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Make sure the review is thorough, proper, + effective as the success or failure of Radical Islam's desired future OWG NUCLEAR CALIPHATE depends on how well the Boy's faith is converted while a US Soldier.
D *** NG IT WOMAN, THERE'S LEFTIES IN THE FAMILY, LEFTIES I TELL YA - AND BTW, WHY IS THE KID IN LIGHT-SABER TRAINING WID A ARAB TOWEL ON HIS HEAD!
According to the Egyptian website Youm 7, Azza al-Jarf, a female Member of Parliament representing the Muslim Brotherhood's "Freedom and Justice Party," is trying to abolish several laws currently enjoyed by Egyptian womenincluding preventing them from divorcing or even separating from their husbands, because "the man has the authority and stewardship" (see Koran 4:34); mandating that fathers must circumcise their daughters; and trying to get the Egyptian educational system to ban the teaching of the English languageon the grounds that it is an "infidel" tonguewhile separating boys and girls in classrooms and forcing girls to wear the hijab.
Ms. Jarf, of course, is not the first Muslim female in Egypt opposed to her own gender; earlier, another female politician declared that "women are deficient in intelligence and religion," and that, in agreement with Sharia law, they are banned from running for presidency.
At any rate, repressive and discriminatory laws, not to mention laws that mutilate the human bodysuch represent the Muslim Brotherhood's idea of "Freedom and Justice," the telling name of their political wing.
A federal judge says an Ohio prison that forces all inmates to adhere to a strict Islamic diet is not an establishment of religion because everyone eats the same food.
A federal judge recently threw out prisoner James Rivers' lawsuit against Ohio Prison director Gary Mohr's decision to ban pork from kitchens in all prisons under control of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Mohr made the decision to stop serving pork products after a Muslim on death row filed a lawsuit against the prison system.
Abdul Awkal, an inmate on death row, argued in his lawsuit that the prisons failure to provide halal meals violated his religious freedoms.
Despite Awkals claims, Islamic teaching says it is perfectly acceptable to eat non-halal meat if there is no halal food available.
Islam teaches that meat such as pork is considered unclean and not to be eaten. This would include all pork products including sausage and bacon.
Awkal was later joined by a second Muslim who is not on death row. Prison authorities had argued that they provided non-pork and vegetarian options for Muslims. The Muslims said that was not good enough and still insisted that the food they were given meet halal standards.
Short answer to the question: because they are Muslims in a Muslim culture.
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Interesting, indeed. I expect it would make heads explode if given wider notice. (paging John Derbyshire to the white courtesy phone). A couple take-aways:
A culture suited to fighting with neighboring desert tribes in 600 AD is not well adapted to a modern, globalized, multicultural world.
Once you become infected with a poisonous meme, it is *very* hard to get rid of.
Very interesting
The Lebanese Navy seized Friday a cargo ship suspected of carrying a large cache of weapons headed to Syria, security sources told The Daily Star.
The vessel, which bears the Egyptian flag and had been headed to one of Syrias ports, was forced to dock at Selaata port, 50 kilometers north of Beirut, where its cargo is being inspected, the sources said.
Members of the crew have been put under arrest.
The ship set sail from the north Egyptian port city of Alexandria.
They're like kids in an airplane cockpit. "Hey, let's do this!" "Hey, let's push these buttons!" They have no clue what they're doing, but boy is it fun. Until they crash the plane.
Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms.
Critics complained that the regulation would have drastically changed the extent to which children could work on farms owned by family members. The U.S. Department of Labor cited public outcry as the reason for withdrawing the rule.
The decision to withdraw this rule including provisions to define the parental exemption was made in response to thousands of comments expressing concerns about the effect of the proposed rules on small family-owned farms, the Department said in a press release Thursday evening. To be clear, this regulation will not be pursued for the duration of the Obama administration. Ah yes. Of course the 'parental exemption' would have made things OK, but since the public is too stupid to figure that out, we're just going to withdraw this enlightened legislation in its entirety, even though society must be having huge problems here. Of course, the Romney administration might follow up with something this stupid. Does all this make sense?
The rule would have dramatically changed what types of chores children under the age of 16 could perform on and around American farms. It would have prohibited them from working with tobacco, operating almost all types of power-driven equipment and being employed to work with raw farm materials.
Prohibited places of employment would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions, read a press release from last August.
I am pleased to hear the Obama Administration is finally backing away from its absurd 85-page proposal to block youth from participating in family farm activities and ultimately undermine the very fabric of rural America, but I will continue working to ensure this overreaching proposal is completely and permanently put to rest, said Sen. John Thune, Republican from South Dakota. The Obama DOLs youth farm labor rule is a perfect example of what happens when government gets too big. And has nothing to do but fix imaginary problems. Gotta protect their phoney baloney jobs, you know.
Parents and children who grew up on farms across the country told TheDC that the rule was overprotective and would have prevented kids from learning valuable skills at early ages. But some folks born with a silver spoon in their mouths and who are totally disconnected from reality can't see things this way without help.
Losing that work ethic its so hard to pick this up later in life, said Cherokee County, Kansas Farm Bureau president Jeff Clark. Theres other ways to learn how to farm, but its so hard. You can learn so much more working on the farm when youre 12, 13, 14 years old. Oh the horror! Work! Run for your lives!
Rep. Kristi Noem, Republican from South Dakota, also applauded the effort to nuke the idea borne out of stupidity scale back the rule.
I want to thank every farmer, rancher and young person who joined many of us in Congress to speak out against this proposal, which would have fundamentally changed the way folks have been farming and ranching for generations, she said in a statement. I continue to agree that safety on farms and ranches is imperative, but telling kids they cant do 4-H or farm-related chores is not the answer.
The Daily Callers story about the proposed regulations quickly went viral on Wednesday, attracting hundreds of thousands of readers through Facebook, The Drudge Report and other online and social media platforms. Thank God we have someone watching them. But I'm going to guess they won't learn a thing and will slink back to their dens and try to imagine other imaginary problems to solve and also try to figure out how to sneak these wonderful gems past the watchdogs.
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Ag advocates have been fighting this since it was a rumor.
It is not a work where idle hands were just playing about and accidentally boo-bood themselves.
It has nothing to do with protecting kids. It has everything to do with shutting down the rural culture.
So the question is, why?
We out here know the answer. The EPA has been dicking around for 3 years with cow farts and dust taxes. Looking like a class b dork in front of troops ringing out God Bless America the very morning after we nearly got boned is infuriating.
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THis legislation is about cutting off self-reliance thought at a young age. Its also comes from the blue states looking down on those in the red states and figuring they know more then them. It was reversed because someone pointed out that the law would effect a number of battleground states and those populations were appalled at the stupidity and nerve.
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So glad to hear that theyve pretty much squelched this ridiculous dictate that would fragment and impose further balkanization (Wull Duh! same-o,same-o) on our tightly-knit, inter-dependent and very hard-working US farm families.
Im sure that theyre already struggling with the choking specter of much higher animal feed and vehicle fuel prices.
In a previous era, in this here USA, I loved driving my Grandpas tractor. Id plow away doing various tasks and then change implements to drag around until dinner.
My Dad then promulgated the evening orders to my sister and I, Pack your suitcases before you hit the sack tonight; were heading back to the Philippines tomorrow But first, go give Grandma and Grandpa a great big kiss and hug. Thats how it was growing up. -cz-
Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check.
Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames you for "betting against America," and accuses you of having a "less-than-reputable" record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.
Are you worried?
Yes, you should be, as Mr. Strassel goes on to explain. Worth the read.
Sorry Wang Lijun, your government pretty much calls the shots here, and besides, we really don't much like cops anyway. Enjoy your upcoming assignment to the organ donor farm.
KIEV, Ukraine Four blasts within minutes rocked the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk Friday, injuring at least 27 people, including nine children, in what prosecutors believed was a terrorist attack, officials said.
No evidence or claims so far of who did it, however.
Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Yershova said the first blast occurred at a tramway stop in the center of Dnipropetrovsk, injuring 13 people. The second injured 11 people near a school, including the nine children, while the third wounded three near a railway station.
A fourth blast was also heard in the city center, Yershova said. It was unclear whether anybody was injured.
That might have been one designed to whack the emergency response teams...
Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko and the deputy heads of the Prosecutor Generals Office and the national security service were flying to Dnipropetrovsk. Prosecutors spokesman Yuri Boichenko said investigators are treating the blasts as a terrorist attack.
President Viktor Yanukovych called the explosions yet another challenge for the whole country, and said that Ukraines best investigators will be working on the case, according to the Interfax news agency. We will think of a worthy response.
In January 2011, two pre-dawn explosions outside an office of a coal mining company and then a shopping center in the eastern city of Makiyivka caused no casualties. The authorities then received letters demanding money in exchange for an end to the blasts. The perpetrators were later detained and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
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FORT MEADE, Maryland - A U.S. military judge refused on Thursday to throw out a charge that Bradley Manning, the U.S. intelligence analyst accused of leaking government files to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, aided the enemy identified as al Qaeda. The charge, the most serious accusation against Manning, could result in a life prison sentence if he is convicted of it at a court-martial in September.
Manning, 24, is charged with leaking hundreds of thousands of U.S. government cables and field reports from Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks in 2010, in the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history.
Prosecutors say the leaks helped "al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," one of the militant group's most potent affiliates.
"The defense motion to dismiss ... is denied," military Judge Colonel Denise Lind said in a pretrial hearing.
Manning's attorney, David Coombs, had pressed the court to dismiss the charge. Comparing Manning's actions to that of a soldier speaking to a major newspaper, he argued that without an intent to provide information to the enemy, Manning's actions constituted negligence.
The ruling was another blow for Manning, who made several appeals over three days of pretrial hearings this week to reduce or dismiss all 22 charges against him. Those motions were all rejected.
"The case will go forward. (Manning) will face the full brunt of these charges," said Eugene Fidell who teaches military law at Yale Law School.
Lind said the prosecution would have to prove that Manning knew the information could reach the enemy through the WikiLeaks website. If it fails to do that, she said she may throw the charge out before Manning's defense team makes its case.
