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IDF soldiers kill planner of Tel Aviv bus bombing in a raid
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Home Front: Politix
Rand Paul pushes constitutional amendment on Congress
h/t Instapundit
Forget the Vitter amendment. Rand Paul wants to make sure that Congress can’t ever again write laws with provisions specific to lawmakers.
The Kentucky freshman Republican has introduced a constitutional amendment that would preclude senators and representatives from passing laws that don’t apply equally to U.S. citizens and Congress, the executive branch and the Supreme Court. The amendment is aimed squarely at Obamacare provisions specific to members of Congress and their staffs that became a central point of contention during the government shutdown.
A traitor to his class!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 14:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm all for it, but it will never pass. The ruling class will not allow it.

Let them eat cake.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/22/2013 14:55 Comments || Top||

#2  But the elitist vote will be made very public for reelection.
Posted by: 49 pan || 10/22/2013 18:19 Comments || Top||

#3  But the elitist vote will be made very public for reelection.

Won't help the Republic. The fix is in. If Obamacare doesn't bring down the elites, nothing will.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/22/2013 18:42 Comments || Top||

#4  This shouldn't require an amendment. But then, Congress is not known for being moral.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/22/2013 19:25 Comments || Top||

#5  The Fed will after China opens fire agz Japan + PHIL, etal. in East Asia, + the Bammer Admin claims that the US can't intervene because it can no longer econ afford to.

The bad US-World Econ, Sequester, Shutdown, + post-Shutdown, etc. new threats is the PCorrect-Deniable cover story - WHEN THE US MAINSTREAM = VOTERS FIND OUT THAT THE ABOVESAME WERE INTENTIONAL OR PRE-PLANNED TO OCCUR, + PART OF A LT, ANTI-US, OWG-NWO GLOBALIST AGENDA THATS WHEN THE CIVIL WAR = "SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION" WILL BEGIN.

People can forgive a honest or sincere mistake - they won't forgive a wilful, calculated lie or deception that results in deliberate + protractive mass suffering + confusion.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/22/2013 19:56 Comments || Top||

#6  I would go one farther and have it apply to all federal employees, including federal judges too.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/22/2013 21:47 Comments || Top||

#7  ...strange how the 'equal before the law' thingy somehow doesn't apply when it comes to that situation isn't it? And here I thought that redistribution thingy was also about outcome rather than opportunity.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/22/2013 22:15 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Near-miss: How two jumbo jets almost came to grief over Scottland
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 11:37 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OH MY GOD, THEY WERE IN THE SME HEMISPHERE.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/22/2013 14:14 Comments || Top||

#2  *giggle*
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/22/2013 17:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey, this is no laughing matter. In every airplane collision in recent memory, *both* planes were in the same hemisphere. I'm starting to see a suspicious pattern here.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/22/2013 19:29 Comments || Top||

#4  OK, Assume planes land,(They have to sooner or later) They're within a mile of each other, (Airports are too small) you can see the hype is greatly overblown.

They were bout 4 MILES from each other, a safe distance.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/22/2013 21:28 Comments || Top||

#5  They're not "near misses". They're "near hits"...
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/22/2013 21:29 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Paks pro drone
When Sofia Khan, a school administrator from Islamabad, travelled with hundreds of anti-drone campaigners to a ramshackle town bordering the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) last October she was stunned by what some tribesmen there had to say.

One man from South Waziristan heatedly told her that he and his family approved of the remote-controlled aircraft and wanted more of them patrolling the skies above his home. Access to the tribal regions is very difficult for foreign journalists; but several specialists and researchers on the region, who did not want to be identified, say there is at least a sizeable minority in FATA who share that view.

Surveys are also notoriously difficult to carry out in FATA. A 2009 poll in three of the tribal agencies found 52% of respondents believed drone strikes were accurate and 60% said they weakened militant groups. Other surveys have found much lower percentages in favour. But interviews by The Economist with twenty residents of the tribal areas confirmed that many see individual drone strikes as preferable to the artillery barrages of the Pakistani military. They also insisted that the drones do not kill many civilians—a view starkly at odds with mainstream Pakistani opinion. “No one dares tell the real picture,” says an elder from North Waziristan. “Drone attacks are killing the militants who are killing innocent people.”
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/22/2013 10:53 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Marko Feingold: Über-Survivor, Part I
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 09:29 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Congresswoman Funneled $294,245 in Campaign Cash to Herself
Rep. Grace Napolitano (U know the party-CA) has bagged at least $294,245 since 1998 by loaning her congressional campaign money at interest rates up to 18%--a scheme that effectively funneled campaign contributor donations directly into her personal bank account.
Income reporting? Any taxes paid on that money ?
The self-loan ruse was exposed Sunday night during a joint investigation by 60 Minutes and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer based on Schweizer’s forthcoming book, Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets.
Easily mitigated with term limits.
After numerous attempts to interview Napolitano, Kroft finally confronted her outside a Hispanic Caucus meeting.
60 Minutes has turned on the Party. MSM scales falling away.
“She told us that as a woman and a minority, banks wouldn’t lend her money, so she had to withdraw $150,000 from an investment account to lend it to her campaign,” said Kroft.
Quickly pulled the minority victim card did she ?
Kroft then questioned why she would charge 18% interest. “That’s what the Mafia gets,” said Kroft.
Steve, just think of it as a 'reverse mortgage' on America.
“It isn’t like I’ve really profited,” said Napolitano. “I still live in the same house. I drive a small car. I am not a billionaire, or a millionaire, for that matter.”
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 08:55 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..banks wouldn't lend her money

Maybe because as a low level politician, the likely ability to repay was a crap shoot. Without a big name and proven patronage draw on funding support, the likelihood was that someone was going to be stuck with at best a penny on a dollar with the bankrupt (notice the word 'bank') reelection fund.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/22/2013 13:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Our government is so corrupt it is beyond scary. Time to format Washington and start over.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/22/2013 13:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Napolitano began her political career as a member of the Norwalk City Council, winning her first election in 1986 by a mere 28 votes. Four years later she won re-election by the highest margin of votes recorded in city history. In 1989, Napolitano was elevated by her council colleagues to serve as Mayor.

Napolitano made her way up through the ranks of Ford Motor Company for 21 years. Following her retirement in 1992, she was elected to the California Assembly until being termed out in 1998. Napolitano previously represented the 34th district from 1999 to 2003, and the 38th district from 2003 to 2013. Due to redistricting, Napolitano ran for, and won re-election in the 2012 United States elections in California's 32nd congressional district against Republican candidate David Miller.

On February 13, 2009, Timothy J. Burger, writing on Bloomberg.com, noted that, “During a decade in Congress, California Representative Grace Napolitano has pocketed more than $200,000 of political contributions by charging as much as 18 percent interest on money she loaned to her own campaign. The Democrat made the $150,000 loan in 1998, when she was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Through Dec. 31, her campaign committee has used donations to pay Napolitano $221,780 of interest while reducing the principal by just $64,727, a review of her Federal Election Commission filings shows.” The loan was completely repaid as of August 2010.


Apparently this has been known for over four years. Given her political and social connections, the "woman and a minority" excuse is pretty thin.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2013 17:32 Comments || Top||

#4  60 Minutes has turned on the Party. MSM scales falling away.

Let's see what they do to other Democrats & Obama the next two months. Until then, file this under 'blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while'.
Posted by: Raj || 10/22/2013 17:57 Comments || Top||


Government
Christie now out of the closet.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 08:27 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...look at your keyboard. If you "erase" the footings of the "R," you have a small "D."
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 10/22/2013 13:44 Comments || Top||

#2  A state judge forced the state to recognize same-sex marriages.

Consent of the govern is long over with. That's why its an oligarchy rather than a republic. The latter used to feature the interest of the majority over the desired/power by minority special interests. However, they need to keep up the facade of the old title in order to keep the 'law abiding' productive elements producing rather than going full black market or non-productive. Can't have a sustainable extortion tax base when everyone realizes that its every man, woman, and child for themselves.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/22/2013 13:54 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The myth of Israel’s isolation
For a country often portrayed as isolated and alone in the international arena, Israel sure does seem to have a lot of thriving friendships.

Indeed, notwithstanding efforts by the media and the Left to paint a picture of the Jewish state as solitary and ostracized, Israel’s popularity appears to be on the upswing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 04:57 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:


High Court rejects petition against state's decision on natural gas export
The High Court of Justice on Monday rejected by a tally of 5-2 a petition against the state's unilateral decision on Israel's natural gas export policy.

The petition, signed by a number of MKs, including opposition leader Shelly Yacimovich and Reuven Rivlin (Likud Baytenu) called for gas export policy to be determined by the Knesset.
Translation "gimme a taste".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 04:49 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:


IDF soldiers kill planner of Tel Aviv bus bombing in a raid
IDF soldiers exchanged fire with a Palestinian during an arrest raid in the West Bank village of Bil'in on Tuesday morning, killing the suspect.

The IDF stated that the man, Mohammed Assi, was an Islamic Jihad operative involved in the planning of a terror attack on a bus in Tel Aviv during Operation Pillar of Defense last year.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 04:45 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Saves having to release him from prison a decade later.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2013 13:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Saves having to release him from prison a decade later.

Not to mention feeding him for a decade. On the other hand, you can have very informative conversations with a guy like that.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 14:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Nobody But Us
It may not be news in principle, but its still disheartening to learn the details of political corruption, rather like walking in on someone you knew was having in affair in theory before seeing them in flagrante delicto. Peter Schweizer lays out gory excerpts from his book, Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes and Line Their Own Pockets in the New York Times. It makes depressing reading, but it is also very illuminating.

Schweizer describes “John Boehner’s ‘Tollbooth’, by which the Speaker of the House extracts money by soliciting political donations before he holds crucial votes on the House floor. He details the Obama “Protection Money” racket, where the Administration targets industries for criminal investigation but passes over the lintels of those who are key political donors. Doubtless Schweizer regales us with many other forms of this activity, but they boil down to the same thing.

