Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said his country has completed preparations for war with neighboring Somalia's powerful Islamist movement, alongside faltering peace efforts. Meles told parliament Thursday that the Islamists, who have declared holy war on Ethiopian troops deployed to Somalia to protect the weak internationally backed Somali government, were a "clear and present danger" to his country.
Shortly after Meles' announcement, the Islamists said in Mogadishu they were ready to defend themselves from a "reckless and war-thirsty" Ethiopia and invited a US delegation to visit in an apparent bid to cool the situation.
"This group represents a clear threat to Ethiopia," Meles told Ethiopian lawmakers in Addis Ababa, which denies UN experts' claims of having sent thousands of troops to Somalia but admits to sending military advisers. "To resist this clear and present danger, the policy of this government is first to try to solve the problem through negotiation and dialogue," he said. "So far, our attempts have not been successful."
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A snippet from a similar article in the UK Times:
At the same time, the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia, a coalition of 11 Islamic organisations that gained power this year from local warlords, invited Washington to send an official delegation to Mogadishu for talks.
Abdurahim Muddey, a council spokesman, said: We are inviting the United States to send a delegation to see what is happening in Somalia . . . The US delegation will be received by our foreign relations chief, Ibrahim Hassan Addow, who is himself an American citizen.
North Korea accused the United States of conducting aerial war exercises this week against the communist country, an official news report said Thursday. "More than 150 planes including F-16 and A-10 (planes) of the 7th Air Force of the US imperialist aggression troops in South Korea ... were involved in the adventurous exercises" on Wednesday, said the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
The KCNA report, citing "military sources," said the war maneuvers were aimed at bolstering the capabilities for precision attacks on strategic targets in North Korea and pre-emptive strikes. The US military does not comment on the accusations, although it acknowledges monitoring North Korean military activity.
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ITAR-TASS > Banner sppears declaring North Korea has now "become a nuclear state". WORLDNEWS.com > Expert = Norkies willing to give up nuke weapons [Dubya's extens of NATO priveleges to Japan, SK. TAIWAN?]. TECH CENTRAL STATION > EUROPE HAPPY OVER DEMS 2006 WIN, ASIA espec CHINA IS NOT.
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1) Yeah Kimmie, wouldn't you like to be able to do the same, too?
2) Looks like 'adventurous' is the new diplomatic buzz-word. I remember when the word 'unfounded' got switched to 'baseless', which I think is a stupid word.
3) Who needs precision when the bombs start getting over a kiloton?
Mainz, Germany - One of six Arab men arrested in Germany last week and accused of plotting to blow up a plane asserted in a television interview Thursday that the scheme had been a 'joke.' A newspaper, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, added that prosecutors had 'inflated' the incident into a plot although investigators had wanted to close the file. It said searches of homes and the arrests of the men had been carried out after four months of fruitless inquiry.
Officials in Germany say the group offered a person with a Frankfurt international airport security clearance a bribe to smuggle a bomb in a suitcase onto a plane. News reports said the group were Palestinians and had targeted the Israeli airline El Al. Five of the group were bailed Saturday, the day after their arrest.
A Jordanian national among them spoke on SWR television, saying the group had spoken of 'stirring things' by smuggling a bag onto the jet. But the discussions had been 'not entirely serious.' The suspect said he had told a friend, 'We'll give you money and you'll put the bag on a plane,' adding, 'It was a joke.'
Prosecutors say the scheme, during the past summer, came to nothing because no deal was struck on the bribe. According to newspapers, the airport employee reported the approach to police. German authorities say they are hunting the 'sponsors' of the attack. The Sueddeutsche, quoting 'security services,' said the evidence had never been grave and the supposed 'sponsors' did not exist. It said federal police and prosecutors had decided October 23 after months of vain inquiries to search the suspects' homes, mainly so they could say they had left no stone unturned. The paper said investigators had been worried they would lose judicial permission to continue tapping the men's telephones because the evidence was so slight.
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Terror accused in Germany: plot was a 'joke'
Judge in Germany: any time you spend behind bars will be just as much of a 'joke', too!
