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Arabia
'Bahrain increasingly torturing Shias'
[Iran Press TV] The Bahrain Center for Human Rights has expressed grave concern about the country's growing violence against the detained opposition muscle.

The BCHR said on Monday despite the Bahraini authorities' efforts to keep the world in the dark about the detainees and their conditions, the group is receiving more and more reports about the mistreatment and torture of Shia muscle in the custody of the National Security Apparatus.

The prominent rights group also accused the Bahraini authorities of giving poor medical treatment to those detainees who were tortured and sustained serious injuries during interrogations.

According to the BCHR, while AbdulJalil Alsingace -- head of the human rights unit of the Shia Haq political party -- is in need of an emergency surgery because of sustaining continuous head traumas, the National Security has denied providing him with any medical treatment and still holds him in solitary confinement.

The BCHR urged the international organizations to pursue the rising torture cases against the detained political muscle, human rights defenders and religious leaders in the Persian Gulf state.

Bahrain has jugged more than 250 Shia muscle since mid-August, ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, accusing them of having links with Orcs and similar vermin and conspiring to overthrow the Bahraini government.

According to human rights groups, the Shia detainees were ill-treated and tortured during interrogations and were forced to make false declarations and accusations against other human rights defenders.

The fabrications were later broadcasted on the state media as "confessions" made by "terrorists."

The human rights groups have also criticized Bahraini authorities for their crackdown on the freedom of expression notably through blocking internet websites and opening judicial proceedings against those journalists denouncing human rights violations in the country.

The Shia opposition also refuses to recognize the 2002 Constitution, which curbed the power of the Shia-majority parliament, calling for the boycott of next month's parliamentary elections.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Pray, who funds the BCHR?
Posted by: Pstanley || 10/07/2010 1:58 Comments || Top||

#2  The Shias burned tires and blocked all roads into Saudi Arabia causing an 800 mile traffic jam. I didn't see that mentioned in this article.
Posted by: Uleger Barnsmell4617 || 10/07/2010 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  doh, not 800 mile, 800 car traffic jam
Posted by: Uleger Barnsmell4617 || 10/07/2010 11:32 Comments || Top||

#4  So long as the Shias didn't block the entry road from Saudi Arabia, carrying all those lovely Arabs looking to party hearty and spend freely, Uleger Barnsmell4617 :-(
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/07/2010 12:46 Comments || Top||


Europe
Mayor of Hanover: Jews Pelted with Stones = Israel's Fault
Interview with mayor Stephan Weil (Social Democrat). His response to a question concerning this event is this:
(Google translation cleaned up)

Q: In Sahlkamp it became evident this year that serious conflicts among ethnic groups are a real possibility. Children of Arabic descent pelted a Jewish dance group with stones.
Is this the beginning of a new antisemitism among certain strata of society?

A:The incident has shocked me at that time. But now, after careful examination, we see more clearly. The attack developed in the context of a few families
If the attack just 'developed' the actual attackers or instigators can't really be blamed, can they? Weil is employing every rhetorical trick to avoid laying blame on Arabs here. And yes, it's just as awkward in German., it can not therefore be attributed to the social structure of an entire neighborhood. This form of anti-Semitism has a lot to do with the conflict in the Middle East
It's Israel's fault.
and is above all an expression of unfortunately widespread everyday racism.
They're victims of society.
To counter this an alliance of various institutions in the precinct is preparing a wide range of activities under the umbrella term "respect".
So Muslim antisemitism is worthy of "respect?"
Again if Weil's response appears to be awkward and wishy-washy it's not an artifact of translation. I smell Hizzoner's fear of Muslim riots.
link to interview in German

Posted by: Omaing White7048 || 10/07/2010 16:29 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


German Muslims must obey law, not sharia: Merkel
[Dawn] Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday Mohammedans must obey the constitution and not sharia law if they want to live in Germany, which is debating the integration of its 4 million-strong Mohammedan population. In the furore following a German central banker's blunt comments about Mohammedans failing to integrate, moderate leaders including President Christian Wulff have urged Germans to accept that "Islam also belongs in Germany".

