Baroness Manningham-Buller added that the decision to remove Saddam Hussein had caused a "long-term major and strategic problem" for Britain by allowing al-Qaeda time to build a stronghold in Afghanistan unnopposed.
She told the inquiry: "Our involvement in Iraq radicalised, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people - not a whole generation, a few among a generation - who saw our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as being an attack on Islam...
The alternative was that Saddam Hussein had regained control over Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia, with the goal of controlling the majority of the world's oil production. And he was sponsoring and training a variety of terror groups, including Al Qaeda, so that had we not conquered Iraq in 2003, we would now be looking at Saddam Hussein threatening to choke off oil to Europe and Asia to reward and punish, while loosing or tightening his hold on terror groups with plausible deniability. Is that a preferable scenario, Baroness Manningham-Buller?
* DAILY TIMES.PK > UK COULD START KABUL PULLOUT IN 2011: PM CAMERON.
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* NEWS KERALA > NO UK TROOPS IN AGHANISTAN IN 2015.
PM David Cameron > UK Aghan Pullout will occur presuming that Local Aghan Govt + Aghan Army-Police forces prove competent enough to take over. NO UK COMBAT ROLE + SIZABLE OR POTENT UK MIL PRESENCE COME 2015, save for various ADVISORY GROUPS-ELEMENTS.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared "war" on urban violence Wednesday after a weekend of riots, sacking the government prefect in a region hit by unrest and replacing him with a former police officer. Sarkozy said the government would not back down following two separate weekend incidents in which rioters burnt cars, attacked a tramway, shot at police and destroyed government property.
It's summer, and the youths will go a-rioting, as they labour to expand their territory. Good luck with your side of the war, President Sarkozy.
"The government will continue to wage a relentless fight against crime. This is a war that we will take to the traffickers and criminals," Sarkozy said in a statement after a cabinet meeting. "The rule of law must be respected throughout the national territory," he said.
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux acknowledged in a radio interview Wednesday that acts of violence against persons were continuing to increase despite the conservative president's security crackdown.
Riots erupted over the weekend in the Grenoble neighbourhood of Villeneuve in protest of the death of a local man fleeing police after allegedly holding up a casino. Sarkozy appointed a former police officer as the government prefect in the Alpine region, a post that includes responsibility for security.
He also condemned the destruction of a police station and government properties by about 50 Roma rioters armed with axes, who were protesting at the death of a 22-year-old, shot by the police in another region. "These incidents highlights a certain kind of behaviour among some of the travelling people and Roma," Sarkozy said. Those living in illegal settlements would be evicted, he added.
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It was after an imam recited a prayer for the dead man, before a group of fifty youths who had gathered in a park, that the situation degenerated. Small groups of vandals using baseball bats smashed bus stops and a trolley car, tear gas bombs were thrown, and several fires, notably in a garage, a technical center and a gym were reported by AFP.
The victim, Karim Boudouda, 27, had already been convicted three times for armed robbery. He was killed in a police chase when he fled after robbing the casino of Uriage-les-Bains, near Grenoble. With his accomplice - still at large - he held the casino employee at gunpoint and demanded the contents of the cash register. The police chase ended in La Villeneuve. "The criminals stopped their car. They opened fire at least three times on the officers," declared the D.A. of Grenoble, Jean Philippe.
"It's Beirut. I swear, it's Beirut!" exclaimed a resident of La Villeneuve as screeching sirens of police cars whizzed by. Above the buildings, in the nocturnal sky, a helicopter of the gendarmerie passed, equipped with projectors and an infrared light to film the crowds. Riot police attempted to encircle small groups of youths who kept getting away, running around and smashing everything in their path. About fifteen of them, some with their faces masked by white T-shirts, smashed bus stops with baseball bats. A policeman deployed in La Villeneuve confirmed that hatred of the police had been expressed by several neighborhood youths:
"The youths told me: You killed one of ours. At any rate, you are a dirty race, we will kill you too. We will shoot at everything that is European."
