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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Natalia Oreiro aka Sandra in "Cleopatra (Argentine Thelma & Louise)" aka Veronica in "Un Argentino en New York" aka Paula in "Música en espera" aka Spanish female boxer, Esperanza "Monita" Muñoz in "Sos mi vida" aka Marcía Miconi in "Las vidas posibles" (age 34)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians' demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war, in a move that will likely infuriate Israel.
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Netanyahu should make the meeting tomorrow interesting. He should insist on all lands acquired as a result of the 1967 and 1973 wars as a starting point for any negotiations.
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Really? You stupid fuck. Israel will never commit to that since it would give up all the defensive land and the Golon Heights and allow the arabs to rain artillery and rockets down even more and with greater accuracy than before.
Now, Israel will look like even more the bad guy since they are saying now. Good job cutting the legs out from one of our allies, dipshit. You just declared open season on the jews in the Middle East.
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Yes they did win! Spoils of war.... or dont super bleeding hearts realize that its WAR that ultimately decides borders. the israelis will just tell him to FO anyway
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I have a bad back and a terrible migraine from this speech.
I fell out of my chair at the call to return to 1967 and the rest of the speech gave me a migraine. Some how, when I hear something that irrational, my logic processes rebel.
At least Obambi didn't ask Bebe to check the oil while he was under the bus....
Freaking Golan Heights are absolutely essential to self defense of Syria. And we all know how well a divided city of Jerusalem worked...teh jews will never ever ever not ever give up access to the "Wailing wall" at the Herodic Temple.
This masterful piece of diplomatic peace making is essentially a guarantee of war in the middle east in the very near future.
Not to sound like a fanatic, but I am beginning to look for the "666" tattoo on Obambi's forehead.
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He's simply changed sides formally. We knew he was on the other side before this.
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Somehow, everything he does is 180 degrees off from the corrent choice.
It all depends on what your goals are. Most people assume that Obumbles goals is to defend and protect America and advance her interest.
That could not be further from the truth. His actions suggest very strongly that his goal is to destroy America - or at least to reduce it down to a third world nation status. His actions on the economy, out-of-control spending, pissing on our allies while bowing to our enemies suggest this.
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" his goal is to destroy America - or at least to reduce it down to a third world nation status."
I doubt he ever plans to leave control. He would probably be more like Hugo Chavez if he is let to be so. Lock down the Nation in SOE and call off elections. I may sound like a kook, but this guy has the same impulses as a banana republic dictator. He really does not give a damn about this country.
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1967 was a pre-emptive strike that the US didn't want and the evidence that Egypt was about to attack are exaggerated. I think bad intelligence on both sides (Egypt and Israel) plus provocation by the USSR was the reason for this 4+ decade conflict. Add 4 decades of propaganda on top of that.
The 1967 borders cut Israel in 1/2, which I can understand why they don't like this idea but I can also understand why the Arabs got pissed.
I think as an America we shouldn't be choosing sides but help them find a middle ground. Yeah I know, radical idea.
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This is near the end of a long list of Comments.
I will make mine brief. In a war somebody wins and somebody loses. When you cock the pistol the next step is to pull the trigger.
What is it that you truly believe in?
Where is your heart firm? Whom do you serve? What are you willing to die for?
How far are you willing to go?
Obama is not your friend.
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The pre 67 borders are not defendable, which is why the Isrealis were so quick off the start in 67. Bad intel from the US told them the Syrians were massing in the golan. Anybody else ever launch a pre-emtive war, oh we did in Iraq. The Isrealis did abandon the Siani and Gaza. These so called Palistinians are Jordanise and need to go home, but Jordan doesn't want them.
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Sad. Sometimes losing doubts is not comforting.
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Being an American, I am, of course, completely ignorant of both history and current events, but didn't those guys fight a war or something and get their collective asses kicked?
I do remember some guy named Mamoud or Yassir writing in to Miss Manners in the Daily Fishwrap and saying "We started a war against our neighbors and got beaten like a rented mule. Now they have a bunch of our land and refuse to give it back. We don't speak to them or even acknowledge their existence, but we want our land back. What can we do?"
Miss Manners replied, quite succinctly as I recall, "Suck it up, biotches. You lost. Losers do not get a say in how the spoils of war are divvied up. And next time, try to remember that civilized people don't make unprovoked war on their neighbors."
The Israelis call the 1949 Armistice/pre-Six Day War borders "the Auschwitz borders". In case anyone here needs to put the concept in starkly clear terms beyond this website.
The owner of an Afghan company and a provincial official say terrorists insurgents have shot dead at least 35 workers and their guards on a road construction site in eastern Afghanistan. Waiting for protests ... crickets. At least the 35 deaders weren't bombed by NATO...
A three-day offensive by Afghan and allied foreign forces has killed at least 60 insurgents in remote Faryab province, according to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
This operation against the insurgents -- which produced one of the highest militant casualty tolls in recent months -- started on May 13 in the Qiasar district of relatively peaceful Faryab province.
"(Combined forces) killed more than 60 insurgents during clearing operations ... The combined force cleared the area around Ghuchghar village after receiving reports of insurgent activity," ISAF said in a statement on Wednesday.
[An Nahar] Thirteen people were killed and 20 others hurt Wednesday in a suicide car booming against a police bus in eastern Afghanistan claimed by the Taliban, a provincial front man said.
"Unfortunately, 13 people have been killed and 20 others injured in a suicide kaboom that targeted a police minivan today," said provincial front man Abdul Zia Ahmadzai.
The attack happened at around 4:45 pm (1215 GMT) in the eastern province of Nangarhar, ...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... just outside the city of Jalalabad and a few kilometers from Jalalabad airport.
The jacket wallah is thought to have rammed his car bomb into the bus carrying police.
The attack was claimed by the Taliban.
How unusual. So often they remain silent.
Its front man Zabiullah Mujahid said: "One of our mujahedeen carried out a martyrdom attack on a bus carrying police trainers in Nangarhar province today.
"The bus was totally destroyed and 25 police trainers were killed. Unfortunately, two civilians were also martyred."
Oh my. Is that an apology? They don't apologize when they think they're winning...
The Taliban are known frequently to exaggerate the scale of their attacks.
The strike came on the same day that 12 people died during a violent protest in Takhar province, northeast Afghanistan, against a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... -led raid which left four people dead.
The protesters and 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... who condemned the operation, said the four dead were civilians.
But the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said they were cut-thoats.
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[Dawn] Eleven people were killed and over 50 others injured, including two German soldiers, at protests in Afghanistan on Wednesday over the deaths of four people in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... raid, officials said.
Police opened fire as around 2,000 people erupted into the streets in Taloqan, capital of the usually peaceful northeastern province of Takhar.
