Operatives plotted to kill government officials and media workers by sending them poisoned perfumes, Saudi Arabia says.
You are a Saudi man of some rank at your place of employ. You receive a package from an anonymous sender. It contains a bottle with the label of a famous parfumerie. What, oh what, should you do?
KABUL: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday renewed commitment to continue their joint strategy against terrorism and take their cooperation in the economic sector to a higher level.
Addressing a press conference after holding bilateral talks at the Arg Palace, the two leaders opined that there was an increasing realisation that their dream of shared prosperity could only be achieved through sustained joint efforts.
Gilani said, "Now there is an equal realisation that both the countries are equally suffering because of terrorism and there should be no blame game."
Gilani and Karzai first met separately followed by delegation-level talks and held in-depth discussions aimed at enhancing cooperation in the war against terrorism and extremism, and promoting collaboration on economy, trade and investment, building of energy corridors and improving road and rail links.
Commerce Minister Amin Faheem, Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and Interior Minister Rehman Malik assisted the prime minister during the talks.
Gilani assured Karzai that Pakistan fully supported the reconciliation process with opposition groups to bring them into political mainstream. He said, "Pakistan and Afghanistan realise that instability in one country is not in the benefit of the other and their mutual interest is in pursuing a new path leaving behind the past."
The PM said Pakistan's role was vital for achieving peace and stability in Afghanistan and for winning the war against terrorism, for which his country had suffered immensely and thousands of its soldiers had been killed and injured.
"The investment climate suffered and there is a flight of capital due to terrorism," he added.
Addressing a luncheon at the Presidential Palace, Gilani said Pakistan and Afghanistan should believe in each other and not trust what WikiLeaks was saying. He assured of his government's help for the implementation of the Afghan transit trade agreement that had been approved by the cabinet.
Trust deficit: Karzai categorically stated that there was no trust deficit between Pakistan and Afghanistan. "Afghanistan sees Pakistan as a friend and an anchor of stability," he said, acknowledging the sacrifices rendered by Pakistan's security forces and citizens in the war against terrorism.
Liam Neeson has caused controversy by suggesting that Aslan, the Christlike character in C.S. Lewis's Narnia books, could represent the prophet Mohammed or Buddha.
The actor who voices the lion in the film adaptations of the books has angered some fans of the stories, who claim he is distorting Lewis's intentions to be "politically correct".
Aslan the lion features in all seven Narnia books, guiding children away from evil and harm and encouraging them to do good. Lewis was clear that the Aslan was based on Christ, and once wrote of the character: "He is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question: "What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia?"."
In the climax of the first book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Aslan sacrifices his life to save Narnia, before rising from the dead, a plot which is widely believed to represent the crucifixion and the resurrection.
But ahead of the release of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third Narnia book to be made into a film, next week, Neeson said: "Aslan symbolises a Christlike figure, but he also symbolises for me Mohammed, Buddha and all the great spiritual leaders and prophets over the centuries.
"That's who Aslan stands for as well as a mentor figure for kids -- that's what he means for me."
Walter Hooper, Lewis's former secretary and a trustee of his estate, said that the author would have been angered by Neeson's comments.
He said: "It is nothing whatever to do with Islam. Lewis would have simply denied that. He wrote that 'the whole Narnian story is about Christ'. Lewis could not have been clearer."
Mr Hooper attributed Neeson's remarks to political correctness and a wish to be "very multi-cultural"
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Neeson is a typical entertainment industry cultural idiot, mind rotted by living and working with the cultural relativists in Hollwierd. Alsan is clearly alluded to as Jesus in the books, if you bother to read all of them.
I guess Neeson believes in everything, which means effectively he ultimately believes (latin: credo) nothing at all.
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Facts are irrelevant in Hollywood's mind, since replicating and making people believe the non-existent is their business. I have an aunt in Hollywood, and her shock that I DISAGREED with her in MY area of expertise betrays an arrogance that Heaven is sure to answer.
Death is a shark attacking mankind. Confucius, from the beach, would assure us our children would revere our courage. Mohammed is too busy fondling Aisha to notice. Buddah would tell us the shark does not exist. ONLY Jesus Christ gashed himself and jumped into the water to draw the shark off of us.
And people roll their eyes and wonder why I'm such a fanatical Christian...
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Obviously he never read the series. Aslan was the christ-like figure while Tash (the bird-god of the desert dweller (and most like Mohammand) - not too sure of the names - I'm drawing this from 10-year-old memory...) was his 'opposite'.
If they weren't to chickensh*t to produce 'A Horse and his Boy' (which was chronologically after Lion / Witch / Wardrobe) it would have been clearly shown. But the way I understand it they skipped that book for fear of offending Muslims.
The association of Aslan with Christ is very explicitly made in "The Last Battle" - the last book of the series.
Not to mention the whole 'Sacrifice oneself for another' part of "The Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe". I doubt Neeson even viewed the movies....
The murderous cult leader was one of thousands of California inmates busted with a cell phone last year, which he used to call unidentified people in California, New Jersey, Florida and British Columbia, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"It's troubling that he had a cellphone since he's a person who got other people to murder on his behalf," said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections. She added that it is not known if the one-time cult leader, now 76, used the phone to order up any crimes.
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Opinion from NJ Star Ledger 10/2010: In the constant and costly game of cat and mouse, prison officials are investing in phone-sniffing dogs, more sensitive metal-detection, high-tech devices that detect cell phone signals, and more frequent searches of cells and common areas by guards.
Despite that, and increased penalties for having phones in prison, the problem is getting worse. The number of phones found in jails and prisons rose 50 percent over the last year.
Theres a new technology that could eliminate the problem overnight: signal jamming. But jamming cell phone signals, even in prisons, is banned by the Federal Communications Commission. A bill making its way through Congress would change that. It has cleared the U.S. Senate, but the House version is still in committee.
The improbably named Cholmondeley [pronounced, IIRC, "Chumley"] and Montagu earlier in WWII had created a network of fictitious double agents to feed misinformation to the Nazis. These imaginary spies were given jobs, hobbies, family, lovers and bank managers. The Germans thought they had an established spy network in the UK - in reality, they had none.
"I doubt such a plan would be feasible today, even in wartime. Imagine the scandal if it was revealed that British agents had deliberately stolen a dead body. One of the reasons it worked so well was that the organisers were left alone to get on with it, almost without supervision."
Eventually the planted disinformation made it to Hitler's desk. He took the bait and transferred 90,000 troops to Greece to defend against what he thought was the planned Allied invasion of Greece.
The irony of a homeless man posthumously impressed into His Majesty's Secret Service still catches the imagination.
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A related incident from the Battle of Britain: During one of the nightly Luftwaffe attacks, an urgent call went out from a British camoufleur in charge of an elaborate fake airfield, complete with dummy planes, to an RAF fighter pilot.
Camoufleur: Sir! Were being attacked!
Pilot: Splendid, Sergeant. Good show.
Camoufleur: Theyre smashing the place to bits!
Pilot: Yes, excellent. Carry on.
Camoufleur: But, sirwe need fighter cover! Theyre wrecking my best decoys.
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Another story from the start of WWII, was how a survey was being conducted along the coast to determine where best to set up anti-aircraft guns. Each gun would be mounted on rails, so could be moved to cover a larger area as needed. And with inclement weather, they would be moved into a shed at the end of the tracks.
Well, in one coastal town, they figured they had the ideal place to set up a gun, then discovered to their dismay that there were already tracks laid there.
With nothing on their charts, they followed the tracks to their shed, where looking inside, they discovered a World War I anti-aircraft gun. Asking around, they discovered an elderly resident was still receiving a small stipend to maintain the gun and the tracks, by error it not having been discontinued with the armistice.
They noted that both the tracks and the gun were in fine condition, though of the wrong type for current needs.
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Montagu's book, The Man Who Never Was, is good reading. It includes copies of the letters sent along with Martin and the "Lieber Grossadmiral!" translation of the fake explanation of plans, with Doenitz' official "squiggle" of initials.
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Eventually the planted disinformation made it to Hitler's desk.
Then there's the tendency of bureaucracy to lie up the chain to keep the bosses happy as was the case in the former Soviet Union. Those official reports made it to the CIA desk and were taken as gospel. Thus the utter surprise to the CIA when the Soviet Union collapsed.
The International Security Assistance Force confirmed the death of Noor Mohammad, A Taliban leader, during an air strike targeting a Taliban command and control center in Kajaki district, Helmand province, Nov. 20. Attack was a while ago but it took time to gather pieces & run DNA I guess.
Noor Mohammad was an improvised explosive device facilitator who planned, coordinated and executed numerous IED attacks against Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF. He was critical to the procurement of IED materials and subsequent construction of IEDs in Sangin district. He worked directly for Mullah Abdul Qayoum who was the Sangin district Taliban shadow governor with overall military command for Sangin and northern Helmand and who was also killed in the same air strike. This was an effective zap.
Multiple intelligence reports and tips from local citizens Somebody got tired of schools getting blown up and the little brats stuck in the house all day, every day.
led ISAF to a district-level Taliban command and control center that Taliban leaders operated from. Surveillance indicated the Taliban were using the location to control insurgent activities, and as a meeting site. Numerous armed insurgents were seen throughout the day coming and going from the location. ISAF assessed a meeting of several suspected Taliban leaders was in progress when it conducted the air strike. Oh, I bet the delay was so we could read their computer & cell phone records....
Twelve insurgents were killed in the air strike, including Noor Mohammad.
Initial reports indicate no civilians were harmed in the operation.
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In fact, "Fair Game," based on books by Mr. Wilson and his wife, is full of distortions - not to mention outright inventions. To start with the most sensational: The movie portrays Ms. Plame as having cultivated a group of Iraqi scientists and arranged for them to leave the country, and it suggests that once her cover was blown, the operation was aborted and the scientists were abandoned. This is simply false. In reality, as The Post's Walter Pincus and Richard Leiby reported, Ms. Plame did not work directly on the program, and it was not shut down because of her identification.
Indonesian terror suspect, Fadli Sadama, arrived at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Tangerang, under strict guard from Detachment 88, Indonesia's National Police anti-terror squad, around 5 p.m on Saturday, a police spokesman said.
Sr. Comr. Boy Rafli Amar said National Police chief Gen.Timur Pradopo would issue a statement about the return of the terror suspect later at the airport's international terminal.
A joint team of Detachment 88 and Malaysian National Police officers captured Fadli, on Oct. 13 while traveling on a bus to the state of Johor with two revolvers in his possession.
Fadli allegedly plotted the heist of the Medan-branch of CIMB Bank, which took place in August, with fellow prisoner, Toni Togar during their imprisonment in Medan.
Fadli was charged for his role in a series of bank robberies and for financing the 2003 JW Marriot Hotel bomb attacks carried out by Noordin M. Top and Dr.Azhari.
Seems to be AP source. Ryan Newell who lost both legs in A'stan (I think) is being held on $500,000 bond. Arrested with guns and ammo in vehicle while following Westboro cultists.
One of the commenters to the article is even sicker than Phelpsians:
"Think about it for am second.
Who's fault is it that his legs got blown off?
His, he enlisted and knew the dangers and he wanted to be a big bad tough guy soldier hero.
He had it made, he had a new house that I assume he got free but not sure.
He has wife or girlfriend or whatever and now she is screwed.
And why did this all happen? Because the military is producing MERCENARIES.
This has NOTHING to do with the Phelps."
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You stop and search MY car You're going to find "Guns and Ammo" as well as a permit and a CITIZEN who won't put up with harassment.
There's got to be more to the story.
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RNJim, the gun laws in Kansas that were in effect at that time are way screwed up when it comes to what they call a felony "illegal carrying of a firearm". Basically, if you had a gun under the seat of your truck, you are illegally carrying a concealed firearm and guilty of a felony. I'm not sure if the new gun law that went into effect changes this, I just know as a permit holder in another state, I was warned about Kansas. Someone please correct me if you know better.
