And I thought the puppy firebombs were too psychotic for belief... these people are f*cking nuts! Only one treatment is possible, and there won't be any escapes or repeat offenders.
Several men abducted a three-year-old Saudi girl and took turns in raping her before dumping the child near a hospital in a serious condition.
Disclosing the crime on Monday, police said they had arrested three suspects and two women and that more could be arrested in connection with the rape.
Doctors at the hospital in the Western Red Sea port of Jeddah said the child was found crying and in serious condition in front of the hospital on Ramadan 13, adding that she is still in the intensive care unit struggling for her life.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Australia's highest court has ruled a bureaucrat injured while having sex on a work trip is not entitled to workers' compensation Keep this in mind next time you get fired up in Kansas City...
The bureaucrat, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was hospitalised in November 2007 after a glass light fitting above a bed she was having sex in fell onto her face injuring her nose and mouth. "Owwww! It broke by node! By node id broke!"
The woman also suffered psychological injury. "Owww! By psyche! By psyche id broke!"
The woman was visiting a regional office observing the budget review process, meeting regional staff and undertaking training -- and staying in a motel room booked by her employer. They left the light on for her...
According to the court transcript the fitting was pulled from its mount either by the woman or by her acquaintance. "Harold! Don't swing from the... [CRASH!]"
The important test case was brought by Comcare, the government's insurer, which said it centred on whether the woman was "considered 'in the course of employment' for workers' compensation purposes." "Yer honor, her contract of employment don't say nothin' about no damn chandeliers!"
"It wudn't a chandelier! It wuz a light fixture!"
The ruling, which would have flow-on effects for other compensation cases, shows that in order to be eligible for compensation Australian workers must be "expressly or impliedly induced or encouraged by the employer" to undertake an activity which leads to injury. So if it'd been her boss swinging from the chandelier she'd have been covered?
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Whew, that's a relief. I was afraid the injury was more intimate...or something.
Geez, how embarrassing. Imagine what her husband/boyfriend/lover said when she got home with the black eye and the missing tooth...
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I know what they'd say here in East Tennessee, Bill. "Howdy, Sis."
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Compensation denied: Regardless of the speed setting, ceiling fan motors and mounts were never designed for wicker basket chair attachments.
[FOXNEWS] A state-backed Saudi news website says a resident of Jordan has been sentenced to nine years in prison and 80 lashes for spying on the kingdom for Israel.
Al-Riyadh Online reported Wednesday that Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Specialized Criminal Court issued the verdict after the man confessed to spying for Israel. The court said in its verdict that the man, whose name and nationality were not released, had emailed Israeli intelligence officers and accepted money in exchange for spying.
The news website says the prosecution and defendant plan to appeal the sentence. The defendant was quoted as telling the court that he was under the influence of drugs and not in a right state of mind when he accepted spying for Israel.
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Didn't they get more than that for the pron shop?
I was bombed when I took Bibi's shekel
My contacts were Heckle and Jeckle
I fed pork to a stork
I ate fish with a fork
And I photographed Abdullah's freckle
[BBC.CO.UK] There has been a suicide kaboom in the Tunisian Mediterranean resort town of Sousse on a beach in front of a hotel, officials say. "That's 'Sou-SAY!'"
A hotel employee told the BBC that the blast occurred at 09:45 local time (08:45 GMT) and that no-one was hurt except for the bomber.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk. Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles. No, he said. Do you?... security sources say police have foiled a separate plot to attack ex-President Habib Bourguiba's tomb.
Police captured the would-be jacket wallah before he went kaboom!.
Mr Bourguiba led Tunisia after independence from La Belle France; he was deposed in 1987 and died 13 years ago.
Attack 'foiled'
The blast in Sousse happened close to the Riadh Palms hotel, a receptionist told the BBC's World Update programme.
The male attacker, wearing a belt of explosives, was killed, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named quoted Tunisia's Tap state news agency as saying.
Witnesses said the bomber was spotted and chased away from the hotel, blowing himself up on an empty beach, the AFP news agency reported.
Sousse is a tourist destination about 140km (87 miles) south of the capital, Tunis, on the Mediterranean coast.
The former president's tomb is in Monastir, a town about 20km further south along the coast from Sousse.
"An attempted attack targeting the compound of the Bourguiba mausoleum was foiled... and a young man carrying explosives was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! ," Interior Ministry front man Mohammed Ali Laroui told AFP.
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[USATODAY] Police in China have tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! five suspects linked to the Monday crash in Tiananmen Square in what they have described as a "violent terrorist attack," the state Xinhua News Agency reported.
Xinhua reported that the suspects were taken into custody about 10 hours after the crash that killed two nearby tourists and injured 40.
Usmen Hasan, his mother and wife -- said to be the occupants of the sport-utility vehicle -- were also killed in the crash in which their vehicle barreled through crowds and burst into flames near the portrait of Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate.
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[VOA News] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... is warning the U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy that proposed peace talks can only succeed if other countries end their support for rebel groups.
Assad was quoted on state-run television following a brief meeting Wednesday morning with Lakhdar Brahimi.
The meeting came on the third day of Brahimi's first visit to Damascus in almost a year. The U.N. envoy has been on a regional tour trying to drum up support for the so-called "Geneva 2" peace talks.
Earlier Wednesday, Brahimi also met with Iran's ambassador to Syria, Muhammad Ridha Sheibani. Brahimi had earlier suggested Iran be given a seat at the table for a Syrian peace conference.
The United States and Russia have been pushing for those talks to take place next month. Syria's rebels and opposition groups have yet to commit to any talks, rejecting any process that does not remove Assad from power.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011 while millions more have been forced to flee their homes.
On Tuesday, the global charity Save the Children warned of a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... outbreak in Syria.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... has confirmed 10 cases of polio in young children in the northeast and officials say about 500,000 Syrian children have not been vaccinated against polio.
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See also RELATED TOPIX > ASSAD: NO PEACE UNITIL FOREIGNERS STOP ARMING REBELS.
* Also from TOPIX > RUSSIA: ASSAD REMOVAL DANGEROUS ["huge threat"] TO REGION.
Al Bundy is NOT shocked, he tells ya, he's NOT shocked!
Does SecState Jaaawhn know???
VERSUS
* SAME > [Arutz Sheva] REPORT: SYRIAN REGIME USING NORTH KOREAN PILOTS.
HHHMMMMM, HHHHMMMM, is KJU = "Pudgy" cleaning out the rust in the DPRK Armed Forces in anticipation of Sino-Japan = East Asian mil conflict???
[REUTERS] Egyptian police fired teargas at protesting students at Cairo's al-Azhar university on Wednesday hours after authorities announced the detention of Moslem Brüderbund leader Essam El-Erian, part of a crackdown against the Islamist movement.
Erian, deputy leader of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, was taken into custody from a residence in New Cairo where he had been in hiding, an Interior Ministry source told Rooters.
At the al-Azhar university's main campus, students smashed windows, hurled chairs and covered walls of an administrative building with graffiti.
"Sisi is a dog. Down, down with the lord of the army," one protester scribbled, referring to army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who led the overthrow of President Mohammed Mursi.
One police officer yelled: "Arrest anyone you see. Bring me those kids. If you see anyone just arrest them right away."
Students at Egypt's top institution for Islamic teachings have demonstrated for weeks in support of the Islamist Mursi, whom the army toppled in July after mass protests against his rule. Demonstrations there are a sensitive matter because the institution has historically toed the government line.
Many Brotherhood leaders have been placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! since the overthrow of Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president. He, Erian and 13 other Brotherhood leaders are expected to go on trial on Monday on charges of inciting violence.
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These people aren't as smart as they think they are. Their plans don't work as well as they think they will, and they lie to themselves that they are succeeding.
#3
He gets a solid A+ from me. He got a bill passed and signed that NO ONE READ! It totally destroys the US health care system. Further divides Americans, drive America further into an unrecoverable debt, and all we do is bitch on the internet, no real action, just bitching. Any other president would be living in exile somewhere.
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Any other president would be living in exile somewhere.
Mauritania.
But you're right, if Dubya had done this he'd been impeached, and his own party would have convicted him.
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Nonsense. Champ does not know embarrassment, doubt, shame or regret.
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Reminds me of a movie line... Listen,and understand. That terminator community organizer is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead your freedom is destroyed.
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You don't do this by changing the command structure.
Seems as if they have pop off ten times the munitions from existing platforms.
OTOH, as long as they are as accurate as it seems they are, then, say, ten Hellfires or one bomb of similar weight. Or Mavericks, or whatever the IDF has now.
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I believe this is a shift from a logistics support/delivery command structure to a zone offense.
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To be honest I'm amazed the gov hasn't had the car companies install an ignition kill on every vehicle that can be remotely activated by law enforcement.
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... Is possible in bad traffic? (Somehow hit enter before I was finished). I wonder what the range is, wind effects, and how weather (temp and precip) affects adhesion
Unsure if this is true or just propaganda - is even the Muslim Brotherhood this psychotic?
Two puppies from Egypt were rescued just moments before they were to be used by the Muslim Brotherhood in their protests as "puppy bombs" dipped in gasoline and set on fire. If it was Indonesia we might think they were just preparing a meal for visiting US head of state..
The revelation about the Brotherhood's cruel tactic used two weeks ago at Tahrir Square during demonstrations against the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi's was made known by Robyn Urman, a pet rescuer in Tenafly, New Jersey, as reported by CBS 2.
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Thing about it is, given the context, it's perfectly believable.
If it isn't being done, it's because there are practical difficulties.
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is even the Muslim Brotherhood this psychotic?
Talking about a group who competes to be the biggest knothead. Egypt Gov could score some propaganda points with the American people with a couple of pics; if the obamedia lets it through the wall.
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What the Obumble admin forgets is that all these officer joined to serve their nation. Once tossed they will choose to serve in another way, expect to see them running for Tea Part office or on the Tea Party staff. Foolish move.
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...I cannot recall a time when there was this much brass shown the door...maybe Cmdr. Zero is a little wary of a covert military "coop?"
Insurance companies aren't sending out cancellation letters, they're helping people "transition" into Obamacare, according to a top Democrat. To help you better understand, think of it as somewhat like the ACA's death "transition panels". Because remember, America, you're too stupid to know what's best for you.
[The Blaze] Shokazoba, an Afrobeat band, reportedly had its Halloween performance at Hampshire College allegedly cancelled because the members of the group are too white to play Afrobeat music. I hope this logic doesn't prevail among cafes in the south.
The bands keyboard player, Jason Moses, told MassLive.com that about 30 people were able to execute an online campaign to have their show at the annual Halloween event shut down. He said the band is not even all white, but race shouldnt matter anyway. If you like your band, you can keep your band....period !
Its not important to us. Music and art has the opportunity to transcend all that, Moses said. The Hype Committee, which apparently made the call to cancel the bands show, announced the decision on Facebook on Oct. 24:
Due to concerned students voicing their opinions about the band Shokazoba, we held community dialogue to hear what individuals had to say. As a result of the dialogue, and discomfort expressed by members of the community in person as well as by email, Facebook, and other means, we have removed Shokazoba from the lineup for Hampshire Halloween.
Further, a Hampshire College spokeswoman said in a statement that students questioned the selection of one band, asking whether it was a predominantly white Afrobeat band, and expressing their concerns about cultural appropriation and the need to respect marginalized cultures. Cultural marginalization? Behold the NFL, NBA, and EBT.
Moses says the entire experience has been disgusting.
It felt like we were demonized. I didnt feel they should cancel us, he said. Demonized? Sounds like Hype to me.
The keyboard player also revealed his group singed a performance contract with the Hype Committee that prohibits the school from discriminated against based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, physical ability or sexual orientation. Signed contract? Time to find a lawyer I'd say.
