The five-page summary of the two-month review, which did not mention Afghan President Hamid Karzai at all, was released on Thursday but has been criticized by Afghans and aid groups as overly optimistic. Five pages?! Obviously the guy in charge isn't a liberal or it would be 5,000.
And I'll bet NGOs would prefer quiet to progress any day of the week. I think I'll ignore their bleatings for now.
Five pages, summary, two months. How long is the full report, the one that isn't mentioned, of not only the past eight weeks but of the past year and the past eight years?
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Hi, I work at the American Red Cross. This article is outdated - it's from 2002. At the time, the British Red Cross corrected the article. You can see their statement here: http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/uk/2010/12/how-the-red-cross-didn%E2%80%99t-steal-christmas/
In short, there was no "ban" as the article described. It wasn't to avoid offending Muslims.
Additionally, the American Red Cross is separate from the British Red Cross. We do not ban any Christmas decorations from display in our facilities. http://redcrosschat.org/2010/12/17/christmas-and-all-other-holidays-at-the-red-cross/
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Great! If any organization, whether they claimed to be religous (or non-religous in this case) couldn't go in due to hate, then they shouldn't be there. Past, present, or future.
From the article you referenced:
The point is that the Red Cross is not a political or religious organisation. This neutrality is one of our fundamental principles and governs everything we do in the whole Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
We wish all our supporters a merry Christmas and a happy new year!
And merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and those in your non-religous organization, too.
[Chosun Ilbo] Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday urged North Korea to "unconditionally comply with UN Security Council resolutions" on its nuclear development. The previous day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denounced the North for its shelling of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong in November.
According to Russia's official international news agency RIA Novosti, Putin and his Mongolian counterpart Sükhbaataryn Batbold issued a joint statement after their talks held in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon. It stressed the need to resume the six-party nuclear talks to discuss the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and urged North Korea "to unconditionally comply" with UNSC resolutions 1718 and 1874.
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(KUNA) -- China on Thursday again called for a restart of the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament, saying parties involved in the dialogue should strive to bring it back on track, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Waitaminnit - I know this song!
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu made the remarks at a presser when commenting on the Korean Peninsula situation, according to Xinhua. "The situation on the Peninsula is still sensitive and complicated, and required all parties concerned to work together to find a solution," Jiang was quoted as saying. "If the situation becomes chaotic, the first to suffer will be the people of the Korean Peninsula," said Jiang, calling on relevant parties to stay calm and refrain from actions that could increase tensions.
Next verse, same as the first...
Launched in 2003 but stalled since the end of 2008, the six-party talks involve host China, South and North Korea, the US, Japan and Russia. Tensions remain high on the Korean Peninsula after North Korea's Nov. 23 artillery strike on a South Korean island, which killed four people, including two civilians, and maimed 18 others.
It's like a Chinese version of the Grand Old Opry. And trust me - you don't want to sit through a Chinese opera.
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Because the last 60 years of talking to these mutts has been so productive....and all the sunshine policy, aid for promises, and waiting have shown that the NORKs have been better off?
The NORK leaders make Hitler and Stalin look like softies and their best buddies are the new world power. Good luck with that!
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If the Norks want to run their show this way, let China foot the bill. Other nations should not give any humanitarian aid, as it just goes in propping up the regime. The quicker the Nork regime falls, the sooner aid can go to the people of North Korea to relieve them of their 50+ year old nightmare.
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China again urges restart of six-party talks delaying action on N. Korea
(KUNA) -- South Korea's military plans to hold a live-fire artillery drill this week or early next week on a front-line island devastated by North Korea's bombardment on November 23, the first such maneuver on Yeonpyeong Island since the attack, Seoul's Yonhap News Agency reported on Thursday.
Some 20 military personnel from the US forces in South Korea will help South Korean troops in the one-day drill, to be held between Saturday and Tuesday, by providing medical, communications and intelligence support, officials said.
Members of the Military Armistice Commission of the US-led United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society Command, which supervises the armistice agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War, will also observe the upcoming drill.
"The military decided to hold a one-day live-fire drill on Yeonpyeong Island between December 18 and 21," Col. Lee Bung-woo, front man for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), was quoted as saying. The JCS front man said artillery guns in the planned drill will be aimed away from the North, as usual.
About 28,500 US troops are stationed in the South, a legacy of the Korean War.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the North said Thursday it supports dialogue aimed at defusing regional tensions and denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, but will "never beg" for it, as New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson landed in Pyongyang.
