FIVE members of a sadistic paedophile sex ring have been handed life sentences for exploiting young girls.
The men, including two sets of brothers, were convicted of a string of brutal crimes against their victims.
A five-month trial at the Old Bailey heard the Oxford-based gang sexually exploited girls as young as 11. They were found guilty of a catalogue of offences against the vulnerable underage girls, including rape, trafficking and organising prostitution, last month.
AndrewAkhtar Dogar, 32, and WilliamAnjum Dogar, 31, were told they had been found guilty of "exceptionally grave crimes" as they were jailed for a minimum of 17 years.
Co-defendant NigelKamar Jamil, 27, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years. The judge Peter Rook told him: "I accept that you were a follower rather than a leader, the leadership role was played by the Dogar brothers."
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Gov should issue new SSN's, provide help changing credit cards, phone numbers, set up credit monitoring, etc. Force protection these days can be cyber.
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And in today's Seattle Times online, the WA state DNR relocates a western diamondback rattlesnake that was found in Seattle. we have a huge deficit, can't keep our bridges in one spot but have money to move this thing.
[Independent] Troop reinforcements and armour have been brought to army bases near cities ahead of protests this weekend aimed at forcing the Islamist president out, security officials have said.
Clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi erupted, killing at least one person in the coastal city of Mansoura.
The troop movements accompanied speculation over the army's role in the crisis leading up to Sunday's protests. Islamists accuse activists of paving the way for a coup, a charge that the opposition vehemently denies.
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[An Nahar] The Speaker and Head of AMAL movement Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... denied on Wednesday reports saying that his supporters and Hizbullah members participated alongside the army in the battles in the southern city of Sidon.
"I urged AMAL supporters and the Haret Saida's residents to exercise self-restraint," Berri said in comments published in local newspapers.
He stressed that the army has the right to strike with an iron fist and its simplest duty obliges it to maintain security and stability across the country.
"The army has the right to take the appropriate measures as there are no red lines confronting it," the speaker said.
He pointed out that there are no areas that the army can't reach, saying: "We support it in preventing any security violations including in the Beirut's southern suburb."
Berri hailed the stance taken by ex-Prime Minister and head of al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... movement Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. regarding Abra festivities.
AMAL chief noted that he held several phone calls with Hariri concerning the situation in Sidon.
Hariri stressed on Monday that al-Mustaqbal movement "will remain with the army," saying the military institution did the right thing by confronting Asir.
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[Pak Daily Times] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Wednesday said that Pakistain's huge alternative energy potential holds the key to overcoming the
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"All avenues need to be explored and every effort needs to be put in to tap in the alternative energy potential of the country," the prime minister emphasised while speaking at a presentation given to him on solar energy resources in Pakistain and investment opportunities for a consortium of foreign and local companies. Nawaz expressed these views while speaking at a presentation given to him on solar energy resources in Pakistain and investment opportunities by a consortium of foreign and local companies.
The consortium showed confidence in the leadership of Nawaz Sharif and said that the pro-investor policies of the present government have attracted them towards investment opportunities in Pakistain. While addressing the meeting, the prime minister said that his government would go an extra mile to facilitate those companies and firms which transfer technology through their investments in the alternative energy sector in Pakistain.
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I'm building (Yes , It's slow) A solar panel system, I know it's more expensive, but solar panels DON'T wear out. My Grandchildren can enjoy free electricity, for life.
And since I'm paying for it as I build, it's relatively cheap, NO mortgage, so NO possibility of losing the House. (AND no expense paying for it)
I have 5 Panels so far, that's enough to start.
It shuld be producing electricity when Electricity is too expensive. (I can foresee the day)
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No doubt the government will soon tax the energy it produces.
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Since you are building it, Redneck Jim, it'll be done right... and you are getting a master mechanic's labour for free. ;-) That house will be a gem by the time you are done with it.
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They wear out in a LOT less time and that is what the solar panels vendors says (ie the people who have an interest in exagerating their life). And I am not speaking about Chinese solar panels.
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Solar panels definitely wear out and their output declines over time. Every vendor knows this. How much accelerated aging testing do you think the Chinese vendors do?
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They DO. And at end of life when you divide total cost by electry produced you find it is about six times more expensive.
I've talked two clients out of installing solar panels by that straightforward cost / benefit analysis; I'd install panels myself if it was cost effective.
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There are locations where the investment is worthwhile -- isolated in the country where the electricity doesn't flow, like Alaska Paul's cabin in Alaska.
[Pak Daily Times] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has regretted that the rulers have no knowledge of the ground realities, and they are still making false promises to the people. During a telephonic address to the MQM Coordination Committee members, Altaf said the 'Titanic' of the Musselmens was sinking and that immediate steps should be taken before "the whole ship collapses, and eventually sinks".
He recalled the promises made to those on the Titanic, and said they were similar to those being made to the Pak population. "The bureaucrats and higher officials sitting on the upper decks of the ship have no idea that the ship is sinking. They are unaware of the water that has entered the lower ranks of the ship," Altaf said. He said that when the Titanic was sinking, the higher officials on the upper parts of the ship continued to indulge in their lavish lives of eating and drinking, whilst the lower parts of the ship were being destroyed. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... he said that sooner or later, the upper portion was destroyed as well, killing everyone that was onboard.
The MQM chief then gave an example of misleading information when the radio in West Pakistain stated that Pak armed forces were victorious on all fronts against the Indian forces in East Pakistain, while in reality, 93,000 Pak soldiers were laying down their arms before Indian forces at that time. "I hope they don't forget what I am saying today, terming it merely a story," he said. Altaf said that statements such as these were misleading the people, like they had been misled in the past. He said he would talk in detail about the ship's captain, those running the ship and other staff in his next address to the members of the MQM Coordination Committee.
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But, what if everyone in the world wanted this ummah to rule them all? Where is the democracy?
[Ynet] Jerusalem District Court convicted city resident Assam Mashahra in a plea agreement of contact with a foreign agent and conspiracy to deliver information to the enemy.
The indictment indicates that in June 2012 Mashahra traveled to Beirut, where he met with Hezbollah several times. In meetings, one of the organization's computer instructors showed him how to work with encryption software and messaging to keep in touch with them after his return to Israel.
An unusual amusement park attraction in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo offers visitors the thrills and chills of an illegal border crossing. The attraction takes visitors through a fake United States-Mexico border, complete with fake smugglers and fake border patrol agents.
The aim is to dissuade would be migrants from making the trip. The coyote, or smuggler, leading this simulated illegal border crossing used the name Simon and wore a face mask. Before setting off, he addressed his charges that evening, about 40 students from a private school in Mexico City.
"Tonight we're going to talk about migration," Simon said in Spanish. "But for us it isn't just something rhetorical, but rather the opposite. Because we have endured, we have suffered, of hunger, thirst, injustice, heat, cold, we have suffered from everything."
Then, under the cover of night, Simon herded them into the woods, toward the fake frontera.
The actual U.S.-Mexico border is nearly 800 miles away from the Parque EcoAlberto. The park is part of the indigenous HñaHñu community. Tourist can enjoy other recreational attractions like hot springs and rappelling, in addition to the recently added fake border crossing.
But for those who want to simulate the experience of fleeing across the border, without the real danger, the latter attraction is for you. For three hours, tourist groups endure sirens, dogs, chases and the fake border patrol yelling threats.
Maribel Garcia works as an administrator for the park. She says the purpose of the Night Walk is simple.
"Our objective is to stop the immigration that exists amongst our citizens, principally from the state of Mexico to the U.S.," Garcia said in Spanish.
Garcia says traditionally this region subsisted on agriculture, but that wasn't bringing the community what it needed.
"Because we didn't have sewer systems, light, telephone, roads," she said.
So people went north. The HñaHñu community has lost about 80 percent of its population to the U.S., Garcia estimates, mainly to Arizona and Nevada. Garcia says it was the HñaHñu youth returning home after crossing the real border who thought up this tourist attraction as a way to create income for the community and encourage others to stay in Mexico.
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The South Koreans have some automated turrets for defending the DMZ. We can install them all along the border and not use a fence. They pretty much shoot anything that moves.
[An Nahar] Army raids are ongoing in Abra neighborhood of the southern city of Sidon to look for gunnies who supported Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir in his festivities with the military institution, amid reports that the Imam of the Bilal bin Rabah mosque might have never left the city.
MTV reported on Wednesday that cautious calm is prevailing in Sidon, except for the sound of detonating bombs left in the battlefield.
It added that people coming to inspect their houses are prevented from approaching the area, as the army "has not yet finished its search for explosives and gunnies."
"Army patrols are roaming Abra and its surroundings and a checkpoint erected in the area is inspecting all vehicles passing in the neighborhood," MTV noted.
"Men jugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! during the festivities are being subjected to strict investigation," the same source pointed out.
Al-Manar television revealed that a large number of rocket-propelled grenades were found in al-Asir's security zone, and that "offices, chairs and even water bottles were booby-trapped."
Regarding al-Asir's fate, security sources told MTV that "the holy man's phone calls are being tracked."
"Investigation so far revealed that al-Asir is using an international number and that he is still in Sidon," MTV announced.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... OTV reported that a Sidon figure was communicating with al-Asir "until the last hours of the battle," revealing also that a Turkish mediator contacted the holy man and asked him to leave the port city and head to the north, "but no to (the northern city of) Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... OTV stressed: "Investigation is ongoing and al-Asir did not head to Syria or to Tripoli."
In another report, security sources told LBCI television that "al-Asir was still in he security zone at 7:00 pm on Sunday."
They elaborated: "A female neighbor of the holy man told Sherlocks that he (al-Asir) came to the building around 6:00 pm Sunday and accompanied her to the basement where a group of people were hiding."
"Al-Asir stayed with us for an hour and then he left," she remarked.
"The siege around the zone was not completed yet on Sunday night, and there is a possibility that the holy man left the block along with 25-40 people during these hours," the security sources explained.
They said, however, that "he might have never left the southern city and its surroundings."
"Despite Paleostinians denying that al-Asir has entered (the refugee camp of) Ain el-Helweh, and promising not hide him, we still have doubts that he might be there or in one of the city's mosques," they said.
"And at Sunday night, he might have been transferred to another city."
Al-Asir is being tracked through monitoring phone lines that were in his possession and other lines that he might have access to, the sources informed LBCI.
"We are also keeping an eye on his Facebook and Twitter accounts."
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Fake Beard, or possibly Fake MAN.
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Wishing him farewell and a good escape...would not want "Festivities" to end too soon, dont we?
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[An Nahar] Nigeria on Wednesday charged three Lebanese allegedly linked to Hizbullah with "terrorism related offenses."
Five Lebanese were implicated last month after a huge cache of arms and ammunition was found in their premises in the northern city of Kano and the capital Abuja.
Three of them -- Mustapha Fawaz, aged 49, Abdallah Thahini, 48 and Talal Ahmad Roda, 51 -- were hit with a six-count charge of terrorism, while a fourth suspect was freed and the fifth was said to be on the run.
The three were also said to hold Nigerian citizenship.
Court papers said they "professed to belong to Hizbullah's military wing, an international terrorist organization, and you thereby committed an offense..."
The trio were accused of conspiracy "to receive training in preparation to engage in the commission of a terrorist act."
The suspects were also alleged to have "directly rendered support to a terrorist group" by providing in their premises "weapons for terrorist activities."
