[MAGHAREBIA] Almost two years after the Arab Spring carried Islamist parties to power, despair has replaced optimism.
Good.
The murder of Tunisian secular opposition figure Chokri Belaid in February may have been a turning point for the region. His liquidation plunged Tunisia into its worst political crisis since the revolution, sparked nationwide protests and forced the Islamist government to concede some of the control won in the country's first elections.
Then his death had a purpose. No doubt he is enjoying that fact from the startlement of Paradise.
Despite the Ennahda Movement's effort to appease the population, concern over the turban threat has only grown since the killing of the secular politician. Students were attacked for performing internet dance craze "Harlem Shake" and on April 10th, salafists tried to kill a Nabeul headmaster for refusing entry to a student in niqab.
Golly, that sounds an awful lot like the population is right to be concerned.
[An Nahar] Ousted from their major northern strongholds by a French-led military intervention and all but defeated in their mountain hideouts, Mali's Islamist hard boyz are beginning to regroup at home and abroad.
French and African soldiers have inflicted heavy losses since launching a military operation on January 11 to block the advance of al-Qaeda-linked snuffies on the capital Bamako, with Gay Paree claiming to have killed 400 rebels.
But dozens have fled Mali over the mountains of northern Niger and Chad, passing into southern Libya and western Sudan, where they are reorganizing, military sources told Agence La Belle France Presse, while others are recuperating in Algeria.
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France + those other Nations whom had helped oust the Hard Boyz from Mali are now subject to retaliatory Terrstrikes.
[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... is hoping to wean placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! al-Qaeda cut-throats off religious extremism with counseling, spa treatments and plenty of exercise at a luxury rehabilitation center in Riyadh.
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Good behavior could earn them a two-day break with their wives.
[Bangla Daily Star] The investigation agency's probe into war crimes committed allegedly by 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... leader AKM Yusuf, historically known as the founder of the Razakar force, is almost done and it is planning to submit a report this week.
Agency officials said they found evidence of Yusuf's "involvement" in genocide, murders, arson, looting, forced religious conversion of people and deportation during the Liberation War in 1971.
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The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old suburban Chicago man who U.S. authorities say was planning join an al-Qaida-affiliated group operating in Syria.
The FBI says Abdella Ahmad Tounisi (ab-DUH'-lah AH'-med too-NEE'-see), of Aurora, Ill., was arrested Friday night as he tried to board a flight from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Turkey.
Tounisi, a U.S. citizen, is charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
According to the criminal complaint, Tounisi carried out research online about Jabhat al-Nusrah, or Nursa Front. Nusra Front is the most effective rebel faction fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime. The group is affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq.
The FBI says a bureau employee posing as a recruiter for the group exchanged emails with the suspect.
The two men arrested last night in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings drive a car with the licence plate that reads: Terrorista #1
The students, named be neighbours by their first names Azmat and Diaz, drive a black BMW 330XI with the personalised plate and a sticker on the back which reads: F*** you, you f****** f****.
They are thought to be from Kazakhstan and had not been seen since the bombings until last night when their ground floor apartment in New Bedford, MA, was raided by a dozen FBI agents at gunpoint.
One of their girlfriends was also arrested. All three are in their late teens or early 20s.
Their apartment was raised because police say the younger Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have lived at their address.
MailOnline has discovered another link - Dzhokhar Tweeted pictures of the car on his Twitter account J_tsar.
In one picture the BMW is next to another dark coloured sports car with the caption: Place your bets as if they are about to race.
The uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects told TODAY Saturday that he believes Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were pawns in a deadly scheme.
"I strongly believe they were just puppets and executors of something of bigger scale," Ruslan Tsarni told Savannah Guthrie.
He said Dzhokar, the younger of the brothers, was "used by his older brother. He's just another victim of his older brother. He victimized others, but he's been used by his older brother."
Doesn't change the guilt at all...
Tsarni, a Maryland resident who is the brother of the suspects' father, believes Tamerlan was radicalized by others. He noted that the suspects were in his house as children, and recalled a surprising transformation the last time he saw Tamerlan in 2009.
