Medvedev set to defy pact with prime minister Vladimir Putin and seek second term, claims prominent politician
President Dmitry Medvedev is pushing to extend his tenure in the Kremlin against the wishes of Russia's powerful prime minister, Vladimir Putin, a senior politician from the country's ruling party has told the Guardian.
Konstantin Zatulin, a prominent MP with United Russia, which dominates parliament and is headed by Putin, said Medvedev's allies were waging a campaign to undermine the prime minister behind a public facade of unity between the two men.
Until recently it was widely assumed that Medvedev would not run in presidential elections next March, so that Putin could return to his old job and serve two more terms to 2024. Most analysts had presumed that Putin would put himself forward while Medvedev would bow out meekly after a single term.
However, Zatulin said in an interview that the president's aides were jockeying to keep him in the Kremlin by eroding Putin's support in parliament. "Medvedev wants to stay, he has broken the agreement and now Putin will have to persuade him to back off," he said.
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We may soon see the shattering of a third and final illusion. Post-war European prosperity was built under the US security umbrella. We complained, often with justice, about American policies but we did not have to pay for our own defence or fight our own wars. If ever there was trouble with the Soviet Union or Milosevic in the Balkans, we could rely on the Yanks. Now America is preparing to bring her legions home.
One day Europe will have to fight her own wars and defend her own borders. Although the liberal spokesmen and women in the Oslo and London TV have scoffed at the cowboy Yanks and neo-con aggressors for years, they may miss them when they are gone. I feel an attack of schadenfreude coming on. Continued on Page 47
[Iran Press TV] As Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... continues to spread across Europe, a newly published CIA file leaked by whistleblower website WikiLeaks claims that one of Milan's main mosques was a recruitment center for al-Qaeda.
The recently leaked CIA files suggest that the Pentagon considers nine mosques around the world of similar ties. Mosques in the populous cities of Montreal, London, Lyon, Bloody Karachi, and Sadah are among those on the list.
Mosque officials have refuted the claim outright.
"We don't have any skeletons hidden in our cupboards. We are open to dialogue and inspection, but authorities have never found anything wrong," Milan Islamic Cultural Center's Abdel Hamid Shaari told a Press TV correspondent.
Perhaps the Italian authorities haven't been bugging the right room. Try the one that's always locked, guys.
Shaari also criticized Italian authorities for fueling unnecessary mistrust among non-Mohammedans, who depend solely on the media for obtaining information on Islam and Mohammedans.
The mosque is a vocal critic of the city council for not allowing the Islamic community to have a permanent home in the continent's largest city.
At a time when Italian Mohammedans seek a law-abiding life, with hopes of finding jobs and being allowed to practice Islam freely, such accusations are only adding to the growing isolation of Mohammedans in Italia, according to the report.
[Iran Press TV] The French government has harshly cracked down on North African immigrants holding temporary visas issued by Italia in a move seen as clear violation of EU laws.
The times, they are a-changing.
Amid an exceptional exodus of Tunisian, Libyan and Egyptian refugees from Italia, the French police jugged and deported a number of North African colonists after launching a crackdown on hundreds of immigrants sleeping in a Gay Paree park, a Press TV correspondent reported Friday.
The majority of immigrants were in possession of temporary visas that enabled them to cross into La Belle France, but the authorities in Gay Paree refused the documents, insisting that those without the legally-required 31 euros per day will be jugged and deported.
"When we come to immigrants yes they are literally... living in poor situation. They need everything, they are marooning in towns with expectations and hopes that are... absolutely and totally bloated and now they are waking up to the fact that La Belle France is not the El Dorado and Italia is not the El Dorado," Maurizio Busatti from the International Organization for Migration told Press TV.
The French government's move has prompted a sharp rebuke from human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... groups and several French politicians, who have drawn attention to the borderless regime enjoyed by more than 400 million people in 25 countries in the European Union.
Reports say more than 25,000 people have arrived in Italia, mainly via the southern island of Lampedusa over the last three months. Most are young men from Tunisia looking for work; though in recent weeks refugees from troubled Libya have been pouring in alike.
On April 17, La Belle France halted a train carrying Tunisian immigrants from Italia at the French border, sending back those who could not support themselves financially.
Last week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... and the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi mounted pressure on Brussels and the governments of the other 25 EU states, demanding an "in-depth revision" of European law regulating the passport-free travel that takes in almost the entire EU with the exception of Perfidious Albion and Ireland.
The initiative has come to the fore as the Sarkozy's UMP party is in dire need of the right-wing support ahead of presidential election next year and many analysts argue that such clamor has led to recent tough stance on migrants and attacks on Mohammedans.
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Bet you anything that if Italy starts deporting them back to Tunisia, France would be the first to raise its voice in criticism.
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I think its just terrible that France cant be more "understanding" toward Moslems and their "needs". And I say, Shame on Italy for not opening its borders wide for all the garlic of Islam and their children and their goats( did I mention the goats?)
What France really really needs are more burquas and burning cars and refusing to assimilate and throwing stones at the gendarmes and burned out grafiiti neighborhoods with Allahu Akbar whispering in the dark alleys along the Seine.
As for Southern Italy it is known all over the world for its affluence and tolerance and a Sicilian here and there. Such an honest people, just look into their eyes and see yourself naked in a closet in the train station with your wallet gone. No? We were talking about southern Italy werent we?
