A pro-al-Qaeda magazine has published workout tips for terrorists planning jihad in Middle Eastern countries such as Afghanistan. The advice, outlined in the English language online publication Jihad Recollections, stresses the importance of keeping fit so its readers can "strike hard" against their enemies.
Photographs of robed men performing various squats and sit-ups are included in the article, while the use of weights is warned against because of their scarceness on the front line.
The US-based magazine, which also features an article supposedly written by Osama Bin Laden, advises its extremist audience to stay away from western gyms such as LA Fitness because of its "music, semi-naked women, free mixing and the danger of showing off".
Jihadists are told to build up their arm strength by walking on their hands and doing 150 press-ups a day. Diet recommendations include dates, dry crackers and water while protein shakes are a big no-no. "Contrary to what many people believe, you really only need about 32 grams of protein so don't waste your money on expensive protein milkshakes," the author says.
Despite contrary advice from western fitness instructors, the author says it is "un-Islamic" to eat simply to gain weight and claims that he gained the most muscle while fasting.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The US and Tajikistan strike a deal on a transit route that will supply Western occupation forces in Afghanistan with non-military cargoes. The United States has been considering for some times possible supply routes to landlocked Afghanistan following the closure of its main supply base in Kyrgyzstan.
Responding a question about signing the transit deal with Tajik officials, the US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher said on Tuesday that "Yes, it's done."
Boucher said within one month from now, they will be able to send non-military stuff to support US-led war in Afghanistan, via a Tajikistan transit route.
Washington was forced to find an alternative supply route for coalition forces in Afghanistan following Kyrgyzstan announcement earlier this year that it was not going to renew a lease deal which would allow the US to use the country's Manas airbase. The Kyrgyz announcement came while the Khyber Passage, the main route linking Pakistan to Afghanistan was already compromised by Taliban and al-Qaeda forces making it almost impossible for the US to use the route.
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[RFE: Afghanistan] A senior member of Afghanistan's main opposition has pledged to support President Hamid Karzai in August's presidential election, a party official has said, in a move seen as a blow to its hopes of unseating him.
Mohammad Qasim Fahim was the military chief of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, which drove the militants out of Kabul with the aid of U.S. air power in 2001, when Karzai took office under an internationally negotiated deal. He served as defense minister and as a deputy to Karzai for several years until Karzai dropped him from his winning ticket in the first direct presidential vote in Afghan history in 2004.
The burly Fahim became a founding member of the National Front, formed two years ago as a bloc to oppose Karzai.
His departure from the from the party, which includes key current and former members of Karzai's government, comes amid reports that some other officials of the alliance have also voiced support for the incumbent in the August 20 poll.
Fazel Sangcharaki, spokesman for the front, confirmed Fahim's decision but did not comment further. "He has gone to Karzai's side," Sangcharaki told Reuters.
Karzai has strongly hinted that he would stand for office again, but has yet to name candidates for two deputies to stand alongside him on his ticket.
Karzai is a member of Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the Pashtuns. Drafting the support of Fahim could help the president win votes among Fahim's fellow Tajiks, the second-largest group.
Official nominations for the election will start next week and so far at least a dozen people, including technocrats, former ministers and a commander of one of the former armed factions have showed a desire to run against Karzai.
Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission this week said that warlords and those who have committed human rights violations in the past three decades should be barred from running either for president or the two deputy posts.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Egypt has summoned Iran's top diplomat in Cairo to protest what it called Tehran's interference in the country's internal affairs. The head of the Iranian interest's office in Cairo, Seyyed Hossein Rajabi, was summoned over comments made by Iranian officials during Egypt's campaign against alleged Hezbollah agents in the North African country.
Egyptian security forces arrested 49 people in early April for allegedly planning attacks on tourist areas during Israel's Christmas aggression on the Gaza Strip. Cairo claims that the group was recruited by Hezbollah.
Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah instantly dismissed the accusations as out of hand.
Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani branded the arrests as an "outdated game plan" aimed at impinging upon Lebanon's upcoming parliamentary elections. "[Egypt] intends to divert international attention from the plight of Palestinians in the wake of Tel Aviv's three-week war on Gaza," Larijani said.
Egypt's allegation against Hezbollah also drew criticism from the Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki who called it a 'frayed accusation' aimed at targeting Lebanon's election.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said Cairo "cannot under any circumstances, accept such statements and hostile stances."
"These statements are a blatant interference in internal Egyptian affairs, and the government and people of Egypt reject entirely such interference in matters which do not concern Iran," an Egyptian Foreign Ministry statement read.
Hezbollah and Egypt entered into bitter conflict after the Lebanese movement on several occasions lashed out at Cairo for refusing to open the Rafah border crossing, the only route from which the impoverished Gaza Strip could receive aid.
Egypt has kept the crossing closed despite international concern that the situation in Gaza would further deteriorate due to the deprivation of its residents from their basic needs.
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[Jerusalem Post Middle East] Leaders of the alleged Hizbullah terror cell caught in Egypt recruited operatives pretending they were being drafted to Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades, A Sharq Alawsat reported Monday morning.
On Sunday, the London-based paper said that among the detainees were two Arab Israeli residents of the Sinai and five Muslim Brotherhood members. The two Israeli Arabs, Nimr Fahmi and Nasser Abu Omar, have admitted to providing information to Mansour and to another Hizbullah leader, Muhammad Qablan, on five Egyptian towns that border Israel, the paper said.
