In a news conference, Mr. Kerry suggested that the United States could remove some newly enhanced any
missile defenses in the region, though he did not specify which ones
(keeps Champs options, all the way to all.).
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More Artics again on how much it costs the US = USDOD to mount any kind of overseas mission.
* TOPIX > NORTH KOREA CRISIS ISN'T JUST "BUSINESS AS USUAL".
Yuuupp, in more ways than described in the Artic.
versus
* SAME > [Forbes.com] KOREAN REUNIFICATION: DON'T BE SURPRISED IFF IT COMES SOON.
ARTIC = Author can't predict when formal inter-Korean Reunification will take place, but denotes that major change usually catches the US-World off-guard or by surprise.
* RELATED SAME > [Forbes.com][Regional turmoil = new Korean War] THE BIGGEST THREAT TO CHINA'S ECONOMY.
I presume N-O-T counting "Peak Oil/Resources" andor the Nuclear Jihad.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to visit Gaza in mid-May, he announced Sunday.
Erdogan originally planned to visit the Hamas terrorist-ruled region soon after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu formally apologized to him for IDF operational errors that led to deaths of nine aboard a Turkish vessel attempting in 2010 to break Israels blockade of Gaza.
The Turkish leader had previously said he would probably visit the enclave after his trip to Washington D.C. where he will meet at the White House on May 16 with U.S. President Barack Obama.
According to a report published Sunday in the Turkish Hurriyet daily newspaper, Turkish officials discussed the visit on April 7 with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The paper quoted American sources who said the timing of Erdogans visit was important so it would be helpful and constructive in facilitating the peace process.
PA representative to Turkey Nabil Maarouf welcomed the news of Erdogans impending visit to Gaza.
However, in an exclusive interview with the Todays Zayman newspaper, Maarouf recommended Erdogan visit after reconciliation is achieved between rival factions Fatah and Hamas.
Nigerias Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said it will start a bombing campaign against mosques and Islamic institutions, a week after the rebel group said it killed 15 security personnel in the southern oil-producing Bayelsa state.
The bombings of mosques, haj camps, Islamic institutions, large congregations in Islamic events and assassinations of clerics that propagate doctrines of hate will form the core mission of this crusade, MEND spokesman Jomo Gbomo said in an e-mailed statement today. The campaign, codenamed Barbarossa, will start May 31, it said.
MEND may consider a cease-fire if the Christian Association of Nigeria, the Catholic Church and the groups suspected leader Henry Okah intervene, according to the statement. The threat comes as the government of President Goodluck Jonathan battles Islamist militants in the mainly Muslim north and the capital, Abuja, in which hundreds of people have died since 2009.
MEND, the main rebel group in the the area, destroyed a Royal Dutch Shell Plc oil well in Nembe in southern Bayelsa state yesterday as part of an operation it calls Hurricane Exodus, Gbomo said.
Precious Okolobo, a Lagos-based spokesman for Shells Nigerian unit, said he couldnt confirm the attack when contacted by phone today.
Claimed Attack
MEND said April 3 it would resume attacks in Africas largest oil producer after Okah was sentenced last month to 24 years in prison in South Africa. He was found guilty of 13 counts of terrorism, including a bombing claimed by MEND in which 12 people died in Abuja on Oct. 1, 2010.
On April 10, Nigerian authorities recovered 10 bodies of policemen killed four days earlier in an attack on a boat by gunmen in the oil-rich Niger River delta, Bayelsa state Police Commissioner Kingsley Omire said.
Three policemen and the boat driver jumped in the river in the southern state when gunmen opened fire and were later rescued, Omire said. The attack was claimed by MEND, which said it killed all 15 people aboard.
Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Total SA and Eni SpA run joint ventures with state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. that pump most of the countrys oil. Nigeria depends on crude exports for more than 95 percent of foreign income and 80 percent of government revenue, according to the Petroleum Ministry.
While Okah denies being a leader of MEND, he has said he commands the support of many armed factions in Nigerias oil region.
Nine al-Shabab Islamic extremists, most wearing suicide vests, stormed Somalia's main court complex on Sunday while the Supreme Court was in session, firing a barrage of bullets during a running gun battle with security forces that lasted two hours, officials said.
A preliminary death toll stood at 16, including all nine attackers.
The assault was the most serious in Mogadishu since al-Shabab militants were forced out of the capital in August 2011. Al-Shabab controls far less territory today than in years past, and its influence appears to be on the decline, but Sunday's attack proved the extremists are still capable of pulling off well-planned and audacious assaults.
The attack on the Supreme Court complex began at around 12:30 p.m., sparking running battles with police and army forces. Two bomb blasts were heard and gunmen were seen on the roof of a court building firing shots, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said. Police officer Hassan Abdulahi said he saw five dead bodies lying at the entrance to the court.
The militants took an unknown number of hostages during the siege. Many other government workers and civilians in the court complex -- a confusing labyrinth of buildings and rooms -- hid while fearing for their lives.
Western officials knew militants had been planning something major. The British Foreign Office on Friday released a travel warning for Somalia that warned of a high threat of terrorism. "We continue to believe that terrorists are in the final stages of planning attacks in Mogadishu," it said.
The complex and sustained nature of the assault on the court system suggested militants hoped to inflict severe casualties. Later, a suicide car bomber rammed a vehicle carrying Turkish citizens.
On a Twitter feed believed to belong to the militants, al-Shabab appeared to take credit for the attack. A posting said five militants from the "Martyrdom Brigade" took part in the "daring" attack.
When Kim Jong Un first appeared in Pyongyang's carefully stage-managed public spotlight in the fall of 2010, North Korea watchers began scouring for clues to learn whether the pudgy heir apparent would be a reformist or simply the newest face of a despotic regime. I didn't insert that word, pudgy, it's right out of the WaPo!
Nearly 16 months after taking the reins of the hermit state following the death of his stoic father, North Korea's 30-year-old fat leader appears to be careening toward the latter -- at least on the surface.
Having disavowed his country's armistice with South Korea and threatened to fire his increasingly capable missiles toward the United States, Suet Face Kim has put the Korean Peninsula and Washington on a war footing. His behavior follows the playbook of his predecessors, with one notable and potentially dangerous departure that appears to have him backed into a corner.
"His father and his grandfather always figured into their provocation cycle an off-ramp of how to get out of it," Adm. Samuel Locklear III, the commander of U.S. troops in the Pacific, told Congress this past week. "It's not clear to me that he has thought through how to get out of it. This is what makes this scenario, I think, particularly challenging."
As Kim Jong Un eases into the top job of a nation whose elite has long been presumed to be rife with intrigue and rivalries, he appears determined to assert a tight grip on the levers of power.
"He has an inferiority complex," said Kongdan Oh Hassig, a North Korea expert at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria. "He is trying to show that he has a strategic mind, that the military stands behind him and that no one stands against him." I used to think he was just dangerous, but with an inferiority complex... inherently unstable comes to mind.
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The double "n" in the title was sticky fingers, but maybe it's also a pun?
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unfortunately - if this de-nuclearization policy goes forward then Pudgy's reckless behavior will be rewarded in a big way. His fight to obtain full control of the N. Korean military will be won, and he will have learned a major lesson - if you don't get what you want ... act even more reckless.
I'm in favor of not seeing Seoul or Pyongyang get nuked ... but if the US removes nukes from the peninsula then it's also likely that future non-nuclear conflicts will be a definite reality.
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"what happens when you mix an inferiority complex with a narcissistic complex?"
D.C., Bobby. :-(
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Elmeret .. the USA may have withdrawn nukes from S. Korean soil. But that doesn't mean they were dropped from the defense strategy. They are (presumably) still on US aircraft carriers. And the USA usually has at least one carrier within comfortable sailing distance of "hot spots" in Asia. So the implied threat is still there.
But you raise a good question. If the USA says that de-nuclearization is the new (intended) policy - how exactly does that get implemented? How would N. Korea ever know whether the US has nukes stationed in Guam, or on an aircraft carrier - and therefore how they would be deployed? Basically, the US strategy can never be verified by the N. Koreans - so why should they go for "de-nuclearization"?
