CNSNews.com) Attorney General Eric Holder claimed during congressional testimony today that internal Justice Department emails that use the phrase Fast and Furious do not refer to the controversial gun-walking operation Fast and Furious. They refer to, umm, something else entirely.
Under questioning from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who read excerpts of the emails at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight, Holder claimed that the phrase Fast and Furious did not refer to Fast and Furious but instead referred to another gun-walking operation known as Wide Receiver. Which really refers to Lying Weasels.
However, the emails refer to both programs -- "Fast and Furious" and the "Tucson case," from where Wide Receiver was launched -- and reveal Justice Department officials discussing how to handle media scrutiny when both operations become public. Who ya gonna believe? Eric Holder or those Lying Weasel emails?
Among three of the emails the second, dated October 17, 2010 11:07 PM, was sent by Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein to James Trusty and it states: Do you think we should have Lanny participate in press when Fast and Furious and Lauras Tucson case [Wide Receiver] are unsealed? Its a tricky case, given the number of guns that have walked, but it is a significant set of prosecutions. In other words, we gotta cover our asses and blame Bush.
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Seems to me this goes to the Monty Python school of Congressional testimony.
Holder's responses today were so incredibly ridiculous, I doubt anyone will be running cover for him. I bet even that idiot over at DailyKos is looking for a place to hide instead of writing some cover story for him.
Pinch Sulzberg at the NYT probably gagged on his caviar and champaigne listening to the testimony and the guys at WaPo aren't answering the phone.
Holder's conduct during this Charlie Foxtrot is a campaign issue for Romney.
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Turkey will not attend any event Cyprus presides over when the divided nation assumes the European Union presidency in July, Turkey's foreign minister said Thursday, although it will continue to collaborate with the EU.
Turkey does not recognize Cyprus as a sovereign nation and opposed it taking over the EU presidency until a solution to the dispute is found.
The island was split into an internationally recognized Greek-speaking south and a breakaway Turkish-speaking north in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of a union with Greece. Only the Greek section is part of the EU.
"EU-Turkey relations and the political contacts we are currently establishing will continue as they are," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a joint news conference with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule. "Yet no ministry or organization of the Turkish Republic will take part in any activity that will be presided by Southern Cyprus."
A bomb attached to a bicycle exploded outside a seminary in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, police said.
More than 40 people were wounded in the attack in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, senior police officer Hamid Shakil said.
Most among the dead and wounded were students at the Sunni Muslim seminary, he said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility, and the motive for the bombing was unclear.
At the time the bomb went off, hundreds of students, teachers and parents were in the Jamia Islamia Maftah-ul-Uloom seminary, attending a ceremony to award certificates to students who had completed their basic religious education, said another police officer, Anwer Kakar.
Baluchistan borders Afghanistan to the west and is believed to be a refuge for Taliban and Pakistani militants. It has also witnessed a decades-long insurgency by renegade tribal elders and nationalists who demand greater autonomy and a larger share of the province's resources like natural gas and oil extracted from there.
Also, there have been scores of sectarian attacks blamed on Sunni militants with links to the Afghan Taliban who target Shiite Muslims. Many Sunni extremists do not consider Shiites to be true Muslims.
The regional authority overseeing the $6 billion Dulles rail project dealt a blow to union labor on Wednesday -- a day after voters in Wisconsin and California did much the same.
The issue divided those who support and oppose project labor agreements (PLAs) -- pre-project collective bargaining pacts made between contractors and unions that outline conditions and wages for workers. Virginia, where the rail-line construction will take place, is a right-to-work state, meaning that union membership cannot be required as a condition for employment. Meaning PLAs result in a union project.
Maryland and the District are overwhelmingly Democratic and generally considered in bed with friendly to labor, while President Obama issued an executive order in 2009 encouraging the use of PLAs on high-dollar federal construction projects.
The contractor for the first phase of the rail project employed a PLA that was voluntarily adopted after the bid was won in June 2007, under the administration of former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat. Supporters of the PLA said the agreement helped ensure a safe, steady supply of union drones capable workers on Phase 1 of the 23-mile line.
When the issue of a PLA for the second phase was introduced last year, the board engaged in countless debates with officials in Virginia, where Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, threatened to withhold funding for the project if the language was kept.
The airports authority board eventually watered down the PLA requirement on phase two to a preference, stating that contractors bidding on the project would receive a 10 percent scoring bonus if they agreed to use a labor agreement. When competing contractors are short-listed based on qualifications, a ten-percent bonus would often be a deciding factor.
After more than a year of haggling during which Virginia's funding for the project was uncertain, Mr. McDonnell wrote to DOT Secretary Ray LaHood this week saying that if the MWAA board voted to remove the PLA language entirely, the state would provide a pledged $150 million next year "without any further conditions." The move helped prompt the MWAA board to vote 11-1 on Wednesday to abandon the PLA preference. Another slap at the socialist state of Maryland and the socialist in the White House.
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Windmills in Pennsylvania are being constructed with union workers from Texas. Forget Pa., Md, and WV. They asked for help because they are behind. They asked for local union help to work night shift to catch up. They said no way. That would have made them look good. The area ground is nothing like Texas. I think rocks just grow in Pennsylvania.
At least 30 people were killed in fierce battles between Al Qaeda and tribesmen and government troops at the gate of the Taliban-Style town of Jaar, south of Yemen, said local sources late Thursday.
The former Al Qaeda leader Abdul Latif Al Sayed is leading the local tribesmen who fight against Al Qaeda with the troops in the area of Batis, at the outskirts of Jaar.
The clashes started earlier today when Al Qaeda sent three vehicles to Batis for the purpose of kidnapping all tribesmen who, they believe, cooperate with the government troops under the leadership of the "defector" Abdul Latif Al Sayed. The armed tribesmen , known as Anti-AlQaeda popular committees, under the leadership of Al Sayed, surrounded the three vehicles inside Batis, big residential area about 5 km out of Jaar.
Al Qaeda started to shell Batis randomly destroying many houses and killing at least 10 of the residents and 5 of the armed tribesmen.
The army interfered late after noon Thursday when Al Qaeda wanted to storm Batis. At least 15 Al Qaeda fighters were killed when the army prevented them from advancing towards the residential area of Batis, according to military and tribal sources.
"Al Qaeda wanted to kill or arrest the defector Al Sayed who knows all their secrets," said the tribemsen Hussein from Batis where he fights against Al Qaeda.
" Abdul Latif AlSayed joined us after became convinced that Al Qaeda had nothing to do with religion, and now he will help us a lot to quickly defeat these terrorists," Hussein added.
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed three al Qaeda operatives in an airstrike in the same district where 38 US and Afghan troops, including Navy SEALs, were killed when their helicopter was shot down in August 2011.
The three al Qaeda operatives were killed yesterday in an airstrike in the Danoki area of Sayyidabad district in Wardak province, the district governor told Bakhtar News. The al Qaeda operatives, who were not named, were meeting with the Taliban and worked together to attack the Afghan government.
"At this time there is no operational reporting available that confirms the Bakhtar News story," ISAF Joint Command Media Operations told The Long War Journal. "If more information becomes available it may be released as appropriate."
Al Qaeda and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan are known to operate in Wardak province. The presence of terror cells has been detected in the districts of Maidan Shah, Sayyidabad, and Tarnek Wa Jaldak, or three of the province's eight districts, according to ISAF press releases that have been compiled by The Long War Journal.
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It's kinda like when we broke the Imperial Japanese Naval Code in WWII and Roosevelt called up Tojo on the phone and said, "You've been punked, suckers!"
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I wonder what this guy will do after his one term is over.
I wonder if he would have gotten that security clearance if his leftist connections had been known, or if the guy elected president just gets one automagically.
I really don't know if I want him out walking around with the information he knows rattling around inside his head, just itching to get out.
On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic party and even to American capitalism. In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party. The issue remains as fresh as todays headlines, as Romney argues that Obama is trying to move the United States toward European-style social democracy, which was precisely the New Partys goal.
In late October 2008, when I wrote here at National Review Online that Obama had been a member of the New Party, his campaign sharply denied it, calling my claim a racist crackpot smear. Fight the Smears, an official Obama-campaign website, staunchly maintained that Barack has been a member of only one political party, the Democratic Party. I rebutted this, but the debate was never taken up by the mainstream press.
Recently obtained evidence from the updated records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society now definitively establishes that Obama was a member of the New Party. He also signed a contract promising to publicly support and associate himself with the New Party while in office.
Minutes of the meeting on January 11, 1996, of the New Partys Chicago chapter read as follows:
Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party Candidate Contract and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.
Consistent with this, a roster of the Chicago chapter of the New Party from early 1997 lists Obama as a member, with January 11, 1996, indicated as the date he joined. Of course, this is basically a statement of intent, and he didn't actually change his party membership when he registered to vote. Who could argue with that? After all, intentions and promises mean nothing to this man, and he by definition is right, so all this fuss about ethics, claims, and following through on political promises is much ado about nothing. Knowing that Obama disguised his New Party membership helps make sense of his questionable handling of the 2008 controversy over his ties to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). During his third debate with John McCain, Obama said that the only involvement hed had with ACORN was to represent the group in a lawsuit seeking to compel Illinois to implement the National Voter Registration Act, or motor-voter law. The records of Illinois ACORN and its associated union clearly contradict that assertion, as I show in my political biography of the president, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism.
Why did Obama deny his ties to ACORN? The group was notorious in 2008 for thug tactics, fraudulent voter registrations, and its role in popularizing risky subprime lending. Admitting that he had helped to fund ACORNs voter-registration efforts and train some of their organizers would doubtless have been an embarrassment but not likely a crippling blow to his campaign. So why not simply confess the tie and make light of it? The problem for Obama was ACORNs political arm, the New Party.
The revelation in 2008 that Obama had joined an ACORN-controlled, leftist third party could have been damaging indeed, and coming clean about his broader work with ACORN might easily have exposed these New Party ties. Because the work of ACORN and the New Party often intersected with Obamas other alliances, honesty about his ties to either could have laid bare the entire network of his leftist political partnerships.
