Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning next month under a policy change announced Tuesday by the head of the Transportation Security Administration.
The new policy conforms U.S. security standards to international standards, and allows TSA to concentrate its energies on more serious safety threats, the agency said in a statement.
The announcement, made by TSA Administrator John Pistole at an airline industry gathering in New York, drew an immediate outcry from unions representing flight attendants and other airline workers, who said the items are still dangerous in the hands of the wrong passengers.
Transport Workers Union Local 556, which represents over 10,000 flight attendants at Southwest Airlines, called the new policy “dangerous” and “short sighted,” saying it was designed to make “the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer.”
There is perhaps no worse political disaster for the government of Cuba than the death of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. After the Soviet Union collapsed and ceased to subsidize the Castro regime, the government of Cuba went through a very difficult period. That is, until President Chávez picked up the tab.
While the real amount of the subsidy is unknown, Venezuela does send more than 115,000 barrels of oil a day to the refinery at Cienfuegos and pays for tens of thousands of Cuban doctors and sports trainers who are deployed all over Latin America. The true amount is probably significantly north of five billion dollars a year.
If there was anybody that could expect the very best Cuban medicine had to offer, it was the Castro's five billion dollar man. This makes the upcoming death of Chávez that much more embarrassing for the Castros, because the velocity at which the strongman has deteriorated is due in no small part to the incompetence of the Cuban doctors at Cimeq - the hospital of choice for the communist party leaders.
According to Dr. Jose Marquina, who has become well known for having the only information on the Venezuelan president's condition that has proved over time to be accurate, the Cuban doctors are at least partially at fault for the Venezuelan leader's imminent demise. He has said that the Cubans misdiagnosed the cancer, treating Chávez with chemotherapy and other treatments designed for the wrong type of cancer. This made the disease resistant and impossible to treat, while causing other complications which affected not only Chávez's life expectancy but also the quality of what life remained.
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North America suppos had now-extinct Camel Specias also.
I've always wondered how good or bad it would be iff Camels were re-introduced to CONUS-NORAM along wid other contemporary species, e.g. WILDEBEESTS, ILAMA, OSTRICHES, espec as alternative food sources for Amer hunters.
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve John Brennan as President Barack Obama's new CIA director, after the committee resolved a dispute with the White House over access to classified legal opinions on the targeted killings of U.S. citizens overseas.
The vote clears a major hurdle for Brennan, currently Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser. While he seems likely to ultimately win confirmation by the full Senate, his nomination still could face further delays from Republican lawmakers.
The committee vote, at a closed-door meeting, was 12-3, according to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee's Democratic chairwoman.
The "no" votes were cast by Republican Senators Tom Coburn, Saxby Chambliss and James Risch. But other Republican committee members joined the panel's majority Democrats in voting to approve Brennan's nomination.
It was not immediately clear when the full Senate might hold a floor vote on the nomination. A Congressional official said a floor vote later this week might prove difficult due to an anticipated snowstorm in the Washington, D.C. area on Wednesday.
Some Republican Senators are seeking to delay that vote while they press the White House to release additional information on the U.S. response to the attacks last September 11 on U.S. official outposts in Benghazi, Libya.
Feinstein said after the committee meeting that while she expected a floor vote soon, she also believed that the Democrats would have to assemble 60 votes to ensure the defeat of a possible Republican filibuster, a delaying tactic. At least a handful of Republicans would have to vote with majority Democrats and two independent Senators to cut off any filibuster.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez was a fighter. The former paratroop commander and fiery populist waged continual battle for his socialist ideals and outsmarted his rivals time and again, defeating a coup attempt, winning re-election three times and using his country's vast oil wealth to his political advantage.
Anyboody here surprised?
The White House Council on Environmental Quality has convened a series of meetings with federal regulators over the past nine months as the Obama administration shapes environmental impact analyses for the building of terminals to export coal to Asia. Anything is in bounds for Champ and his people if it hurts the American economy. As the famous man once said, don't delay the revolution...
While CEQ downplays its involvement in the deliberations, a former CEQ official and other analysts suggest the White House role highlights the sensitive policy issues at stake, as the administration is under pressure to assess the possible climate change impact of burning U.S. coal in Asia. No doubt they'll consider the cost to US jobs lost by burning Australian coal in Asia.
At issue is how broadly the government should extend its analysis: whether to consider the impacts of each of the Pacific Northwest export terminals through narrowly tailored individual environmental impact statements or to assess their cumulative effects together, which would allow for a comprehensive analysis of possible climate change impacts.
CEQ has declined to say what it has been telling the agency regulators, and emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have been heavily redacted. Nonetheless, in the next few weeks, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is expected to announce a narrow approach to the environmental analyses, judging from statements the corps has made in recent months and unredacted portions of the emails.
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I wonder if the Chinese, er, Asians would be burning so much coal if we hadn't granted them most favored nation trading status? IOW, how much of their coal is burned to produce the stuff they sell to us? I know, I know. If we didn't buy it then somebody else would. Or, would they? What if we had shown some backbone, integrity and leadership instead of just greed? Would it then have been possible for us to continue making computers?
Shortly after the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last September, a phone call was placed from the area.
Whoever made the call was excited. "Mabruk, Mabruk!" he repeated, meaning "Congratulations" in Arabic.
Two sources with high-level access to Western intelligence services have told CNN the call was made to a senior figure in al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM. There is no proof that the call was specifically about the attack, in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, but the sources say that is the assumption among those with knowledge of the call.
One of the sources says the phone call was discovered when a Western intelligence service trawled through intercepts of communications made in the wake of the attack. That source told CNN that the call was made specifically to Moktar Belmoktar, leader of an al-Qaida faction based in northern Mali.
CIA officials told CNN they had no comment on whether any call had been intercepted.
If the call was made and subsequently detected, it could fuel an already partisan debate in Washington over the Obama administration's initial public characterization of the Benghazi attack, and what information U.S. intelligence officials had about who was involved.
Critics say initial administration comments did not reflect the true intelligence about the incident, and were an attempt by the administration to avoid tying it to terrorism.
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Unless he can more than 2 bars in hell he ain't getting any more calls.
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How did Al Qaida know about the events of 2009 before our government and military the Apple party on the nasa website thing crazy sound! chat room records doesn't the gov know?!?
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Hamas announces that the PA has arrested 66 of its supporters in W. Bank including 32 former prisoners held by Israel.
The Palestinian Authority security forces have arrested 66 Hamas supporters in the West Bank during the month of February, the Gaza-based Islamist movement announced Tuesday.
In a report, Hamas said that among those arrested were 32 former prisoners [held by Israel], three university students, a journalist and a teacher.
The report said that PA security forces also summoned another 38 Hamas supporters and leaders for interrogation.
Ten Hamas supporters were ordered remanded into custody despite court decisions to release them, the report said.
The arrests come as efforts to achieve reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah appear to have failed.
Hamas said Tuesday that the reconciliation efforts failed because of US pressure on PA President Mahmoud Abbas to refrain from reaching any agreement with the movement.
Salah Bardaweel, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, said that Abbas has "sold the reconciliation in return for an American smile."
Malaysia used airstrikes and mobilized thousands of troops on Tuesday to try to put an end to a monthlong quixotic incursion by a band of gunmen from the Philippines seeking to reclaim part of Borneo Island for a defunct sultanate.
Three F-18 fighter jets and five Hawk ground-attack aircraft bombed and strafed the estimated 200 Filipino gunmen holed up near the small northeastern Malaysian village of Kampung Taduo, Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid of Malaysia said on Tuesday.
The airstrikes were followed by a ground assault that killed an undetermined number of the Filipino gunmen but caused no Malaysian casualties, the defense minister said.
“The armed forces’ operation to defend the nation’s sovereignty has been fruitful,” he told reporters, without providing details on whether all of the gunmen had been captured or killed.
Reports on MalaysiaÂ’s state-run news agency, Bernama, showed armored personnel carriers moving through the streets of Sabah State while military helicopters flew overhead. Military roadblocks have been set up around the area to stop the spread of the fighting, and villagers reported that in at least one case they had to remove the corpses of Filipino fighters from the streets of their village.
The assault came after weeks of pleas by the Philippine and Malaysian governments for the gunmen to return to the southern Philippines. Malaysian forces tried repeatedly to dislodge the gunmen by force with at least 27 killed in fighting before TuesdayÂ’s major offensive. The current death toll is unclear.
Funny how burning a single koran by one US preacher can cause a riot that kills 20 people and defacto end the 1st amendment protection that makes the US great. But hundreds of Korans can go up in smoke, (not to mention dozens of Muslims) when it is done by Muslims and no-problemo.
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New York's Dow Jones share index set a new all-time high on Tuesday, returning to levels not seen since before the global financial crisis.
The Wall Street index reached 14,273 in lunchtime trading, exceeding the previous record intra-day high of 14,198, set in October 2007.
The recovery in the market suggests investors are regaining confidence in the US economy.
That is despite the ongoing fiscal crisis in Washington.
The Dow has more than doubled in value since it plummeted to less than 6,550 points in the depth of the crisis in March 2009. The Last Time The Dow Was Here...
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The Dow has more than doubled in value since it plummeted to less than 6,550 points in the depth of the crisis in March 2009.
What was the price of gas back then before the Fed and Treasury started wholesale debasing of the currency? Debased currency, debased Dow. Which by the way this seems appropriate in context.
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If you ever had any questions about whether the stock market had any connection to reality, this is the answer.
They are just shuffling paper and bidding it up on the "bigger fool rule" and playing financial musical chairs with the money.
These guys are the ones that blew up everyone's home equity and they should all be in jail. They should close the joint down and send them all to Angola to fight mosquitoes. We can get all the capital we need on the Chinese bond exchange.
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During the month of February--as President Barack Obama was warning Americans they would see dramatic effects in their lives if "sequestration" of some planned federal spending kicked in--the federal government's debt climbed by $253.5 billion.
That one-month increase in the debt was nearly six times as much as the $44 billion in spending cuts the Congressional Budget Office estimates will take place in all of fiscal 2013 as a result of sequestration.
In its Budget and Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2013-2023, published in February, the CBO explained that only $44 billion in planned federal spending will be cut during this fiscal year as a result of sequestration.
The CBO also says additional cuts that will be "attributable" to fiscal 2013 will actually take place "in later years"--not in fiscal 2013.
"By CBO's estimate, budgetary resources for defense (other than spending for military personnel) will be cut by around 8 percent across the board, and nondefense funding that is subject to the automatic reductions will be cut by between 5 percent and 6 percent," said CBO. According to that estimate, discretionary outlays will drop by $35 billion and mandatory spending will be reduced by $9 billion this year as a direct result of those procedures; additional reductions in outlays attributable to the cuts in 2013 funding will occur in later years."