Schweizer’s expose makes it easy to understand why the “showdown” over Obamacare and the debt ceiling was in many respects an act. It wasn’t about “yes” or “no” but always about ‘how much’.

Money, or rather the lack of it, is the root of all evil. And often the public, fatted on the narrative, is the last to know. We now learn that Federal Workers are going to get backpay for the days they missed and collect unemployment insurance for those same days to boot. That the Senate budget deal which ended the shutdown actually provided backpay as part of the bipartisan settlement. It turns out that nobody lost a dime in the crisis that was billed as the End of the World, unless of course you count the taxpayers. And they don’t count.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 03:48 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We now learn that Federal Workers are going to get backpay for the days they missed and collect unemployment insurance for those same days to boot.

We knew that. We just didn't know how long it would be until they went back to work and collecting regular paychecks again... and neither did anyone else. Hence the anxiety.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/22/2013 17:33 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
ORIGINS OF HAGGIS
h/t Instapundit
A 2012 study, published in the journal Naturwissenschaften, suggested that the presence of bitter and nutritionally-poor chamomile and yarrow residue on the plaque of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal teeth hints at plants being consumed for medicinal purposes.
Ayla of Mamutoi rides again

But anthropologists reporting in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews have put forward a different theory. They suggest instead that the plant compounds could be from the part-digested stomach contents of hunted animals.

This is a practice still carried out by many cultures, including Australian Aborigines, who eat the stomach contents of kangaroo, and Greenland Inuit who consume the stomachs of reindeer as a delicacy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 01:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Scurvy prevention almost as bad as the disease.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/22/2013 4:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver and lungs); minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally encased in the animal's stomach and simmered for approximately three hours. Most modern commercial haggis is prepared in a sausage casing rather than an actual stomach. wiki

Can't say I've enjoyed this savory delicacy--probably won't.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2013 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Little different than boiling turkey gizzard and parts for gravy at Thanksgiving.

Can't find it now, but remember headcheese? Sounds worse. Hunger is a good sauce.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/22/2013 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  It's actually really tasty and nice.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/22/2013 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  I tried to choke it down once in Edinburgh with a side of blood pudding. What an awful experience
Posted by: Beavis || 10/22/2013 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  A throwback to an older time when we were desperate for calories in any form. Now, we just get a microwave burrito at the Stop-N-Rob.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/22/2013 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7  There is a difference between Haggis and what's in that Burrito at Stop-n-Rob?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/22/2013 10:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Haggis is pretty good, if it's done right.

Then again, I can't eat menudo.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2013 10:30 Comments || Top||

#9  There is a difference between Haggis and what's in that Burrito at Stop-n-Rob?

One is made of bits of animal which as little as 100 years ago were craved but now are considered disgusting, wrapped in a casing which if you knew what it was you wouldn't touch it, and the other is Haggis.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/22/2013 12:28 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Opposition Party to Boycott Mauritania's 'Sham Polls'
[An Nahar] One of Mauritania's main opposition parties announced on Monday it was pulling out of the west African nation's November 23 elections despite an earlier pledge to take part.

The left-leaning Union of the Forces of Progress (UFP) - part of a coalition of opposition parties - said the boycott would thwart the "sham election" being planned by President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz.

The move means that, of the 11 parties which make up the Coordination of Democratic Opposition, just the Islamist group Tewassoul has agreed to take part in the polls, arguing that its participation would be a "form of struggle against the dictatorship".

Mauritania has already had to postpone the parliamentary and local elections originally planned for October after the coalition said it would "boycott this electoral masquerade" in a bid to cause the vote to fail.

Following independence from La Belle France and the ensuing one-party government of Moktar Ould Daddah, deposed in 1978, Mauritania had a series of military rulers until its first multi-party election in 1992.

Abdel Aziz seized power in a 2008 coup and was elected a year later, but the opposition has never accepted his rule as legitimate and demanded he make way for a neutral leader to administer the vote.
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Home Front: Politix
ObamaCare Website Now Fixed
Click on "Apply Now"

HT: AoS
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's no fix like a quick fix!
Posted by: SteveS || 10/22/2013 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  never be a first users of a piece of software.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/22/2013 1:09 Comments || Top||

#3  A Web 1.01a number with a gray background, blue links and a marquee would be pretty funny.

I await the coming of Icanhazhealthcare.com
Posted by: Shipman || 10/22/2013 4:50 Comments || Top||

#4  NSA can build a computer system that snoops on all Americans and some foreigners in real-time but HHS can't build a healthcare website that works? Maybe people don't want or trust Obamacare (or Obama) is the reason why Americans are not signing up en masse?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2013 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  The NSA just nicked/borrowed a key-value "database" and scaled it up a lot.

If you had control of the routers and the budget you could probably do it too.

Fighting through the constant contradiction involved in state treatment rationing schemes, now that's hard.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/22/2013 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  One man's take of AFA signup
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2013 11:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Leave it to the government to make a new Windows OS rollout look like a swiss watch.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/22/2013 12:51 Comments || Top||

#8  The govmint would screw up a one person parade.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2013 18:31 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Bomb on train kills six in Balochistan
[Pak Daily Times] A bomb hit a passenger train in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 17 others, officials said.

The device, apparently planted on the railway track, went kaboom! when the train approached a station in Naseerabad District, around 250 kilometres southeast of Quetta. "It was a kaboom, the target was the passenger train. At least six people have been killed," provincial Home Secretary Asad Gilani told AFP, adding that more than 17 others were maimed in the blast. Zafar Shah Bukhari, a bigwig in the area, confirmed the attack on the Jaffar Express, travelling from Rawalpindi to Quetta, and the corpse count. "We have taken the dead bodies and injured to the nearby hospital," Bukhari said, adding that the condition of six of the injured was critical. The kaboom derailed the train, Bukhari added. The identity of those killed in the attack was not yet clear but Gilani said some security personnel were travelling in the train. "All those killed were men but women and kiddies were among the maimed," Bukhari said. Police and other security personnel cordoned off the area after the blast.

An intelligence official said bomb disposal experts were examining the site to determine the nature of the blast and check for any more devices. Bukhari said one of the compartments of the passenger train was badly damaged due to the intensity of the kaboom. Faiz Bugti, a senior railway official in the area, told AFP that the train service had been suspended as the blast has damaged the railway track. Javed Ahmad, another railway official, told AFP that work to clear the track would take hours.

The dead included three brothers and a woman. Rescue teams rushed to the site shortly after the incident and shifted the dead and injured to the Sibi and Dera Murad Jamali district headquarter hospitals where a state of emergency had already been declared. "It was a remotely controlled device that targeted the Jaffar Express," said Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti. He announced one million rupees for each person who died in the blast.
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Obama set IRS against Tea Party
Read the whole thing. It is classic 1st Amendment stuff, but our vaunted press won't touch it.

Bastards.


It’s past time for the media to begin asking President Obama tough questions about the IRS conservative targeting scandal. After all he was involved, publicly, from the beginning.

Last Friday, the American Center for Law and Justice (where I serve as Chief Counsel) filed its Second Amended Complaint against the United States, the IRS, and a legion of IRS officials. This Complaint, in which we represent 41 organizations in 22 states, presents perhaps the most complete story yet of the IRS conservative targeting scandal.
Posted by: badanov || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You mean "BASTIDS"!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/22/2013 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Problem is the Press will sweep this under the rug for as long as possible.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/22/2013 1:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't you mean "long enough"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 1:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Most of these scandals end at his doorstep, but nothing will come of it. The first Kenyan president cannot be removed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 2:47 Comments || Top||

#5  The prez, an extreme, small and petty man.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2013 7:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Not just a bad presidet. Also a bad person.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/22/2013 10:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Political persecution.
Posted by: Unusonter Lover of the Hatfields6496 || 10/22/2013 11:07 Comments || Top||

#8  As I've said elsewhere, I would be much less concerned about the NSA revelations if it were not for the near-simultaneous IRS revelations. The fact that the NSA is spying on American citizens, coupled with the fact that the IRS is targeting regime "enemies", and that NSA shares its data is truly frightening.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/22/2013 13:16 Comments || Top||

#9  How is it the Left don't understand precidents and how bad things would be if the Evil Republicans were allowed to sick the IRS on their enemies.

Heck they probably believe they eat babies so that would be an improvement.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/22/2013 14:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Over 40 years ago, someone you will recognize said this:
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 16:38 Comments || Top||

#11  rj, if a Repub president tried to sic the IRS on some Dems, the whistleblowing would be deafening in a millisecond, and the bureaucracy at the IRS would be most uncooperative.

Besides, they are hoping and planning for no more Republican presidents for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: KBK || 10/22/2013 20:55 Comments || Top||

#12  ...and the bureaucracy at the IRS would be most uncooperative.

Yes, the usefulness of the Civil Service Act has long passed. Might as well be open patronage given the 'us vs them' that the civil service culture has devolved into.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/22/2013 22:18 Comments || Top||


Britain
Ukrainian Admits British Mosque Bombings and Murder
[An Nahar] A Ukrainian student with a hatred of "non-whites" on Monday admitted murdering a Mohammedan grandfather and planting bombs near three British mosques.

Pavlo Lapshyn, 25, pleaded guilty in court to stabbing 82-year-old Mohammed Saleem to death as he walked home from a mosque in the central English city of Birmingham in April.

Lapshyn, a postgraduate student from the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, also admitted plotting to cause kabooms at mosques in three towns in central England between April and July.

No one was injured in the blasts in the towns of Walsall, Wolverhampton and Tipton.

Lapshyn, who said he was motivated by racial hatred, is due to be sentenced on Friday.

Police said they found more bomb-making equipment in the room he was staying in as he carried out a work placement at a software firm in Birmingham.

"We found part-made devices in Lapshyn's room plus chemicals and bomb-making equipment, so it is clear he planned to place further devices with the intention of killing or maiming innocent members of the public," said Detective Superintendent Shaun Edwards of the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit.

"All three of the devices he detonated were powerful but his final attack in Tipton was the first to feature shrapnel and nails.