Aiding the enemy is a capital offense, but the prosecution has said it would not seek the death penalty in Manning's case if he is found guilty.
Manning faces a three-week military trial starting on September 21 and has until then to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty.
In what could be a key part of Manning's defense, Coombs argued on Thursday that the WikiLeaks release caused little or no harm to national security and that Manning as a trained analyst may have chosen information that would not compromise national security.
So a 'trained' private first class gets to decide what can and cannot be released to the public. As the learned judge would say to the lawyer, "next argument"...
Since the WikiLeaks release, U.S. government agencies have launched task forces to determine whether any damage was done.
"The documents (we've) seen so far show no or little harm," Coombs said. "Prosecution will argue that he should have known. If he did ... he was selective in what he chose. ... He selected information he believed would not cause harm."
Military prosecutors, who have tried to portray Manning as a trained and trusted analyst who knowingly committed criminal offenses, have requested that harm to national security only be discussed in the sentencing phase of the trial if Manning is found guilty. That motion will likely be discussed at the next hearing in June, according to a legal expert with the Military District of Washington, the Army command unit for the capital region, who was present at the hearing.
Prosecutors accuse Manning of downloading more than 700,000 classified or confidential files from the military's Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet, while serving in the Army's 10th Mountain Division in Iraq. Manning also faces charges of stealing records belonging to the United States and wrongfully causing them to be published on the Internet.
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[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian holy man has underscored Tehran's support for Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... , saying Syria will not fall as long as the Islamic Theocratic Republic is allied with it.
"As long as the Islamic Theocratic Republic is standing by Syria, the government of this country will not collapse," member of the presiding board of Iran's Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami said on Thursday.
The senior Iranian holy man added, however, that Iran's support for the Syrian regime does not denote the Islamic Theocratic Republic's approval of every measure taken by Damascus.
"Iran seriously demands reforms in Syria, such that the recent elections and other reformist measures in Syria have all been [taken] under the Islamic Theocratic Republic's encouragement," he added.
Ayatollah Khatami said the reason why Iran supports Syria is that the West is taking Dire Revenge™ on the country for the Islamic Awakenings, the Islamic Revolution of Iran, and Leb's resistance movement of Hezbullies.
"Western imperialism is dispatching weaponry to the Syrian opposition, which is disgraceful, and of course the Islamic Theocratic Republic will not allow their agendas to bear fruit," he added.
Syria has been the scene of unrest since mid-March 2011. Many people, including security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.
The West and the Syrian opposition blame Damascus for the year-long turmoil, but the government says the "terrorists" are responsible for the unrest, which it says is being orchestrated from abroad.
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Al-Arabiya + YouTube have a Video showing Syrian soldiers burying an activist ALIVE - the vid is going viral around the Net.
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TOPIX > [Lucianne] SPECULATION GROWS [Leading] IRAN CLERIC WILL LEAD IRAQ'S SHIITES. Fear of Iran attempting to extend its theocratic, hence political, system = influence + conrol to Iraq.
"CREEPING IRANIANS/PERSIANISM"???
* SAME > WIRED: USAF QUIETLY ASSEMBLING NEAR IRAN, vee "cannnot be confirmed or denied" F-22 + Air NG F-15E deployments to locales + world regions that are weirdly + mysteriously, but only PCorrectly coincidentally, not too far from Iran???
versus
* SAME > THE TURKISH NUCLEAR THREAT | REAL NUCLEAR THREAT TO NEAR EAST [ + Caucasus + Central Asia -Stans] IS EXPANSION-MINDED TURKEY, NOT [Zionist Imperialist] ISRAEL OR [Islamist, neo-Persianist] IRAN.
Secular, already Japan Nuke Model-esque TURKEY more geopol Wily + Nuke-dangerous than Islamist, We-want-be-like-Japan Nuke Model-esque Rising Iran???
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > STANLEY WEISS: IRAN IS TO INDIA LIKE PAKISTAN IS TO US.
[Dawn] Three Taliban and as many members of a peace committee were killed during a clash in Darra Adamkhel on Wednesday, sources said.
They said that two other members of the peace lashkar, led by Momin Khan Afridi, received injuries when they shot it out with Tariq Afridi group of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain.
One of the forces of Evil was also injured in the clash, they added. Both Tariq Afridi and Momin Afridi are residents of Akhorwal area of the semi-autonomous Darra Adamkhel, also known as Frontier Region of Kohat.
Sources said that forces of Evil of Tariq Afridi group sneaked into Darra Adamkhel to attack security forces and local rustics but their presence was noted by members of Momin Afridi group.
The forces of Evil were attacked by members of Momin Afridi group, igniting a fierce shootout, they said.
They added that three forces of Evil and three members of the peace lashkar were killed on the spot while five persons received injuries in the clash.
The fighters from both sides took away the dead bodies of their fallen comrades. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... a body believed to be of a myrmidon was found in the area and shifted to KDA hospital Kohat. The body was placed in the hospital for identification.
The Tariq Afridi group has strongholds in Khyber Agency from where it also controls Darra Adamkhel while Momin Afridi, who had beat feet several attempts on his life, is restricted only to Darra Adamkhel.
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[An Nahar] The military tribunal issued the death sentence on Thursday against 26 individuals for their involvement in the 2011 abduction of the seven Estonian cyclists.
The tribunal had charged 29 suspects for being involved in the crime, as well as a number of others committed in Leb over the past year.
Besides their involvement in the abduction, the suspects were charged with forming a crime gang, undermining the authority of the state, being associated with the Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Leb pot stirred. krazed killer group, using unauthorized weapons, killing security forces member Rashed Sabri, and attacking members of the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau.
They have also been found guilty of armed robbery and forging Lebanese passports and identification cards.
In addition, they have been charged with bombing stores that sell liquor and vandalizing Christian monuments.
Of the 29 suspects, nine are in jug, while the rest remain on the lam and they include a Syrian national, Mohammed Ahmed Ahmed, also known as Abu Zarif, who has been held by the Syrian authorities.
He has not yet been handed over to Lebanese authorities.
The seven Estonian cyclists were kidnapped in Leb in March 2011 as they entered the country from Syria.
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I'm really starting to wonder why any Westerner would travel to any Muslim country today (unless its on a C-130)...
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How do the Lebanese handle capital punishment?
Sword
Electric chair
Garrot
Gas Chamber
Firing Squad
KGB kill shot to the neck
Bad Humus
I'm curious. With all of the mayhem and carnage in Lebanon, this is the first time I've heard of them actually EXECUTING someone for aforementioned mayhem and carnage.
Keep me posted, this is Need to Know Information!!!
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"...the suspects were charged with forming a crime gang..." in direct competition with the "government"
[Dawn] La Belle France has raised the prospect of military intervention in Syria, saying the UN should consider harsher measures if an international peace plan that has been shaken by violence ultimately collapses.
The statement Wednesday reflects mounting international frustration with daily attacks that have kept a cease-fire between troops loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... and armed rebels seeking to oust him from taking hold.
Activists said government troops killed at least 29 civilians on Wednesday, including 12 killed in shelling in the central city of Hama.
Rebels attacked elsewhere, killing at least four security personnel.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said La Belle France had discussed invoking Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which can be enforced militarily, with other world powers.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Philander C. Knox ... said last week the United Nations ...an organization whose definition of human rights is interesting, to say the least... should move toward such a step to allow for measures like travel and financial sanctions and an arms embargo. She didn't mention military action. The US has for more than a year opposed the further militarisation of the situation.
Any such move, however, would likely be blocked by Russia and China, which have twice used their vetoes as permanent Council members to protect Syria from condemnation and remain opposed to military intervention.
Western powers, too, don't appear interested in sending forces to another Middle East nation in turmoil.
Instead, all parties have backed a peace plan brokered by envoy Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... that calls for a cease-fire to allow for dialogue between the regime and the opposition on a political solution to the 13-month-old conflict which has killed more than 9,000 people.
That plan, however, has been troubled from the start. Syria has failed to enact key parts of the plan, like withdrawing its forces from cities, and its troops have attacked opposition areas, killing scores of civilians since the truce was to begin on April 12.
Rebel fighters, too, have attacked military checkpoints and convoys.
In Gay Paree on Wednesday, Juppe said the plan was "severely compromised" but must go ahead.
"We think this mediation should be given a chance," he said after a meeting with Syrian dissidents. He called for the full contingent of 300 observers authorised by the Security Council to be deployed in Syria in 15 days and said Annan's report on the cease-fire scheduled for May 5 will be a "moment of truth" on whether mediation can solve the conflict.
"We cannot allow ourselves to be defied by the current regime," he said.
In New York, UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin of Russia said he told Moscow that some Security Council members said they had proof that Syria had not withdrawn its forces from cities as Syria's foreign minister claimed on April 21.
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We cannot allow ourselves to be defied by the current regime
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Beavis, here in lovely Massaholia we've got a couple of weeks to go. Then cars, driveways, porches (dogs, small children) etc. will also assume sunny hue.
(Sh.M.Network) -- Fighters, who are said to have defected from Al shabaab movement, surrendered to Somalia government forces in Gedo region, military officials said on Thursday.
TFG troop officials in southern Somali town of Qoqani say they have received several Al habab defectors with pick-up tracks who crossed from the frontline zones overnight peacefully to give up to Somali government soldiers.
This contingent of Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... deserters whose exact number have not been realesed so far were brought with them besides small arms armed technical wagons, according the officials.
The officials told Shabelle Media that the fighters will be displayed to the local journalists and residents in Qoqani district in Gedo region in southernSomalia.
No Al shabab official was available soon on the online for comments verifying or declining about Somali government claims.
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[An Nahar] Syria's main opposition group on Thursday called for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting as it accused regime forces of killing more than 100 people in the central city of Hama in recent days.
"We are calling for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council so that it can issue a resolution to protect civilians in Syria," the Syrian National Council said in a statement.
