A change to the Marine Corps' uniform hats could leave hard-nosed Leathernecks looking a lot less macho.
According to the New York Post, President Obama's plan to create a "unisex" look for the Corps has officials on the verge of swapping out the Marines' iconic caps with a new hat that some have derided as so "girly" that they would make the French blush.
"We don't even have enough funding to buy bullets, and the DoD is pushing to spend $8 million on covers that look like women's hats!" one senior Marine source fumed to The Post. "The Marines deserve better. It makes them look ridiculous."
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Merciful heavens. The kepi's totally John Wayne compared to this thing. With full respect to Marines present, this looks like something the staff might wear in the toy section of a Japanese department store. Why not skip a generation or two, and some material, and go straight to a fez with a bit of brim. Combo of tilt, tassel, and brim point should cover all nudge nudge wink wink possibilities.
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A family member is talking about opting out after a long career in the marines. They are dealing with more problems than the goofy hat as I understand it.
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Color me skeptical about this report. I find it extremely unlikely that the POTUS would have the time or inclination to develop an interest in modifying the headgear of military folks.
Next - real soldiers don't really much give a sh%t about garrison headgear. You fight in helmets. Any modification to dress hat dimensions is trivial compared to grown men waring "berets". I've lived through the teeth-gnashing over maroon berets for airborne, then black berets for Rangers, then black berets for everybody (with Rangers switching to tan berets). Any hat with a brim scores higher macho points than a beret.
So - this is stupid argument to pursue. Obama is a walking disaster - but not because he is preocccupied with dressing up his soldier dolls.
Süddeutsche Zeitung conveyed a strong sense of the depth of disillusionment with the US president in Germany when it wrote that "Barack Obama is not a Nobel peace prize winner, he is a troublemaker".
Angela Merkel has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama. With friends like this...
Please note: You don't spy on friends because the damage, when they find out, is much bigger than the benefit you may have from spying on them.
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I certainly hope, EC, that the S. Zeitung is very widely read and that all of the folks who used to fawn over Obama are properly outraged.
Sometimes lessons take a long while to sink in.
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We spy on our allies and they spy on us. Nothing new about that. Heads of state are left alone out of curtesy usually. Apparently Obama doesn't have any of that.
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Yes the Süddeutsche Zeitung is one of the most respected papers in Germany.
Yes I know about the spying practices, but what you really can't do is to tap the phone of a leader who is one of your closest ally and friend (not necessarily friend of the O)
How can we negotiate a free trade agreement when your partner taps your conversations? This would end any business relationship. You simply don't do it.
Obama in Europe is done. Overdone. He's done more damage to transatlantic relations than any other politician (US or European before him).
I saw his rally in Berlin back in 2008. Though he was an empty suit. But he is worse.
I don't think we'll need any more visits from him in his remaining term.
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We spy on our allies and they spy on us.
True, but there is spying and there is spying. Noticing who Angela hangs out with is one thing, rummaging through her underwear drawer is quite another. And then there is the clandestine aspect, a big word meaning "don't get caught".
B-HO's career has been marked by digging up dirt on friends and rivals. Paranoids read meaning into unexpected resignations or surprising Supreme Court votes. I suspect this is just business as usual for the Obama regime.
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I will remain a friend of America, the American people, the American troops...
But for this administration, I have nothing but disgust.
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Glad to hear, EC...
I wonder how far up the food chain you need to go to get approval to bug the comms of the leader of a close ally? Does that require Presidential sign off?
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From what I read Merkel got the phone that was spied upon in 2009. Will be somewhat difficult to blame this on Bush.
I don't know if the U.S. media are reporting this as they should: This REALLY is serious. Germany's LEADING conservatives and transatlanticists are really upset this time. It's a breach of trust like we've never seen before.
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It's not so much about "trusting" a specific government. And of course you should trust a politician even less than a used car dealer. That's not the point.
This is more about the fundamental relationship between two nations.
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I think we're in a situation where we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. I have seen statements from people working AT the NSA that a whole lot of what is being peddled around is _bullshit_ but he couldn't prove it because to discuss actual capabilities and their limitations would be, well, a violation of all sorts of secrecy rules and information classification and the like.
(And Frankly...
* We just got finished with a 75 year period where we were in an existential struggle against either totalitarian states run by Germans or a totalitarian state installed by Germans in WW1 or the states that totalitarian state installed and/or used as proxies. There are STILL countries out there that are slave labor camps installed by the people the Germans installed to rule Russia. Their plantation foremen have the bomb and continue to make noises about destroying us. But we're supposed to believe in some "Gentlemen don't read other people's mail" bull####?
* Also, you handed your energy independence on a silver platter to a company controlled by someone whose job at the fall of the Soviet Union was spying on Germany. (So much for "unforgivableness"). One might suggest that if we really were spying on Germany that we'd actually do a better job of destroying your independence than y'all are doing yourselves right now. In a way it's a pity noone cares that Gerhard Schroeder could give away so much to Gazprom and then turn around and go to work for them. Maybe if we discovered it by Eeevil NSA spying instead of watching the evening news people would care.
* That whole situation also suggests that someone else is spying on Germany with a whole lot more success than the US is.
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Germany and the rest of Europe need to understand that we are no happier with this administration than they are -- in fact even less so, given Europe's leftism.
But if you truly want these idiots gone use your press. Tell the stories. Our press won't do it, but if the stories get told then this administration will promptly implode. Mock them. Investigate them. Quote them! That's all it will take.
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The British Medical Journal has issued a clarion call to all who want to ward off heart disease: Forget the statins and bring back the bacon (or at least the full-fat yogurt). Saturated fat is not the widow-maker it's been made out to be, writes British cardiologist Aseem Malhotra in a stinging "Observations" column in the BMJ: The more likely culprits are empty carbs and added sugar.
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The CDC recently retracted their previous studies on the effects of salt. Of course it and the saturated fat news will never get the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine coverage of 'gloom and doom the world is ending' cause its not part of the Inner Party narrative nor useful in spooking the masses into more government control.
h/t Instapundit
You cant extract shale gas in New York state, but that doesnt mean you cant burn the cheap stuff. New York City is building a pipeline to bring in cheap natural gas from Pennsylvania. The pipeline will carry enough gas to heat 2 million homes, and you can bet plenty of NYC residents are looking forward to burning gas at historically low prices.
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..nice to make the urbanists even more dependent upon the outside world, so when they declare open war against it, they'll learned how the world really works beyond their command directed artificial bubble.
