what's the odds that this denial of funding evaporates within the next 2 weeks when some other crisis d'jour pops up? And the good doctor has a tragic accident while still in Pak custody?
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The odds of the denial evaporating are pretty high, imnsho. But not necessarily because of a crisis; plain old establishment-Republican politics will do.
I think the doc is relatively safe. I've a feeling the Paks would trade him for that crazy female "jihadi doc" the US has in custody, but neither side is ready to.
[DAWN] Thousands have fled North Wazoo region, which lies along the Pak-Afghan border, after Arclight airstrikes this week targeting suspected Taliban krazed killer hideouts killed dozens of people, elders and officials said Saturday.
The Arclight airstrikes took place as domestic pressure grew on Prime Minister 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... to take tougher action against Talibs following a string of attacks across the country in the past week.
Pak military sources put the corpse count at 40, all of them suspected to be krazed killers. Tribal elders said between 15 and 24 people were killed. A Taliban source put the corpse count at 27.
Military sources said fighter jets were only targeting krazed killer hideouts. Residents said the bombardment started overnight without any warning.
Latifur Rehman, a provincial disaster management front man, said Saturday the strikes displaced 6,000 families, but half of them had gone back to their homes. Rehman said authorities were making arrangements to provide shelter and food to those affected.
A tribal prominent elder, Gul Saleh Khan, said more than 70,000 people had left their homes. He said people were still fleeing to nearby towns, villages and cities.
''We were sleeping at our home when the army suddenly started the Arclight airstrikes just before midnight on Monday,'' Khan said. ''We quickly moved to a farm field with women and kiddies, and other people also spent that night under the sky.''
Khan said he arrived in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. with his family on Tuesday. Local resident Raham Nawaz said many had to leave their homes due to fears of a full-fledged military operation.
''The government should have issued a warning before dropping bombs in our villages,'' Nawaz said. He said his family and other relatives were living at a school, miles away from their town of Mir Ali.
Resident Salim Khan said people continued to flee Saturday. He urged the government to making public warnings ahead of such Arclight airstrikes.
''How we can go back to our homes when we don't know what will happen tomorrow?'' Khan asked.
Angered over the increasing violence, people are pressuring the civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to tackle the issue of militancy aggressively. Sharif has long supported a policy of negotiating with krazed killers.
The Pak Taliban said earlier this week that they would be interested in peace talks but only if the government proved it was sincere and had enough ''power,'' a reference to the perception that the army wields the real power in Pakistain.
North Waziristan is one of the seven regions in Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) governed by tribal laws. An krazed killer insurgency led by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) plagues the region and the area is known to be infested with krazed killers, including those from Al Qaeda and other armed krazed killer organizations.
The region, which lies along the Pak-Afghan border, also comes under attacks from US drones frequently which target krazed killer hideouts in the area.
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Thousands fleeing - does that imply a whole lot of guilty consciences?
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Ask yourself, "Just WHERE are they all going?" I don't think its to Grandma's house.
Ever seen an Arclight strike.? Even 15 miles a way you can feel it.
I don't know which is more impressive and frightening, day or night? Daylight you see the air compressed to crystal globes 500 feet across that shatter in fractions of a second and flee along with the shrapnel and the blast wave making a crater thirty feet deep and big enough to throw an entire neighborhood down into while the guts of the blast shoots up like an accusing finger at heaven black and then red, a curse successfully delivered. Whole battalions of dead and the trees lean over and bow and never stand up straight again. The birds are all gone and you can walk through a week later and the only sound is the squelch of the mud and the silence where your ammo belt clinks occasionally. Not the sound of so much as a cricket at night. Empty blackness.
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Arclight? Slowly I turned step by step, step by step I crept upon him and when I saw the streak on his countenance I grabbed him and I couldnt help myself and I was going out my mind. So Yeah. We once Arclitered Niagara Falls.
[DAWN] The United States and Pakistain resume talks next week after a three-year hiatus as they seek stability in often turbulent ties amid mutual concerns over Afghanistan's future.
Pakistain and the United States started a "strategic dialogue" in 2010 to work through their complicated relationship, but the talks were quickly frozen due to repeated crises -- including over the secret 2011 US raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...
Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , who announced a resumption of the talks during a visit to Islamabad in August, will hold the dialogue Monday in Washington with Sartaj Aziz, Prime Minister 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... 's national security adviser.
A US official said that the talks would look at both security and economic cooperation and seek to build a "blueprint" for future ties.
"Having seen the highs and lows of this relationship," the official said on condition of anonymity, "both countries have put an enormous amount of effort into assiduously putting this relationship on firmer grounding over the last year and a half".
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Kabul continues to complain mightily about the flow of Taliban + aligned fighters from Pakistan being unhindered.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [AFP]TALIBAN [Pak or pro-PAK] RULE NORTH OF KABUL DESPITE MILITARY EFFORTS.
[Tolo News] Pak Defense Secretary Lt General Asif Yasin recently announced to the U.S. government that his country would not accept a robust role for India in in Afghanistan.
