Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad on Aug. 20, reports said Wednesday.
Sources in China said singer Hyon Song-wol as well as Mun Kyong-jin, head of the Unhasu Orchestra, were arrested on Aug. 17 for violating North Korean laws against pornography and were executed in public three days later.
The victims of the atrocity were members of the Unhasu Orchestra as well as singers, musicians and dancers with the Wangjaesan Light Music Band.
They were accused of videotaping themselves having sex and selling the videos. The tapes have apparently gone on sale in China as well.
A source said some allegedly had Bibles in their possession, and all were treated as political dissidents.
[Breitbart] Champ just effectively killed the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP). Your old Garand or carbine just picked up another $1000. to $1500. in resale value, that is if you can still sell it.
Jarrett also reminded her listeners that the additional immigrants will get to vote in future elections.
We need to make sure that people who came here illegally have a path to citizenship, she said, prompting applause from the audience of progressive activists.
[Aypee] JERUSALEM - A group of Israeli soldiers has danced up a storm of criticism after they were filmed boogying alongside Palestinians while on patrol in the West Bank.
The soldiers were making the rounds in the city of Hebron when they entered a dance hall and joined dozens of Palestinian men dancing to the hit "Gangnam Style." The Israeli military said Thursday it considers the incident "serious," adding "the soldiers exposed themselves to unnecessary danger and were disciplined accordingly," without elaborating.
Footage aired on Israeli Channel 2 TV shows the solders in uniform, flak jackets and carrying guns. One was shown hoisted on the shoulders of Palestinian dancers. Other soldiers joined hands and grooved with the partygoers. The channel said the incident occurred Monday.
h/t Jerry Pournelle
Materials implicating the forces of Syrian president Bashar Assad in chemical weapons use near Damascus were prepared prior to the alleged incident on August 21, the Russian foreign ministry said.
Moscow continues to monitor closely the event surrounding the alleged chemical attack near Damascus, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Aleksandr Lukashevich, said in a statement.
Were getting more new evidence that this criminal act was of a provocative nature, he stressed. In particular, there are reports circulating on the Internet, in particular that the materials of the incident and accusations against government troops had been posted for several hours before the so-called attack. Thus, it was a pre-planned action. The Foreign Ministry didn't elaborate what specific materials they refer to.
Below are the three videos posted on Youtube said to be showing the child victims affected by chemical weapons near Damascus. Despite the date of the alleged attack August 21 being mentioned in their titles, they were posted on YouTube on the previous day, August 20.
This could be explained by the 7-hour time difference between Syria and the US, where the YouTube server is located. The mismatch of the dates in the videos raised concerns among some experts about the exact time of the upload.
A grim "urgent action memorandum" issued today from the office of President Putin to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is ordering a "massive military strike" against Saudi Arabia in the event that the West attacks Syria.
Ah. That explains the recent discussion between the House of Saud and Vlad...
According to Kremlin sources familiar with this extraordinary "war order," Putin became "enraged" after his early August meeting with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan who warned that if Russia did not accept the defeat of Syria, Saudi Arabia would unleash Chechen terrorists under their control to cause mass death and chaos during the Winter Olympics scheduled to be held 7-23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
They didn't seriously expect Vlad to knuckle under to that kind of threat, did they? Did they think he was Obama?
Lebanese newspaper As-Safir confirmed this amazing threat against Russia saying that Prince Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia's naval base in Syria if the Assad regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on Russia's Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord by stating: "I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us."
Prince Bandar went on to say that Chechens operating in Syria were a pressure tool that could be switched on an off. "These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role in Syria's political future."
London's The Telegraph News Service further reported today that Saudi Arabia has secretly offered Russia a sweeping deal to control the global oil market and safeguard Russia's gas contracts, if the Kremlin backs away from the Assad regime in Syria, an offer Putin replied to by saying "Our stance on Assad will never change. We believe that the Syrian regime is the best speaker on behalf of the Syrian people, and not those liver eaters", and which Prince Bandar in turn warned that there can be "no escape from the military option" if Russia declines the olive branch.
Critical to note, and as we had previously reported on in our 28 January 2013 report "Obama Plan For World War III Stuns Russia," the Federal Security Services (FSB) confirmed the validity of the released hacked emails of the British based defence company, Britam Defence that stunningly warned the Obama regime was preparing to unleash a series of attacks against both Syria and Iran in a move Russian intelligence experts warned could very well cause World War III.
According to this FSB report, Britam Defence, one of the largest private mercenary forces in the world, was the target of a "massive hack" of its computer files by an "unknown state sponsored entity" this past January who then released a number of critical emails between its top two executives, founder Philip Doughty and his Business Development Director David Goulding.
The two most concerning emails between Doughty and Goulding, this report says, states that the Obama regime has approved a "false flag" attack in Syria using chemical weapons, and that Britam has been approved to participate in the West's warn on Iran, and as we can read:
Email 1: Phil, We've got a new offer. It's about Syria again. Qataris propose an attractive deal and swear that the idea is approved by Washington. We'll have to deliver a CW (chemical weapon) to Homs (Syria), a Soviet origin g-shell from Libya similar to those that Assad should have. They want us to deploy our Ukrainian personnel that should speak Russian and make a video record. Frankly, I don't think it's a good idea but the sums proposed are enormous. Your opinion? Kind regards David
Email 2: Phil, Please see attached details of preparatory measures concerning the Iranian issue. Participation of Britam in the operation is confirmed by the Saudis.
With the events now spiraling out of control in Syria, and London's Independent News Service now reporting that Prince Bandar is "pushing for war," Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich further warned the West today by stating, "Attempts to bypass the Security Council, once again to create artificial groundless excuses for a military intervention in the region are fraught with new suffering in Syria and catastrophic consequences for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa."
Heedless of Russian warnings which have fallen on deaf ears, however, British Prime Minister David Cameron this morning recalled the British Parliament to vote on attacking Syria as the Obama regime abruptly cancelled their meeting with Russia scheduled for tomorrow on finding a path to peace for Syria, and the West begins its plans to attack the Syrian nation "within days."
As Syria itself has warned that should it be attacked by the West there will be "global chaos," the Western peoples themselves have not been told of the fact that on 17 May 2013, Putin ordered Russian military forces to "immediately move" from Local War to Regional War operational status and to be "fully prepared" to expand to Large-Scale War should either the US or EU enter into the Syrian Civil War, a situation they are still in at this very hour.
With Putin's previous order, and as we had reported on in our 17 May report "Russia Issues "All-Out War" Alert Over Syria," and now combined with his new ordering of massive retaliatory strikes against Saudi Arabia, any attack on Syria is viewed by Russia as being an attack on itself.
And as we had previously explained in great detail, the fight over Syria, being led by Saudi Arabia and Qatar and their lap-dog Western allies, has but one single objective: To break Russia's hold on the European Union natural gas market which a pipeline through Syria would accomplish, and as reported by London's Financial Times News Service this past June:
And in what is, perhaps, the most unimaginable cause to start World War III over Syria was noted by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Aleksandr Lukashevich who said this past week: "We're getting more new evidence that this criminal act was of a provocative nature," he stressed. "In particular, there are reports circulating on the Internet, in particular that the materials of the incident and accusations against government troops had been posted for several hours before the so-called attack. Thus, it was a pre-planned action."
For the West to have so sloppily engineered yet another "false flag" attack to justify a war where they posted the videos of this so-called chemical weapons attack a full day before it was said to occur is the height of arrogance and disdain, but which their sleep-walking citizens, yet again, will fall for as they have done so many times in the past.
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About time **Somebody** calls O and Co on this diversionary strike plan. Pooty is a cold calculating son of a b*tch, but it's about time this insanity has to stop. Good on him, for whatever reason he had to do it.
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Russian Premier comes to rescue of American People. Whooda thunk it? I agree it's pound of coarse granule salt time o this, but it's still fun...
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Ok so let's break this down. We strike Syria and Putin will take out the Saudies? And Iran says it will strike Israel? So end state is Mecca, Medina, and Whahabies are destroyed by Russia and Iran gets pummeled by Israel, and I'm supposed to be upset because of why??
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has quite the negative writeup about the EU Times,in their HateWatch section.
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Russia repor also threatened to attack + destroy the US ABM-BMD Shield in Europe.
Bandar can't be that stupid to unleash Chechen terrorists agz Russia - IMO all he's doing is giving Moscow justification to go full monty/bore in the Caucasus, + annihilate or genocide the Militants + Muslims.
AFAIK Moscow hasn't returned any bodies of Somali Pirates or Caucasus Militants they've captured + interrogated, + can't confim or deny the same were arrested, captured, or even iff they existed in life.
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Way out in the desert in the sand and the dirt
Lived a signifying preezy in a world of hurt
For heap long time he'd been king of the jebel
But lately he'd had a little trouble with rebels
Now he wasn't too happy, cause them monkeys played rough
They talked about his daddy and they threw nasty stuff
The fractious little scamps seized each opportunity
To damage his standing in the global community
Till finally one day those monks had the brass
To frame him for passing some poisonous gas
Now the news travelled fast to some far-away places
The hyenas brought the tale to the lion's oasis.
When the king of the lions was told the sad news
He was fixing to fly to the gulf for a cruise
He said, "Damn, I best do some decisive-ass sh-t
Or the elephants'll tease me and say I'm unfit.
I shall consult with my aides regarding an appropriate, measured response to this unprecedented humanitarian disaster.
Don't disturb us, we gonna be playing canasta."
The hyenas stood there with their mouths open wide
And one or two looked almost dissatisfied.
Now after what seemed like about a week
The lion came charging out like a flock of sheep.
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An interesting theory, but even if true, exactly how is Russia going to attack Saudia Arabia? The only aircraft with the range are Backfires & Bears and they will get eaten alive by the Saudi, Kuwait and other airforces of the region that will stand with the Saudi's. And unless they base from Iran, the Turks & Georgians probably aren't going to allow the Russians to overfly their countries.
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... and who appears to have been the visionary in all of this? George Bush. Look at a map. Think of the position we would be in to deflect Vlad, if we still had operational numbers in a formerly pacified Iraq.
Now after what seemed like about a week
The lion charged out like a mad flock of sheep.
"What we've got to do," he roared, kinda whiny,
"Is stomp us a mudhole in Pencilneck's hiney.
I'll make sure he knows that Camelite is my name,
And fluffin' up muggerfluffers is my favorite game!"