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Even if true (and it's not, 99,9999% probality of that), that tells a lot that terror is a joke for such Pious, Moderate Muslims... next thing you know, random muslims will start acting suspiciously while on plane, to freak out the kufrs, 'coz terror is a joke...
Well, as devout Muslims, they're quite familiar with the biggest joke in history.
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Can't be a joke, they are forbidden.
After Mr. Khomeini's return to Iran in 1979 as ruler of the country. One of his first orders was to censor pictures of himself smiling, on the ground that this made him look frivolous. Mr. Khomeini later explained: "An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam."
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"there is no I in Islam.... oh, wait..D'oh!....there's no I in Team!"
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Let the joke be on him. Put him in the dungeon in the basement of Burg Pfalz (it's a small castle in the middle of the Rhine river - there is no basement-at least, not a dry one) for about 200 years. I'm sure he'll get a lot of laughs for that.
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Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed or ignored by the Justice Department and other agencies.
I expect real answers, or well have testimony under oath until we get them, Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, who will head the committee beginning in January, said in an interview this week. Were entitled to know these answers, and in many instances we dont get them because people are hiding their mistakes. And thats no excuse.
Mr. Leahy, who has said little about his plans for the committee, expressed hope for greater cooperation from the Bush administration, which he described as having been obsessively secretive. His aides have identified more than 65 requests he has made to the Justice Department or other agencies in recent years that have been rejected or permitted to languish without reply.
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Democarats, RINOs and, Staffers a leak a second on it's way, if we were not in the middle of a war I would be laughing. Time for some arrests and expedited show trials of leakers and The NYT staff and management who published them in open court. Let the political chips fall where they may.
1) Releasing classified data to satisfy a domestic political agenda won't win us any points abroad, and won't win the war against Moslem terrorists.
2) Cooperation runs both ways. They must be made publically to agree that the War on Terror, its operations and the personnel involved must remain a secret.
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and 3) Get democrat senators to agree that we are in a war and that deception, being fundamental to the nature of war, is characterized by keeping secrets from the world on what we are doing to win that war.
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he's not "Leaky" Leahy for nothing. Monitor the copy machines
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Senate, and House Democrats should be told:
1) Do whatever you want.
These are the chosen representatives of the American people. The American people need to know who they chose and what the consequences of choosing bozos is. Seeing them for what they are will be worth whatever it costs if it prevents us from re-electing and further entrenching them into positions of power.
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Screw it. Give them what they want, and prosecute them when they leak. Just be sure to declassify and release the other 3/4ths of the information they kept secret -- you know, the stuff that puts the leaked info into context.
A couple of Donk pols going to prison should make a nice kick-off to the 2008 elections.
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Release the information to the comittee as 'classified data'. But seed it with 'traceable' details... and when the tracable details appear in the NYT start making arrests.
China's Hu promises "new level" of Pakistan ties
Chinese President Hu Jintao promised on Friday to bolster his country's strategic ties with Pakistan to a new level, saying strong relations between the old allies was conducive to peace in Asia. Hu arrived in Pakistan on Thursday on the first visit by a Chinese president in a decade. His visit also marks the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations which analysts describe as Pakistan's most stable.
The two countries signed 18 agreements, including a free trade pact, which they hope will boost trade from $4.26 billion last year to $15 billion within five years.
There had been speculation they would also sign a new agreement on nuclear power but no new deal was announced. China has already helped Pakistan build a 300-megawatt nuclear plant and is building a second of the same capacity. Referring to that help, Hu told a news conference with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf: "We will continue to carry out such cooperation."
Hu arrived in Pakistan on Thursday from a visit to India where he agreed with leaders to expand economic relations, sweep away mistrust and speed up efforts to resolve border disputes. Analysts said he would be keen to demonstrate that China's growing ties with India would not come at the expense of its old friend, Pakistan. More Deep Throat Analysis, Hugs, Kisses, Spit-Swapping, Triangulation BS at Link...
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And just what would Pakis have to trade to China? Certainly no commercially traded articles which China makes better and cheaper already. Maybe intact F-16's if we are stupid enough to go through with the deal ?
