A US Navy admiral who oversees the nation's nuclear weapons forces has been sacked, a Navy spokesman has said.
Vice-Adm Tim Giardina, second-in-command of the US Strategic Command, is under investigation for illegal gambling activities. He is accused of using counterfeit gambling chips in "a significant monetary amount" at an Iowa casino.
Adm Giardina was demoted to a two-star admiral and will be reassigned pending outcome of the inquiry.
On Wednesday, the Navy's top spokesman Rear Adm John Kirby announced the removal of Adm Giardina as the deputy in charge of the US Strategic Command.
Adm Giardina, a career submarine officer, was suspended from duty on 3 September after the military launched an investigation into allegations he used counterfeit chips at a casino not far from his base in eastern Nebraska. The case was referred to the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service after he first came to be suspected of the crime.
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By LEVI PULKKINEN Seattlepi.com
SEATTLE -- An anti-Muslim organization has sued the King County for refusing to allow the purported hate group to re-run controversial FBI advertisements on Metro buses. For the record I don't think Pam Geller's group hate, or even dislike, all muslims - neither does the FBI. This is targeting TERRIROSTS - it is the mind of the reporter that links Terrorism with Muslims.
Metro previously allowed the FBI's "Faces of Global Terrorism" announcements to appear on the buses before the bureau pulled the ads. The FBI ads - which picture 16 terrorism suspects, most of whom are non-white, Muslim and living overseas - were dropped in June over concerns they perpetuated negative stereotypes of Muslims. So, in this alleged reporter's mind only whites should have been pictured.
The New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative and organization president Pamela Geller have sued King County claiming the county is violating the free speech rights of the organization's members by not allowing it to replicate the defunct FBI ads.
Geller's better known organization, Stop Islamization of America, has been named as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. I consider being named an hate group by the SPLC a badge of Honor.
Geller gained some national attention for opposing an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan in 2010, which she and Robert Spencer - vice president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and a plaintiff in the King County lawsuit - famously and falsely described as a "victory mosque" celebrating the Sept. 11 attacks.
Geller has more recently made outlandish claims about President Obama's parentage, denied the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and established close ties to white supremacist organizations.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, she and Spencer were cited in the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian gunman who killed 77 people on a political retreat. Following the tragedy, Geller said the slain campers were playing "anti-Semitic war games," had a "pro-Islamic agenda," and were not "pure Norwegian." I thought this article was about the bus advertisement. I guess its really a hit piece on Geller and Spencer.
The pair have also used advertisements on public property to spark controversy, most recently by buying ads in New York City describing Muslims as "savages." Now that is a flat out LIE. Savages everywhere demand an apology.
Now, Spencer and Geller would like to replicate an FBI announcement previously posted on the sides of Metro buses as well as billboards around Seattle.
According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Metro rejected the American Freedom Defense Initiative advertisement on the grounds that it is misleading, demeaning and disruptive. Attorneys for the group contend Metro simply doesn't like the message and is limiting speech inappropriately.
Among the critics of the FBI ads was U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Seattle, D- Al-Qaeda is more like it
who faulted the ads for "pointing a finger at a group of people, profiling them." It profiles TERRORISTS! If, in your mind, terrorist == muslim then its your problem.
"I don't think that's fair and I don't think its good for our society," McDermott told The Associated Press in June. "It doesn't make us safer." We also have a habit of profiling criminals, murderers, kidnappers, baby-rapers and sleezy politicians - and that is GOOD for society.
Surprise Meter at 0.0 or a ham-handed plant job? You make the call!
MOSCOW -- Russian investigators say they're considering fresh charges against Greenpeace activists who were detained last month for an Arctic protest.
The 29 Greenpeace activists and a freelance Russian journalist have been charged with piracy after their September protest at an oil platform. The charge carries a sentence up to 15 years.
Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee, said Wednesday that "dual-use equipment" and drugs were found on the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise. A wee bit late 'searching' the ship, guys?
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Ive seen the greenpeace types and I have little doubt they had drugs on the ship. Now I'm not saying the Russians didn't plant drugs either, saves searching time and all that.
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#11 When you are finished scaring them, let them go. But keep the ship.
Use it for fishing once in a while. How'd you like to refresh Drudge some day soon and see Pootie standing shirtless on a floating whale carcass, wielding a flensing knife? Not that I don't love whales, but I might die laughing.
A record-breaking storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in parts of western South Dakota left ranchers dealing with heavy losses as they assess how many of their cattle died during the unseasonably early blizzard.
Meanwhile, utility companies were working to restore power to tens of thousands of people still without electricity Monday after the weekend storm that was part of a powerful weather system that also buried parts of Wyoming and Colorado with snow and produced destructive tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa. See? Early season blizzards AND tornadoes! Too much carbon from China and India the U.S. should be offsetting.
Ranchers and officials said the losses were aggravated by the fact that a government disaster program to help ranchers recover from livestock losses has expired. Ranchers won't be able to get federal help until Congress passes a new farm bill, said a spokesman for Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D. Naturally, there is a government shutdown angle, too.
In South Dakota, the 19 inches of snow that fell in Rapid City on Friday broke the city's 94-year-old one-day snowfall record for October by about 9 inches, according to the National Weather Service. The city also set a record for snowfall in October, with a total of 23.1 inches during the storm. The previous record was 15.1 inches in October 1919. Al Gore rests his case.
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I imagine Mt. Rushmore was even more shut down after the storm.
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Snow plows probably wreak havoc on those poor little orange cones blocking the scenic waysides, too.
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Meanwhile, not to be outdone by South Dakota North Dakota, West Dakota, or East Dakota ...
* TOPIX > STUDY: TEMPERATURES TO GO OFF THE CHART AROUND 2047, starting circa 2030 in isolated or differentiated world regions, then steadily escalating globally until 2047.
Unless I've missed something, the only way Global temps can go "off the chart" is per the SUN EXPLODED = MOTHER-OF-ALL-SOLAR-FLARES occurred???
Again, iff the Climate + Weather Models are wrong, DITTO THE SOLAR + OTHER [e.g. Planetary System creation]???
* RELATED FREEREPUBLIC > [AFP News] RADICAL CLIMATE CHANGE JUST AROUND THE CORNER:STUDY.
and
* ENENEWS > "ALARMING" MASS DIE-OFF OF STARFISH IN AREAS ALONG CANADA'S PACIFIC COAST - "THEY'VE DISINTEGRATED, NOW THERE'S JUST GOO LEFT" -"APPEARED TO MELT" - "SINGLE ARMS CLINGING TO ROCKS, TUBE FEET STILL MOVING" - SIMILAR REPORTS AS FAR AWAY AS CALIFORNIA.
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Funny indeed...however you know you're in trouble as a nation when you read satire like this and think..."Gee, this could really be true given the lunatics currently in charge...."
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The United States of America (1787-2013) came to a swift and sudden end last night as the government shut down.
'Swift and sudden end'? No, it began in earnest long ago with FDR [who might still be president, had he not died in office]. Champ recently kicked it up a notch, all brought on by those pesky, boomer-crackers who insist on visiting national monuments and tributes to American greatness and exceptionalism.
Champ and his shadow gov't seek a fight. They actually desire civil disturbance. From a crisis of civil disturbance can come the much needed martial law and a setting aside of the constitution, the congress, and elections. We must remain vigilant and be very careful with these people.
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In Brooklyn, New York, an overweight Senegalese woman was unable to obtain a sign language interpreter while waiting on line to collect her free Obamaphone.
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I think is is time to go back to the sea. Where the water is wetter and Governments don't eat us in fricassee. Where we can sign and dance all night and not hear this government fight. We have to go there. We have to see this show there. Where there? under the sea.
Here let them explain that;
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Only the Feral Govmint has shut down, descended into riots, looting and cannibalism. Oh wait a minute, that is business-as-usual when the govmint is open.
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Season change and October lives up to its weird time of year. The parks are gone. The monuments are are gone. Even the People of faith are not allowed to attend church. The Autumn people are here. What was, is no more. The trees lose their colors. The grave gray stone vaults are all that remain in DC. The Autumn people suck the life out of the people. Spread fear and mischief among the people. Pride themselves on destroying unborne life. Now they are going after; what did Hitler call them, there were many names. This is an awake nightmare.
Folks who live in the Great Smoky Mountains have just about reached their breaking point with the federal government.
"It's almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough," said Ed Mitchell, the mayor of Blount County, Tenn. "We were founded on a declaration of independence. And they are about to push the people to the line again." It's gotten to the point where Mayor Mitchell said Americans are ready to start fighting back.
The mayor said he wanted to "make [federal officials and congressional reps] aware that we were willing to do what they were not. We were willing to serve the people that they were not willing to serve."
I asked the mayor if he felt like local residents were getting ready to fight back. He agreed.
"I hate that it's come to this," he said. "This whole thing is all about power and leverage." Never push honest men past the breaking point, because once started in a fight, they will not stop until they get complete submission of those who provoked them.
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Obama is too stupid to realize that thuggery doest work against people willing to stand and fight. He may have inadvertently lit the fuse on something that is going to explode on him, and destroy him and his ilk, swinging the pendulum the other way toward citizens and individual liberty (away from government and imposed collectivism), or else possibly rip the country violently apart as the productive throw off those who would chain them by government fiat and force.
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Tyrant Obama might do well to look at the Battle of Athens (1946). There are limits that Americans will not tolerate being crossed for long. Maybe it's crazy talk but I hear a lot of crazy talk these days.
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Just walked past a tv with CNN polluting the air. First time in 5 years I see a dead soldier casket; only because Obama thinks it will bollster his side of the shut down arguement. Absolutely disgusting.
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I think he is testing the water. Can he take more from us or does he have to back off? I see the average American as totally frustrated by the federal government. I hope there isn't a spark that sets off a revolution.
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I read this with great interest since I live in Knox Co. which abuts Blount Co. I think there is only one old church operating in Cade's Cove. There are only two cemeteries in the Cove of which I'm aware; there might be a few more in the Park. This area of the country is quite independent. There are many old timers and their relatives here who have a moon-shining heritage. I wouldn't doubt that they could engage in civil disobedience.
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Y'all need any help? Gives new meaning to "Head for the hills".