"Hama in recent days, and following a visit by U.N. observers, witnessed a series of crimes... that left more than 100 people dead and hundreds maimed because of heavy shelling.
"The city also witnessed summary executions, raids, arrests and the flight of residents," the exile group added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group, said at least 12 people were killed in shelling on a working-class neighborhood of Hama on Wednesday, but some activists on the ground put the corpse count at 68, including 16 children.
At least 31 people were killed during shelling of a different neighborhood on Monday.
According to the Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... -based Syrian League for Human Rights, nine activists were also "summarily executed" by regime forces on Monday, a day after they met U.N. observers overseeing a fragile ceasefire that went into effect April 12.
The ceasefire brokered by U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... has failed to take hold with unrest and killings reported on a daily basis in various parts of the country.
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[Iran Press TV] As many as 10 people have been killed and 18 others injured in two kabooms in the eastern Iraq province of Diyala.
The blasts took place at a coffee shop in a village near the town of Baqubah, 65 kilometers (40 miles) to the northeast of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , on Thursday, Rooters reported.
According to Iraqi security sources, the first attack was a car booming, in which 10 people died and 15 others were maimed. Another bomb, which had been planted inside the coffee shop, went off subsequently, injuring three other people, the sources said.
Earlier in the day, a roadside kaboom blast and a car boomkaboom killed five civilians and injured 27 others in Storied Baghdad.
On April 19, at least 36 people died and about 150 others were maimed after more than 20 kabooms hit different regions across the country.
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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Anouk Aimée (French) aka Anne Gauthier (Nominated AW - Won GG) in "A Man and a Woman (1966)" aka Luisa Anselmi in "8½ (1963)" aka Maddalena in "La Dolce Vita (1960)" aka Lola (Cécile) in "Lola (1961)" (age 80)
[An Nahar] A U.S. military judge is poised to decide Thursday if WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning can be charged with "aiding the enemy" for allegedly leaking classified documents to the website.
Manning's lawyers asked the judge at pre-trial hearings this week to dismiss the most serious charge facing their client, arguing the government must drop the count unless it can prove the U.S. Army private had "evil intent" to help al-Qaeda when he allegedly passed files to WikiLeaks.
Otherwise, defense lawyers argue, the government's case implies any soldier could be prosecuted for espionage if they spilled secrets online or discussed sensitive information with news news hounds.
Prosecutors counter that Manning's intent is not at issue and that the government only needed to prove that the intelligence analyst knew al-Qaeda would see the leaked the information on the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks site.
At Wednesday's hearing, Manning's civilian counsel, David Coombs, insisted that under the government's interpretation, a soldier could face the charge simply for telling a Washington Post news hound about high suicide rates, low morale or pervasive post-traumatic stress disorder in his unit without authorization.
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The reason documents are classified secret is because disclosure may damage national security. By deliberately leaking then to Wiki, this twerp KNEW they would be available to our enemies. Fry him
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[Dawn] The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the city managers either honour their word on rebuilding the demolished Jamia Hafsa or face contempt charges.
A three-member bench of the court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, issued notices to the Chief Commissioner of Islamabad, Chairman of the Capital development Authority and the federal interior secretary to the effect while hearing a private petition that the officers did not fulfill their commitments to the court.
Counsel of the petitioner Mohammad Hafeez Jalandhari secretary general of Wafaqul Madaris conceded to the bench that land was allotted for building the girls seminary but the documentation process was yet to be completed.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry asked Deputy Attorney General Babar Ali representing the government to seek fresh instructions from the government and said it had to comply with the earlier orders.
Islamabad authorities had the option to honour the undertakings they gave to the court or implement the agreement they reached with the Jamia Hafsa party last December about providing a 20-kanal plot in Sector H-11/4 for the construction of a new Jamia Hafsa with ancillary buildings.
The old building of Jamia Hafsa was razed to the ground following the Lal Masjid episode. The conflict started when female students of the Jamia occupied the adjacent children's library on January 22, 2007 to protest against the razing of seven other mosques in the city. The tension mounted and on July 3, several people were killed in battles between security forces and students at the mosque.
Earlier in October 2, 2007 the Islamabad administration and the CDA had submitted an undertaking in the Supreme Court to arrange for the construction of a new Jamia Hafsa building that should also contain a research centre and a hostel at some alternative place.
Later on December 29, 2011 an agreement was reached in which it was decided that a large chunk of 20 kanals land in Sector H-11/4, earlier reserved for the National Institute of Science and Technology, will be given for the construction of the madressah, research centre and the hostel for students of Jamia Hafsa. The land was to be given in lieu of the comparatively small piece of land where the demolished building of the Jamia stood.
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[Dawn] Taking serious notice of Friday's Bhoja Air plane crash, the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court ordered the federal government on Wednesday to immediately suspend the director general of Civil Aviation Authority and also issued contempt of court notice to him and the federal defence secretary for having failed to comply with its orders about conducting safety audits of all passenger aircraft of PIA and private airlines.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Mian Fasihul Mulk directed the two officials to appear in person on May 30, the next date of hearing, and explain in writing why a final show-cause notice should not be issued to them and why they should not be prosecuted for committing contempt of court.
The court also issued show-cause notices to the Bhoja Air management, including its managing director, and the licensing authority asking why the airline's operations on national and international routes should not be suspended when it was not capable of operating commercial flights.
The bench observed that before passing any final order it would leave it to the government to revisit its decision of permitting Bhoja Air's operation.
The chief justice observed that had the court's order been implemented the Bhoja crash could have been averted and precious lives saved.
Legal representative of the CAA Ubaidur Rehman Abbasi told newsmen that the authority would challenge the high court's order before the Supreme Court.
Advocate Afnan Kareem Kundi, representing the ministry of defence, said it was up to the defence secretary to decide whether or not to file an appeal.
The court was hearing a petition filed by former MNA Marvi Memon and some family members of the passengers who were killed in the July 2010 Airblue plane crash which had left 152 people dead.
The court observed that the minister for defence should consider and evaluate his own responsibility because two big tragedies had taken place during his tenure. When he failed to deliver on this important position it was for him to decide to quit or not, the court said.
The court ordered that the CAA chief should remain under suspension till the inquiry by foreign experts as directed by the court is completed regarding the Airblue plane crash and a similar inquiry carried out and completed in Bhoja Air crash.
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[Dawn] A provincial official says a group of Taliban fighters have attacked a police post in northeast Afghanistan, killing four officers and abducting 16.
Badakhshan province Deputy Gov Shams ul-Rahman said on Thursday that police reinforcements have been sent to secure the post, which sits on a key highway passing through Fayz Abad district.
Ul Rahman says the Taliban carried out the attack on Wednesday night and that they were helped by gunnies from other Central Asian countries.
Badakhshan province is in Afghanistan's far northeast and borders Pakistain, Tajikistan and China.
Ul Rahman says that two coppers were also maimed in the hours-long attack.
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India successfully launched an indigenous microwave Radar Imaging Satellite, Risat-1, from the spaceport at Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh Thursday.
The satellite, which can provide high resolution pictures and microwave imaging useful for disaster prediction, agriculture forestry and defense, has been termed a "spy satellite" by China's Xinhua news agency. Both could be right...
The satellite, built by the scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and launched using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), has a life span of five years.
PSLV- C19, transporting the 1,858 kg Risat-1 to its orbit, roared into the skies at 5:47 am from the launch pad No 1 at Sriharikota, amidst resounding cheers of ISRO scientists. Risat-1 is the heaviest satellite PSLV has launched into an orbit since 1993. The satellite was delivered into the orbit at an altitude of 480 km, after 17 minutes from takeoff.
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Anyone else get the feeling India and China are reprising the US/USSR space race of the early 60's? China may have put a man up first, but it feels like India has the better program qualitatively.
BEIRUT: An explosion ripped through a building in Syrias central city of Hama on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, in a bloody violation of a shaky cease-fire in the country.
The grassroots Local Coordination Committee said security forces fired a rocket at the building and put the death toll much higher, with 54 dead, several of them children.
Footage on YouTube of the blast showed a crowd of men pulling the bloodied body of a young girl from the rubble, shouting God is great.
Another video shows the collapsed remains of the building, as ash-covered men dig through piles of masonry looking for bodies amid the cries of onlookers.
An activist who asked not to be named said the blast may have been an explosion from inside the building.
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A flurry of visits by Arab and Islamic officials to East Jerusalem in the past few weeks has left Paleostinians wondering what is happening.
Prince Hashem visited Jerusalem followed by a joint visit of Prince Ghazi and Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa. The head of Jordan's security service, Hussein Majali, was the last to visit. His visit was followed by statements from Paleostinian Islamic Waqf officials and the Israeli media that an important leader would be visiting soon.
All visits included a tour of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest place of worship.
Jordan's agreement with Israel includes a clause stating that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has a special right and status vis-à-vis Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem.
Commentary regarding the visits was varied. There were those who said it was connected to the controversy over the bridge to the Maghreb gate. Months ago, Jordan intervened to defuse tension over Israel's plans to tear down the existing passageway and rebuild it.
After Jordan's intervention, Israel agreed to postpone the issue. Since further discussions and a possible decision are pending, Jordanian officials may have wanted to have a first-hand idea of the area and the issues connected with Israel's plans.
As a result of the problems faced by the Paleostinians, many opted to apply for Israeli citizenship, as an indirect way of safeguarding their right to their birthplace.
Another motivation behind the sudden flurry of visits could very well be the future of East Jerusalem. Jordan, which has been playing an important role in facilitating Israeli-Paleostinian negotiations, understands that the issue of Jerusalem is perhaps the biggest obstacle to any breakthrough.
Yet another issue that has been looming in recent months is the status of East Jerusalem's Paleostinian population. Numbering nearly 300,000, Paleostinian residents of Jerusalem are officially a stateless population. Israel provided East Jerusalemites residency, but has been withdrawing it from many.
Israel says it is withdrawing residency rights for administrative reasons, a practice described by Paleostinians as ethnic cleansing.