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So when KJU took the brinksmanship course, did he pass, fail, drop out, or skipped classes? Or did he do it by correspondence?
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he was "present", which is a lot like someone else we know...
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The irony here is that for the two Koreas to reunify, both NOKOR + SOKOR may need to dev Nukes.
However, the above must be weighed agz the notion that most Perts believe China will never accept a non-Commie, non-Chinese-dominated, pro-Western or pro-Democratic unified Koreas on the Peninsula - MORESO WID FORMAL SINO-TAIWAN REUNIFICATION STALLED INDEFINITELY.
In "Mahanist" China's mind, TAIWAN = China's equivalent of "Mahanist" America's "PEARL HARBOR/HAWAII/HAWIIAN ISLANDS' for entry into the Pacific during the late 19th-early 20th Century. China has times said that widout soveriegnty or control of Taiwan, there is NO China or Chinese "Manifest Destiny" as "post-US", future "World #1" in place of the USoA.
Both Taiwan + the PHIL are US Allies, espec wid the US as existential "guarantor" for democratic Taiwan as China is for Commie NOKOR, hence "Pudgy" = KJU/NOKOR = China? aims its "MUSUDAN(S)" at China's historical rival Japan.
Something has to change = "give" as per starving North Korea, + something has to also change vee China's anti-US "Manifest Destiny".
NORTH KOREA PER SE IS FACING DE FACTO CHINESE TAKEOVER NO MATTER THE SCENARIO, IMO HENCE ITS WILLINGNESS TO THREATEN TO ATTACK EVERYONE.
Front-page WaPo 'news'. Includes photo gallery, with the first one looking vaguely like a Kenyan White House interior.
Five months after his resounding reelection victory by 35% of the eligible voters, President Obama is bumping up against the boundaries of his political power in Washington as the core of his second-term legislative agenda moves into a still-divided Congress.
His ability to secure the three high-profile legislative items now confronting Congress -- gun-control measures, reform of the immigration system and his long-term budget priorities -- is likely to determine his domestic legacy. These items seem to be in reverse priority order, to me. Anybody else?
Obama's plan now is to ensure that as much of his politically challenging agenda as possible is enacted, after months of effort to frame the policies for the American public and, perhaps more important, for the House and Senate.
But senior administration officials acknowledge that only immigration legislation has a chance of resembling Obama's ideal bill once it emerges from the Democratic-run Senate and the Republican-controlled House. On his other major initiatives, they say Obama would settle for less than he claims he wants, a sign that he remains pragmatic in the face of partisan opposition that continues to limit his ambitions. Obama pragmatic? Now that would be news!
"I have the same worry about all of these issues, and it's the Republican House," said Dan Pfeiffer, an Obama senior adviser. The House, elected by the rest of the Country, so somehow -- irrelevant.
Obama outlined a broad progressive agenda in his second inaugural address, and he has spoken frequently about the validation that he believes the public gave his plans by reelecting him last year. But second-term presidents traditionally have less than two years to secure a legislative agenda before lame-duck status sets in, and Obama already has seen his popular support shrink in recent months from its post-election highs.
The election also did not change the basic political dynamic in Washington: a Democratic president in conflict with congressional Republicans, only some of whom don't read the WaPo and NY Slimes and therefore believe last year's election represented a call for compromise.
he strategy has led Obama to alternately court Senate Republicans -- as he did last week in his second such dinner with a dozen of them -- and to scold them before outside-the-Beltway audiences, as he did this month in denouncing GOP threats to block gun-control legislation. Advisers say he does so to keep the political momentum alive in Washington for measures with strong public support outside the capital. Sorry, I'm sure I could keep fisking - there are two more pages - but my eyes are burning and my head hurts. I've got to build up my stamina again!
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He has until now until the summer recess.
That's it.
There's just a few more hours, a few more hours, that's all the time he's got.
He's gonna be a lame duck in the Morning!
LOL, the 'burg is gonna shine
Two terms enabled, won't stop the tabling
we got a real twerp this time.
We need a resolution!
So bring out the clowns!
Moochele is grazing walking in the garden,
gawd help me,
I must make this rhym
Put up or shut up,
let's watch 'em fuck up,
but get me to the booth on time.
Our top priority as a nation, and my top priority as President, must be doing everything we can to reignite the engine of Americas growth: a rising, thriving middle class. Thats our North Star. That must drive every decision we make.
So what exactly does gun control have to do with helping the middle class? Isn't immigration reform directly contrary to the interests of the middle class? Likewise for "budget priorities", which is Champ-speak for raising taxes (again)?
So, seriously, what is this guy's agenda? The real one.
Nice job, Ship, except now I've got this image in my head of Nancy Pelosi as Eliza Doolittle.
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A wish to live forever:
I met a fairy today who said she would grant me one wish.
"I want to live forever," I said.
"Sorry," said the fairy, "I'm not allowed to grant wishes like that!"
"Fine," I said, "then I want to die after Obama gets their heads out of his ass."
AGain, IMO US Politicos recognize or intend for America = Amerika to give up Sovereign Power-n-Influence to the OWG + NAU 2015, to includ Trans-Pacific + TRans-Atlantic Union, etc. related - THEY DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH, BUT THEY STILL INTEND TO COMMIT THE US + AMERICANS TO SAME ANYWAY DESPITE KNOWING THAT THE AMER WAY OF LIFE WILL LIKELY CHANGE FUNDAMENTALLY + PERMANENTLY.
OWG = akin to SPACE/"STAR" GOVT-ORDER = WORLD RESOURCES MUST BE COLLECTIVELY CONTROLLED.
Moreso given the "Sirius Event", GWCC, + the "Consensus among World Govts-Perts is that there is no Consensus".
AMERICA = AMERIKA = "IN TRANSITION". National, Global Socialism is the "New Sovereignty/
Economy".
Perhaps moreso than the 2014 Midterm Elexs or even 2016 POTUS Elex, IMO THE DEMOLEFT IN 2013 IS TRULY FRIGHTENED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF A SINO-US NUCLEAR CONFRONTATION IN EAST ASIA + HOW ALLEGED ANTI-US MARXIST-ANARCHIST-GLOBALIST POTUS BAMMER WILL RESPOND TO CHINA [ = "DRPK", + also Iran = Nuclear Radical Islam/MilTerrs = Nuclear Global Jihad].
GOP-DEMS avoiding or downplaying the above for the sake of 2014 or 2016 Electioneering = CHINA + RADICAL ISLAM WIN.
OWG-NWO + "GLOBALISM" + Jan 2017 + beyond = what POTUS Bammer doesn't do or fails to complete, ANY POST-OBAMA, PRO-"GLOBALISM" POTUS SUCCESSOR(S) WILL BE CHARGED OR DESIRED TO DO SO.
* FYI DEMOCRATIC UNDERGOUND > [The Black Agenda Report] IS THIS BARACK OBAMA'S SECOND TERM, IS IT BILL CLINTON'S THIRD TERM [4th?],OR IS IT RONALD REAGAN'S NINTH TERM???
Lest we fergit,, 1990'S CLINTONISM = Rightism is the New Leftism, Fascism the New Communism, Conservatism the new Liberalism, Capitalism the new Communism/Socialism... ... Republicans/
Republicanism/GOP-Right the new Democrats/DemoLeft???
IIUC Artic = THE BEST DEMOCRATIC POTUSES HAVE BEEN REPUBLICANS = RIGHT-WING [Right or Center-Right]???
* SAME > [Talking Points Memo] JAMES CARVILLE: i THINK OBAMA LOVES ANNOYING/UPSETTING LIBERALS.
Uh, uh, D *** NGED REPUBLICANS = RIGHT-WINGERS???
* SAME > DEMOCRATS FEAR OBAMA SOCIAL SECURITY CUTS WILL HURT THEM IN 2014 RACES.
* IIRC SAME > LBJ-KENNEDY-CLINTON-OBAMA, WID HILLARY WAITING IN 2016: WHOM IS THE BEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT SINCE FDR?
