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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Security chief confirms MPs' role in drug trade
(AKI) - Abdollah Loghmani, deputy chief of Afghanistan's security services, has confirmed recent claims that members of the Vali Jirga, or the lower house of Parliament are involved in drug production and trafficking.

Loghmani, who was speaking in Parliament, confirmed the claims made by independent MP Khaled Pashtun and others adding that " the security services have gathered sufficient proof on this suggestion". However, he did not want to supply documentation, considered a state secret, to the parliamentary commission.

Concern about the Taliban and the funds it raises from drug trafficking in Afghanistan and other sources abroad is generating widespread debate in the European Parliament. Several European MPs have called on the European Commission and the European Union's Council, its main decision body, to do more to stop the Taliban from trafficking drugs and drawing funds from outside the country.

The European Parliament is expected to look at the issue once again in September.

Abdollah Loghmani added that the "parliamentarians involved in drug trafficking, are also supporters of terrorist groups that operate in the south of the country".

Several MPs called on the government to declassify any proof of the links and make it available to the lower house to help it identify the MPs guilty of trafficking and collaboration with the Taliban.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Senator McCain: you need some distancing from the current Republican administration. Without attacking, you can pose your policy viz the Pashto Opium/Heroin trade. Silence will be seen as consent to an unworkable policy. Common sense dictates that it is suicidal to allow $100 to 200 million dollars in drug money to flow to the Taliban each year. Americans are killed in the Summer Offensive because the enemy can purchase effective weaponry. That can be stopped.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/09/2008 2:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Fascinating. I hope this means the Afghans think they are ready to deal with this themselves.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/09/2008 10:04 Comments || Top||

#3  i thought the money was billion with a B not millin with an M...

either case is unacceptable.
Posted by: Abu do you love || 08/09/2008 17:29 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK under cyber attack
Posted by: lotp || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Microsoft doesn't help by releasing product that inhibits security operations.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/09/2008 2:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I blame Bush ---------> MicroSoft ---------> Roosevelt ---------------> Big Oil ------------> Medium Oil ------------> The CFR -------------------- > THE MAN! -------------> The Massod ----------------> Big Floride ----------------> Illegal income taxes ---------------> Legal income taxes -----------------> Lettin wymens vote ------------> Lettin wymens drive --------------> Wymens wit no good income and the Lizard Peeps who are behind it all.
Posted by: .5MT || 08/09/2008 6:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, blame Microsoft for the Windows monoculture. Since "everyone" runs Windows everyone is vulnerable to exactly the same thing. And Microsoft is notoriously slow about acknowledging security issues, let alone fixing them.

*nix (including Mac OS X) is not bulletproof, but each flavor (and there are 100s of flavors) has different weaknesses depending on what packages you have installed.

So Yes, I do blame Microsoft. And in this instance I blame Bush as well since the 2000 order to cease the anti-trust lawsuit had to come from him or then AG Ashcroft.
Posted by: DLR || 08/09/2008 15:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm with you! You do of course know that Chainey is the immence graze?
Posted by: .5MT || 08/09/2008 18:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Ima writing up a variaant of the Plan 9 OS. It's gonna be so damn secure it'll only accept smoke signals from recognized birch fires. Out put will be with encoded Hollerith cards. Dual cardpunchers, need both cards for sense.

No virus will it be haven.
Safe, secure and very, very, very cool.

Posted by: .5MT || 08/09/2008 18:05 Comments || Top||

#6  .5MT - a my vm container will rule....
Posted by: 3dc || 08/09/2008 21:23 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Colombia mulls deploying troops in Afghanistan
The head of Colombia's military announced the country is mulling sending soldiers to join the fight alongside NATO troops in Afghanistan while the international forces said Thursday that France was deploying hundreds of soldiers to a volatile southern province. Colombia may send troops to Afghanistan and attach them to Spanish forces already in the country.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Much as we'd appreciate the help, y'all might want to think about deploying them in Venezuela instead.