In addition to the gun charges and the stalking, he's accused of falsely representing himself as a police officer. You can argue the gun charges, and 'stalking' may be harsh, but impersonating a police officer is serious ju-ju.
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We've probably all committed felonies that we are completely unaware of. IIRC, a doctor mistakenly writing "right index finger" on an ER note when he really meant "left index finger" has committed felony fraud (his intention does not matter) if the patient is covered under Medicare.
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Doc Steve, that's the one that has me puzzled. I do wonder how he represented himself as a police officer. That's the one that will stick, no matter who the judge is.
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a police officer w/no legs? He thought they'd buy that?
Affirmative action? Desk sergeant? Computer specialist? Captain? What if he'd lost his legs in the line of duty -- as actually he did, although not police duty... As long as one isn't at risk of wrestling with bad guys, surely the police can put one's skills and experience to use if they're valuable enough.
Clever, left-handed attack on both. Diabolical, even.
The recent attacks on Sarah Palin by establishment conservatives make her Democratic opponents seem like wusses. The prospect of a Palin presidential candidacy in 2012 has obviously spooked the GOP elite. But do they have to be so mean?
"What man or mouse with a fully functioning human brain and a resume as thin as Palin's would flirt with a presidential run?" MSNBC "Morning Joe" host and former Florida Republican representative Joe Scarborough fumed in a Politico guest column this week. You mean besides the current holder of the office, Joe?
Palin is a gifted politician. She's gained prominence and political clout, however, by skillfully playing to popular prejudices with wild claims. Not all of which have come to pass. And not all of her favorites won election last month, just enough to scare the $hit out of the Establishment.
I wouldn't want to see Sarah Palin anywhere near the White House, let alone in the Oval Office with a nuclear arsenal at her disposal. That's not a likely scenario anyway, given her low standing among independents and Democrats.
But the notion of a phalanx of conservative elites - Palin called them "blue bloods" - standing between her and the GOP nomination because they perceive her as inferior in intellect and social and political standing is pure snobbery. Never enough snobbery for the WaPo.
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I've read something like this before -
During the inauguration, political boss Mark Hanna; who had been apprehensive about Theodore Roosevelt's joining the 1900 Republican ticket; is quoted as saying: "Do you realize that the only thing standing between that madman and the White House is a bullet?".
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Since the Dems are attacking Sarah, it seems to me a very good reason to back and vote for her.
In other words, if they're Against her, I'm FOR her.
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Roosevelt's first historical book, The Naval War of 1812, published in 1882, established his professional reputation as a serious historian. After a few years of living in the Badlands, Roosevelt returned to New York City, where he gained fame for fighting police corruption. While effectively running the Department of the Navy, the Spanish American War broke out from which he resigned and led a small regiment in Cuba known as the Rough Riders, earning himself a nomination for the Medal of Honor (which was received posthumously on his behalf on January 16, 2001). After the war, he returned to New York and was elected governor in a close fought election. Within two years later he was elected Vice President of the United States.
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Even if Obama has as little experience as Palin and was still able to win, his presidency leaves nothing to be desired.
Call me a snob if you will, but I won't be voting for her. She'd be a fine neighbor but I don't want her as my president. I'm sure there are better candidates out there. The Republicans better be very careful here.
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O's presidency leaves a lot to be desired. He has no military, economic or business expertise. None. And we've become his learning lab, which is no comfort. And if you don't endorse Palin, would you please elaborate why and who might be better. I think repubs should be careful, I am curious but I hope things besides moose hunting jokes
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Sorry I meant I hope the reasons are beside moose hunting.
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It's much too early to narrow down the candidate list, for either party. It's also much too early to castigate others for their choice of the names currently in the hat, when we don't know who else will put their name in. That's what primary season is for... and why one waits until election day to vote, thus being able to include the last report of a dead girl or a live boy in one's decision-making.
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I think the Republicans have a little better pool than it appears, one of which is Palin. Disliking Palin does not make a person a snob if it is for the right reasons. Not liking her because of her accent, lifestyle, lack of ivy wallpaper, well now then....
And yes, there is some serious elitism going on in both parties. Elitism has a real I'm right because I am me problem with it, and practically speaking retards what should be a cream to the top model.
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Somehow I can't see Sarah Palin doing one-tenth as much damage to this nation in eight years as Barry has in two. She'd be ten times the better candidate for President than McCain was. I see this as just another in a long list of preemptive attacks to try to ensure she's not the GOP candidate. She certainly makes donkey-boy look like the over-educated idiot he is.
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Sure, here are the big reasons:
1. She's a quitter. No matter the reason...she quit. No one else would even be considered for a high level position with that track record.
2. She's apparently a big spender, not fiscally responsible. Note the debt she used to make a gov't sports complex on land that wasn't even purchased before construction started (what?), and went from sharing an emergency response center to a much more expensive single response center for a small town. She's not looking out for the taxpayers.
3. I don't wand to spend my life listening to her family's issues. And really, having your daughter on a reality show? Hardly presidential. If she wants to be a celebrity...fine, but have some respect for the presidential office.
4. She did incredibly poorly in her interviews. I wouldn't hire someone for any position with those disastrous interviews.
5. She wears red tart shoes. Guys love them, gals see them for what they are. I wouldn't vote for her on this reason alone, lol.
6. And yes, I couldn't stand listening to her voice, so pardon me.
If this is the best that our great republic has to offer, we are in seriously poor shape.
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She's a quitter.
There's a difference in cutting loses and being a quitter. Play it up with the rest of those who refuse to acknowledge she was the subject of practical political assassination by a relentless filing of 'ethics' charges by a Donk operative. By his and her actions she's 'become more powerful than you can ever imagine'.
And yes we are in poor shape. One of the reasons is good people won't even consider sticking their neck out, or that of their family, to the unending politics of personal destruction that way too many of the Inner Party and its minions engage in.
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I'm with Jim. The fact that her mere existence is enough to make liberal's heads almost explode... well, that earns her my support. And I like her accent. And she wears pretty shoes.
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#1. She's a quitter...No, she's confident, knows when to cut a loss and readjust direction.
#2. Even small towns have brisk Emergency response requirement- our Fire and rescue down the block, some I know personally in this small town have to hustle to keep apace, imagine Alaska for God sake. It wise to spend there.
#3. Family issues being publicised or unpresidential? Hello, Obama appeared on the view. His wife gets tsk tsked for constantly parading her guns around uncovered, and his golf games bulk up the news. Their children are still too young too create waves, but teenagerhood looms.
#4. Bad interviews? Well, I would say she's better than the POTUS and need not use a TelePrompter crutch as liberally. Also, if I recall correctly she looked better and sounded more composed than VP Biden and and other current pols.
#5. Red shoes? Red shoes is the red tie for republican women. Red= Republican, it does not mean she's a harlot no
matter how great they look. Besides, totally cosmetic, who cares?
#6. Voice? Like we need a voice actor or a Talking head with the perfect voice? While I understand, again a totally cosmetic non-issue. Meanwhilst, Obama's voice and abundant vocalized pauses is yuck. Audio matters, but letting it interfere with sound appraisal of substance is an all too common trap voters let themselves fall into.
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You don't have to like her, Black Charlie Chinemble5313. I'm afraid I don't care, especially because half of your reasons boil down to, "I don't like her -- she's not my kind of people." And the other half are, "I don't like what the news media cats say about her, although I haven't done any research to find out whether or not they're lying."
Also, you forgot to mention that the McCain's campaign team hired a style consultant to buy Sarah Palin vice presidential clothes because all she had were things suitable for running around in Alaska, and she hasn't a $50,000 trust fund lying about for the purpose. (Yes, that's what about what it would cost. This is a subject on which I have some expertise. Clearly you do not.)
Sarah Palin has found her niche for the moment. It clearly involves distracting you from thinking about more important things.
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Did I mention that I think she's a divisive figure?
There are lots and lots of people like me out there, and I find it humorous that you think I'm not conservative and a "minion".
The split is not a conservative or liberal split as much as you'd like to make it out to be one.
I like Marc Rubio and Bobby Jindal and Col. West and lots more great people out there. I think it's funny that certain groups have already decided on a very divisive figure to support at all costs, even if it means losing the presidency and having a second Obama term. Whatever...have fun with your game.
Oh, and any other governor who was presidential material, facing a campaign to force them out of office would have figured out a way to deal with it, not quit.
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And trailing wife...you have more experience of spending great gobs of money on clothes? Good for you, what a catty response. How typical.
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Divisive!? LOL The division started long ago. There was a time that Dems and Pubs wanted basically the same things, but differed on how to get there. No longer true, and in fact I doubt that the two sides even want to live in the kind of country the other side wants to create. There is very little room for 'compromise' anymore.
I would not be sorry to NEVER have the opportunity to vote for another Harvard or Yale grad. Intellectuals generally believe that they are anointed to dictate to others how things should be done. I pray every day to be delivered from 'intellectuals.'
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it's funny how worried about performance you seem to be. If Palin is meant to be eclipsed by some one else she will be, but in the mean time, I feel you should stop sounding like a bitch about bs like shoes and accents, unless you're willing to admit you're totally shallow. The election process will sort the rest out.
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If this is the best that our great republic has to offer, we are in seriously poor shape. Out of touch, aren't you? This great republic has been on the verge of collapse for a few years now.
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BBC you need to Dig deeper than edited interviews, hostile press treatment and your dislike for her accent and clothes. Your responses lead one to conclude that you are an ill informed ass.
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And you are all as nasty as the left. I don't like either side. How nice that those of us like me will decide the election.
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Are these the same red shoes Dorothy wore? Does anybody have a link to them?
And i'm with SR-71. Palin is not divisive. She is revealing the division the MSM has covered up for years. It's been unnaturally repressed and it's going to finally let loose with a bang in two years regardless of who's nominated. Curtains for the welfare state, and none too soon.
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BCC - I find your arguments...unconvincing. Personally I don't she can win the Presidency and just like with Newt, I'd rather she provide ideas, back good candidates and play an influential role, but not as POTUS. I do enjoy the way she totally gets inside Libtard heads, and apparently yours as well. Commenting about her shoes? Really?
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And you are all as nasty as the left
I, for one, have not been totally nasty. I asked why you held your opinions, you answered, I responded. Now I should qualify my statement as an apology if it sounded rude. It was written as that you sounded like a bitch, I didn't say you ARE a bitch. The thing is, frankly when a person starts harping on tarty shoes, it hearkens to either a female with a chip on her shoulder (I am femalian), or a gay man. Nobody else that I know that doesn't fall in the aforementioned groups would care about something so insignificant as red shoes. Have some humour about your shallowness :-) It works for me, I am unabashedly shallow, but I also think Palin's rise to the spotlight is sorely needed at this time, whether she wins or not.
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Sorry, unpresidential in my book. How funny that I agree with the comments under the photo. And it has nothing to do with my having a chip on my shoulder or being a gay man for crying out loud.
And it's not her accent that bothers me, it's the nasal quality. It's annoying as hell.
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The shoes aren't by far the classiest but if you want to talk bad clothes look no further than Michele wide belt Obama. She wears flashy colors to funerals, and all that said, her dressing is done from within the White House with more aides helping than any first lady in my lifetime. Everyone gets one or two fashion faux pas in my book, Mrs. Obama has used her allotment. Palin on the balance looks pretty good in a suit. Sorry, can't totally write her off because of the shoes lets hope its a mistake which she probably won't repeat that often.
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BCC's link though just shows feet in red shoes, devoid of a body or face.
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Read 'em and Weep, loser leftie Libs...
(Draft) SARAH PALIN-JOHN BOLTON In 2012 !Un-beatable! Drill Baby, Drill!
Reject and Deconstruct All Recent 0bama TSA/HHS/EPA/DOE/FDA/HHS/DOJ Imperialist Edicts. DO IT TODAY!
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cool with me pan
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tw-I respect Sarah Palin because she's NOT nuanced, imperious and snarky; like yourself.