He said he does not feel the band was dealt with in an honest way, and said he was sure some people would have wanted to see them play. Moses said the band would still play at the college, if it were organized by a different group interested in incorporating other points of view, MassLive.coms report adds.
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Contract? Lawsuit. Teach the college twerps running their little student committe like a left wing treehouse that actions have legal consequences, no matter whose feelings are "hurt"
[Breitbart] Barack Obamas Senior Advisor, ValJar, tweeted on Monday, FACT: Nothing in #ObamaCare forces people out of their health plans. No change is required unless insurance companies change existing plans. Source of regime FACTS talking points uncovered at last. Strange how it's always someone else to blame..
This flies in the face of an NBC News report that not only revealed that more than half of Americans who buy individual insurance will have their insurance cancelled because of Obamacares mandates, but also that the Obama Administration knew that fact and covered it up. The REAL magnitude of policy cancellations will not be felt until the Corporate Mandate kicks in, hence the one year program delay.
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Jarret, fuck you, you lying whore bitch. Go die in a fire. My plan is gone, replaced by one considerably more expensive with birth control, abortion services, and scads of other shit that I neither need nor want, and which I find morally objectionable to be paying for. Just give me 2 minutes locked in a windowless unobserved soundproof room alone with her to explain things.
#4
Ditto OS. I sincerely the people who voted for these communist phuechs get a gut full of it before their time is up. Enjoy your socialist utopia you indolent, thieving, vermin.
[Shabelle] Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... between Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... and Sierra lion troops which are part of AU mission in Somalia "AMISOM" broke out in Dhoobley in lower Juba region, reports said.
The fighting sparked several hours erupted after Al Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab hard boyz ambushed on a military convoy which was travelling Dhoobley area as the caused unconfirmed casualties.
Al-Shabaab and Sierra lion forces used heavy and slight weapons including mortar shells during the fighting.
Both officials from Al-Shabaab and Sierra lion forces were unavailable to reach on the phone for comments on the ambush attack.
So the exact figures of the casualties are yet to be established by local authority.
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A lifetime ago, in another millenneum, our POST instructor showed the class a teeny weeny, three-shot, .22 revolver that could be hidden most anywhere. I'd pay to see Allan's hordes running around praising his Snackbar, armed with those...
[Al Ahram] The Board of State Commissioners of Egypt's High Administrative Court has recommended that proceedings to strip former vice president Mohammed ElBaradei and Gamal Mubarak, the son of ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , of their Egyptian nationality, be rejected.
The plaintiff of the case, Hamed Seddiq, accused ElBaradei and Mubarak -- once thought to be possible presidential contenders -- of breaking Egyptian law by having dual nationality without the consent of the authorities.
Seddiq also accused ElBaradei of accepting a position as head of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) without Egypt's official recommendation, and posing a "threat to the country's supreme interests."
The State Commissioners' report said no documents infer his having dual nationality or present evidence that he obtained one without the permission of the Interior Ministry.
The report -- issued in a non-binding advisory capacity - also stated that no evidence was presented to show that ElBaradei was a citizen of any other state except Egypt, in response to the complaint's claims he had obtained US and Austrian citizenships.
ElBaradei has previously denied having foreign nationality.
The report also denied the existence of any reason to believe ElBaradei's former post in the IAEA could represent any threat to Egyptian interests, adding that the Egyptian government at the time issued no order or request that he leave his position.
The State Commissioners therefore recommended that proceedings be rejected by the court.
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[Al Ahram] Security forces fired teargas and bird-shots to disperse a student protest against the country's interim leadership at Cairo University on Tuesday.
Students opposing what they say was a "coup" against 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... have been staging protests on campus over the past few weeks. Since the army ousted Morsi in July amid nationwide protests against his rule, his supporters have been demonstrating against the current government and calling for his reinstatement.
On Tuesday, hundreds of students started a march from the House of Sciences on campus to nearby Giza Square, where a pro-Morsi Islamist camp was staged for weeks before police forcibly dispersed it in August.
An eyewitness told Ahram Online that Central Security Forces (CSF) cut off the march on its way to Giza near the Faculty of Engineering and fired warning bird-shots in the air.
"When the march did not move back, CSF fired teargas and bird-shots at the students," eyewitness Mohammed El-Shafie, student at the Faculty of Arts, said.
"I saw injuries, but they were minor," he added.
Scuffles continued between security and students before they returned to campus. Tensions did not subside, however, with further fights breaking out between protesting students and their opponents.
Campus security reportedly intervened to end the melee.
Police also fired teargas at a student protest that marched outside Al-Azhar University campus on Monday, leaving three people injured. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... students continued to protest on Tuesday on university grounds.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... Rooters' Aswat Masriya website reported that similar scuffles took place in several universities nationwide on Tuesday.
Clashes broke out between pro-Morsi students, mainly loyalists of the Moslem Brüderbund, from which he hails, and their opponents at Helwan University.
Hundreds of students and professors also protested in Upper Egypt's Assiut University.
Dozens of students have been tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! nationwide in recent protests.
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The [apology] was overtly linked to the election and looks likely to have been a condition of Ashraf Ghani accepting General Dostum as a running mate... This apology is obviously part of a hard-nosed little election deal. But it is also the first small step on a path which no other Afghan leader has taken before.
Like Dostum said: you apologize when you're in a position of strength.
[Al Ahram] Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki travelled to the United States on Tuesday to press for urgent help and arms to combat the worst upsurge of violence in years. Nearly three years since the last U.S. troops withdrew, Sunni Islamist militants are waging a campaign to destabilise the Shi'ite-led government that came to power after former dictator Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003.
Trained and equipped by the United States at a cost of $25 billion, Iraq's security forces are struggling against Sunni Islamist insurgents who have driven the civilian death toll so far this year above 7,000.
"The urgent thing is to supply Iraq as quickly as possible with weapons of an offensive nature to combat terrorism and chase the armed groups," Maliki said at an airport news conference before his departure.
Iraq has in the past urged Washington to speed up delivery of an order of F-16 planes, but Maliki said those would not help Baghdad fight militants and the priority now was to get other kinds of equipment such as helicopters.
Officials in Baghdad blame deteriorating security on the civil war in neighbouring Syria, which has drawn hardline Sunnis and Shi'ites from across the region.
Al Qaeda's Syrian and Iraqi affiliates merged earlier this year to form the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, which has claimed responsibility for attacks on both sides of the border.
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What'd they do with all the weapons we already gave 'em?
* TOPIX > [Daily Star] IN IRAQ, [Extremist] SUNNI ATTACKS SPARK SHIITE CALL TO TAKE UP ARMS.
Meanwhile, not to be outdone by IRAQ ...
* SAME > [Daily Beast] HEZBOLLAH PREPARES FOR SYRIA SHOWDOWN IN AL-QALAMOUH. IRAN-BACKED LEBANESE SHIITE MOVEMENT IS READYING FOR A FACE-OFF AGZ SYRIA'S [domestic?]REBELS [+ KSA-led/sponsored Sunnis]. HOW THE BATTLE WILL RATTLE THE WORLD.
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Besides the Bammer SSSSSHHHHH .... CCCCCCCC allowing Baby Assad to stay in power contrary to Admin rhetoric, IRAN WILL GET ITS NUKES + EXPANDED MILPOL PRESENCE + NEWFOUND INFLUENCE IN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN [Egypt = Suez Canal, North Africa?], + NEXT TO BOTH KSA + NEO-OTTOMAN WANNABE TURKEY???
[Al Ahram] Egypt's interim government and the Moslem Brüderbund should seek reconciliation because only an inclusive political process, not security crackdowns, can bring stability to the country, a senior minister said on Tuesday.
The most populous Arab state has been shaken by violence since the ouster 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... of the Brotherhood in July.
Security forces have killed hundreds of Brotherhood members and tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! thousands, including Morsi, who is due to appear in court on Monday on charges of inciting violence.
Yet street protests regularly erupt and Islamist bully boyz have intensified their attacks.
Deputy Prime Minister Ziad Bahaa El-Din has been trying to encourage both sides to compromise since he put an initiative to the cabinet in August.
"Security is essential and key to Egypt but it is not alone going to get us where we want, and there has to be a political framework as well," Bahaa El-Din told news hounds.
"Ultimately this country needs to move towards a framework, of a political accord of some sort. It needs a political framework that is more inclusive for everybody."
His proposal called for an immediate end to the state of emergency, political participation for all parties and the guarantee of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , including free assembly.
But Bahaa El-Din's mission will not be easy.
State-run media have whipped up public opinion against the Brotherhood and created a climate in which there is little tolerance for the Islamist movement that won every election since a popular uprising toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011.
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You go through the gate. If the gates closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, well pole vault in. If that doesnt work, well parachute in. But were going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
Says it all regarding the Donk agenda--the end justifies the means in their "collective" minds.
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According to Wikipedia, it may not matter. The entire world will run out of lead in 42 years.
Of course by then global temperatures will have risen to the point that lead will melt. (according to Al Gore).
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As a kid I use to melt down Tire balance weights found in the street to make fishing sinkers. Is the EPA going after those? I see alot more of those in the street than bullets.
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I recommend a few more Gov't contracts for small arms ammo. 40-50 billion rounds might not be enough when the factories stop. Of course there's always the Chinese.
"No, we are not going to initiate additional gun legislation. We have other plans in place".
-- BHO
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Down in San Diego the Honorary Deputy Sheriff's department runs a pistol range for all of Southern California's law enforcement. The range is on the Mirimar Marine base. Five or so years ago they spent a boatload of money cleaning up the range to remove lead from downrange. Claimed it was potentially poisonous to the groundwater.
This is not a new idea.
I could be wrong but I think you can just replace lead with another metal in ammo. We shoudl start melting down pennies.
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Why so glum chum?
It's because the EPA wants to do away with plumbum,
Their misplaced zeal is so dumb,
I think I'll rest and for awhile go recumb,
I'm afraid they are all more than slightly off plumb,
All their efforts are in the name of forcing everyone to have a green thumb,
It all just makes my head numb.
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#17 Why so glum chum?
It's because the EPA wants to do away with plumbum,
And you can't even exercise your green thumb in peace. Envirocops, native nazis, Monsanto, HOAs, "ooh, is that plant toxic?" peawits... don't get me started on this.
As a toddler, JohnQC
Was awful fond of his Pb
He gnawed on bullets and chewed on paints
Till his governess had to employ restraints
[Al Ahram] A planned release of 26 Paleostinian prisoners has provoked feuding within Israel's governing coalition, already under strain from U.S.-brokered peace talks.
The inmates, all of whom were convicted of murder in the killing of Israelis before or just after the first interim Israeli-Paleostinian peace accords were signed 20 years ago, were due to go free after midnight on Tuesday.
Cutting short their life sentences has been particularly grating for many Israelis because prisoner releases were a Paleostinian condition for reviving peace talks last August that few people on either side of the conflict believe will succeed.
In all, 104 long-serving prisoners will go free. A first group of 26 was let out two months ago in keeping with understandings reached during shuttle diplomacy by U.S. 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...
"The release of hard boyz in return for (Israeli chief negotiator) Tzipi Livni's dubious right to meet (Paleostinian counterpart Saeb) Erekat is very grave," the Jewish Home party, a far-right member of the government, said in statement at the weekend.
Jewish Home, led by Naftali Bennett, then tried to get a proposal to freeze further prisoner releases past a ministerial committee, where members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party voted it down on Sunday.
"The picture is now clear: the government, unlike one of its member-parties, is acting in the national interest...this government is moving the grinding of the peace processor forward," Livni, head of the small, centrist Hatnuah party, wrote on her Facebook page after Jewish Home's proposed law was rejected.