Saw a few with Rifles in their Ford pick em up trucks with bumper stickers that read... "If first you don't Secede..... "
The Prez needs to back down because I don't negotiate either. Remember the last time the government tried to make Slavery legal across the board? Ummm hmmmm.
Not exactly Killington or Vail, is it?
The Masik Pass ski resort is North Korea's latest white elephant. The project took 10 months of labor and will officially open this Thursday for the public, even though most of the citizens can't afford to visit it.
Supreme leader Kim Jong Un enjoyed skiing as a child, which most likely provided all the reasoning needed for building an expensive ski resort in North Korea. AP photographer David Guttenfelder took some photos of the construction last month. If the site looks unfinished, that's because it is; although the resort will open, there is still much to finish. The resort doesn't even have ski lifts yet. When you're busy starving and enslaving your citizens, those things happen
KISMAYO, Somalia -- The Jubaland administration on Somalia's southern tip officially declared that it wouldn't attend a Mogadishu conference called by the Somali Federal Government on Monday, Garowe Online reports.
That's done it...
Jubaland leader, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Madobe) held a press conference in southern port city of Kismayo and said that the Jubaland reconciliation conference was to have taken place in Kismayo, accusing federal government officials of diverting from "the promise".
"I am declaring that Jubaland won't attend the Mogadishu conference," he told the reporters.
Meanwhile, Madobe blamed Somali military forces Chief Gen. Dahir Adan Elmi (Indho-Qarsho) who recently visited Kismayo for campaigning to push armed clan militias led by former warlord, Barre Adan Shire (Barre Hirale) into the southern city, "We welcome all militias including Al Shabaab and Barre Hirale's militiamen who are willing to lay down their arms but they wouldn't be allowed to enter Kismayo" stated Madobe.
Despite undisclosed row between Federal Government of Somalia in Mogadishu and Jubaland, Ahmed Madobe's remarks might show the renewing rifts.
Madobe traveled to Mogadishu where he met President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon in September.
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[An Nahar] Britannia and Iran will each appoint a charge d'affaires to work towards resuming ties severed after a mob attacked the British embassy in Tehran in 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday.
The diplomats, one level below ambassador, will remain in their respective countries but will look into re-opening the British and Iranian embassies in London and Tehran, Hague told the House of Commons.
The breakthrough follows the election of a new president in Iran, Hassan Rouhani, which has seen a thawing of ties between the Islamic republic and the United States.
Hague met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif twice on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York last month, and spoke on the telephone with him on Monday.
"I've made very clear to Mr Zarif that we are open to more direct contact and further improvements in our bilateral relations," Hague said.
"We have therefore agreed that both our countries will now appoint a non-resident charge d'affaires tasked with implementing the building of relations, including interim steps on the way towards the eventual reopening of both our embassies, as well as dialogue on other issues of mutual concern."
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[Al Ahram] Sixteen people accused in Sudan of attacks on cop shoppes during protests sparked by high fuel prices were placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! far from the scene of the crimes, witnesses told a trial on Tuesday.
The 16 are among hundreds jugged You have the right to remain silent... in a crackdown after the government cut fuel subsidies on 23 September, sending thousands into the streets to protest in the worst urban unrest of President Omar Al-Bashir's 24-year rule.
Thirty-five people initially appeared before a judge in Khartoum's impoverished Haj Yusef district on charges of vandalism and causing a disturbance.
A judge acquitted 19 for lack of evidence but 16 others, including eight youths under the age of 17, were still on trial, said Mutasim Al-Haj, one of their lawyers.
Twelve witnesses testified for the defence on Tuesday, he said.
"They said these people were not arrested during a demonstration. Nor were they arrested during the stoning or burning of cop shoppes," Haj said.
They were picked up "far away" from the alleged scene of the crimes, according to defence testimony, the lawyer added.
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[Al Ahram] Syrian regime war planes on Tuesday launched strikes against rebels in northwestern Idlib province after they began an assault against two key military bases there, a monitoring group said.
"War planes carried out two air strikes on areas in the town of Maaret al-Numan as festivities continued around the Wadi Deif military base between rebels and regime troops," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The group said regime forces also bombed the areas of Maarshamsha and Deir al-Sharqi in the Maaret al-Numan region, causing casualties.
The strikes came a day after rebel fighters launched a major assault against the two bases in Syria's Idlib province, which is largely controlled by the opposition.
The offensive -- dubbed "The Earthquake" -- aims to seize the Wadi Deif and Hamidiyeh bases, which rebels have laid siege to for almost a year.
Wadi Deif, a garrison housing a large quantity of weapons, lies to the east of Maaret al-Numan, and Hamidiyeh, the last military stronghold in the region still in regime hands, lies to the south of the town.
Clashes continued overnight, and the Observatory said at least 10 regime troops and five rebels had been killed since the assault began.
On Monday, the Observatory said rebels had captured an officer and three soldiers in a raid in Hamidiyeh.
Idlib and Maaret al-Numan activists Tuesday posted a picture on Facebook of a man said to be a captured officer, giving his name as Brigadier General Nasser Salah al-Din.
The photo showed the man, his face bloodied and a bandage wrapped around his head, with his eyes clothes and his upper half naked.
Some 25 brigades and small, mainly Islamist groups are taking part in the assault, including Liwa al-Umma, an Islamist brigade that includes Libyan fighters, according to the Observatory.
Rebel fighters seized the town of Maaret al-Numan last October, cutting off a key regime supply route running between the capital Damascus and Aleppo in the north.
Regime forces have regularly tried to recapture the town, which is a key rebel stronghold in the Idlib region.
Elsewhere in the country, the Observatory reported regime air strikes on Moadamiyet al-Sham, a suburb in the southwest of Damascus, causing casualties.
It also said the corpse count in a Monday raid on the town of Shaddadeh, in the northeastern province of Hasakeh, had risen to eight.
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[An Nahar] Turkey on Tuesday lifted a decades-old ban on headscarves in the civil service as part of a package of reforms by the Islamic-rooted government meant to improve democracy.
The measure was hailed by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose wife wears a headscarf, as a "step toward normalization" and came into effect after it was published in the Official Gazette.
"We have now abolished an archaic provision which was against the spirit of the republic. It's a step toward normalization," Erdogan said in a parliamentary speech to his ruling party politicians.
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[An Nahar] Turkey on Tuesday said it has never allowed al-Qaeda-linked Syria rebels to use its territory to launch attacks against the Damascus regime, after Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... accused Ankara of turning a blind eye to terrorists.
"Turkey has never allowed al-Qaeda-linked groups, it has never allowed them to cross its borders," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said at a news conference in Ankara.
"Turkey is on the frontline of countries fighting against terrorism in the most determined fashion."
His remarks came after Assad said last week that Ankara was tolerating the presence of al-Qaeda-linked rebels on the long the volatile border between the two countries. There are several hardline Islamist groups among the numerous rebel formations fighting in Syria.
Al-Qaeda in Syria is fighting to drive rivals out of areas bordering Turkey and Iraq in a bid to control territory stretching from Iraq into northern Syria, observers say.
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[An Nahar] Libya's top political authority, the General National Congress, demanded on Tuesday that the United States hand back an alleged al-Qaeda operative its forces seized from 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 a weekend raid.
A GNC statement read out by front man Omar Hmidan stressed "the need for the immediate surrender" of Abu Anas al-Libi and described the U.S. operation as a "flagrant violation of (Libya's) national illusory sovereignty."
Sure, no problem. How many pieces? That's generally how Islamicists return their prisoners so youse guys should be familiar with the question...
The text, which was passed by the GNC,
The General Nutrition Center is in on this? We're doomed, doomed...
also calls for the "need to allow the Libyan authorities and their families to get in touch with him (Libi) and guarantee them access to a lawyer."
It is the first official statement from Libya that clearly condemns the operation in which Libi was snatched from his car by U.S. forces in broad daylight in a Tripoli street on Saturday.
Prime Minister Ali Zeidan insisted earlier on Tuesday that all Libyans should be tried on home soil.
The GNC declaration comes after Libya's justice minister summoned U.S. Ambassador Deborah Jones to answer questions about the surprise raid.
Libi -- whose real name is Nazih Abdul Hamed al-Raghie -- was on the FBI's most wanted list with a $5 million (3.7 million euro) bounty on his head for his alleged role in the 1998 twin bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa.
He is reportedly being held aboard a U.S. naval ship in the Mediterranean.
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Whose side r they on US or AlQ?
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Obama spending much more money on barriers, personnel, and logistics to close some of the most sacred memorials to freedom than it would have taken to keep them open.
Lt. Robert Mason Mathis was the leader of the second platoon, E. Company, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. At midnight, June 5/6, 1944, he was riding in a C-47 Dakota over the English Channel, headed toward the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy. Two hours later, the plane was over France and starting to take some flak from German guns.
At 0227 hours, Lieutenant Mathias saw the red light go on over the open door of the plane, the signal to get ready.
"Stand up and hook up!" Lieutenant Mathias called out to the sixteen men behind him as he hooked the clip from his parachute to the static line running down the middle of the roof of the aircraft. He stepped to the open door, ready to jump the instant the pilot decided the plane was over the drop zone and turned on the green light.
The Germans below were firing furiously at the air armada of 822 C-47s carrying the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions into battle. Flakvierling-38s (20mm four-barreled antiarcraft guns) filled the sky with explosions; machine-gun tracers-green, yellow, red, blue, white arched through the sky. ... For every visible tracer, there were five unseen bullets.
Mathias had his hands on the outside of the doorway, ready to propel himself into the night the instant the green light went on. A shell burst just beside him. Red-hot flak ripped through his reserve chute into his chest, knocking him off his feet.
With mighty effort, he began to pull himself back up. The green light went on.
At twenty-eight years of age, Mathias was five or so years older than the other lieutenants in the 508th, but he did not look it. He had reddish blond hair and an Irishman's freckles, which gave him a boyish appearance. Long and lanky (six foot one, 175 pounds), he was in superb condition, all raw bone and muscle, strong enough to survive a blow that would have felled an ox and recover almost instantly. He regained his feed and resumed his post at the door.
When Lieutenant Mathias was wounded from the shell burst and the green light went on, he had enough strength to push himself out of the way, so that the men behind him could jump. Had he done so, the crew of the C-47 could have applied first aid and - perhaps - gotten him back to England in time for a life-saving operation.