Although Obama is ultimately responsible for deceiving the American people in 2008 about his political background, he got help from his old associates. Each of the two former political allies who helped him to deny his New Party membership during campaign 08 was in a position to know better.
The Fight the Smears website quoted Carol Harwell, who managed Obamas 1996 campaign for the Illinois senate: Barack did not solicit or seek the New Party endorsement for state senator in 1995. Drawing on her testimony, Fight the Smears conceded that the New Party did support Obama in 1996 but denied that Obama had ever joined, adding that he was the only candidate on the ballot in his race and never solicited the endorsement.
Weve seen that this is false. Obama formally requested New Party endorsement, signed the candidate contract, and joined the party. Is it conceivable that Obamas own campaign manager could have been unaware of this? The notion is implausible. And the documents make Harwells assertion more remarkable still.
The New Party had a front group called Progressive Chicago, whose job was to identify candidates that the New Party and its sympathizers might support. Nearly four years before Obama was endorsed by the New Party, both he and Harwell joined Progressive Chicago and began signing public letters that regularly reported on the groups meetings. By prominently taking part in Progressive Chicago activities, Obama was effectively soliciting New Party support for his future political career (as was Harwell, on Obamas behalf). So Harwells testimony is doubly false.
When the New Party controversy broke out, just about the only mainstream journalist to cover it was Politicos Ben Smith, whose evident purpose was to dismiss it out of hand. He contacted Obamas official spokesman Ben LaBolt, who claimed that his candidate was never a member of the New Party. And New Party co-founder and leader Joel Rogers told Smith, We didnt really have members. But a line in the New Partys official newsletter explicitly identified Obama as a party member. Rogers dismissed that as mere reference to the fact that the party had endorsed him.
This is nonsense. I exposed the falsity of Rogerss absurd claim, and Smiths credulity in accepting it, in 2008 (here and here). And in Radical-in-Chief I took on Rogerss continuing attempts to justify it. The recently uncovered New Party records reveal how dramatically far from the truth Rogerss statement has been all along.
In a memo dated January 29, 1996, Rogers, writing as head of the New Party Interim Executive Council, addressed standing concerns regarding existing chapter development and activity, the need for visibility as well as new members. So less than three weeks after Obama joined the New Party, Rogers was fretting about the need for new members. How, then, could Rogers assert in 2008 that his party didnt really have members? Internal documents show that the entire leadership of the New Party, both nationally and in Chicago, was practically obsessed with signing up new members, from its founding moments until it dissolved in the late 1990s.
In 2008, after I called Rogers out on his ridiculous claim that his party had no members, he explained to Ben Smith that we did have regular supporters whom many called members, but it just meant contributing regularly, not getting voting rights or other formal power in NP governance. This is also flatly contradicted by the newly uncovered records.
At just about the time Obama joined the New Party, the Chicago chapter was embroiled in a bitter internal dispute. A party-membership list is attached to a memo in which the leaders of one faction consider a scheme to disqualify potential voting members from a competing faction, on the grounds that those voters had not renewed their memberships. The factional leaders worried that their opponents would legitimately object to this tactic, since a mailing that called for members to renew hadnt been properly sent out. At any rate, the memo clearly demonstrates that, contrary to Rogerss explanation, membership in the New Party entailed the right to vote on matters of party governance. In fact, Obamas own New Party endorsement, being controversial, was thrown open to a members vote on the day he joined the party.
Were Harwell and Rogers deliberately lying in order to protect Obama and deceive the public? Readers can decide for themselves. Yet it is clear that Obama, through his official spokesman, Ben LaBolt, and the Fight the Smears website, was bent on deceiving the American public about a matter whose truth he well knew.
The documents reveal that the New Partys central aim was to move the United States steadily closer to European social democracy, a goal that Mitt Romney has also attributed to Obama. New Party leaders disdained mainstream Democrats, considering them tools of business, and promised instead to create a partnership between elected officials and local community organizations, with the goal of socializing the American economy to an unprecedented degree.
The partys official statement of principles, which candidates seeking endorsement from the Chicago chapter were asked to support, called for a peaceful revolution and included redistributive proposals substantially to the left of the Democratic party. Substantially to the left? Hardly. Dems have been voting according to their master's wishes. And they still would if they could. He's not so "radical" as we'd like to believe.
To get a sense of the ideology at play, consider that the meeting at which Obama joined the party opened with the announcement of a forthcoming event featuring the prominent socialist activist Frances Fox Piven. The Chicago New Party sponsored a luncheon with Michael Moore that same year.
I have more to say on the New Partys ideology and program, Obamas ties to the party, and the relevance of all this to the presidents campaign for reelection. See the forthcoming issue of National Review.
In the meantime, let us see whether a press that let candidate Obama off the hook in 2008 and that in 2012 is obsessed with the presidents youthful love letters will now refuse to report that President Obama once joined a leftist third party, and that he hid that truth from the American people in order to win the presidency.
Fresh off a two-day trip in India to encourage an increased Indian role in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta arrived unannounced in Afghanistan on Thursday for meetings with military leaders amidst swelling violence (Reuters, CNN, BBC). In remarks to reporters standing alongside Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, Panetta emphasized the increasingly strained U.S. relationship with Pakistan. In unusually blunt language he noted that "it is difficult to achieve peace in Afghanistan as long as there is safe haven for terrorists in Pakistan", singling out attacks by the Haqqani network in particular. He added that "we are reaching the limits of our patience here and for that reason it is extremely important that Pakistan take action."
Whoa. Leon is definitely making the surprise meter twitch...
The visit comes after the deadliest day for civilians in Afghanistan this year as twin suicide attacks killed 23 people in Kandahar on Wednesday, while according to Afghan officials at least 18 civilians were killed as a result of a NATO strike targeting Taliban leaders (NYT, CBS). NATO officials have yet to confirm that any civilian deaths took place, but have opened a joint investigation into the matter with the Afghan government. In response to the NATO strike, Afghan President Hamid Karzai cut short his trip to China where he was attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit and released a statement saying "NATO cannot justify any airstrike which causes harms to the lives and property of civilians."
Saddam Hussein's trusted personal secretary, once No. 4 on the U.S. most-wanted list in Iraq, was executed by hanging on Thursday, the Iraqi Justice Ministry said.
Abed Hamid Hmoud was the latest in a series of former senior regime officials to be executed by Iraq's new rulers since the toppling of Saddam during a U.S.-led invasion nine years ago. Hmoud's body was to be handed over to his family later Thursday, officials said.
Hmoud, a distant cousin of Saddam, was captured by U.S. forces in June 2003, three months after the invasion. At the time, he was No. 4 on the list of wanted regime officials, after Saddam and sons Qusai and Odai. He was known as the "ace of diamonds" on the U.S. deck of cards that ranked leaders of Saddam's government.
Hmoud, in his mid-50s, was executed for persecuting members of the Shiite opposition and religious parties that were banned under Saddam, a court official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case with reporters. Hmoud was also among 15 high-profile defendants tried for their role in the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War.
As Saddam's secretary, Hmoud controlled access to the Iraqi president and was one of the few people he was said to have trusted completely, U.S. officials said in 2003. Like Saddam, who was executed in 2006, Hmoud was from the northern Iraqi town of Tikrit.
The Palestinian anti-corruption court on Thursday convicted the fugitive moneyman of the late leader Yasser Arafat of siphoning off millions of dollars in public funds, sentencing him to 15 years in prison.
The court, concluding its highest-profile probe, found Mohammed Rashid guilty of embezzlement and money laundering. In addition to the prison sentence, he was also fined $15 million and his properties were ordered confiscated.
He and two associates were convicted of taking a total of $33.5 million from the foreign donor-financed Palestinian Investment Fund.
Rashid, who in the past has denied wrongdoing, was sentenced in absentia by the court in the West Bank city of Ramallah. He left the Palestinian territories after Arafat's death in November 2004 and has rarely been seen since. He is said to hold business interests in four Middle Eastern countries and Montenegro.
The Palestinian Authority has asked those countries to freeze his assets and extradite him. "Without doubt the money of the Palestinian people will return to the people, sooner or later," promised Rafik Natche, head of the Palestinian anti-corruption commission, after the conviction.
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this is in the on line WaPo, not the paper one.
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"One man, one vote, one time," and "do over" are kissing cousins. The union types can't get the first one (yet) in America, and the second one is not helping their cause.
The left is terrified of elections they can't rig...
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As the former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold (D-Socialist) said at the anti-Walker rallies last year, "It's not over until we win!"
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A Minnesota corollary to "It's not over until we win!" is "Keep counting until you win."
Russian news agencies are reporting that Russia has opposed Irans full membership at Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) until the country is under UN Security Council sanctions. Iran now has an observer status at SCO. President Ahmadinejad is attending the SCO summit in Beijing and Iran has pushed for full membership at SCO at an early date, a move that has apparently faced the Russian opposition.
Meanwhile, the SCO has issued a statement denouncing as unacceptable the use of force against Iran over its nuclear program.
The US State department has added seven senior leaders of Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, to the Rewards for Justice list.
The rewards, which were first reported by Reuters, range from $7 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Shabaab's emir, to $3 million for other senior figures in the terror group.
The top reward, at $7 million, is offered for Ahmed Abdi Aw Mohamed, Shabaab's senior leader and co-founder. Mohamed, better known as Sheikh Mukhtar Abu Zubayr and Godane, was in direct contact with Osama bin Laden before his death, and brokered Shabaab's official merger with al Qaeda in February.
Rewards of $5 million are being offered for Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow, a senior military commander and propagandist; Bashir Mohamed Mahamoud, a military commander and al Qaeda leader; Ibrahim Haji Jama, the co-founder of Shabaab; and Sheikh Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, a senior financier and military commander.
The US will pay rewards of $3 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Sheikh Hassan "Turki" Abdullahi Hersi (Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi), a military commander and Shabaab's intelligence chief who is closely tied to al Qaeda; and Abdullahi Yare, a senior Shabaab leader.
