[Iran Press TV] 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... has strongly condemned a recent deadly US-led Arclight airstrike in Afghanistan's western province of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... .
He said in a statement issued on Tuesday that the assault is a breach of security agreements between Kabul and Washington.
President Karzai also ordered an investigation into the fatal incident.
The strike, which hit two cycle of violences in Herat province's Shindand district, left four Afghan civilians, including two children, dead late on Monday night.
Shortly after the attack, locals held a protest against US-led foreign forces in the country. There are around 50,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan with 32,000 of them American.
On Saturday, a US liquidation drone strike in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... killed three people.
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[ARABNEWS] Young Saudis who leave to fight in conflict zones end up killing each other thanks to the deviance and civil strife their groups propagate, said the Kingdom's Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Al-Alsheikh.
"These men are taken to market places and sold to these groups like slaves," he said.
Al-Asheikh's comments come in the wake of several young Saudis below 30 joining such groups in Syria and Iraq after expressing outrage at the state of the Muslim world.
"We are all upset about the plight of Muslims around the world, but this should never lead us to joining the wrong forces," he said.
Al-Asheikh called on scholars, preachers and judges to help in spreading this message and deter followers from falling prey to these groups.
"Scholars have a pivotal responsibility in guiding young men," he said.
"Such ill-informed decisions will only serve to destroy Muslim nations. Believers should never incite revolt or spread rumors aimed at creating unrest."
Al-Asheikh had earlier asserted that propagators of terror in the name of Islam could not be further from the religion's essence.
"Islam is a religion of peace and charity and those who prove otherwise are distorting our image. Killing others in the name of groups who sanction the shedding of Muslim blood has nothing to do with Islam," he said.
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They should be killing infidels only as they were taught in Saudi Schools and mosques.
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"The Joos! Yer supposed to be killing the Joos!"
The first Muslim to sit in Cabinet resigned as a Foreign Office minister, saying government policy towards Israel was ‘morally indefensible’ and warning it could increase the threat of home-grown terrorism from radicalised youths.
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One of the fundamental failures of the West. Group punishment, the radicalized youths and their families should be re-nationalized back to their homeland. Probably would initiate a new form of 'honor killing' among the community.
[DAWN] The Punjab government is collecting evidence against Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... with a pledge that no one will be allowed to take law into his hands.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Mashhood told a presser here on Monday that law-enforcing institutions were working to collect evidence against the Pakistain Awami Tehrik chairman for his "anti-state, anti-religion and unlawful" activities.
He said that no one would be allowed to topple democratically-elected government or to spread chaos in the country through illegal 'orders'.
Terming Dr Qadri an agent of the Jews and Hindus, the minister said a strategy had been formulated to tackle him and the results of the same would be visible within three days.
He said Qadri's efforts to destabilise Pakistain were a part of the international conspiracy under which many Mohammedan countries in the Middle East had been pushed towards chaos and anarchy.
Rana Mashhood said Qadri had insulted the citizens of Pakistain by describing them as worse than animals of the West.
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[DAWN] A meeting of the Sindh cabinet was held on Tuesday under the chairmanship of provincial Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah during which the decision to divide 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... into three zones for the improvement of law and order and the formation of quick response teams was taken, DawnNews reported.
Participants of the meeting expressed satisfaction over the ongoing operation in Karachi and directed Inspector General Sindh Ghulam Haider Jamali to carry on his duties., DawnNews reported
During the meeting, which was also attended by high-ranking officials of law enforcement agencies, it was decided that security would be beefed up at checkposts situated at the provincial border and railway stations.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Monday once again demanded handing over of the Pak Taliban chief, Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... from Afghanistan. Maybe they could trade him for Mullah Omar?
Speaking to media representatives here, Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said the terrorist attacks from Afghan soil was a serious issue and Pakistain was in touch with Afghan authorities for better management of the border.
He said installation of biometric verification system on border crossing points can ensure better management of the border.
The top Pak diplomat stated in categorical terms that Pakistain will fully protect its border and retaliate to any fire from the other side, adding that faceless myrmidons were common enemies of Pakistain and Afghanistan and both the countries should fully cooperate in tackling them.
On India-Pakistain talks, he said foreign secretaries of the two countries are scheduled to meet on August 25.
Responding to a question about internal situation of the country, Sartaj Aziz said the democratic system faces no threat from the 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) and Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) long marches on the federal capital.