The troubles erupted after NATO-led forces said they killed four hard boyz including two armed women in an overnight raid in the town.
A front man for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the raid targeted the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a jihad boy group that operates from bases including in Afghanistan.
But the protesters claimed those killed during the NATO raid were civilians.
The issue of civilian deaths during foreign military operations is explosive in Afghanistan and has drawn repeated, sharp criticism from 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... During the Taloqan protest, demonstrators threw rocks at the Provincial Advisory Team compound, Afghan interior ministry front man Zemerai Bashary told AFP.
The local PAT is a German-led group of soldiers and civilians working to help Afghan government institutions improve their performance.
"We have 11 dead and over 50 other people admitted with injuries to hospital," acting provincial health director Hassan Basij told AFP.
It was not immediately clear whether the casualties were victims of police bullets or from another source.
Two German soldiers were also injured in the disturbances, the country's contingent in Afghanistan said, but did not give details on how badly they were hurt, how they were maimed and whether they had intervened in the violence.
Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a regional police front man, blamed "some opportunists and violence-seeking elements" for infiltrating the protests and turning them bloody.
At the interior ministry in Kabul, front man Bashary told AFP: "There have been demonstrations, about 2,000 have demonstrated over the operation overnight. The demonstrations have turned violent."Although relatively peaceful compared to Taliban strongholds in the south, the north of Afghanistan has seen an increase in violence in recent years.
Seven UN staff were killed when their compound in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif was stormed during a protest against the burning of the Koran by an evangelical pastor in the United States.
Afghan and NATO forces have said that central Asian jihad boy groups such as the IMU are active in the region.
ISAF said the operation against the house in Taloqan which triggered the protests targeted a key controller for the IMU who was involved in procuring and making weapons and explosives in the area.
It said it was a joint operation with Afghan forces and that weapons including a boom jacket and an AK-47 assault rifle were found at the scene.
All US-led international combat troops are due to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014 although this month's killing of Al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... by US troops in Pakistain has led to calls for this process to be speeded up.
Control of seven more peaceful Afghan areas is due to be handed to the fast-growing Afghan military and police from July.
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"Keep your civil war to yourselves, dammit! We're trying to set up a government over here."
[Dawn] Tunisia threatened to report Libya to the UN Security Council if it fired into Tunisian territory again, after Libya's three-month-old conflict spilled beyond its borders.
Three Tunisian security officers have been killed in a clash with a group of gunnies in northern Tunisia, a security source said on Wednesday. Two of the nine assailants were also killed in the shootout with police and soldiers in the northern town of Rouhia. The source said the gunnies were Tunisian, Libyan and Algerian.
Libyan rebels and a Tunisian security source said the head of Libya's National Oil Corporation had defected and decamped to Tunisia, an act that if confirmed would be a major blow to Muammar Qadhafi's efforts to cling to power.
In the besieged city of Misrata, fighting flared up again after a lull, with a doctor saying that seven people had been maimed, most of them rebel fighters, in festivities on Tuesday with government forces.
Tunisia's state-run TAP news agency said the government would threaten Libya with diplomatic action over the "continuing firing of rockets by Libyan forces towards Tunisian territory."
"The Tunisian government views those acts as belligerent behaviour from the Libyan side who had pledged more than once to prevent its forces from firing in the direction of Tunisia and has failed to respect its undertakings," TAP quoted a foreign ministry source as saying.
On Tuesday at least four Russian-made Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... fired from Libya landed inside Tunisia, according to a Rootersnews hound at the scene.
Rocket attacks by government troops forced Libyan rebels to pull back briefly from the Dehiba-Wazin border crossing, but they ended the day in control of it despite a sustained bombardment that killed three rebels and maimed several.
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Tunisia threatened to report Libya to the UN Security Council...
But Libya's already on probation.
They are? Well, as of this moment, they're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!
[Al Jazeera] Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ... a proud Arab institution for 42 years ... have shelled villages and towns in a western mountain range amid calls by the UN for global assistance for the millions displaced by fighting between Qadaffy's forces and rebels trying to oust him.
Panos Moumtzis, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Libya, said some 1.6m people in the North African country needed aid because fighting had disrupted basic services and depleted food and medical stocks.
Speaking in Geneva on Wednesday, he said an additional 500,000 who have crossed borders to Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the region also needed humanitarian assistance.
He called for a break in the fighting, so that supplies could reach civilians. He also said he was asking international donors for $408m to fund aid for Libya through September.
"The humanitarian pause is driven by humanitarian principles and the need to be able to provide urgently needed life-saving assistance to the civilian population in distress."
The pause could last from one to three days and while not a formal ceasefire it would allow for the evacuation of migrants, maimed and others wishing to leave war-affected areas, he said.
"I would like to do it as soon as it is possible for all the parties to agree," Moumtzis said, declining to provide any date.
'Living under siege'
Moumtzis said he would also seek security guarantees for UN aid workers to reach the besieged city of Misrata and the Western Mountains in talks with authorities in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday.
Libyan rebels said on Wednesday that Qadaffy's forces were shelling communities in the Western Mountains.
BelJassem, a citizen-turned-fighter from a village near Yafrin, said Qadaffy forces were using Grad missiles and
rocket launchers in their nearly month-long siege, leaving residents trapped and cut off from food and medical supplies.
"We dig trenches and hide in there at night,'' says BelJassem, who gave only his first name for fear of reprisals.
Yafrin, which is 120km southwest of Tripoli, is one of the biggest cities in the Nafusa mountain range, home to the ethnic Berber minority.
Fathi Abu-Zakhar is among the city's residents who decamped the fighting. He said that two of his sons stayed behind.
"They are living under siege,'' he said in a telephone interview. "No food and no medicine can get in. Even the injured have no way to get treatment since the only hospital has been shut down.''
Medghamas Abu-Zakhar, a rebel based in Yafrin, said Qadaffy forces were shelling villages towards the top of the Nafusa range in an attempt to capture the high ground.
ICC warning
Also Wednesday, prosecutors of the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... warned Libyan officials that they will be prosecuted if they attempt to cover up crimes by forces loyal to Qadaffy.
Prosecutors issued the warning in a letter to Abdelati al-Obeidi, the Libyan foreign minister.
The letter also formally informed him of prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's request for arrest warrants for Qadaffy, his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, and intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi. The judges will now have to decide whether to issue arrest warrants.
The development came a day after about 20 shells fell in the border area between Libya and Tunisia on Tuesday in fresh festivities between rebels and government troops.
Rocket attacks by government troops forced the rebels to pull back briefly from the Dehiba-Wazin border crossing, but they ended the day in control of the area despite a sustained bombardment that killed three rebels and maimed several.
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[An Nahar] Suspected Libyan al-Qaeda cut-throats exchanged fire with security forces in Tunisia Wednesday, leaving two alleged cut-throats and a Tunisian colonel dead, security officials and the government said.