Zubayr's reward of $7 million puts him at number six on the Rewards for Justice list of wanted terrorists. Only al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri (at $25 million), and al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Du'a, Taliban leader Mullah Omar, Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed, and senior al Qaeda leader Yasin al-Suri (all at $10 million) have a higher bounty.
The reward of $5 million for each of Robow, Mahamoud, Khalaf, and Jama matches the rewards offered for a host of other terrorist leaders, including Pakistani Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud, senior al Qaeda leaders Adnan G. el Shukrijumah and Saif al Adel, Haqqani Network leader Sirajuddun Haqqani, and Islamic Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov.
Today's addition of the seven Shabaab leaders to the Rewards for Justice list is not the first time that the US has targeted the group. Both Godane and Robow were added to the US' list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists back in November 2008. Also added to the list at that time was Issa Osman Issa, a member of al Qaeda's East Africa cell that was responsible for the simultaneous attacks on the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salam in 1998. He served as an al Qaeda recruiter and directed attacks in East Africa. And in 2011, the US added Omar Hammami, an American citizen, to the terrorism list for serving as a Shabaab military commander, recruiter, financier, and propagandist, as well as for his ties to al Qaeda.
Additionally, the State Department added Shabaab itself to the Specially Designated Global Terrorist list in February 2008. State said that Shabaab "has committed, or poses a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of US nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States."
Background on Shabaab leaders added to the Rewards for Justice list
[Iran Press TV] A US college has joined the international campaign of boycotting Israeli products to protest against Tel Aviv's policy of illegal land seizure and destruction on Palestinian lands.
The Flaming Eggplant, a student-run cafe at the Olympia Evergreen State College in Washington, has announced that students have voted for the boycott of Israeli products from illegal Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian lands to end the complicity of their college in the Israeli violation of Palestinian rights, according to Olympiabds.org.
The students say purchasing Israeli goods is in conflict with their mission which ''supports political participation and direct action to create a just and egalitarian society.''
''We are proud to join this non-violent movement to pressure Israel until it ends its human rights violations against Palestinians,'' they said in a statement.
The Flaming Eggplant is the most recent business to join the growing international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli products from Jewish settlements.
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They better return their computers and other hi-teck equipment then (if they're serious)
Seriously we need to find out why our kids are being brainwashed and clean house at the Universities promoting this crap.
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An progressive institution "praised" by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Sierra Magazine, Planet Green, "The Hipster Handbook" and the EPA. Little more need be said.
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Compare to Patrice Lumumba U. in regards to quality of education.
At least at PLU you'd learn a second language.
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Does anyone know where students from Sally Struthers Technical Institute(tm) stand on this issue? Inquiring minds and all.....
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Olympia Evergreen is the same "institution" that gave us St. Pancake (Rachel Corrie). I'm sure the GDP of Israel dropped a nano-shekel with this boycott
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Boycotting Juicy goods, eh? Try this one on for size: The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
Iranian security forces have attacked a terrorist group in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan and foiled their latest plot, Press TV reported. The commander of the provincial border police, Brigadier General Gholam-Ali Kouhkan, said on Tuesday that security forces foiled a plot by a terrorist group to transport explosive devices inside the country, according to IRNA.
Shoe's on the other foot...
Some 25 kilograms of explosives were seized during the operation. Explosive devices, telecommunications equipment, and ID cards were also confiscated.
Kouhkan stated that Iranian border guards have seized 12 tons of illicit drugs and 26 rifles over the past 75 days.
Sistan-Baluchestan province was the scene of many terrorist acts by the Jundallah terrorist group, which carried out numerous bombings, assassination attempts, and terrorist attacks against Iranian government officials and civilians, including women and children.
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Meanwhile, ION TOPIX > [Debka] OBAMA AIR-SEA BLOCKADE DELAYS ISRAELI STRIKE, HORMUZ AT STAKE.
Methinks Tel Aviv = Israel is indir aware that Iran may have a much broader, "just-in-case", anti-US, anti-Ground War strategy than it or the MSM-Net is revealing???
[Tolo News] Fifteen people, including a deputy shadow Taliban governor and school teachers, were tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by Afghanistan security officials in connection with the recent spate of school poisonings, officials said on Wednesday.
Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) front man Lutfullah Mashal said that the NDS has proven documents that Taliban gun-hung tough guys were working in cooperation with members of Pakistain's intelligence agency to poison school students in the northern Takhar province.
Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) front man Lutfullah Mashal said that the NDS has proven documents that Taliban gun-hung tough guys were working in cooperation with members of Pakistain's intelligence agency to poison school students in the northern Takhar province.
"Fifteen people including Taliban's shadowed deputy provincial governor, teachers, students and education department personnel were tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! by the NDS officials," Mashal said at a presser.
Mashal accused Jandullah and Mahazulla fronts and the Taliban for the poisonings, saying that the real motivators behind these terrorist groups to commit such "inhuman acts" were the regional spy agencies.
"Because Taliban will have less credibility in the face of society, they don't claim responsibility, but we have proven documents showing this is the job of the thugs. Jandullah and Mahazullah fronts and Taliban group are behind these poisonings," Mashal told news hounds in a presser today.
"Their aim is to promote fear among the people of Afghanistan; their main motivators are regional spy agencies."
The Taliban released an official statement on Wednesday responding to the claims, saying they were not responsible. It is the second statement the group has made in as many weeks. They threatened to punish any of their people found poisoning school students.
According to Mashal, two school girls are also among those set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! . He claimed one of them received 50,000 Afs from the Taliban to poison the water in her school.
Officials at the Ministry of Education said that they will not surrender to the aims of the gun-hung tough guys and will continue their efforts to provide quality education for girls all over the country, particularly Takhar.
"The enemies of this country are trying to lead this country into darkness. We will take the candle of education in our hands and carry it all over the country," one official said.
Takhar schools have reported at least six cases of poisonings affecting hundreds of students since the middle of April. Two other cases have been reported in Ghazni and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... s.
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[Yemen Post] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Security Council is to sanction ,in a session to be held on Tuesday, Yemeni officials who impede the political settlement in the state, an Emirati newspaper Al-Khaleej said, pointing out to the former president 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... and his relatives.
It made clear that the council will take a crucial resolution after its draft was distributed to the Security Council five prominent members .
The newspaper quoted political sources as saying that the UN's resolution will depend on a report presented by the UN Envoy Jamal Benomar about the political situation in Yemen.
Media sources said that the resolution supports efforts by Yemen's president to advance the country's transition to democracy and threatens non-military sanctions against those trying to undermine the country's national unity government.
Relatives of the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh still refuse decrees of President Abdurabu Mansour Hadi ...the second and possibly the last president of Yemen, successor to former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh... who attempt to reorganize the military and security services.
Benomar had witnessed the handover of the 3rd Republican Guard Brigade of the Republican Guard from Tariq to the newly-appointed commander Abdul-Rahman Al-Halili.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... after the departure of Benomar, Al-Halili was prevented by officers loyal to Saleh from entering the brigade.
Saleh and his family insisted to not hand over the 3rd brigade as it is among the most heavily armed and its units are centered in the mountains surrounding the Yemeni Capital Sana'a.
Benomar told the council last week that despite Hadi's "strong leadership," the country's transition is taking place "against a backdrop of serious security concerns, an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and many unresolved conflicts."
Benomar also said al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula "continues to pose a major threat."
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it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
Or a starving one.
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[Iran Press TV] Eight Mohammedans filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in New Jersey to force the New York Police Department to end its surveillance and other intelligence-gathering practices targeting Mohammedans in the years after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The lawsuit alleged that the police activities were unconstitutional because they focused on people's religion, national origin and race.
It is the first lawsuit to directly challenge the NYPD's surveillance programs, which were the subject of an investigative series by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named since last year.
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said his department is obligated to do this type of surveillance in order to protect New York from another 9/11. Kelly has said the 2001 attacks proved that New Yorkers could not rely solely on the federal government for protection, and the NYPD needed to enhance its efforts.
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simple, if you'e truly doing nothing, allow the surveilance.(NOT GUILTY)
BUT,If you're up to something (GUILTY)then STOP THAT IMMEDIATELY.
Convicted by your own actions.
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(Sh. M. Network)- Tensions are rising in northeast Somalia following festivities between Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... forces backed by security for Saracen International and local militias loyal to Raas-Casayr state, officials called on all sides to show restraint.
Sources say on Wednesday that there are a growing build up of arms and troops at Bargal town inside Barri region between rival regional administrations of Puntland and Raas-Casayr state in northeast Somalia.
Farah Mohamud Dooha-Joog, the president of Raas-Casayr state, told his troops warded off an attack from Puntland army against the territories of Raas-Casayr state on Tuesday, saying the intension of the attack was to dread the people and loot the mineral resources, as the put it.
Puntland officials who spoke the Media said they have reached the area to fight the pirates at Bargaal town of Barri region,but not to attack Raas-Casayr state.
Locals say there was a military movement that both sides continued in and around Bargaal town.
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The military will procure about 360 weapons from the U.S. capable of destroying up to 40 tanks each. The U.S. Defense Department notified Congress last Friday of the South Korean government's recent request for a US$325 million deal involving sensor fused weapons (SFW), missiles and other equipment and relevant services, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a press release Tuesday.
The package includes 367 CBU-105D/B wind-corrected munition dispenser SFWs, 28 captive air training missiles, and seven dummy air training missiles.
The most important part in the package is the CBU-105D/B wind-corrected munition dispenser SFW. It consists of BLU-108 SFWs, each of them with a payload of four Skeet warheads with a passive infrared array and active laser sensor allowing it to detect a heat source such as the engine of a vehicle or tank and hit the target.
Each CBU-105D/B has 10 BLU-108 sub-munitions. This means each CBU-105D/B is capable of destroying a maximum of 40 tanks or armored and ordinary vehicles.
