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Afghanistan
Troop Immunity Threatens to Sink U.S.-Afghan Deal
[An Nahar] President Hamid 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...
and U.S. 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...
said Saturday that talks on the future of U.S. forces in Afghanistan were stuck on the key issue of U.S. troop immunity.
Coincidentally the same thing that stopped continued deployment in Iraq...
Kerry extended his stay in Kabul to try to thrash out a long-delayed security pact that would allow between 5,000 and 10,000 U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014 to fight al-Qaeda remnants and train the national army.

But he said that a major sticking point in efforts to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) was the issue of which country would try any U.S. soldiers deployed in Afghanistan.

"One issue that is outstanding (is) the issue of jurisdiction," he said, rejecting the widely-used term "immunity" because accused U.S. troops would still stand trial in America.

"We need to say that if the issue cannot be resolved, unfortunately there cannot be a bilateral security agreement."
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yep, killed the Iraq deployment too. Notice the prosperity in Germany, Japan, and South Korea that signed such an agreement (SOFA - Status of Forces Agreement).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/13/2013 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  If we had a CIA worth it's name, they'd slip him a "hot shot" in his heroin supply
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2013 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Look at the bright side - the country's death spiral will be a lot quicker than Iraq's.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/13/2013 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4  I dunno about Iraq. I wonder if some of the kabooms are being over-played. It's a country over 30 million people and AQIM certainly isn't operating in the Shi'a and Kurdish areas. I don't think Iraq will fall apart, but it might still become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Iran...
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2013 14:01 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Sfax women protest 'jihad annikah'
[MAGHAREBIA] Tunisian women's rights activists on Thursday (October 10th) staged a protest in front of the city hall in Sfax to denounce "sex jihad", Shems FM reported.

The head of the local office of the Association of Democratic Women, Najoua Baccar, said that the women involved in "jihad annikah" were victims of extremists. The women's rights advocate called on the Tunisian government to assume full responsibility for the tragedy.

For months, media reports have circulated about young women from Tunisia and other Maghreb countries that were recruited to provide companionship to jihadist fighters in Syria.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring

#1  I could sit here all day and watch Moslems whack each other with rubber bats like Punch and Judy, couldn't you?

With every steel box with a handle on it for easy carrying to the Front full of 800 rounds each we throw in for you as an added bonus..... these very fine imported French Ticklers...in a range of colors. See this one has a roosters head on it and this one looks like Hussein's nose.
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 || 10/13/2013 5:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I agree, let the show continue...



and pull me a tall one, it is so entertaining.
Posted by: Woozle Splat4116 || 10/13/2013 10:24 Comments || Top||


Ex-Brotherhood Guide Akef referred to criminal court for 'insulting judiciary'
[Al Ahram] Former Supreme Guide of Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund Mahdi Akef was referred to Cairo Criminal Court Saturday on charges of "insulting the judicial authority."

Judge Tharwat Hammad, delegated from the Ministry of Justice to investigate cases of insulting judicial authorities and offending its members, issued the order.

Akef said in an interview with the Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida in April that judges in Egypt were "corrupt."

The former Islamist leader was nabbed
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
in July. He is currently placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
and also faces charges of inciting the killing of protesters in front of the Moslem Brüderbund's headquarters in the Cairo suburb of Moqattam during the events of 30 June.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Libya's Islamist party leader says PM failed
[Al Ahram] The leader of Libya's Moslem Brüderbund political party says the country's prime minister -- who was briefly kidnapped by militia members earlier this week -- has failed and needs to be replaced.

Mohammed Sawan, leader of the Justice and Development party, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in a telephone interview Saturday from Benghazi that the parliament is "seriously searching for an alternative" to Ali Zidan. Sawan says mismanagement by Zidan's government might have led to "irresponsible actions" by individuals, referring to Zidan's kidnapping.

On Friday, Zidan blamed political rivals' militias of orchestrating his abduction, but didn't name them. Sawan says Zidan told politicians that he didn't mean Moslem Brüderbund.