[Pak Daily Times] Indian troops have intensified violations and resorted to unprovoked firing on the working boundary in Pukhlian, Chaprar, Harpal and Charwal sectors near Sialkot and targeted civil-populated areas during the last two days, said ISPR on Wednesday. Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has also targeted 27 Pak posts in the same area in the last two days and fired almost 4,000 mortar shells and 59,000 rounds of machine guns. "Pak troops have effectively responded to the Indian firing," an ISPR blurb said. Indian shelling has killed two civilians and a Rangers soldier, and injured 26 civilians on the working boundary and the Line of Control during the last two weeks. According to APP correspondent in Sialkot, indiscriminate heavy shelling on villages in Charwah sector of Sialkot Working Boundary from the Indian side intensified on Tuesday night. According to bigwigs of Chenab Rangers, Indian Border Security Forces used heaving machine guns and fired mortar shells killing dozens of cattle heads. Indian firing continued the whole night between Tuesday and Wednesday. "The Chenab Rangers retaliated effectively and responded in a befitting manner, forcing the Indian guns to become silent on Wednesday. Indiscriminate firing by BSF created panic among the villagers living along the Sialkot Working Boundary," the statement read.
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[Shabelle] Mohammed Ibrahim Ali who is a top official in Hiran region has threatened that his troops will crush Alshabab strongholds in the region.
The top official has stated that AMISOM troops from the region and government troops are making the final preparations to wipe Alshabab elements from the entire region in the coming few days.
Mr. Mohammed added that government troops based in the region have completed a training programme provided by top military commanders from Djibouti.
The officials words come days after Alshabab claimed the responsibility of the deadly suicide kaboom in Beledweyne town.
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[An Nahar] Yemeni security forces foiled an attempt by some 300 Al-Qaeda inmates to escape after they mutinied in their Sanaa prison, a security official said Wednesday.
The mutiny broke out on Tuesday afternoon when "almost 300 Al-Qaeda prisoners, armed with knives and iron bars, attacked prison guards, injuring some of them," the official said, adding that an interrogation officer was among those maimed.
The prisoners, who smashed the doors of their cells and broke down the prison's first security barrier, seized weapons and took some guards hostage.
Using the weapons, they clashed with guards manning the second security barrier, who returned fire and managed to "foil the group's attempt to flee," the official said.
A number of inmates were maimed but none were killed, several sources said.
The prisoners released their hostages early on Wednesday after mediation but held onto their weapons, the official said, adding that police were still trying to control the situation in the prison.
Nasser al-Wuhayshi, chief of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- seen by the United States as the network's deadliest franchise -- vowed in August to release imprisoned members of his network.
Wuhayshi himself beat feet from the same Sanaa prison with 22 other members of AQAP in February 2006 and was named as the group's leader a year later.
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[An Nahar] Opponents of the coup that toppled Egypt's elected 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 July warned Wednesday the country was headed towards civil war and urged the international community to pay attention.
"The present regime since the coup is pushing Egypt towards civil war," journalist and former chief editor of the Al-Shorouk newspaper, Wael Kandil, told news hounds in Geneva.
He warned the security forces' crackdown on supporters of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, which has resulted in more than 1,000 people being killed and more than 2,000 tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! nationwide, was ripping the country apart.
Kandil was in Geneva to help launch a new loose coalition of coup opponents from diverse political backgrounds, based inside the country and abroad.
Calling themselves the "Anti-coup Egyptian delegation of public diplomacy," the group said it was visiting U.N. agencies and diplomatic missions to press its case that the military had hijacked the 2011 revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... .
Hatem Azzam, vice president of the moderate Islamist Al-Wasat Party and a member of the now disbanded 2012 parliament, compared Morsi's overthrow with the 1973 coup in Chile, when socialist President Salvador Allende was ousted by a military junta.
Eslam Lotfy, a lawyer at Egypt's High Court of Appeals and member of the leftist Third Square Movement, said while had been against Morsi, he was "also against the coup".
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[An Nahar] DR Congo President Joseph Kabila promised Wednesday to build a national unity government, after talks with civil society and opposition members in the troubled African country.
Kabila said his priorities were to re-establish peace and state authority and spur economic development in the war-torn country.
"In line with the transparent policy I have adopted since I came to power, a government of national unity will soon be put in place," he told parliament.
"This government will include members of the ruling majority as well as the opposition and civil society," said Kabila, who was re-elected in a disputed 2011 poll.
Kabila also pledged to allow the remains of former president Joseph Mobutu back into the country from Morocco -- an announcement that won him applause from politicians.
Mobutu, who ruled from 1965 to 1997, was chased from DR Congo by Kabila's own father, Laurent, who was assassinated in 2001.
The move is seen as a highly symbolic gesture to the significant number of Congolese that hold Mobutu in high regard.
Kabila also agreed to introduce quotas for female candidate in elections.
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A bomb that blew apart a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore outdoor restroom could lead to federal charges against the suspect or suspects who planted it, the park's chief ranger said.
A blast occurred early Sunday at the isolated School Lake boat launch off South Bohemian Road and thundered across Cleveland Township. Sleeping Bear Dunes Chief Ranger Phil Akers said the kaboom caused $14,000 of damage to an outhouse that was closed for the season.
"We do not have suspects at this time," he said. "We're treating this as a significant vandalism case."
Leelanau County dispatch received a call at 4:29 a.m. from a resident near the intersection of Maple City Road and West Harbor Highway who reported an kaboom that shook his house. Deputies who could not find any sign of an kaboom later learned it occurred almost 2 miles away.
Sheriff Mike Borkovich said the "blown apart" outhouse was reported by another citizen at 1 p.m. He said sheriff's deputies are assisting park rangers and bomb technicians from the state police and FBI in the investigation.
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$14,000 damage to an outhouse? Next time just rent a port-a-potty.
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$14,000 damage to an outhouse? Next time just rent a port-a-potty.
It might have been a permanent structure over the pit toilet. Those are the most common and I could see that much cost in damages being done to one of those.
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Like the ice bombs at LAX, ever consider an inside job? Disgruntled park personnel who didn't get a chance to 'push back' on the public like they did in DC. Then again, given the place was blocked off for weeks without anyone opening or closing the doors, had to be some methane build up in a small closed confined area.
[Pak Daily Times] Iran has decided to spare the life of a convicted narco who survived a hanging, media reports on Wednesday quoted Justice Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi as saying. Maybe I'm just superstitious, but I'd have a strong suspicion Allan doesn't want that sucker dead yet.
The reports follow calls from within Iran and a appeals from international rights groups against the man found alive in a morgue facing execution for a second time.
"The convict who survived (the death penalty) will not be executed again," Pour-Mohammadi said late Tuesday in remarks reported by the official IRNA news agency.
"After putting much effort to prevent the second execution of this convict, we have received a positive response," he said without elaborating.
All judicial affairs and decisions in the Islamic republic rest with the judiciary, which constitutionally operates independently from the government.
The convict, identified only as Alireza M., 37, was pronounced dead earlier this month by the attending doctor after hanging for 12 minutes from a noose suspended from a crane at a jail in northeast Iran.
But the next day, staff at the mortuary in the city of Bojnourd where his shrouded body was taken discovered he was still breathing.
Media later reported that he had fallen into a coma.
