[Dawn] Afghanistan's attempt to gain leverage over Pakistain by cultivating an alliance with the Pak Taliban was discovered by the United States, which raided a convoy carrying a senior Death Eater leader and captured him, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported from Kabul on Tuesday.
"The disrupted plan involved Afghan intelligence trying to work with the Pakistain Taliban, allies of Al Qaeda, in order to find a trump card in a baroque regional power game that is likely to intensify after the American withdrawal next year," the newspaper said, citing US and Afghan officials.
Latif Mehsud was being transported by an Afghan convoy for secret talks last month when US Special Forces, on a tip off, disrupted the plan and took the Pak Death Eaterin jug, the report said.
Mehsud is suspected of having a role in the foiled plot to detonate a boom-mobile in New York's Times Square in 2010, American officials were cited as saying.
Mehsud is suspected of having a role in the foiled plot to detonate a boom-mobile in New York's Times Square in 2010, American officials were cited as saying.
In public statements, the Afghan government has described Mehsud as an Death Eater peace emissary.
Referring to Afghan officials' oft-repeated allegations that Pak military was supporting Taliban's insurgency against the Afghan government,the report said the Afghan government decided to recruit proxies of its own by seeking to aid the Pak Taliban in their fight against Pakistain's security forces.
"And they were beginning to make progress over the past year, they say, before the American raid exposed them," the Times said.
The US raid angered the Afghan government, and the report said it became the latest flash point in the troubled relationship between Afghanistan and the United States.
The thinking, Afghan officials said, was that the Afghans could later gain an advantage in negotiations with the Pak government by offering to back off their support for the Death Eaters.
Aiding the Pakistain Taliban was an "opportunity to bring peace on our terms," one senior Afghan security official said.
Both Afghan and American officials said the Afghan plan to aid the Pakistain Taliban was in its preliminary stages when Mehsud was seized by American forces, the report said, adding but they agreed on little else.
The Times quoted Aimal Faizi, a front man for 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... , as saying that Mehsud had been in contact with officials from the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan's intelligence agency, for "a long period of time."
The Pakistain Taliban leader "was part of an NDS project like every other intelligence agency is doing," Faizi said. "He was cooperating. He was engaged with the NDS, this I can confirm."
Faizi did not elaborate on the nature of the cooperation. But two other Afghan officials, when asked by the Times why they were willing to discuss such a potentially provocative plot, said Mehsud's detention by the United States had already been exposed.
"It was first reported by The Washington Post ruining his value as an intelligence asset and sinking their plan," they said.
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See also THE DAILY BEAST > REPORT: AFGHANISTAN [Kabul]SUPPORTS THE PAKISTANI TALIBAN, PAKISTAN [Islamabad] SUPPORTS THE AFGHAN TALIBAN.
Once again, in the words of the FORMER USNSRF GUAM'S KILLER DAN = D *** NG IT, HOW CAN WE WIN THE WAR!
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The [apology] was overtly linked to the election and looks likely to have been a condition of Ashraf Ghani accepting General Dostum as a running mate... This apology is obviously part of a hard-nosed little election deal. But it is also the first small step on a path which no other Afghan leader has taken before.
Like Dostum said: you apologize when you're in a position of strength.
MOGADISHU -- Federal Government of Somalia's Minister of Interior and National Security Abdikarin Hussein Guled has declared that Somali intelligence officials coordinated the US military drone strike that killed a senior Al Shabaab bomb specialist near the southern Somalia town of Jilib with the US government on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.
Guled said "following concrete evidences and full intelligence reports" provided by inside sources and the Somali government Ibrahim Ali Abdi (Anta Anta) was killed along with his friend Abu Ali, adding that Al Shabaab officials couldn't escape from such operations.
"After intelligence reports, Anta Anta and Abu Ali were killed and how the attack was coordinated shows that terrorist leaders wouldn't escape from the justice," Interior Minister said while he was speaking to the government radio in Mogadishu.
Continuing, he said that the targeted Al Shabaab commander was the mastermind of suicide bombings which claimed at killed many lives in Somalia.
Eyewitnesses who arrived at the site of the strike in Dhaytubako Village near Middle Juba region's most populous town of Jilib, about 112 km north of Kismayo-former Al Shabaab stronghold and the Jubaland administration's capital city- told the Somali media that Al Shabaab commanders' luxurious vehicle was leveled to the ground by the missile.
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[Al Ahram] The state and the Prime Minister have made it a "priority" to fix Egypt's security situation, which means "controlling the Moslem Brüderbund and limiting their capacities," a source in PM Hazem El-Beblawi's cabinet told Ahram Online.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added, this "does not mean the government wants to exclude anyone, but rather that security is a priority of the people."
The official's remarks highlight the bottom-line of El-Beblawi's cabinet, which has faced months of unease in the wake of former 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... 's ouster in July.
The current cabinet includes leftovers from former prime minister Hisham Qandil's administration, such as Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim, as well as new liberal faces such as Deputy Prime Minister Ziyad Baheddine.