They were accused of permitting "a meeting connected with act of terrorism to be held" at their premises, an upscale supermarket and amusement resort in Abuja.
Thahini was said to be the coordinator of Hizbullah in Nigeria as well as a conduit to transfer funds for its operation.
The suspects pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges and the judge ordered that they be remanded in jug until the next hearing on July 8.
Defense lawyer Ahmed Raji said Nigeria would not be able to sustain the charges of belonging to a "terrorist group" since there has not been a formal declaration of Hizbullah as a "terrorist sect" by the government.
Last month, Nigeria's security services discovered a home in Kano where weapons they claimed were intended to attack Israeli and Western targets in Nigeria were kept.
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[Al Ahram] A series of attacks killed five people in northern Iraq on Wednesday, all of them in a swathe of disputed territory where diplomats fear tensions could spill over into all-out armed conflict.
The violence struck in and around the ethnically mixed cities of Kirkuk and Tuz Khurmatu, which lie at the centre of a tract of land stretching from Iraq's eastern border with Iran to its western frontier with Syria.
Kurdistan wants to incorporate the area into its three-province autonomous region over the objections of the central government in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Near Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a roadside kaboom killed three people -- a man and two women, all of whom were relatives -- as they were driving a truck filled with produce, police and a doctor said.
In the city itself, gunnies killed a soldier and maimed another, while a tribal chief was found dead in Tuz Khurmatu, having suffered multiple gunshot wounds. His body also bore signs of torture, officials and medics said.
The unresolved row over the tract of territory is persistently cited by diplomats and analysts as one of the biggest threats to Iraq's long-term stability, with fears the tensions could result in armed conflict between the central government and Kurdish security forces.
Iraq has seen increased levels of violence since the beginning of the year, coinciding with protests by the country's Sunni Arab minority, which alleges it is being unfairly targeted by the Shiite-led authorities.
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[Ynet] Chief Paleostinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... said the willingness of the Paleostinian Authority to restart peace talks with Israel hinges on Israel's commitment to halt settlement construction, its acceptance of the two-state solution and release of Paleostinian prisoners.
Erekat added that Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has not renounced the demand for Israel to retreat to 1967 borders, and reports to the contrary represent Israeli manipulations.
[Al Ahram] A European-backed Syrian radio station launched in Gay Paree on Wednesday vowing to be a "free and independent" voice in reporting on the country's conflict.
Radio Rozana, supported by European governments and rights groups, will see five Gay Paree-based journalists work with 30 correspondents across Syria to counter what critics say is the one-sided reporting of the country's state media.
"The goal is to give Syrians a voice inside the country and to support those who are suffering every day," the station's editor-in-chief Lina Chawaf told news hounds in Gay Paree.
"We will cover the news, but with a focus on social and humanitarian aspects," she said. "We hope we are up to it, because Syria really needs independent and professional media."
Radio Rozana -- whose name in Arabic means "the window that lets the light in" -- will transmit three hours of programmes by satellite into the country every afternoon, with the loop repeated the next morning.
The transmissions are being backed by publicly funded Radio Netherlands, with other support coming from rights groups like Reporters Without Borders and the governments of Denmark and La Belle France.
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[An Nahar] The Ulemas of Sidon accused on Wednesday Hizbullah fighters of taking part in the festivities that took place in the southern city on Sunday and Monday.
They questioned during a presser "the role the fighters were playing alongside the army in the Abra festivities."
They added: "The violation of the people's rights by Hizbullah undermines the authority of the army."
They voiced their support for the army, while condemning any assault against it.
The Sidon festivities broke out when supporters of Salafist holy man Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir attacked the army.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Mufti of Sidon Sheikh Salim Sousan rejected on Wednesday the assault that target the army in the southern city, calling on the state to treat people equally.
"The army is the sole guarantee for the country's unity and stability," Sousan, who read the statement, said.
The statement denounced the attack against the army, urging officials to impose the law on all citizens as the country is passing through a critical stage.
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[Al Ahram] Prosecutors in Giza have enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a leading Shia figure for possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.
Mohamed El-Dereiny, who heads the Supreme Council for Ahl El-Beit, a group representing Egypt's Shia Moslems, said he had the weapons for self-defence after receiving death threats.
He told prosecutors he feared he would be killed like Shia Sheikh Hassan Shehata.
Shehata and three other Shias were killed in a hundreds-strong sectarian mob attack in Zawyat Abu Musalam village in Giza governorate on Monday.
El-Dereiny said he used a camera found with the weapons to record a video message to President Mohamed Morsi saying he would protect himself.
El-Dereiny will be detained for four days pending investigations.
A journalist at state news agency MENA and another man incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! at El-Dereiny's home were released after questioning.
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[Ynet] While in Israel for Presidential Conference, Raheel Raza, Canadian Moslem activist, says 'I speak for myself and a group of progressive, liberal, freedom-loving Moslems'
Raheel Raza is a one of a kind activist: A Canadian-based Moslem woman who has gained global notoriety for putting forth the most positive face of Islam while taking her co-religionists to task for certain behaviors.
Raza heads the Council of Moslems Facing Tomorrow. She was interviewed in Jerusalem by The Media Line's Felice Friedson while in Israel for the Presidential Conference.
Raheel, how would you characterize the image of Islam to the Western world? What stereotypes are fair and which are hurtful?
That all Moslems are alike is the first stereotype. Even in Canada, where I live, there are Moslems from sixty parts of the world. We are diverse like every other community. I don't speak for the entire Moslem world. I speak for myself and a group of progressive, liberal, freedom-loving Moslems who are part of my organization. Our thinking is perhaps different from the mainstream or the majority, but we are growing in number.
In Canada, you have had significant involvement with the Jewish community. How did that come about and how do you work with the Jewish community?
In another part of my life, I've always been an interfaith advocate. So for 25 years I have believed that dialogue and discussion with members of other faith communities brings about a lot of understanding. Since we came to Canada as a minority, I felt it was very important that people know about us and that we know about them. I have supported the right of Israel to exist as a country and that has befriended me with many people who are Jewish. Islam is "Judaism light."
You have taken on issues, in particular the building of the mosque at Ground Zero in New York. You were among those opposed it. Why?
From the beginning, I didn't feel comfortable about it and didn't think it was the right spot and the right move. There was something political about it. A mosque is supposed to be community and the community in Manhattan where this has happened at Ground Zero was not in favor of having a mosque there. It's not the mosque they were against -- just the idea of having it on that spot. If they wanted to build a mosque 10 miles away, that's OK. I went back to the time of the Prophet and I remember that there was a story about when a mosque was built and the community there did not want it. The Prophet said, "This is not right thing to do." Taking that example, I felt this, too, was not the right thing to do. It would have been a knife in the side of those people who had died there. It was not a compassionate act. It was financial and political and more importantly, where were the financials coming from? Later, it was discovered that there were some shady dealings and there were all sorts of murky things attached to the people who were going to build the mosque. I still don't think it's the right spot for a mosque.
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And if anyone but the western press ever listens to her, they'll find her acid-scarred, decapitated corpse in the street with two hooting jackanapes waving their bloodied hands in pride.
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[GOOGLE] Riots in China's ethnically divided Xinjiang region on Wednesday left 27 people dead, according to state media which said police opened fire on "knife-wielding mobs".
It was the deadliest spasm of violence to hit the troubled western region since 2009. Xinjiang is about twice the size of Turkey and is home to around 10 million members of the mostly Moslem Uighur ethnic minority.
Police shot at "mobs" who had attacked cop shoppes, a local government building and a construction site, the Xinhua news agency said, citing local officials.
"Seventeen people had been killed... before police opened fire and rubbed out 10 rioters," it said. The mobs were also "stabbing at people and setting fire to police cars", the report said.
Nine police or security guards and eight non-combatants were killed before police opened fire, the report said, adding that three other people were taken to hospital with injuries.
The festivities occurred early Wednesday in the Lukqun township of Shanshan County, Xinhua said, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the desert city of Turpan and about 250 kilometres from the regional capital Urumqi.
The reason for the violence was not immediately clear, and police in Turpan refused to comment when contacted by AFP.
Residents of Shanshan County contacted by telephone said that police -- some armed with guns -- had been stationed at crossroads, and were blocking entrances to areas near where the festivities occurred.
"There are police on every road, every crossroad has been blocked," a woman who answered the phone at a restaurant in the county said, without providing her name.
A market worker who identified herself as a member of the Uighur minority and gave her surname as Ta said police carrying tasers had been stationed outside government offices, cop shoppes and courts in the county.
Many of Xinjiang's Uighur community complain of religious and cultural repression by Chinese authorities, and the region is regularly hit by unrest.
Chinese authorities have often blamed festivities in the region on "terrorists", but initial state-media reports did not mention terrorism.
A verified Twitter account run by state-broadcaster CCTV called the violence a "riot", saying it was correcting an earlier message which described it as an "insurgent attack".
Dilshat Rexit, a front man for the World Uyghur Congress, an exile group branded by Beijing as "separatist", said "continued repression and provocation is the cause of conflict". His comment came in a statement sent to AFP after news of the violence emerged.
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Is there any group with whom, or country in the world where, Muslims DON'T have/cause trouble?
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The rest of the world lives in the 21st century. It is natural that an 8th century culture would have difficulty fitting in and endure frustrations leading to violent outbursts.
[The News (Pak)] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... chief Altaf Hussain strongly condemned the kaboom on Sindh High Court's Justice Maqbool Baqar on Burns Road.
He expressed his profound grief over the wounding and killing of police and Rangers personnel, Justice Maqbool's driver and several others.
Hussain, while deploring the kaboom on Justice Maqbool Baqar's convoy, said that this was an open act of terrorism. He said that the forces of Evil had thrown down the gauntlet to security officials with the manner in which they carried out this brazen attack.
"This act of terrorism is a matter of serious concern and shows that snuffies can attack anyone, anywhere."
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... the Jamat-e-Islami has demanded that the government order a judicial inquiry into the kaboom targeting Justice Maqbool Baqar and said the attack exposed the complete failure of law enforcement agencies.
The Majalis-e-Wahdat-e-Musselmeneen (MWM) also strongly condemned the kaboom and urged the government to chalk out a comprehensive strategy to combat terrorism.
MWM front man Ali Ahmer told The News that the attack spread panic and fear among citizens. "The inspector general of Sindh Police and director general Rangers should step down and accept their failure."
Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... front man Fahimuddin Sheikh termed the attack as a conspiracy to divide and destabilise Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . He criticised the Sindh governor, who he said remained a silent spectator to the bloodshed.
Sheikh said that mere statements and hollow slogans would never eliminate terrorism and Karachi was facing serious threats. He called for a contingency plan to ensure the safety of citizens.
PML-N Sindh President Syed Ghaus Ali Shah believed that the attack showed the complete failure of the government and the PPP-led regime seemed unable to chalk out an anti-terror strategy.
PML-F Secretary General and Sindh Assembly Member Imtiaz Ahmed Sheikh demanded that the federal government intervene to stop the acts of terrorism in Karachi.
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[Al Ahram] South Giza prosecution ordered Wednesday the arrest of six new suspects in connection to the lynching of five Shias in Zawyat Abu Musalam village, following other arrests related to the same incident.
Investigations into the incident have led to the arrest of 22 suspects. Among the charges suspects face are murder, arson, attempted murder, resisting arrest and sabotage.
A mob of hundreds gathered Sunday in Zawyat Abu Musalam, a Giza village, outside a house where a number of Shias met. The mob ransacked and torched the house, before beating and dragging a number of Shias.
