[Tolo News] The Taliban are positioning themselves in several areas in Afghanistan's north in preparation for an offensive against the Afghan government after foreign troops leave the country, General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... said Wednesday.
Speaking at a large gathering in northern Takhar province, Dostum, a founding member of one of Afghanistan's major opposition parties the National Front, said that the Taliban are human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violators and anti-democracy, and they will never join grinding of the peace processor.
"The Taliban have taken control of some places in areas of Samangan, Shadyan Valley, and Ghormach Mountains and they are preparing for a battle after 2014," he said. "They don't believe in peace. We will not allow them once again to act brutally against women and burn schools."
He stressed that the country needed to ensure transparent and fair elections.
Other National Front representatives present at the Taluqan city gathering said that the party will have an independent candidate for the upcoming presidential election and also emphasised their hopes for a transparent and fair election.
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You knew they would.
On another note, is the General any relation to DOSTUM brand instant coffee???
[Tolo News] Tribal elders competed in offering praises to militia chieftain Nabi Gechi as they gathered last week in the remote Afghan village of Qala e Zal, which until a year ago teemed with Taliban fighters.
"We are so confident of our security that I no longer even lock my door at night," gray-bearded Ghulam Sarwar said.
"If Commander Nabi were to leave, the Taliban would be back here in no time," echoed Hajji Walid Mohammed.
As US-led coalition forces withdraw from Afghanistan and transition to an advisory mission next year, they hold up the successes of Gechi's militia and others like it in the northern Kunduz province as a model to secure the country.
"So far, this works pretty well," said German Army Lt. Col. Heiko Bohnsack, commander of the coalition's Task Force Kunduz, which helps oversee the militias.
"If you look into Afghanistan's past, there have always been gunnies providing security -- and seldom have the Afghans accepted the central power to provide this," he added.
This is what worries the government of 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... . Wary of how warlord militias plunged Afghanistan into a civil war after the Soviet-backed regime collapsed in 1992, Karzai has ordered the dissolution of independent village militias that, though funded by the US, operate outside Kabul's control.
A 50-year-old former owner of a fish and kebab restaurant, Gechi has emerged as the only real authority in Qala e Zal, a district of rolling wheat fields and orchards nestled along the Tajikistan border.
"Whenever any Taliban are sighted here," he said as he held court last week, "the people and the elders come right away to inform me, and we take care of them."
Gechi's militia counts 240 gunnies -- some of them former Islamic fascisti-- in a district with fewer than 20 regular coppers. Dozens of commanders have raised militias elsewhere in Kunduz since late 2010, chasing the Taliban away from much of this strategic province, which straddles the coalition's main supply routes.
Some irregulars in Kunduz belong to the Afghan Local Police, a village-self defense program established by US Special Forces, whose men receive three weeks of training and are paid through the Afghan government.
Karzai reluctantly acquiesced to the ALP initiative in 2010, after receiving guarantees of government control.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > REVEALED: BRITAIN TO SET UP, TRAIN OWN AFGHAN MILITIA AFTER [2014] TROOP WITHDRAWAL, as separate from the US andor other NATO Members.
Artic is actually from a couple of years ago, but Pak Bloggers think the Brit plan is still a go???
[Al Ahram] African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... troops will seize the last key bastion of Somalia's al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... gunnies within three months, Kenya's army chief boasted Wednesday, as pressure mounted on the Islamists.
Hardline Shebab fighters are now left with the port town of Kismayo as the last major town they control, and have in recent months switched to guerrilla tactics as regional forces wrest territory from them.
"We continue to exert pressure on Al-Shebab," said General Julius Karangi, whose troops fighting in southern Somalia have joined the 11,000-strong African Union force in Somalia (AMISOM).
Karangi said the port city -- one of the Shehab's few remaining sources of income in Somalia -- would be taken before the mandate of the weak Western-backed transitional federal government (TFG) ends on August 20.
"Kismayo... this target will happen before August when the TFG mandate expires," Karangi added.
The Shebab still control large parts of southern Somalia, but AU troops, government forces and Æthiopian soldiers have clawed several key bases from the gunnies in recent months.
Kenya, which invaded southern Somalia in October before joining the AU force, has previously boasted of imminent victories despite its troops having made slow progress against the turbans.
The Shebab said Tuesday they had engaged in a fierce exchange of gunfire with foreign warships off the coast of Kismayo that Kenya identified as its vessels.
"Kenya navy vessels recieved fire from a hostile Al-Shebab watch tower off the coast of Kismayo... we engaged them and destroyed the watch tower," said military front man Colonel Cyrus Oguna.