The combined $35 billion in discretionary cuts and $9 billion in mandatory cuts--or $44 billion--that will actually take place this year equal approximately one-sixth of the new debt the federal government accumulated in February.
Bottomline: In February alone, the government borrowed nearly 6 times as much as it intends to save with the sequester over the rest of the fiscal year.
The US says it has tabled a UN resolution - agreed with China - for sanctions that would target North Korea's diplomats and cash transfers.
Washington's UN envoy, Susan Rice, said the move would "significantly impede" Pyongyang's ability to further develop its nuclear weapons programme.
Li Baodong, China's UN envoy, told Reuters the Security Council aimed to vote on the resolution on Thursday.
Earlier, Pyongyang warned it would scrap a 60-year Korean ceasefire.
North Korea's military command said it would end the 1953 Armistice Agreement with South Korea on 11 March because of the threat of sanctions and the current military exercises taking place in South Korea.
The UN draft resolution is in response to North Korea's third and most powerful nuclear test in February, which sparked worldwide condemnation.
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How is it we haven't sactioned everything already? It is amazing to me that back in the 90s when the US economy was booming (and not owned by China) that we didn't put massive sanctions on any country (that means China) that did business with North Korea. I mean after 50is years of war and all.
Last Wednesday Home Secretary Theresa May had this to say in a speech (emphases added):
Speaking at the Community Security Trust annual dinner in central London on Wednesday evening, Mrs May said more would be done to stop extremists “masquerading as charities” in order to raise funds.
Mrs May praised the Charity Commission’s efforts to take a “more effective and aggressive line in seeking out and ejecting” such organisations.
“Too often organisations whose purposes have been the opposite of charitable – and which have even been involved in sending money to straightforwardly terrorist organisations – have been allowed to flourish as charities,” said the Home Secretary.
These are welcome words. But they will be worthless if action does not follow.
Few abusers of charity are as blatant as Interpal, the biggest political and material supporter of Hamas among British charities.
Here is Interpal Vice Chairman and Managing Trustee Essam Mustafa embracing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza just a month ago. Mustafa was in Gaza for one of a score of Interpal’s “Miles of Smiles” solidarity visits to the terrorist group over recent years.
From the two-letter news agency so fair-use summary here:
North Korea vowed Tuesday to cancel the 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War, citing a U.S.-led push for punishing U.N. sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing U.S.-South Korean joint military drills.
Did the Norks ever think the war was over?
North Korea's Korean People's Army Supreme Command warned of stronger additional countermeasures in a statement that came amid reports that Washington and North Korean ally Beijing have approved a draft of punishing sanctions for a U.N. Security Council resolution responding to North Korea's Feb. 12 nuclear test. The draft is expected to be circulated at the U.N. this week.
The draft might even qualify as 'strongly worded'...
North Korea warned it will cancel the Korean War cease-fire agreement on March 11, citing U.S.-South Korean military drills that began March 1.
We have the drills every year, and every year the Norks vow Dire Revenge™...
North Korea also warned that it will block a communications line between it and the United States at the border village separating the two Koreas.
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Listen pudgy, our president has the backbone of a chocolate eclair, but do you really want to push his fragile ego into a corner like this? He does have the best military in the world and the ROKs are not a push over either.
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Darth, he does have the best military in the world, for now.
He seems to be doing his damnedest to undo that situation however. He is more concerned about getting MRAPS for his brown-shirt DHS then getting ships to project power.
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The ROKs ain't gonna listen to US if this is any kind of serious. They can handle this without much problem, excepting always a nuke. If they nuke, the ROKS will go batshit and kill everyone within 3 Kevin Spaceys of Pudgy.
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"Widin 3 Kevin Spaceys of Pudgy" > LMAO, I gotta remember this one!
D *** NG IT, NORTH KOREA'S STILL AFTER THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON'S CHERRY/APPLE TREE!
Technically speaking, the Armistice could've been considered "cancelled" already after all those Norkie-led mil incidents agz SOKOR since the Cold War, all the way to the Chonan, etc.
Terrorism continues to be viewed conventionally in Pakistan. However, the phenomenon has assumed a structured formation driven by rational choice perspectives. This article attempts to identify distinct trends and patterns of terrorism within prevailing environments of Pakistan. In doing so, it also examines the validity of seasonality dimensions of routine activity theory (use of summer months and earlier days of week) for terrorist acts. Eight trends are identified tentatively. Using empirical data and analytical discourse, the findings confirm the assumed trends in terms of their typology, structure, operational system and rallying themes. In addition, the article finds support for the hypothesis of terrorism being a strategic approach rather than an ordinary form of violence. It is further found that changed patterns of violence warrant a revisiting of earlier assumptions regarding the applicability of routine activity theory within the Pakistani context. By implication, the study also suggests a variation of terrorism under different regime types, i.e. military or democratic.
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Simple. Locate a Suni mosque. Draw circles at various radii from it. Rate the viperous speech of each Iman and use it as a bias for the circles. Do the same for the head banging Koran memorizing pretend schools and you have pretty much got it.
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Seventy percent of those cases are carried out by criminal repeat offenders.
In California the PEOPLE passed a ballot initiative commonly call the Three Strikes law. According to this law, after being convicted of three felonies, a criminal gets life in prison with no possibility of parole. Ever since that law was passed, various legislators, judges and do gooders have been trying to get it repealed.
I don't care if the prison is a tent city surrounded by concertina wire out in the desert. These people need to be separated from the rest of society.
I never felt the need for a gun but if I was a woman I am quite certain that I would have one, especially on a college campus because the predators know that is where the girls are.
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"I don't care if the prison is a tent city surrounded by concertina wire out in the desert. These people need to be separated from the rest of society."
After "Truth in Sentencing" was passed in Virginia, EU (under a Republican governor, dontcha know), crime when down. Can't imagine why. /sarc
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Barbara, the other thing that needs to be done is to change the laws on felony.
A crooked accountant that embezzles $50k and is charged with 3 felonies doesn't belong in Mad Maxes Austrailia. 3 armed robberies that netted $500? Behind the wire for life.
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I read an article once that described crime data like a hockey stick. Most of the crimes are commited by group on the end of the stick. We all take insane measures (insurance, locks, etc) because we have never accepted this fact and just 3 strikes them out of the herd (and tossed out their enablers in government).
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Yeah, and as far as sex offenders are concerned, there is no such thing as rehabilitation unless it involves a surgical procedure below the belt. One strike should be all it takes to put them away for good.
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Just run this all 2014, Colorado will flip back Red fast.
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The spiritedlongleggedwoman with whom I live, is a psychotherapist of some renown. She says there is no effective treatment for rapists and pedophiles. They, she says, should be locked up permanently as no amount of therapy, treatment, love, and understanding will stop them from striking at the next available victim that hits their hot button.
That being said, I suppose being insensitive to a rape victim is an offense only a Republican can commit. If this amoral idiot had been a Republican, it would be on the cover of Yahoo, MSN, CNN, and a lead story on MSNBCPMS. Oh and the "gray lady" would have sent a reported to Washington for an exclusive.
Of course, I am still waiting for all of the liberal whiney assed women's organizations to say something about what's going on in Egypt and Syria, and to Christian women in Nigeria.
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Kind of amazed that the legislator who so blithely dismissed her and blew her off is female. Then again, I'm not amazed that a woman who looks like Helen Thomas' younger sister can live with sacrificing the young pretty ones.
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This "President" sees his role not as the one the oath of office defines, but one of retribution, transformation, power, and ultimately, a solely political lens through which everything is filtered. His entire focus is 2014, and the opening that might give for single party rule, and the devastation that will bring as we are "transformed" to the place his community organizing has always been fouced upon, equality of outcome through Marxist redistribution and systemic leveling, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
The pain and ruination that Americans feel while he does this is unimportant to him, since "social justice" means that most who suffer need to do penance for their unearned prosperity. Most devastatingly bad choice for President in American history, not merely incompetent or petty, but diabolical in the secular sense.
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“It is politically unsustainable to stay with any significant military presence, and it’s unlikely that Congress will go for more than two years before they pull the plug on economic support for Afghanistan,” said retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former chief of U.S. Southern Command. “I don’t think kidding ourselves about the outcome is going to help.”
McCaffrey, who shared his presentation with a senior joint audience, said he would rather bring the troops home than leave behind small numbers, organized into adviser teams across the country, to fend for themselves.
“In Iraq, at least you had access to the ocean and the U.S. Navy, and access to friendly, supportive nations on the margins. You could rapidly withdraw forces or posture in Kuwait,” he said. “Afghanistan is different. Afghanistan is the end of the earth.”
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This is the best advice I've heard thus far from any talking head, but it is still way too accommodating to inertia.
I'd like him to have said:
1. Get out now - yesterday, if possible.
2. Get EVERYBODY out - leave no one.
3. We don't need an Embassy to the barbaric 7th century. Blow all the bridges that connect this region (its not a nation) to the outside world. Build a wall around the place, with signs saying "beyond this wall is hell on earth" - and be done with it.
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Vietnamization - Afghanization, same difference. Click on the link and read how history is about to repeat itself.
In this remake of the 70s original they've updated the script with different actors and locations, but the same sad ending. All those brave fighters will have died for nothing.
Expand the Kabul Embassy helipad and get the long range aerial refuel capable helicopters ready.
The original movie
Sir William McNaghten, who had been trying to negotiate a way out of the city, was murdered on December 23, 1841, reportedly by Muhammad Akbar Khan himself. The British, their situation hopeless, somehow managed to negotiate a treaty to leave Afghanistan.
On January 6, 1842, the British began their withdrawal from Kabul. Leaving the city were 4,500 British troops and 12,000 civilians who had followed the British Army to Kabul. The plan was to march to Jalalabad, about 90 miles away.
The retreat in the brutally cold weather took an immediate toll, and many died from exposure in the first days. And despite the treaty, the British column came under attack when it reached a mountain pass, the Khurd Kabul. The retreat became a massacre.
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The Great Game is up for like the zillionth time. I am going out on a limb here and say the next round (losers bracket) starts sometime after 2014. Pakistan goes in for the mop up, sets the Taliban's second conclave up and then starts to allow the insurrection of normality in the region. Iran is pissed and they want a piece of the pie but just can't bring themselves to use their one and only Nuke.
Who goes first? The Brits (they can't resist the magnetism of the Stan or the Russians who love the intrigue of screwing the Chinese or the Chinese who love the sensation of actually using their military?