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Île du Diable is the smallest and northernmost island of the three Îles du Salut located about 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) off the coast of French Guiana (South America). It has an area of 14 ha (34.6 acres). It was a small part of the notorious French penal colony in French Guiana until 1952.
French Guiana (Guyane française, IPA, officially just "Guyane") is an overseas region of France.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has threatened the Turkish government to declare independence if Ankara refuses to meet their conditions.
In a Wednesday interview with BBC, Murat Karayilan said he would order his rebels to lay down their weapons under United Nations supervision if Turkey agreed to a ceasefire and his demands.
"If the Kurdish issue is resolved in a democratic way through dialogue we will lay down our weapons...We will not carry arms," Karayilan said at a camp in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan.
The offer took a more forceful taint when the militant leader threatened his group would announce independence if Ankara did not agree to his conditions.
Karayilan said his conditions included an end to the crackdown on the militants and their sympathizers in eastern Turkey.
A Turkish government official declined to comment on the militants' demands, saying Ankara was "not in the habit of commenting on statements made by terrorists."
The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Ankara and most of the international community, is blamed for some 45,000 since the start of its armed struggle in 1984 for self-rule in the Kurdish majority southeast Turkey.
The PKK has intensified its militant attacks against Turkey since May 31, when they stormed a Turkish naval base in the port city of Iskenderun, killing six Turkish soldiers.
The incident curiously coincided with an Israeli attack on a Turkish-flagged aid convoy bound for the besieged Gaza Strip which left nine Turk nationals dead and some 50 others injured.
The PKK militants launch their attacks from the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq, under the control of Iraqi Kurdistan's President Massoud Barzani, where Israel and its firms are known to operate.
Recent reports from the region indicate a greater presence of US military forces in northern Iraq and clandestine meeting between American army and PKK officials -- at times attended by Israelis.
That poor Iran PressTV journalist is having vapours over the thought. Someone please fetch my smelling salts!
[Al Arabiya Latest] Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has met Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal in Damascus, the Anatolia news agency reported on Tuesday, a move that threatens to fan fresh tensions with Israel.
During Monday's meeting, the two men discussed efforts to heal the rift between the Islamist Hamas and the Fatah faction of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Anatolia said.
The Middle East peace process was also on their agenda, it said.
Meanwhile, Hamas said on its website the talks also covered "ways of breaking the (Israeli) embargo" on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and that Davutoglu pledged Turkey would "pursue its efforts to lift" the blockade.
The meeting took place amid simmering tensions between Turkey and its one-time ally Israel over the killing of nine Turks on May 31 in an Israeli raid on a Turkish ship that was part of a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza.
Davutoglu told Meshaal Ankara was still demanding an apology from Israel for the raid, compensation for the families of the victims and an international probe into the attack, the website reported.
Davutoglu visited Damascus on Monday for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before heading to Afghanistan for an international conference on the future of the war-torn country.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A group of Iraqi Kurdish peace envoys returned Monday from Turkey after failing to reach an agreement about the rights of the ethnic group and the end of armed struggle.
Around 34 Kurdish militants and sympathizers crossed from Iraq in October to express their support of the Turkish plan to expand the freedoms of the Kurdish minority in order to end the 26-year old armed struggle between the government and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
" We extended the hand of peace and found only air "
Peace delegation spokeswoman
The self-proclaimed peace envoy was made up of 30 adults, eight PKK militants and 22 supporters of the Kurdish cause, and four children.
Despite voluntarily going to Turkey in a good-will gesture, the 30 adults were charged with links with the PKK, which made them subject to up to 20 years in jail. Ten of the 30 were actually put in jail pending trial. The first hearing took place in June.
It is not clear how many of the group managed to cross back to Iraq. The Turkish news channel NTV estimated the number of returnees at 19 while CNN-Turk news channel said the number is 14.