I never cared for your inuendo, bs remarks...I actually used to learn a thing or two at Rantburg before you totally corrupted the intent of this forum. It's probably because no Officers Wives Club, in any Branch could stomach 'yer ass. ;-)
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And trailing wife...you have more experience of spending great gobs of money on clothes? Good for you, what a catty response. How typical.
Thank you, my dear. It was meant to be. While neither my father's nor Mr. Wife's career has required me to spend, as you say, great gobs of money on clothes, I do have the knowledge to do so properly, should the need arise -- even if Mama did give up the shares she inherited in that little Paris design house. This is why I try not to talk about Mrs. Obama's wardrobe. There is a very real danger of revealing those who mistake their class for high class. (Did you catch how very catty that was? Are you quite, quite sure you got all the nuances?)
You are right about Sarah Palin being polarizing, both among Democrats and Republicans, which may well keep her from winning the presidency, or even the primary. It is separately, as an anthropological study, that I so often find fascinating the stated reasons of those who dislike her.
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For chrissake, do we like Palin or not? I have even less time than I have patience trying to parse people's class distinction nuances. We do live in the USA, a country built by and founded by poor underdogs. While we're talking fashion, I can spell Brioni, Missoni, De la Renta, Valentino, Dolce, etc. and rip on Mrs. Obama as uncouth as that sounds.
How nuanced is this: that bitch Palin can out-talk the majority of people she's been put up against. I do not care if she goes on the podium in duck boots and hunting camo, with a little red mini skirt.
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I actually used to learn a thing or two at Rantburg before you totally corrupted the intent of this forum.
US-based online payment service PayPal has decided to block financial transfers to WikiLeaks after governments around the world initiated legal action against the whistleblower website.
"PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity," PayPal said in a statement released late on Friday.
"We've notified the account holder of this action," the statement said.
Over the past several days, WikiLeaks has begun publishing the first of 250,000 US diplomatic cables, creating an international firestorm as American diplomats' private assessments of foreign leaders and politics has been publicly aired.
The release was the third major publication of secret US files by WikiLeaks this year, after the whistleblower website published tens of thousands of American military files from the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.
IRAN will never use force against its Muslim neighbours, the country's foreign minister told a conference on Middle East security today, following US said Arab states voicing concernss over Tehran's suspected attempts to acquire nuclear weapons.
And in a keynote address to the conference, Jordan's King Abdullah II said Israeli-Palestinian peace talks must be rescued from collapse to ensure regional and world stability.
"We have never used our force against our neighbours and never will because our neighbors are Muslims," Iran's Manouchehr Mottaki said.
"Your power in the region is our power, and our power is your power."
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Friday that US concerns over Tehran's suspected atomic weapons program were shared by Iran's neighbours.
But Mottaki cautioned against submitting to "pressure by outsiders to divide us and create instability," saying that "the presence of foreign powers will not help establish security in the region" and urging cooperation among Gulf countries.
He said it was vital for Iran to "have stability and security, because we [Iran and its neighboring Gulf states] provide the world with most of its energy."
"Iran is determined to guarantee international security in the field of energy," he added.
Yesterday, Mrs Clinton said that "there is no debate in the international community, and perhaps the Iranians will engage seriously ... on what is a concern shared by nations on every continent but most particularly right here in the region," referring to talks due to start Monday between major powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program.
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Our justice system is being destroyed by liberal judges who are attempting to accomodate Islam. Between them and the corrupt AG (personified by Holder) there is little justice left in the system in some regions, with the rest of the nation teetering on the edge.
WaPo editorial page, next to the "Palin is bad, but not deserving of the horrible treatment by the GOP blue bloods" - hitting two conservative birds with one stone. To many liberals and progressives, the president's unwillingness to veto any measure that includes continued tax relief for billionaires is the last straw, building on a record of spinelessness that includes his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, abandonment of a public option for health-care reform, refusal to prosecute those who tortured in Iraq or lied us into that war, and unwillingness to tax carbon emissions. One sentence. I know it seems like three, but I checked!
But there is a real way to save the Obama presidency: by challenging him in the 2012 presidential primaries with a candidate who would unequivocally commit to a well-defined progressive agenda and contrast it with the Obama administration's policies. Such a candidacy would be pooh-poohed by the media, if he/she were ever able to rise to the level of recognition by the media, but if it gathered enough popular support - as is likely given the level of alienation among many who were the backbone of Obama's 2008 success - this campaign would pressure Obama toward much more progressive positions and make him a more viable 2012 candidate. Two, three. WOT money quote next.
The basic platform for such a candidate is clear: Unequivocally call for an immediate end to the presence of U.S. troops, advisers and private U.S.-based security firms in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and replace the "war on terror" with a Global Marshall Plan that roots homeland security in a strategy of generosity and concern for the well-being of everyone on the planet. Four sentences, but trust me, it gets better!
Public officials who would make excellent candidates should they run on this platform include Sens. Russ Feingold, Bernie Sanders, Barbara Mikulski or Al Franken; Reps. Joe Sestak, Maxine Waters, Raul Grijalva, Alan Grayson, Barbara Lee, Dennis Kucinich, Lois Capps, Jim Moran and Lynn Woolsey. Why not Rachel Maddow, Bill Moyers, Susan Sarandon or the Rev. James Forbes? All suggestions need to be part of this critical conversation. What's clear is that we need such a candidate, and the finances to back her or him, very soon. Eight. Somebody told me that was fair use. I think this guy has a great idea! Go San Fran Nan!
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Wow! That's absolutely insane. I hope the Democrats do that.
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The Dems should run this candidate against Bambi in the primaries, and run him/her again in the general election. Maybe as a Greenie. Make sure you get the candidate on the ballot in all 57 states.
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Idiots who think that because their team won last time, they should get everything they want,and it didn't help that their guy said, "I won. Get over it."
Politics is the art of the possible. Over the past two years the Democrats have accomplished quite a few of their highest priority goals, by using all the classical methods of political chicanery, plus a few new ones invented for the purpose. The only reason the Democrats didn't achieve more is that the public -- which is more conservative than otherwise -- caught on and started fussing.
But Rabbi Michael Lerner has long been more than a bit of a blind idiot. Except when he's being a total idiot; the man is flexible in that way. I guess he's moved on from his shocked discovery that his dear little Progressive friends are flaming antisemites.
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I will be getting Clean for Deanup against the wall pig voters. Oh hai, hai I'm here to share with you the story of the Dr. Governor? Yes, that's cool.
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...this campaign would pressure Obama toward much more progressive positions...
Sporting "Coexist" bumper stickers and boycotting the advertisers on FOX News just ain't cuttin it anymore. The good Rabbi has, shall we say, a more comprehensive strategy. Religious groups pretending to promote one political candidate as a means to advance another may seem a bit duplicitous. But this isn't about moving Obama further left. It's about achieving...uhem..."Social Justice". If say, a self proclaimed Socialist like Bernie Sanders were to run, Obama might not seem as much of...well...a Socialist.
After years of debate and a fundraising campaign launched by investor Warren Buffett, the U.N. atomic agency decided Friday to set up a $150 million uranium-fuel "bank".
The idea of such a bank has been floated for decades, but the concept took on new urgency with the development of Iran's nuclear program. The bank would guarantee the sale of fuel grade enriched uranium for countries' nuclear-power plants, eliminating their need to develop it themselves. So they can move directly to high grade enrichment and weaponization at much less cost. Also generates large profits and employment for France, since the reactors would (of course) have to be located there ...
The same centrifuges used to prepare uranium for power plants can also be used to enrich it to higher, weapons-grade levels.
President Barack Obama has touted the fuel bank, which will get $50 million from the U.S. government. Because we've got plenty of money to give away, especially to the cause of giving dictators an easier path to nuclear weapons. We're only borrowing 43% of what we spend, what's the big deal ...
"This is a breakthrough in global cooperation just like the UN Human Rights Commission
to enable peaceful uses of nuclear energy while reducing the risks of proliferation and catastrophic terrorism," said former Sen. Sam Nunn, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a private group that played a key role in getting the bank off the ground.
Although more guarded, academic experts "You know, 'experts' "
said the bank is a positive step at a time of rising fears of nuclear proliferation.
"The bank is not a guarantee against the risk some countries might choose to proliferate," said Lawrence Scheinman of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. "But the fewer the countries that have capacity to enrich uranium in the first place, the lower the prospect is they will be able to weaponize." Oh, except for the part about it being much easier and cheaper for them to weaponize if you give them already enriched raw materials. Gee, only if they hide the facilities to do that. Who would do such a dastardly thing?
Nations on the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency voted 28-0 to approve the bank, with six abstentions and one country absent. Because the IAEA's track record with Pakistan and Iran was so incredibly successful.
The fuel bank, in essence, will ensure the sale of uranium for power plants to countries that are in good standing with the U.N. energy watchdog. The new institution is meant to be a backup in case countries face a cutoff from commercial suppliers. Except that commercial suppliers have always delivered, except when ordered not to, making this a completely vapid excuse. Vapid is a UN specialty ...
A senior U.S. official said the bank is not likely to prompt Iran to alter its nuclear program, which is widely suspected of being aimed at developing weapons, a charge Tehran denies. Nor would it do so for any country, under any, ANY other circumstance.
"But it does undercut their argument that they need to have an indigenous uranium-enrichment program because they can't be confident they can rely on" outside suppliers of fuel, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Because it is so much more important to undercut a lie than to keep enriched uranium out of the hands of genocidal psychopaths.
The fuel-bank project got going in 2006 after Nunn approached Buffett with the idea. Buffett pledged $50 million on the condition that governments kick in an additional $100 million. That total was reached last year. And Warren Buffett hopes to make billions with his uranium investments.
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Dagan was widely seen as responsible for a wave of covert actions including the sabotage of Iranian nuclear projects and assassination of Palestinian and Lebanese guerrillas, but some Israeli officials criticized his long tenure.
This reached a peak when Dubai accused the Mossad of killing Hamas commander Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh at a hotel in the emirate in late January.
"Embattled"? Sounds like he was doing a pretty good job. But, then again, this Rooters via Arab News...
The police in Rotterdam have arrested a man on a charge of having threatened the daughter of leftwing Green (GroenLinks) party leader Femke Halsema.
The 35 year old man, as has now been made known, was arrested on Tuesday. He threatened Halsema in September via twitter.com, under the name of allah-u-akbar. He also threatened Labour (PvdA) leader Job Cohen and centre-left D66 leader Alexander Pechtold, the police said Friday.
The suspect appeared on Friday before the investigating judge, who decided to remand him in pre-trial custody for 14 days. A further investigation will be carried out into the suspect. When this is completed, the Public Prosecutor's Office will decide how the case will be concluded.
Last month, it was made known that Halsema took her children away from the 'black school' in Amsterdam which they had been attending. It is not clear whether that decision was related to the threats.
Halsema sent her twins to a school with mostly black and Islamic children in Amsterdam-Oost for idealistic reasons. "They have now gone to another school. That is better for their welfare. Children are not a social experiment. For these reasons, I do not want to say anything, it is a matter of the privacy of my children," said Halsema last month in De Telegraaf newspaper.
"I learned this by using my children as a social experiment, until all our lives were threatened by fanatics. And my ass being on the line made me see things a little differently."
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If the definition of a neoconservative is, "a liberal who's been mugged" what's the word for the definition, "a progressive who's own children have been threatened by Islamicists"?
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what's the word for the definition, "a progressive who's own children have been threatened by Islamicists"?
Realist?
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"Femke Halsema (Haarlem, April 25, 1966) is a politician in the Netherlands. She has been in parliament since 1998 for the left-wing ecologist party GroenLinks, Green Left. In November 2002 she unexpectedly became party leader, replacing Paul Rosenmöller.
During the first government of Jan Peter Balkenende she strongly criticized the new and very restrictive immigration laws.
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Further, she stressed cultural and religious tolerance as core values."
Reality hits like a brick apparently.
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/femke-halsema/
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Hey, this would be like that shudenfreed stuff, right?