The comments came on Thursday during a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Senate on Defense in Islamabad. Yasin warned in clear terms that Pakistain would have strong reservations if the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... coalition had designs for India in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign forces in December.
Relations between Afghanistan and India have been warming for over a decade now, first seeing a breakthrough after the fall of the Taliban regime, which once aligned itself with Pakistain. Tensions between longtime rivals in the region Pakistain and India have bubbled beneath the surface in Afghanistan as NATO's war has captured most of the attention.
Russia and India have just recently announced that they plan to jointly assess the equipment needs of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) ahead of any future aid they are likely to provide.
A number of Afghan security experts have argued that India's role is critical to the fight against insurgency in the region, and claimed the Pak Defence Secretary's comments were evidence of Islamabad's marplot intentions in Afghanistan.
"Everyone knows that both countries - Afghanistan and India - are always under the threat of terrorist havens located in Pakistain," political expert Jawed Kohestani said. "So, Pakistain is afraid of India's (as a powerful anti-terrorism country) presence in Afghanistan and its support from Afghanistan."
Other experts emphasized Pakistain's supposed role in fueling the protracted hostilities in Afghanistan.
"Pakistain was always a meddler in Afghan and Indian affairs, and it has always played the role of creating instability in the region, especially in Afghanistan. And now, after 2014, the US, India and Afghanistan are strategic partners," a Kabul University lecturer said, asking to remain unnamed.
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Other experts emphasized Pakistain's supposed role in fueling the protracted hostilities in Afghanistan.
Let me assure you, there is nothing "supposed" about the Pak role. Perhaps a vid of Pakistani Frontier Corps (FC) shuttling Taliban fighters (along with WIA/KIA) to and from the AFG border, or happy snaps of Taliban fighters 'resting over night' (RON) at FC Border Crossing posts might convince the unbelievers.
Limit your surveillance to UAV's however. Flying to close in helo's will get you shot at.... even if you're still in AFG airspace. Mind the ISAF self-imposed 5km buffer. Wouldn't want someone to see or document too much.
[DAWN] Over 9,000 teachers in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , who had refused to take part in a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... -vaccination campaign citing low wages and security concerns as the reasons earlier, agreed to kick start the campaign scheduled for Sunday following successful negotiations with the government.
The All Pakistain Primary Teachers Association president, Khalid Malik told Dawn.com that their talks with the district administration on Saturday had been successful.
He said the government had accepted their demands of granting Shuhda (martyred) Package for the teachers who died during polio vaccination campaign.
Under the compensation package, children of the dear departed employees will be provided with jobs and women teachers would not be sent to sensitive areas.
Malik said the teachers have agreed to call off the boycott and would participate in the polio drive starting from January 26.
Earlier today, announcing a boycott of the campaign, the teachers had said the government was forcing them to go on "suicide missions" which would prove disastrous for education as well.
Following attacks on polio workers and killing of security personnel, the KP health authorities had requested the education department to help carry out the campaign through teachers, but they refused to get training for the vaccination and participate in the drive.
President of the All Teachers' Association KP Muzammil Tarnabi told Dawn.com that it was not the job of the teachers to carry out the vaccination drive. He said the health department had a substantial staff which should be deployed for the purpose and said if need be, then teachers would help for the national cause.
"They informed us two days back to send teachers for polio training but the teachers refused. Today, we had a meeting with the administration but it's not feasible to involve educationists in the polio drive," he said, adding that "we are in the last two months of the academic year and forcing them to go for such a task would adversely affect students."
"Adezai, Mattani and Badbher are the most volatile areas in KP and teachers, especially women, are ready to quit their jobs if compelled to perform polio duties there," he said.
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[DAWN] Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervez Rashid on Saturday said the government will take Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... into confidence on likely military operation against Talibs.
Speaking to media representatives after a seminar on "Decline and Restoration of Film Industry" at a private university here, he said Imran Khan would be included in all kinds of consultations.
Replying to a query, Rashid said Prime Minister 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... believed in the supremacy of law, adding that the government's writ will be established on every inch of the country.
The foreign hand involved in prevailing unrest in the country will be eliminated, once the government succeeded in bringing the people involved in subversive acts to the right path, he said responding a question on the role of foreign elements in terrorist acts.
The information minister said the government was determined to tackle all internal challenges by all means.
Regarding treason case against former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... , he said Musharraf was physically fit, but he had lost his ability to make decisions. He was in trouble because of his own strategies.
"The hospital has proved a blind alley for him. If Musharraf comes out, he faces the court while inside the hospital he will be operated and stitched by doctors," he said.
The dictator will have to face the law, he added.
About Musharraf's possible exile, he said the law and the constitution were supreme and equal for all. "There is no room in the law that a culprit could leave the country without being tried," he added.
About the meeting of Council of Common Interests (CCI), he said it was convened as per democratic traditions, in which all the provinces shared their views and discussed matters like census.
