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Excellent, he just signed his own death warrant. SF bodyguard teams are being redeployed away from Kabul, so that means he will have to rely on ANA troops. I would how long after that changeover he will become another Diem?
[Tolo News] President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai met with Pakistain's Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Gen. David Petraeus on Monday in Kabul
Gen. Kayani and Gen. David Petraeus, the US commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan provided the Afghanistan's Caped President with the information about the previous joint Afghanistan-Pakistain-NATO summit which was held in Kabul.
The purpose of this high profile Pakistaini military official's visit is to participate in the upcoming joint summit.
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OUTLOOK INDIA > [Ex-PAK ISI CHief]HAMID GUL: ONLY MULLAH OMAR CAN GUARANTEE NO TALIBAN THREAT TO US, i.e. Talib Terrstrikes agz the US = CONUS from AFPAK | THE US MUST TALK TO MULLAH OMAR.
The Taliban are the "MUJAHIDEEN OF AGHANISTAN", + should NOT, NEVER EVAR be underestimated, misread, or taken lightly by Anyone.
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea will not abandon its nuclear ambitions despite international sanctions, and may conduct its third nuclear test in the near future, a former senior North Korean official said in an interview aired Saturday.
"North Korea believes nuclear arms are its most important defensive tool, and the country will not abandon its nuclear ambitions," Hwang Jang-yop said in an interview with the South Korean national broadcaster KBS.
Hwang, a former secretary of the ruling Workers' Party and the highest-ranking North Korean official to defect to South Korea, is the author of North Korea's "juche" or self-reliance ideology that forms the backbone of the country's regime. The 87-year-old man also said the communist state may conduct a nuclear test in defiance of international sanctions.
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TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > IRRAWADDY: BURMA NUCLEAR PLANS A SECURITY THREAT TO REGION, espec to THAILAND,So says ISIS Seminar.
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I sincerely hope some non-moron in our giverment will realise what a perfect opportunity has been handed to them, drop a real nuke on their "Test" It'll reduce their efforts to rubble(Hopefully along with all their scientists and any officials watching) and eliminate their Nuke ambitions, hopefully forever.
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Nah. Keep telling them that we can't detect the tests, and we don't believe they're working. Hopefully they'll work through a significant fraction of their fissionable supplies, and we might even score an actual accident with engineering casualties.
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TOPIX > PLA CONDUCTS/CARRIES OUT NIGHT DRILL IN YELLOW SEA UNDER SCENARIO OF AN ATTACK BY THE US.
and
* TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > NORTH KOREA RENEWS VOW/THREAT OF NUCLEAR RESPONSE TO US-ROK DRILLS.
All together, Boyz, wid feeling - Again-n-n...!?
IOW, the USS "GEORGE WASHINGTON" CVN = "THE MIGHTY/HOLY GEORGE" ISN'T SAFE YET.
* SAME > SOUTH KOREA VOWS TO "ACT RESOLUTELY" AGZ [new]PROVOCATIONS FROM NORTH, espec given that the DPRK hasn't yet formally acknowlegded or apologized to the ROK for the "CHEONAN" attack.
VERSUS
* WMF > USN WAR COLLEGE PROFESSOR TOSHI YOSHITARO [aka JUN WELLS]: IFF THE CPLA DF-21D CAN ACCURATELY PENETRATE INTO THE FAR PACIFIC, THEN CHINA + CPLA CAN STRIKE ANY MAJOR US NAVAL OR OTHER MILITARY BASE ANYWHERE AROUND THE PACIFIC RIM. SUCCESSFUL LR ATTACKS OF CPLA DF-21D'S AGZ INCOMING USN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS CAN OFFSET THE ABILITY OF THE US TO STRATEGICALLY PROJECT MIL FORCES TOWARDS CHINA + EAST ASIA FROM CONUS.
* WAFF > USN WAR COLLEGE PROFESSOR: THE POWER + DOMINANCE OF THE USN AIRCRAFT CARRIER MAY END IN YEAR 2015 OR SHORTLY AFTER IFF CHINA + PLA CONTINUE TO MAKE SERIOUS IMPROVEMENTS TO ITS LR MISSLE FORCES.