Pour-Mohammadi implied that a second execution would be damaging for Iran's image. "If he survives, it is not expedient to hang him again," said the minister.
The incident led to a heated debate between jurists, with some arguing against a repeat hanging and others for.
According to the media, a petition signed by jurists and attorneys was sent to judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, appealing for a stay in the exceptional case.
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That's why toe court says "Hang by the neck until dead", they want to be sure.
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[BBC.CO.UK] An kaboom near the airport in Syria's capital, Damascus, has been followed by a blackout in parts of the country, state media say.
Power was reportedly cut after rebel artillery hit a gas pipeline.
Residents say the entire capital has been plunged into darkness, while officials have described the power cuts as countrywide.
Many parts of Syria have been struck by major power cuts since the start of the country's civil war.
"A terrorist attack on a gas pipeline that feeds a power station in the south has led to a power outage in the provinces, and work to repair it is in progress," Syria's state news agency SANA quoted Electricity Minister Imad Khamis as saying.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... calls his opponents foreign-backed "terrorists".
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said opposition shelling was aimed at the town of Ghasula, around 2km (1.2 miles) from the airport.
"It is likely this was a large-scale operation planned well in advance," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Activists say a huge fire was seen blazing near the airport. It is unclear whether anyone was hurt.
Meanwhile the SOHR says a boom-mobile has hit a military checkpoint in a western suburb of Damascus, causing multiple casualties among security forces.
Damascus 'co-operating'
The head of the body tasked with destroying Syria's chemical arsenal has said that Damascus is due to hand over its disarmament plan on Thursday.
In a presser on Wednesday, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it expected Syria's initial declaration within the next 24 hours.
The OPCW and the UN have had a team of 60 experts and support staff in Syria since 1 October.
They have said that the Syrian government has been co-operating with the watchdog's work.
The OPCW's mission to rid Syria of chemical weapons was set up by a UN resolution.
It followed international outrage at a chemical weapons attack near Damascus in August.
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[Shabelle] Government officials based in Elbarde town located in the southern somali region of Bakol confirmed to Shabelle radio that a heavy fighting between government troops and Alshabab fighters broke up early today morning.
The fighting broke up when Alshabab fighters attacked military bases manned by government troops.
The heavy fighting in which rockets and other heavy artilleries were fired against each other lasted for hours.
At least 5 soldiers from both fighting sides were confirmed dead and dozens injured during the heavy confrontation.
Government troops are claiming to have forced back the Alshabab fighters from the town and are in full control of El Barde town.
Government forces are trying to gain control of large parts of Bakol region as the major towns in the region are still under Alshabab control
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[An Nahar] The injury toll from Wednesday's festivities between the rival 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... neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen rose to eight in the evening, with no sign of the fighting dying down.
"A man called Ahmed al-Basha was maimed in the al-Baqqar as gunfire was heard on the fighting frontiers of Bab al-Tabbaneh, al-Baqqar, al-Rifa and Jabal Mohsen," state-run National News Agency reported.
It said the army was still shooting back with heavy machineguns at the sources of gunfire.
Earlier, the agency said five people were maimed and rushed to the Islamic Charitable Hospital, identifying them as Mohammed Badr al-Bahri, Badr Mohammed al-Bahri, Louay Mohmoud al-Fendi, Milad Ibrahim Qlaymeh and Awad Mustafa Walid Stayteh.
In the morning, two children were maimed when their bus came under fire in al-Rifa area.
Early on Wednesday, "gunnies from the two sides tried storming each other's districts," a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse. "The army fought them off, in a battle that raged at around 3:00 am," he said.
All Tripoli's schools stayed closed on Wednesday because of the violence. On Wednesday evening, the two rival districts continued to see sporadic fighting and shooting.
An AFP correspondent in Tripoli saw black smoke rising from a shop in Bab al-Tabbaneh, which had been burned down.
The Lebanese army fortified its presence during the day in Syria Street, which separates the two neighborhoods.
According to the state-run National News Agency, new armored personnel carrier were deployed in the city near Abu Ali roundabout.
President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... held talks with caretaker Youth and Sports Minister Faisal Karami on the situation in the city and the need for the army and security forces to contain the unrest and restore calm.
For his part, Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc MP Mohammed Kabbara slammed a security plan devised by the security forces to maintain the situation in Tripoli, describing it as a "farce."
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P*ssy Riot went to jail for "hooliganism." I rather prefer calling the GP pirates "pirates" because they are pirates. Hooliganism in Russia can be an admirable thing -- and nothing GP does merits admiration.
[Pak Daily Times] The so-called stakeholders struck again last week. A jacket wallah killed the law minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province, Mr Israrullah Khan Gandapur. The minister, a decent young man from all accounts, was exchanging Eid greetings with the visitors at his house in his native Kulachi. The official response of the provincial ruling party, the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI), to which Mr Gandapur belonged, and the Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N), which rules at the Centre, was nothing more than muffled bleating. Forget an unequivocal condemnation of the act and its perpetrators, if not a befitting response to such an atrocity, the federal interior minister 'expressed sorrow' and the provincial government begged the faceless myrmidons to stop killing on humanitarian grounds! The current leadership clearly lacks a plan and the resolve to fight terrorism. The PTI and the PML-N may just be what Winston Churchill would have called sheep in sheep's clothing.
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain on Wednesday said that continued violations of the Line of Control by India were unfortunate and alarming, and might further escalate tensions, undermining efforts to improve relations.
Foreign Office front man Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry, in a statement, said that during the last two days, Indian troops had intensified violations and carried out unprovoked firing on working boundary in Pukhlian, Chaprar, Harpal, and Charwah sectors near Sialkot. He said the indiscriminate shelling on civilian population and targeting of 27 Pak posts had resulted in casualty of two civilians and one security official and serious injuries to 26 civilians. The front man said the Indian Border Security Force had fired almost 4,000 mortar shells and 59,000 rounds of machinegun, escalating tension across the LoC and the working boundary. The Pak security forces exercised restraint and gave a measured and calibrated response to the unprovoked Indian aggression, he added. "The continued violations are unfortunate and alarming which may further escalate the tension."
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So how are they counting? Esp the machine gun round?
Sound?
Field of intelligent light?
I am seriously curious as it is not a trivial problem.
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Not a good time as Pak BFF CHINA is standing firm + becom increasingly hardline agz Japan + PHIL, ASEAN in the ECE + SCS.
The GOP-Dem debt deal does nothing to ned the sequester, espec as per the Pentagon.
E.g. WORLD NEWS > [Fox News] US ARMY CHIEF: JUST TWO BRIGADES COMBAT-READY.
* RELATED SAME > US ARMY VULNERABLE TO NIGHTMARE SITUATION.
versus
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > [PolicyMic] ASEAN COULD BECOME GROUND ZERO FOR ANOTHER PROXY WAR.
China's closest proxy = surrogate would be Nuke-armed Muslim Pakistan, espec vee INDIA - howvever, IMO I highly doubt China will prefer to leave to any proxies in any East Asia mil conflict agz the US-Allies.