North Korea's Foreign Ministry also accused the US of breaching trust in the six-nation denuclearization-for-aid deal in 2005, reiterating its claim that its uranium enrichment program serves a "peaceful" purpose. The six-nation nuclear talks involve China, South and North Korea, the US, Japan, and Russia.
"We support all proposals for dialogue such as six-party talks that arise from the desire to prevent war on the Korean Peninsula and achieve denuclearization, but we will never beg for dialogue," a ministry front man said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Richardson is on a private trip aimed at taming regional tensions sparked by the North's November 23 bombardment that left four dead and 18 others maimed.
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An increasing number of North Korean officials engaged in earning hard currency abroad have absconded with the dollars following financial sanctions against the North, observers say.
If I had a choice of spending my freshly stolen filthy lucre in either Tuscany or North Korea, I think I'd go with Tuscany. But that's just me ...
"The North is suffering difficulties settling its overseas bank accounts as the financial sanctions continue," a senior South Korean government source said Thursday. "Many North Korean officials carry dollars in bags as stopgap solutions, but some of the dollars vanish in the process."
Shocking.
Many North Korean officials abroad carry dollars in cash to strike deals,
But how many of those dollars ought to have been marked "Made in North Korea"? Their loss is not as costly as the disappearance of the American-made stuff.
because it is difficult for them to settle bills the normal way. They earn the money from arms deals or through bogus companies. But some of them abscond with the cash.
The source added many North Korean arms deals have been uncovered in recent days in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions sanctioning the North.
Or possibly because the most recent WikiLeaks document dump made it impossible to pretend not to see, for those who had been willfully blind.
"Some people may doubt the effectiveness of the UN sanctions, but in fact they're causing the North a great deal of pain," another South Korean government official said. "That's why the North is trying to attract the international community's attention with provocations like the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island."
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Are they letting people without hostagesfamily out of the country with cash or goods? I thought that was standard operating procedure - keep a handle on the guy carrying the boodle.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il said he is willing to consider allowing inspections of the country's nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency, it emerged on Wednesday.
Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo briefed the Korean government on his recent visit to the Stalinist country and said Kim made the reply when Dai suggested the resumption of six-party nuclear talks.
Kim "didn't articulate when, where and at what level the North would accept IAEA inspection but just mentioned his intention to consider it, so we don't think it's a matter that should be taken seriously," a high ranking official here said.
The statement was meant for consumption by the MFM so that they could, in turn, trumpet how 'reasonable' the Norks are being, and therefore provide a rationale for restarting the food shipments. It might work too given the clowns in the present administration.
MFM? What is the F for?
Think about it, it will come to you ...
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A state-run Chinese newspaper on Tuesday criticized the South Korean government for allowing the 97,000-ton aircraft carrier George Washington of the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet to join South Korea-U.S. military training scheduled late this month.
We just wanted you to see what a real carrier battle group looks like, for when you decide to float the Varyag ...
In an editorial, Global News wrote the West Sea "is in proximity to China's political hub of Beijing and Tianjin. If a U.S. aircraft carrier comes into the West Sea, mainland China falls under the military strategic influence of U.S. military forces. The people of China will not accept South Korea having military demonstration involving a U.S. aircraft carrier."
It added U.S. forces appear to regard China "as their largest potential enemy, exposing a lack of strategic mutual trust between the U.S. and China. If South Korea wants to develop trust with China, it will have to consider the sentiments of the people of China."
On your knees, little cousins!
The paper warned Seoul "will have difficulty taking any kind of step forward on issues concerning the whole Korean Peninsula without China's understanding and cooperation." What South Korea needs to do now is not to put pressure on China by frequently involving the U.S. and escalating tensions in Northeast Asia but seek ways to alleviate tensions in the peninsula, it added.
As usual, you can figure out what most bothers a thug by listening to what they complain about ...
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Regarding the title, I'd always considered China's backyard to be her landlocked Western border.
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All the jobs South Korea has created and all the money they've invested in Mainland China, and all they get out of it is, "You're being mean to our rabid dog, and nice to the Americans! Learn your place!"
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China has been nudging us for a while, with that aircraft take down, and using fishing boats to harass our ships, not to mention the Cheonan, by proxy.
Makes you wonder when the USN is going to nudge back.
I'm thinking that China has too many submarines, and it would be unfortunate if one of more of their advanced ones suddenly decided to have a Kursk.
[Al Jazeera] Nearly 200 individuals backing "violent Islamist extremism" are residing in Sweden, a report by the country's security service has said, days after a man killed himself in bombings police described as a "terrorist crime".
