This is excerpted from a document named Information Guide for Muslim Communities in Dealing with Anti-Terrorism Raids/Arrests. It was produced by the Association of Muslim Lawyers (UK). I think this is a guide instructing the Muslim community in how to respond to a terror raid...it's not clear that this document is part of UK official law enforcement policy. HAT TIP: Weasel Zippers
1. Make clear on whose behalf the statement is being issued.
2. Set out the Islamic perspective on acts of violence which results in damage or loss of lives of innocent civilians and property.
3. Set out the local Muslim immediate response to the events e.g. shock, sadness etc.
4. Set out that investigation has just commenced and ask for media and public to await the outcome of the investigation once it has been completed and not to rush to conclusions.
5. Set out that individuals are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
6. Ask for understanding and co-operation by the media in not adopting language that will stereotype the rest of the Muslim community and spread fear and misunderstanding in the wider community.
7. Throughout your statement avoid the use of language such as Islamic terrorists, Muslim terrorists, jihad etc but emphasise that individuals have been arrested accused of criminal activities and if found guilty will be sanctioned by the Criminal Justice system of the country accordingly.
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"...emphasise that individuals have been arrested accused of criminal activities and if found guilty will be sanctioned by the Criminal Justice system of the country accordingly."
Couldn't agree more - and perhaps add that any individual who has aided and abetted their actions in any way must be subject to the full force of the law also.
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Does the document address the proper manner in which non-muzz British citizens should grab their ankles? Does it address whether or not vaseline is halal?
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The South Korean Defense Ministry is already considering arming the South Korean Navy's 7,600-ton-class Aegis destroyers, including a King Sejong the Great-class ship, with the latest U.S.-built Standard Missile-6 anti-ballistic missile interceptors to defend against and destroy North Korean ballistic missiles.
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Didn't realize the Koreans had Aegis equipped ships.... US, Japan.... ROK, anyone else?
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01/26/2008 2:33 Comments ||
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Aegis is also used by Spain, Norway, and Australia.
Kinda funny how two of the major users are right up there next to North Korea.
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01/26/2008 7:47 Comments ||
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Minor nit.
The SM-6 is a shorter range missile than the SM-3. IIRC the SM-6 is an AMRAM seeker on top of an SM-2 and used for ABM/ACM as well as AA.
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Also note that the only two groups in the world who, when offered anti-missile defenses for their nations, refuse. The left in both the US and Canada, and Europe.
This, just by itself, shows how dangerously ignorant and arrogant they are.
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Aegis users: Spain
Baby Aegis: Norway.
Australia has ships on order from Spain.
The SM-6 uses the SM-2 block IVA missile body, so a range of 200 NM or better is nothing to sniff at.
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01/26/2008 10:41 Comments ||
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Hit enter too soon. Not sure why SKor doesn't go for the land based BMD. The NKor missile threat doesn't fly over water.
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01/26/2008 10:43 Comments ||
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Plausible deniability? "It's not an ABM system, it's a standard NATO-compliant ship-defense system." One way around problem legislators & riot-prone Nork puppets.
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Not sure why SKor doesn't go for the land based BMD. The NKor missile threat doesn't fly over water.
There are other threats to South Korea besides North Korea.
A former Florida college professor who pleaded guilty to aiding a Palestinian terrorist group was not immune from a subpoena forcing him to testify in an unrelated probe of Muslim charities, an appeals court ruled Friday.
Sami Al-Arian, 50, had argued the terms of the plea agreement exempted him from testifying before a grand jury in an investigation of Islamic charities in Virginia. A federal judge disagreed and found Al-Arian guilty of contempt when he refused to testify. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Al-Arian's appeal Friday, ruling that federal prosecutors did not violate the plea agreement by forcing him to testify in the Virginia case.
An attorney for Al-Arian in the contempt case said a clause requiring him to testify in other cases was specifically removed when the plea agreement was written because Al-Arian made it clear to prosecutors that he wouldn't do it. "This is politics, this is not law," his attorney, C. Peter Erlinder, said of the ruling.
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Let me guess. Another part of the original plea agreement says that his 'confession' is full and total in all aspects of his involvement with any and all other organizations with islamic/terrorist ties. And that if he were to testify in these other 'unrelated' trials and have to take a 5th Amendment plea, that would make null and void the original 'contract'/plea. Maybe, huh?
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Most excellent. If judges stand up for Americans, scum like Al-Arian and his CAIR lawdogs can be put back in their holes. Hope Sami is enjoying his bolgna and cheese and nightly ass reaming. Stay there another 40 years and we'll be done with you terrorist.
KARACHI - The widower of slain premier Benazir Bhutto on Friday said his party was certain of victory in next months general elections and that they would unearth the conspiracy behind his wifes assassination.
Asif Ali Zardari, who became co-chairman of Bhuttos Pakistan Peoples Party even though he's not a Sindh after her assassination last month, sought voter support for his party in the February 18 polls. Coming elections are crucial for the federation and the survival of Pakistan. People should vote for PPP to save Pakistan, Zardari told a press conference in the southern port city of Karachi. According to our assessment, we are winning the election across Pakistan.
If they win, we will unearth the conspiracy behind Benazir Bhuttos killing, he said.
They'll hire OJ.
Bhuttos Party last week sent an appeal to the United Nations requesting it investigate her killing and expressing no confidence in the Pakistani probe. The party has also expressed its dissatisfaction over the involvement of Scotland Yard detectives in the ongoing probe, saying their mandate did not allow them to investigate who was behind the assassination.
