[CNSNEWS] President B.O. will not make a written apology to the Afghan people for "mistakes" made during the war in their country, National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Tuesday. Then her lips fell off.
Reports to that effect reflected "a complete misunderstanding of what the situation is," she told CNN's "The Situation Room" Tuesday afternoon.
"No such letter has been drafted or delivered," Rice said. "There is not a need for the United States to apologize to Afghanistan -- quite the contrary. We have sacrificed and supported them in their democratic progress and in tackling the insurgency and al-Qaeda."
On the same day, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , in a phone call, acknowledged "mistakes" and asked Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... to allow American troops on counter-terrorism missions to enter Afghan homes in "exceptional circumstances."
The two countries are trying to finalize the wording of a draft security agreement that will allow U.S. troops to remain in the country after 2014.
According to the AP, a Dari-language statement from Karzai's office said that Kerry told Karzai the U.S. government understands the concerns of the Afghan government and people stemming from "mistakes committed by American forces in the past in Afghanistan."
Karzai's front man, Aimal Faizi, told news hounds earlier in the day that Karzai and Kerry, during their phone conversation, ironed out final sticking points in the draft bilateral security agreement (BSA) between the two nations. The BSA is to be considered by a gathering of Afghan tribal leaders, known as a loya jirga, beginning on Thursday.
According to Afghan and foreign press reports, Faizi said Kerry told Karzai that Obama would write a letter to the Afghan people acknowledging "mistakes."
"The whole idea of having a letter was to acknowledge the suffering of the Afghan people and the mistakes of the past," Rooters quoted Faizi as saying. "That was the only thing that satisfied the president."
Afghanistan's independent Pajhwok news agency reported that according to Faizi, Kerry said Obama "was willing to hold out a written guarantee to the Afghan government that U.S. soldiers would not repeat past mistakes."
"Obama's letter, agreed by both sides, would be attached to the BSA text and placed before jirga participants for a decision, Faizi said, adding Kerry had acknowledged American forces' repeated mistakes in past offensives," Pajhwok added.
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[Tolo News] The Islamic Association of Students gathered in Kabul on Tuesday to rally against the signing of the Kabul-Washington Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), saying the pact was against Afghanistan's national interests.
The BSA will be discussed at a Loya Jirga in Kabul starting Thursday, but has been the subject of heated public debate for weeks. Some say the agreement is critical to Afghanistan's stability and future progress, while others claim it will ensure continued conflict with the Taliban and submissiveness to the U.S.
"If the BSA was in our religious and national interests, we would endorse it, but the BSA isn't in national interests and we won't vote in favor of the agreement," said MP Abdul Sattar Khawasi, who participated in the gathering on Tuesday and will also hold a seat at the Loya Jirga this week.
The security pact is intended to secure a continued military partnership between the U.S. and Afghanistan after the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... combat mission ends in 2014, including a residual foreign troop presence and some 4.1 billion USD of financial aid to the Afghan forces.
A conversation with a member of the Quetta Council -- the leadership of the Afghan Taliban based in Pakistain -- was overheard. Spanta said that in the conversation, the Afghan in Kabul, who he refused to name, had coordinated plans to organize an anti-BSA rally in Afghanistan in order to support the Taliban's efforts to ensure the security pact goes unsigned
The most controversial elements of the accord surround criminal jurisdiction over U.S. troops and the right of American forces to conduct unilateral operations.
"We don't want to give immunity to the U.S. forces, we have witnessed their treatment over the last twelve years," said Abdullah Azim, the of head of the Islamic Association of Students.
Many have mistakenly thought the term "troop immunity" means that U.S. forces would be have impunity to act as they want in Afghanistan post-2014, while in fact it means they would have immunity from prosecution in Afghan courts, but would remain under the criminal jurisdiction of the U.S.
Still, many Afghans are not confident the U.S. would pursue charges against its soldiers found to have committed crimes in Afghanistan.
Although negotiations between American and Afghan officials over the provisions of the BSA are for the most part complete, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported on Monday that an impasse had been reached on the issue of U.S. unilateral operations.