The current right-wing government of Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have accelerated this process. As a result of the problems faced by the Paleostinians, many opted to apply for Israeli citizenship, as an indirect way of safeguarding their right to their birthplace.
Paleostinians from Jerusalem who obtain Israeli passports are asked to hand in their temporary Jordanian passports. In response, Jordan decided to deny those Paleostinians entry into Jordan using their Israeli passports, even those who have close relatives in the Kingdom.
As the number of Paleostinians receiving citizenship has risen in recent years, reportedly reaching 60,000, the issue has been brought back to Amman to rethink the policy.
Israelis or Arab Israelis who are not from Jerusalem are routinely granted visas at the Sheikh Hussein Bridge. As the number of Paleostinians receiving citizenship has risen in recent years, reportedly reaching 60,000, the issue has been brought back to Amman to rethink the policy.
The Jordanian minister of interior also made a surprise visit to Ramallah. Sources at the interior ministry say that Jordanian officials are divided between those who understand the reasons for trying to obtain Israeli citizenship and feel those individuals should not be singled out for punishment.
On the other hand, some feel that if the pressure of a ban is lifted, almost all East Jerusalemites may end up applying for Israeli citizenship.
In this regard, there is yet another point of view, suggesting that Jordan should offer citizenship to those interested because of their unique situation and because Israel is refusing to allow them to hold Paleostinian passports.
Israel allows its citizens to hold second passports and thus an East Jerusalemite could easily have an Israeli and a Jordanian passport.
The sudden flurry of visits also came after the Paleostinian president, the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , publicly called on all who can to visit Jerusalem as a statement of solidarity. Abbas said what Faisal Husseini said in this regard, namely that visiting a prisoner doesn't equate recognition of his jailers.
Jerusalemite Paleostinians and the general Paleostinian and Jordanian public are curious about the reason behind this sudden interest and wish they could be included in the discussion, rather than learn about it in the media.
Jordanian-Paleostinian relations have improved considerably in recent decades. The friendly relationship and trust between King Abdullah and Abbas are obvious to all concerned.
Jordan's persistent and unwavering support to the Paleostinian cause, in word and deed, are beyond reproach.
[An Nahar] Saudi ambassador to Leb Ali Awadh Asiri hailed efforts exerted by Lebanese officials to detain two members of an "Arab gang" that kidnapped two Saudi nationals on the outskirts of Beirut, the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported.
Asiri confirmed that the two Saudi nationals Tawfiq and Abdullah al-Shaqaqeen were kidnapped and tortured for eight days and are currently receiving medical treatment at the American University of Beirut Medical Center.
"Security services are still tracking down the remaining two members of the gang," the ambassador told the daily.
According to security sources, an Iraqi woman received Tawfiq and Abdullah in Leb on April 16 as one of the two Saudis had met her during a previous visit to Syria a few months ago.
They moved to an apartment in Doha al-Hoss in southern Beirut, which the woman allegedly said she had rented for herself.
Later, three Iraqi men broke into the apartment claiming that they were members of the Internal Security Forces and tried to blackmail the two Saudi men by taking naked pictures for one of them and demanding a large ransom in exchange for their release.
The sources said that the two Saudis gave the gang at the beginning $5,000 and SR16,000 in cash but the head of the mob demanded more money so they transferred SR48,000 from their private bank accounts in addition to $16,000.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the kingpin threatened the two men to become "more violent" if they don't provide him with more money, which made them call a "friend" in Soddy Arabia to urge him to transfer the money.
One of the kidnapped Saudis hinted to his friend in the telephone conversation that they were kidnapped. The friend swiftly contacted Saudi authorities to inform them about the case.
Al-Hayat reported that two members of the gang were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock when they were taken by surprise near Audi Bank in Beirut's Hamra Street, where they went to collect the money.
The two confessed to their crime, while the remaining members of the mob decamped to an unknown location.
According to preliminary reports, the abductors have no political backgrounds and the two Saudi men were lured and tricked by the assailants.
Security forces are tracking down the head of the gang and the woman, al-Hayat said
The ambassador urged on Wednesday all Saudis in Leb to stay "only in well-known hotels and stay away from private apartments," and called on visitors to register with the embassy upon their arrival in Beirut.
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Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, said his group is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to discuss its concerns, but the chief responsibility for the safety of European Jews lay with their own governments.
He spoke at Tel Aviv University after the presentation of an annual report on worldwide anti-Semitic attacks. The report was issued before Israel's yearly memorial day for the 6 million Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust of World War II. The commemoration was beginning at sundown Wednesday.
The report said the number of attacks declined in 2011, but they were generally more violent than in previous years.
The European Jewish Congress is an umbrella organization that says it represents some 2.5 million Jews in Europe. The largest communities are in La Belle France and Great Britannia.
[An Nahar] There's nothing boring about Boring, Oregon, especially when it comes to building bridges with the good folks of little Dull, Scotland.
Boring, a rural suburb of Portland named after its early 20th century founding family, is poised to formally declare itself Dull's sister community on June 5 when its community planning organization convenes.
"It's for fun, really, and to attract some attention to both our communities," the organization's chairman, fire equipment dealer Stephen Bates, told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone Wednesday.
In population terms, it's a bit of a mismatch.
Bates said 7,800 people live "in the general Boring area," where core industries include agriculture, lumbering and a nationally recognized training center for seeing-eye dogs.
By comparison, Dull, northwest of Perth, on the edge of Dull Wood, has just 22 houses and, according to one resident, no shops.
"Neither of us is a city, so officially we cannot be sister cities," Bates said, explaining why the pairing is being defined instead as a friendly match of sister "communities."
The idea got off the ground when a Dull resident happened upon Boring -- which bills itself as "the most exciting place to live" -- during a cycling holiday through the Pacific Northwest.
"It might seem like a joke, but this could have real benefits for Dull," community councilor Marjorie Keddie told Scotland's Perthshire Advertiser newspaper this week.
"It will be interesting to see where this goes," Keddie said, adding: "Everyone has been smiling at the prospect of the very eye-catching road sign this will inevitably require."
Boring, meanwhile, is mulling ways to build on the newfound relationship. "We can probably send them some strawberries," Bates suggested, "and they can send us some good Scotch whisky."
Somehow that doesn't seem a fair exchange.
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BAGHDAD: A roadside bomb and a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday, killing 5 civilians and wounding 27 people, police and hospital sources said.
The roadside blast happened in the Sadr city area and targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint. The car bomb exploded in the Hurriya district and appeared to be aimed at a passing police patrol. Six members of the security forces were among the wounded, police sources said.
Last week at least 36 people were killed and almost 150 wounded by more than 20 bombings that were claimed by Al-Qaedas affiliate in the country.
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[An Nahar] Exiled Syrian businessman Nofal Dawalibi announced in Gay Paree on Thursday the setting up of a "transitional government to answer the needs of the Syrian opposition."
"The situation in Syria is getting worse every day. Chaos is rising," said Dawalibi, whose father Maarrouf was Syrian prime minister before Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Trampler of Homs... Baath party took power in 1963.
"We have decided to replace existing structures with a purely executive structure which coordinates the operations of the divisions fighting for freedom and follows the will of the sovereign Syrian people," he told news hounds.
He did not specify how the "transitional government" would coordinate with the Syrian National Council (SNC) headed by exiled academic Burhan Ghalioun that is considered the Syrian opposition's most representative political body.
Armed opposition to President Bashir al-Assad's regime is centred on the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Dawalibi said that "many" members of the SNC and the FSA backed his transitional government, although others were subject to "pressure".
"Unfortunately the SNC, which chose a legislative body while ours is an executive body, could not prove that its structure represents the Syrian people and the revolution," he said.
The "transitional government's" objectives are to arm anti-regime fighters, to implement "direct international military intervention" and ensure the return of security and stability to Syria," Dawalibi said.
The names of the 35 Syrians making up the "transitional government", described as civilians and soldiers within Syria, "will for security reasons be announced in a few days," he said.
A truce in Syria brokered by U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... earlier this month has failed to take hold, with unrest and killings reported on a daily basis in various parts of the country.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Wednesday said that given the persistent violence, the U.N.-backed peace plan was "seriously compromised" and held out the threat of seeking military action to end the regime's crackdown.
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[Iran Press TV] Sudanese warplanes have bombed South Sudan's border regions as violence in the area rages on and the risk of full-blown war between the two old enemies escalates.
The South's army front man, Philip Aguer says bombers and fighter jets hit the Southern village of Chotchare in Unity state and targeted temporary cattle-herding settlements.
In Mid-April, South Sudanese forces seized oil-rich Heglig, which is internationally regarded as a part of Sudan, drawing days of deadly border festivities.
On Sunday, South Sudan announced that it has completed the withdrawal of its forces from the disputed Heglig oilfield after days of increasing pressure from Sudan.
South Sudan claimed that Sudanese armed forces attacked departing soldiers. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... Sudan denies the accusations, saying it repelled an attack by rebels on its own side of the border.
South Sudan became independent on July 9, 2011, after decades of conflict with the north. The new oil-rich nation is one of the least developed countries in the world, where one in seven children dies before the age of five.
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[Dawn] Police placed in long-term storage two fleeing prisoners of Bannu jail from a Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -bound passenger bus here on Wednesday.
A police official said that following a tip-off a police party stopped a passenger bus going to Bloody Karachi from Bannu near Serai Gambila and placed in long-term storage two prisoners, Umar Daraz and his son Noor Daraz. He said that the two had beat feet from Bannu jail after faceless myrmidons attacked it on the night of April 14.
"Umar Daraz and his son were under-trial prisoners in a case of kidnapping and killing two minor children in Bannu," the official said and added that both were handed over to the Bannu police.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... an official said that police had placed in long-term storage five people and recovered illegal weapons from their possession in a village bordering the frontier tribal region.
He said that officials of elite force and anti-terror squad took part in the operation to arrest members of alleged criminal gangs.
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(Sh.M.Network)- The al Qaeda-linked fighters in Somalia, Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... has warned on Thursday troops from Sierra Leone not to deploy in south Somalia otherwise they will meet retaliation attacks against them, Al-Shabaab front man said.