The attack left five Egyptian Shias dead and several injured, heightening fears of sectarian strife in Egypt.
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Shutting down coal fired power plants will do nothing to stop natural earth processes that have been taking place on Earth for thousands of years.
Instead of wasting billions of taxpayer dollars trying to prevent natural earth cycles, the correct policy should be to maximize the benefits of a warmer northern climate and use the proceeds to minimize the negative aspects we don't have the ability to avoid anyway.
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BTW, as those ice sheet retreated north, they were followed by those humans. They would 'adapt' to the world to inhabit the lands of the far frigid north to the steamy equator, from deserts to isolated islands of the Pacific, from the savannas to mountain tops.
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Climate change legislation is just another progressive big govmint snake-oil scam to obtain money for the Federal government. It is much like the other progressive grabs such as ObamaCare. There seems to be an underlying sleaziness to the progressive causes that masquerade as care and concern for people or environment. When you get down to it, it is about money, party, stifling control, power, and greed. Yeah, yeah, I know, it is for the children. Heard that tired, worn out platitude too many times and for too many years. If it were really about the children, the progressives would be outraged by the number of abortions going on in this country daily. As an example: "It's for the children" has been sold as "women having sole rights over their reproductive organs--in a word 'choice'." There is no concern for life or the rights of the unborn child, the father, or the family (if there is one). Abortion has become birth control after conception. Abortion has become a way of taking care of an "unpleasant, unnecessary, inconvenience". Maybe I'm just cynical and a bit off-topic and I will probably catch a lot of flack for this cynicism about this topic.
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The whole argument is that CO2 causes global warming, which causes climate change, which causes the rest of the enviromental problems.
NO I have not seen a politician, any politician, who actually has had the courage to stand up and tell truth that even if we could return to pre Industrial Revolution carbon dioxide levels, the warming of the planet would still continue.
People who live in Alaska see the glaciers disappearing with their own eyes. People who work at Prudhoe Bay and offshore in the Beaufort Sea see the ice caps melting and the pack ice receding further north almost every year.
Do any of these people believe that building a multibillion dollar wind farm in Florida will somehow cool the entire arctic regions of the world? I doubt it. But they will believe their increased tax and energy bills.
Because they will also see them with their own eyes.
And then they will probably go out and re-elect Obama sycophant Lisa Murkowski to the senate.
Go figure !
You won't catch any flack from me JohnQC. I'm just as tired as you are of any argument that won't stand on it's own merits getting shoved down our throats as "for the children".
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Select Your "Facts" Carefully, the lies are showing.
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swksvolFF - that's like saying that extinction is a perfectly natural process for a species to go through.
And to interfere with, for example, the extinction of species like the spotted owl, who has grown too specialized to survive is actually harming the environment.
Tell that to a so-called 'environmentalist' and watch their heads explode. Or not - it isn't as if they truely give a sh*t about the environment.
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CF, I've been surrounded a few times in my life.
Little high-heat
"If the climate becomes stable, animals no longer need to evolve, which makes you a creationist."
Wuz told I supported fascism because I was drinking a Budweiser.
"This?! Its a Belgium beer, just like yours. What else do you not know?"
And no, it was never about the environment. They were using it as an excuse to verbally curb stomp someone mob-style. "Why are you trying to publically shame me? What are you, Puritans? Gonna get the olde stocks out, throw some moldy lettuce around? Cuz that's all I hear, let us win let us win."
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Coal is the largest source of energy for the generation of electricity worldwide...
Also;
Gasification
Coal gasification can be used to produce syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2) gas. This syngas can then be converted into transportation fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, through the Fischer-Tropsch process. This technology is currently used by the Sasol chemical company of South Africa to make motor vehicle fuels from coal and natural gas. Alternatively, the hydrogen obtained from gasification can be used for various purposes, such as powering a hydrogen economy, making ammonia, or upgrading fossil fuels.
Liquefaction
Main article: Coal liquefaction
Coal can also be converted into synthetic fuels equivalent to gasoline or diesel by several different processes. In the direct liquefaction processes, the coal is either hydrogenated or carbonized. Hydrogenation processes are the Bergius process,[46] the SRC-I and SRC-II (Solvent Refined Coal) processes and the NUS Corporation hydrogenation process.[47][48] In the process of low-temperature carbonization, coal is coked at temperatures between 360 and 750°C (680 and 1,380°F). These temperatures optimize the production of coal tars richer in lighter hydrocarbons than normal coal tar. The coal tar is then further processed into fuels. Alternatively, coal can be converted into a gas first, and then into a liquid, by using the Fischer-Tropsch process.
Top consumer of coal:
China 4,053 million short tons 50.7% of world usage and increasing annually
United States 1,003 million short tons 12.5% of world usage, lowesets since 1992
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So Hupuque, the US will mine the coal, send it via ship to China (which generates vast amounts of CO2), who will burn it, producing CO2 and lots of other pollutants. So unless Obama puts export limits on coal, I dont see how shutting down coal burning plants in the US will produce a worldwide reduction in CO2.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Tamaulipas state, click here
By Chris Covert
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A total of 11 individuals have been killed in separate drug and gang related incidents in Tamaulipas state since Tuesday, according to Mexican news accounts.
Four unidentified individuals were killed in a gunfight with a Mexican Army detachment in Reynosa Wednesday morning, according to a news report which appeared in the online edition of Milenio news daily.
According to the report, the gunfight took place at about 0900 hrs in Ampliacion Rodriguez colony and then spread on Bulevar Acapulco to Petrolera colony near a school, and finally concluded at around 1015 hrs.
Armed suspects were traveling aboard a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, and had apparently fired on a Mexican Army road patrol. Army return fire killed three. One of the dead was identified as Javier Antonio Cardenas Lopez, 30, from Sinaloa state. In the pickup truck, soldiers seized three rifles, 38 weapons magazines, six grenades and estrellas metalicas or metal stars, which are used to puncture vehicle tires.
One unidentified Mexican Army fusilero was killed and another was wounded. Five other unidentified civilians were wounded in the crossfire, three of them requiring medical attention.
In San Fernando municipality, a total of five armed suspects were killed in a firefight Tuesday night with a Mexican Army unit.
According to a news account posted on Milenio's website, the gunfight took place at around 2015 hrs near ejido Guadalupe Victoria and El Rancho La Isla, where armed suspects traveling aboard an H3 Hummer fired their weapons on the army patrol.
The dead ranged in age between 16 and 40, and were not identified in the news report. Five rifles, one grenade launcher, 28 weapons magazines and an undisclosed number of grenades were seized following the firefight.
San Fernando municipality is roughly halfway between Matamoros and Ciudad Victoria, the state capital of Tamaulipas, and in the past has been the scene of some of the bloodiest incidents in the drug war.
Meanwhile, two days ago the body of a Mexican journalist was found dead in Reynosa along with an unidentified female, according to a Proceso wire report which appeared on the website Yancuic.com.
The partially buried body of El Ciudadano columinist Mario Ricardo Chavez Jorge was found near ejido Santa Clara. The female companion found with him had been decapitated.
Monday, a total of 52 migrants were rescued from a safe house in Reynosa by a security group, according to Mexican news accounts.
A news report which appeared in the online edition of El Siglo de Durango news daily said that a Base de Operacones Mixtas (BOM) of Policia Federal and state police stopped two suspects traveling aboard a Dodge Avenger sedan. The suspects revealed the location of the safehouse where the migrants were detained..
The news account did not disclose the location of the safe house. Of the 52, 48 were from Guatemala and two each were from El Salvador and Mexico.
The suspects were identified as Pablo Avellaneda Torres and Luis Angel Perez Sanabria.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 June 29, 1967) She was a major Hollywood sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s. Mansfield was 20th Century Fox's alternative Marilyn Monroe and came to be known as the Working Man's Monroe. Frequent references have been made to Mansfield's very high IQ, which she claimed was 163. She spoke five languages, including English. She spoke fluent French and Spanish, German that she learned in high school, and she studied Italian in 1963. Reputed to be Hollywood's "smartest dumb blonde", she later complained that the public did not care about her brains: "They're more interested in 402135," she said.
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Allegations that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, although she suffered severe head trauma. The urban legend was spawned by the appearance in police photographs of a crashed car with its top virtually sheared off, and what resembled a blonde-haired head tangled in the car's smashed windshield. However, this was probably either a wig Mansfield was wearing or her actual hair and scalp. The death certificate stated that the immediate cause of Mansfield's death was a "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain". After her death, the NHTSA began requiring an underride guard (a strong bar made of steel tubing) on all tractor-trailers. This bar is known as a Mansfield bar, or an ICC bar.
[Pak Daily Times] PESHAWAR: Another senior police official, second in three days, was rubbed out in an attack by gunnies near Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's border with Khyber Agency on Wednesday, officials said.
Hayatabad Police Station SHO Mera Jan was killed and four copperswere maimed in the attack near Karkhano checkpost on the main highway linking Khyber tribal region with Peshawar. Mira Jan was on routine patrol along the main Pakistain-Afghanistan highway when his vehicle came under gunfire near an Afghan market, a police official said. "The in-charge of Hayatabad Police Station was struck down in his prime, whereas four coppers escorting the police officer were maimed in the attack and are being treated," the official told media while declining to be identified. Mera Jan was patrolling the highway to ensure safe entry and exit of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... supply trucks. On Monday, DSP Traffic Amanullah Khan and his driver were bumped off while on their way to office.
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[BBC.CO.UK] The US economy grew by less than previously estimated in the first quarter of the year, the Commerce Department has said.
Gross domestic product - which measures annual economic output - grew at an annualised pace of 1.8%, down from an earlier estimate of a 2.4% rise.
Weak business investment, a slowdown in consumer spending and falling exports led to the downward revision.
In the final quarter of 2012, the annualised growth rate had been 0.4%.
The revised figure surprised analysts, who had expected it to remain unchanged at 2.4%.
US stocks rose as analysts said the revised figures could alter the Federal Reserve's intention to slow down its $85bn-a-month bond purchases, which was based on its anticipation that the economy will strengthen.
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See also BREAKING DEFENSE > BILLIONAIRE TELLS AMERICANS TO PREPARE FOR "FINANCIAL RUIN" | [Money News] BILLIONAIRES DUMPING STOCKS, ECONOMIST KNOWS WHY.
and
* FREEREPUBLIC > [Zero Hedge] THE LARGEST SINGLE DRIVER OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IS ABOUT TO COLLAPSE.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > INTERNATIONAL FORUM: MICKEY EDWARD: US POLITICAL PARALYSIS ARE INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES, i.e. "systemic".
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The way they have cooked the books on some many figures, like unemployment/underemployment and the rate of illegal immigration, I assume they cooked this figure too, This time, it benefoits them to scare the Fed into more cheap borrowing for the Administration so the true disaster is pushed down the road again. A huge swath of the population has no savings a another huge chuck has less that six months living expenses banked or liquid. If the govt checks stopped or were cut back becasue of the cost of borrowing, the free fall would be catastrophic. Trouble is, they have taken it so far its a Hobesian Bargain, terrible now, worse later, but if you can just get past 2014......
[Ynet] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... rebuked Turkey on Tuesday for its crackdown on anti-government protesters by postponing a new round of membership talks for at least four months, but said its path to the EU remained open.