The F-15K, the South Korean Air Force's fighter jet, can carry up to 15 CBU-105D/Bs. "The procurement of CBU-105D/Bs will contribute significantly to incapacitating the North's mechanized units, where we're numerically inferior," a military source said. "We're going to arm F-15Ks and KF-16s as well as the Korean-made light fighter FA-50s with CBU-105D/Bs."
The CBU-105D/B proved its formidable power when it was used in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Seoul also asked Washington last month for a separate $1 billion deal including eight Seahawk helicopters and 18 Harpoon missiles, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
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[Al Ahram] An official from the autonomous Somali region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... says its forces launched an aerial attack targeting a pirate leader in Somalia.
The official said Wednesday that forces in a helicopter fired on a house in the village of Bali Dhidid where the pirate was believed to be, possibly wounding him. The official asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
The official said three vehicles were destroyed by the bombardment but the pirate boss identified as Issa Yuluh managed to escape.
The attack comes a day after the Puntland's troops launched a raid on the pirate infested town of the Bargal.
Attacks by Somali pirates off the Somali coast have reduced sharply in the first quarter of this year following a concerted international effort to eradicate piracy.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The South Sudanese Government has opened a bank account in Kenya into which money allegedly looted from public coffers can be returned.
This follows disclosures that about $4 billion had so far disappeared through official corruption.
President Salva Kiir Mayardit has appealed to those involved in the plunder of public resources to voluntarily surrender the money and deposit it into "South Sudan Stolen Funds Recovery Account" at Equity Bank. The account number is 0810299067373.
The anti-corruption commission has so far recovered $60 million, which had been lost in fraudulent deals involving various government institutions.
In a statement signed by the President, the government asked the culprits to return the stolen funds either in full or partially promising them amnesty and confidentiality.
President Kiir said the government had over the past six months taken several specific measures to tackle official corruption.
They include the appointment of a new chairman of the anti-corruption agency and sending out letters to more than 75 former and current bigwigs to recover stolen funds.
Early this year, the government sought the assistance of eight heads of state in Africa, the United States, Middle East and Europe in the recovery of the money.
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"Dear Sir,
I am the son of the former Emperor of South Sudan, Haile Abacha, and wish you to join me in the transfer of some 15 millions of funds ($) to your account(s) for Safekeeping (!)....
Please provide me with your informations so that I may make the transfer..."
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LOL--clever, Frank.
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Dear Frank: I am Haile Unlikely, Please send me your bank numbers and I will share my ill-gotten gains with you.
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North Korea on Monday threatened to launch "a holy retaliatory war" against President Lee Myung-bak and the South Korean press unless they apologize for casting aspersion on a big propaganda event.
The North's official KCNA news agency said the General Staff of the People's Army unveiled the map coordinates of the conservative Chosun Ilbo, Donga Ilbo and Joongang Ilbo, hinting at the possibility of targeted attacks.
"The South Korean media are unequivocally criticizing the grand ceremony celebrating the 66th anniversary of North Korean Children's Union in Pyongyang and are engaging in new vicious defamations of our highest dignity," the military command said. "If they recklessly challenge the rage of our military, we will answer with our own merciless, holy war of retaliation."
No sea of fire?
Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk told reporters the government takes the threat seriously because it mentions specific map coordinates. But a military official said, "We haven't noticed any unusual movements in connection with the threat" but South Korean and U.S. forces are watching the North Korean military closely.
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WSJ comments:the coordinates North Korea published were wrong.
Perhaps that shouldnt be surprising. But only one Seoul newspaper, Seoul Shinmun, noticed the coordinates didnt match the locations of the newspapers KCNA said the Norths military had in its rocket sights. Martyn Williams, a former Tokyo-based technology journalist now on a fellowship at Stanford University, also took the few minutes needed to determine how they were screwed up. (We saw the statement Monday and gave it only a passing read because the bluster seemed the same as ever.)
The KCNA statement described one newspaper as being at 37 degrees, 56 minutes and 83 seconds North and 126 degrees, 97 minutes and 65 seconds East. But as everyone who has finished third grade knows, the minute and second numbers shouldnt exceed 60 when it comes to expressing geographic coordinates.
Perhaps the Norks will blow themselves up.
Pakistain will release the transport containers carrying thousands of school books for Afghanistan after they were stopped with the other NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... supplies from crossing the border.
Pakistain President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... told the Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... of the decision to release the school books during a meeting on Wednesday at the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Beijing, China.
Zardari told Karzai that Pakistain "sincerely wanted to help the Afghan brothers facilitating them in all possible manners in their journey towards socio-economic development and progress," according to statement from the Pakistain Embassy.
"He said that keeping in view the importance of education for the children, the containers carrying books for Afghan children were being released," the statement said.
It is not clear how long the school books have been delayed in Pakistain, but the supply route into Afghanistan has been closed since November 26 when a US Arclight airstrike mistakenly killed 24 Pak soldiers near the Afghan-Pakistain border.
Pakistain had claimed that the educational books were transported by a NATO-related transport company and that was why the trucks were blocked, according to Afghan officials last week.
Zaradari also said in his meeting with Karzai that Pakistain looks forward to the visit of new chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council Salahuddin Rabbani, saying that "Pakistain firmly believes that permanent peace and stability can only be ensured following an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned reconciliation process in the country".
The statement comes a fortnight after Pakistain pledged $20 million towards supporting the Afghan National Security Forces.
Zardari added that Pakistain was prepared to consider any additional requirements, as indicated by Afghanistan, for the purpose of strengthening and capacity building of its security forces.
The Pak Embassy said the pair also discussed issues related to prisoners and detainees, facilitating visa processes for Pak businesses and investors to work in Afghanistan, and the need for economic development along the border regions to help reverse "tendencies towards extremism".
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[Dawn] The Salala checkpost in Mohmand ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... Agency, which was attacked by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces in November last year, severely straining Pakistain-US relations, again came under attack on Monday night, but this time by snuffies belonging to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain.
According to security officials, the attack was repulsed and 20 Islamic fascistiwere killed and several others injured. At least 20 snuffies were killed and several others injured.
According to them, one soldier was killed and three others injured in the exchange of fire.
But the TTP rejected security forces' claim about casualties of snuffies and said only one bad turban had been killed and three injured. The front man Ihsanullah Ihsan said by phone that six soldiers had been killed in the attack and eight injured.
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[An Nahar] Bombs and shootings in Iraq killed three people, including two coppers, and maimed nine others on Wednesday, security and medical officials said.
In the former krazed killer bastion of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... in Anbar province west of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , gunnies on a cycle of violence killed a policeman when they opened fire on a checkpoint in the center of the city, police Colonel Adil Mukhlaf said.
And just west of Fallujah, a roadside kaboom detonated near a police patrol in the town of Khalidiyah, killing a policeman and wounding another, according to a police officer and a doctor.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... in the disputed ethnically mixed northern province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a "sticky bomb" attached to a car killed one person and maimed another in the town of Hawija, police and a doctor said.
Bomb attacks in towns of mostly Sunni towns of Ramadi and Baquba, in western Anbar and central Diyala provinces, maimed seven people, according to police and medical officials.
Violence in Iraq has declined dramatically since its peak in 2006-2007, but attacks remain common, especially in Anbar and Diyala. A total of 132 Iraqis were killed in violence in May, according to official figures.
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[An Nahar] A suspected Kurdish rebel was killed overnight in Istanbul when the bomb he was carrying detonated before he had a chance to plant it, the city's governor said Wednesday.
The remains of the 23-year-old suspect were found in bushes in the popular Esenyurt district, police said.
Police initially suspected a botched suicide kaboom, but Istanbul governor, Huseyin Avni Mutlu said the blast happened when the man was transporting the device "probably to plant it somewhere else" for a timed detonation.
"We believe it is not suicide kaboom. The person is a terrorist who died when the bomb he carried went off, probably before he had a chance to plant it," he told the Anatolia news agency.
Esenyurt is a busy area on the European side of Istanbul but was deserted when the device went kaboom! in the early hours of the morning, police said.
Outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels are suspected of carrying out similar attacks, including the May 25 suicide kaboom targeting a cop shoppe in central Anatolia which killed an officer.
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Nope. Never heard of her. But I got a feeling that's gonna change...
The same day Amanda Bynes was charged with driving under the influence following an April arrest in which she allegedly struck an L.A. County sheriff's cruiser, the 26-year-old actress called on President Barack Obama to "fire the cop who arrested me." Get on that, Holder.
Right away, sir.
"Hey @BarackObama... I don't drink," read a tweet on the actress' verified Twitter account Tuesday. "Please fire the cop who arrested me. I also don't hit and run. The end." Tweeting is...hard!
The actress was arrested about 3 a.m. on April 6 near the corner of Robertson and Santa Monica boulevards in West Hollywood after her black BMW allegedly hit the rear corner of the sheriffs vehicle, one incident in a series of traffic mishaps she has been involved in recently. Okay, Missy. Time to do the Sidewalk Olympics.
Do you know who I am?
Ummmmmmm...nope.
Bynes denied the allegations in another tweet last month."I can't help but laugh at all of you writing fake stories about me," she wrote May 27. "I was not in any hit and runs. I don't drink so the DUI is false." I just like to drive around at three in the morning and sideswipe police cruisers.
She is slated to appear before Beverly Hills Superior Court Judge Elden Fox, who oversaw much of actress Lindsay Lohan's DUI case. Bynes is also charged with refusing a Breathalyzer or blood-alcohol test. Awww, c'mon, boss. Don't you have a capital murder case on the docket for me? An axe murderer or something?
Now now, Elden. You've found a niche. Judge to the Bimbo Stars.
Bynes, who quickly rose to fame as a comedy star in the Nickelodeon show "All That," later starred in movies, including the film adaptation of the musical "Hairspray." Ummmmmmmmmm...nope.
The president did not respond to Bynes' tweet. Jeez, what an asshole...