"There certainly were mentors,'' Tsarni said. "I was shocked when I heard his words, his phrases, when every other word he starts sticking in words of God. I question what he's doing for work, (and) he claimed he would just put everything in the will of God. It was a big concern to me. He called me 'confused' when I started explaining to him, make yourself useful to yourself and to your family and maybe you'll have extra to share with everybody else.
"It wasn't devotion, it was something, as it's called, being radicalized. Not understanding what he is talking (about). He is just using words for the sake of the words and not understanding the meaning of it.''
That's very useful as it turns out. Tamerlan didn't become a radical overnight. This took years, encouragement and constant mentoring. Who are the mentors?
The suspects' parents told NBC News they believe their sons were framed. Tsarni said a family acquaintance told him there was an outside influence on Tamerlan.
"He said there is someone who brainwashed him, some new convert to Islam,'' Tsarni said. "I would like to stress (the acquaintance was) of Armenian descent.''
It's not "brainwashing" per se, and to call it that not only cheapens but also obscures the real nature of the process. Tamerlan sounds like he was susceptible due to his personality -- strong, strong-willed, stubborn, first-born. Certain individuals saw promise in him and cultivated his new beliefs.
The suspects' uncle believes the radicalization occurred in the United States, not overseas. Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveled to Russia last year.
"It has nothing to do with Russia, (or) with Chechnya, which he had nothing to do with,'' Tsarni said. "It started here."
Bingo. Right you are, Uncle. Which Islamic Center did Tamerlan go to? Who were the elders? Who was the imam? Who was the fellow with the money and contacts back to Chechnya, Saudi Arabia and/or Egypt? Who was the frequent 'visitor' from the old country who preached?
Tsarni said he was "angry" on Friday when he told reporters outside his home the brothers were "losers." On Saturday, he told Guthrie he was grateful that Dzhokar was captured alive after the manhunt that concluded Friday night in Watertown, Mass. Tsarni also expressed his condolences to the families of the three people killed in the marathon bombing and the college police officer who was allegedly shot and killed in his cruiser by the suspects on Thursday night.
"I was relieved that he is alive,'' Tsarni said. "At least he has a chance to ask for forgiveness for those that he victimized, as well as there is a chance now for enforcement agencies to get to the bottom of it.
"For a 19-year-old kid, I do not even believe (that) he would (have) been in full comprehension of what he's been doing. For the sake of seeking forgiveness for himself, I don't know how long his life is going to be, but I know it will be way easier for him if he receives that forgiveness for those he made to suffer.''
Tell you what, Uncle: if Dzhokar spills his guts completely and totally, fingers the mentors who influenced big brother, and helps to unravel the case, AND he grovels on his knees in the courtroom, then I'll consider life without parole for him at the Supermax. But he gets one chance only so he'd better not lie or get uppity...
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make yourself useful to yourself and to your family and maybe you'll have extra to share with everybody else.
He was actually Bangladeshi, though that detail isn't important. Let's hope there isn't much of this, and these particular miscreants are quickly caught and punished.
A nice background piece on the lads and their family, and why the American uncle thinks they're losers. And because it's the Wall Street Journal there is also video, a slide show, graphics, and comments somewhat more thoughtful than found at the New York Times. Not behind the paywall.
Long piece at Boston.com on the two young men, how they lived, and reactions from people who knew them.
A very different piece than the one from the WSJ, and therefore provides a completely different set of useful information. The two together provide a nice example of the different ways good reporters exercise their craft.
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The devastated family of the wife of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev say 'our hearts are sickened' by the terror and tragedy the young Chechen unleashed on America.
Tsarnaev has a three-year-old daughter called Zahara with Katherine Russell, 24, who converted to Islam for her husband, MailOnline can reveal.
You think she'll remain Muslim, given the circumstances?
According to Muslims, she doesn't have a choice...
You think any of them will go anywhere near her hereafter, given the likelihood of concentrated FBI attention to follow?