The EU had planned to open a new chapter, or policy area, in talks with Turkey on Wednesday, reviving the Turkish membership bid that has been virtually frozen for three years.
[Pak Daily Times] Gilgit Inspector General Usman Zakria on Wednesday claimed that 15 gunnies involved in the killing of foreign tourists at Nanga Parbat base camp had been identified.
He said the gunnies belonged to banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations -- 10 of whom were from Diamer, three from Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... and two from Manshera.
The chief secretary said that gunnies were present in batches along the mountainous regions.
Zarkria said Majeed, the criminal mastermind of the attack on foreign tourists, belongs to Chalas. Attackers dressed in police uniforms stormed a base camp at the foot of Nanga Parbat late Saturday, shooting dead 10 foreign climbers and a Pak guide at point-blank range.
The IG said an operation to arrest the culprits was underway with the help of the army and local jirga members. He said that helicopters were also being used in the operation.
"A local jirga has assured that the culprits would be jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! within two days," he said.
Sources said that the gunnies responsible for the killing foreign tourists in Gilgit have taken refuge in a jungle adjacent to Buner Valley, according to information gathered by security agencies using sniffer dogs.
Sources said the police and other security agencies have encircled the jungle, spread on a very vast area, after getting tip about the killers' hideout, and they were ready to launch a robust search operation to capture the culprits.
They said that some local had informed the law enforcement agencies about the presence of a few suspects in the jungle. Another search operation to capture the culprits is already underway on Nang Parbat and its surrounding areas. Members of the Force Command of Northern Areas and top civil officials are present in Diamir to monitor the search operation.
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[Al Ahram] Marking the UN's International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Egyptian El-Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of Torture Victims released a statement detailing the number of torture victims since President Mohamed Morsi's inauguration.
The report stated that between 30 June 2012, the day Morsi was declared president, and 31 December 2012, the press documented 77 torture cases and 56 deaths connected with torture, while from January of this year until 31 May, 282 torture cases were documented, along with 161 deaths.
The El-Nadeem Centre itself received between 30 June and 31 December of last year a total of 121 torture cases.
Males ranged in age between six and 52 years old, while female cases were aged between eight and 53 years old.
Many of the cases were from Cairo and Giza, in addition to 33 people from northern Egypt, three from the Suez Canal region and two from southern Egypt, the report stated.
The torture cases took place during arrests in private homes, during arrests in the street, in cop shoppes, in the offices of the National Security apparatus, in prisons, in Central Security Forces camps, at the presidential palace and at the Moslem Brüderbund headquarters in Moqattam.
"Of the total number of torture cases, only six were perpetrated by citizens, while the others are either by the state or members of the ruling Moslem Brüderbund," member of El-Nadeem Aida Seif El-Dawla told Ahram Online.
According to the report, the causes of deaths ranged from gunshots in festivities (49 in
Port Said and 10 during festivities at the presidential palace) to ambushes, illtreatment, and cases of suspected extreme torture in cop shoppes all over Egypt, including Cairo's Misr El-Qadima, Helwan south of the capital, Giza, Qena in northern Egypt, Sidi Gaber in Alexandria, Nabooru in Daqahliya governorate, Tahta in Sohag, Marsa Matrouh, Warraq, Wadi Natroun, and prisons in Miniya, Shebeen El-Koum, Tanta, Mansoura, and Al-Wadi Al-Gadid.
The report included detailed testimonies of victims of torture, as well as a full list of their names and ages.
One of the alleged victims reported his sexual torture at the hands of the Central Security Forces.
"[Police] came in asking me about weapons. I want the weapons that are with you. [I said] 'I don't have anyway, and as you know I'm not involved in anything since I got married.' 'No, you have weapons and when you know we're coming, you hide them with your wife.' And then he tore my wife's gown. I couldn't bear to see that, so I hit him on his chest and swore at him," read the victim's statement in the report.
"The soldiers held me down and hit me in the face with their rifle butts...they took off all my clothes. Then an officer called 'Tarek' went into my kitchen and got a hose and a knife and cut the hose in half. The Central Security Forces held me down and laid me on my stomach; one of them sat on my arms, and the other pinned my face down. Two officers were beating me with the hose, and a curtain rod."
"The officer said, 'I'm going to break your dignity in front of your wife so that you can't look her in the eye anymore. I'm Mustapha El-Qady, and no one can save you from me,' and he tried to put the rod in...I bled...but he didn't manage to put it in...I couldn't break loose of their hold on me. The men were searching my wife, and she was screaming. The neighbours who came in got beaten."
Testimonies listed by the El-Nadeem report also included those of victims allegedly nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! by Moslem Brüderbund members during festivities between supporters and opponents of the government at the presidential palace and the Brotherhood headquarters in Moqattam.
Clashes between opponents and supporters of President Morsi have taken place several times since Morsi took power. In two incidents, torture was reported, including festivities that took place at the presidential palace early December 2012 and at the Moslem Brüderbund headquarters in March of this year.
One of the testimonies of those detained at the Brotherhood headquarters by the president's supporters read:
"In spite of all the torture, I was the luckiest. I was the least beaten. The rest had to stretch their legs on a chair and were beaten with a tree branch on their knees till they broke, so they won't come near this area again, as they told them. Regarding the children, and there were many, they beat them with wooden sticks on their hands. A ten-year-old boy was beaten by one of them and when another man told him 'enough, he will die in your hands,' he increased the beating. It ended by whipping on the back."
The report described torture in Egypt as a "systematic policy" that continues under the rule of President Morsi.
"Systematic torture is continuing and Morsi's regime governs with the same policies as the SCAF (Supreme Council of the Armed Forces) and Mubarak's regime before him," the statement read.
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torture is verrry islamic
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[Pak Daily Times] Iranian security forces handed over 41 Pak nationals to Levies force on the Pak-Iran border in Taftan, Chaghai District, late on Tuesday. According to Levies force, the Pak workers had been jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by Iranian security forces because they did not have valid travelling documents. Levies force has conduced initial interrogation from the deportees and they would not be handed over to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for further questioning.
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[An Nahar] Islamist President Mohamed Morsi warned on Wednesday that political divisions in Egypt "threaten to paralyze" the country, as at least one person was killed and scores were hurt in festivities between his supporters and opponents.
In a televised speech to mark his turbulent first year in power, "Egypt faces many challenges. The polarization has reached a stage that could threaten our democratic experience and paralyze the nation."
Just hours before he spoke, Islamists had been holding a rally in his support in the Nile Delta city of Mansura when opponents began throwing rubbish at them and fighting erupted, a security official said.
In addition to the one person killed, another 237 were hurt, the health ministry said.
Two of the injured were taken to the intensive care unit of Mansura International Hospital with live bullet wounds, medics there said.
The festivities come amid widespread tension ahead of planned anti-Morsi rallies on Sunday, at which the opposition will again demand that he step down and that early elections be called.
Organizers of a campaign dubbed Tamarod (rebellion in Arabic) say they have collected more than 15 million signatures in support of a snap presidential election.
And with Islamist parties having called for their own rallies to support the president on Friday, there are fears of more unrest.
Gatherings for and against the president were being held around the country on Wednesday, but confrontations only erupted in Mansura, a security official said.
In Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 2011 revolt that toppled president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , hundreds of anti-Morsi protesters gathered to watch the president's speech.
Some have announced they will begin a sit-in there.
Others gathered outside the defense ministry, waving Egyptian flags and chanting against the president.
In Alexandria and several Nile Delta provinces, Islamist groups have held rallies in support of him.
Morsi promised reforms and called for dialogue in a bid to placate protesters ahead of Sunday's rallies.
He insisted he was working for the goals of the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011, which he is accused of failing.
"For the revolution to reach its goals, there must be reforms at the root," he said.
Morsi repeated his call for dialogue with the opposition, amid deep tension and anxiety ahead of the Sunday protests to call on him to step down.
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Egypt could be 'Paralyzed'
You mean as opposed to its usual dynamic nature?
[Nigerian Tribune] A report of the Senate Joint Committee on Defence, Army, Police Affairs and National Security and Intelligence which conducted investigations into the alleged massive killings in Baga town in Kukuwa Local Government Area of Borno State in April has revealed that the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... faceless myrmidons planned to take over Maiduguri and Damaturu within two weeks and overrun the entire North East zone in six weeks.
The report, which is slated for debate by Senators on Wednesday (today) indicated that the sect had taken over 10 local governments in Borno State before the attack and that it has completely overrun Marte Local Government where its flag was hoisted.
While giving details of its interactions with critical stakeholders during its visit to Borno, the Joint Committee reported that it was told that the Boko Haram sect has members from Chad and Cameroun but that no fewer than 80 percent of their members are of Kanuri tribe.
During an interaction with the Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, the committee was also told that wanted leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau is a Kanuri from Niger Republic.
It also submitted that the reports of massive killings in Baga, alleging over 185 deaths were exaggerated adding that the village heads could not provide a list of the dead in their community to tally with such figure.
The Commander of the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) Brigadier General Austin Edokpayi had told the Joint Committee that 37 deaths were recorded during the face-off between Boko Haram and the MNJTF in Baga.
He gave the statistics to include 25 Boko Hara members, six civilians and another six civilian bodies found in the river.
The report indicated: "The corpse count of one hundred and eighty five (185) was exaggerated but there may be more than thirty seven (37) deaths. This is possible as there is no documentary evidence from either the natives or the military to ascertain figures quoted. Although the National Emergency Management Agency in the company of some community youths counted thirty two (32) graves seven days after the incidence, yet it is difficult to ascertain the actual number of casualties."
The Joint Committee opined that the operation to flush out Boko Haram from the Baga Community was carried out between 8.30 and 9.00 p.m. on April 16, high casualty figures was possible because the faceless myrmidons engaged in sporadic shootings and use of Improvised Explosive devices(IEDs).
The report further indicated: "The quantum of destruction of houses, vehicles and cycle of violences were exaggerated. There was an actual physical count of one hundred and fifteen houses burnt as against the figure of two thousand (2,000) houses given by the governor and three thousand and fifty nine (3,059) houses by the District Head.
"The burnt houses most of which are clustered together may be as a result of exchange of gun fire between the Military and the Boko Haram members, use of IEDs and other explosives by the Boko Haram members.
The failure of the District Head and his Council to transmit the requested list of names of casualties and actual number of destroyed Houses and other properties for over twenty one days could be seen as lack of proper evidence of claims made."
In order to enhance the manpower capacity of the Military, the Joint Committee recommends that The President and Commander in Chief should direct the armed Forces especially the Army to carry out urgent recruitment of soldiers and officers since it appears the insurgency has overstretched the services.
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President Obama, in his statement hailing the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, promised that he wouldn't try to force religious institutions to conduct gay marriages.
"On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americans hold a wide range of views based on deeply held beliefs, maintaining our nation's commitment to religious freedom is also vital," Obama said. "How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. Nothing about this decision -- which applies only to civil marriages -- changes that."
Here's guessing that the Roman Catholics and other religious groups that are in the midst of fighting the contraception mandate are skeptical of that pledge. The left's sadistic messiah always sets up his target by starting out saying he is not going to target his target.
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President Obama, in his statement hailing the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, promised that he wouldn't try to force religious institutions to conduct gay marriages.
Under his breath he muttered "Yet".
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IIRC see also FREEREPUBLIC > IRS MAY REVOKE NON-PROFIT STATUS FOR RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
I wanted to say "We're all Anglicans/
Episcopalians now", but methinks "We're all [State-controlled] Russian Orthodox = Chinese Catholic Church now" is closer to the truth???