The debate comes against a backdrop of US and British concerns over the threat of terrorist attacks by krazed killer Islamists living in Germany, with Berlin toning down such fears.

Merkel faces corresponding discussions inside her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) about whether she is conservative enough, and the centre-right leader's latest comments seemed directed at those who think Wulff went too far in appeasing the Mohammedans.

Wulff, who has a largely ceremonial role, used a speech on Sunday celebrating two decades of German reunification to urge harmonious integration of immigrants who until a decade ago were considered "guest workers" who would eventually return home.

But whereas the media stressed Wulff's comments about Islam, Merkel, the daughter of a Protestant pastor brought up in East Germany, who leads a predominantly Catholic party, said Wulff had emphasised Germany's "Christian roots and its Jewish roots".

German Christian Democrats often cite shared Judeo-Christian values rooted in the early history of Christianity because of sensitivities about the Holocaust, when the Nazis murdered six million Jews during World War Two.

"Now we obviously also have Mohammedans in Germany. But it's important in regard to Islam that the values represented by Islam must correspond with our constitution," said Merkel.

"What applies here is the constitution, not sharia."

Merkel said Germany needed imams "educated in Germany and who have their social roots here" and concluded: "Our culture is based on Christian and Jewish values and has been for hundreds of years, not to say thousands."

Opinion polls suggest many Germans sympathise with the views of an outspoken member of Germany's Bundesbank who, in speeches and a book, accused Mohammedans of sponging off welfare, refusing to integrate and achieving poor levels of education.

Thilo Sarrazin, who also offended Jews with comments about genetics, was forced to quit the central bank. Merkel has tried to accommodate both sides of the debate, saying police should not be afraid of entering immigrant neighbourhoods but also that Germans must accept mosques becoming part of their landscape.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  ION OWG GERMANISTAN, TOPIX > GERMANY MAY STOP NUCLEAR-SHARING WID USA.

ARTIC > Read, GERMANY WANTS NUCWEAPS.

and

* WMF > JAPANESE MEDIAS REVEALED THE NEWS: JAPAN + GERMANY MAY WORK TOGETHER TO DEV NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/07/2010 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Islam also belongs in Germany

It is, after all, a lot like Nazism.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2010 2:46 Comments || Top||

#3  ..sort of like New Coke.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2010 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  @JosephMendiola

EVEN IN CAPS IT'S BS
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/07/2010 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Islam belongs in Germany about as much as a tapeworm belongs in her intestine.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/07/2010 11:10 Comments || Top||

#6  EVEN IN CAPS IT'S BS

Joe is apparently connected to the Interwebs via a old Teletype Model 33. Infrastructure issues on Guam, I guess.

As to the idea Germans and Japanese working together on nukes, I would say they are foolish if they are not thinking about it. Germany is not that far, as the missile flies, from some serious and soon to be nuke-enabled craziness. Japan is right next door to a neighbor with determined to expand, a recent history of throwing its weight around and a whole mess of bad feelings left over from WWII. At one time, our allies could count on the American security umbrella. That warranty seems to have expired. Expect quite a bit of weapons proliferation, both nuclear and non, as countries realize they are on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/07/2010 11:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Are yall just now noticing Joseph Mendiolas comments. This bullshit has been driving me crazy for years now.
Posted by: chris || 10/07/2010 12:12 Comments || Top||

#8  I can't imagine Germany wanting nuclear weapons at this time. JosephM can wander rather far into crazy territory on occasion.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/07/2010 12:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Some corrections and comments:

The CDU is not and does not wish to position itself as a 'predominantly Catholic' party.

Merkel's father being a Protestant pastor daughter is not the issue. Merkel being an authoritarian, incompetent politician with zero charisma who is far to left of CDU voters is the big issue.

Wulff's remark was foolish and dangerous, as were similar statements by e.g. Obama.