Ibrahim, who is leading a "war" to marginalise all those calling for state dialogue with the Islamist camp, stands in stark contrast to Baheddine, who has faced "tough resistance," since his national reconciliation initiative in August, according to a cabinet member.
Government sources say that almost four months later, the "dialogue camp" has dwindled amid clear intimidation.
"There were about seven ministers in that camp, and the rest were supporting Mohammed Ibrahim, or at least not against him. Today, it is only Ziyad Baheddine and [finance minister] Ahmed Galal, with occasional indirect support from the Foreign Affairs Minister [Nabil Fahmy] on matters concerning international opinion," said one source.
Widespread dislike for the Moslem Brüderbund and their Islamist allies, still apparent four months after Morsi's ouster, has allowed the 'Mohammed Ibrahim camp' to gain strength, the source added.
An Interior Ministry official said, "The use of force by police against the gunnies is well supported by the public, who are desperate for a return to security and are not opposed to putting all Moslem Brüderbund members in jail."
The source credited "the vital role of the media" for this "overwhelming sentiment," insisting that the mistakes of the Brotherhood during their year in power have "made people see the reality of this group."
During several cabinet confrontations, especially following the resignation of interim vice president Mohammed ElBaradei over the violent dispersal of two Islamist camps, Ibrahim made direct attacks on those who urge restraint, emphasising that they are not facing the reality of coppers on the ground.
More recently, Beblawi sided openly with Ibrahim over a draft demonstrations law, whilst trying privately to accommodate Baheddine and Galal.
Sources close to Baheddine and Galal say that the two men feel truly isolated, but are still hopeful, as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi have not vetoed opposition to the draft protest law and equally controversial anti-terrorism bill, which have been labelled catastrophic by human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups.
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[Al Ahram] The Board of State Commissioners of Egypt's High Administrative Court has recommended that proceedings to strip former vice president Mohammed ElBaradei and Gamal Mubarak, the son of ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , of their Egyptian nationality, be rejected.
The plaintiff of the case, Hamed Seddiq, accused ElBaradei and Mubarak -- once thought to be possible presidential contenders -- of breaking Egyptian law by having dual nationality without the consent of the authorities.
Seddiq also accused ElBaradei of accepting a position as head of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) without Egypt's official recommendation, and posing a "threat to the country's supreme interests."
The State Commissioners' report said no documents infer his having dual nationality or present evidence that he obtained one without the permission of the Interior Ministry.
The report -- issued in a non-binding advisory capacity - also stated that no evidence was presented to show that ElBaradei was a citizen of any other state except Egypt, in response to the complaint's claims he had obtained US and Austrian citizenships.
ElBaradei has previously denied having foreign nationality.
The report also denied the existence of any reason to believe ElBaradei's former post in the IAEA could represent any threat to Egyptian interests, adding that the Egyptian government at the time issued no order or request that he leave his position.
The State Commissioners therefore recommended that proceedings be rejected by the court.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's interim government and the Moslem Brüderbund should seek reconciliation because only an inclusive political process, not security crackdowns, can bring stability to the country, a senior minister said on Tuesday.
The most populous Arab state has been shaken by violence since the ouster of 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... of the Brotherhood in July.
Security forces have killed hundreds of Brotherhood members and tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! thousands, including Morsi, who is due to appear in court on Monday on charges of inciting violence.
Yet street protests regularly erupt and Islamist bully boyz have intensified their attacks.
Deputy Prime Minister Ziad Bahaa El-Din has been trying to encourage both sides to compromise since he put an initiative to the cabinet in August.
"Security is essential and key to Egypt but it is not alone going to get us where we want, and there has to be a political framework as well," Bahaa El-Din told news hounds.
"Ultimately this country needs to move towards a framework, of a political accord of some sort. It needs a political framework that is more inclusive for everybody."
His proposal called for an immediate end to the state of emergency, political participation for all parties and the guarantee of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , including free assembly.
But Bahaa El-Din's mission will not be easy.
State-run media have whipped up public opinion against the Brotherhood and created a climate in which there is little tolerance for the Islamist movement that won every election since a popular uprising toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011.
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[Al Ahram] The leftist Popular Current has accused the army of arresting innocent civilians in the Sinai Peninsula during their crackdown on bad boys. In a statement released on Tuesday the group founded by Nasserist politician Hamdeen Sabbahi backed the military's operations against "terrorism" but highlighted a number of abuses.
For example, the group said "innocent civilians" had been killed at Soliman El-Sayah and Mustafa Nasr checkpoints in late August, and "The closure of main roads prevents workers, farmers and students from travelling without offering alternatives."
The local government in North Sinai has failed to monitor the military operation which has completely paralysed state institutions in Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah, the group added
The army randomly arrests citizens who they claim are Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... elements [radical Islamists], then later releases them, according to the group.
It cited the case of a mentally ill man called Mousa Hassan who was sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly being a member of a bad boy group.
"We demand extra caution and procedures to protect civilians. Operations against terrorism should not lead to violations against civilians," added the statement which also called on the National Council for Human Rights and NGOs to coordinate with the government and army for an immediate investigation into violations against Sinai civilians.