Moslem values would improve the EUroweenies immensely. Not to mention the goats.
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'Tis better to be quiet and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt.
Based on your latest ignorant rant, de Medici3489, there's no doubt.
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[Iran Press TV] Belgium's lower house of parliament has approved a bill that would ban all clothing that covers or partially covers the face and that would prohibit Mohammedan women from wearing the burqa and the niqab in public.
All the cool countries are doing it nowadays.
On Thursday, the bill was passed by a vote of 136-1 and two abstentions, AP reported.
If approved by the Senate, Belgium would become the second European country after La Belle France to put such a law into practice.
The law would target all women who use the face veil, known as the niqab, and the body-length burqa.
Violators of the law would be punished with fines of 15 to 25 euros (about $20 to $33) or imprisonment for up to seven days.
The Chamber of Deputies -- Belgium's lower house of parliament -- first approved the proposal almost one year ago, but that version of the bill was nixed when the parliament was dissolved due to a government crisis fueled by a row between the country's French and Dutch-speaking politicians.
La Belle France has also banned facial covers, declaring that any woman -- French or foreigner -- who wears a niqab or burqa in public will be fined 150 euros. People who force women to wear such covers will face a much larger fine and a prison sentence of up to two years.
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ION RENSE > EU MERGES ENGLAND, FRANCE WID ITS OWN FLAG | [DailyMail.UK] THE EU IS TRYING TO WIPE US OFF THE MAP, ENGLAND + FRANCE [combined]IN NEW "ARC MANCHE" REGION ... ... WID ITS OWN FLAG.
Southern England + Northern France.
and
* WAFF > RUSSIA URGES [warns] TURKEY TO PRESERVE [respect] MONTREUX TREATY, as per the proposed "CANAL INSTANBUL" PROJECT.
Not just Moscow.
IIUC, Russia is warning Turkey that THERE IS MUCH MORE TO THE MONTREUX TREATY THAN JUST ITS SEEMINGLY PRO-TURKEY CLAUSES.
* SAME > [Greek Commentary]"PHAROANIC PROJECT OF ERDOGAN" FRIGHTENING.
ARTIC = Turkey's proposed "CANAL INSTANBUL" PROJECT could lead to a super-buildup =
overcongestion of merchant shipping in the AEGEAN [SEZ-EEZ = FreePort?], which in turn may lead to POTENTIAL INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR GREECE TO SCALE BACK ITS SOVEREIGN TERRITORIAL BORDERS IN FAVOR OF TURKEY + TRADE-LED NEW AEGEAN ORDER???
[An Nahar] One of three alleged members of al-Qaeda jugged in Germany was ordered by a high-ranking member of the group last year to carry out an attack in the country, prosecutors said Saturday.
The 29-year-old suspect, identified as Abdelakim El-K, "was ordered by a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda in 2010 to carry out an attack in Germany," the deputy federal prosecutor general, Rainer Griesbaum, said at a presser.
German police had on Friday jugged the three alleged al-Qaeda operatives.
Griesbaum said the suspects had begun preparing explosives for the attack but that a target had not been selected.
The head of the German federal police, Joerg Zierck, said Abdelakim El-K had been living illegally in Germany since November 2010 and had connections in Austria, Morocco, Kosovo and Iran.
The daily Bild earlier reported that the three were from the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and were caught with "large amounts of explosives".
Citing security sources, the newspaper said they were suspected of plotting attacks in Germany. They came to the attention of the Federal Crime Office during surveillance of mobile phone and computer communications.
Other media reports said Abdelakim El-K, the group's apparent leader, was trained in an Islamist camp in Wazoo, the border region between Pakistain and Afghanistan.
Reports said the men had been under surveillance since late 2010, had attracted attention when they attempted to buy large amounts of key chemicals at pharmacies and had been planning to strike at public transport in a big city.
And all the while they fondly thought themselves invisible, like toddlers who cover their eyes so that Mama can't see them.
German authorities hiked security measures in November after U.S. authorities warned of an al-Qaeda plot to carry out "Mumbai-style" attacks in Perfidious Albion, La Belle France and Germany.
U.S. authorities handed over to Germany last week the source of the tip, alleged Islamic hard boy Ahmed Wali Siddiqui, who had been held for nine months in Afghanistan.
Germany, which opposed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq but has nearly 5,000 troops in Afghanistan under NATO command, has never experienced an attack by Mohammedangunnies on its own soil.
But authorities say the Islamist scene is large and dangerous.
And clearly closely watched.
The closest it has come to an attack was in July 2006 when Islamic gunnies placed suitcases with homemade bombs on two regional trains at Cologne's main station. They failed to detonate, averting an almost certain bloodbath.
And in 2007, three men including two German converts to Islam were caught plotting attacks on U.S. interests in western Germany in what authorities said was a bid to mount a "second September 11."
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From the New York Times
"The target was uncertain. Bild, Germanys most widely read and generally reliable newspaper, reported that the terrorist cell might have planned to hit the popular Eurovision Song Contest on May 14, though that events organizers said they had not been alerted to any such threat."
OMG. And the New York Times wants people to pay for this crap of info?
(For those who don't know: BILD is the German equivalent of the British "Sun" or "Daily Mirror", and anyone who calls this tabloid "reliable" should have his brain checked)
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