"We shall be engaging them off the coast of Kismayo as and when opportunity presents itself."
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... other reports from Kismayo suggested other foreign naval vessels may also have been patrolling offshore from the port, but these could not be independently verified.
Kenyan boasts of seizing the port follow a large blast on Monday, blamed on the Shebab or their supporters, that destroyed shops in central Nairobi wounding 38 people.
"We just had a very terrible situation where there was an kaboom in the centre of the city, this is of course something carried out by Al Shebab," said George Saitoti, Kenya's security minister.
US forensic experts have been supporting Kenyan police to scour the blast site for clues.
Kenya has suffered a series of attacks in the past several months, which police have also blamed on the Shebab, including the wounding of four coppers on a night patrol early Wednesday in the eastern border town of Liboi.
"Our officers were ambushed by Al-Shebab....these criminals are getting the heat on their side and are now crossing over to Kenya," Saitoti added.
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Armed Beduin tribesmen kidnapped two American tourists in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian police said on Thursday.
Egypt still has tourists?
The perpetrators are demanding the release of a fellow tribesman recently arrested in a drug case.
The Palestinian Ma'an news agency identified the tourist as Jonathan Shizarlasky and Carter Brabon, both of whom are 31 years old. They were seized while driving near the resort of Dahab.
Sinai has resorts?
Israel built some beautiful hotels and such around the seacoast of Sharm el Sheikh the second time they captured the Sinai from Egypt. Heaven only knows what they'll do next time they take it back.
"There are negotiations now between the security forces and the armed gunmen to release the tourists," a police source said, adding that the Beduin were seeking the release of one of their tribe who has been jailed in a drugs case.
"We can confirm that there were two US citizens kidnapped May 30 on the Sinai Peninsula and we are working closely with the Egyptian authorities to resolve the situation," a US embassy official said, without giving further details.
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Release the tribesmen, AFTER you dose them with smallpox.
Be the last such Kidnapping/demand.
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say goodbye to Tourism income, Egypt. Islamo-hellhole, is your future. Devout starvation
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Not saying it's the case here, cause I don't know, but some people just insist on going where they should not go, and I don't think their wellbeing when they do that should be the concern / cost of the State Dept. or the DOD. YMMV...
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Unless I missed it, no Eqypt updates on the US State Department travel warning site.
[Nigerian Tribune] The Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on the Northern leaders to identify the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... sect, who have being killing innocent Nigerians and dialogue with them.
Chief Clark made this comment on Tuesday, in Abuja, during an interview, at a celebration to mark President Goodluck Jonathan's ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... one year in office.
He said, "we do hope that the 19 states governors in the North will identify these people, know their grievances and make peace with them."
Chief clark also recalled how the Southern leaders resolved the jihad boy issue through dialogue and persuasion. He, therefore, called on the Northern leaders to do the same.
He also called on Nigerians to support President Jonathan, by allowing him to rule peacefully in the next three years. He added that, Nigerians should be patient, stressing that he would deliver.
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Clarifications need to be made. Confusing a political organization with terrors? I think there is more to it than just this.
Activists have released video footage showing alleged potential suicide bombers being presented at an auction in western Saudi Arabia before being shipped off to Syria.
Suicide bombers' auction The video, leaked in early May, shows the auction taking place in a hotel in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, according to Press TV.
It shows a father putting his would-be suicide bomber son up for auction in exchange for the compensation he expects to be offered by the highest bidder.
The father, Abu-Salah, receives 1.5 million Saudi riyals (roughly USD 400,000), for offering his son, Khaled, as “sacrifice.”
Some sources say that among the bidders were high-ranking officials from the ruling Al Saud clan.
Security sources in Harad district said that Saudi Arabia deported over 900 Africans to Somalian Paradise Yemen last Saturday.
The security source said that all deported Africans had no passports or any documents that prove their identities or nationalities.
And they weren't members of the Master Race...
The source added that the Yemeni authorities have transferred the deported Africans to the center of the International Immigration Organization located in Harad so as to bring them back to their homelands. The source that talked under condition of being anonymous said that deporting African from Saudi Arabia to Yemen contradicts with the international law.
Don't worry, the French will understand...
"The Saudi authorities had better deported them to their countries rather than to Yemen," the source said.
Meanwhile some security sources from Sa'da province said that tens of Africans have been deported from Saudi Arabia to the Yemeni territories on daily bases.
He added that the Houthi rebels accuses Saudi Arabia of radicalizing some Africans and sending them to Yemen and to Sa'ada province in particular to launch terrorist attacks against Houthis. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP has launched two terrorist attacks against Houthis in Sa'ada and al-Jawf provinces in the past few days killing at least 40 people.