At a presser on 15 September, army front man Ahmed Ali denied the army had attacked civilians in Sinai, saying that "If we had used excessive violence in Sinai, we would have ended terrorism within 24 hours."
Ali said respecting human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... is a priority for the army and accused Sinai-based journalist Ahmed Abu Deraa of publishing false news about the army, including accusations it had killed children in Sinai.
Following the ouster of 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... on 3 July, the army has launched a military operation against terrorist and criminal groups in Sinai.
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[Al Ahram] A first plenary session of Tunisia's elected Assembly since the launch of all-party crisis talks was delayed on Tuesday with parliamentary groups reportedly at odds over an electoral commission.
The deputies were to have met at 9:30 am (0830 GMT) to examine amendments to a law setting up the commission but the session was postponed until 1430 GMT, the Constituent National Assembly said.
Al-Bawsala, an independent NGO which covers Assembly affairs, said the delay was caused by "disagreements on the law ... between different parliamentary groups."
Under a timetable agreed by Tunisia's ruling Islamists and the opposition, the electoral commission has to be formed by Saturday.
A "national dialogue" was launched last Friday and the government led by moderate Islamist movement Ennahda is to be replaced as part of a roadmap aimed at breaking a months-long political stalemate.
A new prime minister will have two weeks to form a government of independents under the timetable for the talks.
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[Al Ahram] Political satirist Bassem Youssef said Egypt's liberals were as intolerant as their Islamist opponents, and as unwilling to accept criticism of themselves or the country's interim-authorities, in his weekly column in privately-owned daily Al-Shorouk on Tuesday.
"Those who defend liberalism and secularism say they are opposed to religious fanaticism and endorse freedom of opinion. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... when it suits them, they use Koranic verses and Hadiths [sayings of Prophet Mohammed] to justify attacks against their enemies, using the same accusations as religious movements," Youssef said.
Youssef's comments came as Cairo's Appeal Prosecution began looking into a complaint filed by the Mohammedan Youth Association's legal adviser, charging Youssef with libel, slander, insulting Egypt and its people, and committing obscene acts in public.
After an almost three-month hiatus, Youssef returned to television on Friday, poking fun at ousted Islamist 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... and the Moslem Brüderbund, as usual.
This time, however, in the premier episode of his weekly 'Al-Bernameg' (The Show)'s third season, he also targeted zealous followers of Army Chief General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
The move was viewed by many as unacceptable amid increasing popular support for El-Sisi after the ouster of Mohammed Morsi by the military in June, following mass popular protests against his rule.
By Saturday, at least four complaints had been filed with the country's top prosecutor, accusing Youssef of defaming the military in his show. One of the complaints accused Youssef of using phrases to "undermine the honour and dignity of Egypt and its people," allegedly sowing sedition and spreading lies.
Since Morsi's overthrow, Egypt's political life has been increasingly polarised between supporters of the deposed Islamist president and followers of the liberal-dominated interim authorities.
In his article, titled 'Egypt drifting towards the right,' Youssef drew comparisons between the American right and far-right and the Egyptian liberal current. "After the fall of the Brotherhood, we expected to enjoy all the benefits of the liberal heaven, both in the media and in power."
"Instead, liberals who are proud of their proficiency in foreign languages, and of travelling abroad and following the latest Western fashions, believe conspiracy theories and spread them," he wrote.
"They share [information] from far-right websites and believe Fox news, just because it attacks the Moslem Brüderbund, without realising that these conservatives despise them equally because they are Arabs," he added.
The renowned satirist underlined the difficult position that those who oppose the Islamist and liberal camps find themselves in, as they are critiqued by both.
"Maybe there is a left and maybe there are liberals in Egypt, and maybe there are those who struggle for workers' rights and for the oppressed and who fight for development programmes and social solidarity; they are cursed by both camps," Youssef added. "If they are not considered infidels, they are traitors or agents who follow a Western-Zionist agenda."
Youssef also expressed incomprehension regarding the lack of tolerance that he says has come to characterise Egypt's liberals. "I can understand the intolerance of the religious movement and its penchant for the far-right. At the end of the day, that is their ideological stance, and... at least they are consistent with their beliefs," he said.
"But I can't understand a current that claims to defend liberalism and freedom but which, in the end, is less tolerant than the religious one. We [can] replace the beard with heavy make-up, the miswak [a traditional teeth-cleaning twig] with a glass of martini... but religious extremism and the political right are one and the same."
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However, when it suits them, they use Koranic verses and Hadiths to justify attacks against their enemies, using the same accusations as religious movements
Big deal. We get the same thing here. Just a different book.
[Al Ahram] The judges presiding in an ongoing trial of Moslem Brüderbund spiritual leader Mohammed Badie and co-defendants on charges of incitement of murder have withdrawn from the case. The three judges from the South Cairo Criminal Court cited a conflict of interest as their reason for stepping down, without giving further details.
"Please don't hurt us!"
Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie and his deputies Khairat El-Shater and Rashad Bayoumi are accused of inciting the murder of protesters at the Brotherhood guidance office headquarters in Cairo during festivities which took place on 30 June.