Sheik Ali Mohamud Rageh(Ali Dheere) , the front man of Al shabab fighters threatened the government of Sierra Leone not to dispatch their boys to Gedo, Lower Jubba and Midlle regions of southern Somalia otherwise they will collect more bodies from there.
The announcement of Al-Shabaab came as Somalia government and AMISOM in Mogadishu await the first deployment of 850 soldiers from Sierra Leone in June to boost kenyan army. A month ago military officers from Sierra Leone and Kenya visited the southern region of Gedo region to look locations for the new deployment.
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AMSTERDAM: With the collapse of the Dutch center-right government, the Netherlands may now drop some of its most eye-popping proposals aimed at Muslims and other immigrants and could soften its strong anti-immigration rhetoric.
A ban on burqa is less likely to go ahead after the government collapsed at the weekend.
The minority Liberal-Christian Democrat coalition's alliance with Geert Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) fell apart when they could not reach agreement on crucial budget cuts. An election has been called for Sept.12. In return for Wilders support in Parliament, the government had proposed a number of laws, including bans on Muslim face veils and on dual nationality.
If it appears clear that there is no longer a parliamentary majority in favor of such proposals, they could soon be taken off the table, said Maurits Berger, professor of Islam in the contemporary West at Leiden University.
These policies were driven by PVV but also by this government in order to maintain their relationship with PVV. They have turned Holland into a pariah, Berger said. These are the legacy of the PVV.
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[Iran Press TV] Human rights groups say European countries are discriminating against Moslems, calling on institutions and governments to implement anti-discrimination laws.
The London-based human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... group Amnesia Amnesty International criticized politicians for their lack of action on the growth of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... in Europe.
The main problem in most countries is not a lack of anti-discrimination laws but their effective implementation, said John Dalhuisen, the body's director for Europe and Central Asia.
Discrimination is largely tolerated, Dalhuisen added, noting that religious discrimination against Moslems in Europe has become so commonplace that the society no longer deems it as improper.
In a new report released on Tuesday, Amnesty highlighted national laws or local rules which target Islamic customs; especially, in the fields of employment, education and daily life including wearing headscarves or face-covering Islamic veils.
The report entitled "Choice and Prejudice," also focused on the rise of political movements that target Moslems or Moslem practices in Belgium, La Belle France, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
"EU legislation prohibiting discrimination on the ground of religion or belief in the area of employment seems to be toothless across Europe, as we observe a higher rate of unemployment among Moslems," said Marco Perolini, Amnesia Amnesty International's expert on discrimination.
"Moslem women are being denied jobs, and girls prevented from attending regular classes just because they wear traditional forms of dress, such as the headscarf; men can be dismissed for wearing beards associated with Islam,"added Perolini.
Invited by Amnesia Amnesty International to share her experiences, Hajare Boujitat, a Belgian citizen, told news hounds how she was rejected in an interview, after she applied for an internship at a charity.
Boujitat was eventually offered the job, but "received a very cold welcome" on her first day at work.
"Many colleagues didn't want to speak with me, and some didn't even view me as a colleague and said quite bluntly they didn't want to work with me," she recalled.
Amnesty called on European governments to clear the negative stereotypes and prejudices against Islam, adding that "rather than countering these prejudices, political parties and public officials are all too often pandering to them in their quest for votes."
The call comes amid anti-Islamic remarks made by a number of European officials as well as acts of religious extremism against the growing Moslem population across the EU.
Last week, a member of Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's conservative bloc, Volker Kauder, said Islam is not a part of the country's tradition and identity and so does not belong in Germany.
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In UK the two nationalities that dont assimilate but are happy to collect welfare benefits without mixing with the natives are Pakistani and Somalian.Both have the highest numbers of unemployment.What do they add to country/economy?
The british born ones are the worse who usually choose jihad over jobs as they are lazy.
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NGO's, where would we be without them!
Of course they never criticize Islam, that would be Islamophobic, don't ya know. A letter stamped by Iranian authorities in terms of how Muslims are to deal with Bahai
In the name of God.
All members of the Bahai cult are guilty as being infidels & are regarded as Najes (an islamic term for being inherently unclean/dirty), thus people are advised to avoid proximity in food & other things because of their contagious nature AND it is paramount that the believers combat the schemes & devious nature of this misled cult.
[] Separate kabooms went off today at the offices of Nigeria's major national newspapers in two cities, killing at least six and injuring at least 25 others, in what appears to be coordinated attacks.
Instability in Nigeria hurts neighboring economies
The kaboom at the Abuja office of Thisday, an influential daily newspaper, occurred at about 11:45 a.m. local time. Around the same time as the Abuja blast, an kaboom rocked the building that houses offices for the Daily Sun, The Moment, and Thisday in the northern city of Kaduna.
"NEMA officials are on the ground. They are trying to move those injured to the hospitals, but we don't have any information on casualties yet," said NEMA spokesperson, Yushau Shuaib.
While no one has taken credit for the blasts at the time of publication, the methods used in the attacks on the newspaper offices mirror those used by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... , the Islamist fundamentalist group, responsible for waging deadly attacks against the Nigerian government, United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... offices, and against Christian churches and parishioners in the past two years.
Spokesman for the Nigerian Red Thingy, Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, said a jacket wallah in Abuja rammed his car through the gates of the ThisDay office, driving into the reception area before detonating the bomb, killing and injuring people, and blowing out all the windows and the roof of the building.
The blast in Kaduna -- which is reported to have killed at least one person, according to policeman Mohammed Abubakar -- also involved a car with explosives, according to witnesses.
Idris Abdullahi, who works the New Nigerian newspaper that shares an office with ThisDay in Kaduna, said that people at the newspaper office surrounded the car, but the driver of the car opened the car and threw an object at the crowd. Mr. Abdullahi said that at least three people died in that blast.
Suspicion falls on Boko Haram, the Islamist fundamentalist group that has been waging a twin war in Nigeria to replace the country's current secular government with Islamic law of Sharia, and exterminate all forms of Western education. Boko Haram has attacked Nigerian government offices, United Nations officials, and Christian churches across northern Nigeria killing hundreds this year, but this would be the first time the media would have been targeted in Boko Haram's bombings and shootings, if Boko Haram proves to be culpable.
It is unclear why ThisDay or the other papers were considered targets. ThisDay is broadly supportive of President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... 's government, according to some reports.
President Jonathan, who is in Cote d'Ivoire for an Extra-Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), condemned the attacks on ThisDay offices.
In a statement on behalf of the organization signed by Media Rights Agenda executive director Edetaen Ojo also condemned what he called "a cowardly and dastardly" attack on media freedom and said: "We are extremely concerned by the apparent helplessness of the Federal Government as well as the law enforcement and security agencies in the face of this relentless onslaught on the Nigerian people which has caused hundreds of innocent citizens their lives in the past several months."
Mr. Ojo called on the federal government to live up to its primary responsibility of ensuring the security and welfare of the people saying that it appeared to have failed in this regard.
He asked the government to devote all resources to find those responsible for these ongoing acts of terrorism and bring them to justice in order to end this climate of fear and impunity that has paralyzed governance, as well as commercial and social activities in many parts of the country.
Mohammed Garba, president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, also called for greater vigilance by the federal government. "Journalists are no longer safe in Nigeria," he said.
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[An Nahar] Turkey is considering every possibility if the continuing violence in neighboring Syria send tens of thousands of refugees pouring across the border, its foreign minister said Thursday.
"In the face of developments in Syria, we are taking into consideration any kind of possibility in line with our national security and interests," Ahmet Davutoglu told parliament during a briefing to politicians.
"Planning what kind of measures we will take if tens of thousands of people end up on our border is a requirement of being a big state," he said.
"This is not an intervention or warmongering as some claim."
The foreign minister did not specify what measures his government would take, but the mass influx of refugees fleeing the Syrian unrest has raised alarm in Ankara.
Different scenarios are being floated by the media, including the setting up of a buffer zone along the border with Syria to protect refugees but opponents say such a measure would be a declaration of war.
In response to criticism from opposition parties, Davutoglu said Turkey did not attempt to change the regime of any country in the region including Syria.
"It was not we who initiated the popular movement in Syria. We didn't call on anybody to rise up," he said. "But we cannot and will not remain silent to the masses' appeal for democracy."
Turkey, once a strong ally of Syria, broke with Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... after Bashir al-Assad's regime began cracking down on dissent in mid-March last year, sending waves of Syrian refugees into Turkish territory.
Although some of the refugees have headed back to Syria following Damascus' promise to implement international mediator Kofi Annan ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo... 's ceasefire plan, Turkey still hosts more than 23,000 Syrians.
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Methinks the Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami just gave Iran's answer to such in another RB Artic.
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > TERRIFIED ISRAEL ASKS OTHER COUNTRIES TO BOMB IRAN | ISRAELI ARMY CHIEF: OTHER COUNTRIES COULD STRIKE IRAN.
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* SAME > PAKISTAN POSSESSES VARIOUS ICBMS WHICH HAVE A RANGE OF 9000-PLUS KILOMETERS - TERMINAL X.
Iran's Navy claims it hasn't openly revealed most of its mighty equipment or available MilSys to defend the Nation + Gulf, APPARENTLY NEITHER ALSO HAS PAKISTAN WID ITS LRBMS.
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> Pakistan is watching how US, etc. conducts itself in various strategic regions or theaters around the world.
> HINTS THAT PAK'S LRBMS CAN WELL-TARGET OTHER COUNTRIES, NOT JUST INDIA = INDJUH.
UNLIKE IRAN + NORTH KOREA, IT SOUNDS LIKE PAKISTAN IS POLITELY TRYING HARD NOT TO SAY THAT IT CAN FIRE ITS 9000-KM PLUS RANGE ICBMS AT THE US + NATO, ESPEC THE US???
Which may explain [in part] Iran's seeming strategeery to defeat or destroy any US-led Ground INvasion/War agz Iran by isolating or restricting US CVNS/CBGS + Gator Navy EBGS, etal. to the Sea of Oman + beyond, i.e. outside of the SoH + Persian Gulf proper???
