Behind the subscription wall. But the Wall Street Journal has an agreement with Google, whereby one googles the title to get access to the full article -- to show the reader why a subscription is worthwhile. I do it enough that I am seriously tempted to take the plunge, especially for articles like this. Good find, Besoeker!
Nuevo Leon state PRI leader, Francisco Herrera Leon asked to think carefully where and with whom they want to go the PRI, because we must "keep preparing for what comes, without faltering or giving in."
"There is no room for hesitation or for the simulation, ours is a ship bound with crew and captain at the helm. Nobody has to lose, all together we will come to fruition," he said.
The remarks was given at the monument erected in memory of Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, during the eighteen years after his death.
Alsoin attendance were the sector leaders and organizations of the PRI, members of the CDE, local MPs, candidates for elected federal and Ali Jesus de la Torre, the PRI candidate to the State Government,
Leo Herrera said Donaldo Colosio was a demanding critic who never betrayed his convictions.
"He understood very clearly that the art of politics lies not in the graceful flight of their ideological convictions, but in strengthening their competitive edge."
After the assassination of Donaldo Colosio, the entire upper tier of PRI, who were serving in then president Carlos Salinas de Gartari's cabinet was disqualified from replacing Colosio as the PRI candidate. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon was the best least worst choice for PRI candidate president of the republic.
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good guy, as I remember it. They caught a lone gunman, but his motives were unclear, and there were two shots - a Mexican JFK conspiracy?
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A charismatic Kennedyesque figure whose ideas of true change and reform within the PRI frightened its leaders (el dinosarios). An inside job by frightened party old-timer. There is a large memorial to him in his hometown of Magdalena, Sonora - a couple hours south of Tucson. Conspiracy theorists also suggest the PRI was also afraid of the rise of another Sonoran dynasty: tough edged northeners ruling over the soft mannered chocolate eaters of the south. RIP Don Colosio.
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One theory about the assassination advanced by Mexian novelist Carlos Fuentes and others is that Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari commissioned the murder because Donaldo Colosio was drifting away from PRI ideology and drifting left.
But that theory is absurd because the upper echelons of PRIists had to know they would be out of the running were Colosio to be killed.
My theory is that someone from the left had him killed, either from the then nascent mainstream leftist PRD, many of whose members suffered horribly at the hands of previous PRI politicians during the Dirty War, or it was the Zapatistas, whose guerilla war was shut down by a one two punch of Mexican national government action and military action just three months before.
Syrian troops with tanks stormed Friday a northwestern town amid intense shelling, according to activists.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees said the troops entered Saraqeb from the north and were pushing forward. The Observatory said at least one civilian was killed in the attack.
The troops were accompanied by pro-government gunmen and plainclothes security agents who arrived in buses and started making raids and arresting people. Calls to the city could not get through.
Saraqeb, in the northern province of Idlib that borders Turkey, has been held by army defectors for months.
The attack comes 11 days after troops retook Idlib city, the provincial capital, which had been under rebel control for months. Assad's forces have made a series of offensives over the last month, and in the past couple of weeks have targeted rebel-held areas in Idlib province and in the central city of Homs.
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Well, Barbara, with a lot of the stuff showing up as "archived", and only Rantburg members allowed to comment, Fred suddenly has a whole lot of new members. We need to test to be sure we can actually comment.
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Fred's been playing under the hood again. Sometimes that adds a bit of unexpected excitement to the Rantburg experience. Justmake a comment to reset your cookie, and all should be well.
A senior US official says a long-range missile which North Korea plans to test next month will for the first time be aimed towards South-East Asia and Australia.
The assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, Kurt Campbell, says the US believes the North Korean missile will land in an area between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Previous North Korean rockets have been launched over Japan.
Fairfax reported on Saturday that Mr Campbell delivered the message in person to Foreign Minister Bob Carr.
"If the missile test proceeds as North Korea has indicated, our judgment is that it will impact in an area roughly between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines," Mr Campbell was quoted as saying.
"We have weighed into each of these countries and asked them to make clear that such a test is provocative and this plan should be discontinued."
Nuclear-armed North Korea plans to launch the rocket in April to put a satellite into orbit, a move the US, Australia and other nations see as a pretext for a long-range missile test banned by the United Nations.
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Some years back my daughter's elementary school class launched rockets in their schoolyard; some of them must have been aimed at North Korea. I figure they had as much chance of hitting it as the NorKs do of hitting Australia.
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ION TOPIX > NEXT ATTACK WILL BE BIGGER [worse] THAN THE ONES IN NEW DELHI AND BANGKOK, IRAN WARNS.
Is it just me, or did Iran just not only admit to the bombings but is beginning to act like NORTH KOREA???
Iff Iran = NOKOR = get access to DPRK Nuctechs + LR Missle techs, as the DPRK is believed to have 4-8 "Hiroshima/Nagasaki" Uranium bombs + now the Unha-3 platform???
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* SAME > TERRORISTS WILL EVENTUALLY GET HOLD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, WARNS UK.
[Dawn] The provincial government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) on Friday cancelled registrations of more than two thousand Afghan refugees holding fake identity cards and issued orders to deport them back to their home country, DawnNews reported.
Moreover, the KP government has sought recommendations from different institutions on whether the refugees' assets should be sealed or confiscated.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) also set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock four officials of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the immigration and passports office who were allegedly involved in issuing fake identity cards and passports to the illegal residents.
The investigations reports have been submitted to Ministry of Interior.
Earlier in February, a list of 185 Afghan refugees working for different institutions of the Afghan government had been earlier sent by the FATA Secretariat and the KP government to the interior and foreign ministries, after which it was decided that the refugees should be deported from the country.
Following the orders, notices had been issued to the refugees ordering them to leave the country within a month.
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Important move. It gets harder to deport refugees after they have been there more than a generation or two.
(Sh. M. Network)- Somali troops in southwestern region of Bakol have imposed a night time curfew on the town of Hudur after Al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... gun-hung tough guys fled on Thursday after heavy battles, reports said.
Local residents confirmed to Shabelle Media that the curfew followed series of kabooms took place at military bases in the Hudur, just 420 kilometers (260 miles) southwest of Mogadishu, as the allied troops moved into town.
"Everybody is running away. I am now closing my shop. Business has come to a standstill because of the curfew," a shopkeeper told Shabelle Media via phone.
Hudur town is the scenic provincial capital of Bakool region has served in the past three-years as a training base for the bad turban group Al-Shabaab linked with Al-Qaeda fighting against UN-backed Somali Government.
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[An Nahar] Spain's second largest city Barcelona on Wednesday said it would soon outlaw street prostitution, imposing fines on both hookers and their clients.
The city hall said the new rules were expected to come into play in May.
Prostitution is not illegal in Spain and a number of parties on the municipal council suggested a change in the law was needed rather than a municipal edict.
Currently street prostitution is only illegal in the city if it is carried out near schools or churches.
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[Dawn] A woman police officer of the city has accused two men of accosting her near Westridge late Wednesday night in an attempt to kidnap her.
In her complaint filed with the Race Course cop shoppe on Thursday, SHO Bushra Batool alleged that the two men, one of whom claimed to be her husband, in a white-colour car blocked her car while she was on her way home around 11:30 pm with her brother.
Unable to move, she said she locked her car and refused to roll down the window at their demand. Angry, the two attacked her car and smashed its windscreen and tried to kidnap her.
Ms Batool, who heads the only Women Police Station in Rawalpindi, identified one of the alleged stalkers as Sardar Shafqat Hussain, who claims to be her husband. She said she would recognise his accomplice too in an identification parade.
"Sardar Shafqat Hussain wanted to kidnap me. They beat up my brother and threatened me with dire consequences," she said. Race Course police booked Sardar Shafqat Hussain on the criminal charges pressed by Ms Batool.
According to police sources, Sardar Shafqat already had filed a complaint against her with Regional Police Officer (RPO) Rawalpindi claiming that she had been living with him for the last four years under `Mutaa` (temporary marriage) arrangement. He claimed he had given her over Rs2.5 million and a large quantity of gold which she had not returned him.
Despite repeated efforts, SHO Bushra was not available for comments. Race Course police said no arrests had been made yet.
Sardar Shafqat Hussain`s complaint against her has meanwhile been sent to CPO office for further proceeding.
