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So the questions would be, who created it and why? Likely some party who wanted to motivate increased spending on submarines - either the Navy or various shipyards and suppliers.
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08/17/2012 17:35
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This "story" smelled to begin with, and the article makes it positively reek.
I've never understood Russian strategic thought, and this story discusses it, but it seems they have two much more serious and larger issues on and inside their borders. SSN ops are useless there.
Thailand's government is holding peace talks with some Muslim terrorist insurgent groups in the southernmost provinces, Deputy Prime Minister General Yuthasak Sasiprapha said yesterday. Informal talks are under way between the government agency in charge of the region - the Southern Border Provinces Administration Center - and several terrorist militant splinter groups.
Yuthasak said, "Don't call it negotiations ... but there are talks to achieve peace, which is a crucial government policy. The government has assigned the Southern Border Provinces Administration Center responsibility for the talks, as they are well aware of whom to talk to."
The talks are with splinter groups from the Runda Kumpulan Kecil, one of a web of terrorist insurgent organisations thought to be behind recent attacks.
Yuthasak said, "We are talking with newly established groups of young people who separated from the RKK," adding that up to 9,000 terrorists insurgents overall are estimated to be operating in the southern provinces.
He said the National Intelligence Agency issued warnings last Friday that all security agencies must step up their efforts during the last 10 days of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month.
Meanwhile, a car-bomb attack on a government office in Pattani's Panare district yesterday damaged several vehicles but caused no casualties. The incident was of particular concern from a security perspective, as the car used was not on a watch list of eight vehicles snatched by terrorists insurgents after recent deadly ambushes.
Pattani police chief Pol Maj-General Phichet Pitisetthapant said this pickup truck was a vehicle reported missing in Bangkok. The use of a vehicle reported lost in Bangkok in a car-bomb attack in the deep South would seem to indicate a connection between the capital and the deep South.
Meanwhile, more than 20 targets including gas stations, surveillance cameras, convenience stores, high-voltage electrical poles and mobile-phone signal posts in Pattani's Khok Pho and Nong Chik districts were hit by firebombs on Wednesday night and yesterday. Petrol pumps at an Esso station in Khok Pho district were damaged in an arson attack at 10 a.m. yesterday by three men armed with pistols.
At around 8 p.m. yesterday, mobile-phone signal posts were set on fire in three spots. Ten minutes later, firebombs went off at two convenience stores in Nong Chik district, causing minor damage. Around 9:30 p.m., an unknown number of terrorists insurgents fired military-grade weapons at high-voltage electricity poles in Nong Chik district, causing a total blackout in the village of Ban Kok Chan.
August 17, 1998: On this day, during the grand jury hearings that sought to clarify President Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, Clinton engaged in some semantic fine-tuning by stating: "It depends on what your meaning of 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none,' that was a completely true statement."
Clinton also parsed the meanings of "alone," "sexual relations" and "sex." His testimony was later televised to the nation on September 21.
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As the C-n-C of the U.S. mil it would have been appropo for him to lead by example, i.e. he should have stepped down out of shame (if he had any) or removed from his position of power. This would have been no different than what happens to the military members under his charge when they violate the UCMJ for committing the same (adultery) or lesser infractions (inappropriate relationship). He abused his position of power by seeking a self-gratifying sexual relationship w/a subordinate, and then lied about it. It was never about the sex, it was about the trust and confidence and the fact that this asshole treated the White House like a Motel-6. That a good number of Americans still don't get this issue is very disconcerting to me.
Just as aside. I was listening to a guy on talk radio while going to the doctors office yesterday. The guy was saying that political campaigns were always dirty and underhanded. Early in our history, one campaign had a candidate referring to his opponent as: "The hermaphrodite half bred son of a squaw." What would be the response to such as assertion today?
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OK. Mittens has released 5 years of records. But we still need something to distract the rubes. Let's ask for SIX years! What is he trying to hide?
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He is going to release 2 years as is Ryan the last I read. This is just noise and flak from the Dems. Personally, I don't care about 5 years worth of tax records. They must be voluminous because he has actually done something in this world. I still want to see Obama's records. He is far too secretive about where he has been and what he has done. No one seems to know this guy. Already we know more about Romney and Ryan than we yet know about Obama.
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Have we ever seen Obama's health records? Are we sure he's not using cocaine again?
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08/17/2012 16:48
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A friend of a friend of Harry Reid's assured me he still is using, Rob, and that the friend had actually seen it. AND he implied Harry was the supplier.
That's the rumor - and it's up to Bambi to prove otherwise. (using the DemonRats' "standards")
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08/17/2012 17:53
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I've been saying this to my cohort of friends and like-minded political acquaintances for 3 yrs now -- how did Obama pay for college & why won't he release his transcripts? I personnally think he claimed foreign exchange student status to get a grant. Which means he either lied and was actually an American citizen born in HI and de-frauded the U.S. Govt or, as the birthers contend - he is not an American citizen.
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I was under the impression that a Presidential candidate had to be vetted by the FBI. That is not true. A Presidential candidate gets vetted by his party. In the case of Obama, the certification of Barack Obama and Joe Biden was done by the DNC. The document was signed by Nancy Pelosi and a signed by a public notary. That gives me some pause. The vetting process is only done through the political election process, the Party, and the news media if it chooses to do so. The assumption is that candidates are honorable men. We could get stuck with any jackass because of a lack of any thorough vetting that seeks to prove the candidate meets Constitutional requirements.
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I thought he spent those 2 years at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow and had Mansour al-Khahil buy the Columbia College sheepskin. I'm no Harry Reid but one of the professors in Moscow told me this. And now I am telling everyone.
Posted by: Jack is Back! ||
08/17/2012 16:22
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With all respect but this sounds a bit strange. I didn't keep anything I wrote at university.
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08/17/2012 22:13
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With all respect but this sounds a bit strange. I didn't keep anything I wrote at university.
What did you major in?
Anyway, in the US, a transcript is an official record of what you studied, etc. at college. It's not a personal record at all, they're kept by the college or university.
The Arab media was up in arms this week over a plan spearheaded by Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon to hold a summit on the issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries at the UN in September.
The summit's main purpose is to push forward the matter of property rights of Jewish refugees who were forced to flee Arab countries after the establishment of the state of Israel and to turn the Jewish refugee issue into a bargaining chip which would make it clear that if the Paleostinians voice demands for refugee compensation -- demands would also be made from the Israeli side.
Sky News' Arabia channel aired a feature on the issue under the headline: "Israel's campaign for property compensation for Jews from Arab countries." A bigwig at the Foreign Ministry was interviewed in the feature and claimed that UN Security Council Resolution 242 which was made after the Six Day War focused on justice for refugees in general, and nor specifically Paleostinian or Arab refugees.
Hanna Issa, a Paleostinian expert on International Law shared his thoughts on the Israeli campaign: "The minute Israel felt there was a decision pressuring it to recognize Paleostinian rights, it raised the Jewish problem at an international level so that the matter of Paleostinian refugees would be put at the same level as the matter of Jewish refuges, but the issue is baseless.
The news hound behind the Sky News story said that the "Israeli campaign comes at a time when Paleostinians are trying to achieve observer status in the UN."
Russia al-Youm, Russia's Arabic website dedicated an article to the issue and interviewed Paleostinian officials including researcher Hamad al-Muad who has written dozens of articles and books on Israel and the right of return.
He believes that "Paleostinian refugees are not responsible for the property of Jews from Arab countries. They didn't take control of it and the issues of Paleostinian property and Jewish property cannot be exchanged."
Mutual compensation
He further explained that "Israel is trying to claim that Arab countries expelled Jews so they are responsible for compensating them for their lost property. The reality shows that Israel was the one encouraging them to emigrate and created gangs and movements in Syria, Iraq, Leb, Egypt and Morocco to ease Jewish immigration."
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon refuted the allegations, he told Ynet: "There is no basis to this fallacious claim that Jewish organizations pressured refugees into leaving, and even if they did do so, it does not mean they (the Jews) should have been forced to leave everything behind while having their citizenship revoked and being murdered in pogroms."
According to Ayalon, the State of Israel and other Jewish organizations called on the Jews to make aliyah after their citizenship was revoked. "One of the purposes (of the current initiative) is that there be no permanent agreement without refugee compensation -- both Paleostinian and Jewish."