Then he growled at his spy boy, "Yo, summon my damsels,"
And out from the harem strutted three fancy camels.
With a shake of his mane and a prayer to the Prophet,
They up and took off on his stretch magic carpet.
They flew through the night and they flew so damn fast
That they knocked several buraqs smack flat on they ass.
The call was "feet dry" at the pale break of day,
And they landed beside the Krak des Chevaliers.
The lion ran up to the gate and was knocking,
When down from the parapet rang some jive talking:
"Hey lion boy, what you doin' round here?
Why don't you jump up and kiss my presidential rear?"
Now the lion wasn't used to being talked to like that.
He took a running start and knocked the door down flat.
The lion chased Pencilneck all through the castle;
When he caught him they had them one hell of a wrassle.
"I'm a teach you to cut neurotoxical farts,
By dividing your Alawhite ass in three parts!"
"You tryin' to do me like you done did Osama.
I ain't goin' for that sh-t. Say hi to your momma!"
Now just when the lion was winning the fight,
An important new piece of intel came to light:
For Pencilneck pulled off his Pencilneck mask,
Revealing - hush up, I'm a tell you, don't ask -
Revealing - shush, wait for it, hold your breath -
Revealing the dreaded Masque of teh Red Death.
The problem is that it would require ballistic or sub rather than theater boosters to deliver the pay load. That means the strategic forces which are nose counted and tracked in the various arms agreements.
Any launch will set the boards alight in Cheyenne Mountain. Not good because the weaseler in chief isn't the only one who can set DEFCON, acts can auto kick the process that bring forces up. Decision cycle time quickly collapse which as well know isn't one of the guy's good abilities. Remember, while technically he has the launch code, it still only takes two guys with keys to light the birds (or one in the case of the Navy).
No. We don't. Too bad Obama didn't think about all of these ramifications before he started spouting off about his red line. Now he looks like a foolish coward if he doesn't do something. But it might not be as clean and easy he thought.
I think the point that is made here is Putin won't take it any more lightly if we hit Syria than Obama would if Putin hit the Soddies. Whether or not Putin has the wherewithal to do anything about it is the question. But I still think Obama was a fool to shoot off his mouth that way.
Rolled over to Thursday because we like the headline.
[Breitbart] HASAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR FORT HOOD SHOOTING
The same jurors who convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan last week had just two options: either agree unanimously that Hasan should die or watch the 42-year-old get an automatic sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole.
Hasan could become the first American soldier executed in more than half a century. But because the military justice system requires a lengthy appeals process, years or even decades could pass before he is put to death.
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Obama to pardon or commute sentence in...4...3...2...
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"To bad they can't draw and quarter him"
They can, they just won't, DV. >:-(
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they need to play this mantra for Hasan to hear over and over and paint it on his wall until he's put to death;
"He is not giving his life. We are taking his life. This is not his gift to God, it's his debt to society. He will not now and will not ever be a martyr."
- Lead prosecutor, Col. Mike Mulligan
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If I thought he'd be honest (which I don't), it would be interesting to execute him in a way that's reversible, make sure he's really dead, then revive him and ask him what he saw.
If he were honest, I'm betting the answer wouldn't be "virgins" and "Heaven."
Enjoy eternity in HELL with your buddies bin Laden, Saddam, et al., asshole.
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He had no defense. Had no defense witnesses. Did not take stand and did not address the jury during the penalty phase.
. And why did the government take so long to prosecute a case that clearly has no defense?
I agree that he will actually be put to death. Some group of lawyers will have boats named 'Hassan the work place violence case' with all the appeals billing.
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Once upon a time, before 9-11 + OWG + when Amerika was still America, HASAN had opportunities to ask me as an Afghan War cohort of Osama/OBL to join his cause - BUT, HE LIKE OSAMA/USAMA DID NOT.
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In defense of historical reminders GB, I respectfully disagree. I think he should retain the title [less pay], as a tribute and reminder of the feckless, fok'n PC, egalitarian, pro-mooslim, affirmative action HELL that the Army and DoD has become !
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We really should ask Muslims if they consider this man to be part of and representitive of their religion. If they say no they should have no complaints if he's killed by being overfed pork products. If they say yes they should explain why we shouldn't hold Islam accountable for the many acts of like-minded psychos.
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For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play,
The regiment's in 'ollow square -- they're hangin' him to-day;
They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away,
An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.
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The sheriff says Jordan told deputies he had been aiming at a squirrel, but he couldn't explain why he needed to attach marijuana to the arrow to go squirrel hunting.
[Washington Post] The son of D.C. Council member Marion The Bitch Set Me Up Barry ... the worst administrator, with the possible exception of Boss Tweed, ever elected to public office and then reelected and reelected when he got out of jail... No. That's not true. Boss Tweed wasn't elected to anything... (D Ward-8) was jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! earlier this month in Hampton, Va., and charged with driving under the influence and possession of marijuana, according to police and court records.
Marion Christopher Barry, 33, is scheduled to appear in Hampton General District Court on Nov. 13. He was arrested shortly after 9 p.m. Aug. 16 during a traffic stop of a gray Chrysler PT Cruiser that police said was being driven erratically. Sgt. Jason Price, a police front man, said officers found suspected marijuana on Barry and suspected marijuana and synthetic marijuana in the car.
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Maryland / Virginia show the way on decriminalization. The laws are still on the books, but the penalties are only for the little people...
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Only proving once again, the piesang doesn't fall too far from the tree.
[SPECTATOR.ORG] I know. I know. This puts me out of sync with the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... and even the infallible New York Post, but if I were a citizen of New York and not just a monthly visitor I would be voting for John Catsimatidis, the jolly and jowly rumpled candidate whose name appears on both the Republican and Liberal lines. How he managed this I do not know. Maybe he is a Liberal of the old school, one of those who were not squeamish about being American and still believed in the country and the free-market system. Catsimatidis certainly does. He dropped out of college and became a billionaire. In so doing he benefited New York City with jobs, food, and philanthropy. While the rest of the fantasticoes running for high office in the Big Apple have enriched themselves for the most part from the public trough, Catsimatidis has enriched himself and the city the old-fashioned way through free enterprise and by paying taxes.
The others in the race for mayor are for the most part figures from a cheap novelist's fevered imagination. Foremost among them is Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... , a man who left Congress after he was revealed to be an exhibitionist. He went into some kind of therapy. Declared for mayor. And then exposed himself again and again. He is still running and presumably still in therapy. Then there is Eliot Spitzer, the heir to a vast fortune who had to leave his position as the governor of New York because he was caught paying for high-class hookers from his bank account. He is running for comptroller and is frankly self-destructive. If he wins it will be a close thing whether he destroys himself again before he destroys the business climate of New York. Both Democrats and Republicans fear him and both are right to do so.
On the other hand there is Catsimatidis who every New Yorker would relish as a neighbor and who many New Yorkers actually have for a neighbor. At least they have someone who is a facsimile of Catsimatidis. He is as New York as you get. He dresses like New York, sounds like New York, and started his business in New York, which is now the Red Apple Group of grocery stores that has extended into the fuel business, the aircraft leasing business, and other enterprises, making him rich (132 on the Forbes list of wealthy Americans) and eager to give back in service to his city.
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There's no such thing as a healthy hive mind. All large cities, everywhere in the world are long term screwed...
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"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe." - Thomas Jefferson
[NBCNEWS] Fast-food customers in search of burgers and fries might run into striking workers instead.
Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country Thursday, part of a push to get chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to pay workers higher wages.
It's expected be the largest nationwide strike by fast-food workers, according to organizers. The biggest effort so far was over the summer when about 2,200 of the nation's millions of fast-food workers staged a one-day strike in seven cities.
Thursday's planned walkouts follow a series of strikes that began last November in New York City, then spread to cities including reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... , bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... and Seattle. Workers say they want $15 an hour, which would be about $31,000 a year for full-time employees. That's more than double the federal minimum wage, which many fast food workers make, of $7.25 an hour, or $15,000 a year.
The move comes amid calls from the White House, some members of Congress and economists to hike the federal minimum wage, which was last raised in 2009. But most proposals seek a far more modest increase than the ones workers are asking for, with President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... wanting to boost it to $9 an hour.
The push has brought considerable media attention to a staple of the fast-food industry -- the so-called "McJobs" that are known for their low pay and limited prospects. But the workers taking part in the strikes still represent a tiny fraction of the broader industry. And it's not clear if the strikes on Thursday will shut down any restaurants because organizers made their plans public earlier in a call for workers around the country to participate, which gave managers time to adjust their staffing levels. More broadly, it's not clear how many customers are aware of the movement, with turnout for past strikes relatively low in some cities.
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Organizers say thousands of fast-food workers are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the country Thursday, part of a push to get chains such as McDonald's, Taco Bell and Wendy's to pay workers higher wages automate more of the cooking tasks....
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KFI-LA Radio ran a street protest line interview - of the 17 interviewed, one (1) was an actual FF worker. The rest were SEIU and UFCW union workers bussed in and to try and unionize the min wage workers. Self-admitted, with purple wrist bands to indicate they got a free lunch
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All makes since after a Rantburger posted a few days ago that union pay is linked to a multiple of the minimum wage.
[WXYZ] It was a shouting match serious enough for a clerk at a Detroit cell phone store to start filming the exchange.
The heated argument was regarding a woman's son, who bought a cell phone more than two weeks ago and wanted a refund.
"They came in a week ago, I explained them the situation," said the store clerk, who wanted his identity hidden. "I showed them everything on the receipt."
The clerk who shot the footage says after trying to explain to the irate mother her son's date of purchase exceeded the store's 7-day policy for refunds, the mother wasn't taking no for an answer.
"Take everyone's [expletive] money!" said the mother caught on camera, "Take it!"
In addition to knocking down signs, the clerk says she even used a knife to damage display cases. Things took a strange turn as the customer addressed the clerk's camera.
"Take my picture. Take that!" said the woman, as she lifted her dress and mooned the clerk's cell phone camera, "Take that! You got that? Because I will be back. You got that close up? Cheese!"
"I want you to know there's a reason why I had to do that," said Stephanie, the woman caught on camera. "He's telling me my money is up in the air, I can't get a refund or another phone."
Stephanie says the cell phone store sold her son an outdated, damaged phone.
"[The store] needs to either give me another phone or return my money." said Stephanie.
"There is no excuse for anyone to walk into anyone's business and do that." said the clerk, who says the store plans to pursue charges against the customer.