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The editors of Investors Business Daily pose a good question:
About a day after we did [sniff]...
What are we to make of the U.S. suddenly finding $250 million to spare for Egypt during a supposedly devastating sequester? Has this administration miraculously parted a sea of red ink?
The editorial concludes:
The U.S. is giving $250 million to an Egyptian president who calls Jews "blood-suckers" who are "descendants of apes and pigs"; Morsi unequivocally supports the Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, because the two-state solution is "nothing but an illusion" and the Palestinian Authority "was created by the Zionist and American enemies for the sole purpose of opposing the will of the Palestinian people and its interests"; and he calls on fellow Muslims to "besiege the Zionists wherever they are."
Nothing has exposed the truth about all the Chicken Little sequester rhetoric like these hundreds of millions in taxpayer cash so easily slapped down on the Mideast roulette table in the vain hope that we can buy Morsi's friendship.
If President Obama believes he can perform miracles in Egypt with $250 million, then he can handle the mortal task of managing 2% in automatic spending cuts.
Michael Gordon explains where $190 million of the $250 million pledged by Kerry comes from in Gordon's New York Times article: "President Obama pledged $1 billion to support Egypt's democratic revolution. The $190 million in aid announced on Sunday is the first disbursement of that pledge" (and was already approved by Congress, according to Gordon).
The mysterious balance of $60 million is supposedly dedicated to the creation of a fund to support small businesses, which will provide "direct support to key engines of democratic change in Egypt, including Egypt's entrepreneurs and its young people" (according to Kerry). Somehow, I doubt it, as well as the wisdom of the rest of the $1 billion pledged. In any event, there is no apparent thought given to conditioning the disbursement of funds on reforms that might constrain the blight of the Muslim Brotherhood, but there should be.
Shouldn't be long now.
Chavez is suffering from "a new, severe infection." The state news agency identified it as respiratory.
Villegas said Chavez was "standing by Christ and life conscious of the difficulties he faces." True, except for the Christ part, and the conscious part, and maybe the life part. He's awfully religious for a dying socialist...
He called on Chavez's supporters, who include thousands of well-armed militiamen, to be "on a war footing." Sounds like there's concern it won't be a peaceful transition.
Upon Chavez's death, the opposition would contest the government's candidate in a snap election that it argues should have been called after Chavez was unable to be sworn in on Jan. 10 as the constitution stipulates.
Indeed, the campaigning has already begun, although undeclared, with Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who Chavez has said should succeed him, frequently commandeering all broadcast channels Chavez-style to tout the "revolution" and vilify the opposition.
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Upon Chavez's death, the opposition would contest the government's candidate in a snap election that it argues should have been called after Chavez was unable to be sworn in on Jan. 10 as the constitution stipulates.
RNC, jot down this so-called "opposition tactic". It could come in handy some day.
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Random JD, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Poor Hugo is dead, He looking all so peaceful and serene, it's a shame that he won't keep, it looks like he's asleep but its summer and we're almost out of ice.
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update Venezuela accuses enemies of poisoning ailing Chavez Venezuela accused the domestic and foreign enemies of Venezuela of poisoning ailing President Hugo Chavez and expelled a U.S. Embassy attache who was seeking military support for a plot against the government, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday.
Maduro made the remark to reporters after he met with the country's top officials Tuesday about Chavez's worsening health condition.
Some day, he told the press in a lengthy statement, there will be "scientific proof" that Chavez, fighting a battle with cancer, was poisoned. He also called Venezuela's right-wing forces an "oligarchy" and an "enemy of the nation."
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As a believer in the pendulum theory of history and politics, IÂ’m confident that some event or series of events will eventually interrupt and correct this destructive course,...
And I'm sure that in the last phase of the Roman republic, there were those who shared the same thoughts.
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The sequester was a lazy low brow approach to the budget problem. We only attacked the measly discretionary funding.
What about all of those pork programs locked into long term appropriatations.
If you wanted to fix the deficit and the budget, you have to go into all of the long term programs and start cutting with carefully crafted legislation that targets the over appropriation and waste.
Of course with all of the lazy intellectual light weights in our government right now no one wants to really WORK at governing the nation.
The Stimulus was thrown together and Obamacare was thrown together neither was given any serious review or analysis on cause, effect, or potential consequences.
No one wants to work in Washington anymore, they just want to ride around in their limos and eat lunch at San Souci
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My Norton antivirus blocked a "Malicious Exploit Kit" intrusion attempt when I clicked on the link. FYI
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Espec when the only real anti-Sequester plan US Politicos have is to keep raising the Debt Burden, + commit the US to a [temporary?] higher US Debt ceiling that has already been surpassed even before it comes up for Congressional debate or approval.
Everything Israel does is denounced, why should this be different? It does illustrate that the Paleos are creating problems.
The measure, spurred by pressure from Jewish settlers in the West Bank, was decried by Palestinian officials and Israeli human rights groups as racist and illegal. It immediately drew bitching and moaning comparisons to one of the most hated fixtures of apartheid-era South Africa and segregation in the American South in the 1950s. "Hated" but in retrospect, quite effective when dealing with lawlessness and domestic terrorism.
It is the first time that Israel has, in effect, introduced Palestinian-only buses in the West Bank since taking over the territory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the rights groups said. They are quite safe and unlike the Jewish buses, not prone to unexpected exploding.
According to the Israeli transportation ministry, two bus lines aimed at serving Palestinians will run from the West Bank's Eyal checkpoint near Qalqilya into central Israeli cities like Tel Aviv. Eyal is a key crossing for thousands of Palestinians who travel to work within Israel's internationally recognised borders. Your choice, Paleo bus or leather cadillacs.
Until now, many Palestinian workers who cross through Eyal walked or took a taxi or minibus to a bus stop near a Jewish settlement, where they boarded a bus along with Jewish passengers.
The ministry denied that the buses are "separate for Palestinians" but said they will "improve public transport services" offered to Palestinian workers by providing them with cheaper and more reliable transportation to their jobs in Israel, a statement said.
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Having lived through the Civil Rights era of the early '60s, I don't recall 'booming on buses' as part of the movement. Several 'booming churches', but never buses. The Klan terrorists did a lot to undermine their cause as well with their explosive practices.
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Segregation and separation can take various forms. Some can be government sponsored and funded, some can be voluntary. Chicago's violent South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood is a tragic examples of both. Terrorism aside, crimes such a robbery, rape, and murder tend to key decision making factors when deciding where to live, work, or travel. We should not confuse common sense, concern for our family, and human survival with racism.
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Thing is, if the Paleoswinians had their way, they'd have segregated buses anyway.
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The boomers self selected for apartheid so it's not a problem.
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See #3 - "apartheid" is proper when, despite knowing that their Arab-Muslim Muslims care little or nothing about them, the Muslim Paleos still wanna destroy the only real hand that will develop + take care of them as a sovereign nation.
[Ynet] Fearing kidnapping attempts by terror groups, military issues video warning against hitchhiking in West Bank. IDF says 20 terror cells plotting abductions nabbed in 2012
A new IDF campaign strives to warn Israeli teenagers living in the West Bank against the perils of hitchhiking due to a disconcerting rise in the threat level in the area.
Schools and youth movements are screening the video, which shows a boy boarding an unfamiliar car and then kidnapped at knife-point.
According to the IDF, since the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal, intelligence has indicated growing determination among the Gaza-based terror groups to abduct Israelis. According to the defense establishment, more than 20 cells plotting such attempts were nabbed in 2012.
A little confusing, that -- did the Gazans plan to execute kidnappings in the West Bank?
The IDF released a similar campaign directed at soldiers in early 2012.
[Dawn] Schools and businesses were shut Monday across Bangladesh on the second day of a general strike as huge numbers of police were deployed to put a halt to the deadliest bout of violence since independence.
Sixty-one people are now known to have died in festivities since Thursday when Islamists erupted in outrage at the sentencing to death of one of their leaders who was convicted of war crimes dating back to the 1971 liberation conflict.
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... , who is the vice-president of the 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... party, was the third Islamist to be sentenced by the domestic tribunal.
Although there were no immediate reports of fresh violence on Monday, police did confirm the death of a man in the southwestern district of Satkhira following festivities on Sunday between border guards and Jamaat supporters.
The latest death brought the overall toll to 77 people since the court handed down its first verdict on January 21, making it the bloodiest round of violence since the country broke free from Pakistain more than four decades.
The verdicts and the ensuing violence prompted Jamaat to call a two-day nationwide strike that began Sunday and has virtually crippled the country.
As well as the closure of shops, schools and government offices, the main road between the capital Dhaka and the second city Chittagong was virtually deserted on Monday as were other inter-city highways.
The numbers of security personnel have been beefed up throughout the country, particularly in Dhaka where around 10,000 coppers and members of the elite Rapid Action Battalion were on duty Monday.
As part of their protests, the Islamists have managed to blockade a highway leading to the popular Cox's Bazar tourist region, where several hundred holidaymakers have been trapped including some foreigners.
District police chief Azad Miah told AFP that while more than 3,000 tourists had been able to leave since Thursday, mostly having flown out of the local airport, around 700 remained stranded.
The government has banned rallies and gatherings in at least four towns in the north to quell violence, police said.
The war crimes trials of a dozen leaders from Jamaat and the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have opened old wounds and divided the nation, with the opposition accusing the government of staging a witch-hunt.
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There's a moral here.
We have three countries carved out of one colony. Two are moslem, one is any and all forms of religion you can imagine. The two moslem countries are a trainwreck, actually a major fatal plane crash and the vast assortment of religion place is thriving as an emerging economic power. Same basic ethnic groups, same region, same basic problems with resources, agriculture and weather.
SO what's the difference?
I give you one guess. If you can't figure out why Bangladesh (or whatever they call that place today) and Pakistanarchy are a mess and India is a burgeoning world economic and political force, you are a complete idiot...I guess that means just about every one at CIA and State? I suppose so.
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[POLITICO] There is no "set price" to meet with President Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday amid continued outcry over the role of Organizing for Action, the outside group supporting the president's agenda. "Of course there's no set price! How much you got?"
"Any notion that there is a set price for a meeting with the president of the United States is just wrong," Carney said during his daily briefing. "All his principles prices are negotiable!"
Since OFA is intended to back the president's agenda, it makes sense that Obama would meet with the group, Carney said. "As anyone would expect, the president would likely meet with their representatives to discuss his agenda."
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There is no "set price" to meet with President Obama,
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So Jay admits that there is a price you have to pay to meet the President. He just doesn't know what it is.