Egypt's press has recently shown a great deal of interest in the matter. Several papers have written that following the July 1971 revolution in the country, Jewish property devolved to state ownership under law. The press estimated the property to be worth 1 billion Egyptian Lira.
The local Egyptian press also noted that at the beginning of the 1950s there were some 100,000 Jews in Egypt of which only 25 remain in Egypt today. They are claiming that Israel is demanding the rights to some $21 billion worth of property in the old Jewish quarter of Cairo, including the large Adly Street Synagogue.
Egyptian media also quoted Israeli reports on the campaign. The Al Youm al-Saba newspaper carried the headline: "Israel enlisting the world to recognize Egyptian Jews and Jews from Arab countries as 'refugees'."
The story also caught the attention of Algerian newspapers who claimed that Israel was seeking compensation for Jews who fled Algeria. The opening paragraph claims that Israeli threats demanding that Algeria and the Arab nations compensate Jews have begun to sound serious.
[Jerusalem Post] A member of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades was killed Friday morning when an bomb he was handling accidentally detonated at the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gazoo, the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency reported.
The 40-year-old man was traveling in a vehicle when the bomb went kaboom!, according to the report.
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And another one bites the dust,
another one bites the dus,
And another one's gone, another one's gone,
Another one bites the dust,
ooh, gonna get you too,
another one bites the dust.
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08/17/2012 9:22
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An old Fred joke:
"Cheez, slow down Achmed, this road sure is bumpy! What if this bomb in my lap goes off?"
"Ah don't worry, Mahmoud, I got another one in the trunk!"
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08/17/2012 9:50
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There's quick karmic feedback for ya. "Alan" doesn't like boomers; he too thinks they are a stain on mankind and ought to be dispatched with.
[Jerusalem Post] Amid reports that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and the Egyptians have formed a joint security committee to investigate the terrorist attack that killed 16 Egyptian border guards, Hamas says it is coordinating with Egypt on all levels.
Hamas announced Thursday that it was doing its utmost to help the Egyptian authorities capture the Orcs and similar vermin who killed 16 Egyptian border guards in Sinai on August 5.
The announcement came as Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip reported that Hamas security forces have rounded up a number of suspects belonging to myrmidon Islamic groups in the context of efforts to solve the case.
The statement also came amid reports that Hamas and the Egyptians have formed a joint security committee to investigate the terrorist attack.
"We are doing everything we can to help Egypt in gathering information and carrying out other security measures to reveal the identity of the perpetrators of the massacre," said Ehab Ghissin, front man of the Hamas-run Interior Ministry.
Coordination between Hamas and the Egyptian authorities was taking place "on all levels" to solve the case and bring the perpetrators to trial, he said.
Ghissin said that the coordination between the two sides came after all investigations showed that the Orcs and similar vermin did not come from the Gazoo Strip.
A Hamas official claimed on Thursday that Israel had warned the Egyptians about the Sinai attack 72 hours before it took place. The official quoted Egyptian security sources as saying that Israel rejected Egypt's demand for additional details, including the identity of the attackers and the group behind them.
The official also quoted the sources as saying that investigations had thus far shown that the Orcs and similar vermin came from Sinai and that no Paleostinians were involved in the killing of the Egyptian soldiers and the attempt to force the Israeli border at Kerem Shalom.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. It smelled phony... Hamas security forces have placed in long-term storage Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! dozens of members of radical Islamic groups in the Gazoo Strip as part of the movement's effort to help the Egyptians lay their hands on the terrorists, sources in the Gazoo Strip said.
The clampdown is being carried out in coordination with Egyptian intelligence officers who were sent to the Gazoo Strip following the Sinai attack, the sources added.
[Jerusalem Post] Peace Index poll shows Israeli Jews -- by 2:1 ratio -- believe Romney assigns high importance to defending Israel's interests.
The day after the National Jewish Democratic Council uploaded a video of Sderot residents singing US President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... 's praises, a poll released Thursday shows Israeli Jews -- by a 2:1 ratio -- believe Republican hopeful Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O... is more concerned about Israel's interests than Obama.
The monthly Peace Index poll commissioned by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University asked 516 Israeli Jews whether Obama or Romney "assigns more importance to defending Israel's national interests."
According to the poll, conducted by the Dahaf Institute on August 7-8, 40 percent of the respondents said Romney, 19% Obama and 10% said "both to the same extent." Another 25% did not know, while 6% said "neither."
When broken down even further -- into the Left, Center and Right camps -- Obama only fares well on the Left, with Romney polling significantly better both among those who consider themselves in the Center or on the Right on political-security issues.
In the Center, 39% see Romney as better for Israel, as opposed to 20% for Obama.
On the Right, 52% say Romney, and only 13% Obama.
And on the Left, Obama outpolls Romney 37% -- 17%.
The poll has a 4.5 percent margin of error.
The poll was released two weeks after Romney and US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... came to Israel for visits, both seeking to win over pro- Israel supporters in the US.
The poll is interesting because it is one of only a few surveys of Israeli attitudes toward the two candidates.
A poll in June commissioned by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies asked a sample of Jewish Israelis "Who would better promote Israel's interests, Obama or Romney?" In that survey Romney outpolled Obama 29-22%, with fully 49% either not responding or saying they did not know.
[Jerusalem Post] In private meetings, Netanyahu backs strike even if Israel can't completely destroy Iran's nuclear program, 'Post' learns.
Setting Iran's nuclear plans back a few years to buy time for regime change or other unforeseen developments would be good in its own right, even if Israel cannot completely take out Iran's nuclear program, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said recently, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Netanyahu, in private meetings, repeated a number of times that before Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, the Mossad and Military Intelligence were opposed because they thought the best that could be done was to delay the program for a couple of years.
They also argued at the time, Netanyahu said, that nothing would be solved in the long term, and that the operational risks were too high.
The prime minister, according to government sources, said that taking action to set back the program is legitimate because the delay could give birth to numerous unforeseen developments.
For instance, he has said, such an attack -- one that demonstrates the vulnerability of the regime -- could hasten regime change inside Iran.
Sources close to Netanyahu slammed Peres for his statements, saying that he had forgotten the president's largely symbolic role. The sources said Peres had made numerous wrong assessments of the security situation in the past, particularly in opposing the attack on the Iraqi reactor; in believing the Oslo Accords -- which led to the deaths of more than 1,000 Israelis -- would usher in a "new Middle East"; and in minimizing the threats posed by the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, which led to thousands of rockets and missiles being fired on the South.
According to government sources, Ambassador to the US Michael Oren was reflecting Netanyahu's thinking when he said on Wednesday at a public forum in Washington that Israel would be willing to hit Iran if it only set back -- and did not destroy -- its "One, two, three, four years are a long time in the Middle East -- look what's happened in the last year," Oren said.
Among the arguments used most against a solo Israeli attack, indeed an argument voiced on Tuesday by Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, is that an Israeli attack could not take out the Iranian program. Many also argue that it would rally the Iranian population around an unpopular regime.
Netanyahu has also discounted the second part of that argument in recent meetings, saying that the Israeli rescue raid on Entebbe in 1976 did not bring the Ugandan public to rally around its dictator Idi Amin, but rather strengthened the opposition fighting him by showing his weakness.
In addition to Mossad and IDF Intelligence opposition, President Shimon Peres, then a Labor MK, also opposed the attack on the Iraqi reactor in 1981. He stood by his opposition during a Channel 2 interview on Thursday marking his 89th birthday, saying that the Iraqi reactor that was destroyed was not able to produce nuclear weapons.
He said that after the Israeli bombing, the Iraqis moved to centrifuges to enrich uranium, and that were it not for the US invasion in 2003, they would have been farther along with the centrifuges than the Iranians.
Peres said that the world realized the danger posed by a nuclear Iran, and that Israel was not in this battle alone.
Asked whether he was convinced that US President Barack Obama The campaign's over, John... would take action to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, Peres replied, "I am convinced that this is an American interest, and I am sure that he sees the American interest and he isn't saying this just to keep us happy. I have no doubt about it, after having had talks with him."
Peres said that it was "clear to us that we can't do it alone. We can delay. It's clear to us we have to proceed together with America. There are questions about coordination and timing, but as serious as the danger is, this time at least we are not alone."
Peres also dismissed the notion that Israel had to take action before the November 6 US elections, as many have speculated. "I don't think they will do it before the elections," he said.