The suspects were tasked with acquiring information about the villages, such as the number of medical units, residents, schools, entrances and exits, and on places in southern Sinai from where one could infiltrate Israeli.
Meanwhile, according to a report in Sunday's pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat, Egyptian state security prosecutors have requested the harshest penalty, which includes the possibility of a death sentence, for the man accused of leading the terror cell that plotted attacks in the country.
The main suspect, whose real name is Muhammad Yousef Mansour but is known as Sami Shehab, is accused of joining "a clandestine and illegal group that aimed to overthrow the regime, threaten public peace and violate laws, using terrorism as the means to achieve these goals," the London-based paper said.
Egyptian officials have accused Hizbullah of organizing a 49-member cell that plotted attacks against Israeli and Egyptian targets. About half of the members are believed to have been arrested so far.
Shehab, a Lebanese citizen, has also been accused of espionage for a foreign organization, Hizbullah, and supplying prohibited information without authorization, receiving military and material aid from a foreign entity illegally, and possessing weapons and explosives "in order to terrorize the citizens and commit crimes," the paper said.
Prosecutors have asked for the harshest possible punishment for Mansour under Egyptian law, "the death sentence or life imprisonment if terrorism is the means used to achieve or carry out goals called by for a particular group."
Mansour's lawyer, Muntasser al-Ziyat, however, argued that his clients' interrogations should be declared invalid since they occurred during the night, with each session lasting more than 10 hours, and were conducted without taking into account his client's mental or physical state. Ziyat told the paper that the confessions were coerced from Mansour, "who was detained for more than five months in an illegal detention center."
Security sources also told A-Sharq al-Awsat, in a report published on Sunday, that Hizbullah intelligence had conducted geographic and social surveys of a number of Egyptian villages on the Israeli border.
On Thursday, an Egyptian newspaper reported that two Palestinian Fatah members accused of belonging to the Hizbullah cell planned to carry out a major suicide attack in Tel Aviv. They were arrested a few weeks ago and are being questioned by prosecutors, according to the independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Meanwhile, an Egyptian lawyer representing the ruling party has filed a lawsuit demanding that Hizbullah's Al-Manar satellite TV station stop transmitting on the Nilesat satellite frequencies, A-Sharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday. The lawsuit also asks that Al-Manar's license to transmit be canceled in light of the Hizbullah cell that was recently discovered in Egypt.
"The Al-Manar satellite channel is the tongue of Hizbullah, which began recently to broadcast false news about Egypt, describing her as an agent and as taking care of the Jewish interest and seeking to achieve the Zionist agenda, which is an insult for the government of the state, its president and her people," the lawsuit stated.
The TV station also caused confusion among neighboring peoples and created chaos between different sects, according to the lawsuit.
This article starring:
Muhammad Yousef Mansour
Sami Shehab
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ION ISRAELI MIL FORUM > ANALYSIS: TWO MUSLIM MILITARY CAMPS ARE FIGHTING THE MIDDLE EAST'S NEW COLD WAR??? EGYPT versus HIZZIES HEZZIES HUZZIES HEZZAS, etc. aka ISLAMIST "AXIS OF EVIL" + IRAN, SYRIA, QATAR, + HAMAS???
A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country's royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.... HT: Free Republic ([link]). Best real-life-imitates-Monty-Python-Sketch moment:
"The incidents depicted in the video tapes were not part of a pattern of behavior," the Interior Ministry's statement declared. The Minister of the Interior is also one of Sheikh Issa's brothers.
The government statement said its review found "all rules, policies and procedures were followed correctly by the Police Department."
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So, what was this fellow suspected that he received treatment outside a "pattern of behavior"? Whatever that means.
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The co-chairman of the House Human Rights Commission, Rep. James McGovern (D-MA), said the existence of the tape requires the U.S. to take action.
The oil-industry-loving Bushitler is obviously going to ignore this incontrovertible evidence implicating his sand tick cohort. But wait a minute. Isn't the Bushitler no longer president? Surely the Great Ogabe will put the sheik on trial for war crimes. Oops! Wrong headline - it's Bushitler officials he wants to put on trial.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Hamas political leader Khalid Mashaal has been invited to address a meeting of British lawmakers via videoconference from Damascus.
The event organized by independent MP Clare Short-- a former Labor MP and government minister-- is scheduled to be held on Wednesday and to discuss Britain's policy change in the Middle East.
"Most serious commentators now believe that there can be no peace in the Middle East without talking to Hamas. In addition, we may be facing the last chance for a two-state solution," read the invitation to the meeting.
"In 2006, Hamas won more than 65.2 percent of the vote in the Palestinian parliamentary elections. Since then, Gaza has been besieged, boycotted and bombarded. There has been great human misery, but no progress and no improved security for anyone, including Israel, which is still the target of missiles," added the invitation.
The invitation came after a group of British parliamentarians met Mashaal last week "in the framework of European endeavors to open communication channels with Hamas, and to get a more profound understanding of the (Palestinian) issue through direct contact with Hamas."
The decision, however, was opposed by Israel's ambassador; Ron Prosor.
"The British Parliament is an icon of the democratic values to which Hamas is violently opposed," said the Israeli envoy to Britain.
"One can only presume that those who invite terrorists to speak at Westminster either share this view or utterly fail to comprehend its implications," he added.
Britain has already voiced readiness to make contacts with Hezbollah as what was seen as a signal of the country's policy change in the Middle East. The decision however drew criticism from Israel.