Just sayin'....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/09/2008 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like it might be a way for Uribe to get some modern training for his troops, just in case it might come in handy back home.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 08/09/2008 4:33 Comments || Top||

#3  They got plenty of training and significant combat experience. Been doing a little COIN of their own for a few decades years.
Posted by: .5MT || 08/09/2008 6:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, they already have practice and training from work at home. What they would gain is experience working in concert with the US/NATO. Something that will no doubt come in handy when the Great Venezuelan Turkey Shoot & Popcorn Fest is held.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/09/2008 12:47 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
World Leaders Call for End to Fighting in South Ossetia
World leaders, as well as international organizations, have called for an end to fighting in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
And what could work better than a good, solid call for an end to fighting?
South Ossetia along with another Georgian region - Abkhazia - declared their independence from Georgia in the mid 1990s. Georgia's president Mikhail Saaakashvili has vowed to bring both regions back into the fold.

Tensions between Georgia and Russia have escalated over the years as Moscow increased economic, commercial and political ties with the two breakaway regions. Over the past few months, tensions increased significantly as Tbilisi and Moscow took a series of military measures in the region: Moscow sent warplanes over the two regions and increased its military buildup in the area. Tbilisi responded in kind and sent unmanned reconnaissance planes over the breakaway regions. "The sides of the conflict have been playing a kind of cat and mouse game for a couple of years now and they've always kind of pushed each other to the brink but then pulled back," said Sabine Freizer with the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. "Unfortunately, that's not what happened [in the past 24 hours] and what we've seen is a large scale military offensive throughout South Ossetia."

Freizer called on both sides to address the humanitarian situation in the area. That appeal was echoed by United Nations spokeswoman Michele Montas who described the conditions in South Ossetia as related by a worker for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "A UNHCR staff member in that area has reported that many buildings and houses have been destroyed and that only military personnel are moving in the streets," said Montas. "Water is in short supply. Most transport has stopped and shops are running out of food."

Analysts, including Jason Lyall from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, say if the conflict escalates to a full-blown war between Georgia and Russia, Tbilisi has very little chance of winning. "Russia has about 100,000 troops in the region just because it's so heavily militarized from Chechnya and the other insurgencies that are going on next door," he said. "If this is a long war, Georgia will be in a considerable amount of trouble just because its forces are so much smaller: it only has about 27,000 soldiers and it would rely also on these militia groups that it is starting to reactivate as well. But in a long war Georgia would be in trouble."
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "World Leaders Call for End to Fighting in South Ossetia"

Well, hell - that oughta take care of it....

Their "call" and 4 bucks would get me a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

If I drank coffee.

And if I went to Starbucks. :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/09/2008 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  INTERFAX > CHECHNANS MAY GO TO SOUTH OSSETIA ONLY AS PEACEKEEPERS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/09/2008 1:16 Comments || Top||

#3  And what could work better than a good, solid call for an end to fighting?

A piece of paper. That's the ticket...wave a piece of paper! And let's remember to proclaim "Peace In Our Time" while we're at it. Now where the bloody hell did Jeeves put my bowler hat...
Posted by: RIcky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) || 08/09/2008 2:15 Comments || Top||

#4  In case anyone wants to dig a little deeper into this mess, here's a major Georgian newspaper's online English version. Not a lot in it but rumors, but it's the closest source to the action I can find.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/09/2008 17:09 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese crackdown in Xinjiang after Islamist threats
Police shut down the bustling International Bazaar in the capital of China's restive Muslim region of Xinjiang on Friday amid threats from an Islamic group that attackers might target buses, trains and planes during the Olympics.

A sign at the entrance of the bazaar in Urumqi did not explain why the area, surrounded by mosques with minarets, was off limits as the country prepared to kick off the Summer Games thousands of kilometers away in Beijing.

But one of the many security guards in the bazaar's plaza, which was marked off with crime scene tape, told an AP reporter, "The area is closed because of a possible terrorist attack. It's just a defensive measure."