"Continuity of democracy is vital for the progress and prosperity of the country and no extra constitutional step will be tolerated," he said.
Earlier, addressing a seminar, 'Building China Pakistain Community of Shared Destiny in the New Era', the foreign advisor said that friendship with China was the cornerstone of Pakistain's foreign policy.
The trajectory of friendship and cooperation between the two countries has moved steadily upwards and has crossed a new threshold in the past fourteen months, he added.
Aziz said Pakistain-China cooperation has now expanded from political and defense fields to industry, energy, water and power, agriculture and infrastructure projects. "Both the countries are making conscious efforts to further improve cooperation in joint ventures , high tech industry, telecom and manufacturing."
The PML-N stalwart said China-Pakistain Economic Corridor was a landmark project which will connect China with Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Gwadar. He said Pakistain and China were discussing a number of mega projects under the rubric of Economic Corridor in several fields like energy, infrastructure and connectivity which would revitalise economy of the country.
Referring to the sacrifices rendered by Pakistain in the war against terrorism, the adviser on foreign affairs said the operation launched in North Wazoo against faceless myrmidons was proceeding successfully.
A large part of the tribal agency has been cleared of the holy warriors and their infrastructure has been destroyed by the Pak armed forces, he added.
Expressing the resolve to eliminate all local and foreign terrorist groups, Sartaj Aziz said the government's objective was to establish writ of the state and to not let our territory be used against any other country.
He said security of all foreign nationals especially Chinese working in Pakistain was a priority of the government.
"Those attacking Chinese experts working in Pakistain, want to drive a wedge between the two countries. We will not let them succeed in their nefarious designs," said the seasoned diplomat, adding that 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... has issued specific instructions to all concerned agencies to provide foolproof security to the Chinese citizens.
On relations with India, Sartaj Aziz said Pakistain believes in peaceful neighborhood and has reached out to India for improved bilateral ties.
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As long as Pakistan hands over Mullah Omar or Zawihiri.
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[DAWN] Former president of Pakistan and Co-Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday telephoned Amir Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Sirajul Haq and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to discuss the current political situation of the country.
According to a spokesman of Jamaat-i-Islami, both leaders expressed dismay over the current political crisis developing in the wake of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI)-proposed 'Azadi march' on Islamabad. They stated that a clash between the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and PTI seemed likely, which may cause a negative impact on the democratic process.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson of PTI said that during the 10-minute long telephonic conversation, Zardari and Imran Khan discussed the August 14 march and overall political situation.
In a statement issued on Tuesday night, the spokesperson said that the PTI chief thanked the former president for supporting his party's demand of recounting votes in four key constituencies that the latter says were won fraudulently by the PML-N in the 2013 general elections.
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[DAWN] Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary-General Iyad Ameen Abdullah Madani admitted on Monday that the Arab states cannot take any practical steps to stop Israel from attacking Gazoo.
Mr Madani was speaking at an event titled 'Contemporary Challengers of the Moslem World: The Vision and Role of the OIC' at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad.
"In 1967, the Arabs faced a defeat as Israeli forces entered the Sinai Desert, West Bank of the Jordan River and the Golan Heights. Arabs cannot imagine stopping the support for Paleostinians, but practically they are not in a position to do anything," he claimed.
"OIC has been trying its best to classify the killing of Paleostinians as a 'war crime', but unfortunately the preachers of human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... are not only supporting Israel but are also providing political shield to it," he said.
Interesting.
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"And we wouldn't take any practical steps if Israel took it into its head to attack ISIL?"
[AnNahar] All 34 villages around Amerli are under jihadist control but the small Turkmen town is holding out, in one of the longest and most dramatic sieges of Iraq's current conflict.
In the searing summer heat -- without electricity or drinking water, and dwindling supplies of food and medicine -- even a heroic defence appears unable to save the town's 20,000 people.
"We've been under siege for almost two months, fighting holy warriors who want to eradicate the real people of this district, the Shiite Turkmen," said Abu Zahraa, a middle-aged labourer.
He took a wound to the leg in combat, and looked exhausted, but like most of Amerli's fighters, he would not talk of suffering for fear of deflating the town's morale.
On Sunday, Amerli's volunteers, with the help of the local police force and some Shiite militiamen, repelled one of the fiercest attacks they had seen.