"He placed this near the mosque's car park with the intention of hitting worshipers as they arrived for prayers.

"Thankfully the service had been put back an hour so the mosque was largely deserted when the bomb went off."

He added that Lapshyn had told police he had acted alone rather than as part of a wider cell, and "was keen to take credit for criminal masterminding and carrying out the attacks".

The student came across as "calm, calculated and committed" during police interviews, Edwards said. British police are now in Ukraine to try to understand more about his background.

Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale, from the same police force, described Lapshyn as "a dangerous, evil and completely ill-informed man".

"It is of great relief that he is not free to walk the streets any further," he told news hounds outside London's Old Bailey court.

Lapshyn had only been in Britannia for a few days when he murdered father-of-seven Saleem, a well-respected member of the local Mohammedan community.

He was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
on July 18 for one of the bombings, and then further arrested two days later for the murder.
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Arabia
Saudi Arabia Criticized at U.N. over Human Rights
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...
came under fire again Monday over human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
abuses, including the death penalty and discrimination against women, days after refusing a seat on the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
Security Council. Diplomats at a U.N. review of Saudi Arabia's human rights record condemned the oil-rich kingdom's failure to abolish a system requiring women to seek permission from male relatives to do basic things such as leave the country, and also criticized a continued ban on driving for women.

Saudi Arabia should "put an end to the system of male guardianship for adult women," the representative for Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
said, echoing a recommendation made by many of the 104 states that took part in the Universal Periodic Review of the country before the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The review came days after Saudi Arabia rejected a seat on the U.N. Security Council, saying the diplomatic body had failed in its responsibility towards the Arab world.

Bandar bin Mohammad al-Aiban, who heads Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Commission and led the country's delegation in Geneva, said the country had made progress since its first such review in 2009. He said Saudi Arabia had for instance allocated a minimum of 20 percent of seats on its Shura Council -- an advisory body that can propose law changes to the king -- to women.

"Tangible progress has been achieved on a daily basis," he said.

But rights activists disagreed.

"Many countries have problematic records, but Saudi Arabia stands out for its extraordinary high levels of repression and its failure to carry out its promises to the Human Rights Council," Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
deputy director for the Middle East, said in a statement.

"Saudi Arabia's previous promises to the U.N. have been proven to be nothing but hot air," said Philip Luther of Amnesia Amnesty International, condemning an increase in the arbitrary detention of activists.

Diplomats hailed some progress, including Saudi Arabia's decision to join several international human rights conventions and steps to combat corruption, but expressed deep concern over Saudi Arabia's continued use of the death penalty, including for crimes committed by minors. The country needs to "end the practice of executing children," the Norwegian representative insisted, as others demanded a moratorium and eventual abolition of all death sentences.

The kingdom has executed 69 people so far this year, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse count.

Diplomats also urged Saudi Arabia to do more to protect migrant workers. Because of a system barring them from switching employers without permission, migrants often find themselves vulnerable to abuses including forced labor.

A report based on Monday's review is scheduled to be published Wednesday and adopted Friday.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Three Suspects in Kidnap of Turkish Pilots Freed on Bail
[An Nahar] Mount Leb Investigative Judge Ziad Makna on Monday agreed to release on bail three suspects held in connection with the August abduction of two Turkish pilots near Beirut's airport, state-run National News Agency reported.

Mohammed Saleh, Hasan Saleh and Nadim Zgheib -- relatives of 2 of 9 Lebanese pilgrims freed Saturday after a 17-month kidnap ordeal in Syria -- paid a L.L.500,000 bail each, NNA said.

"We are innocent and everything will be clarified later," one of the suspects told news hounds as the three left the Roumieh prison.

The two Turkish Airlines pilots -- Murat Akpinar and Murat Agca -- were freed Saturday as part of a swap deal involving the release of the nine pilgrims and a number of Syrian women prisoners.

A Qatari plane carried the two men home after a Lebanese military helicopter flew them from the Riyaq airport in the Bekaa to Beirut's airport following their release by their abductors.

Eleven Lebanese pilgrims were kidnapped in Syria's Aleppo region in May 2012 as they were making their way back to Leb by land from pilgrimage in Iran. Two of them were released in late 2012 and the remaining nine on Saturday.

On August 9, gunnies kidnapped the two Turkish pilots after ambushing a bus carrying Turkish Airlines crew from Rafik Hariri International Airport to a hotel in Beirut.

The families of the Lebanese abductees had accused Turkey of being behind the kidnapping of their loved ones. They, however, were quick to deny any involvement in the abduction of the Turkish pilots.

A previously unknown group calling itself Zuwwar Imam al-Rida claimed the abduction, and demanded that Turkey use its influence with Syrian rebels it backs to secure the release of the nine pilgrims.

On August 11, Mohammed Saleh was placed in durance vile
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
by the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau on charges of having links to the kidnappers of two Turkish pilots.

Saleh's family insisted that he only received messages of "congratulations" on his telephone when news of the abduction broke out and that he was innocent.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Eric Holder attoneys -not ATF- allowed grenades smuggled into Mexico
Posted by: Frozen Al || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Still falls under DOJ you fool.
Posted by: newc || 10/22/2013 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, yes. That's patently obvious.

What it does mean is that is goes from a 'bureaucratic' issue (the excuse being used by the IRS in blaming the 'tea party' issue on the drones in Cleveland) to within the Dept of Justice proper.

Big difference.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2013 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Act of war?
Posted by: Iblis || 10/22/2013 12:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Not necessarily. At this point there's no clear evidence for that.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2013 14:04 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Haqiqi man shot dead in Karachi's Pak Colony
[Pak Daily Times] A young man affiliated with the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi was rubbed out near Ibrahim Ali Bhai School within the limits of Pak Colony cop shoppe.

Police said the dear departed was identified as 35-year-old Khurram alias Nadeem Lamba, resident of North Nazimabad area, and had arrived to visit his friends at the said place, when unidentified armed riders targeted him. Resultantly, he sustained multiple bullets wounds and was struck down in his prime.

Police suspect his killing to be of political in nature, while further investigation on the matter has been initiated. MQM-H leader Shamshad Ghauri condemned the incident and demanded law enforcers to immediately arrest the culprits behind the killing.

Policeman bumped off: A police constable was rubbed out in Pehalwan Goth within the jurisdiction of Gulistan-e-Jauhar cop shoppe.

Police said the dear departed, Nadeem Hussain, son of Ibrahim Hussain, was posted to district east police headquarters, and was on his way to his home in Pehalwan Goth area, when unidentified armed riders intercepted and killed him on the spot.

body was taken to the JPMC for examination after death, and later handed over to his family.

Police have registered the case against unidentified culprits and initiated further investigation.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian Report: Syrian Army Finds Israeli Weapons In Rebel Hands
[Ynet] The Iranian Arabic-language channel al-Alam reported that the Syrian army found six Lao missiles, machine guns, ammunition crates and communication devices, all Israeli manufactured, in the village of al-Taba in the Dara District.

According to the report, the Syrian army destroyed the stockpile.
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Southeast Asia
Life sentence sought for Cambodia leaders over 1970 atrocities
[Pak Daily Times] Prosecutors at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge court on Monday demanded the maximum possible sentence of life imprisonment for two former top regime leaders on trial for crimes against humanity.

"Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, 87, and ex-head of state Khieu Samphan, 82, are accused of playing a leading role in the "Killing Fields" atrocities in the late 1970s that left up to two million people dead.

Prosecutor Chea Leang said life in prison was "the only punishment that they deserve".

"On behalf of the Cambodian people and the international community we ask you for justice -- justice for the victims who perished and justice for the victims who survived today who had to live through such a vicious and cruel regime under the leadership of these two accused and other leaders," she added. The two defendants are the most senior surviving Khmer Rouge cadres.

Led by Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the communist regime wiped out a quarter of Cambodia's population through starvation, overwork and execution between 1975-79 in a bid to forge an agrarian utopia. The kingdom's UN-backed court is moving closer to a verdict in the complex trial, which has been split into a series of smaller trials.
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#1  The Reds marched everyone out of the evil, capitalist cities, commerce and manufacturing centers at gunpoint. Social Justice was achieved, private ownership of anything other than your shirt and trouser was forbidden. Everyone enjoyed free housing, food, and medical care. Political dissent was handled quickly and effectively.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 3:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Speaking of Cambodian atrocities...

Oh, taxpayer money piles up on the wharf,
A bottomless cornucopia;
A skipper would never get caught at the trough;
And I'm Vannak Khem of Cambodia.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/22/2013 14:28 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
J'lem resident who planned to pass info to Hezbollah gets 3.5 years
[Ynet] The Jerusalem District Court sentenced to 42 months in prison an east Jerusalem resident who traveled to Leb last year, contacted Hezbollah forces of Evil and agreed to pass to them information related to Israel.

Asam Mash'ara tried to implement his plan but was locked away
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
. He was convicted in the framework of a plea bargain of contacting a foreign agent and conspiring to pass information to the enemy.
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#1  "Hello. I'm Adel (a drug dealer) from Jaljulia. You're my girlfriend now."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 1:36 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Iran hands over 38 Pakistani deportees
[Pak Daily Times] Iranian security force handed over 38 Pak nationals to Levies force on Pak-Iran border in Taftan area of Chaghi district. Levies force informed on Monday that these Pak nationals had been placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
by Iranian security force because they were living there without valid travelling documents. The Levies force have handed over these deportees to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for further interrogation after completing initial investigation.
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ATC to record statements of doctors in BB murder case
[Pak Daily Times] The Anti-Terrorism Court-I (ATC-I) will begin the retrial of 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...
murder case by recording statements of four doctors today (Tuesday). The doctors, working at the Holy Family Hospital (HFH) and District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital, had treated the injured and conducted the post-mortem of the dear departed persons brought to the hospitals on December 27, 2007 following the attack on slain Pakistain People's Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto at Liaquat Bagh. On October 1, ATC judge Justice Chaudhry Habibur Rehman had ordered to start the retrial of the case after the indictment of Gen (r) Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
, besides summoning four prosecution witnesses -- Dr Hina Bukhari and Dr Rida Khan of the HFH and Dr Qasim and Dr Ashraf of the DHQ Hospital -- for recording their statements.
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Government
BO pivots, catches preggy woman in rose garden, cracks lame joke.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More of the made for teevee drama from The Mail.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 3:17 Comments || Top||

#2  It turns out not one of the 15 people invited has actually purchased health insurance from the AHCA. Not one.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/22/2013 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  'that's what happens when I talk too long'

I agree!

Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2013 7:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Even when he's 'helping' someone it's "All about me!".

How long has she been standing out there?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/22/2013 8:53 Comments || Top||

#5  A visual metaphor for 'supporting choice' to balance the contraception issue.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/22/2013 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  This makes how many times he's had someone faint when he speaks?
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2013 11:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Possibly like many of us, she was simply slain in dispirit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 11:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Why did he not point out that thanks to him american tax payers will pay for her abortion?
Posted by: airandee || 10/22/2013 12:52 Comments || Top||

#9  I'd give it an assist, he never really wanted to take his hand off the podeum, and was not in on the initial noticing of the problem.

And yeah, your speech went on too long, but diabetic preggo chose not to drink water for hours so she could be some prop. Too bad pony tailed doctor prop wasn't on hand.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/22/2013 13:03 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Official: Number Of Syrian Refugees In Turkey Exceeds 600,000
[Ynet] The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has exceeded 600,000 and more than 400,000 of them are living outside the refugee camps set up mainly in Turkish border cities, the Turkish disaster management agency said on Monday.

"We conducted a study before the Eid (al-Adha) holidays and the numbers have increased above 600,000," said Mustafa Aydogdu, front man for the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD).
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  I wonder what'd happen if Syria were to be de-Sunni-fied?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 4:09 Comments || Top||

#2  It'd be another arc in the Iranian Crescent.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2013 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Did he say 'arc' or 'orc'?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/22/2013 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe he meant nork?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 12:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Which one is Minas Morgul, and which one is Orthanc? (I think I know...)

If Mecca is Minas Morgul, then the Iranians are playing the role of Saruman and his Fighting Uruk-hai (not to be confused with The Fighting Irish) and are due for a big fall.

Is Israel the stand-in for beset and besieged Rohan? Will Israel/Rohan, despite feeling abandoned and unappreciated by Gondor/USA, best Saruman/Iran at great cost to Israel/Rohan and ride to the rescue of Gondor/USA?
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra || 10/22/2013 12:25 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Bangladesh heads for 'total deadlock' ahead of scheduled polls
[Al Ahram] Bangladesh's main opposition party on Monday refused a request from the prime minister to form an all-party government to oversee upcoming elections, setting the stage for a showdown this week that could delay or even derail the polls altogether.
Best thing they could do would be to shoot both the Battling Begums. It wouldn't hurt to ban the Jamaat and all its false mustache groups, too.
The tension is a fresh threat to the poverty-stricken country's garment export industry which has already been rocked by a string of deadly factory accidents over the past year.

The ruling Awami League in 2011 scrapped a "caretaker government" system - whereby neutral leaders take over three months before elections and oversee polls - and is now refusing to step down by Oct. 24, as should have happened ahead of elections due to bea held by January.

Last week, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
sought to defuse the crisis, offering the formation of an all-party government to see through the elections with her staying head of government.

Khaleda Zia
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
, head of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), instead proposed a 10-member caretaker government.

"(Hasina's) proposal showed more concern about the date of elections rather than who would lead the government," Khaleda said.

The BNP said its supporters would whip up nationwide strikes that are likely to be bloody if the government does not relinquish power. It is also threatening to boycott the elections.

Former military ruler Hussain Ershad, chairman of the Jatio Party, a ruling coalition partner, said it would not participate in the election if the BNP did not take part, as the election would not be seen as credible at home or abroad.

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Africa North
Egypt gov't to discuss directing Muslim Brotherhood funds to public coffers
[Al Ahram] Egypt's recently-formed committee to handle Moslem Brüderbund funds confiscated after the group's banning will discuss adding the group's assets to the public coffers at its first meeting next week, Al-Ahram's Arabic website reported on Monday.

The proposal to direct confiscated Moslem Brüderbund funds to the state treasury is intended to offset some LE400 million in state losses following the July ouster of former 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...
, who hails from the now-banned group.

According to committee head Ezzat Khamis, the committee's initial inventory of Moslem Brüderbund-owned properties and bank accounts amounts to over one billion Egyptian pounds, Al-Ahram reported.

The Moslem Brüderbund properties include 15 private schools, which will be placed under the education ministry's management.

Committee members representing Egypt's interior ministry and illicit gains authority will be tasked with conducting a more precise survey of Moslem Brüderbund assets, which may unveil additional properties, Khamis added.

Moslem Brüderbund official sources were not available for comment.
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Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide investigated for new charge
[Al Ahram] Egypt's General Prosecution has ordered the detention of Moslem Brüderbund Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie for 15 days, pending investigations into his role during festivities between supporters of ousted 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...
and the police last July.

The July Nasr City festivities occurred as pro-Morsi protesters attempted to extend a sit-in in the nearby Rabaa Al-Adawiya square to Cairo's main flyover 6 October Bridge. The violence left tens of protesters dead, according to the health ministry.

Badie, along with several other Moslem Brüderbund leaders including deputy Khairat El-Shater, is also on trial for inciting the killing of protesters in festivities at the group's Cairo headquarters.

The leaders face another charge of inciting violence in Giza's Al-Bahr Al-Azam on 15 July, when five were killed nearby Cairo University during fire-fights between pro-Morsi protesters and unknown assailants .
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Jihadists Claim Egypt's Ismailiya Car Bombing
[An Nahar] An al-Qaeda-inspired group operating in the Sinai Peninsula claimed Monday a boom-mobileing outside a military building in Egypt's Suez Canal city of Ismailiya which maimed six soldiers.

The attack on Saturday destroyed part of the military compound's wall and set fire to several cars in the area. A second boom-mobile was also found in the area but it was defused.

"We, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, announce that we are responsible for the attack against the building of military intelligence in Ismailiya (carried out) with an aim to clean Egypt of dens of criminals and collaborators," the group said in a statement posted on jihadist forums.

"We advise our people in Egypt to stay away from any army and police building as they are legitimate targets of mujahideens."

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis had also claimed a boom-mobileing in September that targeted the convoy of Egypt's interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim. He was not hurt in the attack.

The group has previously claimed attacks against neighboring Israel.

Ismailiya and surrounding areas have seen regular attacks on police and military personnel, especially since the military toppled 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...
on July 3.

More than 100 coppers have been killed across Egypt in attacks and festivities since then.

The military has been conducting an extensive operation in the restive Sinai Peninsula, east of the Suez canal to crack down on Islamist krazed killers.
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#1  Anti-Canal Bad Boyz???

It would appear that the "Maritime Jihad" is now escalating.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/22/2013 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Joseph, you OK (you make perfect sense)?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 1:26 Comments || Top||


Top Brotherhood members slapped with espionage charges
[Al Ahram] Egypt's State Security Prosecution ordered the detention of Moslem Brüderbund leaders Khairat El-Shater and Saad El-Katatni for 15 days on charges of espionage in coordination with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the Moslem Brüderbund's Paleostinian offshoot.

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...
-- a Moslem Brüderbund leader himself before being elected president in 2012 -- is under investigation on suspicion of collaborating with Hamas to orchestrate his escape from Wadi El-Natroun Prison in early 2011. He also faces accusations of destroying police records during the 2011 uprising.

El-Shater and El-Katatni, who were tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
following Morsi's ouster, are also accused of inciting violence against anti-Morsi protesters in Giza on 3 July, the night of Morsi's ouster, and ofa inciting deadly violence at festivities outside the Moslem Brüderbund's headquarters in the Cairo district of Mokattam on 30 June.

Security forces have arrested dozens of the Islamist group's top members since Morsi's removal from power, many of whom face charges of inciting violence during Morsi's time in office and after his ouster.
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#1  Hurrah for generals.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  They also should get some, well trained, cleric to decrease bruderbund to be apostates.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 4:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Oops "decree" not "decrease": decrease follows afterward.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 4:42 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia Bus Bomb: Volgograd Blast Kills Six
[BBC] A suspected female jacket wallah has set off explosives on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, killing at least six people.

Officials believe the woman was from Dagestan
...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca...
in the North Caucasus and was the partner of an Islamist bad turban.

The blast, which happened just after 14:00 (10:00 GMT), also injured more than 30 people, some of them seriously.

An Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus region has led to many attacks there in recent years.

The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says the bombing has raised fears that bad turban groups may be planning to step up attacks in Russia in the run-up to the Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi next February.

Students
It is believed there were about 40 people on board the bus.

Our correspondent says that all buses in Volgograd have been ordered back to their depots to be searched for any sign of explosives.

One man whose daughter survived the kaboom told Moscow Echo radio: "It was a powerful kaboom - a huge blast. There were lots of students on the bus."

Another man, who was driving behind the bus, told Rossiya-24 television: "There was a blast - a bang - all the glass flew out of the windows. The cloud of smoke quickly dissipated and then I saw people start to fall out and run out to escape the bus. It was a horrible sight."

Earlier reports had suggested the blast might have been caused by an exploding gas canister.

Volgograd lies about 900km (560 miles) south of Moscow and 650km north of the North Caucasus.

Vladimir Markin, of the Investigative Committee - Russia's equivalent of the FBI - told the RIA Novosti news agency: "A criminal case has been opened under articles outlining terrorism, murder and the illegal use of firearms."

Mr Markin was later quoted by the Interfax agency as identifying the suspected suicide bomber as a woman from Dagestan.

He said: "According to preliminary information, the self-kaboom was carried out by a 30-year-old Dagestani native, Naida Akhiyalova.