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Ahhh, the benefits of a modern, progressive civil society.
Sounds like someone has a Palimony suit or breach of contract or maybe prostitution without a license.
[An Nahar] The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Friday launched an appeal for 84 million dollars (63 million euros) to help Syrian refugees who have decamped abroad because of the current fighting. Can we just put up the entire amount up front? That way we won't have to keep shelling it out every year for the next 70 years.
Turkey has taken in some 17,000 refugees, Leb 16,000, Jordan about 8,500, with Iraq welcoming an unknown number, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement.
The UNHCR, along with other agencies, said it was already assisting some 110,000 people inside Syria.
But it expects the number of those fleeing abroad to increase and is making contingency plans for looking after 100,000 abroad.
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[Dawn] Germany on Friday swore in new president Joachim Gauck, who warned the government that it had a historical obligation to help Europe's weakest members as they struggle to stay financially afloat.
Gauck, the first head of state from the former communist east, delivered the impassioned appeal to members of parliament and Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... in the light-flooded chamber of the Reichstag parliament building.
"We must keep saying yes to Europe," said Gauck, who was elected president by a special assembly with an overwhelming majority on Sunday.
"Particularly in times of crisis, the tendency to retreat to the level of the nation state is very common.
European unity is however impossible without the life's blood of solidarity. Particularly in the crisis, we must dare to have more Europe."Gauck, 72, said that languishing under the Nazi and then the communist dictatorships had made the notion of a united Europe living in peace, freedom and prosperity a driving force of his political awakening.
"Europe was the promised land for my generation," he said.
"For my grandchildren, Europe has long been part of their day-to-day reality, with freedom across borders and the opportunities and concerns of an open society. This reality is an achievement, not only for my grandchildren."
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Chancellor is prime minister. President is an elected figurehead, like Queen Elizabeth II, only without the bloodlines or the lifetime tenure.
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ... gave the green light Friday to resume $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt despite fears it is slipping in its avowed transition to democracy. They didn't actually have to do anything, just wait for us start doing what we were doing before. Short Attention Span Syndrome strikes again.
The move marked the denouement of a crisis in the 30-year-old U.S.-Egyptian alliance that erupted over a crackdown in December on pro-democracy groups by Egypt's interim military rulers.
"Today, Secretary Clinton has certified to Congress that Egypt is meeting its obligations under its peace treaty with Israel," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement.
The move clears the way for $250 million in economic aid this year, which had not been in serious question.
"The secretary has also waived legislative conditions related to Egypt's democratic transition, on the basis of America's national security interests, allowing for the continued flow of foreign military financing to Egypt," Nuland said.
The move frees up $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid this year.
"These decisions reflect America's over-arching goal: to maintain our strategic partnership with an Egypt made stronger and more stable by a successful transition to democracy," Nuland said.
Clinton began reviewing aid to Egypt after it raided the U.S.-funded International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House as well as Egyptian and other foreign pro-democracy groups.
Even though a court case continues against U.S. and other members of such non-government organizations, U.S. officials say Egypt is making progress toward democracy and Washington sees cooperation with Cairo in its national interest.
And Nuland suggested the United States was keeping an eye on the case.
"We remain deeply concerned regarding the trials of civil society activists -- non-Egyptians and Egyptians alike -- and have raised these concerns at the highest levels, urging an end to harassment," Nuland said.
But the secretary's waiver is "designed to demonstrate our strong support for Egypt's enduring role as a security partner and leader in promoting regional stability and peace," Nuland said.
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But the secretary's waiver is "designed to demonstrate our strong support for Egypt's enduring role as a security partner and leader in promoting regional stability and peace," Nuland said.
Translation:
But the secretary's waiver is in keeping with the deal made regarding the recent detainment and subsequent release of NGO's by Egypt.
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Any guesses on how long it'll be until a Muslim Brotherhood-dominated coalition government is empowered, followed by Israeli allegations of Egyptian military and intelligence funneling of weapons to Hamas in Gaza?
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Wow, I wasn't even aware that we had ever cut off the $$$ delivery system. I guess I should be thankful it was stopped for just -- what? 3 weeks or so? Sheesh!
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Grammy-winning pop legend Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub after taking cocaine which could have triggered a heart attack, coroners said Thursday.
Houston, who died at age of 48 in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel room last month, likely had some kind of heart attack which caused her to slip under the water, said the LA County Coroner's office.
"You have a heart condition exacerbated by cocaine use which, combined, resulted in her drowning," spokesman Craig Harvey told AFP, adding: "We feel that there was a heart event, complicated by cocaine use," before she drowned.
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The Daily Nation is queer about links. If you really want to read the original, do a google search with the headline in quotes plus "daily nation". It'll pop right up.
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"Bathroom djinn" > Just as Osama had Babe-vs-Babe probs between his assorted Wives, Osama's favorite MTV Babe Whitney also has had her share wid the Men in her life. e.g. tabloids from Yarns back whom alleged romantic/sexual improprieties between Her + the "Son" whom is now dating her daughter.
It amazea me how GUAM TAOTAMONAS, Etal. could forewarn or predict these Events many years andor decades in advance - you try not to believe that People + Govts could behave or act as alleged by the Ghosts, etal. but then thingys come along or occur to make you think "ZOOOMG, THEY WERE RIGHT"!?
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It's a good thing so few heed the Taotamonas, JosephM, or the entire fabric of causality would be destroyed. Truly, we have much to be grateful for.
[Dawn] A jacket wallahwent kaboom!" outside a mosque on Friday, killing five people in the tribal belt on the Pak-Afghan border, officials said.
Three loyalists of local thug group Lashkar-e-Islam and two non-combatants were killed in Akakhel town in the Tirah valley of Khyber district, local administration official Bakhtiar Khan told AFP.
"A suicide bomber went kaboom!" outside a Lashkar-e-Islam mosque. Three members of Lashkar-e-Islam and two passers by have been killed in the attack. Nine people have been maimed in the incident," Khan told AFP.
The attack came exactly three weeks after a similar suicide kaboom at another Lashkar-e-Islam mosque in Tirah killed 22 people and maimed another 20 after Friday prayers.
Khyber is a haven for gunnies linked to the Pak Taliban and has been the scene of fighting between the army and rebels, prompting at least 18,000 people to flee their homes in October last year.
A front man for Lashkar-e-Islam, which is run by warlord Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... and which has links to Islamist gunnies and criminal gangs, blamed Pakistain's main umbrella Taliban faction for the attack.
Akakhel is a restive town where the rival Lashkar-e-Islam, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and other local faceless myrmidons are known to compete for influence.
"Tehrik-e-Taliban sent this suicide bomber to attack our mosque but our guards identified him and shot up him," Lashkar-e-Islam front man, Hazrat Omer, told AFP by telephone.
"At that point he went kaboom!" and killed five people. The dead included three of our members. Seven people have been injured of which six are our colleagues," he added.
The scene of Friday's attack is 12 kilometres from the site of the March 2 bombing, in which most of the dead were from Lashkar-e-Islam.
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AFP - Lebanese authorities are weighing up what action to take after a group of newly recruited policewomen showed up for training wearing the hijab, a security official said on Friday.
The policewomen, numbering nearly 40 and all reportedly Shiite Mohammedans, were among hundreds who sat for an exam to join the Internal Security Forces earlier this year.
But when they turned up for their first training exercise this week, they wore the hijab, an Islamic headscarf, which goes against the military's code of conduct, the security official told AFP.
A government official said several of the policewomen had agreed to remove the garment, but about 20 refused and did not take part in the training session.
"According to the military code of conduct, whether it be for the police, army or general security, all religious symbols are not allowed," said the security official who requested anonymity.
"Any symbols linked to a community or religion are banned, whether it be a cross, a veil or any other symbol," he added. "We are simply applying the law."
The official said the matter would probably be resolved by cabinet ministers.
Leb, a multi-confessional country of four million, is considered among the most liberal in the Arab world.
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The question isn't why is she wearing a hijab, but why is she out and about, unaccompanied by a male relative. Get in the kitchen and make us some falafel, woman!
[Bangla Daily Star] A biological clue to male baldness has been discovered, raising the prospect of a treatment to stop or even reverse thinning hair.