Sources close to Netanyahu slammed Peres for his statements, saying that he had forgotten the president's largely symbolic role. The sources said Peres had made numerous wrong assessments of the security situation in the past, particularly in opposing the attack on the Iraqi reactor; in believing the Oslo Accords -- which led to the deaths of more than 1,000 Israelis -- would usher in a "new Middle East"; and in minimizing the threats posed by the unilateral withdrawal from Gazoo in 2005, which led to thousands of rockets and missiles being fired on the South.
Labor chairwoman Shelly Yechimovich said that Netanyahu harmed the institution of the president by responding so fiercely.
"Netanyahu's attack on Peres was gross and violent and the fact that he's hiding behind his associates does not diminish the harshness of his response," she said.
In response to Peres's statements, Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky said the difference between the president's role and the prime minister's was clear.
"The president has a symbolic role, while the prime minister and the government are the ones who make decisions. It is important to keep this division for the sake of the democratic nature of the State of Israel and especially for subjects like these."
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... Defense Minister Ehud Barak -- who has emerged as the most bellicose minister regarding Iran -- told the Knesset during a special session, called to approve Avi Dichter's appointment as home front defense minister, that taking action against Iran today was "not simple, without risks or unintended consequences."
At the same time, he added, "I believe that it is inestimably more complicated, inestimably more dangerous, inestimably more complex, and inestimably more expensive in terms of human life and resources to deal with a nuclear Iran in the future."
Deflecting criticism that the government was not discussing the matter in sufficient depth, or that he and Netanyahu were likely to make the decision to attack Iran alone, Barak said that in all his years in government no issue -- neither dealing with peace nor with war -- has been discussed in as much depth and detail as this issue. "This does not mean there are no disagreements," he said. "The issue is complicated. But it is being deliberated."
Referring to the loud and very public discussion of the issue, Barak said "there is authority given to the prime minister, the defense minister and the foreign minister. There is a forum of nine [ministers], there is a security cabinet, and when a decision needs to be made it will be taken by the Israeli government.
That is the way it always was, and the way it needs to be. Neither citizens' groups nor even editorials [will make the decision]."
If it were up to the public, according to a poll of the Jewish population commissioned by the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University, Israel would not attack without US assistance.
The poll, conducted on August 7-8 by the Dahaf Institute among 516 Israeli Jews, found that 61 percent were either strongly or moderately opposed to an Israeli attack without US cooperation. Only 27% said they either strongly or moderately supported such a move.
The poll also found that despite numerous reports in the Israeli press about an imminent attack, 56% said the chances of such an attack were low, while just 33% said there were very high or moderately high chances of an Israeli military action.
And while Peres said he was convinced that the US under Obama would take action, the Israeli public -- according to the poll -- is far less certain. Asked if Israel could rely on a promise US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... made on his recent visit that "Iran will never have nuclear weapons," only 22% said Israel could rely on that promise, while 70% said it could not.
The survey had a 4.5-percentage point margin of error.
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Under present conditions Iran will likely retaliate agz an Israel attack wid barrages of LRBMS, AIR, + ESPEC COMMANDO, THIRD-PARTY TERROR OPERS OF PROTRACTIVE, INDETERMINATE DURATION. It is unlikely to send mass formations of Mech Troops, MBTS, + Strike Aircraft across the region to mil invade and conquer Israel.
The above being said, wid the US, UNO, + International community in close watch Iran has no modus for transferring Nuke-WMDS techs to proxy MilTerr Groups + Aligned - IMO, IN THE AFTERMATH OF ANY ISRAELI ANDOR US MILSTRIKE AGZ ITS NUCPROGS, IRAN WILL FEEL JUSTIFIED IN NOT ONLY OVERTLY DEV NUCWEAPS BUT ALSO TRANSFERRING NUKE-WMDS TO VIOLENT MILTERR GROUPS, for the initiation of retaliatory, PDeniable TerrOps agz key Israeli + US targets in the ME, CONUS, + around the World, to include potential attacks agz the White House + US Govt. in general.
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WAFF > [Nasrallah] HEZBOLLAH SAYS CAN KILL TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS, vee "precision missle strikes" agz a "small number of [select = high-value] targets] inside Israel, THUS SENDING ISRAELI CITIZENS TO "REAL HELL".
On the surface, it would appear that Nasrallah is trying hard to hint or not say that HEZBOLLAH HAS ACCESS TO MISSLE-CAPABLE [Syrian?] NUKE-WMD TECHS???
By extension, IS NASRALLAH ALSO HINTING THAT IRAN ALREADY HAS NUCWEAPS - EITHER INDIGENOUS, OR BY COVERT FOREIGN TRANSFER???
Heavily armed South African police patrolled Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine on Friday, where more than 30 striking miners were killed the previous day in a police crackdown that drew comparisons with apartheid-era brutality.
After more than 12 hours of official silence, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa confirmed that at least 30 people had died in the security operation at the mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.
Police opened fire with automatic weapons when 3,000 striking drill operators armed with machetes and sticks ignored orders to disperse.
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Poorly trained SAPS definately lost control of the situation by leaving the skirmish line and moving well behind their vehicles. This only encouraged the protestors to move forward. Lots of firing into the dirt causing dust and confusion. The white fellow with the black tactical gloves who appears to be in charge is lucky to have survived friendly fire.
Shock and outrage from the MSM, Die Hildebeast or the UN ? Of course not. This is an ANC Gov't action which seeks to protect their golden platnium gooses. It's all very different now than in the bad old days.
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It is ABUNDANTLY CLEAR to everyone except the Obama Regime that the plan to pull out the troops and leave in place advisors and trainers is under assault by Taliban infiltration of those to be trained before the process has even begun.
And just like in everything else, the inept Obama regime has no answers, remains out of reach of accountablility, while our finest are paying the ultimate price, being ripped to shreads.
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No one wants to be the last one killed during a withdraw. This is going to cause a lot of morale, command and control, and cohesion problems that the usual suspects in the chain of command will refuse to acknowledge and act on other than CYA. In doing so they'd rather participate in undermining the entire organization [as in Vietnam and the period following] than being blunt and direct in solving the problem because of Political Correctness.
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Anguper. Heck of an idea. WW II version was one step up from a zip gun, chambered for 45ACP. Dropped by the thousands, or more, into occupied Europe. Supposedly killed more Germans than the 1911.
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...because an enormously rich [based upon cooked books] country believes it afford to play the game of 'winning the hearts and minds' rather than the tried and true 'salting the earth' approach. The post-WWII model ignores the reason Germany and Japan turned out as they did is because they were leveled and knew they had lost and lost badly. That permitted rebuilding on a proverbial clean slate.
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What lies, since as we all know, Joe has no mind for things to go on in. The reason he speaks as he does is all the sounds he hears bounce around in that vast nothingness and when some rub up against the few nerves in his head, he blurts them out just like you jerk when someone sticks you with a pin. This is why what he says makes absolutely no sense.
He's pretty much just an echo chamber with randomizer voice circuits.
If he was English, NHS would stick him on the "Liverpool Protocol" or whatever their path to death by dehydration is now called.
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Since 9/11 the West has created an incentive structure that actually rewards islamofascistic movements and regimes. The Egyptian voters paid attention and acted rationally.
On 9/11 2001 President Bush said "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."
The objective of Operation Infinite Justice was according to President Bush to make the Taliban "share in their (the terrorists') fate."
Actual US and Western policy however has never followed these principles.
US and Western policy vis-a-vis islamofascistic regimes and peoples has consisted of paying Danegeld (reconstruction aid) and ritualistic self-debasing submission.
The question shouldn't be "Who lost Egypt?" but "Why don't the Egyptians fear the consequences of an islamofascistic takeover? Why is deterrence failing?"
By not having a credible successor chosen 10 years ago.
By allowing (maybe even encouraging) raging corruption.
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Mubarak simply forgot what had happened to Sadat.
Oct 7, 1981
Among the attackers were a lieutenant, an army major and four enlisted men. Three of these were killed by the other members of the military and the rest were arrested, later identified as Islamist nationalists, associates of Muslim Brotherhood operating under Islamic Jihad.
The group leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri was identified to have ties with al-Qaeda. He was imprisoned for three years, tried and subsequently expelled from Egypt. These Islamic radicals were offended by Sadats peace-making efforts with Israel and accused him of apostasy and killed him on the day when he was celebrating his countrys perceived victory over Israel.