The suspected cut-throats were wearing belts of explosives and were "terrorists, strongly suspected of belonging to the al-Qaeda network," a Tunisian security official said.
The official refused to give the nationalities of the suspects but another security source said they were carrying Libyan passports.
The interior ministry said three "terrorists" had opened fire on the Tunisian forces in Rouhia, about 200 kilometers west of Tunis.
Two were killed and the other was able to escape, it said in a statement, also not giving their nationalities.
A Tunisian colonel was rubbed out, it said. Another security source said a soldier had also died.
A guard called security forces after becoming suspicious about the men, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse.
When they arrived, "two Libyans started to shoot and there was an exchange of fire between the army and these two men," the source said.
A Tunisian soldier and a colonel were killed as well as "these two Libyans who had on them Libyan passports."
The guard was helping the men, who had arrived from Sbiba close to the city of Kasserine, which is near the border with Algeria, to carry their luggage, the source said.
He "was surprised by the weight of their luggage and alerted the police and the army," he said.
The interior ministry said "special units of the national guard and the army with the aid of some citizens were able around 6:55 am to uncover three armed hard boyz in the Rouhia region."
"These hard boyz fired on units of the army and the national guard, wounding three soldiers with live bullets, one of whom, a colonel, died," it said.
"Two of these bad boyz were potted while a third was able to escape."
A resident confirmed the incident and said two civilians were hurt in the shootout, one of them seriously.
Tunisia said Sunday it had jugged an Algerian and a Libyan in possession of explosives in its first arrests of suspected members of al-Qaeda's north African offshoot, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
It had earlier announced the arrest of two Libyans who came from Algeria and were trying to return to their country carrying a homemade bomb, according to officials.
This discovery led the government to appeal to Tunisians to report any suspicious behavior or "sheltering of foreign nationals".
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[Bangla Daily Star] Egypt's ruling military council dismissed yesterday a report that it might pardon ousted leader Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... or his family, saying it does not intervene in judicial affairs.
This is why deposed dictators flee the country with whatever they can pack into the airplane.
"There is absolutely no truth to what has been reported by the media that the supreme council is moving towards a pardon for former president Mohammed Hosni Mubarak or his family," the council stated on its Facebook page.
"The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces does not interfere in one way or the other in legal procedures to hold the former regime symbols accountable," the statement read.
Mubarak has been jugged since April on suspicion of involvement in the deaths of protesters and corruption. He is under arrest in a hospital, where he was treated for a heart attack during an interrogation.
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[An Nahar] Shiite and Sunni Islamist Kuwaiti MPs fought with fists in parliament Wednesday during a heated debate over Kuwaiti inmates in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention center.
The parliament was holding a debate over four Kuwaiti detainees in the U.S. prison camp in Cuba when Shiite MP Hussein al-Kallaf provoked some Sunni fellow MPs by dismissing the prisoners as "al-Qaeda" orcs.
And so they are. The innocent and not-as-guilty have long since been sent off to resume their former lives. What remains are the worst of the orcs.
Chaos erupted when Jamaan al-Harish representing the Moslem Brüderbund replied to Kallaf saying that the session was not called to discuss al-Qaeda but Guantanamo prisoners.
Two Shiite and four Sunni politicians were involved in the fight prompting MP Abdullah al-Rumi to adjourn the session.
The debate was attended by a delegation of U.S. lawyers defending the inmates.
Kuwait on December 1 disowned comments attributed to its interior minister calling for the death of its nationals held at Guantanamo Bay.
Interior Minister Sheikh Jaber was quoted by WikiLeaks as telling the U.S. ambassador that his country did not want to see the return of the Kuwaiti suspects and suggested "the best thing to do is get rid of them."
The exchange between Sheikh Jaber and the U.S. envoy to Kuwait took place in February 2009 and was recorded in a U.S. State Department cable published by WikiLeaks.
The Gulf country's foreign minister had insisted, however, that "it is impossible to think that Kuwait will ever forget about its sons ... jugged in Guantanamo without trial."
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[Iran Press TV] Protesters in Yemen have taken to the streets once again to mark the 100th day since the start of a campaign to oust President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
The capital of Sana'a and other Yemeni cities were the scene of anti-government demonstrations on Tuesday, with protesters insisting that Saleh step down, Rooters reported.
Saleh has refused to resign despite more than three months of protests against him, but demonstrators say they will hold their ground until their demand is met.
"After 100 days we are more determined to overthrow the regime. We're not leaving ... until the regime is ousted," a protester said.
Yemeni opposition leaders are now set to consider changes to a deal proposed by the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ... the Medes and the Persians are very sensitive on the subject of the Persian Gulf, which the Arabs refer to as the Arabian Gulf... ([P]GCC) which intends to remove Saleh from power after almost 33 years.
Saleh said in April that he would sign the [P]GCC deal requiring him to step down from his post within 30 days after signing the accord in exchange for immunity from prosecution. But he later backed out from the agreement.
The protesters, however, say they will not accept any kind of accord that does not guarantee Saleh's immediate departure.
The protesters are meanwhile planning a massive march towards the presidential palace in Sana'a, a move which sparked bloodshed last week, as security forces opened fire on peaceful demonstrators to stop them from taking over the crucial building.
The Yemeni government has stepped up its crackdown on the protesters in recent weeks.
Over 300 people are known to have been killed since anti-government protests began in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state in January, local reports say.
According to the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... , some 40 percent of Yemenis live on USD 2 a day or less and one third of the population is wrestling with chronic hunger.
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[Dawn] Yemen's political rivals have agreed to sign a Gulf-brokered plan Wednesday to end the country's bloody political crisis, the president's aid told Al-Arabiya television, but the opposition expressed doubts whether it would happen.
When asked if the agreement would be signed Wednesday, President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh's ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... aide Ahmed al-Sufi said: "Yes, it will be today." There has been 'positive' and 'important progress.' But parliamentary opposition Mohammed Qahtan said a break in the impasse between the two sides had been reached on Tuesday night, and then Saleh's sign backed away.
"If the initiative was unchanged" from its initial version, "we will sign," Qahtan said.
"We came to an agreement late Tuesday but this morning they changed their minds," Qahtan told AFP, adding that Saleh and his partisans 'refuse' to sign it this way.
"The disagreement is on who will sign from the opposition," said Qahtan.
However, The contradictory However... "there's an agreement on the time frame." Yemen has been gripped by deadly protests since late January calling for the ouster of Saleh, who has been in power since 1978.
Besides an al Qaeda resurgence, the impoverished country is battling a secessionist movement in the south and a Shiite rebellion in the north.
