To the U.S. Army soldiers and Marines serving here, some things seem so obviously true that they are beyond debate. Among those perceived truths: The restrictive rules of engagement that they have to fight under have made serving in combat far more dangerous for them, while allowing the Taliban to return to a position of strength.
"If they use rockets to hit the [forward operating base] we can't shoot back because they were within 500 meters of the village. If they shoot at us and drop their weapon in the process we can't shoot back," said Spc. Charles Brooks, 26, a U.S. Army medic with 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, in Zabul province.
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An ROE like this lowers morale, and when morale is lowered, war crimes start to happen, and not just incidental crap like violating the ROE.
Given this situation, I would vie for plausible deniability black ops. In this case third party mercenaries, with instructions to "kill anyone who needs killing." Give them scopes with little video cams attached, which feed the game films to a flash chip.
They're paid a flat rate, plus a bonus for every hit that qualifies.
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Anonymoose, that sounds an awful lot like the order we've heard the Special Forces are operating under... and who knows what the Afghan Special Forces are doing, where, and to whom.
Egyptian authorities have shut down at least twelve private TV channels and have detained dozens of opposition figures in the run-up to the upcoming elections
Tuesday, Egypt's main satellite operator the channels were shut down for violating broadcasting licenses. The bans by NileSat were called "corrective measures" to protect the Egyptian and Arab viewers from the offending channels. NileSat warned 20 other channels as well.
Last week Egypt's telecommunications regulator set new rules for companies sending text messages to multiple mobile phones. These companies must now obtain licenses. Activists charge that this will stifle voter mobilization.
Meanwhile, according to Muslim Brotherhood sources at least 164 of their election campaign supporters have been jailed ahead of the elections. A security official unofficially confirmed that more than 150 members have been rounded up.
[Al Arabiya] Hamburg may soon become the first German state officially to recognize Islam as a religious community and give Mohammedans the same legal rights as Christians and Jews in dealing with the local administration.
Four years of quiet negotiations about building mosques, opening Mohammedan cemeteries and teaching Islam in public schools are nearing an end just when Germany is embroiled in a noisy debate about Islam and the integration of Mohammedan immigrants.
The deal seems set to go through, but the national debate on Islam and local political changes could make its approval more difficult than expected, politicians and Mohammedan leaders said.
"It's important for us that this agreement makes clear that we are part of this society," said Zekeriya Altug, chairman of the Hamburg branch of DITIB, a Turkish-German mosque network that is one of Germany's largest Mohammedan organizations.
Germany has about 4 million Mohammedans, mostly of Turkish origin, in its 82 million population. Long treated as migrant workers due eventually to return to their countries of origin, they are now an established minority that wants equal rights.
The agreement in Germany's second-largest metropolis, a city-state in the country's federal system, would set out their rights and also their duties, such as consulting neighborhood residents before building mosques or erecting minarets.
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DITIB is not a 'German Muslim Organization.'
It is a 'branch of the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Ankara.'
DITIB Imams are payed employees of the Turkish state. DITIB Mosque sermons are written by the Turkish government, a friend of Hamas and Iran, and an enemy of Israel.
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Woah, you mean to tell me Germany isn't fully aware of what it's doing? When have they ever done that? besides the entire 20th century...
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Merkel's statement re multiculturalism was a clumsy attempt at triangulation. Her shady maneuvers that resulted in Mr Sarrazin's firing have created an electoral backlash that she had not expected.
Next March there are important regional elections. Her coalition will, in all likelihood suffer a devastating defeat which she won't survive politically.
Here's a source re what probably are her real political views:
A controversial book by former German Central Bank board member Thilo Sarrazin claiming that Muslims were undermining German society thrust the subject into the spotlight last month.
The German government has distanced itself from Wilders and the invitation by Stadtkewitz to invite him to Berlin.
"It is not our style to utterly condemn any religion," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said through her spokesman Steffen Seibert in Berlin.
Merkel had previously told the committee on European affairs of the Bundestag parliament that she regretted the formation of a minority Dutch coalition government which depends on Wilders' party to win key votes.
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she regretted the formation of a minority Dutch coalition government which depends on Wilders' party to win key votes.