* WORLD NEWS > US NAVAL STRIKE GROUP SHRUGS OFF PYONGYANG THREATS.
"Post-US", "Mahanist" China is deadly serious about securing "sole" strategic access for the PLA throughout the "First Island Chain" ASAP AMAP by 2020, so this is NOT a time for the US Navy-DOD to become complacent just because its from "Pudgy" = NOKOR.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > EXPERT: ROUTINE CHINESE NAVAL EXERCISES IN WESTPAC NEAR GUAM BASE SHOWS THAT THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY "DISMEMBERED", + ITS HISTORICAL BARRIERS OVERCOME BY CHINA + PLA.
The DPRK has three probs ...
> BREAKING CHINESE DOMINATION + PREVENTING FORMAL CHINESE ANNEXATION OF THE COUNTRY.
> REUNIFICATION WID SOUTH KOREA UNDER KOREAN-ONLY SOVEREIGNTY.
> SURVIVING ANY MAJOR WAR ON THE PENINSULA OR NE ASIA REGION BETWEEN CHINA + US-ALLIES.
[Ynet] Egyptian newspaper Al-Youm Al-Sabaa reported that according to a source within the Egyptian army, the military uncovered and destroyed "the largest smuggling tunnel from the Gazoo Strip to northern Sinai."
According to the report, the tunnel was completely destroyed by explosives. It was further reported that in the vicinity of the tunnel was a vehicle equipped with technologies and advanced equipment.
[An Nahar] Turkish prosecutors have charged 33 people suspected of involvement in a May kaboom that left 52 dead in a small border town and that Ankara has blamed on the Syrian secret service.
Prosecutors in the southern city of Adana are seeking life sentences for the suspects, two of whom are Syrian, after charging them with "murder with the use of bomb", the Dogan news agency reported on Wednesday.
The alleged criminal mastermind of the attacks, Mihrac Unal, is a former far-left myrmidon turned supporter of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... . He remains on the lam, though Turkish media reported he has lived in Syria for many years.
Eighteen of the 33 suspects were placed in pre-trial detention.
The boom-mobileing on May 11 in the town of Reyhanli, just a few kilometers from the main border crossing into Syria, left 52 dead.
Ankara swiftly pointed the finger at the Syrian intelligence services, a charge Damascus strongly denies.
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That's rich...in view that Erdogan is getting cosier and cosier with Iran's Mullahs, the Assad's strings pullers...Unal will likely be released a week after the press stop talking about "it"...
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[Pak Daily Times] The United States will release $1.6 billion in aid to Pakistain, boosting a flow of assistance that slowed in recent years amid a downturn in relations, an official said Tuesday. The State Department has notified Congress that it intends to release the funds already budgeted for in previous years including the fiscal year 2012. The bulk of the funding is made up of $1.38 billion in military aid, State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said. The rest is $260.5 million in civilian aid. "The $260.5 million in civilian assistance is part of the total $959.5 million in FY2012 civilian assistance to be notified, because much of the civilian assistance continued unaffected during the slow down," she told AFP.
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[An Nahar] The Pentagon has no plans to scrap the U.S. military's Africa Command despite growing pressures on the defense budget, the general who leads the headquarters said Wednesday.
As it prepares for another round of automatic budget cuts, the Defense Department is looking at cutting back spending on regional headquarters and senior positions, fueling speculation that Africa Command could be dissolved and its responsibilities taken over by other commands.
But General David Rodriguez, head of Africa Command, said "that is not part of the plan right now."
"We will continue to look at that in the future, but right now the United States believes that the focus of having a headquarters focused on Africa to improve the effectiveness of our military support to the State Department in the region is going to remain separate," he told news hounds in a teleconference.
The four-star general added that "right now there are no plans to consolidate."
Africa Command or Africom, created in 2007, has overseen an expanding role for the American military across the continent, focusing on countering Islamist Death Eaters through training and arming partners in the region.
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[An Nahar] Damascus said on Wednesday that no foreign party will be involved in deciding the country's leadership after Arab and Western governments said Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... should play no future role.
"The Syrian people are the only ones who can choose their leader, and who can decide on Syria's present and future," the foreign ministry said.
While the ministry did not specifically address the conclusions of a meeting of supporters of Syria's opposition in London on Tuesday, it said "the Syrian people will not allow any foreign party to impose itself ... in choosing a government, or in determining its powers and tasks."
The ministry statement comes amid preparations for a peace conference dubbed Geneva 2, which was first proposed by the United States and Russia and would bring government and opposition representatives to the negotiating table.
"Syria reiterated it is ready to go to the Geneva 2 conference, and to try its best to ensure its success without any preconditions or any foreign intervention," the ministry said.
The opposition has insisted that any talks with regime representatives should lead to Assad's departure.
But the Syrian authorities have said there should be no preconditions for such talks and on Monday, Assad said he is willing to run for re-election when his term ends in 2014.
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[An Nahar] housands of years, the town lies on the road linking Mahin and the rebel-held Qalamun area of Damascus province.
In Qalamun, which lies on the Lebanese border, loyalists have been fighting for months to wrest control from the opposition.
Activists say troops fighting there are backed by fighters from the Leb's Hizbullah.
Referring to Sadad, a rebel commander said "the regime is responsible for whatever happens to this historic town."
The rebels had entered the town without a fight, he said.
"The cop shoppe surrendered without resistance, and there were no festivities until the regime tried to retake the town by force. It used warplanes, artillery, tanks and all kinds of conventional weapons," said Lieutenant Colonel Oraba Idriss, who defected from the army to join the rebels.
Many of the town's residents have fled in the past hours, and as the rebels advanced, the loyalist air force launched an air campaign on the area.
Elsewhere, fierce festivities raged in Moadamiyet al-Sham southwest of Damascus, which has been under siege for nearly a year.
The opposition has called for the establishment of humanitarian corridors to allow assistance to flow into the rebel-held town.
In the heart of Damascus, rebels shelled Baramkeh and Umayyad Square, wounding several people, the Observatory said.
State news agency SANA said one of the shells struck near the Sheraton Hotel, and that "the terrorist attack injured two people and caused material damage in the area."
Umayyad Square is home to several buildings housing government, military, security and cultural facilities.
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[An Nahar] Israel reiterated Wednesday it would act to prevent any transfer of advanced arms to "militants" during the conflict in Syria, as a newspaper reported an Israeli Arclight airstrike along the Syrian-Lebanese border.
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, speaking at the parliamentary foreign and defense committee, said Israel was closely monitoring the situation in Syria and the regime's moves to dismantle its chemical arms.
"So far the regime is upholding its commitment," he said in remarks relayed by his office.
"We are following the issue, and continue to maintain our red lines on Syria -- not to allow the transfer of advanced Syrian weapons to hostile hands, especially Hizbullah," he said.