"According to Sherlocks' information, the woman entered the bus at one of the bus stops and, almost right after that, the bomb went off. That is also confirmed by one of the passengers who survived."

'Black widows'
In recent years, Russia has seen a number of attacks by women suicide bombers known as black widows, who are often related to Islamist faceless myrmidons and carry out attacks to avenge their deaths.

Female suicide bombers struck at two underground railway stations in Moscow in 2010, killing more than 35 people.

They were also believed responsible for kabooms on two passenger jets at a Moscow airport in 2004 that killed about 90 people.

Separatists in Chechnya have fought two wars with Russian forces over the past two decades.

But the violence has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years, including to mainly-Mohammedan Ingushetia and Dagestan.

Hundreds of people, including members of the government and security services, have been killed.

President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
has stepped up security in the North Caucasus ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, which open in Sochi on 7 February.

Analysis

The last significant attack on Russia's transport system was the devastating kaboom that killed 37 people at Moscow's Domodedovo airport almost three years ago.

The corpse count from today's attack was much lower. But with just four months to go to the Sochi Winter Olympics, its significance will not have gone unnoticed in the Russian government or the international Olympic movement.

If indeed the kaboom is linked to the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation and its troubled republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia, it is a reminder of how easy it is for a single suicide bomber to cause multiple deaths in any part of Russia.

The speedy identification of a suspect will not reassure anyone that the situation is under control, and everyone will be hoping this was a one-off and not the start of a bombing campaign.
Ynet adds:
An explosion that killed at least five people on a bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Monday was caused by a bomb, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement.
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#1  Knew a nice couple from Volgograd in the mid-90s. People in that city do not deserve fricking jihadists.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/22/2013 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Metastatic islam needs lead based chemotherapy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/22/2013 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Radiation is better.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/22/2013 21:48 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Rockets Fired from Syria Hit Bekaa's Hermel, al-Qaa
[An Nahar] Four rockets struck the Bekaa city of Hermel on Monday after they were fired from Syrian territory, Agence La Belle France Presse quoted a security source as saying.

"Four rockets launched from inside Syrian territory hit separate areas of the town of Hermel," which lies some 10 kilometers from the border with Syria, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.

"There have been no reports of casualties," he added.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!...

state-run National News Agency said four rockets hit residential neighborhoods in Hermel after being fired from "the slopes of Leb's Eastern Mountain Belt, east of the town of al-Qaa" on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Later on Monday, the Lebanese army issued a statement saying "starting 4:30 p.m., four rockets fired from the Syrian side of the border started falling on the outskirts of the city of Hermel."

"Four other rockets also fired from Syria landed in the outskirts of the town of al-Qaa, one of them near an army post, causing material damage but no casualties," it added.

"Army forces inspected the areas where the rockets struck to accurately identify their source and type and they also took the appropriate military measures," the statement said.

Quoting sources, Voice of Leb radio station (100.5) said earlier that "the targeted area in Hermel contains heavy artillery positions used by Hizbullah during the Qusayr battles."

"Should festivities erupt in (the Syrian area of) Qalamoun, this region (in Hermel) might be used for the same purpose," the sources added.
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Africa North
Qadaffy widow demands return of Libya dictator's body
[Al Ahram] The widow of ousted Libyan dictator Moamer Qadaffy has urged the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
to help her recover the remains of her husband and their son Mutassim.

In a letter published on the website of Voice of Russia radio on Sunday, Safia Farkash also called on the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
to investigate the deaths of the two men.

Qadaffy and his son were captured and killed by rebel fighters on October 20, 2011 during the uprising that toppled the long-ruling strongman.

Their bodies were displayed in the port of Misrata and then buried in a secret location.

"All the members of the UN Security Council, the European Union and everyone who has direct or indirect connection with this murder must tell where the remains of these deaders are and allow their relatives to bury them in a proper way," Farkash wrote in the letter marking the second anniversary of Qadaffy's death.

Farkash also demanded that the African Union launch an investigation into the killings, and appealed to the international community to help her contact her son Saif al-Islam, who was captured by rebels in November 2011 in southern Libya.

"I demand that the world community should help me to come in touch with my son Saif al-Islam, who has been isolated from all members of our family from the moment of his arrest," she wrote.
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#1  sure pushy for being an out-of-work Dictator's Wife
Posted by: Frank G || 10/22/2013 15:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably all those girl-chats with Suha Arafat.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Broome police charge woman after allegedly catching her driving with man dressed in dinosaur onesie
A WOMAN has been charged after police allegedly caught her driving while a man lay on her car bonnet dressed in a dinosaur onesie.

Broome police were travelling to Gantheaume Point, Cable Beach about 7.20am when they sighted a white Ford Falcon wagon travelling in the opposite direction.

Police allege the vehicle was travelling at approximately 60km/h with an adult male lying on the bonnet, facing the driver.

Officers stopped the vehicle and located the man still lying on the bonnet, smoking a cigarette, dressed in a dinosaur onesie and wearing a snorkel.

The 23-year-old female driver has been charged with excess 0.05% and reckless driving.

The vehicle was seized under hoon legislation.

The woman will be summonsed and appear in court at a later date.

The pair are French nationals, believed to be backpackers living in the vehicle.
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#1  The vehicle was seized under hoon legislation.

:) LOL
Too old to immigrate? I mean they understand hooning and have dinosaur onsies. And no carbon tax....
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#2  A Ford Falcon? I'd like to see that. What year?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/22/2013 11:45 Comments || Top||

#3  For those of you who don't speak British/Australian, the bonnet is the opposite end of a car from the boot. The boot is the opposite end of a car from the bonnet.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/22/2013 13:23 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Egypt hunts for killers in church wedding attack
[Pak Daily Times] Police were hunting on Monday for gunnies who rubbed out four Copts at a church wedding, in the first assault targeting Christians in Cairo since the ouster of Egypt's Islamist president

Two girls aged eight and 12 were among those killed in Sunday's attack at the Church of the Virgin in Cairo's working class neighbourhood of Al-Warrak, officials said.

The four victims belonged to one family, relatives said.

Seventeen others were maimed in the attack.

Witnesses recounted how celebrations quickly turned into horror as the attackers sped towards the wedding party on a cycle of violence, sprayed the crowd with bullets and fled.

"It's unfair. This isn't acceptable in any religion," cried Layla Ezzat, a survivor who like many others returned to the scene of the attack to grieve.

Worshipper Ayman Moussa told AFP there had been no security at the church since June, despite several attacks against Copts around the country in the wake of 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...
's July 3 ouster by the army.
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Maspero Union demands dismissal of Morsi-era interior minister
[Al Ahram] The Maspero Youth Union, a coalition of Coptic activists, is calling for a protest on Tuesday outside the cabinet building in downtown Cairo to denounce the government's failure to protect Al-'Adra church, which was attacked on Sunday night.

The attack on Al-'Adra church, located in the working class Giza district of Al-Warraq, left four dead after unknown assailants opened fire late on Sunday during a wedding ceremony.

Those killed in the attack include eight-year-old Miriam Ashraf, 12-year-old Miriam Nabil, 45-year-old Samir Fahmy and 56-year-old Camilia Attiya, the groom's mother.

"The killing and threatening of Copts in front of the church is the responsibility of the cabinet and of Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi," read the statement issued on the group's official Facebook page.

The Maspero Youth Union demanded that charges be filed against interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim and local security officials for "failing to do their job and protect the church."

The group also called for the implementation of a security plan to protect other churches from similar attacks.

According to Beshoy Tamri, a member of the group's political bureau, there were no security forces deployed outside the church on the night of the attack, citing eyewitness accounts.

"How can we believe that an interior minister who oversaw the attack on the [main Coptic] Cathedral could possibly protect Christians from another attack," read the statement, criticising the interim government's decision to keep Ibrahim -- appointed under former 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 office.

Two people were killed and at least 90 injured last April when unknown assailants attacked mourners outside the Abbasiya Cathedral, where a funeral service was being held for four Copts killed in sectarian violence in Qalioubiya, north of Cairo.

"It is wrong to keep Morsi's interior minister, who was responsible for attacks on Copts and whose removal was already demanded prior to 30 June," Tamri told Ahram Online, referring to the late June protests that ultimately led to Morsi's ouster.

Tamri added that sectarian attacks were expected to cease after 30 June, and that "their continuation indicates that there is something wrong with this government."

The youth group's statement also demanded the arrest of the attack's perpetrators and compensation for the victims.

In addition, the group is demanding that those within the interior ministry loyal to the Moslem Brüderbund -- the group from which Morsi hails -- be removed.

"We are raising this demand because the August attacks on churches in Minya happened in coordination with the investigations commissioner from the town of Malawi," explained Tamri, referring to the violent attacks targeting Copts in Upper Egypt's Minya following the bloody dispersal of two pro-Morsi camps on 14 August.

Tamri further accused security officials of protecting some of the culprits behind the Minya attacks.

According to a report issued by the Egyptian Centre for Public Policy Studies (ECPPS), attacks against Upper Egypt Copts in the wake of Morsi's ouster were the most numerous in Egypt's modern history.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Leaving Prison, Returning To Terror
[Ynet] Second wave of prisoner releases set for next week; security establishment worried -- those released in previous deals stand at head of Paleostinian terror groups

Two months after first wave of prisoner releases -- on October 27 -- the State of Israel is expected to release a second wave of Paleostinian prisoners.

As part of the preconditions for the resumption of peace negotiations, Israel is slated to release 104 prisoners who have been imprisoned since prior to the Oslo Accords, most of whom were sentenced to life and considered major terror participants, with blood on their hands.

On August 13, 2013, 26 prisoners were already released. With this second phase, 32 additional prisoners will be given their freedom. The government has yet to okay the deal, but it is expected to pass. This time as well, prisoners considered major terror participants will be released to Gazoo. This is regardless of the fact that Israel has had bitter experience with the release of prisoners in general, especially those headed for Gazoo.

One of the heroes of the Gazoo terror movement is Ayman Sharouna, who was sentenced to 38 years for involvement in deadly terror attacks in Beersheba. He was released in the Shalit deal, and tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
again in 2012 for breaking release conditions.