The Firat news agency, which is close to the PKK, quoted a spokeswomen for the returnees as saying that the prosecution of the group which initially went to Turkey for the promotion of peace made it impossible for them to pursue their efforts.
"We extended the hand of peace and found only air," she said.
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A U.S. Internet company pulled the plug on the websites of a Canadian extremist today after receiving a complaint from Canadas Attorney-General.
One of the websites taken down by Arizona-based web host Go Daddy had been used by Salman Hossain of Mississauga to call for a genocide of the Jewish community. The other was a new site that was not yet on-line.
Go Daddy received a complaint from Canadas Attorney-General regarding the domain names in question, said Ben Butler, the companys Director of Network Abuse. After reviewing the content on the sites, Go Daddy determined they are in direct violation of our terms of service and have been removed from our network.
On July 8, Ontario Provincial Police charged Mr. Hossain, 25, with three counts of promoting hatred and two counts of advocating genocide. The charges were approved by Ontario Attorney-General Chris Bentley. But because he had left Canada before the police investigation was completed, Mr. Hossain remains at large and, until yesterday, he had continued to advocate racist violence on his website.
In his final post before the site went off-line, Mr. Hossain wrote that the Jews were pressuring Go Daddy to take down his website but that he was in the process of moving it to another site.
Like I stated earlier, it makes very little difference if they try and take down the server as I am moving it to another countrys server where it will be much more difficult to take down and where they really and truly hate Jews. So therefore, in either case the Jews have lost and they should go shoot themselves in the head for trying to bring down the information that I have against them.
But the National Post was able to locate that new server in Carlow, Ireland. Contacted by the Post, the web hosting company, Blacknight, quickly cancelled its agreement with Mr. Hossains new website.
The content on that website would be illegal in Ireland and in Europe, said Blacknight spokesman Michele Neylon. And as far as our legal counsel is concerned, any website content that incites anybody to murder another human being, be that an individual or mass genocide, would be illegal.
He said the companys terms of service include a clause about illegal websites. So on those grounds we have terminated services for that website even before it actually was hosted with us fully, so we will not be providing services to the gentleman in question.
Mr. Hossain is a Bangladeshi-Canadian who says he was raised partly in Ghana before immigrating to Toronto. He describes himself as a regular Muslim supporting the jihad overseas and a friend of the Toronto 18 terrorists who plotted bombings in southern Ontario.
Over the past three years, he has openly called for terrorist attacks in Canada, cheered the killing of Canadian troops in Afghanistan and urged fellow Muslims to exterminate Canadas Jewish population. With headlines such as The Jews and the West must be nuked and The destruction of the West is the only way to exterminate the Jews, the website calls on Muslims to organize an invasion of Canada to overthrown the government and slaughter Canadas Jews.
The Canadian Jewish Congress, which had also sent a complaint to Go Daddy, said it would make sure that Mr. Hossain would not find a new home on the Internet. We will be a thorn in his side, said CEO Bernie Farber. He said the group would notify Internet servers of Mr. Hossains status as a fugitive who is wanted for hate crimes. Any reasonable corporate citizen, once they see exactly what this man is saying, wants nothing to do with him, Mr. Farber said. Nobody wants to be associated with such a horrible, disgusting person.
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Why isnt this a huge deal? And Im not talking about the Mexican Mommas need some lovin angle. Look, you dont travel from Texas, across the Canadian border, and up to Toronto on a shoestring. For one thing, even US citizens with proper identification (including passports) should expect that when crossing through a Canadian border check they might be subjected to enhanced scrutiny. So one would expect a person from a country of interest with limited resources attempting this route would automatically raise some suspicion. True, the US/Canadian border is long and porous. But taking these alternate routes would require skill, knowledge, and funding. Either way there must be a network associated with this pipeline. And excuse me, but in light of the recent reports of rogue Ghanie soldiers attacking NATO troops Im not willing to instantly accept the they just want a better life narrative. Hey Im willing to entertain the theory that maybe our spooks are intentionally taking some of these guys off the grid for future ops but something doesnt smell right.