In Tokyo, an anonymous bomb threat e-mailed to Air China's Tokyo offices on Friday forced a passenger jet to make an emergency return to Japan, the Japanese Transport Ministry said. Four other flights were delayed.

The e-mail, written in Japanese and received in the early afternoon, urged the airlines to suspend its flights or the writer would "bomb the aircraft," said Transport Ministry official Fumio Yasukawa.

"We suspect this is a threat related to the Olympics," he said, refusing to provide further details of the note or say whether any particular groups were suspected of sending it.

A flight carrying 70 people from Nagoya to Shanghai was forced to return to Japan after the threat was received, and it landed safely, he said. Two other jets underwent safety checks and departed Fukuoka, in southern Japan, one headed to Beijing and one to Shanghai, Yasukawa said.



Posted by: lotp || 08/09/2008 14:46 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good for them (All morality is based on reciprocity)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/09/2008 15:01 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canadian terror suspect's fate rests on his own words
Whether a youth was a naive, but pure-intentioned Muslim, or someone who had willingly joined a terrorist group, was left for one man to decide after arguments concluded yesterday in Canada's first terrorism trial.
Interesting use of the word "pure". To claim that his intentions were pure can mean they were innocent, but it could imply that his intentions were undiluted by any consideration other than serving Islam. In which case, his intentions may be naive, but they are not necessarily innocent.
From a mountain of background evidence presented in the case, it was the youth's own words in a police statement and a wiretapped conversation that Crown and defence lawyers debated in closing submissions to Mr. Justice John Sproat of Ontario Superior Court.

The Crown alleges the youth, 17 at the time, was well aware that the men with whom he attended two alleged terrorist training camps were plotting a major domestic attack; tried to cover up his role in the group; and intended to wage jihad in Sri Lanka. The youth's lawyers argued that listening to him and watching his behaviour in a police interrogation showed that his only goal was to further his religious education. The now 20-year-old, who converted from Hinduism to Islam as a teen, is the first of the so-called Toronto 18 - now whittled down to 11 suspects - to face trial. Under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the suspect cannot be identified.

In a video statement played in court, RCMP Sergeant John Tost interrogated the youth shortly after his June, 2006, arrest about the alleged terrorist training camps and the alleged sleeper cell's intentions. But the soft-spoken youth appeared confused when the officer asked about an alleged bomb plot. "Hold on, hold on, before you go on. Bomb-making? We? We?" he asked, his brow furrowed. Defence lawyer Mitchell Chernovsky said his client's demeanour was genuine. "Nobody could stage that," the lawyer said. "He had no idea that bomb-making material was part of this."
"If the shoe-bomb doesn't fit, you must acquit,"
Later in the June interrogation, the officer asked the youth when he last went camping with the alleged ringleader of the group. The youth answered December, although he had attended the second camp just two weeks earlier. Crown prosecutor John Neander said this demonstrated the youth's desire to cover up his involvement. Mr. Chernovsky said his client viewed the camps as religious retreats.

Shortly before the May, 2006, camp, the RCMP intercepted a conversation between the youth and others in which they expressed a desire to travel overseas to defend oppressed Muslims. At first, defence lawyer Faisal Mirza dismissed the Crown's suggestion that the youth had jihadist leanings, noting he had only said he wanted to travel to Sri Lanka to visit his aunt. Later, the lawyer argued that even if the Crown's point was accepted, it did not implicate his client. Mr. Neander countered that just because the youth allegedly wanted to fight in another country, it didn't mean he was opposed to helping the ringleader carry out his alleged plans. Judge Sproat said he will deliver his verdict on Sept. 25.
Posted by: ryuge || 08/09/2008 05:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Home Front: WoT
Guantanamo inmate petitions rights panel over torture
A Guantanamo detainee on Wednesday urged a human rights panel that investigates abuse cases in the Americas to review his accusations that he was tortured in the US "war on terror" prison. Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian who has been held at the US naval base in Cuba for six years as an "enemy combatant" without charge.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Waterboarding causes the illusion of drowning, but there is no pain involved. Mere discomfort is hardly torture.