Yaalon said Israel would "not allow the passage of chemical weapons, which until now they haven't even tried to transfer."
His comments came as Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida, citing an official in Jerusalem, said Israeli warplanes had on Monday hit a convoy carrying advanced missiles along the Syria-Leb border bound for Hizbullah.
An Israeli defense official refused to comment on the report, which did not state whether the strike took place inside Lebanese or Syrian territory.
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[Pak Daily Times] A young couple in conservative southern Afghanistan have been found beheaded, apparently killed for having a love affair outside of marriage, officials said on Wednesday.
Police investigating the case said they believed the family of the woman, aged around 20, was responsible for the murders in the southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , a lawless hotbed of the Taliban insurgency.
The elder brother of the male victim, who was in his 20s, told officers the woman had run away with him recently and was living in their family home.
On Monday, 10 men broke into the house near the thriving provincial capital Lashkar Gah and kidnapped the pair, police official Mohammad Ismail Hotak told AFP.
"On Tuesday, local residents reported that there were two bodies in the graveyard. We went there and found them. Both had their heads chopped off," he said.
"From our investigations, we have found that the two had a love affair. We believe the family and relatives of the girl are behind the killing."
The police official said the brother told Sherlocks the dead man had loved the woman and wanted to marry her.
Omar Zwak, the provincial governor's front man, confirmed the incident and said an investigation was under way.
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[Pak Daily Times] A report of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Wednesday unearthed that elections at the provincial assembly seat (PS-114) in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... were massively rigged.
Nadra submitted a report to election tribunal in Karachi headed by former judge Zafar Ahmed Khan Sherwani, in an election petition filed by Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... leader Abdur Rauf Siddiqui, who moved the election tribunal challenging the election results of winning candidate Irfanullah Khan Marwat.
The PML-N leader, Marwat, had been declared as successful candidate from PS-114 defeating Abdul Rauf Siddiqui. Following Siddiqui's complaint, the election tribunal on Aug 3 directed the Nadra to verify the thumb impressions of voters of certain polling stations in the constituency.
Nadra report said a total of 92,731 counterfoils were sent to it for verification and of them 14,234 ballot papers contained invalid national identity card numbers, which were never issued by Nadra. This bogus voting was observed in two different polling stations of the constituency polling station 64 and 69.
Nadra report unearthed that the thumb impressions on 63,469 ballots could not be compared or matched through its system as the fingerprints were of very poor quality. It said that a total of 10,007 votes were successfully authenticated as the finger prints affixed on the counterfoils at the time ballot paper issuance correctly matched with finger print data of registered voters.
It also found that there were 378 votes were found not registered in the constituency and the fact was ascertained on the basis of the CNIC numbers mentioned on the used ballot papers. This was observed mainly in three polling stations of constituency.
Besides, the report said there were 792 duplicate votes, which were cast by as many as 1602 voters mainly in two polling stations. This information was extracted from capturing NIC number used on counterfoil as one CNIC (24301-1530723-0) of Bibi Jamila, a resident of Mehmoodabad polled her vote five times.
As many as 581 ballot papers were found without having fingerprints on them. The report said that 3270 votes failed an authentication, because someone else voted against the CNIC number mentioned on the used counterfoils. It said that 44 votes were polled on one CNIC of Muhammad Arif Sattar, resident of Azam Town.
Earlier, Nadra had submitted a report to the election tribunal regarding voter verification for NA-256 in Karachi, which had also revealed massive rigging in the elections.
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[An Nahar] An attack by rebels near Damascus has caused a power outage across Syria, state news agency SANA quoted the electricity minister as saying.
"A terrorist attack on a gas pipeline that feeds a power station in the south has led to a power outage in the provinces, and work to repair it is in progress," Emad Khamis said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Syrian activists said blazes erupted and blasts were heard near the Damascus International Airport.
And the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "flames were seen in the al-Ghassouleh area near the airport and the sounds of blasts were heard."
"Preliminary reports said the area was shelled by rebel brigades, which led to the kaboom of the gas pipeline," it added.
An Agence La Belle France Presse journalist in Damascus said he could see from a distance a huge fire blazing near the airport, which is located near the affected power station.
He also confirmed power was out in the capital.
The Observatory reported outages in several areas of the country, including Aleppo in the north and Homs in the center.
"It is likely this was a large-scale operation planned well in advance," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
In September, a similar outage was caused after a high voltage power line was sabotaged.
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The World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva claims to represent and serve 345 churches worldwide. What has it done to help the persecuted churches in Iraq, Syria and Egypt? Or the flood of Syrian refugees into Jordan and Lebanon? Answer: it has devoted the whole of 2013 to promoting a World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel (September 22-28). That is, it has poured its Swiss francs into stirring up the one corner of the area that is currently almost calm.
It is not as if it is a secret that Muslim violence in Iraq drove out half the Christian population within a decade. Or that affiliates of Al-Qaeda have emptied whole Syrian villages and towns of their Christian populations. Or that almost a hundred Coptic churches in Egypt were assailed by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood shortly after President Morsi was deposed. And that was merely one chapter in the ongoing martyrdom of the Copts, which has seen 100,000 of them fleeing Egypt since the downfall of President Mubarak.
The excuse for this is that the WCC has maintained for decades, and insists on maintaining against all evidence, that the churches of the Middle East have no other real problem than the Palestinian issue. Earlier this year (May 21-25), the WCC held a conference on "Christian Presence and Witness in the Middle East" near Beirut, Lebanon. Its closing statement proclaimed: "Palestine continues to be the central issue in the region. Resolving the conflict between Israel and Palestine in accordance with the UN resolutions and international law, will greatly help resolving the other conflicts in the region."
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Actually, it's the leftleftleft, barely, superficially, non-doctrinally, only-when-necessary Christian.
Book is dated, but pretty clear and little has changed, "On Thin Ice" by Roy Beck, once a reporter for the United Methodist paper.
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[Ynet] Kuwaiti newspaper quotes Israeli state official as saying IAF jets bombed Hezbollah-bound missile shipment
Six months after an alleged assault in Syria, a Kuwaiti report suggests Israel launched another strike to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining advanced missiles. Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper quoted an Israeli state official as saying that IAF fighter jets bombed a missile shipment on the Syria-Leb border two days ago.
The source said that the shipment was intended for Hezbollah but did not disclose whether the strike occurred inside Syrian or Lebanese territory. The IDF declined to comment.
Lebanese sources reported of extensive fighter jet and drone activity over Leb in recent weeks, particularly over the last weekend.
On Tuesday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said that Israel will continue to maintain its "red lines" in the northern sector and will not allow the transfer of advanced or chemical arms from Syria to radical groups such as Hezbollah. Addressing the issue on Wednesday he noted, "We are monitoring the Syrian commitment to disarm of chemical weapons and are sticking to our red lines."
Last May, it was reported that Israel conducted an Arclight airstrike in Syria.