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Egypt was no more ours to lose than China. These people get to choose their own way, just as we do. If they choose badly, they pay a much higher price than we.
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Let us all remember that limitation when in a last great act of defiance as he heads out the door, he 'pardons' all the illegals in the country like Carter pardoned all the draft dodgers.
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Matt Taibbi. I always thought this guy was a self-righteous left-wing clown (explains being a Rolling Stone journalist) but I guess even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while...
[AFP] Nigeria on Wednesday cancelled a centuries-old Eid festival known for its elaborate horse pageant, officially due to the emir's health, but residents suspected worsening violence was to blame.
The festival has taken place in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria's mainly Mohammedan north, for five centuries, featuring a horse pageant called a durbar, where riders in colourful robes and turbans pay homage to the local emir.
Over five days at the end of Ramadan, the Emir of Kano, the top traditional and spiritual figure in the area, and his royal entourage tour the city on horseback while dressed in richly ornamented robes.
It has been one of Nigeria's few tourist attractions, with stunning photographs of the processions making their way into guidebooks. Kano has played an important role in Islamic culture, positioned on a trans-Saharan trade route.
But the festival, set to begin this weekend, will not take place this year. Some said it was the first time it had been cancelled outright, though it has been held in reduced form previously.
"Due to His Royal Highness's ill health, he has mandated me to inform you that he has cancelled all Sallah festivities ... but will only attend the Eid prayers at the mosque," the emir's senior counsellor Abbas Sunusi told news hounds
"Can you tell us what's wrong with the Emir?"
"He's developed an allergy."
"Allergy to what?"
"Um, lead."
The emir, Ado Bayero, has been on the throne for 59 years and has been dogged by an undisclosed ailment for some time. Rumours have spread that he is suffering from prostate cancer and has frequently travelled to Britannia for treatment.
But the city has also been badly affected by violence committed by Islamist turban 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... , whose insurgency has killed more than 1,400 people since 2010.
Its deadliest attack yet occurred in Kano in January, when coordinated bombings and shootings left at least 185 people dead.
On Saturday, soldiers raided a suspected Boko Haram hideout outside the city and discovered a cache of arms including guns and explosives.
Authorities said three suspects tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in the raid confessed that the arsenal was intended for attacks in the city during Eid.
"We know that the emir has been sick for some years but it did not stop him from holding the durbar. We believe there is more to what the palace is giving as reason for cancelling the Eid festival," resident Shitu Nasiru said.
"The main reason is the security situation in the city. There are fears that Boko Haram may launch attacks during the Eid," said Nasiru, who has been attending the durbar for 32 years.
Other residents expressed similar opinions.
Last year, despite having undergone surgery, the emir held the durbar, though he cancelled some parts of the city tour.
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North Korea could have up to 48 nuclear weapons by the end of 2016, according to a U.S. think tank.
Is that how many they'll have, or how many they'll have left after selling some to Iran, Saudi Arabia, and whoever else has enough cash?
The latest report by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security made such an estimate after reviewing the North's centrifuge program and light-water reactors. The amount of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium Pyongyang can make depends on the level at which it uses its centrifuge plants.
Brilliant insight, boys, brilliant. Really -- it depends on the level at which they use their centrifuges, does it?
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and no food - the last weeds and tree roots being eaten by mobs in 2015.
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All Mock-ups(As usual).
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GENEVA: A Syrian airstrike on an opposition in the north flattened a string of houses and killed at least 20 people including children as UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos highlighted the increasingly precarious humanitarian situation in Syria after meeting officials in Damascus to lobby for access for more international aid workers.
"Our assessment at the end of March was that a million people needed help," she told the BBC, adding that the number may now be as high as 2.5 million people in need of aid in Syria.
That number includes thousands who have taken up shelter in schools, public buildings and private residences, according to aid officials and activists.
Let the Organization of Islamic Countries and the Arab League step up. The oil ticks have the cash, and the Syrians are 'brother Arabs'.
In addition to those displaced within Syria, the UN says at least 157,600 people have fled to neighboring countries, based on those registered, while there are reports that many in conflict zones are suffering shortages of food, power and medical supplies.
UN human rights investigators yesterday accused forces loyal to Assad of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report called for the UN Security Council to take "appropriate action" given the gravity of documented violations.
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How much do you want us to write out the check for this time?
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Why don't they ask their brother moslems in Arabia to fork over the money? Allen knows they've got plenty of it.
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You see two gangs in a rumble... do you try and break it up or just get popcorn? Decisions, decisions.
ISLAMABAD: A key member of the Taliban has called for an end to the 10-year war in Afghanistan and for peace talks, demanding prisoner releases and an end to sanctions on rebel leaders to quicken the process.
"This is what you give us up front. Now let's talk about what we'll give you in return."
All sides should stop fighting and solve all their differences through dialogue and negotiations, wrote Mullah Agha Jan Motasim, who until 2009 headed the political committee and is still influential in some Taliban circles, in a statement sent to AFP.
Motasim, who was finance minister in the 1996-2001 Taliban regime, welcomed important preliminary steps from all sides, such as the lifting of UN sanctions on former regime members, and said that as a result the Taliban were inclined towards dialogue. But he called on the UN and US to remove remaining Taliban names from the blacklist and demanded the immediate release of Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay.
We believe that such steps of international community would help in bringing peace and stability and would become a source of persuading leaders of Islamic Emirate, he wrote.
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State-run television said on Thursday that government troops freed three journalists who were seized last week by rebels while covering violence in a Damascus suburb. Syria TV says the three journalists from the pro-regime TV station Al-Ikhbariya were freed in a "qualitative operation" Thursday in the town of Al-Tal just north of the capital. It did not provide further details.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also said the Al-Ikhbariya team was freed, amid heavy shelling on Al-Tal. The group relies on a network of activists on the ground.
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DABOU, IVORY COAST: Armed men attacked an army base, a prison and police stations overnight near Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan in the latest of a series of assaults, military sources and locals said yesterday.
Our positions were attacked at Dabou on the corridor leading into the town, said a source in the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast (FRCI). But the situation is under control. Our men pushed back the attack. A sweep (for the assailants) is under way."
Two police headquarters and the town prison also came under attack, according to a source in the security forces, while local member of Parliament Mohammed Sess Soukou said some 100 prisoners had escaped.
The attacks in and around Abidjan have sparked a sharp rise in tension more than a year after the post-electoral crisis of December 2010 to April 2011 claimed 3,000 lives.
The prison was smashed, all the prisoners got out, some have been recaptured but many have fled, Sess Soukou told journalists, adding that out of at least 150 inmates who escaped, just 50 had been caught.
However prison governor Adjoua Ouattara said that there were 119 inmates in the jail before the attack, but was unable to give the number who had been recaptured.
A resident of Dabou, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Abidjan, said earlier he had been hearing heavy gunfire since Wednesday at 2300 GMT (11 p.m.). No one can go out, we are holed up in our homes, he said.
AFP journalists saw the bodies of three civilians killed in the local morgue. One was a bus driver who was the victim of a carjacking and the other two were workers at a local bakery.
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MAKKAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation decided to take to the United Nations the issue of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingyas, displaced by deadly sectarian violence. In a closing statement, the OIC described as a "crime against humanity" the Myanmar government's handling of minority Muslims and reiterated support for the Palestinians.
The key decision taken up by the OIC was to condemn "the continued recourse to violence by the Myanmar authorities against the members of this minority and their refusal to recognize their right to citizenship."
"The summit has decided to bring this matter before the General Assembly of the United Nations," it said in a final statement.
The OIC announced on Saturday before the summit that it had received a green light from Myanmar to assist displaced Rohingya. It said Myanmar gave its agreement following talks in the capital Yangon on Friday between a delegation from the pan-Islamic body and President Thein Sein on the "deplorable humanitarian situation in Rakhine state."
The delegation assured Thein Sein that Islamic humanitarian organizations were willing to provide aid to all residents of the strife-torn state.
King Abdullah decided last Saturday to grant $50 million to the Rohingya, describing them as victims of "several rights violations, including ethnic cleansing, murder, rape and forced displacement."
Violence between Buddhists and Rohingya has left scores dead, with official figures indicating that 80 people from both sides died in initial fighting in June. The entire state has been under emergency rule since early June with a heavy army and police presence.