The squabbling did not end there. Bennett criticised Likud ministers, saying: "The release of hard boyz is immoral, it weakens Israel and endangers its citizens, and we will continue to fight it in a democratic way".
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[Al Ahram] Almost 40 people were killed in weekend fighting between armed vigilantes and former rebels near Bouar in western Central African Republic, the army said Tuesday, issuing a new toll.
"The fighting last Saturday between self-defence militias and ex-rebels killed almost 40 people, including at least 35 in the ranks of the militias, with several maimed," a source close to the general staff said.
A previous toll on Sunday said 12 people were killed.
Early Saturday, hundreds of local militias armed with military weapons and machetes encircled Bouar, a town about 400 kilometres (250 miles) northwest of the capital Bangui on Saturday morning, the source said.
The forces of Evil were confronted by ex-rebels of the Seleka alliance, which has been disbanded by President Michel Djotodia since they brought him to power after ousting his predecessor, Francois Bozize, in March.
Bouar lies in a region of the highly unstable and very poor landlocked nation where people were considered loyal to Bozize, who himself seized power in a coup in 2003 and was twice re-elected into office.
The forces of Evil "attacked us with RPG 7 (rocket launchers) and Kalashnikov (assault rifles), as well as home-made rifles," a maimed former rebel colonel, Al Goni Moussa, said after his transfer to Bangui.
"The fighting lasted for more than two hours. We drove back the anti-balakas (militias). Their leader, Francois alias 'Bokassa', was killed. His brother and his son were also killed," Moussa said.
The corpse count could "rise further, in light of the intensity of the fighting that followed the attack on the ex-Seleka base and on the Bouar aerodrome by the self-defence militia," an army source said.
"This is really a rebellion taking shape," said a source in the president's office who asked not to be named. "Those who are behind this rebellion have also grabbed credit for the attacks on Bossangoa and Bouca" in the northwest," he added.
Early in September, attacks by hitherto unknown militia forces that emerged to protect the population from local warlords killed almost 100 people in the Bossangoa region.
Atrocities blamed on Seleka forces -- whom the regime is integrating into the regular armed forces -- have led to communal violence, sparking fears that festivities may take a religious turn, pitting Moslems against Christians, who make up about 80 percent of the population of some 4.5 million.
Most of the fighters in the movements that formed the Seleka alliance profess the Islamic faith and Djotodia, who was sworn in on August 18 to oversee a transition back to democracy, is the country's first Moslem head of state.
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[Dawn] Three coppers suffered injuries in a roadside blast near Manzai area in Tank district early on Monday.
Official sources said that a mine clearing squad was leading a security forces convoy on Tank-Wana Road when it was targeted with an bomb planted by unidentified persons along the roadside near Manzai area at 8:30am.
Three coppers of the bomb disposal unit received critical injuries in the blast. They were taken to the base camp hospital in Manzai from where they were referred to Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... . The names of the injured soldiers could not be ascertained.
In Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... , security forces defused on Monday an improvised bomb planted by unidentified persons in Ambar tehsil.
Sources said the device was spotted by local people, who informed the authorities about it. The security personnel reached the area and defused the device safely.
Security forces also conducted a search operation in different areas after the incident, but there was no report of any arrest till filing of this report.
In Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , police claimed to have foiled a sabotage attempt, seized kaboom and nabbed Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! four accused during a raid on a house in Badbher area on Monday.
According to Badbher SHO Abidur Rehman, the arrested persons, who belonged to tribal areas, kept the explosives to carry out sabotage act anywhere in the district.
The arrested persons were identified as Niaz, Sher Zaman, Haji Habib and Asif.
The explosives, he said, were packed in 42 plastic bags. A case against the accused was registered under Terrorism Act.
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#4
Komrade Matthews has switched from beet vodka to scotch and must be condemned! Paging brownnose killa, brownnose killa, report to cue with capri kit.
#7
The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
The thrill is gone baby
The thrill is gone away
You know you done me wrong baby
And you'll be sorry someday
#9
Matthews is just helping to get everything that can't be completely covered up out now so that the sheep will forget by the 2014 elections
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Exactly! The pubs need to 'reel' slowly, all the way up to the election.
[BuzzFeed Politics] Yes of course! That fully explains the secret WH Situation room 'all hands' stills, release of ST-6 players, the movies, books, briefings, etc. I too, blame the internets, Fox News, renegade republicans, global warming.
#4
Ultimately, social media helped push the administration to release news of the bin Laden death ... [former top White House national security communications aide Tommy] Vietor said he found out about the success of the raid from a photo that remains secret.
Funny - his former boss usually finds things out from the Washington Post or the New York Times.
North Korean propaganda site Uriminzokkiri on Monday likened 18 South Korean journalists and North Korea experts to Nazi sympathizers and threatened them with summary justice.
The website said the 18, who work for the Chosun Ilbo, Donga Ilbo and Segye Ilbo as well as broadcasters KBS, MBC and SBS must remember that broadcasters and reporters who supported the Nazis "were the first to stand trial after World War II."
Uriminzokkiri said in an editorial that "wicked rightwing agitators posing as so-called journalists, experts and professors" were spreading "lies and false accusations."
The website said "conservative (South Korean) media hurled false criticism at North Korea," calling it an "isolated nation" and a "failed" system, targeting even the "highest dignity" of the North.
The North has dignity?
The North Korean regime frequently takes somewhat hilarious flailing aim at the South Korean media for failing to accord it the dignity it believes it deserves. In June of 1997, the North threatened to bomb the Chosun Ilbo over an editorial, and in June of last year it vowed to launch a massive attack against major South Korean media and published the coordinates of their offices.
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What are they going to do, tap their phones or read their email? Already done by you know who.
[Al Ahram] UN-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Tuesday it was up to Syrians to shape their political transition in hoped-for peace talks, after warning of the potential "Somalisation" of the country.
He spoke as fighting prevented chemical weapons inspectors from visiting two sites, although UN chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said the mission to destroy Syria's arsenal by mid-2014 was still on track.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... the World Health Organisation confirmed an outbreak of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... in Syria -- the first since 1999 -- saying laboratory tests had confirmed the disease in 10 of 22 suspected cases.
Brahimi has been seeking to build on the momentum of last month's US-Russian deal to eradicate Syria's chemical weapons in order to launch the so-called Geneva II peace talks proposed for next month.
But the talks have been cast into doubt by the increasingly divided opposition's refusal to attend unless the departure of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... is on the table, a demand rejected by Damascus.
In brief remarks to news hounds outside a Damascus hotel, Brahimi insisted the Geneva talks would be "between the Syrian parties, and it is the Syrian parties who will determine the transitional phase and what comes after, not me."
In an interview with French website Jeune Afrique published on Monday, Brahimi had said Assad could contribute to the transition to a "new" Syria but not as the country's leader.
Brahimi had angered the regime during his last visit to Syria in December when he called on Assad to hand over power to a transitional government.
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[CNN] As terrorism increasingly becomes a tactic of warfare, the number of attacks and fatalities soared to a record high in 2012, according to a new report obtained exclusively by CNN.
More than 8,500 terrorist attacks killed nearly 15,500 people last year as violence tore through Africa, Asia and the Middle East, according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
That's a 69% rise in attacks and an 89% jump in fatalities from 2011, said START, one of the world's leading terrorism-trackers.
Six of the seven most deadly groups are affiliated with al Qaeda, according to START, and most of the violence was committed in Moslem-majority countries.
The previous record for attacks was set in 2011 with more than 5,000 incidents; for fatalities the previous high was 2007 with more than 12,800 deaths.
[Dawn] GOVERNMENTS are responsible for creating conducive environments and legal frameworks to promote gender equality and improve women's access to education, jobs, healthcare, politics and economics.
Support from civil society, the media and NGOs working to reduce gender gaps is encouraged where governments lack resources and fail to invest in women's contribution. Evidence shows that when girls' education is prioritised, it is the highest return investment that developing economies make with a multiplier effect. Educated women have fewer children, give quality nutrition to their families, experience lower child mortality, enter the workforce and are inclined to educate their children.
The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2013 quantifies the importance of gender-based disparities tracking country-based progress over time -- since the report was compiled in 2006, 80pc of countries have made progress in areas such as political participation and education, but 20pc have seen no socio-economic growth.
The closure or continuation of global gender gaps is connected to national policies. National competitiveness, income and economic development are directly linked to a country's gender gap as half of the population comprises women. The push for equitable resource distribution between women and men contributes towards closing the gender gap.
By providing a comprehensive framework for benchmarking national gender gaps, this report examines disparities across the four areas of education, health, politics and economics to produce country rankings. It uses the Gender Gap Index measuring proximity to gender equality rather than women's empowerment.
This year, out of a total of 136 countries, Pakistain ranked 135 on the index, moving down from 115 in 2006 with Iceland at the top for the fifth consecutive year as the most advanced country for gender equality. Nordic countries with a history of investing in people remain ahead, unlike sub-Saharan countries where women's economic roles are solely based on necessity.
The index measures gender gaps in access to resources and opportunities rather than the actual levels of available resources and opportunities in those countries: in the case of education, it grades the actual gap between male and female education not overall levels of education in a country.
The Asia-Pacific region with a 6pc change compared to 2006 makes it the best performing region on the political empowerment gender sub-index. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the report states that Pakistain ranks second last in economic opportunity; and is the eighth worst country for equal access to education. That Pakistain is in the 129th position for education and is 64th for women's political empowerment is not unexpected. Women have shown electoral ambitions and if permitted to participate in larger numbers could push political parties to rethink female representation.
In May, Election Commission of Pakistain statistics showed a 129pc increase in women contesting general seats, although 10 million women voters remained unregistered. When maverick PML-N politician, Marvi Memon took on the PPP in Sindh, her campaign promised education, housing and employment. She lost to her rival, but the PML-N nominated her for a parliamentary reserved seat. Although political parties show low confidence in female candidates, this has not dented their confidence and will. The most marginalised and uneducated feel the need to raise their voice; her face covered with a scarf, a 53-year-old housewife from Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central ...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth... made history as the first female candidate from Fata.
Women politicians say that addressing the gender gap perpetuated by centuries-old attitudes requires educating men regarding perceptions about women and educating women about their rights. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... in KP and Fata illegal signed agreements by political parties kept registered women voters away. And this was not the first time women were disenfranchised.
Two areas of gender disparity are linked to economic growth: female education and work force participation. Challenged by an education emergency, with three quarters of girls out of school and education spending at less than 2pc of GDP, Pakistain will be unable to meet its Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The gender gap needs closure through private-public partnerships and with political parties committed to education for every child. Education is disrupted because of poor learning facilities and untrained teachers in public schools and violent attacks on schools and teachers.
With more than five million children out of school, Pakistain has some of the worse education indicators, spending several times more on its military than on education. Thousands of school-going children are affected by gender disparity, violence and poor quality learning 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... and KP where Unesco estimates that 60pc of girls are not in school. Raising school enrolment for girls so they transition to secondary and college education would ensure women future choices.
Emphasising traditional roles reinforces cultural norms, limiting female mobility, education and jobs. This impacts enrolment, and when girls are taken out of school it reduces economic returns from girls' education. Parents, too, have no incentive to invest in their daughters' education. When religion is used in a way to reinforce this attitude, it becomes economically detrimental. This may vary across classes and regions, but gender discrimination (workplace harassment, acid crimes, child marriages and violent crimes against women) is custom, despite pro-women legislation in recent times for protecting women.
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Why are all the Paki Essays on ANYthing so long winded?
Pakis just jabber on and on. I get the impression they talk so much because they are really not going to ever DO anything.
You want to know why Pakis burn down girl's schools? They are Moslems. See how short that was?
TWO words: Moslem Values.