Agence La Belle France Presse footage showed uncollected bodies of Islamic State (IS) gunnies strewn across the fields surrounding the town, around 160 kilometres (100 miles) north of Baghdad.
"They attacked in huge numbers but the courage of our fighters stopped them," said city council member Abdullah Shukur Zain al-Abidin, lying on a bed with a keffiyeh wrapped around a neck wound.
Amerli was first attacked on June 10 and has been completely surrounded since eight days after that. Abidin said all he wanted was for the federal government to send them more weapons.
"Is nobody going to help them out of this death trap," asked Ali al-Bayati, who heads a Turkmen rights group.
"Amerli has brave men but the problem now is with the children, the women, the sick and elderly people. They need a humanitarian corridor," he told AFP by phone.
Iraq's Turkmen minority, of Turkic ethnicity, is one of the country's largest and lives exclusively in the north. It is mostly Sunni Moslem but its Shiite component has been systematically targeted by jihadists over the past two months.
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Bayati said the Iraqi air force could help secure a way out to Tuz Khurmatu, a large Turkmen town now under the control of Kurdish peshmerga forces just 25 kilometres (16 miles) to the north.
"We are drinking unclean water from the wells, residents are affected by diarrhoea and our clinic has no drugs left," said Wahab Saleh, 40, an oil company employee with four children.
He said the food supplies army helicopters have been bringing were insufficient. "Livestock farmers have been slaughtering all their animals so the people have something to eat."
According to several sources, only a handful of Amerli fighters have been killed since the start of the siege but dozens have serious injuries that require being transferred to a hospital.
The Kurds to the north have so far been unwilling to take on the IS in Amerli.
To the south, the Iraqi army has seemed unable to press on from its positions on the Udhaim River.
Amerli has a force of around 400 trained Turkmen fighters, a few hundred more men who have been given weapons to defend their homes and volunteers from Shiite militia.
"Relief is tantalisingly close but it won't take the final step," said Michael Knights, an analyst with the Washington Institute.
"With 20,000 Shiite civilians surrounded by IS, could the Iraqi army not even try to make a little push? This is real lethargy."
Knights said there was a rare opportunity for consensus over the siege, a chance for many of the conflict's players to overcome mutual distrust and, with U.S. backing, score a morale-boosting victory.
"You're looking for the example effect. If you can give IS a black eye in this place, maybe they'll want to do the same next door," he said.
When IS fighters who already dominated swathes of Syria before conquering Iraq's main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on June 10 and sweeping through much of the country's Sunni heartland, many government forces ran for their lives.
The military has since had time to regroup, has received some equipment from its allies and support from Shiite turbans but Baghdad's fightback remains sluggish.
Amerli had already been scarred by the violence that has plagued Iraq in recent years.
In 2007, around 160 people were killed when a huge suicide truck bomb destroyed the heart of town in what was then the deadliest such attack in Iraq's history.
Turkey stepped in to help at the time, flying out the maimed for treatment.
But Bayati expressed little hope of a joint effort to rescue his community.
"It is the story of the Turkmen in Iraq now; they are completely forgotten," he said.
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Reports Wednesday, however, said Netanyahu told Kerry he had to speak to bereaved parents before their sons funeral, the secretary readily understood, and that the two leaders spoke again later.
I assume State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki conveyed what she was told, which means someone at State was trying to cause trouble... or dear, dear Jen was. Or, always possible, these people are only the smartest when measured from the other end of the scale.
[Ynet] Egyptian negotiators in Cairo working for a permanent ceasefire in the Gazoo Strip told delegates from Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Tuesday that the issues of building an airport and sea port in Gazoo, as well as opening the Rafah border crossing aren't on the table for discussion.
Well, shoot. What's the point of going to war if you don't get anything out of it except used up rockets, 900 dead hard boys, and lots of rubble?
A Paleostinian source said that Egypt has promised the Paleostinian delegation in Cairo that the Rafah Border Crossing would be opened after the ceasefire agreement with Israel is signed, provided that the Paleostinian Authority will be responsible for managing the crossing, the Al-Hayat newspaper reported.
Worse and worse. They've still got their secret bunker under the hospital and all those tunnels within Gaza, but otherwise it's as if they never won that election... except for the rubble, of course.
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What's the point of going to war if you don't get anything out of it except used up rockets, 900 dead hard boys, and lots of rubble?