Islamofascists will actually refrain from implementing certain aspects of Sharia if the country is not an 'islamic country.'
(See e.g. this at 6:35)

If a head of state of a western nation even implies that his country is 'islamic' he unvoluntarily strengthens the advocates of strict Sharia in the country. And this might cost lives.
Posted by: Omaing White7048 || 10/07/2010 13:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Wulff's remarks were rather clumsy. Islam may "belong" to Germany in the sense that there are 4 million people practising it, but Islam is not part of German history, culture and thinking.

I don't know a non-Muslim German who could quote anything from the Koran.

The Arabic world was (at times) a beacon of civilization in the Middle Ages, but a very unstable one that could be swept away by the next desert tribe. But Arab and Persian science, literature and philosophy which influenced Europe did so not because of Islam but despite of it.

Merkel may not be a staunch conservative. But she's not a leftist who receives the Dalai Lama through the back door of her home.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/07/2010 14:15 Comments || Top||

#11  I have been wanting a kill filter on Rantburg for quite some time now, specifically to nuke these idiotic ALL CAPS posts. The man who writes them is quite capable of normal conversation, I've seen him drop his pretense before. Unfortunately, most of you love wading through his incomprehensible nonsense and posting replies.
Posted by: gromky || 10/07/2010 14:35 Comments || Top||

#12  Gromky, don't read them, simply scan them directly into your unconcious mind, and BINGO he's understandable.
Seriously we figure English is NOT his native languag, and allow for it.
Lotta tolerence here for honest efforts to communicate, and none for assholes and scmmers.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/07/2010 14:46 Comments || Top||

#13  We could try to get a hold of muck4doo again.
Posted by: Ebbaviter McGurque9995 || 10/07/2010 14:47 Comments || Top||

#14  Germans MUST obey!. Period.
Posted by: borgboy || 10/07/2010 16:15 Comments || Top||

#15  The answer is simple, chris - just skip over any comment with all caps (or mostly so).

Maybe your comments drive Joe crazy, too. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/07/2010 19:33 Comments || Top||

#16  He's in Guam, probably on a Commodore 64 with a sticky caps button. Don't even want to know what it's sticky from.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 10/07/2010 21:15 Comments || Top||

#17  irony?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/07/2010 21:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Ice cream, baklava, cheese: Gitmo hunger strike ends
Posted by: tipper || 10/07/2010 06:06 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Give a shit, let them starve.
This is exactly like holding your breath until Mommy gives in, and about as childish.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/07/2010 11:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Notice how the MSM nor anyone else for that matter, discusses the high recidivism rate of these vermin?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2010 11:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Gitmo hunger strike ends

Must have been 'Chunky Monkey' night.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/07/2010 12:35 Comments || Top||

#4  I've always agreed with Fred on this one.

Force-feed them the good stuff. Cakes, pies, ice cream, meat pies, meat loaf, potatoes with gravy, pancakes, eggnog, omelets, cheese whiz, all at least 6000 calories a day.

Get them all into the 400 pound range.

Remember, a fat, waddling terrorist is a slow terrorist.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/07/2010 14:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't forget about the cholesterol count.
Posted by: Ebbaviter McGurque9995 || 10/07/2010 14:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Remember, a fat, waddling terrorist is a slow terrorist.

Also hthink of the humor when a fat waddling terrorist is called before a senate committe and tries the "I've been Tortured/Starved" Sthick
Or returns home to his skinny co trrorists, the'll figure he MUST have talkedto get such favorable treatment, they'll either kill him or torture him for real, then snuff him.
I vote Stuff them.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/07/2010 15:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Sorry fingers won't behave today.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/07/2010 15:03 Comments || Top||

#8  And my proofreading sucks too.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/07/2010 15:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Didn't Commander Zero sign an executive order on his very first day in office to close GITMO? What ever happened to that?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/07/2010 15:27 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pakistan doesn't reopen border despite US apology
Pakistan said Thursday it has not decided when to reopen a key border crossing NATO uses to ship supplies to Afghanistan despite a U.S. apology for a helicopter attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers.

A suspected U.S. missile strike, meanwhile, killed three people in a northwestern Pakistan tribal region along the border, the latest in a surge of such attacks on militant strongholds, intelligence officials said.