Note: this is from a report by Dan Rather. Let me say that again....Dan Rather. With only one source. It does identify the cancer though. Would like to get Dr. Steve's analysis
This reporter has been told that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive cancer that has "entered the end stage". The information and the quote come from a highly respected source close to Chavez and who is in a position to know his medical condition and history. This source says the prognosis is dire and that Chavez is now not expected to live "more than a couple of months at most."
Rolled over to Thursday.
This explains why the chemo and radiation aren't working: sarcomas laugh at those. However, this version is very, very rare in older adults, and so I wonder if Dashing Dan got the tumor type wrong in his report. One does sometimes see very undifferentiated sarcomas that have some hint of muscle markers in them, and that could get a pathologist to call it a 'rhabdomyosarcoma'.
A true rhabdomyosarcoma, as seen in children, has a good prognosis if not metastatic. That's another reason why I doubt the diagnosis here. Not saying it couldn't be, but my guess is that it's an undifferentiated, poorly organized sarcoma. Bad news for Oogo.
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Maybe if he goes to Libya for the care and treatment the Lockerbie bomber got - gave him several years...
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That's another reason why I doubt the diagnosis here.
How could you doubt it? Cuba claims to have the best medical resources in the world.
Further down in the article is this comment by Rather:
Reporter's note: There is only one source for identifying the cancer and for the prognosis quoted in the first part of the above story. This is a person whom your reporter has very good reason to trust, but you should know that there is only one source so far; no other immediate confirmation. All sources asked for and were granted anonymity because to reveal their names could place them in danger or, at the very least cost them their positions.
I wonder what Belafonte, Penn, Campbell, Spacey, Glover, Sarandon, et. al. would have to say about their hero now given that it is Rather himself who admitted it.
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He actually made a not admitting there was one source, and that he couldn't reveal it for fear of backlash against the source? You'd almost think he was a genuine journalist!
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Rumor is that the source was named 'Hillary'. Backlash wouldn't be against the 'source', but from.
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Could someone from the Burg here please take a few minutes to call these guys and tell them what they will find after $10M of "research"? Me relaxing on an undisclosed beach...
Canadian researchers will get more than $1 million to plug gaps in this country's knowledge of the terrorist threats it faces.
On Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced the first round of $10 million worth of funding over five years under the government's counterterrorism project. The money will go to six research projects at universities and think-tanks across Canada.
"Many of us do not understand really what causes terrorism, what causes individuals, Canadian citizens, to involve themselves in inappropriate acts against the state and their fellow citizens," Toews said. That's because you're liberals. You are genetically incapable of understanding conflict until after you've been mugged personally.
"It's very important that we build a base of understanding for that type of knowledge because I think it will help police and security agencies on the ground in dealing with this particular issue."
The goal of the research is to provide tools to police officers, judges, lawyers and the intelligence community working on the front lines of the fight against terrorism.
The focus will be on ideological extremism, perceptions around terrorism and security, and effective counterterrorism.
Lorne Dawson, a professor at the University of Waterloo, has done in-depth research in the so-called Toronto 18 terrorist cell.
Along with colleagues at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, he received $460,000 over two years to set up a national network of experts.
This funding will help break down the "silos" terrorist experts in Canada have been working in since research was ramped up in the wake of 9/11, Dawson said.
"Many people are tackling from all different directions," he said. "The trouble is no one is speaking to each other." The money comes from the federal Kanishka project, unveiled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper last year on the 26th anniversary of the Air India bombing. On second thought, don't bother to tell them how this works. I'll go collect the money, wait a year, and then give them some vague conclusion that makes them feel good about having spent the money, and excited to spend more to learn about the next fuzzy conclusion that might or might not be one step closer to understanding the mechanism specifically designed to nurture and perpetuate the terrorist mindset.
In 1814 we took a little trip, down a famous river called the Mighty Mississip' - Oh wait, 'tis NOT Canada.
* ION WAFF [old] > CANADA NOT CONSIDERED TO BE A RELEVANT POWER, in NATO.
Fear not, Mackenzians, the AUS Ozzies + NZ Kiwis have your six covered???
AFAIK the only OWG-NWO "Union" thats up-n-running, or trying to, is the EUROZONE, AKA THE "EUROPEAN UNION/EU". Canada must change iff it hopes for proposed "NAU", or even the lessor "Great Lakes FTZ" or "NEA FTZ", etc. + its Membership therein, to work.