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But Muslims not only oppose same sex marriage, the hang or stone homosexuals.
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This is not the beginning of the Obama war against Christianity. That war started with Obama's stand against the Illinois "born alive" act. Obamacare is a major threat to any Christian org that doesn't want to perform or fund abortions.
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This is the same guy who said he wasn't going to raise taxes, right? But then we found out that ObamaCare is gonna be a "constitutional tax" which he knew all along. Damn liar.
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Ecclesiastes 1:4-11 - There Is Nothing New Under The Sun
Federal Police of Socialist Germany - Gestapo
Göring himself took over the Gestapo in 1934 and urged Hitler to extend the agency's authority throughout Germany. This represented a radical departure from German tradition, which held that law enforcement was (mostly) a Land (state) and local matter.
Göring, concerned that Diels was not ruthless enough to use the Gestapo effectively to counteract the power of the Sturmabteilung (SA), handed over its control to Himmler on 20 April 1934. Also on that date, Hitler appointed Himmler chief of all German police outside Prussia.
...the Gestapo was expanded to around 46,000 members. After Heydrich's death in June 1942, and as the war progressed, Müller's power and the independence grew substantially. This trickled down the chain of his subordinates. It led to much more independence of action.
(Some of the departments of the national socialist partypolice, Gestapo that dealt with ideologies that were an afront to the socialist ideology)
Department B (Sects and Churches)[edit]
Catholics (B1)
Protestants (B2)
Freemasons (B3)
Jews (B4)
Department C (Administration and Party Affairs)
The central administrative office of the Gestapo, responsible for card files of all personnel including all officials.
[CHANNELSTV] The Federal Government troops deployed to Yobe and Borno have captured some notorious leaders of the terrorist group, 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... , and recovered various weapons.
The Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday.
In the statement, Mr Olukolade gave the report of a nine-member Defence Headquarters Operational Assessment Team, sent by the Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ola Ibrahim, to the two states.
He said the team visited troop locations in various parts of Borno and Yobe.
"The commanding officer narrated the conduct of the operation to rid the (Sambisa) forest of the gunnies who had made the location their sanctuary," he said.
The front man quoted the commanding officer as saying that some notorious leaders of the gunnies had been captured while some materials recovered in their camp had provided useful intelligence for subsequent operations. He did not name the captured Boko Haram leaders.
"The team was shown the various weapons, including rockets and locally fabricated weapon accessories captured in the forest," he said.
He said items recovered included a large number of Improvised Explosive Devices- making materials, laptops, mobile communication equipment used for shooting and posting online videos, as well as locally made rockets and rocket launchers.
"Also, seized vehicles of different brands were shown to the team.
"Several vehicles destroyed by the gunnies as well as their tailoring equipment apparently used in producing fake uniforms were also shown to the team,'' he said.
He said the commanding officer told the team that the unit suffered casualties in men and equipment.
The defence spokesperson said troops were currently engaged in night and day patrols of the area to dominate the forest and apprehend any terrorist who might be lurking around. He said the Chief of Defence Staff expressed satisfaction with the high level of successes so far recorded in the operation.
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[An Nahar] Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel on Wednesday "categorically" denied that he had tried to mediate with the Army Command on behalf of Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir over a ceasefire during the Sidon festivities.
"The statement of the ministerial-security meeting held under President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... at the Baabda Palace called for continuing the battle whatever the sacrifices," Charbel said in a communique.
"The interior minister cannot have a unilateral stance and seek to negotiate with the gunnies who targeted the Lebanese army, the big brother of the other security institutions which represent the backbone of the Lebanese state," he added.
He noted that he was "totally convinced of the need to put an end to that phenomenon that threatened to assassinate the country through targeting the military institution," adding that no one can question "the keenness of the participants in the Baabda meeting on the Lebanese army and the blood of its deaders."
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[Pak Daily Times] QUETTA: The Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... chief minister has suspended the Ziarat deputy commissioner, district police officer, a station house officer, a deputy superintendent of police and the guards of the Ziarat Residency, after receiving the initial report on the June 15 attack. Unidentified people on June 15 blew up the Ziarat Residency, where the country's founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had spent his last days. As a result of the blast, the wooden structure was completely destroyed, and the articles used by Muhammad Ali Jinnah were burnt to ashes. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) had claimed the responsibility of the attack. The decision to suspend the officials was taken in a high-level meeting on Wednesday. Balochistan Inspector General Mustaq Ahmed Shukira presented the Ziarat Residency attack's initial report to Chief Minister Dr Malik Baloch. The CM declared the incident a result of negligence by the administration, and suspended all those responsible. The chief minister said that the incumbent provincial government would certainly protect national assets and "will never tolerate any negligence". According to sources, investigation into the attack would continue, and the government would take stern action against all those found guilty of negligence.
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[FOXNEWS] In abstract terms, Sunday's planned protests aimed at forcing out Islamist President Mohammed Morsi would seem to violate a basic principle of democracy: If a fair vote is conducted, even if the majority is slim or the turnout modest, all must respect the results. Otherwise it's political chaos.
Morsi's Islamist supporters have been angrily making that argument for weeks, accusing loyalists of the ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... of being behind the campaign against the president and of aiming to thwart democracy, one of the main aspirations of the 2011 revolution that removed him.
But the organizers of Sunday's protests insist he has lost legitimacy through what they call a series of power grabs, missteps and poor decisions, and that Morsi, his Moslem Brüderbund and their Islamist allies are using victories -- at times narrow -- scored in elections during a still nascent and transitioning democracy to control it completely for themselves.
They argue the Islamists unfairly set the rules of the game by pushing through a new constitution without consensus, broke the rules with decrees that for a period put Morsi above oversight, ran roughshod over the courts and attacked previous anti-Morsi protesters. In their eyes, he is allowing one faction -- Islamists ranging from the Brotherhood to ultraconservative Salfis and more radical groups -- to monopolize power and take the country down a more Islamist and sectarian path beyond any election mandate.
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(Sigh) Islamic games.
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In abstract terms being elected is not a blank check, demoractic legitimacy is lost as soon as you violate Constitution, laws and Huamn Rights.
Otherwise you would have to give legitimacy to Hitler (who became chancelor throug legal means) and condemn the generals who tried to assassinate him.
[Jpost] Three Lebanese men captured in Nigeria with a massive weapons cache branded terrorists, will face serious charges.
Nigeria's security agency issued last week new terrorism charges against three Lebanese men suspected of membership in Hezbollah who were captured with a massive weapons cache.
The Nigerian media outlet Vanguard reported on Saturday that a legal representative for Nigeria's State Security Service, Clifford Osagie, termed Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist entity.
Nigeria's military said in May that the weapons were to be used in attacks on American and Israeli targets.
Osagie said, "We have proofs that the applicants belong to the military wing of Hezbollah which is a terrorist organization and in the coming days, this country will know more about them."
The remark by Osagie appears to be the first explicit government acknowledgment of Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist group.
Bahrain, the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Australia have either fully sanctioned Hezbollah for terrorism or outlawed its military wing.
The three suspected Hezbollah operatives, Mustapha Roda Darwish Fawaz, Talal Roda and Abdulla Tahini, cited in the Vanguard report, are charged with importing arms. The weapons cache included antitank weapons, rocket-propelled guns, anti-tank/antipersonnel mines, seventeen AK-47s with more than 11,000 bullets, and dynamite.
Nigerian authorities tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! the men, including a fourth suspect, Hussain Nurudeen Kossdi, in late May.
Robert Clarke, a defense lawyer for the men, disputed the arrests, stating at an earlier court proceeding in June: "We are asking the court for 1 billion naira in damages for unlawful incarceration. The liberty of the individual as guaranteed under the constitution, we are asking this court to enforce it by releasing them on bail or try them through due processes of court," said Clarke.
Nigerian authorities said the men admitted Hezbollah membership. The suspects are from Nigeria's largest northern city, Kano, where they work as businessmen.
A second defense attorney, Ahmed Raji, according to a Voice of American report, said being a member of Hezbollah does not constitute a crime in Nigeria because the government does not consider Hezbollah to be a terrorist entity. Hezbollah, an Iranian-sponsored terrorist organization, has over the years expanded its criminal and terrorism activities in Western and Central Africa, say US counter-terrorism experts.
A Nigerian court sentenced in May a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and a Nigerian accomplice to five years in prison. The men were convicted of delivering an illegal shipment of mortars and rockets seized to a port in Lagos in 2010. Nigeria's security and military forces are engulfed in a bloody conflict with a radical Islamist group 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... in the north.
[Pak Daily Times] AWARAN: Armed men kidnapped eight members of Tableeghi Jamaat at gunpoint from a mosque, while a Frontier Corps personnel was killed and three others maimed in a remote-controlled blast on Wednesday in the Awaran district of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Unidentified gunnies kidnapped eight members of Tableeghi Jamaat at gunpoint from a mosque in Jhao area of Awaran.
The victims were from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Bannu districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP).
Levies sources said that they were not informed about the activities of the group, otherwise security arrangement would have been made for them. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... security forces have launched a search operation for the recovery of the missing men. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... snuffies targeted an FC convoy with a roadside kaboom in the Mashkay area of Awaran. An FC man was killed in the blast, while three sustained injuries.
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You mean the search for the missing heads...
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[Jpost] Expert: Ankara still may act in key regions, including Gazoo; twenty jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in latest raid in Turkey.
The unrest in Turkey is forcing Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to expend his political capital at home, possibly leading to a more relaxed foreign policy.
The demonstrations, which began in May, continue to reverberate as authorities arrested 20 in a raid in Ankara on Tuesday.
Erdogan's efforts to quash the protests and have his supporters hold rallies across the country could mean, contrary to what some analysts are saying, that he may double down not only at home, but also abroad.
Some of the first foreign policy consequences of the government's crackdown were felt on Tuesday, when the EU postponed a round of membership talks with Ankara to October.
The Istanbul-based Hurriyet Daily News attributed the delay to Europe's disapproval of the clampdown. Though Turkish admission to the EU has long come up against resistance among some member states, the current protests have bolstered these voices.
The report by the BBC on Monday that Turkey is intimidating its journalists will not improve matters.
And on the US front, despite President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... 's close relationship with Erdogan, it seems that these protests could sour how American decision-makers view the Turkish leader.
To Turkey's south, the Syrian civil war rages and despite strong rhetoric from Erdogan and some support for fellow Sunnis fighting in the opposition, Ankara has not taken military action against the Assad regime.
Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told The Jerusalem Post that Turkey now has "an opposition movement that transcends the parliament, taking its organized voice to the streets." It will be able to challenge Ankara's Syria policy, he said.
Cagaptay expanded on this point: "Currently many Turks want Assad to go, but many of them also do not support Ankara's Syria policy which they think has exposed Turkey to the fallout of the Syrian war.
Accordingly, the new street opposition is likely to check Ankara's Syria policy.
"This suggests that Turkey is going to compete with the United States to lead from behind in Syria," he added.
Mustafa Akyol, a columnist for Hurriyet and the author of the book, Islam without Extremes: A Mohammedan Case for Liberty, agreed, telling the Post the protests will further restrict Ankara's room for maneuver in Syria by focusing the attention of the government on domestic troubles rather than foreign policy.