Both the U.S. and NATO expressed their condolences Wednesday for the Sept. 30 attack and said American helicopters mistook the Pakistani soldiers for insurgents being pursued across the border from Afghanistan.

The apologies raised expectations that the Torkham border crossing along the famed Khyber Pass could reopen very soon. But Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said at a news conference Thursday that authorities were still evaluating the situation and would make a decision "in due course."

The delay could be short-lived since U.S. and Pakistani officials predicted the border crossing would be reopened in a matter of days even before the apologies were issued.

Pakistan closed Torkham to NATO supply convoys on the same day as the attack, leaving hundreds of trucks stranded alongside the country's highways or stuck in traffic on the way to the one route into Afghanistan from the south that has remained open.

Suspected militants have taken advantage of the impasse to attack stranded or rerouted trucks. Gunmen torched 70 fuel tankers and killed a driver in two attacks Wednesday.

The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, said in a statement Wednesday that "we extend our deepest apology to Pakistan and the families of the Frontier Scouts who were killed and injured."

The U.S. and NATO issued apologies after their investigation found that the Pakistani soldiers fired at the two U.S. helicopters prior to the attack, likely trying to notify the aircraft of their presence after the helicopters entered Pakistani airspace several times.
Posted by: tipper || 10/07/2010 15:43 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Them and Iran think US aint got the money/Balls to battle them.Join up with India and Israel and fuck them to win the WOT!
Posted by: Paul D || 10/07/2010 17:34 Comments || Top||

#2  India.

India is the way to make them squeal like a pig.
Cozy up to India and hook them up with some top shelf 5th Gen. weapons systems. That would cut them deeper than anything.

Oh, and divest NATO from Wakiland in total.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 10/07/2010 20:59 Comments || Top||


Pakistan roadblock cuts of Taliban "protection" racket
The Pakistani government's decision to shut a key supply route for coalition convoys in Afghanistan also has cut off a source of income for Taliban militants and a trucking racket that reap big profits from a cross-border "protection." A subsequent spike in attacks on NATO fuel tankers is seen by some analysts as an attempt by this predominantly Pashtun trucking racket to collect more protection money for the convoys.

The Torkham Gate crossing remained closed Wednesday, resulting in a miles-long backlog of trucks loaded with essential nonlethal supplies, including military vehicles, spare parts, clothing and fuel.Taliban militants have attacked the trucks in recent days, and dozens of fuel tankers have been set on fire. Drivers have been killed in some instances. In the latest incident, gunmen set fire to more than two dozen tankers and killed a driver on the outskirts of Quetta on Wednesday.

The trucking racket makes money from the NATO transit route in Pakistan along which the security of the convoys is guaranteed, not by the state, but by private contractors and tribes. "The way this has been dealt with is rather absurd. Deals have cut [by NATO] and some appeasement money paid to local contractors and tribes to allow safe passage for these trucks," said Moeed Yusuf, a South Asia adviser at the U.S. Institute of Peace. As a consequence of the deals, the cost of transporting supplies to Afghanistan has multiplied.

According to unofficial estimates, the trucking racket earns billions of dollars annually.

The trucking racket has played a key role in shipping illicit weapons into Afghanistan and transporting out narcotics. It also controls much of the traffic in commodities that traverse Pakistan tax-free as part of the Afghan Transit Trade Agreement, Ms. Peters said.

This trucking racket also has known links to the Taliban. "Powerful trucking families and traders were some of the first to back the Taliban financially, and to this day continue to pay the insurgents to protect commerce," Ms. Peters said.

C. Christine Fair, an assistant professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies, said the enormous profits this racket makes is the reason why the convoys have not been attacked in the past. "The mafia has a huge incentive to make sure that their trucks go through unmolested from Karachi up to Torkham," said Ms. Fair. "Everyone is paid off along the way."