The Brotherhood came in second in the country's first parliamentary elections last year. It has five ministers in Zidan's government.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Egypt president meets senior judges amid row with constitution body
[Al Ahram] Egypt's interim president discusses grievances over constitutional amendments with senior judges
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Egypt's prosecution orders investigation into Friday protest killing
[Al Ahram] Cairo's Nasr City prosecution ordered Saturday an autopsy conducted on a engineering student killed during Friday festivities, to ascertain the reason of his death.

Nineteen-year-old Belal Ali Saber was killed as a protest in support of ousted president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
approached Rabaa Al-Adawiya, the site of a pro-Morsi sit-in that was forcibly dispersed in August leaving hundreds dead.

The prosecution also ordered that immediate investigations be carried out by the National Security apparatus and police detectives, and that a delegation from the criminal lab inspect the police vehicles which supporters of Morsi, including Saber, are accused of attacking with molotov cocktails.

Six pro-Morsi protesters are being questioned by the prosecution regarding the attack on the vehicle.

Following Belal's death, a video, purportedly of the festivities at Rabaa Al-Adawyia, circulated on social networks showing several coppers shooting firearms.

Students at Ain Shams University gathered Saturday to protest the killing of Saber.

Several protesters erupted into the streets Friday marking 100 days since Morsi's ouster. Outside Cairo, limited festivities were also reported in the coastal governorates of Alexandria and Kafr El-Sheikh.

At least 15 protesters were reportedly nabbed
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
across the governorates.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


China-Japan-Koreas
N.Korea 'Could Freeze Nuclear, Missile Tests'
A former U.S. State Department official says North Korea may be willing to declare a moratorium on nuclear weapons and missile testing.

Joel Wit, a senior fellow with the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, told Yonhap News on Wednesday that he was given the assurance by Ri Yong-ho , the North's top nuclear envoy, at a seminar last month in Berlin.
Last month? Out of date by about 29 days, Comrade Wit...
Declaring a moratorium on nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missile testing was part of a U.S.-North Korea deal signed last year. Wit called on North Korea and the U.S. to hold face-to-face talks on ways to denuclearize the North.
Wit thus demonstrates himself to be a tool of the North Koreans...
But he added the moratorium cannot be a precondition for international talks
No, no, certainly not!
but may lick in once all sides are at the table.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lets do a little "missile test" of our own...

Posted by: Fat Bob Platypus3347 || 10/13/2013 2:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Could? This guy must be a former Clinton negotiator to North Korea.
Posted by: tipover || 10/13/2013 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Again, iff the DPRK gets Nukes, the ROK will demand + get Nukes, + thats when TRUE INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION CAN FINALLY OCCUR.

Until then we're all just "going the motions", full of [diplomatic] sound-n-fury, etc. accomplishing nothing.

The alternative is that Radical Islam = Hard/Bad Boyz attacl + destabilize China + prob also Russia, diverting Beijing + PLA's attention away from the Koreas.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/13/2013 20:20 Comments || Top||

#4  ... North Korea may be willing to declare a moratorium on nuclear weapons and missile testing.

Until such time as they want to resume nuclear weapons and missile testing.
Posted by: Squinty || 10/13/2013 22:57 Comments || Top||


U.S. Academic Warns of 'Hasty' Troop Control Transfer
Full operational control of South Korean troops should not be handed over to Seoul in haste and out of political considerations, a U.S. academic says. Michael O'Hanlon, a fellow at the conservative Brookings Institution,
Conservative?
made the recommendation in an article titled "Don't Rush the U.S.-Korea Command Change" on Tuesday.

"In Korea, our preeminent concerns need to be unity of command and effectiveness of our combined deterrent against a still very potent North Korean threat," he said. "Ensuring fair burden-sharing is not the principal prism through which this issue should be viewed."

The original decision was a political one, because then-President Roh Moo-hyun was "playing the nationalism card,' O'Hanlon said, and "found a willing accomplice for the transfer plan in U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who wanted a more expeditionary American global footprint and felt that U.S. forces in Korea were too anchored to the peninsula."
As usual, Mr. Rumsfeld had a good take on the problem...
But he added the current "command arrangements are a remarkable testament to allied effort over the decades… If it is to be changed, that should happen carefully and as slowly as military leaders on both sides think prudent."
I think he's arguing for a glacial time scale, or maybe even geological...
He cited the "tragic failed hostage rescue attempt in Iran in 1980" and "roughly a quarter of all American fatalities" from friendly fire in Iraq in 1991 as examples of a "failure of unified command" and poorly coordinated military operations.