Hours after being released from jail, a man walked through an emergency door at San Diego International Airport, onto the tarmac and sat down on a United Express plane Tuesday, according to San Diego authorities.
"He completely bypassed TSA screening," San Diego Harbor Police Chief John Bolduc said. "He was in a public area and went out an emergency fire door, which gave him access to the tarmac."
Marc Duncan, 38, was paroled from jail Monday night, according to San Diego County Sheriff's Department records. He had been serving time for theft.
After it was opened, the emergency door alarm sounded, and Bolduc said police were on site in four minutes, but by then Duncan had blended in with other passengers.
He allegedly boarded a 30-seat United Express aircraft operated by SkyWest, which was heading to Los Angeles, according to airline spokesman Wes Horrocks.
The flight attendant realized she had too many passengers, Nicholas Blasgen, a passenger on the plane told CNN affiliate KGTV. "They said, 'What is your count?' She said this is my count, and they said that is wrong."
The passengers got off the plane and their luggage was searched.
"They had us put all the bags out, they separated the bags by enough distance and had the dog go over everything," Blasgen said.
Duncan was identified and arrested.
He is being held in the San Diego jail and is scheduled to be in court Thursday.
"I still can't, in the world, understand how this happened," Blasgen said. "It sounds like they just have lax security or not enough management. Something was going wrong." That's because they just push the buttons on the locks in full view of all the passengers in the lobby. Kinda stupid.
The Harbor Police chief said they will examine this incident and find out where to make security improvements.
"The guy did breach security, but he was caught," Bolduc said. "We have multiple layers of security built into our airports, as you know, and the backup systems were able to catch this guy."
"Security of airports is a shared responsibility, and airports and airlines are required to adhere to TSA-approved security standards." TSA spokeswoman Sterling Payne said in a statement. "TSA has initiated an investigation and if necessary, will take appropriate action."
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Just HOW long was he "In"?
He may have not known abour the airport security?
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The commuter terminal (completely different terminal than the rest) at SAN doesn't use the tunnel ramps due to the small-sized planes, small number of boarders. This idiot just hid, then mingled when the boarders walked out to the plane.
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No CCTV on the security doors?
Seems to me to be several basic security flaws at that terminal.
Give the guy a medal, and make him a full time security penetration tester.
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The problem with the story is pointed out in the comments here. He got back inside from the tarmac. Either they had a door that was open somewhere or the fire doors open from the outside.
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As far as I know there are no planes that you board from the tarmac (as opposed to the jetway) in San Diego Airport. Perhaps the commuter terminal is different.
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If your desire is to add genuine insult to injury, please avail yourself to the dwadling, surly, federally funded welfare scheme TSA security provided at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
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' "The guy did breach security, but he was caught," Bolduc said. "We have multiple layers of security built into our airports, as you know, and the backup systems were able to catch this guy" '
BULLSH!T!!!
The flight attendant caught him because she had the ticket count and head count didn't match. if the plane had been less than full, late push back or any other of a number of reasons i can think of, this guy just might have got away with it.
Multiple Layers, my arse! fire the TSA and their wicked witch in DC! ( do i need to add that she is so ugly she makes a freight train take a dirt road?)
[Bangla Daily Star] A conservative senator called on Tuesday for the United States to suspend all aid to Pakistain and grant citizenship to a doctor who was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for helping hunt down the late Osama bin Laden. ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... American politicians have already sought to cut or freeze some assistance to Pakistain, the third largest recipient of US aid, after a tribal court last week sentenced CIA recruit Shakeel Afridi to 33 years in prison on treason charges.
Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky and leader of the Tea Party movement, proposed going further by ending all aid to Pakistain until Afridi's sentence is overturned and also granting the doctor US citizenship.
"Pakistain must understand that they are choosing the wrong side," said Paul, who pledged to introduce the bill when the Senate returns to session next week.
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"Pakistain must understand that they are choosing the wrong side,"
Not so much choosing the wrong side but wanting to choose all sides simultaneously. But choices have consequences. Just how badly do you want the cash?
Perhaps we could offer the good doctor a SEAL-flavored escort.
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Doesn't the US realize the terrible consequence of cutting aid to Pakistan?
Think about all those rapidly emptying Swiss bank a/c's and what about the ISI sponsored Ramadan bonuses for the Taliban?
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Foreign Aid should be discontinued across the board. Borrowing money to give it away is insane. Doubly insane is giving foreign aid money to Pakistan.
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since when was he appointed "leader of the Tea Party movement"? Nice biased reporting, slipping that in
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Let them beg to China or Saudi as they do feck all for Western aid.Dosent even reach their poor people does it because they might eventually rise against their leaders and work out the problem is in house not the West!