Whenever that happens the government is not strong enough to govern effectively and constrained by prior alliances in terms of bargaining with those parties not in the governing coalition, the main weakness of the parliamentary system.
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I agree that this is indeed a weakness of parliamentary democracy.
Merkel however specifically criticized Wilders' participation, not the minority status of the newly formed government.
She would not have disapproved of a leftist coalition or a minority government supported by a leftist party.
This was a rude and unusual interference in the internal democratic process of an allied nation. More so given the general difficulty forming a stable government after the Dutch election.
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"she regretted the formation of a minority Dutch coalition government which depends on Wilders' party to win key votes"
And how exactly is the election of the government of Holland the business of Germans, Angela?
Dreaming if the glory days when Germany ruled that country, too?
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DAILY TIMES.PK > [German Federal Crime Office = BKA] GERMANY HAS [more than] 1000 TERRORISTS, domestically in training + waiting to strike.
ARTIC > BKA anticipates a RISE IN [Islam-led?]DOMESTIC MILITANCY AS IN TANDEM WID AN INCREASE IN XENOPHOBIA???
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > MUSHARAFF: US COULD HAVE AVOIDED [curr Regional, Worldwide] BIN LADEN HUNT, iff only it had given formal diplomatic recognition to the former Taliban-controlled Govt. in AGHANISTAN.
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Back on topic, in Germany official recognition of Islam would require a special surtax on registered Muslims to pay for building maintenance and salaries for religious officials, just like the Catholics, Lutherans, and Jews now get. When we lived there Mr. Wife had to unregister us, after the company's international personnel person registered us as part of the transfer paperwork. Not only is Mr. Wife not Jewish, but we take the American approach that our religious beliefs are no business of the government. Nor was the 10% income surtax something we were willing to pay, considering we didn't belong to a local congregation.
[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian commander says Nicholas Sarkozy's compliance with Washington and the Israeli lobby will come at the expense of his presidency.
"Sarkozy's blind obedience to the administration of [US President Barack] and the Zionist lobby has brought about serious problems for the French and has distanced the French community from the country's honorable past," said the deputy head of Iran's Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri stressed that the inefficiency of the French government will prompt the French people to seek to unseat Sarkozy, IRNA reported.
France is the scene of violent protests against the government's new pension reform plan that would increase the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62.
However, The infamous However... Sarkozy says the changes will go ahead as the French Senate is expected to give the final vote over the bill by the end of the week.
"As the days pass, the cultural, economic, political and security troubles increase and the Sarkozy government is incapable of controlling its collapse," Jazayeri continued.
The French government is too weak to bear the people's pressure and demonstrations and he will have no choice but to step down power, the Iranian commander said.
A poll published in Le Parisien newspaper showed 71% of French people support the strikers. 71% want to retire early ... and have the other 29% support them.
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71% want to retire early ... and have the other 29% support them.
It's not a bad plan, provided you allow and entice the 29% to be productive as allgitout.
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I managed to retire early... although Mr. Wife has the oddest idea that this has somehow made him happier. ;-) Perhaps that 71% should take up housewifery, too.
[Iran Press TV] The leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has threatened to end its unilateral ceasefire with the Turkish government if operations against the terrorist group continue.
"We will wait another 15 days. If something positive develops, we will extend the unilateral ceasefire. If there are no concrete steps, we will evaluate developments and do what we have to do to defend ourselves," PKK leader Murat Karayilan was quoted by Britain's Independent newspaper.
Speaking from his hideout in northern Iraq, Karayilan accused Ankara of using the ceasefire to "surround and destroy" the krazed killer group.
The remarks come amid recurrent fatal clashes between PKK faceless myrmidons and Turkish soldiers in southeast Turkey despite a late September announcement by the terrorist group extending a one-month ceasefire announced earlier for an indefinite period.
The krazed killer leader warned that the continuation of military action against PKK forces would lead to the mobilization of the Kurdish community in Turkey.
"The issue is not between the Turkish state and the PKK. It is between the Turkish state and the Kurdish people," he went on to say.
More than 45,000 people have been killed since the PKK resorted to terrorist measures against Ankara in 1984 to establish separate homeland in Turkey's southeast.