Instead, Mathias raised his right arm, called out "Follow me!" and leaped into the night. ... he was located a half hour or so later, he was still in his chute, dead. He was the first American officer killed by German fire on D-Day.
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True, spending more to close than keep open, but the law requires them to be closed - hence 'essential' spending. In a bureaucracy rules are rules, and judgement is not permitted. Of course some enjoy hiding behind rules to inflict pain and exercise power...
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What is applicable is the willingness of people to simply hide behind rules or orders because they won't take responsibility or accept accountability. It's easy to be a cog in the great machine. Cogs have no morality or humanity. They simply are. Then they're surprised and plea the victim card when they ultimately are held accountable.
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Not yet anyway but please excuse some of us if we get a little paranoid.
Historically, the way our government has worked is that opposing parties compromise. If John Boehner and the Republican majority in the House of Representatives have the constitutional power to stymie any budget, continuing resolution or debt ceiling increase it stands to reason that Harry Reid and Barack Obama must negotiate with the Republicans. A refusal to negotiate is irresponsible and un-American just like so many things about this president.
He refuses to enforce "certain" laws and when existing laws don't suit him he issues executive orders. He gives hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to businesses that he favors and when they default he does nothing. Then we find that some of those businessmen contributed to his election campaign. His willingness to drag us into foreign wars in which our country's security is clearly not at stake and without Congressional approval is troubling. His obsequiousness in the presence of foreign leaders like Medvedev and the Soddy king is deeply disturbing. His reckless borrowing threatens the financial security of us all.
Yeah, we're paranoid. I think we have good reason to be.
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"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you don't mean they aren't after you" - Joseph Heller
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What is applicable is the willingness of people to simply hide behind rules or orders because they won't take responsibility or accept accountability
I trust then that you're willing to pay the mortgage of the first NPS ranger who says "no"?
[An Nahar] The General Directorate of General Security on Tuesday announced dismantling a "terrorist cell" that was plotting liquidations and bombings in several Lebanese regions.
"Three people of Lebanese and Syrian nationalities have been jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on charges of belonging to a terrorist cell that was plotting acts of sabotage across Leb through kabooms and liquidation operations," a General Security statement said.
"The detainees were interrogated and referred to the military judiciary together with the seized material, which include explosives, communication devices and silenced weapons," it added.
The directorate stressed that it "will not hesitate to pursue terrorist groups, subversive gangs and illegal emigration networks -- in coordination with the rest of the security agencies -- in order to preserve the safety of citizens and the security and stability of the country."
NNA later said two of those arrested were Syrians and a third was Lebanese.
The announcement comes after a wave of arrests by the various security services in the wake of four deadly bombings that rocked Leb -- two in Beirut's southern suburbs and two 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... .
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[Bangla Daily Star] The BNP will not announce any programme soon protesting the conviction of its leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury by a war crimes tribunal as the party policymakers are embarrassed about the suspected involvement of Salauddin's lawyer in the leak of the draft verdict, party sources said.
The high-ups of the main opposition party thought that the caretaker government issue should get priority in planning the party's next course of action as the incumbent government has reached the fag end of its tenure and the next general election is due within just over three months.
The party had been almost silent over the trial of war criminals until its standing committee member Salauddin was sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on October 1 for committing crimes against humanity in Chittagong during the Liberation War.
The leak of the draft verdict against BNP politician Salauddin provided the party with an opportunity to question the transparency and standard of the trial.
The following day, local BNP units enforced daylong hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... in Chittagong and Rangamati protesting the verdict.
Party leaders at a presser in the capital alleged that Salauddin did not get justice as his trial was part of the government's "well-thought-out plan to eliminate its political opponents."
On October 3, the party staged demonstrations across the country and organised a rally at the capital's Suhrawardy Udyan protesting what it called "the government plan to wipe out the opposition and destroy all democratic institutions."
But when police accused a lawyer of Salauddin of involvement in the leak of the draft verdict, the scenario changed against the party, BNP sources told The Daily Star.
"Since the beginning of the war crimes trial, BNP was in an uncomfortable position. Without making any comments on the trail, it just called for ensuring transparency and international standards," said a BNP national standing committee member, wishing anonymity.
There is a strong opinion in the party on the Salauddin issue for not taking a strong stance in favour of the convict, he added.
Rafiqul Islam Mia, a member of BNP standing committee, complained that the government was guilty of leaking the draft verdict against the BNP leader as it was "leaked from the law ministry."
Another standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman said BNP's stance is clear. "We too want trial of war criminals. But it must maintain transparency and international standards," he noted.
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[An Nahar] Pakistain on Tuesday deported a Frenchie accused of links to al-Qaeda and suspected of recruiting Islamist fighters, diplomatic sources told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Intelligence officials believe the man, Naamen Meziche, was once connected to al-Qaeda's so-called "Hamburg cell", which planned the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
Meziche has been in Pak custody since being tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in May 2012 in the southwest of the country along with three other suspected French jihadis, who were sent back to La Belle France in April.
He was escorted onto a flight from Islamabad and arrived in Gay Paree Tuesday afternoon French time, a diplomatic source said.
French police are expected to question him about links to myrmidon networks.
At the time of his arrest, French intelligence officials described Meziche, who also holds an Algerian passport, as "an important al-Qaeda cadre linked to the Hamburg cell", but his genuine significance in jihahi circles is unclear.
The case is likely to spark strong interest in La Belle France, where memories are still fresh of the murderous rampage by Mohammed Merah in March last year.
Merah rubbed out seven people in southwest La Belle France after returning from spending several months in Pakistain, saying he was acting on behalf of al-Qaeda.
The three others arrested along with Meziche in southwest Pakistain were incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on their return to La Belle France for "associating with wrongdoers with a view to committing terrorist acts".
Sources say Meziche is likely to face charges under the same section of French law. It gives authorities broad powers to detain and prosecute a suspect for intending to carry out terrorist acts or contacting organizations suspected of terrorism.
Though Meziche is suspected of being a long-time al-Qaeda member, no proof has yet emerged of his involvement in any specific act of terror, and security officials were divided about how big a player he is.
One French anti-terror officer told AFP this week Meziche was "a big fish -- right in the historic heart of al-Qaeda".
But another source close to the case said it was "hard to say if he is an active player or a bit of a has-been".
Western and Pak intelligence officials have described Meziche, aged around 43, as close to Younis al-Mauritani, an important al-Qaeda figure arrested in Pakistain about six months before him.
According to the Pak military al-Mauritani was personally charged by the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... with planning attacks against targets in the U.S., Europe and Australia.
The fact that Meziche was arrested in the company of three young Frenchies in a part of Pakistain where numerous Islamist faceless myrmidons circulate added to suspicions he was in the business of recruiting young Europeans for extremism.
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Will Syria take over from Pakistan as the home of western Islamic extremists?
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The Palestinians must "recognise Israel as the state of the Jewish people" in order to achieve real peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
"The Palestinians must abandon their refusal to recognise the right of the Jewish people to their national state," he said in a speech at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv.
Such recognition was "a condition for reaching an agreement at the end of negotiations, but not for launching them", he said.
Peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis were relaunched in July under the auspices of the United States after nearly three years of impasse. The direct talks, which are being held in Israel and the West Bank under a US-imposed media blackout, have been set to last nine months, and have so far yielded no concrete results.
Surprise!
"The root of the conflict is the Jewish state," Netanyahu said, refuting the argument that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and settlement there were the cause of the decades-old confrontation with the Palestinians.
Since the Paleos were all wound up even before the evil Joooz had beaten Jordan in the 1967 war...
They've been wound up since the 1920s, long before Israel was made an independent nation by the U.N.
"Are you finally ready to recognise the Jewish state, the national state of the Jewish people?" he asked, directly addressing Palestinian leaders, deploring that their response so far to that question has been "no".
"So long as the Palestinians do not recognise this right, there will be no true peace," the premier warned his audience at the Bar Ilan auditorium.
It's good that he says this, and it's a shame the world won't hear it...
As for other conditions to a final peace agreement, Netanyahu urged the Palestinians to "renounce the right of return" for refugees, and reiterated the need for "solid security arrangements that meet the real security needs of Israel".
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Bah. The PLO, in order to become the Palestinian Authority over the West Bank and Gaza, had agreed to amend their charter to acknowledge this very thing, but they drug their feet and never followed through.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but, shouldn't the declaration by one "nation" that a second nation has no right to exist equivalent to a declaration of war?
Seems to me that Israel should say okay and annex all of the West Bank sending the Paleos east.
[Dawn] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi Tuesday accepted a request to hold fresh trial of a case pertaining to the murder of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , DawnNews reported.
The counsel for Tanveer Kaira Sardar Latif Khosa and accused persons former City Police Officer (CPO) Saud Aziz, and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Khurram Shahzad attended today's hearing in the ATC.
During the hearing, the defence and prosecuting lawyers presented their arguments over the application seeking to prevent the main accused former military ruler Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... from becoming a party in the case.
Akhtar Shah, belonging to the Pakistain Social Justice Party, argued that being a former president of the country, Pervez Musharraf could not be held responsible in the case, adding that the president's office enjoyed complete immunity.
Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) prosecutor Chaudhry opposed the application and said that Akhtar Shah could not become a party in the case.
The court reserved its judgment on the application seeking to prevent Musharraf from becoming a party in the case and later, dismissed the said request.
The court accepted the request seeking a re-trial of the case and ordered the FIA to present a list of witnesses at the next hearing.
The hearing of the case was subsequently adjourned to October 22.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun-and-kaboom outside Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007. She was killed after addressing an election campaign rally in the city.
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[Bangkok Post] Two men were killed in a shooting in Narathiwat province on Monday night. Witnesses said the two victims were traveling on a motorcycle when a gunman ran out from a roadside forest and fired at them with an assault rifle. The attacker then fled. The two died on the spot.
Police found eight spent shells from an M16 rifle scattered on the road. They blamed separatist terrorists militants.
[An Nahar] Colombian rebels blamed a lack of progress in peace negotiations on the country's defense minister, whom they accused of trying to undermine the talks.