And tonight, Katherine's parents, Judith and Warren issued an emotional statement following the terror attack that left three dead and 176 injured, saying: 'Our daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child.
'We cannot begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred. In the aftermath of the Patriot's Day horror, we know that we never really knew Tamerlane Tsarnaev
'Our hearts are sickened by the knowledge of the horror he has inflicted.'
The statement was read by Mrs Russell and when asked how her daughter was getting on, she shook her head and said: 'There's nothing for me to say'.
The 26-year-old Chechen -- who was shot dead by cops last night -- was regularly seen at his wife's family home in Rhode Island. And neighbours today spoke of their shock at waking up to see Katherine's home being raided by the FBI and cops before dawn this morning.
At 5pm today, Katherine was driven back to the house by a relative and flanked by two SUVs being driven by agents from the Department of Homeland Security. Shielding her face, the young mother, wearing a dark-coloured top and sporting mousy blonde hair, was driven into the garage.
One of the Homeland security cars remained parked by the house. And asked if Katherine had been questioned, the agents refused to comment, but confirmed: 'We are keeping an eye on the house'
One neighbour told how Katherine - who also uses the last name Tsarnaeva - converted to Islam shortly after starting school at Suffolk University in Boston, saying she believed the couple were married. Speaking from the quiet suburb, the neighbour said: 'I knew Katherine was married and she had converted to Islam.
'She went away to college about three or four years ago and I saw her a year later and she was dressed in the Islamic style. Her hair was covered and she was wearing very baggy, flowy clothing.'
The neighbour said: 'I saw Katherine with a man and I assumed this was her partner. They came up most weekends and had Massachusetts licence plates on their car, so I thought they lived in Boston and came home at the weekends to see her family.
'They were always together and had a little girl, who must be about three now.'
However, the neighbour said the last time she saw the man, matching the pictures of Tsarnaev, was a year ago, adding: 'She moved back home and was living at home with the baby.'
So perhaps the marriage was a little strained. I think we all know about what happened here: Tamerlan perhaps found true love but perhaps (instead) found a woman who believed him, a woman he used to get cover, citizenship and the ability to move around in our society. It's happened elsewhere and it happens here.
Tamerlan got his American citizenship on September 11, 2012. He traveled to Russia last year and returned to the U.S. six months later, government officials told The Associated Press today.
'I never saw him again, I thought maybe he's gone away or he's busy with school,' said the neighbour.
It was, the neighbour, admitted, nevertheless a shock when she woke early to see police cars and FBI agents outside the family's house. She said: 'They were there when I woke up early, there was one state patrol car and someone who came out wearing a padded vest with FBI on it.
'With all the activity, I put it together, but I thought this can't be. But then I thought 'well she did make this conversion...I thought Katherine may be friends with one of the brothers, I never thought it was her husband.'
Katherine, who has two younger sisters Anna and Becca, grew up with parents Judith and Warren in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, before moving to Boston for college. Neighbours said that Warren works as a physician, while Judith is a nurse.
Paula Gillette, 59, a mother-of-one who lives over the road from the Russells, said: 'Before Katherine went to Suffolk she wore normal clothes like jeans, t-shirts and skirts but when she came back she was wearing a white headscarf. I don't think her family are religious.
'I have no idea what she is going to tell her kid. How can you tell them? How can you explain it?
'Who knows if she knew anything about what he was doing? We just don't know'.
Meanwhile, the brothers' aunt Maret Tsarnaeva was insistent as she told reporters in Toronto today that her nephew was in love with his wife and daughter.
'He has a wife in Boston and from a Christian family, so you can't tie it to religion,' she said:
Except that the wife converted to Islam for him. Obviously his religion mattered that much to him....
'At that age all they want is love, so he found his love, he married, he had a daughter, and he was very happy about his daughter.'
However, she admitted Tamerlan 'seemingly did not find himself yet in America, because it's not easy.'
She said her brother Anzor Tsarnaev had high expecations for his sons, especially Tamerlan, and was upset when he found out Tamerlan had dropped out of university.