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BEIRUT: Syrian government airstrikes on a residential neighborhood in a rebel-held town killed over 40 people and wounded at least 100 others including many women and children, international watchdog Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The strikes on the town of Azaz in northern Syria a day earlier leveled the better part of a poor neighborhood and sent panicked civilians fleeing for cover. So many were wounded that the local hospital locked its doors, directing residents to drive their injured to the nearby Turkish border for treatment on the other side.
The bombardment appeared aimed at rattling the sense of control that rebels have sought to project over the northwestern corner of Syria near the Turkish border since they drove President Bashar Assads army from the area last month.
Human Rights Watch, which investigated the site of the bombing two hours after the attack, put the number at over 40.
This horrific attack killed and wounded scores of civilians and destroyed a whole residential block, said Anna Neistat, the groups acting emergencies director. Yet again, Syrian government forces attacked with callous disregard for civilian life.
HRW said two opposition Free Syrian Army facilities in the vicinity might have been targets of the Syrian aircraft. One was the headquarters of the local Free Syrian Army brigade two streets away from the block that was hit. The other was a detention facility where the Free Syrian Army held security detainees government military personnel and members of pro-government shabiha militia. Neither of these facilities was damaged in the attack.
In Damascus, the UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said the Syrian conflict has become more intense and is too often indiscriminate.
All parties must do more to protect civilians, said Amos at the end of the three-day mission to try to open more channels for international aid inside Syria.
She observed that the humanitarian situation has worsened since her last visit to Syria in March, when the UN estimated more than 1 million people had been displaced or in need of critical humanitarian aid. Now as many as 2.5 million are in need of assistance, she said.
Later in Beirut, Amos expressed frustration at Syrias reluctance to allow more major international aid groups into the country because of Syrian fears that relief supplies could reach rebels. They dont want to see that happen, she said.
In recent months, rebels have pushed the Syrian army from a number of towns in a swath of territory south of the Turkish border and north of Aleppo, Syrias largest city. About a dozen destroyed tanks and army vehicles are scattered around Azaz, left over from those battles.
As the Assad regimes grip on the ground slips, however, it is increasingly targeting rebel areas with attack helicopters and fighter jets weapons the rebels cant challenge.
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Total civilian fatalities approaching 25k per Syrian Martyrs and over 23k per Syria Observatory for Human Rights and Syria Violence Documentation.
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SANAA, Yemen: Sixty-two officers and soldiers loyal to ex-President Ali Abdullah Salehs son were charged with resisting authorities and mutiny after trying to storm the Ministry of Defense, a senior Yemeni security official said Thursday.
High Security Committee spokesman Gen. Ali Al-Ubaidi said that the 62 will be referred to a military tribunal for joining a force of 200 in the sudden attack on the Ministry two days earlier, where they fired automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades at Ministry guards. The ensuing firefight left one attacker, two ministry guards and two civilians dead.
The committee, headed by Yemens President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, was founded as part of a power transfer deal after last years popular uprising that ended the longtime authoritarian rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh. The committee is in charge of the countrys top security and military issues.
The soldiers charged belong to the elite Republican Guard units led by Ahmed Saleh, the former presidents son, who were protesting a presidential decree that put some of the forces units under presidential oversight. The decree was part of Hadis moves to restructure the army and purge it of former regime loyalists. He was also trying to create his own force to help in law enforcement and implement moves to remove former regime members.
It was the second time the ministry has come under threat in a week and the second attack on state institutions in one month. Earlier, policemen in uniform, also loyalists to Saleh, stormed the Interior Ministry, looting its offices and setting off clashes that left 15 dead. A number of policemen were arrested and are also facing trial, according to Al-Ubaidi. The policemen belong to the Central Security Forces, of which Salehs nephew, Yahia Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, is the second in command.
The Republican Guard command center issued a statement denying responsibility for the attack and said that the mutiny was carried out by forces that no longer fall under their command.
The attack on the Defense Ministry left Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, on a state of security alert. Officials who spoke to the Associated Press voiced fears of possible attacks on state institutions during the four-day Eid Al-Fitr holiday starting Friday, which comes at the end of Muslims holy month of Ramadan.
They said that authorities have beefed up security around the Presidential palace, the Foreign Ministry and several other state institutions. Meanwhile, part of Sanaas Al-Zubair main street, where the Defense Ministry is located, has been blocked off to traffic while tanks and armored vehicles are stationed nearby.
The officials accused Saleh and his family of trying to humiliate the new regime in Yemen by showing that the new president is unable to protect it.
Several other incidents of what officials describe as defiance to the central government can be easily spotted around the capital. The Defense Ministry, for example, said in a statement Thursday that armed men looted four trucks carrying food supplies to its forces. Officials suspect that Salehs men paid them to attack the trucks on their way to the capital. Meanwhile, security authorities complained in another statement that armed men blocked a highway in the early hours of Thursday to create a traffic jam.
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QUETTA: As many as three Shias were shot dead on Thursday on Arbab Karam Khan Road in the Sariab police precincts.
According to police, the three men belonging to Hazara community were going somewhere in a rickshaw when unidentified assailant(s) opened fire on the vehicle near the Farooq Mill area of Arbab Karam Khan Road. As a result, one of the men died on the spot and two others sustained serious injuries. The two injured died on their way to the Civil Hospital Quetta. Two of the deceased were identified as Khadim Hussain and Abdul Ali, both in their mid-twenties. The third body could not be identified so far.
The victims belong to the Hazara community and the incident is a sectarian target killing, a police official told Daily Times.
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ISLAMABAD: Terrorists in northwest Pakistan forced passengers to step out of three buses in the Lulusar area and shot dead 25 of them in an apparent sectarian attack on Thursday, officials said.
The officials said as many as 15 terrorists wearing army uniforms
Were they off-duty or on?
checked the identification cards of the passengers and then opened fire after learning they were Shias. Officials said the buses were ambushed in the hills of Babusar Top, around 160 kilometres north of Islamabad.
"It is confirmed at least 22 people are dead," said a senior police official.
Pakistan is a Sunni majority state, and most Sunnis and Shias live peacefully together.
To borrow an MSM phrase, they are "mostly peaceful"...
But the country has a long history of sectarian attacks by extremists. Sunni terrorist groups inspired by al Qaeda often attack religious minorities such as Shias in Pakistan, a strategic US ally facing a Taliban insurgency.
"Ten to 12 people wearing army uniform stopped the bus and forced some people off the bus," said Khalid Omarzai, administration chief in Mansehra.
Local police official Shafiq Gul told AFP that the gunmen were masked, but said the victims were pulled from three separate vehicles in the district.
"They stopped three vehicles, searched them and picked up people in three batches of five, six and nine and shot them dead. They were all Shias," he said.
Sectarian violence linked to Gilgit, a popular tourist destination for wealthy Pakistanis and expatriates who live in the country, has increased in recent months. Angry mobs made faces burnt tyres and rolled their eyes fiercely blocked roads in some parts of the city to protest against the killings
I suppose that makes sense in an Islamic sort of way...
as extra police patrolled deserted streets and markets closed, said an AFP reporter in Gilgit.
GB Chief Minister Mehdi Shah called an emergency meeting of top officials and ordered them to step up security and demanded the immediate arrest of the killers, a spokesman said.
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celebrating Ramadan the Sunni way!
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Sometimes I think that if we just didn't do anything in the Mideast, our problems would resolve themselves. Of course when the problems spill over into other regions and places and affect long-standing allies, such problems can't be ignored.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > DEADLY BOMB ROCKS SHIA BUS IN KARACHI: TWO DEAD, EIGHTEEN WOUNDED. The vehicle was on its way to a Youm-al-Quds rally.
Pakistan BFF Iran had already demanded in past that Pakistan do something to stop the anti-Shia violence - gotta wonder just how long Iran's patience agz Pakistan will last.
UNITED NATIONS - Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi has agreed to replace Kofi Annan as the international mediator on Syria, though he intends to take a fresh approach as the 17-month-old conflict slips deeper into civil war, U.N. sources said on Thursday. Diplomats told Reuters that Brahimi, who had been undecided for days about whether to accept the offer of the post from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, did not want to be seen as a mere replacement of Annan but wanted a reconfigured title and fresh approach to his mandate as a peace broker.
He won't ask for money up front?
He has agreed to take the post but with an amended title; he has new ideas about the approach to take, a U.N. source told Reuters on condition of anonymity, adding that Ban accepted that. Two Security Council diplomats confirmed the remarks.