She said the trucking mafia will not tolerate a prolonged closure of the Torkham Gate crossing.
That's certainly comforting.
"The Taliban are losing lots of money. … Everyone is losing money," Ms. Fair said. "At some point, the organized criminals and the militants are going to get really upset about losing revenue."
Posted by: || 10/07/2010 12:34 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems to me that the UN is paying the terorists off, send some booby trapped trucks through (Say mount a truck shell on a tank) Sur-prise, sur-prise (Best Gomer Pyle accent)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/07/2010 14:51 Comments || Top||

#2  18-wheel Q-ship?
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/07/2010 19:37 Comments || Top||


Pakistan spy agency thwarting Taliban talks: report
Pakistan's intelligence agency is pressuring Afghan Taliban members to shun US-backed peace talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Citing Taliban commanders and US officials, the newspaper said Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence agency has encouraged Afghan insurgents to step up attacks, including on civilians, and resist surrender or peace talks.

"The ISI wants to arrest commanders who are not obeying [ISI] orders," a Taliban commander in Kunar province told the Journal.

The commander said he had no plans to stop fighting foreign troops, but was opposed to the broad-based attacks being urged by some ISI officials. "The ISI wants us to kill everyone -- policemen, soldiers, engineers, teachers, civilians -- just to intimidate people," the commander told the newspaper, adding that the agency had tried to arrest him when he refused.
The traditional Pakistani army approach to Untermenschen -- although in Bsngladesh they added mass rape.
US officials told the Journal they had heard similar reports of ISI pressure on Taliban members from insurgents who had been captured or agreed to lay down arms.

It remains unclear whether ISI pressure on the Taliban to resist negotiations comes from the top of the agency, or is the work of lower-level intelligence personnel, US officials told the paper.

Some believe that the upper echelons of the powerful organization are trying to reform it, but face opposition from rank and file members.

Other US officials believe lower level officers are acting with the sanction of their commanders.

"I haven't seen evidence that the ISI is not in control of all of its parts," a senior US defense official told the newspaper.

Whereever the pressure is coming from, it has been interpreted as an attempt by Pakistan to ensure it has leverage as Kabul tries to capitalize on reported "overtures" from Taliban leaders ready to negotiate their surrender.

The report comes amid growing tension between the US and Pakistani governments over Afghanistan, with Washington convinced Islamabad is waging a half-hearted battle against militants.
And possibly concluding Islamabad is waging a whole-hearted proxy war against the U.S. and the West.

Here is a link to the Wall Street Journal report. General Petraeus has concluded that it's not just that Hamid Karzai sees the ISI behind every bush and tree. The only question is whether senior ISI and military officers are running this, or mid-level ISI taking matters into their own hands. See more here.
Posted by: tipper || 10/07/2010 06:15 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We need to grab Pakistain by the ballz! Divert those billions of dollars in funds to India if they are going to fuck around!

The PAKS smile and lie through their teeth, make a big show of false honor, and most of all lazy.

Nothing gets on their nerves more than remember how Indian and Bangladesh embarrassed them in war.
Posted by: Uleger Barnsmell4617 || 10/07/2010 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  bad grammar* sry!
Posted by: Uleger Barnsmell4617 || 10/07/2010 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  bad grammar* sry!

That's ok -- I misspelt Bangladesh, above.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/07/2010 12:54 Comments || Top||

#4  It's not like elements within the CIA spent any time from 2002 to 2008 to 'destabilize' the Bush Administration. Nope, never would have happened here.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2010 16:23 Comments || Top||

#5  The way i have seen its been a proxy war versus Pakistan since 9/11 when some in the ISI knew about the attack on NY.Pre 9/11 the Pakis organised the Taliban,let in the AlQ as another useful proxy ALL fully funded From Saudi & UAE.Only three countries offically regonised the Taliban Govt which was Pakistan,UAE and Saudi.

Since then they have trained and funded the Taliban to find Nato forces.I remember Perv asked for the ISI to be allowed to be rescued in the Northern town Masar Sharif shortly after 9/11 which Bush for some reason agreed to?

Islamic Jihadi ideology is mainstream in Pakistan funded by Saudi and all the Top Taliban were educated in Pakistan funded by Saudi.

The ISI have controlled the Taliban for their own purposes ie.Strategic Depth on the Western Front.Just like they used Militant groups to fight India in Kashmir/Eastern Front.