You would think that maybe just maybe- some journalist out there would be looking to see if there might be something a bit more nefarious to this story. (BTW didja see Lindsey was wearing jeans in the courtroom yesterday? - OMG)
"He was an Afghan fighter pilot with two wives and a dozen children and no penchant for learning languages. She was an unloved 240 pound daughter of vagabond farm workers who sorted underwear at Walmart. Although their lives and immigration status was against them, they found love on the run in America..."
"Mahmoud and Lupe" coming soon to a theatre near you.
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Assisting an American to desert would be treason. If you are not an American doing so what is it? If you are assisting a non-American what is the actual crime?
I know it's scummy but I should think there is a spy ring to round up and the fact that it continued shows a lot about the folks running the Air Base and the training program.
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By the way Shipman, without revealing too much of the plot, not only are they being chased by ICE, the FBI, and the CID, but also by a gang of teenage vampires.
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There are TONS of bars outside Lackland that are populated with thousands of Latinas. Young men + Young women = Romance (or something similar). I doubt that many of the Afghans going AWOL have some nefarious plans, they probably went to Hamburger Hill, the river walk, some of the "Gentlemen's Clubs", and decided that they might like it here than in the 7th Century of Afghanistan.
An American chain store has boycotted sales of Israeli products to protest at the policies of the Tel Aviv's regime against Palestinians.
The board of directors of the Olympia Food Co-op in Washington decided last week that no more Israeli goods will be sold at its two grocery stores in the city.
"We met last Thursday for the board members meeting and a pretty large group - about 40 people - presented the boycott project and answered our questions," board member Rob Richards told Ha'aretz on Tuesday.
"A couple of board members were concerned about what will be the financial effect on the organization, but it's minimal," he added.
Richards also said that two members on the board were from the Jewish community who supported the boycott.
The co-op grocery stores carried Israeli products including ice cream, crackers and a line of baby wipes.
Olympia is the hometown of Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist who was run over and killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003 as she attempted to prevent a Palestinian home from being demolished.
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What would really impress me Rob is you and your pals boycotting Israeli chips in your computers, or Israeli invented medical proceedures in your hospitals.
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Pile all of that Jewish produced goods in the middle of the round-about, we'll have a huge bonfire tonight, strum guitars and sing patriotic Eco-songs.
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How big is Olympia Food? If it is big any way of organizing a demonstration with slogand about Olymùpia Foood being antisemitic and racist? (Hint: Arabs killing Blacks in Sudan)
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Two stores in the Pacific Northwest? I was going to make a crack about never having heard of them, but... really, this story vanishes up its own irrelevance.
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They are a two-store cooperative, selling expensive organic and locally sourced foodstuffs. Here is their website. Right above the big Welcome! is a link to email the board.
Pakistani Kashmiris have demanded free access to the Indian-administered side if they hold a valid nationality certificate, as the government rejects their demands.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Titri Note near the Line of Control (LoC) separating the Indian and Pakistani parts of Kashmir, and condemned the restrictions imposed for their free passage to the other side of the LoC.
"People with valid nationality certificates in Indian and Pakistani Kashmir should be allowed to travel freely in both parts of Kashmir," chief of the Jammu and Kashmir National Awami Party, Liaqat Hayat, told AFP.
The demonstrators were stopped from massing at the border as the authorities reason that their policy was to allow only those who have relatives on the other side to cross.
The protesters demand that they should be allowed to roam freely between both parts of Kashmir if they hold a valid nationality certificate.
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[Dawn] President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday asked the authorities in Punjab to investigate the murder of two Christian brothers in Faisalabad and a controversy over demolition of a historic Hindu temple in Rawalpindi.