[DailyMail] Mystery Texas killings 'solved': Disgraced court official to be charged with murders of Texas district attorney, his wife and assistant DA after they convicted him of theft
Eric Williams, 46, set to be charged with three murders
DA Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were killed at their Texas home last month
Assistant DA Mark Hasse was fatally shot in January
Williams had been convicted of theft by McLelland and Hasse two years ago
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Not that Ima fan, but it struck me as odd that the Airy N Brutherhewd would be that stupid. Sorta restores my faith in danger ass kryme cindy kates.
Songkran celebrations were held amid tight security throughout the far South yesterday as a teenager was killed and her mother wounded in a drive-by shooting in Pattani province.
No details about the attack have yet been revealed as security officials delayed their inspection of the scene until yesterday morning for fear they could be caught in a trap by terrorists insurgents operating under the cover of darkness.
The attack began before 8 p.m. when four or five gunmen opened fire on the base. A firefight broke out between the gunmen and base defenders that lasted for about five minutes. The assailants broke off when an additional ranger force arrived to reinforce the base.
Police believe the attack was carried out by opponents of the ongoing peace talks between the government and terrorist insurgent groups. They said they were particularly concerned that the violence happened near the house of Hussan Toyib, a key figure of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional insurgent group, who took part in last month's round of peace talks.
Something to keep our eyes on -- the Byzantine empire succumbed to Islam after, among other things, a series of epidemics. I understand work has already started on an inoculation, thanks to proactive steps taken by China.
[Jpost] Two people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of avian influenza, the first cases found in the region and bringing the total number nationwide to 51, Xinhua state news agency said on Sunday.
One of the victims, a 34-year old man in the city of Kaifeng, is now critically ill in hospital, while the other, a 65-year old farmer from Zhoukou, is stable. The two cases do not appear to be connected.
A total of 19 people in close contact with the two victims were under observation but had shown no signs of infection, Xinhua said.
On Saturday, the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a seven year-old child in the capital of Beijing had been infected by the H7N9 bird flu virus, the first case to be reported outside of eastern China, where the new strain emerged last month.
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I'm not worried the Big 3 and NBC have enough money to buy enough Congresscritters, along with being part of MinTruth for the White House, to get the ultimate protection they want. Decades and decades of a free ride on the American broadcast spectrum have built enough cash to take care of it. While mining and forestry firms have not only paid taxes, they've also had to pay significant royalty fees to use federal lands. Not the broadcast industry. Cause it's a burgeoning technological industry that needs protection (still)? There you go Donks, there's a place worthy of kicking in their 'fair share' taxes for using public property, not.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr says the government is aware of reports that Australians fighting against the Syrian regime could be linking up with terrorist groups in the war-torn country.
When asked if up to 200 Australians could be in Syria fighting against President Bashar al-Assad's forces, Senator Carr said the relevant government agencies were across the issue and taking it very seriously.
"There's a big investment of time and resources going into it," Senator Carr told Sky News on Sunday. "It's clearly a potential threat to Australia."
Wonder how many of the 200 have a first name of 'Bruce'...
He wouldn't elaborate as it was a matter of security and intelligence, but said Syria had "without a doubt" become a magnet for jihadist groups across the globe.
One of the most active jihadist militant groups in Syria, the al-Nusrah Front, was placed on Australia's terrorist blacklist last month. Unknown before the uprising, the al-Nusrah Front has become the spearhead of the insurgency ahead of the mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army since mid-2012.
The Australian newspaper on Saturday reported ASIO was concerned at least 100 Australians fighting in Syria's civil war could be doing so alongside the al-Nusrah Front.
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The simplest solution would be to call all those they suspect, in for an assessment regarding their welfare payments. Without their jizya they wouldn't be able to ponce around Syria like millionaires.
But it won't happen, idiotic multiculturalism and "fairness and humanity" and all that.
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just don't let 'em back in Australia.
Glenmore, won't happen. With an election coming up the last thing Labor will want to do is upset their "muslim brothers"
They will probably give them an overseas allowance while they are in Syria studying the Koran and rendering humanitarian assistance to the "victims" of the civil war.
There is literally an army of NGO's hanging off ever one of them to "help them integrate" and they would loose too much money if the Govt cracked down. So other than sweeping the problem under the carpet, nothings going to happen.
Prisoners and guards have clashed at Guantanamo Bay as authorities moved inmates, many of whom are on hunger strike, out of communal cellblocks.
Are we still arguing about these guys? We're required to provide food, not force them to eat it. If they don't eat that is their problem.
The move came after detainees covered surveillance cameras and windows, a US Army spokesman said. He said some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and in response "four less-than-lethal rounds" were fired.
Less than lethal but they hurt like hell...
The Pentagon says 43 prisoners are on hunger strike, but lawyers for the detainees say the number is higher. Almost a dozen are being force-fed, according to military officials.
That's a dozen too many...
There were no "serious injuries to guards or detainees" in Saturday's clashes, according to Capt Robert Durand of the US military's Southern Command.
"I know for sure that one detainee was hit but the injuries were minor, just some bruises," another spokesman, Col Greg Julian, told the Associated Press.
Lawyers for some of the detainees condemned the camp authorities' actions. Carlos Warner, who represents several detainees, told AP that "the military is escalating the conflict".
That's generally what a military does when you don't cooperate, Carlos...
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You can offer the food every day...good food, healthy , nutritious, that sort of thing. ( serve it with a plastic spoon, of course )
WHETHER they decide to eat it is their choice. All you have to do is provide it ( totally halal, of course ).
Benign neglect and starvation, I never thought of that? It would solve the problem though. Or we could move the prison to San Francisco...Oakland could handle it? Put a microchip in every one of the detainees ( is that the right PC word for them) and make it so we can track them if they somehow "escape into the California population. And then we let the people of California handle catching them again. Or we could put them on working reform and open detention in Hollywood. Let them do light work jobs for Beverly Hills volunteers, nothing too strenuous.
We should be tolerant and forgiving and not stereotype, after all. I hear they eat good in Hollywood and a lot of people wear sun glasses and wear Guccis.
Don't you wish you lived in California? Nice and sunny like Guantanamo too.
[Ynet] Sudan has supplied weapons and ammunition to rebels fighting neighboring South Sudan's government, says a report from the Small Arms Survey, an independent Swiss research group.
Sudan denies having links to rebels led by David Yau Yau, who is based in the restive Jonglei state. But the research group says it has evidence Sudan airdropped weapons to the rebels between August and December last year.
[Guardian Ng] NORTHERN Islamic leaders under the umbrella of the Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI) have said that the rejection of the amnesty proposal by the Federal Government, by the leadership of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Militants is a setback in finding lasting solution to the insurgency in the North.
Besides, they also blamed some Christian leaders, particularly, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for their utterances and opposition to the amnesty proposal, saying that the position on the issue was capable of fuelling further crisis in Nigeria.
The Secretary General of the JNI, Sheikh Khalid Abubakar Aliyu, who spoke Friday in Kaduna said that "It is an unexpected happening that just came from the blue and took Moslems in particular and the whole country unawares."
"If man had pre-knowledge of what will happen, then it wouldn't have happened, the way accident is. If the person involved in an accident knew that it will happen, he would have taken precautionary measures not to allow that happen."
According to Aliyu: "There are many options left for the government. Even the amnesty itself must have preparatory steps before the amnesty is reached. First is finding them, second is to ask them to come out and then dialogue with them. I think that these are the most important ingredients that are supposed to come first. I think we are just putting the cart before the horse because the first thing is to look for them, then ask them to come out and if they do, create a conducive atmosphere for dialoguing with them before the amnesty which should the final stage".
The JNI Secretary General, while addressing journalist at a presser, said that the Islamic leaders have "noticed with dismay the manner and language of argument from some quarters in the country over the seeming controversy being generated by the federal government's proposal on amnesty for Boko Haram Death Eaters," adding that "while such controversy is legitimate and contribution to it is a right of every Nigerian, we feel that at a precarious time like this, the basis of any contribution should be for the purpose of achieving peace and not to further aggravate the tension in the land."
Aliyu declared: "We are therefore perplexed that while the call to grant amnesty to Boko Haram by the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, JNI, has received strong support of prominent Christians, such as Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Bishop Mathew Kukah, Pastor Paul Unongo, to mention but few, the President of CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejfor and his cohorts are busy confusing the country's leadership on the way out of the security challenges."