Saleh has been insisting that, under the constitution, he should serve out his current term of office, which expires in 2013. Last Thursday, however, Washington called on him to sign the deal "now." For weeks, the agreement has been held up by Saleh refusing to sign in his capacity as president. He has insisted on endorsing the deal only as leader of the ruling General People's Congress, contrary to the demands of the opposition.
Talks are ongoing, said Qahtan, adding that the opposition will meet Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General Abdullatif al Zayani later on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, GPC front man Tareq al-Shami told AFP: "We have discussed with .... al Zayani the mechanism to implement a plan to end the crisis."
"This plan needs a time frame to implement it," said Shami.
On Friday, Qahtan declared the GCC initiative was 'dead' following the pullout of Qatar, whose prime minister had angered Sanaa by saying Saleh should go.
But he returned to Sanaa on Saturday in an attempt to convince both sides to sign the initiative.
The six GCC states have proposed an exit plan that would see embattled Saleh out of office within 30 days.
Under it, a government of national unity would be formed, Saleh would transfer power to his vice president and there would be an end to protests. In exchange, Saleh and his top aides would be granted immunity from prosecution.
At least 180 people have been killed in festivities during protests against Saleh's regime that erupted in late January, according to a toll compiled from reports by activists and medics.
Or maybe not...
Yemen's president has for a second time backed out of a Gulf-sponsored deal to transfer power.
The long awaited agreement brokered by the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) would have seen President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh stepping down within a month.
Yemen's opposition had earlier said the deal would be signed on Wednesday.
But the head of the GCC, a group of Gulf states, left Sanaa, the capital, without securing a signed agreement.
The departure of Abdullatif al-Zayani suggested that differences remained despite the government and opposition earlier agreeing on the deal in principle.
Zayani had been in Sanaa since Saturday to try to persuade the sides to sign the deal, with help from US and European diplomats.
"Saleh wants to show the international community that he is not an oppressor and a dictator, that he is willing to leave power peacefully and democratically, where in reality that is not the case," Hakim al-Masmari, editor-in-chief of the Yemen Post, told Al Jizz.
Masmari said Saleh's backtracking on his initial agreement "is only putting him in a bad image and showing the world that his words are not credible and that he has lied not only to the opposition but also to the GCC officials".
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... the White House, urged Saleh to sign and implement a transition of power deal so that the country could "move forward immediately" with political reform.
John Brennan, an adviser to Barack B.O. Obama, the US president, called Saleh earlier in the day, the White House said in a statement.
"Brennan noted that this transfer of power represents the best path forward for Yemen to become a more secure, unified, and prosperous nation and for the Yemeni people to realize their aspirations for peace and political reform," the statement said.
Brennan also reiterated that all parties in Yemen should "refrain from violence and proceed with the transition in a peaceful and orderly manner".
Earlier, Al Arabiya television had quoted an adviser to Saleh as confirming the signing would take place on Wednesday.
The opposition, whose coalition includes Islamists and leftists, said that among the minor modifications in the deal were changes in who would sign and in what capacity for the opposition and for the government.
"The president will sign for the government in his capacity as president of the republic and as head of the ruling party," Yahya Abu Usbua, an opposition official, told the Rooters news agency earlier.
Modifications proposed by the ruling party, passed on to the opposition by diplomats, would let the ruling party appoint a unity government for the transition period until elections and would also change which opposition representative would sign the deal, the opposition leader said.
But some protest groups had said they would not accept the GCC plan.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) incarcerated a suspected operative of banned Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (HuJI) Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. and discovered a cache of firearms, explosives and bomb making materials in his shop on Tuesday night.
A badman, regardless of orientation. A fair trial and a quick hanging are hopefully in his future.
Arrested Abdul Alim, 46, son of Ainuddin Laskar of East Khajurapara in Jhenidah, is an active member of the outfit and also an arms trader, Rab says.
He was incarcerated with firearms and bomb making materials from Jibonnagar upazila of Chuadanga in 1998, but was later released on bail.
Produced at a press briefing at Rab-6 headquarters in the town yesterday, Alim denied his involvement with HuJI but confessed to dealing in illegal arms.
Commanding Officer Maj Shakhawat Hossain told journalists that they contacted Alim through middlemen a few days ago expressing interest to buy two shutter guns.
Alim, also known as Halim, asked them to go to his timber shop near Aratpur Masterpara outside the town around 8:30pm on Tuesday.
Plainclothes Rab men went to his shop accordingly and engaged in a conversation with him. They incarcerated him when he produced two shutter guns, said Rab officials.
On information from Alim, Rab men searched his shop and recovered two more shutter guns, a 9mm pistol loaded with one bullet, a revolver and a pipe gun.
The Rab team also recovered two live bombs, half kg of gunpowder, two magazines, cartridge making equipment, bomb making materials, batteries of mobile phones and eight books on jihad.
Alim was taken to the Rab-6 headquarters for interrogation.
About the books on Jihad seized from his shop, Alim said he used to read those for knowledge.
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"He was incarcerated with firearms and bomb making materials ..."
And in Arizona, Sheriff Joe only gives the prisoners pink underwear.....
Akbar Muhammad, the international representative of the Nation of Islam, a U.S. Muslim cleric visiting Guyana, was detained Thursday on suspicion of ties to drugs and terrorism, Guyana police said.
Muhammad is the youngest child of Elijah Muhammad and Clara Muhammad. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Edinburgh University in Scotland. He also studied the theory of Arabic and Islamic law at Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
He is an associate professor of history and Africana studies at Binghamton University in New York. He specializes in African history, as well as the study of Islam in Africa and the Americas. He is a co-editor of Racism, Sexism, and the World-System. His own writings have been focused on slavery in Muslim Africa, Muslims in the United States, and integration in Nigeria through the use of education
Officers raided the Princess Hotel in the capital of Georgetown and took Muhammad to the department's headquarters for questioning, said Seelal Persaud, assistant police commissioner.
Akbar Muhammad is affiliated with the US-based Nation of Islam. Police also detained a Canadian-Guyanese citizen identified as Phillip Muhammad at the hotel, also associated with the Nation of Islam.
According to court records, Akbar Muhammad pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in April 2009 and received a five-year probation in September 2009. He was accused of using different names to obtain lines of credit and mortgages from 1983 through 2007.
He is the international representative for the Nation of Islam, according to a biography released by the Truth Establishment Institute.
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Drugs and terrorism? That does sound like the Nation of Islam... And Professor Muhammed's biography makes him sound the Platonic ideal to represent the group.
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And what, I wonder, would Akbar Muhammad have been doing in Guyana and with whom did he plan to meet? The radical Islamization of Guyana is more thorough than that of any other country in the western hemisphere:
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To whom it may concern,
Your information on Akbar Muhammad is very wrong. The Akbar who is the son of Elijah Muhammad and a professor is not the same Akbar who is the international rep. For the nation of Islam.