U.N. officials said it was not clear when an official announcement would be made. Annans title was joint special envoy for the United Nations and Arab League.
It remains unclear what Brahimis formal link with the Arab League, if any, will be, diplomats said. They said Brahimi would be based in New York, unlike Annan, who is based in Geneva.
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A few days ago I received a call from a man I recently met named George. He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was sick with a chest condition. He pleaded with me to send him $1,000 to cover the medical bills. Since George was at the hospital I asked him to let me speak to a nurse, and she confirmed that George's son was indeed ill. So I agreed to send George the money through Western Union. He was profusely grateful. But before I hung up I asked George, "Why are you coming to me?" He said, "I have no one else to ask." Then he said something that astounded me, "Dinesh, you are like a brother to me."
Actually, George has a real life brother who just happens to be the president of the United States. (George Obama is the youngest of eight children sired by Barack Obama Sr.) George's brother is a multimillionaire and the most powerful man in the world. Moreover, George's brother has framed his re-election campaign around the "fair share" theme that we owe obligations to those who are less fortunate.
One of Obama's favorite phrases comes right out of the Bible: "We are our brother's keeper." Yet he has not contributed a penny to help his own brother. And evidently George does not believe, even in times of emergency, that he can turn to his brother in the White House for help.
So much for spreading the wealth around. Read the rest of the story of how Barack ignores the plight of his own family members.
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Y'all are probably aware by now that I am not overly fond of the current resident of the White House. That said, President Obama did not refuse to help -- he was not informed about the problem. And to be fair, what did his father's family do for Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. when he and his mother were poor and struggling? Certainly the only thing his father did was once spend a few days with the lad when he happened to be in town -- he and they otherwise contributed neither time, aid, nor money toward the welfare of the child Papa Obama abandoned, not even so much as the occasional birthday card, by all accounts. He owes them nothing. And while it would be kind of the president to take care of his brother's problems, what demands would then be made by the rest of the large, extended family littered by his father's and grandfather's multiple acknowledged wives, backed by the threat of going to the world press if not satisfied?
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TW, you and I agree on a great many things. It's good to know the whole story, so thank you for that.
However, I should think a caring, religious man would care more for his brother than what people might say.
After all, did the second-worst President shun his brother Billy? Did Hillary disown her brother, Hugh?
Episodes such as these led Hillary Clinton's White House staff to refer to Hugh and Tony as "the Brothers Rodham", extending the American tradition of troublesome presidential siblings to the brother-in-law category; one senior White House official would be quoted as saying, "You never wanted to hear their name come up in any context other than playing golf."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Rodham
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I just use the standards they set. In this case the story of Romney and Bain Capital, trying to stick someone's death years later and many action separated with the event. The clear implication of that piece of work is that Romney should have known even if he didn't. Therefore, he's despicable.
This is the standard and tone they set. Of course it's the SOP of 'one set of rules for me and another set of rules for thee'. It's well past the time of playing by anything but the standards they set. Use their play book. Shove it back into their faces. Make them whine.
When the man preaches class warfare, shove this back in his face while he has fund raising dinners with the 1 Percenters.
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Well worth the time to read this article. The following makes one think a bit. BTW, George Obama is apparently a conservative.
FTA: A couple of years ago, George teamed up with a British journalist Damien Lewis and the two of them published Georges story in a book called "Homeland." Yet according to Lewis, shortly before the books publication in America, the publisher Simon & Schuster decided to shred the entire print run, more than 20,000 copies. Lewis tried unsuccessfully to get an explanation from Simon & Schuster but to no avail. He now suspects that the White House convinced Simon & Schuster that Georges story might prove embarrassing to the president.
St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre said five people are in custody after a shooting that killed two St. John the Baptist Parish deputies and left two others wounded. The shootings happened about 5 a.m.
Officials said Deputy Michael Boyington was working a traffic detail at the remote parking lot for the Valero Refinery when the shooting happened.
"As he was working this detail for some unknown reason at this time a gunman opened fire on him multiple times," Tregre said. The officer was wounded in the shooting. What possible reason could there have been for a drive-by shooting of a traffic cop?
A resident called police moments later, Tregre said, telling investigators they saw a speeding vehicle. Deputies tracked down the vehicle at Riverview Court. An emotional and visibly shaken Tregre said that as they were questioning people at a trailer, a person came out of the home, ambushing the deputies and began spraying If the Sheriff and the reporter actually got the story right, it sounds like this may have been a true full auto assault rifle.
the deputies with bullets from an assault rifle.
"As we were interviewing the two subjects another person exited that trailer with an assault weapon and ambushed my two officers," Louisiana State Police Col. Mike Edmonson said. Not sure where the second officer was shot. The gunman was wounded in the exchange and is in the hospital. Four accomplices were also captured. Rumor is they had not been in the area long and were skinhead/anarchists. If so, it would make this a case of domestic terrorism. On the heels of the Sikh killer this case could have significant political repercussions. The behavior suggests to me meth makers/users. Forty-eight hour rule applies. Whether domestic terrorism or just plain evil, prayers for the families.
BEIRUT: President Pencilneck Bashar Assad's feared brother Stumpy Maher lost a leg in a bomb attack on the Syrian leader's security cabinet a month ago, sources said on Thursday, in a severe blow to one of the main military commanders fighting an 17-month-old insurgency.
The attack on a meeting of Assad's security chiefs in Damascus on July 18 killed four members of the president's inner circle, including his brother-in-law, and emboldened the rebels to take their fight to the capital for the first time.
Maher has not been seen in public since the bombing, while Assad himself has restricted appearances to recorded clips broadcast on television, leading to speculation about the effectiveness of the leadership as the rebellion grows.
Doesn't exactly give the hard boyz confidence when Glorious Maximum Leader is cowering in the palace screaming "Kill themmmmmm! Kill them allllll!"
Maher, a close associate of the president,
He is a brother after all...
has acquired a fearsome reputation as the commander of the Syrian army's Republican Guard and 4th Division, elite formations largely composed of troops from the Assads' minority Alawite sect, whose loyalty can be relied on in the fight against the rebels.
"We heard that he (Maher Assad) lost one of his legs during the explosion, but don't know any more," a Western diplomat told Reuters.
A Gulf source confirmed the report: "He lost one of his legs. The news is true."
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NEW YORK - The Security Council will let the UN military observer missions mandate in Syria expire on Sunday and will back a new civilian office there to support UN and Arab League efforts to end the countrys 18-month conflict.
Frances UN Ambassador Gerard Araud, the current Security Council president, said Thursday that members agreed to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moons proposal for a liaison office. Araud said the council agreed that conditions set for possibly extending the mission of the unarmed observers past Sunday were not met. He says there was no halt to the Syrian governments use of heavy weapons and no significant reduction in violence.
Russias UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said an action group will meet Friday to call for an end to the violence.
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[AFP] The Rooters News website has been hacked for the second time this month, with a fake report that 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 their national face... 's foreign minister prince Saud al-Faisal has died, the news agency said Wednesday.
"The blogging platform of the Rooters News website was hacked on Wednesday," Rooters said on its website.
The fake posting was "illegally posted on a Rooters journalist's blog," the company said.
"Rooters News did not report the false story and the fabricated posting on reuters.com has been deleted."
There was no immediate information about who was behind the hacking, which followed another attack on the Rooters blogging platform on August 3. In that incident, "fabricated" stories including a purported interview with a Syrian rebel leader appeared.
Rooters said it did not carry out that interview and that the blogging platform was taken offline in order for the problem to be addressed.
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Ok, I'll bite. Live by fabrication, fiction, and fib, and how can you tell what is and what is not done by the morons people in the Ministry of Truth office?
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How can you tell whether the story is a hacker fake story or a Reuters real story? Much of the news is faked by the MSM. One has to dig very deeply to make much sense of it--sometimes by design I think.
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"How can you tell whether the story is a hacker fake story or a Reuters real story?"
Easy If the story says anything nice about a conservative, it's a fake. If it says something nice about a leftist, especially if it's an obvious lie - it was written by Reuters.
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BANGALORE, India: Thousands of panic-stricken Indians from the northeast were fleeing the southern city of Bangalore on Thursday, spurred by rumors they would be attacked in retaliation for communal violence in their home state. Hundreds of students and workers from Assam state crowded Bangalores main railway station to try to board trains heading out of the city, while officials tried in vain to assure them of their safety. People pushed and shoved and some climbed in through train windows to make it past the crush at the doors.