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > THE QATAR BUBBLE: CAN THIS TINY, RICH EMIRATE REALLY SOLVE THE MIDDLE EAST'S THORNIEST POLITICAL CONFLICTS?
* BR BLOGGER/POSTER = OPINED THAT THE KSA + BAHRAIN ARE FORMING A NEW "ARABIC GULF UNION" WHICH MAY BE FORMALLY ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD NEXT MONTH OR THIS SUMMER. Other GCC States allowed to join - Iran???
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Now there wouldn't be an oil field or something nifty like that in the refugee / revolt area would there?
If nothing else Ergodan is looking out for Turkey's future with secure energy reserves (hence his intense interest in those vast untapped oil reserves in Kurdish Iraq).
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If Erdy boy tries to move on Syria he might just find Russia moving on him and I'm guessing he wouldn't want that.
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Russia wouldn't do anything. They'd look to Turkey to become the new Syria, bigger and badder, and with more money to buy things. In the end they can supply both sides of a war.
Personally I hope they do, less backlash against Isreal when they try to take Iran's Nukes out. Jordan can't do squat against Isreal, and Egypt would be only threat with Syria fending off Turkey. also give Isreal good chance to gain some more ground up at the Golan's.
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Egypt's Adel Imam, the Arab world's most famous comic actor, had a conviction and three-month prison sentence for insulting Islam in his films and plays overturned on appeal, a state newspaper reported on Thursday.
Imam, 71, has poked fun at officials in his comedies and politicians of all colors during a 40-year career, although he was publicly criticized by many Egyptians for failing to back protests against former President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... . His more serious films dealt with the rise of Islamic militancy.
Egypt's liberals, leftists and others are worried that Islamists who have emerged as the dominant political force in post-Mubarak Egypt will stifle social and cultural freedoms.
A misdemeanour court overruled the verdict handed down in February against Imam, citing the "absence of a crime", state newspaper Al-Ahram reported on its website. It added that the actor had to pay attorney fees and other legal costs.
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Tzipi Shukrun recalls brutal attack on her family during barbecue in heart of Jerusalem; assailants used chains, shouted 'yahud'
Three members of the Shukrun family were hospitalized overnight Thursday following an attack by a group of young Arabs. Two of the family members were moderately maimed in the attack, while the third suffered light injuries.
Police said they are looking into the possibility that the attack was nationalistically-motivated, but are exploring other possibilities as well.
"I tried running away with my children and sister, but they kept coming back to hit us," Tzipi Shukrun told Ynet. "They kids are traumatized."
The family arrived at a park located in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, near the Jerusalem Cinematheque, to celebrate Independence Day. "We wanted to have a barbecue on the grass with my parents. I have three small children. At around 16:30 a group of Arabs, who seemed to be about 18 years old, sat next to us. It was calm; there were a number of Jewish and Arab families near us so we weren't scared. My kids played soccer with the Arab children."
But as the Shukrun family was preparing to leave, the teens approached and began cursing. "My two brothers, my father and another teenager tried to prevent them from reaching my children. In response, they took out clubs, chains and a knife and began brutally attacking the children," Tzipi Shukrun recalled.
She said the assailants yelled out "Yahud (Jew)."
Tzipi said one of her brothers "was struck in the head and began bleeding, and another one of my brothers suffered a severe blow to the eye. I called the police but it took them 25 minutes to arrive at the scene.
"My brother, who served in Sayeret Matkal (elite IDF unit), arrived at the scene before the police did," she told Ynet. Police officials said officers arrived at the scene at 6:22 pm, just seven minutes after Tzipi Shukrun called.
"I tried to run away with my sister and children, but they (Arabs) kept coming back to hit us. Luckily, my brothers blocked their path. It's difficult to fathom that something like this could happen in the heart of the capital," Shukrun said.
The family documented the incident with a camera. The photos were handed over to the police, but Sherlocks have yet to arrest any suspects.
Yonatan Shukrun, the brother who was hit in the head, told Ynet that "eight Arabs, aged 15 to 22, arrived just as we were preparing to leave. At some point they approached us and tried to reach the little kids -- aged two, eight and 10.
"When we tried to stop them, they took out a whip and a knife and began hitting us. I was struck with a club. We managed to protect the women and kiddies, but it wasn't easy," he said.
Yonatan was later treated at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
In another incident, an ultra-Orthodox man was attacked by two young Arabs in Jerusalem's Old City. He did not require medical attention. Border Guard officers jugged one suspect, while the other decamped the scene.
[Dawn] Pakistain has spelt out in no uncertain terms that US drone aircraft strikes against forces of Evil inside its territory must stop, but Washington is not listening, the country's foreign minister said.
"On drones, the language is clear: a clear cessation of drone strikes," Hina Rabbani Khar said.
"I maintain the position that we'd told them categorically before. But they did not listen. I hope their listening will improve," she told Rooters in an interview late on Wednesday.
The attacks by the unmanned aircraft from Afghanistan, which US officials say are highly effective against cut-thoats, fuel anti-American sentiment in Pakistain because they are seen as violations of illusory sovereignty that inflict civilian casualties.
Khar's sharp comments on the drone strikes came ahead of a two-day visit to Islamabad by the United States' special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistain, Marc Grossman.
Ambassador Grossman was due to hold bilateral meetings with Pak officials and take part in a "core group" meeting with officials from both Pakistain and Afghanistan, where the United States is hoping to revive stalled peace talks with the Taliban.
Ties between Pakistain and the United States, allies in the war on militancy, have lurched from crisis to crisis as they spar over security, assistance and the future of Afghanistan.
An unannounced raid on Pak soil by US Special Forces who killed Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... last May plunged relations to a low, and tensions were further stoked in November when a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... attack across the border from Afghanistan killed 24 Pak soldiers.
After a review of ties with Washington, a Pak parliamentary committee laid out a series of demands, including an end to US drone strikes.
Khar said other methods should be used to take out forces of Evil in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistain.
"We have to look at effective tools which are mutually acceptable. The cost of using tools which are not mutually acceptable is far, far too high. We're looking at alternatives," she said, without elaborating.
The commander of the frontline corps in Pakistain's northwest told Rooters last week that one alternative would be for the United States to share intelligence so that its ally's F-16 fighter jets could target forces of Evil there.
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The commander of the frontline corps in Pakistain's northwest told Rooters last week that one alternative would be for the United States to share intelligence so that its ally's F-16 fighter jets could target forces of Evil there
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We dont share intelligence with a country harboring/supporting terrorist groups.
His father praised Hitler, but Kasim Hafeez writes about love for Israel, Jewish people
I am a Zionist, a proud Mohammedan Zionist, and I love Israel, but this was not always the case. In fact, for many years I was quite the extreme opposite. I experienced the high levels of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity taking place on British university campuses, because I was the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel activist.
Growing up in the Mohammedan community in the UK I was exposed to materials and opinions at best condemning Israel, painting Jews as usurpers and murderers, and at worse calling for the wholesale destruction of the "Zionist Entity" and all Jews. In short, there was no accommodating a Jewish State in the Middle East.
To grow up around this constant barrage of hatred directed at Israel has a massive effect on an individual's own opinions. More disturbingly, many of these people weren't radical or extreme, but when it was about Israel the most vicious of rhetoric poured out, coupled with the casual anti-Semitism that seemed too prevalent, when the phrase "stop being a Jew" used as an insult.
My father, however, was much more brazen in his hatred, boasting of how Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... was a hero, his only failing being that he didn't kill enough Jews.
By the time I had reached 18 I was completely indoctrinated to the fold of radical Islamism. My hate for Israel and for the Jews was fuelled by images of death and destruction, set to the backdrop of Arabic melodies about Jihad and speeches of Hezbullies leader Hassan Nasrallah or the late Osama bin Laden ... who walked in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and didn't make it out... These views were reinforced when I attended Nakba Day rallies, where speakers predicted Israel's demise as Hezbullies flags were waved proudly in the centre of London.
The Case for Israel
Was there a case for Israel? In my mind, of course not, there was no shadow of doubt. Even the most moderate holy mans I came across refused to condemn terrorism against Israel as unjustified; the Jews must obviously deserve it, I believed.
So what changed? How could I go from all this hatred to the great love for and affinity with Israel and the Jewish people? I found myself in the Israel and Paleostine section of a local bookstore and picked up a copy of Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel. Given my worldview, the Jews and Americans controlled the media, so after brief look at the back, I scoffed thinking "vile Zionist propaganda."
I did, however, decide to buy it, content that I would shortly be deconstructing this propaganda piece, showing that Israel had no case and claiming my findings as a personal victory for the Paleostinian cause.
As I read Dershowitz's arguments and deconstruction of many lies I saw as unquestionable truths, I searched despairingly for counter arguments, but found more hollow rhetoric that I'd believed for many years. I felt a real crisis of conscience, and thus began a period of unbiased research. Up until that point I had not been exposed to anything remotely positive about Israel.
Now, I didn't know what to believe. I'd blindly followed others for so long, yet here I was questioning whether I had been wrong. I reached a point where I felt I had no other choice but to see Israel for myself; only that way I'd really know the truth. At the risk of sounding cliché, it was a life-changing visit.
No apartheid state
I did not encounter an apartheid racist state, but rather, quite the opposite. I was confronted by synagogues, mosques and churches, by Jews and Arabs living together, by minorities playing huge parts in all areas of Israeli life, from the military to the judiciary. It was shocking and eye-opening. This wasn't the evil Zionist Israel that I had been told about.
After much soul searching, I knew what I had once believed was wrong. I had been confronted with the truth and had to accept it. But I had a bigger question to confront, what now? I'd for years campaigned against Israel, but now I knew the truth.
The choice was obvious: I had to stand with Israel, with this tiny nation, free, democratic, making huge strides in medicine, research and development, yet the victim of the same lies and hatred that nearly consumed me.