In studies of bald men and laboratory mice, US scientists pinpointed a protein that triggers hair loss.
Drugs that target the pathway are already in development, they report in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The research could lead to a cream to treat baldness.
Most men start to go bald in middle age, with about 80 percent of men having some hair loss by the age of 70. The male sex hormone testosterone plays a key role, as do genetic factors. They cause the hair follicles to shrink, eventually becoming so small that they are invisible, leading to the appearance of baldness.
Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have analysed which genes are switched on when men start to go bald. They found levels of a key protein called prostaglandin D synthase are elevated in the cells of hair follicles located in bald patches on the scalp, but not in hairy areas.
Mice bred to have high levels of the protein went completely bald, while transplanted human hairs stopped growing when given the protein.
Prof George Cotsarelis, of the department of dermatology, who led the research, said: "Essentially we showed that prostaglandin protein was elevated in the bald scalp of men and that it inhibited hair growth. So we identified a target for treating male-pattern baldness.
Aaaaaargh. Prostaglandins are NOT proteins! They are lipids synthesized from fatty acids. Fer cryin' out loud Perfesser...
You mean I shouldn't buy a blow dryer?
"The next step would be to screen for compounds that affect this receptor and to also find out whether blocking that receptor would reverse balding or just prevent balding -- a question that would take a while to figure out."
Aha! I smell a grant opportunity.
The inhibition of hair growth is triggered when the protein binds to a receptor on the cells of hair follicles, said Prof Cotsarelis. Several known drugs that target this pathway have already been identified, he added, including some that are in clinical trials.
The researchers say there is potential for developing a treatment that can be applied to the scalp to prevent baldness and possibly help hair regrow.
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I know why men go bald. Their hair falls off.
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No, Deacon, it doesn't fall off, it just slides down - into ears, nose, onto back etc.
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"The researchers say there is potential for developing a treatment that can be applied to the scalp to prevent baldness and possibly help hair regrow."
Isn't that called Rogaine?
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Aha! I smell a grant opportunity.
..follow the money. This smells like crony capitalism for barbers.
I examine the determinants of the Arab world's democratic deficit in 2010. I Önd that the percent of a country's landmass that was conquered by Arab armies following the death of the prophet Muhammad statistically accounts for this deficit. Using history as a guide, I hypothesize that this pattern reflects the long-run influence of control structures developed under Islamic empires in the pre-modern era and Önd that the available evidence is consistent with this interpretation.
Once one accounts for the 28 countries conquered by Arab armies, the evolution of democracy in the remaining 15 Muslim-majority countries since 1960 largely mirrors that of the rest of the developing world.
If the Arab League's democratic deficit today can be traced to the long-term effects of the region's institutions, what institutional developments following the Arab conquests had such enduring an enduring impact? I use history and recent scholarship as a guide to suggest that this pattern reflects the long-run ináuence of control structures developed under Islamic empires in the pre-modern era. This literature suggests that these historic control structures have left a legacy of weak civil societies where political power is concentrated today in the hands of military and religious leaders that work to perpetuate the status quo.
The state House of Representatives Hawaiian Affairs Committee on Wednesday recommended passage of a resolution recognizing Hawaiian nationals as a population residing lawfully in the islands.
It just brings more awareness to Hawaiian people as a whole, said Rep. Dee Morikawa, D-16th District. Its about everyone in Hawaii.
House Resolution 68 formally recognizes the right of Hawaiian nationals defined in the document as the authentic heirs, beneficiaries and body politic of the Hawaiian Kingdom to organize and restore their national government in Hawaii.
It also commits to the state government to encourage courts and law enforcement to stop nationality-based harassment and prosecution of Hawaiian nationals, defined in the resolution as lineal descendants of Hawaiian Kingdom subjects, anyone born in Hawaii or naturalized through a formal process.
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The prob for Native Hawaiians won't be getting China + PLA to come + save the poi, most likely via PLAN Missle Subs for now, but getting them to leave.
Ditto for Radical Islam + OWG CALIPHATE NAVY iff they ever set up in PACOAS - it may not look like it right now, but they're coming.
You're either an American, or you're not. You're either a Hawaiian, or you're not. Period.
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The Natives are having big problems with imported trailer trash. They do not have problems at all with being American, but there is this legal scope befalling them that is kind of foreign so to speak.
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Not so, Newc. The "reinstituted government of Hawai'i" is a separatist movement. Shortly after 9/11, I was in a local restauant when i heard the local head of the movement talking on a cell phone about how "the Americans got hurt, but it wasn't his problem". I talked to him a bit later at a local park about he was trying to accomplish. I stopped listening when he informed me that only "real" Hawaiians would be able to own the aina (land).
[Shabelle] Former Somali president Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed has died this morning at a hospital in Dubai after he has been complaining about illness for several years, officials and colleagues said on Friday.
Relatives confirmed to the death of Mr.Yusuf who has been sick and taken to Dubai for health reasons and he lately died in the hospital on Friday night. Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed was elected as Somali president in 2005 and stepped down in 2009.
Mr. Yusuf has been in exile in Yemen and moved to the United Arab Emirates for health care after he left from office and he was suffering liver illness for long-time.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The spate of kabooms by the Islamic fundamentalist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... may have driven Nigerian authorities to demolish five mosques in Lagos.
The mosques located within the Alausa area of Lagos were pulled down following an earlier order by Lagos governor Babatunde Fashola, banning all religious activities within the Lagos State Secretariat.
Some of the demolished mosques, reduced to rubble, included one located about 120m from the office of the Deputy Governor and another behind the Ministry of Justice.
It was gathered that the demolition exercise was carried out at night with heavy police presence to forestall violent reactions.
Weeks ago, the Boko Haram sect had issued a threat to bomb major cities in the southern part of Nigeria including Lagos, the largest city in the country with about 20 million people.
Since the beginning of the year rumours have been rife of imminent attack on the country's longest bridge, the 12- kilometre Third Mainland Bridge connecting Lagos Island and the Mainland.
On March 16, thousands of people scampered for safety as an bomb was discovered in a building in Ikeja area of Lagos.
The bomb was planted in Awolowo House, a glass house on Obafemi Awolowo Road, one of the busiest parts of Ikeja Central Business District.
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Sources said the demolition of the five mosques followed intelligence reports from the Rapid Response Squad on the vulnerability of the Secretariat to Boko Haram attack if religious activities in that neighbourhood were not curbed.
In a statement signed by Sheikh AbdurRahman Ahmad and Abdullah Shuaib the Lagos State chapter of the Conference of Islamic Organisations has urged the state governor to rebuild at least one of the mosques to assuage the feelings of the Moslem community.
The group which pledged support for pro-active security however expressed disappointment that Moslem leaders were not adequately consulted before the demolition.
A civil servant who would not want his name mentioned because he is a Christian said the Christian community in Alausa have become apprehensive following the demolition.
"We are worried because the standard reaction in circumstances like this is for Moslems to vent their anger on Christians.
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"the standard reaction in circumstances like this is for Moslems to vent their anger/fear/loathing/feelings of inferiority/ability to breathe/what-the-hell-it's-Tuesday on Christians"
FTFY.
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Sorry, but I don't understand how it was necessary to blow up five mosques. That probably just created several new jihadis. I've got to come out against this. This seems like a pretty dumb move.
[An Nahar] Tension with Iran and "uncertainty" in the region is adding a $20 or $30 premium to oil prices, pushing up gas prices for vehicle owners in the United States, President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... said.
"The key thing that is driving higher gas prices is actually the world's oil markets and uncertainty about what's going on in Iran and the Middle East, and that's adding a $20 or $30 premium to oil prices," Obama said in an interview with the American Automobile Association (AAA) published Friday.
Obama also said increasing demand for oil in China and India was driving prices.
"As more and more people around the world see their standards of living rising, they purchase cars, they have demand for oil, that creates a greater demand worldwide and that raises the price," Obama told AAA.
Pump prices are hovering near record highs as markets worry about tensions in the Middle East, with Obama moving to clamp down on criticism of his administration on the issue in an election year.
Amid a four-state tour to defend his energy plans this week, Obama stressed that his administration has approved "dozens" of new oil and gas pipelines, but new drilling was insufficient to lower rising gas prices.
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Iran, China, India, Guam, Hawaii, Wales, Atlantis, Rhodesia.... all to blame. I'ze tell'n ya, nuttin I can DO!