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PAKISTAN > "useful idiot" agz INDIA-USA, area for Chinese goods, + "living/moving space" for China's troublesome Muslim minority. As a Commie Maosist-Stalinist centralized State, in LT Beijing will need to EXPAND, BY TREATY ANDOR BY MIL FORCE. CHINA is setting up for the POST-AMERICA/AMERIKA, POST-COMMUNIST-ISLAMIST HONEYMOON day when all hell will break lose between former anti-American/West allies Secular SOcialism and God-based Socialism, i.e. Commies + Radical Islamists. CHINA WILL EXTERMINATE THE MUSLIMS JUST LIKE 200MILYUHN-PLUS AMERIKANS, AND TAKE OVER 1/2-PLUS OR ALL OF ASIA JUST LIKE CONUS-NORAM. DITTO FOR RUSSIANS.
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NET POSTER rant [paraphrased] > "America under Dubya is moving towards SOCIALISM + COMMUNISM, and GOD D **** HELP US ALL, the SOCIALISTS + COMMIES DON'T KNOW HOW TO STOP IT". Yammamoto and Naguma want to attack PEARL HARBOR, but HORROR OF HORRORS, OH THE HUMANITY!, THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO STOP THEIR OWN ATTACK. THEY'RE OWN VIOLENCE, THEY'RE OWN DESTRUCTION. STalin can't stop Stalin, Hitler can't stop Hitler, Rommel can't stop Rommel, etc.
Neither China nor Russia is an ally in the War on Jihad. They never have been and perhaps never will be allies.
This is pay back from the Ruskies for supporting the Afghanistan mujahideen against the imperial Soviets.
It's pay back from Chicoms for buying "Free Tibet" and "Keep Tiawan Free" bumper stickers.
So China brings the Pakis under their Nuke umbrella and Russia brings Iran under their Nuke umbrella....are you saying "Suprise"?
The Cold War continues unabated except that now the Commies are using "religious" surrogates: Jihadist Muslims.
Same old same old.
Once upon a time I would have thought we had natural allies in the WAR on JIHAD: Europe, Russia, and China. Five years after 9-11 I hear the Ruskies and Chicoms laughing in the background and Europe can't wipe the smirk off it's ugly face. Don't get me started on South America. All of them want the USA taken down.
Yeah, we (USA) have a few allies: Austrailia and Japan. To a lesser extent, Great Britain and Canada. A few enclaves in Eastern Europe.
What I rue most of all is the power wasted. If Western Civ rose up as one, united, the threat ( of muslim jihad) could be put down like a rabid dog. Our grandchildren and great grandchildren (those few that survive and share our ideals and values) will curse us for failing to act now. And rightly they should.
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Well, sort of like Joe said, China will be China, and Russia will be Russia. I don't think it's payback so much as a grab for the top dog position, even if they will be king of a poisoned kingdom for only a short while.
MINGORA: Security agencies have reopened the files of activists of banned organisation Tehreek Nifaz Shariah-e-Mohammadi following their alleged role in the suicide attack in Dargai, Malakand Agency. Police sources said that security agencies were keeping an eye on TNSM activists following Bajaur and Dargai attacks. The government has now reopened the cases against TNSM activists including its acting chief Maulana Alam, Maulana Fazlullah and Maulvi Haq. The suspected TNSM activists have been directed through newspaper advertisements to appear in court and face charges filed against them under anti-terrorism laws.
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Israel could be considered deserving of more blame for its actions in the Lebanon war than Hizbullah, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post Thursday.
Asked by the Post if there was a distinction under human rights law between missile attacks aimed at killing civilians and military strikes in which civilians are unintentionally killed, Arbour said the two could not be equated. "In one case you could have, for instance, a very objectionable intent - the intent to harm civilians, which is very bad - but effectively not a lot of harm is actually achieved," she said. "But how can you compare that with a case where you may not have an intent but you have recklessness [in which] civilian casualties are foreseeable? The culpability or the intent may not sound as severe, but the actual harm is catastrophic."