After 11 months of negotiations, the Bogota government and leftist fighters from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and donations. It has lately begun calling itself Bolivarian and is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border. have reached a deal on just one key issue -- agrarian reform -- with progress stalled on four other agenda items.
Top FARC negotiator Ivan Marquez accused Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon of playing the role of "sniper" during the negotiations -- shooting down suggestions and "blowing the Havana talks to pieces."
"He gives us the impression... of not taking the government line during the talks, but instead yielding to an anti-peace line" espoused by former president Alvaro Uribe, who Marquez called "the number one enemy of a political solution."
The peace talks pursued by Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos have been roundly rejected by his predecessor Uribe, who is opposed to negotiating with rebels.
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[An Nahar] Turkey violated national newspaper Cumhuriyet's freedom of expression when it prevented further publication of an interview given by the current President Abdullah Gul to Britannia's The Guardian in 1995, the European rights court ruled Tuesday.
In April 2007, in the run-up to presidential elections, Cumhuriyet had reproduced a quote from the interview that Gul, a candidate in the elections, had given to The Guardian 12 years earlier.
The interview was used as the basis for an article entitled "Turkish Islamists aim for power" amid heated debates in the majority Mohammedan but staunchly secular nation about Islamic values.
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[Dawn] THE Nairobi drama holds a lesson or two for Pakistain, especially when we see the differences between Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... and the Pak Taliban.
The duration of Al-Shabaab's control of the Westgate mall and the planning that went into the attack show in unmistakable terms the extent of Al-Shabaab's military prowess, the unimpaired existence of its command and control structure and its ability to recruit more people to its cause despite the heavy military reverses of 2011.
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Saturation bombing of the Taliban-ruled 'havens' will merely mean a waste of ammunition,
Sure, but howzabout swarms of autonomous killbots prowling, waiting, and watching...
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Too bad they outlawed napalm. That would be an excellent weapon against the Taliban in their mountain caves...
This is almost "Captain Obvious" stuff. Every major terrorist "success" was preceded by a major intelligence lapse by some bureaucratic drone that prevented obvious indications of an event being ignored.
WE have to be perfect to avoid a terrorist act. The terrorists can and are willing to initiate 100 terrorist schemes to have one succeed...they only have to succeed ONCE to make their point.
Most interestingly, these heroes of whatever mutated perverted form of Islam they claim to practice, are hitting soft targets, unarmed civilians, girls at a middle school, a medical clinic, unarmed aide workers, women and children at the market, in all cases they are COWARDS and most likely psychopaths acting out their crazed desires for killing.
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WE have to be perfect to avoid a terrorist act. The terrorists can and are willing to initiate 100 terrorist schemes to have one succeed...they only have to succeed ONCE to make their point.
Or said another say, we cannot win the game by playing defense.
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these heroes of whatever mutated perverted form of Islam they claim to practice,
Dunno Bill, they seem to adhere pretty directly to plain old undiluted straight from the Koran and Haddith type Islam. Got any good reason to think different?
[An Nahar] A first video showing international weapons inspectors at work inside a Syrian chemical facility was released on Tuesday, a week after the disarmament experts began their mission.
The footage, provided by Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, shows several weapons inspectors in protective gear, including helmets, gloves and in one instance a gas mask, inside a building.
One inspector applies a label bearing the logo of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and a serial number to a control panel before taking a photo of it.
Other inspectors can be seen carrying out the same process.
Additional footage shows an inspector wearing a gas mask and gloves alongside large container barrels inside cage frames.
He holds a device near them and appears to be taking readings from underneath the barrels.
The video, which runs just over a minute and a half, includes no sound of the inspectors talking or describing their work. There is no indication of where the work is taking place.
OPCW front man Michael Luhan said the footage had been released by the Syrian government, which was the only party that could describe it in detail because of confidentiality rules.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... he confirmed the images of the inspectors at work in Syria were authentic.
"What they're doing is applying these seals and labels and so forth that's part of securing the facilities," he said.
"They go to these facilities and verify contents, they will also apply seals so that they cannot be tampered with without it being known," he added.
He said the footage appeared to show the inspectors in a "control room" that was "presumably in a production facility".
Inspectors in a joint U.N.-OPCW team arrived in Syria a week ago to begin the daunting task of verifying Syria's chemical arsenal and overseeing its destruction.
They are tasked under a U.N. Security Council resolution with destroying the arsenal by mid-2014.
Syria, which is believed to have 1,000 tonnes of sarin, mustard gas and other banned chemicals at some 45 sites, agreed to give up the arms under a U.S.-Russian deal.
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[Dawn] An internal audit report of the Institute of Kidney Diseases (IKD) Hayatabad Medical Complex has unearthed the misappropriation of millions of rupees, with the hospital revenue being pocketed by some officials instead of being deposited in the treasury.
The IKD officials have also confirmed that despite repeated notices, the concerned 'officials' have failed to deposit the amount and action is being initiated against them.
Director Institute of Institute of Kidney Diseases Dr Asif Malik, who is the Drawing and Dispersing Officer and in-charge of the IKD's administrative and financial affairs, said that action has been initiated and would be completed according to rules and regulations.
"The official involved has been suspended while another two are likely to be suspended tomorrow," Director IKD Dr Asif Malik told Dawn.com when approached for comments.
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[An Nahar] Israeli soldiers shot and maimed a Paleostinian who was part of a group trying to cross a security fence from the West Bank into Israel on Tuesday, the army said.
"Several Paleostinians attempted to infiltrate into Israel by crossing the security fence near Oranit checkpoint" in the northern West Bank, an army spokeswoman told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) soldiers... operated in order to prevent them from crossing the fence by firing in their direction," she said.
"One Paleostinian was maimed and was treated on the spot by medics," she said, without giving further details.
The shooting came a week after a Paleostinian man was rubbed out by Israeli soldiers in the northern Gazoo Strip as he tried to cut through the security fence separating the territory from Israel, according to the army.
The Paleostinian Center for Human Rights, an NGO based in Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-ruled Gazoo, condemned that incident as an "excessive use of lethal force" by the army.
An IDF forces opened fire on a Paleostinian who tried to cross the border fence near the West Bank village of Beit Amin, where murdered IDF soldier Tomer Hazan was kidnapped last month.
The Paleostinian sustained light to moderate wounds.
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[Al Ahram] The White House says it is "deeply concerned" by the recent violence in Egypt and is calling on the government there to protect all Egyptians.
Including the ones trying to destroy the country?
National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan says the Egyptian government has a responsibility to create an atmosphere where all Egyptians "can exercise their universal rights, including free assembly, expression, and press." She says the US condemns all acts of violence and any "incitement to violence."
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The WH is deeply concerned about their Mo Bros. That's it.
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"Stop the violence or we'll block access to pyramids." sorta thing?
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a car drove by and someone inside shouted a racial comment toward the white soldiers. Authorities said the soldiers shouted something back, and a group of five black men from the car stopped and surrounded the soldiers.
Police said the men in the car began to leave but one of the suspects appeared to bump into Geike as he walked past. Geike's friends discovered he had been stabbed.
No,No, Not a racial stabbing, Of course not, Blacks are protected when a white is involved, of course.
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Well, maybe the racist honkies said something offensive and deserved to be stabbed? Perhaps the accused can find a judge to agree with that line of thinking...
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On the bright side, due to local gun laws, no one was shot. Sarc.
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But I thought all those liberals said the Trevyon case said it was legal to hunt black men. Guess these soldiers couldn't get a hunting license with the shutdown. That or the liberal commentators are full of crap, but what are the odds of that really?
[InvestorsBusinessTimes] A fourth man with alleged links to the al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... terrorist organization has been stripped of his British citizenship by Home Secretary Theresa May, as a fifth battles extradition to Æthiopia.
Walla Rahman, 31, from west London, has been linked with a kaboom on two bars in Kampala, Uganda, in 2010, where 74 people were killed while watching the World Cup final.
Rahman is believed to have been an associate of Bilal al-Berjawi, 27, and Mohammed Sakr, 26, al-Shabaab activists from the UK who were stripped of their citizenship before dying in a US drone strike in Somalia in 2010.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Rahman's father revealed that his son had had his citizenship revoked, and said he was appealing against the decision. He said that Rahman moved to the UK from Sudan aged 10, and had returned to the West African country five years ago.
Al-Berjawi was born in Leb and moved to the UK as a child, where he met Mohammed Sakr, a dual Egyptian and UK national.
The two travelled to Somalia, where al-Berjawi rose to become second in command of al-Shabaab. His death reportedly led to a power struggle at the top of the organization.
Since becoming home secretary in 2010, May has stripped 17 Britons of their citizenship, with all but one of them Mohammedans, using anti-terrorism legislation passed in 2006.
Another Briton, Somali-born Mahdhi Hashi, 24, a former community worker from Camden, north London, is due to stand trial in New York accused of being part of an "an elite al-Shabaab suicide kaboom unit", and involved in helping the group develop chemical weapons for use in terrorist attacks.
Hashi travelled to Somalia last summer and disappeared. He re-emerged in US custody soon after having his British citizenship revoked. He is currently on hunger strike in detention in New York in protest at his detention and isolation.
He claims that he was repeatedly harassed by UK security prior to his arrest, and that MI5 attempted to persuade him to inform on Islamist gunnies for them. He further claims that he has been tortured by the CIA while in jug.
Labour peer and QC Baroness Kennedy has stated that Hashi's citizenship was illegally revoked, as he was not given the time or opportunity to appeal.
Another man alleged to have provided material support to al-Berjawi, Sakr and Rahman is currently battling extradition to Æthiopia, where he claims he could be tortured by security services.
The so-called 'White Widow', Samantha Lewthwaite, who was married to 7/7 bomber Germaine Lindsay, is currently wanted on terrorism charges and is alleged to have links to al-Shabaab.
Initial reports implicated Lewthwaite in the recent attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, by al-Shabaab gunnies, but authorities have denied she was involved.
All of those people stripped of their citizenship had dual nationality, as Britannia is legally barred from rendering people stateless.
Since becoming home secretary in 2010, May has stripped 17 Britons of their citizenship, with all but one of them Mohammedans, using anti-terrorism legislation passed in 2006.
The practice has attracted controversy, with critics saying that a law that allows the home secreatry to strip people of their citizenship without a crime having been proved, without legal oversight, and without fair recourse to appeal is ripe for abuse.