"Command structures that are bifurcated or otherwise ambiguous in certain ways can raise the risk of such tragedies in the future," he added.
Easy. Put the South Koreans in charge of defending their country. We can leave air units there to help. But let the ROK bear the burden. That will unify the command in a hurry.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OR we can buy off the little fat bastard with a boatload of expensive Whiskey and perfume.
Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 || 10/13/2013 5:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Oliver North once quoted a Col in the SKOR army. The Col suggested the US troops back off the line and let them finish the war.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 10/13/2013 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm still trying to get over the "conservative" Brookings Institution remark.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/13/2013 13:04 Comments || Top||

#4  You bet. I had rewire my jaw...
Posted by: Steve White || 10/13/2013 13:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Well gents, if tea party = extreme right wing, than Brookings etc...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/13/2013 13:59 Comments || Top||

#6  IMO read, POSSIBLE CHINA-VS-JAPAN/PHIL/ASEAN/
INDIA IN VERY NEAR FUTURE.

Lest we fergit, BENCHMARK YEAR 2018 ...
> 1990'S SINO-RUSSIAN "WAR AGZ THE US IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED".

Russia = perhaps as early as 2016-2017 NLT 2022
China = perhaps as early as 2014, i.e. FYI AKA THIS YEAR???

> US GMD-TMD set up among Amer's East Asian allies, espec in NE Asia.
> US' ALLIES EXPRESS DESIRE TO DEV OR ACQUIRE THEIR OWN NUKES ["China fears"].
> POTUS OBAMA = Perts, MSM-Net-labeled "WEAKEST US PRESIDENT SINCE JIMMY CARTER", OR "WORSE THAN CARTER".

POTUS OBAMA "DOING A SYRIA" IN EAST ASIA = CHINA WINS, LIKE IRAN + SYRIA'S BABY ASSAD???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/13/2013 20:33 Comments || Top||


North Korea warns of 'all-out war' as it refuses to sign pact with US
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] North Korea has issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war", urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail".

The country also refused to sign a non-aggression pact that 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...
, the US Secretary of State, offered last week on condition of denuclearisation.

In a thinly veiled threat to strike the United States, the North's National Defence Commission (NDC), chaired by leader Kim Jong-Un, said the US government must withdraw its policy of hostility against the North if it wants peace on both the Korean peninsula and the "US mainland".

"(The United States) must bear it in mind that reckless provocative acts would meet our retaliatory strikes and lead to an all-out war of justice for a final showdown with the United States," a front man of the NDC was quoted as saying in a statement carried by Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency.

"We emphasise again that the United States must withdraw various measures aimed to isolate and strangulate us. Dependent upon this are... peace and security, not only on the Korean peninsula but the US mainland as well."

The comments come after a two-day joint naval drill between Japan, South Korea and the US, which included an American nuclear aircraft carrier, sparked a series of angry responses and threats from Pyongyang.

Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Boring...
Posted by: Raj || 10/13/2013 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Again?
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/13/2013 0:57 Comments || Top||

#3  *Yawn*
Posted by: Barbara || 10/13/2013 1:04 Comments || Top||

#4  "All out war results in Al lout defeat".
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/13/2013 1:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Find the threat monger, and hang him.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/13/2013 1:09 Comments || Top||

#6  So, as Kim Jong-Fudd tinkers under the hood of a nuke, Obama saunters up behind him chomping a carrot, smirks, and asks, "Aaaaan, what seems to be the trouble, doc?" Nah. I can't see it, either.
Posted by: Thineting Joper9058 || 10/13/2013 1:27 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Fat Bob Platypus3347 || 10/13/2013 2:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, the world knows how Kimmie runs his show with his well worn playbook. Yawnsville. However, I would not be surprised if O, Kerry, and Co try some massive bit of appeasement to have the world think that there is a diplomatic breakthrough.