* WAFF > US WAS THE ORIGINAL "CARING GODFATHER" TO THE PHILIPPINES, VIETNAM DURING THE LAST CENTURY, BUT WHOSE ECON INVESTMENTS ONLY BENEFITTED THE US, NOT THE FILIPINO OR VIETNAMESE PEOPLE. THE PHILIPPINES + VIETNAM ARE REPEATING THEIR MISTAKE BY NOT COOPER WID CHINA AGZ THE USA IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS DISPUTES.
[Kyodo: Korea] A U.S. official on Monday lashed out the firing of over 100 artillery rounds by North Korea into the Yellow Sea near the maritime border with South Korea, while noting that Pyongyang is likely to take more provocative action despite repeated warnings not to do so by the United States. ""Certainly, the firing of a very large number of rounds in the region is the last thing that we want to see and is certainly not the best way to reduce tensions,"" State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told a press conference.
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ION WMF > [Various Medias]CHINESE EXPERTS: US NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER "USS GEORGE WASHINGTON" SHOULD BE PREPARED/READY IFF THE US DECIDES TO SEND IT INTO THE YELLOW SEA. CHINA WARNS US THERE MAY BE "NECESSARY CONSEQUENCES" FOR ITS DECISION.
* SAME > JAPANESE SCHOLARS: WHOMEVER CONTROLS OR DOMINATES THE YELLOW SEA CONTROLS NORTHEAST ASIA. SINO-JAPANESE, ETC. HISTORICAL BATTLES HAVE LED TO THE RISE OR FALL OF ASIAN DYNASTIES + POWERFUL EMPIRES.
* TAIWAN IS "THE USA/USDOD IN CHINA" AND ASIA. A US CONTROLLED "NUCLEAR FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" + NUCLEAR SOUTH,SOUTHEAST ASIA ULTIMATELY MEANS A "WEAK CHINA".
* TAIWANESE MEDIAS: CHINA, NORTH KOREA FTA BILATERAL AGREEMENT MAY TURN NORTH KOREA INTO A CHIN-CONTROLLED "ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY" + "FOURTH PROVINCE" OF NORTHEAST CHINA [industrial sector].
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Certainly, the firing of a very large number of rounds in the region is the last thing that we want to see and is certainly not the best way to reduce tensions.
Well, in the spirit of compromise and tolerance, give them some of ours to replenish their stocks. We'll have to ship them via ship then by air though, so they might not be intact after they land on your positions.
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About the only asset that the Norks have are dams, and if they had a dam break, the wet willies of the world would snivelingly offer other people's money to build them a new one.
I figure the best way to do it would be to sneak some kind of torpedo shaped slow drill into the dam lake. It drifts to the bottom of the dam, then starts slowly eroding concrete.
Since it's not going to be the best concrete in the world to start with, once it passes the critical point the water will do the rest, while destroying the evidence.
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"Certainly, the firing of a very large number of rounds in the region is the last thing that we want to see and is certainly not the best way to reduce tensions, and, and, and if they don't stop, we'll be very very cross!"
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This festering sore the Korean peninsula is going to continue to fester for awhile. "Certainly, the firing of a very large number of rounds in the region is the last thing that we want to see and is certainly not the best way to reduce tensions,"
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What about the fish and the seals? I haven't heard any thoughts about what 100 artillery rounds would do to them. Also, the sound waves from the rounds would certainly harm whales for 100's of miles around. Any thoughts for them? What a heartless group of people the N. Koreans are. Sic the Sierra Club or WWW on them immediately!!!!
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WAFF > CHINESE GEENRAL SAYS US CARRIER IN THE YELLOW SEA MAY RESULT IN RETALIATION [mil response/strike].
* SAME WAFF > SOUTH KOREA WARNS NORTH OVER ARTILLERY BARRAGE [Armistice violation].
* CHINESE MIL FORUM Thread > USS "GEORGE WASHINGTON" VERSUS DF-21D'S.
POSTER = indic that the DF-21's = DF-21D's ARE ACTUALLY A MIL OR MISSLE DECOY/DIVERSION FOR THE CPLA'S "TRUE CARRIER-KILLER" THE DH-10A ABOVE-WATER TLCM/LACM, as converted + used in joint attack wid the DF-21 SSM by the CPLA for ANTI-SHIP/NAVAL WARFARE.
* Also from CMF > [HenryMakow.com]CONCEALED FRAUD/FRAUD UPDATE! AUSTRALIA IS ACTUALLY A CONCEALED BRITISH COLONY, along wid NZ + Canada.