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If it aint the brit born pakis its the bloody somalians playing up. Thanks Tony Blair for welcoming the most useless bunch of people to arrive in the UK.
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No worries, you're always welcome on the Washington Mall.
[An Nahar] Egypt's cabinet on Tuesday ordered authorities to remove the Moslem Brüderbund from the list of approved non-governmental organizations following a judicial order, state media reported.
The move comes after an Egyptian court last month banned the Moslem Brüderbund from operating and ordered its assets seized, amid a massive crackdown on the group following the military ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... In its September 23 ruling, the court had also banned "any institution branching out from or belonging to the Brotherhood".
Morsi was Egypt's first democratically elected president but his turbulent one year rule came to an abrupt end when the military heeded the call of millions of Egyptians to oust him on July 3.
His supporters have since taken to the streets to denounce what they say is a violation of democratic principles.
But the army-installed authorities have pressed ahead with a massive campaign which has seen at least 1,000 Moslem Brüderbund supporters killed and around 2,000 incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... , including the top leadership.
Morsi, who belongs to the Moslem Brüderbund, has been tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! at an unknown location since his ouster.
Egypt has been gripped by unrest since the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , but violence has sharply increased since Morsi was deposed.
On Sunday, at least 57 people were killed in festivities between security forces and Morsi supporters and nearly 400 were maimed.
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[An Nahar] The Pentagon on Tuesday named an envoy to shut down the controversial prison at Guantanamo Bay, showing renewed commitment to U.S. President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... 's elusive goal.
Paul Lewis, formerly a legal expert for the House of Representatives on Guantanamo,
...he was the minority counsel. That explains it better...
will look at ways to close the jail and transfer detainees to third countries, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said.
"This announcement reflects the department's commitment to implementing the president's directive to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay," a Pentagon statement said.
Lewis, who teaches ethics at Georgetown University,
He's all about 'social justice' which will tell you all you need to know about how he's going to approach this job...
will work with Cliff Sloan, a friend of Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... who was named to a similar position at the State Department in June.
Obama had promised to close the prison set up under his predecessor George W. Bush within one year of taking office in 2009, saying that the indefinite detention of suspects on terrorism charges at the naval base in Cuba did not reflect U.S. values of rule of law.
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Wid the Hard Boyz busy in African Jihad + Al-Qaeda pushing out the domestics in Syria, the Bammer clearly must mean to expand Gitmo, not close it???
This threat to close Gitmo is as laughably serious as about getting rid of Baby Assad.
[Ynet] IDF tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! two Paleostinians in the village of el-Bireh Monday night, of which one is suspected of carrying out the attack on the girl Noam Glick in the settlement of Psagot Saturday night.
The two were taken to questioning and their involvement in the attack is being examined.
[An Nahar] North Korea on Tuesday warned the United States of a "horrible disaster" and put its troops on alert over a massive joint naval drill involving a nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier alongside South Korean and Japanese vessels.
The warning came after Seoul and Washington last week signed a new joint strategy to counter the growing threat of a North Korean nuclear attack after the communist country restarted an ageing plutonium reactor.
That accord also drew a sharp rebuke, with analysts attributing the isolated regime's recent bellicose rhetoric to its desire to arouse the United States' attention and draw it back into long-stalled talks.
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Return of NORTH-KOREA-VS-USS-GEORGE-WASHINGTON.
OTOH, the DPRK is perfect patsy for China as per China-ordered, DPRK-carried-out/executed milaction = Conventional, Nuclear [Tacnuke only?], or Mixed? "First Strike" agz US Allies in NE Asia include northern Philippines.
Preemptive strike???
I remain steadfast to the opinion that China will prefer to militarily wage a LIMITED CONVENTIONAL WAR, or at worst a LIMITED [Tactical]]NUCLEAR WAR in East Asia, NOT "ALL-OUT" OR "MAD" WAR IN ECS + SCS; + that both China + US-Allies will want Mama Russia to sit out any mil conflict in neutral.
Lest we fergit, CHINA HAS TIMES STATED ON THE MSM-NET THAT IT SEES ITSELF AS THE EQUAL OF THE US IN ASIA-PACIFIC OR AS A GREAT/WORLD POWER.
China sees the USDOD everywhere just off its coasts - it does NOT see PLA anywhere just off US coasts.
Whatever its initial warfighting deficiencies are agz the US-Allies, CHINA WILL NOT STOP UNTIL IT ACHIEVES ITS SELF-PERCEIVED "MANIFEST DESTINY" GOALS IN "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" + AMAP BEYOND.
[Ynet] Israel has lodged a complaint against a UN decision to accept Iran into its chemical weapons watchdog with the committee in charged with regulating the field.
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor wrote in a letter to UN Gen.-Sec. the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... that a country that is under UN Security Council sanctions because of its nuclear arms program should not be appointed to a position in which it reports to the UN about the state of weapons of mass destruction."
[Dawn] The son of a retired brigadier has confessed to killing his father, mother and two sisters.
According to a source close to the investigation, the suspect confessed because evidence available with the Sherlocks was against him.
Brigadier (retired) Dr Sikandar Ali Malik, his wife Shahida Malik and two daughters -- Zainab, 23, and Fatima 20 -- were found dead in their house on October 1.
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Before of after they've started cutting his fingers?
[FT] Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, is seeking to rule by decree in order to wage "economic war", as he battles a litany of problems with a loosening grip on power.
Currency market distortions have fueled worsening shortages of food and basic goods from milk to toilet paper alongside high and rising inflation, posing a threat to the late Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution. Price controls as well as endless fiddling with strict but ineffective exchange restrictions have generated a scarcity of foreign currency on which the import-dependent economy relies.
Mr Maduro, who served as Mr Chavez's foreign minister and vice-president, is seeking "special powers" from the country's national assembly to fight graft and pass economic measures. The president claims members of the "fascist" opposition, with support from the US, are "sabotaging" the economy in order to bring down the government.
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Maduro: Part of Speech: n: Definition: a dark-brown strong and slightly sweet cigar: Etymology: Spanish 'ripe' Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
or a Friend of Fidel Castro
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I'm sure Obama is paying close attention. The difference is that Maduro is asking the legislature for permission to become a dictator. O will never get that from the obstructionist Republicans, so he will just have to do it via executive orders.
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with support from the US
Obviously the TEA Party. Shirley he knows he has a friend in The One?
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It's not exactly Concord Bridge. But I hope its a first step of many in disobedience and active rebellion against the regime (big government, and abusive government) in DC.
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It would be a waste of time. HE could make chili out of little black babies in a cauldron on the mall and the Senate would say it was enlightened and rule not guilty. Please stop wasting our time by pretending otherwise.
Ever wonder why none of the Usual Suspects are marching for justice for Miriam Carey the way they did for Trayvon?
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Yes, I do wonder. I'm not sure if the police used excessive force against Miriam, but I'm not sure it was necessary either. Is the difference between Miriam and Trayvon that she might possibly somehow have been a threat to BHO?
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Obama really think's he's God or something. He's trying an interdict on Roman Catholics now.
"Interdict is a censure similar to excommunication. It too excludes from ministerial functions in public worship and from reception of the sacraments, but not from the exercise of governance.
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Various memorials were closed, that is, barriers were placed around them and security was assigned to keep people away. No matter that the memorials are usually open 24/7 and no one staffs them. So what is this "extra" cost to "close" things? Jackasses. We have seen this at the state level when taxpayers don't pass some issue on the ballot that is wanted by the state. Usually, the most high profile things where taxpayers come in contact with the government are closed such as parks, state run libraries, museums, etc.
[Al Ahram] A Saudi court sentenced a preacher convicted of raping his five-year-old daughter and torturing her to death to eight years in prison and 800 lashes, a lawyer said Tuesday.
In a case that drew widespread public condemnation in the kingdom and abroad, the court also ordered Fayhan Al-Ghamdi to pay his ex-wife, the girl's mother, one million riyals ($270,000) in "blood money," lawyer Turki Al-Rasheed told AFP.
Blood money is compensation for the next of kin under Islamic law.
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a father cannot be executed for murdering his children, nor can husbands be executed for murdering their wives.
[An Nahar] President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... on Tuesday criticized Syria for a cross-border raid that he said targeted an ambulance in the Bekaa town of Arsal, causing no injuries.
Local officials said the attack was carried out on Monday night by Syrian war planes that fired at an area in the Arsal region, which has regularly been targeted by cross-border strikes.
In a statement, Suleiman said "an ambulance was targeted by Syrian rockets" and called for humanitarian bodies to be protected from "conflict and hostilities".
Local officials confirmed the attack.
"Syrian war planes targeted an ambulance in the Wadi Hmayyed area in Arsal's barren mountain, but there were no injuries," an official told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
A security source said war planes had fired five rockets in the attack.
The Arsal area is broadly supportive of the Sunni-dominated uprising against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... The mountainous area has long been a smuggling haven, with multiple routes into Syria that have been used since the conflict began in March 2011 to transport weapons and fighters.
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Rick Steves just called me up and dictated this. Kinda creeped me out, but it reflects my feelings about a certain expression used waaaay too often by an otherwise beloved ancestor of mine.
Stretching travel dinero in troublesome times?
Why not pay a visit to Levantine climes?
It's a land that will greet you with wide open arms
Where the silvery moon glitters over the palms
Are you looking to get off the old beaten path?
You're not squeamish about actuarial math?
If you're an odd fellow or my name is Rebekah,
You are certain to love this touristical Mecca!
Now, getting around isn't much of a fuss
You can travel by camel or moto or bus.
If you drive, they will think that your car is da bomb
So impress 'em -- burn rubber and holler "Salaam!"
You won't need to bother to ask for directions
'Cause things are split up into orderly sections.
Now once in a while you may get a rare treat
When you meet a parade of armed men in the street.
Please don't be self-conscious -- it's perfectly fine
To slap your own booty in a Leb second line.
Way out in the Bekaa, one stop short of Syria,
Stop and feast on falafel beneath the wisteria.
If you're lucky and happen to chat with a local,
You'll probably find him both friendly and vocal.
Have fun, but remember this word to the wise:
Here friendship is found in mysterious guise.