Nine protesters were killed and other 91 protesters were maimed when fights broke out after anti-Brotherhood protesters stormed the building.
The South Cairo prosecution has referred six defendants to the criminal court for trial on the charges. The defendents include Mostafa Abdel-Azim, Mohammed Abdel-Azim and Atef Abdel-Galil.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's largest Salafist party is not opposed to a presidential bid by army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, according to its spokesperson.
The Nour Party does not take a "negative position" or have any reservations about El-Sisi's candidacy, but only if he runs as a civilian, Nader Bakkar told pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday.
El-Sisi's popularity has grown since the army deposed 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... -- a Moslem Brüderbund member - on 3 July amid mass protests against the Islamist leader, with a large section of the population calling on him to run for president.
The army chief has given mixed pointers on whether he will run, first saying he does not seek power, but more recently leaving the possibility open.
Bakkar also claimed the Moslem Brüderbund does not want to end the country's political deadlock.
"They are trying to martyr themselves with continued protests that do nothing but hold [the country] back," he said. "They have thrown away several chances for negotiations."
Hundreds of people, mostly Islamists, have been killed in deadly street violence since Morsi's removal. The authorities have launched a broad crackdown, arresting most of the Brotherhood's big shots and several thousand other Islamists.
The ongoing violence shows the Brotherhood is continuing to take the same approach, Bakkar added, contending that the group's popularity has waned significantly.
The Nour Party was founded shortly after the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... . The Salafist party, a one time ally of the Brotherhood, backed Morsi's overthrow by endorsing a transitional roadmap that included amending the constitution, and holding parliamentary and presidential polls by mid-2014.
But the party, which has one of two Islamists on the 50-member constitution-writing committee, has repeatedly voiced misgivings about attempts to curtail the influence of Islam in state affairs, having its panel member walk out of a September meeting in protest.
Bakkar reiterated his concerns about the "unbalanced" panel that underrepresents Islamists. He questioned the appointment of Kamal El-Halabawy, a former Brotherhood leader turned vocal critic of the group, to the second Islamist seat.
"Choosing him raises many question marks," he said.
Bakkar made it clear that Al-Azhar -- the highest seat of Sunni Islam -- should have the final say on Sharia-related matters, and he continued to voice alarm over moves to ban religious political parties which dominated successive elections after Mubarak's downfall.
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[FOXNEWS] A state-backed Saudi news website says a resident of Jordan has been sentenced to nine years in prison and 80 lashes for spying on the kingdom for Israel.
Al-Riyadh Online reported Wednesday that 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... 's Specialized Criminal Court issued the verdict after the man confessed to spying for Israel. The court said in its verdict that the man, whose name and nationality were not released, had emailed Israeli intelligence officers and accepted money in exchange for spying.
The news website says the prosecution and defendant plan to appeal the sentence. The defendant was quoted as telling the court that he was under the influence of drugs and not in a right state of mind when he accepted spying for Israel.
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Didn't they get more than that for the pron shop?
I was bombed when I took Bibi's shekel
My contacts were Heckle and Jeckle
I fed pork to a stork
I ate fish with a fork
And I photographed Abdullah's freckle
North Korean propaganda site Uriminzokkiri on Monday likened 18 South Korean journalists and North Korea experts to Nazi sympathizers and threatened them with summary justice.
The website said the 18, who work for the Chosun Ilbo, Donga Ilbo and Segye Ilbo as well as broadcasters KBS, MBC and SBS must remember that broadcasters and reporters who supported the Nazis "were the first to stand trial after World War II."
Uriminzokkiri said in an editorial that "wicked rightwing agitators posing as so-called journalists, experts and professors" were spreading "lies and false accusations."
The website said "conservative (South Korean) media hurled false criticism at North Korea," calling it an "isolated nation" and a "failed" system, targeting even the "highest dignity" of the North.
The North has dignity?
The North Korean regime frequently takes somewhat hilarious flailing aim at the South Korean media for failing to accord it the dignity it believes it deserves. In June of 1997, the North threatened to bomb the Chosun Ilbo over an editorial, and in June of last year it vowed to launch a massive attack against major South Korean media and published the coordinates of their offices.
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What are they going to do, tap their phones or read their email? Already done by you know who.
From Puffington Host, via Weasel Zippers:
An international volunteer organization urged Canadian authorities to arrest former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on war crimes charges when he visits the 2013 Toronto Global Forum later this week. Of course they do...
Lawyers Against the War War's over, comrades. Champ said so...
argued in a letter dated Sunday that Toronto Police Chief William Blair and Ontario Attorney General John Gerretsen have a duty to arrest Cheney "as a person suspected on reasonable grounds of authorizing, counseling, aiding, abetting and failing to prevent torture." Letter (PDF) at the link.
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I don't see anywhere other than being President of the Senate among the powers of the Vice President of the United States. Since he had no authority to order or effect any of this, let's just move on - or amend the request to include the president pro tem too. Right Harry?