The exodus followed clashes in Assam in recent weeks between members of the indigenous Bodo tribe and Muslims that killed more than 50 people and left 400,000 in displacement camps. The violence has spilled to other states where Bodos and other ethnic tribe members from the poor northeast have migrated in search of jobs.
Those fleeing Bangalore said they had heard text messages had been circulating threatening attacks by Muslims.
Sounds a bit like northern Nigeria. Wonder what the connection is...
Jagadish Shettar, chief minister of Karnataka state, met separately with Assamese and Muslim leaders Thursday in an effort to restore calm. Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka. Shettar said no one had seen any threatening text messages and authorities were trying to find out who was behind the rumors. He said police and security forces were on alert and telephone helplines had been set up to give a sense of security to people in the city.
Despite Shettars assurances, many from the northeast said they felt insecure.
As a person from the northeast, we always stick out in a crowd. And sometimes that makes us afraid of being easy targets, said Ganesh Khanal, a garment industry worker trying to board a train at Bangalore railway station. Khanal said he had been living in Bangalore for nearly three years but was returning to his home in Assam as soon as he could secure a ticket.
Decades of ethnic strife and turmoil in Indias northeast have forced hundreds of thousands of young people to move out of the region in search of education and employment opportunities. They find jobs mostly in the service sector in the big cities, working in restaurants, shops and airlines.
Railway authorities in Bangalore were adding extra coaches on trains heading to Gauhati, the main city in Assam, to help deal with the rush of people. Indias Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said extra trains were plying between Bangalore and Assam to enable people to return to their home state.
The recent rioting in Assam between ethnic Bodos and Muslim settlers mainly involved land rights. The rioting has largely been brought under control, although sporadic outbreaks have occurred in the past few days.
Curfew was imposed Thursday in the town of Rangiya in Assam, after a mob set fire to a wooden bridge across a river, said J.N. Choudhury, a top police officer in the state. Elsewhere in the state, protesters forced passengers out of a bus and set it ablaze, police said.
On Saturday, two people died and dozens were injured in Mumbai in clashes between police and thousands of Muslims protesting the deaths of Muslims in rioting last month in Assam. Police fired guns into the air to disperse the protesters, who threw rocks and damaged about a dozen buses and police vans in Indias financial hub.
Outbreaks of violence have also been reported from the southern city of Hyderabad and the western cities of Pune and Nashik, said Bijoya Chakravarty, a lawmaker from Karnataka.
The Bodos and the Muslim settlers, who mostly came from the former East Pakistan before it became Bangladesh in 1971, have clashed repeatedly over the years but the recent violence is the worst since the mid-1990s.
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COTABATO, Philippines: The United Nations said Thursday deadly clashes between soldiers and a Muslim rebel group in the violence-plagued southern Philippines had displaced up to 45,000 people. Arjun Jain, head of the UNs High Commissioner for Refugees office in the southern Philippines, said nearly half of the displaced were living in poor conditions in makeshift evacuation camps such as schools and madrassas.
The evacuation sites are crammed and sometimes eight to 10 families are forced to share one room, Jain said.
He said there were also concerns about safety, referring to reports that rebels had infiltrated the evacuation camps disguised as refugees.
If the communities will be forced to remain in the camps any longer, we fear that the situation will become even worse for them, he said.
Sounds a bit like northern Nigeria. Wonder what the connection is...
Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) attacked several army detachments in the southern province of Maguindanao last week, triggering gunbattles that left at least five soldiers dead. The rebels occupied a major highway and sabotaged power lines, before the military forced them back and overran their mountain lair.
Sporadic fighting has continued and aid groups have had trouble getting access into affected areas, officials said.
The BIFF is made up of a few hundred fighters who broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a 12,000-strong group that has struggled for decades for an independent homeland for the countrys Muslim minority. The insurgency has left about 150,000 dead since it began in the early 1970s.
The MILF is now in peace talks and has said it is willing to accept an autonomous homeland in the south that remains part of the Philippines.
The government said last weeks attacks were carried out to derail the peace talks.
The BIFFs leader, Ameril Umbrakato, is hard-liner who led attacks against mostly Christian towns in the south in 2008, leading to the deaths of more than 400 people and displacing 750,000 others. That attack came after the Supreme Court rejected a proposed deal that would have given the MILF control over large areas in the south they claim as their ancestral domain.
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ISLAMABAD: Nine terrorists were killed when security forces foiled their attack on PAF base Minhas in Kamra early on Thursday. A security official was also killed and a plane damaged in the pre-dawn assault claimed by the Taliban.
No doubt Uncle Sugar will be asked to provide a replacement for the plane...
PAF said nine attackers dressed in military uniforms and armed with rocket propelled-grenades and suicide vests targeted the base and adjacent Pakistan Aeronautical Complex at 2am. The adjacent complex assembles Mirage and, with Chinese help, JF-17 fighter jets.
"Eight terrorists miscreants were killed inside the Minhas base boundary wall and one splodydope miscreant exploded himself outside the perimeters where he was hiding," the air force announced.
It said there had been a shootout "for more than two hours", and 10 hours after the assault began, spokesman Tariq Mahmood confirmed the base was "totally safe".
The Taliban said planes at the base were being used to kill their fighters.
Nah, the Pak air force doesn't do that. They're all dedicated to fighting the evil Hindoooz...
That's Hinjoooz, my dear. The J must be pronounced with the glee of a vandal.
Their spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan dedicated the attack to late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
Now serving as shark food...
and claimed four Taliban fighters were killed after destroying three aircraft and killing a dozen soldiers.
A PAF spokesman said Base Commander Air Commodore Muhammad Azam, who was leading the operation against the terrorists, also received a bullet injury.
An air force statement said Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt had appointed a four-member board of inquiry headed by Air Marshal Syed Athar Hussain Bukhari.
Witnesses said the attackers came from the back, scaling the wall and exploiting the holiest night of Ramazan to remain undetected as long as possible.
"Most of the male residents (from the village at the back) were in mosques for special prayers," local resident Athar Abbas told a TV channel.
"I heard three or four explosions, there was heavy gunfire also," he said, adding, "It appears that the militants arrived using a village track and climbed over the wall."
Great perimeter security, guys...
This article starring:
Ehsanullah Ehsan
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"Exploiting the holiest night of Ramazan" > OH THE ISLAM/PROPHET-ANITY!
Meanwhile, Dark Knight fans ...
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > ATTACK ON KAMRA BASE WAS [Militant] RESPONSE TO PROPOSED MILITARY OPERATION IN WAZIRISTAN:IMRAN KHAN, agz the Taliban + espec the Haqqanis = Haqqani Network.
Which for the Taliban = TTP, + Haqqanis, may had just worked as per ...
* DAILY TIMES.PK > NO JOINT OPERATION IN NWA: KAYANI.
Artic read, UNTIL PAKISTAN AND ONLY PAKISTAN DECIDES IT IS MILPOL NECESSARY TO DO SO.
This will [not] end well for post-Salala US-PAK relations.
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As per TOPIX, Poll indics that many Israelis believe the anti-Iran war chatter is justa BLUFF to get the US to act.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > [Israeli President Shimon] PERES SAYS ISRAEL CAN't GO IT ALONE ON IRAN, TRUSTS OBAMA.
ARTIC > PERES = US SECDEF PANETTA = admits that at best Israel can only delay Iran from developing or acquiring NucWeaps, NOT stop or completely destroy its NucProg.
* TOPIX > IRAN IS SIMPLY NOT AFRAID OF THE UNITED STATES, SAYS FORMER ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE CHIEF.
Pesky Persians have gotta be pesky.
As per the "GREAT GAME" OF GEOPOL, aka SUBSTITUTION OF NATIONS, to paraph STAR TREK:TOS' "MR SPOCK" [Episode- A Taste of Armageddon?] > "Iff the Romulans [Iranians] are indeed an offshoot of my ancient Vulcan [Persian = Warrior] race, ... THEN WEAKNESS IS SOMETHING WE DARE NOT SHOW"!
Ditto Radical Islam.
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ION REGIONAL
* FYI also from TOPIX > "WORST-CASE" SCENARIO COULD SEND US TROOPS TO SECURE SYRIA'S WEAPONS.
* SAME > EXPERTS: ASSAD END TO BRING UNPREDICTABLE DEVELOPMENTS, National + Regional + International [Geopol].