Tamerlan wasn't a devout practicing Muslim,' but just recently, maybe two years ago, he started praying five times a day," she said.
Tsarnaeva said her brother's family came to the United States in 2002 after she helped them apply for refugee status. She said the family also has two sisters who live in Boston.
The older of the two Chechen brothers accused in the Boston marathon bombings once dreamed of representing the US as a boxer, but over the past year, he had turned to radical Islam and got on the path of Jihad.
Sounds like more than a year...
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[THEHILL] The bombings in Boston have only strengthened President B.O.'s resolve to strengthen international cooperation against terrorism, Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said Friday.
"For this entire week, we've been in a direct confrontation with evil," Kerry said. "President B.O. has made this a critical component of his foreign policy, and obviously this just emphasizes that."
Kerry, a former senator of Massachusetts, made the remarks in a presser alongside Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade after their bilateral meeting at the State Department. Kerry said cross-border security was a topic of discussion following reports that the two suspects in the attack were Chechen immigrants.
"This underscores the importance of all of us maintaining vigilance and cooperating together internationally," Kerry said. "That's part of what we're talking about here. Terror anywhere in the world, against any country, is unacceptable, and we need to continue to fight against it in the way that we are. It strengthens, actually, my resolve and my sense that we're on the right track, but there's more we can do and we're going to continue to do it."
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Careful, John. You're getting awfully close to the old George Bush Axis of Evil talk. Are you really prepared to make a moral judgment?
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The bombings in Boston have only strengthened President B.O.'s resolve to strengthen international cooperation against terrorism
Not his responsibility, but more appropriately a shared responsibility. Cognitive deflection at war with his advanced cognitive dissonance? I recommend more dagga weed.
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Actually I think Kerry wouldn't mind comparison's to W at this point as they could spin it around the "caught them within a week" angle while W had to wait for Obama to come and catch the villains despite his tough talk.
Besides, the left allows their own a lot of lee-way in hypocracy.
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... on Friday refused to speculate on the implications of the reported Chechen roots of two brothers believed to have carried out the Boston bombings.
"I think it's fair to say that for this entire week we've been in pretty direct confrontation with evil," Kerry said after talks with Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade.
He was speaking as thousands of heavily armed police staged a house-to-house hunt for a teenager suspected of carrying out the Boston marathon bombings, hours after his brother was killed in a shootout.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan were said to be of Chechen origin but were legal residents of the United States.
Kerry, who for almost three decades served as the senator for Massachusetts and has long ties to the Boston Marathon, said people should not jump to conclusions until Sherlocks complete their probe into Monday's attack.
"I'm not going to get into speculation, I'm not going to deal with a hypothetical," the top U.S. diplomat insisted, when asked about the suspects' ties to Chechnya, a mainly Moslem Russian republic in the Northern Caucasus.
"The one thing I will say is: terror is terror. And this underscores the importance of all of us maintaining vigilance and cooperating together internationally.
"Terror anywhere in the world, against any country, is unacceptable. And we need to continue to stand up and fight against it in the way that we are."
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This vain, foppish, silly man would be amusing to laugh at as he postures, utterly incapable of noting amidst his preening that he has nothing of substance to say. Sadly, he is the Secretary of State, and does not see how sad that is for the Republic.
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But his fellow travelers couldn't slow down to blame Tucson on Palin, or other acts on the Tea Party, or Sandy Hook on the NRA.
aristagogue - those who gain power or prestige by playing upon the vanity, prejudices and insecurities of those who see themselves as our best and brightest, or who wish to be so seen by others.
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Rico, bring me the Tsarnaev file. Rossman, bring the car around.
You can bet there were more than a few Oh f**k moments in Washington when the Bureau 'ran the traps' and discovered they had actually received a tip on this fellow from foreign intelligence and had actually interviewed him as well.
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"Terror anywhere in the world, against any country, is unacceptable. And we need to continue to stand up and fight against it in the way that we are."
Jeez, like in...Benghazi?
God, he's such a despicable piece of shit...