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Akbar Muhammad has represented truth and justice in an honorable way for 40 years. This is a bogus charge and effort to defame Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in the effort to discredit Islam the world over.
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Program! Program! Gitcher Program! Can't tell the Akbars without a program!
#2
I'd like to think of them as dying one of the four deaths of Judas Iscariot. Either hanging themselves; "falling in a field so that their bowels gush out", which sounds like what might happen if hit by a Hellfire missile; "being run over by a chariot, so that their bowels gush out"; or just by being stoned.
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nice psychoanalysis by language. What does it mean when I say: "you're my bitch"?
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"Who's your God?"
"Who's your prophet?"
Followed closely by..
ARTHUR: There it is! The Bridge of Death!
ROBIN: Oh, great.
KNIGHT: Look!
ARTHUR: There's the old man from Scene 24!
BEDEMIR: What is he doing here?
ARTHUR: He is the keeper of the Bridge of Death. He asks each
traveller five questions--
KNIGHT: Three questions.
ARTHUR: Three questions. He who answers the five questions--
KNIGHT: Three questions.
ARTHUR: Three questions may cross in safety.
ROBIN: What if you get a question wrong?
ARTHUR: Then you are cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril.
ROBIN: Oh, I won't go.
KNIGHT: Who's going to answer the questions?
ARTHUR: Sir Robin!
ROBIN: Yes?
ARTHUR: Brave Sir Robin, you go.
ROBIN: Hey! I've got a great idea. Why doesn't Launcelot go?
LAUNCELOT: Yes, let me go, my liege. I will take him single-handed.
I shall make a feint to the north-east--
ARTHUR: No, no, hang on, hang on, hang on! Just answer the five
questions--
KNIGHT: Three questions.
ARTHUR: Three questions as best you can. And we shall watch... and
pray.
LAUNCELOT: I understand, my liege.
ARTHUR: Good luck, brave Sir Launcelot. God be with you.
KEEPER: Stop! Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me
these questions three, 'ere the other side he see.
LAUNCELOT: Ask me the questions, bridge-keeper. I'm not afraid.
KEEPER: What is your name?
LAUNCELOT: My name is Sir Launcelot of Camelot.
KEEPER: What is your quest?
LAUNCELOT: To seek the Holy Grail.
KEEPER: What is your favorite color?
LAUNCELOT: Blue.
KEEPER: Right. Off you go.
LAUNCELOT: Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.
ROBIN: That's easy!
KEEPER: Stop! Who approaches the Bridge of Death must answer me
these questions three, 'ere the other side he see.
ROBIN: Ask me the questions, bridge-keeper. I'm not afraid.
KEEPER: What is your name?
ROBIN: Sir Robin of Camelot.
KEEPER: What is your quest?
ROBIN: To seek the Holy Grail.
KEEPER: What is the capital of Assyria?
ROBIN: I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!
KEEPER: Stop! What is your name?
GALAHAD: Sir Galahad of Camelot.
KEEPER: What is your quest?
GALAHAD: I seek the Holy Grail.
KEEPER: What is your favorite color?
GALAHAD: Blue. No yel-- Auuuuuuuugh!
KEEPER: Heh heh. Stop! What is your name?
ARTHUR: It is Arthur, King of the Britons.
KEEPER: What is your quest?
ARTHUR: To seek the Holy Grail.
KEEPER: What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
ARTHUR: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
KEEPER: What? I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!
BEDEMIR: How do know so much about swallows?
ARTHUR: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king you know.
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Hmm, insults. The language of someone who is absolutely clueless and has no rational comments.
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JUSTICE: Do not offend Fred, for he is one of the Abdal, and if you offend him, with a wave of his hand, you will cease to exist.
I might add that the modern definition of Abdal is fouled up, for men disregarded the warning to leave the Abdal alone, and attempted to define them. They do not share in the covenants of man, and you interfere with their activities at your own peril.
...moose,
And what's going to happen after you die...do you know?
You'll be all alone...in your grave at night. And the angel of death will come and ask you...
"Who's your God?"
"Who's your prophet?"
...and what will you answer him, stupid?
And then the angel will lash you...the pain so excruciating that all the animals in the graveyard will hear your screams.
And when the dogs at the graveyard are howling, we Muslims know what they are hearing!
You fool...wake up and become Muslim before it's too late.
Never having actually been dead you can't really vouch for any of that. Research among people who have been dead and who've been brought back suggests you're wrong.
Try answering a few other questions:
Why would God be so emotionally insecure that he requires you and everyone else to bonk their heads in the direction of Mecca five times a day?
Why would a God who is all-powerful require a prophet? Even if he does, why should a prophet be accorded any more respect than anyone else?
The prophet told everybody he was infallible. The Pope sez the same thing. Whom to believe, whom to believe...?
Why should it be of the least interest to you if we don't believe in your god? If we're going to squeal like piggies in the afterlife what does that have to do with you?
Is it necessary for you to be a jerk or do you just elect to be so?
You fool...wake up and become agnostic before it's too late.
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Must be the C team.
If moclown is the ideal, and moclown was illiterate, then why all the fuss about books and why are you typing, especially in a language other than moclown.
Arab culture is stale. Macroislamic goals tend to be conquor new peoples or fuck your cousin, even when they attempt to escape the anus of post pangea but keep the good parts (you know, the parts handed down by the culture put to the sword or converted) gossipers and thugs go out of their way to bully back into line.
It is a sad, pathetic offering when a people so excited about violence and being the premier race cannot win an archery tourny, marksmanship, or even a stupid little soccer game. Even the USA can win in soccer. The desert follows islam, my only question is whether the seed will follow the retreat.
The fruit of islam is a jelly bean. It could be the almighty isn't especially happy about being mooned, and allan can see your thoughts through your asshole.
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Hey Justice... since stuff like computers work... and we've made quantum entangled states that really are... then the basic premise of the quantum nature of all is proven... so... should such a quantumly possible angel or some other random post death something be/happen/whatever... your best strategy is to start flipping coins to change your quantum probability path.
So ... if you see a nasty angel like the Muslim angel of death... start flipping imaginary coins or throwing imaginary dice.... to change the situation....
see... its all quantum in the end...
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It's been interesting to watch the trajectory if young Justice's comments since he found Rantburg. In the beginning he was consumed with gloating about raping our females in front of their husbands/brothers/fathers while said menfolk were cleaning the toilets. He didn't enjoy the response, so he moved to personal insult and meditations on my flowing armpit hair (some things we do not ask why, lest there be an answer). This new concern for the state of our souls, and the entire arc of his thoughts reflects rather neatly the thought process of the Ummah: following 9/11 they saw the Muslim conquest as imminent, then they were angry at the conquest that fell upon their unconquerable heartlands, now they have only the hope that the soft jihad of the law will work.