Absolutely nothing to do with an incoherant and scattered energy policy led by an administration bragging about the country being better off with $5+ per se gallon.
Gota problem wit that? Fill your tires and go buy a voltswagon.
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Imagine the prices if somebody nukes all the oil transportation hubs in Persian Gulf. A single missile fired at, and missing, a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz would be enough to hike prices by 50%. Closing the strait for a month would likely cause shortages worldwide.
[An Nahar] Japan on Friday readied its missile defense systems to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens the country, as the U.N. chief warned that next month's launch could jeopardize food aid.
The nuclear-armed North has announced it will launch a rocket in mid-April to put a satellite into orbit, a move that the United States, South Korea and other nations see as a pretext for a long-range missile test banned by the U.N.
The move by North Korea's new leadership has set off alarm bells across the region. The Philippines is calling for help from the United States to monitor the rocket, part of which is expected to land off the archipelago.
The preparations by Japan, regularly the target of North Korean barbs, come as world leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... prepare to meet in Seoul early next week for a summit officially focused on nuclear terrorism.
But the North's atomic program is expected to be the subject of intense discussion at the talks, which are also to be attended by the presidents of China and Russia.
"I have ordered officials to prepare to deploy the PAC-3 and Aegis warships," Japan's Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka told news hounds, referring to surface-to-air missiles and destroyers carrying missiles.
North Korea has warned that any attempts to raise the rocket launch at the Monday-Tuesday nuclear summit in Seoul would be taken as "a declaration of war"
"We are talking to relevant local governments about the deployment," he said.
The surface-to-air interceptors would reportedly be deployed on Japan's southern Okinawa island chain, but any order to shoot down the North Korean rocket would first need the approval of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
Japanese officials have said the projectile may pass over Okinawa.
In a notice to the U.N.'s International Maritime Organization, North Korea has said the first stage of the rocket will fall in international waters between China and South Korea.
The second stage is expected to splash down just 190 kilometers (118 miles) east of the northern Philippines.
U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... , who plans to raise the rocket launch at the Seoul summit, said any launch could discourage international aid donors and worsen North Korea's already dire humanitarian situation.
"Such an act would undermine recent positive diplomatic progress and, in its effect on international donors, would likely worsen the humanitarian situation inside the country," he said in a speech in Singapore.
North Korea has warned that any attempts to raise the rocket launch at the Monday-Tuesday nuclear summit in Seoul would be taken as "a declaration of war" and rejected South Korean demands to call off the launch.
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Got a point, what if the Rocket was DESIHNRD to fail as it passed over Japan, an OOPS wouldn't be near enough.
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As per WORLD MIL FORUM, Nippon will also be deploying three AEGIS-style warships from JMSDF to shootdown the wily DPRK rocket iff need be.
* ALso from SAME > JAPANESE NAVAL PARTICIPATION IN US-PHILIPPINE SOUTH CHINA SEA DRILL MEANT TO REFLECT SUPPORT FOR US + JAPAN POLICY OF STOPPING SOUTHWARD EXPANSION OF CHINESE TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY.
So essens, PLA bases on Hainan would be rendered as mostly ineffective, which leaves China only the gauntlet of the OKINAWA-TAIWAN-PHIL CORRIDOR [read, US + USDOD-Navy].
* SAME > JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER BACK IN 1960's DEMANDED FROM US SECDEF MCNAMARA THAT US NUCLEAR WEAPONS BE FIRED AND USED TO DESTROY CHINA, INCLUDING BY PREEMPTIVE STRIKE, IFF MAJOR US-RED CHINA WAR EVER BROKE OUT OER TAIWAN, VIETNAM, TIBET, OR SINO-INDIAN, INDO-PAK BORDER CRISES.
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Again from WORLD MIL FORUM > CHINESE EXPERTS: JAPAN MAY USE THE FALSE/BENIGN THREAT OF NORTH KOREA'S SPACE LAUNCH TO BUILD POPULAR JAPANESE SUPPORT FOR MILITARY EXPANSION, INCLUDING DEV OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO COUNTER CHINA.
Looks like pro-Nippon Nukes, "Strong Japan" controversial Tokio Governor Shintaro Ishihara may yet get his day???
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See also WAFF > JAPAN'S BIG ARMS BUY: EVERYBODY WINS EXCEPT CHINA | [Foreign Affairs] JAPAN'S BIG ARMS BUY. HOW WASHINGTON IS MILITARIZING ITS ASIAN ALLY.
Lest we fergit, CHIN MIL BLOGGERS = argue that Beijing should not be afraid or reluctant to use China's nuclear weapons agz Japan iff it means defending China's territories, interests in the East + South China Seas; or in defense of China's Citizens-Nationals around the World.
(Sh.M.Network)- Al-Qaeda affiliated hard boyz have on Friday afternoon stoned a fellow fighter to death in a town in southwestern Somalia after accusing him of committing a rape, an official said.
Was it that American guy?
We live in hope...
The accused was killed in a square in Dinsor district of Bay region as hundreds of local inhabitants, including veiled women and elders congregated to watch the stoning event.
An Al-Shabaab ... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban... official said that an Islamic court of district has reached the decision after the man confessed he had forcibly raped a local young girl whose had not been released so far.
He said the killed man had already married and committed rape and that is why he was stoned to death according to the Islamic religion.
Generally, alleged spies and Christians have been publicly executed. Thieves have had their legs and hands cut off. Unmarried mature women and men accused of adultery have been beaten and stoned to death in Islam.
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While I have no confidence in their trial system (and I do wonder how voluntary was his confession), there is something to be said for their punishment for rape.
Pretty good intel brief on what was known about Merah. It's even more frustrating in retrospect of course, but it does seem that Merah was a well known bad boy who should have been allowed to finish his journey to Afghanistan -- and then be drone-zapped.
PARIS: Frances prime minister rejected accusations on Friday that intelligence lapses allowed a young Muslim with a violent criminal record, spotted twice in Afghanistan, to become the first Al-Qaeda-inspired killer to strike on its soil.
Hardened by battling Islamic militants from its former North African colony of Algeria, the French security services have long been regarded as among the most effective in Europe, having prevented militant attacks on French soil for the last 15 years.
Opposition politicians, including far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, suggested that negligence or errors had permitted Mohamed Merah, 23, to carry out three deadly shootings within 10 days before he was identified, located and killed.
But Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the police and intelligence agencies had done an exemplary job. Resolving a criminal case of this importance in 10 days, I believe thats practically unprecedented in the history of our country, Fillon told RTL radio.
Foreign Minister Alain Juppe had appeared to acknowledged on Thursday that there were grounds to question possible security flaws, saying: We need to bring some clarity to this.
Merah shot dead three Jewish children and four adults in three separate attacks despite having been under surveillance by the DCRI domestic intelligence agency, which questioned him as recently as November.
Since the DCRI was following Mohamed Merah for a year, how come they took so long to locate him? Socialist party security spokesman Francois Rebsamen asked on the JDD.fr website.
Merahs elder brother Abdelkader, 29, who is now under police questioning, was also on a security watch list after being linked with the smuggling of Jihadist militants into Iraq in 2007, government officials said.
The left-leaning daily Liberation asked in an editorial whether the intelligence services had not failed miserably.
How could they have so underestimated the potential danger of an individual they already knew?
Merah, a French citizen of Algerian extraction, amassed a cache of at least eight guns under the noses of French intelligence, including several Colt .45 pistols of the kind he used in the shootings, but also at least one Uzi submachine gun, a Sten gun and a pump action shotgun.
In Washington, two US officials said Merah was on a US government no fly list, barring him from boarding any US-bound aircraft. The officials said that his name had been on the list for some time.
The officials said the entry included sufficient biometric detail to make clear the man on the blacklist was the same person involved in the Toulouse shootings. He was put on the list because US officials deemed him a potential threat to aviation, one of the officials said.
Rebsamen said that after the shooting of two paratroopers in Montauban, near Toulouse, on March 15, Merahs name was on top of a DCRI list of 20 people to be particularly closely watched in the southwestern Midi-Pyrenees region. Yet the agency appeared to have lost his trace.