CNN quoted two unnamed US officials as saying that Israel's warplanes did not enter Syrian airspace. A security source in the region said that the target was not a Syrian chemical weapons facility but rather a building.
An Israeli official said that Israeli warplanes had targeted a shipment of missiles in Syria believed to be en route to Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Leb.
The air strike took place on Friday after it was approved in a secret meeting of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet on Thursday night, the official said on condition of anonymity.
Within 48 hours, Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
reported of powerful kabooms in the outskirts of Damascus claiming Israeli rockets had struck a military facility just north of the capital.
[An Nahar] The Malian army is carrying out a purge of soldiers involved in protests at a barracks outside the capital Bamako last month, Amnesia Amnesty International said Wednesday.
The rights group's French branch said in a statement that four soldiers' bodies had been discovered near Bamako in early October and several other troops, including a colonel, were missing, feared dead.
"These extrajudicial killings have created fears that soldiers loyal to General Amadou Haya Sanogo, who organized a coup in March 2012, are in the course of purging all dissidents from their ranks.
"This is the latest striking example of the way in which a small group of soldiers who seem to consider themselves above the law continue to cling to power in Mali," said Gaetan Mootoo, Amnesty's researcher on West Africa.
The organization called on the Malian government to organize an independent inquiry into the incident and ensure those responsible for the killings are brought to justice.
"These inquiries will make a crucial contribution to efforts to reestablish the rule of law in Mali," he added.
"It is frightening to note that, despite the arrival in power of a democratically elected president in August 2013, a small group of soldiers loyal to the former junta continues to impose terror, with complete impunity, on their presumed opponents."
The missing colonel was named as Youssouf Traore. He has been missing since the protests on September 30 and the decapitated body of his body guard was one of those found.
Traore was part of the military regime established after the March 2012 coup.
He was among dozens of disgruntled soldiers who fired guns in the air and took hostage a close aide of Sanago during the protest on September 30.
The soldiers, based in the garrison town of Kati, near Bamako, were unhappy at not having been promoted alongside colleagues also involved in ousting the president in March last year.
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For a map, click here. For a map of Chihuahua state, click here.
By Chris Covert
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As shootings and drug and gang related violence continue in southern Chihuahua, commanders with the Mexican Army are announcing their intentions to stay in northern border states, according to Mexican news accounts.
A news account which appeared on the website of Azteca Noticias reported a joint announcement of Chihuahua Governor Cesar Duarte Jaquez and Mexican Army chief General Salvador Cienfuegos that a new army base would be built in Guachochi municipality housing 600 soldiers and their families. No date was given for either beginning or the conclusion of the construction of the army base.
If the number of soldiers to be deployed at the base is accurate the base will be one of the largest non garrison facilities in Mexico. Mexican Army bases which dot the country usually house a company sized element including about 100 effectives with support staff adding even more. The base in Guachochi will house 600 soldiers including support staff, or the equivalent of a rifle battalion.
Guachochi is in the Mexican 42nd Military Zone command area.
The new deployment adds credence to the notion that Mexico's military commanders are concentrating their efforts in the Mexican sierras where law and law enforcement are at premium, leaving the cities and the highway to Mexican civilian security forces.
Earlier in the year Mexico's military commanders made much of the intention of the new national administration of president Enrique Peña Nieto to return the military to the barracks and to have Mexico's police forces take over security duties nationwide.
Sometime last summer, commanders signaled a definitive shift in strategy, by making much of their intentions to remain in areas where drug and gang related violence is the worst.
The most recent announcement by General Cienfuegos was that the Mexican Army would remain also in Nuevo Leon state.
Pena's security strategy of making states take on more security duties was also amplified by dividing the country into five regions and holding numerous meetings between state politicians and their security staff, and Mexico's federal security apparatus. Central to that is to include all national police and militaries under the Secretaria de Gobernacion or interior ministry.
But problems with the strategy in using state resources abound.
Last December as President Peña was taking the reins of power, his Secretaria de Gobernacion, Miguel Osorio Chong continued to push a police certification program requirement begun during the term of the prevous President Felipe Calderon, that all police agents are certified, or they should lose their jobs. The original time period began in 2011, and was extended by the national Chamber of Deputies for a deadline of November 1st, 2013.
But now it appears with barely 75 percent of all state and local police certified nationwide, The deadline has been extended yet another year.
Results in the various state were mixed at best, with two on the six northern border state with percentages of certified police above 80 percent. That was in August. Since that time Nuevo Leon has announced their police certification program completed.
Chihuahua state, where the new military base is expected to be built, as of last August, was in the bottom 10 with just over 51 percent certified. Tamaulipas, easily Mexico's most violent state. was reported dead last with just under 40 percent.
Problems in security continue in Chihuahua state, especially in the southern municipalities.
In El Diario de Juarez Wednesday it was reported that only five municipalities out of 51, have submitted candidates to be approved by the state Chamber of Deputies.
According to Antonio Andreu, President of the Chihuahua state Chamber of Deputies, the five municipalities with police chiefs confirmed by the Chamber of Deputies include Nuevo Casas Grandes, Camargo, Ahumada, Ciudad Juarez and Aquiles Serdan. All are northern or central municipalities.
According to the news story, Chihuahua state's failure in police certifications has led to the large number of municipalities with no confirmed police chiefs. Andrieu said that no deadline exists for confirming new police chiefs, and new police chiefs must be certified.
Chihuahua state went through a mid term election earlier in the summer. Normally by this time all municipalities should have their staff appointed, approved and in place.
Elsewhere in southern Chihuahua, eight unidentified individuals are being investigated as disappeared according to a news account which appeared in the online edition of El Sol de Parral news daily.
Quoting head of the Policia Estatal Unica Division Investigaciones, Pablo Ernesto Rocha, police will begin search operations in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality, focusing in the villages of Corta, Los Charcos and El Vergel. Earlier in the spring and summer, kidnappings and shootings in southern Chihuahua were do bad that young males were refused public transportation for fear of recruiting efforts by local criminal gangs. The latest admission of missing persons by a top state police officials indicates that the violence in the region has not been tempered.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[Pak Daily Times] Gunmen kidnapped the former president of Awami National Party (ANP) 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... chapter, Arbab Zahir Khan Kasi, on Wednesday.
Kasi was on his way home when the gunnies kidnapped him from Patel Road of the city. "The law enforcement agencies have been directed to cordon off the area and ensure early recovery of the ANP leader," Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said, adding that a high-level meeting has been convened to discuss the law and order situation in the province. Quoting his driver, police said kidnappers forced Kasi out of his vehicle and bundled him into their car. The kidnappers beat the driver and snatched his mobile and car's key before escaping.
Talking to media, son of the kidnapped ANP leader, Arbab Umar Farooq said his family had no enmity with anybody, and confirmed that the kidnappers manhandled the driver. "Security has been beefed up throughout the city, especially at exit points of the city while police is making all-out efforts to ensure early and safe recovery of Kasi," said Quetta Regional Police Officer Arif Nawaz.