Sounds totally insane, right? I have an explanation for this, but it involves Game Theory and is rather long. Hint: the HamAsses don't use the same evaluation function you and I do.
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NO surprise here - historically, both Egypt + Jordan prefer to have as little or minima interaction wid the Paleos AMAP ALAP.
Egypt wants no Paleos in the Sinai Desert, outside of Egypt-claimed Gaza Strip, while Jordan doesn't want any more inside Jordan proper outside of the Jordan-claimed West Bank.
NO NEW PALEO AIR-SEA PORT = MORE PALEO-SPECIFIC ECON, NATIONAL DEPENDENCY ON ISRAEL + WEST, NOT THE ARAB LEAGUE.
The poor Paleos will continue to be a "Govt-People widout a Country" [territory], + their Muslim neighbors like to keep it that way.
[Ynet] Terrorist convicted of bus bombing on final day of Pillar of Defense in 2012 got his citizenship as part of family reunification.
Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar has submitted a request to Attorney General Yehuda Weinsten to revoke the Israeli citizenship of Muhammad Mafarji, who was convicted of committing the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv in November 2012.
Mafarji, from Tayibe, was convicted of 24 counts of murder attempts, committing an act that shows intention to aid the enemy and causing an kaboom, in a bus bombing in Tel Aviv on the final day of Operation Pillar of Defense.
Twenty-six people were maimed in the attack, one of them at death's door.
Mafarji, who was nabbed Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! by the Shin Bet several days after the attack, received his Israeli citizenship as part of family reunification with his father.
The attorney-general's approval is required by law before the request could be transferred to an administrative court in order to revoke the citizenship.
In his request to the attorney-general, Sa'ar stated that the terrorist was convicted after admitting to committing a terror act, as is define by law.
[IsraelTimes] A senior Fatah official tacitly threatened the lives of Israelis travelling through the West Bank, also warning Paleostinian merchants to rid their shops of "occupation" products or have them smashed.
Speaking at a rally in Nablus organized by Fatah — in solidarity with Gazoo — Monday evening, Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muheisen warned Israel "not to forget that its settlers wander the streets among us and are an easy target for [Fatah's] al-Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank," the movement's official website and Facebook page reported.
Muheisen's comments came amid a chain of terror attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank, apparently carried out by lone-wolf assailants. On Monday, a Paleostinian excavator driver killed a pedestrian and injured five others in an attack against a bus in Jerusalem. A few hours later, a soldier was shot in the stomach and seriously injured by an attacker on a cycle of violence. On Tuesday, a security guard was stabbed by an unknown assailant near the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.
But Muheisen did not limit his threats to Israelis. He also told West Bank store owners that they had two weeks to empty their shops of "occupation products."
"After this time, any shop containing Israeli occupation merchandise will be attacked and smashed," he told the crowd.
Paleostinian Authority officials have called for the boycott of merchandise produced in Israeli settlements in the past. Former PA prime minister Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... even took part in a public burning ceremony of such products in 2010.
[Iran Press TV] Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , a big shot of resistance movement Hamas, says Paleostinians are the victorious side of the Israeli war on the besieged Gazoo Strip.
The Hamas chief made the remarks in a statement published on Tuesday, saying the resistance fighters are the true winners of the Israeli regime's invasion of Gazoo
Haniyeh also said the seven-year blockade on Gazoo must be lifted, noting, "The military victory by the resistance, and the legendary strength of our people will lead us to a lifting of the blockade on the Gazoo Strip."
He also expressed full support for the Paleostinian delegation in the Egyptian capital Cairo, saying, "A unified people stood behind our delegation in Cairo. We complied with all the diplomatic procedures."
He cited the ceasefire negotiations with Tel Aviv, saying, "What the enemy could not achieve on the physical battlefield it will not achieve in the diplomatic battlefield."
So far, about 1,900 people have been killed and over 9,500 others injured by the Israeli regime's massive offensive that began on July 8.
Israeli warplanes pounded numerous sites in the Gazoo Strip, demolishing houses and burying families under the rubble. Israeli forces also began a ground offensive against the impoverished Paleostinian land on July 17.
A three-day truce took effect at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) Tuesday and Israeli troops withdrew from the coastal enclave.
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Haniyeh also said the seven-year blockade on Gazoo must be lifted, noting, "The military victory by the resistance, and the legendary strength of our people will lead us to a lifting of the blockade on the Gazoo Strip. And a pony!"