ARTIC = The above three "sovereign/independent" Countries were never actually given true independence from the UK vee COMMONWEALTH TREATIISES + MEMBERSHIP, thus legally? are only locally-autonomous? Colonies? of Britain ergo extensions of a [shadow/stealthy] worldiwde British Empire which still exists.
Robert Gates, US defence secretary, on Monday announced what could be the biggest cuts to the Pentagon bureaucracy since September 11, as he declared that the era of "endless money" had come to an end.
Mr Gates announced cuts of almost 30 per cent on outside contractors, and curbs on military intelligence agencies and his own staff, as well as the proposed abolition of a military command and a reduction in the ranks of generals and admirals in Europe and beyond.
The cuts would lead to the loss of thousands of jobs but could be fiercely resisted in Congress.
"The culture of endless money that has taken hold must be replaced by a culture of savings and restraint," Mr Gates told a press conference. But he added: "My greatest fear is that in economic tough times that people will see the defence budget as the place to solve the nation's deficit problems, to find money for other parts of the government."
The US's looming fiscal crunch is almost certain to end the breakneck expansion in military expenditure that has nearly doubled the base defence budget in 10 years to $549bn (414bn, £345bn) for 2011.
Sorta like how the entire federal budget has doubled in that time ...
When the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are taken into account, total spending is more than $700bn a year.
Although he did not specify a figure for total savings from his latest move, the Pentagon chief's goal is to find enough savings from reduced overheads to increase core defence spending by 2 to 3 per cent a year with only a 1 per cent annual rise in the overall budget.
Painting a dark picture of the global landscape, Mr Gates said slashing the budget overall would be "disastrous" at a time when the world was becoming more unstable.
Those of us who oppose its construction are not against Islam at all. We are against radical Islam. And if you think that Imam Rauf is the gentle bridge-builder cleric that even as astute observers as Mayor Bloomberg seem to believe him to be, then I have a cathedral and synagogue in Mecca to sell you. Sure, his books English title: Whats Right with Islam Is Whats Right With America sounds benign enough. But the original title when published in Malaysia was more revealing of his mosques true symbolism. To the non-English speaking world the books title is: A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of America Post-9/11. Any U.S. politician care to explain that one? No? Then how about where hes getting the $1oo million to finance the project? Still no takers huh?
Obama. You know, the President of the United States. The liberal extremist who is suing any state that tries to secure the border of the United States of America.
In his letter, Perry asked Obama to send more resources to the region to "step up and finally do what is needed to secure our borders."
"We cannot afford to allow these (Mexican drug) cartels to believe they're free to extend their reach across the border onto American soil," Perry's letter said.
The union that represents rank-and-file field agents at U.S. Catch & Release Immigration and Customs Enforcement has unanimously passed a "vote of no confidence" for the agency's leadership, saying ICE has "abandoned" its core mission of protecting the public to support a political agenda favoring Democratic voter registrationa mnesty.
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Soon as Hussein landed in Texas and stepped out out of the plane, Rick Perry was at the bottom of the steps to tell him how Texans feel. Hussein can make no excuses now. He has been publicly notified.
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Watch the video and you'll see Perry's death grip handshake hold on Bambi as he desperately tries to disengage. Then when Perry attempts to hand him his border solution letter, Bambi refuses to accept it, thus ensuring the plausible deniability of any immigration problem.
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Good for Governor Perry. Let's see more than 60% of Americans are opposed to Obama(Dont)Care, various bailouts, Immigration NOT being enforced, and the building of a mosque by our enemies in NYC. I say enemies because if they were our friends they would not continue this insult. Hussein doesn't have a very good track record at this time and getting worse. November faster please.
A new survey released Thursday says 61 percent of New York state residents oppose the location for the Cordoba House, an Islamic community center and mosque to be built in Lower Manhattan, just two blocks away from Ground Zero. The poll results came just two days after the City of New York gave builders the go-ahead for center's development.
The survey, conducted by the Siena College Research Institute, reveals that only 26 percent of respondents support the project.
"Large majorities of all New Yorkers, every party, region and age give a thumbs-down to the Cordoba House Mosque being built near the Ground Zero site," said Dr. Don Levy, the institute's director, in a press release. "But only just over half of all New Yorkers, even city residents say they have been following the news about the proposed mosque closely."