Reminds me of the old joke about the guy who asks a woman if she would have sex with him for a million dollars. After she said yes, he said he didn't have a million. How about $10? She got angry and asked if he thought she was a prostitute. He replied that she had already established that, and they were just negotiating the price.
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[MAGHAREBIA] The 21-year-old nephew of a Tunisian political party leader was found dead of a knife wound at his Sidi Bouzid home on Sunday (March 3rd), Tunisie Numerique reported.
Mohamed Hechmi Hamdi, who heads al-Aridha Chaabia in the Constituent Assembly, denied suggestions that his nephew's death was a political liquidation, Al Chourouk reported.
Following its strong finish in the Tunisia elections and a successful appeal, al-Aridha is now the third-strongest force in the assembly, after the CPR and ruling party Ennahda
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[An Nahar] The head of the U.N. atomic agency called Monday on Iran to allow immediate access to the Parchin military base where it suspects nuclear weapons research took place.
Yukiya Amano said that this should be granted "without further delay" and without waiting for stalled talks to conclude an agreement on investigating other alleged "westernization" activities.
"I request Iran once again to provide access to the Parchin site without further delay, whether or not agreement has been reached on the structured approach," Amano told the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting.
"Providing access to the Parchin site would be a positive step which would help to demonstrate Iran's willingness to engage with the Agency on the substance of our concerns," he said, according to the text of his remarks at the closed-door gathering.
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So Mr. Amano when is Iran going to stop their development of a nuke?
Or that is a side show the real important stuff is the negotiations and the letters and the hours of work over lunch at the Ritz?
The IAEA has had ten freaking years to get this done. When is the UN going to quit shuffling desk chairs and DO SOMETHING?
I think we all know the answer. Action is not important, the negotiation is EVERYTHING.
We should just bomb the crap out of everything Iran has and just DARE someone to utter one harsh word. I fault George for part of this...he could have taken care of Iran's nuke program while we were in Iraq.
Now it all belongs to Bambi and the first target of an Iranian nuke will not be Israel, it will be either London or Los Angeles on a container ship they light off just out side the harbor beyond the scanners and detectors and inspectors.
If Iran gets a nuke and uses it on anyone we should close the UN by force and run the worthless drone asses out of town. BAH. This has gone on way too long.
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A village security team member was gunned while driving a motorcycle in Narathiwat's Rueso district on Monday morning. The slain man as as Marosi Yaning, a member of the security squad for Ban Paluka Paero in Bacho district.
Marosi heading to Ban Yuelapae on a motorcycle when he was attacked by men hiding in a rubber plantation. Marosi was hit in the chest with a pistol shot and fell to the ground. The attackers then emerged from the road side and one of them fired another shot into his head.
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir activists on their Facebook page Basher Kella have urged their comrades to stand behind the BNP to make its today's hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... a success.
A post on the page hails the main opposition party, saying: "The government will see a new situation in the March 5 hartal. All activists will become leaders. If big shots are enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , the junior leaders will give leadership. The grassroots leaders had saved the BNP after the 1/11 changeover, and they will make this movement a success."
The moderator of this page yesterday in a post termed "yellow" all the pro-liberation media. Interestingly, The Daily Star website was hacked in the evening by unknown hackers who replaced all news headlines and texts with a message: we hate yellow journalism.
In another post, the Jamaat-Shibir activists asked their IT experts to set up secret radio stations as an alternative media to air their activities against the government and to instigate religious sentiments of the people as the mainstream media are not broadcasting their views.
"The government would not be able to jam or stop frequency of radio channel very easily like any other websites and social media Facebook, twitter or television channels," says one post.
"So make all necessary arrangements so that we can use the 'alternative media' whenever we need it."
The page, which is run by the pro-Jamaat-Shibir online activities, is also trying to incite common people saying, there are some bus services, including Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation, plying the streets in the capital. "Brothers, show the Dhaka people what a hartal is."
A comment posted by one Aditya Sarowar says: "Shut everything down and chant slogans in the name of [Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain] Sayeedi."
According to another post, picketing is a sport. "So start picketing in lanes, by-lanes and streets nearby your house."
The Basher Kella administration also offered tips to the pickets in two posts around 12:00noon yesterday: "Be careful, now police are patrolling in press vans.... My dear picket brothers, get a pair of swimming glasses for only Tk 120. It will save your eyes from teargas shells or rubber bullets."
One Facebook user, Omor Muzahid by name, described the activities of the Jamaat-Shibir bloggers as their Islamic duty.
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[Dawn] A CITY already battered by a cycle of violence has been rocked by a deadly attack targeting the Shia community -- the tragedy in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... yesterday is compounded by the fact that the description could apply to several other Pak cities, not least Quetta and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. . After each such attack as yesterday's in Abbas Town (located in an area prone to attacks) the same set of questions are asked -- and never answered. Leave aside why the attack took place at all and what the intelligence apparatus did to try and prevent it, where are the lessons learned by the law-enforcement personnel, emergency services and first responders? Law-enforcement personnel are often worried about their own safety after such attacks because angry crowds can turn on them, but that still leaves a vital job to be done: helping emergency services and first responders rescue the injured and saving lives. Instead of helping impose order, an all-too-familiar scene of chaos broke out: ruptured gas lines were not quickly closed, rescue equipment was late in arriving and expertise was missing from the site. Much as bystanders and citizens want to help in such situations and can do some good, collapsed buildings pose a special danger and rubble moved hastily by untrained volunteers can cause more harm to survivors. But then, with the state absent, can people stand by and watch others die unnecessarily?
After the dust settles and the dead are buried and the injured are discharged from hospitals, the next set of usual questions will be asked. Among them, why is Karachi's security and intelligence apparatus unable to detect thug cells and groups capable of mounting such devastating attacks in the city? But perhaps more pertinently, the past has to be re-examined first. What exactly has been done to find, prosecute and shut down the groups that have perpetrated previous major attacks, in Karachi and elsewhere? The answer, known to one and all, is damningly little. Little can be fixed in the present if the recent past continues to go unaddressed.
Perhaps the greatest challenge is the geographical spread of violence against Shias: from Quetta to Peshawar and Karachi to Gilgit-Baltistan with Lahore thrown in for good measure recently, no one federal or provincial intelligence or security agency can address the threat on its own. But with meaningful cooperation between various tiers being intermittent and institutional pie fights a reality, the country is no closer to finding a solution to a problem that just keeps growing in complexity and scope.
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Malaysian troops launched an attack on an armed Filipino group on Tuesday, trying to end a standoff in Sabah after violence in recent days that killed at least 27 people, a Malaysian government official said.
The operation to take over an area occupied by about 180 Filipinos, dozens of them armed, began at 7 a.m., a spokesman for Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said. The government sent seven army battalions to the area in eastern Sabah state on Monday to reinforce police.
Two policemen were killed along with 12 militants when Malaysian security forces tried to tighten a cordon around the armed group on Friday. That triggered more violence over the weekend with six policemen and seven more gunmen killed in another area.
In a statement, Najib said, "After the first attack, I have asserted that the intruders must surrender and if they refuse the authorities of this country will take action. The government has to take the right action in order to preserve the pride and sovereignty of this country."
[Dawn] 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... (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... has said that the country's western border has become insecure due to wrong policies of the government.
Addressing party workers here at Haq Nawaz Park, the JUI-F chief showed his optimism about restoration of peace in tribal areas, saying that the all parties conference in Islamabad in this regard had been successful.
He said that people wanted peace and stability and his party in collaboration with the tribal people would restore peace in the area. He said that the TTP had also welcomed the joint declaration of the APC, which was a positive development.
"I appreciate the Taliban's response," he said. On this occasion, former MPAs Abdul Halim Qasuria and Nawabzada Yameen Khan also joined the JUI-F.
Mr Rehman said that the coalition partners at the centre and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... had agreed for talks with the TTP, when the US started dialogues with Taliban in Afghanistan.
He said that the JUI-F was in favour of talks and opposed to use of force.
He said that the US started talks with Taliban after facing humiliation in Afghanistan and here the outgoing government was also begging for peace.
The JUI-F chief said that the federal government had announced package for 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... , but could not end the sense of deprivation among the Baloch young.
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[Bangla Daily Star] BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... last night condemned Thursday's attacks on religious minorities at different parts of the country.
In a statement, signed by her Press Secretary Maruf Kamal Khan, she also demanded punishment to the perpetrators.
She, however, made no mention of BNP ally 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... which, according to victims, unleashed terror
against the Hindus, burning down houses and temples, shortly after a war crimes tribunal gave death sentence to Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi ...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami... On March 1, the opposition leader categorically blamed the government for the "planned attack aimed to divert people's democratic movement and destroy the country's communal harmony".
Now, four days after the atrocities against minorities, Khaleda demands the government identify and punish the perpetrators through neutral investigation and compensate the victims.
The statement urged the media not to publish anything with prejudice or get confused with propaganda from a certain quarter.
Saying attempts were being made to destroy the existing religious harmony, Khaleda called for restraint.
She also said attacks on minorities were taking place at a time when people were waging movement against the "government's fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... and indiscriminate killings across the country".
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North Korea has changed the shape of warheads to improve missile accuracy. The expert said the accuracy of the North's missiles is likely to improve through the use of triconic instead of simple conic warheads, a change of shape which does not reduce the weight.
Triconic warheads were first used for the improved version of the Rodong missile in 2000 and are now also being used for medium and long-range missiles, he said.
Iran's Shahab missile, which is based on the North's Rodong missile, also has a triconic warhead, which shows connections between the two countries, the expert claimed.
The North has deployed around 1,000 ballistic missiles -- about 700 Scud-B/C missiles with a range between 300 and 500 km and some 300 Rodong missiles with a range of 1,300 km. The regime has also conducted about a dozen tests since 2005 of short-range missile with a range of about 120 km
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Goma - A plane crash in the eastern city of Goma has killed 36 passengers, according to Congolese officials. A Fokker airplane of the private airline CAA was carrying 40 people and only four people survived, said Goma's mayor Naasson Kubuya.
The plane was flying from Lodja in East Kasai Province in the centre of the country. The aircraft crashed in the centre of Goma, near the electoral commission's building, but it did not hit any people on the ground, he said.
"The pilot managed to avoid houses," said Kubuya. "It's a horrifying accident. The city of Goma has become a field of disasters. We sympathize with the families of the deceased."
Last year, a plane crash in the city of Bukavu killed President Joseph Kabila's personal adviser, Augustin Katumba. Pretty reliable aircraft. No mention of hostile fire or MANPADs as of yet.