"A Turkish intervention in Syria, which was already unlikely, is now unimaginable," he said.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... despite analysis that Turkey has lost much of its ability to act in Syria and other areas, the country still is more likely to act in critical regions, according to Anat Lapidot-Firilla, a Turkish expert and senior research fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem.
Lapidot-Firilla points out three exceptions to what she calls Turkey's strategic retreat.
First, she said, Turkey is unlikely to stop its involvement in the Kurdish autonomous region in Iraq. Second, and related to the first point, Turkey will continue to press ahead at full speed with its plans to secure the flow of natural gas, which is badly needed for its industry and its goal of becoming an energy hub.
Lastly, Turkey's election campaign is starting and therefore Erdogan will most likely continue the country's activity related to the Paleostinians and the Gazoo Strip, as it can always be used to distract the public from domestic troubles.
"Gazoo is a treasure" for the Turkish regime, she said.
But on Syria, a bark but no bite policy may continue. For example last month, Erdgoan said Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... will "pay a very, very heavy price" for mass killings.
Burak Bekdil, a columnist for Hurriyet, told the Post Erdogan may now ramp up the rhetoric again to score some political points.
The trouble for Erdogan, said Bekdil, is that he is not sure how he can do this without risking a Syrian response, or one from one of its allies -- Iran, Russia, or China.
If Erdogan dares to take a bold action to back up his rhetoric, "he will have limited options," said Bekdil.
[An Nahar] A Libyan army officer died on Wednesday after a bomb placed in his official vehicle went kaboom! in the restive eastern city of Benghazi, medical and security sources said.
The attack occurred a day after gunnies killed six soldiers at a checkpoint south of Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... , highlighting the continuing insecurity in Libya since the 2011 revolution that ousted and killed the long-time dictator.
Lieutenant Colonel Jemaa al-Misrati was "gravely maimed and died of his injuries in the operating room," an official at Benghazi's Al-Jala hospital said.
Witnesses said the bomb went kaboom! shortly after Misrati left home, with a security official saying the vehicle had been "booby trapped".
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's Salafist Watan Party has spearheaded a new national reconciliation initiative aimed at reuniting polarised political forces, as Egypt braces for what some forecast to be a second revolution later this month.
The move, which comes a few days in advance of the mass anti-government protests scheduled for 30 June, aims to tackle the country's "worsening" economic and social malaise.
Nine political parties, mostly Islamists, along with some twelve Islamist-leaning movements, have thrown their weight behind the initiative. These include the Moslem Brüderbund's Freedom and Justice Party and the Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya's Building and Development Party.
Among a list of key demands, the initiative calls for forming a national-unity government, a popular committee to ensure transparency of elections, as well as another body tasked with constitutional amendments.
The Watan Party, a close ally of President Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, has extended an invitation to figures from across the country's political and economic spectrum to attend its opening presser. The convention, which will be held at Al-Azhar University next Saturday, will assess the country's economic situation and future outlooks.
Egypt's imploding economy and plummeting tourism were among the motives behind the party's reconciliatory move, ills it partially attributed to frequent protests, a lengthy transitional period, "instigators of chaos," and lack of confidence in the credibility of upcoming parliamentary elections.
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June 26, 2013: Irans very public determination to see the Shia Assad government of Syria defeat its Sunni opponents is costing Iran allies and a rapidly growing pile of cash...Iran is also offering cash bonuses to Lebanese Hezbollah men who agree to fight in Syria. More Iranian cash is being provided to give Syrian soldiers a 50 percent raise...Hezbollah has concentrated several thousand men on the Syrian border, in addition to nearly 2,000 inside Syria. Most of these are part-timers now making a full time (and well paid) job of fighting. But Hezbollah has suffered over 500 casualties so far, with nearly a hundred dead during the three week battle for Qusair. A few more victories like that and Hezbollah will have to get out of Syria....
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Looks to me like the only way we can lose in this war is to get involved.
Although I am all for encouraging both sides....
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[Ynet] Paleostinian refugees serving in sniper units throughout Syria's capital Damascus are helping Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... cling to power, three years after the eruption of the bloody civil war that has claimed the lives of more than 90,000 people. CNN news hound Fred Pleitgen accompanied the snipers during a day of fierce battles in the Damascus suburb of Yarmouk.
"We're on the front line with Paleostinians fighting for the Assad regime. Snipers do much of the fighting, and death can come any second," Pleitgen says in a video released by CNN.
Yarmouk, which was set up by the Assad regime as a Paleostinian refugee camp decades ago, "bears the scars of war," the CNN news hound says.
Pleitgen then asks the commander of the snipers unit who his enemy is. "They are mostly Islamists from al-Qaeda and Jabhat al-Nusra; mostly foreigners from the Emirates, Afghanistan and Pakistain, but also Syrians and Paleostinians," says the commander.
[Al Ahram] Fighting erupted in the Libyan capital on Wednesday after gunnies from the western city of Zintan tried to free five of their comrades seized by former rebels, a security source told AFP.
The festivities with small arms and heavy weapons broke out in the Abu Slim area near central Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , an AFP journalist and witnesses said.
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I had a ring side seat to that one. It was not in central Tripoli, it was further in the outskirts, I was in the Hadbah district and the fighting was further out than Hadbah.
Apparently two groups got into it. Early accounts say the group from Zintan oil field security guards complaining about not being paid. They were demonstrating at their employers offices in Tripoli when shots were fired. The Army shows up to separate the two groups, the NPS shows up to separate the two groups and then the NPS and the Army start shooting at each other.
It finally died down after dark. 6 Dead.
The Libyan Army has a rapid response team to squash any of these kinds of things and to disarm the combatants. The Security police (NPS) were not supposed to be there.
Obviously the Libyan government has to deal with all of these armed militias running around.
Apparently I am having to eat my words about how quiet it has been here...
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Don't feel bad. Six dead still doesn't rise to Chicago standards. Maybe they're better shots in Chicago.
[Guardian Ng] FORMER Military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has commended Borno's Vigilance Youths Group (BVYG) for complementing the efforts of men of Joint Task Force (JTF) in the manhunt for fleeing 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... members in Maiduguri metropolis and its environs.
Speaking in the Hausa service of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Monday and monitored in Maiduguri, Gen. Gowon said: "It is only when communities along with their youths provide such vigilance and monitoring support that the current security challenges could be overcome in restoring peace and protection of people's lives and property in the country."
The youths which continue to hunt for Boko Haram terrorists, use sticks, cutlasses and knives since early this month in the "stop and search" operations at strategic locations of Maiduguri, the state capital.
The ex-military Head of State, however, noted that the Federal Government was doing its best in restoring peace in the affected 12 states in the North.
He said: "These patriotic youths that have sacrificed their lives without arms in the manhunt for Boko Haram bully boyz are doing the right thing in the right direction in ending the Boko Haram insurgency Borno, Yobe, Adamawa states," noting that the destruction of lives and property occasioned by the Boko Haram insurgency is alarming.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... over 250 members of the BYVG yesterday took full control of the "stop and search" operations of the JTF and Police at strategic locations of the Maiduguri metropolis.
The youths' takeover of the 'stop and search' operation, according to chairman of
BYVG, Abubakar Mallum, is aimed at assisting security agents identify, arrest and handover members of the Boko Haram sect.
Mallum said: ''Our involvement in the manhunt of these killers was based on the belief that we would be able to identify bully boyz faster and easier than the soldiers on patrol in their vehicles," adding that there are nooks crannies which could not be accessed by JTF patrol vehicles, while the suspects use the same routes to escape arrests.
"We organised ourselves into different groups, took positions and conducted searches on vehicles at strategic locations of Maiduguri."
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Give 'em a year; they'll be having to hunt down Vigilance Youths Groups.
[Bangla Daily Star] At least 20 Syrians were maimed in a stabbing attack yesterdaywhen their vehicle was targeted by a group of unknown attackers in eastern Beirut, a police source told AFP.
"Three cars with tinted windows intercepted a minibus carrying 25 Syrians in the Jisr al-Wati neighbourhood. Eight men attacked the passengers with knives, injuring 20 of them," the source said.
Police surrounded the site of the incident, and an AFP photographer at the scene saw blood on the seats of the mini-bus and on discarded t-shirts inside the vehicle and on the street.
The National News Agency said the group was headed to a studio to record Syrian folklore music.
The incident comes as the conflict in neighbouring Syria raises tensions in Leb, with the violence regularly spilling over the border.
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[Ynet] Paleostinian news agency Maan reported on Tuesday that an Egyptian military source said a rocket had landed in a desert area of central Sinai earlier in the day. According to the source, the rocket has a range of 50 km and it fell east of the Suez Canal without causing damage or casualties.
The source did not rule out the possibility that the rocket was launched as part of the training of gangs in the Sinai.
[An Nahar] At least one person was killed and 237 were hurt in festivities between supporters and opponents of Mohamed Morsi Wednesday, the health ministry said, as Egypt's Islamist president prepared to address the nation on his first year in power.
Islamists had been holding a pro-Morsi rally in the Nile Delta city of Mansura when opponents began throwing rubbish at them and fighting erupted, a security official said.
Two people were taken to the intensive care unit with live bullet wounds, said the Mansura International Hospital, where the patients are being treated.
A front man for the Moslem Brüderbund, Gehad al-Haddad, said one person was killed in the festivities.
The festivities come amid widespread tension ahead of planned anti-Morsi rallies on Sunday to coincide with the president's first year in office.
Pro- and anti-Morsi gatherings are being held around the country, but confrontations have only erupted in Mansura, a security official said.
Morsi is to speak at 1930 GMT, to highlight his achievements.
In Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 2011 revolt that toppled president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , hundreds of anti-Morsi protesters gathered to watch the president's speech.
Some have announced they will begin a sit-in there.
Others have gathered outside the defense ministry, waving Egyptian flags and chanting against the president.
In Alexandria and several Nile Delta provinces, Islamist groups have held rallies in support of him.
Egypt is deeply polarized.
Morsi's supporters say he is an elected president who is working to root out decades of corruption in state institutions. Any attempt to remove him from office would be a coup against democracy, they say.
His opponents accuse him of concentrating power in the hands of the Moslem Brüderbund from which he hails and of failing the aspirations for freedom and social justice that inspired the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
Egypt's powerful army, which has been on the sidelines of politics since Morsi's election, warned it would intervene if violence breaks out in the country.
The military has brought in reinforcements of troops and vehicles in key cities in order to protect vital establishments in case of potential unrest, security officials said.
The festivities come amid widespread tension ahead of mass anti-Morsi rallies planned on Sunday. With Islamist parties having called for their own rallies to support the president on Friday, there are fears of more unrest.
Organizers of a campaign dubbed Tamarod (rebellion in Arabic) say they have collected more than 15 million signatures in support of a snap presidential election just a year after Morsi took power.
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[VOA News] U.S. President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... is on a flight to Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , his first stop on an Africa trip that will focus on trade, investment and the promotion of democracy.
After a seven-hour flight to Dakar, Obama will meet Thursday with President Macky Sall and take part in a discussion on the rule of law with regional judicial leaders.
Previewing the president's trip, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said with the AIDS epidemic receding and less corruption, "the stars are aligned" in Africa for a substantial reduction in poverty.
But Froman said progress in Africa is still fragile. He said the United States wants to be on the side of those who have made recent gains irreversible.
From Senegal, Obama plans to head to South Africa and visit Robben Island, the prison where former president Nelson Mandela spent nearly two decades.
South African officials have said Obama's visit will go ahead despite the nationwide concern about the 94 year-old Mandela's poor health.