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Not a bad analysis but another take would be that the pregnant woman was wobbling like a drunk so the friend and the guy behind were ready to catch her in case to prevent a scene and others were asking if the pregnant lady was going to make it.
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I'm on the moment of honesty side, her behavior is consistent with heat/dehydration; couple that with the other stories about students having to sit for hours without bathroom breaks etc and what they have is negligence for her health and safety. It happens when one is expecting a person is burdened with an animated polyp cyst.
Like the whole Obamacare rollout, a Show Must Go On moment. Lady must have carried a lot of water to get front row center tickets and gets treated worse than cattle.
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You may be right rjschwarz. And it is entirely consistent for the zero administration to leave her hanging for hours in the sun with no refreshment or bathroom breaks. After all it's all about the 0...
Problem is the 'FAKE' story is just so believable with this president.
I understand (unconfirmed) that she works for an University and already has health insurance - no need for Obumblecare.
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Yes, Fake...if ObamaFurhrer is giving a very important speech, one would think that he is focused on a good delivery sprinkled with all the cues/inflections/gesticulations/pauses and not the props behind him. The woman weaved, but somehow the clairvoyant Obama sensed this and saves the day.
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Jack, of course Obama is clairvoyant - it comes with being the One.
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] 'If the host is hospitable and generous, there will be more frequent visits from guests' -- a pithy Chinese phrase summed up the mood as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sealed significant pacts to curb use of force on the borders, open a dialogue on dams on the Brahmaputra and enhance cooperation on terrorism with China.
On a clear day after overnight rain drove Beijing's infamous smog away, the PM struck an equation with the new Chinese leadership, with President Xi Jinping telling Singh, "We need to stand tall and look far, a journey of a 1,000 miles begins with a single step."
Xi handsomely supplemented the proverb offered by the Chinese spokesperson after the two sides signed a border protocol, mooting a hotline between military headquarters, and China pushed for an ambitious Bangladesh-Myanmar-India-China economic corridor along the south Silk Route.
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[An Nahar] Tunisia's Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said on Wednesday that his government was committed to the "principle" of resigning in line with a roadmap to end months of political deadlock.
"We repeat today our commitment to the principle of relinquishing power in line with the different phases envisaged in the roadmap," Larayedh said in a keenly awaited speech.
"We will not submit to anyone except the interests of the country," he added.
Until now the prime minister has said he would step down only after a new constitution has been adopted.
The opposition has been waiting for a "clear commitment" by the prime minister to quit within three weeks, as stipulated in the roadmap drawn up by mediators and agreed to by his Islamist party Ennahda, to allow a national dialogue to begin.
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[Shabelle] Scandinavia's humanitarian generosity in the 1990s appears to have backfired, as dozens of young ethnic Somalis living there have embraced jihad, returning to the Horn of Africa to join the al Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab. ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... There's no word that equates to 'gratitude' in the Somali language.
Norway's Intelligence Agency PST is still investigating whether one of the attackers at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi had lived in Norway. The 23-year old had come to Norway with his family at the age of nine as a refugee, but according to Norwegian media had become unsettled after being unable to find work and begun to frequent jihadist websites.
In a statement last week, the PST said it had not yet been determined whether the man took part in the attack, but added: "Based on the information that we have uncovered this far in the investigation ... the suspicion of his involvement has been strengthened."
If it is confirmed, the Norwegian citizen will become the latest in a lengthening line of Somalis from Scandinavia who have either joined Al-Shabaab or planned terror attacks in their adopted homelands.
The Al-Shabaab commander known as Ikrima who was targeted by US Navy SEALs in an unsuccessful raid in Somalia earlier this month also spent several years in Norway. Kenyan counter-terrorism sources told CNN they suspected Ikrima had a hand in the Westgate attack and was connected to the suspected Norwegian gunman.
Morten Storm, a Dane and former intelligence informant who penetrated Al-Shabaab and spent time with Ikrima, told CNN that Danish intelligence are particularly concerned about the threat of a Somali terrorist operative who works closely with Ikrimah called Abu Musab al Somali.
Storm says Danish intelligence told him of their concern that al Somali was planning terrorist attacks inside Denmark after intercepting communications between him and bully boyz there.
Al Somali -- who also goes by the name Abu Moslem -- came to Denmark as a young refugee, was granted permanent resident status, and settled in Copenhagen. In 2005, al Somali travelled to Somalia where he joined other imported muscle affiliated with the Islamic Courts Union, an Islamist militia that evolved into Al-Shabaab. A year later al Somali travelled to Yemen to broker a weapons deal with al Qaeda, according to Storm.
After serving about two years in jail al Somali returned to Somalia, where he joined Al-Shabaab. According to Storm, who exchanged messages with al Somali, he also worked closely with Jehad Serwan Mostafa, an American Shabaab operative wanted by the FBI, and Abdelkadir Warsame, a Somali Al-Shabaab operative who was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... navigating the sea between Yemen and Somalia by the United States in 2011.
Ikrima's name also featured in the trial of two Swedish Somalis who were arrested in 2010 after allegedly training with Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Swedish authorities accused them of planning to return to Somalia to carry out terrorist attacks. A phone intercept between a senior Al-Shabaab figure in Somalia and one of those arrested was introduced during the trial. "You should contact this brother -- his name is Ikrima," the senior figure said on the phone.
After being convicted the pair were subsequently acquitted by an Appeals court, but it nevertheless noted the men were in contact with, and sympathetic to, Al-Shabaab.
Analysts estimate there are several hundred committed Al-Shabaab supporters across Scandinavia.
There are about 25,000 ethnic Somalis in Norway, 17,000 in Denmark and 44,000 in Sweden. The great majority arrived after Somalia collapsed as a state in 1991. Most have been grateful for sanctuary but a very small minority have become radicalized, especially among those who came to Europe as children.
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Far more than Denmark, Swedan and Norway put together.
Thanks Tony Blair.
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about 30k ethnic somalis in MN
reliable voters for Al Franken and Keith Ellison, etc.
most of them are 'Islam is a religion of peace' types but about 20% aren't and of those, quite a few are tied into informal or even physical support for al shabab in Somalia
some of the latter were probably involved in the atrocity in Kenya
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Really gets down to giving them aid, crushes their pride and causes resentment. Jihadists are good at flaming that resentment and PC addled societies are pathetic at stopping it.
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I believe the word is 'repatriation'. Best to stabilize the place long enough to allow the 'refugees' to return with skills they've acquired to lift their fellow countrymen and coreligionists from the ashes of turmoil. Only fitting and right.
[An Nahar] The Lebanese army said troops seized Wednesday in the Wadi Hmayyed area an arms-laden car coming from Syria and locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! its four Syrian passengers.
"As part of the mission of controlling the Lebanese-Syrian border, army forces intercepted this morning in the Wadi Hmayyed-Arsal area a dark blue Geely car that entered from Syria illegally," an army statement said.