Much better to bring in, oh, Carla del Ponte, thus guaranteeing a twenty year investigation. That should keep the rubes roiled up.
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Two brothers from Jammu were held in connection with a plot to assassinate Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and a satellite phone has been recovered from them. The Chief Minister's security is being completely overhauled after intelligence reports that the assassination plot could involve an informer in his own staff.
Militants stuck at MA stadium 13 years ago on Republic Day. Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will be in Jammu on January 26 and with assassination threats on him, from Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, it's like a fortress.
Azad has been on militants' crosshairs ever since he took over in 2005. There was a Fidayeen attack in May 2006 at a rally in Srinagar where Azad escaped narrowly. There are reports that the elite NSG commandos will now replace his Special Security Guards. ''We have been reviewing his (Azad's) security and there are lot of inputs which are being shared by the forces, but the J&K police from time to time reviews the security and accordingly we gear up ourselves for protection of most important man,'' said SP Vaid, IG, Jammu.
On Wednesday, police arrested a Hizbul Mujahideen militant from Jammu. In the assembly recently Azad had pointed out militants will target politicians to grab headlines. ''When we prepare for the elections we must take care of ourselves and our families, we must campaign as well the question is not who wins or loses,'' said Ghulam Nabi Azad.
In the past militants have targeted political personalities now with inputs suggesting that they might try and attack the Chief Minister, the job before the security agencies will be to ensure better coordination and professional competence to defeat the militant designs.
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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) provincial chief Senator Gul Naseeb Khan asked Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) activists on Friday to seize official vehicles being used by government-backed candidates in their election campaigns. We dont guarantee the safety of official vehicles being used by the governments favoured candidates, he told a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club.
He said candidates of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Pakistan Peoples Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) and the Awami National Party (ANP) were using government resources in their campaigns. We have repeatedly complained to the Election Commission, he said, but in vain. The JUI-F leader said the caretaker government had given outstanding Annual Development Programme (ADP) funds to former provincial assembly members, who he said were spending the funds through tehsil municipal officers and district coordination officers to attract voters.
He said former federal minister and PML-Q leader Amir Muqam was using WAPDA to solicit voters.
The coming elections will not be fair because the caretaker governments are biased, said the JUI-F leader, who is also the provincial president of the MMA. Pakistan, he said, might fall into wrong hands if the February elections were not fair. Gul Naseeb said the US and the West wanted to impose their obscene cultures on the people of Pakistan through secular political forces. He said his partys workers should foil the conspiracy. He said the ongoing military operation in Waziristan was a plot to divide the country.
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The NWFP government has not yet approached the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) to seek recommendation on the proposed draft to promulgate regulation for law enforcement through Qazi courts in its Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) that includes Swat, Dir and Chitral. However, the CII, which is an autonomous government body to bring laws in conformity with Islam, has written to NWFP Governor Owais Ghani, seeking an explanation on reports about the draft and its promulgation.
CII Chairman Dr Muhammad Khalid Masud told Daily Times that it was surprising for him that the NWFP government had not consulted the CII yet. We are only aware about the issue due to media, he said.
NWFP governor: However, taking an initiative, we have written to the NWFP governor asking him to tell the council whether such reports are correct. He said the governor had been asked to send a copy of the proposed draft to the Council. Dr Khalid further said the Council was empowered to review conformity of all drafts, laws and legislation with Islam. According to reports, the government aims to implement Tehreek-e-Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) Chief Sufi Muhammads proposed Shari Nizam-e-Adl Regulation of 2008 in the Malakand Division to end unrest created by rebel cleric Maulvi Fazlullah.
The proposed new law, if promulgated, will end the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (SC) and high courts in the Malakand Division (including Swat district) as verdicts of Qazi courts will only be challenged in the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) which is contrary to existing practice wherein verdicts can be challenged in the SC or high courts besides the FSC.
According to a report, a committee formed by the government has recommended that the SC and High Courts Extension of Jurisdiction to Tribal Areas Act, 1973, be repealed, and the FSC should have an exclusive jurisdiction there.
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The Interior Ministry has directed the Islamabad chief commissioner, acting police inspector general (IG), and Islamabad Diplomatic Enclave Security (DES) police superintendent to make foolproof security arrangements for the Indian High Commission in Islamabad after intelligence agencies reported threats of suicide attacks on Indian diplomats, sources said on Friday.
The sources said that according to a letter written by National Crisis Management Cell Director (Operations) Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Imran Yaqoob to the Islamabad administration, the government had received intelligence reports saying that one out of three women suicide bombers, who had entered Islamabad, would target the Indian high commissioner. The Interior Ministrys Foreigners Security Cell officials directed security agencies to report to the ministry after tightening Indian diplomats security, the sources added. An additional force of the Diplomatic Security Police has been deployed outside the Indian High Commission. The sources also said Indian diplomats had limited their movement after they were informed about this threat.
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A 33-member Mehsud grand jirga demanded on Friday the government stop military operation in South Waziristan and resolve the prevailing crises through negotiations.
The jirga members expressed their concern over the South Waziristan operation and said on the one hand innocent tribesmen were being killed and on the other economic sanctions were imposed on the Mehsud tribespersons.
Elders of Ahmadzai Wazir tribe led by former MNA Maulana Abdul Malik also attended the jirga held in Tank, to end differences between the two main tribes of the agency.
In his speech to the jirga, Maulana Malik said Mehsud and Ahmadzai tribes were two parts of the body and are like brothers who would never create any problems for each other.