In this part of the East -- I am casting no blame --
Some folks aren't so great at the etiquette game.
If your waiter is muttering into his phone,
And he spits in your drink and then leaves you alone,
That's just his best effort at breaking the ice:
They hold hands over here, so do try it -- it's nice!
If he glares at you hawklike, eyes hot with desire
As if he could kiss you, then set you on fire...
If a curious cop takes a poke at your nuts...
If militia insist that you must feel their butts...
Don't be so standoffish, you old fuddy-duddy --
It's their way of showing you're their Arsal buddy!
[An Nahar] A jihadist group on Tuesday grabbed credit for an attack on a Cairo satellite communications dish it said was an "infidel mouthpiece" of Egypt's military-installed authorities.
On Monday assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades at the dish in Cairo's upscale Maadi district, a day after festivities between Islamists and the security forces killed at least 57 people in Egypt -- 48 of them in the capital alone.
"Your brothers in Al-Furqan announce the targeting of the headquarters of communication, the tongue of the pharaohs, with two RPGs so that the media of the infidels know we are coming," the group said in a YouTube video showing footage of the attack.
"Your enemy is the enemy of God and its officers and soldiers who are killing you are like soldiers of the pharaohs. They are infidels until they return to the religious path," the group said in a statement.
"Today, we call for jihad. It is the start of the road to victory and martyrdom," it added.
The footage shows the dish from different angles, followed by masked men dressed in black and getting ready to fire the RPGs during the night. The authenticity of the video could not be verified independently.
It was the first attack using RPGs in Cairo since violence erupted in the capital after the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in a popularly backed coup on July 3.
The Al-Furqan group had previously claimed an attack on a ship in the Suez canal in September.
Egypt's new authorities have launched a crackdown against Islamist supporters of Morsi, jailing more than 2,000 of them, including the former president.
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Uh, uh, THE HARD BOYZ STILL HATE CABLE???
gut nuthin.
Can't be the EGYPTIAN MUSBROS because ...
* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > "CIVILIZATION JIHAD" THE NEWEST THREAT FROM EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.
MusBros fighting agz Imperialist Zionist-Crusaders for the right of Muslim Iran's young people to wear denim while still protecting Saudi Muslim women from the evil of legal driving???
[Dawn] IF further proof were needed that the hostility to the polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination campaign is intensifying, it can be found in the attack on the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on Monday. A small medical centre from where vaccination-related goods were being distributed was targeted with two remote-controlled bombs. While the larger explosive mercifully failed to detonate, two people -- one of them a policeman -- were killed and many more injured in the blast caused by the other bomb. This is perhaps the first time a health centre working on the issue has been targeted, and constitutes a worrying new dimension to the resistance to anti-polio efforts that has taken root in the country. Earlier, polio teams and workers have been attacked -- sometimes killed -- and in many cases their security escorts have also suffered. The net result: not only are unvaccinated children being increasingly exposed to a crippling, life-threatening disease, the herd immunity of the citizenry on the lam is also threatened with the resurgence of the poliovirus.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday said he is against North Korea having nuclear weapons and firmly opposes any more nuclear tests, a senior government official here said. Xi made the remarks when he met President Park Geun-hye in Bali, Indonesia on the sidelines of the APEC summit. It was already their third meeting this year.
Xi pledged that China will "strictly abide by UN Security Council resolutions" against North Korea. "We need to prevent a repeat of the vicious cycle related to the North Korean nuclear issue," he added.
When he cuts the oil imports to North Korea then I'll believe he's serious...
He also called for an early resumption of the six-party nuclear disarmament talks "as it's impossible to resolve" the issue "through the use of force."
That's not exactly true...
Park called on Xi to try to persuade the North to give up on nuclear weapons and focus instead on economic development.
The North Korean regime cannot afford to "concentrate all its energy on developing nuclear weapons" in view of reports that many North Koreans are suffering from chronic malnutrition, she said.
"The North needs to stop enhancing its nuclear capabilities. We're grateful to China for cooperating with us," she added.
That's going to make Pudgy's ears go red...
Park also expressed support for a Chinese export ban to North Korea of goods that could be used in making nuclear weapons and materials.
"Our fundamental view is that the North should be denuclearized in a way that is helpful to achieving substantial progress," she said. "It's important to realize the complete and verifiable denuclearization as early as possible."
But she differed from Xi over the six-party talks, saying the North must first take concrete steps to end its nuclear program.
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Again, unless something major changes, EFFECTIVE INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION = it may be in the US-ROK-Allied interest for the DPRK to dev nukes, which in turn will lead the ROK to dev nukes, which in turn will lead to de facto reunification.
Unitl then, the clock is ticking agz the DPRK as to when China will formally annex the DPRK.
To avoid final Chinese annexation, KJU may just do something militarily desperate to overtly or covertly invoke US-China war.
[Al Ahram] Residents in northern Mali say that suspected radical jihadists have blown up two bridges near the country's border with Niger.
The attack comes only a day after suspected jihadists fired mortar rounds on the city of Gao, wounding at least seven people.
The violence has broken a relative calm in and around Gao since late March.
Ousmane Maiga, a resident of Gao, said the two bridges were attacked early Tuesday. An official with the UN peacekeeping mission confirmed the kabooms.
Gao was under the control of al-Qaeda-linked gunnies for nine months until a French-led military operation in January ousted them from the town. Back in January, the radical gunnies also blew up another bridge near the border with Niger.
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[An Nahar] A Tehran court has placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! dissident Mehdi Khazali for six years for acting against national security, media reports said Tuesday.
Khazali was charged in Tehran's Revolutionary court for "disturbing national security and propaganda against the establishment," the Fars news agency reported, quoting defense lawyer Mostafa Tork Hamedani.
Khazali, released on bail in June after being tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in January, will appeal the verdict, the lawyer said.
Agence La Belle France Presse could not independently confirm the report.
In February 2012, Khazali had been reportedly convicted of the same charges, and was handed sentences including 14 years in jail, according to human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... organizations.
A fierce critic of hardline ex-president Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad, Khazali has been arrested on several occasions in recent years.
He was among scores of reformist politicians, journalists, human rights campaigners and student activists tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in popular protests against Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009.
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[An Nahar] Police in Japan have tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a 70-year-old man over claims he arranged sexual encounters among senior citizens through newspaper adverts soliciting "tea-drinking companions", police and press reports said Tuesday.
Kiyohide Kuroda had allegedly been posting classified ads in a Tokyo newspaper for around a decade before he was taken into custody last week.
Press reports said Kuroda had helped arrange sex among about 1,000 men and 350 women, mostly in their mid sixties, earning some 30 million yen ($310,000) as commission in breach of Japanese prostitution laws.
His small ads for his "San Ai" (Three Loves) club offered to arrange meetings for "tea-drinking companions aged between 40 and mature ages," the reports said.
The oldest male customer was 88 and the oldest woman was 82.
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[Dawn] Following revelation of the NADRA report regarding likely poll rigging on a massive scale in a Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... constituency, the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP) Tuesday directed an election tribunal to decide the matter until October 25, DawnNews reported.
A National Database and Registration Authority report submitted to an election tribunal on Monday revealed only 6,815 of the total 84,748 ballots sent to Nadra for verification, of certain polling stations in NA-256 constituency could be successfully authenticated.
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[Al Ahram] Police in China's Xinjiang region are cracking down on people who promote jihad online, state media reported on Tuesday, amid a nationwide campaign against internet rumours that activists say is a blow to freedom of speech.
Sprawling Xinjiang is home to the mostly Mohammedan Uighur ethnic minority, many of whom harbour resentment of what they see as Chinese repression of their culture and religion. Some are campaigning for a separate Mohammedan state and there have been incidents of violence.
Xinjiang police were investigating 256 people for spreading "destabilising rumours" online, the Xinjiang Daily newspaper said. Of those, 139 spread rumours about jihad, or Mohammedan holy war, or other religious ideas. More than 100 jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! '>were tossed into the calaboose.
"Our local public security bureaus are strongly cracking down on those who engage in illegal activities online," the newspaper said. "Xinijang must not allow the internet to become a platform for crime."
Authorities frequently detain and arrest Uighurs for activities that they say extol religious militancy and ethnic separatism. But the latest crackdown is linked to a nationwide campaign against online rumours.
The newspaper did not say whether those detained were Uighur or from the majority Han ethnic group.
Rights activists say the action against internet rumours is a new way for authorities to curb criticism.
Dilxat Raxit, a front man for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, said the government campaign was aimed at stopping Uighurs from getting information on the Internet.
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MARKA, Somalia -- Following a sea-launched attack that targeted a seaside building in Barawe, a coastal town in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia last Saturday, Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group reportedly beefed up its militias presence, Garowe Online reports.
Good thinking. Reinforce where we've been rather than where we're going next...
Truckloads of heavily armed militias advanced towards the coastal town of Barawe in response to the raid by US navy seal team, a rare and high risk operation which missed the target after militants who are believed to be Al Shabaab Chief, Ahmed Godane's bodyguards engaged in " an hour long firefight" with the US Special Forces.
According to some residents who asked to remain anonymous, Al Shabaab militias have been seen along Barawe beach and several important structures which house Al Shabaab senior officials in the town.
Following the attack, Al Shabaab arrested many people including several fighters for spying and coordinating anti-Al Shabaab moves with what the extremists described white infidels and apostate government. Al Shabaab, the militant group also imposed tough curb on the information and blacked out the town's internet service.
Half of your hard boyz are secretly on the CIA payroll. I can't remember which half...
I b'lieve some of them are named Mohammed and Mahmud, and at least one is called Achmed. Hope that helps...
Federal Government of Somalia's Defence Minister Abdihakin Haji Mohamud Fiqi said the government was pre-informed about the raid on Al Shabaab stronghold [Barawe].
On the other hand, Al Shabaab operations spokesman Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Muscb said in a recorded statement that they are vigilant against western attacks on Tuesday.
"We are always vigilant against enemy attacks, Jihadists aren't sleeping. They know their enemy and the westerners will be vanquished," he said.
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Al Shabaab arrested many people including several fighters for spying and coordinating anti-Al Shabaab moves with what the extremists described white infidels and apostate government.
"White infidels and apostate government". Champ simply refers to them as "obstructionist Republicans".....same-same.