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Having lived among the population in question, I'm with RJ. Plan B, when a scam goes awry, is always yelling, curses, and a little violence, real or implied. Animal behaviorists call it threat display.
[DETROITNEWS] Detroit's funeral directors received this unusual text message last month. "FYI, city of Detroit can't process death certificates because they have no paper and don't have money to buy any."
The message, from a fellow funeral director, was mostly true: The city did stop issuing certified copies of birth and death certificates on July 23, days after the July 18 bankruptcy filing. That day, a nervous paper vendor demanded cash -- and the city wanted to do business as usual, on credit.
FYI: In bankrupt and frequently bizarre Detroit, dying is easy. It's proving you are dead that's hard.
Cutbacks in hours, balky vendors, and the news that Herman Kiefer Complex will close Oct. 1 are all affecting the city's death and dying business. The city's vital records department will close and Wayne County will assume responsibility for issuing birth and death certificates, according to Bill Nowling, spokesman for Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr.
"Have you ever heard such a crock?" asked Wallace Williams, president of the Michigan Select Funeral Directors Association, when asked about the paper shortage. "They told us they ran out of paper and it might take five days to get some." Williams, who texted his 20 or so funeral director members, says the potential impact of a death certificate shortage was dire.
Without certified copies of death certificates, families couldn't access bank accounts, file insurance claims, or access probate court. The families are often struggling financially, grieving and frustrated by any bureaucratic delay. And although funeral homes provide copies as a service to families, they wind up taking the heat.
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dying is easy. Its proving you are dead thats hard.
Yep. those government checks are good.
Keep them coming. (Whether or not deserved)
People dont understand that families become very upset when they cant get the certificate.
Hard as hell to get your hands on that cash, smooth things out dammit.
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That'll make it easier for them to keep voting.
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is within just a few points of avoiding a runoff from a Democratic challenger for New York City mayor, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll.
De Blasio is leading the Democratic pack with 36 percent of likely voters, near the 40 percent that would be needed to avoid a runoff. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn trails de Blasio with 21 percent, followed by 20 percent for former Comptroller Bill Thompson.
Former Rep. Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... has the support of 8 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, followed by 6 percent for Comptroller John Liu. Former Councilman Sal Albanese logs just 1 percent. Eight percent remain undecided.
The poll reflects a dramatic jump for de Blasio from one conducted on Aug. 13, in which he had 30 percent, with 24 percent for Quinn and 22 percent for Thompson. Weiner had 10 percent in that poll, and Liu 6.
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NYT poll: "Which kind of cancer would you be happiest to get?"
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The kind of cancer with light symptoms that can be cured, if you must know.
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de blasio has been endorsed by The Nation and he has many, many celeb endorsements
his platform
end stop and frisk
raise minimum raise
universal pre school
lots more 'affordable housing'
companies must provide paid sick leave and maternity leave
paid for by income surcharge on persons making more than half a million
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"paid for by income surcharge on persons making more than half a million"
Of course it will be.
Presuming there are any left after this is put into effect.
Idiots.
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[Xinhua] Turkey has rotated its ground-to- ground missiles toward Syria in the southern province of Hatay as it is ready for a possible military operation against the war-torn neighbor.
The Turkish army has deployed a number of missiles in Hatay's Kirikhan district and pointed Stinger and I-Hawk missiles toward Syria, according to English daily Today's Zaman.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... Mustafa Aydogdu, front man for the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate, said at a meeting in Istanbul that Turkey has sent some professional workers, who were trained to identify and decontaminate chemical weapons, to its border with Syria.
"We have increased our measures significantly since last week to prepare particularly in case of a chemical attack. We have experts who could deal with chemical attacks, and we have deployed almost all of them in Kilis, Hatay and Sanliurfa," he added.
Sharing 900 km border with Syria, Turkey hosts about 200,000 refugees from the neighbor and has been a staunch supporter of the opposition fighters against the Syrian government.
When President Erdogan stops being your BFF, he really means it. No more family picnics on the shore of the Mediterranean for you, Mister Assad!
Hyon Song-wol, a singer, rumoured to be a former lover of the North Korean leader, is said to have been arrested on Aug 17 with 11 others for violating laws against pornography.
Ah, so that's where Miley Cyrus got her inspiration!
The reports in South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper indicate that Hyon, a singer with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra Unhasu Orchestra, was among those arrested on August 17 for violating domestic laws on pornography. All 12 were machine-gunned three days later, with other members of North Korea's most famous pop groups and their immediate families forced to watch. The onlookers were then sent to prison camps, victims of the regime's assumption of guilt by association, the reports stated.
"They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra Unhasu Orchestra, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Wangjaesan Light Band and Electric Light Orchestra Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on," said a Chinese source reported in the newspaper.
Hyon's band was responsible for a string of patriotic hits in North Korea, including "The Lady was a Tramp" "Footsteps of Soldiers," "I Love Pyongyang," "She is a Discharged Soldier" and "We are Troops of the Party." Her popularity reportedly peaked in 2005 with the song "Excellent Horse-Like Lady."
The 12 who were executed were singers, musicians or dancers with the Hyon's band, the Lawrence Welk Orchestra Unhasu Orchestra or the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Wanghaesan Light Music Band and were accused of making videos of themselves performing sex acts and then selling the recordings. The reports stated that both groups have been disbanded as a result of the scandal.
No kidding, the new casting call pro'ly wouldn't go over so good...
Some of the musicians were also found to have bibles when they were detained and all were treated as political dissidents.
Suet Face Kim Jong-un, who became leader of North Korea after the sudden death of his father in December 2011, is believed to have met Hyon about 10 years ago and bonked her struck up a relationship.
His father, Kim Jong-il, did not approve of the relationship and ordered him to break it off.
"But I love her, Dad!"
"Love Shmove! She's taller than you!"
Hyon subsequently married an officer in the North Korean military and reportedly had a baby, although there are suggestions that Hyon continued to see Kim after her marriage.
"Oh Fat Boy, make me a woman!"
Kim's wife, Ri Sol-ju, was also a member of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra Unhasu Orchestra before marriage and one theory is that Ri objected to the continuing high profile of her husband's former girlfriend.
"It's her or me! Choose, you fat bastard!"
North Korea's Communist dictator reportedly purged his own step-mother, Kim Ok,
...who wasn't so okay after all...
from her post as a senior official in the Workers' Party Finance and Accounting Department as he sought to tighten his grip on power within the country. She was luckier than Kim Chol, vice minister of the army, who was executed with a mortar round in October 2012.
Kim Chol was reportedly executed for drinking and carousing during the official mourning period after Kim Jong-il's death. On the explicit orders of Fat Boy Kim Jong-un to leave "no trace of him behind, down to his hair," according to South Korean media, Kim Chol was forced to stand on a spot that had been zeroed in for a mortar round and "obliterated."
An expert on North Korean affairs believes the singer was executed for "political reasons."
As opposed to having big hair...
"If these people had only made pornographic videos, then it is simply not believable that their punishment was execution," Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo's Waseda University and an authority on North Korean affairs, told The Daily Telegraph. "They could have been made to disappear into the prison system there instead.
"There is a political reason behind this," he said, suggesting that the groups may have been leaning towards a rival faction in Pyongyang's shadowy political world.
"Or, as Kim's wife once belonged to the same group, it is possible that these executions are more about Kim's wife," Professor Shigemura added.
I guess Pudgy chose...
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Hyon's band was responsible for a string of patriotic hits in North Korea, including "The Lady was a Tramp" "Footsteps of Soldiers," "I Love Pyongyang," "She is a Discharged Soldier" and "We are Troops of the Party." Her popularity reportedly peaked in 2005 with the song "Excellent Horse-Like Lady."
there's reason enough right there
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"Excellent Horse-Like Lady."
Ode to Camilla Parker Bowles or Sarah Jessica Parker?
Snark of the day with a Red Star.
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Out of concern for her predecessors, I'll not be sharing this article w/ Mrs. Phester....
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Be careful Pudgy, if those physically close to you start to perceive you as a real immediate threat to their lives someone might pull the emergency brake.
A little rat poison in your sushi, oh divine leader?
A despot should always make sure that he's worth more alive rather than dead to those close to him.
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"Interfax quoted a source in the armed forces' general staff as saying Russia, Syria's most powerful ally, was deploying a missile cruiser from the Black Sea Fleet and a large anti-submarine ship from the Northern Fleet in the "coming days"
According to Jane's, the ASW ship doubles as a fleet tug for towing.
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The Moskva carries sixteen SS-N-12 Sandbox missiles. A rather nasty antiship missile, similar to the Harpoon.
The ship itself is an older design (recently overhauled), built according to the Soviet strategy of the "one fell swoop" attack. Hence what you see on deck is what you get.
[BBC.CO.UK] Police in India have tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... Yasin Bhatkal, the alleged head of the Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... (IM) bad turban group, which has been blamed for a string of recent attacks, officials say.
The group is thought to be behind deadly blasts in the cities of Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi.
Mr Bhatkal, who officials say is a co-founder of the home-grown group, is one of the most desperados in the country.
Reports say that he was enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! close to the border with Nepal.
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IIRC DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA PREPARING TIBET TO BE FUTURE WAR ZONE, agz India.
Allegedly to the tune of circa 30 PLA ArDivs, NOT counting PLAAF + "2nd Arty" - no big???
Artic read, BATTLE FOR CONTROL = ACCESS TO NE INDIA,+ ULTIMATELY BANGLADESH + MYANMAR.
SE Asia???
In this Man's GWOT, gener where Commies go Radical Islamists-Jihadists follow + vicey versey???
h/t Donald Sensisng
It's official. The scare is over. The World Federation of Scientists, at its annual seminars on planetary emergencies, has been advised by its own climate monitoring panel that global warming is no longer a planetary emergency.
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Every conservative politician everywhere should campaign on the premise of a massive clawback. Here in the US, RICO should be on the table...
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Global warming is still alive and kicking in pop culture. A generation of kids has been raised to regard it as revealed truth, and has neither the interest nor the education to ever challenge their total faith in the evils of CO2.
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Another Hoax Killed, Good Riddance.
NO globull (NOT misspelled) floods, No scorching wastelands, Nothing.