Investigators only tracked down Merah on Tuesday, a day after he had shot dead three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse. Interior Minister Claude Gueant said Merah was identified with certainty when a police helicopter overflew his home and he came to the window.
Police came up with his name when a list of 576 people who viewed an Internet advertisement placed by the shooters first victim was compared with the DCRIs watchlist on Monday and led them to the IP address of Merahs mother.
He had, however, been known to the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (DCRI) - the powerful super agency created by President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008 - since 2010. Merah first visited Afghanistan that year, was stopped at a road checkpoint by Afghan police in Kandahar province and sent back to France by American forces.
His second visit ended after three months last October when he contracted hepatitis and returned home, according to the public prosecutor in charge of the case.
He was interviewed by DCRI agents in Toulouse in November but told them he had been on holiday - and even showed them photographs, prosecutor Francois Molins said.
Merah told police negotiators at his besieged home on Wednesday that he trained at an Al-Qaeda camp in the lawless Pakistani border region of Waziristan during the same trip.
Interior Minister Claude Gueant said there had been no grounds to arrest Merah prior to the attacks.
The DCRI follows lots of people involved in radical Islam. Expressing ideas, espousing Salafist beliefs, is not a sufficient reason to arrest someone, he said.
Although Merah could not have been arrested without proof of criminal intent, critics say authorities could have taken intermediate steps. French anti-terrorist law allows for the telephones of suspects to be tapped without judicial approval on the authority of the prime minister and an advisory panel.
Le Pen suggested the DCRI may have missed the gunman partly because it had been diverted by Sarkozys government to snoop on journalists and political opponents.
The agencys head, Bernard Squarcini, is under investigation himself for ordering the illegal surveillance of Le Monde reporters telephones.
Squarcini said in an interview with Le Monde that security officials had naturally asked themselves whether they had missed clues or could have acted differently or faster. But it was impossible to say on Sunday evening (after the first shooting on March 11) Its Merah, lets get him.
He also said Merahs attack on the Jewish school had been a spur-of-the-moment decision after the gunman failed to find a soldier he planned to kill, according to his conversation with police negotiators during the siege of his home.
While allies Britain and Spain have suffered major militant attacks in the last decade, following the US-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan to topple the Taleban, France had not seen a major attack on its soil since the mid-1990s. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) carried out a wave of attacks, including the bombing of a crowded commuter train in July 1995 which killed eight and injured 150 people.
The rise of Al-Qaeda, based in Afghanistan, posed a new challenge to French security services more used to watching Algerian-related militants, often with connections in what some French officials called Londonistan.
French-born Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States as one of the conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington and French-born Muslims were also active among Jihadi militants in Iraq.
The terror alert in France was raised after Al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden singled it out as one of the worst offenders against Islam in October 2010.
But despite a spate of kidnappings of French citizens abroad, there were no attacks in mainland France. Officials say the intelligence services foiled several plots.
In the last six years, at least eight attacks of the same type as the one that was perpetrated (by Merah) were broken up by the police without any publicity, said Roland Jacquard, head of the International Terrorism Observatory.
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The good news is that he [Merah] will kill no more and French intelligence has learned a great deal about our common enemy. Le Pen should set politics aside and shut her yap!
[An Nahar] At least 22 civilians, three regime troops and a rebel were killed on Friday in Syria as government forces bombed towns and clashed with rebels in several areas of Syria and tens of thousands of people took part in "Damascus ...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations... , here we come" demonstrations, monitors and activists said.
Security forces killed 11 people in Homs, four in Daraa, three in Idlib, a person in Latakia, one in Deir al-Zour, one in Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... and another in al-Raqq, the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the crowds in all the hot spots of anti-regime revolt across the country numbered hundreds of thousands.
In the capital itself, five people were maimed in Kfar Sousa district as security forces opened fire to disperse protesters, said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory.
Mortar fire crashed into the Bab Dreib, Safsafa and Warsheh districts of Homs city, in central Syria, killing five people, it said.
Security forces shot up demonstrators in Hama province, also in central Syria, where army deserters killed a soldier, the monitoring group said, without giving an immediate toll for the protesters.
The Observatory said at least three soldiers and a rebel were killed in Aazaz, near the Turkish border.
"Troops are bombing and helicopters flying overhead. Fighting has been going on since midday (Thursday) between regime forces and (army) deserters in Aazaz," opposition activist Mohammed Halabi in Aleppo province told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone.
The city of Aazaz is strategically positioned on the road to safety in neighboring Turkey for maimed and fleeing civilians as well as being a supply route for Free Syrian Army rebels.
In Maaret al-Numan and other towns of Idlib province, also on the border with Turkey, demonstrators gathered after Moslem weekly prayers in mosques, calling for the trial of regime leaders, said the Observatory.
Large demonstrations were reported in the northern city and region of Aleppo as well as in the Kurdish city of Qamishli on the border with Turkey.
The state news agency SANA reported that "several terrorists" were killed in the Sermin region of Idlib and in the Aleppo region an army engineer was killed by a bomb under a bridge that exploded by remote control.
In videos posted online by activists, protests were also seen in the southern province of Daraa, birthplace of the year-long revolt in Syria that monitors say has cost more than 9,100 lives.
Opposition activists said hundreds of people took part in night-time protests in areas of the capital.
"Bomb us instead of Daraa, Homs and Hama," cities where hundreds of civilians have reportedly been killed in a crackdown on anti-regime protests, the demonstrators chanted in Rukneddine neighborhood, according to activists.
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[An Nahar] Lebanese authorities are weighing up what action to take after a group of newly recruited policewomen showed up for training wearing the hijab, a security official said on Friday.
The policewomen, numbering nearly 40 and all reportedly Shiites, were among hundreds who sat for an exam to join the Internal Security Forces earlier this year.
But when they turned up for their first training exercise this week, they wore the hijab, an Islamic headscarf, which goes against the military's code of conduct, the security official told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A government official said several of the policewomen had agreed to remove the garment, but about 20 refused and did not take part in the training session.
"According to the military code of conduct, whether it be for the police, army or general security, all religious symbols are not allowed," said the security official.
"Any symbols linked to a community or religion are banned, whether it be a cross, a veil or any other symbol," he added. "We are simply applying the law."
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[Dawn] Intelligence officials say a bomb hidden inside a radio went kaboom! on a military base in northwest Pakistain, killing a paramilitary soldier and his 10-year-old son.
The officials say the soldier and his son were listening to the Asia Cup cricket final between Pakistain and Bangladesh on Thursday night when the bomb went off. Three other children were maimed.
Authorities are investigating how the bomb was planted in the radio. The attack occurred at a base in Wana, the main town in the South Wazoo tribal area, a key Pak Taliban stronghold.
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(Sh.M.Network)-The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has agreed to expand its mission against Somali pirates, by allowing military forces to attack land targets as well as those at sea.
In a two year-extension of its mission, EU defence ministers agreed warships could target boats and fuel dumps.
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner says the move is a significant step-up in operations, but one that also risks escalation.
Several EU naval ships are currently on patrol off the Horn of Africa. They police shipping routes and protect humanitarian aid.
The EU says the main tasks of the mission are the protection of vessels of the World Food Programme delivering food aid to displaced people in Somalia, and the fight against piracy off the Somali coast.
In a statement, the EU's foreign policy head idiot Catherine Ashton said fighting piracy was a priority of the mission in the Horn of Africa.
'Today's important decision extends [Operation] Atalanta's mandate for two more years and allows it to take more robust action on the Somali coast,' she said.
The EU said 'a budget of 14.9m euros (£12.4m; $197m) is provided for the common costs of the prolonged mandate'.
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Wow - only three years after it was exhorted here...
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Heh.
In all seriousness, he's not too far off. It's a big fundraiser for Islamists now. We'll likely see more piracy off India, Philippines and Thailand, though the anti-piracy coordination between the Malacca Straits littoral nations will probably keep it down for Thailand as well.
[Bangla Daily Star] For the second time in two months, Api Khatun of Shailkupa upazila in Jhenidah came under acid attack on Thursday night allegedly by her former husband and co-wife.
This time, her face was severely burnt, doctors say. She was first rushed to Jhenidah Sadar Hospital. As her condition deteriorated, the hospital authority yesterday referred her to the burns unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
She hails from Bhagabannagar village under Shailkupa.