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Let me not to the making of pork rinds
Admit impediments. Hate is not hate
Which alters when it moderation finds,
Or bends with the reprover to abate:
O no! It is an ever-swimming shark
That singleminded, other meals forsaken,
Lurks in the shadow of a Muslim bark
Whose worth he scorns, and dreams of Muslim bacon.
Hate's not Time's fool, though marabouts and sheiks
Within his sweeping sword's circumference come:
Hate alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But follows chum, even to the point of dumb.
Though this be error (prove it if you can!),
Hate still recites its infidel's Koran.
[Dawn] Afghanistan's attempt to gain leverage over Pakistain by cultivating an alliance with the Pak Taliban was discovered by the United States, which raided a convoy carrying a senior Death Eater leader and captured him, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported from Kabul on Tuesday.
"The disrupted plan involved Afghan intelligence trying to work with the Pakistain Taliban, allies of Al Qaeda, in order to find a trump card in a baroque regional power game that is likely to intensify after the American withdrawal next year," the newspaper said, citing US and Afghan officials.
Latif Mehsud was being transported by an Afghan convoy for secret talks last month when US Special Forces, on a tip off, disrupted the plan and took the Pak Death Eaterin jug, the report said.
Mehsud is suspected of having a role in the foiled plot to detonate a boom-mobile in New York's Times Square in 2010, American officials were cited as saying.
Mehsud is suspected of having a role in the foiled plot to detonate a boom-mobile in New York's Times Square in 2010, American officials were cited as saying.
In public statements, the Afghan government has described Mehsud as an Death Eater peace emissary.
Referring to Afghan officials' oft-repeated allegations that Pak military was supporting Taliban's insurgency against the Afghan government,the report said the Afghan government decided to recruit proxies of its own by seeking to aid the Pak Taliban in their fight against Pakistain's security forces.
"And they were beginning to make progress over the past year, they say, before the American raid exposed them," the Times said.
The US raid angered the Afghan government, and the report said it became the latest flash point in the troubled relationship between Afghanistan and the United States.
The thinking, Afghan officials said, was that the Afghans could later gain an advantage in negotiations with the Pak government by offering to back off their support for the Death Eaters.
Aiding the Pakistain Taliban was an "opportunity to bring peace on our terms," one senior Afghan security official said.
Both Afghan and American officials said the Afghan plan to aid the Pakistain Taliban was in its preliminary stages when Mehsud was seized by American forces, the report said, adding but they agreed on little else.
The Times quoted Aimal Faizi, a front man for President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , as saying that Mehsud had been in contact with officials from the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan's intelligence agency, for "a long period of time."
The Pakistain Taliban leader "was part of an NDS project like every other intelligence agency is doing," Faizi said. "He was cooperating. He was engaged with the NDS, this I can confirm."
Faizi did not elaborate on the nature of the cooperation. But two other Afghan officials, when asked by the Times why they were willing to discuss such a potentially provocative plot, said Mehsud's detention by the United States had already been exposed.
"It was first reported by The Washington Post ruining his value as an intelligence asset and sinking their plan," they said.
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See also THE DAILY BEAST > REPORT: AFGHANISTAN [Kabul]SUPPORTS THE PAKISTANI TALIBAN, PAKISTAN [Islamabad] SUPPORTS THE AFGHAN TALIBAN.
Once again, in the words of the FORMER USNSRF GUAM'S KILLER DAN = D *** NG IT, HOW CAN WE WIN THE WAR!
[Dawn] Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Tuesday said if the flow of smuggled arms and narcotics is restricted throughout 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... , situation in the city would be normalised.
The chief justice, heading a three-member bench of the Supreme Court, was hearing the implementation of Karachi unrest case at the SC's Karachi registry.
He appreciated the efforts of police and rangers forces in arresting criminals during the ongoing targeted operation in the port city and remarked that both law enforcement agencies had begun to realise their responsibility.
Other members of the bench are Justice Jawad S. Khuwaja and Justice Gulzar Ahmed.
After going through the reports submitted by rangers and police regarding clampdown against outlaws, one member of the bench asked the counsel appearing on behalf of rangers whether enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! criminals were being put on trial in the courts.
The counsel told the court that rangers handed over the suspects to police, which have lodged FIR against them and charge-sheeted them in the courts, adding that several suspects were also being interrogated by a joint investigation team.
To a question regarding results of the operation being conducted in the city, Advocate General Sindh Khalid Javed Khan said that operation was yielding results and an improvement in Karachi's law and order situation was noticeable.
The chief justice questioned the advocate general about the situation prevailing in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... and also asked whether the troubled neighbourhood was still a no-go-area and citizens were enjoying rights under Article 9 of the Constitution, which guarantees security to every citizen.
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[Al Ahram] The UN atomic watchdog and Iran said they would meet again on 11 November over Tehran's nuclear programme after a "very productive meeting" on Tuesday. The meeting, which comes ahead of talks between Iran and world powers next week in Geneva, was about allegations that Tehran conducted nuclear weapons research prior to 2003.
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Very productive in the sense that Iran is producing weapons grade uranium in ever increasing quantities?
I really am beginning to think the IAEA is actually offering technical advice and quality control for Iran and NOT trying to rein in these nutjobs.
With the bomb only months away, who cares what the freaking IAEA or the UN says?
Anyway, what will the IAEA or the UN say if the Iranian bomb is used to choke the straits of Hormuz OR make a major ODEC city disappear? Write a strongly worded memo, condemn the US, or make a speech? Or hold a news conference for Ban Kai Moon to make some lukewarm comments?
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We already know from earlier MSM-Net Repors that Iran desires to build both Uranium + Plutonium-based processing = enrichment sites, ostensibly for Iran-alleged NucEnergy-n-only-NucEnergy.
Now comeths ...
* JAPAN TIMES > SPENT [Nukulaar = Plutonium-based] FUEL GOOD ENOUGH FOR BOMB, US TOLD JAPAN IN 1977.
#3
OOOOOOOPPPPPPIES, forgot BIG NEWS NETWORK > KERRY SAYS "NO" TO ISRAEL'S WARNING ON IRAN, i.e. Netanyahu = Tel Aviv'S demand for new UN sanctions agz Iran's NucProgs.
* SAME > "IRAN TWO WEEKS AWAY FROM WEAPONS-GRADE URANIUM" :IAEA OFFICIAL.
ARTIC = Iran also at "point of no return" vee its advances in its Nucprogs.
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Lest we fergit, RUSSIA TODAY [OLD] > IFF THE US [truly] FOUGHT AGZ TERRORISM, IT WOULD SUPPORT ASSAD.
[An Nahar] Three people have been rubbed out in the eastern Libyan of Benghazi, where security forces also found the body of a kidnapped banker, security sources said Tuesday.
Benghazi was the cradle of the revolt that toppled dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...whose instability was an inspiration to dictators everywhere, but whose end couldn't possibly happen to them... in 2011, but since the strongman's ouster it has been rocked by a wave of deadly bombings and shootings.
Late on Monday, gunnies opened fire on a protest tent outside a hotel, killing two people and seriously wounding five others, the source told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
Most of the protesters were from the Al-Obaidi tribe which is demanding the authorities speed up an investigation into the killing of General Abdel Fatah Yunis al-Obaidi, the source said.
Obaidi, the rebels' military chief in 2011, was killed after being recalled from the frontline in July that year.
On the outskirts of Benghazi, security officers found the body of a kidnapped banker late on Monday, security forces front man Abdallah al-Zaidi said.
He said officers found the body of Abdel Latif Zwai, the director of a bank in Benghazi, at a farm in the suburbs.
Zwai had been rubbed out, Zaidi added, without saying when he was killed.
Kidnappers seized the banker last month, initially demanding a ransom of 10 million Libyan dinars ($8 million), before lowering it to 8 million dinars, a source close to the victim told AFP.
In other attacks, gunnies on Tuesday rubbed out a civilian working for the head of a brigade of ex-rebels that fought Qadaffy, Zaidi said.
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Sen. John McCain (RINO-AZ) gave the clearest indication that proponents of comprehensive immigration reform may make their final--and strongest--push to get legislation passed next year after House Republicans make it through their primaries.
I can't believe I voted for this Democrat in the 2008 election...
I think conventional wisdom is that time is not on our side, McCain told reporters on Monday after an event in Chicago. But there are a number of members of Congress who have primaries and when those primaries are done, they may be more inclined to address the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.
President Barack Obama has urged Congress to pass immigration reform legislation this year. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is reportedly going to bring legislation to the floor within the next month and other House Republican leaders have indicated support for piecemeal pieces of legislation that can make it to conference with the Senate, where proponents and opponents of immigration reform had said a pathway to citizenship will prevail.
Chuckie Schumer and Dickie Durbin will make sure of it...
Though the Congressional Budget Office has determined the Senate's immigration bill would lower the wages of working class Americans, House Republicans are reportedly working on piecemeal pieces of legislation to eventually get to conference with the Senate.
Particularly the parts that lower wages...
McCain also said on Monday that the House should just "pass something" to get to conference with the Senate. House Republicans like Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) are reportedly working on legislation that would grant a pathway to citizenship to all of the country's illegal immigrants.
McCain's comments indicate even if the current push to enact comprehensive immigration reform fails, the real fight may be in the spring and summer of next year, when Obama could use immigration as a midterm election issue and Republican lawmakers will not be worried about primaries in the 2014 election cycle.
In 2010, McCain made a right turn on immigration, infamously promising to "complete the danged fence" as he was fighting for his political life to win re-election in Arizona. Shortly after he got elected to serve another term, McCain quickly lurched back to the left, becoming a champion for comprehensive immigration reform and calling Tea Partiers whose support he needed in 2010 "hobbits" and "wacko birds."
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All 25-45.0Milyuhn of 'em, since few Perts accept the Govt's official figure of 11.0Milyuhn.
As prob best proven by the significant drop in US Census figures for the tote LEGAL US POPULATION, as compared to gross - HINTY HINT, THE US IS NOT AT 345.0MILYUHN-POPULATION-N-CLIMBING ANYMORE, BUT THE OTHER WAY/DIRECTION-N-DECLINING.
#8
I didn't vote for John wackawackawackdimmijad McCain but for the better ticket, not saying much, couldn't beat 57 Barrys or cryin' biden. In fact the campaign was a McFlounder until he picked the potential VP.
#9
Here's a list of RINO Senators who need to be replaced in 2014:
Alexander (R-TN)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Graham (R-SC)
McConnell (R-KY)
In addition, the following Senators have serious primary challenges from the right and represent excellent "trade up" opportunities in safe states:
Enzi (WY)
Roberts (KS)
I left out Collins (ME) because of doubts we could do better.
I doubt we'll nail all 7, but you have all seen the difference just a couple of Tea Party Senators can make. Three or four more should make things very interesting indeed.
#10
Yes, Roberts is getting challenged, but it is hard to get to the right of Roberts. He is being linked to the stimulus funds and the appointment of Sebelius, but I don't think that is enough to overcome his name recognition and money.
#11
I plan on voting for whoever runs against Cornyn in 2014. In the words of Oliver Cromwell in another context and different situation, "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
#13
We have term limits for the California legislature. I don't see that it has done us much good. Instead of the same old loonies and thieves you get a new bunch of loonies and thieves. They're just as bad.
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"Shortly after he got elected to serve another term, McCain quickly lurched back to the left, becoming a champion for comprehensive immigration reform and calling Tea Partiers whose support he needed in 2010 "hobbits" and "wacko birds."
Yep, I love it when a Re-Pube with at least half a brain (a rarity) sets the record straight about the wacko Teapot Party wannabe hobbits...
What's it like not having a soul and being non-human? Do you actually have feelings or are you simply a badly assembled PCjr processor that continues to spew out bad party lines and ancient propaganda?
[Dawn] India and Pakistain Tuesday agreed to observe calm along the Sialkot-Jammu working boundary after days of skirmishes which have been the worst in a decade, BBC Urdu website reported.