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Syrian government troops trying to relieve a besieged military base in the countrys northwest ambushed a rebel checkpoint Saturday, killing at least 12 opposition fighters, activists said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the government forces surprised the rebel fighters on the outskirts of the village of Baboulein in Idlib province. The Observatory, which relies on a network of local activists on the ground, said many opposition fighters were also wounded in the attack.
Rebels have wrested much of the countryside of Idlib and other provinces in northern Syria from regime forces, although government troops still control many military bases in the region from which they launch attacks on opposition-held areas.
Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said the assault Saturday was part of government efforts to resupply the embattled military base at Wadi Deif outside of the town of Maaret al-Numan, which is just north of Baboulein on the Damascus-Aleppo highway.
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Fascinating piece on Noo Yawk's machine politicians. Read the whole thing. [NYPOST] Sunday's New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... magazine features an interview with disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, which Weiner granted in a bid to gauge if the public is ready to accept him back in public life.
The Weiner piece comes in the wake of the arrest of state Sen. Malcolm Smith for trying to buy his way onto the Republican mayoral primary ballot. His indictment left many asking, "Why is New York so corrupt?" The answer may lie in the careers of people like Weiner and Smith.
Both the ex-congressman from Queens and the state senator are part of an expansive and expensive political culture which affords them a lifelong job as a New York politico, with virtually no experience doing anything else.
It's no wonder that many elected officials seem willing to do just about anything, like Smith, to preserve and advance their careers -- while others, like Weiner, grow arrogant, egotistical and out of touch with everyday norms after spending years in the New York political bubble.
It's not like that everywhere else, believe it or not.
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What's the common thread, I'll give you one hint, the party symbol is a jackass.
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"the party symbol is a jackass"
As illustrated by each of the party's politicians, and most of the party faithful.
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* for our foreign visitors here is the origin of Squirrel! - i.e. a distraction.
Might have to go after parents if you really have a connection (which they dont).
No more than after parents of kids doing the shooting in Chicago, or elsewhere. They accept the Sergeant Schultz defense, cause you know, they're voters.
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I consider liberalism as a severe mental disorder that promotes human sacrifice, hedonism, irresponsibility since they're not to blame for anything, sacrifice of the innocent as they don't want to punish actual criminals and accept that actions have consequences.
There seems to be no real cure, leaving only more unpleasent options for dealing with them. Isolation is a possiblity, ie dumping them all in Hawaii and maintaining a permanent blockade of the place.
She's only mouthing what every child psychologist this side of Vienna has been saying for years.
The common thread in all of these recent mass shootings have been loners with emotional problems and mental illness (there is a difference) spending lots of time playing (addicted to) violent video games.
There is an enormous body of knowledge about how repeated viewing of violence desensitizes people to violence.
I think we should ban video games before we ban anything else. We are developing a generation of kids with no social skills, no sense of teamwork and obese. I shudder to think of what it will be like to have to supervise some of these emotionally and socially maladjusted.
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Banning the games does nothing. What we need are people to accept the fact that if they want to raise kids that aren't monsters, they need to actually PARENT. If the kid has serious mental problems, then do the right thing and have them put into a mental health facility so that they aren't putting society and the rest of their family at risk.
Personal responsibility is at the heart of this and the more people shift this off to others, the worse these sorts of things will be.
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There is a huge difference between conditioning by the military to obey orders which results in the death of the enemy and walking away from a video game wanting to do those things in real life.
In the latter case you conditioned yourself to no good end other than that of a narcissist, and in the former you were conditioned.
If you are deeply disturbed by the images of violence and you want to reenact what you are seeing and you are over 13 years old, then you are disturbed and banning violent video games will do nothing to stop you from committing acts of stupidity.
A 17 year old animal named DeMarquis Elkins shot and killed an innocent 13 month old baby in a stroller and injured the mother in Brunswick, GA around the end of March 2013, just because the mother wouldn't give him money! He shot the baby just to show her he meant business.
DeMarquis Elkins is not a member of the NRA
He did not use an assault rifle
He did not get his stolen pistol from a gun show
His favorite music is rap
He did not attend Christian school, nor was he home schooled
He did attend multicultural public education, and was not instructed in the Ten Commandments
His Momma was on welfare, got food stamps, and lived in public housing
His daddy was not around, and his two brothers have a different daddy
He already has a record for violent crimes
He is gang member
His mom, grandma, and Aunty all voted for Obama.
He never earned his hunter safety card, nor did he shoot CMP, Junior NRA, or 4H Air Rifle Competitions
He was never instructed in gun safety from his father or grandfather
His public education and family taught him that the white man owes him something. He went to collect it
He has no plans on getting married, but does have a Baby Momma, and no, he is not supporting her baby
He smokes weed
He does respect Kayne West
While he has no job, nor was he looking for one, he is well fed, and does not need a job. He has no skills outside of crime
He speaks Ebonics, and is not capable of doing a professional interview, even though he spent 11 years in public education.
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Re: person described in #15. There was no nurturing from a very young age, just like the jihadi-bots from the madarassas. They have no sense of empathy. Basically they are broken people and cannot be fixed. Tragic but true.
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Read "On Killing" by Dave Grossman
I'm sure the Romans, Mongols, et al were well conditioned by their 'video games' to remove any remorse or restraint from killing. How about the Crusaders at Jerusalem, the Imperial forces at Magdeburg, the Aztecs to their neighbors, etc, etc, etc. The uncomfortable truth is that mankind has shown a propensity to butchering his fellow traveler for millenniums. In fact for most of the recorded history the butchering had been literal and done up front and personal with swords, spears and variations thereof. The squeamish usually weren't around to tell their story afterward. It's not that difficult to comprehend when death was considered 'natural' in a primitive environment were supplication to gods were just as effective any anything that passed for sanitation, medical care, reliable food supplies, or numerous other aspects of modern civilization we take for granted. Life was indeed cheap. It is us in the fraction of recorded history who adjudge that what passed for thousands of years to be abnormal rather than our the environment we inhabit.
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How do you know if its violent, you'll know it when you see it?
Fact is there are Jack the Rippers who walk among us.
What Rjschwarz and Silentbrick said. Its a deflection of the issue; the more widespread dissimination of the culture of entertainment would be television, then music, then movies. I can count on one hand macrocultural video game moments, I run out of toes for simply Stalllone violent movies nevermind individual moments. Heck, he had a movie which was so bad it basically starred his cobra imprint pearl handled pistols. But that was my parents' fault for taking me to that movie.
I think we should ban video games before we ban anything else.
You want to see violence? Try that path to tyranny.
We are developing a generation of kids with no social skills, no sense of teamwork and obese.
Says a person using the name of a fat narcissist rapist.
There is an enormous body of knowledge about how repeated viewing of violence desensitizes people to violence.
And an as-large or larger body of research showing that effect is miniscule and transitory.
Read "On Killing" by Dave Grossman
I hear that thing endlessly cited, but only by the anti-videogame crowd. Outside those circles, it's apparently a joke. The claims are poorly supported and the numbers are old and apparently in question. He's like Ehrlich -- the only people who believe him desperately WANT to.
Here's a clue: the physical acts of shooting a gun in real life and shooting a gun in a video game are completely different, and the only people who are going to think of the pixels on a monitor as interchangable with people in real life are already mentally deficient. That simple fact makes me wonder about the mental condition of the people who keep citing Grossman.
I can count on one hand macrocultural video game moments...
How old are you?
At 42, I'm right on the edge of the video game generations -- partly from being an "early adopter". Video games make more money than Hollywood movies; if you're not aware of their impact, it's more likely that you're simply not culturally aware of it. It's like not being a fan of NASCAR -- you may be aware there's a race some weekend, but can't name who's in it or the sponsor.
If video games made monsters, we'd be hip-deep in them. Instead, they seem to be around at just about the same frequency as ever.
The problem isn't video games, or anti-anxiety medications, or anti-psychotics. The problem is some people are just plain broke.
By searching for the Magic Cure, you folks are falling into the same trap the left always does -- the belief that humanity is perfectable. It's not; nothing is. Rather than trying to come up with the magic combination of tyrannies that perfects humanity, we need to accept that it'll never happen and deal with what that tells us about reality.