Turkey, as well as the European Union and much of the international community, have listed the Kurdistan Workers Party as a terrorist organization.
The faceless myrmidons launch their attacks from the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq, where Israeli elements and institutions are known to operate.
Earlier in June, Sedat Laciner, the head of Turkish think tank International Strategic Research Organization, said Israeli intelligence agents and military retirees had been sighted providing training to PKK faceless myrmidons in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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A CIA officer had been warned that the Jordanian double-agent who blew himself up at a US base in Afghanistan might have been working for al-Qaeda, yet did not tell his superiors.
An internal inquiry into the attack at the base in Khost found a series of communications breakdowns, according to CIA director Leon Panetta. It discovered that a US agent in Amman was given a warning by Jordanian intelligence about the bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi. However the tip-off was dismissed because he suspected the Jordanian officer was jealous of a colleague's relationship with Balawi, according to the inquiry. The Jordanian officer even warned the CIA officer that Balawi "may be trying to lure us into an ambush."
The CIA inquiry found there were serious security lapses at the base. Balawi was not screened at the perimeter, and many officers gathered to greet him because he was considered reliable. Officers drew their guns when Balawi's exit from his vehicle aroused suspicions but the Jordanian detonated his vest soon afterward.
Mr Panetta said that none of the officials involved would be fired or disciplined, including the agent who did not pass on the warning. He claimed that the report indicated "systemic failures" rather than individual error, and that sweeping structural changes were called for.
(APP): President Asif Ali (Ten Percent) Zardari Tuesday night directed the Interior Minister Rehman Malik to submit a comprehensive report on the situation in Karachi.He also directed that those behind the present spree of assassinations be apprehended and brought to justice regardless of their political affiliations.President Asif Ali Zardari issued the directives during a meeting of the senior leadership of PPP present in Islamabad.The meeting presided over by the Party Co-Chairman President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani discussed the overall political situation and law and order situation in the country.
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(KUNA) -- The United States sees high-level talks with Pakistain as ways to mend rising tensions in bilateral relations, a top US official confirmed Tuesday.
Frank Ruggerio, US deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistain, said at a press briefing that the high-level talks will be led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pak counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
The meeting, which starts from Wednesday through Friday, is the third in a series of strategic dialogue meetings between Washington and Pakistain. It will try to smooth tensions over American military incursions across the border from Afghanistan and allegations that Islamabad is not doing enough to target Talibs.
The incident prompted Pakistain to close a key Afghan border crossing to NATO supplies for about 10 days. The US eventually apologized, saying the pilots mistook the soldiers for Islamic myrmidons.
"Were coming through a period of tension in the US-Pakistain relationship, and the strategic dialogue provides a venue to really exchange views with the Paks on a strategic level and to move beyond tensions," he told news hounds, calling the talks a "mechanism" to build trust in the US-Pakistain relations.
He added that within the talks the US "supports Pakistains efforts to strengthen democratic institutions, foster economic development, expand opportunity and defeat turban groups who threaten both nations common security." In addition, officials will discuss the US response to the summer's massive flooding disaster in Pakistain. The US donated nearly USD 390 million in emergency aid and provided 26 military helicopters for rescue and relief missions.
"We continue to work very closely with the government of Pakistain, its civil and military leadership, on responding to the floods. And this is really just another example of the strategic nature of the relationship with Pakistain, " Ruggerio said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] David Headley, a US informant who scouted locations to help Islamic fascistiprepare for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, told Indian interrogators this summer that members of Pakistain's military intelligence, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), were closely involved in planning the assault, according to the Guardian newspaper and News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency.
Headley said ISI agents met members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistain-based armed group responsible for the attack, "dozens" of times beforehand. The ISI supported the Mumbai operation because it hoped that a spectacular attack would provide jihadi groups in the contested state of Kashmir with a "sense of achievement" and would shift the "theatre of violence" from Pakistain to India.
Such groups, including the Lashkar, are believed to maintain ties to the ISI and Pak government, unlike more extemist groups, such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda, which pose a threat to Islamabad.