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Good idea. Then you can nab him for war crimes.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Rare direct talks between North and South Korea have ended without an agreement amid escalating tensions between the two neighbors. The talks took place on Tuesday in the North Korean border city of Kaesong at an industrial complex operated jointly by the two neighbors.
The talks between the two governments' officials lasted for around 22 minutes when they finally got underway, sources said. Neither side has said what was exactly discussed during the brief meeting.
Apparently not much ...
The industrial complex on the northern side of the border is regarded as a boon for the North and crucial for South.
The meeting marked the first government-level talks since the sour relations between the two Koreas further intensified over North Korea's recent rocket launch on April 5.
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[Kyodo: Korea] North Korea told the South it will consider ending benefits for South Korean firms at a joint industrial complex in North KoreaŽs border town of Kaesong as inter-Korean talks began Tuesday, Yonhap News Agency reported. The North may reconsider some ŽŽspecial benefitsŽŽ it guarantees to South Korean companies, Yonhap said, referring to a document given to the South.
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That's working well. Hostages and loot in the same place. /s
Ottawa was rushing to defend its border security on Tuesday amid a diplomatic scuffle with the U.S., which erupted after Washington's homeland security chief suggested that the 9-11 terrorists entered the U.S. through Canada. I thought she was supposed to be intelligent.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made the comments during a media interview earlier this week, much to the chagrin of Canadians on both sides of the border. Seems like the primary job of the Obama Administration is to piss off our Allies.
In recent years, Ottawa has invested a great deal of effort into dispelling perceptions among Americans that Canada's border is an easy entry point for terrorists planning attacks on U.S. soil. "Unfortunately, misconceptions arise on something as fundamental as where the 9-11 terrorists came from," said Michael Wilson, Canada's ambassador in Washington.
"As the 9-11 commission reported in 2004, all of the 9-11 terrorists arrived in the United States from outside North America. They flew to major U.S. airports. They entered the U.S. with documents issued by the United States government and no 9-11 terrorists came from Canada."
Later, Napolitano's staff attempted to tamp down the controversy by blaming the comments on a simple misunderstanding, said Wilson, who was the keynote speaker at the Border Trade Alliance meeting in Washington Tuesday. "She didn't read the 9-11 Commission report and we forgot to brief her on it. She didn't know Canada is in North America."
"Her comment from her people is that she misunderstood," Wilson said, adding that he was planning a personal meeting with Napolitano in the near future.
The furor began when Napolitano was asked to clarify statements she had made about equal treatment for the Mexican and Canadian borders, despite the fact that a flood of illegal immigrants and a massive drug war are two serious issues on the southern border.
"Yes, Canada is not Mexico, it doesn't have a drug war going on, it didn't have 6,000 homicides that were drug-related last year," she said. "It's part of Great Britain. I mean, don't they all bow to the Queen? Who knew it is in North America?"
"Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there."
When asked if she was referring to the 9-11 terrorists, Napolitano added: "Not just those but others as well."
However, Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan downplayed the comments and said that Napolitano is well aware that Canada was not the source of the 9-11 terrorists. "We spoke about it back in March, and we were sharing a chuckle at the fact that the urban myth does circulate," he told CTV's Power Play. "I didn't realize she believed it.""
Ms. Napolitano understood quite clearly, then and now, that none of the September 11 terrorists came through Canada, as the 9-11 Commission found."
"The claim that some of the 9/11 terrorists entered the United States from Canada is, quite simply, a myth - an urban legend that began with a handful of erroneous media reports in the days following the terrorist strikes." I think I see the problem. She gets her information from the MSM.
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While not the 9-11 terrorists, others HAVE crossed from Canada, like the LAX would-be bomber. There are a few radicals in Toronto and those with UK passports can freely travel without the attention the Mexican border gets. If she caused a diplomatic scuffle with a few Canuckstan libs, more power to her. I was about to write her off as completely imcompetent.
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The Border For Dummies Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo.
In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that "suspected or known terrorists" have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack.
All the 9/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked.
Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: "I can't talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here's the future. The future is we have borders."
Just what does that mean, exactly?
Just a few weeks ago, Ms. Napolitano equated Canada's border to Mexico's, suggesting they deserved the same treatment. Mexico is engulfed in a drug war that left more than 5,000 dead last year, and which is spawning a spillover kidnapping epidemic in Arizona. So many Mexicans enter the United States illegally that a multi-billion-dollar barrier has been built from Texas to California to keep them out.
In Canada, on the other hand, the main problem is congestion resulting from cross-border trade. Not quite the same thing, is it?
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Maybe her briefing contained some mistranslated Canadian. That's what they speak up there, right?
[Al Arabiya Latest] The first Muslim woman appointed to a position in President Barack Obama's administration met with lawmakers Monday and discussed her role on an interfaith advisory board the new administration hopes will broaden dialogue and understanding.
Dalia Mogahed's dimpled smile shined from under her hijab, the Muslim headscarf, as she addressed senate staff and think tanks at a meeting organized by the Congressional Muslims Staffers Association to discuss American Muslim public opinion in the wake of a recent survey.
" The key idea of the council is to tap into the energy and wisdom of religious organisations and leaders who focus on faith groups to solve common problems "
Dalia Mogahed, White House advisor
The Egyptian-born American who heads the Gallup American Center for Muslim Studies a non-governmental research center providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world, became the first Muslim veiled woman to be appointed to a position in the White House. "I am very honored to be given this opportunity to serve my country in this way," Mogahed, who will be Obama's window into the Muslim American community, told AlArabiya.net.