[Dawn] A tribal physician who helped the CIA track down the late Osama bin Laden ... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing... was convicted on charges of colluding with the banned Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) and its chief, Mangal Bagh, ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... court documents reveal. So, really, it had nothing to do with fingering bin Laden...
The four-member tribal court did not entertain evidence relating to Dr Shakil Afridi's involvement with the CIA, citing lack of jurisdiction as the main reason and recommended that he be produced before the relevant court for further proceedings under the law, leaving the option open for his trial under treason law.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... he was sentenced to 33 years in prison and fined Rs320,000 under various clauses of the British-era Frontier Crimes Regulation.
His long conviction prompted a strong reaction from human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... activists and his brother Jamil Afridi and a panel of lawyers said they intended to appeal and challenge the conviction in a court of law.
In a militancy infested tribal region it's rare to see a member of an outlawed group or terrorist organization being tried or convicted. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Dr Afridi was sentenced to such a harsh jail term not for involvement in any act of terrorism but on the charge of having links with Mangal Bagh.
Until now officials have been vaguely saying that Afridi was convicted on charges of involvement in anti-state activities that was taken to believe that he had been sentenced for helping the CIA in its Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... raid.
The five-page court document, available with Dawn, reveals that Mr Afridi was cooled for a few years ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for his "involvement in anti-state activities" on May 23, 2011, following reports that he was in league with Lashkar-e-Islam.
Lashkar-e-Islam -- a Bara-based Death Eater organization in Khyber tribal region led by Mangal Bagh -- was banned in June, 2008.
"Though the JIT (joint investigation team) contains evidence of the involvement of accused in activities wherein he has been shown acting with other foreign intelligence agencies, all this evidence could not be taken into account for the lack of jurisdiction," the court said in its short order.
It recommended that Dr Afridi be produced before the relevant court for further proceedings under the law, thus leaving the option open for the government to try him under the treason law that entails death penalty.
A judicial commission headed by Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal has already recommended Dr Afridi's trial under the treason law, though no formal charge has so far been brought against him for helping the CIA in a fake vaccination campaign to nail down Bin Laden to his abode in the scenic northern city of Abbottabad.
The court order reveals that various intelligence agencies and people in general had complained against activities of the accused. It said Dr Afridi had been handed over to a joint interrogation team on May 24, 2011 for five days. On May 29, 2011, it said, the accused had been handed over to an intelligence agency under proper receipt for further probe.
The accused was produced before the tribal court on May 11, 2012, on the directives of the Ministry of Interior. Charges were framed against him and the case was referred to a council of elders for inquiry on May 12, 2012.
The order said intelligence reports had indicated that the accused had close links with the defunct LI and "his love for Mangal Bagh, Amir of Lashkar-e-Islam, and his association with him was an open secret". Well, if it was an open secret justice was done, right?
Referring to the report submitted by the JIT, it said the accused had paid Rs2 million to LI when he was serving at the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Dogra, Bara, Khyber tribal region.
The court also accused Mr Afridi of providing medical assistance to Death Eater commanders like Said Noor Malikdinkhel, Hazrat Sepah, Wahid Shaloberkhel and others at the hospital which he headed.
It also referred to statements by some people that Death Eater commanders used to visit the hospital and hold private meetings with the accused. "These meetings were usually of longer duration and most often those meetings were followed by attacks by Orcs and similar vermin on security forces' checkposts and other places at night," the order read.
It said LI's design to wage war against the state of Pakistain was a reality known to all and that those attacks were planned in the office of the accused. Being a public servant, the involvement of the accused in subversive activities and his role in facilitating the waging of war and attacks on security forces made him liable to be proceeded against, it added.
The court held that the LI had sought the support of foreign intelligence agencies across the border in Afghanistan to wage war against the state of Pakistain and that Mr Afridi's association with the Death Eater outfit proved his involvement in activities inimical to the state of Pakistain.
It further convicted Mr Afridi of preaching the ideology of Lashkar-e-Islam, based on hatred arousing contempt against the people and the government of Pakistain.
"His demeanour as a public servant proves his disloyalty and feeling of enmity towards the state and government of Pakistain," the court order said.
The court thus tried and convicted Dr Shakil Afridi under four different clauses of the 1901 Frontier Crimes Regulation. The sentences, the court document said, would run simultaneously, also granting him the benefit to commence his sentence with retrospective effect from May 23, 2011.
The FCR amended in 2011 gives him the right to appeal his conviction in an appellate tribunal.