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Well the problem is if those rats start showing up elsewhere. They could displace the standard rats and increase the possibility of rat born diseases like the black plague. I could see them enrolling in Harvard law. That's all we need more Islamic lawyers. I suppose they could start breeding larger cats or ferrets.
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So there I wuz, 15 years old in the Publix warehouse with nothing but a pellet rifle and a flashlight....... It was ever an uneven fight, 1 man 50 sets of beadie damn eyes looking at me with contempt. Suddenly a deux ex dawg appeared in the form of 3 rat terriers. Brutal, ugly. I can say no more.
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One day in a restaurant I worked at, there came a minor panic when a gentleman walked through the dining room and kitchen carrying a rifle (later determined to be of the pellet variety) and a tennis racquet. Turned out he was the rat exterminator.
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It's all fun until somebody gets hurt.
I remember hearing one walking down my counter taking off canister lids, late one night. I had setup a rat trap with cheese and peanut butter(no bacon!) next in the row. It set off the trap with a 'BANG' like something with leaf springs from a truck. I pulled on my boots and robe and ran to the kitchen. There he was, walking around trying to shake off the trap that had neatly closed on his neck.
[News24] Zim-bob-we's government on Monday rebuffed calls for international observers to be allowed to monitor crunch upcoming elections.
"Zim-bob-we will not allow countries that imposed sanctions on Zim-bob-we to participate as observers," at the election - slated for July - Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi was quoted by local radio as saying.
His comment would rule out the participation of European, US or other western observers in monitoring the crucial poll, amid ominous signs of political violence ahead of the vote.
Mumbengegwi instead called for sanctions to be removed "unconditionally and in their totality," according to Spot FM.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... last month eased sanctions against Zim-bob-we, but the United States has said it will only end restrictions after more reforms.
Mumbengegwi's comments represent a snap reaction to Swedish international development minister, Gunilla Carlsson, who during a visit to Harare on Monday called for monitors to be admitted.
"We think it is a very good idea to have international observers," she said after meeting Mumbengegwi and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
"It's helpful for outcome of the elections to know that there has been international group standards."
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[An Nahar] A suicide boom-mobileing killed five people and maimed at least eight others on Monday when it hit a post run by pro-government forces of Evil in the south Yemen city of Loder, witnesses and medics said.
"Five were killed and more than eight maimed in the kaboom of a boom-mobile driven by a suicide kaboomer targeting a position of the Popular Resistance Committees," said a witness from the militias which have battled al-Qaeda alongside government forces.
A medical source confirmed the corpse count but it was not immediately clear if the casualties were members of the militia or civilians.
A suicide boom-mobileing killed five people and maimed at least eight others on Monday when it hit a post run by pro-government forces of Evil in the south Yemen city of Loder, witnesses and medics said.
"Five were killed and more than eight maimed in the kaboom of a boom-mobile driven by a suicide attacker targeting a position of the Popular Resistance Committees," said a witness from the militias which have battled al-Qaeda alongside government forces.
A medical source confirmed the corpse count but it was not immediately clear if the casualties were members of the militia or civilians.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Hot on the heels of bloody violence for two days elsewhere in the country, Jamaat now plans to wreak havoc on Dhaka and make BNP's today's hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... equally violent, according to intelligence sources.
Jamaat does not want to take the blame alone for the recent spate of terror across the country and plans to associate BNP with the violence by filling their shoes, the sources add.
"Jamaat-Shibir men may unleash terror tomorrow [today] in the capital and parts of the country. As part of their ploy, they may even use firearms to kill BNP activists forcing them to go for a tougher stance against the government," a National Security Intelligence official told The Daily Star yesterday on condition of anonymity.
A top official of the intelligence wing of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) also apprehends Jamaat-Shibir may unleash massive violence in the city cashing in on BNP's hartal today.
Speaking anonymously, the Rab official said Jamaat's main target would be Projonmo Chattar at Shahbagh intersection where the youth have been demonstrating for capital punishment to war criminals and banning of Jamaat.
"We will beef up our security and our top level officials will be on the field to ward off any such subversive activities," he added. The Rab official said Jamaat-Shibir men remained almost silent in the capital for last few days which is not a good sign.
Against this backdrop, BNP would enforce its countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal in an already tensed situation when 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... unleashed a wave of terror during its 48-hour shutdown that ended this morning.
The main opposition, which is considering a hard-line stance, said it would form countrywide "committees for public safety" to, what it said, counter the ruling Awami League's threat to resist opposition movement.
"We will build resistance through these committees," said BNP Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed at a presser yesterday without elaborating on the matter.
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[MAGHAREBIA] The leader of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party was forced to flee Thala on Sunday (March 3rd) after angry residents hurled stones at his car, Mosaique FM reported.
Residents reportedly shouted "Get out!" when they spotted Rachid Ghannouchi and then threw rocks at his vehicle, breaking a window.
The leader of the Ennahda party was in the Kasserine town with Religious Affairs Minister Noureddine Khademi and other officials for the reburial of Ahmed Rahmouni, executed in 1963 under the Habib Bourguiba regime.
Last December in Sidi Bouzid, President Moncef Marzouki and parliament speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar were heckled and pelted with stones.
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[Washington Post] Clashes between protesters and the police in in the restive Egyptian city of Port Said that entered their second day Monday have dragged in the military to a dramatic extent into the nation's turmoil.
At times in the violence, frictions have arisen between the police that were battling protesters and army forces that tried to break up the fighting. Troops in between the two sides were overwhelmed by police tear gas, one army colonel was maimed by live fire, and troops even opened fire over the heads of police, bringing cheers from protesters.
Three coppers and three non-combatants were killed in the fighting, and troops stood by as protesters torched a government complex Monday that contains the city's main police building.
The scenes, following three weeks of strikes and protests in the city, have underlined a scenario that many in Egypt view with a mix of concern and relief -- that the military may move back into politics, prompted by mushrooming protests, a breakdown in law and order and mounting challenges to the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Some opponents of Morsi have outright called for the military to take power, and even those who say they oppose a military return have used the prospect to pressure Morsi to find some consensus in the country's political crisis.
Prominent opposition leader Mohammed ElBaradei warned of decaying state institutions and rising levels of violence.
"The regime in its current form is unable to manage the country," he wrote on his Twitter account. "There must be a radical review before it is too late."
Unable to halt the violence, both the police and military Monday sought to deny any tensions between them. Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... there was no official comment from the presidency following one of the worst flare-ups of violence since January.
Unrest also spread in other parts of the country. In the capital, Cairo, protesters blocked the main thoroughfare along the Nile River, and police tried to clear them with volleys of tear gas. Other disgruntled young men set fire to two police cars in two different locations in Cairo, sending police fleeing the vehicles in the middle of traffic.
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BRIDGEPORT -- A nursing student, in not-so-high spirits because she was left off the invitation list to a classmate's wedding, threatened to boom St. Vincent's Medical Center, police said.
Theresa Burden, 37, of Sachem Drive, was charged with four counts of first-degree threatening, after she sent a series of threatening letters -- some containing a dangerous-looking substance -- to the hospital, police said.
Police said on Dec. 20, Burden first sent a letter to the hospital's nursing school under the name of another female student. The letter threatened to kaboom the school because it was interfering with the student's wedding plans. "Okay, you don't invite me to your wedding, you get to hold it in the clink."
The student whose name was on the letter was subsequently suspended from the school. However, police said they later determined she had not written the letter. "Reinstate her, por favor. She didn't do it."
In the following weeks, police said several more letters arrived at the hospital signed with the names of female nursing students.
One contained a green, granular substance and stated: "I will blow up St. Vincent's." Taking a page out of the Joker's book, are we?
Another claimed: "I put explosives on the first floor."
A third held a white swab and stated: "Get some MRSA and die." Just ask around at the hospital and see if there's a patient whose lips fell off.
Police detectives rounded up all the nursing students and began taking handwriting samples from them to compare to the unfriendly missives.
When police got to Burden, they said she became visibly upset and confessed to detectives that she had sent the letters. The green substance turned out to be cat litter from her home.
"I am sorry. I didn't mean it," police said Burden told them. "Didn't mean it. Heard that one a million times in base 20, lady."
Burden was later released after posting five myriad pix of George Washington
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Makes one wonder about the history of a nursing student, 37 yrs old, who doesn't have enough common sense to fit in a thimble. I suspect a prior acquaintance with the legal system.
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Nursing student Burden, Nursing student Ms. Theresa Burden to the white courtesy phone please. We have Glenwood Gardens, Brookdall Senior Living on line three.
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Cat litter? I suspect a prior acquaintance with the mental health system. Not hard to imagine why such a lovely person wasn't invited to the wedding.
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I expect that being psychotic will be a job qualification under PPACA.
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Having been born in Bridgeport, nothing surprises me. Dutch Schults, P.T. Barnum, and Jaspar MacLeavy, the longest serving Socialist Mayor in the country.
A total of 11 individuals were killed in 24 hours in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, including four municipal police agents among seven found dead in one incident Monday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.
A news account which appeared on the website of El Universal news daily said the seven victims were found aboard a Jeep SUV which had been incinerated near the village of Ojo de Agua in the Aguaverde section of Rosario municipality, in the far south of Sinaloa state.
Police found 90 spent cartridge casings at the scene from .45 caliber, 9mm, AR-15 and AK-47 rifles. The victims were reportedly kidnapped Sunday night.
Rosario municipality is about 20 kilometers south of Mexico Federal Highway 40, Mexico's northernmost contiguous east-west highway running coast to coast, from the Sinaloa port city of Mazatlan to northern Tamaulipas state.
According to the news account four other unidentified individuals were murdered in Sinaloa state, two in San Ignacio municipality, which is north of Rosario and two in the community of El Tecomate.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
[An Nahar] An Italian man dressed up in fake ecclesiastical robes was escorted out of a meeting of Catholic cardinals by Swiss Guards on Monday after trying to sneak into the closed-door Vatican meeting.
The man had told news hounds that his name was "Basilius" and that he was a member of the "Italian Orthodox Church", which does not exist. Points for originality...
Before he was discovered, the "bishop" told news hounds that Catholic bishops had "made a mistake by moving priests" who were accused of pedophilia around different parishes.
He was wearing a purple scarf around his waist that was similar to the sashes warn by senior Catholic prelates and he shook hands and chatted with priests and cardinals arriving at the meeting.
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[Dawn] The atmosphere in Pakistain's commercial capital turned tense after mourners buried some of the victims of the previous days bombing that killed 48 people in a Shia-dominated area of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... At least two people were killed and several maimed as festivities broke out in the city's Sohrab Goth area after gunnies opened fired on mourners returning from the funeral procession.