Because the attempt by Al Qaeda, et al at conquest by the sword, which is Islam's promised proof that Muhammed prophesied truly, sure seems to be showing by its abject failure that he didn't.
For a map, click here. For a map of Durango state click here. ilenio is reporting that local social media says at least 200 marine effectives are in the area.
By Chris Covert
As many as 200 Mexican Naval Infantry have been sent to the northern Mexican state of Durango, according to Mexican news accounts.
The fresh marine unit has already set up checkpoints in the state in the Nombre de Dios, Vicente Guerrero and Poanas municipalities, all of which are astride the main road between Zacatecas state to the east and Durango city.
More than 1,000 security forces arrived in the La Laguna region of western Coahuila and eastern Durango last week representing a major buildup of forces on the highway network in that region. The La Laguna region includes the twin cities of Torreon, Coahuila and Gomez Palacio, Durango. To see the Rantburg report on the Torreon-Gomez Palacio security forces deployment, click here.
The newly arrived forces were deployed following talks last week between Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and Durango governor Jorge Herrera Caldera. In that meeting Calderon pledged federal assistance in solving the mass murder of 218 individuals exhumed over the last several weeks in Durango city. To see the last Rantburg report on the Durango, Durango mass graves, click here
According to published reports, exhumations in Durango city are still going on, although no more bodies have been exhumed since last week. Reports also say that some arrests have been made in connection with the murders, but no more information was released.
The Durango mass murders, unlike the recent San Fernando, Tamaulipas massacres, took place over as many as four years, and may have been the result of ongoing normal Mexican organized crime operations in the city, such as kidnapping and extortion. To see the last Rantburg report on the San Fernando, Tamaulipas mass graves, click here. To read an in depth report on security issues springing from the San Fernando massacres, click here
In related news, a total of 13 individuals were found murdered in Durango city.
Nine unidentified men were found murdered in a bullring in Durango city last Sunday morning. The victims were stacked near the entrance booth of the Alexandra bullring on calle Lorenzo Garzain the San Ignacio colony. All nine victims were nude and appeared to have been strangled.
Four unidentified men were found dead in a garbage dump in southern Durango city early Tuesday morning. The victims were blindfolded and bound by the foot, and dumped near on Prolongacion Primo de Verdad. No cause of death was reported.
[Al Jazeera] A suspected jacket wallah has maimed several people near a security service building in the northern Kazakh city of Aktobe, Interfax news agency reported, citing unidentified security sources.
Nobody apart from the suspected bomber was killed in the attack, Interfax reported on Tuesday.
"A suicide bomber detonated an unknown device in front of the regional security services building. As a result of the kaboom, there are casualties," a source within the security services told Interfax.
A local photographer told the Rooters news agency by telephone from Aktobe, located near the Russian border, that the suicide bomber had blown himself up at the regional headquarters of the National Security Committee, Kazakhstan's domestic security police.
Search for accomplices
He said reinforced police units had cordoned off a block of the city of 277,000 inhabitants. Media reports said the security police were searching for alleged accomplices.
Security officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Kazakhstan's tightly-controlled state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
has yet to broadcast any reports on the event.
The prosecutor's office is to give a briefing later in the afternoon on the incident.
Oil-rich, mainly Mohammedan Kazakhstan, Central Asia's largest economy, has to date avoided outbreaks of violence that have occurred in ex-Soviet neighbours Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Such an attack is a rare event in Kazakhstan, the most stable state in Central Asia which has been run since even before the fall of the Soviet Union by president Nursultan Nazarbayev. ...has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Or maybe it's the other way around...
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[Dawn] The Yemeni al Qaeda Death Eater Pakistain tossed in the clink in the city of Bloody Karachi was a "mid-level" operative and explosives expert involved in plotting attacks in Pakistain and Afghanistan, according to local security officials.
The Mighty Pak Army on Tuesday identified the man as Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib al Makki, and said he had been "working directly under al Qaeda leaders along (the) Pakistain-Afghan border".
"He is a mid-level operative and has been very active in the region, but I can't say yet if he is 'huge' in the global scheme of things," said the official, adding intelligence agencies tossed in the clink him about a week ago in central Bloody Karachi.
"Nonetheless, he is a very good catch."
There was no immediate way of verifying Makki's rank within al Qaeda.
Retired army general Talat Masood said Pakistain must boost cooperation with ally the United States in its fight against militancy given the embarrassment caused by bin Laden's presence.
"I think it's too dangerous for Pak security agencies to create any drama (to hoodwink Americans) at this stage," he said.
"It seems to me it was a genuine catch and they have to share it (information) with Americans, otherwise it will be meaningless," he said.
A military official in Islamabad said Makki was an "explosives expert". The official said he was "definitely" linked to the al Qaeda leadership but did not elaborate.
"He is still being interrogated and we hope to get more information from him," said the official.
A security bigshot in Islamabad said Makki was between 35 and 40 years old and had been living with his three children and wife "for some time".
Military sources said that he came to Pakistain in 2001 and operated along Pakistain's border with Afghanistan.
"The whole Osama issue has been very embarrassing for us, and that is why we have significantly stepped up efforts to capture any cut-throats that may be hiding here," said another military official.
"We have always been very serious on terrorism, but now we are moving against cut-throats even more seriously. You will hopefully see more results soon."
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[Bangla Daily Star] More than 70 bully boyz armed with rockets and mortars attacked a security post on the outskirts of Pakistain's northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar yesterday, the latest in an upsurge of violence since the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... was killed in the country this month.
Two members of the security forces and at least 15 beturbanned goons were killed in a four-hour gunbattle that erupted following two successive attacks on the security post set up to defend Peshawar, the gateway to the troubled northwest region.
"They were well-armed. They had heavy weapons, rockets, mortars everything. The fighting lasted for about four and a half hours," Ejaz Khan, a city police officer, said.
The attack took place near Khyber, part of Pakistain's lawless tribal belt on the Afghan border, which is regarded as a global hub of cut-thoats, including al-Qaeda and the Pak and Afghan Taliban movements.
Two members of the security forces were killed and five maimed, Khan said. At least 15 beturbanned goons were killed.
Security forces repulsed the first attack by the bully boyz which was carried out just before midnight, officials said.
"Then they carried out a big attack early in the morning. We also called in reinforcements to counter the attack and we did it," a Peshawar security official said.
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The Pak Taliban have issued their first videotaped message since the late Osama bin Laden ... who has made the transition back to dust... was killed by US Navy Seals earlier this month.
In the exclusive footage, obtained by Kamal Hyder, Al Jizz's correspondent in Islamabad, the group is shown vowing Dire Revenge™ for the al-Qaeda leader's death.