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just a minute
yes it is true that global temps haven't risen in 16 years or so but that, by itself, really doesn't mean there won't be a significant rise or a significant decrease for that matter, in the next 16 years
legitimate skepticism cuts both ways
the earth is overdue for a strong El Nino, if it comes and there is still no global temp rise, that will be a pretty strong piece of information
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I don't think the celebration over this news has anything to do with whether or not world climate is changing. Rather the good news is the public acknowledgement by yet another section of the scientific community that the entire AGW scare was a hoax.
The skepticism has to do with the self-aggrandising, self-enriching scare mongering. The "science" was totally bogus and therefore none of the conclusions of the Watermelon crowd have any validity.
That says nothing about the climate. THAT is still unknown. What is known is that Mann, Hanson and company lied.
"Figures don't lie, but, liars figure." - attributed to Mark Twain.
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We may have rising or falling temperatures because the earth does that. When Eric the Red discovered Greenland, it really was green, and the Danes were able to colonize it and even raise sheep and cattle there for 200 years. Then the Little Ice Age began, and the temperatures dropped and the Danes abandoned their colonies. Archaeologists examining the cemeteries in Greenland saw the effects of the temperature change in the decreased stature of 13th and 14th C Greenlanders, compared with the earlier settlers.
The research money should go to developing crops that can survive different levels of warming and cooling. If one of those Pacific Rim volcanoes blows, we could have several consecutive years without summer.
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Oh mom, you and your 1950 view point. Eric the Red Invaded Greenland, and sic'd sheeps and invasive plants upon it's virgin shoreline. This caused the the Great Cooling, a rejection of the Norse and built a fitting home for the kralings or was it skralings (Eskcimaux)? I'm never certain on these things. Anyway,don't peer past the Clovis layer.
Anyway, an early case of the earth itself rejecting the imperialist whiteman
[Al Ahram] A soccer club from Kazakhstan has been warned that it could face disciplinary action if it continues its ritual slaughter of sheep before matches.
Shakhter Karagandy killed a sheep last week at Astana Arena the day before beating Celtic 2-0 in the Champions League playoffs. In Glasgow, Scotland, before Wednesday's return match, Shakhter coach Viktor Kumykov suggested the ritual could be repeated.
European soccer's governing body says it informed Shakhter that animal slaughter is ''not acceptable in or around our competitions.'' UEFA says the Kazakh club would face sanctions if it happens again.
Shakhter is the lowest-ranked team remaining in the Champions League. It is aiming to reach the 32-team group stage for the first time.
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[Al Ahram] Interim President Adly Mansour has released a presidential decree on Wednesday changing the armed forces' oath of loyalty, removing from the old version the phrase "to be loyal to the president of the republic."
The new oath issued by decree number 562 for the year 2013 as published in the official gazette on Wednesday will be as follows:
"I swear to God to be a loyal soldier to the Republic of Egypt...protecting its security and peace...protecting and defending it on land, at sea or in air, inside and outside the republic...obeying military orders, implementing my leaders' orders, protecting my weapon which i will not leave until death...God is witness to what I say."
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[Dawn] THE State of Pakistain's Children 2012 quotes from the UN Secretary General's Report on Children in Armed Conflicts: "In 2011 there were 11 incidents of children being used in suicide kabooms by bad boy groups operating in the country (Pakistain). The attackers included 10 boys some as young as 13 years and a nine-year old girl."
The use of children in armed conflicts to fight the heinous wars of unscrupulous men has emerged as quite a common phenomenon worldwide. Young children are trained to use the gun and they are desensitised to human suffering so that life has no value for them. That is why they kill with impunity. Moreover, children are themselves victims of the violence and militancy that now grip Pakistain.
This is something very disturbing. It means that the cycle of violence will be perpetuated ad infinitum. Children who grow up in a violent environment become violent adults who accept death and destruction as something normal. Thus the cycle goes on from one generation to the next. This is not an ideal scenario for any society.
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Moslem Values. And heroism...don't forget the many fine examples of Moslem heroism.
And is there any truth that the word for dirty nigger " Kuffir " is related to the American Plantation word "Coffle."? You know, like in a chain gang coffle of slaves.
Arab word. Amazing.
And never forget Saudi is our friend and Pakistan is our American ally. Both countries known for their resolute courage and honesty.
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The Turkish soldiers were ferocious in the Korean War, according to my uncle. Absolutely hated and aggressively went after the Chinese at every opportunity.
He said that, after a while, all they had to do is issue a radio report over a clear channel that a Turkish Brigade was moving up and the Chinese broke camp and moved out.
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[Al Ahram] UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said Wednesday that UN inspectors needed four days to conclude a probe into chemical weapons use in Syria.
"My mandate and my responsibility at this time is to conduct a thorough and complete investigation," Ban told news hounds in The Hague. "Let them (inspectors) conclude their work for four days," he said, adding that their findings would then be analysed and the result sent to the UN Security Council.
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Translation: I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
[Al Ahram] PM Cameron said Britain would present a resolution 'condemning the chemical weapons attack by Assad' to a meeting of the Security Council's five permanent members on Wednesday
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Eight new cases of the deadly coronavirus Mers, a Sars-like infection, have been registered in Saudi Arabia, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday. Of the eight, two men from the capital Riyadh had died, the WHO said. Both had underlying medical conditions.
Three women and three men, all from Riyadh or the southern region of Asir, have also contracted the virus, which affects the respiratory system. In addition, a 38-year-old man who had been suffering from a lung infection died, the Saudi health ministry announced earlier on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia is the country worst hit by Mers, which has killed 49 people globally. A total of 102 cases have been registered.
Experts are struggling to understand Mers-- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome -- for which there is still no vaccine and which has an extremely high fatality rate of more than 51 per cent. It is considered a cousin of the Sars virus that erupted in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 people, nine per cent of whom died.
Like Sars, Mers is thought to have jumped from animals to humans, and it shares the former's flu-like symptoms -- but differs by also causing kidney failure.
According to research published this month in the American health journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Mers was transmitted to humans from bats. But a study in the Lancet found that the virus could have come from camels.
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Six people were killed in a bomb attack on a base operated by Polish and Afghan forces in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni on Wednesday, local officials and a Reuters witness said. The Taleban, which claimed responsibility for the base attack in which at least 34 others were wounded, said a suicide bomber detonated himself near a truck loaded with explosives.
The bombing wiped out the security posts and the first checkpoint while other fighters, armed with heavy and light weapons, managed to get inside and are firing at intended targets, Taleban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in an email.
Gunshots continued to ring into the night following the attack at around 4pm, Ghaznis deputy governor said. A Reuters witness saw column of black smoke rising from the base in the provincial capital.
At least four civilians and two police officers were killed in the fighting, according to local health official Baz Mohammad Hemat. Eight children and two women were among the 34 wounded.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, two attacks in Helmand province on Wednesday killed three soldiers, 10 Afghan civilians and wounded more than 20 other people, police and provincial officials said.
One of the attacks took place in Helmands provincial capital Lashkar Gah, where a suicide bomber blew himself up near a foreign troop convoy but without killing or wounding any of the soldiers targeted, a spokeswoman for the Nato-led force said.
In the second attack, on the outpost of Nad Ali in Helmand, a suicide bomber in a car killed three soldiers, officials said.
On Tuesday, in the western province of Farah, Taleban insurgents torched 40 trucks that supply Nato-led forces with fuel and killed six Afghan drivers, the provincial governors spokesman, Abdul Rahman Zhwanday, said.
And in Kabul, a suicide bomber targeted a government ministry, killing himself and one other person, according to security sources in the capital.
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[Al Ahram] A Kenyan official says at least 20 people were killed in violence among rival clans in Kenya's north.
Ukur Yattani, the governor of Kenya's Marsabit county, said Wednesday that automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades were used in festivities between the Borana and Gabbra clans. Yattani said the two groups as well as a third --the Burji-- have recently been fighting over water and pasture for their cattle.
Police front man Gatiria Mboroki said some houses were apparently set on fire but gave no corpse count.
Kenya has stringent gun laws, and obtaining a license is difficult. But illegal guns are smuggled into the country through mostly non-existent borders, especially from Somalia, Kenya's volatile neighbor to the north.
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As President Obama moved closer to taking military action against Syria, some leading members of Congress and foreign policy specialists called Tuesday for more debate of the options and their consequences to hold the Syrian regime accountable for its alleged use of chemical weapons.
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Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday in a speech to the American Legion. Those who use chemical weapons against defenseless men, women, and children should and must be held accountable.
Joe's comments and outrage alone should give us cause for further discussion and investigation.
[An Nahar] A Nigerian court on Wednesday ordered the extradition to the United States of a man accused of being a member of the al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen and assigned to find English-speaking recruits.
The suspect identified as Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi, aka "Abdullah" or "Ayatollah Mustapha", is alleged to be a member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and has been indicted on four charges in the United States, including supporting a foreign terrorist group.
"An order is hereby made that the respondent in this case, Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi ... be extradited to the United States of America to face the indictment against him," said Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the federal high court in Abuja ruled.
"It is also ordered that the respondent ... shall be surrendered to the officials of the United States of America not later than 15 days from the order of this court."
The 33-year-old Babafemi did not contest the extradition. His lawyer said he had been in the custody of Nigeria's intelligence agency for some two years.
Babafemi did not speak in court other than to confirm to the judge that he did not oppose the extradition.
According to court documents, Babafemi travelled to Yemen between January 2010 and August 2011 to train with the al-Qaeda group as well as to seek out senior members Anwar al-Awlaqi and Samir Khan.
Yemeni-born American radical holy man al-Awlaqi as well as Khan have since been killed in a drone strike.
In interviews with FBI agents, "Babafemi admitted travelling to Yemen," the court documents say.
They add that he said "AQAP members gave him ... approximately $8,600 in order to return to Nigeria and recruit English-speaking individuals to work in AQAP's English-language media operation".
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There's a rumor that suspect is also responsible for sending out all of the e-mails looking for an American for investment opportunities
[Ynet] The UN's atomic energy agency says Iran has prepared more than 1,000 advanced uranium enriching machines to be started up. The move raises concerns among countries that think Tehran wants to make nuclear arms.
A report released Wednesday from the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has put 1,008 of the advanced centrifuges under vacuum. Such a move is normally one of the last steps before the machines start spinning uranium gas into the material that can be used either as reactor fuel or as the core of nuclear warheads, depending on its enrichment level.
No more effective than under the iron hand of Md. El Baradei, but tremendously more honest. Which is something, I suppose.
[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... on Tuesday called for a change in the methods of "combating terrorism" in the country, slamming what he called the "chaos" that characterizes the relations among the various security agencies.