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He's a 24-year old breakdancer who lives in a council flat in Lyon. Either he'll murder her, or she'll chew him up and spit him out. Let me know in six months which way it turned out.
In an unrelated article about citrus disease.
It has been more than half a century since the Great Leap Forward in China under Chairman Mao, when a failed experiment in pest eradication included issuing everyone in China a flyswatter.
The fly problem persisted, even though millions of the insects were killed. But the benefits of close coordination, if not the collectivized agriculture that inspired Mao, seemed lost on Florida's citrus producers until quite recently. WHAT THE F^%K. Collectivization killed tens of millions of people in the 20th century. And Florida's citrus growers are idiots for not following in their lead?
Finally recognizing the need to work together, the growers have organized into so-called "citrus health management associations" throughout the state. Well, heavens to Betsy these flyover territory fools saw the light.
Jerkins, who also heads Florida's Citrus Research and Development Foundation, said this means farmers now all disperse pesticides at about the same time. That leads to more powerful insect suppression by avoiding a "checkerboard effect" where bugs in a grove where chemicals are dispersed can find safe haven in a grove just next door. Surely, cooperating in the face of a common threat is a welcome step towards socialization of agriculture. Where does Reuters get these people?
Here's another gem from earlier in the article:
Arnold, a native Floridian who speaks with a distinct southern drawl rarely heard across the state these days, remembers when Florida had about 900,000 acres planted with citrus. Let me guess, the Reuters reporter freaked out when he heard an accent. He just HAD to add this bit of utterly irrelevant data to his report. "This guy doesn't speak English like a newscaster! Weird! I'll have to share this with everyone." Florida imported huge numbers of people from elsewhere, which explains the lack of native culture.
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If this was done using an official GOVT xray machine, you can bet Big Sis is doubly pissed, one for mis use of Govt property, and second; jealous that she wasn't asked to pose ( probably would bust the CRT, no ugly filter strong enough)
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Involvement of terror groups in piracy has complicated negotiations for ransom payments, a maritime official said on Friday.
The groups have infiltrated teams that negotiate for ransom, making it difficult for ship owners to know whether they are dealing with the right people or not, Mr Andrew Mwangura of East Africa Seafarers Assistance Programme said.
There are several terror groups operating in Somalia, the most ruthless being al Shabaab, which is believed to be close to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, and Hizbul Islam.
"The situation has caused confusion because some owners of hijacked vessels have claimed to have dealt with some negotiators who are not known. It is the main reason pirates are now holding ships longer than usual," he said.
The reports came as it emerged pirates had initially demanded $600,000 (Sh48 million) for the release of fishing vessel Golden Wave, which has 39 Kenyans on board, but the figure was raised to $3 million (Sh240 million) after terrorist groups demanded a bigger cut, according to Mr Mwangura.
Relatives of the Kenyan hostages met on Thursday to pray for their loved ones, and expressed concern that pirates might harm the hostages to avenge the killing of three suspects by Kenya Navy officers three weeks ago.
Mr Mwangura said the hostages had been divided into groups and were being used to aid their captors in their dangerous operations.
"Two recently hijacked vessels--one of them being Golden Wave -- are being used to launch attacks on other vessels, which exposes the hostages to great danger," he said.
At least four of the hostages are going through the ordeal for the second time. Somali pirates have recently stepped up attacks on commercial ships.
They have hijacked ships within the territory of Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar and Seychelles, raising fears that the pirates were becoming more daring.
They are also heavily armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. The International Maritime Bureau says 128 ships were hijacked in the first nine months of the year.
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A coach-class rebellion against the Transportation Security Administration is brewing as state and local lawmakers challenge the agency's right to implement its invasive airport-safety protocols.
"I'd like to send Washington a clear signal that these aggressive pat-downs and body scanners may have crossed the line," said Sean Paige, a member of the Colorado Springs City Council. "We want to maintain airport security, but need to speak up for the passengers who come through our city." I don't know if the TSA or the public is considering this or not, but those who flew on Thanksgiving were basically trapped into flying on the busiest flying period of the year because they had already purchased their non-refundible tickets. Maybe the ignorant will belive that this suggests that most people are happy with this and that they should get into line like the rest of the sheeple, but I don't.
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A former Torreon, Coahuila police officer was shot to death by Coahuila state police agents in an encounter that turned out to be a hostage rescue Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts.
Victor Israel Solis Vazquez, 28, was shot by a Coahuila state police patrol elements after the patrol encountered a stolen Mazda sedan. The agents apparently attempted to stop the vehicle which was traveling near the intersection of calles Gustavo A. Madero and Primera in the Primero de Mayo colony at about 0145 hrs early Tuesday morning.
Armed suspects aboard the vehicle fired on the patrol elements using .223 caliber and 9mm weapons, but return fire killed Soliz Vazquez and disabled the car. Three other suspects fled the scene.
Police found inside the car trunk an unidentified businessman in his 40s who had been kidnapped ten days before from his residence in Campestre La Rosita colony.
[Al Jazeera] Cote D'Ivoire's constitutional court has named Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president, as the winner of the country's presidential run-off vote, despite electoral official having earlier declared opposition leader Alassane Outtara as the victor.
The opposition has warned that the conflict over the results of Sunday's election threatens to push the West African nation back towards war.
Al Jizz's Yvonne Ndege reported from Abidjan that the violence has indeed materialised on the streets of the costal city late on Friday night.
"It's bad news from Abidjan tonight. Those outbreaks of violence that people had feared, particularly amongst supporters of the opposition leader, Alassane Ouattara, have started to break out across Abidjan," Ndege said.
"From my hotel room alone, I saw four plumes of black smoke, thick black smoke. And what we're told by people on the ground is the supporters are on the rampage. Burning houses, burning public buildings, burning tyres. They're furious that Laurent Gbagbo has been declared the president."
Anticipating the constitutional court's decision on Friday, Ouattara's camp said it would reject any legal bid to overturn the provisional results which made Ouattara, the country's former prime minister, the president by 54.1 per cent to 45.9.
"We will not recognise any decisions by the constitutional council taken under such conditions," Amadou Gon, a senior campaign aide, said.
However, The infamous However... the president of the constitutional council dismissed the provisional results in a 30-minute presentation, detailing what he described as irregularities that had led to his decision.
No process for appeals
There is no legal means for the opposition to appeal the decision by the country's highest legal body.
"The opposition leaders has few options on the table because the constitutional court is the ultimate decider in this race and it's decided that the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo, who's been president for ten years already, won the election last Sunday," Al Jizz's correspondent said.
"The question now is, will pressure be brought to bear on Gbagbo if [Ouattara's] supporters go out there and start tearing up the city?"
However, Another infamous However... most major international bodies are calling on Gbagbo and the constitutional court to respect the election outcome.
And while the council the final word on the outcome of the vote, the UN must also certify the results under a 2007 peace deal signed by Gbagbo.
Young-Jin Choi, the special representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cote d'Ivoire, held a presser to denounce the new results.
He said that even if the seven contested regions are thrown out, the opposition candidate is still ahead, saying he has "absolute confidence that there is only one winner - Mr Alassane Ouattara".
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Obooboo channelling Gen. Buck Turgidson: "Man, I wish we had one o' them constitutional courts..."
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What happens when the consent of the governed is frustrated.
[Geo News] Four people including three armed assailants and a security official were killed while six others including an official were maimed in an attack on a security patrol party in Khuzdar on Friday.
According to police and security officials, three armed assailants ambushed a security party which was on a routine patrol at the National Highway near Sunny locality. As a result, one personnel of the security force was killed while six others were maimed.
All the three assailants identified as Abu Bakar, Ahmed and Nabi Bakhsh residents of district Kalat were killed when the security force retaliated firing.
The maimed security officials were admitted to Khuzdar CMH while the bodies of the assailants were kept in the morgue of Khuzdar civil hospital.
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[Ma'an] The Islamist movement Hizb Ut-Tahrir on Thursday slammed Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, saying the party was giving up its principals.
Hizb Ut-Tahrir (Liberation Party) issued a statement following a rare news conference held by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gazoo on Wednesday.
The party said Hamas was heading toward the same track as Fatah and the Paleostinian Authority, turning from armed struggle to negotiations with Israel, and ceding most of Paleostine.
Haniyeh said Wednesday that Hamas would accept the creation of a Paleostinian state in the West Bank and Gazoo.
"We don't have a problem with establishing a viable Paleostinian state with illusory sovereignty on the land that was occupied in 1967, with a just solution for the refugees, including the release of all Paleostinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and with elections as the only way to transfer authority from one party to another."
The Gazoo Prime Minister said his government would respect the results of a referendum on any peace deal agreed in negotiations with Israel, in line with the 2007 Mecca agreement that established the Hamas-Fatah unity government.
"These respective documents granted President Abbas and the PLO full control over the negotiations, allowing them to come back with the results if there are any, to call for a referendum, to call on the Paleostinian people if they agree with what has been achieved in the negotiations and the establishment of a state."
Hizb Ut-Tahrir said Haniyeh's statements confirmed information revealed in a US diplomatic cable released by the whistleblowing group WikiLeaks.
In a document originating from the US embassy in Doha, Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani is reported to have said Hamas leaders were ready to recognize Israel.
According to the cable, Al-Thani said Hamas leaders realized they would have to time the announcement carefully, as their supporters were not ready for the change.
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[Ennahar] A report by the U.S. Embassy in Rabat reveals the involvement of the Moroccan regime in operation of support to the activities of narcos, either by closing the eyes on the activities thereof, or by sanctioning the elements security services who fight against drug smuggling.
For the first time a U.S. official document speaks of the involvement of Morocco in matters of drug trafficking, citing officials of the Moroccan police working at Casablanca airport, who have been sanctioned in mid-August 2009 after they had jugged the son of the Senegalese president and the son of a Minister of the same country for drug possession.
According to the report, King Mohammed VI had not appreciated the arrest of president's son and a Senegalese minister's son without his knowledge and without prior consultation. The two Senegalese were released later and the coppers punished.
The report also quotes an official of the Moroccan police in Casablanca, who was mutated in the occupied city of Laayoune after he had implicitly accused the regime of being behind the drug mafia.
Another report published by Wikileaks dated 2008 talks about the corruption that plagues the Moroccan army, especially among bigwigs of the military institution. It says "the Moroccan army suffers from corruption, bureaucracy, lower educational level of officers and the continued threat of extremism of some elements." It added that "the head of the gendarmerie, General Hasni Ben Slimane "allegedly involved in corruption cases."
Corruption, the report said, plagues the top military hierarchy in Morocco and General Benani turned into "a Baron of milk." the latter, taking advantage of his position as army chief in the occupied Western Sahara, manipulated markets to supply the army in milk, thereby making a fortune in billions of dollars, in addition to his involvement with other generals in doubtful markets of fishing permits on the coast of Western Sahara. He managed well, the report said, to build a palace for his family with money of corruption.
Corruption also affects the officers who, to qualify for promotions, pay bribes to their leaders.
Morocco provided Washington with information on the Iranian nuclear program and incited them against Algeria.
Morocco promises to establish official relations with Israel.
Wikileaks report: "Algeria has not forgotten the blood of its diplomats in Iraq and demands to know the identity of the sponsors.
Wikileaks exposes the Makhzen's regime and reveals the inconsistency of its positions on Arab issues.
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Anon1, if you are still reading....I just wanted to let you know that anyone that was able to get rid of the Clintons from public office is a-okay in my book. God does work in mysterious ways. LOL!
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[Al Jazeera] US diplomats were concerned about the competence of Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai, the Afghan president, and widespread corruption within his government, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
Karzai's character as well as ability are questioned in US embassy memos obtained by the whistleblower website and published by the Guardian, a UK newspaper, late on Thursday.
Karl Eikenberry, the current US ambassador to Afghanistan, in a 2009 cable describes Karzai as "insecure" and a "paranoid and weak individual".