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I wish they'd be "vigilant" against a multi-aircraft ARCLIGHT strike, and the statement that any further "enemy action" would be met with more of the same, but we've got a muzzie sympathizer in the Spite House, and there's no chance for that.
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All they really need to is to relocate to an orphanage, they know we would never attack there, the ROEs don't allow it.
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A Sharia Correct polio virus epidemic would fit the bill for Barawe.
[An Nahar] The world's chemical watchdog said Tuesday it will send a second team of inspectors to help dismantle Syria's arsenal, as regime warplanes bombed rebels in the northwest of the country.
Meanwhile Russia praised Damascus for "very actively" cooperating with the chemical weapons inspectors already on the ground.
The ongoing violence underlined comments on Monday from U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , who warned that the weapons inspectors face unprecedented danger.
In a report to the U.N. Security Council, Ban said it would take 100 foreign experts to complete "an operation the likes of which, quite simply, has never been tried before".
On Tuesday, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it would send a second team to Damascus to bolster an existing U.N.-OPCW group on the ground.
"That will augment the advance team of OPCW experts, who have been in Syria since 1 October conducting verification and destruction activities," it said, without providing further details on the new inspectors.
OPCW Director General Ahmet Uzumcu said the process of destroying Syria's chemical arsenal would be "long and difficult" but welcomed a "constructive beginning" to the operation.
The inspectors have until mid-2014 to verify and destroy Syria's chemical arsenal under the terms of a U.N. Security Council resolution that enshrines a U.S.-Russian deal.
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[Jpost] Sanctions have cost about $100 billion damage to Tehran's economy, inflation is currently running at 40% a year.
Steinitz, speaking at a conference at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, said that over the last 18-24 months the international sanctions have caused about $100 billion in damage to the country's economy, which has an annual $450 billion GDP.
In addition, he said, inflation in Iran is currently running at 40 percent a year, and the unemployment rate is between 25%-30%, with the rate among youth at about 40%.
The rial, Iran's currency, has been devalued by 180%, and the country has a negative economic growth of 5.4%.
He said that the sanctions have effectively cut Iran off from the world's financial system, making it very difficult to do business. At this rate, he predicted the Iranian economy will collapse in another year-and-a-half, something that led to the rise of Iran's diminutive President Hassan Rouhani.
"The pressure works, it is effective," Steinitz said. "If we add to this pressure a credible military threat, the chances will be greatly improved."
Steinitz said the combination of a credible military threat and diplomacy that succeeded in getting Syria to begin dismantling its chemical weapons stockpiles will work against Iran as well.
Syria, he said, showed that there was truth in the slogan "the greater the pressure, the greater the chances for diplomacy to succeed."
According to Steinitz, "the constellations came together" in the right way and led Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... to do something no one dreamed even six months ago that he would do: begin ridding Syria of chemical weapons.
This came about, Steinitz said, because of Assad's interest in survival; the US determination to set a redline and stand firmly behind it; a Russian desire to prevent an attack on Syria that could endanger the Assad regime; and a joint US-Russian desire to finally gain a diplomatic achievement after two years of doing little regarding the bloody Syrian Civil War.
While the agreement to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons was not done for Israel, "this is an example of how -- despite our own instincts -- that geopolitical events sometimes redound in Israel's favor."
Steinitz said that the Syrian agreement would "not have been possible without a credible US military threat."
He repeated what Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has made clear over the last few days, that Israel was not opposed to a diplomatic solution to the Iranian crisis as long as Iran was left without the capacity to build a nuclear bomb.
[Al Ahram] Three female members of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Shura Consultative Council filed a recommendation on Tuesday that a ban on women driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom be lifted, one of them said.
The move comes ahead of a 26 October initiative by Saudi activists to defy a longstanding driving ban on women in Saudi Arabia.
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[Dawn] A report of the National Database and Registration Authority has revealed that the May 11 general election to a National Assembly seat in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , NA-256 (Shah Faisal Colony), was rigged.
The Nadra report, second in a row, was submitted on Monday in the Election Tribunal at Karachi in an election petition of Muhammad Zubair Khan, the runner-up candidate of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
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[Al Ahram] Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said on Tuesday relations with the United States would not be affected by the US military raid to capture an al Qaeda suspect 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... , but he said Libyan suspects should be tried in Libya.
"Our relationship with the USA is one of friendship and cooperation. They helped us with our revolution. Our relationship will not be affected by this event, which we will settle how we need to," he said during a visit to Morocco.
But he said Libyan citizens should be judged in Libya and Tripoli was in contact with US authorities to "take all necessary measures in this affair."
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[Ynet] The corpse count from weekend festivities between Islamists and police has reached 57, a senior Egyptian health ministry official told AFP on Tuesday.
Khaled al-Khatib said that 48 people died in Cairo and nine in other parts of the country. Authorities had previously given a toll of 51. Khatib said a total of 391 people had been injured throughout the country.
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[An Nahar] Yemen's president said Tuesday the question of turning the country into a federal state, which has so far delayed a conclusion to reconciliation talks, will be resolved within days.
Addressing participants at a national dialogue session in Sanaa, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi said: "We are a few days away from reaching a just solution to the southern issue... within a united and federal Yemen."
The once-independent southerners are demanding two entities -- one in the north and one in the south -- while northerners want a federal state made up of several regions.
Hadi referred to a "broad national agreement reached on several aspects of a settlement to the southern issue," adding that "it will not be difficult to overcome a few remaining issues."
The dialogue was scheduled to end on September 18 but was delayed after participants, who had already agreed to the concept of a federal structure, failed to agree on the numbers of regions that will constitute the future state.
The dialogue is aimed at drawing up a new constitution for Yemen and preparing for elections in February.
The dialogue offers "a historic opportunity for those who sincerely believe the southern cause is a just one," Hadi said.
The southern question has been a major stumbling-block for the talks launched in March, with hardline factions of the Southern Movement boycotting the discussions and demanding secession.
After the former North and South Yemen united in 1990, the south broke away in 1994, triggering a brief civil war that ended with the region being overrun by northern troops.
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[Dawn] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government on Monday kept mum during the provincial assembly session about the hide collection campaign by myrmidon groups in the province ahead of Eidul Azha.
Awami National Party parliamentary leader Sardar Hussain Babak, who raised the issue on a point of order, said workers of various myrmidon groups had begun wall chalking, displayed posters and circulated handbills in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's leading youth group the April 6 Youth Movement condemned on Tuesday both sides of the country's deepening polarisation following the past days' violence.
"It's everyone's fault but mine!!" their spokesman shrieked from the sidelines.
Ah, youth groups. Don't they belong in camp somewhere?
Dozens of people, mostly supporters of the Moslem Brüderbund, were killed in festivities pitting Islamists against security forces and opposing civilians on Sunday. It was one of the deadliest days in Egypt since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... amid mass protests in early July.
April 6 -- which helped initiate the call for the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... -- condemned the "use of force" by police. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the group also laid blame on Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund for protesting on a national holiday celebrating Egypt's 1973 war with Israel.
"Morsi's supporters should have selected another day to protest, instead of a sacred national occasion for all Egyptians," wrote April 6 co-founder Ahmed Maher.
On 6 October, or 'Armed Forces Day,' Egyptians commemorate the day in which Egypt's army crossed the Suez Canal into Israel-occupied Sinai, eventually regaining control of the vital sea route between Asia and Europe.
Maher noted that April 6 did not participate in Sunday's celebrations in order to avoid the anticipated "confrontations and bloodbath."
April 6 is a member of the recently-established Revolution Path Front, or "Revolutionaries," which opposes both Egypt's army and the Moslem Brüderbund.
The youth group backed Morsi in the 2012 presidential race, but later joined protests against the Moslem Brüderbund as they watched the group attempt to concentrate power in the hands of Islamists.
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[An Nahar] An alleged top al-Qaeda operative snatched in a U.S. commando raid in Libya was involved in plots that killed Americans and will be brought to justice, U.S. President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... said Tuesday.
Vowing that the United States will continue to hunt down regional terror groups, Obama told news hounds that Abu Anas al-Libi "helped plan and execute plots that killed hundreds of people, a whole lot of Americans. We have strong evidence of that. And he will be brought to justice."
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Two Canadians released from an Egyptian prison after being held without charges since mid-August were barred from flying out of the country on Sunday, Cairo airport officials said.
John Greyson, a Toronto filmmaker and York University professor, and Tarek Loubani, a physician from London, Ontario, had checked in for a flight to Frankfurt, Germany, but were prevented from boarding the plane after their names appeared on a stop-list issued by prosecutors, the airport officials said.
The two Canadians retrieved their luggage and were free to leave the airport, the officials said. The Canadian Foreign Affairs department said Greyson and Loubani were released from an Egyptian prison on Sunday morning.
Lynne Yelich, a junior minister for consular affairs, said in a statement released earlier Sunday that the Canadian government was working to get the pair back home.
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They should go to Rick Blaine's place - surely by now he has franchises all across the Sahara:
Captain Renault: Rick, there are many exit visas sold in this café, but we know that *you've* never sold one. That is the reason we permit you to remain open.
Rick: Oh? I thought it was because I let you win at r**lette.
Captain Renault: That is *another* reason.
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I'd like to see them stay there for a few years. They could report on conditions. They could report on whatever. I'd NOT want to see them back in Canuckistan for a long time.
[Dawn] Myanmar on Tuesday began freeing dozens of its remaining tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! activists, officials said, after the country vowed to release all prisoners of conscience by the end of the year.
"Our government will release 56 political prisoners," presidential adviser Hla Maung Shwe told AFP, in comments confirmed by correctional department officials.
Setting free dissidents detained arbitrarily under the former junta has been a cornerstone of reforms by a new quasi-civilian regime and has been warmly welcomed by the international community with the scrapping of most western sanctions.
Hundreds of political detainees have been freed since President Thein Sein took power in March 2011. But activists say authorities are continuing to prosecute dissidents and scores remain behind bars. They accuse the government of using the headline-grabbing releases for political gain and leverage with the international community.
Thein Sein, who travelled on Tuesday to a meeting of regional powers in Brunei, announced there would be "no prisoners of conscience in Myanmar" by the end of the year during his first visit to London in July.