Doing this is not easy and that's something that has become very obvious. I have faced hostility from my own community and even some within the Jewish community in the UK, but that's the reality of standing up for Israel in Europe today. It is not easy, and that's what makes it so necessary.
This isn't about religion and politics; it's about the truth.
When it comes to Israel, the truth is not being heard, the ranks of those filed with blind hatred continue to swell, yet many have not been exposed to the reality, away from the empty rhetoric and politically charged slogans they are so fond of.
We can change this situation but we need to be strong and united. Israel is not just a Jewish issue - it's about freedom, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and democracy, all the values that Western nations cherish. It's also about trying to be a light among nations.
Israel's international humanitarian aid work speaks for itself, but if we don't get the message out there, no one will. We don't have to be head-bowed apologists leading with :Israel's not perfect..." - we should never be afraid to say: I am a Zionist and I'm proud. I stand with Israel. Now I ask, will you do that?
Kasim Hafeez is a British Mohammedan and former Islamist who is now a proud Zionist and stands with Israel. He runs www.theisraelcampaign.org and has a blog on this site. He is also on the advisory board of StandWithUs in the UK and recently completed a university speaking tour
A brave young man. One hopes his parents are proud of that, even of they disagree with his opinions.
[Iran Press TV] Egypt's election committee has announced the final list of 13 candidates for the country's upcoming presidential election.
The list published on Thursday includes Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister to serve under the former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... "After listening to Shafiq's appeal, the committee decided to halt the decision to exclude him from the presidential race," Farouk Soltan, the head of the election committee said.
The list also included Mubarak's longtime foreign minister and former Arab League. ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... chief Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who was head of the Arab League for approximately two normal lifespans, accomplishing nothing that was obvious to the casual observer ... Mohamed Morsi, head of the Moslem Brüderbund's Freedom and Justice Party, Egypt's most powerful political group, is also among the presidential contenders.
The polls are scheduled to be held in two rounds. The first would be held over two days on May 23 and 24 while a run-off, if necessary, would take place on June 16 and 17. Final results are expected on June 21.
The military council took power in the aftermath of the last February revolution in Egypt that overthrew Mubarak's Western-backed regime.
The SCAF promised to step down after a six-month period and hand over power to a civilian government, a pledge it has so far failed to fulfill.
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(Sh.M.Network)- At least six people were killed and many others injured in a heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... between Ethiopian troops along with fighters from the pro-government militia Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa and Al shabab fighters in central Somalia, witnesses said on Thursday.
Local residents told Shabelle Media that the combat erupted after the Al Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... Islamic fascistiin centralSomaliain battle trucks have overnight attacked El Bur town, some 150 kilometers south of the Ethiopian border, killing 6 combatants from both warring sides.
Neither Al shabab nor Ahlu Sunna Walma'a has made any comments about the attack si far, but the town is said to be still under the control of Ethiopian troops and fighters from the pro-government militia Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa.
El Bur town in Galgadud region, centralSomaliawas the fourth Al-Shabaab stronghold to be seized by the Ethiopian forces, which deployed into lawlessSomaliain November, afterKenyaalso sent troops into southernSomaliato battle the ruthless militia.
Ethiopia's latest incursion is the second in five years. They toppled an Islamist movement after deploying in 2006, but they withdrew in 2009 after the group's hardline fighters -- the Al-Shabaab -- mounted a bruising guerrilla war.
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[Dawn] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government here on Wednesday set a one-month deadline for illegal Afghan nationals to leave the province or face legal action.
District Coordination Officer Siraj Ahmad Khan told a presser that illegal Afghan nationals should leave the province by May 25 otherwise they would be treated according to the law of the land.
"Police will arrest illegal Afghan nationals under 14 Foreign Act and they will be deported to their country after May 25," said Mr Khan, who was accompanied by Commissioner for Afghan Refugees Zaheerul Islam.
He said that the government had decided to expel illegal Afghan nationals from the province and action would be started from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar where approximately 400,000 undocumented Afghans were residing.
"Peshawar has been overburdened because of influx of internally displaced persons and prolonged presence of Afghans," the DCO said.
He added that illegal Afghan nationals were involved in criminal activities.
He said that illegal Afghans had overburdened Peshawar's infrastructure and had also role in lawlessness.
Mr Khan said that registered Afghan refugees possessing valid Proof of Registration (PoR) cards had been exempted till December 2012.
The federal government had issued PoR cards to 1.7 million refugees, residing in 42 camps and in urban areas.
Pakistain, sheltering the largest refugee population since early 1980s, Afghanistan and United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... High Commissioner for Refugees had signed a tripartite agreement to legalise stay of registered Afghans till December next.
The government has been issuing such deadlines to illegal Afghans since 2001, but did not implement the same. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... police had launched a crackdown against Afghan prayer leaders some time ago and deported many of them.
According to officials, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is hosting 1.2 million Afghans including 400,000 illegal. A large number of Afghan nationals has been running different businesses in the province.
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Founder of party tentatively labeled Israeli-Arab Nationalist Party says other Arab parties serve only Paleostinians.
Move over Balad, Hadash and the United Arab List-Ta'al.
In the next general election, there will be a new Arab party. But what is tentatively labeled the Israeli-Arab Nationalist Party will be very different from the current Arab factions in the Knesset.
While those factions' MKs have been criticized for being too extreme and vocal in their criticism of the Jewish state, the new party will be unabashedly pro-Israel and take a very different approach.
"Most Arab citizens are in favor of coexisting, cooperating and living in harmony with Jewish Israelis," the party's founder, Sarhan Bader, told The Jerusalem Post. "The other Arab parties place too much emphasis on the Paleostinians and external Arabs. But it's more important to serve the Arabs inside Israel who want to live here in peace with our Jewish cousins. After we solve the problems of internal Arabs, we can help the Paleostinians."
The not-so-mythical moderate Muslim.
Bader said he would fight for the rights of Israeli Arabs and fair expression for his sector, which he said totaled 22 percent of the population. He said his party would represent its constituency better than the current Arab parties, in part because he intends to join the coalition, which no Arab party has ever done.
"To serve the Arabs properly, it's important to work together with the ruling party in the coalition," he said. "The Druse MKs who are part of the coalition [in Likud, Yisrael Beytenu and the Independence Party] help their constituency a hundred times more than every Arab MK in the opposition. I will dramatically improve things for the Arab sector."
Bader, 36, has been involved in local politics for many years in Nahaf, his Upper Galilee village.
Out of a belief that large ruling parties can be more effective, he was a member of the Likud before deciding that the formation of a pro-Israel Arab party was more urgent.
Asked if backing Likud caused him problems, he admitted that he had encountered hostility but said he always resolutely defended his politics.
Bader's behavior reached the Prime Minister's Office, which encouraged him to form the party that may end up acting as an Arab satellite party of Likud.
"Only a strong party like Likud can bring peace," he said. "It's true historically.
The Left won't bring peace. Labor never did anything for the Arab sector. It's time to give a chance to the Right."
Bader described the party as six months away from being ready.
Mocking the current Arab politicians again, he blasted their visits to Libya and Leb.
"They went to Qadaffy and called him a king to get money from him for a soccer stadium and a few months later they called him a murderer," he said.
In a recent interview with journalist Shalom Yerushalmi, Bader predicted that his party would win three seats in the next election. Yerushalmi asked how the party would mark "Nakba Day," the anniversary of Israel's founding that Paleostinians and some Israeli Arabs observe with anti-Israel rallies.
"We won't officially mark the day," he said. "But I am not responsible for what each person feels in his heart."
[Times of India] Pakistain's Supreme Court on Thursday convicted Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani of contempt but awarded him a symbolic detention "until the rising of the court" for defying its orders to write to the Swiss for the reopening of a graft case against his party co-chairman and President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari. ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... Gilani's conviction opens the way for proceedings to disqualify him as the prime minister. But the process could drag on for months and would not bring down the government that completes its term in March next year. Gilani's lawyer, Aitzaz Ahsan, claimed the conviction does not automatically disqualify the PM from office and said he would appeal the verdict. The move would further delay Gilani's disqualification.
The court was widely expected to award Gilani the maximum six-month imprisonment, but it said Gilani's likely disqualification was "taken as a mitigating factor in sentencing''.
"...the prime minister is found guilty of contempt for willfully flouting the direction of the Supreme Court," said justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, who headed a seven-member bench that heard the case. He said the PM's offence tended to ridicule the country's judiciary and ordered his confinement until the conclusion of the court proceedings that lasted for a few minutes.
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[Iran Press TV] US President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... has approved a new policy which allows the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen.
According to US officials, Obama has approved the use of "signature strikes", which will allow the CIA to launch strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know the identities of those who could be killed.
The move comes as the number of US liquidation drone strikes in Yemen has already hit a record.
Critics of drone campaign believe that more innocent people will be killed if US strikes are expanded in Yemen.
US liquidation drone strikes killed at least 64 people, mainly civilians, in southern Yemen over a period of only three days in March.
The CIA has been flying drones in Yemen since 2011 from a secret base in the country.
Last year, two American citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... and his teenage son, were also killed in US drone attacks in Yemen. Their deaths sparked strong criticism against B.O. regime's assassinations of civilians across the world, including American citizens without any judicial procedures.
Leading academic Professor Noam Chomsky ...intellectual and political theorist of a socialist persuasion. He is noted for being so far out in left field he can't see the shortstop on every issue he pushes... has also condemned US policy of targeting terror suspects in foreign countries using unmanned aerial vehicles, saying the tactic amounts to ''state terror''.
The US military uses liquidation drones in several Moslem countries, including Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistain.
Washington claims the Arclight airstrikes target jihad boys, but the attacks have mostly led to civilian casualties.
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I still find it strange that the Left, excepting the really far Left like Chomsky, don't make more of an issue of this.
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To do so would mean that everything they hated about Boooosh for 6 years has doubled with their man Obama, and would have to confront their hyprocrasy...perhaps maybe not vote next cycle.
So oddly, one of the few successes and the administration is self muffled. I also theorize one reason for the delay of the movie Operation No Brainer is that confrontation, after calling Boooshitler a war criminal for even going after bin dover, nevermind this guy bragging it up.