Participants of the funeral procession came under heavy fire near Al-Asif square in Sohrab Goth area, DawnNews reported.
Officials said gunnies shot and killed two people as they were returning from the funeral for victims of the massive bombing.
Police official Qamar Ahmad said some members of the Shia community attending Monday's funeral set fire to buses in the neighborhood.
After the funeral, when they moved through the same area, gunnies opened fire on the group and maimed several protesters.
Dr. Saleem Memon, who works at the hospital where the maimed were taken, said two men died and another 13 were maimed.
Sporadic bursts of gunfire were reported in the Sohrab Goth and near Abbas Town areas following the incidents.
According to reports, four Rangers personnel were also maimed in the festivities.
According to some estimates, up to 30 vehicles, including cars, cycle of violences, and an ambulance were said to have been set on fire.
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[Dawn] Gaddi Nasheen of Dargah Ghulam Shah Ghazi, Syed Hajan Shah, who was maimed in an attack on the Dargah in the village of Maari near Shikarpur on Feb 25, succumbed to his wounds on Monday, DawnNews reported.
Reports suggest that business and other social activities came to a halt in the town after the news of his death was made public.
Sources said that angry mobs came out on the streets, protesting against the culprits behind the devastating attack that killed at least three and injured dozens on Feb 25.
Syed Hajan Shah among two his children and three women had received serious injuries in the kaboom.
According to DIG Larkana Abdul Khaliq Sheikh, an unidentified man talking on a mobile phone had placed a bag in the Dargah. There was the blast soon after he left the area.
Eyewitnesses said the man had placed the bag in the hall where the Gaddi Nasheen and his followers were sitting and within 15 minutes the blast took place.
Earlier on Feb 20, the motorcade of spiritual leader Syed Ghulam Hussain Shah Buhkari was also attacked near Jacobabad. His grandson Syed Shafique Shah was killed and more than eight people were maimed in the attack.
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GAZA CITY - Gaza's Hamas rulers say they will begin a new campaign to find Palestinian collaborators with Israel.
Col. Mohammed Lafi of Gaza's Interior Ministry said on Monday that the campaign aims to protect Palestinian groups battling Israel. Lafi says they will also warn other Palestinians of the dangers of spying. Israel security officials have long relied on a network of informants in the Palestinian territories to keep tabs on militants.
Since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007, it has taken a tough line on Palestinians accused of collaboration with Israel. Gunmen have killed more than 24 suspected collaborators, and jailed 20 suspects.
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Some estimates place the number of collaborators at one in five. Keep up the excellent work Col. Lafi.
[ALLAFRICA] Five suspected members of the dreaded Islamic Sect, 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... were yesterday tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... in Ibadan by coppers from the Oyo State Police Command.
They were arrested around 12.30 am at Jagan Community in Akinyele Local Government Area of the state. The five suspected Boko Haram members were said to have arrived from Jos on Friday night.
The suspects, who are being locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! at the Kajorepo Police Station along Ojo-Iwo road, are assisting the police in their investigation on their mission to the state.
A police source who pleaded anonymity said that the suspects needed to be investigated thoroughly before they could be released.He wondered why they would come to the state without any tangible mission.
He however assured that if at the end of the investigation nothing incriminating was found on them, they would be released.
On Friday night, it was learnt that an occupant of a delapidated building in the community simply identified as Kazeem had arrived around 11.30 pm when he discovered that four hefty men were sleeping in his place of abode.
He was said to have immediately alerted leaders of the community, who called the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Kajorepo Police Station.
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[VANGUARDNGR] Al-Qaeda's branch in northern Africa on Monday confirmed that one of its big shots, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, had been killed in northern Mali, a report said.
Zeid was killed as a result of a French bombing raid in the Ifoghas mountains, a member of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) who normally writes for jihadist websites told the private Mauritanian news agency Sahara Medias.
He denied claims, however, that another Islamist leader in the region, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, had been killed, saying that Belmokhtar "is in the Gao region, waging the fight against he enemy."
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Too many big shots - pull the Valkyries and use something more fitting like succubi.
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[An Nahar] A "terrorist group" from Syria carried out a bushwhack in western Iraq on Monday that killed 48 Syrian soldiers being transferred to the border and nine Iraqi guards, the defense ministry said.
The ambush was carried out "by a terrorist group that infiltrated into Iraqi territory coming from Syria," the ministry said on its website.
It said a number of unarmed and maimed Syrian soldiers had fled to Iraq for medical treatment and were being transferred to al-Walid border crossing to be returned to Syria through "official channels."
But they were ambushed on the way, in what the ministry termed "an attack against the illusory sovereignty of Iraq, its land, and its dignity, and a clear violation of human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... , as (the soldiers) were maimed and unarmed."
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North Korea is constructing a new ballistic-missile launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Hamgyong Province, experts claimed Wednesday.
The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, on its blog 38north.org on Wednesday, claimed the new launch pad is for intercontinental missiles aimed at the U.S. and suggested a possible link with Iran. It said the facility can accommodate a more advanced missile than the rocket whose launch failed in February.
The institute analyzed images taken by the commercial satellite Digital Globe on April 29 and said the new facility is being built 1.75 km east of the existing facility in Musudan-ri. The facility is twice the size of existing facilities in Musuan-ri and Tongchang-ri and has a bigger flame trench, launch pad and storage facility for fuel oxidizers.
Construction started last summer, the institute said, and predicted it will be operational in 2016 or 2017. It said the assembly plant at the new site is similar in design to Iran's Missile and Space Center at Semnan.
The Choson Sinbo, a pro-Pyongyang newspaper in Japan, quoted the chief of the Tongchang-ri launch facility as saying on April 16 that the North has "specific plans to launch a satellite not only at the Tongchang-ri site, but at Musudan-ri as well."
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[An Nahar] Syrian rebels battling troops loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... overran Raqa on Monday after days of fierce fighting, and were now in "near-total control" of the northern city, a watchdog reported.
"This is the first bustling provincial capital in Syria where rebels have made such progress. They now have near-total control of Raqa city, except for some regime positions, including the military security and Baath party headquarters," Rami Abdel Rahman, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.
According to the Observatory, Al-Nusra Front jihadists fought alongside other rebel groups in the battle for the northern city, strategically located on the Euphrates river near the Turkish border.
In Raqa, residents destroyed a statue of Assad's father and predecessor Hafez, according to amateur video footage distributed by activists.
The Observatory reported that a police chief was killed and two security bigshots captured by the rebels.
"Rebels took the state security chief to Turkey," Abdel Rahman said, noting that the road linking Raqa to Turkey, including the border crossing at Tal al-Abyad, was under rebel control.
Raqa was once home to 240,000 residents, but some 800,000 people forced to flee violence in other parts of Syria have sought shelter there ever since the start of the conflict.
In recent weeks, rebel fighters cut off all the army's supply routes leading to the city and escalated their attacks on checkpoints and other regime positions.
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[News24] More than seven weeks into its intervention to root out Salafist tough guys in Mali, the French army keeps a tight lid on details of the operation - a policy some call a public relations fumble.
Instead of using the chance to portray itself in a good light, the military is keeping the public in the dark and rubbing the media up the wrong way, say observers and industry commentators.
"The army is missing out on a chance to put itself forward at a time when it is doing something impressive all on its own, without our American allies," said Michel Goya of the IRSEM defence research institute, who described the information blackout as "counter-productive".
"The defence ministry and the army have always had a defensive take on communication, of which they only see those aspects that are negative, disruptive and need to be restricted," he added.
The French military has kept the area where the main fighting is taking place, around the city of Kidal in Mali's far north, virtually off-limits. Three television crews were allowed into Kidal early last month but were confined to the airport.
Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last month criticised La Belle France for an "excessive" media lockout.
"We've never seen such unanimous frustration among news hounds on the ground," said Ambroise Pierre, head of the RSF Africa desk, condemning a "serious attack on the freedom of the media".
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"The defense ministry and the army have always had a defensive take on communication, of which they only see those aspects that are negative, disruptive and need to be restricted," he added.
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portray itself in a good light, the military is keeping the public in the dark and rubbing the media up the wrong way, say observers and industry commentators.
It's all about how we the elite media perceive you. You don't count. Real accomplishments don't count. Real failure doesn't count (see Zero).
The only thing that counts is how the elite, as buffered by the MSM, perceive you and how that perception can increase the elites power & money.
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From the nuus you've read time and time again section:
Red Arsenals Arm The Simbas
Russian and Chinese weapons airlifted to the Congo Rebels.
These warriors are Congolese rebels, the dreaded Simbas. Not long ago they and thousands like them were rag-tag renegades who ranged over countless square miles, making a sport of butchering and pillaging. Now they are bcomeing a coordinated fighting force - with the full and open backing of the Soviet Union and Communist China.
Massively, and competitively, the two Communist countries are supplying the Simbas with guns and ammunition. The new weapons - plainly marked by the manufacturers - come chiefly from stockpiles to Communist-oriented Algeria and the United Arab Republic, and are flown into areas in countries bordering the Congo.
From there the consignments are carted overland to Simba strongholds. The best efforts of the Congo's army and its tiny hired air force to halt the traffic are of little avail, and even the recent expulsion of the Red Chinese from neighboring Burundi made scarcely a dent.
To document this menace, Life sent a team of four correspondents into areas where the build-up is taking place. Their eyewitness accounts, whjich appear on the following pages, underscore the dilemma facing the U.S. and her allies: whether to go openly to the aid of the Congo's Premier Tshombe and further alienate the African nations which regard him as a white man's puppet, or see the Congo go to default.
For the entire article and lekker fotos see: Vol 58, No. 6 'LIFE' February 12, 1965
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they are fighting a vicious barbarian horde. Nobody needs a bunch of p[anty-waist hand-wringers mewling about ROE and tactics and giving away Ops/Tactics to the enemy
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Fuck the media, we're fighting a war.
Good for the French and good for the French Military. Dang they really hitched up their britches and became hard headed about all of this. The Moslem dickheads that started all of those riots are going to regret that action. The riots were a wake up call and the French have answered it.
Geez, the Fucking French are now the tough guys of the Western World while we have a guy hiding under his desk wanting to fight a war with drones and tersely written letters.
AND oh please don't forget the ROE. We suffered terrible casualties in Nam because of those obscene ROE and we did the same damn thing to ourselves in Afghanistan.
Can we keep the press out of one war just long enough to finish one without whining and sniveling over casualties, civilians, puppies, bunnies, and collateral damage?
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Hey Jacques ... tighten the thumbscrews - he's not talking yet. And pass the cognac.