At the same time, president's media adviser and MNA Farahnaz Ispahani submitted an adjournment motion to the National Assembly's Secretariat seeking a debate "on the subject of rising persecution of minority communities of Pakistan."
Taking note of media reports about the murder of two brothers outside a court in Faisalabad on Monday, the president called for immediate steps to arrest the culprits.
Mr Zardari condemned the incident and said it had brought a bad name to the country. He said that life of every person was sacred and no-one could be allowed to take law into his own hands. He expressed sympathies with the families of Pastor Rashid Emmanuel and Sajjad Emmanuel and asked the provincial government to pay suitable compensation.
The brothers, accused of having distributed blasphemous material, were gunned down on the premises of a sessions court in Faisalabad on Monday.
Police had produced Rashid and his brother in the court to obtain their remand. The brothers were about to leave the place when they were gunned down.
The killing sparked violence in the slain brothers' native area of Daoodnagar where protesters pelted passing vehicles and shops with stones. At least 10 people were injured.
Later, the authorities imposed Section 144, banning protests and rallies in the district.
At around 10pm, announcements made from mosques in Daoodnagar asked local people to come out to 'fight rampaging' Christians. An exchange of fire was reported to have taken place between two groups of people in the area.
The president also took notice of a report about demolition of a temple in Rawalpindi and asked Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti to investigate the matter and report the factual position.
Hundreds of people belonging to the Hindu community took to the streets on Monday against the lessee of the ancient temple who had pulled down half of its structure for commercial purposes.
Muslims of the locality joined the protesters to express solidarity with them and blocked the road for about an hour. The protesters dispersed peacefully when police assured them that the demolition work would be stopped.
MNA Farahnaz, in her adjournment motion, a copy of which was made available to Dawn, termed the murder of two Christian brothers a "horrific incident" and stated that international polls had shown "a trend of increasing violence and brutality" towards minority communities in Pakistan.
"This is very disturbing and needs to be urgently addressed on the floor of the house," the motion says.
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stated that international polls had shown "a trend of increasing violence and brutality" towards minority communities in Pakistan.
They have to have outsiders to tell them something is wrong before they do anything.
[Dawn] Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had said on Tuesday that the government is taking steps to promote tolerance and religious harmony in order to eliminate extremism and sectarianism from the society.
Speaking at the launch ceremony of Zahid Malik's book Mazameen-e-Quran, the prime minister said the government is taking stepswhich will make Pakistan the centre of Islam.
He also said that the so-called western think tanks are labeling terrorism with the world's greatest and peace loving religion "Islam", which is an absolute lie.
The prime minister also said that the government will continue to promote inter-faith harmony.
Federal Minister of Religious Affairs, Hamid Saeed Kazmi and author Zahid Malik also addressed the audience.
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peace-loving religion and interfaith harmony.
always makes me laugh when they say that. and this is pakistan. If the world population were reduced to only two people one day, both muslims, indeed muslims of the same sect; one of them would be dead before nightfall.
[Dawn] Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit dismissed allegations by India on Tuesday, which claimed that Pakistan's establishment and David Headley were involved in the Mumbai attacks.
He said that the Indian establishment was giving statements against Pakistan deliberately as part of a well thought out plan.
In a notice from the Foreign Office, it was stated that it is essential that propoganda from both the countries should stop and the two nations should focus on the peace process initiated at the SAARC summit in Bhutan.
Abdul Basit also said that for peaceful conditions to exist in South Asia, Pakistan and India need to work together and relations between the two must prosper.
He said that India's National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon's statement was highly irresponsible and baseless.
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When proximity talks started in May, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared that the PA would fulfill its commitments, with a special focus on stopping incitement. But the ensuing two months have brought no change in the messages being transmitted from the Palestinian Authority and Fatah to Palestinians, according to a new report by Palestinian Media Watch.
An examination of the Palestinian leaders' statements, official media, children's programs and PA- and Fatah-controlled events shows that the conditions, principles and expectations set by the US and the UN Quartet for accepting the PA as a peace partner continue to be violated, the watchdog group said in the report.