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If she wasn't drugged or drunk she's the worst driver ever and should lose her license on those grounds. I mean really:
"after her black BMW allegedly hit the rear corner of the sheriff's vehicle"
Most people have a sort of a heightened vigilance when driving near police cars. Not Amanda.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Fears are mounting that Zim-bob-we's military will seize power in the event of President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... 's death or electoral defeat.
A top army general on Wednesday said they would not allow anyone who does not share the ideals of the veteran ruler's Zanu PF party to lead the country.
"As the military, we do not only believe, but act in defence of these values and we will not respect any leader who does not respect the revolution," Zim-bob-we National Army (ZNA) chief of staff Major General Trust Mugoba said.
"We will not even allow them to go into office because they do not represent the ideology we fought for. "As the military establishment, we have an ideology that is represented in the mission of Zanu PF."
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai believes that such statements are aimed at him and is worried about a repeat of the violence that marred the 2008 elections.
President Mugabe who turned 88 in February and is rumoured to be battling ill health wants elections this year.
The army was blamed for the deadly violence that marred the previous elections where over a hundred supporters of Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were killed.
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The term Genocide was coined by a jurist named Raphael Lemkin in 1944 by combining the Greek word genos (race) with the Latin word cide (killing). Genocide as defined by the United Nations in 1948 means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, including: (a) killing members of the group (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
[Iran Press TV] The U.S. media declared the results of Wisconsin recall election while many people were still waiting in line to vote in the city of Milwaukee.
That is according to Norman Stockwell, Madison-based journalist and operations coordinator for WORT/FM radio, who spoke to Press TV's U.S. Desk on Wednesday.
"There is some question about the ethics of declaring a race while people still haven't voted yet," he noted.
Republican Governor Scott Walker became the first governor to survive a recall election in U.S. history.
On Tuesday, Walker handily defeated his Democratic rival, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, with 53.5 percent to Barrett's 45.9 percent.
Sixteen months ago, Walker's decision to cut collective bargaining rights for most public workers set off one of the fiercest political wars in memories of Wisconsin's residents.
Stockwell said that activists and labor organizers are now looking at the election results as they are trying to figure out how to "move the state of Wisconsin back to progressive traditions" of the past fifty years.
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Norman Stockwell
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Barrett may had won iff POTUS Bammer was willing to send America back to the Moon + beyond, etc. + iff our future OWG-NWO = [proto] SPACE GOVT-ORDER was willing to discuss how to setup a Star Trek-style Federation + Cashless Global Credit-Financ System.
FIRST THINGYS COME FIRST.
DON'T GET WAY WAY W-A-Y-Y-Y AHEAD OF OURSELVES, OTHERWISE ....
* E.G. DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE? RISING NUMBERS OF OF AMERICANS SCORN BOTH DEMS + GOP.
Fox News AM = "THROW THEM ALL OUT ..."!
* FREEREPUBLIC > CBO: US DEBT [Public] WILL BE TWICE/2X GDP BY 2037 [109% by 2026, =< 200.0% by 2037], wid more + more Amers seeing themselves as Political Independents.
FREEP POSTER = aasked how can Japan sustain its economy on a Curren Debt-to-GDP ratio of 197%.
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > AMERICA'S HUNGRY TWICE THE POPULATION OF NORTH KOREA | COMMENTARY: 46.0MILYUHN AMERICANS ON FOOD STAMPS, + [but yet]]THE ECONOMY IS IMPROVING???
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Stockwell said that activists and labor organizers are now looking at the election results as they are trying to figure out how to "move the state of Wisconsin back to progressive traditions" of the past fifty years.
Long forgotten now, but the late Robert E. Fassnacht became an early victim of "progressive traditions" and social justice at University of WisconsinMadison, Sterling Hall, on Aug 24, 1970.
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...yeah, that clown's concept of 'democracy' is as found in Peoples Democratic Republics of the 20th Century. That might be found in the NEA recommended curriculum.
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The radio station 'WORT' is also called 'Radio Free Madison' and has been since the 60's.
Mr. Stockwell's personal website might be somewhat informative as to his leanings.
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You may have heard that a Barrett supporter slapped him after he gave his concession speech, claiming that people were still voting. At 10 pm. When the polls closed at 8 pm. Hmmmm.....
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Yeah, cause 200,000 new voters will just show up with no questions asked. Barret knew he'd lost flat-out before Tuesday. It was just a matter of formality.
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The Eagle Has Landed.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's security forces tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! on Tuesday evening three sons of a tribal leader, Shuaib Al-Fashiq, who are accused of killing two persons on Monday in Al-Huseiniah, a town in Hodeidah governorate.
Security sources said that six military vehicles surrounded Al-Fahshiq's village after al-Fashiq refused to extradite his sons to the security authorities.
They affirmed that tribal mediation managed to persuade Al-Fashiq to hand over his sons after security forces threatened to storm the village and arrest Al-Fashiq and his sons.
Al-Fashiq is accused of committing violations and having private prisons in his tribe.
A number of lawsuits were filed against Al-Fashiq in Yemeni courts, but he was always pleaded innocent. No, no! Certainly not!
Many Yemeni sheikhs are accused of committing violations, abusing people, breaching laws, imposing tributes and looting lands.
The former president 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... used to appoint sheikhs as governors or other high-ranking government posts, and sometimes reward them military rank without being involved in the army.
A special authority for sheikhs (the Tribal Affairs Authority) were created for which the government used to appropriate large financial allocations.
Many sheikhs own numerous companies, large farms and other assets. Additionally, most of them receive monthly salaries and other privileges from the government and even from foreign countries.
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[Yemen Post] A car boomwent kaboom! on Wednesday, killing three Al-Qaeda suspects on a road linking between Lahj and Aden, security sources affirmed.
The sources said that car was blasted before the reach of its target, pointing out that it was plotted by the beturbanned goons to blow up a security checkpoint in Al-Ribat area of Lahj.
Local sources suggested that the kaboom targeted a refuel station in Al-Faioosh area of Lahj.
An kaboom of a car boom hit on Tuesday the port town of Shaqra of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... governorate, killing five Al-Qaeda thugs.
Yemeni analysts say that Al-Qaeda resorted to use car booms after the great progress made by the Yemeni army against the beturbanned goons in some towns of Abyan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... 10 Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons and four soldiers including an officer were killed Wednesday in Zinjibar of Abyan governorate.
Clashes on Tuesday left 23 Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons including Pak and Somali nationals were killed, the Defense Ministry said. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the Yemeni army foiled an Al-Qaeda attempt to take control on Attaq, the capital of Shabwa governorate, after the army imposed a siege on Al-Qaeda beturbanned goons in the neighboring governorate of Abyan.
Chief of Attaq district, Abdullah Al-Sumnah, said on Tuesday that security sources in collaboration with local rustics could strongly foiled an Al-Qeeda's plot.
Media sources stated on Tuesday about the emergence of sharp disagreements between the Republican Guard brigades positioned in Abyan and the governor of Abyan Jamal Al-Aqel regarding the Popular Resistance Committees that backed the army in fighting Al-Qaeda.
Fears have been raised by the Republican Guard that these committees will untimely turn to militias that will demand to separate South Yemen from the north.
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[Tolo News] At least two people were killed in a suicide kaboom in northern Faryab province on Wednesday, local officials said.
The incident happened at around 4:00 pm as a jacket wallah detonated his explosives in the Chahar Samawar area of Maymana, the capital city of Faryab, a front man for 303th Pamir Police Zone Lahl Mohammad Ahmadzai told TOLOnews.
The two people were civilians. Ten others including women and kiddies were maimed in the incident, Ahmadzai added.
No further details of the attack were available.
It comes on the same day that at least 23 non-combatants were killed and 50 more were maimed in a twin suicide attack in the southern Kandahar province.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... in Pashtun-infested Logar, local officials claim at least 13 civilians - some reports say as many as 18 civilians - were killed in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Arclight airstrike which was said to be targeting hard boys.
NATO officials have refuted the claim of civilian casualties in Pashtun-infested Logar, saying only two women were maimed.
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(Sh.M.Network)-- A Kenyan court on Wednesday charged a Swiss man with being a member of Somalia's Al-Qaeda allied Shebab, the latest in a string of foreign nationals accused of links to the Islamist thugs.
Magd Najjar, who was initially reported to be Swedish when he was cooled for a few years Book 'im, Mahmoud! last month, was charged in a court in the Kenyan capital Nairobi of "engaging in organised criminal activities by being a member of Al Shebab."
Najjar was also charged with being in Kenya illegally. Najjar, who is believed to be in his late 20s, did not speak when he appeared in a crowded court room for the brief hearing. He did not issue a plea.
Bail was refused and the trial will begin on July 2, said Najjar's lawyer Edna Khaemba.
Several foreign nationals are wanted by Kenyan police accused of planning kabooms or of being connected to the Shebab, including citizens from Britannia, Germany and Turkey.
Briton Jermaine Grant is on trial in Kenya after he was found with various chemicals, batteries and switches which prosecutors say they planned to use to make explosives.
Prosecutors say that he was working with fellow Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, who is on the run over terror plot allegations, and is the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, who attacked the London Underground in 2005.
Since Kenya sent forces into southern Somalia in October to fight the Shebab it has been hit by retaliatory attacks.
The warnings of possible attacks on Kenyan targets have increased in recent weeks, according to Western security analysts and monitoring groups.
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[Iran Press TV] Britannia's mainstream media coverage of the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations focused on the picturesque extravaganza of the event, while there were other aspects to that.
First comes the huge costs the event imposed on the public purse, which the government estimates showed that the cost to the taxpayer would be as much as £3 billion.
The cost estimates exposed as The Guardian revealed on Monday June 4 that coach-loads of long-term unemployed jobseekers had been taken to London to work as unpaid stewards during celebrations marking the Queen's 60th year on the throne.
Second came the news blackout of the protests the anti-monarchy and republican groups held to denounce such an outdated extravaganza.
The 100 protesters gathered near the million+ celebratingon the banks of the Thames River to censure "the hereditary system" in Britannia, which they considered as an offence to "all democratic values".