Mother of the victim, Latifa Begum said the same culprits carried out the attack around 10:30pm on Thursday when Api was sleeping at the house.
Api returned home on March 15 from the DMCH burns unit after treatment for two months. The 15-year-old girl first came under acid attack on January 8 when the left side of her body got burnt.
On January 9, the victim's family filed a case with Shailkupa Police Station accusing four people including Api's former husband Ershad Ali and former co-wife Lailee begum. Police are yet to arrest any one of them.
But since then, she was threatened with dire consequences to withdraw the case.
Victim's father Laltu Mondol said Api was married to Ershad of the same village in July last year. Following torture by her co-wife Lailee, Api divorced him in October. She took admission to class eight again at Bhatoi Secondary School in Shailkupa.
Lailee in association with her husband and other relatives threw acid on Api being suspicious that her husband was continuing relation with Api, claimed the father, adding that he filed a GD (general diary) with Shailkupa police on Thursday.
Api told journalists at Jhenidah Sadar Hospital in a feeble voice that she had requested the administration to take necessary steps against the culprits.
Resident Medical officer Dr Rashed Al-Mamun of Jhenidah Sadar Hospital confirmed that Api was burnt with acid.
Officer-in-Charge Ahsan Habib of Shailkupa Police Station admitted the incident. "The accused are hiding after the first incident. We are trying to nab the culprits," he added.
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Several key White House offices were involved with the Obama administration's messaging plans and other preparations as the collapse of the taxpayer-backed solar company Solyndra was imminent, newly released documents show..
[Dawn] Gunmen ambushed a Pak paramilitary checkpost on Friday, killing four soldiers and abducting four others in the southwestern province of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but officials blamed the attack on Taliban in Shirani district, 350 kilometres east of Quetta, the capital of the province that borders Afghanistan and Iran.
"Militants attacked the post in the early hours. They first surrounded the post, then ambushed it. After killing four, they took four other soldiers with them," said a senior government official in Balochistan.
Three other soldiers were maimed, the official added.
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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Lake Bell aka Lucy in "No Strings Attached (2011)" aka Tipper in "What Happens in Vegas (2008)" aka Agness in "It's Complicated (2009)" aka Alison Lobel in "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)" aka Megan Egan in "Pride and Glory (2008)" aka Ashley in "Over Her Dead Body (2008)" (age 33)
Every African Union nation has a constitution, you know...
ADDIS ABABA The African Union on Friday suspended Mali following a military coup and said it would send a joint team with the West African bloc ECOWAS to urge a return to constitutional order.
The AU Peace and Security Council decided that Mali should be suspended... until effective restoration of constitutional order is achieved without delay, Paul Zolo, Nigerias envoy to Ethiopia and the AU, told reporters.
AU Commission chief Jean Ping said the pan-African bloc and ECOWAS will send a joint team to Mali after mutinous troops ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure on Thursday.Ping said sanctions such as travel bans and asset freezes would follow if the coup is not reversed.
Rebel soldiers calling themselves the National Committee for the Establishment of Democracy seized control of the capital Thursday, accusing the government of failing to tackle terrorism and put down a Tuareg-led insurrection in the north.
The coup has sparked widespread condemnation from all quarters including the AU, individual African countries, the European Union and the United States.
The Economic Community of West African States, which met in Nigeria, condemned the action by the renegade soldiers who claimed they had seized power from an incompetent regime. ECOWAS president Kadre Desire Ouedraogo was headed Friday to the Malian capital to meet the junta leaders.
It will be an initial contact which we will have in Bamako, Ouedraogo told reporters in Burkina Faso. He said that ECOWAS deems it necessary to be on the ground to evaluate the situation and to hold talks with the authorities to ensure that the guiding principles of democracy and good governance are respected.
What began as a mutiny over the governments response to the rekindled Tuareg insurrection in the north on Wednesday turned into a full-blown coup as soldiers seized control of the presidential palace and the government broadcaster.
President Toure was forced to flee and his whereabouts remain unclear. France said its efforts to reach him were unsuccessful and urged coup leaders not to harm him.
Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo told journalists in an interview that Toure was doing very well, and members of the government arrested by soldiers were safe.
On Thursday, the coup leaders ordered all borders closed. The Kenyan government said it was in contact with Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula and other government officials stranded in Mali.
We have been told that additional participants may be there so we have asked the embassies (in Ethiopia) to give us information and to tell us if they want us to intervene in any way or another to evacuate them, Ping added
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[Dawn] Former Pakistain captain Shahid Afridi attacked and slapped a fan at Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport after he returned home from Dhaka where Pakistain won the Asia Cup final against Bangaldesh on Thursday.
Pakistain television channels showed Afridi, wearing a pink T-shirt, first push a youth to the ground and then slap him before his brother intervened and pulled him away in a melee on Friday night.
The incident took place shortly after Afridi had spoken to the media and praised Bangladesh for their outstanding performance in the Asia Cup final.
The footage showed Afridi heading for a waiting car when he turned around and attacked the youth and then pointed his finger at another man before his brother stepped in.
Afridi told news hounds he had lost his temper because his young daughter Ajwa had been pushed to the ground.
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[Dawn] Residents of Bloody Karachi's ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... area protested on Friday against the raid operations of the law enforcement agencies, DawnNews reported.
Protestors resorted to stone pelting, arson and gun sex.
Police fired teargas shells to disperse the crowd, upon which the agitated protestors attacked a police armoured vehicle with a petrol bomb and set it on fire.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... teargas shelling was intensified after the police were attacked and the locality echoed with the sound of increased gun firing.
Police were successful in dispersing the protestors after five hours, where as tyres were burnt in Naya'abad, Kamila Stop and Khadda market areas of Lyari.
Protestors complained that the police were harassing the area residents, arresting innocent people where as criminals roamed scot free.
Police claimed to have locked away more than a dozen agitators and additional police was deployed in the affected areas.
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Radio Free Asia on Thursday unveiled a satellite picture of North Korea's missile launch pad in Tongchang-ri, North Pyongan Province.
The radio station and website got the picture from commercial satellite imagery company GeoEye. It was taken on Tuesday, four days after North Korea announced its plan to launch what it says is a satellite-bearing rocket. Construction work was already going on in the area in 2009, but there seems to be no construction going on now.
The launch pad appears to be fully paved. The rocket cannot be seen, but the launch pad looks ready for use any time.
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Invading armies didn't work, intifadas didn't work, rains of missiles from Hizb'allah and Hamas didn't work, so now they're trying a civilian march.
According to Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Arab countries, Paleostinians warned not to approach Israeli borders during 'Universal Jerusalem march' next Friday
Following the deadly festivities last year during the Naksa and Nakba marches to its northern border, Israel issued a stern warning to Arab countries and Paleostinians to refrain from approaching the border.
London based newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Friday that the warning was issued in reference to the "Universal Jerusalem March" planned for next Friday to commemorate "Land Day."
According to sources, Israel reiterated it would treat anyone who approaches the border as an infiltrator, and will act against them decisively. The report said Israel claims the march is organized by hostile elements. In a message to Syria, Leb, Jordan, the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, government in Gazoo and the Paleostinian Authority, Israel called on Arabs not to allow escalation in the area by allowing marches to the borders.
Security sources confirmed such a message was delivered to the Paleostinian Authority. According to them, coordination talks were held with Paleostinian security services, with the purpose of avoiding violent riots. Similar talks were also conducted last year before the Nakba day events. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs refused to comment.
The organizers plan to send convoys of vehicles to approach Israel's borders simultaneously from Arab countries and from PA-controlled territories. More than 700 institutions from 64 states are involved directly or indirectly in planning the rally, said the organizers. At the same time of the march, protests are planned outside Israeli embassies in Europe and Arab countries.
It is estimated that due to the fragile political situation in Egypt and Syria, these countries will not authorize marches to the border, but preparations in other countries are underway. In recent days the organizers are using social networks to recruit more protesters to the march.
One of the Facebook pages promoting the event claimed that the purpose of the march is to reach Jerusalem and al-Aqsa mosque. Later it was amended to Jerusalem or "any point closest to it".
One of the event organizers, Paleostinian Said Yakin, said the event is meant to be a non-violent protest that will include parliament members, citizens and religious figures from all over the world -- including Jews.