The ISI hoped that a successful Lashkar operation would halt ongoing attrition from the Lashkar to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, Headley claimed.
The new allegations of ISI involvement in the Mumbai assault come from a 109-page classified report by the Indian government that documents Headley's interrogation in the United States in June. The Guardian and AP both obtained a copy of the report.
The well-executed, three-day operation by 10 attackers included raids on two luxury hotels, a major train station and a Jewish outreach centre. More than 160 people died and hundreds more were maimed.
The US and India have blamed the Lashkar for the Mumbai attacks, and the lone surviving attacker has admitted the group carried out the operation.
Allegations of ISI ties to Lashkar are not new; in July, Indian Home Secretary GK Pillai said members of the group are the "clients and creations" of the ISI and that the Pak spy agency was "literally controlling and co-ordinating" the Mumbai attack "from the beginning until the end".
Pakistain has admitted that parts of the attack were planned on its soil and has jugged Pak citizens as a result.
Though Headley claimed he met several ISI agents and was, in one meeting, given $25,000 by an ISI handler to finance one of his reconnaisance missions in India, he also indicated that high-ranking ISI officers may not have known about the Mumbai operation.
After the attacks, Lieutenant-General Shuja Pasha, the ISI's director-general, visited a senior Lashkar member in prison to try to "understand" the operation. Headley reportedly took this as an indication that Pasha had not known about the attack, or at least its scope and aims.
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But, but, but Joy Behar and Whoopy said there was no nexus between muslims and terror. What morons.
[Dawn] Two wives of an American man who helped plot the 2008 Mumbai attacks warned US officials about him but did not have enough specific information for the officials to act on, the US State Department said on Monday.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that one wife of David Headley contacted US embassy officials in Islamabad in late 2007 to say she believed he was plotting an attack, while two years earlier another wife told investigators in New York she thought he was a member of a Pak cut-thoat group.
State Department front man P.J. Crowley on Monday confirmed that both women had sought to pass information, but said that while it was investigated it was not enough to warrant action such as a specific warning to the Indian government.
"There was concern expressed by both spouses. At the same time, the information was not specific," Crowley told a news briefing.
"The fact is that, while we had information and concerns, it did not detail a time or place of the attack," he said.
The Times reported that Headley was at one period married to three wives at once, including the two who spoke to authorities.
Crowley declined to discuss details of the information involved, and said the United States and India had extensive cooperation on security matters both before and after the Mumbai attacks.
Headley pleaded guilty in March to a dozen US terrorism charges related to the Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed, and to a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that had published blasphemy cartoons in 2005.
He admitted to scouting the targets for the cut-thoat group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and agreed to help investigators and give testimony against others in exchange for a promise that he would not be extradited to India, Pakistain or Denmark.
US authorities regularly receive tips about possible terrorism plots.
Headley, who spent his childhood in Pakistain and whose father was Pak, changed his name in 2005 from Daood Gilani to make travel through security easier. He was jugged about a year ago at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport as he was trying to leave for Pakistain.
The 2008 attacks in Mumbai, in which six Americans were among the dead, lasted for three days and further escalated tensions between India and neighboring Pakistain, where LeT Orcs and similar vermin are based.
Crowley said the United States would continue to press Pakistain to do more to crack down on cut-thoat groups, some of which are believed to have close ties to Pak intelligence agencies.
"As we've noted many times, Pakistain has taken aggressive action within its own borders. But clearly, this is an ongoing threat, then, and more needs to be done," he said.
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[Haaretz] Israel's ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told news hounds on Tuesday that Israel would not allow anyone to dictate its borders.
"Like Ben-Gurion, Netanyahu will not allow the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society, or any other organization, to dictate our borders. They will be determined through negotiations," he said in Washington during an event at the Chamber of commerce celebrating 25 years since the establishment of the Free Trade agreement between the U.S. and Israel.
In September, Israel entered into U.S.-sponsored direct peace negotiations with the Paleostinians, which subsequently broke down in the wake of the expiration of a temporary Israeli moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements. As part of the negotiations, Paleostinian negotiators have demanded the establishment of a Paleostinian state along the 1967 borders.