A meeting between officials of Pakistain Rangers and India's Border Security Forces (BSF) was held on Tuesday in which maintaining the decade-log ceasefire was agreed. The meeting was kept confidential from becoming public.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Indian media quoted BSF official J S Singla as saying: "The meeting was held in a conducive atmosphere."
A 2003 ceasefire between the two countries has largely held for the past 10 years, although sporadic violations are common. In recent days, however, the skirmishes had escalated significantly.
Both countries reported an increase in the number of attacks since 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 his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh held their first face-to-face meeting last month in New York and agreed on the need to reduce tensions.
The latest violence started on Thursday night at about two dozen border posts in which India claimed 10 civilians, including four children, were maimed.
Islamabad denied the claim, as military officials said Indian troops fired first, wounding two Paks. Foreign Office front man Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry called the ceasefire violations "a matter of great concern."
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[Al Ahram] Libya's oil crisis deepened on Tuesday after protesters blocking western fields shunned talks and locals denied that an eastern terminal would reopen, frustrating government efforts to end three months of disruptions. Libya's oil exports have dropped to less than 10 percent of capacity or 90,000 barrels per day, Rooters calculations show, as renewed protests this week halted operations at western ports and fields, supporting global oil prices.
The head of Italia's Eni, the biggest foreign oil company in Libya and part owner of the Mellitah joint venture, said exports from Mellitah terminal had not been stopped though there was social unrest.
Traders, however, said crude oil loading remained suspended from both Zawiya and Mellitah ports in the west.
Natural gas exports are carried to Italia via pipeline and sources have said those supplies come mainly from an offshore field and have been steady for the last few weeks.
Libyan oil officials were not immediately available to comment on Libyan exports, but Oil Minister Abdelbari Arusi said on Monday overall production had sunk below 300,000 bpd.
Any imminent agreement to even partially resume exports appeared elusive.
Arusi paid an emergency visit to the western Sharara field on Monday and discussed pay increases with oil workers there. He was forced to leave without a deal, however, after local protesters refused to meet him.
"It is regrettable that we return to 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... without reaching an agreement with local protesters," the National Oil Corporation (NOC) website quoted Arusi as saying before he left.
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I hate to say it but our step-child treatment of Libya is not going to end well.
The old description of most Islamic countries being "Tribes with Flags" is ringing truer every day.
Sad, the country has a lot going for it IF someone really cared enough to make sure Libya doesn't turn into Somalia on the Med.
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[Al Ahram] The leftist Popular Current group plans to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections in coalition with the Rebel (Tamarod) group, which helped spearhead opposition to 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... 's rule.
The Popular Current, a Nasserist-oriented movement led by former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi, said in a Tuesday statement that it agreed with Rebel on the principle of "electoral coordination."
"The two groups agreed on the importance of...building the largest coalition regrouping the revolution's forces...and presenting candidates representative of this camp to the next parliamentary elections," read the statement.
The Popular Current said the coalition's political programme would be built on the bases of "freedom, social justice and national independence."
"The Popular Current and Rebel are very close, since many of Rebel's members and founding members were originally members of the Popular Current," a spokesperson for the Popular Current, Ahmed Atef, told Ahram Online.
He added, however, that the two groups are independent entities.
Tuesday's statement also said that the two allies would reach out to other political forces "to build the coalition as quickly as possible and form a joint direction composed of representatives of all the forces."
Atef said no agreement has yet been made with the National Salvation Front, a key anti-Morsi coalition that includes Sabbahi as well as other leftist and centrist politicians.
Atef said that the groups that make up the NSF "were mostly patriotic forces which sided with the revolution, so it is natural that any coalition would include them."
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[Al Ahram] The judges presiding in an ongoing trial of Moslem Brüderbund spiritual leader Mohammed Badie and co-defendants on charges of incitement of murder have withdrawn from the case. The three judges from the South Cairo Criminal Court cited a conflict of interest as their reason for stepping down, without giving further details.
"Please don't hurt us!"
Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie and his deputies Khairat El-Shater and Rashad Bayoumi are accused of inciting the murder of protesters at the Brotherhood guidance office headquarters in Cairo during festivities which took place on 30 June.
Nine protesters were killed and other 91 protesters were maimed when fights broke out after anti-Brotherhood protesters stormed the building.
The South Cairo prosecution has referred six defendants to the criminal court for trial on the charges. The defendents include Mostafa Abdel-Azim, Mohammed Abdel-Azim and Atef Abdel-Galil.
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[NYPOST] A 13-year-old girl has dug herself out of a muddy grave after being raped by two men who then buried her alive in Pakistan.
The teen was abducted from her local village in the Punjab province while she was walking to Koran lessons.
Her father Siddique Mughal told police his daughter had been taken, but they refused to cooperate, Outlook India reported.
The men took the young girl to an isolated place and raped her and then buried her alive as they believed she died during the brutal attack.
But the girl managed to dig her way out the muddy grave and caught the attention of passers-by who helped her to a local medical center.
After local police refused to investigate, the Lahore High Court Chief Justice's Complaint Cell formally directed them to arrest the girl's attackers and complete a report on the incident without delay.
A sessions judge for the local Toba Tek Singh region has also been asked to look into the matter.
Child rape remains a problem in Pakistan where local activist group Sahil said cultural myths persist such as HIV positive men believing they can be cured through sex with a virgin.
Statistic show cases of child rape have risen from 668 in 2002 to 2,788 last year, according to the International Business Times.
"We still think these statistics are just a fraction of what's going on," Sanihl's executive director Manizeh Bano told the International Business Times.
[An Nahar] A Jordanian MP was released from jail on Tuesday for "lack of evidence", a day after he was charged with inciting a colleague to shoot at another deputy in parliament.
"Yahia al-Saud was released from jail today on orders from the attorney general who prevented his trial for lack of evidence," a judicial official told Agence La Belle France Presse, without elaborating.
Saud was jugged You have the right to remain silent... and charged on Monday with inciting murder, defamation and slander, according to another judicial official.
In September, an argument broke out in parliament between Saud and MP Qusay Dumaisi.
Video footage showed Dumaisi removing his shoes and Saud his belt during the dispute, before they were separated.
Two days later, MP Talal al-Sharif shot a Kalashnikov at Dumaisi during an altercation in the lower house, without hitting him.
"Prosecutors found evidence that Saud incited Sharif to shoot at Dumaisi," a third judicial official told AFP on Monday.
Sharif was expelled from parliament and jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for attempted murder, possession of unlicensed firearms and resisting the security forces.
Dumaisi was suspended for one year.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese army units deployed on Tuesday in a street that separates two rival neighborhoods of the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... that have been engaged in gunbattles for the past week.
The troops began their deployment at 7:00 am in Syria Street which lies between Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh districts.
The soldiers carried out patrols and erected checkpoints in the street hours after calm reigned in both neighborhoods, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Clashes ended after 11:00 pm Monday after brass hats held intense contacts to guarantee the army's safe entry to Syria Street, NNA said.
Three soldiers were maimed on Monday during a clash with gunnies as troops deployed in Bab al-Tabbaneh, whose residents are mostly Sunni and back the rebellion against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes...
The military had earlier deployed in Jabal Mohsen that is mainly Alawite, the sect of Assad.
A week of bloody festivities have left scores of casualties. But brass hats claim that their intention to resolve years of fighting between the two neighborhoods are true.
They took a decision last week for the army to deploy in the city and bring the situation under control.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr has tasked the army intelligence with carrying out a preliminary investigation to identify those involved in the festivities to take appropriate legal measures against them.
Officials close to 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... also told An Nahar daily published on Tuesday that the armed forces "will not back off" from a decision reached during the security meeting at Baabda Palace "no matter what the sacrifices were to bring back tranquility to Tripoli."
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's largest Salafist party is not opposed to a presidential bid by army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, according to its spokesperson.
The Nour Party does not take a "negative position" or have any reservations about El-Sisi's candidacy, but only if he runs as a civilian, Nader Bakkar told pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday.
El-Sisi's popularity has grown since the army deposed 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 member - on 3 July amid mass protests against the Islamist leader, with a large section of the population calling on him to run for president.
The army chief has given mixed pointers on whether he will run, first saying he does not seek power, but more recently leaving the possibility open.
Bakkar also claimed the Moslem Brüderbund does not want to end the country's political deadlock.
"They are trying to martyr themselves with continued protests that do nothing but hold [the country] back," he said. "They have thrown away several chances for negotiations."
Hundreds of people, mostly Islamists, have been killed in deadly street violence since Morsi's removal. The authorities have launched a broad crackdown, arresting most of the Brotherhood's big shots and several thousand other Islamists.
The ongoing violence shows the Brotherhood is continuing to take the same approach, Bakkar added, contending that the group's popularity has waned significantly.
The Nour Party was founded shortly after the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... . The Salafist party, a one time ally of the Brotherhood, backed Morsi's overthrow by endorsing a transitional roadmap that included amending the constitution, and holding parliamentary and presidential polls by mid-2014.
But the party, which has one of two Islamists on the 50-member constitution-writing committee, has repeatedly voiced misgivings about attempts to curtail the influence of Islam in state affairs, having its panel member walk out of a September meeting in protest.
Bakkar reiterated his concerns about the "unbalanced" panel that underrepresents Islamists. He questioned the appointment of Kamal El-Halabawy, a former Brotherhood leader turned vocal critic of the group, to the second Islamist seat.
"Choosing him raises many question marks," he said.
Bakkar made it clear that Al-Azhar -- the highest seat of Sunni Islam -- should have the final say on Sharia-related matters, and he continued to voice alarm over moves to ban religious political parties which dominated successive elections after Mubarak's downfall.
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[Al Ahram] Egyptian authorities have tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! an Islamist myrmidonincarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! over the liquidation of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, for plotting kabooms on behalf of Al-Qaeda since his release from prison in 2012, security sources said on Tuesday.
Nabil Al-Maghraby, a former naval intelligence officer who the sources said was a key Al-Qaeda operative, was arrested on Sunday. He has been linked to an ex-army major who tried to assassinate the Interior Minister in September, the sources said.
Maghraby had been released from jail after serving 31 years for taking part in the 1981 liquidation of Sadat. The Egyptian leader was killed by Islamist members of the military opposed to his 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
Since then, Egypt has been highly sensitive about Islamists infiltrating its armed forces, the biggest in the Arab world.
Maghraby was arrested in the northern Delta town of Qalubiya, 35 km (20 miles) from Cairo.
"He has been arrested for being a part of a terrorist organization and for planning kabooms in the country," one of the sources said.
Authorities believe he was a close associate of former army major Waleed Badr, who allegedly went kaboom! on September 5 in a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! to kill the Interior Minister in Cairo.
A Sinai-based Islamist myrmidon group called Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis released a farewell video of Badr urging Musselmens to kill government officials in Egypt, a strategic US ally.
Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist snuffies based in the Sinai have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police since the army deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July amid mass nationwide protests against him.
The majority of the attacks have been carried out in the largely lawless Sinai Peninsula, but some attacks like the one on the Interior Minister have raised fears that an Islamist insurgency is taking hold elsewhere.
Maghraby was released from jail in 2012 after Morsi pardoned about 100 political prisoners, mostly Islamists.
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Rehabilitation after 31 years didn't take apparently, just kill him now
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Morsi pardoned about 100 political prisoners, mostly Islamists.
Russia spied on foreign powers at last month's G20 summit by giving delegations USB pen drives capable of downloading sensitive information from laptops, it was claimed today.
They were Soviet pen drives, so they were as big as a toaster...
The devices were given to foreign delegates, including heads of state, at the summit near St Petersburg, according to reports in two Italian newspapers, La Stampa and Corriere della Sera.