They used to say that it is increasingly difficult to see why, with 60 percent of the population not interested in such an outdated mechanism, the taxpayer has to pay for it.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... their voices were left unheard by the mainstream media outlets, which only showed interest to the 1000-flotilla of boats accompanying the queen and the music concert that was held on her honor.
Britannia's unhealthy habit of dwelling on past glories has blinded those in power as well as many ordinary people to the fact that the country is now largely insignificant in the world.
The country's outdated ideals and policies are failing to recognize the evolution of modern society and consequently enslaving the UK into a way of life that most other countries regard as either 'quaint' or primitive.
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"recognize the evolution of modern society", I call that de evolution. The left is always unhappy. Regressive progressives.
[Iran Press TV] At least 23 people have been killed and 50 others maimed in a kaboom in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, police say, Press TV reports.
The bombing occurred on Wednesday when an attacker went kaboom! a bomb planted on a cycle of violence in a crowded parking lot near the airport in the southern city of Kandahar.
The parking lot was filled with dozens of trucks supplying the Kandahar Air Base, the largest NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... military base in southern Afghanistan.
Kandahar police commander Gen. Abdul Raziq confirmed that all the casualities are civilan.
Raziq said that most of the victims were truck drivers, their assistants and workers.
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[] NEWARK -- Calling the New York Police Department's spy operations unconstitutional and discriminatory, a group of New Jersey Moslems will be the first to file a legal challenge against the NYPD over its years-long surveillance operation targeting Moslem-owned businesses and houses of worship.
The lawsuit will be filed in federal court in Newark this morning, according to officials from Moslem Advocates, a nationally renowned advocacy organization, who are filing the suit on behalf of a group of New Jersey residents.
The group will hold a presser at 10 a.m. in New York City to discuss the suit, which calls for an immediate end to the surveillance of Moslems and the destruction of records the NYPD compiled during its secret operations.
The plaintiffs in the suit include a U.S. Army reservist, a small business owner who is a Vietnam veteran, students and imams from New Jersey, Khera said.
The NYPD's chief front man issued a swift response, citing a recent review by the New Jersey Attorney General's office that found New York Sherlocks did nothing wrong when they crossed the Hudson River to gather information on Moslems in the Garden State.
The president of the state's Arab American League, Ared Assaf, said the lawsuit will show the "chilling effect" the NYPD's actions had on the New Jersey's Mohammedan community."We are seeing quantifiable evidence of membership decline in mosque attendance. We're seeing businesses not wanting to promote themselves as Mohammedan or Halal stores," said Assaf, who was involved in conference calls over the past few months to discuss possible legal action.
But Frank Askin, a Rutgers-Newark law professor and one of the American Civil Liberties Union's four national general counsel attorneys, said any lawsuit targeting the NYPD for discriminatory spying on Mohammedans "would need to show more specific injury than a mere chilling affect on speech."
"They're going to have to show exactly what the facts were" in regard to the spying and surveillance activities, and "secondly, they have to show some injury, how were they injured," he said.
Askin said that under current law, the plaintiffs must prove the NYPD's actions have done more to them than simply curtail their freedom to speak about various topics.
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Notice whenever they complain about some countermeasure we are using, it means that it's effective and working. They have no counter move. Same with the drone attacks. They complain bitterly about them too.
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The lawsuit will be filed in federal court in Newark this morning,
Uhhhh, unless there is evidence that NYPD was spying in nearby NJ, shouldn't this be thrown out just based on jurisdiction? Not saying it won't be heard, but just as a matter of which court to file in....
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"Don't you look at me! Don't you f***'n look at me!" - Frank Booth
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(Sh. M. Network)- Eyewitnesses told Shabelle Media that unknown gunnies shot to death on Wednesday a civilian man in Baladweyne town, the capital of Hiran province in central Somalia.
Reports from Baladweyne town say the killers beat feet from the spot immediately and as conflicting reports suggest that the dead one was an elder who was one of the well-known Elders in the City.
Mohamed Nur Agajof, a TFG official told Shebelle Media that the dear departed man was a civilian used to live in Beledweyne town, who was not involved any political issues inSomalia.
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[Dawn] The Pak government should investigate allegations that elements in the Pak military and intelligence agencies have plotted to kill prominent lawyer and human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. activist Asma Jahangir, the Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... said Wednesday.
Jahangir made the allegation in a television interview on June 4, 2012, the HRW said in a blurb.
Pak authorities should urgently and thoroughly investigate the alleged plot against Asma Jahangir and hold all those responsible to account, regardless of position or rank, said Ali Dayan Hasan, Pakistain director at Human Rights Watch.
"A threat against Jahangir is a threat to all those in Pakistain who struggle for human rights and the rule of law."
Jahangir told news hounds on June 4 that through a security leak brought to her attention by a highly credible source, she had discovered that an liquidation attempt was being planned against her from the highest levels of the security establishment.
She said that she thought it best to go public with the information as she feared that she could be killed and a member of her family framed for the murder.
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[Iran Press TV] The Nigerian military's Joint Task Force has attacked suspected hideouts of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... beturbanned goons in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, which is the capital of Borno State.
"There have been at least eight kabooms in these neighborhoods and soldiers have moved in with tanks and have taken over the whole area," AFP quoted one resident as saying on Tuesday.
Many residents from the Shehuri, Abbaganaram, Budum, and Hausari neighborhoods and other areas fled their homes at the first signs of the attack, which lasted for more than three hours on Tuesday evening.
"Since yesterday, residents of these areas have been deserting their homes. Explosions and gunfire erupted in these neighborhoods and soldiers cordoned off these areas," another resident said.
On Monday, Boko Haram grabbed credit for Sunday's attack on a church on the outskirts of the northern city of Bauchi in which 15 people were killed and more than 40 others were maimed.
On May 11, Nigerian security forces jugged You have the right to remain silent... Suleiman Mohammed, Boko Haram's head of operations in Kano, along with his wife and five children, during a raid on his house in the northern city.
Nigerian raid in Boko Haram hotbed kills 16 suspects [Pak Daily Times] Nigerian soldiers have killed at least 16 militants, the army said Wednesday, after gunfire and blasts rocked an area of the country's northeast where religious groups were believed to be hiding.
"It's confirmed," Colonel Victor Ebhaleme told AFP when asked about reports of 16 Boko Haram members being killed in the city of Maiduguri. "They came to attack part of the city," he said, declining to provide details. Gunfire and explosions erupted in Maiduguri on Tuesday as soldiers moved into the area where Boko Haram members were believed to be hiding, residents said. "There have been at least eight explosions in these neighbourhoods and soldiers have moved in with tanks and have taken over the whole area," one resident said Tuesday. Another said the area was largely deserted of residents after earlier signs that soldiers were preparing a crackdown. Alleyways had been sealed off ahead of Tuesday evening's violence, they said.
The explosions and gunfire began rocking the city at around 4:30 pm and stopped at around 9:00 pm. Maiduguri is at the centre of Boko Haram's insurgency, which has claimed more than 1,000 lives since mid-2009. The group's mosque and headquarters were located there until they were destroyed in a 2009 military assault. Nigerian troops have also been accused of abuses in Maiduguri, including burning homes and killing civilians in the wake of bomb attacks. Thousands of residents have fled the city amid the spiralling violence. Also on Tuesday in the northern city of Kano, gunmen shot dead a former deputy Nigerian police chief, his driver and a bodyguard, police said.
Former Deputy Inspector-General of Police Abubakar Saleh Ningi, forced into retirement in January along with Nigeria's police chief and all his other deputies, was shot dead by two motorcycle-riding gunmen, police said. Police declined to name suspects in the shooting.
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[An Nahar] Syrian rebels went on the offensive in and around Damascus ...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat... on Wednesday, a watchdog said, as activists accused regime forces of committing a "massacre" in Hama's countryside that left at least 47 people dead.
The Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said regime forces killed at least 47 people in the town of Mazraat al-Qubair in Hama's countryside.
"Violent festivities broke out in Harasta between regime troops and rebel forces," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said earlier, referring to a northern suburb of Damascus.
Rebels also attacked checkpoints near Douma, Irbin and Zamalka, all in Damascus province.
A student was killed when regime forces pounded Hreitan in the northern province of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , the Britannia-based watchdog said. Elsewhere in the province, two non-combatants were killed by gunfire near the village of Sheikh Issa.
And at Aleppo University, where massive protests broke out in May, fresh demonstrations were halted by security forces, who tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a number of students.
In the southern province of Daraa, festivities between troops and armed rebel groups in the area of Lajat killed three soldiers and maimed eight others, while security forces launched raids and arrests in the village of Nafaa.
Three troops were killed, including a captain, in an kaboom targeting their vehicle near Srakeb village, in the northwestern province of Idlib.
In the same region, four officers were maimed in an attack by rebel fighters in the town of Maaret al-Numan.
Clashes in the village of Marayin in Latakia led to the death of two opposition fighters, the Observatory said, while other festivities in the region of Jabal Zaweya killed three rebels and two civilians.
In Latakia province, regime forces rained shells down on several villages and towns including Shirqaq, killing a family of three, and Al-Heffa, where three people died.
Elsewhere in Latakia five non-combatants were killed by regime troops, while six soldiers were killed and dozens injured in festivities with armed rebel groups, according to the watchdog.
Wednesday's shelling followed festivities and raids the previous day in Latakia, including in Al-Heffa, during which 33 people were killed, among them 22 troops, nine rebels and two civilians, the Observatory said.
It said the assault by regime forces on Al-Heffa, which has recently witnessed an escalation of anti-regime protests, continued into Wednesday, with tanks and helicopters joining the fray.
The opposition Syrian National Council called on "U.N. observers to go to the town of al-Heffa immediately, in order to prevent a new massacre."
The Observatory said anti-regime fighters seized two security headquarters in the town of Salma, in a region known as Kurdish Mountains, and reported an army defector was killed in the province.
In the central province of Hama, a civilian was rubbed out while another died in a blast, it said.