"Indeed his inability to grasp the most rudimentary principles of state-building and his deep seated insecurity as a leader combine to make any admission of fault unlikely, in turn confounding our best efforts to find in Karzai a responsible partner," Eikenberry said.
Eikenberry added that Karzai continually blames the US and its allies for Afghanistan's problems rather than looking at the problems of his leadership, and that his attitude was unlikely to change.
'Semi-modern aristocracy'
The cables state that Karzai's own ministers accused him of going along with criminal activity. One case cites Karzai's ordering of the physical intimidation of the official heading a team negotiating with the Taliban.
US officials in the memos view Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of the president and bigwig in Kandahar, as corrupt and call the Karzai family a "semi-modern aristocracy".
"As the kingpin of Kandahar, Ahmed Wali Karzai (AWK) dominates access to economic resources, patronage, and protection.
"Much of the real business of running Kandahar takes place out of public sight, where AWK operates, parallel to formal government structures, through a network of political clans that use state institutions to protect and enable licit and illicit enterprises."
Al Jizz's James Bays, in Kabul, said that the documents showed a declining confidence in Karzai's presidency.
"Certainly there is criticism of some of the things he has done, like releasing some prisoners from jail ... said to be for tribal, political reasons.
"The cables show a progression of when Karzai has been in power - from total confidence in him to now when they are deeply concerned."
The leaked cables reveal mounting US worries over corruption in Afghanistan and the flight of "vast amounts" of money from the country.
One memo from October 2009 stated that Ahmed Zia Massoud, the then vice-president, had been found with $52m in a suitcase when stopped at Dubai airport.
Massoud has denied the claim.
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US diplomats also criticised the role of UK troops in Afghanistan, saying their effort was "not up to standard" in southern Helmand province, a stronghold of the Taliban.
"We and Karzai agree the British are not up to the task of securing Helmand," US diplomats from the Kabul embassy said in a 2008 cable.
In a separate cable sent in February 2009, Karzai complains that UK forces had allowed law and order to breakdown in Helmand.
"When I first returned to Afghanistan, I had only 14 American soldiers with me," the cable quoted Karzai as having said.
"Helmand was safe for girls to go to school. Now ... British soldiers are in Helmand, and the people are not safe.
"We must stand on a higher moral platform than the bad guys."
General Dan McNeill, the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan from 2007-2008, was reported to have said to a US drug-control officer in April 2007 that the British "had made a mess of things in Helmand, their tactics were wrong".
Gulab Mangal, Helmand's governor, was also quoted in a cable sent from the US embassy in Kabul as telling a US team led by Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ... an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body ... , the vice-president, that US forces were needed urgently due to British security in the town of Sangin failing to extend even to the main bazaar.
'Increasing security'
"I do not have anything against them [the British] but they must leave their bases and engage with the people," Mangal said.
"Stop calling it the Sangin district and start calling it the Sangin base - all you have done here is build a military camp next to the city."
The UK has reacted to the leaked memos, stating that their troops had performed well and that safety in Sangin - which the US now maintains responsibility for - was improved by their presence.
"British forces did an excellent job in Sangin, delivering progress by increasing security and taking the fight to the insurgency," the UK's ministry of defence said in a statement.
"Both Afghan leaders, including the governor of Sangin and the US Marines, have publicly recognised and paid tribute to the sacrifice and achievements of British forces in that area," a front man added.
Nato forces have been in Afghanistan since 2001, following a US invasion of the country to remove the Taliban, whom they accused of harbouring al-Qaeda operatives connected to the September 11 attacks, from power.
This year has been the most violent since the campaign began.
The UK has 10,000 troops in the country, now costing more than £5bn ($7.7bn) a year, of about 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan.
The WikiLeaks website began releasing a trove of classified US diplomatic cables on Sunday, infuriating Washington, which called the leak an "attack on the international community".
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Guinea's losing presidential poll candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo on Friday accepted results of the election, saying he had no choice but to comply with the Supreme Court's decision.
"Our complaints were not taken into account despite the strength of our arguments and the relevance of our evidence," Diallo said in a statement referring to disputed results in a poll won by rival Alpha Conde.
"As Supreme Court decisions are final ... we have no choice but to abide by this judgement delivered by the highest judicial institution of the republic."
Addressing his supporters he said commitment to peace and a united Guinea "commands us to stifle our frustration and our suffering, to remain calm and serene and avoid any form of violence."
He added that he remained convinced "that our inevitable victory has only been delayed."
The special envoy of the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society secretary-general in West Africa, Said Djinnit, paid tribute to Diallo for accepting the outcome.
After a tense two-week wait under a state of emergency, imposed in the wake of three days of festivities after the initial announcement, the Supreme Court validated Conde's victory with 52.5 percent of the votes early Friday.
The 72-year-old former opposition leader will become the country's first democratically-elected president since independence from France in 1958.
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[Chosun Ilbo] South Korea gave North Korea an astronomical US$2.98 billion during the Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun administrations from 1998-2008, according to a government tally announced Thursday. That is 1.5 times more than the amount of aid China gave to North Korea over the same period, which totaled $1.9 billion.
The government and private businesses gave North Korea $1.84 billion through commercial trade, $544.23 million for package tours to the Mt. Kumgang resort, $450 million for an inter-Korean summit, $41.31 million in land use fees and wages for North Korean workers at the Kaesong Industrial Complex and $30.03 million as part of various social and cultural exchanges, according to internal documents of the Unification Ministry and other government agencies.
◆ Funds to Develop Nuclear Weapons
"North Korea is believed to have spent $500-600 million to develop long-range missiles and $800-900 million to develop nuclear weapons," a South Korean government source said. "And the cash provided by South Korea could have been used to develop them."
Former government officials during the previous administrations deny this. Lee Jae-joung, a former unification minister, said in a lecture in July last year, "It's frustrating to hear claims that North Korea conducted nuclear tests using money that the Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun administrations gave. So far the government offered cash to North Korea only once."
He claims that the government was not responsible for paying North Korea $450 million for the first inter-Korean summit in 2000 as that was provided by private businesses together with the cash for the Mt. Kumgang package tours and the Kaesong Industrial Complex.
However, The infamous However... the whereabouts of the cash payment of $400,000 Lee admits to is also uncertain. That was the money North Korea demanded in April 2007 to build a video-link center for the reunions of families separated by the Korean War. North Korea has yet to start construction. "I think they just extorted the money," a South Korean government official said.
◆ Hungry for Cash
"North Korea demanded money for every event," said one Unification Ministry official who was in charge of humanitarian cooperation projects during the Roh administration. "We got the feeling that North Korea was trying to use the reunions of families separated by the Korean War as a means to make money." The North even demanded that South Korea pay $1,000 for each video clip exchanged by families in addition to all of the filming and editing equipment as part of a project back in 2007 that would allow some separated families to stay in touch via video messages, the official said.
A National Assembly audit in 2006 revealed how North Korea made money off South Korean broadcasters. A key example is the W1 billion (US$1=W1,149) that state-run South Korean broadcaster KBS gave North Korea in 2003 to record a TV show about a singing contest in Pyongyang to mark Liberation Day.
In 2005, SBS gave W700 million in cash and W200 million worth of paint and other goods to North Korea for a concert in the North Korean capital by South Korean singer Cho Yong-pil, while in 2002, MBC paid the North W320 million in cash and provided 5,000 TV sets (worth W734 million) for two concerts in Pyongyang by South Korean singers Lee Mi-ja and Yoon Do-hyun.
North Korea also received sizable amounts from South Korean businesses and civic groups through unofficial channels or backroom deals. "Many business owners in the South had problems managing their companies because North Korea habitually made excessive demands for money," said Cho Bong-hyun, a researcher at the Industrial Bank of Korea's economic research center
This suggests that a considerable amount of bribes were paid. One South Korean owner of a garment company that was based in Pyongyang said, "Bribes South Korean businesses paid in the early stages to prevent any problems later became customary. After North Korean officials got a taste of the money, they ended up asking for bribes first."
A Unification Ministry official said, "It's impossible to estimate how much money was given to North Korea through unofficial channels. We can't even trace the use of official government money given to North Korea, such as the $400,000 for building a video-link center for the family reunions, so there is no way of telling what happened to money handed over under the table."
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North Korea demanded money for every event
Humm.... maybe I franchise Sea of Fire Bridal Service
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Chief of the Thi-Qar Intelligence survived an attempt on his life on Friday, while an army soldier was killed by a sniper in separate incidents in Baghdad, a security source said.
Brigadier Ahmad Saleh survived an attempt on his life when gunmen opened fire on him near al-Muthanna airport central Baghdad, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The officer was wounded and was carried to the hospital for treatment, he added.
A sniper killed a soldier while on duty in al-Biejiya region in al-Mansour neighborhood, western Baghdad, he said.
Unknown gunmen blew up a building under construction in al-Taji region, northern Baghdad, the source said, pointing out that the explosion caused no casualties.
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[El Universal] The presidents of the Ibero-American Business Organizations, who are holding a meeting in Buenos Aires, condemned recent attacks on the Venezuelan business sector.
In a statement, the businessmen rejected the attacks on several executives of Venezuela's main private business chamber (the Venezuelan Federation of Trade and Industry Chamber, Fedecamaras) last October 27, when a group of gunnies tried to kidnap them.
They also rejected "the serious and permanent harassment of the Venezuelan private sector, which has translated into a government policy based on seizures and expropriations of business in all the sectors of the economy. This is leading not only to the destruction of the national production system, but to the loss of hundreds of thousands jobs."
Business organizations have urged the government to open a dialogue with Venezuelan entrepreneurs and resolve the pending cases that have been reported to the International Labor Organization (ILO) by business and labor organizations.
They also requested the International Organization of Employers (OIE) to "make all efforts to create, as soon as possible, an ILO Commission of Inquiry to examine the allegations of violation of freedom of association against employers and workers in the last decade" in Venezuela.
They also urged the OIE "to use all existing international bodies, particularly the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Commission on Human Rights and the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to discuss in those bodies the hostile policies and attacks on private property and business leaders."
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The WikiLeaks affair has claimed its first victim after Germany's vice-chancellor Guido Westerwelle sacked his chief of staff for spying for the Americans.
Mr Westerwelle's chief of staff, Helmut Metzner, admitted that he gave regular information to the US embassy in Berlin, and has been "relieved from his duties," a spokesman for the Liberal Free Democrats (FDP) said in a statement.
Another official in the spotlight is Swedish diplomat Johan Frisell who briefed the US on internal talks between EU ministers about the 2008 Georgia war.
The Candian ambassador to Kabul, William Crosbie, has also offered to resign if future cables damage his relationship with the Afghani administration.
In Italy, pressure is mounting for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to step down, after a series of revelations concerning alleged bribe-taking from his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
The WikiLeaks cables may also have burned the leader of the Communist Party in Moldova, Vladimir Voronin, who is said to have offered $10 million last year for one of the ruling party leaders, Marian Lupu, to defect to his side. The revelation comes in a sensitive post-election coalition-building moment.
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of course they do - they don't use it to damage an ally, though. I can virtually guarantee Germany does it as well, as they should, especially with Oblahblah "Citizen of the World" in office
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"Damage" is a harsh word but you don't take unfair advantage of a friend either.
Mr Westerwelle is Germany's Foreign Minister. It is not a friendly act when the other side has his negotiation points before the talks.
We are friends, we are partners. But we are also competitors.
I think Hillary Clinton would not be amused to learn that her chief of staff is handing over confidential/secret information to the German ambassador.
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[Al Jazeera] Barack B.O. Obama, the US president, has made a surprise visit to US troops serving in Afghanistan, but he has been criticised for cancelling a face-to-face meeting with Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai, his Afghan counterpart.
The trip to Afghanistan, Obama's second during his presidency, came as the White House prepares to release a review of strategy in the conflict against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
The US president was met by General David Petraeus, the commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, and Karl Eikenberry, the US ambassador in Kabul, as he arrived at Bagram Air Base on Friday, before heading to the hospital to meet maimed soldiers.