Last month, Obama signed an executive order setting up a new body at the White House called the "Office of Religious Partnerships" to support religious institutions and strengthen inter-faith dialogue and government ties. The advisory group, consisting of 25 religious and secular representatives, is to report to the president on the role religion can play in resolving social problems and addressing civil rights issues. "The key idea of the council is to tap into the energy and wisdom of religious organisations and leaders who focus on faith groups to solve common problems," explained Mugahed.
Mogahed will brief Obama on what Muslims want from the U.S. in a bid to create channels of communication and correct erroneous image of Muslim Americans.
The advisory group will help define issues of concern to religious constituents including the effects of economic crisis on minority groups and the phenomenon of fatherless families. It will also seek to reduce the number of abortions and strengthen inter-faith relations between Muslims and Christians.
"The main premise behind the council is cooperation between faiths and helping them become a force that helps push society forward," said Mogahed. "These societal challenges are shared by all faith-based groups and it is our task to unite them against common challenges."
Mugahed will keep her full time job at Gallup while serving as an advisor.
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Dalia Mogahed's dimpled smile shined from under her hijab
um. how could you tell?
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Jihad Watch says that this Egyption Muslim gal has advocated dialog with the Muslim Brotherhood. You know, the people that even Egyption President Mubarak fears. Any way here is a tribute to the daughters a Muslim American father took the lives of put together by their friends.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson has offered to travel to Iran to help release a jailed Iranian-American journalist who was recently convicted of spying. "If our voices are heard in Iran today, I would be anxious to travel with a delegation to Iran, if we are permitted, and make an appeal for her freedom," but what if Iran took Jesse hostage...and they didn't give him back... oh horrors and then maybe Al Sharpton would go over there and appeal and...
said the longtime civil rights activist, according to his Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson, 67, was speaking Tuesday at a peace conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
"Whenever we've brought people out of captivity, whether in Syria, Cuba, Iraq, or Yugoslavia, or Liberia, it's always opened a diplomatic door to reduce tensions," he added.
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Somewhere rattling around in my brain, and I may be making this up, during the 444 days, didn't someone go over to meet with the Iranians to negotiate, and they kept him!?
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I think it would be grand if they offered Jesse a job as a harem guard. He would get shiny silk pants, his own scimitar and turban. After his surgery, of course.
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we need to send Sean Penn...then leak it that he's really a CIA operative gaining intel on iran & only claiming to be a leftist. Set mic for popcorn.
[Geo News] Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that the chief of TNSM, Maulana Sufi Muhammad must now guarantee peace in Swat. Talking to journalists at Al-Hamra Hall here on Tuesday, he stressed upon Maulana Sufi to honour the peace agreement and avoid prolonging the demands list. To a question, he said the NWFP government had signed the Swat peace accord, however, the federal government seconded it with the support of more than 300 MNAs. Now a bill in this regard has been presented in the Senate for discussion to bring improvements, if any, in the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, he responded to a questioner. Kaira observed that Swat peace accord should not be deemed as victory or defeat of anyone. To another question, he said, PPP would announce its decision whether to join Punjab government within a few days.
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[Geo News] The Punjab police claimed on Tuesday to have identified 13 terrorists who carried out the attack on Sri Lankan team at Liberty chowk. In an exclusive interview with Geo news correspondent Mian Abid, IG Police Punjab Shaukat Javed revealed that the investigators gathered important information into Liberty attack from the terrorist who was arrested at Manawan. Shaukat said that the attack on Sri Lankan team at Liberty chowk bore resemblance to Manawan attack. He further said that all 13 Sri Lankan team attackers had been identified and law-enforcing agencies would soon apprehend the culprits.
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[Geo News] Pakistan People Party (PPP) leader Senator Mian Raza Rabbani on Tuesday presented 15-point recommendations in Senate for solution of Balochistan issues. The recommendations include: high-powered team be constituted to probe the killing of Baloch leaders, missing persons be recovered, Baloch leaders be invited to talks, an even formula be adopted on Balochistan royalty, construction of military bases in Balochistan be stopped, NFC award be given on basis of land and taxes, troops be pulled out of Balochistan. Rabbani recommended that foreign agencies involved in creating unrest in the country should be exposed. On this occasion, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said that it should also be explained how and who would implement the recommendations. Meanwhile, Chairman Senate summoned Interior Adviser Rehman Malik to answer the queries asked by members with regard to killing of Baloch nationalists.
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WAFF > PAKISTANI PM ADVISOR MALIK: INDIA IS BACKING THE BALOCHISTAN LIBERATION ARMY, fueling unrest. INDIA took over from the former USSR = Russia after the 1980's Soviet-Afghan war - its diplom Consulate in a nearby IRANIAN CITY near Balochistan is believed to be heavily involved in covert activs agz Pakland???
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See also CHINESE MIL FORUM > EURASIAN DIPLOMACY: RUSSIA AND CHINA CONFRONT THE US, NATO OVER AFGHANISTAN [+ Pakis], NATO [Expansion], SCO, AND PATO; + POSTER > [Cold War]DENG XIAOPING CONSIDERED INDIA, VIETNAM, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, AND TAIWAN TO BE [direct = greater]THREATS TO CHINA [than USA, USSR Superpowers]???
* WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC THE ORIGINS OF THE INDIAN-PAKISTAN CONFLICT LIE IN THE KASHMIR, GANGES RIVER [water], MINORITY RIGHTS AND BANGLADESH ISSUES. NEW FACTORS ARE THE INFLUENCE AND INTERVENTION OF WESTERN POWERS [read, USA], POST-SOVIET RUSSIA AND CHINA.