"We will not protest violently" Yakin told Ynet earlier this week. "We don't expect the IDF to shoot at protesters, just as it didn't open fire at a million Israeli protesters during this summer's social protest."
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Invading armies didn't work, intifadas didn't work, rains of missiles from Hizb'allah and Hamas didn't work, so now they're trying a civilian march.
In one of my nyms here (caint remember which), I wondered about this contingency. I hope Israel has a proper plan.
[Bangla Daily Star] The Pakistain foreign ministry has rejected the allegation of funding BNP by the country's spy agency ISI before 1991 national election of Bangladesh as reported in local and international newspapers.
According to the ministry website, a spokesperson on Thursday termed baseless the news on ISI paying BNP.
Those reports were not only totally baseless but also part of mischievous efforts to damage the brotherly and mutually beneficial Pakistain-Bangladesh relationship, the spokesperson said.
Pakistain strictly adhered to the principle of non-interference in internal affairs of other countries and it would be ill-advised to give credence to such false, misleading and self-serving stories, the official added.
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More weird stuff from Zimbobland.
Susan Dhliwayo claims she pulled her car over recently to pick up a group of male hitchhikers and they refused to get in, because they feared they were going to be raped.
"Now, men fear women. They said: 'we can't go with you because we don't trust you'," 19-year-old Miss Dhliwayo recounted.
Local media have reported victims of the highway prowlers being drugged, subdued at gun or knife point even with a live snake in one case given a sexual stimulant and forced into repeated sex before being dumped on the roadside.
The sperm hunters first surfaced in the local press in 2009 but police have only arrested three women, found with a plastic bag of 31 used condoms in October. The attacks have continued since they were nabbed for allegedly violating 17 men.
"We do not have the exact number of confirmed cases," said national police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena. "These cases occurred mostly when the victims were hitchhiking and boarded private vehicles. We encourage people to use public transport."
The sperm's exact use is not clear but is thought to be intended for "juju" or traditional rituals to bring luck anything from enhancing good fortune, boosting business or preventing a criminal from being detected. It is also not known why the semen is taken forcibly from strangers.
"It's really an issue which is mind boggling," said University of Zimbabwe sociologist Watch Ruparanganda, who believes it is a lucrative business. "It's quite a big mystery. Obviously we know (it is) being used for rituals."
Ruparanganda said he was astonished to discover seven years ago that semen appeared to have become a tradable commodity, while doing research for his doctoral thesis among Harare street youth who told him that businessmen would take them to hotels, give them new clothes and ply them with booze.
They were then told to pick a prostitute and to hand over the used condom after sex. "It just shows there's some big racket somewhere, some big guys driving everything, but they are in the background and using these ladies," said Ruparanganda.
The Zimbabwe National Traditional Healers Association criticised the practice. "We believe that this is a form of witchcraft. So we are totally against the idea," said spokesman George Kandiyero. "It has really frightened people," he said. "It has really brought in a bit of shock because normally it was the other way round, normally we know of men raping women, not women raping men."
A Zimbabwean women's rights group has criticised the spotlight shifting to male rape victims, and paid for a newspaper advert to deplore that violence against women in the country is not met with the same degree of shock.
The three women linked to the case, meanwhile, have stirred much attention and public anger. Audiences pack into the dreary courtrooms each time they appear in the dock, and one of their lawyers said they have received death threats. No law in Zimbabwe criminalises rape by women so the trio, arrested with one man, face 17 counts of aggravated indecent assault, though no trial date has as yet been set.
Dumisani Mthombeni, a lawyer for two of the women and the man, complained that five months after their arrest, prosecutors have yet to produce DNA test results, a charge sheet or witness statements but nonetheless have "paraded (the women) on national television as female rapists". "We have not been given anything nothing," Mthombeni said. "We believe they don't want us to go to trial because they arrested the wrong people."
The case has triggered a mix of shock, intrigue and humour such as one newspaper cartoon showing a nude hitchhiker hoping to be picked up by a female driver but also fear among some men.
"Of course we are scared," said a 26-year-old hitchhiker on a highway south of Harare, adding he would not get into a car driven by a woman. "Even if she's old, we can't."
Josh Stanton at One Free Korea thanks the KCNA for demonstrating the close links between it and the new Associated Press outlet in Pyongyang. It's even worse than when CNN made a deal with Saddam to stay in Baghdad for the Gulf War. A big hat tip to Josh for running this story down.
Now, let's get back to advocacy of the violent overthrow of the North Korean government.
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[An Nahar] Mali's Tuareg rebels pressed on with a campaign to seize the north as mutinous soldiers faced a global backlash Friday for staging a coup over the government's handling of the insurrection.
Europe suspended aid amid a chorus of rebukes and African security chiefs called an emergency meeting over the coup in a west African country key to fighting trans-frontier drug trafficking and growing terrorism.
The coup in Bamako opened the way for Tuareg rebels to deepen their hold on the north, and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) said it had seized the town of Anefis between the two main cities in the desert north.
The Tuareg offensive sparked a coup on Thursday by soldiers who say they were ill-equipped to fight off the desert nomads, many heavily armed after returning from fighting for Libya's slain strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... President Amadou Toumani Toure was forced to flee and his whereabouts remain unclear. Gay Paree said its efforts to reach him were unsuccessful and urged coup leaders not to harm him.
Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo told journalists in an interview that Toure was "doing very well", and members of the government set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock by soldiers were safe.
On its website the MNLA said it "will continue the offensive to dislodge the Malian army and its administration from all the towns of Azawad" -- the name for their professed homeland in the northern triangle of the bow-tie shaped west African nation.
Sanogo, who speaks with a raspy, hoarse voice, said the Tuareg rebels could join the army or be dealt with firmly.
"I will give them the opportunity to come around, otherwise I will face that what I have to face."
As few ventured out of their homes in Bamako, where some soldiers had turned to looting, the international community acted swiftly against the junta.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's executive arm said it was halting development operations temporarily as EU foreign ministers called for the return of civilian rule.
"Following yesterday's coup d'etat in Mali, I decided to suspend temporarily European Commission's development operations in the country until the situation clarifies," said EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs.
The EU stressed that direct support to the population would continue as well as humanitarian aid. Mali is threatened with a food crisis due to drought.
The European Union's executive arm planned to allocate 583 million euros ($772 million) of development aid to Mali between 2008 and 2013.
Mali's woes are viewed as a fallout of the demise of Qadaffy's regime, which employed the nomadic Tuareg who returned armed and jobless from Libya to their desert homes last year and resumed a decades-long independence battle.
The military, one of the continent's weakest according to analysts, was overwhelmed. It has blamed the government for lack of support to battle the Tuareg rebels.
The World Bank and African Development Bank also suspended development aid after Mali's first coup in 21 years.
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This has got to be the weakest coup ever. How does a lowly Captain overthrow an entire government. And, of course, this was done, what, 30 days before elections were due. And now the Tuaregs are pushing south. Retards. Has anyone figured out how many soldiers were involved in the coup. It just seems like there couldn't have been many. It seems like they just seized the t.v.station and the presidential compound and that's about it. Seems like a couple of platoons pulled it off. Unbelievable.
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Also, I'm thinking this has got to make Mali look like a great place for Al-Qaida to set up shop. Azawad has got to look like a nice safe haven now for any remnants of Algeria jihadi groups still struggling through the southern Atlas Montains. Any theories on how this relates to Jihadis in Libya?
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How does a lowly Captain overthrow an entire government
Ambition? Charisma? Connections to certain political factions?
It's also not unusual in that region for an officer to be relegated to the lower ranks due to lack of political, family, or tribal connections or because they aren't 'savvy' enough to engage in extra-curricular moneymaking, or because they are too talented or capable to cut loose; it's safer to keep them in where they can be watched.
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Also, I'm thinking this has got to make Mali look like a great place for Al-Qaida to set up shop.
They've been there for a few years already: Al-Qaeda in Magreb (AQIM), to be exact. There were reports that Iran had been trying to supply arms to both them and other groups in North Africa via Mali.
Any theories on how this relates to Jihadis in Libya?
There were Tuareg fighters in Libya fighting for Qadaffi. They aren't aligned with AQIM. the Libyan Islamists are getting backing from others.