1. War Profiteering (major Haliburton shareholder)
2. The targeted bombing of civilians centers in Iraq using depleted uranium and phosphorus shells
3. The kidnapping of foreign nationals without warrant or trial
4. Advocated use of torture banned by Geneva Conventions which US was signator to
I could list at least twenty other offenses, but this would easily be enough to have this piece of sh*t spend the rest of his life in solitary...or, hopefully, worse than solitary...
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Actually do it, then we can have a war and we'll take the oil rich parts of Canada and leave the french parts to the remain and squawk. Then all the good normal Canadians can be Americans and the rest can remain french.
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Heh, if this shithead wasn't around, we'd have to make him up. I'm not around as much as I used to be. Is this is the ice cream truck guy from Canada?
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Komrade Matthews has switched from beet vodka to scotch and must be condemned! Paging brownnose killa, brownnose killa, report to cue with capri kit.
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The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
The thrill is gone baby
The thrill is gone away
You know you done me wrong baby
And you'll be sorry someday
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Matthews is just helping to get everything that can't be completely covered up out now so that the sheep will forget by the 2014 elections
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Exactly! The pubs need to 'reel' slowly, all the way up to the election.
[Dawn] India and Pakistain Tuesday agreed to observe calm along the Sialkot-Jammu working boundary after days of skirmishes which have been the worst in a decade, BBC Urdu website reported.
A meeting between officials of Pakistain Rangers and India's Border Security Forces (BSF) was held on Tuesday in which maintaining the decade-log ceasefire was agreed. The meeting was kept confidential from becoming public.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Indian media quoted BSF official J S Singla as saying: "The meeting was held in a conducive atmosphere."
A 2003 ceasefire between the two countries has largely held for the past 10 years, although sporadic violations are common. In recent days, however, the skirmishes had escalated significantly.
Both countries reported an increase in the number of attacks since 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... and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh held their first face-to-face meeting last month in New York and agreed on the need to reduce tensions.
The latest violence started on Thursday night at about two dozen border posts in which India claimed 10 civilians, including four children, were maimed.
Islamabad denied the claim, as military officials said Indian troops fired first, wounding two Paks. Foreign Office front man Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry called the ceasefire violations "a matter of great concern."
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[Dawn] Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Tuesday said if the flow of smuggled arms and narcotics is restricted throughout Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , situation in the city would be normalised.
The chief justice, heading a three-member bench of the Supreme Court, was hearing the implementation of Karachi unrest case at the SC's Karachi registry.
He appreciated the efforts of police and rangers forces in arresting criminals during the ongoing targeted operation in the port city and remarked that both law enforcement agencies had begun to realise their responsibility.
Other members of the bench are Justice Jawad S. Khuwaja and Justice Gulzar Ahmed.
After going through the reports submitted by rangers and police regarding clampdown against outlaws, one member of the bench asked the counsel appearing on behalf of rangers whether enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! criminals were being put on trial in the courts.
The counsel told the court that rangers handed over the suspects to police, which have lodged FIR against them and charge-sheeted them in the courts, adding that several suspects were also being interrogated by a joint investigation team.
To a question regarding results of the operation being conducted in the city, Advocate General Sindh Khalid Javed Khan said that operation was yielding results and an improvement in Karachi's law and order situation was noticeable.
The chief justice questioned the advocate general about the situation prevailing in Lyari ...one of the eighteen constituent towns of the city of Karachi. It is the smallest town by area in the city but also the most densely populated. Lyari has few schools, substandard hospitals, a poor water system, limited infrastructure, and broken roads. It is a stronghold of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party. Ubiquitous gang activity and a thriving narcotics industry make Lyari one of the most disturbed places in Karachi, which is really saying a lot.... and also asked whether the troubled neighbourhood was still a no-go-area and citizens were enjoying rights under Article 9 of the Constitution, which guarantees security to every citizen.
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[BuzzFeed Politics] Yes of course! That fully explains the secret WH Situation room 'all hands' stills, release of ST-6 players, the movies, books, briefings, etc. I too, blame the internets, Fox News, renegade republicans, global warming.
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Ultimately, social media helped push the administration to release news of the bin Laden death ... [former top White House national security communications aide Tommy] Vietor said he found out about the success of the raid from a photo that remains secret.
Funny - his former boss usually finds things out from the Washington Post or the New York Times.
[Al Ahram] Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki travelled to the United States on Tuesday to press for urgent help and arms to combat the worst upsurge of violence in years. Nearly three years since the last U.S. troops withdrew, Sunni Islamist militants are waging a campaign to destabilise the Shi'ite-led government that came to power after former dictator Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003.
Trained and equipped by the United States at a cost of $25 billion, Iraq's security forces are struggling against Sunni Islamist insurgents who have driven the civilian death toll so far this year above 7,000.
"The urgent thing is to supply Iraq as quickly as possible with weapons of an offensive nature to combat terrorism and chase the armed groups," Maliki said at an airport news conference before his departure.
Iraq has in the past urged Washington to speed up delivery of an order of F-16 planes, but Maliki said those would not help Baghdad fight militants and the priority now was to get other kinds of equipment such as helicopters.