Also from WMF > IIUC UKRAINE SEEKS CLOSER MILITARY COOPERATION AND TRADE WITH CHINA AGZ RUSSIA.
[Geo News] Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Amir Syed Munawar Hassan has said that Pakistan Muslim League-N Mian Nawaz Sharif is waiting for his turn to come into the power. Talking to Geo TV on Tuesday, he said: "The United States is also ready to give power crown to Nawaz Sharif." Hassan said Nawaz Sharif is anticipating his government so close that PML-N senior leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has started to prepare a power map of new set-up within next six months. He added that Nawaz Sharif should too wait for his turn, but cautioned that the PML-N chief will have to avoid the American conspiracies. Answering a question, he said that formation of an alliance of religious parties was not discussed with Fazlur Rehman.
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[Geo News] Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said that one party could not solve the prevailing problems, urging all parties to work together for steering the country out of crisis. Addressing the PPP workers at the Circuit House here, the prime minister said that the martyred PPP leaders Zulifaqar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto had declared the people as power base. He said that the country had been facing serious challenges that needed to be tackled. Â"We have to fight for the rights of people, Gilani said, adding, trust of people will not be shattered.Â" About ongoing power crisis, Premier Gilani said that the government had inherited this problem. But added that load-shedding would end soon. The chief ministers of all four provinces have been directed to purchase rice from the farmers, he said.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) in the National Assembly on Monday strongly criticised statements of Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad, saying the party would not accept Talibanisation in the garb of Nizam-e-Adl.
The PML-Q had supported a resolution passed by the National Assembly on April 13 in which President Asif Ali Zardari was recommended to sign the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation agreed between the Awami National Party (ANP)-led government in the NWFP and Maulana Sufi Muhammad.
Taking part in the debate on the presidential address to the joint sitting of parliament, Marvi Memon of the PML-Q demanded of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take note of statement of Maulana Sufi Muhammad in which he had stated that the Supreme Court and high courts were un-Islamic and not functioning according to Shariah. "The chief justice should also give his 'Fatwa' on statement of Maulana Sufi Muhammad," she added.
Marvi said the PML-Q supported the implementation of Nizam-e-Adl in Swat for the restoration of peace but it was clear policy of her party that it would not accept Talibanisation in the cover of Nizam-e-Adl.
"Where is the Council of Islamic Ideology and where is the chief justice when Maulana Sufi Muhammad is giving such definition of Shariat," she added. She regretted that the writ of parliament had been damaged on many occasion and various places in one way or the other. "We do not want to give the control to those who want to impose their Talibanisation," she said. Marvi accused crude concept of justice was being fed to people who were disappointed with the state.
The PML-Q parliamentarian said her party had already expressed its reservations on the protection of rights of minorities and other sects including Shia. "We want sectarian harmony because our religion ensures the protection of rights of all sects," she emphasised.
She said it was also feudalism in the country that compelled the people to look towards the Taliban for the resolution of problems. Meanwhile, the Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) agitated and protested in the National Assembly Monday questioning the government's stance on the statement of chief of Tahreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) Maulana Sufi Muhammad in which he declared the superior courts and Parliament as un-Islamic and democracy as against the teachings of Islam.
Parliamentary leader of the MQM and minister for overseas Pakistanis Dr Farooq Sattar raised the issue on a point of order and sought the Speaker's ruling. The MQM legislators who ended their week-long boycott of the parliament, which they observed in protest over the adoption of resolution on Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, also protested over Sufi Muhammad's statement and asked the house to condemn it through a resolution. However, the acting speaker Faisal Karim Kundi declined to give the ruling saying the house has already adopted a resolution in support of the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation.
Minister for privatisation Syed Naveed Qamar dissociated the government from the statement of Maulana Sufi Muhammad saying it reflected the personal views of the TNSM chief. However, Advisor on Interior Rehman Malik said that the text of Maulana Soofi Muhammad's Sunday's speech is being closely examined.Referring to the Karachi situation, Rehman Malik said that the ANP chief Asfandyar Wali and the MQM leader Altaf Hussain have held detailed discussion and the matter would be resolved amicably.
Jam Mir Muhammad Yousuf of the PML-Q said: "President Asif Ali Zardari should delegate his powers to parliament which should be made all powerful and President Zardari should be the head of state and a symbol of unity".
Jam Yousuf, while referring to the contents of speech of the opposition leader, said: "I admit that we sided with Pervez Musharraf but we should not be criticised for it as those who are criticising us have also supported a dictator in the past".
Sher Muhammad Baloch of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) recalled his party's sacrifices for the country and democracy. "It was the courage of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto that during his tenure Qadianis were declared non-Muslims and initiated land reforms but he fell prey to judicial murder by a dictator," he added.
He questioned as to what was the fault of Nawab Akbar Bugti, who was also killed by a dictator. He passionately appealed to the government and all political parties to look into problems of Balochistan if they want to end sense of deprivation among Baloch people.
He also strongly condemned the killing of three Baloch people who where kidnapped from the office of a lawyer. Jamshed Dasti of the PPP praised speech of President Asif Ali Zardari, saying the president brought the country out of crisis and fulfilled his commitment by restoring judges.
He said it was Benazir Bhutto who paved way for return of Nawaz Sharif to Pakistan. "The credit for 95 National Assembly seats won by PML-N goes to the PPP leadership including Benazir Bhutto," he added.