"Today, too, Israel is blessed with principled and courageous leadership. While facing terrorist groups sworn to destroy every last one of us - women, children, senior citizens - and some 60,000 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Hezbullies rockets pointed directly at our homes; with so-called human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... organizations and boycott movements and campus coalitions denying our right to defend ourselves and even our right to exist, and with Iranian leaders swearing to wipe us off the map and striving to produce the nuclear means for doing that.... With all of those challenges, the Israeli government under PM Benjamin Netanyahu has not for a nanosecond reduced its commitment to peace," Oren said.
"But not a peace at any price," he added. "Not a peace that will impair Israel's security or impugn its identity as the nation state of the Jewish people.
As Netanyahu said last year in his Bar-Ilan speech, he will not allow any future Paleostinian state to become another Leb or Gazoo."
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BHO and Hillary might try to push a Paleo statehood process through the UN in lieu of a negotiated peace process between Israel and the Paleos. All the U.S. would have to do is a "No Vote" in the UN which Obama is good at. The resolution would be passed. Of course Israel would say go screw yourselves. I could see a war being precipitated because of such meddling at the UN. John Bolton has warned about the possibility forcing a one-sided settlement at the UN.
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Votes in the UN General Assembly are meaningless and powerless, which is why there are so many votes to condemn Israel there. Only the Security Council votes matter, and there the U.S. has a veto, as one of the permanent members. Historically, the U.S. almost always vetoed UNSC resolutions against Israel. The concern is that under President Obama the U.S. would either vote for the measure or abstain, allowing it to pass.
The world desires a new honest to gawd.... TREATY OF PARIS or a CONCORD OF PARIS.... this will allow folks to browse the fine establishments in this ancient Frankish City and rub shoulders with serious peeps.
Yeah... treaty a paris..... jews out, arabs in... send money.
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[Haaretz] Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, ... the worst president ever... during a visit to Damascus on Tuesday, called for Israel to lift completely its blockade on the Gazoo Strip.
Carter made the remarks in the forum of a delegation known as The Elders, who met with Syria's hereditary President Bashar Pencilneck Assad and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leaders in Syria.
Despite the U.S. and the European Union's labeling of Hamas as a terrorist organization, The Elders met with exiled Hamas politburo leader Khaled Meshaal, as Carter has done during previous regional visits.
Following their talks with Assad and Meshal, The Elders said people in the region have "very low expectations" that the current U.S.-led talks between Israel and the Paleostinian Authority, which excluded Hamas, would succeed.
Carter, who has visited the Gazoo Strip several times in recent years, did not accompany the rest of the delegation on their trip there Saturday.
Despite his absence from Gazoo, Carter renewed calls for Israel to lift its blockade of the Hamas-governed Gazoo Strip. Israel imposed the blockade in 2007 after Hamas wrestled control over the territory in a violent coup.
"The blockade is one of the most serious human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... violations on Earth and it must be lifted fully," said the mealy-mouthed Carter from Syria.
Besides Carter, the Elders delegation includes former Irish president Mary Robinson and former UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. Now there's a stacked deck...
While in Gazoo, the group described Israel's blockade as an "illegal collective punishment" and "an impediment to peace."
Which only demonstrates the determined virulence of their ignorance.
This article starring:
Lakhdar Brahimi
Mary Robinson
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The blockade is one of the most serious human rights violations on Earth and it must be lifted fully," said the mealy-mouthed Carter from Syria.
And what does Hamas smuggle through its tunnels from Egypt? Missiles to shoot into Israel.
Carter may be an ex-president but he is not an ex-idiot.
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Jimmy, go do something useful like build Habitat houses. Quit meddling.
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Can someone please give this idiot an axehandle facial? I don't want him dead (he'd be a martyr, which is something we really REALLY don't need), but I do want him to STFU and stop giving aid and comfort to our enemies. That USED to be a treasonable offense, but apparently not for Dummycritters like Kahtah.
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a horrible person: awful, mean, small, anti-Jooooo, loves dictators. Really, Jimmy I think you're not just the worst president (you've got current competition), but even Barry O isn't quite such a small unlikeable man.
*spit*
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I've always wondered why jimmuah didn't wear his cardigans in reverse, it was all the rage.