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... , Pakistain's former military ruler, is expected to spend the weekend in police custody after being tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and told he must face charges that he illegally imprisoned judges during his last year in power.
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[Dawn] General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... was shifted to the police headquarters in Islamabad from his farmhouse residence at Chak Shahzad on Friday, hours after the former military ruler surrendered himself to the authorities in the judges' detention case.
He surrendered himself earlier today before appearing in the court of judicial magistrate Raja Abbas Shah in Islamabad.
The judge issued an order for a two-day-long transit remand of Musharraf. The order also added clause 780-A pertaining to terrorism in the list of charges against the former army strongman.
During the hearing, petitioner's counsel, Advocate Mohammad Bilal Mughal, requested the court for a 15-day-long physical remand of the former president, whereas Musharraf's lawyer, Qamar Afzal, asked for a judicial remand for his client.
The court observed that the list of charges against Musharraf in the judges' detention case entailed terrorism clauses which was why bail could not be granted to the retired general without him surrendering to authorities.
Moreover, police told the court that Musharraf's life was in danger which was why his farmhouse residence needed to be declared a sub-jail.
Subsequently, the court added clause 780-A to the list of charges against Musharraf and ordered a two-day-long transit remand for the former president. An official at the court confirmed the order.
Musharraf will now appear before a special anti-terrorist court on April 21.
A front man for Musharraf's All Pakistain Moslem League (APML) party said: "General Musharraf has been sent on a two-day judicial remand and he will stay at his farmhouse."
APML front man Muhammad Amjad said the magistrate had ordered Musharraf to appear before an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi after two days.
"Musharraf himself surrendered before the court Friday morning," Amjad said, denying media reports that he had been jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! prior to going to court.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Moslem League -- Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... said on Friday that former military dictator Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... committed serious crimes and he must be tried as per law of the country.
Addressing media persons in Quetta on Friday, Nawaz Sharif stated that Inspector General Police Islamabad should be questioned over how Pervez Musharraf managed to escape from court.
"If Musharraf is not placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! immediately it would be violation of court order", he added.
He said military dictators should be tried as a common criminal who commits any crime. "Nobody is above the law", Nawaz Sharif said.
The PML (N) chief stated that nobody should be allowed to undermine the sanctity of courts and everyone has to bow down head before court.
Regarding Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... situation, Nawaz Sharif expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the situation in Balochistan and held Pervez Musharraf responsible for the prevailing unrest in the country's resource-rich province.
He said that writ of the government should be ensured at all cost. Sharif said that if elections were not held the situation would further worsen.
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[Dawn] After it failed to reach a seat adjustment agreement either with the PML-N or the PTI, political observers are increasingly asking how the JI will perform on May 11.
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[An Nahar] U.N. human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... chief Navi Pillay on Friday slammed a new wave of executions in Iraq, saying the country's justice system was seriously flawed.
Pillay issued a sharply-worded statement a day after Iraq put 21 men to death for terrorist offenses, bringing to 50 the number of executions Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... has carried out so far this year, despite widespread calls for a moratorium.
"Executing people in batches like this is obscene. It is like processing animals in a slaughterhouse," said Pillay, pointing to reports that a further 150 people could be executed in coming days.
"The criminal justice system in Iraq is still not functioning adequately, with numerous convictions based on confessions obtained under torture and ill-treatment, a weak judiciary and trial proceedings that fall short of international standards," she said.
"The application of the death penalty in these circumstances is unconscionable, as any miscarriage of justice as a result of capital punishment cannot be undone," she added.
A total of 1,400 people are believed to be currently on death row in Iraq, and 129 people were executed in 2012 alone, Pillay's office said.
Her front man Rupert Colville said it was not clear why the number of executions in Iraq was spiking.
"There were years where there were hardly any or no executions, three or four years ago," Colville told news hounds.
"Obviously, Iraq is suffering still from many acts of terrorism, many bombs, atrocities continue to take place there, but that doesn't warrant executions on this kind of scale, or executions at all, necessarily," he said.
"It's extremely deplorable, and depressing, that this kind of conveyer belt of executions continues," he added.