He said the people of South Punjab had been denied their rights and were not getting their due share in the Pakistan Superior Services. "We demand a separate South Punjab province but not on the basis of language," he said. He accused that nationalists had always created problems for the country.
Yasmin Rehman of the PPP started her speech while paying tribute to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and other members of the Bhutto family saying their sacrifices would always be remembered.
She said the PPP government was taking the country's economy to the right direction. She praised government's commitment to enhance spending on education and health sectors and completing power generation projects in one year.
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There's a headline writer with a feel for the malaprop. Don't write about extremists "under fire" unless there's actual brass bouncing off the pavement.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Like Swat, the local leaders of the Awami National Party (ANP) in Buner district are poised to publicly disown association with the nationalist party and dismantle their local organisations in the face of growing influence of the armed militants in the mountainous district, sharing boundary with Hazara Division in the east and Mardan and Swabi districts in southwest.
Sources told The News that the ANP MPAs and MNA had almost left their native towns while local leaders of the party have been putting pressure on the NWFP government to utilise all possible links for flushing out the non-local Taliban from the district.
They said they would have no option other than disassociating from the ANP or at least suspending their organisational activities of the party in the district if the government failed to do so.
The Pakhtun nationalist party, like Swat, had won all the three NWFP Assembly seats and one National Assembly constituency in Buner district during the February 18, 2008 general elections.
In Swat, the ANP had grabbed all seven provincial assembly seats and one National Assembly seat in the last general elections. However, after the failure of May 21 peace deal with Maulana Fazlullah-led Taliban in Swat, the ANP MPAs and MNA had stopped visiting their home constituencies in Swat valley whereas the Taliban warned them to resign from the assemblies or face the consequences.
Likewise, the district and tehsil level units of the ANP had dismantled their organisations after the militants killed more than 130 activists, including office-bearers of the party and relatives of the ANP lawmakers in the district. After the peace agreement signed between provincial government and Maulana Sufi Muhammad on February 16 and establishment of Qazi courts in the Malakand Division, the Taliban have physically expanded their influence to the neighbouring Buner and Dir districts where they have reportedly occupied some strategic points.
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Members of National Assembly from all the parties expressed serious concerns on Tuesday over deteriorating law and order, unabated militancy and sectarian violence, and asked the political leadership to take cognisance before the situation reaches a point of no return.
The proceedings started with condemnation and prayer for Shia leader Asad Zaidi, the deputy speaker of Northern Areas legislative council, who was assassinated in Gilgit on Monday. Members from both sides of the divide condemned the killing of the Shia leader and lamented that although they had repeatedly expressed their concerns, successive governments took no step to stop sectarian killings.
Sufi's statements: The members of the opposition parties including the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and PML-Quaid (PML-Q) that had supported the passing of a resolution in the House asking President Asif Zardari to sign the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation in Swat, expressed reservations over the statements and intentions of Swat cleric Sufi Muhammad.
JUP: Sahibzada Fazal Karim from the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), an ally of PML-N, said a local leader of his party who belonged to a different sect than the Taliban had been killed recently, after the implementation of Nizam-e-Adl. He said the sharia of a particular sect was unacceptable. Khurum Dastagir, a PML-N leader, said the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation placed before the parliament stated that the state would have administrative control over the region and it will be the authority of the provincial government to appoint qazis and judges. "But it seems that the federal and provincial government have abdicated their role in the restive region," he said.
The PML-N leader said in no Islamic country other than Pakistan had clerics been given a free hand. He said the parliament must play its role before the situation turns abysmal.
Nadeem Afzal Chan and Sajid Ahmed of treasury benches asked the government to hold an All Parties Conference on the issue of growing militancy and Talibanisation.
The MQM members also asked the government to come up with a comprehensive policy on militancy. Some of them also criticised the growing incidents of kidnapping for ransom especially in Sindh province.
Later, the House took up legislative business. All four private members' bill on the Order of the Day were referred to the standing committees concerned during the lacklustre proceedings sans any prominent leaders.
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The NWFP government warned Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) chief Sufi Muhammad on Tuesday against continued 'violations' of the peace deal by Taliban in Swat, urging Sufi to play a "key role" in saving the agreement from collapse. "Whatever is happening (in Swat and Buner districts) is an open violation of the peace deal and enforcement of sharia," NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told Daily Times in an exclusive interview. He said the violations included the Taliban's expansion into Buner and their persistence in continuing armed patrols and a parallel administration in Swat.
Come forward: "We made the deal with Sufi Muhammad and not the Taliban, and that is why we are calling on him to come forward and play a key role," said the minister, who was one of the main negotiators. He said the Awami National Party (ANP) had opted for a peace deal with Sufi Muhammad in spite of public backlash on both domestic and international levels. "We cannot live with violations of the deal as the purpose was peace," he added. He also warned that the provincial government "reserves the right to use the second option" of military force if the peace deal fails. The Taliban, despite pledging to disarm as part of the peace deal, have continued their parallel administration in Swat and are summoning people to courts. "The Taliban will lose public support by violating the peace deal and that will strengthen the government's hands," Hussain added.
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Interior Adviser Rehman Malik on Tuesday warned of stern action if the TNSM violated the peace agreement it had made with the NWFP government. What the hell are you gonna do? Surrender something else?
He said that the Nizam-e-Adl was invoked in 1994, under which a session judge was named Qazi. "No one should create the ambiguity that any maulvi (cleric) will hold the charge of a judge," he said. Malik ruled out lifting the ban on the TNSM.