On Tuesday, 55 people were killed in Syria, including 26 soldiers, 19 civilians and 10 rebels, according to the monitoring group.
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[Tolo News] Pakistain is the mother of terrorism while Afghanistan is the victim, an Afghan political expert and former Minister of Interior General Hadi Khaled said Wednesday.
"Pakistain's government is now trying to change the ideology of its people by trying different political ways," Khaled told TOLOnews.
"Pakistain is the mother of terrorism and Afghanistan has been the continuous victim."
Khaled's comments come in the wake of strong reaction to US drone strikes in tribal regions of Pakistain, with the country's foreign ministry summoning US embassy officials to express their anger over the continuing strikes against snuffies in tribal regions bordering with Afghanistan.
While recent drone strikes have apparently hit their targets, including most recently an Al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi, considered the network's Number 2, the strikes are seen as a threat to Pakistain's illusory sovereignty and have also been known to kill civilians.
"We have confirmation of [Al-Libi's] death," White House front man Jay Carney told news hounds in a news briefing at the White House on Wednesday declining to provide further details about the exact location of the incident.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security front man Lutfullah Mashal has called the death of Al-Libi a major blow to Taliban, going so far as to say that his death could put an end to an ideological war.
"The death of Al-Libi is very important and effective for the grinding of the peace processor. He was responsible for an ideological war; we hope it ends by his death." Mashal said Wednesday.
Al-Libi was considered to be the general manager of Al Qaeda network and was responsible for day-to-day monitoring of the network's activities all over the world.
US officials believe that Al-Libi was newly appointed as deputy of the Aimen Al-Zawaheri, the successor of the late Osama bin Laden ... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing... after he was killed a year ago.
Al-Libi was one of the three inmates who escaped the heavily guarded US-run Bagram prison in 2005, he survived a US drone strike in 2009 but finally he was killed last week with 14 other fellow members in a US drone strike in northern Wazirstan of Pakistain's tribal region.
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[Dawn] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court on Tuesday ordered judicial inquiry into the allegation that a local jirga had fined a petitioner for violating a customary practice called ghag under which a man could lay claim on a female for marriage.
A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth took exception to the non-compliance of its earlier order by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government about enacting a law for checking the practices of swara and ghag. The bench gave last chance to the government for introducing a law in this regard.
Lal Jan Khattak, an additional advocate general, sought two weeks time for activating all relevant heads of departments for tabling a proper bill in the provincial assembly to make such detestable acts punishable with sufficient imprisonment and fine so that the evil phenomenon was brought to a halt.
The bench ordered that it would be last chance for the provincial government otherwise the court would be constrained to pass an order regarding unwillingness of government to enact a law so as to prevent such sins and crimes and also to assess what kind of writ be issued in that regard. The bench was hearing a writ petition filed by father of two minor girls, Mohammad Nawaz, who alleged that a jirga comprising some members of local peace committee had ordered him to pay Rs275,000 to his two nephews because he had denied giving hands of his daughters to them in marriage.
The word ghag literally means "a call" and it stands for a one-sided demand from the male side to have engaged the female for a marriage.
The bench directed Peshawar district and sessions judge to appoint a senior judicial officer to conduct inquiry into the matter and fix criminal responsibility, if any, and submit the inquiry report before next date of hearing.
Advocate Essa Khan appeared for the petitioner and said that one of his daughters, Shaista, was about 13 whereas the second one, Zainab, was around 11. He said that the petitioner used to work as crane operator at UAE for the last 11 years, but owing to that problem he had to rush back to Pakistain on April 9 following which he was expelled from employment and his visa was also cancelled.
Mr Khattak said that as per the earlier orders of the court police had provided security to the family.
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(Sh. M. Network)-A judge in Somalia's military tribunal has said the court banned on Wednesday soldiers from collecting illegal tax in the town of Afgoye, 30 kilometers north-west Mogadishu.
Judge Hassan Mohammed Hussein better known as (Mungab), warned TFG forces controlling Afgoye, former Al shabab stronghold in southern Somalia to take the unlawful money from the vehicles traveling between Mogadishu and other region in southern Somalia.
On the other hand, the court has issued an order to prohibit people to carry all illegal weapons heavy or slight inside the town to prevent insecurity acts committed by gunnies who are not involved in Somali government forces.
Afgoye town was recently captured by Somali and AMISOM forces from Al shabab fighters who ruled it for three years.
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Ok, so soldiers are banned from collecting a checkpoint tax, but al-Shabaab may continue with collecting the very same tax.
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A bribe? No, I see it differently. Under Islamic tax law throughout antiquity, the caliph authorized the imposition of a tax on traders as they enter the jurisdiction of a tax collector appointed by the caliph. That is why the Taliban instituted checkpoint taxes in Afghanistan and why al-Shabaab does it in Somalia. You could call it extortion, but from their point of view it's perfectly legal in their religion.
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[Iran Press TV] At least five Syrian law enforcement agents have been killed and several others injured in two separate terrorist attacks, SANA reported.
According to the official Syrian News Agency SANA, a Brigadier General and two law enforcement personnel were killed on Wednesday after an kaboom hit a military vehicle in JdeidAt Artouz in Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... Countryside.
Four soldiers were also injured in the blast.
Two other security personnel were killed during festivities with gangs in the Mediterranean province of Latakia. Many others, including two captains, were also maimed in the festivities. A number of terrorist were also killed in the exchange of fire.
Terrorist groups fighting against the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... have stepped up their attacks targeting civilians and security forces in recent days. At least 15 Syrian soldiers were killed by gangs in Latakia on Tuesday.
On Monday, gangs announced that they have abandoned the ceasefire brokered by UN-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... and that they have killed more than 100 soldiers across the country over the weekend.
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[Yemen Post] The dialogue liaison committee revealed plans to meet with the parties which did not sign a West-backed power-transfer deal after the 2011 events, the Southern Movement, Harak, and the Yemeni opposition abroad to encourage them to participate in a comprehensive national dialogue.
The dialogue is expected to take place in the next few months.
So far, the committee has met with the Shiite Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... Group and women's groups and there are also plans to meet with the youth-led protests inside the change and freedom squares.
It held a meeting on Tuesday, which was attended by the Russian ambassador and deputy ambassador t o the EU to Sanaa as well as UN political experts.
"We are communicating the Southern Movement in Aden and a meeting is expected very soon," a spokesperson at the committee said.
The meeting with the parties, which were not part of the transition deal, takes place on June 12 to discuss their representation and participation in the dialogue, the spokesperson said.
On June 20, a meeting will be held with the Yemeni opposition abroad in the Egyptian capital Cairo , the source said, pointing out that the committee and the ministerial liaison committee in charge with contacting with the youth-led protesters have agreed to start arrangements to meet with the protesters. "Meetings with the protesters including different political groups across the republic takes place on June 18".
The preparations for the dialogue have got underway amid big challenges including alarming security disorders and an intensified offensive against Al-Qaeda jihad boys, an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and persistent social unrest.
Earlier, observers said there should be suitable measures and efforts to make any dialogue a success in Yemen, after the 2011 uprising which ousted the former regime.
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[Bangla Daily Star] BNP's soft posture towards the recent political development, including sending of opposition bigwigs to jail, filing of cases against alliance leaders and disappearance of Ilias Ali, has broadened its gap with Jamaat.
Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , key component of the 18-party opposition alliance, expected tougher programmes like back-to-back hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... s, but Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... , chairperson of the main opposition BNP, decided not to go for any drastic agitation right now.
BNP insiders said Khaleda was not interested to go for tougher movement before Ramadan, which would start from the third week of July.
They said despite pressure from the allies, BNP was not likely to declare tougher movement from its June 11 rally. Opposition policymakers, however, want to show their political strength by ensuring huge gathering of supporters in the rally.
Jamaat and a few other alliance leaders had expressed dissatisfaction over BNP's go-soft strategy in an alliance meeting held at Khaleda's Gulshan office after a daylong hartal on May 17. The previous day, BNP acting secretary general and 32 other opposition leaders had been sent to jail in an arson case.
Khaleda had told the meeting that they should not misuse their strength by declaring non-stop hartals before the June rally, but the argument did not make Jamaat men happy, said a senior BNP leader present in the meeting.
Shafiqul Islam Masud, a member of Jamaat's highest policymaking body, Central Majlish-e-Surah, has recently said, "There is no resentment between us. But it is true that the grassroots-level workers and supporters expected something more against the government after Ilias Ali had gone missing and the imprisonment of top opposition leaders."
He said a true leadership needed to consider many things before announcing agitation programmes, but at the same time the government might increase the degree of repression if they [opposition] failed to mount pressure immediately through a tougher movement.
"We have conveyed the expectation of field-level workers in the meeting," Masud continued, "BNP should overcome the hesitation about the so-called war crimes trial as it is nothing but a conspiracy to weaken the opposition."
Asked about Jamaat's resentment, BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman said the two parties had their own strategies.
"BNP needs to consider many things before making any decision and that is why, all its decision cannot make everybody happy," he said.
For the last couple of months, Khaleda Zia has been silent about the top Jamaat leaders who are facing war crimes trial. She did not even make any mention about them in the March 12 rally, added the BNP leaders.
The last time Khaleda categorically demanded release of the top Jamaat leaders was at a rally in Chapainawabganj last October.
A BNP vice-chairman, however, pointed out that Jamaat men were not found in the streets for the last few months, during different programmes, although they had been always mounting pressure in alliance meetings for declaring tougher programmes.
A number of Jamaat workers, who were present in a protest rally in front of BNP office recently, told The Daily Star, "Why was BNP silent when our top leaders were nabbed I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in 2010? Had they been vocal then, the government could not have sent its acting secretary general to jail now."
Asked about the crisis between BNP and Jamaat, Tariqul Islam, another member of BNP standing committee, said their chairperson always took decisions in consultation with all.
"We are passing through a bad patch; it's not the time to wrangle. Everyone now needs to work united to live through the government repression," he said.
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[Iran Press TV] Pentagon chief Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... says the US would continue its drone attacks in Pakistain despite complaints from Islamabad that the strikes violate its illusory sovereignty.