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Somehow I think that day is coming, SPo'D. Can't say when, exactly, but a revolt against the Tranzis will become part 'n parcel of CW-II. Words such as these will not be forgotten, nor forgiven.
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When you, as a UN High Commissioner, urge the Palestinian Authority Chairman to use "every legitimate means possible" to stop the rockets and to bring to justice those who launch them, while knowing deep down that it is never going to happen. "That is where I think you start having to engage in the possibility that you, and your organisation, are somewhat culpable."
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According to criminal law, "there is very little distinction between recklessness and intent," she said. "It is a small distinction as to whether you desire the result, or you foresee it as virtually certain and you do not care. In terms of culpability there is not a lot of difference between recklessness and intent."
Umm, sorry sister, but you are dead wrong on that. That's why the penalties are more severe for premeditated murder as opposed to manslaughter. Whether you planned and plotted as opposed to just being careless can determine how much time you spend in the pokey. Freakin' wanker has to know that.
Talk about a convoluted effort to make what the Palis do seem not so bad....
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"When you kill non-uniformed combatants civilians virtually each time [in self-defense] [in a military attack], at some point you have to ask yourself, 'How long before they blame the Jews? 'Wasn't that foreseeable that so many would be killed?" she hissed through a forked-tongue said. "That is where I think you start having to bend-over engage in the possibility that it is always the Jews who are blamed somewhat culpable."
Defense Minister Amir Peretz would be prepared to resign from his post in exchange for the Finance Ministry, Channel 2 quoted sources close to Peretz as saying on Thursday night.
"I can do as much good for the shekel as I did for the army!"
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Hamas has raised the price for the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit and is now demanding 1,400 dumptrucks full of Iranian ca$h Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, a senior Hamas official said Thursday.
"Also a pony, and four dozen Tim Horton's maple glaze bear claws. Or else."
Earlier reports had suggested that Hamas, one of three groups that have been holding Shalit in the Gaza Strip since his abduction last June, was prepared to exchange him for only a few hundred Palestinian prisoners.
Osama Hamdan, Hamas's representative in Lebanon, confirmed that Syria-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal was in Cairo for "crucial" talks on the possibility of conducting a prisoner exchange with Israel. He said Mashaal was also holding talks with Egyptian government officials on the latest crisis surrounding the establishment of a Hamas-Fatah unity government.
Mashaal, who arrived unexpectedly in Cairo Wednesday night, held talks with Egyptian General Intelligence chief Gen. Omar Suleiman, who has been spearheading mediation efforts aimed at bringing about a prisoner swap between Israel and the Palestinians. Mashaal, who is said to be in direct contact with Shalit's kidnappers, has been under immense pressure from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to agree to a prisoner exchange with Israel. Sources close to Hamas said the three Arab countries were working toward making a prisoner exchange part of a comprehensive deal in which the Israelis and Palestinians would agree to a mutual cease-fire.
According to Hamdan, Hamas's latest initiative for ending the Shalit affair calls for the release of some 1,400 Palestinian prisoners, including all females and minors held in Israeli prisons.
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Sounds like what Hitler had to resort to in order to start WWII. What are these guys up to? Are they serious? If so, it sounds like they are hooking up with Hezb'Allan.
Sounds like someone needs a good carpet bombing spanking.
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Israel needs to adopt a policy of capping whoever is stupid enough to make such outrageous demands. This preposterous tommyrot would cease in a heartbeat.
I'm proud of you for your forward thinking. Right, they should have GPS tracking embedded. They should be sterilized during imprisonment. this should be "leaked". Go to jail in Israel, come out a eunuch.
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It is a foo'ed up situation. However, I can't help but laugh at the prisoner exchange ratios in these deals - 1,000 or so paleos to 1 jew. Talk about a lack of self esteem.
(AKI) - Israel's Shin Bet security service opposes targeted killings of Palestinian politicians - a controversial proposal made by Israeli deputy premier Avigdor Lieberman last Saturday in a radio interview. Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told Israel's security cabinet Wednesday. According to a report by Tel Aviv daily Haaretz the cabinet, which was discussing Israel's response to the ongoing Qassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, adopted Diskin's recommendation and decided against targeting politicians. However, it approved another controversial proposal: targeting Hamas institutions in the Gaza Strip.