Gitmo detainies have admitted in documentaries that all they endured was: sleep deprivation, noise affliction, culturally insensitive contacts with the opposite sex, imposed silence, sensory deprivation, and lesser treatment. Only known Taliban/al-Qaeda leaders received harsher methods. Most talked.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/09/2008 3:22 Comments || Top||

#2  So what Zoid is saying is that the rank and file have experienced nothing more than what thousands of freshmen pledges at frat/sororities have on a yearly basis.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/09/2008 9:36 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
TTP want to work with Nawaz and Qazi
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has offered to work with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed and other coalition parties for introducing shariah law in the country. TTP spokesman Muslim Khan wrote a letter to members of the media, appreciating the efforts of Nawaz and Qazi to improve the country's situation and implement shariah. He also said that the TTP supported the efforts to impeach President Pervez Musharraf.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


FATA inhabitants condemn militant attacks on girls' schools
A survey report, issued on Friday, revealed that a dominant majority of roughly four million inhabitants of the tribal areas favour girls' education and do not support attacks on CD and music shops. The inhabitants are also equally opposed to presence of the Pakistan army in FATA.

Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) conducted the survey using quantitative methodology. Residents of all seven agencies of FATA - Khyber, Mohmand, Kurram, Orakzai, Bajaur, North and South Wazirsitan -- have been questioned during the survey.

Asked 'Do militants have a right to use guns and arms?', 94 percent respondents replied 'No'.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Focus on army as coalition moves to impeach president
Question is, which way will they jump? Sharif and Zardari have guaranteed the next military coup. The only question is when it's gonna happen.
And whether the current army chief is going to want the green sash and the sprockets for himself or let Perv keep them.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
In Iraq, Regional Politics Heats Up
A growing number of Iraqi groups are choosing to pursue their agendas through politics instead of bloodshed, a trend that has helped bring down levels of violence. But as Iraqis leave behind the sectarian cataclysms of recent years, ethnic and regional political disputes in several parts of Iraq are becoming more pronounced.

In the south, ruling Shiite parties are vying for electoral power against loyalists of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and Shiite tribal leaders. In the west, Sunni tribes are challenging the political control of established Sunni religious parties. And in the north, ethnic Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens are in a struggle for control of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

"What we have now is people who know how to use weapons and who now want to play politics," said Mithal al-Alusi, an independent Sunni legislator. Even so, some leaders seem unable to decide whether to trust their fortunes to the ballot box.

The fight over Kirkuk is proving to be particularly intense. The dispute over power sharing in the ethnically mixed city triggered an attack by a suicide bomber and ethnic clashes that killed 25 people there last month. This week, Iraqi lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on legislation for provincial elections, placing in doubt the timing of the vote and slowing political reconciliation.

"There is no doubt the violence will increase in Kirkuk if its case does not get solved," said Khalaf al-Elayan, a Sunni lawmaker who heads the Iraqi National Dialogue Council, part of the largest Sunni political bloc.

Iraqi lawmakers and U.S. officials say several factors are behind the shaky transition to more robust politics. Militant groups are tired of fighting U.S. forces and are joining the political process as a way to survive. With the Bush administration in its last months, Iraq's political parties, sensing the possible end of the U.S. presence in Iraq, want to consolidate their political standing. Others view political ascendancy as a way to exert pressure on U.S. troops to leave Iraq.

The central government's power is weakening as Iraq's tribes, sects and ethnic groups consolidate power in their own regions. They want to deepen their grip in the upcoming elections, which are expected to make provincial leaders more influential.

The elections are especially vital to Iraq's disenfranchised Sunnis, who boycotted the last provincial elections in 2005. Political groups are coming forward to compete with traditional parties for the community's leadership.

Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel to free Palestinian prisoners to Abbas
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed on Wednesday to the release of 120 to 150 Palestinian prisoners later this month as a gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian officials said.