BTW, after 62 years wouldn't it be time for pulling the plug for Western funding to Palestinians? Wouldn't it be time they started to earn their bread?
[Iran Press TV Latest] Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says his country would keep up its all-out efforts to push Israel into removing the years-long siege of the Gaza Strip.
Davutoglu met with Hamas' political leader, Khaled Meshaal in the Syrian capital, Damascus on Tuesday, AFP reported, citing Turkish outlets.
The Palestinian resistance movement quoted the minister as reaffirming that Turkey would "pursue its efforts to lift" the blockade, the agency added.
Israel imposed the blockade in June 2007 after Hamas came to power in the coastal sliver on the back of democratic elections, held a year before.
Turkey had earlier called on Israel to eliminate the siege so it could partially compensate for its May 31 killing of nine Turkish activists. The victims had set sail to break the siege as part of a hundreds-strong Ankara-backed flotilla.
The minister as well repeated other Turkish demands over the attack, saying Tel Aviv has to offer an apology, compensate the survivors and agree to an international probe into the assault.
Tel Aviv has so far strictly rejected the investigation, while insisting it would not seek Ankara's forgiveness.
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[Ma'an] Israel is prepared to attack Hizbullah in populated areas where weapons are stashed, Israel's army chief Gabi Ashkenazi said Tuesday.
"It is quiet now, but we are monitoring developments and are ready for all possibilities," Ashkenazi told Israel Radio, speaking from Rome where he is on an official visit.
Asheknazi said Israeli intelligence was surveying Hezbollah armament and weapons' storage in populated areas, adding that the Israeli army would "not hesitate" to bombard them should confrontations resurface.
"Hezbollah prefers to hide weapons in populated areas in an attempt to protect them from Israeli attacks, yet if war erupts again, we will have no other choice but to target these caches and their surroundings, and Hezbollah will be responsible for that," he added.
In response to an Israeli army statement saying it had maps and aerial photographs of what it described as a network of weapons depots and command centers in southern Lebanon, the Shiite movement warned that it had a list of Israeli military targets.
In early July, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned of "a resumption of hostilities" between Israel and Lebanon in a report obtained by Agence France-Presse.
Ban warned that "Amidst allegations of continued arms transfers to Hezbollah ... a perceptible increase in tension between the parties was recorded," in the 13th report on UN Resolution 1701, which gave a mandate to UN peacekeeping forces to operate in southern Lebanon and ensure an end to hostilities following the war.
The Security Council resolution effectively ended Israel's 2006 war with Hezbollah, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed.
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Actually, the saying was "Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" "Kill them [all]! Surely the Lord discerns which [ones] are his". And it was against Cathars who had murdered the papal legate sent to discuss the schism with their leaders.
[Ma'an] A Lebanese party denied reports on Tuesday that officials asked the Fatah leadership in Lebanon to recruit fighters into the movement, Lebanese media reported.
The Future Movement, the Lebanese premier Saad Hariri's party, said the allegation was "totally baseless," NOW Lebanon quoted a statement issued by party official Ahmad Hariri as saying.
"The Future Movement, which believes that a democratic political dialogue cannot be established under the shadow of the threat to use arms, affirms that the state of law is the guarantee for public life. It rejects using Lebanon as an arena for partisan or external interests," it said.
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has met Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal in Damascus, the Anatolia news agency reported on Tuesday, a move that threatens to fan fresh tensions with Israel.
A U.S. Internet company pulled the plug on the websites of a Canadian extremist today after receiving a complaint from Canadas Attorney-General.
[Dawn] Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had said on Tuesday that the government is taking steps to promote tolerance and religious harmony in order to eliminate extremism and sectarianism from the society.
[Ma'an] Israel is prepared to attack Hizbullah in populated areas where weapons are stashed, Israel's army chief Gabi Ashkenazi said Tuesday.