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UPDATE - Two big ones. Israeli officials say the man taken into custody for the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens (a brutal act that contributed to the onset of this war) has admitted that he was operating under orders of, and with funding from, Hamas in Gaza. Also, a French reporter exposed another Hamas rocket launch site nestled in a civilian neighborhood, nearby a hotel, and "right next to" a United Nations facility. Even more confirmation of what Israel has been saying all along.
[Iran Press TV] The Indonesian government has introduced a ban on support for Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIL snuffies in the Southeast Asian country, warning its citizens against joining the terrorists' fight in Syria and Iraq.
Speaking on the sidelines of a closed-door cabinet meeting held in the presidential palace and presided over by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday, Indonesia's Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto said the rising profile of the ISIL in Indonesia must be controlled as it poses a serious threat to the country's cultural and religious diversity, the English-language newspaper Jakarta Post reported.
"The government rejects and bans the teachings of ISIL [â¦] from growing in Indonesia. It [ISIL] is not in line with state ideology," he said.
Djoko added that the Jakarta government has been closely watching ISIL' activities and the possible intrusion of the terrorist organization in Indonesia.
He said monitoring measures will be conducted collectively by his ministry, the Foreign Ministry, the Law and Human Rights Ministry, National Intelligence Agency and the National Counterterrorism Agency to detect and prevent would-be snuffies from traveling to areas where ISIL is currently fighting.
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FYI see DEFENCE.PK.FORUMS > AFTER PAKISTAN, INDIA, JIHADISTS MAY ATTACK CHINA : [Global Times] DAILY.
[AnNahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has provided Leb's army, battling jihadists on the Syrian border, with one billion dollars to strengthen security, al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. told news hounds in Jeddah on Wednesday.
King Abdullah "has informed me of his generous decision to provide the Lebanese army... with one billion dollars to strengthen its capabilities to preserve Leb's security," Hariri told news hounds in Jeddah.
Speaking from King Abdullah's palace in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah, Leb's Sunni community's most prominent political representative added that "we have received this aid."
"This aid is very important especially at this time when Leb is fighting terrorism," said Hariri at the overnight conference.
Lebanese troops have been clashing with turbans since Saturday in the country's northeastern border town of Arsal.
Sunni-dominated regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia is already financing a $3-billion package of French military equipment and arms for Leb's army.
Army chief General Jean Qahwaji on Tuesday urged La Belle France to speed up the promised weapons supplies to help his troops.
Abdullah has expressed his oil-rich state's support for Beirut against "terrorism" during a phone call with former President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... The king also "stressed his determination to speed up the implementation of support for the Lebanese army," according to Suleiman's office.
Suleiman finished his term in office in May, but consensus has yet to be reached on his successor.
The fighting in Arsal is the worst violence to hit the volatile border region since the 2011 outbreak of the armed uprising in Syria against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... Leb is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and despite an official policy of neutrality towards the conflict in its larger neighbor, it has regularly seen the fighting spill over the border.
The Arsal violence has left 16 soldiers dead and 85 maimed, while dozens of jihadists are said to have been killed, along with three civilians.
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No surprises here that Saudi royals are supplying the government. Whereas Saudi burghers are supplying the privateers (ISIL), with the implicit understanding of commercial benefits once victory is won. My guess is that the burghers see an opportunity for spoils if the existing status quo is upended.
Five-year accord will see Russia help Iran organise oil sales, but government denies it has violated international obligations
Vladimir Putin is eyeing a $20bn (�11.8bn) trade deal with Iran that would see Russia sidestep Western sanctions on its energy sector.
Under the terms of a five-year accord, Russia would help Iran organise oil sales as well as "cooperate in the oil-gas industry, construction of power plants, grids, supply of machinery, consumer goods and agriculture products", according to a statement by the Energy Ministry in Moscow. Apparently energy stocks are down, as if long-term letting Iran have The Bomb is going to lower the price of oil.
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So now Russia is "friends" with both Egypt & Iran. I can't help wondering, who's next?
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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[ARABNEWS] Young Saudis who leave to fight in conflict zones end up killing each other thanks to the deviance and civil strife their groups propagate, said the Kingdom's Grand Mufti, Abdul Aziz Al-Alsheikh.
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