Officials in Baghdad blame deteriorating security on the civil war in neighbouring Syria, which has drawn hardline Sunnis and Shi'ites from across the region.
Al Qaeda's Syrian and Iraqi affiliates merged earlier this year to form the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, which has claimed responsibility for attacks on both sides of the border.
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What'd they do with all the weapons we already gave 'em?
* TOPIX > [Daily Star] IN IRAQ, [Extremist] SUNNI ATTACKS SPARK SHIITE CALL TO TAKE UP ARMS.
Meanwhile, not to be outdone by IRAQ ...
* SAME > [Daily Beast] HEZBOLLAH PREPARES FOR SYRIA SHOWDOWN IN AL-QALAMOUH. IRAN-BACKED LEBANESE SHIITE MOVEMENT IS READYING FOR A FACE-OFF AGZ SYRIA'S [domestic?]REBELS [+ KSA-led/sponsored Sunnis]. HOW THE BATTLE WILL RATTLE THE WORLD.
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Besides the Bammer SSSSSHHHHH .... CCCCCCCC allowing Baby Assad to stay in power contrary to Admin rhetoric, IRAN WILL GET ITS NUKES + EXPANDED MILPOL PRESENCE + NEWFOUND INFLUENCE IN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN [Egypt = Suez Canal, North Africa?], + NEXT TO BOTH KSA + NEO-OTTOMAN WANNABE TURKEY???
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You don't do this by changing the command structure.
Seems as if they have pop off ten times the munitions from existing platforms.
OTOH, as long as they are as accurate as it seems they are, then, say, ten Hellfires or one bomb of similar weight. Or Mavericks, or whatever the IDF has now.
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I believe this is a shift from a logistics support/delivery command structure to a zone offense.
[Al Ahram] Israel's negotiating position with the Paleostinians in US-sponsored peace talks is the toughest it has taken since before the 1993 Oslo Accords, a senior Paleostinian official said on Tuesday. "The current Israeli negotiating position is the worst in more than 20 years," said Yasser Abed Rabbo ... Paleostinian politician and a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. He holds an M.A. in economics and political science from the American University in Cairo..... , a top official with the Paleostine Liberation Organisation, adding there had been "no tangible progress" in talks that resumed in July.
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"The current Israeli negotiating position is the worst in more than 20 years," said Yasser Abed Rabbo
Hate to say it, Yasser, but after putting up with your rotten nonsense for 20 years, they're just not that into you.
I believe that the best way to lasting peace is to turn the PLO areas into smoldering rubble, then bounce the rubble, then napalm the rubble and then bounce it again just to make sure and will not diverge from that point in negotiation.
[Al Ahram] A planned release of 26 Paleostinian prisoners has provoked feuding within Israel's governing coalition, already under strain from U.S.-brokered peace talks.
The inmates, all of whom were convicted of murder in the killing of Israelis before or just after the first interim Israeli-Paleostinian peace accords were signed 20 years ago, were due to go free after midnight on Tuesday.
Cutting short their life sentences has been particularly grating for many Israelis because prisoner releases were a Paleostinian condition for reviving peace talks last August that few people on either side of the conflict believe will succeed.
In all, 104 long-serving prisoners will go free. A first group of 26 was let out two months ago in keeping with understandings reached during shuttle diplomacy by 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...
"The release of hard boyz in return for (Israeli chief negotiator) Tzipi Livni's dubious right to meet (Paleostinian counterpart Saeb) Erekat is very grave," the Jewish Home party, a far-right member of the government, said in statement at the weekend.
Jewish Home, led by Naftali Bennett, then tried to get a proposal to freeze further prisoner releases past a ministerial committee, where members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party voted it down on Sunday.
"The picture is now clear: the government, unlike one of its member-parties, is acting in the national interest...this government is moving the grinding of the peace processor forward," Livni, head of the small, centrist Hatnuah party, wrote on her Facebook page after Jewish Home's proposed law was rejected.
The squabbling did not end there. Bennett criticised Likud ministers, saying: "The release of hard boyz is immoral, it weakens Israel and endangers its citizens, and we will continue to fight it in a democratic way".
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[An Nahar] A Jordanian MP was released from jail on Tuesday for "lack of evidence", a day after he was charged with inciting a colleague to shoot at another deputy in parliament.
"Yahia al-Saud was released from jail today on orders from the attorney general who prevented his trial for lack of evidence," a judicial official told Agence La Belle France Presse, without elaborating.
Saud was jugged You have the right to remain silent... and charged on Monday with inciting murder, defamation and slander, according to another judicial official.
In September, an argument broke out in parliament between Saud and MP Qusay Dumaisi.
Video footage showed Dumaisi removing his shoes and Saud his belt during the dispute, before they were separated.
Two days later, MP Talal al-Sharif shot a Kalashnikov at Dumaisi during an altercation in the lower house, without hitting him.
"Prosecutors found evidence that Saud incited Sharif to shoot at Dumaisi," a third judicial official told AFP on Monday.