Jamil Afridi told a news conference that his brother was innocent and being made a scapegoat.
A panel of lawyers has already sent the power of attorney to the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar Central Prison for Afridi's signature to fight his case. So far he has been denied any visitation on security ground.
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See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BIN LADEN CASE DOCTOR JAILED FOR MILITANT LINK, NOT TREASON.
US Senator Rand Paul would like the US to suspend any + all aid to Pakistan until Dr. Afridi is released from Pak Prison + allowed to come to the US, where he Afridi can then be allowed to become a US Citizen.
[Dawn] Speakers at a two-day Qaumi Aman Jirga (peace jirga) have called for meaningful dialogue with disgruntled elements in Pakistain and Afghanistan to end the decades-long conflict and save the region from further devastation.
They said that withdrawal of foreign forces and non-interference were essential measures to establish lasting peace in Pakistain and Afghanistan. They blamed ordeal of Pakhtuns on lack of unity among them.
"We should talk to Taliban for the sake of peace," they suggested, adding if America could talk to Taliban, Pakistain government could also negotiate with gunnies in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).
Veteran politician Afzal Khan Lala organised the jirga that was attended by delegates from Afghanistan, Pakhtun intellectuals from European countries, representatives of Awami National Party, Pakistain People's Party, Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz, Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl, Mazdoor Kisan Party, tribal elders and civil society groups.
Haji Din Mohammad, adviser to 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... , represented Afghanistan in the jirga. Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , 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.... and Pakistain People's Party-Sherpao boycotted the event.
The event turned out to be a seminar by end of the day quite contrary to the Pakhtuns' definition of jirga, which is convened to discuss certain problem or issue.
Speakers delivered speeches and narrated their ordeals instead of presenting viable and solid suggestions. After having lunch, majority of the participants disappeared from Nishtar Hall, the venue of the event.
Speakers from Fata complained that tribal people had been deliberately kept ignorant and isolated. They said that Pakhtuns from the settled areas had ignored their fellows and that they had been deprived of fundamental rights.
"Schools constructed in Fata are being blown up," they said and added that their young generation was growing up without getting education.
Addressing at the inaugural session, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said that collective efforts through mutual trust among countries of the region were essential for restoration of peace.
He said that people of Afghanistan should be given right of self-determination and solution to the problem should be sought through dialogue and jirgas. Military operation did not provide solution to crises, he added.
Mr Hoti termed holding the jirga important on critical juncture of history that provided an opportunity to national leaders for mutual consultation. He said that recommendations of the peace jirga would help deciding future line of action after valuable sacrifices of Pakhtun nation.
Mr Hoti termed peace and stability in Afghanistan, Fata and Pakistain inter-linked and said that there was lack of mutual trust between Pakistain and Afghanistan. He said that both the countries could not get rid of the current problems without mutual trust. He said that intruders were not well-wishers of Pakistain and Afghanistan.
He said that political and administrative reforms had been introduced in Fata as per aspirations of the people of the area. He maintained that military operation could not be a permanent solution to any problem.
The chief minister said that the only solution to problems lied in political dialogues, struggle and holding of jirgas.
He appealed to the participants of the jirga to get united for peace and brighter future setting politics aside. "Solution to the problem is not impossible," he said. He added that in times of lawlessness and devastation in the country, politics turned meaningless.
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yria-based insurgents fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad on Thursday took to task their exiled leadership, in a stark show of divisions within the armed opposition.
"Nobody has the right to issue press releases, take decisions, or speak about operations in the Free Syrian Army's name, except for the FSA command inside Syria," the group's spokesman Colonel Kassem Saadeddine told AFP.
He was reacting to a statement by Turkey-based FSA chief Colonel Riyadh al-Asaad who earlier denied that armed rebels gave the Syrian regime an 0900 GMT Friday deadline to observe a UN-backed peace plan to end the violence.
A putative truce came into force on April 12, brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, but it has been systematically violated since.
"There is no ultimatum, but we hope Annan announces the plan's failure, so that we do not take the blame for any future operations against the regime," Asaad told Al-Jazeera television.
An FSA statement issued from inside Syria earlier had given the Syrian government until noon on Friday to observe the Annan plan.
"If the Syrian regime does not meet the deadline by Friday midday, the command of the Free Syrian Army announces that it will no longer be tied by any commitment to the Annan plan ... and our duty will be ... to defend civilians," a FSA statement said.
Saadeddine, speaking to AFP via Skype from Syria, said: "From now on, all decisions will be taken from inside Syria.
[Iran Press TV] A senior advisor to Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... says anti-Islamic measures taken by the government of Azerbaijan cannot continue for long.