He said both tribes wanted a peaceful solution to the ongoing Waziristan operation, which according to him had killed many people from both tribes.
Mehsud tribe elder Malik Mehsud Ahmad said the US invaded Afghanistan using the pretext of Osama Ben Laden, adding the Pakistan government was using the name of Tehrike-e-Taliban Pakistan for its military operation against tribesmen. The jirga also constituted committees to help and provide shelter and food to those South Waziristan residents, who were displaced due to the military operation.
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The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) No-II on Friday adjourned till February 8 the hearing of a case concerning attack on former prime minister Shaukat Aziz. The ATC is trying Maulvi Imtiaz, Muhammad Usman and others for their alleged involvement in attack on Aziz during his election campaign at Jaffar village, Fatehjang Road, on July 30, 2004. Seven people were killed and about 70 were injured in the attack.
Meanwhile, ATC No-I judge also adjourned the hearing of a case against Sajad Haider till February. Haider is being tried on suspicion of placing a bomb in front of a five-star hotel on September 4, 2007, but no damage was caused as the special bomb disposal squad and other law-enforcing agencies had defused the device. The police have written to the Punjab Home Department for conducting Haiders trial in jail.
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Umme Hasaan, wife of detained militant cleric Abdul Aziz, met Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain at his house. This was Shujaats second meeting with Umme Hasaan since her husbands arrest, in which Shujaat assured her of his partys full support. According to a press statement issued by Shujaats media cell, Umme Hasaan told Shujaat that her husbands health was deteriorating in jail.
Shujaat assured all possible help to Abdul Azizs family, who was arrested last year during Operation Silence against clerics holed up in Lal Masjid. Meanwhile, Shujaat told a meeting of party candidates from Rawalpindi that the PML-Q would introduce Quranic education as a compulsory subject in public schools once his party is back in power. He said the party intended to turn Pakistan into an Islamic welfare state.
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In December 2007, Outlook featured a story on Prachanda (The Rado Maoist), chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, detailing the remarkable change in his lifestyle after he emerged from the bush to join mainstream politics. We said he sports an expensive Rado watch, travels in an airconditioned Pajero, loves his daily two pegs of Johnnie Walker whisky, and has been accused of promoting his children in the party hierarchy. On a cold January morning this year, the Maoist supremo, dressed in a trendy tracksuit, met Outlook's Manoj Dahal and sportingly fielded questions on his new lifestyle, the problems revolutionary parties encounter in maintaining their ideological purity and India's role in Nepal. Excerpts:
Questions have been raised about the gap between the lifestyle of Maoist leaders, including you, and cadres. Is the gap enormous?
We're in multiparty politics now, not in the jungles. The situation is different, issues get raised in a different manner now. We must understand that the notion of equality is relative even within Marxism. If the leadership has a horse to ride, all cadres can't expect to have that.
Yep...All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
So, the change in lifestyle isn't a big issue for you.
We can't travel on foot in the city, can we? We need a vehicle not for comfort, but out of necessity. I am living in this house (his residence) with comrades (bodyguards) because of security reasons. It doesn't mean that all cadres should live in a house like mine. What we are doing for villagers and cadres is more important than what we wear and how we live. People who criticise us for our lifestyle are aesthetes, mechanical and narrow-minded.
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"The notion of equality is relative" > I wouldn't say that in front of Jozef Stalin iff I were him.
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The change in Prachanda has manifested even physically-his makeover is so drastic his comrades from those early years in the bush might even fail to recognise him. The 'Che of Nepal' has, in the last 20 months, gained 15 kg in weight, sports a Stalinesque moustache and gels his hair. He keeps it tightly combed back, and he constantly and consciously runs his fingers through it in public.
Perhaps Prachanda has gained weight because his life in Kathmandu bears little resemblance to the 23 years he spent underground, shifting from one hideout to another under the cover of darkness. He, no doubt, still bustles around in the city, but it is now in an air-conditioned Pajero, escorted by a fleet of cars, reportedly comandeered from their owners. You could say the paraphernalia is required for security reasons. But then, as some Maoist leaders ask, of what purpose is the Rado watch (worth Rs 2 lakh) that he sports? Or, for that matter, the blazers and designer shades he wears, in sharp contrast to the threadbare dress of Maoist cadres?
Perhaps the Rado watch symbolises the dramatic change in the quality of time for Prachanda. He was always known to love his liquor, his indulgence at times embarrassing his comrades. Late Nirmal Lama, who was with Prachanda in a communist formation before the CPN-M was formed in 1995, once said in an interview, "I do drink sometimes but my comrades are known for excessive drinking." His remark was widely perceived as a jibe against Prachanda, who has now shifted from the local brew to two measured pegs of Johnny Walker (Red Label) every evening. And the 15 kg of weight he has gained is no less because he is a voracious eater who finds fried chicken simply irresistible.
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BAGHDAD (AP) - A devastating explosion in northern Iraq was spearheaded by foreign fighters under the sponsorship of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the Libyan leader, a security chief for Sunni tribesmen who rose up against al-Qaida in Iraq said Saturday.
Col. Jubair Rashid Naief, who also is a police official in Anbar province, said the Anbar Awakening Council had alerted the U.S. military to the possible arrival in the northern city of Mosul of the Seifaddin Regiment, made up of about 150 foreign and Iraqi fighters, as long as three months ago. The U.S. military did not immediately respond to an e-mail request for comment about Naief's claim.
"They crossed the Syrian border nearest to Mosul within the last two to three months. Since then, they have taken up positions in the city and begun blowing up cars and launching other terror operations," Naief told The Associated Press.