Sharif was expelled from parliament and jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for attempted murder, possession of unlicensed firearms and resisting the security forces.
Dumaisi was suspended for one year.
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[VOA News] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... is warning the U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy that proposed peace talks can only succeed if other countries end their support for rebel groups.
Assad was quoted on state-run television following a brief meeting Wednesday morning with Lakhdar Brahimi.
The meeting came on the third day of Brahimi's first visit to Damascus in almost a year. The U.N. envoy has been on a regional tour trying to drum up support for the so-called "Geneva 2" peace talks.
Earlier Wednesday, Brahimi also met with Iran's ambassador to Syria, Muhammad Ridha Sheibani. Brahimi had earlier suggested Iran be given a seat at the table for a Syrian peace conference.
The United States and Russia have been pushing for those talks to take place next month. Syria's rebels and opposition groups have yet to commit to any talks, rejecting any process that does not remove Assad from power.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011 while millions more have been forced to flee their homes.
On Tuesday, the global charity Save the Children warned of a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... outbreak in Syria.
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... has confirmed 10 cases of polio in young children in the northeast and officials say about 500,000 Syrian children have not been vaccinated against polio.
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See also RELATED TOPIX > ASSAD: NO PEACE UNITIL FOREIGNERS STOP ARMING REBELS.
* Also from TOPIX > RUSSIA: ASSAD REMOVAL DANGEROUS ["huge threat"] TO REGION.
Al Bundy is NOT shocked, he tells ya, he's NOT shocked!
Does SecState Jaaawhn know???
VERSUS
* SAME > [Arutz Sheva] REPORT: SYRIAN REGIME USING NORTH KOREAN PILOTS.
HHHMMMMM, HHHHMMMM, is KJU = "Pudgy" cleaning out the rust in the DPRK Armed Forces in anticipation of Sino-Japan = East Asian mil conflict???
[Al Ahram] UN-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Tuesday it was up to Syrians to shape their political transition in hoped-for peace talks, after warning of the potential "Somalisation" of the country.
He spoke as fighting prevented chemical weapons inspectors from visiting two sites, although UN chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said the mission to destroy Syria's arsenal by mid-2014 was still on track.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... the World Health Organisation confirmed an outbreak of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... in Syria -- the first since 1999 -- saying laboratory tests had confirmed the disease in 10 of 22 suspected cases.
Brahimi has been seeking to build on the momentum of last month's US-Russian deal to eradicate Syria's chemical weapons in order to launch the so-called Geneva II peace talks proposed for next month.
But the talks have been cast into doubt by the increasingly divided opposition's refusal to attend unless the departure of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... is on the table, a demand rejected by Damascus.
In brief remarks to news hounds outside a Damascus hotel, Brahimi insisted the Geneva talks would be "between the Syrian parties, and it is the Syrian parties who will determine the transitional phase and what comes after, not me."
In an interview with French website Jeune Afrique published on Monday, Brahimi had said Assad could contribute to the transition to a "new" Syria but not as the country's leader.
Brahimi had angered the regime during his last visit to Syria in December when he called on Assad to hand over power to a transitional government.
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[Al Ahram] The UN atomic watchdog and Iran said they would meet again on 11 November over Tehran's nuclear programme after a "very productive meeting" on Tuesday. The meeting, which comes ahead of talks between Iran and world powers next week in Geneva, was about allegations that Tehran conducted nuclear weapons research prior to 2003.
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Very productive in the sense that Iran is producing weapons grade uranium in ever increasing quantities?
I really am beginning to think the IAEA is actually offering technical advice and quality control for Iran and NOT trying to rein in these nutjobs.
With the bomb only months away, who cares what the freaking IAEA or the UN says?
Anyway, what will the IAEA or the UN say if the Iranian bomb is used to choke the straits of Hormuz OR make a major ODEC city disappear? Write a strongly worded memo, condemn the US, or make a speech? Or hold a news conference for Ban Kai Moon to make some lukewarm comments?
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We already know from earlier MSM-Net Repors that Iran desires to build both Uranium + Plutonium-based processing = enrichment sites, ostensibly for Iran-alleged NucEnergy-n-only-NucEnergy.
Now comeths ...
* JAPAN TIMES > SPENT [Nukulaar = Plutonium-based] FUEL GOOD ENOUGH FOR BOMB, US TOLD JAPAN IN 1977.
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OOOOOOOPPPPPPIES, forgot BIG NEWS NETWORK > KERRY SAYS "NO" TO ISRAEL'S WARNING ON IRAN, i.e. Netanyahu = Tel Aviv'S demand for new UN sanctions agz Iran's NucProgs.
* SAME > "IRAN TWO WEEKS AWAY FROM WEAPONS-GRADE URANIUM" :IAEA OFFICIAL.
ARTIC = Iran also at "point of no return" vee its advances in its Nucprogs.
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Lest we fergit, RUSSIA TODAY [OLD] > IFF THE US [truly] FOUGHT AGZ TERRORISM, IT WOULD SUPPORT ASSAD.