Peace wont happen in Afganistan/South Asia until we deal with the true enemy-Pak military!

US please team up with India to deal with this evil nation,Saudi wont do nothing but China might!
Posted by: Paul D || 10/07/2010 17:31 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas armed wing warns PA over West Bank arrests
[Dawn] The armed wing of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, group and its allies said on Wednesday they would retaliate against the Western-backed Paleostinian Authority if it continued to take action against their members in the occupied West Bank.

The threat, made at a news conference in the Gazoo Strip, underlined the depth of hostility between Hamas and the Paleostinian Authority (PA) more than three years since the bad turban group seized control of Gazoo in a brief civil war.

"We say today that our silence will not last long. If those (security) services pursue their aggression, we will end the silence," said Abu Ubaida, front man of the Hamas armed wing in the Gazoo Strip. He was flanked by gunnies from allied factions.

Abu Ubaida of Hamas's Izz El-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades was referring to a PA crackdown on bad turban muscle including the sentencing this week of a Hamas fighter to 20 years in prison.

A PA front man said Alaa Abu Dhiyab, sentenced by a military court, was involved in the killing of three Paleostinian officers in a shootout in the West Bank in 2009.

Hamas says around 750 of its muscle have been jugged by PA security forces since Hamas gunnies killed 4 Jewish settlers in the West Bank on Aug. 31 the eve of the launch of direct Middle East peace talks. Hamas opposes the US-backed talks.

Hamas accuses President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas's security forces of policing the West Bank on Israel's behalf. Abbas is a staunch supporter of peace negotiations aimed at creating a Paleostinian state and is opposed to any violence against Israelis.

Abu Ubaida's threat came less than two weeks after Hamas and Abbas's Fatah faction agreed to revive efforts to narrow a schism between the two groups that has undermined the Paleostinian cause.

If these reconciliation talks failed to ease the crackdown on Hamas, Abu Ubaida said "no one should blame us if we pursue the symbols of the Fatah authority wherever they exist".

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, who lives in exile in Damascus, met a senior Fatah official in Syria last month and further talks between the two sides are expected on Oct 20.

Accusations of political arrests by both sides are routine.

The Paleostinian Authority, whose security forces are being retrained with US and European support, is determined to avoid any repeat of the Gazoo takeover by Hamas.
The group, which defeated Fatah in a 2006 parliamentary election, is backed by Syria and Iran.

Last week, Paleostinian Authority security forces also jugged a senior figure in the Islamic Jihad, a group allied to Hamas. Khader Adnan has been on a hunger strike for nearly a week in prison, Islamic Jihad said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  As I said on numerous previous occasions: no popcorn without body count.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2010 2:32 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Zahra Warns of Plan to Assassinate Hariri and Geagea: Syria is Still in Position of the Accused
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra warned on Wednesday of a possible plan to assassinate Prime Minister Saad Hariri, former PM Fouad Saniora, and LF leader Samir Geagea,
He told LBC: "The current information available indicates that those planning an assassination will not hesitate to execute their plan when the circumstances are appropriate."

The MP noted that the situation in Leb is similar to the one that pervaded the country prior to former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's 2005 assassination.

Furthermore, Zahra said that Syria is still in the position of the accused in Hariri's assassination and it has not been exonerated.

The four generals themselves have also not been exonerated, he added, but they were released because of a lack of evidence.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Ahmadinejad Accompanied by 50 Businessmen, Hizbullah Massing Thousands to Welcome Him
[An Nahar] Iranian leader Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad was said to be accompanied during his Leb visit by 50 businesses as Hizbullah was massing a huge number of people to welcome him.
Well-informed sources at the Iranian embassy in Beirut uncovered in remarks published Wednesday by pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat that Ahmadinejad will offer Leb help in oil exploration.

They said Ahmadinejad will also offer to provide Leb with much-needed electricity, establish industrial cities and equip the Lebanese army.