The tru believers like chomsky don't care if they have a man in the White House or not, so long as they hurt the credibility of the USA then his own teammates are expendable. Its the collectivist way.
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Annnnd as that goes down, team bammy is hyping up the killing of bin dover. See how that works out, but calling Romney gutless (because he is a Mormon), I don't see that. My knowledge of Mormon history is not extensive, but I know there is an ornery streak in there.
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Yup, those Mormons are real wimps when it comes to military action. That's why Brigham Young has extensive Saints at War archives of Mormons who served in combat.
[Yemen Post] Thousands of people held a demonstration in Yemen's capital Sanaa in memory of the deaders who were killed during the 2011 uprising, coinciding with an expanded meeting by the families of the victims.
The demonstrators urged to prosecute all officials involved in killing innocents and protesters in the country, including the 2011 killings.
At the demonstration, which originated early Thursday from Change Square outside Sanaa University passing through Rabat and other streets, the people remembered the victims during anti-regime protests last year and vowed be loyal to their sacrifices.
The youth organizational committee called for the walk amid demands to try those involved in the last year's killings before the participation in any dialogue.
The meeting of the families of the deaders were said to discuss options before dialogue.
The House of Representatives is yet to pass the transitional justice law, already approved by the government, within the efforts to compensate the victims of the popular uprising.
Earlier, Human Rights Minister, Horia Mashour, head of ministerial panel negotiating the youth-led protesters and political forces as a prelude to hold a comprehensive national dialogue, said more than 2000 people were killed last year including 143 children and 20 women. About 20.000 others injured also, she said.
The power-sharing government has many times pledged to support and compensate the victims of the revolution.
President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... resigned as president of the republic of Yemen in November under a power transfer deal brokered by the GCC countries and backed by the West.
The deal came as a result of the mass protests along 2011 to demand for the departure of Saleh and reforms.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Moslem League -- Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... Thursday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... after he was convicted of contempt of court.
"The prime minister should immediately resign. He should step down without causing further crisis," Sharif said speaking to a private television channel.
Sharif, who has twice served as prime minister, also called for fresh elections.
"The court verdict is based on truth and reality. It must have punished the prime minister with a heavy heart, but the prime minister himself is to be blamed," he said.
"The prime minister himself invited this situation," he added.
The Supreme Court convicted Gilani of contempt on Thursday over his refusal to write to authorities in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... asking them to reopen corruption investigations into President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... He was given only a nominal sentence, jugged until the court adjourned, but could still be forced out of office.
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[Dawn] Civil society representatives have urged Members of the National Assembly to make effective amendments for removing lacunas in the Anti-Women Practices Act 2011.
During a discussion on the Act and why it had not been effective in curbing practices depriving women of some of their basic rights, the speakers suggested that amendments were needed to remove lacunas in the law. The discussion was organised by Aurat Foundation here on Wednesday.
Farhad Baig, programme officer of Local Action to Combat Gender Injustices, pointed out certain lacunas in the Act. He said that swara was made non-cognizable offence under this Act, which meant that police could not interfere in the jirga proceedings on swara, vani or badle sulah cases -- all related to marrying a girl to someone to settle some dispute.
"In such a situation, by the time police come with warrants the fate of the girl may have been decided in a swara case," said Mr Baig while explaining how the amendment in the law made it weaker as far as cognizance of the swara cases was concerned.
The participants hailing from women rights organizations also pointed out that the new amended Act also lacked definitions and did not clarify whether forced marriages under swara customs would be dissolved or who would decide it when such a case was taken up by a court.
In the Pakistain Penal Code, Act XLV of 1860, the 310-A section has been substituted as, "Whoever gives a female in marriage or otherwise compels her to enter into marriage as badle sulah, vani, or swara or any other custom under any name, in consideration of settling a civil dispute or a criminal liability, shall be punished with imprisonment...."
Mr Baig said that "whoever gives..." only puts the burden of this crime on the parents or elders of the girls whereas the other party has not been held responsible. The minimum
punishment for such a crime has also been set at less than 10 years and as such the accused would easily get bail in such offences, he pointed out.
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[An Nahar] Russian deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Thursday that French calls to use force in Syria under a United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... mandate were counterproductive.
Bogdanov's comments came a day after French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Syria's United Nations-backed peace plan was "seriously compromised" and held out the threat of seeking military action to end a brutal 13-month crackdown on dissent.
"It's a counterproductive approach," Russian news agencies cited Bogdanov as saying. "It seems to us the only way to avoid civil war, the most promising method, is a national dialogue" in Syria.
Syrian opposition leaders Thursday demanded an emergency meeting of the UN, following the reported killing of more than 100 people in the city of Hama, though Russia blamed rebels for stoking the unrest.
"The questions of a ceasefire and the retreat of troops are, of course, important, but they must be accompanied by practices tied to the political process," Bogdanov added.
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[Dawn] Maoist rebels in eastern India on Thursday released a state politician who had been held hostage for more than a month in the latest of a series of kidnappings by the guerrillas.
Jhina Hikaka, 37, a member of the Orissa state assembly, was allowed to walk out of the remote jungle hideout where he had been held captive during weeks of negotiations.
"I am a free man now. They did not torture me. I was treated well," a tired-looking Hikaka told waiting news hounds before he was driven away with his wife.
The rebels, who claim to be fighting for the rights of poor tribals and farmers, said in an audio message that Hikaka had agreed to resign from his post in return for being freed, but no such deal has been confirmed.
The Maoists have in the past kidnapped officials and coppers to raise ransom payments and negotiate other demands. Most hostages have been released unharmed, but some have been killed.
In the first case of foreigners being targeted by the rebels, two Italian men were kidnapped in Orissa last month. They were both later released unharmed.
A civil servant in the neighbouring state of Chhattisgarh remains held hostage after being picked up on Saturday in an attack in which his two bodyguards were killed.
The government describes the Maoist movement, which often targets police and soldiers with deadly roadside mine ambushes, as India's biggest internal security threat.
The insurgency, which began in 1967, feeds off land disputes, police brutality and corruption, and is strongest in the poorest and most deprived areas of India, many of which are rich in natural resources.
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[Dawn] The chief minister has absolved the Punjab government of protecting Railways installations, saying since it is part of the federal institution, the security of the Lahore railway station is Islamabad's responsibility.
His remarks came in the wake of a blast at the city railway station on Tuesday evening which claimed four passengers and injured 60 others.
"The railway station is part of the federal setup and the federal government is responsible for its security," Shahbaz told news hounds at the police training school ceremony here on Wednesday.
He said surveillance cameras installed at the railway station were dysfunctional.
The Pakistain People's Party (PPP), which rules Islamabad, blames the Punjab government for the kaboom.
"The dreadful kaboom occurred owing to the failure of the Punjab government," Punjab PPP information secretary Raja Aamir Khan said in a statement.
Aamir held the provincial government responsible for "the lack of proper security plan and dysfunctional cameras as well as lack of security staff at the station."
He would not take calls on his cell phone when this news hound tried to know what law obliged the provincial government to install its security apparatus at a federal government property.
A senior colleague, however, commented that the provincial government should also accept its responsibility as explosives passed through its territory to reach the railway station.
The chief minister said justice could be manipulated in the country and that Islamic fascistiexploited this situation to their advantage.
He said that "to combat the war against terror, latest equipment and technical manpower are more important than more recruitment in the police force".
He said terrorism stemmed from poverty hence the challenge of terrorism could be countered through promotion of social and economic justice and removal of disparity between the rich and the poor.
He said the aim of setting up a safe and peaceful society could not be achieved without an alert and vibrant police force.
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[VOA News] Former Liberian President Charles Taylor The former President-for-Life of Liberia, of whom the best that could be said was that he wasn't quite as horrible as Prince Johnson, at least not usually. was found guilty Thursday of aiding and abetting grave human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses and war crimes in a historic verdict by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. While Taylor was not found guilty of criminal masterminding the atrocities, he became the first former African head of state to be convicted in an international court. In Taylor's native Liberia and in Sierra Leone, where the crimes were committed, interest in the verdict was very high.
Liberians gathered around radios and televisions or watched online, using slow connections at internet cafes, as former President Charles Taylor was convicted of involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone.
From the site of the trial in The Hague, the Special Court for Sierra Leone said Taylor was not guilty of committing the crimes himself. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... he was guilty of aiding and abetting rebels as they terrorized civilians, carved their initials into the bodies of child soldiers and carried out murder, abductions and rape.
The court said prosecutors had not proven beyond reasonable doubt that Taylor was part of the rebel's command structure.
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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.
FORT MEADE, Maryland - A U.S. military judge refused on Thursday to throw out a charge that Bradley Manning, the U.S. intelligence analyst accused of leaking government files to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, aided the enemy identified as al Qaeda. The charge, the most serious accusation against Manning, could result in a life prison sentence if he is convicted of it at a court-martial in September.
They said that two other members of the peace lashkar, led by Momin Khan Afridi, received injuries when they 
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
[An Nahar] A U.S. military judge is poised to decide Thursday if WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning can be charged with "aiding the enemy" for allegedly leaking classified documents to the website.
[Dawn] The Supreme Court on Wednesday told the city managers either honour their word on rebuilding the demolished Jamia Hafsa or face contempt charges.
[Dawn] Taking serious notice of Friday's Bhoja Air plane crash, the 
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Pakistain's Supreme Court on Thursday convicted Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani of contempt but awarded him a symbolic detention "until the rising of the court" for defying its orders to write to the Swiss for the reopening of a graft case against his party co-chairman and President 
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Nawaz Sharif
Civil society representatives have urged Members of the National Assembly to make effective amendments for removing lacunas in the Anti-Women Practices Act 2011.
Maoist rebels in eastern India on Thursday released a state 
[Dawn] The chief minister has absolved the Punjab government of protecting Railways installations, saying since it is part of the federal institution, the security of the Lahore railway station is Islamabad's responsibility.
Charles Taylor