Naief did not explain why the younger Gadhafi would be sponsoring the group of fighters. Seif Gadhafi, however, was quoted by the Austrian Press Agency last year as warning Europeans against more attacks by radical Islamists. "The only solution to contain radicalism is the rapid departure of Western troops from Iraq as well as Afghanistan, and a solution to the Palestinian question," Gadhafi was quoted as saying.
Touted as a reformer, 36-year-old Gadhafi has increasingly been sharing his father's spotlight and reaching out to the West to soften Libya's image and return it to the international mainstream. He has no official government post, but many see him as the man most likely to take power in the North African country when his father steps down or dies.
I think we need to have a 'talk' with Seif ...
The massive explosion in Mosul on Wednesday and the suicide attack assassination of a top police official the next day have prompted obvious concern among Iraq's leaders. On Friday, the government said it would dispatch several thousand more security forces to Mosul in a "decisive" bid to drive al-Qaida in Iraq from its last major stronghold.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gave no details on troop strength or timing, but his announcement added to growing signs that Mosul could represent a pivotal showdown with insurgents chased north by U.S.-led offensives. "Today, our troops started moving toward Mosul ... and the fight there will be decisive," al-Maliki said during a speech in the Shiite holy city of Karbala.
The challenge, however, is whether the Iraqi forces have the firepower and training to lead an offensive into Iraq's third-largest city. The U.S. military is relatively thin across northern Iraq and has signaled no immediate plans to shift troops from key zones in and around Baghdad.
Mosul is now considered the main logistical hub for al-Qaida in Iraq because of its size and locationsitting at crossroads between Baghdad, Syria, Turkey and Iran. Many extremists fled north as U.S.- led forces began gaining ground in former insurgent strongholds last year, aided by Sunni tribes that rose up against al-Qaida and its backers.
Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf told The Associated Press that 3,000 police were being sent to the Mosul region to augment the understaffed force. Ninevah province, whose capital is Mosul, has about 18,000 policemen. But only about 3,000 of those operate in the city of nearly 2 million, according to police spokesman Saeed al-Jubouri.
A Defense Ministry official said several thousand Iraqi soldiers would be moved from Baghdad and Anbar province. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is sensitive.
"We have asked the prime minister to send us fresh units because we cannot defeat the terrorists with the weak units we have now in the city," Maj. Gen. Riyad Jalal, a senior Iraqi officer in the Mosul area. "We need new equipment and stronger weapons because most of our security members have only rifles."
Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, has become a fulcrum on two fronts. First the United States is trying to keep Iraqi security forces in the lead as a major test of Washington's long-range plans, which seek to keep a smaller American force in Iraq as backup for local soldiers and police. Second, U.S. officials say Mosul has become the only remaining major city in Iraq where al-Qaida is able to operate with any freedom. Major centers of al-Qaida activity in the pastincluding the western Anbar province, Baghdad and Baqouba north of the capitalno longer offer easy refuge.
Al-Maliki announced reinforcements for Mosul two days after an abandoned apartment building, believed to be used as a bomb-making factory, was blown apart as the Iraqi army was investigating tips about a weapons cache. At least 34 people were killed and 224 wounded when the blast tore through surrounding houses in the Zanjili neighborhood, a poverty- ridden district on the west bank of the Tigris River. No soldiers were reported killed.
A suicide bomber then killed a police chief and two other officers Thursday as they toured the devastation. Residents taunted the chief and pelted him with rocks moments before he was killed.
Officials in Iraq's mostly Sunni Muslim Anbar province are refusing to raise Iraq's new national flag, which the parliament approved earlier this week. "The new flag is done for a foreign agenda and we won't raise it," said Ali Hatem al Suleiman , a leading member of the U.S.-backed Anbar Awakening Council, "If they want to force us to raise it, we will leave the yard for them to fight al Qaida."
The dispute over the flag is a more accurate symbol of Iraq today than the flag itself is. "On nothing we are completely united," said Mahmoud Othman, an independent Kurdish lawmaker.
Although parliament speaker Mahmoud al Mashhadani said the new flag would be raised immediately across Iraq after the parliament approved it Tuesday, it is nowhere to be seen. In fact, when the parliament met Wednesday, the old flag was still behind the speaker and his two deputies.
While the Anbar Awakening Council vowed never to raise the new flag, U.S.-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki praised the council for standing against al Qaida in Iraq. In a speech in Karbala, Maliki also pledged a new fight against Sunni militants in Ninevah province, where at least 40 people were killed in a bombing this week and a suicide bomber killed the police chief.
Suleiman of the Anbar Awakening Council, however, said he was angry that the parliament and government toiled away on a new flag rather than dealing with the country's lack of services.
Many Iraqis, including some lawmakers who rejected the flag, were angered at what they considered a change to the flag in order to please the Kurdish north and its president, Massoud Barzani. "We don't want to handle the problem of the Kurdistan region by causing problems with other regions that might refuse the new flag," said Nassar al Rubaie, the head of radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr's bloc in parliament, who voted against the new flag.
The new flag is temporary. According to Iraq's Constitution, the parliament must pass a new law that issues a permanent flag and a national anthem.
Othman, the Kurdish lawmaker, said he expected people to reject the latest change in the flag but hoped that when a new, permanent flag was chosen, people would salute it. "Just as the Kurds were not raising the flag all these years, others also will not raise the new flag," he said. "I hope with time it will ease away, and I think everyone should look forward to the permanent flag."
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Bribe us and massage our egos more, and then we'll consider it.