"Everyone knows that we had warned against the entry of Syrians and said that they must be registered because we can't host people whose political affiliations we don't know, even if they come from a neighboring country," Aoun said after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc in Rabiyeh.
"We also called for controlling the border and the illegitimate border crossings, but the survey (of refugees) and the controlling of the border and crossings did not happen and our calls fell on the deaf ears of the security officials," Aoun added.
He noted that the number of Syrian refugees has swollen to more than one million "and our ministers proposed plans to reach a solution that guarantees their return to their country."
Aoun recalled that he had told premier Najib Miqati "countless times" that it is unacceptable to "keep 400,000 civilians in 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... under the mercy of 400 gunnies."
Commenting on the latest audio message released by Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir, Aoun said the runaway Islamist holy man hinted that "no region will remain immune to attacks in the vein of what happened in Tripoli and Dahieh."
"We will be targeted and we are not better than the others citizens. Had there not been conspiracies involving domestic parties, security measures would have accompanied the escalation on the border, but unfortunately the 'occupied minds' cannot decide anything unless it serves the interest of the occupier," Aoun added.
"Terrorists and Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s begin small, just like plants, before they grow bigger and the same can be said about the terrorist Takfiri cells, but state officials are saying that they can't do anything," he lamented.
"We had stressed the need to address terrorism and terrorists, who find a safe haven in society which offers them a cover and rejects any attempt to capture them," the FPM leader went on to say.
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[Ynet] Paleostinians threw five Molotov cocktails at IDF forces near Al-Hader not far from Bethlehem.
In a different incident, a number of hours earlier, Paleostinians threw seven Molotov cocktails at an IDF force near Al-Arub, also in the Bethlehem area. No one was harmed and no damaged was sustained.
The "natives" are getting restless. It's the zeitgeist, poor things, they can't help themselves.
[Ynet] The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations. The designation has allowed police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
Since the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD has opened at least a dozen "terrorism enterprise investigations" into mosques. The TEI is a police tool intended to help investigate terrorist cells. Designating an entire mosque as a terrorism enterprise means that anyone who attends prayer services is a potential subject of the investigation and fair game for surveillance.
Designating an entire mosque as a terrorism enterprise means that anyone who attends prayer services there is a potential subject of an investigation and fair game for surveillance.
Many TEIs stretch for years, allowing surveillance to continue even though the NYPD has never criminally charged a mosque or Islamic organization with operating as a terrorism enterprise.
The documents show in detail how, in its hunt for terrorists, the NYPD investigated countless innocent New York Mohammedans and put information about them in secret police files. As a tactic, opening an enterprise investigation on a mosque is so potentially invasive that while the NYPD conducted at least a dozen, the FBI never did one, according to interviews with federal law enforcement officials.
The strategy has allowed the NYPD to send undercover officers into mosques and attempt to plant informants on the boards of mosques and at least one prominent Arab-American group in Brooklyn, whose executive director has worked with city officials, including Bill de Blasio, a front-runner for mayor.
The revelations about the NYPD's massive spying operations are in documents recently obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named and part of a new book, ''Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America.'' The book by AP news hounds Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman is based on hundreds of previously unpublished police files and interviews with current and former NYPD, CIA and FBI officials.
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Well, given the feds flubbed the warnings into 9/11, redux Fort Hood, why wouldn't you do your own security work if you have a source of credible threat (see Blind Sheif, first Trade Center bombing). PC'ism in the Beltway has gotten thousands killed by now.
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Yes "flubbed the warnings into 9/11" and....following the initial Boston bombing, reportedly forgot to inform the NYPD of the Tsarnaev bros. follow-on NYC target folder.
I'd love to have a beer or two with NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
[An Nahar] Britannia will not take military action against the Syrian regime before United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... inspectors report back on evidence of chemical weapons attacks, according to a motion published by the government Wednesday that is set to be put to a parliamentary vote.
Lawmakers are due to vote on Britannia's response to the attacks on Thursday but any military action will require a further vote of parliament's House of Commons after the U.N. experts report back, according to the motion.
The U.N. Security Council, of which Britannia is a permanent member, should be immediately briefed as soon as the inspections are complete and then "every effort" should be made to secure a resolution from the Security Council backing military action, the motion said.
"The United Nations Security Council must have the opportunity immediately to consider that briefing and that every effort should be made to secure a Security Council Resolution backing military action before any such action is taken," it stated.
"Before any direct British involvement in such action a further vote of the House of Commons will take place."
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Finally, the voice and logic of the late David Kelly at least partially vindicated. All of this may soon get very interesting.
[An Nahar] Less than two years after sweeping to power, Morocco's ruling Islamists look increasingly isolated, abandoned by their main coalition ally, criticized by the king and with similar movements challenged.
The Party of Justice and Development shot to power for the first time after triumphing in 2011 parliamentary polls that followed the Arab Spring protests sweeping the country, bringing hopes of change.
But the party's leader, Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, has struggled to end a political crisis triggered by the nationalist Istiqlal Party's withdrawal from the coalition last month.
"There are many indications that the fall of the government is only a question of time," said the Arabic daily Akhbar al-Youm.
While Istiqlal had made its intentions known as far back as May, accusing the PJD of failing to shore up the economy and solve pressing social problems, the crisis became a reality when five of its ministers resigned in July.
Benkirane has since been locked in negotiations to replace them and avoid early elections, notably with the National Rally of Independents, a party that opposed the government program adopted last year, making it an awkward ally for the Islamists.
"Politics is the art of the possible, and our conflict with this party could not last forever," Benkirane told young members of the PJD on Sunday, asking that they support his decisions.
A source close to the negotiations told Agence La Belle France Presse they could be concluded by mid-September.
Communications minister and PJD stalwart Mustapha Khalfi insists the political crisis has not undermined the government's program.
But the Islamist-led coalition has faced a barrage of criticism, especially for failing to push through much-needed social reforms, notably on costly pensions and subsidies, and to fix its ailing public finances.
The country last year faced a budget deficit of more than seven percent of GDP.
Charges against the PJD echo criticism of other Islamist movements in the region empowered by Arab Spring uprisings, notably Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund, whose Mohammed Morsi was deposed as president in a military coup last month, and Tunisia's Ennahda party.
Since the end of 2011, "we have been governed by guess-work and amateurism," lamented L'Economiste, a French-language Moroccan daily.
Separately, the PJD came under renewed pressure last week following critical comments by King Mohammed VI about the government's education policy, stoking frustration within the party.
But Benkirane remained silent on the matter, studiously avoiding any public conflict with the king, whose blessing is a pre-requisite of any future coalition.
"The king is above us. Our battle is instead with those tyrannical forces that want to get their hands on the country's riches," he said.
His criticism was directed at Istiqlal and another PJD rival, the Party for Authenticity and Modernity, founded in 2008 by a figure close to the king.
Developments elsewhere in North Africa have not worked in favor of Islamist parties elected after the popular uprisings that swept the region in 2011.
Earlier this month, PJD ministers avoided taking part in a demonstration in Rabat in support of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund, which has been subjected to a bloody army crackdown since Mohammed Morsi's ouster.
But numerous members of the Moroccan party attended the 10,000-strong protest, and at the weekend, the party's youth wing also demonstrated its support for the Egyptian Islamists.
Political analyst Mohamed Tozy says parties like the PJD have had to learn tough lessons about the realities of power, and cannot take their voters' support for granted.
"As the Islamists are discovering everywhere, people are versatile. Even if they win on a religious program, daily concerns can prompt a change of heart," he told AFP.
For now, Benkirane appears confident that his party's relative popularity will prevail.
"If negotiations to form a new coalition fail, I will go to His Majesty," he said, indicating that he would be willing to contest fresh elections.
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Since the end of 2011, "we have been governed by guess-work and amateurism"
[Al Ahram] Rebel Campaign, Strong Egypt Party and Free Egyptians have denounced preparations for an international military intervention in Syrian territory; Rebel spokesperson says Egypt must not allow use of Suez Canal in any attack
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[MAGHAREBIA] The head of the explosives unit of the Benghazi security directorate was shot and killed last Friday (August 23rd) while on his way to the mosque with his young son.
Forty-six-year-old Colonel Mustafa Aqila al-Maghribi first worked in the Criminal Investigation Department, then in the detection dogs unit before moving on to the detection and demining of explosives division.
According to policeman Mohamed Mohi, when al-Maghribi noticed a car following him, he told his young son to go to the mosque alone.
"At that moment, a number of masked men got out of the car and shot at him twice. One hit him in the shoulder. Then they chased him and shot him dead," Mohi said.
Al-Maghribi had been responsible for defusing a large number of bombs around the country, most recently a bomb outside Benghazi's Tibesti hotel, LANA reported.
"We have some leads with regard to those responsible for the liquidations and bombings," Benghazi Joint Security Room spokesperson Colonel Abdullah Zaidi said. "We captured some, and an interrogation concerning terrorism activities is on-going."
"In my opinion, what is happening are random incidents because every attack has specific details unique to a particular region. The targeted victims are usually unknown figures such as the liquidation of a judge, aged 79 and also Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Aqila, who is not known to the average citizen," Zaidi added.
He said that "some of the boom-mobileings were triggered by mobile phones with ringtones praising Moamer Qadaffy".
"An officer was murdered because he uncovered a shipment of drugs; here, obviously, the culprit is a narco gang. The latest is the entry of two gunnies into Jalaa Hospital. One of them threw a bomb in one of the corridors and was maimed when he was hit by gunshot after an exchange of fire with coppers at the hospital," the colonel told Magharebia.
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[An Nahar] The Army Intelligence is questioning several suspects, including Lebanese nationals, in connection with the rocket attack on the town of Yarze in June, media reports said Wednesday.
"The Lebanese army conducted raids in Kesrouan and placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! the Lebanese national Sh. Sh., who hails from the town of Mairouba, in addition to the Lebanese citizens A. M. and A. A., who hail from Kesrouan, and the Syrians M. A., H. K., A. D., M. K., A. D. and A. K.," al-Jadeed television quoted a security source as saying.
According to the TV network, it has been confirmed that the rockets were bought from the Burj al-Barajneh Paleostinian refugee camp, although the political party that sold them remains unknown.
"Interrogations are underway, especially with the placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Lebanese to determine whether or not they belong to one of the political parties that are active in the region," the source added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... LBCI television said "nine Syrian suspects have been arrested in connection with the case of the Ballouneh rockets and preliminary investigations revealed that two or three of them were aware that the operation will take place."