That means we need to accept that on occasion, it will be necessary for good people to commit violence in order to protect others or themselves.
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Well said, Rob. The only thing I would add is if you buy into the idea that exposure to violent games cause violence, you are going to have a hard time arguing that exposure to violent movies does NOT cause violence.
The astute will note that Hollywood (purveyor of violent movies) is a major contributor to the Democratic party and draw their own conclusions.
SEOUL -- North Korea seemed to stop moving vehicles suspected to be mobile launchers for its medium-range missiles over the past two days, a government source said Saturday, in a sign that Pyongyang's missile launch may not be imminent.
According to intelligence sources, the North had moved two Musudan intermediate missiles, which had been concealed in a shed in the eastern port city of Wonsan, in and out of the facility earlier this week in an apparent bid to interfere with Seoul's intelligence monitoring. Four or five vehicles, suspected of being so-called transporter erector launchers (TEL), were also previously moving around in South Hamgyeong Province.
But a government source said that since Thursday the North has stopped moving the mobile launchers, whose timing comes on the heels of a dialogue proposal by South Korea and the U.S.
"There are no signs that the TELs have been moved in and out of the facility since Thursday or that missile launches are imminent," the government source said. "Situations surrounding the missile launch have not changed."
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Today is NOKOR's hallowed "Day of the Sun" - everyone is waiting to see iff NOKOR will launch one or more of its "MUSUDANS" MBMS in geopol-bellicose "celebration"???
In any case, the larger issue is China's desire for unchallenged or unobstructed, "sole" strategic access into WESTPAC + SOPAC via the "First Island Chain". CHINA SEES US MILBASES CLOSE TO CHINA'S SHORES, WHILE SEEING NO CHINESE OR PLA MILBASES CLOSE TO AMERICA'S SHORES.
Notice that the latest NOKOR Crisis has NOT prevented China from violating Japan's 12-mile territorial limit around the disputed Senkakus [China = Diaoyu Islands].
ALSO, ITS CHINA THATS BEEN MOBILIZING MIL ASSETS/FORCES, ACROSS FROM TAIWAN + VIETNAM + NOW SSSSHHHH....CCCCC NORTH KOREA, NOT NORTH KOREA PER SE.
Unless China gets strategic = key or important territorial concessions, or changes its post/anti-US "Manifest Destiny", I DON'T SEE ANY END TO PUDGY'S BRINKMANSHIP. Iff anything, there will be MORE, + WORSE.
IMO this "Musudan" Crisis ala KJU/Pudgy in 2013 is only for starters.
US-VS-CHINESE HEGEMONY IN THE PACIFIC OR ASIA-PACIFIC - since its National, Global Econ is still growing + modernizing, pragmatically the best "NOKOR" = CHINA can hope for is US rollback = surrender? towards 1/2 of the Pacific [East Asia to CENTPAC]???
Iraqi soldiers and policemen cast their ballots for provincial elections on Saturday, a week ahead of the main vote that comes amid an uptick in violence and a long-running political crisis.
The credibility of the elections, the first since March 2010 parliamentary polls, has been drawn into question following bloody attacks on candidates and a government decision to partially postpone voting that means only 12 of Iraq's 18 provinces will take part.
At least a dozen hopefuls have been killed while others have been wounded or kidnapped in the runup to the elections and, although security has markedly improved since the height of Iraq's confessional conflict, March was still the deadliest month since August, according to AFP figures.
More than 8,000 candidates will be standing in the elections, with 378 seats on provincial councils up for grabs. An estimated 16.2 million Iraqis are eligible to vote, among them about 650,000 members of the security forces.
The latest elections come with the country mired in a political crisis that has pitted Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki against several of his erstwhile national unity cabinet partners, and amid more than three months of anti-government protests by the country's Sunni Arab minority.
The polls are seen as a key barometer of Maliki's popularity ahead of parliamentary elections next year. The premier has battled allegations from his opponents of monpolising power, and little in the way of landmark legislation has been passed by parliament, but Maliki insists he is attempting to make the most out of an unruly coalition.
Provincial councils are responsible for nominating governors who take charge of the provinces' administrations, finances and reconstruction projects. The police also ostensibly fall under provincial remit, but the federal government has typically held sway over security matters.
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On April 3, an unnamed Syrian army officer made the warning clear. By continuing to advance on Damascus, he said, "the rebels and their leaders" were assured of "certain death."
At about the same time, the Syrian ruler had ordered protective suits for chemical warfare and gas masks distributed to the 4th and 3rd Divisions defending the capital. Tank commanders were told to activate their filtering systems against chemical and biological agents.
Protective suits have since been distributed to the Syrian army units fighting in southern Syria and the Golan.
These steps were registered by the joint counter-chemical warfare center set up between the US, Israel, Turkey and Jordan when President Barack Obama visited their capitals in the third week of March. In the last few days, Israeli troops were asked by this center to start handing out atropine injections or IV drips to Syrian rebels fighting Syrian troops on the Golan.
Atropine is highly effective for blocking such nerve agents as sarin, VX, soman and tabun and counteracting the effects of poisoning, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramping and low heart rate.
The IDF's distribution of a chemical weapon antidote to Syrian rebels may be regarded as the first Israeli intervention in the Syrian conflict.
The British disclosure April 12 in the Times of London of soil samples smuggled out of Syria provided forensic evidence of the use of chemical weapons but carefully avoided assigning responsibility.
Though containing traces of "some kind of chemical weapon" collected from an unidentified "neighborhood on the outskirts of Damascus,"
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There are various chemical weapons. Atropine would be for nerve gases, such as tabun (GA), sarin (GB), soman (GD) and VX. As the little photo post from the Great War illustrates, it wouldn't help with mustard gas or phosgene type weapons.
[An Nahar] A jacket wallah killed at least three Chadian soldiers in Mali Friday, military sources said, in a deadly demonstration of the troubled nation's ongoing security crisis days after La Belle France began withdrawing its troops.
The soldiers were shopping in the northern city of Kidal when an Islamist bomber struck, according to Malian and Chadian sources who gave a provisional toll of three soldiers killed and four maimed.
"Three Chadian soldiers were killed in an attack Friday in Kidal. It was jihadists who did it. The toll is still provisional," a Malian military source told Agence La Belle France Presse while a Chadian source spoke of "three Chadian soldiers killed and four others injured".
No details were initially available on how the attack was carried out.
"The center of Kidal is now sealed off. This is an Islamist attack against the Chadian troops," said one regional security source.
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Today's Pakaboom... [India Express] At least nine persons were killed and 15 others wounded Saturday when a powerful blast ripped through a minibus on the outskirts of Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, police and witnesses said.
Police officials said a bomb planted inside the minibus exploded as the vehicle was passing through a market in the suburb of Mattani on Saturday afternoon.
Fifteen injured people, including two women and a child, were taken to a nearby hospital, officials said. The minibus had about 20 passengers at the time of the explosion.
No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
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[Dawn] Three people, including a policeman, were killed and three coppers received bullet injuries in an encounter at Shagai Road in the limits of cantonment circle here on Friday evening.
An official of Regi cop shoppe said that police were on routine patrolling on Shagai Road when gunnies in car opened fire on them. He said that as a result of the attack one police constable identified as Rafaqat, a resident of Badbher, was killed while three of his colleagues, including Khalid Hameed, Qazafi and Ijaz, sustained injuries.
The official said that in retaliatory fire two attackers were also killed in their car. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... their identity could not be established so far.
The attackers also hurled hand grenades at police, he said and added that personnel of bomb disposal unit had been called to defuse in case there was any explosive in the vehicle.
The injured were shifted to Khyber Teaching Hospital.
IED DEFUSED: Police on Friday recovered an improvised bomb outside the residence of a police official in Bana Mari in 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.
A police official said that the IED was planted outside the residence of traffic police inspector Rabnawaz, but he had timely informed the police about presence of a suspected thing. "We called personnel of bomb disposal unit and they defused the device," he said. Bana Mari police have registered the case.
SURVIVES ATTACK: In Swabi, Awami National Party candidates Mr Rehmanullah and his son Ameer Rehman survived attempt on life while a party worker was injured in a grenade attack on them on Friday.