I'll bet that if the troops handed the new flags out to the households when they poke their heads in to visit, the problem would go away. Of course, that would make the officials lose face...
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I for one find the Alabama flag offensive it looks like a nasty cross between the Cross-of-St. George and the CSA battleflag. It miffs me badly. I prefers the state-seal centered (no Frank) on a bedsheet look.
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Serioiusly tho....
Alaska
New Mexico
Arizona
Maryland
Hawaii
Texas
Alabama
Ohio
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Well the one with the Allahu Akbar was made with a forign (Saudi) ageenda and desrves to be spit upon.
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I for one find the Alabama flag offensive it looks like a nasty cross between the Cross-of-St. George and the CSA battleflag. It miffs me badly. I prefers the state-seal centered (no Frank) on a bedsheet look.
Where you live? You sound like a transplanted Yankee to me.
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By the way, just in case you don't know, I'm a lifelong Alabamian, and the flag is history, not hate.
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Thomas Woof's family has been in the old part of Florida for a great many generations, Redneck Jim. They've left interesting footprints on the local landscape. Do be polite.
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I for one find the Alabama flag offensive it looks like a nasty cross between the Cross-of-St. George and the CSA battleflag. It miffs me badly. I prefers the state-seal centered (no Frank) on a bedsheet look.
Posted by: Thomas Woof 2008-01-26 12:57
I'll be just as polite to Woof, as he is to me.
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LOL sorry Redneck... read my list... that was sark. I find the 'bama state flag to be top 10 material.
makes it easy to find your Allis Chalmers in the mall parking lot
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I drive a John Deere, Mr. Woof. Ever since I gradjeeated from Auburn University I wanted a tractor of my own and now I gots one. I'll fly the Alabama State Flag from it. Just over the Auburn Flag.
Redneck Jim, I'm a 5th Generation Alabamian and know Mr. Woof fer a while. He wuz just funnin.
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"no Frank"? Are we holding grudges then?
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Matter of fact I do indeed own an Allis Chalmers, it's an antique 1936 model "C" in running condition. (Overhauled it myself, new paint and new decals)
Didn't think about a flag to find it in the mall parking lot. (Funny) However it does draw a crowd when I take it to the County Fair.
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She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy ...
A SENIOR Hamas official warned yesterday that the next breakout from the Gaza Strip could be into Israel, with 500,000 Palestinians attempting to march towards the towns and villages from which they or their parents fled or were expelled 60 years ago.
"This is not an imaginary scenario and many Palestinians would be prepared to sacrifice their lives," said Ahmed Youssef, political adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.
Israeli minister Ze'ev Boim said the threat must be taken seriously in light of the successful Hamas breakout into Egyptian territory on Wednesday, adding: "We must learn from what has just happened there."
Egypt moved last night to end the great Gaza breakout, which had reverberated throughout the region as all sides tried to come to grips with its implications.
Egyptian security forces announced by loudspeaker in towns near the border with the Gaza Strip that it would be closed from 3pm (midnight AEDT), with an unknown number of Palestinians still in Egypt.
Riot police turned water cannon on Palestinians trying to cross into Egypt, despite Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak saying earlier that he would not allow the people of Gaza to starve.
Hamas, riding high on its operational success, sought to parlay it into political gain by seeking Egyptian approval for new border arrangements that would give Hamas for the first time a role in the vital crossing point at Rafah, between Gaza and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Israeli security officials said Hamas and other militant groups had already exploited the breach in the border wall to send "numerous" armed men into Sinai with the aim of infiltrating into Israel along the long, largely undefended, border between Sinai and Israel.
The Israeli road running the length of the border was yesterday shut to civilian traffic and the army deployed reinforcements in the area.
The officials said the militants were eager to hit back at Israel for heavy casualties in Israeli attacks in recent weeks and that attacks from Sinai were likely to come within the next two weeks.
Israeli civilians on vacation along Sinai's Red Sea coast were advised to return to Israel for fear Palestinian militants would try to seize them as hostages.
Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilna'i said yesterday the breakout into Egypt was an opportunity for Israel to rid itself of its responsibility to supply Gaza with electricity and water and to serve as a channel for Gaza's imports and exports.
"When Gaza is open to the other side we lose responsibility for it," he said. "We want to disconnect from it."
Egypt, however, has made it clear it does not want responsibility for the troublesome strip, whose Islamic militants are ideological partners of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. It particularly does not want indirect responsibility for the rockets fired from the strip into Israel.
The crossing point had been closed since Hamas's seizure of the Gaza Strip last June.
If Mr Mubarak were to allow new border arrangements with Hamas that would permit a free flow of people and goods, it would violate Egypt's agreement with the international "Quartet" -- the US, UN, European Union and Russia -- for a border terminal without Hamas involvement and with cameras permitting Israel to monitor the crossing.
However, Mr Mubarak would find it hard, not least for his image in the Arab world, to be seen as party to a renewed siege of the Palestinians.
Israel says it will continue its siege until the rocket firing ceases, with an invasion of Gaza a likelihood if the rocketing does not cease. Debka got this one right.
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As I said before, about the only way Israel could stop this is by using those area denial weapons, the microwave dishes that make people fell like their skin is on fire.
The Paleos are now convinced that this human wave tactic will work, as it did during the Israeli retreat from Lebanon, and now the Egyptian invasion.
For once, the Israelis cannot screw around, try to pretend the situation away, try to act like nice guys, or use other half-assed measures.