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Legal or political maneuvers are not the answer. Instead, apply lots of 'sunshine' - investigate the players and the money and make it all public. Also, contempt and derision at the popular level - but only at this project and its proponents. If things work right, a bunch of workers and suppliers (and union/Mafia trash haulers) will make good money and the radicals will end up with a big, embarassingly-empty mosque.
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Greg Gutfield is working to open a gay bar catering to Muslims, right next door to the mosque, complete with a no-alcohol floor. After all, tolerance and understanding is what the mosque location is all about, no?
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I still find it interesting that they want to call it 'Cordoba House'. Córdoba was the Islamic Capital of the Caliphate in Al-Andalus.
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Poll?
Why would any official, elected or appointed, give a rat's arse about the opinion of the majority?
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Our Constitutional freedoms are not a suicide pact. These muzzies act we should like them jabbing their thumbs in our eyes and giving us the finger with the other hand. Just because Bloomberg suffers from some kind of guilt doesn't mean we should like him inflicting it on the rest of us. Get a friggin therapist. A small minority asserts its will over the majority. Seems to be the way of the U.S. right now. Weasels.
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#4: Poll? Why would any official, elected or appointed, give a rat's arse about the opinion of the majority? Posted by: bigjim-CA
Because if they don't start paying attention to "the majority", it will be tar and feathers time. The politicians may think we're "beyond that", but I don't think "the majority" think that.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki acknowledged he was "part of the problem" holding up the formation of a new Iraq government but challenged allies and opponents to find a better candidate for the top job.
Five months after an election Iraqis hoped would underpin governance, Maliki told Reuters Iraq's security was stable and said investor confidence had not been shaken by lengthy and so far fruitless talks for a coalition government.
But he said that his opponents were attempting to weaken the premiership and said this could destabilize Iraq and bring back militants linked to al-Qaeda as well as the militias that were involved in Iraq's sectarian slaughter in 2006-07.
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[Ma'an] Relations between Hamas and Islamic Jihad are "not tense at all," a Hamas spokesman said Monday.
Sami Abu Zuhri told journalists that the relationship between the two Islamist movements "is strategic. We believe there are stable relations with Islamic Jihad at the highest levels."
The spokesman said his movement consults Islamic Jihad on matters related to "the Palestinian people's interest, and there is field coordination between the movements as efforts to develop better relations are ongoing."
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"Arafat-stable" or "stable-stable"
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Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Zuhri has accused the Palestinian Authority of undermining Islam, as tensions between the two rival factions appear to persist.
Abu Zuhri slammed the government of caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad for harassing worshipers at mosques and lowering the volume of sound systems at mosques during the call to prayers, Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported on Monday.
The Hamas spokesman further reiterated that the government of Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas not only collaborates with the Israeli occupiers but also fights Islamic teachings and beliefs.
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Abbas responded by dismissing the democratically-elected government of Ismail Haniya and formed a parallel cabinet in Ramallah.
So are there two cabinets now or just one after he dismissed the elected.
[alarabiya.net] Iran has offered support to Lebanon's army, a week after a deadly cross-border clash between Lebanon and Israel which prompted U.S. lawmakers to block funding to the Lebanese military.
The offer from Iran, which supports Lebanon's militant Shiite group Hezbollah, could fuel Western concern that Tehran is increasing its influence near Israel's northern border.
Israel said it had complained to Washington and Paris about funds to the Lebanese army after a skirmish left two Lebanese soldiers, a Lebanese journalist and a senior Israeli officer dead in the worst border violence since a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
Iran's ambassador to Lebanon met Lebanese army chief Jean Kahwaji on Monday and said Tehran was ready to "cooperate with the Lebanese army in any area that would help the military in performing its national role in defending Lebanon".
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to visit Beirut next month.
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See also TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > IRAN OFFERS TO REPLACE US AID TO LEBANON ARMY.
* SAME/MEMRI > [AQAP/AQIY] AL QAEDA INSTRUCTS SYMPATHIZERS IN SAUDI ARMED FORCES TO ASSASSINATE KING ABDULLAH + WESTERN CITIZENS [ + also KSA Royal family members + Govt Pols]. AQAP/AQIY claims to had received "STAY-OR-FIGHT" communiques from KSA mil members on whether to stay in their position within the Saudi Armed Forces, or else run off to join AQ + Jihad.