Mr Rehmanullah is contesting election from NA-12, Swabi-1 and Mr Ameer from PK-31, Swabi-1 on the ANP tickets.
Mr Rehmanullah, who is also ANP's district president, told Dawn that they were going to the party election camp in Sheikh Jana when unidentified attackers hurled two grenades on them at Shewa graveyard. "One grenade went kaboom!, but we survived," he said. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... a party worker Shamal Khan was injured.
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[Ynet] A 14-year-old boy was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in Nazareth after local coppers and dectives found a fully loaded Kalashnikov rifle in his house. The boy will be brought for the Nazareth Magistrate Court on Saturday for extension of remand.
So what exactly does fully loaded mean in this context, and is it as bad as it sounds?
[An Nahar] A major coalition of Salafist tough guys fighting the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... has denounced al-Nusra Front's pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda, urging gunnies to unite behind moderate Islam.
"When we in Syria launched our jihad (holy war) against the sectarian regime, we did not do so for the sake of allegiance to a man here or another there," said the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (SILF) in a statement late on Thursday.
It also rejected "imposing anything on (Syria's) fighters and the people that they were not willing" to accept, said the statement posted on Facebook.
The SILF comprises some 20 rebel groups, and is represented in the mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army's command council.
It includes Liwa al-Tawhid, Suqour al-Sham, Liwa al-Islam and the Farouk brigade, which are among the opposition's most prominent beturbanned goon forces.
The statement followed a raging debate among rebels and activists over a surprise announcement by al-Nusra leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani of allegiance to al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... "We have no need for imported ideologies or a new understanding of Islam," said the SILF, in an unequivocal attack on al-Qaeda extremism.
"We should not be chasing power or positions," it added, criticizing al-Nusra for "putting the cart before the horse" by prematurely adopting a call for an Islamic state in Syria.
It also lashed out against a reported merger of al-Nusra with al-Qaeda's Islamic State in Iraq, announced by the latter's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The group was "surprised and dismayed" at Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... i's statement, said the SILF, saying it learned of it "through the media".
"It does no service to our people or to our (Islamic) nation to pledge allegiance to those who know nothing about our reality, while most of our cities are occupied (by Assad's forces) and criminality continues to rage," it said.
The SILF also said the recent announcements only serve to "sow conflict and dissension among fighters' ranks at a difficult time", and that gunnies should "unite... under the flag of moderate Islam."
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[Chicago Tribune] Two men were killed and nine other people maimed in shootings across the city between Friday afternoon and early Saturday, from the Old Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side to the South Chicago neighborhood near Lake Michigan.
The 34-year-old man killed in the South Chicago neighborhood late Friday was pronounced dead at Advocate Trinity Medical Center about midnight after someone shot him just after 11 p.m. in the 8700 block of South Burley Avenue.
The Cook County medical examiner's office identified the man as Kevin Sanders, 34, of the 8900 block of South Mackinaw Avenue. He lived near where he was killed.
Police said the man they tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in connection with the shooting, who also had been shot, ran to an apartment of a family friend in a nearby building in the same complex.
Police said his girlfriend's car windows were smashed with a walker near where the shooting happened. About 100 people surrounded the front door of the apartment where he holed up, shouting threats and throwing rocks and bottles.
Wow, it's almost like how a miscreant is treated in certain neighborhoods in Bangladesh...
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Wow, it's almost like how a miscreant is treated in certain neighborhoods in Bangladesh...
Security forces in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip have started arresting suspected collaborators with Israel after a month-long amnesty ended, a Hamas official said on Saturday.
Since yesterday (Friday), we arrested several collaborators with the Israeli occupation, interior ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan told AFP, declining to give a number.
On March 12, Hamas announced a month-long grace period for collaborators to turn themselves in in return for leniency.
And if you can't believe a promise for leniency from Hamas, what can you believe?
Shahwan said that some people had surrendered during the amnesty but did not give details on their likely treatment.
Under Palestinian law, collaboration with Israel is punishable by death. All executions must be approved by the Palestinian president before they can be carried out, but Hamas no longer recognises the legitimacy of ineffectual incumbent Mahmud Abbas, whose four-year term ended in 2009.
A Gaza official said that five or six suspects fled into neighbouring Israel before they could be apprehended.
During an eight-day conflict with Israel last November, at least seven people were gunned down after being accused of being collaborators. The bodies of six were dragged behind vehicles through the streets of Gaza City. The killings were claimed by Hamas militants from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades in notes pinned to their bodies, which accused them of being traitors.
New York-based Human Rights Watch criticised Hamas on Thursday for failing to honour promises to investigate the killings.
Hamass inability or unwillingness to investigate the brazen murders of seven men makes a mockery of its claims that it is upholding the rule of law in Gaza, HRWs Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson said in a statement.
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Dr. Heimlich who has reportedly not practiced medicine in 35 years, appears to have fallen on hard times. A non-credentialed nurse, a defunct non-for profit involving children, a false medical death story, two crooked Illinois politicians, and a long running investigation. What could possibly go wrong ?
[Dawn] The Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) of police on Friday jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... an inspector for passing on information to members of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and some gangs of kidnappers.
"We have arrested Inspector Rana Ishrat, 45, after collecting incriminating technical evidence against him for his involvement and contacts with the outlaws," said SSP AVCC Niaz Ahmed Khosa while speaking to Dawn.
Inspector Ishrat was inquiry officer of the case pertaining to the kidnapping of Zainul Abidin, who used to supply oil to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... forces in Afghanistan, in Keamari. During investigation, Inspector Ishrat came into contact with the TTP men involved in the kidnapping and went to Khyber Agency to collect money from them, SSP Khosa said.
"We got the information about the suspicious activities of the inspector and we started monitoring him," said the SSP AVCC.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... an ASI posted at the AVCC, Mohammad Fayyaz, was killed, he added. The investigation showed that the inspector was not directly involved in the ASI's killing but was instrumental in passing on sensitive information to the killers and was part of a wider plan to eliminate more coppers, including the SSP AVCC, the officer explained.
The inspector was getting money from the culprits in return for passing on sensitive information to them, he added.
After collecting all the technical evidence, including call record data, the AVCC started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the inspector and arrested him, SSP Khosa said.
The suspect hailing from Sialkot had been working at the AVCC for the past eight years, the officer said, adding that he resided along with his family in the Police Headquarters, Garden.
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Do you have any friends in Noo Joisey? There you see how easy that was.
Please expand on that, Threater Flusoper9823, because as it stands it makes no sense whatsoever. I do have friends in New Jersey, as it happens; a great many people do.
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The wonders of Islam, soon to be in a town near you.
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Eventually they'll pick the wrong time and place - a less pacifist victim demographic, a more armed locale, after a travesty of justice such that a guilty Moslem is freed for some 'humane' reason - and very ugly and non-focused religious retaliation will result. Sort of like happened to the Indians (feather, not dot.)
[Jpost] Libyan authorities have tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! 20 people after an attack on a police vehicle compound in the desert south in which one person was killed, the army chief said on Saturday.
The attack on the compound took place on Thursday in the southern town of Sabha, some 800 km (500 miles) south of the capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... "They arrived by car, armed with guns and starting shooting. They stole some cars and escaped," Yusef al-Mangoush, army chief of staff, told Rooters.
"One person died from injuries sustained in the attack. Those arrested have been transferred to Tripoli. We cannot say who they are yet as the investigation is still ongoing," he said, adding the stolen cars had been retrieved.
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[Dawn] Militants blew up the election office of an independent candidate in North Wazoo tribal agency on Saturday, adding to security fears ahead of historic national polls next month.
No one was hurt in the bombing in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , the main town in North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan. But the bombing is likely to fuel concerns that violence will mar the national and regional elections on May 11, which will mark the country's first democratic transition of power after a civilian government has served a full term in office. Violence is the sauce on Pakistain's political spaghetti.
"Militants blew up the election office of Kamran Khan with explosives at around 5:00 am," an intelligence official in Miranshah told AFP, adding that all three rooms of the office were destroyed.
Residents in Miranshah confirmed the bombing "Ay-yup. Blowed right up. I seen it."
and told AFP that an adjacent mosque was also damaged in the blast. Not surprising, when every other building in town is a mosque.