They either act forcefully right at the start, or they are first going to be up to their eyebrows in Palestinians, followed shortly thereafter by a murderous bloodbath, with hundreds of Israelis dead and tens of thousands of dead Palestinians.
The asked for it, and they're finally going to get it.
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Terrorists gravitate to the softest targets, and despite Hamas's posturing that is Egypt, not Israel. A paleo breakout into Israel aint gonna happen, although they may have a halfarsed attempt. It's going to be an interesting few weeks for Egypt.
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Dig a moat. An aquaduct from the med into Isreal along the Gaza border. Claim it's for humanitarian reasons. Build drawbridges to cross the moat. Raise the drawbridges. Force the pals to swim or wobble through mud or take small boats. All of which ensure they make a poor representation on the tube and aren't able to enter enmasse.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak offered on Friday to host talks between rival Palestinian Fatah and Hamas leaders, in an apparent effort to raise his country's role as Mideast peace broker and ease the pressure following Gaza Palestinian influx into Egypt from the Hamas-controlled strip. In an interview for Saturday's edition of the Egyptian weekly al-Osboa, Mubarak said he wants peace between the Palestinians. "I want this language of violence to stop," Mubarak was quoted as saying by the state MENA news agency. "Peace could be achieved on the basis of international resolutions and agreements that demand the establishment of Palestinian state."
Hamas appeared eager to accept the offer. Ayman Taha, Hamas spokesman in Gaza, told the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera TV that Hamas's supreme leader, the Syria-based Khaled Mashaal, was ready to accept Mubarak's invitation to an "unconditional dialogue."
"We as Hamas have nothing against sitting in Egypt for dialogue and to end all our differences with our brothers in Fatah," Taha told Al-Arabiya, another pan-Arab satellite channel.
But Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's representative in Egypt, Nabil Shaath told The Associated Press that Fatah has made no decision on the invitation. Abbas's position was clear, Shaath said: Fatah was "always ready for dialogue," but what was important was the result of such talks. And a result cannot be achieved "unless Hamas announces its readiness to let go of military control" of Gaza, he said. Shaath also said Abbas will head to Egypt after meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday and would talk more here about Mubarak's offer.
Mubarak's offer came as Egypt is enduring an influx of hundreds of thousands of Gazans through its border with Gaza Strip since Wednesday, when Hamas members blew up segments of the border wall separating the area from Egypt. The breach climaxed a week of Gazans' discontent after Israel imposed a blockade on the Strip, stopping shipments of fuel, medicine and food. Israel has also been carrying out air strikes and limited ground operations against Gazan terrorists who are launching attacks on Israel.
Egypt has failed to stem the flow of Gazans or manage the chaotic border situation, despite deploying reinforcement. Egypt has long feared the instability in the Hamas-controlled Gaza could spill over into Egypt, and has been distancing itself from Hamas. The last time Hamas and Fatah met for talks in Cairo was in Feb. 2005. Earlier this month, Hamas Premier Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza called for talks with Egypt and Fatah, to work out a new shared arrangement for Gaza's border crossings. At the time, Haniyeh suggested Hamas would be prepared to cede some control to the Abbas government in the West Bank.
In Syria Friday, radical Palestinian factions called on the two rival Palestinian groups to begin dialogue and end their power struggle. A statement at the end of the three-day National Palestinian Conference of factions opposed to peace with Israel stressed the need for Palestinians to unite in the face of the worsening Gaza situation, which they ascribed to Israel's siege. Dialogue is the "only way to solve inter-Palestinian differences," the groups said.
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By doing this, he's hoping to drop the ball back into Israel's lap. But Israel should be all in favor of his scheme, because the end result will be Hamas hung around Egypt's neck like a millstone.
(Xinhua) -- The Indonesian biggest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulema (NU) vowed on Friday to stop the spread of misteaching of Islam, which could trigger radicalism and spark terrorism in the biggest Muslim country, the chairman of the organization Hasyim Muzadi said here.
Terrorim has grown fast in recent years in the country, which was supported by poverty and lack of understanding of the true Islam, through the spread of misteaching of the religion. Among the teaching was hatred to the West and encouragement for retaliation through jihad in the form of attacks or suicide bombings targeting on the Western people or interest in Indonesia. Many young people had been recruited and shifted to become suicide bombers, especially those from remote areas in the country which 87 percent of its more than 220 million population are Muslim.
The more-than 40-millions followers Nahdlatul Ulema had the capacity to oppose the terrorist movement up to the level of grass root, said Muzadi. "The Nahdlatul Ulama has a capacity to halt it (the spread of terrorism). The NU has an obligation to stop it. The (NU followers) at the grass root stage can be used to stop it," he told a press conference after meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace here.
The chairman of the NU said that tens of millions of members of the organization spreading across the archipelago would be a bastion of the spread of the wrong deliberation of Islam by terrorists. "Should the followers of the Nahdlatul Ulema at the stage of grass root was already sterilized from the extremism, that would be very easy to stop the spread of the misteaching of Islam," he said.
Muzadi said that a proactive moves would be conducted to the community about the true Islam. "We gave sermon to the people about how is the right teaching of Islam," he said. Terorist has misinterpretated a Koranic verse about the legality for revenge through suicide bombings on infidels.
A top leader of the Southeast Asia militant group of Jemaah Islamiyah Noerdin Moh. Top and other terrorist fugitives are still at large in the country. Top has led and recruitment young people for suicide bombings since operating in Indonesia in 2000. He also organizer of the bombings. Many believed that the Jemaah Islamiyah had been behind the bloody attack in the country. Most of the 87 percent of Indonesia's 240 million population is moderate, but the rest is radical which are vulnerable from the spread of terrorism.