[Yemen Post] Landmines planted by the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates.... Group in Hajja killed seven civilians and maimed 20 others Thursday in Kushar of Hajja governorate . One local of Kushar, Sadiq Qushar, said one civilian, Mohammad Al-Doaish, was killed while he was entering his home, pointing out that six other persons who went to rescue him were also killed as another landmine went kaboom!.
Violent festivities broke out between the Houthi Group and the tribes leaving hundreds of persons killed and maimed from both sides, and hundreds of families were displaced.
Locals of Ahim districts accused Houthi fighters of planting about 3000 landmines inside houses of the displaced persons and roads.
One child was killed by a landmine last Tuesday while he was returning his home in Kushar.
Last week, two displaced persons were killed and to others were maimed by a landmine as they opened the door of their house.
The front man of a reconciliation committee between the Houthi and the Hajja tribes had affirmed Houthi fighters planted some 3,000 landmines in Ahem.
Local sources said that an a mediation committee are contacting between both sides to root op the landmines and help the displaced persons return their villages.
A twenty-member team of activists who visited early of this month some district of Hajja governorate, cautioning against the deterioration of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... conditions.
In a presser held in Sana'a, members of the team said Houthi fighters were surrounding some farms and blocking a main road linking between districts of Mastaba and Kashar of Hajja.
They said the prices of foodstuff highly raised between 50-70 per cent owing to sieges imposed by the Houthi fighters in some areas.
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[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... on Friday severally criticised the top two political parties, PPP and PML-N, of the country over hereditary politics, DawnNews reported.
Speaking to a large public gathering in Sialkot, he said the 'Tsunami' has reached Sialkot and "it will march towards Islamabad now."
The PTI chief said that both President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... are the passengers of "Samjhota Express" of corruption and personal gains and they are running this train of their political gains successfully to protect each other.
"I competed against players all my life.....but now the opponents are 'political alligators'," he added.
Khan said the PTI will be a party where anyone can become the leader. The PTI chief further criticised Sharifs, saying the Raiwand natives could not "buy youth by giving away free laptops to them."
Khan expressed grave concern over the worst law and order, rampant corruption and sky rocketing price hike, urging the rulers to stop deceiving the masses by making tall claims and false slogans.
The former Cricket legend emphasised that he knows the art of competing against all type of oppositions and vowed to take all wickets on one ball.
Party president Javed Hashmi, vice president Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi and local leaders were also present on the occasion.
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[Dawn] Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... will continue to hold his office even if convicted in the contempt of court case, declares Governor Sardar Latif Khosa.
"There has been a consensus in the Pakistain People's Party that there will be no replacement of Gilani (if he is convicted). In case of conviction, Gilani will not be disqualified from holding the office," the governor, who is also a lawyer by profession, said in a talk with Dawn on Thursday.
Khosa was however quick to predict that Gilani would escape punishment in the case. "The prime minister cannot be convicted under the Constitution, and I hope the apex court decision will be in accordance with it (constitution)."
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Jihad Turk, and if you don't believe a guy with the name Jihad, well then who will you believe
director of religious studies at LA's Islamic Center of Southern California, says that of the roughly 750,000 Muslims living in Southern California, just 30,000, or about 4%, regularly attend Friday prayer. And when I interview members of the center's offshoot, the Muslim Establishing Communities of America (MECA), whose target demographic is unaffiliated young adults, they say there are few Muslim institutions where they feel comfortable.
Younger Muslims say they don't like the gender segregation at prayers and the imams imported from other countries who repeat the same Friday sermons, known as Khutbahs, week after week. the author of the article generalizes this to all moslems in the US but gives no info about anything but LA
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Kids always rebel against their parents' values. What chance does the promise of 72 virgins in the afterlife stand against a makeout session with Ms. Mary Jane Hotpants out behind the bleachers?
Girls, cars, computers, MTV, alcoholic beverages - America just seethes with infidel hotness. Just try and keep up with that, Islamo-biatches!
[Yemen Post] Yemen's Foreign Minister Abu Bakar Al-Qirbi has revealed about the existence of US marine forces in Sana'a that are tasked with protecting the US Embassy from any Al-Qaeda's risks.
Isn't that what Marines have been doing at American embassies for quite a while now?
Only for two hundred and some years...
Media sources said that the Sheraton Hotel has been completely allocated for the US forces since last June, pointing out that these forces are replaced regularly.
In an interview with the weekly Al-Wasat newspaper, Al-Qirbi affirmed that there are forces inside the Sheraton Hotel that overlooks the embassy.
He pointed out that Yemen turned to a field of regional and international interventions.
This revelation came following the killing of an American national in Taiz and threats released by Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula(AQAP) in which it said it would target foreign embassies in Yemen.
The US embassy was subjected to the most violent attacks of the terrorist organization on September 17, 2008, when a number of the embassy workers and Yemeni soldiers were killed and maimed.
Yemeni news sources had stated early of March that the US sent a marine unit to protect Hadi.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... sources of the Yemeni President Abdu-Rabo Mansour Hadi denied the news about the marine forces, stressing that Yemen has forces that could absolutely carry out their duties, asking media outlets to be accurate and credible.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... In remarks to the London-based Arabic-speaking newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Al-Qirbi cautioned against the Iranian interventions in Yemen, stressing that the Iranian interventions became known for every one.
He further called the super powers to prevent Iran from interfere in Yemen's affairs, emphasizing that such interventions could affect on Yemen's security and stability.
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Are these accusations of Iranian intervention related to the arming of a Yemeni religious sect? I can't remember the name, but there's a significant religious minority in, I believe the North Central part of Yemen, that is essentially Shiite. They're called Ismaeli's or something like that. They're considered apostates by the Sunnis. Is this who Iran is accused of arming? Anybody have more insight on this Iran connection?
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Wikipedia has an article on the Ismailis, Kentucky Beef -- are they who you thought they might be? I can't speak to your other questions, sorry, but they are good ones. :-)
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Last year's NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -assisted overthrow of the Libyan regime is a factor in this week's military takeover in Mali, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... ' chief political officer said on Thursday.
"Well, of course, there is a relationship," UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs B Lynn Pascoe said following a Security Council meeting on the coup in Mali.
Mr Pascoe explained that "much more firepower and drive" were added to a simmering rebellion in northern Mali by up to 2,000 Tuareg fighters who had been employed in Libya until the ouster of Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... in October.
The Tuaregs, some of whom held high ranks in the Libyan army, then returned to Mali with their weapons, Mr Pascoe said.
Malian military officers who overthrew President Amadou Toumani Toure cited as a key grievance the government's inadequate support for army operations against the strengthened Tuareg orcs.
The coup in Mali can thus be seen as an example of "blowback" -- an unintended and negative consequence of the overthrow of Libya's dictatorship. (READ: Mali soldiers say they have seized power)
NATO's intervention against the Qadaffy regime, a decisive factor in its overthrow, had been opposed by the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
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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.
[Dawn] The provincial government of 
[An Nahar] Spain's second largest city Barcelona on Wednesday said it would soon outlaw street prostitution, imposing fines on both 
[Dawn] A woman police officer of the city has accused two men of accosting her near Westridge late Wednesday night in an attempt to kidnap her.
Hillary Clinton
Grammy-winning pop legend Whitney Houston died from accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub after taking cocaine which could have triggered a heart attack, coroners said Thursday.
[Bangla Daily Star] A biological clue to male baldness has been discovered, raising the prospect of a treatment to stop or even reverse thinning hair.
[An Nahar] Tension with Iran and "uncertainty" in the region is adding a $20 or $30 premium to oil prices, pushing up gas prices for vehicle owners in the United States, President 
North Korea
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Intelligence officials say a bomb hidden inside a radio 
(Sh.M.Network)-The 
For the second time in two months, Api Khatun of Shailkupa upazila in Jhenidah came under acid attack on Thursday night allegedly by her former husband and co-wife.
Residents of 
Radio Free Asia on Thursday unveiled a satellite picture of North Korea's missile launch pad in Tongchang-ri, North Pyongan Province.
Pakistain 
Asif Ali 
Nawaz Sharif
Prime Minister 
[Yemen Post] Yemen's Foreign Minister Abu Bakar Al-Qirbi has revealed about the existence of US marine forces in Sana'a that are tasked with protecting the US Embassy from any Al-Qaeda's risks.