While embassy sources refused to confirm the Iran's diminutive President's trip to southern Leb, other sources told Asharq al-Awsat Hizbullah was massing a huge number of people to welcome Ahmadinejad who is expected in Leb mid-October.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1 

I wish!
Posted by: Lumpy Anguting2786 || 10/07/2010 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe he can come to the Israeli border and throw a stone?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2010 2:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Definitely a "target-rich" opportunity.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 10/07/2010 7:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Considering the "audience" is armed to the gills, we can always hope one of them has an itchy trigger finger.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/07/2010 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  They said Ahmadinejad will also offer to provide Leb with much-needed electricity, establish industrial cities and equip the Lebanese army.

Yeah, but the Lebs would be wise to confiscate any flash drives the Iranians bring with them.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/07/2010 15:30 Comments || Top||


Muallem Says STL 'a Lebanese Affair', Describes Arrest Warrants as 'Purely Procedural'
[An Nahar] Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has described as "purely procedural" controversial arrest warrants Damascus has issued against 33 people, among them Lebanese officials.
"It's purely procedural," he told a news conference during a visit by his Romanian counterpart Teodor Baconschi.

When asked about the Special Tribunal for Leb, Muallem insisted that it is "purely a Lebanese affair."

He stressed that "the Syrian-Saudi efforts are still ongoing regarding Leb because the objective is the stability of this country."

"This stability is not to be created by foreign powers, but rather by the Lebanese themselves. Syria and Saudi Arabia are encouraging the Lebanese and advising them to do so."
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


U.N. Chief Says 'Nobody Can Interfere' in STL Work
[An Nahar] U.N. Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday strongly reaffirmed U.N. backing for the Special Tribunal for Leb.
"I urge all Lebanese not to interfere in its work -- I reaffirm our belief in the importance of the tribunal. It has a mandate, its own role. We will strive so that it can go on with its work," the U.N. chief said.

Tensions have risen over the possibility that the special international court could indict members of Hizbullah, which some fear could create civil strife between Shiites and Sunnis.

Ban stressed that "nobody can interfere" in the work of the STL or "prejudge" the outcome of its mission.

"Peace and stability should be one thing but the work of the tribunal must go on," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


March 14: Lebanese Fed up with Hizbullah Threats, Militia-Style Practices
[An Nahar] The majority March 14 coalition stressed on Wednesday that the Lebanese were fed up with "daily Hizbullah threats and militia-style practices."
It said after the weekly meeting of its general-secretariat that the practices "will not intimidate the Lebanese or dissuade them from committing to the accomplishments of the independence intifada and its gains."

March 14 General Secretariat called for joining ranks, adding that Hizbullah "should know that the Lebanese are attached to civil peace and they do not fear intimidation and threats."

Addressing the Syrian arrest warrants against a number of Lebanese figures, it said that they are a "Syrian call to eliminate the Special Tribunal for Leb and they are a blatant defiance of Lebanese demands for justice and stability."

"It is as if the Syrian leadership wants to restore ties between the two countries to the phase of extreme tensions, throwing out the window all efforts undertaken by the Lebanese state, and especially the prime minister, to normalize ties in a way that would benefit the Lebanese and Syrian people," the statement continued.

The arrest warrants "which should not be taken innocently as some have called for" will push the other team towards increasing its defiance, it added.

The March 14 forces lauded Prime Minister Saad Hariri and President Michel Suleiman for their positions towards the warrants and urged the Lebanese to exercise diligence to avoid falling victim to regional interests.

In addition, the general-secretariat condemned the Free Patriotic Movement's "provocation" against the Lebanese Forces.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  What you gonna do?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2010 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Issue a terse sharply written statement?

How about putting them on Double Secret Probation.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/07/2010 13:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Some Lebanese are under the delusion that they are a free and independent country. Incorrect. Until the state assumes a monopoly on (military) power they remain a proxy state under Hezbullah, Syrian. and Iranian hegemony.
Posted by: borgboy || 10/07/2010 16:09 Comments || Top||


Ahmadinejad: Capitalism nearing its end
[Iran Press TV] Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad stresses the importance of an intellectual system to manage the world, saying Capitalism is on the brink of collapse.