The message, from a man called Umar Khalid, said the group would "take Dire Revenge™" for Osama's killing, saying that Pakistain and the US's intelligence agencies were now on its "hit list".
He added that bin Laden's influence was still strong despite his death.
"Osama bin Laden has given us the ideology of Islam and Jihad ... by his death we are not scattered ... but it has given us more strength to continue his mission," he said.
"It took the Americans 11 years to kill Osama but for us it is easy, we will take our Dire Revenge™ in less than a few months."
Khalid and his men are now hiding in the mountains, and appear to be well-armed with assault rifles and other weapons. They are also shown with a laptop and a radio.
The group use cycle of violences and a station wagon, camouflaged under several inches of mud, to move around.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, dozens of fighters attacked security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistain, killing two coppers and wounding several others.
Up to 100 fighters reportedly stormed the post near the Khyber tribal area, a stronghold for Taliban fighters.
The Taliban have staged a number of attacks in Pakistain since bin Laden was killed in a US raid on May 2 near the Pak capital Islamabad.
Last Friday, at least 76 people were killed in a double suicide kaboom on a Frontier Constabulary training centre in the northwestern town of Charsadda.
The Pak Taliban said they carried out the attack - this year's deadliest on the security forces - to avenge bin Laden's death in a compound in the Pak town of Abbottabad.
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[Dawn] Al-Qaeda has chosen a former Egyptian special forces officer as interim leader of the violent Death Eater group following the death this month of the late Osama bin Laden, ... who knows that it's like to live in the belly of a whale only he's not living... CNN and al-Jazeera reported Tuesday.
The pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera issued a similar report that quoted a Pak security official as saying Adel was appointed during a meeting of between "six and eight Al-Qaeda leaders."
Pakistain's The News newspaper had also corroborated the report, citing unnamed sources in an article datelined Rawalpindi, a city home to the military headquarters of the Pak Armed Forces near the capital Islamabad.
The decision to choose Adel, also known as Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi, came as forces of Evil grew increasingly restive over the lack of a formal successor to bin Laden, who was killed in a dramatic US commando raid deep in Pakistain on May 2, Benotman told CNN.
Adel took refuge in Iran after the US invasion of Afghanistan, according to Al-Jazeera report.
The 50-year-old bad turban was allegedly involved in attacks that targetted US embassies in Nairobi and Dar al-Salam in 1998.
Bin Laden's long-time deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, ... Second in command of al-Qaeda, 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... another Egyptian, is considered to be his presumed successor.
Benotman said the appointment of Adel on a temporary basis may be a way for the group to gauge reaction to having someone outside the Mohammedan holy region of the Arabian Peninsula at the helm.
This article starring:
Mohammed Mustafa al-Yamani
al-Qaeda
Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi
al-Qaeda
Noman Benotman
al-Qaeda
Saif al-Adel
al-Qaeda
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I personally think ole Zawahiri threw this guy under the bus by having him appointed the new head guy.
Probably a disagreeable rival, Z is hoping we'll drone zap Saif.
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At least two bombs have exploded in Kirkuk on Thursday, killing at least 15 people. An Interior Ministry source set the toll at 15 dead and 40 injured, while a police source stated the blasts killed 20 people and injured 15.
Jamal Tahir, the police chief of Kirkuk province said, "Two explosions occurred, one of them a car bomb near a bus station in central Kirkuk. There are many casualties but as yet we don't know the exact number."
A smaller explosion was followed by a car bomb explosion when police and rescue workers responded at the scene near Kirkuk's police headquarters.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi authorities arrested today the highest military rank in Qaeda organization in the country, Ministry of Defence Spokesman said.
General Mohammed Al-Askari added that the name of the arrested terrorist is Mikhlif Al-Azzawi from Kirkuk. "His nickname is Abu Radhwan", he added.
The arrest operation took place in Samarra' city, Salahuddin province.
Al-Askari told Aswat al-Iraq that four of Qaeda organization were arrested early today. The four are: Mohammed Saad, responsible for assassination operations, Fawzi Al-Badri (Abu Al-Rahman) the Mufti of the organization and Qassim Mohammed Taha, administrative responsible in the "Iraqi Islamic State" who was one of the implicated persons for the explosion of Salahuddin Provincial Council.
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From what I recall from Samarra, this is a good catch and a good sign as well - unless it is factional via Shia.
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This is a big deal, Aswat Al Iraqi had this on the front page of their website today. They are treating it a big catch.
Good for them. Obviously the Iraqis are putting their training from the US to good use.
Do you suppose they will use "vigorous" interrogation on these thugs? Or will they play nice like that WIMP Holder wants us to do.
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I still wish that our guys would discreetly assign to them unofficial "equivalent ranks" to uniformed soldiers. This would both establish to our side their relative value, which is good for morale purposes, and give some idea as to how it has damaged the bad guys.
For pure entertainment value, I would recommend assigning to the Taliban the equivalent rank of Wehrmacht, with al-Qaeda getting the ranks of Schutzstaffel (General and Waffen).
#4
Yeah, ok, great news.. But why are we just now hearing about Al-Azzawi's leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq? Shouldn't he have been in a deck of most-wanted playing cards, or on some no-fly list, or on U.S. and/or UN designated terror list?
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Assad will try to use this to deflect the heat of the opposition in Syria. Move thousands of people across the border and Israel will have to use deadly force or at least "photogenic" force to stop the waves. Israel is in a very bad position. Pencil Neck needs some kinetic attention.
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Netanyahu scored another little victory yesterday after President Barack Obama announced he would address the AIPAC Conference. Obama does not intend to appear before the stronghold of Israel's supporters in America in order to attack the settlements and the occupation. His decision to appear there, rather than sending his vice president, suggests that Obama does not intend to clash with Netanyahu in their upcoming meeting.
I think you'll find O's full of surprises.
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You went away and left me long time ago
And now you're knocking on my door.
I hear you knocking
But you can't come in.
I hear you knocking
Go back where you've been.
#8
Israel really should just crush Hamas and toss all the jordanians and the rest out of the west bank and Gaza. Clear it of everyone, formally annex it and now that the Paleo's no longer exist, problem solved. Drive them into Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan.
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Eight people including two students were injured when an assailant threw an M67 grenade at a pickup truck carrying Thai army soldiers in a market in Yala province on Wednesday morning.
Two men on a motorcycle followed the military vehicle in Yala municipality. The motorcycle passenger threw an M67 grenade at the pickup but missed his target. The projectile struck the vehicles windshield, but instead of exploding on impact it bounced in another direction, hitting the ground amid passers-by, wounding eight persons including two students.
Police believed the grenade attack was the work of terrorists insurgents targeting soldiers on the first day of the new school semester. The authorities are inspecting market surveillance cameras for leads in finding those responsible.