The real problem or danger is O, Kerry, and Co.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/13/2013 12:28 Comments || Top||

#9  eff 'em all.
Posted by: irishrageboy || 10/13/2013 15:36 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey Freezes Al-Qaeda, Taliban Assets
[Ynet] Turkey has imposed financial sanctions on some 350 people and dozens of organizations that have been blacklisted by the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
Security Council for alleged links to al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

The move, made public late Thursday, would freeze any assets those individuals or groups may have in Turkey.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Well it is a start...
Posted by: Fat Bob Platypus3347 || 10/13/2013 2:52 Comments || Top||

#2  I figure the targets were warned in advance, so the frozen accounts are empty.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/13/2013 14:03 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Lal Masjid cleric's murder case: Musharraf files bail plea
[Dawn] Former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
's bail application in a case relating to the killing of Lal Masjid holy man Ghazi Abdul Rasheed was submitted in an Islamabad sessions court on Saturday, DawnNews reported.

Ilyas Siddiqi, the counsel for Musharraf, submitted the application on the former president's behalf.

The court scheduled a hearing of the bail plea for October 18.

Earlier on Oct 10, the former army strongman was incarcerated
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
over the alleged murder of Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and his mother during the Lal Masjid operation.

The Lal Masjid operation was a 2007 government crackdown on the controversial pro-Taliban mosque in Islamabad, which ended in a bloody eight-day siege killing at least 58 Pak troops and seminary students.

The operation, ordered by Musharraf, followed a week-long standoff between the mosque's supporters and security forces.

The Oct 10 arrest came after he had been granted bail in three other cases and his lawyer said on Oct 9 that he had been cleared to leave the country.

The three other cases against Musharraf relate to the murders of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
and nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and detaining the judges of superior courts.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Force to be used as last resort, says Kayani
[Dawn] Pakistain's army chief said Saturday that although the military supports peace talks, it is capable of effectively using force against anti-state Talibs as "a last resort."

"The national leadership has decided to give dialogue a chance to deal with the issue of terrorism and Pakistain army fully supports this process," Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
said while addressing a passing out parade of cadets at the Pakistain Military Academy in Kakul.

"The nation and the politicianship have to determine the parameters for holding such a dialogue... this process should bring unity among the nation instead of leading to a division," he said.

For this, the army chief stressed, it was imperative that the process of negotiation is pursued under and in accordance with the Constitution of Pakistain.

"The military will be more than happy if a solution to the problem is found through dialogue," he said, adding that the use of force would be the last option.

Kayani, who is retiring from his post next month at the end of a second tenure as army chief, dismissed speculations that the failure of counter-insurgency operations forced the military to go for dialogue.

"This is far from being a truth," he said, pointing to the successful 2009 military operations in the northwestern town of Swat, which was cleansed of bully boyz within four months.

During the televised address, the general said it was essential to find a solution to terrorism which he described as negating the basic ideology of the nation and the teachings of Islam.

At an All-Parties Conference (APC) last month, Pakistain's main political parties backed a government proposal to seek negotiations with the bad boys, who have been waging a bloody insurgency against the state since 2007.

But the umbrella Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), a loose coalition of bad boy groups led by Hakimullah Mehsud since 2009, responded with a list of preconditions.

These included a government ceasefire, withdrawal of troops from the tribal areas along the Afghan border where the forces of Evil have hideouts, and an end to US drone strikes.

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...
Thursday said his government was sincere about holding peace talks with the Taliban, after TTP chief Mehsud complained that no serious steps had been taken to open a dialogue.

Speaking after a security meeting in the troubled northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, Sharif said progress was being made on the issue of opening negotiations.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


People's will not to be overruled again, says Nawaz
[Dawn] The will of the people will never be overruled again in the country, said 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...
on Saturday.

He was referring to the October 12, 1999 coup, when the then army chief General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
overthrew a democratically elected government.

The PM said that Pakistain's future lies in democracy, adding that an elected parliament, independent judiciary and vibrant media is there to guard the freedom and liberties of the people.