"They may take certain steps right now, but based on the experiences of those who have ruled Mohammedan countries, Islam has deep roots in the hearts of the people," Ali Akbar Velayati said Wednesday.
Referring to the Azeri government's disrespect for Islam and religion, he added that the people of Iran and Azerbaijan share the same religion, history and culture and will never be separated from one another.
"Even under the communist rule in the former Soviet Union, the hearts of the people of both countries remained close," Velayati said adding, "Any anti-religious measure in Azerbaijan is against the viewpoint of the majority of the Mohammedan people of Azerbaijan and has been imposed on them," he said.
Velayati stated that Iran never interferes in any country's internal affairs, but it is quite natural for Iranians to react when they hear the voice of the oppressed nation of Azerbaijan.
Then his lips fell off.
"We hope the government of Azerbaijan will try to remove the obstacles [that currently exist] between the two countries and to pay attention to its people's demand for the development of relations between the [two] governments," he said.
Relations between Tehran and Baku have been strained after Azerbaijan signed a USD1.5 billion deal with Israel to purchase drones and anti-aircraft and missile systems in late February.
Last month, Tehran summoned Azeri Ambassador Javanshir Akhundov to protest Baku's arms agreement with the Israeli regime.
Earlier this month, Iran recalled its ambassador to Azerbaijan after 100 members of pro-Israeli groups, including the Southern Azerbaijan Independence Party, the International Diaspora Center, and the World Congress of Azerbaijanis gathered in front of the Iranian Embassy ...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!... in Baku, shouting slogans against the Islamic Theocratic Republic and insulting the Leader of the Islamic Revolution.
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See, and then you never wonder about Russians, or even Azeri in this role of the "New Iran". Ha!
Iran's U.N. mission has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! a U.S. newspaper report alleging evidence existed implicating Tehran or its Lebanese ally Hizbullah in international liquidation plots, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.
Then his lips fell off.
"Iran has always condemned any terrorist acts and these baseless accusations are being made against the Islamic state in line with Iranophobia and the policy of putting illegal pressure on Iran," the Iranian mission said in letter to the Washington Post newspaper, which published the report, according to the Arman daily.
The mission called the allegation "baseless" and stressed that Iran itself had been "the biggest victim of terrorism in recent years," with the liquidation of several of its nuclear scientists.
The Washington Post report on Monday cited unnamed U.S. and Middle Eastern security officials as saying evidence had been amassed showing Iran or Hizbullah were behind plots to kill two Saudi officials, half a dozen Israelis, several Americans and other targets in at least seven countries, including Azerbaijan.
Sources told the paper the plots were seen as part of an ongoing covert war in which Iran also has been the victim of liquidations.
It claimed that activity for the plots abruptly halted earlier this year, when Iran agreed to hold talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear program.
The last round of the talks, between Iran and the so-called P5+1 group comprising the United States, Britannia, La Belle France, Germany, China and Russia, took place in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... last week and ended inconclusively.
The next round of those talks are to take place in Moscow on June 18-19 as both sides publicly harden their positions for what are likely to be extremely tense negotiations over Iran's controversial nuclear program and Western sanctions.
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[An Nahar] Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... on Wednesday revealed that he has provided Paleostinian leaders with the names of a group plotting to assassinate him, noting that they are "experienced individuals."
In an interview on al-Manar television, Berri added that he had summoned top Paleostinian leader Azzam al-Ahmed, member of Fatah's Central Committee, to brief him on the available information, which were reported by "three sources."
Berri confirmed during a parliamentary meeting on May 16 a list of politicians and figures allegedly targeted by krazed killer groups, describing the threat as serious and dangerous.
According to NBN television, Berri called on security agencies to investigate the threat.
Local newspapers have reported that certain world powers had warned Lebanese officials that a terrorist group linked to an krazed killer organization has infiltrated the country recently to carry out "subversive" operations.
According to As Safir newspaper, the information coincided with similar data obtained by Lebanese security agencies.
Berri and several other senior Lebanese officials might be the target of a security threat by the terrorist group.
Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... escaped an liquidation attempt on April 4.
In January, security agencies urged Berri and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... to take precautions as they might be the target of an liquidation plot.
Al-Joumhouria newspaper has reported that the security agencies succeeded in the past few days in uncovering a terrorist network with local, Arab, and European links.
During the al-Manar interview, Berri said "no one accepts the presence of these groups in (Paleostinian refugee) camps," warning that "this issue might push the country into the unknown."