Downing Street said David Cameron was not given one of the USB sticks said to have contained a Trojan horse programme, but did not rule out the possibility that officials in the British delegation had received them. The Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "My understanding is that the Prime Minister didn't receive a USB drive because I think they were a gift for delegates, not for leaders."
Asked if Downing Street staff were given the USBs, he said: "I believe they were part of the gifts for delegates."
Delegations also received mobile phone recharging devices which were also reportedly capable of secretly tapping into emails, text messages and telephone calls.
But they were Soviet rechargers, so they were as big as a toaster...
Suspicions were first raised about the Russian spying campaign by Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, according to Corriere della Sera, which carried the story on its front page. He ordered the USB pen drives and other devices received by the delegates in St Petersburg to be analysed by intelligence experts in Brussels, as well as Germany's secret service.
A memorandum was then sent out to G20 members, the Italian daily claimed.
"The USB pen drives and the recharging cables were able to covertly capture computer and mobile phone data," the secret memo said.
The devices were "a poisoned gift" from Vladimir Putin, claimed La Stampa, the Turin-based daily.
"They were Trojan horses designed to obtain information from computers and cell phones," the paper said.
The investigations into the alleged spying devices were ongoing, the reports said. It was not known if every foreign delegation and head of state had been given the covert spying devices.
But Brussels sources said they were baffled by the allegations and expressed total confidence in the security of devices used by EU delegates, including at the St Petersburg summit.
A diplomat said it would be a "schoolboy error" to put a free memory stick into a computer at such a summit because of obvious security concerns. He said any security-trained diplomat would be alert to such unvetted "freebies".
You're assuming the average diplomat is as smart as the average school boy. Diplomats should know better about honey traps too, but honey traps still work...
Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin's spokesman, flatly denied the allegations, describing the Italian stories as a poorly disguised effort to divert attention from reports of US intelligence services spying on Angela Merkel and other European allies.
"These are really funny reports, actually. First of all they have no sources.
"We killed them."
"It is a bold attempt to switch attention from very real problems existing between European capitals and Washington. It is a classic example of that," he told the Telegraph on Tuesday.
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No one evar! suspects the Honey.
* See also DAILY STAR LEBANON > US SPY CHIEF SAYS ALLIES SPY ON AMERICAN LEADERS, INTELLIGENCE SERVICES.
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* TOPIX > [Daily Star.LB] OBAMA MUST FIX THE DAMAGE DONE TO US TRANS-ATLANTIC RELATIONS.
* PRAVDA > IS PRESIDENT OBAMA "MAN ENOUGH" TO TELL THE TRUTH?
Will the OWG Globalists + aligned impose on post-USSR Mama Russia the same UNO-approved privacy restrictions they wish to impose on the "Sole" Superpower USA???
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Nonsense. Everybody knows that only the US spies on other countries.
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Nyet, I seriously doubt that the Russians would do such a stupid thing. This is Putin's FSB after all.
And if you read the original source it doesn't say that actually a Trojan was found, just that the sticks were "suitable"... which of course any stick is especially when it's bootable.
Oh btw you may find a Trojan on new USB sticks you buy. Happens all the time. Sloppy manufacturing practices, when they often put some programs on your stick.
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Purvis said that citing the efforts of groups like hers as a reason not to worry about public assistance cuts was one of the most ill-informed arguments on the planet. She told Salon, the first line of defense against hunger is a food stamp. While some have had this way of romanticizing charity, she said, charity is also a system that is based on capacity and resources.
If your IRS was stopped from going after non-leftists groups maybe the question would not be resources, and now may be the best time to rein in Obama and the IRS.
Kristol is right. No one is going to starve given the resources available.
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Charity is voluntary donation of time and money to assist people that you, personally, feel deserve some help.
Voting for politicians who will take money from your wealthier neighbors in order to fund your own vision of utopia is not, and never can be, charity.
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Time to lock and load?
Time? Way, way past time. It's coming though, I can feel it. And so do a lot of other people that would never have entertained these thoughts a few years ago.
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Ref #10: We'd be a damn site better off if the food distribution sites were at work today. I'm sure we could find church congregations which would man the sites and store the food at no charge.
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When they decided they were going to take from some of the increases to food stamps to fund First Lady Michelle Obamas Lets Move program, she told Salon, We were told, you know, by the president these cuts will not happen, we wont get rid of the program.
Yet, somehow, Boosh will be blamed.
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"In fact its immoral."
A quaint and non-understood concept to the Dems, swksvolFF.
So of course they'll do more of it.
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[Al Ahram] The leftist Popular Current has accused the army of arresting innocent civilians in the Sinai Peninsula during their crackdown on bad boys. In a statement released on Tuesday the group founded by Nasserist politician Hamdeen Sabbahi backed the military's operations against "terrorism" but highlighted a number of abuses.
For example, the group said "innocent civilians" had been killed at Soliman El-Sayah and Mustafa Nasr checkpoints in late August, and "The closure of main roads prevents workers, farmers and students from travelling without offering alternatives."
The local government in North Sinai has failed to monitor the military operation which has completely paralysed state institutions in Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, the group added
The army randomly arrests citizens who they claim are Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... elements [radical Islamists], then later releases them, according to the group.
It cited the case of a mentally ill man called Mousa Hassan who was sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly being a member of a bad boy group.
"We demand extra caution and procedures to protect civilians. Operations against terrorism should not lead to violations against civilians," added the statement which also called on the National Council for Human Rights and NGOs to coordinate with the government and army for an immediate investigation into violations against Sinai civilians.
At a presser on 15 September, army front man Ahmed Ali denied the army had attacked civilians in Sinai, saying that "If we had used excessive violence in Sinai, we would have ended terrorism within 24 hours."
Ali said respecting human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... is a priority for the army and accused Sinai-based journalist Ahmed Abu Deraa of publishing false news about the army, including accusations it had killed children in Sinai.
Following the ouster of 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 3 July, the army has launched a military operation against terrorist and criminal groups in Sinai.
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[Dawn] At least one man was killed and another injured in a string of hand grenade/cracker blasts in two towns of Sindh province on Tuesday night, DawnNews reported.
A retired employee of Hyderabad local government was killed in a suspicious blast near a local restaurant near the city's busy Market Chowk close to Civil Hospital.
An eye witness told Dawn.com that "something" was hurled near the Quetta Star Hotel from a Suzuki pickup, killing the man now identified as Tariq Lodhi.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... two more cracker/grenade blasts in Qasimabad and near Haider Chowk spread fear among the residents of the city. A person was injured in the latter.
In a separate incident, a cycle of violence was destroyed after four hand grenade blasts in Dadu -- another town of Sindh province of which 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... is the capital.
Nature of the blasts was not ascertained, however, they can be linked to Wednesday's strike, called by banned Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSSM) against Pakistain Protection Ordinance-2013.
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{Fox News] The Department of Homeland Security is quietly considering lifting a long-standing ban on AQ Libyans coming to the U.S. for training in the aviation and nuclear fields, according to an internal document, raising red flags for lawmakers who say Libya is still a security threat. Have we not seen this movie before ?
[Dawn] WHILE on the face of it, the prime minister's visit to Washington went off relatively smoothly, American media reports indicate there were some rough patches that Mr 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... was not quite prepared for. Reportedly, at a private meeting, American politicians minced no words in demanding the release of Dr Shakil Afridi, whose fake vaccination drive helped lead the Americans to the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... 's hideout in 2011. In a questionable trial, the doctor was sentenced to a lengthy prison term on charges unrelated to the dubious campaign or his links with the American secret agencies -- actions which officialdom in Pakistain had said amounted to treason. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... this kind of pressure for Afridi's release could well cause the right-wing lobby in Pakistain to step up its demand for the repatriation of Aafia Siddiqui ...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her... who was sentenced after being convicted in 2010 for assaulting and attempting to murder US nationals. Her trial was largely seen in Pakistain as lacking transparency.
The two cases are part of a larger debate on human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... and access to a fair and free trial. But the latest barrage of criticism from Washington simply shows that the bigger picture -- and it is a terrifying one for both the US and Pakistain -- is being missed. Instead of firmly concentrating on joint cooperation and taking action against gunnies who are terrorising this region and beyond, the two countries continue to focus on misplaced priorities. Turning up the heat on Pakistain on the Afridi issue will not help if the US and Pakistain are to remain focused on the common goal of eliminating militancy. Pointing fingers is counterproductive to this goal which is becoming increasingly elusive as gunnies eye the post NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... withdrawal period as an opportunity to entrench themselves.
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Turning up the heat on Pakistain on the Afridi issue will not help
So let's take some tax dollars and bust Afridi out of the jug. I'm sure there would be no shortage of volunteers. And we can recoup the costs with a made for TV movie - Escape From Pakistain. Hey, has anyone seen from Snake Plissken lately?
[Ynet] Route 70 in the area of the Danun junction was temporarily closed to allow for the clearing of two explosive charges found near the home of a resident of Sheikh Danun.
According to suspicions, the 50-year-old man hid the charges, together with other weapons. He was jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! along with his three children. After the explosives were checked the road was reopened to traffic.
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I saw ROUTE 70 and thought of the mountain tunnels west of Denver. Without them it's 80 for a northern E-W route or 40 for a southern route, and 25 as a N-S connector. Pretty easy targets.
[An Nahar] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... on Tuesday sacked his vice premier who had been absent without leave and held unauthorized meetings abroad, the official SANA news agency said.
The move follows media reports that Qadri Jamil, a vice premier for economic affairs, had met with the U.S. pointman for Syria, Ambassador Robert Ford, on Saturday in Geneva to discuss proposed peace talks.
SANA said Jamil was sacked after an "absence without authorization from his post" as well as "activities and meetings outside the country without authorization from the government."
According to a political source in Syria, Jamil had proposed joining the opposition delegation to peace talks and that Ford had said he could not represent both sides at once.
Opposition National Coalition front man Louay Safi said the incident showed that "the regime is in the process of falling apart... Qadri Jamil perhaps felt the ship is sinking."
A Lebanese newspaper reported that Jamil and his family have been living for the past several weeks in Moscow, where the former member of the Syrian communist party had studied economics.
Jamil later founded his own party, the People's Will, which participated in peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011 that escalated into a rebellion after a crackdown by Assad.
As part of the tolerated domestic opposition, he helped draft a new constitution last year and then participated in legislative elections before being named vice premier.
The United States and Russia have been struggling to convince Syria's warring parties to attend peace talks in Geneva next month aimed at ending the civil war, which has killed an estimated 115,000 people.
U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was in Damascus Tuesday as part of a regional tour to rally support for the talks following a rare U.S.-Russian accord to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons.
The talks remain in doubt, however, with Syria's increasingly fractured rebels having yet to say whether they will attend.
The National Coalition has said it will not take part in the Geneva talks unless Assad's resignation is on the table -- a demand rejected by Damascus -- while several rebel groups have warned that anyone who attends will be considered a traitor.
Assad has also cast doubt on the talks, and has said he will not negotiate with any group tied to the rebels fighting his forces or to foreign states.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon... SANA said Assad issued a general amnesty for crimes committed before October 29, 2013.
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IOW, he got rid of a subjective or potential rival.
[Al Ahram] Three Syrians went on trial in Jordan on Tuesday for allegedly trying to smuggle 36 remote control detonators into their country to help anti-government rebels, a court official said.
"The three suspects pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." at the start of their state security court trial," he told AFP, adding that the case was adjourned until November 13.
"They are accused of carrying out acts which the government disapproves that would harm Jordan's relations with another country, exposing the kingdom to the danger of reprisal acts and entering Jordan illegally," he said.
They face up to five years in jail each if convicted.
The official said the men crossed the border illegally into Jordan in July.