Numbers for political prisoners held in Myanmar vary, but Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party said there were around 140 activists held before Tuesday's announcement.
Thet Oo, from the ex-detainees group Former Political Prisoners, told AFP that he could confirm that some of the 56 had already been set free, adding that his organization estimates that around 50 new activists have been held by the current regime.
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I wonder what their filtering criteria is?
My guess: you're not a Shan or Karen or Kachin, you've never said anything nice about a Shan or Karen or Kachin... etc.
[Dawn] A suspected gangster was shot dead in a Lyari locality on Monday in what police described as infighting within criminal gangs.
Officials said two armed motorcyclists fired at Ayaz Niazi alias Bhoora, 30, outside his Moosa Lane house and rode away. He sustained multiple bullet wounds and died on the spot. "Niazi was killed by his cousin Ghaffar Niazi for being a police informer," said Lyari SP Shahnawaz.
He said the deceased was also a nephew of alleged gangster Sultan Niazi alias Snookerwala, who is a member of the Sheeraz Comrade gang.
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[An Nahar] Surgery on Tuesday to remove a blood clot from the brain of Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner was successful, a government spokesman said.
A medical report said Kirchner is progressing "favorably" after the surgery, which encountered "no complications."
She remains in an intensive care unit.
"It went very well. The president is in good spirits and is already in her room," said spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro.
Kirchner was diagnosed over the weekend with a "chronic subdural hematoma" resulting from a blow to the head sustained in a fall in mid-August.
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A Friend of Fidel Castro:
I detect a pattern developing here, Chavez, Kirchner,Correa and Madoro
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So, Kirchner will get through her subdural hematoma, and then lead her country on again to successful ruin.
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No, successful surgery was a big failure for Argentina.
[Bangla Daily Star] Banned bully boy outfits plan to carry out terrorist attacks in the country once political turmoil over the polls-time government takes a turn for the worse after October 24, said brass hats of the home ministry and police.
"The recent arrest of some snuffies and Hefajat-e Islam men, and Monday's kaboom at a Chittagong madrasa are not isolated incidents. There is no doubt that they will try to create anarchy," said a senior police official, preferring anonymity.
These elements made attempts to carry out terrorist attacks but couldn't succeed due to the government agencies' constant watch and crackdown on snuffies over the past few years, said the official.
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[Ynet] The website of the anti-virus company AVG was hacked and destroyed by the hackers who identified themselves as Paleostinian. The hackers planted messages, including "There is a state called Paleostine that was stolen by the Zionists."
It is unclear at this stage how they broke into the website, and it is possible that the hackers are referring surfers to their servers, and that the AVG servers were unharmed.
Iran and Iraq have signed an agreement for the construction of a pipeline that will carry natural gas from Iran to feed power plants in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, PressTV reported.
Iraq doesn't have any natural gas?
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday morning, Basra Governor Majeed al-Nasrawi stated that the pipeline project, which is expected to come on-stream by next summer, has been awarded to an Iranian company. He further noted that the local government in Basra has even sought cooperation from Iranian companies to develop subway network in Basra, and construct railroad connecting Iran and Iraq.
On July 21, Iran signed an agreement with Iraq to deliver natural gas to its western neighbor. Based on the agreement, 25 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas will be delivered to Sadr, Baghdad and al-Mansouryah power plants through pipeline.
The 270-kilometer pipeline is estimated to earn Iran USD 3.7 billion a year in revenue.
The pipeline will stretch from Assaluyeh, near the massive offshore South Pars gas field in southern Iran, and will continue into neighboring Iraq to feed Iraqi power plants running on gas. The South Pars gas field is located in the Persian Gulf on the common border between Iran and Qatar. It is estimated that the field contains 14 trillion cubic meters of gas and 18 billion barrels of condensate.
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[Dawn] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has sought a report from the special judge of Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Atiqur Rehman for extending the interim bail of alleged extorters five consecutive times.
According to the recommendations of the National Judicial Policy (NJP) 2009, a trial court has to decide the bail plea of an accused within five days.
Therefore, the court can only provide one interim-bail and its period cannot be extended beyond five days.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... when Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the IHC resumed hearing of the extortion case on Monday, the petitioner's counsel informed the court that the ATC had granted five extensions in the interim bail of alleged extorters Malik Safdar and others.
The case is based on a petition filed by Amanullah Sheeno, an Afghan national who used to be a vegetable seller in the Fruit and Vegetable Market of Sector I-11. Allegedly, he had later started collecting extortion sum from traders in the name of protection money.
He had approached the court in July alleging that police officials had registered a fake case against him stating that he was involved in collecting extortion. He alleged that the case was registered after he refused to pay extortion to the police.
The IHC then ordered the inspector general (IG) of Islamabad police to take action against all extorters in the market. Subsequently, the police locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Sheeno and his rivals Malik Safdar and Tariq Safdar. Sheeno is currently in the custody of the Sabzi Mandi police,
The two brothers, Tariq and Malik, later managed to obtain an interim bail from the ATC, and on Monday, Judge Atiqur Rehman gave them another extension in the bail on Monday.
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[An Nahar] A new suspect linked to the 2005 liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has been identified, reported the daily An Nahar on Tuesday.
It said that the identity of the suspect was determined based on the initial findings of former United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... investigator in the case Detlev Mehlis.
Mehlis' 2005 report on the murder said that a number of high-ranking Lebanese and Syrian officials were involved in the crime.
He however did not name any of the officials.
Hariri and 22 others were killed in a massive boom-mobile in Beirut on February 14, 2005.
An indictment by the Special Tribunal for Leb investigating the crime accused four Hizbullah members of being involved in the attack.
Hizbullah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has slammed the tribunal, saying that it an American-Israeli product bent on destroying the party.
He vowed that the party will not cooperate with the STL and that the suspects will never be found.
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Four people were killed in fierce clashes Monday between Philippine troops and Abu Sayyaf militants in Basilan province.
Captain Jefferson Somera said two injured militants under Juhair Aliman were also captured in Sumisip town. He said the fighting broke out after the military launched an operation aimed at clearing the circumferential road from lawless elements.
Somera said, The purpose of the (military) operation is to clear the Basilan circumferential road to ensure the safety of the civilian motorists. The operation also intends to neutralize the lawless elements threatening the major thoroughfare along the villages of Sapah Bulak and Upper Cabengbeng both of Sumisip town."
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[An Nahar] At least 30 people died and dozens more were maimed in festivities Tuesday between ex-rebels of the Seleka coalition and local self-defense groups in the Central Africa Republic, a security source said.
"Fierce fighting has claimed at least 30 lives ... but the festivities were still going on as of mid-morning," the source close to the military high command in Bangui told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Fighting in the village of Garga, in the country's northwest, continued into Tuesday morning, the source added.
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[Al Ahram] The panel formed by Egypt's interim-cabinet to handle the Moslem Brüderbund's frozen assets ordered on Tuesday the seizing of the Islamist group's funds.
That should buy another week's worth of wheat...
Additionally, the Brotherhood's status as a registered NGO has been officially annulled by a government panel headed by Minister of Social Solidarity Ahmed El-Borai, reported Al-Ahram's Arabic news website.
Egyptian interim Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi told news hounds Tuesday that the annulment of the group's NGO registration was normal procedure following the verdict which has banned "all activities" relating to the group.
"The panel managing the group's funds was formed to execute the state's role in implementing court verdicts," he added.
On 23 September the Cairo court for urgent matters ordered the banning of the Moslem Brüderbund's activities.
The court also ordered the interim-government to seize the group's funds and establish a panel to administer its frozen assets until any appeal has been heard.
On Monday, the Moslem Brüderbund officially appealed the court verdict to seize its funds.
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That should buy another week's worth of wheat...
I dunno. There was a lot of US-based support there for a while.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A record-breaking storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in parts of western South Dakota left ranchers dealing with heavy losses as they assess how many of their cattle died during the unseasonably early blizzard.
Folks who live in the Great Smoky Mountains have just about reached their breaking point with the federal government.
KISMAYO, Somalia -- The Jubaland administration on Somalia's southern tip officially declared that it wouldn't attend a Mogadishu conference called by the Somali Federal Government on Monday, Garowe Online reports.
[An Nahar] 
[Al Ahram] Sixteen people accused in Sudan of attacks on 
[Al Ahram] Syrian regime war planes on Tuesday launched strikes against rebels in northwestern Idlib province after they began an assault against two key military bases there, a monitoring group said.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[An Nahar] Libya's top political authority, the General National Congress, demanded on Tuesday that the United States hand back an alleged al-Qaeda operative its forces seized from 
Obama spending much more money on barriers, personnel, and logistics to close some of the most sacred memorials to freedom than it would have taken to keep them open.
[An Nahar] Pakistain on Tuesday deported a 
Pervez 
[Bangkok Post] Two men were killed in a shooting in Narathiwat province on Monday night. Witnesses said the two victims were traveling on a motorcycle when a gunman ran out from a roadside forest and fired at them with an assault rifle. The attacker then fled. The two died on the spot.
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
[Al Ahram] The White House says it is "deeply concerned" by the recent violence in Egypt and is calling on the government there to protect all Egyptians. 
[Ynet] IDF 
North Korea
[Ynet] Israel has lodged a complaint against a UN decision to accept Iran into its chemical weapons watchdog with the committee in charged with regulating the field.
[FT] Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's president, is seeking to rule by decree in order to wage "economic war", as he battles a litany of problems with a loosening grip on power.
[Al Ahram] A Saudi court sentenced a preacher convicted of raping his five-year-old daughter and torturing her to death to eight years in prison and 800 lashes, a lawyer said Tuesday.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[An Nahar] A jihadist group on Tuesday 
[Dawn] IF further proof were needed that the hostility to the 
[An Nahar] Police in Japan have 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Al Ahram] Three female members of 
[Al Ahram] Egypt's leading youth group the April 6 Youth Movement condemned on Tuesday both sides of the country's deepening polarisation following the past days' violence.
[Dawn] A suspected gangster was shot dead in a Lyari locality on Monday in what police described as infighting within criminal gangs.
[An Nahar] Surgery on Tuesday to remove a blood clot from the brain of Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner was successful, a government spokesman said.
[An Nahar] At least 30 people died and dozens more 