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It's taquia, and I'll bet you anything that they've no intention of actually stopping terrorism---experience shows that "rejecting terrorism" in speeches but not in practice, works perfectly well.
(KUNA) — A car packed with explosives blew up at the morning rush-hour in eastern Beirut on Friday killing an officer who "possessed sensitive files on terrorism" along with at least nine people and turning the location into a hairy scene dotted with shreds of human flesh. Major General Ashraf Riffi, Director-General of the Internal Security Force (ISF), also known as the police, confirmed in a statement to journalists after the blast that the car bomb explosion targetted Captain Wissam Eid "and a number of innocent people ... it constitutes a message to the internal force."
Eid, who served in the intelligence (information) department of the ISF, was killed along with a bodyguard in the rumbling blast that hurled shreds of human flesh many meters away in the district of Hazmiyah during the morning high traffic, set scores of cars afire and inflicted heavy damage within a wide radius.
Maj. Gen. Riffi said several people were wounded in the fiery blast and were whisked to nearby hospitals. "The martyr Eid had possessed very sensitive files related to terrorist explosions that occurred in Lebanon," the chief of the police said. Eid was reportedly involved in last summer's fighting that pitted the Lebanese government forces, both the ISF and the army, against a shodowy group known as Fatah Al-Islam in the refugee camp of Nahr Al-Bared in northern Lebanon. The Lebanese forces crushed the militants' hideout and took over the camp following fierce fighting. The group's chief, Shaker Al-Absi, whose whereabouts have been unknown, has recently threatened revenge in remarks posted on the internet.
Interior Minister Hassan Al-Sabaa told the press that Eid had been targeted with at least three botched bids on his life, and described the deadly attack as "intended to strike at the basic nerves of the Lebanese security system." A security source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the authorities detained several suspected persons for interrogation after the explosion that occurred at 10:15 a.m. (local time).
The explosion whose sound echoed throughout the congested capital set many cars alight, sending black clouds of smoke billowing into the skies, while civil defense teams struggled for hours to put out blazes of the burning cars. The blast followed an explosion that occured in eastern Beirut on the 15th of this month, trageting a vehicle of the US embassy. An American was injured in the blast and several locals were killed.
Last December a senior officer of the Lebanese Army was killed in a similar attack. Beirut has witnessed a wave of deadly bombs since assassination of the former premier, Rafic Al-Hariri, on Februaray 14, 2005. Several leading figures had been killed since the assassination of Al-Hariri — including journalist Samir Kassir, former Communist Party leader George Hawi, caretaker Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, MP Walid Eido and Brigadier General Francois Al-Hajj of the Lebanese Army.
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Tens of thousands of Tehrani worshipers here Friday rallied in protest against the Zionists regime's latest crimes in Gaza and condemned US complicity in Zionists' crime.
Usual ninnies working themselves up. Big posters of Nasrallah, maps of 'Palestine', moving black objects with their own, segregated section in the parade, etc. No images of any large puppets, however, so we know the economic sanctions are cutting into the Berkeley trade.
Wrathful protestors also reiterated the necessity for continued Islamic resistance against Zionists' crimes while rallying from Tehran University campus, venue of Friday prayers, towards Palestine Square and chanting slogans against Zionists regime's barbaric acts, brutalities and ethnic cleansing.
"Down with the US", "Down with Israel", "Reconciliation with Israel is scandalous and humiliation", "Battle with Israel is the message of this nation", "The primary Kiblah (of Muslims) should be freed through unity with Palestinian nation" and "Silence of any Muslim is a betrayal to the Koran" were among the different slogans shouted by the demonstrators who were also carrying pictures depicting the massacre of Palestinian women, kids and men in Gaza as well as placards reading, "Israel commits crimes and US supports it" and "Stop Slaughtering of the kids and women in Gaza".
A six-article resolution was also issued at the end of the rally, which called on the international community, including the United Nations, to end silence and do something against Israeli atrocities.
Demonstrators also confirmed the statements made by the Lebanese Hezbollah leader, Seyed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut last Saturday, and warned leaders of Arab countries against any support for George Bush and US measures, reiterating that the US is an accomplice of the Zionist regime. Protestors condemned the latest Israeli crimes after so called peace conference of Annapolis and the Middle-East tour of the US president, and demanded Islamic countries and the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to hold an emergency meeting to foil Israel's continued atrocities against Palestinians.
A rather desultory affair. KCNA does better than this even with their night float writer.
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Medea Benjamin must be observing the Hollywood writers strike?
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These shouts echo the 30 year "death to America" chant that is spewed after Friday Prayer at Teheran University. (The chant was withheld on the Friday after 9-11, when the enemy wasn't sure if there would be mass targeting against the muslim enemy)
They threw the gauntlet: it is kill or be killed. So let's kill.
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Protestors Shout Anger at US Complicity in Israeli Crimes
And here I thought this was going to be an article about Columbia, Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, or any of the usual suspect California institutes of higher learning state funded paper mills.
(KUNA) -- France on Friday strongly condemned the explosion earlier in the day that killed four people and wounded a number of others in Beirut and called for all parties to put and end to the vacuum in Lebanon and elect a President. "France condemns with the greatest firmness the new attack committed this morning in Beirut in which an officer of the Interior Security Forces died and which caused a number of other deaths and injuries," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Pascale Andreani said.