Balance of Power.
* SAME > POLITICAL EXPERT:TURKEY NEXT AFTER SYRIA.
Mama Russia at risk of losing entire ME iff Assad Regime falls, potens inducing same to belligerently use its NucWeaps Arsenals in defense of its interests.
Photo at link is most decidedly not safe for work.
High-ranking Chinese politicians have been accused of taking part in an orgy after more than 100 pictures showing three naked men and two nude women were uploaded on a social networking site.
The photos, which appeared on China's Twitter Weibo, reportedly showed the politicians engaged in sexual acts in a hotel room.
According to Mail Online, it is claimed that the men involved in the orgy are Party secretary of Lujiang country in Anhui Province, the aptly named
Wang Minsheng, his deputy, Jiang Dabin, and the party's youth leader at Hefei University, the aptly named and unrelated
Wang Yu.
Wang Minsheng has, however, denied being part of any scandal, and said that he was hacked the false allegations have been made against him because the Tea Party is out to get him he is currently handling a corruption case, the report added.
According to the report, Yu has admitted being in the pictures and said one of the women was his wife.
Chinese authorities are understood to have cancelled the men's party membership and Wang Yu has been fired, the report added.
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"According to the report, Yu has admitted being in the pictures and said one of the women was his wife." Oooooooooooooo-k.....I'm sure Slick Willie is vewy, vewy envious......
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"The aptly named and unrelated" > D *** NG IT, DOES LO LIEH KNOW!?
easy, he looked in the phone book and called them up, however he did get a lont of Wong numbers....
[AFP] "We have carried out 800 open-heart surgeries, regulated traffic, and built 44 schools," billboards boldly proclaim in white letters on a vibrant magenta background.
Not the proud boast of a Scandinavian country, but a publicity campaign undertaken by the Gazoo Strip's Hamas government, which has plastered news of its achievements at road junctions, in the across newspapers, on the Internet and even on the radio.
Under the slogan "We are building the nation," the Hamas PR campaign combines the concepts of environmental responsibility with that of opposition to Israel, which maintains a partial blockade on the territory.
"A clean environment for the people of the resistance," proclaims one poster which shows a worker cleaning a beach.
"We continued to build, despite the siege," says another which shows Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya wearing a construction worker's hard hat, poring over plans with architects.
"The Hamas government was targeted by media attacks and faced a series of crises," said government front man Hassan Abu Hashish, pointing to Israel's massive 22-day offensive over New Year 2009, the ongoing Israeli blockade, and the salary crisis caused by an international boycott of Hamas.
Summer, he said, was a good time to run such a media campaign because of the greater number of people visiting the strip.
"In summer, there are tens of thousands of Paleostinians returning from abroad as well as international solidarity caravans coming to the Gazoo Strip," he said. Omar Shaaban, an analyst with the Gazoo-based think tank Palthink says that Hamas wants to burnish its image which has been tarnished of late by a severe power crisis and by sharp price increases.
"Their performance as a government has not been good through the past year and a half," he said. "They want to rehabilitate their reputation."
"People have a general idea but we want to give them accurate information and figures," says Abu Hashish.
"It is our right to make comparisons because we have had media attacks aimed at us, starting with those by our brothers in the West Bank," he charged, referring to the rival Ramallah-based Paleostinian Authority of president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... "The (Gazoo) government has problems but they are due to external factors such as (shortage of) fuel or the border terminal" with Egypt, he insisted.
Since the start of the three-month publicity campaign on June 20, Hamas has been beset by still more problems, particularly in the wake of a deadly August 5 attack on Egyptian troops in northern Sinai, with Cairo suspecting Gazook involvement.
Within hours of the raid, the Rafah border terminal -- Gazoo's only gateway to the world which is not controlled by Israel -- was closed down, putting an end to an easing of visa requirements put in place just weeks earlier by Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Egypt has also shut down the network of smuggling tunnels under the Gazoo border and curbed the delivery of fuel from Qatar which had briefly enabled the coastal enclave's lone power station to operate all four of its turbines for the first time since 2006.
"Egypt's priority is to ensure stability and security in Sinai," said Mukhaimer Abu Saada, professor of political science at Gazoo City's Al-Azhar University.
"Lifting the siege and improving the situation in Gazoo has now become a secondary issue, despite the hopes placed in Morsi," he said.
Before the delivery of Qatari fuel began last month, Gazoo had been in the grip of the worst power crisis in living memory with the electricity plant forced to shut down repeatedly, causing power cuts of up to 18 hours a day.
Now the rumble of private generators, which provided a steady soundtrack through Gazoo's winter and spring, looks set to return this summer.
MAKKAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation suspended Syrias membership early on Thursday at a summit of Muslim leaders in Makkah, citing President Bashar Assads violent suppression of the Syrian revolt.
That should do it...
The statement by the 57-nation group said: The conference decides to suspend the Syrian Arab Republic membership in the OIC and all its subsidiary organs, specialized and affiliated institutions.
The move had been approved on Monday at a preliminary meeting of OIC foreign ministers and was agreed on the summits second night despite opposition from Iran. The two-day emergency solidarity summit was held on Tuesday and Wednesday in the holy city of Makkah.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah presided over the meeting, attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whose country has openly criticized the push to suspend Syria.
Participants had agreed on the need to end immediately the acts of violence in Syria and to suspend that country from the OIC.
The final statement said there had been deep concern at the massacres and inhuman acts suffered by the Syrian people.
OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told a news conference the decision sent a strong message from the Muslim world to the Syrian regime.
This world can no longer accept a regime that massacres its people using planes, tanks and heavy artillery, he added.
It was also a message to the international community stating that the Muslim world backs a peaceful solution (in Syria), wants an end to the bloodshed and refuses to let the problem degenerate into a religious conflict and spill over into the wider region, Ihsanoglu said.
The move by the OIC, which represents 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, is aimed at further isolating Assads embattled regime. Syria was suspended from the Arab League last year over its clampdown on the uprising that Assad characterized as a plot by Western and rival powers to overthrow his regime.
The meeting called for the immediate implementation of the transitional peace plan and the development of a peaceful mechanism that would allow building a new Syrian state based on pluralism, democratic and civilian system.
It also urged the UN Security Council to assume fully its responsibility by stopping the ongoing violence and bloodshed in Syria and finding a peaceful and lasting solution to the Syrian crisis.
The participants also stressed the principal responsibility of the Syrian government for the continuation of violence and bloodshed.
Algeria, Pakistan and Kazakhstan had called for the final statement of the summit, to which Damascus was not invited, to also pin blame on the armed opposition for the bloodshed in Syria, according to informed sources at the summit. And Egypts President Muhammad Mursi proposed the formation of a committee grouping his country with key players Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to try to find a settlement to the Syrian conflict, a delegate had said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Monday criticized the move to suspend Syrias membership of the OIC, saying it would not resolve the conflict and was not in line with the groups charter. However, a source close to the participants told AFP that the Islamic Republic which had repeatedly voiced support to its Damascus ally met the decision with a soft reaction.
Irans president had avoided mention of the Syrian conflict in a 55-minute speech on Tuesday night. There has been a clear change in the Iranian position toward Syria, according to a diplomat at the Makkah summit.
In a conciliatory move, King Abdullah proposed on Tuesday setting up a center in Riyadh for dialogue between Muslim Sunnis and Shiites.
In a second statement called the Makkah Pact, the participants proclaimed their support for Muslim people who are oppressed like the Syrian people.
It underlined the summits support for the oppressed Muslim peoples... who face the combat aircraft and heavy guns of the regular armies as is the case of the Syrian people.
The statement backed cooperation between Muslim states, the fight against divisions between Muslims, promotion of moderate Islam and the fight against terrorism and the thinking behind it.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Jerusalem Post] A member of 
[Jerusalem Post] Amid reports that 
Two US soldiers have been shot dead by a local policeman in Afghanistan, officials for the international Nato-led force in the country say.
North Korea could have up to 48 nuclear weapons by the end of 2016, according to a U.S. think tank.
SANAA, Yemen: Sixty-two officers and soldiers loyal to ex-President Ali Abdullah Salehs son were charged with resisting authorities and mutiny after trying to storm the Ministry of Defense, a senior Yemeni security official said Thursday.
High-ranking Chinese politicians have been accused of taking part in an orgy after more than 100 pictures showing three naked men and two nude women were uploaded on a social networking site.