With only two days remaining before the Jirga convenes, Karzai said he would not budge on the issue, refusing to concede to U.S. officials' demand to have the right to search Afghan houses suspected in relation to hard boy or terrorist activities.
Participants in the anti-BSA meeting on Tuesday government opposition groups, including the Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... led Hezb-e-Islami Party, to negotiate with the Afghan government to prevent the security pact from being finalized.
Hezb-e-Islami, as well as the Taliban, have openly condemned the BSA and the Jirga for even considering the possibility of approving the accord. The Taliban claimed credit for a suicide kaboom on the Jirga grounds at the Polytechnic University in Kabul on Saturday that left 42 casualties, including women and kiddies.
Civil society activists criticized the Islamic Association of Students gathering and suggested it was part of plans hatched in "neighboring countries" to undermine Afghanistan's relations with the U.S.
Both Pakistain and Iran have voiced apprehensions about the agreement and the possibility of foreign troops continuing to have a presence in Afghanistan post-2014. Reportedly, if the agreement is signed, the U.S. would maintain anywhere between 10,000-15,000 troops in Afghan territory, likely to be accompanied by additional forces from other NATO countries.
"Some movements have been started by neighboring countries and they have sought to prevent the signing of the agreement," commented civil society activist Mir Ahmad Joyenda.
On Saturday, National Secuirty Advisor Dr. Rangin Dadfur Spanta told the Lower House that the phone of a leader in Kabul had been tapped and a conversation with a member of the Quetta Council -- the leadership of the Afghan Taliban based in Pakistain -- was overheard. Spanta said that in the conversation, the Afghan in Kabul, who he refused to name, had coordinated plans to organize an anti-BSA rally in Afghanistan in order to support the Taliban's efforts to ensure the security pact goes unsigned.
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Here thought they were protesting the Boy Scouts of America.
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So did I. I expected it to be happening at Berkley or Columbia University.
And isn't this the agreement where Obama would admin 'wrongdoing'?
[Libya Herald] The Iraqi embassy in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... is understood to have been closed and all staff and dependents moved to Tunis. Guards at the building in Gurji Road, next to the Tripoli International School, told the Libya Herald that the embassy and consulate would be shut for five days.
The evacuation is understood to be related to the execution of Adel Zuwai, a Libya convicted of the killing of Iraqi citizens. News of the hanging, which took place in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on 7 November, only broke today. Zuwai's family is particularly upset because they have been given no opportunity to reclaim his body.
The building showed no sign of activity today, though a huge new Iraqi flag continues the fly above the entrance.
Attempts to contact embassy staff by phone were unsuccessful, nor could a Libyan foreign ministry front man be reached this afternoon for confirmation.
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[Libya Herald] Hundreds of women turned out in Algeria Square yesterday to protest against the presence of armed militias in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... streets and across the country.
They called for a complete end to the country's militias and demanded that the security of the country be placed solely in control of the national Armed Forces and the police.
The crowd included a small group of Libyan women who live and study in Manchester in the UK. They had returned to Libya to express their condolences for the country's losses in the recent Tripoli festivities. They also plan to conduct some research into why things in Libya have not been working post-Revolution.
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[Libya Herald] Prime Minister Ali Zeidan appears to have cut short a high-level meeting in Misrata this evening, after angry revolutionary fighters arrived yelling for him to go.
He had flown into the city accompanied by seven of his senior ministers; for economy, justice, telecommunications, labour, culture and electricity. The last, Ali Muhairiq is head of the commission that has been given the job of enforcing Law 27, which obliges all armed militias to quit Libyan cities.
The government party had come to meet local elders and members of the Shura, as well as Misrata councillors in an apparent effort to ensure that the three-day withdrawal of the city's brigades from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... continues successfully.
The meeting had lasted for some 20 minutes with journalists present, before all observers were asked to leave and it went into private session. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... very shortly afterwards, angry fighters arrived outside demanding that city leaders cut no deals with the government and that Zeidan and his party leave. After about ten minutes of what one journalist described as "chaos", the prime minister and his team withdrew.
Some Misratans said that Zeidan's arrival by plane had been unexpected, yet the Libya Herald learnt this afternoon that the trip was likely to take place.