Obama also will stop in Tanzania before heading home.
Obama will not be visiting Kenya, the birthplace of his father. The president's plans have disappointed many Kenyans. But Kenya's president and deputy president are both facing trial at the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... for crimes against humanity. Diplomats say this makes an Obama visit at this time impossible.
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Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Obama's trip will have a colossal carbon footprint as well as a hideous financial cost.
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Any bets on Obama claiming credit for the work which Bush did in Africa to combat AIDS?
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Any bets on Obama claiming credit for the work which Bush did in Africa to combat AIDS?
Too busy over there promoting gay rights. Lavishing spending tax payer money. Finding ways to break the bank with more promises of more taxpayer cash.
Also, zero had to go where people are not pissed about his regimes Gestapo reading their email. Some of the African regions are still a bit behind in regards to internet access in every home.
[Pak Daily Times] Three European women with the radical protest group Femen, jugged Please don't kill me! in Tunisia for baring their breasts, apologised at their appeals trial on Wednesday and promised not to repeat the protest.
"I regret this act and I apologise," Josephine Markmann, the German member of the group, told the judge, who said Mohammedan law prohibited such acts. "We didn't expect to shock Tunisians to this extent. It is out of the question that we would do it again," said Pauline Hillier, one of the two French women also appealing a four-month prison sentence for their demonstration last month in support of a fellow Tunisian activist.
The three women appeared at the court of appeal in Tunis dressed in the traditional Tunisian veil, or safsari. Lawyers for a number of Islamist groups angered by the protest, who are seeking to participate in the trial as a civil party, asked for another delay to the appeal to allow them to consult the file. But the judge rejected the request and ordered them to argue their case. One of the lawyers, Seifeddine Makhouf, demanded a "symbolic dinar for injury," and condemned the "exceptional pressures on the prosecutor to arrange the hearing in the shortest time possible." French defence lawyer Patrick Klugman said "the (Islamist) associations have had ample opportunity to study the file; it is part of their strategy to prevent the case from ever being resolved."
Like other lawyers defending the women, he argued there was nothing sexual about their protest. "You cannot pervert the message of Femen. Their breasts were visible to the public but they were carrying a message you can't ignore. Stop looking at their breasts... and listen to them," Klugman told the court.
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"I regret this act and I apologise," Josephine Markmann, the German member of the group, told the judge, who said Mohammedan law prohibited such acts.
BULLSHIT
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"Please don't kill us" She whined.
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"he[the mouthpiece] argued there was nothing sexual about their protest."
If the radical Femen protesters look anything like the photos I've seen of the bare-breasted San Francisco protesters, I would agree with his argument!
[Pak Daily Times] Veteran Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has fled former comrades in the Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab, officials said Wednesday, the most visible sign yet of splits in the long-running insurgency.
Is that him in the photo? Gentlemen, hold this example before your eyes when you ponder putting henna on your beard... then let it go grey naturally. On behalf of the world's womanhood, I thank you in advance.
Aweys, on both United States and UN Security Council terrorism sanctions lists, has sought shelter in the central Somali province of Himan and Heeb, after festivities with top Shabaab commander Ahmed Abdi Godane.
"It looks like he escaped attacks by Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... ," said Mohamed Omar Hagafey, Himan and Heeb front man, adding he was due to appear in the region's main town of Adado "escorted by the local authorities". Initial reports suggested he was not being held against his will. Himan and Heeb, an autonomous region best known for its pirate and kidnap gangs, is not controlled by Mogadishu's internationally-backed government. Aweys' forces have been allied with Shabaab troops since 2010, but he has been in outspoken opposition to Godane's leadership for more than a year.
But the septuagenarian influential holy man -- listed on UN sanctions lists as aged 78 -- is more of a spiritual figurehead than an active commander, and his split alone is likely to have little if any impact on the operational capacity of the Shabaab.
A wily but outspoken strategist, Aweys was a top leader of the Islamic Courts Union, a radical group that ruled Somalia in 2006 before being tossed by Æthiopian troops who stormed Somalia in a US-backed invasion. A respected former army colonel who fought in the 1977-78 Æthiopia-Somali war, he later commanded the Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya and Hizb al-Islam forces, before allying his gunnies with the Shabaab three years ago in a common fight to overthrow the government.
Aweys, who has recently been based in the southern port of Barawe, one of the few towns left in Shabaab hands, reportedly fled after festivities broke out between troops loyal to him and those of Godane, the main Shabaab leader.
Aweys has reportedly been aligned with a rival-Shabaab faction led by Afghan-trained leader Mukhtar Robow. Washington has offered multi-million dollar bounties for several top leaders, including $7 million for Godane and $5 million for Robow, but has offered no reward for Aweys. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... US sanctions lists in 2001 named him as a supporter of terrorism.
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[Pak Daily Times] Two US political bloggers who founded an anti-Mohammedan group have been banned from entering Britannia following reports they were to attend a march by the far-right English Defence League (EDL), the government said on Wednesday.
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who set up Stop Islamization of America and operate the website Jihad Watch, have been forbidden from entering Britannia on the grounds their presence would "not be conducive to the public good".
In response to the decision, Spencer said on the Jihad Watch website: "The nation that gave the world the Magna Carta is dead."
The EDL is planning a march on Saturday, ending in the Woolwich district of London, where a British soldier was brutally murdered last month. Geller and Spencer had been expected to attend.
Two Mohammedan converts have been nabbed Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and are the chief suspects in the murder.
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are subject to an exclusion decision.
"The Home Secretary will seek to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good.
"We condemn all those whose behaviours and views run counter to our shared values and will not stand for extremism in any form."
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"The nation that gave the world the Magna Carta is dead."
Hard to believe these are the same people that told King John to piss off. I weep.
And to be fair, no, I don't see much of the Founding Fathers in our current generation of legislators either.
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SteveS, I think ours died around the time of the Clinton Presidency, when during the impeachment proceedings he was let off for lying under oath to a Federal Judge, after that all bets were off. -- Look what has transpired since with Obama - at least 10 impeachable offenses, not a movement by Congress. Yup, I agree the Constitution and the Republic is on its knees.
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I recall Ben Franklin saying, to a questioner asking "What have you decided"?, and he answered. "A Republic, if you can keep it".
We're NOT "Keeping it". Not till Obama's OUT.
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What about "Anti american Muslims"?
They're permitted?
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Of course, Jim. Anti-Muslim Americans don't cut your head off. Muslims have been known to do that.
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No surprise.
We finlandize Western nations so as to appease islamofascists. The islamofascists in turn stop their support for terrorism.
This has been the strategic consensus among the Western political class for years.
[An Nahar] Former Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi on Wednesday accused Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... leader MP Suleiman Franjieh of supporting the mainly Alawite Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen with weapons, criticizing Hizbullah's behavior during the Sidon festivities.
"There is nothing called leaders of frontiers and Tripoli's residents will always count on the state and its institutions," Rifi said in an interview on Future TV.
"Suleiman Franjieh has been backing Jabal Mohsen with weapons when necessary," he added, claiming that "arms are being sent to Zgharta through the border with Syria before being transported to Jabal Mohsen."
"No one will attack Jabal Mohsen and we will protect it the same as we're protecting Bab al-Tabbaneh," he added.
Commenting on reports of an alleged military role for Hizbullah during the deadly Sidon festivities, Rifi quoted witnesses as saying that "Hizbullah set up artillery positions near homes and publicly erected checkpoints."
"The casualties among the ranks of the army are bigger than Ahmed al-Asir's ability and I hope the army will conduct a transparent probe," he added.
He accused Hizbullah and its allies of "unacceptable practices against MP Bahia Hariri in Sidon."
The army on Monday managed to overrun Asir's security zone in the Sidon suburb of Abra following fierce two-day festivities that left 17 troops and more than 40 maimed.
At least 20 gunnies loyal to the Islamist holy man were also killed in the battle.
Clashes erupted afrer a pro-Asir gang attacked an army checkpoint, killing several troops.
Hizbullah MP Hasan Fadlallah clarified Tuesday that his party only defended its positions during the battle against attacks by Asir's group, denying that it played any role in the army's attack on the holy man's fortified security zone.
Turning to the Syrian crisis, the ex-ISF chief said "everyone has been implicated militarily in Syria, as Hizbullah sent trained and organized forces while some parties sent random and unorganized groups to Tall Kalakh and other areas," adding that "everyone who did that committed a strategic mistake."
He urged Hizbullah to reverse its decision because "Iran has changed and the region has changed."
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[REUTERS] The head of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday he would seek to end preferential trade access for Ecuadorean goods if the South American nation offers political asylum to runaway former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the foreign relations panel, warned in a statement that accepting Snowden "would severely jeopardize" preferential trade access the United States provides to Ecuador under two programs that expire next month.
"Our government will not reward countries for bad behavior," Menendez said.
Snowden was in hiding on Wednesday at an airport in Moscow awaiting a ruling on his request for asylum from the South American country's leftist government. The United States wants him extradited to face charges that he stole and leaked details of secret U.S. government surveillance programs.
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77246 is a popular integer, but it isn't an area code in trendy Gangnam or the birthdate of a K-pop starlet who's past her prime.
It's the serial number of a banknote that a South Korean man reproduced more than 50,000 times over a period exceeding eight years until he was tossed in the jug early this month. One serial number for the whole run of bogus bills? He was lazy...
Known only by his surname, Kim, the counterfeiter produced and used some 250 million won ($215,000) "worth" of the fake 5,000-won ($4.30) bills since March 2005, according to police and the Bank of Korea. That's the largest amount of funny money produced by any individual and the longest period over which any one serial number is known to have been continuously counterfeited. "I've made a mint with this funny money scheme."
The central bank said Tuesday it is rewarding the shopkeeper who reported Mr. Kim with a 2 million-won prize. It will also reward the police officers who caught him and the precinct they work out of with a 3 million-won prize. Mr. Kim lost; the cops won.
The counterfeiter majored in computer graphics at college, according to a Yonhap news report, and was so skillful that it was hard for people on the street to tell the dubious dinero from genuine article.
The latest central bank data show there were 2.2 fake banknotes per million in circulation as of the end of 2012. This is pretty low compared with per-million figures 42.8 for euro notes and 133 for U.K. pound bills in 2011.
"Counterfeiting attempts are declining here after we strengthened antiforgery features such as color-shifting ink and holograms on banknotes," said an official at the BOK's currency-issuance department.
That's true for the 5,000-won notes, but not for the highest denomination in the country, the 50,000-won note, which is increasingly a favorite among illegitimate minters. Note: If you try to counterfeit money, the bill will come due eventually.
The number of fake 50,000 won bills that were detected last year almost tripled to 329. Counterfeit 10,000-won and 5,000 won notes declined 11% and 20%, respectively, last year. You could say that this run of bogus 5,000's declined in the accuse-ative.
"Just take a little extra care, and you can easily tell fake bills" from the genuine articles, the BOK official said.
If you [the news site is in South Korea]
get a suspicious banknote, you can always use a tool on the BOK website to check it out by typing in the serial number in the appropriate box.
[An Nahar] Turkish riot police fired tear gas and water cannon early on Wednesday to disperse some 2,000 protesters in the capital Ankara, making 16 arrests.
Protesters had gathered overnight in the Dikmen district of the capital and attempted to erect barricades to block traffic on a main artery.
Local television pictures showed demonstrators chanting against the release of a police officer who stands accused of fatally wounding a 26-year-old protester during the country's recent unrest.