The meeting between the two leaders was the first since Olmert, dogged by a corruption scandal, threw U.S.-sponsored peace talks into turmoil by announcing that he would resign as prime minister once his centrist Kadima party chooses a new leader in September.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Abbas wanted the prisoner release, slated for August 25, to include long-serving inmates, women and children as well as political leaders, a reference to uprising leader Marwan Barghouthi, who is seen as a possible successor as president.

Israel declined to say how many of the 11,000 or so Palestinians in its custody would be released. Erekat said Israel agreed to release 120 to 150, and possibly more.

"In response to a request by Abu Mazen (Abbas),... the Israeli side will be releasing Palestinian prisoners towards the end of August as a sign of good faith and a confidence-building measure towards the Palestinians," Olmert's spokesman, Mark Regev, said after the meeting at the prime minister's residence.

Israeli sources said releasing Barghouthi was an option but stressed that no decisions had been made.

The Hamas Islamist group, which controls the Gaza Strip, included Barghouthi, Hamas leaders and hundreds of other prisoners on its list of Palestinians it wants freed in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Gaza militants in a cross-border raid two years ago.

Some Israeli officials see the release of Barghouthi to Abbas as preferable to freeing him to Hamas as part of a deal over Shalit that Egypt is trying to help broker.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Send the honorourable President Abbas Gazans. They do so well in the West Bank.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/09/2008 10:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Make sure Olmert accompanies them in person, and there's at least two suicide bombers (complete with bomb belts) in the group.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/09/2008 22:45 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria bars IAEA re-visit to bombed site
Posted by: lotp || 08/09/2008 14:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iran urges China, Russia to resist US
An Iranian cleric calls on China and Russia not to bow to Western demands to impose fresh sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. "The international community expects China and Russia resist the US and the UK and not allow them to implement their anti-Iran plans," said Tehran's interim Friday prayers leader Ayatollah Mohammad Imami-Kashani.

Washington and its European allies claim Iran's response to an incentives package, requiring the country to abandon nuclear work for political and economic benefits, is 'inconclusive'.

"Iran is ready for dialogue that is lawful and respectful of the Iranian nation," Ayatollah Imami-Kashani continued. He urged the White House to not approach Tehran with animosity and instead engage in constructive negotiations.

His remarks came a day after Russian envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, confirmed Thursday that Moscow does not agree with the imposition of further UN Security Council sanctions against Iran. "It may well be that in the course of those discussions some members of the six raised the issue of the sanctions," said Churkin.

This is while the US previously insisted that it had unanimous P5+1 - five permanent UNSC members plus Germany - support for imposing further sanctions on Iran.
Posted by: Fred || 08/09/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  FREEREPUBLIC Poster > opines that IHO iff Russia refuses to change its belligerent stances around the world, WAR WITH THE USA IS INEVITABLE???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/09/2008 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  COUNTERRORISM BLOG [07/29] > US INTEL: IRAN PLANNINH NUCLEAR STRIKE AGZ THE US [espec vee Ship-launched SCUDS].

Compare wid RUSSIA's proposed ANTI-US GMD "MARITIME CARRIER" concepts [read - ARSENAL SHIPS]. SUICIDE NUKE-WMD TERROR MISSIONS VIA MERCHANT SHIPS + AIRCRAFT CANNOT BE RULED OUT AS OPTIONS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/09/2008 1:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Frankly I think's it's way cool to be Great Satan.
Posted by: .5MT || 08/09/2008 6:29 Comments || Top||

#4  "Resistance is futile."
Posted by: Raj || 08/09/2008 7:40 Comments || Top||

#5  An Iranian cleric calls on China and Russia Bill Clinton and John Edwards to give up thier gay lifestyle.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/09/2008 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Drat! Raj beat me to it.

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 08/09/2008 14:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Memo: Halliburton Division of Covert Operations to Halliburton Strife & Tension Division

Guys, Any chance of stirring the Iranians up so they interfere in this mess in South Whateveria against the Russkies, trying to make them think it's really the US doing the stirring-upping?

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 08/09/2008 14:27 Comments || Top||



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