Two of them settled in the northen city of Irbid while the third sought shelter in the Zaatari refugee camp near Syria's border, which is home to around 120,000 Syrian refugees.
"They started to communicate with some members of the Free Syrian Army in order to smuggle 36 detonators," the official said.
The suspects were enjugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in "an ambush" on September 1.
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[Al Ahram] Political satirist Bassem Youssef said Egypt's liberals were as intolerant as their Islamist opponents, and as unwilling to accept criticism of themselves or the country's interim-authorities, in his weekly column in privately-owned daily Al-Shorouk on Tuesday.
"Those who defend liberalism and secularism say they are opposed to religious fanaticism and endorse freedom of opinion. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... when it suits them, they use Koranic verses and Hadiths [sayings of Prophet Mohammed] to justify attacks against their enemies, using the same accusations as religious movements," Youssef said.
Youssef's comments came as Cairo's Appeal Prosecution began looking into a complaint filed by the Mohammedan Youth Association's legal adviser, charging Youssef with libel, slander, insulting Egypt and its people, and committing obscene acts in public.
After an almost three-month hiatus, Youssef returned to television on Friday, poking fun at 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... and the Moslem Brüderbund, as usual.
This time, however, in the premier episode of his weekly 'Al-Bernameg' (The Show)'s third season, he also targeted zealous followers of Army Chief General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
The move was viewed by many as unacceptable amid increasing popular support for El-Sisi after the ouster of Mohammed Morsi by the military in June, following mass popular protests against his rule.
By Saturday, at least four complaints had been filed with the country's top prosecutor, accusing Youssef of defaming the military in his show. One of the complaints accused Youssef of using phrases to "undermine the honour and dignity of Egypt and its people," allegedly sowing sedition and spreading lies.
Since Morsi's overthrow, Egypt's political life has been increasingly polarised between supporters of the deposed Islamist president and followers of the liberal-dominated interim authorities.
In his article, titled 'Egypt drifting towards the right,' Youssef drew comparisons between the American right and far-right and the Egyptian liberal current. "After the fall of the Brotherhood, we expected to enjoy all the benefits of the liberal heaven, both in the media and in power."
"Instead, liberals who are proud of their proficiency in foreign languages, and of travelling abroad and following the latest Western fashions, believe conspiracy theories and spread them," he wrote.
"They share [information] from far-right websites and believe Fox news, just because it attacks the Moslem Brüderbund, without realising that these conservatives despise them equally because they are Arabs," he added.
The renowned satirist underlined the difficult position that those who oppose the Islamist and liberal camps find themselves in, as they are critiqued by both.
"Maybe there is a left and maybe there are liberals in Egypt, and maybe there are those who struggle for workers' rights and for the oppressed and who fight for development programmes and social solidarity; they are cursed by both camps," Youssef added. "If they are not considered infidels, they are traitors or agents who follow a Western-Zionist agenda."
Youssef also expressed incomprehension regarding the lack of tolerance that he says has come to characterise Egypt's liberals. "I can understand the intolerance of the religious movement and its penchant for the far-right. At the end of the day, that is their ideological stance, and... at least they are consistent with their beliefs," he said.
"But I can't understand a current that claims to defend liberalism and freedom but which, in the end, is less tolerant than the religious one. We [can] replace the beard with heavy make-up, the miswak [a traditional teeth-cleaning twig] with a glass of martini... but religious extremism and the political right are one and the same."
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However, when it suits them, they use Koranic verses and Hadiths to justify attacks against their enemies, using the same accusations as religious movements
Big deal. We get the same thing here. Just a different book.
[Al Ahram] The state and the Prime Minister have made it a "priority" to fix Egypt's security situation, which means "controlling the Moslem Brüderbund and limiting their capacities," a source in PM Hazem El-Beblawi's cabinet told Ahram Online.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added, this "does not mean the government wants to exclude anyone, but rather that security is a priority of the people."
The official's remarks highlight the bottom-line of El-Beblawi's cabinet, which has faced months of unease in the wake 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... 's ouster in July.
The current cabinet includes leftovers from former prime minister Hisham Qandil's administration, such as Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, as well as new liberal faces such as Deputy Prime Minister Ziyad Baheddine.
Ibrahim, who is leading a "war" to marginalise all those calling for state dialogue with the Islamist camp, stands in stark contrast to Baheddine, who has faced "tough resistance," since his national reconciliation initiative in August, according to a cabinet member.
Government sources say that almost four months later, the "dialogue camp" has dwindled amid clear intimidation.
"There were about seven ministers in that camp, and the rest were supporting Mohammed Ibrahim, or at least not against him. Today, it is only Ziyad Baheddine and [finance minister] Ahmed Galal, with occasional indirect support from the Foreign Affairs Minister [Nabil Fahmy] on matters concerning international opinion," said one source.
Widespread dislike for the Moslem Brüderbund and their Islamist allies, still apparent four months after Morsi's ouster, has allowed the 'Mohammed Ibrahim camp' to gain strength, the source added.
An Interior Ministry official said, "The use of force by police against the gunnies is well supported by the public, who are desperate for a return to security and are not opposed to putting all Moslem Brüderbund members in jail."
The source credited "the vital role of the media" for this "overwhelming sentiment," insisting that the mistakes of the Brotherhood during their year in power have "made people see the reality of this group."
During several cabinet confrontations, especially following the resignation of interim vice president Mohammed ElBaradei over the violent dispersal of two Islamist camps, Ibrahim made direct attacks on those who urge restraint, emphasising that they are not facing the reality of coppers on the ground.
More recently, Beblawi sided openly with Ibrahim over a draft demonstrations law, whilst trying privately to accommodate Baheddine and Galal.
Sources close to Baheddine and Galal say that the two men feel truly isolated, but are still hopeful, as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi have not vetoed opposition to the draft protest law and equally controversial anti-terrorism bill, which have been labelled catastrophic by human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups.
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[An Nahar] Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc stated on Tuesday that Hizbullah chief's latest televised speech is a part of a "psychological war," stressing also on their rejection of all armed presence in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
"His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... 's speech is arrogant and is a part of a psychological war he is wahing," the bloc said in a released statement after the MPs' weekly meeting at the Center House.
The statement elaborated: "Through his speech, Nasrallah tried to delude the Lebanese that the Damascus regime will soon emerge victorious against the Syrian people, and that the Persian power will dominate over Leb and the region. Nasrallah wanted to say that this fate is inevitable and that the Lebanese, Syrians and Arabs have to cope with it."
"But this will not be achieved."
Al-Mustaqbal accused Hizbullah of "contributing to the paralysis in constitutional institutions and obstructing the formation of the new cabinet."
"Nasrallah is proposing conditions for the cabinet's formation that are unconstitutional," it said.
"But the Lebanese people that resisted to terrorism and refused to surrender will not give up and give in to the new arrogant scheme applied by Hizbullah and its allies."
In a televised speech he gave on Monday, Nasrallah commented on the political deadlock in Leb and failure to form a new government, accusing the March 14 camp of only prolonging the impasse by imposing various conditions on forming a cabinet.
He noted that the camp was and is still banking on the developments in Syria in order to take any political decision in this matter, saying that such actions will only maintain the deadlock.
The Hizbullah chief therefore suggested that the March 14 camp "exercise some humility" and accept the formation of a cabinet that grants nine ministers to itself and the March 8 forces ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... , while the remaining six be granted to centrists.
The al-Mustaqbal urged Hizbullah again to withdraw its forces from Syria and commit to the Baabda Declaration.
"True partnership will not be secured in the country unless Hizbullah commits to the accords reached at national dialogue sessions and abides by the Baabda Declaration."
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[An Nahar] Mozambique troops have seized a second military base of the former Renamo rebels, the presidency said Tuesday, as tit-for-tat attacks raise concerns of renewed conflict after two decades of peace in the country.
Presidential front man Edson Macuacua, said the latest raid occurred on Monday in Maringue in central Mozambique.
"There was an exchange of fire but no loss of human life," he said.
It was the second attack on a base belonging to the rebel-movement-turned-opposition-party in just over a week.
Last Monday, government forced captured Renamo's main Sathundjira bush camp in the central mountains of central Gorongosa.
The assault prompted Renamo to declare void a 1992 peace deal that ended the 16-year civil war the group launched against the socialist Frelimo state shortly after independence from Portugal.
Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama survived last week's base siege but his right-hand man, a politician, was killed, the group claimed.
Since that attack, there have been sporadic outbreaks of violence in what the government claims are reprisal attacks by Renamo, while the group has accused coppers of beating up party members.
The presidential front man on Tuesday said by seizing the Renamo bases, the government had militarily weakened the ex-rebels.
"Their two main bases were Sathundjira and Maringue and they have been deactivated," said Macuacua.
"They are weak at the moment," he said. "The best thing now is for them to talk and stop doing these raids."
On Saturday there was an attack on three civilian vehicles on the southern African country's main highway which killed one and injured 10. The government pointed the finger at Renamo, which denied responsibility.
Last Tuesday, armed gunnies attacked a cop shoppe in the Maringue district near Renamo's fallen base camp in an apparent act of retaliation, with no casualties reported.
Renamo became the main opposition party after the 1992 agreement, but it has lost every national election since.
Last November, Dhlakama returned to Sathundjira, saying he would retrain his soldiers for a revolution.
Government troops have been reinforced in the area since then, and there have been repeated festivities.
Officially, Renamo is demanding a bigger role in electoral bodies and its fighters' integration into the military. But analysts say the group really wants a cut of lucrative revenues from new coal mines and upcoming offshore gas exploitation.
Despite belligerent statements, both Frelimo and Renamo representatives have said they do not want to return to war.
The civil war between the two sides killed one million people and left the economy in ruins.
Analysts say the former rebel movement is not a major military threat and could wage a localized guerrilla-style insurgency at most.
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Swwms rather safe to over-run an ex-rebel base.
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Why did they put the e next to the w? I ment seems.
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Mmm, I do wonder, indeed, who the backers of Renamo could be, if there were to be any, now that the Rhodies have gone and the South Africans are titz-up commies. It would be a delight to learn that for once The O had done something right! ( I can dream, can't I)?
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An international volunteer organization urged Canadian authorities to arrest former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on war crimes charges when he visits the 2013 Toronto Global Forum later this week. Of course they do...
Lawyers Against the War War's over, comrades. Champ said so...
argued in a letter dated Sunday that Toronto Police Chief William Blair and Ontario Attorney General John Gerretsen have a duty to arrest Cheney "as a person suspected on reasonable grounds of authorizing, counseling, aiding, abetting and failing to prevent torture." Letter (PDF) at the link.
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I don't see anywhere other than being President of the Senate among the powers of the Vice President of the United States. Since he had no authority to order or effect any of this, let's just move on - or amend the request to include the president pro tem too. Right Harry?
1. War Profiteering (major Haliburton shareholder)
2. The targeted bombing of civilians centers in Iraq using depleted uranium and phosphorus shells
3. The kidnapping of foreign nationals without warrant or trial
4. Advocated use of torture banned by Geneva Conventions which US was signator to
I could list at least twenty other offenses, but this would easily be enough to have this piece of sh*t spend the rest of his life in solitary...or, hopefully, worse than solitary...
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Actually do it, then we can have a war and we'll take the oil rich parts of Canada and leave the french parts to the remain and squawk. Then all the good normal Canadians can be Americans and the rest can remain french.
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Heh, if this shithead wasn't around, we'd have to make him up. I'm not around as much as I used to be. Is this is the ice cream truck guy from Canada?
[Dawn] Iranian security forces have killed in a fresh clash four members of an krazed killer rebel group behind an attack that left 14 Iranian border guards dead, a top border guard commander said Tuesday.
"We clashed with Jaish-ul Adl and killed four of them," the Fars news agency quoted brigadier general Hossein Zolfaqari, commander of Iran's border guards, as saying.