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[An Nahar] Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi could stay in power after his term ends in February 2014 due to delays in implementing a transition agreement, the U.N. envoy to Yemen said Tuesday.
Hadi was elected for a two-year interim period in February 2012, after his predecessor President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... signed a power transfer deal bowing to a year-long uprising against his 33-year rule.
"There is a campaign by certain parties aiming at causing trouble ... These argue that the president's legitimacy expires with the end of the transitional period in February 2014," U.N. special envoy Jamal Benomar told Agence La Belle France Presse, in reference to Saleh's supporters.
"But the power transfer agreement signed in November 2011 states that the transition period ends when all its milestones are completed," he added.
Last month, Hadi said national dialogue talks aimed at drawing up a new constitution and preparing for elections would be resolved within days.
The talks had been due to end on September 18, but they have been delayed by disagreements about the number of regions that will make up the future state.
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New classified testimony on Benghazi by five CIA employees shows the administration's initial narrative about a protest gone awry was "indefensible," according to a lawmaker who took part in two classified sessions before the House Intelligence Committee.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Fox News that witnesses described how five mortars rained down on the CIA annex over 90 seconds during the attack -- with three direct hits. King argued that the details raise more questions about why the administration initially claimed the attack sprung from a protest over an anti-Islam film a narrative officials later abandoned.
"It's indefensible what was said back on September 11, 12, and 13 in 2012, and what the facts really were," King said. Two other members of the intelligence committee involved in the briefings echoed Kings assessment.
The first two mortars missed, followed by three direct hits on the roof, killing two former Navy SEALs and severely injuring a diplomatic security agent and CIA contractor.
This testimony is seen by lawmakers as more overwhelming evidence that the attack was premeditated terrorism and that these facts were known almost immediately by then-CIA Director David Petraeus who downplayed the skill and planning needed to use mortars with such accuracy during his Sept. 14, 2012 briefing to Congress.
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Huh - first two missed (one long and one short?) then 3 R FFE. Just like a trained observer. You don't get lucky with indirect fire. This was no boating accident.
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Sounds, (Overwhelmingly) Like directed fire, there had to be an observer.
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Yep, drop 50 fire for effect...my favorite instruction to the fire control gunnies.
Oh yeah, there were observers and there were people on the ground well coordinated. The gig in Benghazi was planned months in advance and rehearsed for precision. The bad guys knew they had to do it right to do what they wanted to do, i.e., kill an ambassador and embarrass Obama.
They forgot a toxic narcissist such as the ONE is impossible to embarrass.
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In the Dear Colleague letter, Cruz calls on his fellow lawmakers to join the 24 senators who already support an independent commission on Benghazi Senate Resolution 225.
There may be more who are interested as the 2014 elections near. Maybe even more after the elections. Harry Reid will otherwise block such efforts and they will die in the Senate. Such an effort might get more traction in the House.
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They forgot a toxic narcissist such as the ONE is impossible to embarrass.
I think they succeeded in disrupting efforts of crappy movie makers what the CIA was up to, with bonus points for capturing the ambassador. I'm not sure what the overall effect could have been, but I'd guess captain fundraiser would have gone ahead and went to Vaygus. Might have been a little warm hitting up for money while video of the ambassador being tortured was being released with the demand to quit whatever the CIA was doing which has been so covered up.
[An Nahar] Pakistain on Tuesday set up a special court to try former military ruler Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... for high treason, an official statement said.
The announcement came hours after the Supreme Court forwarded the names of five judges suitable to sit on the special court, following a government request on Monday.
Three judges have since been chosen by the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... who is now on an unprecedented collision course with the all powerful military.
"The Prime Minister has approved names of judges for special court for trial of high treason under article 6 (of the constitution)," his office said in a statement.
"Mr Faisal Arab, from Sindh High Court, being the most senior, will be the head. Ms. Syed Tahira Safdar 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... High Court and Mr. Yawaar Ali of Lahore High Court will be the (other) members".
"The government has notified the tribunal," the statement added.
After receiving the government request to try Mr Musharraf, the head of Supreme Court, chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, ordered all the high courts from the country's four provinces and Islamabad to put forward the names of any judges eligible for the three member special tribunal.