Following a 261 day hunger strike, Israel gave in and released Shraonah yet again in March, this time to the West Bank for the next 10 years. He has since become a central figure in a special unit established by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military wing to coordinate terror attacks in the West Bank. The unit, made up of released Paleostinian prisoners, is responsible for some of the deadliest attacks carried out in the region.

While Gazoo is home to those who coordinate and carry out the attacks, the brains and funding come from Turkey. Heading up terror activity for Hamas in the West Bank and Gazoo is another released prisoner -- Saleh Al Arouri. Among the founders of the military wing of the Hamas, Arouri did several stints in Israeli jails, before being released in 2010.

Upon his release, he was obligated to leave the area for three years, so he moved with Hamas' command (which had left Damascus) to Turkey. Today, he operates out of Turkey, with the backing of the Turkish government.

It was within this backdrop of terror operatives in Gazoo, the West Bank and Turkey built upon a population of released prosoners -- that Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
called this week -- on the one-year anniversary of the Shalit deal -- for a third intifada in the West Bank.

In the past month, Saleh Al Arouri and those under him in Gazoo and the West Bank, made a concerted effort to incite the area, with the intention of derailing the restarted peace talks, to weaken Paleostinan Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
, and to hurt Israel.

The center of rioting has been the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where most of the past month's 'spontaneous' demonstrations have taken place.

Hamas presents itself under the guise of an innocent Islamic organization, made up of mostly Jerusalem residents, which serves as a patron of the intifada. In cooperation with the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, the group -- which considers it its responsibility to protect Islamic interests at the Temple Mount -- called for "days of rage." The result was more days of violence at the mount.

According to security sources, in addition to the attempt of inciting the Paleostinian street, there has been a significant increase in shooting incidents and throwing of Molotov cocktails at Israelis in the West Bank. This included five terror attacks which left three Israelis dead over the past month.

And while security sources do not cite one specific individual as being behind the increase, the statistics are clear -- there has been an increase in general violence and terror activity. Released prisoners have had their hands in this.

At the moment, as Israel is about to release dozens of former major players in terror activity, it should consider that a portion, even if they are not young, will return to the armed Paleostinian fight, predominantly those who will go to Gazoo. These prisoners will be returning to a more explosive situation than earlier in the year.
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#1  The State of Israel are pikers. We mastered the art of catch & release, terrorist 'game farming' in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Misery likes company, Besoeker?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 3:45 Comments || Top||

#3  This does seem foolish. Unless they are planning to track them back to the nest...
Posted by: SteveS || 10/22/2013 11:39 Comments || Top||

#4  The entire "Peace Process" was idiotic from day one. In fact, not running the Arabs of in 1948, and repeating in 1967, was idiotic.
As the saying goes "Jews are smart, and smart people are better at fooling themselves"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 12:21 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Assad Says 'Factors Not in Place' for Syria Peace Talks
[An Nahar] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
of war-torn Syria said the "factors are not yet in place" to launch peace talks with his opponents, in a television interview broadcast on Monday.

"No time has been set, and the factors are not yet in place if we want (a U.S.-Russian peace initiative dubbed Geneva 2) to succeed," Assad told Al-Mayadeen television.

"Which forces are taking part? What relation do these forces have with the Syrian people? Do these forces represent the Syrian people, or do they represent the states that invented them?" the embattled leader asked.

The Syrian president expressed during the interview his willingness to run for re-election, saying he did not see a reason why he should not.

Asked whether he would run, Assad said: "My answer depends on two factors. The first is the personal desire, and the second is the will of the people.

"Regarding the first point, the one related to me personally, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't run in the next election."
Anybody takin' bets on who's gonna win the next Syrian election?
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#1  Anybody takin' bets on who's gonna win the next Syrian election?

OK, let me look into my crystal ball. One side is supported by Putin. The other by Obama. Difficult, difficult to know who's going to win.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 1:34 Comments || Top||

#2  It all depends on which candidate has the best ground game on election day.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/22/2013 4:39 Comments || Top||


Good morning
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#1  Birthday Gam Shot

Saffron Burrows [British][Filmography](age 41)



Open Design


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 10/22/2013 3:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Saffron? An English spice?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/22/2013 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Unique chin design. Shoes must have rubbed her foot. Wearing high heels too long or too tight.
Hey and freckles Badanov.
Posted by: Dale || 10/22/2013 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Saffron? An English spice?
Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-22 07:43


...People name their kids after all sorts of "exotic" thingies or even as an attribution of a word with alternate meanings. For example, it's a little known fact that "Barack," may roughly translate into something most people avoid stepping in...

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The Grand Turk
Turkey's First Online Islamic Sex Shop Opens
[An Nahar] An online Islamic sex shop selling condoms, massage oils and perfumes has been launched in Turkey, becoming the first of its kind in the predominantly Muslim country.

The "Halal Sex Shop" website presents its products as being "entirely safe," and in compliance with Islamic norms.

Internet users who enter the site find two different links directing them to separate sections for male and female products.

Other sections of the website are designed to discuss sex in the context of Islam under various headings: "Oral sex according to Islam", "Sex manners in Islam" and "Sexual life in Islam."

The anonymous founders of the website said they believed the online shop would help correct prejudices against Islam which they claimed is perceived as "against sex."

"The religion of Islam has praised sex under certain circumstances," they wrote on the site.

"The use of every product on sale is in compliance with Islam."

Turkey does have so-called "erotic shops" in its streets, however Islamic conservative Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested last year they rename themselves "love shops."
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#1  Goats half price, all halal goats.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/22/2013 14:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "All about Ewe"
"The Horn and Jingle"
"Capricurious"
"Baa Neigh Franks"
"Your Camel Straw"

And be safe, don't forget the freaky shieky


Mohammed Condoms by ZICARLOS
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/22/2013 20:41 Comments || Top||

#3  "Marital Eids"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/22/2013 21:09 Comments || Top||


Report: US Cancels Drone Deal With Turkey
[Ynet] Turkish newspaper reports reason for cancellation of 10 drone deal is Turkey's exposure of Israeli spies in Iran. US Congress reportedly voids deal due to tight relations between Iran, Turkey's intelligence services

The United States Congress canceled the delivery to Turkey of 10 Predators - unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) - following Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan's disclosure of the identity of 10 Iranians who had been allegedly working for Mossad with the Iranian intelligence service, the Turkish newspaper Taraf daily reported.

According to the report, the claims about Fidan can be traced back to the year after the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010 when the Turkish intelligence service suspended relations with the Mossad and shared information about the Israeli agency with Iran.

Turkey has been expecting the UAVs in June, 2012, but Congress decided not to confirm the Turkish request, due to its intelligence service's tight relations with Iran's.

The Turkish news website Zaman reported that according to Turkish government sources, the timing of the release of news against Fidan in the US press is related to the fact that NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
member Turkey has chosen a Chinese defense firm sanctioned by Washington to co-produce a $4 billion long-range air and missile defense system, rejecting rival bids from Russian, US and European firms.

The second fact concerning the timing of the news reports about Fidan is the suspension of a military intervention in Syria and agreement between US President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
and Russian leader Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
on the destruction of chemical weapons. In the event of a possible intervention, the CIA, Mossad and Turkish intelligence services were planning to work together and Turkey was expected to play an important role in directing the Syrian opposition. The suspension of the intervention decreased the need for intelligence sharing between the agencies.

Spies exposed
Last Thursday, David Ignatius, a columnist for the Washington Post, revealed that Turkey exposed to Iran the identities of up to 10 local spies who met in Turkey with their Mossad operator.

Ignatius, who has many sources in the B.O. regime, noted that Israeli intelligence services operated its spy ring in Iran from Turkey, due to easy traffic across the border between the two countries.

According to the Washington Post, knowledgeable sources termed the Turkish move a "loss of significant intelligence meant to harm Israel."

Israeli rage over the exposure of its agents has been proposed as the reason for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's prolonged refusal to apologize to Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the Gazoo flotilla incident.

Last March Netanyahu finally called Erdogan and apologized, in the presence of President Barack Obama during his visit to Israel.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
negotiations over the reconciliation agreement are at a stalemate.
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#1  The running joke is that Iran doesn't need to maintain an intel presence in Turkey as long as they have Hakan Fidan.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2013 10:22 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Brotherhood condemns attack on Al-Warraq church
[Al Ahram] The Moslem Brüderbund has condemned the attack on Al-Warraq Church that resulted in the killing of four victims and the injury of nearly a dozen others, holding the authorities responsible for failing to protect Egyptians.

"We are saddened to see that, far from fulfilling their duty of care, the military-backed authorities continue to turn a blind eye to deliberate acts of arson, vandalism and murder. This is a duty of care that every Egyptian has a right to expect regardless of creed or class," said the Brotherhood press office in London, in a statement issued earlier Monday on its English website 'Ikhwanweb.'

The Brotherhood transferred its media office to London after a security crack down on its offices and officials in the past two months following the 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...
.

"It is painful to note that Beshay Lotfi, priest of Al-Warraq Church where the attack took place, confirms a total lack of police protection since the 30th of June," the Brotherhood press office added.

The statement reiterated that the Brotherhood deplores all forms of violence and stands in solidarity with victims of violence and oppression everywhere.

In Cairo, Amr Darrag, a leading member of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), deplored the attack on the wedding ceremony on its official Facebook page.

"Despite the fact that there are no details regarding the attack, I strongly condemn the aggression on the church, and I demand a quick investigation to reveal the identity of the perpetrators," said Darrag.

On the official Facebook page of the FJP, the general-secretary of the party, Hussein Ibrahim, released a short statement stressing the party's position regarding all forms of aggression against government institutions, public and private property.

"We will stand with the Egyptian people in peaceful protest until the return of legitimacy," said Ibrahim in his statement on Monday.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy also condemned the attack on the Virgin Church in Al-Warraq, asserting the sanctity of places of worship, state institutions and public and private property.