Khan is a former politician from North Waziristan who supported the outgoing government led by the Pakistain People's Party (PPP), the official said
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[Ynet] Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday called for joint efforts with the United States to safeguard cyberspace, the state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... Xinhua reported. China and the United States should conduct dialogue on cyberspace on a calm and objective basis, Wang told visiting U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... Beijing and Washington have been trading accusations in recent months of massive cyber intrusions.
[Bangla Daily Star] One of La Belle France's most dangerous gangsters, known for brazen attacks on cash-in-transit vehicles, yesterday blasted his way out of jail after taking several wardens hostage, officials said. Haven't we seen this movie?
Redoine Faid, who risked a heavy sentence over the 2010 death of a policewoman, used explosives to blast through five prison doors and break free in the northern town of Sequedin.
Police and helicopters were trying to track the 40-year-old, who set fire to his getaway car in the south of the city of Lille before getting into a second vehicle.
State Prosecutor Frederic Fevre said Faid, who had already been La Belle France's most wanted a few years ago, was a "particularly dangerous prisoner" and was still armed and in possession of explosives.
Fevre said Faid had four hostages with him during the jailbreak. One was released just outside the prison, another a few hundred metres away and then the final two were left along a highway.
Wardens unions described the prison break as "an act of war" and also argued that the Sedequin jail was inadequate for such dangerous convicts.
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"and also argued that the Sedequin jail was inadequate for such dangerous convicts. "
I would say that the presence of dynamite in the hands of a dangerous prisoner might also be a teensy problem for their jail procedures.
[Dawn] Four people were rubbed out -- including a prayer leader on 'sectarian grounds' and a local ANP leader in a targeted attack --in the city on Friday.
The prayer leader was rubbed out by unidentified gunnies in what the police described as a sectarian killing in Nazimabad on Friday.
The police said that in Nazimabad No.3 Maulana Ghazanfar Ali, 70, was heading for Masjid Noor-e-Eman when two gunnies riding a cycle of violence targeted him and fled from the scene, District Central SSP Amir Farooqui said.
"The elderly man was shot six bullets -- two bullets hit him in the head causing his sudden death," the SSP told Dawn.
"The killing is surly carried out on sectarian grounds," SSP Farooqui concluded.
Several spent bullet casings of 9mm pistol were collected from the scene of the crime, he added.
The victim was a resident of Nazimabad, the police said.
The police took the body to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities. Later the body was taken to the Old Rizvia Imambargah.
A front man for the Majlis Wahdat-e-Mohammedaneen condemned the killing saying that it was a part of ongoing sectarian strife going on in the city.
He said that the slain holy man was a prayer leader in Masjid-o-Imambargah Safina-e-Ahlebait in Toori Bangash Colony in Orangi Town.
The victim's funeral was held in Rizvia Society in the evening, which was attended by a large number of people.
ANP man rubbed out
A local leader of the Awami National Party was bumped off by faceless myrmidons in Orangi Town on Friday, the police said.
They added that in Qasba MPR Colony unidentified gunnies came on a bike and opened fire on ANP ward president Bismillah Jan, 45, at the Jamshed Pump near the Quetta Awaran hotel.
The victim was taken to the JPMC where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! on arrival, the police added.
A handout issued by the ANP said that Bismillah Jan was the MPR Colony ward president of their party. The victim was a cloths trader, the police added.
College student killed
A teenage college student was killed by an unidentified gunman in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in the early hours of Friday, the police said.
They added that the incident took place in a house located near the Central Pool of Vehicles where the unidentified gunman rubbed out 19-year-old Raheel Khan and fled.
DSP of the Aziz Bhatti cop shoppe Nasir Lodhi said that when the police reached the house it looked like a robbery scene.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
after inquiries it transpired that a tenant named Mohsin -- a medical student at a private medical college -- was living in a single room with a few clothes and a laptop on the top floor of the house, the DSP added.
The victim and his family lived on the ground floor, he said.
The tenant, Mohsin, told the police that he heard a gunshot from Raheel's room on the ground floor and saw someone fleeing the house.
The police did not arrest the tenant, but he was being questioned, the DSP added.
The police took the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.
Passer-by killed in robbery
A passer-by was killed and another man maimed when bandidos fleeing after a robbery opened fire on them in a Bin Qasim locality late on Friday, the police said.
They added that in Peeri Goth in Bin Qasim two gunnies came to a shop and tried to rob the shopkeepers and other people at gunpoint. After the hold-up they tried to flee while opening fire which hit two men, the police added. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the police reached the spot and managed to arrest the two suspected robbers, they said.
A pistol was recovered from their possession, the police said.
One of the victims who died in the firing was identified as Niaz Junejo, an employee of the Sindh secretariat.
Cracker attack
Two vehicles were partially damaged when faceless myrmidons hurled an bomb at a filling station in Orangi Town on Friday night.
District West SSP Asif Ajaz Sheikh said that near the Banaras flyover unidentified bikers hurled a cracker at the pump.
No casualty was reported in the incident, he said
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[Guardian Ng] THE former chairman of Abadam local government area of Borno state, Alhaji Mustapha Gadobe, was at the weekend kidnapped by gunnies suspected to be members of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... sect in Wadiya community, a suburb of Maiduguri metropolis at about 7.35pm Friday.
The abductors, according to a source, said they would kill the ex-council boss unless a 50m ransom is paid.
The source said Gadobe was ambushed at gunpoint and driven off in his Toyota Cruiser to an unknown destination.
The Guardian also learnt that a serving member of the Borno State House of Assembly is currently handling negotiations between the abductors and the Borno State government.
A top political appointee said the abductors threatened to kill their hostage when the mediator offered to pay N3m.
The source said that yesterday another offer of N10m was made to the abductors, which they turned down.
A top official of the State Security Service confirmed the abduction in a telephone chat, but refused to give more details on steps being taken to rescue the ex-council chairman.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... suspected Boko Haram gunnies on Wednesday killed several students of Monguno Secondary School.
The victims whose throats were slit had finished writing their Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) and were returning home.
Monguno is 135 kilometres north of Maiduguri, the state capital. It is the epicentre of Islamists activities.
The attackers, according to a villager, bound the hands of the victims along a footpath leading to the school, slit their throats and fled on three cycle of violences towards Marte council area.
Men of the Joint Task Force (JTF) arrived at the scene, three hours later.
JTF front man, Lt. Col Sagir Musa, and the Borno State Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Musa Inuwa Kubo, confirmed the incident yesterday.
They described the situation as "unfortunate and frightening".
Sagir and Kubo, as at Saturday, could not ascertain the exact number of students killed by the attackers.
Kubo in a telephone interview said: "I am calling on the people of Borno State to continue to pray and fast, so that the incessant attacks and killings in the state would cease."
A JTF source told The Guardian that: "until political, traditional and religious leaders in Borno State collectively condemn the activities of members of Boko Haram, there might be no peace, despite the deployment of troops and coppers by the Federal Government since June, 2011."
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[Dawn] The top judge of Pakistain Saturday took a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice of the last-minute legislation by the outgoing governments in Sindh and at the centre, in which they declared a lifetime of perks and privileges for certain government dignitaries, DawnNews reported.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry also has taken notice of an unprecedented security protocol being provided to ex-prime ministers and issued a notice to the Attorney General of Pakistain in this regard.
In a last-minute hurried legislation, the Pakistain People's Party-led coalition governments in Sindh and at the centre, through bills and notices, had declared indefinite supply of perks and allowances for the office bearers of key government posts.
Former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, 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. , speaker Sindh assembly Nisar Khoro and chief minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah are also summoned, either in person or through a counsel, to appear before the court on April 16.
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SEOUL/GIMPO -- North Korea warned Saturday that South Korea will face a "catastrophic situation" if it allows anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to be flown into its territory across the border ahead of a major holiday.
A group of North Korean defectors and a Seoul-based civic organization have said they jointly plan to fly tens of thousands of leaflets with anti-Pyongyang messages, often mixed with U.S. dollar bills, via balloon timed to the upcoming birthday of the North's late founder Kim Il-sung, which falls on Monday.