AND LOL MY CLAN SUED HIS KRAPFACTORY PEANUT SEEDERY AND WON.
And yes, I know where his grave will be, I've already pissed on it.
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I've said this before: The only story I want to see about Jimmy Carter is that he died (peacefully in his sleep, of natural causes). I am not advocating violence or anything, cuz that would bring down the wrath of the moderators on me.
I also hope that the story would be soon.
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Congratulations on your clan's win, Goldies Everywhere. You're probably the only ones who got any positive benefit from that man, who gave religious Christians a bad name.
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When this asswad finally does stop stealing oxygen from the good people of earth, it will be telling to see how small the crowds will be at his funeral procession and time lying in state. Compare it to the throngs, the thousands and thousands who waited for hours just to pass by the casket of Reagan.
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Who pays any attention to his rantings? The younger generation doesn't know who he is. Those old enough to have experienced his presidency haven't listened to him since 1980. Just another has-been desperately trying to crawl back into the spotlight.
[Straits Times] TAMIL rebel leaders based in the United States and Norway are trying to revive their defeated separatist movement, Sri Lanka's prime minister told parliament on Tuesday. So maybe putting the general that destroyed them in jug wasn't a brilliant move after all...
Premier D. M. Jayaratne's statements came during a debate to extend a state of emergency giving sweeping powers to police and armed forces to arrest and detain suspects for long periods without trial. Or it just may be an excuse for the Premier to continue state 'emergency powers' and indulge his inner thug ...
Mr Jayaratne told politicians two rebel leaders in the United States and Norway were reorganising the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which Colombo said was defeated in May last year following a major military offensive.
'These two individuals are engaged in organising Tiger intelligence units and armed cadres in order to revive the LTTE and resurrect their campaign for a separate state in Sri Lanka,' the premier said.
Mr Jayaratne did not identify the individuals concerned. That's often a sign such individuals don't exist outside the realm of imagination...
Sri Lanka has resisted international calls to end emergency laws, arguing that rebel remnants are trying to reassemble. Common sense sez they probably are...
The premier also said security forces had recently seized suicide jackets usually worn by Tiger rebels to carry out suicide assassinations. He gave no details of the discovery, but said security forces have uncovered plans by surviving rebel cadres to mount a fresh challenge to security forces.
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Hey, why repeal a state of emergency just because the insurgency that required it was defeated? Not gonna have any more Tigers without Prabhakaran, he's dead as a doornail and he ain't getting better.
[Iran Press TV] The Iranian minister of industries and mines says Iran will transfer technology and technical knowhow to Venezuela in addition to trade with the Latin American nation.
Iran also plans to speed up the implementation of past projects as well as new ones, Ali-Akbar Mehrabian was quoted by IRNA as saying on the sidelines of the opening of the 6th Iran-Venezuela Joint Economic Cooperation Commission on Tuesday.
He said Iran intends to set up expert committees for a "comprehensive review of issues and mechanisms to boost bilateral ties."
Mehrabian said both sides had signed dozens of cooperation documents and memoranda of understanding during the previous five commissions.
He added that Iran and Venezuela have implemented more than 80 projects which have resulted in billions of dollars of monetary exchanges between the two sides.
Mehrabian said the stage was set for the promotion of economic ties, "resulting in good relations in banking, insurance, and transportation sectors as well as [the construction of] factories."
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So, Venezuela going to get a squadrom of flying carpets and a sure fire Mecca finder?
Gov't certified stones for proper stoning?
Official hanging cranes?
Maybe the Vs can test the first shipment of cranes on Hugo.
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MOUD + HUGO are repor calling for NEW WORLD ORDER, espec agz USA.
* MEMRI > IRAN IAEO HEAD ALI AKBAR SALEHI: IN THE PAST WE [Iran] ACQUIRED CENTRIFUGES ON THE BLACK MARKETS, not just in past 10 years but further back in time to 15-17 years ago [1992/93-1995].