The decision to try Musharraf for treason, announced live on TV by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday, means the former Pak leader faces the death penalty or life in prison if convicted.
It comes after Musharraf was granted bail in other cases against him, stoking rumors a deal for his departure could be imminent.
The treason accusation relates to Musharraf's decision in 2007 to impose emergency rule shortly before the Supreme Court was due to decide on the legality of his re-election as president a month earlier while he was still army chief.
Musharraf overthrew the government of Nawaz Sharif -- elected to power again in May this year -- in a bloodless military coup in October 1999, but a year later the Supreme Court validated the take over.
During the 2007 emergency rule he suspended the constitution and parliament, and sacked top judges who declared his actions unconstitutional and illegal.
Musharraf technically became a free man this month when an Islamabad district court granted him bail over a deadly raid on a radical mosque in the capital in 2007.
But faced with Taliban threats to his life, he has remained under heavy guard at his villa on the edge of Islamabad.
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Forget the special court. Let Perf run the polio vaccination campaign in Wazoo. Or to really get over on him, send him to...DETROIT!
[Al Ahram] An Arab ministerial committee charged with monitoring the Middle East grinding of the peace processor blamed Israel for the impasse in negotiations with the Paleostinians after a Tuesday meeting in Kuwait.
"Israel is responsible for the deep crisis in negotiations because of its intensifying of settlements (construction), repeated attacks against the sacred Al-Aqsa mosque (in Jerusalem), seizing of Paleostinian lands, and strengthening the blockade against Gazoo," it said in a statement.
The committee, which is chaired by Qatar and includes 13 Arab countries, met in Kuwait on the sidelines of the Arab-African summit in the presence of Paleostinian leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
The latest peace talks, launched at Washington's urging in July, have shown little sign of progress, with the Paleostinians objecting to repeated Israeli announcements of new settlement construction on occupied territory.
A major spike in settlement announcements last week prompted the resignation of the entire Paleostinian negotiating team.
But on Sunday Abbas told AFP that peace talks with Israel would continue for the full nine months agreed with Washington -- "regardless of what happens on the ground."
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[An Nahar] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... will stop paying wages to thousands of workers helping Paleostinian refugees next month because of a growing cash crisis, a top U.N. official said Tuesday.
The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), one of the U.N.'s oldest agencies, faces a "dire situation" with a $36 million deficit, under secretary general Jeffrey Feltman told the Security Council.
"UNRWA will be unable to adequately fund its core services -- especially in education, health and poverty mitigation -- and will be unable to pay December salaries of its 30,000 teachers, medical personnel and social workers," Feltman said.
The agency was set up in 1950 to help Paleostinian refugees who lost their homes because of the 1948 Middle East conflict. It estimates that it now helps about five million people. Ummm... That was 63 years ago.
The United States and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... have traditionally been UNRWA's biggest donors to its two year budget of more than $1.2 billion.
The agency also faces a crisis in the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo territory, after Israeli authorities discovered a tunnel from the besieged strip into Israel in October.
Israel suspended the entry of all construction materials into Gazoo and since then 19 out of 20 UNRWA construction projects in the territory have been halted. Eh? Sounds almost like the two things are related.
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[An Nahar] President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... contacted on Tuesday Iran's diminutive President Hassan Rouhani and Ambassador Ghazanfar Rokn Abadi to condemn the blasts that targeted the Bir Hassan neighborhood in Beirut on Tuesday.
He said: "The hard boyz must be uncovered, tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! , and brought to justice."
"These criminal messages will not alter our principles and convictions," he declared.
"Terrorists will not turn back time and restore a dark chapter in Leb's history," added Suleiman.
At least 23 people were killed and 150 maimed in the blasts in the Hizbullah stronghold of Bir Hassan.
The powerful kabooms just opposite the multi-storey embassy caused chaos, ripping the facades off nearby buildings and setting cars ablaze.
They come after two other kabooms this year in the southern suburbs of Beirut that are the bastion of Hizbullah.
The group, which is sponsored by Iran, has drawn controversy for sending thousands of fighters to support the regime of Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... as he battles a 32-month-old uprising.