Al-Manar television said the target of the rockets was the headquarters of the Defense Ministry in Yarze.
According to state-run National News Agency, Judge Saqr Saqr, the government's commissioner to the Military Court, is overseeing the investigations.
Earlier, al-Joumhouria daily said the members of the network, which had fired a rocket from Ballouneh in the early hours of Friday June 21, are Syrians.
But al-Akhbar newspaper reported that the network's members are Paleostinian and Lebanese, saying they bought the rockets from the Burj al-Barajneh camp.
Reports had said that they intended to target the Defense Ministry in Yarze. But one rocket hit a high-voltage power line in a nearby town and a second rocket failed to launch.
The launchpads were found in Ballouneh.
On August 1, two rockets fired from an area near the town of Aramoun in Aley struck locations near the presidential palace in Baabda.
A rocket landed in the garden of the Freiha villa that is located near the Officers' Club in the Baabda area. While the second rocket landed near the Khashoqji castle in nearby Yarze.
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[Ynet] Arab Media report second chemical attack in Damascus. Assad affiliates say if Syria is attacked it would strike Israel.
Arab media reported Wednesday that another chemical attack struck Syrian territory, injuring several people in the Jobar neighborhood in eastern Damascus.
According to Al Jazeera, the number of injured was 20, whereas Al-Arabiya reported of nine. Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... in Israel the governmental security cabinet convened to discuss probable military strike on Syria.
Media also reported of a blast in the al Mujahedeen neighborhood, also in the Syrian capital. The circumstances of the blast are still unclear.
Syria's opposition coalition said on Tuesday Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... 's forces had dropped phosphorus bombs and napalm on civilians in rural Aleppo on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens.
Video footage uploaded on the Internet, apparently of Monday's attack, showed doctors frantically smearing white cream on the reddened skin of several screaming people, many of them young boys. "Assad's military aircraft have hit populated areas with the internationally prohibited phosphorus bombs and napalm," the opposition coalition said in a statement.
According to a Tuesday Foreign Policy magazine, US intelligence has intercepted an urgent phone call placed by a senior Syrian Defense Ministry official with a commander in a chemical weapons unit.
According to the report, the official contacted the commander to demand answers for the alleged chemical attack that killed more than 1,000 people in a Damascus suburb August 21. The call is the US' main proof that Assad's regime is responsible for the attack.
The UN-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said Wednesday it was clear a chemical substance had been used in an August 21 attack in the war-torn country, killing hundreds of people.
Speaking to news hounds in Geneva about the suspected chemical attack, Brahimi said "it does seem some kind of substance was used that killed a lot of people. Hundreds. Definitely more than 100, some people say 300, some people say 600, maybe 1,000, maybe more than 1,000 people."
Assad affiliates insinuate Scud attack on Israel
Kuwait paper Al Rai has quoted sources close to Syrian President Bashir al-Assad as hinting that the embattled regime would attack Israel if Western forces launch an attack on its territory.
"Iraqi Scuds flew thousands of kilometers to reach Israel while Syrian missiles are no more than 50 km away from Israel's most sensitive facilities," the source said.
"If Israel wants to retaliate to a Syrian attack, the regime's response will go further because it has nothing to lose," he added, noting "A drowning man is not afraid to get wet."
It's a counterintuitive world we live in, Brethren and Sistern.
[Al Ahram] Anticipating a Western-led military strike on Syria's regime, Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... warned Wednesday that any such intervention must include every possible effort to protect the civil war torn nation's civilians. Three or four hundred people exterminated like cockroaches, and they tell us to be careful not to hurt anybody?
The US-based rights group stressed it was not taking up a position on possible military action, which Washington and other Western powers have hinted was due after alleged poison gas attacks last week near Damascus. Thank them most to death. They have to be careful not to criticize Champ while at the same time criticizing the rest of us...
But "if there is a military intervention, all warring parties must strictly adhere to the laws of war," which forbid deliberate attacks against civilians and the use of weapons such as cluster munitions or antipersonnel landmines, the group said. If all parties had adhered to the laws of war no civilians woulda been gassed.
"Military action carried out in the name of upholding a basic humanitarian norm -- you don't gas children in their sleep -- will be judged by its effect in protecting all Syrian civilians from further unlawful attacks, whether chemical or conventional," HRW executive director Kenneth Roth said in a statement. Had a little difficulty speaking around the unmelted butter in his mouth, I'll betcha.
The group said all parties involved, including Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's Light of the Alawites... forces and the rebels fighting to oust them, should adhere to laws of war. Doh.
Any forces involved in military action against Syria should also consider "the additional humanitarian needs" created by such attacks, noted the group, which also urged provision of aid even if Damascus objected.
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Any of these basic humanitarian people planning to go themselves? No they want somebody else to do it. Ya Allah that.
I have a good idea...lets watch the A-rabs themselves go make Syria play nice. A big coalition of morally outraged righteous Moslems from all over the entire Middle East rising up as one man to bring rectitude to Assad and make the values of Islam shine, send in the legendary Lions of Islam.
OR we could sell poison gas to BOTH sides. How about that? No seriously.Obama isn't going to do jack but wave his weiner and retire to the rear. You better hope its not your rear.
[Al Ahram] Youness Makhioun, president of the Salafist Nour Party, has reiterated his party's support for the army-backed roadmap for Egypt's future.
"The Egyptian armed forces are a red line," he stated on Wednesday during a joint presser with Ahmed El-Mohammedanani, Presidential Media Advisor and front man.
"It is a patriotic army and anyone who hopes for its fall is a traitor," Makhioun added.
Supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi have repeatedly circulated rumours over splits within the army in protest of Morsi's ouster. Such suggestions have been strenuously denied by the armed forces who have not showed any signs of disunity.
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jeez there's "red lines" all over the place
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I came to you, when I needed a blast
You took my guns, and put them to the test
I saw some things, I never would have guessed
I feel like a grenade, I threw the whole pin behind
The ol' red line is a friend of mine
And its bad war we've been makin'
Right now I'm rollin' down from old Cairo
And the rebels will soon be breaking.
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The French appear to be doing what the French do as well. Nice to see Champ hanging out there. Perhaps discreet flower sack bombing could send the needed message.
In other news: Appears US Intelligence [or somebody's intelligence] has discovered that AQ elements in and around Benghazi, are training terrs for deployment to the ranks of the Syrian rebels. The alleged trainers are reported to have been involved in the Benghazi attack.
Mebe this is why we no longer need to maintain Klingon monitoring of the Benghazi suspect.
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The Krauts are smiling at the Bear, and are now backing off as well. The Champ and his Shadow Gov't PR department are so fok'd. If he goes it, it would appear he goes it alone.
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Not obliged to consult the legislature? Bull.
Its not like we are scrambling to counter a second wave at Pearl Harbor, this sabre has been rattling for some time. Obama wants his war, he should have been ahead of the game and already had his approval from Congress instead of clowning around the golf course at Mah-thah's Vin yahd.
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#9 It's too late for that strike plan anyways.
Oh, I don't know. We still have good OPSEC if the Syrians don't read the papers, watch TV, listen to the radio, stay off from the interwebs, or listen to rumors.
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Maybe Obama should have been nicer to the Brits. The UK, Australia and Canada, basically the Commonwealth, have been solid Allies for the past 100 years. Obama is isolating us from our traditional Anglophile allies. This will not end well.
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Obama is isolating us from our traditional Anglophile allies. This will not end well.
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He and his shadow gov't see our 'Anglophile allies' [and a large portion of the US] quite differently LEO. They view peoples and issues through the lenses of Zuma and Mugabe.
"You know frankly, going to war without France AND the One® is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leavehave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind." ...regrets to Jed Babbin
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President could just announce that the inspectors found no evidence and let Assad (and himself) off the hook. Only Assad would really know he got away with it (if he did). Far better to let it slip than to bomb anyway because of some off the cuff nonsense remark.
[An Nahar] Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi said Wednesday that Syria will turn into a "graveyard of the invaders" in case of a Western military intervention.
Syria will "surprise the aggressors as it surprised them in" the 1973 Yom Kippur war, when Arab forces caught Israel off guard, and become "the graveyard of the invaders," he said, quoted by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
The "colonialist threats" of Western powers "do not terrorize us because of the will and determination of the Syrian people, who will not accept being humiliated," Halqi said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad said the West had pushed anti-regime rebels to use poison gas, while blaming it on the government, as a pretext for a U.S.-led military intervention.
"The terrorist groups used sarin gas in several areas of the country... with the encouragement of the Americans, the British and French," Muqdad told news hounds.
"The encouragement of these Western countries must stop because by defending these terrorists... these groups will soon turn their chemical arms against the people of Europe."
Muqdad was speaking after a meeting with U.N. disarmament envoy Angela Kane, the leader of a team of U.N. weapons inspectors.
Syria's ambassador to the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... , Bashar al-Jaafari, meanwhile, told the state news agency SANA that rebels had used chemical arms to provoke a Western intervention.
He also said that dozens of Syrian soldiers inhaled poison gas in new incidents in his country and called on the U.N. to investigate.
Ambassador Jaafari told news hounds he had asked U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... to extend the mandate of a U.N. chemical weapons team now in Syria to include the "heinous" new incidents.
He said "dozens" of Syrian soldiers were being treated in hospitals after the incidents on August 22, 24 and 25 in the Damascus suburbs. Jaafari gave no other details.
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[An Nahar] Fugitive Islamist holy man Ahmed al-Asir on Tuesday warned Christians that bombings might target their areas, citing Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... 's latest speech, in which he said that Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s might target any Lebanese region with the aim of inciting strife.
In a new audio recording uploaded to the Internet, Asir extended condolences to "our people in 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... , (Syria's) Ghouta and Egypt," in reference to the twin bombings that left 45 people dead and more than 500 injured in the northern city and the alleged chemical attack near Damascus.
"Every prudent person has become deeply convinced that the Iranian-Syrian camp and their tools in the region are behind this criminal act (in Tripoli) and at least they are the prime suspects," Asir, on the run since the deadly Abra battle, added.
"This camp is the prime suspect in this crime, whether it was executed by (Hizbullah), the Syrian Social (National Party), the Baath (Party) or the likes of (locked away Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! ex-minister Michel) Samaha," Asir went on to say.
"It is important not to cover up the truth as some have tried to do thinking that they would be protecting Leb from strife," he added.