However, The infamous However... the trip was cut from the planned six hours to just four hours with the explanation that winds of more than 70kph and heavy clouds prevented him from taking the short helicopter ride to the presidential palace in the capital, Kabul.
Obama spoke by telephone with Karzai, after the weather also made a video conference impossible.
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You know when you're starting out and you get to be the warm up band for the main event. Then you get one big hit on the charts and you're the main event. Then your next album bombs. You then team up with someone else who can pull the crowds and attention again. I think I've seen this act before.
[Dawn] The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) claimed on Friday to have jugged five suspected forces of Evil involved in the suicide kaboom on Rescue 15 police and ISI buildings in 2009.
The attack had claimed lives of 29 people, 19 police officials and a senior officer of an intelligence agency among them, besides injuring 416 others. Several public and private buildings and vehicles were damaged in the attack that followed massive firing on May 27, 2009.
The alleged forces of Evil were identified as Sarfraz Ahmad of Chak 116, Faisalabad, Shabbir Ahmad (Chak 29, Thikriwala), Umer Hayat (Chak 423, Tandlianwala), Hafiz Mahmood (Chak 100, Karri-wala Dak Khana Khas, Faisalabad) and Abid Akram (a resident of 33/A Qazi Park, Shahdara Town, Lahore).
CCPO Aslam Tareen told the media at the Qila Gujjar Singh Police Lines that the jugged men were activists of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistain's group -- Al-Toheed Al-Jihad led by Dr Umer Kundi (who belonged to Lodhran's Kehror Pucca tehsil).
Dr Kundi was the criminal mastermind of the attack on police 15 building and was also assigned the task of generating funds through kidnap for ransom and robberies for the TTP to run its affairs.
He said Sarfraz and Shabbir had opened heavy fire on the coppers deputed at barriers/check post in front of the police 15 building seconds before the explosive-laden vehicle attack in May 2009. All of them had kidnapped and killed people in Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Sialkot, he said.
The CIA police, he said, had jugged the suspects in Ravi Park, Shahdara, where they were planning more attacks in the scenic provincial capital. A huge cache of weapons and four suicide jackets had been recovered, he said.
"Their next target were the offices of the Lahore police, the army and other law-enforcement agencies," said Mr Tareen who added that they had finalised plots and were awaiting suicide kaboomers. The police also recovered hand-grenade pins, mortar shells and sophisticated weapons.
The CCPO said the suspects got training from North Wazoo's Dittakhel tehsil and were assigned re-organisation of the group in Punjab after the death of Dr Kundi. Abid Akram replaced Kundi for next 'assignments' in Punjab.
He said the vehicle used in the police 15 building attack was snatched from Hangu district at gunpoint and a case was registered in the Hangu cop shoppe on Feb 2, 2009, against unidentified people.
The CCPO said the cut-throats had been using Allied Hospital, Faisalabad, for secret meetings.
He said Abid Akram, Dr Babar Cheema, Babar Bajwa, Dr Sarfraz and Asif Chattha kidnapped 14-year-old Arsalan from Samundari Road, Faisalabad, and killed him after four months on not getting the ransom. They threw the boy's body in canal.
In April 2008, Abid Akram, Afzal Butt and Nadeem Butt kidnapped textile mill owner Muneer Ahmad from Khurrianwala (Faisalabad) and released him after getting a Rs100 million ransom.
Abid, Ajmal, Shoaib Ishaq, Qaisar Cheema and Asad rubbed out Mian Laeeque, a cloth trader of Faisalabad's Montgomery Road in May 2009. They had a plan to kidnap him for ransom.
The CCPO said Abid, Ajmal, Shoaib, Qamar Shah and Asad kidnapped UK-returned Mian Bashir from China Chowk, Sialkot, in August 2009. They later released him after getting Rs2.5 million ransom. The kidnappers also sold his car at a throwaway price of Rs60,000 in Mirpur, Azad Kashmire.
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BABEL / Aswat al-Iraq: Four rockets hit the U.S. base in north of Babel on Friday, according to a security source.
Four rockets hit the U.S. base in Mashrouaa al-Musayab region, northern Hilla, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The rockets were launched in two attacks; two rockets in every attack. A U.S. force searched the region and found two local-made pads, he said, without giving further details.
The attack is the third on the U.S. base in the past three days.
Hilla, the capital of Babel, is 100 km south of Baghdad.
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[Bangla Daily Star] An alleged robber was beaten to death by a mob in Ashulia on the outskirt of the city early yesterday.
The dear departed Alamgir Hossain, 32, hailed from Faridganj upazila of Chandpur.
Dewan Kaushik Ahmed, sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station, said locals chased a gang of 6-7 people while they were attempting a robbery at Nutupara of Dandabor after hearing warning screams from a night guard of the area around 3:00am. So, looking for a guard job are ya? Lemme hear your warning scream.
At one stage, the mob managed to catch Alamgir and beat him up severely.
However, The infamous However... his cohorts decamped the scene, he added.
Police on information rescued Alamgir in a critical condition and took him to nearby Gonoshasthya Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Police also recovered machetes, a knife and grill cutting instruments from the spot.
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Justice never sleeps in Bangladesh. Nor does anyone else, it seems.
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and yet american commanders say the Brits are useless in helamnd, yeah, well, you will learn the hard way, like the brits did, over 300 dead, supporting their American 'allies'
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Same old, same old. Except for one interesting thing:
One of the Marines in the photos is from Beserkly, Caliphornia. One guy smart enough to find a way out of town!
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and yet american commanders say the Brits are useless in helamnd,
Pikestaff, the British troops were severely limited by stupid orders from the top, coupled with a distinct lack of bullets, helicopters, and pretty much everything they needed to properly fight a local war. It wasn't the fault of the troops, or the officers with them, that they were not able to be effective in Helmand Province, it was the fault of the Ministry of Defence, and ultimately of the last several Labour prime ministers, who chose to put tax funds into council housing for terrorists' families instead.
Anyone who heard about that bayonet charge in Iraq because the patrol ran out of bullets knows it isn't a question about the troops. But the MoD made sure their troops couldn't do a bloody thing in Helmand, and the American generals noticed.
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...it was the fault of the Ministry of Defence, and ultimately of the last several Labour prime ministers ...
I don't see the current Tory/LD coalition doing much to fix the problems at the MoD.
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oikestaff, go check Basra, and the British command's incompetence and borderline cowardice when ti comes to ops. Helmand is a mess because the British command screwed it up, just liek Basra. As usual, we will fix it, thanks for keeping them busy until the real professionals could show up, condolences to those brave infantry who held the line in spite of their commander's ineptitude. Note that there is nothing wrong with the British troops except British leadership and politics (past and current).
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Sadly, as you look back through history, this is ALWAYS the problem with British troops. They are brave and good soldiers, but always hampered by the Upper Class Twits of the Year. Had they had competent leaders, a lot of the world would still be part of the British Empire.
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Oh, it is past time we blew them sky high. I, respectfully, wish to say that I do not think we learn our lessons quickly enough. We've been doinking around over there for years now. This penny ante patrol crap should be replaced with precision air strikes and huge bombs, or give up the ghost and come home. I've had it.
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Had they had competent leaders, a lot of the world would still be part of the British Empire.
Including us, Silentbrick.
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Last night I posted this link as a prayer request. My girlfriend's niece is dating a Marine and is asking for everyone to say a prayer for "Darkhorse" 3rd Battalion 5th Marines and their families.They are fighting it out in Afghanistan and have lost 9 Marines in 4 days.
"Darkhorse" while in Iraq, fought in the liberation of Fallujah.
I am gratefull to the moderators for posting this story today. The above verbage regarding the 9 killed marines during the first 4 days of this mission has been spreading like wildfire as Americans are getting behind "Darkhorse".
"Darkhorse" 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, just as in Fallujah will make the adjustments and they are making the adjustments. Contrary to the British scenariou, they are the badass people who will take Hell-mond.
God Bless the Fight.
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so much for 'civil' well reasoned discourse, whisky mike, pissed on whisky?
*sigh* Why is it that people ignore the picture next to "Rantburg" at the top of the page? pikestaff, the picture is of two old-fashioned gentlemen engaging in the kind of civil, well-reasoned discourse that used to be referred to as fisticuffs. Bare knuckled. Your opening salvo was, to be blunt, pissy. Not to mention disrespectful of those troops from both Britain and America (not to mention certain other countries' troops too often left unmentioned) who have given their lives and/or limbs in the fight to keep our women out of burkahs. Whiskey Mike (at one time a well known call sign in certain military circles, I've been told) was quite restrained in his response, compared to what he is capable of. OldSpook's post (#6) is what the very experienced American military of more recent vintage think -- he, too, was quite restrained, because you are new here.
"pikestaff" doesn't sound like the nym of a Brit who wants the jihadis to win. So then if beating the jihadis is the goal, shouldn't we team up together, instead of competing against each other?
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Check Prince of the Giants3877 - All due respects to 3/5 and your honorable intention, it really isn't appropriate to post specifics about any unit.
[Bangla Daily Star] A woman died and two of her family members fell sick allegedly due to drinking "blessed water" from a pir (spiritual healer) in Sylhet city yesterday.
Deceased Syeda Marufa Rifat, 20, was the daughter of late Abdul Mukit and lived with her mother Siddiqua Akhtar Chowdhury and two brothers on Electric Supply Road at Ambarkhana.
Sources said the mother and daughter along with Siddiqua's brother Ishtiaque Chowdhury yesterday went to local pir Tofura Begum. They drank the "blessed water" and fell sick.
Police, on information, sent them to a local hospital and then to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital where doctors declared Rifat dead, family sources said.
Rifat passed the HSC exams this year and was about to enrol in a university.
Tofura is on the run.
Officer-in-Charge of Sylhet Police Station Khondaker Naoroj Ahmed told The Daily Star that four people including two aides of Tofura and the house help of the victim were picked up for quizzing.
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[Maghrebia] Most of Algeria's Communal Guards will be integrated into the army, Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said Thursday (December 2nd) in Algiers. "The Department of National Defence has decided to keep about two-third of the municipal guard. Those who have more ability to continue serving in the Army will be selected," Ould Kablia said during a graduation ceremony for nearly 500 female officers at the Ain Benian Police Academy. He hailed the contribution of the civilian paramilitary guards, adding that the ANP had used their services "in all security operations it had conducted throughout the country".
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[Dawn] Mismanagement and misuse of cash are hampering relief efforts for Pakistain's flood victims with nearly 60 million dollars in a prime minister's fund still unspent, officials say.
Catastrophic monsoon rains that swept north to south in July and August affected 21 million people, consumed entire villages, wiped out agricultural land and destroyed industries in the country's worst ever natural disaster.
Foreign donors have stumped up just half of a UN appeal target of 1.93 billion dollars, sparking fears for 6.8 million who need emergency shelter as winter sets in, while farmland could remain flooded for another six months.
But officials say efforts to rebuild 1.6 million homes are being compromised by infighting between federal and provincial authorities, and express amazement that a 58.5 million dollar prime minister's fund remains entirely unspent.
Shabbir Anwar, a front man for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, said plans for the money were still being finalised as part of a national recovery plan."The government has prepared a national strategy for rehabilitation and reconstruction. The details are being finalised by the financial division," he told AFP. Yeah, they're waiting to implement the plan for doubling it. Gomez is taking it all to Vegas and putting it on "red"...
But a top Pak official said "malaise" at the heart of government was to blame for inaction, as thousands of families remain camped out on roadsides in makeshift tents.
"Once a decision is taken at the highest level it must be done -- but it doesn't get done," he told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Huge swaths of Sindh province in the south remain underwater. From the air all that can be seen in the worst-affected parts of Dadu province are the tips of trees jutting above inland lakes.
Just outside Gul Mohammad Chandio village, families languish under tents overlooking fields submerged in water, clamouring for the relief that they say has failed to arrive in the months since the disaster.