* ALso from MEMRI > [AL-Manar TV] EX-LEBANON MINISTER WIAM WAHHAD: IN THE EVENT OF [Lebanon] CIVIL WAR [or Plan for Partition] SYRIAN TANKS WILL ENTER LEBANON + TAKE UNIFIL + OTHER MAJOR UN ORGANIZATIONS HOSTAGE. UNIFIL IS FULL OF MOSSAD SPIES. Also warns that IHO LEBANON CIVIL WAR MAY EXPAND TO REST TO REST OF ARAB-MUSLIM WORLD.
* WORLDNEWS > [Pravda.RU] HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS + ISLAMIC JIHAD TO STAND UP AGZ ISRAEL? Israel-Lebanon "Tree" clash may had meant more than meets the eye.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard is digging mass graves for American soldiers in preparation for a war over its nuclear programme, according to a former senior commander.
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Yawn. These muzzies certainly like to bloviate. What no fields of boiling oil or locust plagues? For some reason I picture the French soldier in the Monty Python movie the Holy Grail, the castle scene.
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Again, even presum that Iran does formally declare that it is both a NUCENERGY + espec a NUCWEAPS STATE come Year 2012, it will still need a proper lead time to dev an "SUFFICIENT" OR MINIMAL NUC ARSENAL TO DETER, LET ALONE DEFEAT OR DESTROY, A MAJOR MILPOL EXTERNAL THREAT [Conventional or Nuclear or Mixed, etc.]. Also, "RISING IRAN" = MOUD + KHAMENI + MULLAHS DESIRE "MANIFEST DSTINY" = IRAN-CENTRIC "GREAT STATE/SUPERPOWER" REGIONAL, INTERNAT HEGEMONY, which by definition means or infers NO NATION-, DESTINY DESTROYING MAJOR WAR OF ANY KIND WID ANYBODY FOR IRAN THRU YEAR 2050 [iff not beyond].
IOW, the REAL THREAT from any 2012 NUC IRAN = "ROGUE STATES", directly andor indirectly, is via NUCLEAR MILITANCY-TERRORISM [Nukes-WMDS MilTerr Cells + Groups + WW Networks, Aligned].
* BEFORE 2050 > purvue of HUMAN VANITY, hence by extension HUMAN-DERIVED GOVT + POLITIX, as defined or supported by DIALECTICISM + "MURPHY'S LAWS".
To wit,
VARIOUS NETTERS > argue that whatever Radical Islam = US Enemies,etal. have in mind as per detriment to the US, MUST OCCUR WHILE POTUS BAMMER IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE???
E.g. GLENN BECK SHOW AM > Becky gener argued that since AMER'S ENEMIES LIKELY ARE UNABLE TO MILITARILY DEFEAT AMERICA IN OPEN BATTLE, THEIR ALTERNATIVE IS TO DEFEAT OR DESTROY AMER BY CONTROLLING ITS POLICY + POL, ETC. DECISIONS, i.e. TURN AMER'S VALUES + INSTITUTIONS, ETC. INTO WEAPONS AGZ AMER + THEMSELVES.
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DIALY TIMES.PK > IRAN TO ARM OWN "BLADERUNNER" BOATS [UK-designed BladeRunner 51's > also to be mass produced]
ARTIC = Iran's Milyuhns + Dilyuhns of speedy armed BR 51's will EVERYWHERE ANYWHERE + NOWHERE in DA GULF VERSUS THE US-ALLIES.
* Lest we fergit, NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAIN > NONe shall see the Powers of Asia destroyed until the SEVEN/SEVENTH holds the Line.
Or as I + 1960-70's GUAM TAOTAMONAS like to acribe it, ALMOST-AL-GORE-N-M16-IN-VIETNAM OLIVER STONE'S "PLATOON" + 1980's MTV "WHITE RABBIT" Video.
To paraphrase CHARLIE SHEEN as "TAYLOR" > "There were other Battalions in the Valley, we weren't the only One, but somewhere out there was an entire NVA Regiment".
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, REMEMBER WHAT THE DOORKNOB SAID...FEED YOOR HEAD, FEED YOUR HEAD!
WILEM DAFOE as "ELIAS" > [human wave]"The Enemy is coming...Set yourselves up here, here, + here along this Line. Iff any of them get thru, you're all truly F *** ed"!