SALEHI = there will be "NO TURNING BACK" THE CLOCK for Iran as per INDUSTRIAL-SCALE MASS PRODUCTION OF CENTRIFUGES + HIGHER-ENRICHED NUCMATS
IOW, SALEHI read, IRAN IS SSSSSSSHHHHHHHH "GOING FOR BROKE/GUSTO" working to develop POST-URANIUM HYDROGEN-, THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS, BUT GOSH DARN IT + GEE WHIZZZ WE'RE JUST NOT GOING TO SAY WE ARE, SO THERE!
[An Nahar] Syria's hereditary President Bashar Pencilneck Assad and King of the Arabians Abdullah, who met in Riyadh Sunday, did not reach an agreement on the Special Tribunal for Leb, local media reported Tuesday.
Al-Akhbar newspaper, citing Syrian sources, said Riyadh also avoided discussing the arrest warrants issued by Syria against a number of Lebanese officials or pressure on Prime Minister Saad Hariri to modify his position on the STL indictment.
It said the Saudi-Syrian summit came upon Abdullah's request who tried again to mediate with Assad to meet Hariri. But the answer was 'No," Al-Akhbar said.
The sources said Assad spoke frankly, telling Abdullah that Syria was "dissatisfied with the fact that Hariri remains tense during his stay in Damascus."
They said the reaction that came from Hariri and Hariri-funded groups regarding the arrest warrants proved that the Lebanese premier "is unable to get rid of his grudges, which explains Syria's unwillingness to revive contacts with the Grand Serail."
Analysts said the key issue for Assad and Abdullah was current Hariri's dispute with Hizbullah over the U.N.-backed tribunal on his father's murder.
Members of Hizbullah are reportedly implicated in the investigation, and could be indicted, according to reports.
Reports that the tribunal would indict Hizbullah members for Hariri's murder have raised regional fears of renewed Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence and the collapse of Leb's hard-won national unity government.
While Hariri has offered to play down any indictment linked to Hizbullah and focus only on the individuals involved, Hizbullah has demanded the international tribunal be discredited.
Al-Akhbar quoted the Syrian sources as assuring that a freeze on contact between Damascus and Beirut does not mean the doors were closed.
The sources said Hariri could learn from Druze leader Walid Jumblat "who is able to weigh every leader, read regional and global equations very well and knows that in politics some issues are discussed beyond repeating the word 'truth'."
They said Assad complained to Abdullah that Hariri did not keep his commitments.
Hariri has to do the following, according to the sources:
- Commit to the rules of the game and recognize that no one, including Hariri, can cross the red lines. Syria believes that Hizbullah is the red line, and Hariri has to respect that.
- Hariri can negotiate amending agreements with Syria or demand a parliament seat here or there, but it is forbidden for him to ever think of asking Syria to deceive Hizbullah.
- If Hariri realized this, he should announce that the Tribunal, which is aimed to destroy the Resistance That'd be the Hezbullies, natch... (Hizbullah), be discredited.
- Hariri should take positive steps toward Syria through changing his political, security and media advisors.
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[An Nahar] The United States, Britain, France and Russia warned against meddling in the Special Tribunal for Leb investigating the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The remarks came during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday on the Israel-Paleostinian crisis. Syria's hereditary President Bashar Pencilneck Assad is believed to have raised his concerns about the STL with King of the Arabians Abdullah in Riyadh on Sunday.
U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Brooke Anderson told the 15-member Security Council that Washington fully supported U.N. Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon's determination to press ahead with the tribunal, despite fears of violence.
"Efforts to discredit, hinder or delay the tribunal's work should not be tolerated, and those who engage in them do not have the interests of Leb or justice at heart," Anderson told the Council.
British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant echoed Anderson's remarks.
"We are concerned about increasing rhetoric aimed at undermining the special tribunal for Leb," he said. "This tribunal should be allowed to continue its work unimpeded."
French Ambassador Gerard Araud also made similar comments.
Paris was "concerned by the present tensions, in particular with respect to the special tribunal for Leb," he said.
Russian envoy Vitaly Churkin, for his part, said there should be "no politicization" of the tribunal's work.
Hizbullah has condemned the International Tribunal as a tool of Israeli and U.S. policy.
Hizbullah urged Prime Minister Saad Hariri to reject the tribunal, set to prosecute his father's killers.
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