This gives an all world anomaly of about +250,000 sq km.
Since ice freezes and melts constantly, the anomaly is a pretty fast changing metric and of course, this tell you nothing about ice volume. Still, its interesting.
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Funny, I haven't heard the Warmist's wailing about how fast the poles are melting lately.
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Just saw an alarmist story about how ships could sail over the poles (HA!!) by 2050. That will be a trick since there is an entire continent over the south one.
[Dawn] Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. has again attacked the PML-N's Punjab government alleging it has contacts with the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... terrorists, and urging it to arrest the accused to 'atone for' its past 'sins'.
The PML-N has hit back by terming the minister the most failed interior minister in the history of the country and asked him to take custody of LJ leader Malik Ishaq.
Talking to the media here on Sunday, Malik said LJ had its headquarters based in Punjab and all arms and ammunition were being supplied to its hit-men from here.
He said he had been urging the Punjab government for the last three years to take action against the terrorists. Extending a challenge to Shahbaz for a debate over the issue, he said terrorism could have been rooted out from the country had the Punjab government cooperated with his ministry.
He said the defunct outfit would also be dealt with an iron hand like the Taliban and that his ministry had provided a list of 734 hit-men belonging to the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi to the Punjab government and urged the provincial authorities to arrest these accused.
"The PML-N should atone for its contacts with the terrorist outfit by and capture these terrorists."
Replying to a query, he said the back of the Taliban had been broken and now there was no threat of the Taliban except in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Quetta.
Regarding the all-parties conference recently held by the JUI-F in Islamabad, he alleged that two banned outfits also participated in the moot and added that the organizers had better invited the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain too.
About reconciliation between the PPP and the MQM due to his efforts, the minister said the government had been engaging the MQM in the best interest of the country and give and take on certain issues was part of politics.
He said he was thankful to MQM chief Altaf Husain who would always give a patient hearing to his arguments (and change the decision of divorcing the PPP).
Special assistant to CM Punjab Zaeem Hussain Qadri says Rehman Malik is the most failed interior minister who, instead of paying attention to law and order, is engaged in political points scoring.
In a statement issued in response to the minister's anti-PML-N remarks, he said that Quetta and Karachi were burning but the performance of Malik as interior minister was limited just to issuing press statements.
He said that as interior minister it was responsibility of Mr Malik to take strict action against Islamic fascistieven if they belonged to the Lashkar-e-Jhanvi. "Who have stopped Rehman Malik to arrest the elements involved in terrorism from any corner of the country?"
Qadri said it was on the record that a number of PPP parliamentarians were elected with the support of defunct organizations whereas Punjab government never supported terrorism and was crushing the elements involved in terrorism.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... Punjab government's front man Pervaiz Rashid says Malik Ishaq, alleged chief of defunct Laskhkar-e-Jhangvi, is in police custody for the last 10 days. He said if Rehman Malik considered that the captive was involved in Karachi and Quetta killings, why the interior minister was avoiding taking Ishaq into his own custody.
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Unknown assailants gunned down a teacher at an Islamic school in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan. The Dagestani Interior Ministry said on March 4 that Magomed Biyarslanov was found dead shot several times in the chest inside his house in the village of Gubden late on March 3.
Late last year, before leaving Forward Operating Base Tillman for the final time, U.S. troops took apart every bit of the remote outpost near the border with Pakistan, from the dirt-packed barricades to the flat-screen TVs in the intelligence center.
Mohibullah Samim, the governor of Paktika province, called it a waste. He said, "I was against dismantling it. It would have been better to hand it over to the Afghan army to keep the border area safe." It's a border outpost. Build one yourself...
The mountaintop outpost was long a potent symbol of the American war effort, and military commanders were concerned that it would be a prime target for Islamist insurgents to seize after American troops left. But now it is a symbol of the U.S. withdrawal and the debate over how best to provide for the Afghan forces who will soon be fully responsible for defending their country.
As the military coalition begins to bring home most of its troops and tens of billions of dollars in equipment, coalition officials are negotiating with Afghanistan over whether to raze or hand over the many checkpoints, guard towers, isolated outposts and sprawling bases.
In weekly meetings, Afghans have asked the coalition not to demolish any more bases, saying that they could continue to serve as security installations or be converted into facilities the government can't afford to build, such as schools. But while many bases are being handed over, U.S. commanders have told Afghan officials that dozens, including Tillman, would have been too challenging to sustain given Afghanistan's limited capabilities.
For some Afghans, the loss of these outposts highlights the uneasy reality that they will carry on the war against the Taliban with fewer facilities and far less firepower. Afghan soldiers and police have watched as bases are disassembled, no doubt realizing that coalition troops will be the next to go.
Ameen Habibi, a senior Finance Ministry official involved in the talks, said, "Even if these bases are remote, at some point they served a security benefit. They can continue to serve that purpose."
But coalition officials are concerned that Afghans will leave strategic outposts unprotected, and perhaps let them fall into enemy hands. They say they're trying to hand over only the infrastructure that Afghan forces will be able to maintain.
A U.S. official said the Afghans' "instinct was, at the beginning of this, 'Turn over all your facilities to us and anything you don't want, like Humvees or whatever, leave those behind.' And we said that's the wrong approach. If we were to do that you'd spend all your time, energy and money figuring out what to do with this stuff and how to run it and how to maintain it because you don't have the capacity to do that."
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If we were to do that you'd spend all your time, energy and money figuring out what to do with this stuff and how to run it and how to maintain it because you don't have the capacity to do that."
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"I was against dismantling it. It would have been better to hand it over to the Afghan army to keep the border area safe.for further hand off to the Taliban."
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Mark the locations GPS coordinates and prepare explosives in any 'bunker' type areas that might allow bad guys to hide from bombs. Then let them take it.
I suspect a lot of Aghans are thinking 'good thing we didn't really take sides so now the Taliban won't be pissed at us' when they should be thinking 'if we took sides the Taliban might be gone and the Yankees might be building schools instead of ignoring our begging to convert sand-bag bases into schools. Indecisive, should have learned the lesson from the Vietnamese.
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Another good reason to leave NOTHING behind is that it minimizes the possibility of some sort of asinine "I got hurt playing in the abandoned outpost" lawsuit...
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This will not end well for the women of Afghanistan.
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I'm sure she is like my wife in never attributing to malice etc.
Me, I'm too cynical. This was definitely a sucker's bet, a trap set by the editorial board so that they could beat a favorite prey, Catholics and the church. They are not only despicable they are cowards.
When are they going to write the editorial disembowling Islam?
[Dawn] Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. said on Monday that like Quetta the Punjabi Taliban was behind the attack in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's Abbas Town on Sunday, DawnNews reported.
The interior minister said that the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LeJ) had its headquarters in Punjab and claimed that the province's ruling party the Pakistain Mohammedan League -- Nawaz (PML-N) was in an electoral alliance with the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
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Speaking to media persons at a private hospital after meeting with the victims of the tragic blast that occured in Karachi on Sunday, Rehman Malik said that the same group of hard boyz was involved in the Quetta and Karachi attacks.
He added said that terrorism in the country would be eliminated only if action was taken against hard boyz in Punjab.
The federal interior minister said that the terrorist forces wanted to delay the upcoming elections.
He claimed that the backbone of hard boyz has been broken and that 30 activists of the LeJ were apprehended in Karachi alone.
The LeJ had previously grabbed credit of two attacks in Quetta's Alamdar road and Kirani road this year.
A local daily newspaper had reported the chief of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi, as saying that the PML-N was in talks with him for seat adjustments in the general elections.
The PML-N on the other hand had denied all links with jihad boys.
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[News24] Former US President Bill Clinton has said that poverty is fuelling the violence now sweeping across Nigeria's north. Right, Bill. Got a problem? Give somebody money.
Clinton, speaking on Tuesday in southwestern city of Abeokuta, said the violence happens in regions that have incredible poverty compared to the more prosperous cities in Nigeria's south.
Clinton said the problems "appear to be rooted in religious differences," but take root in poverty. He said strong state and federal government agencies should help, but he cautioned against oil-rich Nigeria simply taking a "divide the pie" approach of throwing money at the troubled areas to stop the violence. Hmmmmmmm...sounds familiar. No matter the problem the solution is always the same. Reminds me of another proposed world solution...
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Mr. Clinton---Please read the book, Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, and then get back to us with your thoughts. Be prepared to discuss inclusive states vs extractive states and how they apply to today's successes and failures of nations.
Then when you are all smartened up, go to the white house and enlighten your buddy up there. He needs some enlightenment.
And if you see the new SoS, ask him why he threw away $250 million into the toilet for Egypt.
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Religion, Corruption, Oil Money. What could go wrong?
[GUARDIAN.CO.UK] Rather than lifting the US-European arms embargo, as Britain has proposed, why not ask Russia and Iran to join it? Because they'll tell you to screw off?
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Waiter, more guns for everyone! I say turn Syria into a Disney World for civil war. (as if it isn't already!) Let it be a jihadi sponge.
These people (yeah, I'm stereotyping) seem to have an innate urge to murder. Better they expend their energies on each other than create mischief for us. Besides, it will make it easier to shoot the winners.
I realize this is not exactly Tom Barnett's The Pentagon's New Map. To which I reply, bite me.
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There will be peace and tranquility in the region right after Barrett-Jackson goes exclusively Toyota. I strongly recommend sitting back, savoring the moment, and methodically war-gaming the eventual destruction of the victor.
[Dawn] IN the wake of the attacks against the Hazaras in Quetta, accusations have been levelled by a section of civil society, media and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations that the armed forces and its intelligence agencies have some links with proscribed beturbanned goon outfits like the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ).
There is also a widespread general perception that our security establishment calls the shots on internal security issues, especially those pertaining to 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... and Fata.
This criticism against a publicly respected institution of the armed forces resulted in an emphatic denial by none other than the chief of the ISPR, the military's media wing, at a specially arranged media briefing last month.
At the same time the secretive and powerful ISI formally told the Supreme Court that it had conveyed prior information about the transfer of large-scale chemicals from Lahore for preparation of explosives in Quetta to be soon used against the Hazaras.
It conceded that formal counterterrorism operations were not part of the ISI's mandate, implying that the Frontier Corps (FC) and the police had failed to prevent the carnage even after being given clear information.
A military front man stated clearly that "the armed forces were not in contact with any beturbanned goon organization, including the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi". This realisation is welcome, especially after a change in the military doctrine recently when the army chief unequivocally declared on Independence Day in 2012 that the Pak state was pitted against an internal enemy in the form of beturbanned goon organizations that were planning to unravel the country through terrorism and religious extremism.