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Swat Taliban have said they are not bound to honour the peace accord between the government and cleric Sufi Muhammad, a private TV channel reported on Tuesday.
According to the channel, they said the NWFP government had signed the deal with Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi, and not with the Taliban.
Taliban sharia: Although there was no official confirmation, Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan issued a direct challenge to the legitimacy of Pakistan's government in a telephone interview with the CNN, by demanding the imposition of the Taliban's model of sharia throughout Pakistan and beyond, "even in America".
Disagree: He also denounced any Pakistanis who disagreed with his interpretation of Islam, calling them "non-Muslims". He also called for the imposition of jiziya, a tax to be levied on all non-Muslims in Pakistan.
In an Associated Press interview, he said Osama Bin Laden was welcome in Swat. "Yes, we will help them and protect them."
Muslim Khan counted the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the Jaish-e-Muhammad, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban of Afghanistan among his allies. "If we need, we can call them and if they need, they can call us," he said. He said his forces would go to help the Taliban in Afghanistan if the United States and NATO continue to fight there.
In an interview to a Srinagar-based newspaper, he dismissed reports the Taliban would attempt to disrupt elections in Indian-held Kashmir.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A United Nations meeting on racism on Tuesday adopted a final declaration against racism, xenophobia and intolerance, a day after an anti-Israel speech by Iran's president triggered a mass walkout.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you have taken a momentous decision to adopt the document," president of the meeting, Amos Wako said, describing it as a "historic outcome."
" We couldn't allow our determination and consensus to be destroyed by isolated instances or intolerances and incitement to hatred as we witnessed yesterday "
British Ambassador Peter Gooderham
Wako, the attorney general of Kenya, added that the move "shows that one can remain constructively engaged and reach a consensus."
Delegates said Ahmadinejad's speech had strengthened delegates' resolve to adopt the declaration as soon as possible, thereby advancing the adoption to Tuesday, rather than as planned on Friday.
"We couldn't allow our determination and consensus to be destroyed by isolated instances or intolerances and incitement to hatred as we witnessed yesterday," British ambassador Peter Gooderham told AFP.
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"Quick, let's pass this shite before those loons make it even worse!"
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We couldn't allow our determination and consensus appeasement of imported Muslims to be destroyed by isolated instances or intolerances and incitement to hatred disagreeing with their worldview; after all, no culture is more right than another.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't this just a meeting of the British and several worthless Middle Eastern countries because everyone else saw this for the anti-Israel trash it was?
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"Final Declaration" sounds horribly like Final Solution.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, you have taken a momentous decision to adopt the document," president of the meeting, Amos Wako said, describing it as a "historic outcome."
sometimes snark writes itself
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Then the name is probably entirely approprate DB....
[Al Arabiya Latest] Western leaders recoiled in horror Monday at a fierce anti-Israel speech by Iran's president at a U.N. conference on racism, as the Czech Republic joined a growing boycott of the week-long gathering.
As Washington denounced the Islamic Republic's "hateful rhetoric," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon effectively said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had betrayed his trust.
The Iranian leader used his podium in Geneva to criticize the creation of a "totally racist government in occupied Palestine" in 1948, calling the Israeli administration "the most cruel and repressive racist regime."
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Too many Arab Israelis choose not to be well educated, Gaza has become Judenrein and the West Bank is pushing to become so, the rest of the Arab world either expelled their Jewish populations post 1948 or attempted to drive them out. Who, then, is practicing the greater racism?
/sorry. I realize there isn't any point in speaking to those who will not hear.
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I don't know if it's Fred's editing or if the source is really that neutral, but most of the reporting listed here from Al Arabiya has less of a slant than most US outlets - like it's really a news organization rather than an agenda-driven organization. huh.
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Over 100 other countries on Tuesday approved a 16-page declaration calling on the world to combat intolerance. The declaration did not mention Israel, but among dozens of other points, it reaffirms a 2001 statement issued after the UN's first global racism meeting in South Africa that recognized the "plight of the Palestinians" while affirming the Jewish state's right to security.
The latest declaration's support of the 2001 document that named only one country, Israel, was cited by President Barack Obama's administration as why it boycotted the Geneva meeting.
Earlier Tuesday, the UN said Tuesday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had actually dropped language from his speech on Monday at the conference that described the Holocaust as "ambiguous and dubious."
The UN and the Iranian Mission in Geneva did not comment on why the change was made. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, however, said he had met with the Iranian president before his speech Monday and reminded him the UN had adopted resolutions "to revoke the equation of Zionism with racism and to reaffirm the historical facts of the Holocaust."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Israel wants to buy a rocket intercept system from the United States to protect against militant fire from the Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview published in Israeli media on Tuesday.
"The Vulcan-Phalanx canons and radar will be part of a multi-layer defense to intercept rockets," Barak told the Haaretz newspaper. "Such defense, as far as I am concerned, is a strategic goal," he said.
The system consists of the Raytheon Phalanx radar for targeting rockets and the 20-millimetre Vulcan Gatling gun to shoot them down, with each component costing $25 million (19 million), Haaretz said.
The Phalanx system, designed to shred incoming shells after spotting their launch, could complement the Israeli Iron Dome system that fires small interceptor missiles and is due to be deployed on Gaza's border by 2010.
Phalanxes currently in production are earmarked for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan but Barak would ask the Pentagon to free up one unit -- costing $25 million -- for Israel, Haaretz said.
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I bet they don't get it. After all, we wouldn't want to offend the Big O's new friends.