Villagers returning from relief camps by donkey found homes still flooded or destroyed. A chair balanced on a rubber ring was the only way to ferry people across a flooded street.
"We're very worried about our income because our land is under water. Nobody has helped us," said 45-year-old Mohammad Khan, who returned to his home with seven children to find a pile of rubble.
"Please rebuild our homes. We're worried, we don't have anything."
UN officials have complained about a lack of international financial support for Pakistain, blaming that partly on the government's poor reputation for mismanagement and corruption.
The World Bank has put the overall figure for flood recovery at 9.7 billion dollars.
But despite crippling debts, the federal government insists on doling out the money itself to rebuild schools and hospitals, and has asked donors to contribute only to a cash fund, rather than offer infrastructure assistance. Yeah, it's more...ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...convenient.
Under a cash compensation scheme, 1.6 million of the worst-off families should each receive more than 85,450 rupees to rebuild their homes using an electronic card system. Sure. Lotsa ATM's up there I'll bet. Home Depot's too...
The United States has been quick to endorse the fund, with US envoy Richard Holbrooke telling a development conference in Islamabad that its aid could be fast-tracked into the scheme.
But the World Bank has refused to back the scheme until the fund is made more transparent and accountable, and there have been widespread reports of problems with the cash card system, said Oxfam media officer Amil Khan.
"We have reports of people not knowing how to use the cash cards, machines not having any cash, not having any power. There have been issues of access...it's a significant issue," said Khan. Ya don't say? Sorry, guys. I don't want the job.
Head of the National Disaster Management Authority that coordinates flood relief, General Nadeem Ahmed, said he has "strong reservations" over the plan because there is no system in place to oversee the home rebuilding.
Of the 1.6 million homes earmarked for construction, he said 400,000 needed to be built elsewhere to avoid flood plains and fault lines in the earthquake-prone country.
"People are making houses and schools in the river beds," said Ahmed.
"We want to make sure that whatever reconstruction we do must make use of the opportunity to build back better."
USAID officials met Pakistain's National Accountability Board last week to discuss allegations of misuse of American money by aid organisations, a Pak official said on condition of anonymity.
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We need to send some New Orleans politicians to teach them how to use flood aid - or maybe we did, since I think some is still unspent and a lot was obviously mismanaged.
Fourteen individuals were murdered in northern Mexican states including two Chihuahua municipal police officers shot to death Tuesday night. For a map, click here
Two unidentified men in their 20s were found shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Tuesday night, say Mexican news accounts. The victims were found near the intersection of calles Rio Nilo and Rio Paraguay in the Riberas de Sacramento colony tortured, gagged with rags and hands bound with nylon cord. At the scene were found 12 9mm spent shell casings.
Two Chihuahua municipal police officers were shot to death and a third wounded in an attack late Tuesday in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news reports. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Agustin Melgar and Tecnologico in the northern zone. Victor Ruiz Jimenez and Jesus Sifuentes Acevedo died at the scene when armed suspects riding aboard a Ford or GMC SUV open fired on the three officers who had dismounted their patrol vehicles. Several spent .223 caliber and AK-47 rounds were found at the scene.
Two unidentified women were found shot to death in Juarez Wednesday morning, say Mexican news accounts. The victim were killed near the corner of calles Hidalgo and Guadalupe Victoria in the Valles de Juarez colony, shot 14 times using assault weapons. Their bodies were dumped at the scene.
An unidentified man was shot to death late Wednesday night in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found gagged and his feet bound with tape near the intersection of calles Monte Mayor and Camino Viejo. A message was left with the victim which said, "Merry Christmas, pigs."
Two unidentified men were shot to death and a thrid was wounded in an attack in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Thursday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place at a used car lot near the corner of avenidas Francisco Villa and Republica de Colombia in the Panamericana colony. One of the victims died at the scene while the other died while on the way to receiving medical attention.
A former inmate at a Hermosillo, Sonora prison was shot to death only moments after his released Thursday night, say Mexican news accounts.Rafael Quijada Quijada, 37, has only driven 100 meters aboard a Volkswagen Jetta outside the gates of Centro de Readaptacion Social Numero 1 (CERESO) when armed suspects traveling aboard two SUVs shot and killed him. Reports say Quijada resisted an abduction attempt and that was why he was shot.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Tijuana, Baja California Thursday night, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was found inside a sedan parked outside of a grocery store in Cañón K colony in the Zona Centro.
Two unidentified individuals were found shot in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora Thursday night, say Mexican news sources. The victims were found inside a residence near the intersection of Avenida Lazaro Cárdenas and Calle 41st. Reports say several heavily armed individuals stormed the home and shot to pair to death. Reports also say the shooting was a settling of scores, although the information was not elaborated on.
A man was found shot to death in Torreon, Coahuila, say Mexican news accounts. Fausto Avalos, 46, was found in a cemetery at the Ejido Flores Magon. farm with single gunshot wound to the head and his body mutilated.
[Geo News] Five suspects have been jugged which are linked to an attack on a spy agency building in Lahore last year which killed 24 people, the police chief said.
"The suspects have confessed their role in the suicide kaboom on the intelligence agency building," police chief Aslam Tareen told news hounds, adding that the group had been planning more terror attacks.
"The five were jugged a couple of days ago from Shahdara," a neighbourhood in Lahore, the country's eastern hub, Tareen told a presser.
"We are in a warlike situation and this war on terror has spread across Pakistain, but we are trying to do our best to maintain security," he said. It would take time to complete the investigation, he added.
Police said the suspects belonged to the previously unknown Al-Toheed-wa-al-Jihad faction which falls under the umbrella of jihad boy group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), and had trained in North Wazoo.
"They were activating themselves and planning terrorist activities in Lahore," Tareen said.
The group was also engaged in kidnapping for ransom, an investigator said.
"They kidnapped people for ransom in 2009 in Faisalabad and Sialkot," senior police investigator Zulfiqar Hameed told the presser.
"Their next target was some security forces buildings in Lahore," he said.
"Police have recovered four boom jackets, one rifle, 32 hand grenade pins, 13 number plates of vehicles, eight mortar shells and ammunition."
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[Arab News] [Arab News] Brazil says it has recognized the state of Paleostine based on borders at the time of Israel's 1967 conquest of the West Bank.
The Foreign Ministry says the recognition is in response to a request made by Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas last month to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Silva sent a letter to Abbas on Dec. 1, saying Brazil recognizes Paleostine and hopes that the recognition will help lead to states of Israel and Paleostine "that will coexist peacefully and in security."
The Foreign Ministry says that the recognition is "in line with Brazil's historic willingness to contribute to peace between Israel and Paleostine."
The announcement was posted Friday on the Foreign Ministry's website.
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the state of Paleostine based on borders at the time of Israel's 1967 conquest of the West Bank.
He kinda looks like a skinhead. I wonder if this guy wasn't hanging around after the fire was set. Some firebugs just can't control themselves this way and end up getting caught because of it.
I wouldn't take my eye off the imam, though. The brick had to come from somewhere. It would have been easier to just use a local rock rather than lug one from a distance away and risk getting caught.
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[Arab News] South Korea's next defense chief threatened Friday that jets would bomb the North if it stages another attack like last week's deadly shelling as he outlined a tough new military policy toward the rival neighbor.
President Lee Myung-bak's government is suffering intense criticism that its response to North Korea's Nov. 23 barrage on a South Korean island was weak, and over the stunning revelation that the South's spy chief dismissed information in August indicating the North might attack the front-line island of Yeonpyeong.
Lee's nominee, Kim Kwan-jin, told a parliamentary confirmation hearing that further North Korean aggression will result in Arclight airstrikes. He said South Korea will use all its combat capabilities to retaliate.
"In case the enemy attacks our territory and people again, we will thoroughly retaliate to ensure that the enemy cannot provoke again," Kim said. The hearing is a formality as South Korea's National Assembly does not have the power to reject Lee's appointment.
Kim said it will be difficult for North Korea to conduct a full-scale war because of its weak economy and concerns over a plan to transfer power from ailing leader Kim Jong Il to his young, untested son, Kim Jong Un.
Despite the bold declarations, questions have been raised about Lee's readiness -- and even willingness -- to stand up to the North. The president has been criticized for leading a military whose response to the attack was seen as too slow and too weak. The North fired 170 rounds, compared with 80 returned by South Korea.
Satellite photos showed only about 10 South Korean rounds landed near North Korea's army barracks along the west coast, according to the office of politician Kwon Young-se, who said he saw the images provided Thursday by the National Intelligence Service.
Despite the pressure, Lee must balance calls for a harsh response with the knowledge that Seoul -- a city of more than 10 million people and the economic heart of the country -- lies only 50 km from the Koreas' heavily militarized border and within easy range of North Korean artillery.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Friday that North Korea has recently improved its ability to hit the capital: North Korea now has 5,200 rockets, about 100 more than it used to, the agency said, citing an unidentified South Korean military source. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said it could not confirm the report because it involves military intelligence.
Kim and other senior South Korean officials have warned the North will likely strike again. Kim said Friday that North Korea's leadership and military are South Korea's "main enemy." China, which is North Korea's only major ally, has pressed for an emergency meeting of the six nations that previously negotiated over the North's nuclear program: the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the United States.
North Korea walked away from those disarmament-for-aid talks in April 2009 but has said it now wants to restart them. Washington, Tokyo and Seoul are wary of talking with the North, and their top diplomats planned to meet in Washington on Monday to plot a strategy on dealing with the country.
Although it won't be part of that meeting, China said Thursday it would keep a "close watch" on the talks and sounded upbeat about what they could achieve.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement that she also hoped the three countries would consider China's proposal for the emergency consultations. Earlier Thursday, Jiang said that Russia had expressed interest. South Korea, Japan and the US have reacted coolly to the suggestion.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... President Lee said he believes there are signs of change in North Korea, citing the presence of private markets and a growing number of defections to South Korea.
"What should be noted is the change of the North Korean people rather than the change of its leaders," Lee said in comments on the presidential website.
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Real easy way to fix the Norks artillery: tac nukes.
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See also TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA REPEATS THREAT TO [militarily] RETALIATE IFF ATTACKED AGAIN. Will bomb Pyongyang via Air Strikes, Other.
* ION SAME > {Former USFK Chief] SOUTH URGED TO HIT BACK HARD AT NORTH IFF ATTACKED AGAIN.
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM.CN > RUSSIA NAVAL CHIEF: MORE CARRIERS [ + Other NavWarShips] TO BE BUILT [2012-after]. WILL RUSSIA'S NAVAL DREAM COME TRUE?
ARTIC = The RUSSNAV = RUSSIA wants 5-6 CV Groups for its NORTHERN + PACIFIC FLEETS, wid CV's prolly based or centered on FNS "MISTRAL" RUSS-IMPROVED DESIGNS???
Do we even have those anymore? Thought they needed tritium, which only came from the now-closed Savannah River plant and has a short half-life? At least that's what I understood was a threat to certain logging tools future availability.
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FOX NEWS AM + CNN > NORTH KOREA is repor CONDEMNING post-YEONGPYEONG talks between the US-ROK-JAPAN allegedly establishing trilateral military alliance. THE DPRK WARNS THAT SAID TALKS PROVES CONSPIRACY FOR WAR + WILL ONLY RAISE TENSIONS = LIKELIHOOD FOR SAME???
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Three policemen were wounded when gunmen hurled a hand-grenade at their patrol in southern Kirkuk city on Friday, according to a senior security official.
Unidentified gunmen threw a hand-grenade at a police patrol under the 4th Bridge in southern Kirkuk, leaving three patrolmen wounded, Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The incident is the third of its kind in Kirkuk on Friday, he said.
Qader elaborated that a policeman was driving a vehicle in Nahrwan complex, al-Riad district, (45 km southwest of Kirkuk), when he came under gunmen fire, but the attack left no casualties.
In another incident, an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a vehicle parked outside the house of a personnel working for the al-Huweija Anti-Crime Department went off in al-Askari neighborhood, Huwaija, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk. The blast did not leave any casualties either.