In a commentary posted on the Web site of its propaganda Internet outlet, Uriminzokkiri, the crazy communist North said a catastrophic situation will occur if the leaflets are sent cross the border on the late leader's birthday, dubbed the "Day of the Sun." The late leader, who died in 1994, is the grandfather of current leader Kim Jong-un.
"Such confrontational madness will only snap up the extraordinary alarm and ire of our army and people," it said, adding that the North will shell South Korean sites used to send propaganda leaflets.
Activists in the South often send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border, condemning the autocratic North Korean regime and calling for a popular uprising against the leadership. Pyongyang has frequently threatened retaliation for the South's leaflet campaign but no real actions have so far been taken.
Meanwhile, South Korean police stopped a planned launch of anti-North Korea leaflets by a group of North Korean defectors in the northwestern city of Gimpo on Saturday, according to an activist and officers. Five activists of the Fighters for Free North Korea (FFNK), a civic group of activists and North Korean defectors, were stalled by policemen after which their vehicle was forcibly towed to the local police station, according to Park Sang-hak, the head of the FFNK.
"It is the first time that the police have blocked a launch that was to be carried out without notifying the media," Park said, adding that his group has launched leaflets in the past.
"Residents (living near the border) strongly objected to launching the leaflets amid heightened tension between the North and the South," a police officer said.
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[LATIMES] Embattled Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... resigned late Saturday after struggling for years against political rivals and lackluster public support.
"What are you doing next Mr. Fayyad?"
"I'm going to Disneyworld!"
Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , who in recent months had also clashed with Fayyad, accepted the resignation, but asked him to remain in office until a replacement is named, according to Paleostinian Authority spokeswoman Nour Odeh.
The departure means that a new Paleostinian government, the fourth since 2007, could be formed in coming weeks.
Since Abbas will remain as president, Fayyad's resignation is unlikely to have a significant impact on the B.O. regime's renewed efforts to relaunch peace talks, but it may complicate plans promoted by Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... to unveil new economic development in the West Bank.
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[Dawn] Taking notice of torture on ANP woman candidate in Swabi Najma Hanif by her opponents, KP Caretaker Minister for Information Musarrat Qadeem has directed the relevant officials to take action against those involved in this unfortunate incident.
She also directed the district administration to ensure that no such incident occurred in future. In a statement here on Friday she termed the incident as political violence. She called upon all the political forces to show tolerance in politics and keep the democratic principals supreme while competing each other.
The minister maintained that women enjoyed high esteem in an Islamic society, saying such acts were against the ethics of Islam, Pakhtun traditions and culture.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... the minister also condemned the kaboom on the ANP NA-4 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. candidate Arbab Mohammad Ayub Jan and asked the administration to take effective measures for safety of the contesting candidates.
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[Ynet] Turkish daily Hurriyet reports initiative to resume meetings between ministers from Israel, six Arab countries nixed by Ankara, Cairo, who say 'it's not the right time'
An initiative to bring Israel and six Arab countries' ministers together under NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... 's Mediterranean Dialogue group for the first time since 2008 has been nixed by Turkey and Egypt, Turkish daily Hurriyet reported Saturday.
Ankara and Cairo reportedly said "it was not the right time" for such a meeting.
Perish the thought!
"The general-secretary was planning to invite the foreign ministers of the Mediterranean Dialogue countries on the sidelines of the NATO foreign ministers meeting scheduled for April 23 but Turkey objected to the idea," a Western diplomat told Hürriyet.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... Ankara rejected the claim. "It's not right that we have objected. This sort of meeting was not held since 2008 because of the political problems between Israel and Arab countries. At this stage, such a meeting would not be useful," a Turkish official told Hurriyet.
"It's the Joooooooos' fault!"
He further noted that Egypt and Tunisia, two members of the Mediterranean Dialogue, did not want to hold such meeting at this stage either.
"Nobody likes them. They're icky or have cooties or something. I don't remember why, but nobody likes them. Maybe they're girls."
Established in 2004, the Mediterranean Dialogue brings Israel, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania, Algeria and Jordan together with the purpose of contributing to regional security and stability.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the last time the group met at the foreign ministerial level was 2008 -- a reflection of the ongoing dispute between Israel and the Arab world.
Western powers hoped Mediterranean Dialogue meetings could be resumed at the ministerial level following Israel's apology to Turkey.
The Turkish official dismissed claims that Ankara objected to the idea because of Israel's presence in the group, recalling that the government started to allow Israeli participation in NATO's political meetings in December 2012.
Turkey had vetoed Israeli participation in NATO's reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Summit in May 2012, as well as an Israeli demand to have a permanent office at NATO.
Hurriyet estimated that even if Ankara did not object to the idea due to Israel's participation, nixing the meeting is mostly to the disadvantage of Israel, which is the most eager member of the dialogue group.
[Bangla Daily Star] THE bloody violence over an anti-hartal procession that the remote village of Bhujpur at Fatikcchari upazila in Chittagong saw last Thursday was as shocking as it was disquieting. Three members of the ruling Awami League were killed, over a hundred people were hurt, including coppers, and a hundred motorised vehicles were burnt during the mayhem.
We condemn the mindless violence in the strongest terms. The perpetrators of the outrage, whatever their political identities, deserve the highest punishment under the law.
The circumstances of the deadly mayhem are bizarre and blood-curdling. The local leaders of the ruling Awami league and their activists were learnt to have been staging a procession in which a large number of motorised-vehicle riders also participated. But when the procession was returning, someone from the local mosque raised a false alarm over the loudspeaker that the procession marchers had kidnapped a teacher of the local madrasa and that they were also going to attack the madrasa. The announcement on the mike drew a large crowd armed with sticks, knives and other lethal weapons from the nearby village including, reportedly, activists of Jamaat-Shibir and Hefajat-e-Islam who swooped on the anti-hartal marchers with vengeance.
Holding procession to protest hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... is nothing new. But raising alarm and widespread panic among the public over anti-hartal demonstration leading to deadly violence and loss of life and property is quite is unprecedented.
The scale, ferocity and severity of what happened at Fatikchhari should be a precious lesson for the law-enforcers. So as not to be taken by surprise in the face of a similar kind of mob madness in the future, they must mount strict vigilance and gather enough intelligence to control it effectively.
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But when the procession was returning, someone from the local mosque raised a false alarm over the loudspeaker that the procession marchers had kidnapped a teacher of the local madrasa and that they were also going to attack the madrasa.
step one - burn the mosque to the ground.
step two - burn the madrasa to the ground.
lather, rinse, repeat
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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
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When Kim Jong Un first appeared in Pyongyang's carefully stage-managed public spotlight in the fall of 2010, North Korea watchers began scouring for clues to learn whether the pudgy heir apparent would be a reformist or simply the newest face of a despotic regime.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr says the government is aware of reports that Australians fighting against the Syrian regime could be linking up with terrorist groups in the war-torn country.
[Guardian Ng] NORTHERN Islamic leaders under the umbrella of the Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI) have said that the rejection of the amnesty proposal by the Federal Government, by the leadership of the 
[NYPOST] Sunday's 
SEOUL -- North Korea seemed to stop moving vehicles suspected to be mobile launchers for its medium-range missiles over the past two days, a government source said Saturday, in a sign that Pyongyang's missile launch may not be imminent.
Iraqi soldiers and policemen cast their ballots for provincial elections on Saturday, a week ahead of the main vote that comes amid an uptick in violence and a long-running political crisis.
On April 3, an unnamed Syrian army officer made the warning clear. By continuing to advance on Damascus, he said, "the rebels and their leaders" were assured of "certain death."
[India Express] At least nine persons were killed and 15 others wounded Saturday when a powerful blast ripped through a minibus on the outskirts of Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan, police and witnesses said.
[Dawn] Three people, including a policeman, were killed and three 
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[Chicago Tribune] Two men were killed and nine other people 
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[Bangla Daily Star] One of 
[Dawn] Four people were 
[Guardian Ng] THE former chairman of Abadam local government area of Borno state, Alhaji Mustapha Gadobe, was at the weekend kidnapped by 
[Dawn] The top judge of Pakistain Saturday took a 
[LATIMES] Embattled Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister 