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[An Nahar] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said deadly kabooms against Iran's embassy in Beirut on Tuesday should be "an alarm for all of us". No previous Beirut kabooms are or have been...
"The tragedy today... should be an alarm for all of us that we need to deal with and unless we deal with it seriously, it will engulf all of us," Zarif said after talks with his Italian counterpart Emma Bonino in Rome.
Asked about the blame laid on Israel by his ministry, he said: "We have reason to be suspicious of every move they make. Every move they make is about spreading tension and mistrust."
He said the attack was a symptom of the "extremism" spreading in the Middle East, particularly from Syria.
"There is every reason to be concerned about it. Extremism cannot be contained in any single country," he said.
"It's a very serious problem. Once we see a flare-up of the tension that is boiling in Syria there will hardly a possibility of stopping it at the Syrian border, or even in the Middle East," he said.
At least 23 people, including an Iranian national, died Tuesday when two jacket wallahs set off successive blasts at the Iranian embassy in southern Beirut. Nearly 150 people were maimed.
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IIUC, the worm has weirdly-n-mysteriously begun turning for those members of the anti-Iran, Hezbollah "March 14" Coalition.
[An Nahar] Syria has strongly condemned a double kaboom outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Tuesday that killed at least 23 people, official media reported.
"The Syrian government firmly condemns the terrorist attack carried out near the Iranian embassy in Beirut," state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said.
It said an "odor of petrodollars comes from all the terrorist acts against Syria, Leb and Iraq," an apparent reference to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Qatar, which back the Syrian uprising.
At least 23 people were killed and 150 maimed in the blasts in the Hizbullah stronghold of Bir Hassan.
The powerful kabooms just opposite the multi-storey embassy caused chaos, ripping the facades off nearby buildings and setting cars ablaze.
They come after two other kabooms this year in the southern suburbs of Beirut that are the bastion of Hizbullah.
The group, which is sponsored by Iran, has drawn controversy for sending thousands of fighters to support the regime of Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... as he battles a 32-month-old uprising.
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[An Nahar] Iranian Ambassador to Leb Ghazanfar Rokn Abadi confirmed the death of Iranian cultural adviser Sheikh Ibrahim al-Ansari in the twin blasts near the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Tuesday.
He told al-Manar television that al-Ansari died from wounds he sustained in the attack.
Earlier, he had told Iran's Mehr news agency that all staff who were "inside" the embassy escaped unharmed when the kabooms went off outside the building on Tuesday.
"All colleagues inside the embassy are in full health," he said.
"The agents of the Zionist entity Israel are behind the blasts," he later told al-Mayadeen television.
"This terrorist attack will not affect us, but it will make us stronger and more convinced of our stances," he added.
The kabooms occurred in southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Iran-ally Hizbullah, killing at least 20 people.
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Brandeis University has suspended its partnership with the Palestinian Al-Quds University.
Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence made the announcement Monday, saying the university will re-evaluate the relationship in the future. The universities have been sister institutions since 1998.
The decision was made in light of recent events at the university, which has campuses in Jerusalem, Abu-Dis and Al-Bireh, including a November 5 Nazi-style demonstration at the main campus.
During the demonstration, protesters marched in black military gear with fake automatic weapons while waving flags and offering the traditional Nazi salute. Banners with images of Palestinian suicide bombers decorated the campus main square, according to a statement from Brandeis. Several students also portrayed dead Israeli soldiers. Leftards are, incurably, symbol oriented---as long as Paleos marched under red of socialism & green of Islam while demanding death to Juice, it was perfectly OK.
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Yes the Nazis performed the ultimate crime for leftards: not the Holocaust, not the raping of ten million Russian women and the muder of at least as many Russian civilians, the Nazi ultimate crime was attacking SDoviet Union. Not Brznev's Soviet Union that they wouldn't have cared as much but Stalin's Soviet Union, the one where millions were sent to camps in irder ti fill Gulag's neds for man power. That is unforgivable for a leftard.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Tolo News] The Islamic Association of Students gathered in Kabul on Tuesday to rally against the signing of the Kabul-Washington Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), saying the pact was against Afghanistan's national interests.
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[Al Ahram] An Arab ministerial committee charged with monitoring the Middle East 
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