Four Syrian nationals were arrested and a quantity of machineguns, pistols, ammunition, military equipment and hand grenades was found in their possession, the statement added.
"The detainees and the seized items were referred to the relevant authorities and a probe has been launched under the supervision of the judiciary," it said.
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[Pak Daily Times] A teenager was killed late on Tuesday in Bahrain when a bomb he was holding went kaboom! in his hands while he was trying to carry out an attack, police said. State news agency BNA quoted police as saying that the 17-year-old youth had been wanted by security forces for "criminal offences". A firearm and ammunition was also found near the body in the village of Bani Jamra, west of the capital Manama, BNA said without giving any details. Witnesses said one worker staying at a nearby warehouse was injured by the blast.
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[Pak Daily Times] Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned on Wednesday that the country is facing a "war of genocide" after officials said bully boyz had killed 48 people in two days of attacks.
Violence has reached a level unseen since 2008, as Iraq emerged from brutal conflict between minority Sunni Mohammedans and majority Shias. Militants, including those linked to al Qaeda, a Sunni organization, frequently target security forces and other government employees.
"It has become clear... that Iraq is subjected to a war of genocide targeting all of its components," Maliki, a Shia, said in his weekly address.
Al Qaeda is once again "destroying the houses of citizens and killing them, and blowing up government departments," Maliki said.
But a front opposing the bad boy group "has begun to form in Iraq from different components... the security services and tribes and Sons of Iraq," he said, referring to anti-al Qaeda militiamen.
On Wednesday, gunnies killed six people in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, while five people were rubbed out in and near the city the day before.
In Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , a roadside kaboom in the Ghazaliyah area killed at least three people and maimed 11 on Wednesday, and another killed four people and maimed at least nine in Madain, south of the capital.
Two Sahwa anti-al Qaeda gunnies were also kidnapped and killed in Kirkuk province. ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Anbar province, west of Storied Baghdad, was hit by a series of attacks late Tuesday that killed 28 people.
Four of them struck targets in and around the town of Rutba, about 110 kilometres (70 miles) from the border with Syria.
A jacket wallah detonated a tanker truck loaded with explosives at a police checkpoint east of the town, bully boyz armed with heavy weapons struck the cop shoppe in Rutba itself and another bomber detonated a vehicle at a police checkpoint to its west.
Those attacks killed 18 police and maimed 25, while three civilians died when another suicide bomber blew up a tanker truck on a bridge west of Rutba.
Gunmen also attacked a police checkpoint Tuesday night at an entrance to Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, and another inside the city, killing seven coppers and wounding an eighth.
The violence was just the latest in a series of coordinated attacks in Anbar.
On Monday, suicide bombers attacked the police and electricity department headquarters in Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids... another city there, after which bully boyz hit the cop shoppe with gunfire, mortar rounds and rocket-propelled grenades, and clashed with police.
The violence killed two police and maimed four others.
And on Sunday, eight suicide bombers attacked government buildings in Rawa, a town north of Fallujah, killing eight people, including three members of the local council and three police.
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The Moslem value of gitcha gitcha yayas.
I can turn the sound down and eat my Lunch watching this.
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I think Maliki is playing Captain Obvious with these comments.
Unfortunately for Iraq, which I think our Democratic leadership wants to fail because it was a Bush initiative, the current administrations abandonment of Iraq and coherence in policy is contributing to a war of genocide that is ONGOING and is occurring not as a future possibility but an on the ground reality.
The toxic mutual abhorrence of the Sunni and the Shi'ia will be the undoing of the entire Middle East if something is not done to bridge this gap and end the silliness of this 1200 year old war over the succession to the Prophet Mohammed...can you believe fighting over something that happened 1200 years ago and is so long gone and done that nothing can be done to change how the succession of leadership is determined?
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10/24/2013 18:52
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Wait until Barry Hussein leave Pashtukistain...
Orville's gonna make a killin' agin'
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10/24/2013 21:46
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This is just a mirror of the whole satanic mafia that is the Umma(islam)...it is the brothers against the brothers, the brothers vs their fathers and uncles, the families against the clans, the clans wars, the clans vs the villages, the villages war against the towns, the provinces' wars, the muslim countries vs the muslim countries, Shia versus the Salafi Sunnis, the Umma versus all the kuffar infidels...and this have been going on since the prophet pedophile, also a common thief, a rapist and genocidal assassin, the plague of the creation...anybody telling different is an accomplice and a secret stealthy muslim.
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[Pak Daily Times] A Yemeni father has burned his 15-year-old daughter to death for keeping in touch with her fiancé, police said, sparking further outrage in Yemen, where an eight-year-old girl died from internal bleeding on her wedding night a month ago. Police said a 35-year-old man had been jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! after the teenager's death in a remote village in the central Taiz province.
"The father committed this heinous crime on the pretext that his daughter had been keeping contacts with her fiancé," the police website said on Tuesday, giving no further details. Some local news websites reported that the father had caught the girl chatting by telephone with her fiancé. Traditional tribal customs in parts of Yemen prohibit contacts between men and women before marriage. Poverty and concern about "family honour" prompts many Yemenis to marry off their daughters young, often below the age of 18, a practice that has been criticised by international rights groups.
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Isn't mooselimb love grand? They kill you if they hate you and they kill you if they love you.
[An Nahar] Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal has warned that "Leb is on the brink of civil war as Hizbullah continues to implement its own agenda without giving any consideration to law and order."
The party "is willing to risk the foundations on which the entire Lebanese political system was built in order to prevent the collapse of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's regime and impede the work of the Special Tribunal for Leb that is probing the liquidation of former premier Rafik Hariri," al-Faisal said in a lecture he delivered at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington.
"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... believes that the law needs to be imposed in Leb and it supports all efforts aimed at putting an end to Hizbullah's intervention in Syria and bringing its leaders who are suspected of being involved in the Hariri murder to court," the ex-spy chief added, according to the Central News Agency.
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Listen up!!
This guy knows what he is talking about AND he knows more about what is driving the agenda in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Libya than Slow Joe, Obumble, or Fred Flintstone Kerrey.
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10/24/2013 14:32
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The only times Lebanon isn't on Brink of Civil War is when it has a civil war.
[Pak Daily Times] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and US President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... on Wednesday agreed on a joint strategy to counter terrorism and extremism.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A change to the Marine Corps' uniform hats could leave hard-nosed Leathernecks looking a lot less macho. 
A bomb that blew apart a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore outdoor restroom could lead to federal charges against the suspect or suspects who planted it, the park's chief ranger said.
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] 'If the host is hospitable and generous, there will be more frequent visits from guests' -- a pithy Chinese phrase summed up the mood as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sealed significant pacts to curb use of force on the borders, open a dialogue on dams on the Brahmaputra and enhance cooperation on terrorism with China. 
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Nawaz Sharif