The very public and categorical denial by the army command should also result in the institution's own soul-searching and internal accountability about the patronage of certain beturbanned goon organizations by the military and the intelligence agencies, especially during the Zia and Musharraf eras.
The present army command knows and understands that security-handling and political engineering by the Military Intelligence (MI) in Balochistan led to the woes of that unfortunate province that continues to bleed due to the unresolved issue of the missing persons, the Baloch insurgency, assassinations of Punjabi settlers and sectarian terrorism, especially against the Hazara Shias.
While ruling out any collaboration at any level, the army front man stated that there was "no reason to think about the army's involvement" with the LJ. He vociferously added that "there is no way the army can afford this. If such a thing comes to notice it will be sorted out".
The record shows and all Hazaras know that there was not a single incident of sectarian terrorism in Quetta or the entire province in 2007 because high-profile LJ bully boyz like Usman Kurd and Dawood Badini had been apprehended and incarcerated in a high-security, anti-terrorism police force-guarded prison in the
military cantonment in Quetta.
Will the army command and intelligence agencies honestly probe the circumstances under which the LJ desperados beat feet from a secure facility in January 2008? Is it not a fact that the LJ Balochistan regrouped under these runaways and since then has unleashed a reign of terror, not only in Quetta but all over the country?
In my view, the armed forces now have a responsibility to come up to the expectations of the victim Shia community of Quetta and leave no stone unturned to re-arrest the LJ runaways.
No army operation is required for this challenging task. All it requires is for the Crime Investigation Department, the Special Branch, Intelligence Bureau, and the ISI to pool their resources, share information and help the police, FC and the armed forces for a targeted raid in an area which is outside the jurisdiction of the police.
It is now time to address the civil-military disconnect to resolve the issue of internal security fault lines and stop blaming each other. Sectarian violence is now the biggest threat to our national cohesion and peace.
The timing is also crucial because the next national elections are around the corner.
An inept and corrupt government failed to muster the political will to tackle the security challenges facing Balochistan during the last five years.
A truly representative new politicianship elected as a result of fair and transparent elections will hopefully be chastened by the previous misrule and try to deliver peace and progress to the hapless citizens of a province crying for the healing touch of reforms.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, Harrigan had lost the feeling in his legs from the cold. I told 'em they'd never take me alive, he thought. I was right!... our security establishment led by the armed forces and intelligence agencies, who have been part of the problem, has to become a very active part of the solution to combat sectarian terrorism, resolve the issue of missing persons, guard our vast frontiers, and actively support the police, Levies, and civil armed forces such as the FC and Coast Guard.
It must do so not only to protect our vital national assets in Balochistan but become part and parcel of good governance and service delivery for citizens of the hinterland of our nation. I wish it Godspeed.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Four security officers were maimed while trying to remove ex-revolutionaries from Libya's General National Congress (GNC), AFP reported on Sunday (March 3rd).
The former rebels, including amputees, have been occupying the GNC hall since February 3rd. The sit-in has forced assembly members to meet in a nearby hotel.
The protestors have made various demands, including medical treatment abroad.
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Malaysian security forces are now facing battle-hardened, Malaysian-trained commanders of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), who know Sabah well.
Hadji Acmad Bayam, former chief propagandist of the MNLF, told this yesterday to the Manila Bulletin, adding that these MNLF forces may have a huge arsena at their disposal, hidden deep in Sabah's rugged terrain. Among the firearms are Belgian-made G1 and FAL, which former Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gaddafi supplied through Malaysia.
Bayam said Filipinos in Sabah, who are not part of the forces of the Sultanate of Sulu, have already joined the fighting in reaction to what they considered to be Malaysian "atrocities" for killing Imam Maas and his four sons.
He recalled that Malaysia's leadership had even suspected the then chief minister of Sabah, Tun Mustapha, a Tausug from Sulu, of "conspiring" with MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari. He said, "You know, if Mindanao is to Manila, Sabah is to Kuala Lumpur," explaining that Mindanao and Sabah are the "milking cows" of the Philippines and Malaysia, respectively, because of their rich natural resources.
Last Sunday, Abraham J. Idjirani, spokesman of Sultan Kiram III, said 40 people from Basilan, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, and Zamboanga Peninsula breached the blockades and reached Lahad Datu, the scene of the standoff that erupted into a firefight. He said there are many others who are now trying to come to Sabah and help the sultan's followers.
Bayam said that he sees no turning back with the situation in Sabah. On the other hand, he said this gives the US an opportunity to correct the "historical error" it committed against the Moro people. He said this was even acknowledged by the administration of then President George Bush in response to a letter from the late Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Chairman Ustadhz Salamat Hashim.
Bayam said, "This is the best time and opportunity. They should seize the fleeting opportunity or lost it forever. As the only leader of the free world, the only guardian of human rights, freedom and democracy, the American government has the opportunity to correct the historical error against the Moro people."
Meanwhile, Sultan Kiram III, feeling abandoned by the Philippines, yesterday said they are now relying on the United Nations, United States, and United Kingdom for help. He said they are no longer waiting for help from the Acquino administration because none will come anyway.
On Aquino's appeal to preserve the lives of the Sultanate of Sulu's followers, the sultan struck a defiant note. He said, "No more. There is no more preservation... it's in the hands of Almighty Allah."
[An Nahar] Gunmen killed 48 Syrians and nine Iraqis Monday as they ambushed a convoy in western Iraq carrying Syrian soldiers to the border, the premier's front man said, vowing to resist attempts to spread Syria's conflict to its neighbor.
The ambush, a day after a key Syrian opposition group accused Iraq of interfering in Syria, threatens to entangle Iraq in its neighbor's bloody, prolonged civil war -- something Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... has sought to avoid.
"This confirms our fears of the attempt of some to move the conflict to Iraq, but we will face these attempts by all sides with all of our power," Ali Mussawi, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's front man, told Agence La Belle France Presse, putting the toll from the ambush at 48 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi soldiers killed.
The Syrian soldiers crossed into Iraq from the Yaarubiyeh border crossing, scene of fighting on Saturday between rebels and troops loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... , Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Khalaf al-Dulaimi said.
The soldiers were first transported by Iraqi authorities to Storied Baghdad from the northern Nineveh province, bordering Yaarubiyeh, and were on their way to being handed over to Syrian authorities on the border with western Anbar province when they were ambushed, he added.
Armed men attacked the convoy from two sides with mortar rounds, automatic weapons and mines.
Dulaimi said eight Syrians and four Iraqis were also maimed in the attack, while three vehicles in the convoy were destroyed.
The ambush was "a clear message to all Iraqis that what is happening in Syria today effectively moved to Iraq," political analyst Hamid Fadhel told AFP.
Anbar province's Sunni residents have close tribal, family and trade ties with eastern Syria, with which the province shares a long border.
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Promises, promises.
AFAIK the Iranian Navy + IRGC Speedboats taint able to fly over Iraq + Syria to get to the Med.
The mother of one of the 50 to 60 Canadians being monitored by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) suspected of terrorist activities abroad says she no longer recognizes her own son. The Quebec woman said she wants to warn other parents about the risks awaiting young Muslims like her son.
The woman said after her son converted to Islam, he was recruited online by a radical Islamist group. She said her son was by nature a pacifist but was perhaps an easy target.
The mother said she watched her son change gradually after he converted. She said, "He stopped listening to music because it was a sin," she says. "He started to cut off contact with girls, then later, with boys who didn't share his vision."
She said he became more and more critical of Canadian society, saying, "Canadian laws are not good. It's Sharia law that should be applied."
"He is convinced that jihad is a part of the religion," she said, and added he told his parents he wanted them both to "burn in hell" if they did not convert as well.
Her son has left Canada for Syria, and his mother is aware that CSIS agents suspect him of involvement in radical Islamist activities.
Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former CSIS agent who is now president of a private security consulting firm, said, "CSIS knows of some 50 or so young people who have left Canada to join one of these groups."
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Actually GB, I thought for a split second it was indeed a well tanned Guilfoyle, hence the Newsom comment. As Bob Beckel says, "there is a reason producers of "The Five" have her seated on the end".
Of course. Seeing he does just fine, it's thinking that he struggles with.
[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... said Monday that a larger "global conspiracy" exists behind fueling violence between Shia and Sunni sects in Pakistain, DawnNews reported.
"Similar to Iraq, Leb and Bahrain, sectarian violence in Pakistain is part of a larger global conspiracy," said Khan, speaking to news hounds in Lahore.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the PTI chief put responsibility of the country's security situation on President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... and Pakistain Mohammedan League -- Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian 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...
"Zardari does not have the time to pay attention to the situation in the country," he said. "These corrupt politicians have become billionaires in the past five years."
Khan accused the country's two biggest political parties of making seat adjustments with terrorist organizations for the coming elections. He also accused the political parties in Sindh of providing safe havens to terrorist elements involved in sectarian violence.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hamas announces that the PA has arrested 66 of its supporters in W. Bank including 32 former prisoners held by Israel.
The editors of Investors Business Daily pose a good question:
[POLITICO] There is no "set price" to meet with President Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday amid continued outcry over the role of Organizing for Action, the outside group supporting the president's agenda.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Khaleda Zia
North Korea has changed the shape of warheads to improve missile accuracy. The expert said the accuracy of the North's missiles is likely to improve through the use of triconic instead of simple conic warheads, a change of shape which does not reduce the weight. 
[News24] Zim-bob-we's government on Monday rebuffed calls for international observers to be allowed to monitor crunch upcoming elections.
[Washington Post] Clashes between protesters and the police in in the restive Egyptian city of Port Said that entered their second day Monday have dragged in the military to a dramatic extent into the nation's turmoil.
BRIDGEPORT -- A nursing student, 
[An Nahar] An Italian man dressed up in fake ecclesiastical robes was escorted out of a meeting of Catholic cardinals by Swiss Guards on Monday after trying to sneak into the closed-door Vatican meeting.
[Dawn] The atmosphere in Pakistain's commercial capital turned tense after mourners buried some of the victims of the previous days bombing that killed 48 people in a Shia-dominated area of 
GAZA CITY - Gaza's Hamas rulers say they will begin a new campaign to find Palestinian collaborators with Israel.
[ALLAFRICA] Five suspected members of the dreaded Islamic Sect, 
[VANGUARDNGR] Al-Qaeda's branch in northern Africa on Monday confirmed that one of its 
[An Nahar] Syrian rebels battling troops loyal to 
[Dawn] IN the wake of the attacks against the Hazaras in Quetta, accusations have been levelled by a section of civil society, media and 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Dawn] Pakistain 
Nawaz Sharif
