voting for Socialism won't make the debt crisis go away. Jeebus
Francois Hollande has secured 27.5 per cent of the votes cast in the first round of the presidential elections, with about 33 per cent of the ballots counted. Nicholas Sarkozy is trailing his Socialist rival with 26.6 per cent of the vote. not so far apart...now the second round
Far-right candidate Marine le Pen has secured third place with 19.9 per cent of the vote, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry.
Left-wing hopeful Jean-Luc Melenchon has got some 11 per cent of the ballots. 80% turnout is what they're saying... Continued on Page 47
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Considering that le Pen's votes will go to Sarkozy, he will win the runoff.
MI6 and Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan intelligence service set up a radical mosque in a western European city to lure al-Qaeda terrorists, London's Sunday Telegraph has revealed.
The operation, which had the potential to backfire if a terrorist cell launched an attack from the location, was run behind the backs of Western allies in the chosen city.
The joint operation, undertaken as Britain attempted to secure a deal with Colonel Gaddafi to reopen diplomatic relations, shows how closely Britain's Secret Intelligence Service was prepared to work with his regime's spies, despite allegations of human rights abuses.
At the time, Britain was encouraging Colonel Gaddafi to give up plans for weapons of mass destruction. Four months later, the dictator and Tony Blair, then British prime minister, struck the 2004 ''deal in the desert'', which ended Libya's pariah status.
The co-operation extended to recruiting an agent to infiltrate an al-Qaeda cell in the European city, which cannot be named for security reasons.
The double agent, code-named Joseph, was closely connected to a senior al-Qaeda commander in Iraq and had been identified as a possible spy by the ESO, Libya's external intelligence service.
MI6 began recruiting the agent without telling its allies in the European country where he lived. The agency agreed on a narrative with the agent and the ESO to fool their allies about his recruitment. Documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph outline the subterfuge. The papers were left in Tripoli as Colonel Gaddafi's regime crumbled.
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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.