"We have made it very clear that we are going to continue to defend ourselves," the US defense secretary said during a conference in India on Wednesday.
Panetta also dismissed suggestions that the strikes could violate Pakistain's illusory sovereignty.
"This is about our illusory sovereignty as well," he added.
On Tuesday, Pakistain's Foreign Ministry summoned the US Charge d'affaires Richard Hoagland over Washington's continued liquidation drone attacks in the country.
The move came following a recent hike in the number of the unauthorized air attacks, which Pakistain has repeatedly criticized as counter-productive.
Washington claims its drone strikes target krazed killers, though casualty figures clearly indicate that Pak civilians are the main victims of the non-UN-sanctioned attacks.
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Washington claims its drone strikes target krazed killers, though casualty figures clearly indicate that Pak civilians are the main victims
Maybe the machine learning and target identification algorithms have decided the two classes are pretty much one and the same.
[Tolo News] At least 13 civilians, including women and kiddies, were killed in a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Arclight airstrike in central Pashtun-infested Logar province, local officials said Wednesday.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... while Isaf reported the Arclight airstrike, it said only two civilians were maimed.
Pashtun-infested Logar provincial front man Mirwais Mirzakwal told TOLOnews that a joint Afghan and Isaf security force had launched a military operation in Pashtun-infested Logar's Baraki Barak district to capture a Taliban capo Sardar.
The troops came under fire while trying to capture the commander and they called in an Arclight airstrike, which then killed nine children and four women, he said.
Two NATO soldiers and an Afghan soldier also were maimed in the operation, he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... Isaf released a statement saying that a joint Afghan and Isaf troops operation in Baraki Barak on Wednesday sought to detain a Taliban leader.
Isaf said that during the operation, beturbanned goons attacked the Afghan and coalition troops with small-arms fire and a grenade. The security force returned fire and requested a precision Arclight airstrike.
"While conducting a follow-on assessment, the security force discovered two women who had sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The security force provided medical assistance and transported both women to an Isaf medical facility for treatment," it said.
As a result of the operation, multiple beturbanned goons were killed and the Afghan and coalition security force seized several weapons and a quantity of explosives, Isaf added.
A NATO front man Major Martyn Crighton told AP that there were no civilians killed in the district operation.
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Did the women and kiddies stop firing after they were bombed?
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Malawi's new leader, Africa's latest woman president, does things differently.
Joyce Banda is toning down the bling and returning to basics in one of the world's poorest countries.
Mrs Banda has announced the sale or lease of a $13.3-million (Sh1.1 billion) presidential jet controversially bought by her predecessor three years ago as well as 60 limousines ferrying cabinet ministers and top government officials.
These steps are meant to heal breaches with international donors who pulled the plug on vital aid to the southern African nation, citing poor economic policies and governance under late president Bingu wa Mutharika.
"There is urgent need in our country to change the way we do things," the 62-year-old Banda -- who was vice president from 2009 until she became president on April 7 -- told parliament.
Since taking over after Mutharika's death from a heart attack in April, she has launched a national austerity drive which seeks to "cut back on government expenditure through a number of on-going measures."
Africa's second woman president after Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Banda has also signalled a desire to reform her country's ailing farm-based economy.
Part of the cost-cutting schemes is getting rid of the luxury vehicles and plane, symbols of power and status in this poor nation where nearly 40 per cent of the 13 million people scrape by on less than a dollar a day.
"My government has set up a cabinet committee to determine what to do with the presidential jet: whether to sell it or lease it out," Mrs Banda told parliament last month.
"I can as well use private airlines. I am already used to hitch-hiking," she told a news conference later.
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[Yemen Post] Yemen's Transport Minister, Waed Bathib, late on Tuesday said he had received threats before an kaboom occurred just three meters from his office inside the Transport Ministry in downtown the capital Sanaa.
A blurb issued by the minister's office said Bathib received a telephone call from an unidentified number early on Tuesday, with the speaker threatening to assassin him inside the ministry.
"The unknown speaker threatened to use explosives to assassinate Bathib because he crossed the red lines," the statement said.
One employee was injured in the kaboom, which was blamed on a gas leak inside the buffet responsible for serving the minister, according to officials at the ministry.
The ministry formed an immediate panel to investigate in coordination with the interior ministry the kaboom, which was arranged to target the minister at a meeting on ministry issues.
The timing of the meeting was changed, with the kaboom missing the target, according to officials.
Since he became Transport Minister, Bathib has been known for his strict management including practical steps to reconsider a deal with DP World, which was signed in 2008 to run and develop the Aden port.
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[Yemen Post] Armed men of the Saada-based Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™", Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" ... group stormed lately on Tuesday night a number of houses in Saada and locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! dozens of residents for unknown reasons, local sources said.
The sources affirmed that scores of Houthi fighters and armed vehicles stormed a village in Saada and took residents to unknown places.
According to locals, the residents were placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! as they were affiliated to political sides that contradict the Houthi group.
Houthi faceless myrmidons threatened residents of areas after media outlets started to release news stories about violations practiced by the Houthi group.
The Houthi group that is accused of attempting to expand and take control on Saada, Hajja, Amran and other northern governorates with support of Iran implanted landmines and explosive devises in some areas of Hajja and that led to the killing and wounding of dozens during the past few months.
Media sources have stated the Houthi group conducted last in late May an arrest campaign against activists, politicians, teachers, students as well as football players in Saada.
Akhbar Alyawam newspaper quoted an officer of an international human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... group operating in Yemen as saying that he had information about torture and violations practiced in private prisons of the Houthi group against its oppositionists.
Local sources affirmed that three teachers and five students were kidnapped by the group from Alsaeed education compound in Saada during the past two days, pointing out that they were taken to unknown places.
The Houthi group whose main slogan is "God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" took control on Saada during the protest wave that hit Yemen in 2011.
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The Houthi group whose main slogan is "God is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews" took control on Saada during the protest wave that hit Yemen in 2011.
Houthi group aka Shia, Ash-Shabab al-Mu'min. Next please.
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.
The regional authority overseeing the $6 billion Dulles rail project dealt a blow to union labor on Wednesday -- a day after voters in Wisconsin and California did much the same.
On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic party and even to American capitalism. In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party. The issue remains as fresh as todays headlines, as Romney argues that Obama is trying to move the United States toward European-style social democracy, which was precisely the New Partys goal.
Knowing that Obama disguised his New Party membership helps make sense of his questionable handling of the 2008 controversy over his ties to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). During his third debate with John McCain, Obama said that the only involvement hed had with ACORN was to represent the group in a lawsuit seeking to compel Illinois to implement the National Voter Registration Act, or motor-voter law. The records of Illinois ACORN and its associated union clearly contradict that assertion, as I show in my political biography of the president, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism.
The revelation in 2008 that Obama had joined an ACORN-controlled, leftist third party could have been damaging indeed, and coming clean about his broader work with ACORN might easily have exposed these New Party ties. Because the work of ACORN and the New Party often intersected with Obamas other alliances, honesty about his ties to either could have laid bare the entire network of his leftist political partnerships.
In the meantime, let us see whether a press that let candidate Obama off the hook in 2008 and that in 2012 is obsessed with the presidents youthful love letters will now refuse to report that President Obama once joined a leftist third party, and that he hid that truth from the American people in order to win the presidency.
Saddam Hussein's trusted personal secretary, once No. 4 on the U.S. most-wanted list in Iraq, was executed by hanging on Thursday, the Iraqi Justice Ministry said.
A US college has joined the international campaign of boycotting Israeli products to protest against Tel Aviv's policy of illegal land seizure and destruction on Palestinian lands.
[Yemen Post] The 
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(Sh. M. Network)- Tensions are rising in northeast Somalia following 
An official from the autonomous Somali region of 
North Korea on Monday threatened to launch "a holy retaliatory war" against President Lee Myung-bak and the South Korean press unless they apologize for casting aspersion on a big propaganda event. 
Pakistain will release the transport containers carrying thousands of school books for Afghanistan after they were stopped with the other 
Mohmand
[An Nahar] Bombs and shootings in Iraq killed three people, including two 
A suspected Kurdish rebel was killed overnight in Istanbul when the bomb he was carrying detonated before he had a chance to plant it, the city's governor said Wednesday.
Fears are mounting that Zim-bob-we's military will seize power in the event of President 
[Yemen Post] Yemen's security forces 
[Yemen Post] A 
[Tolo News] At least two people were killed in a 
(Sh.M.Network)-- A Kenyan court on Wednesday charged a Swiss man with being a member of Somalia's Al-Qaeda allied Shebab, the latest in a string of foreign nationals accused of links to the Islamist
cycle of violence
(Sh. M. Network)- Eyewitnesses told Shabelle Media that unknown 
The Pak government should investigate allegations that elements in the Pak military and intelligence agencies have plotted to kill prominent lawyer and 
[Iran Press TV] The Nigerian military's Joint Task Force has attacked suspected hideouts of 
[An Nahar] Syrian rebels went on the offensive in and around 
[Tolo News] Pakistain is the mother of terrorism while Afghanistan is the victim, an Afghan political expert and former Minister of Interior General Hadi Khaled said Wednesday.
The 
(Sh. M. Network)-A judge in Somalia's military tribunal has said the court banned on Wednesday soldiers from collecting illegal tax in the town of Afgoye, 30 kilometers north-west Mogadishu.
[Iran Press TV] At least five Syrian law enforcement agents have been killed and several others injured in two separate terrorist attacks, SANA reported.
...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...
The dialogue liaison committee revealed plans to meet with the parties which did not sign a West-backed power-transfer deal after the 2011 events, the Southern Movement, Harak, and the Yemeni opposition abroad to encourage them to participate in a comprehensive national dialogue. 
Khaleda Zia
Pentagon chief 
[Tolo News] At least 13 civilians, including 
[Yemen Post] Yemen's Transport Minister, Waed Bathib, late on Tuesday said he had received threats before an 
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