Asir stressed that no one can convince Tripoli's residents that Nasrallah's speech had nothing to do with the deadly bombings, noting that attacks cannot put an end to their support for the Syrian uprising.
The runawayholy man said Nasrallah "must be held fully responsible for what happened in Leb and what is happening at the moment, whether against his sect or against the other sects."
"I tell our Christian partners to be very cautious because (kabooms) in the vein of of what happened in Tripoli and Dahieh might target their streets so that Nasrallah can prove his words that no city or sect will remain safe and that the Lebanese must defend themselves against Takfiris," Asir added.
Sheikh Ahmed al-Gharib -- a suspect who has been locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in connection with the Tripoli blasts and a member of a pro-Syria Islamist group -- has confessed to his prior knowledge of the bombings and to Syria's involvement in the attacks, according to a report published in al-Joumhouria newspaper on Tuesday.
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[Pak Daily Times] Kashmiri rebels are threatening an "unprecedented" surge in attacks on Indian targets as deadly skirmishes imperil any rapprochement between Pakistain's new government and New Delhi.
A fresh influx of battle-hardened fighters is ready to flood the disputed Himalayan territory, where India and Pakistain have fought two wars, from Afghanistan when NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troops quit next year.
Syed Salahudeen, the head of United Jihad Council, an umbrella organization of groups fighting against Indian rule in Kashmire, said "thousands" of rebels would move across from Afghanistan.
"The coming months and years will see a tremendous surge in mujahedeen's activities" in Indian-held Kashmire (IHK), he told AFP.
"The encounter between mujahedeen and Indian forces will enhance to an unprecedented level. The increase in attacks will be enormous and Indian forces will face huge losses."
Regular deadly exchanges of fire across the heavily militarised Line of Control (LoC) have killed 11 people since August 5 and sent tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours soaring.
The latest spate of festivities began when five Indian soldiers were killed in a raid that New Delhi blamed on the Pak military. The attack came shortly after 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... took office, promising to improve ties with India.
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[An Nahar] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... is trying to portray the image of a calm and determined leader ready to confront any challenge, as the West mulls military action against his regime.
"At the presidential palace, everything is calm today and work goes on as usual. There's no sign of nervousness. The same goes for the army headquarters. They will fight to the end," a Syrian businessmen familiar with the ruling elite told Agence La Belle France Presse on Wednesday.
"The president is carrying on with his activities and receiving advisers. You won't see any trace of tiredness or stress. He tries to show that he's in control of the situation."
An ophthalmologist by training, Assad, 47, inherited the Syrian leadership upon the death of his iron-fisted father Hafez Assad in 2000.
Now faced with the biggest threat to his rule, the younger Assad has said several times he will not step down before his mandate expires in 2014.
A European diplomat who often visits Damascus said the president insists he is "innocent of the charges leveled against him," in particular the suspected chemical weapons attack near Damascus last week.
"(He considers) the threat of Western air strikes proof that this is an international plot promoted by Israel," he added.
According to the diplomat, Assad "will appeal to Syrian nationalist sentiment by insisting on the 'aggression' of the West against the Arab world, and by presenting himself as a victim."
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Russia and China have his back in a kerfuffle with a CiC (spit) whose spine is derived from and used only upon approval by ValJar after all the political blowback she can imagine has been weighed.
Excepting a wildcard played as a result of an anticipated reveal of Zeros emasculation, I'd be pretty calm as well....
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He's a spiteful little thug who has just had his bluff called. Send him back to the minors until he knows how to put his big boy pants on and swing the bat like a man.
Unrelated: His skin color is looking a bit gray of late. Could those Lucky Strikes be working ?
[An Nahar] Hizbullah stepped up its readiness and raised the level of preparations as the Western warships had entered the Mediterranean Sea, the Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper reported on Wednesday, pointing out that the party will not standstill and watch the axis of resistance in danger.
High-ranking sources in Hizbullah told the daily that the party's leadership is "closely following up the solo western decision which over-passed the U.N. Security Council."
The sources said that Hizbullah is "interested to know whether the strike is to discipline the Syrian regime or to break the balance of power with the opposition."
Officials previously confirmed the U.S. Navy has four warships armed with cruise missiles on standby in the eastern Mediterranean.
"If the U.S. and Britannia decided to military intervene in Syria to turn the balance of powers in Syria, then Hizbullah rejects to stand idle as the axis of resistance is in danger," the sources continued.
The sources pointed out that any reaction by Hizbullah is based on the common fate with the Syrian regime.
U.S. forces are gearing up to strike Syria, though the West insists its goal is not regime change but to punish Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's government for unleashing chemical warfare on civilians.
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[Ynet] Egyptian authorities incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! five Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members for suspicion of involvement in the massacre of 25 coppers in Sinai last week.
Three Sinai residents and three foreign nationals were also arrested, the report added.
Hmmm. Not named as Gazans, but as actual Hamasniks. Things are looking worse and worse for those innocent terrorists running that little extrusion that used to be Egypt.
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Yeah, "Bitchin' Betty" is there to prompt when the airspeed and power settings would indicate that a landing is imminent, but the tires are still in the wells. Kind of a pain in the a$$ when doing low-level work (photography, powerline patrols, scoping out clothing-optional beaches etc.), but doubt that the FAA would look kindly on some kind of duct tape fix. The Radar Altimeter fed her some info about altitude as well.
A woman's voice, btw, is used because, as any married man looking to maintain domestic tranquility knows, it receives attention more readily than a males....
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A woman's voice, btw, is used because, as any married man looking to maintain domestic tranquility knows, it receives attention more readily than a males....
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GPS voice over on family car got on my nerves recently and I yelled at it to 'Stop bitchin' Betty.' Forgot Mom-in-law ( Betty) was riding w/ us.....(can you say awkward?)
[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisia on Tuesday (August 27th) officially designated hard-line salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends... as a terrorist organization tied to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
"This will lead to certain consequences on the security, justice and media levels, and also on the international co-operation level," Prime Minister Ali Larayedh told the press.
Larayedh implicated the group in the massacre of soldiers in Jebel Chaambi, and the murders of opposition politicians Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi.
Ansar al-Sharia was preparing for more liquidations, he said.
The move to classify the group as a terror organization was based on confessions by incarcerated Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! members to involvement in Tunisia attacks, as well as seized evidence, the premier added.
"This decision will be the basis for dealing with this group by the security and military institutions, and I hope the same will be with the Tunisian media," he said.
Larayedh explained the structure of Ansar al-Sharia. The first part "collects information", while the second "carries out terrorist operations and stores weapons".
Ansar al-Sharia is one of the most hard-line Islamic groups in Tunisia. Since its emergence following the January 14th revolution, it launched several terrorist attacks and was responsible for several acts of violence in the country. It does not recognise the state or man-made laws and calls for creating an Islamic caliphate applying Sharia.
Larayedh also blamed the group for weapons proliferation in the country, accused it of owning weapons storage networks, and attempting to seize power.
The prime minister went on to warn those who think about joining the group, noting that they would be held legally accountable.
"As of this date, all those who belong to that organization will be fully responsible for belonging to a terrorist organization," he said.
"There will be no truce with terrorism or with those who take up arms against society and state institutions regardless of sacrifices," he added.
He also said that Tunisia had issued an international arrest warrant for Ansar al-Sharia leader Abou Iyadh (real name Seif Allah Ibn Hussein). Last March, Larayedh blamed Abou Iyadh for violence in the country.
The authorities accuse Abou Iyadh of involvement in the September 14th attack on the US Embassy in Tunis. He's been wanted for months by Tunisian security.
As for Ansar al-Sharia, the bad turban group has threatened retaliation for the terror designation.
The radical group plans to release videos damaging to Ennahda and the Congress for the Republic (CPR), Tunisie Numerique reported on August 28th, citing Le Maghreb.
Ennahda has faced criticism from some quarters for not moving fast enough to confront the terrorist threat to Tunisia.
According to the president of the Dar al-Hadith Association, Sheikh Farid Béji, Ansar al-Sharia is an armed, terrorist, illegal organization because it accuses people of kufr and does not believe in other opinions.
Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) media spokesperson Sami Tahri described the Tunisian government's decision to designate Ansar al-Sharia a terrorist organization as positive.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Doaba police on a tip-off raided a house in Sarokhel area of the district and apprehended three gunnies while they were making bombs. Three placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! gunnies were identified as Israfeel, Mujibur Rehman and Siddiqullah. The police confiscated 3,350 grammes of explosives, one detonator, tapes, batteries and other material from them. Hangu District Police Officer Sajjad Khan reiterated his resolve to stamp out terrorism from the area and to protect lives and properties of the people. He said that gunnies held in the raid wanted to use the explosives in a terror activity and due to the timely action of police they were captured. Sajjad Khan said that support of people was vital, as the menace of terrorism could not be wiped out without their support.
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[Libya Herald] Unood Senussi, the daughter of Qadaffy's former spy chief Abdullah Senussi, is to be released from prison, after serving ten months for entering Libya on a false passport.
Justice Minister Salah Al-Marghani said yesterday at a presser that "special procedures" had been started in preparation for Senussi's release. He said that because she had served her jail term, Senussi would be released as soon as these procedures had been completed.
Senussi was placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! at the Cleopatra Hotel in the Dahra district 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... in October last year with a passport which omitted her family name, and a large quantity of US dollars.
The passport bore her first names, Unood Abdallah Mohammed, but left out the family name of Senussi. Her arrest came just hours after she flew into Libya from Algeria, where she had been living since the outbreak of the revolution. It is understood that she was recognised at Tripoli airport.
In court Senussi pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." and her lawyers claimed that there had been a mix-up with her name on the passport.
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Ummm, he was placed in durance vile AT A HOTEL?
Mighty comfy "Jail".
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[Ynet] At least two supporters of Egypt's deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi were killed in festivities with residents and security forces in the southern city of Beni Suef late on Tuesday, a security source said.
Dozens were maimed when locals started fighting with hundreds of Islamist protesters marching through the city, and then government forces intervened to try and stop the violence, the source told Rooters. State newspaper al-Ahram cited a medical source as saying the two people were killed by live ammunition.
Making friends and influencing people in the inimitable MB way.
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[Al Ahram] The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Wednesday condemned alleged poison gas attacks in Syria, blaming the government and calling for "decisive action" in response.
"Let's you and him fight!"