"Capitalism and capitalists will join history in the near future. Signs of their collapse are quite clear," IRNA quoted President Ahmadinejad as speaking in northern Iranian province of Gorgan on Wednesday.

He added that the Islamic Theocratic Republic has to become involved in the international management, saying, "We should all struggle to amend the current situation in the world."

"The world cannot be managed without an intellectual system. This intellectual thought and system is alive in Iran at the present," he went on to say.

The Iranian chief executive further pointed out that progress and development of Iran will help all nations and have a great impact on the world.

President Ahmadinejad heralded that peace and justice would be established in the world.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1 

Chavez: Hey shorty, let me give you some speech pointers while I rub your hairy neck.
Shorty: Oh sure! I was just running out of outrageous things to say.
Posted by: Lumpy Anguting2786 || 10/07/2010 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  ION TOPIX > SECURITY SOURCES: TRAINED EXTREMISTS [25 ea.] HEADING TO EUROPE, from AFPAK Militant training camps???

and

* SAME > IRAN'S EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE ENTIRE WORLD.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/07/2010 2:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Tell it to Chinese.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2010 2:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Lumpy, I was just thinking sort of along those lines. Somebody ought to develop a comic strip based on Dinner Jacket's character. Hugo would be a natural for guest appearances. It'd be easy once you got the caricature down because all you have to do for the words is read Iran Press TV every morning.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 10/07/2010 15:04 Comments || Top||


Ahmadinejad calls for new world order
[Iran Press TV] Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad has criticized the current world order for provoking arms races to establish domination over nations.

"There is no doubt that many acts of aggression as well as arms races are for the purpose of establishing domination, making financial profits, capturing markets and plundering the resources and gains of nations," President Ahmadinejad said Wednesday.

The Iranian president said today's world feels the need to bring about a change in the current world order and called for a new world order based on "justice, love and respect."

He added that any management system founded on "unilateralism" will only create division among different countries.

He concluded that any management system built on a foundation other than respect and love will end up as bullying.
Posted by: Fred || 10/07/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  DAILY TIMES.PK > IRAN CAN EXPORT WEAPONS TO OVER 50 COUNTRIES: MINISTER [Iran DM Ahmad Vahidi].

IRAN DEFENSE IS WHOLLY/TOTALLY "SELF SUFFICIENT" - THEY [almost]"HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY" [Six Milyuhn Dollar Man]???

versus

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > INDIA MAY EXPORT NUCLEAR REACTORS TO THAILAND, CAMBODIA, + VIETNAM.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/07/2010 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  ION NUC ENERGY-ONLY, NEWS KERALA > ROK ACCUSES NORTH KOREA OF RESTORING FACILITIES AT DESTROYED YONGBYON NUCLEAR REACTOR [NucPlex]

* SAME > [US]PENTAGON SAYS GLOBAL "CYBER-WAR" IS JUST BEGINNING.

* TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA: NORTH IS CLOSE TO DEV NUCLEAR WEAPONS/CAPABILITIES.

* CHINESE MIL FORUM > RUSSIA SHOULD HELP INDIA IN DEVELOPING N-TRIAD [India's own Nuclear Triad]
EXPERT [Pert RUSLAN PUKHOV].

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM/TOPIX > JAPAN: CHINESE PATROL BOATS [two] WITHDRAW FROM DISPUTED WATERS.
+ "CONTINUED TURKISH PROVOCATIONS" UPSETS GREECE [Greek-desired Internat Boundary limits versus TUrkey-feared Greek mil domination of Aegean Sea vee control of disputed Islands].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/07/2010 1:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Ahmadinejad calls for new world order

So do George Soros and Obean.
Posted by: gorb || 10/07/2010 2:37 Comments || Top||

#4  So do I.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2010 2:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Ahmadinejad calls for new world order odor
Posted by: Uleger Barnsmell4617 || 10/07/2010 10:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Ahmadinejad calls for new world order


With him as Maximum Leader, of course.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/07/2010 11:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Ya want fries with that?
Posted by: mojo || 10/07/2010 12:47 Comments || Top||



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