According to the report, the clash took place near the town of Mirjaveh, close to the border with Pakistain in restive southeast Iran, some 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from Tehran. Zolfaqari did not say when it took place.
Jaish-ul Adl, a rebel group formed last year whose name means Army of Justice in Arabic, has grabbed credit for the bushwhack on Friday in the mountains of Sistan-Baluchestan in the restive southeast.
The attack killed 14 border guards and maimed another seven.
Iran in retaliation said it had executed 16 "rebels" -- eight gunnies and eight narcos, all of whom had been on death row, according to Iranian media.
"Whatever measure they take against us, our response will be more crushing," Zolfaqari said.
In a press briefing in the afternoon, he said that 20 "bandidos" had been killed in 67 festivities near the border since March 2013, the Mehr news agency reported.
The general also warned that Iran "reserves the right to pursue the bandidos on Pak soil," adding that his unit had informed its Pak counterparts of this, Mehr added.
Tehran has demanded Islamabad take "measures to control the borders more seriously," saying the bully boyz had crossed from Pakistain and fled back across the border after the attack.
Iran says it plans to exert more pressure on Pakistain to prevent such attacks.
"A deputy interior minister will visit Pakistain to discuss the attack," foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said Tuesday during her weekly briefing.
Another bad boy group, Jundallah, Arabic for Soldiers of God, has also launched deadly attacks on civilians and officials in the southeast.
Iran captured and hanged its leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, in June 2010.
The restive region near the Pak border is home to a large community of minority Sunni Moslems, unlike the rest of Shia-dominated Iran.
Drug traffickers and bully boyz have clashed with Iranian forces in the region on several occasions.
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[An Nahar] Yemeni authorities tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! on Tuesday "one of the most dangerous" al-Qaeda hard boyz in the country's southeast, state news agency Saba reported.
"The arrested terrorist Omar Salem is involved in the liquidation of the deputy head of the military college General Ali bin Freyjan" who was killed earlier this month, Saba quoted a military official as saying.
Salem was arrested in Ghayl Bawazir in the southeastern province of Hadramawt after authorities received a tip-off about his whereabouts, the source said.
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[An Nahar] Four kidnapped Frenchies who were kidnapped by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in northern Niger in 2010 have been released, President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said Tuesday.
"I have some good news. I just learned from Niger's president that our four hostages in the Sahel, the Arlit hostages, have been released," Hollande said on a visit to Bratislava.
Frenchies Thierry Dol, Daniel Larribe, Pierre Legrand and Marc Feret were working for French nuclear giant Areva when they were kidnapped on September 16, 2010, from a uranium compound in Arlit, north-central Niger.
Hollande spoke of "three years of trials for the kidnapped men, who were held by unscrupulous captors", and of "three years of suffering for the families who lived through a nightmare and are now relieved."
"I want to express my gratitude to Niger's president, who was able to obtain the release of our countrymen."
A source close to Hollande said the former hostages were in satisfactory health.
"We can't say that they're in great health but their health is fine," the source said.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian were in Niger's capital Niamey to recover the ex-hostages, the foreign ministry said.
Foreign ministry sources said the four had arrived at the airport in Niamey and would be returning to La Belle France on Wednesday.
Legrand's aunt, Brigitte Laur, told Agence La Belle France Presse the news was unbelievable after so long.
"I'm happy, excited," said Laur, whose 28-year-old nephew is the youngest of the hostages.
"We waited for so long," she said, her voice breaking. "After three years it's hard to believe."
The news of their release came days after regional security sources in the Malian town of Gao reported the presence of envoys in the Sahel "to speed up negotiations towards freeing the kidnapped Frenchies".
La Belle France however had "officially denied" sending envoys.
Three other people who were kidnapped at the time -- Daniel's wife Francoise Larribe, a Togolese and a Madagascan -- were freed in February 2011.
AQIM had demanded at least 90 million euros ($124 million) for the release of the remaining hostages.
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[An Nahar] Algeria on Tuesday branded as unacceptable comments published by official Moroccan media in response to criticism of its human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... policy in Western Sahara, in the latest barbed exchange between Rabat and Algiers.
The insults by the North African arch-rivals come ahead of a report to be presented to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday by special envoy Christopher Ross, who visited the region this month.
In a speech read on his behalf by the justice minister, Algeria's ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... said an international mechanism to monitor human rights in the disputed territory was needed "more than ever."
Bouteflika referred to what he called "the massive and systematic human rights violations that take place inside the occupied territories to suppress the peaceful struggle" of the Sahrawis for freedom of expression and association.
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Morocco built several empty towns in Western Sahara, ready for Refugees coming back from Tindouf
The indigenous population of Western Sahara is usually known in Western media as Sahrawis. But they are also referred to in Morocco as "Southerners" or "Southern Berbers". They are Hassaniya-speaking or Berber-speaking tribes of Berber origin. Many of them have mixed Berber-Arab heritage, effectively continuations of the tribal groupings of Hassaniya-speaking and Zenaga-Berber speaking Moorish tribes extending south into Mauritania and north into Morocco as well as east into Algeria. The Sahrawis are traditionally nomadic bedouins with a life style very similar to that of the Tuareg Berbers from whom Sahrawis most likely have descended, and they can be found in all surrounding countries. War and conflict has led to major population displacement.
As of July 2004, an estimated 267,405 people (excluding about 160,000 Moroccan military personnel) lived in the Moroccan-controlled parts of Western Sahara. Many people from parts of Morocco have come to live in the territory, and these latest arrivals are today thought to outnumber the indigenous Western Sahara Sahrawis. The precise size and composition of the population is subject to political controversy.
The Polisario-controlled parts of Western Sahara are barren. This area has a very small population, estimated to be approximately 30,000 in 2008. The population is primarily made up of nomads who engage in herding camels back and forth between the Tindouf area and Mauritania. However, the presence of mines scattered throughout the territory by the Moroccan army makes it a dangerous way of life.
[Al Ahram] Israel's negotiating position with the Paleostinians in US-sponsored peace talks is the toughest it has taken since before the 1993 Oslo Accords, a senior Paleostinian official said on Tuesday. "The current Israeli negotiating position is the worst in more than 20 years," said Yasser Abed Rabbo ... Paleostinian politician and a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. He holds an M.A. in economics and political science from the American University in Cairo..... , a top official with the Paleostine Liberation Organisation, adding there had been "no tangible progress" in talks that resumed in July.
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"The current Israeli negotiating position is the worst in more than 20 years," said Yasser Abed Rabbo
Hate to say it, Yasser, but after putting up with your rotten nonsense for 20 years, they're just not that into you.
I believe that the best way to lasting peace is to turn the PLO areas into smoldering rubble, then bounce the rubble, then napalm the rubble and then bounce it again just to make sure and will not diverge from that point in negotiation.
[Al Ahram] A first plenary session of Tunisia's elected Assembly since the launch of all-party crisis talks was delayed on Tuesday with parliamentary groups reportedly at odds over an electoral commission.
The deputies were to have met at 9:30 am (0830 GMT) to examine amendments to a law setting up the commission but the session was postponed until 1430 GMT, the Constituent National Assembly said.
Al-Bawsala, an independent NGO which covers Assembly affairs, said the delay was caused by "disagreements on the law ... between different parliamentary groups."
Under a timetable agreed by Tunisia's ruling Islamists and the opposition, the electoral commission has to be formed by Saturday.
A "national dialogue" was launched last Friday and the government led by moderate Islamist movement Ennahda is to be replaced as part of a roadmap aimed at breaking a months-long political stalemate.
A new prime minister will have two weeks to form a government of independents under the timetable for the talks.
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MOGADISHU -- Federal Government of Somalia's Minister of Interior and National Security Abdikarin Hussein Guled has declared that Somali intelligence officials coordinated the US military drone strike that killed a senior Al Shabaab bomb specialist near the southern Somalia town of Jilib with the US government on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.
Guled said "following concrete evidences and full intelligence reports" provided by inside sources and the Somali government Ibrahim Ali Abdi (Anta Anta) was killed along with his friend Abu Ali, adding that Al Shabaab officials couldn't escape from such operations.
"After intelligence reports, Anta Anta and Abu Ali were killed and how the attack was coordinated shows that terrorist leaders wouldn't escape from the justice," Interior Minister said while he was speaking to the government radio in Mogadishu.
Continuing, he said that the targeted Al Shabaab commander was the mastermind of suicide bombings which claimed at killed many lives in Somalia.
Eyewitnesses who arrived at the site of the strike in Dhaytubako Village near Middle Juba region's most populous town of Jilib, about 112 km north of Kismayo-former Al Shabaab stronghold and the Jubaland administration's capital city- told the Somali media that Al Shabaab commanders' luxurious vehicle was leveled to the ground by the missile.
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[An Nahar] The Military Prosecutor referred on Tuesday a suspect to the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch to carry out the initial investigation with him on his role in the deadly mosque bombings in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
Judge Saqr Saqr, who is the state commissioner to the military court, asked the Intelligence Branch to "question Ahmed Mohammed Ali over the information he has on the Tripoli blasts and his role in the case."
LBCI TV quoted sources as saying that Ali had helped Ahmed Merhi, another suspect in the twin blasts, to escape.
Security forces have said that Merhi is the driver of the vehicle that went kaboom! near al-Taqwa mosque.
But Merhi could still be in Lebanese territories and under the protection of certain parties, LBCI's sources said.
Forty-five people were killed and 800 injured in the boom-mobile blasts that targeted the Sunni al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques on August 23.
Several suspects have already been charged with forming an armed gang for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities and bombing the Tripoli mosques.
On Monday, several residents blocked the international highway near the town of al-Masoudiyeh in the northern Akkar district with burning tires to protest Ali's arrest.
The state-run National News Agency said that the army intelligence jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! him last week after raiding his house in the town of al-Haysa.
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Waiting for Amnesty International outrage over interrogation techniques in 10...9...8...7....
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North Korean authorities are investigating recent fires at an arms factory and a train transporting military goods, sources said Monday. They said a huge fire broke out early this month on a train carrying military uniforms in Ryanggang Province, which is home to the North's armaments industry, causing considerable losses.
Was there an earth-shattering kaboom?
In September, a fire broke out in an arms factory in North Pyongan Province. Both happened near the border with China.
One source said it remains unclear what caused the fires and whether they are related, but they could have been the result of minor resistance to the regime of Fat Boy Kim Jong-un.
The regime still has a firm grip on officials, soldiers and the public at large, making it extremely difficult to organize any major resistance. But sources say disgruntled citizens may be venting their frustration with arson targeting key facilities.
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[An Nahar] Tunisia's army launched a "huge" operation to track down jihadists in the central Sidi Bouzid region Tuesday, the defense ministry said, after snuffies killed six coppers in the area last week.
"A huge military operation was launched on Tuesday in the hills of Sidi Ali Ben Aoun," a district of the Sidi Bouzid region, ministry front man Taoufik Rahmouni said, quoted by the official TAP news agency.
The army has deployed tanks and helicopters to support the operation aimed at hunting down "terrorists," he added.
Sidi Ali Ben Aoun is seen as a bastion of support for Salafism, an ultraconservative brand of Sunni Islam. Khatib Idrissi, a key figure in Salafist circles, lives in the area.
Militants killed six coppers in the area last Wednesday, and security forces have tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... eight men they say took part in the attack, according to the interior ministry.
National guard units also killed an Algerian jihadists and seized explosives and weapons when they captured the eight men, the interior ministry has said.
Since the uprising that ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime in 2011, the country has been hit by rising violence blamed on jihadist groups suppressed under the veteran strongman.
In October alone, nine members of the security forces have been killed in festivities with what the government calls "terrorist" groups.
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