[Al Arabiya Latest] The U.S. Congress should block roughly $100 million in aid to Lebanon's military until it can be sure the country's armed forces are not working with Hezbollah, a top lawmaker said Monday.
Pointing to last week's deadly clash between Israeli and Lebanese troops along the countries' shared border, Representative Eric Cantor warned the lines between the Shiite movement and Lebanon's armed forces had become "blurred."
"The days of ignoring the LAF's (Lebanese Armed Forces') provocations against Israel and protection of Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon are over," said Cantor, the number two Republican in the House of Representatives.
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How about a $100 million in pennies drooped from air onto LAF headquarters?
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#1: How about a $100 million in pennies drooped from air onto LAF headquarters? Posted by: g(r)omgoru
I once suggested the US do that in Vietnam - drop pennies, but not necessarily $100 million worth. A penny dropped from 40,000 feet reaches terminal velocity of 768 feet/second, and will penetrate 12 inches of concrete. They also don't fall straight down - they spin, flatten out and 'sail', and do all kinds of other weird things. Fill up the bomb bay of a B-52 or B-1 and drop them over the south half of Beirut. The area where they strike will probably have to be abandoned as they slice into water mains, knock down power lines, take out windows, and riddle buildings with holes - not to mention what they do to "soft" things like human bodies. Dropping pennies would definitely be an act of war.
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Iran and Syria have voiced their unrelenting support for the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements, saying it is the only way to confront Israel.
Ali Akbar Velayati, senior foreign policy advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Sunday to discuss regional issues.
Velayati and Assad also urged Iraqi politicians to promptly form a new government and called for unity between the Lebanese army and Hezbollah against any Israeli aggression, a Press TV correspondent in Damascus reported.
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The Iranian intelligence minister says the arrogant powers of the world are spending billions of dollars on fueling ethnic conflicts to destabilize Iran's border.
"In the past 25 years, more than 80 centers and institutions for soft war have been founded and around 2 billion dollars has been spent on them annually," Hojjatoleslam Heidar Moslehi said on Monday.
The minister added that the enemy attempted to employ various methods including "fueling ethnic and religious sensitivities especially in border areas, ..., efforts to spread delinquency among students through satellite [channels], the Internet, vulgar books and..." to corrupt Iran's education system.
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"I invested $17bn and all I got was this T-Shirt!"
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran rejected on Monday charges of spying for the Islamic republic brought by a Kuwaiti court against six men and a woman, saying the defendants have been falsely accused.
"What has been said is absolutely false and they have been unable to prove anything," Iranian Intelligence Minister Haydar Moslehi was quoted as saying by ISNA news agency.
"Lies! All lies!"
A Kuwaiti court on August 3 charged the seven individuals, among them a Kuwaiti soldier, with spying for Iran but the accused denied the charges alleging they had confessed under pressure.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says the US is the main sponsor of terrorism and that it tries to cover up this fact by leveling accusations against other countries.
The US State Department in its annual report released on Aug. 5, 2010 accused Iran of supporting terrorism.
Ramin Mehmanparast on Monday rejected the State Department report and said, "Examples of US actions show that this country has been the biggest sponsor of terrorism over the past three decades but by leveling baseless accusations against other states it attempts to cover up its own actions."
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someone give me afamily member who is serving in iraq or afghan how too send them something.
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I used to put two plastic pints of Smirnoff in every box I sent to my little brother in Iraq.
The seargeant would see him hightailing it back to his quarters with a big smile on his face and usually blurt out something like-
"you little mother f*cker!!"
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From the article: "Lynn Becker, a spokeswoman for the bill's sponsor, Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the law did not intend to restrict mailing tobacco to soldiers."
As usual, the congress critters don't bother to read the bills they pass, let alone try to understand them.
At least this isn't a ploy to keep servicemen from smoking. I mean, somehow, when you are facing IEDs, ambushes, etc. every day, the prospect of lung cancer in 20-30 years seems really remote. (No, I don't smoke. I sympathize with those who do, though.)
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Whether prisoners of Islamic law or promoters or Islamic law, such women are beyond the reach of Americas ineffectual attempts at nation-building unless, of course, the nation being built is also wholly de-Sharified. Short of a intergalactic missionary movement enforced by robo-conquistadors, that aint going to happen.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran rejected on Monday charges of spying for the Islamic republic brought by a Kuwaiti court against six men and a woman, saying the defendants have been falsely accused.