Protests initially sparked by a brutal police action against a local conservation battle to save Istanbul's Gezi Park snowballed into nationwide demonstrations against the Islamic-rooted government, leaving four dead and nearly 8,000 injured.
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[Ynet] Satellite photos show signs of new tunnel work at North Korea's underground nuclear test site, a US research institute said Tuesday.
The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said in an analysis that it does not appear to indicate another underground blast is imminent at the Punggye-ri site in the country's northeast. But it suggests North Korea has continued to work on its nuclear weapons program despite a recent easing of the tensions that followed its atomic test in February.
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: A kaboom on a Sindh High Court judge on Wednesday killed at least ten people and injured 15, including the judge, police said.
The intended target of the forces of Evil was senior Sindh High Court judge Justice Maqbool Baqar, who was on his way to the court along with an escort of four Rangers personnel on two cycle of violences and two police vehicles. The convoy was near Burns Road when the powerful bomb went kaboom!. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Justice Baqar did not suffer any major wound. The blast also damaged Rangers' motorbikes, police vehicles, walls and windowpanes of a nearby building.
Rescue teams rushed to the blast site and shifted the injured to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , where at least ten people, including two Rangers personnel, six coppers and the driver of the judge's car died. The 15 injured people were admitted for treatment. Justice Baqar was later shifted to the Aga Khan Hospital, where doctors termed his condition out of danger. According to the hospital, his condition is satisfactory as he had only received minor injuries. Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah visited Justice Baqar and confirmed that his condition was satisfactory.
A large number of law enforcers, including Rangers and police, reached the blast site and cordoned off the area to avoid any untoward incident. The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) was also summoned to the blast site to collect evidences and determine the nature of the kaboom. According to initial report of the BDS, the bomb was rigged to a cycle of violence which was parked along a footpath outside the Hanfia Masjid. The BDS experts said an improvised bomb (IED) was used in the blast. They added that the bomb weighed around six to eight kilogrammes and contained nuts, bolts and ball bearings.
Police officials said Justice Baqar had serious threats from myrmidon outfits, including outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... . They said that about 12 CCTV cameras were installed in the vicinity of the blast site and law enforcers were examining the footages from them for leads. The Sindh police chief has sought a detailed report from the Karachi additional IG regarding the attack. A police statement said that IGP Shahid Nadeem Baloch has also instructed that the scene of the crime be secured for the collection of all the available evidences. The IGP further directed that with the collaboration of the Forensic Division of Sindh Police all the available evidences be collected from the scene and the process of investigation be made result-oriented.
Baqar has a reputation for honesty and has also served as a judge in special anti-terrorism courts set up to hand down quick judgements in terror cases. TTP front man Ehsanullah Ehsan claimed the responsibility of the attack, saying they detonated the bomb remotely. "We attacked the judge in Karachi as he was taking decisions against shariah and he was harmful for mujahideen,'' he said. Ehsan further said that the judge was targeted for what he said were "anti-Taliban and anti-mujahideen decisions", and that the group would continue to target judiciary.
President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... , Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , MQM chief Altaf Hussain and leaders of political parties have strongly condemned the blast. Expressing sympathies with the bereaved families, they prayed for the departed souls and for the courage of the affected families to bear their losses with fortitude. The president and prime minister directed the authorities concerned to ensure that best medical assistance is provided to the injured.
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[Jpost] Bank allegedly transferred Saudi, Hezbollah money to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leadership, families of Hamas prisoners and "deaders."
Arab Bank announced on Tuesday it had appealed to the US Supreme Court to overrule sanctions imposed on it by a lower court in a historic terror-financing case.
The bank's appeal, filed on Monday, argues that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York "erred when it failed to vacate severe sanctions imposed by Eastern District Court Judge Nina Gershon that trample on international comity and the Bank's due process rights."
The allegations in the Linde v. Arab Bank case involve the transfer of large amounts of money to Hamas leadership and institutions and families of Hamas prisoners and "martyr" -- jacket wallahs -- via Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Hezbollah's al-Shahid Foundation.
In April, Gershon denied the Amman-based Arab Bank's summary judgment motion and ruled that the blockbuster terrorism financing case should go to trial, making it the case which currently has the highest chance of going to trial against a major bank in US history.
The appeal also argues that the claims related to the Alien Tort Statute claims must be dismissed according to court precedent in the Kiobel case based on the idea that the court has no jurisdiction.
Overall, Arab Bank claims it was unfair for Gershon to impose evidentiary sanctions on it for failing to produce certain documents, when it did produce more than 200,000 pages of documents, and that producing the documents sought would have brought criminal sanctions against it in many countries where it operates.
Arab Bank said the sanctions included the judge telling "the jury to infer that the bank knowingly and purposefully supported terrorist acts and precluding it from introducing evidence to refute that inference -- even though the bank's state of mind is central to this case and it took great care to ensure that it did no business with terrorists."
It indicated that these sanctions were so severe that they could influence the outcome of the trial.
The bank also noted that some similar cases have been dismissed in the past, and that in the Gill case against the bank, the court dismissed the case, holding that "Hamas is not the defendant; the bank is. And the evidence does not prove that the bank acted with an improper state of mind or proximately caused plaintiff's injury."
Gary Osen, one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs in the matter responded to the appeal, said that "at its core, Arab Bank's argument is that protecting the privacy interests of dead Hamas leaders and suicide bombers justifies its defiance of multiple court orders requiring the bank to turn over their account records. It's hard to imagine any court elevating the bank secrecy interest of these killers over the fundamental legal rights of their American victims."
He added that 97-98 percent of certiorari petitions (a special appeal procedure in which the US Supreme Court can reject hearing an issue without holding full arguments) like Arab Bank's get rejected and that the bank's appeal probably had less of a chance than most and was a tactic to delay trial.
The lawsuit alleges that Arab Bank laundered Saudi payments to the families of suicide bombers and other funds intended for Paleostinian terrorist groups through its Madison Avenue branch in New York City, which is no longer in operation.
The Saudi funds were then allegedly rerouted to local branches of Arab Bank in the West Bank and the Gazoo Strip, and paid out to the personal accounts of hundreds of faceless myrmidons and their families, as well as to Hamas front organizations and other Paleostinian terrorist groups.
Arab Bank claims there is a lack of proof that the funds have gone to terrorists, that the funds contributed directly and sufficiently to terrorist attacks and that the bank had any knowledge of any possible connection to terrorist attacks.
[Pak Daily Times] PRAGUE: A video message on Wednesday purporting to show two Czech women hostages in Pakistain demanded the release of a Pak national tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the United States in return for their freedom.
Antonie Chrastecka and Hana Humpalova, both 24, were kidnapped in Pakistain in March. They speak in the video against a background of photographs of Aafia Siddiqui ...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her... , a neuroscientist who was given an 86-year sentence by a US court in 2010 for shooting at FBI agents and soldiers in Afghanistan
The video showed close-ups of the two women's passports and a sign saying: "Our Demand is only: release Dr Aafia."
"We appeal to our families and our president and all Czech people and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to make every effort for cooperation," Humpalova reads in the video, saying it was shot on April 16, a day after the Boston Marathon bombings.
"Our health is in good condition but our life in risk." It made no mention of the identity of the kidnappers.
Rooters could not verify the authenticity of the video.
The Czech Foreign Ministry said it had seen the tape and was analysing it.
"We are concerned about their health and safety," the ministry said. "We demand their immediate release and support all efforts of both their families in this direction."
Czech television station TV Nova said it was given the video by a person calling herself Orna Moshe. It was also posted on a Facebook page that was set up under that name on Sunday.
The two women were kidnapped in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , near the Afghan border. There had been no news on their fate since they disappeared and no group grabbed credit for the abduction. Kidnapping for ransom is relatively common in Pakistain, and snuffies occasionally take foreigners hostage.
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[An Nahar] A Kurdish bloc won the most seats in one of two provinces that held delayed elections last week, surprisingly beating out the governor's Sunni Arab party, results published on Wednesday showed.
The Taakhi and Taayish list, a pro-Kurdish grouping, fell short of a majority, but won 11 of a possible 39 seats in Nineveh in Thursday's elections, according to results released by Iraq's election commission.
It beat out the Mutahidoon list of Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi, brother of federal parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi. It won eight seats in the province, which is majority Sunni Arab, though with a substantial Kurdish minority.
But Mutahidoon won the most seats in the western province of Anbar, taking eight of a possible 30 seats.
The elections took place two months after polls were held in 12 other provinces in the center and south of the country.
Officials cited security concerns when they announced the postponement for Anbar and Nineveh, although some saw the delay by Shiite-led authorities as politically motivated, and it was widely criticized by diplomats.
The elections are seen as a key gauge of the popularity of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has been charged by his critics with consolidating power, ahead of parliamentary polls next year.
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Answer to the famous question: What...is the capitol of Assyria?
[Pak Daily Times] Kabul and Washington reaffirmed on Wednesday that they seek peace with the Taliban despite attacks on a CIA base and the Afghan presidency, repairing a row over the krazed killers' office in Qatar.
US President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... and 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... held a 90-minute conference call to try to revive early efforts to start peace talks as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troops prepare to withdraw in 2014 after more than 12 years of fighting against the Taliban. The level of violence still raging in Afghanistan was highlighted when the Taliban launched an assault Tuesday in the heart of Kabul in which three security guards and all five assailants were killed.
Gunmen and bombers using fake NATO identification attacked an entrance to the Afghan presidential palace and a nearby building known to house a CIA base in one of the most brazen assaults in Kabul since Karzai narrowly escaped liquidation in April 2008. Tentative steps towards talks were wrecked last week when a new Taliban office in Qatar provoked anger from Afghanistan and the US when it stylised itself as the embassy of a government-in-exile.
Karzai refused to send representatives to Qatar and pulled out of separate talks on a security agreement with the US that would allow Washington to keep some troops in Afghanistan after 2014. Washington launched an intense diplomatic effort to pacify Karzai, with telephone calls and dispatching US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistain, James Dobbins, for face to face talks. "Both presidents talked about the security agreement between Afghanistan and the US, the grinding of the peace processor and Taliban Qatar office," Karzai's office said in statement after the call with Obama.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[An Nahar] The Speaker and Head of AMAL movement 
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[An Nahar] Army raids are ongoing in Abra neighborhood of the southern city of Sidon to look for 
[Al Ahram] A series of attacks killed five people in northern Iraq on Wednesday, all of them in a swathe of disputed territory where diplomats fear tensions could spill over into all-out armed conflict.
Allegations that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, although she suffered severe head trauma. The urban legend was spawned by the appearance in police photographs of a crashed car with its top virtually sheared off, and what resembled a blonde-haired head tangled in the car's smashed windshield. However, this was probably either a wig Mansfield was wearing or her actual hair and scalp. The death certificate stated that the immediate cause of Mansfield's death was a "crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain". After her death, the NHTSA began requiring an underride guard (a strong bar made of steel tubing) on all tractor-trailers. This bar is known as a Mansfield bar, or an ICC bar. 
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[Guardian Ng] FORMER Military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has commended Borno's Vigilance Youths Group (BVYG) for complementing the efforts of men of Joint Task Force (JTF) in the manhunt for fleeing 
[VOA News] U.S. President 
International Criminal Court
[Pak Daily Times] Veteran Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has fled former comrades in the Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab, officials said Wednesday, the most visible sign yet of splits in the long-running insurgency.
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