The world's largest grouping of Mohammedan nations "stressed the need to hold the Syrian government legally and morally accountable for this heinous crime and to bring its perpetrators to justice".
The OIC called on the UN "Security Council to discharge its duty of preserving international security and stability, taking a unified position against this monstrous crime and its perpetrators.
"This attack is a blatant affront to all religious and moral values and a deliberate disregard of international laws and norms, which requires a decisive action," it said in a statement.
OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said he "remains convinced of the need to urgently work out a political solution to extricate Syria from this bloody crisis and to restore peace and security in the country."
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The best idea I've heard about Syria is this:
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan have large well equipped armed forces. If they want Assad out they have the power to do it without involving anyone from the west.
Oh, they're afraid of Iran and Russia? Too bad, so sad.........I'll make the pop-corn.
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Of those I'd only care about the Jordanians opinion. Their ear is 2nd only to The Wally and have a keen sense of what it takes to live with a bunch of rough and rowdy neighbors. If they ask for help go, but I bet they won't ask in this instance.
[Al Ahram] Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi on Wednesday accused Western countries of "inventing" excuses to take military action against Syria over its alleged chemical weapons attacks.
"Western countries, starting with the United States, are inventing fake scenarios and fictitious alibis to intervene militarily in Syria," he said, quoted by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
In the meantime, Jordan's King Abdullah II and Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... called Wednesday for a "comprehensive" solution in Syria, as Washington and its allies considered military action against the kingdom's northern neighbour.
"The king and Abbas discussed the Syrian crisis and urged a comprehensive solution to the crisis that would end the suffering of the Syrian people," a palace statement said after the two leaders met in Amman.
Jordan's Information Minister Mohammad , whose country is a key US ally, reiterated on Wednesday that the kingdom would not be used as "a launchpad" for any military intervention in Syria.
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[An Nahar] Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour on Tuesday telephoned Syrian FM Walid Muallem and discussed with him "the latest developments and threats against Syria," amid reports of an imminent military strike against the Syrian regime, Leb's National News Agency reported.
"This dangerous situation requires an emergency meeting of the (Lebanese) cabinet, or at least a ministerial meeting, to discuss the threats that are being launched against Syria and the possibility of a military strike against it and the direct repercussions on Leb," Mansour told NNA.
"Such an emergency meeting would enable Leb to confront these challenges or limit their consequences," he said.
Mansour added that the cabinet must convene to address "the dangerous situations although it is acting in caretaker capacity."
Earlier on Tuesday, Mansour warned that a war against Syria will have negative repercussions on the entire region.
"Leb will not remain silent if Israel exploited a strike against Syria to attack Hizbullah in the South," he noted.
"The resistance and army protect Leb and the country has a natural right to defend its land," Mansour stressed.
"Despite its fighting in Syria, the resistance is ready at any time to face any assault," he explained.
"The resistance was formed to defend Leb and its land alongside the army," he remarked.
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More than two decades ago, President George H.W. Bush decided he would rid the world of chemical weapons. The United Nations Chemical Weapons Convention has had the predictable result that the United States has eliminated all such arms in its arsenal, leaving only bad guys like Mr. Assad with stockpiles of Sarin nerve gas and other toxic chemical weapons.
No one can say for sure whether the threat of retaliation in kind would have affected recent calculations about the use of such weapons in Syria. What we do know is that they have been used, evidently repeatedly, in the absence of such a deterrent.
Unfortunately, Mr. Obama seems determined to repeat this dangerous experiment with Americas nuclear forces. He has made it national policy to rid the world of these weapons. As with our chemical stockpile, Mr. Obama seems determined to set an example in the hope that others will follow.
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It's like the gun grabbers. They fail to understand that to reduce the number of guns in society, the way is to provide an environment where the citizenry believes that it will receive real security and justice, not propaganda. Short of that, the citizenry will look to its own. No different for the world. If nations can expect real security and justice, then arms become less of an issue. Real history, not to be confused with 'social justice' Marxist theory, shows that such a sustainable condition is very unlikely for generations, if at all. The Euros came close but only through military welfare from the Americans, which as with all things, is quickly run out, along with the dollars that sustained it.
[An Nahar] Three peacekeepers have been shot and maimed in Sudan's East Darfur region, the mission said on Tuesday, the second attack this month against Blue Helmets in the same area.
The incident occurred on Monday in the region where, according to the U.N., fighting between two Arab tribes this month killed 190 people.
An "unknown gang" attacked a patrol of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -U.N. Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) about 36 kilometers (22 miles) northeast of the East Darfur state capital Ed Daein, said Rania Abdulrahman, a UNAMID media officer.
"During the firefight three peacekeepers sustained gunshot wounds," she told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Reinforcements from the UNAMID base in Ed Daein "repelled the attackers," while the maimed peacekeepers were taken to Ed Daein for treatment, Abdulrahman added.
On August 12 a UNAMID police patrol was ambushed in Ed Daein but there were no injuries, UNAMID said earlier.
The region surrounding the town was the scene of fighting between the Rezeigat and Maaliya tribes this month.
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[Al Ahram] More than a dozen bombings destroyed Shia neighbourhoods in and around Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , the bloodiest in a wave of attacks Wednesday that killed 59 people across Iraq amid spiralling violence.
[An Nahar] A resolution condemning Syria's alleged poison gas use has stalled in the U.N. Security Council due to Russian "intransigence," the United States said Wednesday.
"We see no avenue forward, given continued Russian opposition to any meaningful Council action on Syria," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told news hounds as Washington and Western allies mull a possible strike on Syria after last week's alleged chemical weapons attack by Syrian regime forces.
Harf also strongly suggested that Washington would consider proceeding with whatever plans it was developing with its allies in response to actions by the Syrian regime.
"We cannot be held up in responding by Russia's continued intransigence at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , and quite frankly the situation is so serious that it demands a response," Harf said.
"Syria cannot hide behind Russian intransigence at the Security Council. It is unacceptable."
Harf spoke shortly after Britannia, China, La Belle France, Russia and the United States discussed a British draft resolution that would allow military action in Syria.
"Today we heard nothing different from the Russians," she said, citing Moscow's repeated vetoes of Security Council resolutions that condemned Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... 's government's handling of the crisis in the war-ravaged Middle Eastern nation.
Harf also said Assad's regime has used a visit by U.N. inspectors currently in Syria to delay any possible Western response and to "systematically destroy evidence" of any recent chemical weapons use.
"We believe that the Assad regime has to be held responsible," she said, but she stressed that "no decision has been made" on a final course of action on Syria.
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As Perts around the MSM-Net say, the only other alternatives for the US is
- No MilAction.
- Unilateral MilAction.
- Unilateral Western MilAction, i.e. the US + UK-NATO/EU.
- 1999 KOSOVO-style multi-national intervention, to includ the Russians. China? Iran?
WILL ALLEGED MARXIST-ANARCHIST-GLOBALIST POTUS BAMMER = AMERIKA HOLD THE BALL???
As per the OBAMA DOCTRINE, many Syrian refugees claim to be sufferring + dying due to the Bammer's = USA's continuing inaction or indecision.
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Gridlock is fine with me. It allows two groups of bloodthirsty Islamic barbarians to continue slaughtering each other - and the longer that continues, the fewer Islamic barbarians will remain to breed more if the same. I say: give both sides more bullets, cluster bombs, napalm - whatever.
I thought Reagan had the right idea - keep the Iraqis and the Iranians grinding each other into hamburger - while arming both sides. A win-win situation.
What the world needs right now is more coordinated effort to get the major factions of Islam to kill each other off in more places.
'Sort of like the black hoodlums and Latino gangs gunning each other down in many American cities. As long as the carnage can kept away from the hardworking blacks, Hispanics, Asians, whites, etc - let the gang-bangers tear into each other.
[MAGHAREBIA] Hundreds of young Malians on Sunday (August 25th) erupted into the streets to demonstrate their anger at the return of some former jihadists to Gao.
"People of the north are still shaken by fear and they will never forget what they have experienced with the Islamists. So, their reaction is quite understandable, especially since we just heard about the merger of MUJAO and Belmokhtar's gang," Gao teacher Habib Sidibé said.
"This return triggers serious concerns within a traumatised population due to nearly a year of reign by terror groups," Malian journalist Ibou Samaké said.
He added that the people of Gao would "never forget the serious abuses sustained by their kin because of the application of Sharia law".
"The people of Gao are very wary of the return of those brothers who took up arms against them. They do not trust these Malians who fought in the ranks of the 'enlightened', against their country," Journal du Mali news hound Augustin Fodou said.
"The youth erupted into the streets to express their anger against the inaction of Malian authorities in the face of the return of former jihadists to the city of Gao," Fodou said.
According to Foudou, "the population alerted police and the gendarmerie and asked them to catch these people who resurfaced after several months of silence".
"They are basically jihadists from MUJAO who terrorised the city for months last year and who had taken refuge outside the Malian territory," he added.
A resident of Gao contacted by RFI said, "We noted the return of some (elements) who were armed during the occupation. We knew them very well. They were our neighbours, our companions for years so we knew them very well."
"We informed the authorities several times but they did not react. They are happy to take money and release them... There is too much impunity here; it wears us down. We need the gendarmerie and the police to do their jobs properly," the resident added.
"They returned in civilian clothes and strut around as if nothing had happened. In addition, some of the allies of the mujahideen, who were locked away You have the right to remain silent... by the police, were released in return for money. That is why we marched to denounce this situation," organisers of the demonstrations noted.
The protestors threatened, "If regional authorities do not get involved to stop the return of the allies of Islamists into the city within three days, we will assault them physically ourselves."
"These jihadists have demonstrated sufficient fanaticism and the capacity for harm that goes with it," Gao resident Ali Traore said.
"They participated in atrocities against the population. Under these conditions, it is difficult to ask these people to welcome them with open arms. Yet despite this, Mali should not necessarily reject these former Malian jihadists who are returning home. It must try to integrate them," he added.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A grim "urgent action memorandum" issued today from the office of President Putin to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is ordering a "massive military strike" against Saudi Arabia in the event that the West attacks Syria.
[Al Ahram] A soccer club from Kazakhstan has been warned that it could face disciplinary action if it continues its ritual slaughter of sheep before matches.
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Eight new cases of the deadly coronavirus Mers, a Sars-like infection, have been registered in Saudi Arabia, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday. Of the eight, two men from the capital Riyadh had died, the WHO said. Both had underlying medical conditions.
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[Ynet] The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations. The designation has allowed police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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