At the meeting Diskin argued that the assassination of Palestinian politicians helped to improve the country's security. After some debate, the cabinet agreed that political leaders should have immunity, even if they used to be involved in terror but have since transferred over to their organisation's civilian wing. This means that Israel will not attempt to assassinate figures such as Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, even though his Hamas organization has repeatedly claimed responsibility for Qassam launches. Instead, the cabinet's decision read, targeted killings will be used only against "those involved in practice in committing [acts of] terror."
However, the cabinet decided, Israel will step up its response to the Qassam fire in other ways, including targeting Hamas institutions in the Gaza Strip.
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Deputy Premier Lieberman, who is also Strategic Affairs Minister said Saturday that Islamic Jihad and Hamas leaders - including Haniyeh - should be assassinated. "I see all Hamas and Jihad leaders moving about freely, continuing to provoke spirits. They must disappear, go to heaven, all of them. There is no room for compromise on this matter," said Liberman.
Liberman appears to be Israel's only hope for survival.
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gromgoru, it should be called Transnational Negativism. I haven't found anything positive about it yet.
What seems to be the case that Shin Bet (in the similar way as CIA) has been slowly infiltrated by librul tranzis. Mayhaps not as much, to a degree it is still functioning (while the I in CIA seems to be an oxymoron), but as the input on policy formulation goes, I can smell tranzi agenda by miles.
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No Israel's security services hasn't been infiltrated by spadlydoopes 2x4 (hint: all personel IDF veterans, rather than frat boys as is the case with CIA). But it is their job to assess costs/benefits. At present, in particular with the expected turn in US foreign policy, the costs are greater than the benefits.
(AKI) - Former Syrian government minister Ahmad Abu Daleh and one of the country's more prominent dissidents makes no secret of who he thinks was behind the assassination of Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel. Wednesday's killing "is a fundamental component of the Syrian regime's hegemonic attitude," Abu Daleh said in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI). Abu Saleh, who currently lives in the Czech Republic, accuses Syrian president Basher al-Assad's government of having a hand in the murder of other anti-Syrian Lebanese political figures. These include former prime minister Rafik Hariri, (murdered in Feb 2005), journalist Samir Kassir (June 2005), ex-Communist leader George Hawi (June 2005) and Parliamentarian Gebran Tueni (December 2005).
Abu Saleh a Baath Party leader during Syria's shot-lived union with Egypt (1958-1961) told AKI he has survived three attempts by Syria's current rulers to kill him. Other Syrian dissidents have also pointed the finger against the government for Gemayel's murder.
The National Salvation Front's deputy president Abd al-Halim Khaddam and the observer-general of the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood Ali Sadr al-Din al-Bayanuni have both blamed the authorities in Damascus for the murder. The killing is "a link in the chain of murders that aim to detabilise Lebanon and hence prevent the stting up of an international tribunal to try those [included Syrian security officials] suspected of having killed Hariri," Khaddam said.
A foreign-based group representing six dissident political parties the Syrian Democratic Alliance in a statement released in Washington also added its voice to those blaming Damascus.
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VARIOUS NET SOURCES/NEWS-SITES > Taking advantage of the Dubya-GOP loss of Congress, SYRIA-IRAN + SHIITE MILITIAS + ALIGNED are proceeding full-steam to exert influence + control at expense of the USA-West's. Syria-Iran > "NEW AXIS OF EVIL".
The funeral of Pierre Gemayel, the murdered Christian minister, in Beirut yesterday was attended by more than 800,000 people and became a demonstration of defiance against Syria and Hezbollah, its Lebanese ally. The huge rally has bolstered the embattled Western-backed Government, with anti-Syrian politicians announcing the start of a second Cedar revolution to remove Syrian influence from Lebanon.
The country remains dangerously split. Many fear that the heated passions aroused by the death of Mr Gemayel, the Lebanese Industry Minister, could plunge Lebanon into renewed sectarian strife. Many of the demonstrators who arrived at Martyrs Square chanted slogans against Hezbollah and Émile Lahoud, the staunchly pro-Syrian President.