In a press statement issued on Monday, the Brotherhood-led alliance held the Ministry of Interior responsible for "neglecting the security of Egyptian citizens, while busy stalking peaceful protesters and students inside the university campus," in reference to the festivities between Al-Azhar students and security forces on Sunday.

Despite the statements released by Brotherhood affiliated groups, there is speculation among some Copts that Islamist groups were involved in the attack following intense sectarian rhetoric by some Islamists against Coptic Christians in recent months.

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#1  Kill and condemn---Paleos been doing it for 20 years now.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "It was...um...somebody else."
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra || 10/22/2013 12:03 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
ANF personnel among 64 suspects arrested
[Pak Daily Times] As part of the continuing targeted operation against gunnies in the city, law enforcers on Monday tossed in the slammer
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
64 more suspects from different areas on Monday. At first, police, on complaint from a citizen, arrested personnel of the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) along with his lover companion from Tipu Sultan Road. SHO Zaidi said Azhar Hussain along with his lover companion, Sajid Hussain, was reportedly involved in looting the citizens in his area. "Upon information provided by the complainant, we raided the area and found them distributing the looted money among themselves," the SHO explained. "The ANF officer was posted in Islamabad and had come to 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...
for holidays." Weapons were also recovered from the arrested, while further investigation has been initiated, the SHO added. Separately, Garden police claimed to have arrested three suspects after an encounter with krazed killers. The arrested suspects were identified as Faizan Ali alias Langra, Mohammad Saeed and Mohammad Faisal. Police said the suspects were involved in various cases of murders; however, their political affiliations were not disclosed. In another raid, police caught an alleged extortionist, Kashif Ali Siddiqui, when he arrived to collect extortion money from a local businessman in Surjani Town. Two more suspects, Shakeel alias Hukla and Mohammad Tayyab, were arrested by New Karachi police. Police in many cases of crime wanted the suspects. Likewise, two more suspects allegedly involved in street crimes were arrested by Korangi Industrial Area cop shoppe. They were identified as Ghafoor Hayat Mirani and Jumma Gul. Weapons were also recovered from their possession. Moreover, police apprehended two street criminals while they were looting valuables from passers-by in Baloch Colony area. Police arrived on routine patrol and arrested the criminals. Looted cash, mobile phones and other valuables were recovered. Separately, Rangers claimed to arrest 16 alleged criminals during search operations in various parts of the metropolis, ie, Korangi, Mira Naka, Akbar Road, Baloch Goth, North Nazimabad, Korangi, Goli Mar, Rabia City, Saba Avenue-DHA, Steel Town, Gulbahar, Shah Faisal Colony, Saudabad, Chanesar Goth and Bagh-e-Rizwan areas. According to Rangers spokesperson, 16 hardened criminals were arrested during the raids and weapons were also recovered from their possession. Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung...
district south police also nabbed 16 criminals including 11 absconders and recovered a pistol, two cycle of violences and nine bottles of liquor from them. Similarly, district east police claim to have apprehended 20 alleged criminals including five absconders during various police actions and recovered five pistols, one rifle, two cycle of violences and narcotics.
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Africa North
Egyptian writer may face jail for accusations of defaming religion
[Al Ahram] Egyptian writer and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
activist Karam Saber will stand before a Beni Suef misdemeanor court on Tuesday to hear the decision regarding his appeal of a five-year sentence received last May on charges of defamation and contempt of religion.

The case began in April 2011, Saber told Ahram Online, when individuals related to Islamist currents in Beni Suef filed a lawsuit accusing Saber of defaming religion in his short stories collection entitled Ayna Allah (Where's God?).

Saber said the case did not move to court until the beginning of 2013, when Beni Suef's prosecutor turned the case over to the misdemeanor court. In May, he was sentenced in absentia to five years and a LE1000 bail.

"I was shocked to hear that I was sentenced to five years. I thought they had forgotten the case, but they came and tried to arrest me. I refused to go with them as the law gives me eight days to appeal the sentence," Karam said.

According to a statement made by a coalition of Egyptian right human rights organizations, the prosecutors undertaking the investigation consulted the church in Beni Suef as well as Al-Azhar to seek out their opinion as to whether the accusations were correct.

The church told the prosecution that the content of Saber's literary work contradicted divine religions, ridiculed the divine, and invented stories that stray from noble and sophisticated literature.

Al-Azhar affirmed the church's stance, stating that the work destroys intellectual values and tears apart the fabric of Egyptian society.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Spike of Western, Caucasus jihadists enter Syria: Report
[MEHRNEWS] Fresh groups of jihadists are travelling from Chechnya to Syria; two transit points have been identified in Europe, reports Le Monde.

France's intelligence service reported a significant spike in the number of jihadists who travelled to Syria to fight against President Bashar Assad's regime, according to a report in the daily Le Monde.

The report on Wednesday stated that jihadists from Western and Caucasus countries vastly increased the number of entry points into to Syria since the summer. It said that the civil war represents a "power of attraction" for radical Islamists.

"Nothing like it has ever been seen before, even for Afghanistan," said a senior French intelligence official.

Schindler, a leading US expert on counterterrorism, wrote based on Le Monde's report, "France is a major source, with the number of French nationals in Syria having doubled just since May, with some 400 in various forms of transit and over 200 actually in Syria as of the beginning of October."

Fresh groups of jihadists are travelling from Chechnya to Syria. Two transit points have been identified in Europe.

Austria's capital, Vienna, has served as a major transit hub for Caucasus jihadists who work their way from the central European country to Turkey and into Syria. According to French intelligence, Chechen Islamists are using Nice, where there is a Chechen community of more than 10,000 in southern France to travel to Turkey and into Syria.

An al-Qaida member affiliated with the ISIS group from Iraq used the Turkish city of Gaziantep in late September as an entry point into Syria.

Le Monde reported that radical Islamists from Australia and Canada have left for Syria. Smaller numbers of jihadists have departed from Italy and Luxembourg.

French intelligence said there is a demographic change in the age brackets of the fighters. Lately, fighters between 20 and 35 are streaming into Syria in contrast to the spring when there were large numbers of teenagers and middle aged men in their fifties.
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Nusra

#1  Lets not forget a mighty one Jihadi from JAPAN, whom repor was a on-site convert from non-belligerent status [ex-Photographer, Observer]???

E.g. the Indian Mujahideen [IM} want to be like Al-Qaeda.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/22/2013 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  In exchange, Turkey sends its Marxists-Commies-Socialists, Left-wingers + Right-wingers, to Syria ...???

To wit,

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [LiveLeak] VIDEO: POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE SANGEL IN ALEXANDRETTA.

ZOOOOOMG, "ALEXANDRETTA ... on the Pilgrim trail from the Eastern [Roman/Byzantine] Empire!".

["INDIANA JONES: THE LAST CRUSADE" + SEAN "HENRY JONES,SR." CONNERY here].

1960's-70's Guam Taotamonas = D *** NG IT, BOY, WE NAMED THE DOG "INDIANA", NOT YOU!

* SAME > VIDEO: TURKISH MARXIST ALAWIS FIGHT IN SYRIA.

* SAME > VIDEO: NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT Fighters
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/22/2013 0:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I bet this makes Russians real sad.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 1:29 Comments || Top||


Syria warplanes strike near Damascus to halt rebel push
[Al Ahram] Government warplanes launched strikes on areas southeast of Damascus on Monday after rebels seized key regime positions there, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

"Warplanes carried out four air strikes this morning (Monday) on the edges of the town of Mleha," near army positions the rebels captured at the weekend, the Britannia-based monitor said.

The rebels had pushed forward in the area after a jacket wallah from the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front detonated an explosive-packed car at a checkpoint between Mleha and the neighbourhood of Jaramana on Saturday.

Opposition fighters went on to take the checkpoint the building of a pharmaceutical company used by government troops as a base.

Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said the southeastern Jaramana suburb of Damascus is a key pro-regime area which would be exposed by any rebel advances in nearby towns and neighbourhoods.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
regime troops pressed their onslaught on the besieged town of Moadamiyet al-Sham southwest of the capital, with fierce festivities between government and rebel troops on the outskirts of the town, the Observatory said.

Thirty-one months into Syria's conflict, the army is pushing hard to secure the capital by trying to crush rebel-held pockets on the outskirts of Damascus.

Activists in opposition-controlled areas say the tight sieges imposed by the Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
's forces have caused severe food shortages and acute malnutrition, especially among children.
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  Bringing joy and peace to the Syrian community.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 10/22/2013 23:42 Comments || Top||


Europe
Norway seeks teen sisters bound for Syria
[Ynet] Two teen sisters from Norway have allegedly fled to country to join Syrian war. 'We aim to help Mohammedans any way we can,' they email parents
Off to hump the mujaheddin, are they?
Norwegian police have issued international alerts for two teen sisters believed to have traveled to Syria to join the civil war.

Police in suburban Oslo on Monday said the sisters, aged 16 and 19, are Norwegian citizens of Somali origin and were last spotted on the Turkish-Syrian border.

Police spokeswoman Nina Karstensen Bjoerlo said a wanted notice was issued through Interpol for the older sister and a missing notice for the younger teen because she's a minor.

Norwegian newspaper VG said the sisters sent an email to their family Thursday saying they were traveling to Syria to help Mohammedans "in any way we can."

Karstensen Bjoerlo declined to comment on their motive for going but said "we know that Syria is in a state of war so this is disconcerting."
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
African Leaders Boost Powers of C.Africa Peacekeepers
[An Nahar] African leaders meeting in Chad agreed Monday to boost the powers of a peacekeeping force in the strife-torn Central African Republic, saying the troops must "immediately disarm and drive out" foreign armed groups. "Heads of state and government demand that the MISCA force deploy throughout the Central African Republic, disarm and drive out all foreign armed elements without delay," the leaders of the 10-nation ECCAS regional grouping said in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Excellent! Afri solutions for Afri problems I always say. Have nice day slugging it out. Be sure to ring us up wen the ammo supply begins to lag.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2013 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Be sure to ring us up wen the ammo supply begins to lag

Methinks they have the Chinese on speed-dial for that.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/22/2013 10:32 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Sudan on verge of collapse: Ruling party reformer
[Al Ahram] Sudan is on the verge of collapse, a leading reformer in the ruling party said on Monday after his party membership was suspended following criticism of a deadly protest crackdown.