[An Nahar] Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc stated on Tuesday that Hizbullah chief's latest televised speech is a part of a "psychological war," stressing also on their rejection of all armed presence in the northern city of 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...
"His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... 's speech is arrogant and is a part of a psychological war he is wahing," the bloc said in a released statement after the MPs' weekly meeting at the Center House.
The statement elaborated: "Through his speech, Nasrallah tried to delude the Lebanese that the Damascus regime will soon emerge victorious against the Syrian people, and that the Persian power will dominate over Leb and the region. Nasrallah wanted to say that this fate is inevitable and that the Lebanese, Syrians and Arabs have to cope with it."
"But this will not be achieved."
Al-Mustaqbal accused Hizbullah of "contributing to the paralysis in constitutional institutions and obstructing the formation of the new cabinet."
"Nasrallah is proposing conditions for the cabinet's formation that are unconstitutional," it said.
"But the Lebanese people that resisted to terrorism and refused to surrender will not give up and give in to the new arrogant scheme applied by Hizbullah and its allies."
In a televised speech he gave on Monday, Nasrallah commented on the political deadlock in Leb and failure to form a new government, accusing the March 14 camp of only prolonging the impasse by imposing various conditions on forming a cabinet.
He noted that the camp was and is still banking on the developments in Syria in order to take any political decision in this matter, saying that such actions will only maintain the deadlock.
The Hizbullah chief therefore suggested that the March 14 camp "exercise some humility" and accept the formation of a cabinet that grants nine ministers to itself and the March 8 forces ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... , while the remaining six be granted to centrists.
The al-Mustaqbal urged Hizbullah again to withdraw its forces from Syria and commit to the Baabda Declaration.
"True partnership will not be secured in the country unless Hizbullah commits to the accords reached at national dialogue sessions and abides by the Baabda Declaration."
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[An Nahar] Lebanese army units deployed on Tuesday in a street that separates two rival neighborhoods of the northern city of 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... that have been engaged in gunbattles for the past week.
The troops began their deployment at 7:00 am in Syria Street which lies between Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh districts.
The soldiers carried out patrols and erected checkpoints in the street hours after calm reigned in both neighborhoods, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Clashes ended after 11:00 pm Monday after brass hats held intense contacts to guarantee the army's safe entry to Syria Street, NNA said.
Three soldiers were maimed on Monday during a clash with gunnies as troops deployed in Bab al-Tabbaneh, whose residents are mostly Sunni and back the rebellion against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes...
The military had earlier deployed in Jabal Mohsen that is mainly Alawite, the sect of Assad.
A week of bloody festivities have left scores of casualties. But brass hats claim that their intention to resolve years of fighting between the two neighborhoods are true.
They took a decision last week for the army to deploy in the city and bring the situation under control.
State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr has tasked the army intelligence with carrying out a preliminary investigation to identify those involved in the festivities to take appropriate legal measures against them.
Officials close to 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... also told An Nahar daily published on Tuesday that the armed forces "will not back off" from a decision reached during the security meeting at Baabda Palace "no matter what the sacrifices were to bring back tranquility to Tripoli."
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[An Nahar] The Military Prosecutor referred on Tuesday a suspect to the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch to carry out the initial investigation with him on his role in the deadly mosque bombings in the northern city of 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...
Judge Saqr Saqr, who is the state commissioner to the military court, asked the Intelligence Branch to "question Ahmed Mohammed Ali over the information he has on the Tripoli blasts and his role in the case."
LBCI TV quoted sources as saying that Ali had helped Ahmed Merhi, another suspect in the twin blasts, to escape.
Security forces have said that Merhi is the driver of the vehicle that went kaboom! near al-Taqwa mosque.
But Merhi could still be in Lebanese territories and under the protection of certain parties, LBCI's sources said.
Forty-five people were killed and 800 injured in the boom-mobile blasts that targeted the Sunni al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques on August 23.
Several suspects have already been charged with forming an armed gang for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities and bombing the Tripoli mosques.
On Monday, several residents blocked the international highway near the town of al-Masoudiyeh in the northern Akkar district with burning tires to protest Ali's arrest.
The state-run National News Agency said that the army intelligence jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! him last week after raiding his house in the town of al-Haysa.
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Waiting for Amnesty International outrage over interrogation techniques in 10...9...8...7....
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Dawn] Afghanistan's attempt to gain leverage over Pakistain by cultivating an alliance with the Pak Taliban was discovered by the United States, which raided a convoy carrying a senior
MOGADISHU -- Federal Government of Somalia's Minister of Interior and National Security Abdikarin Hussein Guled has declared that Somali intelligence officials coordinated the US military drone strike that killed a senior Al Shabaab bomb specialist near the southern Somalia town of Jilib with the US government on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.
[Al Ahram] The Board of State Commissioners of Egypt's High Administrative Court has recommended that proceedings to strip former vice president Mohammed ElBaradei and Gamal Mubarak, the son of ousted president 
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North Korean propaganda site Uriminzokkiri on Monday likened 18 South Korean journalists and North Korea experts to Nazi sympathizers and threatened them with summary justice. 
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