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WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ISRAEL AND KAZAKHISTAN IN WAGING DEFENSIVE WAR AGZ ARMED MILITANTS. THE GROWTH OR EXPANSION OF LOCAL MILITANCY AND VIOLENCE DUE TO RELIGIOUS FACTORS DESPITE SUFFERING REPEATED/ROUTINE DEFEATS.
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Nutshell = despite past and likely future [near-term]military victories, THE STRATEGIC TIMELINE IS AGZ ISRAEL + KAZAKHS AND IN FAVOR OF THE MILITANTS???
[Jakarta Post] Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood is urging Pope Benedict XVI to apologize ahead of his Mideast tour for his previous remarks about the Prophet Muhammad that many Muslims interpreted as insulting their faith.
Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Jamil Abu-Bakr said Tuesday the pope must "clear the air" before visiting Jordan as part of a May 8-15 tour to the region. In September 2006, Benedict quoted a Medieval text that characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman." The pope later said he was "deeply sorry" over the reaction to his remarks, and said the passages he quoted did not reflect his own opinion.
Abu-Bakr said the remark was insufficient and that a "clear apology" was required.
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Maybe they can get Obama to apologize, he seems to be specializing in apologizing these days.
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Pope John Paul the Second apologized to Muslims and Jews for Catholic misdeeds as a mean of reconciliation - and it proved to be a flop. This Pope is the former head of the Office of the Congregation of the Faithful, which used to be call the Inquisition. Do NOT expect him to be touchy-feely.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Six Norwegian lawyers are seeking to file a lawsuit against former Israeli Premier Ehud Olmert and other Israeli officials over the Gaza war.
Yawn. How utterly predictable.
The lawsuit which will be filed with the Norwegian chief prosecutor on Wednesday, will call for the arrest and extradition of Olmert, Kadima leader and ex-foreign minister Tzipi Livni, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and seven Israeli commanders, AFP reported.
The lawyers accused the Israeli officials of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip and Norwegian courts are obliged to hear cases involving such crimes.
Any mention of the war crimes committed by Hamas?
In a statement, the lawyers said the officials launched "massive terrorist attacks" during the war which led to the killing of civilians.
"There can be no doubt that these subjects knew about, ordered or approved the actions in Gaza and that they had considered the consequences of these actions," the statement read. "It [the case] involves three people of Palestinian origin living in Norway and 20 families who lost loved ones or property during the attack," one of the lawyers, Kjell Brygfjeld, told AFP.
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While the rest of the EU delegations chose to walk out on Ahmadinejad's rant at Durban II, Norway stayed. They cite a "difference in perspective" as their reason.
[Beirut Daily Star: Leb] Electoral rhetoric heated up on Monday and over the weekend, with the country's political foes exchanging accusations and criticizing each others' agendas. On Sunday, Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri announced the March 14 Forces ticket for West Bekaa. Meanwhile, Premier Fouad Siniora over the weekend continued his tour of Sidon as Speaker Nabih Berri visited several villages in South Lebanon. As candidates battled it out, President Michel Sleiman prepared to head to Turkey on Tuesday for an official two-day visit.
Hariri announced on Monday the March 14 forces' list in the district of Western Bekaa- Rashaya. During a gathering held in the town of Rashaya, Hariri said the majority would not "surrender the Western Bekaa-Rashaya district to the candidates of foreign tutelage."
"The people of this district will vote on June 7 for state-building and for dignity. They will vote for the dignity of Lebanon, of Beirut and for what was done to Beirut. They will vote for Lebanon and Palestine to say that Palestine is our cause."
The list in the district included Ministers Robert Ghanem and Wael Abu Faour, MP Jamal Jarrah, MP Antoine Saad, Amin Wehbeh and Ziad Qadri.
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[Beirut Daily Star: Leb] LebanonŽs most influential Shiite Muslim cleric has renewed his call for a dialogue between Muslims and Jews to promote world peace. Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah stresses that Islam recognizes Judaism and rejects any offense against Jews or Christians in any Arab or Muslim country.
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah stresses that Islam recognizes Judaism and rejects any offense against Jews or Christians in any Arab or Muslim country.
[Beirut Daily Star: Leb] A senior Hizbullah member said Sunday there has never been an ŽŽalternative to resistanceŽŽ to ward off Israeli threats. ŽŽI have heard of an option - not an alternative - to protect Lebanon,ŽŽ MP Mohammed Raad said during the inauguration of a mosque in the southern town of Kfartibneet.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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A pro-al-Qaeda magazine has published workout tips for terrorists planning jihad in Middle Eastern countries such as Afghanistan. The advice, outlined in the English language online publication Jihad Recollections, stresses the importance of keeping fit so its readers can "strike hard" against their enemies. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Egypt has summoned Iran's top diplomat in Cairo to protest what it called Tehran's interference in the country's internal affairs. The head of the Iranian interest's office in Cairo, Seyyed Hossein Rajabi, was summoned over comments made by Iranian officials during Egypt's campaign against alleged Hezbollah agents in the North African country. 
[Jerusalem Post Middle East] Leaders of the alleged Hizbullah terror cell caught in Egypt recruited operatives pretending they were being drafted to Fatah's Aksa Martyrs Brigades, A Sharq Alawsat reported Monday morning.
Ottawa was rushing to defend its border security on Tuesday amid a diplomatic scuffle with the U.S., which erupted after Washington's homeland security chief suggested that the 9-11 terrorists entered the U.S. through Canada.