Captain Wissam Eid of the Internal Security Forces and his bodyguard were among the four fatalities at the bomb scene. France warned that the attack against this Security Force was an attack against "another important institution for the stability of Lebanon," coming after attacks against the Parliament and the Army. Andreani said that it is "security of the Lebanese that is being targeted" and France denounces these repeated murderous attempts at destabilization in Lebanon. The spokeswoman urged that "all light should be shed on this terrorist act and its perpetrators and those who ordered it should be brought before justice."
France on Friday, also reiterated its support for the Arab League initiative that is seeking an end to the deadlock over the presidential election, the formation of a national unity government and the reform of the electoral law in Lebanon. Some thirteen efforts to get a consensus in the Beirut parliament on these issues have failed and the next deadline has been set for February 11. In the meantime, Arab League Foreign Ministers are due to continue consultations in the coming days on proposals to break the deadlock.
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ION FRANCE > BRUSSELSJOURNAL > FRANCE ADDS A NONEUROPEAN PARIS EVERY SIX YEARS. Immigrant booms like clockwork.; + EUROPEAN COURT TO FRANCE: GIVE CHILDREN TO HOMOSEXUALS + THE END OF GOVERNMENT BY CONSENT.
Nearly three years since his father was murdered, Parliamentary Majority Leader Saad Hariri indirectly accused Syria of involvement in the Beirut car bomb attack which killed a Lebanese intelligence officer and three other people on Friday. "This attack is a clear message to all Arabs that the future of Lebanon will remain under the stranglehold of crimes and terrorism despite all the initiatives to resolve the political crisis," Hariri said in a statement. "That compels us to call once again on Syria to stop its interference in Lebanon and pushes us to block a plan for a Syrian takeover of our country's independence," Hariri said. "Lebanon is not the theatre of the Syrian regime's score-settling," he added.
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Syria condemned a bomb attack in neighboring Lebanon on Friday which targeted a security force convoy and blamed "Lebanon's enemies" for it, the official news agency SANA said. It cited a Syrian official as "condemning the attack perpetrated this morning in Beirut and affirming that it aimed at Lebanon's security and stability."
SANA said the official had "reaffirmed Syria's permanent attachment to Lebanon's security and stability, and stressed that Lebanon's enemies were behind these attacks in that country."
The bombing killed 4 people, including Captain Wissam Eid, a member of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces, according to army and security sources. In Beirut, a senior Lebanese security official said Eid was involved in many investigations concerning bombings in Lebanon. Many of the blasts have been blamed by Lebanon's parliamentary majority on neighboring Syria, a charge denied by Damascus.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese army seized a large cache of weapons hidden in a small shop in the southern coastal city of Sidon and detained one man. "The weapons included AK-47 assault rifles, anti-tank RPG missiles and a large amount of ammunition found in a secret hiding place inside the shop," a security official said.
He said the owner of the shop was being sought while the owner of another nearby store was detained for questioning. The incident took place amid mounting tension in Lebanon which has been grappling with a deep political crisis and a series of assassinations, the latest of which killed the country's top anti-terrorism investigator on Friday.
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"Many of the blasts have been blamed by Lebanon's parliamentary majority on neighboring Syria..."
Maybe US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi should initiate some dialogue and get to the bottom of these outrageous allegations.
MADRID (Rooters) - Islamist extremists were planning attacks across Europe, especially against public transport, before their arrests in Barcelona last weekend, a Spanish paper reported on Saturday, citing a would-be attacker's testimony. The Al Qaeda-inspired cell planned to attack the Barcelona metro and other targets in Spain, Germany, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom, said the bomber turned police informant.
In testimony that led to the arrest of 14 South Asians last Saturday, the informant told police the group had a preference for attacks on public transport, especially metro systems, El Pais newspaper reported.
Where exactly from South Asia?
"If we attack the metro, the emergency services can't get there," the informant said he was told by a fellow suicide bomber, El Pais reported.
Two pairs with explosive-filled bags were to enter separate Barcelona subway stations and other members of the group were to detonate their bombs by remote control, said the witness.
On Friday, Spain's government said the Barcelona cell was preparing to carry out the metro attack either last weekend or in the following 15 days.
Two other pairs of suicide bombers had been assigned targets elsewhere in Spain, another was to attack Germany, three were given objectives in France and two more were to strike Portugal.
The informant said the Barcelona cell had six suicide bombers and other members responsible for preparing explosives and planning attacks in other European states. Four of those arrested have since been released due to lack of evidence.
Al Qaeda was to take responsibility for the Barcelona attacks through Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban commander the Pakistani government says was behind the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, El Pais said. "Only the leadership of the organization knows what requests the emir (Baitullah) will make after the first attack, but if they are not carried out, there will be a second attack, a third in Spain. And next Germany, France, Portugal, United Kingdom," the head of the cell told the police informer, El Pais reported.
The Barcelona bombings could have taken place less than two months before Spain's March 9 general election. Islamic militants attacked Madrid commuter trains days before Spain's last general election in March 2004, killing 191 people and wounding 1,800. They said the attacks were made in revenge for Spain sending troops to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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KARACHI - The widower of slain premier Benazir Bhutto on Friday said his party was certain of victory in next months general elections and that they would unearth the conspiracy behind his wifes assassination.
A 33-member Mehsud grand jirga demanded on Friday the government stop military operation in South Waziristan and resolve the prevailing crises through negotiations.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Tens of thousands of Tehrani worshipers here Friday rallied in protest against the Zionists regime's latest crimes in Gaza and condemned US complicity in Zionists' crime.