Iraq says that it only executes individuals convicted under its 2005 anti-terrorism law who have committed terrorist acts or other serious crimes against civilians.
Pillay said the law was too broad in scope.
"I am the first to argue there must never be impunity for serious crimes. But at least if someone is jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! for life, and it is subsequently discovered there was a miscarriage of justice, he or she can be released and compensated," she added.
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hey, Navi, why don't you issue these statements while walking in Baghdad? Spend some time in the streets, walk with the common fodder, ditch the armored limo and security?
Or, you could just STFU, while they remove the tumors
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My sentiments exactly.
Where was this impotent clown when the Iranians were killing Iraqis by the thousands with their car bombs and support for AQI?
Where was this idiot when they tried the chemical attack in Amman, potentially killing thousands in and around the Hyatt?
Amazing, the jihadis blow up crowds, kidnap, rape and murder tourists, and plot to kill thousands of people indiscriminately and the UN sits on their hands, but if someone gives the jihadis the consequences of their irrational behavior, the tut tutting and the concerns start.
And of course, we have Amnesty International that would say a word when when a terrorist kills dozens in a pizza parlor gasping in mock indignation when the US sticks a guys head in a bucket of water to get some information.
Screw them all.
Bring back the enhanced interrogations and lets get on with it.
We are, as Allan West says in a war of cultures and a religious war. Islam has declared war on the rest of the world and we have to make a response.
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[An Nahar] Leaders of Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, met in Qatar on Friday amid renewed impetus for a unity government after the resignation of prime minister Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... , a Paleostinian official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Newly re-elected Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal chaired the meeting in his base in exile in Qatar, which was also attended by Hamas leaders from Gazoo including its prime minister Ismail Haniya.
Momentum has built for reconciliation between Hamas and the Fatah movement of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... since the resignation of Fayyad, a U.S.-trained economist whose appointment as premier was never recognized by the Islamists.
"The meeting began on Thursday and will continue until Saturday," the official said, requesting anonymity.
Hamas leaders will discuss "Paleostinian reconciliation, developments in the Paleostinian arena following Fayyad's resignation, as well as ways of pressing Israel to release Paleostinian prisoners," the official said.
The Islamists never recognized Fayyad's appointment to replace Haniya after their seizure of Gazoo in bloody street battles in 2007 that effectively divided the Paleostinian territories in two, with Abbas' writ confined to the West Bank.
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[An Nahar] Russia on Friday called the deployment of U.S. troops in Jordan over the Syria crisis an unconstructive step that threatens to expand the conflict as the kingdom's Islamist opposition said Amman's government should review its decision.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel revealed Wednesday that 150 U.S. military specialists had been deployed in Jordan since last year and that he had ordered the army to bolster the mission by bringing the total American presence to more than 200 troops.
Russian foreign ministry front man Alexander Lukashevich said such a move ran counter to internationally-agreed principles for ending the crisis through negotiations.
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OTOH see RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > SOURCE: JORDAN ASKED US FOR MISSLE DEFENSE PROTECTION } [Washington Times] US TO DEPLOY PATRIOT MISSLE BATTERIES ON JORDAN-SYRIA BORDER.
IIUC, the new troops are an adjunct or complement to the Patriots.
he US readied a package Saturday of up to $130 million in nonlethal military aid to Syrian opposition forces while European countries consider easing an arms embargo, moves that could further pressure the government of President Bashar Assad.
US Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the plans about the defensive military supplies at a meeting Saturday that was bringing together the Syrian opposition leadership and their main international allies.
The supplies possibly could include body armor, armored vehicles, night vision goggles and advanced communications equipment.
US officials said the details and costs were to be determined at the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss Kerrys announcement.
Kerry met with Syrian opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib before the conference began.
In the latest clashes, Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen battled rebels Saturday in a strategic area in Homs province near the Lebanese border, according to activists and state media in Damascus, the Syrian capital.
President Barack Obama has said he has no plans to send weapons or give lethal aid to the rebels, despite pressure from Congress and even some administration advisers.