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Previously reported here at the Burg. Apparently the ships will go to sea without an accompanying tug...
"Today, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran is among the most important countries that takes responsibility for the security of the vessels which pass through the Gulf of Aden and Bab el-Mandeb strait," Iranian naval commander Rear Adm. Habibollah Sayyari said.
The effort marks the first time Iran has dispatched warships to the Atlantic Ocean, the Times of Israel reported.
The fleet includes a Kharg logistic warship, which is capable of carrying helicopters, and a Sabalan destroyer.
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As the OWG Iranian Navy rises, so also does OWG China's Navy ... ...
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Malaysian Chronicle]CHINESE SHIPS PATROL AREAS CONTESTED [claimed] BY MALAYSIA | CHINESE SHIPS PATROL 80-KMS FROM S'WAK THAT IS ALSO CLAIMED BY MALAYSIA.
OWG Vietnam???
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > VITENAM WARNS ON SEA DISPUTES [read, CHINA + PLA] WITH ATTACK WEAPONS ARMED FOR KILO-SUBS.
OWG Germany???
* DAILY STAR.LB > GERMANY WANTS MORE MILITARY ENGAGEMENT ABROAD.
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* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > RUSSIAN NAVY CAN NO LONGER BUILD "BISON"-CLASS LCAC. BUDGET RESTRICTIONS FORCING EMPHASIS ON SELECTED WARSHIPS CLASSES.
and
* SAME > DAVID AXE BLOG: US NAVY TO DROP DOWN TO [operating] JUST TWO DEPLOYED AIRCRAFT CARRIERS STARTING IN 2015. FIFTY-PERCENT [50%] REDUCTION MOST LIKELY BUDGET-DRIVEN. USN to prioritize tech-oriented reorg of deployed or afloat CSGS/CVBGS to be fewer in number but larger in deployed size.
I'm interpreting the above to also mean that the US Navy's current or projected CVN carrier force may not only be reduced in number but will be kept mostly or wholly in homeport, or at least in anti-rust brief coastal patrols/cruises.
USN CVNS = EX-GRAND-FLEET-NOW-COAST-GUARD-ESQUE UK NAVY = USN BOOMER SUBS = BLUE-VS-GOLD-VS-?????? ROTATING CREWS???
Lest we fergit, the USDOD-Navy time back was mulling the development of UNMANNED/AUTOMATED WARSHIPS.
[Ynet] A day after Lebanese army claims Israeli Air Force penetrated country's airspace, Lebanese media reports similar operations are still carried out in country's skies Sunday
Hezbollah's Al-Manar network reported Sunday morning that Israeli Air Force aircrafts are flying intensively in Lebanese airspace in the western Leb Valley, Beirut, Baalbek and Hermel.
Earlier Sunday it was reported by Voice of Leb radio station that IAF jets are scouring Lebanese airspace and hovering over the capital Beirut. Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... Lebanese El-Nashra news website reported that the IAF is operating in low altitude in the area of Baalbek in the Leb Valley.
The Lebanese army released a statement Sunday that two Israeli warplanes have entered Lebanese airspace and flew in the country for over an hour.
In the past two months, Lebanese media reported on numerous IAF operations within Lebanese airspace. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... none of the cases included a strike on Lebanese soil.
During the past weekend, there was much debate in the Lebanese media about an interview with senior Israeli officials in the Ramat David IAF base. Among others, the interview featured an Air Force unit commander who said: "We are closely following attempts to smuggle arms from Syria to Leb and attempting to prevent it from reaching Hezbollah."
LBC, the network that released the highly-debated interview, issued a statement on Saturday in which they claim they have fallen into an IDF trap, which used the network for its own purposes. "The error was made due to a misunderstanding, and not, God forbid, due to conspiring with the army that carried out the heinous acts in Leb, unrelated to its actions against the Paleostinian people. They are still occupying Lebanese land and their Air Force is still violating Lebanese illusory sovereignty," the statement read.
[Ynet] A Leb-based krazed killer pledged allegiance to an al-Qaeda-linked group Saturday, calling on Sunni Mohammedan soldiers to quit a Lebanese army he claimed is controlled by Christians and Shiites.
Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
...a small group of Islamic bandidos that has been blamed for most of the country's worst terror attacks, kidnapping foreigners, and chopping people's heads off. They are allied with Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah, or what's left of it... al-Ansari made the pledge to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in a recording posted online and broadcast on major television stations, including leading private channel LBC, which said it obtained it from online jihadi forums.
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Also to attack HEZBOLLAH + QUDS FORCE, etal. where found.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...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 
Zawahiri
Wazoo
[DAWN] The United States and Pakistain resume talks next week after a three-year hiatus as they seek stability in often turbulent ties amid mutual concerns over Afghanistan's future.
Nawaz Sharif
[Tolo News] Pak Defense Secretary Lt General Asif Yasin recently announced to the U.S. government that his country would not accept a robust role for India in in Afghanistan.
Pervez 