Berri noted that "al-Ahmed recognized the names of the suspects except for one name," stressing that "the responsibility to deter such attempts falls on the Paleostinians themselves."
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[An Nahar] Iran's enrichment of uranium to 20 percent "is our right" and "is not a step towards a bomb," President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad said Wednesday in an interview with the satellite television network La Belle France 24.
The enrichment activity, which world powers are trying to curb in fraught talks with Iran, "is one of our rights in terms of international law," Ahmadinejad said.
"There have been lies about our program... Enriching uranium to 20 percent is not a step towards a bomb," he said, speaking Farsi through translators.
Ahmadinejad added that the heads of the U.N. nuclear watchdog should make world powers "provide us with uranium at a 20 percent enrichment level, but so far they have not done so."
As a result, he said, Iran "decided to move forward on our own" with enrichment.
His remark in Farsi on Iran being supplied with 20 percent enriched uranium was rendered differently when translated into English for the channel.
Ahmadinejad hinted, however, that Iran could be open to stopping 20 percent enrichment -- if world powers offered significant concessions.
"If others do not wish for us to fully benefit from this right, they need to explain to us why. And also they have to say what they are willing to give to the Iranian people in exchange."
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* BHARAT RAKSHAK > UN FINDS 27% URANIUM ENRICHMENT IN IRAN | IRAN HAS ENRICHED URANIUM CLOSER TO TO THE LEVEL REQUIRED TO MAKE ITS OWN NUCLEAR MISSLES, ACCORDING TO UNDERGROUND DISCOVERIES AT FORDO BY THE UN'S ATOMIC AGENCY.
and
* SAME, TOPIX > ROSATOM TO BUILD NEW IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITY AT BUSHESHR.
Again, be it so-called IRAN-LED "NEO-PERSIANISM", OR SHIA-LED OWG ISLAMIST CALIPHATE, OR SIMPLE POLITICAL-GEOPOL "DIALECTICISM", the premises or underlying concepts of such says AMBITIOUS = RISING IRAN CANNOT NOT HAVE NUKE BOMBS, JUST TO PAR WID EITHER MUSLIM [Sunni] OR NON-MUSLIM NUCLEAR POWERS.
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TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > IRAN NUKE CHIEF [Abbassi]: NO REASON TO STOP 20% ENRICHMENT.
and
* SAME > IRAN REVERSES ITS POSITION, PROMISES TWO NEW NUCLEAR PLANTS, HIGHER URANIUM ENRICHMENT LEVELS.
* WORLD NEWS > IRAN TO SIDESTEP STRAIT OF HORMUZ, vee Oil Export Terminal at Bandar Jask outside the SoH in Southern Iran, + new pipeline to Port of Neka/Nekha in Caspian Sea.
IIMO, more Iran "prepping the battlefield" vee US-led ground war/campaign. SUB-IMO SHOWS THAT iRAN DOES CARE ABOUT DETONATING NUKES-WMDS ON THIER OWN SOIL TO DEFEAT AN ANTI-NUCPROG, US-LED INVASION, OCCUPATION FORCE.
OUTSIDE THE SoH AMAP AFAP ALAP = IRAN CAN BETTER USE ITS [Nuclear? WMDS] LR MISSLE, TACAIR FIREPOWER [defense-in-depth] AGZ THE US OR US-LED STRIKE COALITION.
* IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > WHETHER THE US LIKES IT OR NOT, IRAN TO BE NEW HUB FOR NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR. Central-West Asia into INDOPAK/PAKIND.
versus
* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > PANETTA: US READY TO STOP IRAN FROM CREATING NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
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[Tolo News] The Taliban are positioning themselves in several areas in Afghanistan's north in preparation for an offensive against the Afghan government after foreign troops leave the country, General Abdul Rashid 
[Tolo News] Tribal elders competed in offering praises to militia chieftain Nabi Gechi as they gathered last week in the remote Afghan village of Qala e Zal, which until a year ago teemed with Taliban fighters.
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Hours after being released from jail, a man walked through an emergency door at San Diego International Airport, onto the tarmac and sat down on a United Express plane Tuesday, according to San Diego authorities.
A conservative senator called on Tuesday for the United States to suspend all aid to Pakistain and grant citizenship to a doctor who was 
[Dawn] A tribal physician who helped the CIA track down 
Mangal Bagh.
Speakers at a two-day Qaumi Aman Jirga (peace jirga) have called for meaningful dialogue with disgruntled elements in Pakistain and Afghanistan to end the decades-long conflict and save the region from further devastation.
Iran's U.N. mission has 
Samir Geagea
Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
Mahmoud 