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[Dawn] Cyprus police said Friday they jugged two Pak men on suspicion of links to snuffy groups, after being tipped off by foreign intelligence agencies.
"We jugged two people after receiving information concerning illegal activity linked to fundamentalism and bully boy activity," police front man Michalis Katsounotos told AFP.
The men were about 40 years old, he said without providing any other details about the information that led to their arrest.
Reports said police jugged the pair in the capital Nicosia on Wednesday during a swoop on in which they netted two laptops, several CDs and written text.
The daily Phileleftheros said the Cypriot authorities had been alerted four months ago about the suspects' links to extremism related to terror activities.
They were suspected of trying to form a terror cell on the Mediterranean island, and had been under surveillance up until they were jugged.
Police said deportation orders against the two for overstaying their visas were suspended while evidence was being examined to see if they have committed any criminal offence.
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All roads lead to.......
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Convention is that you sing it three times before the refrain.
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ERDOGAN + TURKISH GOVT suppor LEGAL, PRO-ISLAMIST "CREEPING SHARIA" in Vienna, ostensibly under the label of promoting TURKISH IDENTITY in Vienna = Austria - ERdogan also suppors same in GERMANY.
[Arab News] Leb's Hezbullies group said Friday that it discovered an Israeli device spying on its private telecommunications network.
The device went kaboom!, apparently detonated remotely by the Israelis, when it was found near the village of Majdel Silim, about 8 kilometers from the border with Israel, Hezbullies said in a statement.
The Lebanese military also reported the find and the kaboom, saying two people working in a truck nearby were maimed in the blast. It too said in a statement the device was intended to spy on the network.
A front man for the UN peacekeeping force in southern Leb had no comment, and Israeli officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
Hezbullies has its own separate network of phone lines and underground cables, believed to link its positions and command centers throughout the country. Hezbullies leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah had said the network helped his guerrillas fight Israel's army in 2006, when the two sides battled in a 34-day war that killed some 1,200 people in Leb and 160 in Israel.
Majdel Silim is south of the Litani River, the zone where Hezbullies is banned from keeping weapons under a UN
resolution that ended the 2006 war. Last year, the UN
peacekeeping force said Israel detonated two underground sensors planted by the Israelis during the fighting.
Also Friday, Lebanese judicial officials said a military court convicted a man of spying for Israel and sentenced him to 15 years in prison and hard labor.
The sentenced man, Ziad Homsi, began working with Israel in 2006 and supplied Israeli agents with pictures of an area in the eastern Bekaa Valley where three Israeli soldiers went missing in a 1982 battle during Israel's invasion of Leb, the judicial officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
More than 100 people in Leb have been jugged since 2009 on suspicion of collaborating with Israel, with which Leb is officially at war. At least eight people have been sentenced to death for espionage.
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Whoa, an IED that also listens. I'll bet the Juices could slap together some interesting shit given half a reason.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Three coppers were on Friday killed and another injured in two separate attacks.
In the first attack at 7:45am in Eastleigh, gunnies targetted a government vehicle held in a traffic jam.
In the second attack at about 4pm, two assailants on a cycle of violence shot two traffic officers at the Roysambu roundabout -- about 100m from Kasarani cop shoppe.
One keeled over dead while the other died on the way to hospital.
Nairobi provincial police boss Anthony Kibuchi said police pursued the two assailants and shot them. A grenade that one of the slain attackers was carrying went kaboom! killing him.
In Eastleigh, one of the officers was blown and his colleague seriously injured. The explosive was described "as being within the hand grenade range".
AP Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua described the attacks as indication of terrorist presence in the country.
Mr Mbugua said that there was an kaboom near the vehicle at about 7:45am, injuring the two APs. One was pronounced dead in hospital while the other is recovering.
The vehicle had just dropped off two other APs in Buru Buru estate and was passing through Kimathi estate into Eastleigh Section III, inhabited by several CID officers.
The officer, an escort to Embakasi DC, and the driver were held in a traffic jam at the Eastleigh First Avenue and Eighteenth Avenue junction, when an explosive believed to be a hand grenade, was allegedly thrown into the vehicle by a smartly dressed man.
A team of detectives led by the officer in charge of operations at the Criminal Investigations Unit, Mr Francis Njiru and deputy officer in charge of the Bomb Disposal Unit, Mr Eliud Langat, visited the scene and began investigations.
According to an eyewitness, Mr Salim Muyuka Sangoro, two smartly dressed men and a woman dressed in a burqa approached the vehicle then one of them threw the explosive inside and decamped.
"I had just alighted from a matatu when I saw two men and a woman throw something into the vehicle and then it went kaboom! after which decamped," the eyewitness said.
Another eyewitness, Mr Francis Mugo, said that one of the officers had tried to jump out of the vehicle but did not make it in time.
The injured driver then sped off to the nearby Eastleigh South Chief's Office where he sought help before the two were taken to Nairobi Hospital.
Mr Mbugua, who visited the scene along with his deputy Omar Shurie and officer in charge of logistics Fredrick Mulandi, asked residents to be wary of strangers.
"People should be wary of strangers because there are people who are bent on causing terror. Nobody is safe from terror activities. Bad elements appear to have infiltrated parts of the country," he said.
The Nairobi provincial CID boss Peter Muinde said that police were investigating the incidents.
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Former president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... has vowed never to visit India again after being denied a visa by the Indian government, a report said Friday. "I have no words to explain my disappointment," Musharraf was quoted as telling The Indian Express newspaper. "Your government has dashed my hopes. I think it shows a lack of confidence on the part of India to face me," he said, according to the paper's website. "I don't plan to come to India ever again," Musharraf said, citing the visa refusal as an affront to his "honour and dignity".
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I'm sure our sympathy is so overwhelming it broke the meter.
[Arab News] Bristol Babycakes Palin is striking back against MSNBC host Keith Chewing His Straps Olbermann for dubbing her "worst person in the world." Bring back "Celebrity Boxing"...
Olbermann gave her the title on his show earlier this week, casting her as a hypocrite for appearing in a public service announcement promoting abstinence and safe sex. Palin was an unmarried teenager when she had her son, Tripp. He likened her being an abstinence spokeswoman to saying former President George W. Bush "kept us safe, 'cept for that 9/11 thing, which doesn't count."
The 20-year-old "Dancing With the Stars" diva and daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin ... the babe libs love to hate ... said Thursday via Facebook that calling her a hypocrite is an "old canard." She says that what Olbermann lacks in originality, he makes up for with "insincere incredulity." She also apologized for not being "absolutely faultless like he undoubtedly must be."
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I'd rather she strike back with a Louisville slugger to Olberman's head.
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This is all they have to talk about on MSNBC? No wonder I never watch.
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I am basically forced to watch the show 16 and pregnant - and every single one of them says the exact same thing. And considering how levi turned out to be bigtime d!k can't blame the young lady. And is she wrong?
Or do you also have 15 minutes to rail about Mrs. Obama telling me to eat carrots?
But now I get it - thank you. The lean forward, it isn't a slogon, it is a suggestion so views do not asphyxiate on their vomit.
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Regarding calling Bristol Palin a hypocrite for backing abstinence, I guess Olbermann would disqualify St Augustine (of Hippo) from being a Christian of any note due to Augustine's unchaste lifestyle and actions prior to Christian conversion, as indicated by this aspiration (semi-prayer) Augustine confessed to "praying" during unchaste times with several concubines:
[Bangla Daily Star] Three 'shootouts' between members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and criminal gangs left three offenders dead in the capital, Meherpur and Barisal districts early yesterday.
The dear departed are Abdullah Mohammad Nazimuddin alias Honda Babu, 30, of the city's Malibagh Chowdhurypara, Durjoy Babu alias Bachchu, 36, of Gangni upazila in Meherpur and Al Amin, 35, of Bakerganj upazila in Barisal.
Honda Babu was a top listed criminal while Bachchu was a regional leader of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP Marxist-Leninist) Lal Pataka faction and Al Amin was a suspected robber, stated Rab officials. A top listed criminal, a suspected robber, and a Purbo Banglar Commie walk into a bar. Stop me if you heard this one...
Rab-3 officials said a team of the force signalled three youths on a cycle of violence to halt at a check post near Outer Circular Road in the city's Malibagh area around 4:00am. Stop in the name of the BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG...
Defying the signal, the youths opened fire on the law enforcers, compelling them to retaliate that left Babu dead on the spot. We had...no choice.
The other two, however, decamped the scene on the bike, they added.
Rab officials claimed Babu was a listed criminal of the area and also a close aide of runaway top criminal Zisan. Look what dey done to mah boy!
He was accused in several cases, including killing and extortion, filed with different cop shoppes. Several general diaries were also lodged against him. What's this lodged against him, sarge?
Hmmmmmm...looks like a diary.
Hey, here's another one.
His body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for his appointment with Doctor Quincy. Busy night tonight, doc. Hope you're looking for some OT.
Family members and relatives of Babu declined to make any comment on his death. A wise move.
Our correspondent from Kushtia reports, a Rab team raided a sugarcane field in Jorpukuria village of Gangni upazila in Meherpur where Bachchu and his accomplices gathered around 6:00am. Tonight's episode: Shootout in the Sugarcane.
As the Rab team approached the spot, the gang opened fire on the law enforcers, triggering a 'shootout', said Assistant Superintendent of Police Sheikh Jahidul Islam of Rab-6. We had...no choice.
Don't they ever surrender, Mr. Assistant Superintendent?
Well, they haven't yet. Maybe next time...
Bachchu was killed in the 'shootout' while his cohorts managed to flee. Well, at least they got the "regional leader". As they always seem to do...
Police recovered the bullet-hit body of the dear departed from the field and sent it to Meherpur General Hospital morgue for post-mortem examination. Two guns were also recovered from the spot.
Police said Bachchu was accused in eight cases including murder, extortion and abduction.
Our Barisal correspondent adds, a team of Rab-8 raided the west end of Payerpur bridge in Bakerganj upazila, where a gang of robbers had gathered around 4:40am. Where's the meeting?
West end of Payerpur Bridge.
Jesus, can't we meet at somebody's house for crissakes?
What time?
4:40AM.
Awwwww, c'mon...
Seeing the members of the elite force, Al Amin and his cohorts opened fire prompting the Rab personnel to hit back. We had...no choice.
At one stage of the 'shootout', Al Amin was hit by bullets and keeled over dead while his accomplices decamped. Aiiiiiiiieee! I'm bullet hit! Rosebud! The dear departed was accused in 17 cases including extortion and robbery, said Syed Rabiul Islam, officer-in-charge of Bakerganj Police Station.
One foreign-made pistol, three bullets and a sharp weapon were also recovered from the spot. I warned him not to run with scissors. But did he listen?
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[Dawn] A hardline holy man has offered a reward to anyone who kills a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy against Islam.
Maulana Yousef Qureshi made the announcement Friday at a rally in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. He said his mosque would give $6,000 to the person who kills Aasia Bibi. I'll throw twenty in the pot if somebody wants to take out the cranky holy man...
Bibi was sentenced Nov. 8 to hang for insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad (PTUI!). She and her family say the charge is baseless.
Her case has attracted international attention and a personal appeal from Pope Benedict XVI for her freedom, while government officials have talked about the possibility of a presidential pardon.
Bibi is currently in jail. Authorities were not immediately available for comment on Qureshi's announcement.
This article starring:
Maulana Yousef Qureshi
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
To many liberals and progressives, the president's unwillingness to veto any measure that includes continued tax relief for billionaires is the last straw, building on a record of spinelessness that includes his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, abandonment of a public option for health-care reform, refusal to prosecute those who tortured in Iraq or lied us into that war, and unwillingness to tax carbon emissions. 
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Involvement of terror groups in piracy has complicated negotiations for ransom payments, a maritime official said on Friday.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Chief of the Thi-Qar Intelligence survived an attempt on his life on Friday, while an army soldier was killed by a sniper in separate incidents in Baghdad, a security source said.
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