Despite the disciplinary action against him, former presidential adviser Ghazi Salahuddin Atabani told AFP the reformers would not back down.

Atabani was the lead signatory on a letter by 31 prominent National Congress Party (NCP) reformers to President Omar Al-Bashir.

They said the government's response to the late-September demonstrations over fuel price hikes betrayed the regime's Islamic foundations.

The reformers made a series of recommendations, including for an independent probe of the shooting of civilians during the protests, but they instead found themselves under investigation by a party committee.

Asked by AFP whether his party membership had been suspended, Atabani said: "I did receive a letter this morning from the committee to that effect."

But he said the committee's decisions are "null and void" because it was not formally established by the NCP.

"It is more significant though to note the huge importance the NCP leadership is attaching to this minor internal issue at a time when the country is on the verge of collapse," Atabani said.

Thousands of people, many of them Khartoum-area poor, erupted into the streets after September 23 when the government cut fuel subsidies, forcing retail prices up by more than 60 percent.

The protests and their Arab Spring-inspired calls for the downfall of the regime were the worst urban unrest of Bashir's 24-year rule.

Amnesia Amnesty International said security forces are believed to have killed more than 200 protesters, many of whom were shot in the head or chest.

Authorities report 60-70 deaths, and say they had to intervene when crowds turned violent, attacking petrol stations and police.

Bashir said slashing the subsidies aimed to prevent the "collapse" of an economy beset by inflation and an unstable currency since the separation of South Sudan.

Khartoum lost billions of dollars in export earnings when the South became independent in 2011, taking with it most of Sudan's oil production.

Sudanese have endured two years of rising prices, a sinking currency and an unemployment rate estimated to exceed 30 percent.

The country ranks near the bottom of international indexes of corruption, human development and press freedom.

Atabani, a member of parliament, said the reformers "will pay little attention to the committee, and instead produce more political initiatives addressing the current political situation."

In their memorandum to Bashir, the reformers said the government's economic measures were not presented to parliament and citizens had no chance to give input peacefully.

They called for a reversal of the price hikes and for "professionals" to take over economic policy assisted by members of other political parties.

The reformers also sought compensation for those maimed and killed in the protests, an end to press censorship, and respect for constitutional freedoms including peaceful assembly.

Another reformer, Osama Taufiq, told AFP he had also received a letter "that said my activity in NCP has been frozen."

He said the NCP's investigative committee is "not neutral".

Party officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Taufiq is a leader of Al-Saihun ("Tourists for the sake of God"), an elite group of volunteer mujahedeen fighters from the 1983-2005 civil war with now-independent South Sudan.

Analysts said Al-Saihun was close to a group of military men tossed in the clink
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
late last year for an alleged coup plot against the Khartoum government.

Retired armed forces Brigadier Mohammed Ibrahim, who was among the 31 who signed the reformers' memorandum, was sentenced to five years in prison in April for allegedly leading the plot.

Bashir later granted amnesty to him and others involved.
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
At Least Two Wounded as Clashes Renew in Bab al-Tabbaneh, Jabal Mohsen
[An Nahar] At least two people were maimed Monday evening as festivities renewed between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh 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...
.

"Sniper gunfire erupted between the Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh areas and a hand grenade was hurled on Syria Street," which separates the two districts, state-run National News Agency reported.

It later said "festivities have intensified and a shell has landed on Syria Street near al-Qaddour cafe."

"More than five people were maimed in Bab al-Tabbaneh and some families who are trapped in their houses are urging security forces to help them," MTV reported.

Voice of Leb radio (93.3) said at least two people were reportedly maimed, identifying one of them as Bilal Hasan Khdeir.

It noted that a fierce exchange of gunfire was taking place on the frontiers of al-Riva, al-Baqqar and al-Omari and that the army was shooting back at the sources of gunfire in a bid to silence them.

Residents were fleeing the al-Baqqar area and Syria Street to safer locations amid the intensification of sniper fire, VDL said.

Voice of Leb radio (100.5) said "heavy weapons, machineguns and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs)" were being used in the festivities.

"A shell landed in al-Omari Street and one person was hit by sniper fire at the Abu Ali roundabout," al-Jadeed television reported.

Earlier on Monday, NNA said the army reinforced its deployment in the restive areas after an exchange of gunfire broke out on Sunday evening.

"The army has since strengthened its deployment and went on alert in the northern city," the agency said.

On October 11, an army soldier was maimed as an exchange of gunfire erupted in Bab al-Tabbaneh, Jabal Mohsen and Syria Street following the arrest of a 19-year-old Jabal Mohsen resident by the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau.

Youssef Diab was tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
on charges of involvement in the deadly bombings that hit two mosques in the city.

"The unrest erupted after an Intelligence Bureau unit tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
a young man from Jabal Mohsen called Youssef Diab, which prompted residents to protest and fire shots in the air, the thing that provoked Bab al-Tabbaneh's residents and led to festivities," LBCI said at the time.
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Qatar offers $150 mln debt relief to Palestinian Authority
[Ynet] Qatar has agreed to provide $150 million in debt relief to the Paleostinian Authority, US 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...
said in Gay Paree after talks with Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kerry Warns: Assad re-Election Would Extend Syria War
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that any attempt by Syrian leader Bashar Assad to be re-elected would extend the country's civil war. "If he thinks he's going to solve problems by running for re-election, I can say to him, I think that certainly this war will not end as long as that's the case that he's there," Kerry said after talks with Arab League officials in Paris.
Posted by: Fred || 10/22/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  The alternative to Baby Assad + new BFF Iran is for Bad US-Global Econ, Sequester, Shutdown + post-Shutdown hit Bammer Amerika to put US troops on the ground in Syria + elsewhere.

Which as I recall correctly POTUS Bammer promised to bring US Troops home as part of his re-election campaigns.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/22/2013 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Just shut up Jawn.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2013 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Is the Syrian War lasting longer a bad thing for the US?
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/22/2013 8:04 Comments || Top||

#4  It's gotten to the point that anytime I see something to do with a US politician I proceed to the nearest exit.

Is there anywhere to go once you've reached the abyss of total despair and disgust? 8^(
Posted by: AlanC || 10/22/2013 8:21 Comments || Top||

#5  >"If he thinks he's going to solve problems by running for re-election

Well he's seen what happened since the zero got elected. America is almost in a civil war.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/22/2013 9:02 Comments || Top||

#6  The guy just doesn't know when to shut up.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/22/2013 11:41 Comments || Top||

#7  This goof thinks dictators lose "elections"?
Posted by: Dopey Sinatra || 10/22/2013 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Well Dopey, Jawn has the same mindset as a dictator and he lost an election......
Posted by: AlanC || 10/22/2013 13:02 Comments || Top||

#9  That's nice Jawn, now could you pass the mashed potatoes.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/22/2013 13:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Bloviating buffoonery. What the hell is the alternative to Assad? Does Kerry think if Assad steps down they'll have utopia and a "hands across Syria" type event?

I can say to him, I think with certainty that this war will not end as long as foreign fighters and jiahadists remain on Syrian soil.
Posted by: mossomo || 10/22/2013 17:18 Comments || Top||

#11  My hunch is that observation will not qualify for MENSA membership, but maybe a Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted by: Beau || 10/22/2013 18:26 Comments || Top||

#12  Hope nuthin blows up in the world in the next two weeks, Jawnny. Be a shame to blow those freebie primo seats at Fenway for the Series.
Cuz we know you'll be there...
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/22/2013 21:37 Comments || Top||

#13  See also STARS-N-STRIPES > KERRY EAGER TO BREAK ASSAD STRANGLEHOLD ON SYRIA.

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > RADICALS MAY SHIFT TO EUROPE FROM SYRIA: NATO [SecGen Rasmussen].

In addition, the MSM-Net is also repor that there are more active Militants, including Foreign, in Syria than was in Afghanistan during the 1980's anti-Soviet war.

The only rationale for the US-Allies to get rid of Baby Assad is that the former desires a wholly controlled, de facto "yes man" in charge of the country, not a partial or independent.

OTOH TOPIX, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > WEST SLOWLY BELIEVES ISLAMISTS CAPABLE OF [Secular or Liberal = semi-Western] UPHOLDING DEMOCRACY, albeit wid Islamic-Sharia characteristics.

The Maha-Rushian questionne' du jour is, IFF NOT BABY ASSAD, WHOM IS THE US-ALLIES' MIGHTY DEMOCRATIST TO TAKE POWER FROM ASSAD IN SYRIA + FIGHT AL-QAEDA, ETAL. FOREIGN MILITANTS???

AND

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Al-Jazeera] IRAN-US RECONCILIATION PART OF A BIGGER PICTURE.

* SAME > DAILY KOS: US CUTS OFF AID TO SYRIAN REBELS.

Mainly because the anti-Assad "Syrian Rebels", e.g. FSA are now abandoning their former US-West backers, + merging or joining wid Al-Qaeda affiliate groups.

* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > SYRIA: LIKE IT OR NOT, WE HAVE TO TALK WID BASHAR AL-ASSAD.

* TOPIX > RISING AL-QAIDA INFLUENCE BOLSTERING ASSAD'S GRIP ON SYRIA.

* SAME > ASSAD GROWS MORE CONFIDENT IN SYRIA.

[MONTY PYTHON'S "LIFE OF BRIAN" > ROMAN CENTURION AT "CRUCIFIXION" = [IIRC = paraph] "ALL THOSE WHOM DO NOT WANT TO BE CRUCIFIED NEXT TO THE NON-KOSHER, ALLEGED MESSIAH BRIAN RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND ... ... ... [no one] RIGHT THEN, ITS UNANIMOUS, HE STAYS"!]
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/22/2013 23:55 Comments || Top||



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