Draped in the Cedar tree emblem of the Phalange Party, the political organisation founded by the assassinated ministers grandfather, Gemayels coffin was carried through the crowd toward the St George Maronite Cathedral beside the square. Gemayels wife, Patricia, walked behind the coffin, alongside her husbands weeping mother and sister. The funeral mass was attended by leading Lebanese anti-Syrian politicians, religious figures and foreign diplomats.
The shooting of Mr Gemayel in his car on Tuesday has given renewed vigour to the anti-Syrian March 14 coalition, which forms the majority in parliament and the Government. The pro-Syrian opposition bloc, spearheaded by Hezbollah, has been on the offensive in a bid to overturn the Western-backed Government.
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We've been here before. When the Lebs toss ALL of the assholes who work to keep them in chains, keep them down, use them as proxies, as tools, as fools, as pet bitches, , then I'll be impressed. Losers.
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.com: The dissonance and hedging we saw in the conflict in Lebanon seems to me to be the mid-eastern version of what we've got going on in the west WRT the WoT, doesn't it? :-(
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah appealed to supporters on Thursday to immediately end late night protests in Beirut's southern suburbs. "I urge them to leave the streets, more than urge, I beg them to leave the streets. We don't want anyone on the streets at all," Nasrallah appealed in a telephone call to Hezbollah's television station.
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Chickening out? Or trying to preserve his Hizbo-goons for the next adventure against Israel to misdirect attention of Lebanese?
Hundreds of Shi'ite Muslim protesters blocked the main road to Beirut's airport on Thursday night, witnesses said. The demonstrators took to the road near Beirut's southern suburbs to protest what they said were insults against Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah at the funeral of an assassinated anti-Syrian minister earlier in the day.
"Nasrallah don't worry, your Shi'ites can drink blood," they chanted as they marched on the road.
"Nasrallah don't worry, your Shi'ites can drink blood," they chanted as they marched on the road.
Hezbollah cars with loudspeakers urged the protesters to disperse and go home and its members blocked off nearby streets to stop the protests from spreading. Hezbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, had threatened to take to the streets to topple the Western-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. Six ministers from Hezbollah and its allies quit the cabinet this month after all-party talks on giving the opposition effective veto power collapsed. Tens of thousands of people attended the funeral of Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, who was gunned down on Tuesday.
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Hamas has raised the price for the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit and is now demanding 1,400 
(AKI) - Israel's Shin Bet security service opposes targeted killings of Palestinian politicians - a controversial proposal made by Israeli deputy premier Avigdor Lieberman last Saturday in a radio interview. Shin Bet chief 
(AKI) - Former Syrian government minister Ahmad Abu Daleh and one of the country's more prominent dissidents makes no secret of who he thinks was behind the assassination of Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel. Wednesday's killing "is a fundamental component of the Syrian regime's hegemonic attitude," Abu Daleh said in an interview with Adnkronos International (AKI). Abu Saleh, who currently lives in the Czech Republic, accuses Syrian president Basher al-Assad's government of having a hand in the murder of other anti-Syrian Lebanese political figures. These include former prime minister Rafik Hariri, (murdered in Feb 2005), journalist Samir Kassir (June 2005), ex-Communist leader George Hawi (June 2005) and Parliamentarian Gebran Tueni (December 2005).
The funeral of Pierre Gemayel, the murdered Christian minister, in Beirut yesterday was attended by more than 800,000 people and became a demonstration of defiance against Syria and Hezbollah, its Lebanese ally. The huge rally has bolstered the embattled Western-backed Government, with anti-Syrian politicians announcing the start of a second Cedar revolution to remove Syrian influence from Lebanon. 
Hundreds of Shi'ite Muslim protesters blocked the main road to Beirut's airport on Thursday night, witnesses said. The demonstrators took to the road near Beirut's southern suburbs to protest what they said were insults against Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah at the funeral of an assassinated anti-Syrian minister earlier in the day. 