In the nearby province of Narathiwat, a combined force of police, military and civil servants provided security at schools and set up checkpoints on local roads on the first day of the new semester. Helicopter patrols helped boost morale for teachers and local residents.
[An Nahar] Switzerland announced new sanctions against Syria on Wednesday, saying that it was following the European Union's lead in imposing an embargo on arms and on equipment used for internal repression.
"The new edict on measures against Syria includes an embargo on military assets and equipment that could be used for internal repression," said the Swiss Economy Ministry in a statement.
"It also includes financial sanctions and travel restrictions on 13 people from the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... regime," it added.
The ministry said that through the new sanctions, "Switzerland is joining sanctions announced on May 9, 2011 by the European Union against Syria."
"These restrictive measures were decreed due to the violent repression that the Syrian army and security forces have exerted over about two months to suppress the peaceful demonstrations of the population."
More than 850 people, including women and kiddies, have been killed in the unrest and at least 8,000 tossed in the slammer, according to rights groups.
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[Dawn] Syrian security forces killed at least eight people on Wednesday in Tall Kalakh, a besieged border town under shelling and automatic weapons fire, activists told AFP.
Several more people were maimed and could not be evacuated, the sources said.
On Tuesday, residents reached by telephone spoke of a "massacre" and said there were dozens of maimed in the streets.
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[Dawn] Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad says he believes the unrest roiling the country is coming to an end while acknowledging that security services had made mistakes in trying to tame a two-month revolt threatening his regime.
Assad made the assertions in a meeting with a delegation of dignitaries from the Medan district of Damascus, ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... a commercial zone, according to Wednesday's edition of the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan, close to the government.
"President Assad gave assurances that Syria had overcome the crisis it went through and that events (shaking the country) were coming to an end," the private daily quoted him as saying, without specifying when the meeting took place.
Assad also acknowledged wrongdoing on the part of security services, attributing it to lack of training for such circumstances which, he said, are usually handled by police, according to the paper.
It quoted him as telling members of the delegation that 4,000 coppers were currently undergoing training in order to avoid further mistakes.
"The role of the security services is to gather information, analyse it and hand it over to the proper authorities," a member of the delegation quoted the president as saying.
Assad's authoritarian regime has sought to crush the greatest challenge to nearly five decades of rule by his Baath party with a brutal crackdown that has left more than 850 people dead and at least 8,000 tossed in the calaboose, according to rights groups.
Although the opposition has the odds stacked against it, it has pushed forth with pro-democracy protests and, in a defiant move, called for a general nationwide strike on Wednesday thon the lamly went unheeded.
Schools, shops and transport were operating normally in Damascus and other cities but an activist told AFP that a popular district of Aleppo, ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... the second largest city, was affected as was the university campus.
"Only students and staff are being allowed on the campus," activist Moustapha Suleiman told AFP.
He said 2,000 people were also demonstrating in early afternoon in the town of Ifrin, north of Aleppo.
His account could not be independently verified as journalists are not allowed to travel freely in the country to cover the unrest.
The Syrian Revolution 2011, an Internet-based opposition group, had called for the strike in the hope of piling further pressure on the regime.
But several people interviewed in the capital Damascus, which has largely been spared the unrest so far, said no one would dare answer the call.
"Who would dare go on strike and risk losing their business or be targeted by authorities?" said one businessman who requested anonymity.
"If anyone pulls down their store shutters they would immediately be spotted and risk losing their livelihood." Another merchant said the strike was of little use given that customers had all but dried up since the security forces began violently putting down the protests that broke out two months ago.
The United States and European Union, which have slapped sanctions on members of Assad's inner circle, warned Tuesday that further measures were being considered against the regime.
But Syrian authorities so far have appeared impervious to outside pressure, pushing ahead with a campaign that has consisted of laying siege to restive town by restive town while arresting thousands of protesters and opposition figures.
Some of those released have said they were tortured and others have been forced to sign pledges not to take part in further protests.
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[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama on Wednesday sanctioned Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... and six top aides over their crackdown on popular protests, telling Assad to launch a transition to democracy or step down.
Obama signed the executive order to "increase pressure on the government of Syria to end its use of violence and begin transitioning to a democratic system that ensures the universal rights of the Syrian people," the document said.
The order targets Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa, Prime Minister Adel Safar, Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim al-Shaar, Defense Minister Ali Habib Mahmoud, Military Intelligence Chief Abdul Fatah Qudsiya, and Mohammed Dib Zaitoun, director of Political Security Directorate.
The sanctions block any property the seven have in the United States or any "in the possession or control of U.S. persons in which the designated individuals have an interest," the document distributed by the State Department said.
In imposing the sanctions, the B.O. regime stopped short of saying Assad had lost his legitimacy to rule, a formula Washington has applied to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi whose forces are engaged in a war with rebels.
"We are saying that we oppose his behavior and that he needs to stop his policies of repression and mass arrests and begin a political transition that ensures fair representation and democratic rights for Syrians," the document said.
"We are also saying that Assad is isolating himself from the international community due to his egregious actions," it said.
"It is up to Assad to lead a political transition or to leave," it added.
Assad had been spared sanctions until now, two months into the protests that were inspired by other pro-democracy movements sweeping the Arab world, including those that have ousted the Egyptian and Tunisian leaders.
On April 30, Obama imposed asset freezes and restrictions on financial transactions, notably against Maher Al-Assad, the powerful brother of the president, who commands Syria's feared Fourth Armored Division.
Also named in Obama's executive order enshrining the sanctions were Ali Mamlouk, director of Syria's Intelligence Directorate, and Atif Najib, the ex-head of intelligence in Daraa province, the epicenter of the recent political violence.
Syrian forces were accused of killing at least eight more people on Wednesday in the besieged border town of Tall Kalakh, according to human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activists.
More than 850 people are believed to have been killed and another 8,000 tossed in the calaboose since anti-regime protests erupted two months ago, according to rights watchdogs.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Marshall ... singled out Assad for harsh criticism during a presser Tuesday in Washington with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
"President Assad talks about reform, but his heavy-handed, brutal crackdown shows his true intentions," Clinton told news hounds, adding that his regime had "embraced the worst tactics" of its ally Iran.
In parallel actions, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on two Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) commanders for the role they allegedly played in supporting the crackdown by ally Syria.
One was identified as Qasam Soleimani, commander of the IRGC-Quds Force (IRGC-QF), which a Treasury document said is "the conduit for Iranian material support to the" Syrian Government Intelligence Directorate.
The other is Mohsen Chizari, a senior IRGC-QF officer who serves as the commander of the IRGC-QF Operations and Training, the Treasury said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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al-Assad says he believes the unrest roiling the country is coming to an end while acknowledging that security services had made mistakes in trying to tame a two-month revolt threatening his regime.
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