The possible link between the Boston Marathon bombings and Chechnya's struggle for independence from Russia is likely to harden Russian opposition to any outside intervention in Syria and complicate the question of whether to arm the Syrian rebels.
Russia fought two wars to put down Chechen separatists and is accused of ongoing brutality involving what it calls terrorist elements in majority-Muslim Chechnya and the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan. The experience underpins Russia's support for Syrian President Bashar Assad in his two-year fight to put down a rebellion he calls terrorism.
With Chechnya in mind, Russia opposes U.N. Security Council action to punish Assad or support the rebels. Moscow also strongly opposes any international military action similar to the 2011 NATO no-fly zone in Libya. Russia continues to resupply Assad's army, which has fought the rebels to a deadlock in many parts of the country.
The United States is edging toward stronger backing for the Syrian rebels and hopes to win at least tacit Russian assent for measures that could end the civil war short of supplying weapons. Still, Russia is leery of any international action that legitimizes the rebels.
Secretary of State John Kerry will lobby his Russian counterpart on Syria early next week in their second meeting in three weeks. He is also meeting European and Persian Gulf partners that are much more deeply involved in Syria's civil war
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Let the Syrian rebels and Pencilneck's boyz keep slugging it out to a stalemate.
The US has enemies within and without to deal with, judging from a couple of islamic nutcases causing all the recent mayhem in Boston. We have plenty to do ourselves at home.
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[An Nahar] U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Friday urged the Security Council to come together on Syria, venting frustration with all sides while denying rumors he plans to resign.
Brahimi told the 15-member council that Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... is "not in a mood for dialogue" and that the only hope for stemming the violence is if the council agrees unanimously on a plan of action, diplomats told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The Security Council has been divided about how to proceed on Syria, which has been wracked by fighting since March 2011, with Russia and China repeatedly blocking efforts by the West to step up pressure on Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... "I have probably said practically the same thing I said every time," Brahimi told news hounds later.
"The situation is extremely bad and we need action from the Security Council," he said, as he expressed frustration not only with the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... , but with the Syrian regime and opposition rebels.
"I indicated the opposition and the government have got to accept to come to negotiations and both sides have got to accept that these negotiations are necessary," Brahimi said.
He added that the recent pledge of loyalty to al-Qaeda by an increasingly powerful Syrian rebel group, the Al-Nusra Front, would not affect his mandate.
"The way to protect Syria from extremism is once again to solve the problem," Brahimi said. "The only way is to bring this war to an end."
The veteran Algerian diplomat has made little progress in the seven months since he was appointed to try to mediate an end to the Syrian conflict, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives and seen hundreds of thousands flee.
But Brahimi appeared irritated as he brushed aside talk of resignation.
"I have not resigned," Brahimi told news hounds.
"Every day I wake up, I think I should resign, but I have not so far," he said, adding that "there is no foundation" to the rumors.
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[An Nahar] Russia and Egypt called for a ceasefire in Syria "as quickly as possible", President Vladimir Putin ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile... said Friday, after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi.
"Russia and Egypt support a ceasefire in Syria as soon as possible and the launch of negotiations," between the regime and rebels, the Russian president said following the meeting in the black city resort of Sochi, where the 2014 Winter Olympic Games will be held.
The two leaders said they wanted Syria to find its own solution to the crisis, now in its third year, without "external intrusion".
Along with China, Russia is the only world power to have stayed allied with the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , vetoing three rounds of U.N. Security Council resolutions against his government.
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[An Nahar] The adviser of caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati denied on Friday that three hand grenades found in the northern town of Qalamoun were placed to target Miqati.
In remarks to Voice of Leb radio (100.5), Fares Gemayel denied the report published in An Nahar newspaper on Friday.
State commissioner to the military court Judge Saqr Saqr tasked on Friday the military intelligence to investigate the details of the incident as the military command said in a communique that the grenades were placed in a plastic container.
An Nahar said that the grenades found on the side of the highway in Qalamoun were aimed at targeting Miqati's convoy while on his way back to Beirut from the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
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