"Insha Allah (God willing) we the chosen representatives of people, will strive hard to strengthen democracy, and to establish rule of law," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


FIA directed to expedite probe into treason case against Musharraf
[Dawn] Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Saturday said the FIA has been directed to accelerate investigation into treason case against former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
and present the report at the earliest.

He said Musharraf's name was on Exit Control List (ECL) and it would not be removed till the court's decision.

The former president is currently seeking a bail in Lal Masjid operation case after being granted bail in three other cases and his lawyer said on Wednesday he was cleared to leave the country.

Assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
, death of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and detention of deposed Supreme Court judges were the other three major cases registered against the former military ruler.

The statement has come on the anniversary of a Musharraf-led military coup d'état that overthrew an elected government of 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...
on October 12, 1999.

The Supreme Court on July 3 had disposed of petitions calling for registration of a treason case against the former military strongman and directed the government to continue approaching the matter in light of its official statement presented to the court.

The government had in its statement said that it would proceed in accordance with the law and prosecute Musharraf for treason under Article 6 of the Constitution -- after taking the political forces into confidence.

Interior Minister Nisar was briefing news hounds after chairing a meeting, which was attended by officials of interior ministry and its attached departments.
Posted by: Fred || 10/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Netanyahu is not bluffing
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "is not bluffing" on his intentions to strike Iran should the Islamic Republic continue its nuclear program for much longer, a former senior Israeli military official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

"Bibi's not bluffing. He thinks it's the 1930s. The Iranians are the Germans, and history has a sense of humor with six million Jews now in Israel," the retired official said.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/13/2013 14:05 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let us hope so. He's in no position to bluff.
Posted by: Woodrow Guelph8541 || 10/13/2013 14:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Israel can not afford to bluff at this point. If they are gonna do it, now is the time.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/13/2013 15:38 Comments || Top||

#3  "He thinks it's the 1930s. The Iranians are the Germans, and history has a sense of humor with six million Jews now in Israel"

Sounds about right to me ....
Posted by: Barbara || 10/13/2013 16:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Right now Iran is on the path to becoming Obama Amerika's new BFF in Syria.

Benji has to decide what is best for Israel - attacking Iran, or seeing Shia Iran + Hezbollah help Baby Assad put down the pro-Sunni Al-Qaeda + other foreign MilTerr groups in Syria + Iraq.

Benji's decision may decide iff the UNO + US-Allies put troops on the ground in Syra or not.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/13/2013 20:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Ima thinkrn Gulf States (including Saudi) would not only allow overflight to the Joooos, but allow in-flight fueling, if they had plausible deniability
Posted by: Frank G || 10/13/2013 20:21 Comments || Top||

#6  I am looking for a surprise. They may let them keep their nuke facilities intact, and just close the front door, take out the navy, and their refinery. Or something asymmetric, but effective. I can only hope.
Posted by: Beau || 10/13/2013 20:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Take out the gasoline infrastructure and watch the place go nuts.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/13/2013 21:49 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2013-10-13
  Tunisian Forces Clash with Jihadists
Sat 2013-10-12
  US troops capture a senior Pakistan Taliban leader in Afghanistan
Fri 2013-10-11
  Libya PM 'Freed' after Several Hours Held by Militia, Calls for Calm
Thu 2013-10-10
  Libyan Prime Minister Zeidan kidnapped by gunmen
Wed 2013-10-09
  Egypt Strips Muslim Brotherhood of NGO Status
Tue 2013-10-08
  Egypt: Huge Explosion Hits Security HQ In Sinai
Mon 2013-10-07
  SEAL Strike on Shaboob Big Turban Fails in Somalia
Sun 2013-10-06
  Abu Anas al-Libi snatched
Sat 2013-10-05
  Boko Haram: 186 killed, 15 arrested as Military raids insurgents' camp in Yobe
Fri 2013-10-04
  Belgium Extradites Nisar Trabelsi to U.S.
Thu 2013-10-03
  Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
Wed 2013-10-02
  Iraq Executes 23 People in Two Days
Tue 2013-10-01
  Drone strike in North Waziristan kills two, injures one
Mon 2013-09-30
  US drone kills three in Pakistan
Sun 2013-09-29
  Boko murders up to 50 students in their sleep

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