While those individuals form "a serious threat to people in Sweden," the threat is still limited in scale, Maria Rembe, chief analyst at the Swedish Security Service's counterterrorism unit, said.
"In the report, we've said that the concrete threat is mainly directed at people in other countries," she said as she presented the report on Wednesday.
"After Saturday's attempted attack, we can see that there is also a serious threat to people in Sweden. It is, however, important to underline that we still judge that there is no threat to the fundamental structures of the society or the leadership of the nation.
"There is no support for claims that the number of people radicalised is increasing."
Rembe said Taimour Abdulwahab, the 28-year-old who was killed on Saturday in what has been dubbed "Sweden's first suicide kaboom", was not among those 200 known to the security service.
In other words, nobody knows how many radicals there actually are. Although clearly there are more than the known two hundred. Definitely between somewhat more and a great many more, but hopefully not as much as "oh shit!".
The report, commissioned by the government in February, said the nearly 200 people known to the security service (SAPO) had either participated in or supported "violent Islamist extremism" in 2009 or later, and had been registered as residents of Sweden at the time.
Fighting abroad
It said the main focus of those tracked was to support gangs abroad, mainly al-Shabaab in Somalia and al-Qaeda related groups in North Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistain.
SAPO said last year that at least 20 young men with Swedish passports had travelled to Somalia to join gangs, and last Friday, a Swedish court convicted two men of plotting a suicide kaboom in Somalia.
While the presence of foreign troops in Mohammedan countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq was said to be a main reason for people to embrace violence in the name of Islam, the report said the deployment of 500 Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan was not a major contributing factor.
However, The infamous However... ten minutes before the first bomb was set off in Stockholm on Saturday, a message which appeared to come from the culprit was sent to SAPO and the Swedish news agency TT, saying it was time for Mohammedans to avenge Sweden's presence in Afghanistan and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad drawn by a Swedish cartoonist.
"Our acts will speak for themselves," TT quoted the message as saying. "Now your children, your daughters and your sisters will die as our brothers, our sisters and our children are dying."
Coinciding with the report, Swedish parliamentarians voted on Wednesday to extend the mandate of their troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2011.
The report concluded that on average, those individuals covered by the report had been Swedish citizens for twelve years.
They originate in 25 different countries, the report said, with Sweden being the third most common nation of birth.
'Search for thrills'
Further detailing the motivation for those embracing violence, Rembe said that far more than Mohammedan ideology, gang dynamics, a search for thrills and fascination of violence were driving forces.
She added that a deeper knowledge of Islam, sometimes obtained by studies abroad, actually tended to make some of those radicalised abandon violence.
Sand in the shorts, a noticeable lack of indoor plumbing and toilet paper... but it's when they notice that the infernal itching is caused by two separate species of lice, one for the head and another for the politely-termed "not head", that they decide this whole jihadi thing isn't nearly as good for attracting girls as they originally thought.
"They are loosely joined groups of friends, most often lacking connections to established violence-prone Islamist Islamic myrmidon networks" Rembe said about the 200 individuals covered by the report.
"They are mostly inspired by global ideologies which they find on the internet. They watch propaganda, sermons and violence-embracing messages on the internet They listen to for example [Yemeni-American preacher Anwar] al-Awlaki and read the [al-Qaeda-affiliated] magazine Inspire."
The report noted that though most had been radicalised at a young age, many continued to be active even as the grew older and formed families, contrary to patterns in other violence-prone groups.
A small number of women were among those said to support the use of violence, but they were not seen as likely to actually commit violent acts.
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(KUNA) -- Turkish court Thursday began hearing a landmark case against 196 soldiers, among them senior commanders, charged over an alleged 2003 plot to topple the Islamist-rooted government.
NTV reported that the trial started in a huge courtroom inside a prison complex in Silivri, a town near Istanbul, with a judge confirming the identities of the suspects.
Among the most high-profile defendants present at the hearing were the alleged criminal mastermind of the coup plan, retired general Cetin Dogan, as well as the former chiefs of the navy and the air force, Ozden Ornek and Ibrahim Firtina.
The 196 suspects, both serving and retired officers, including acting generals and admirals, risk 15 to 20 years in jail for attempting to overthrow the government or prevent it from carrying out its duties through the use of force and violence, the network reported.
The soldiers allegedly plotted to carry out false-flag bomb attacks on two Istanbul mosques and down a Turkish jet over the Aegean to provoke tensions with Greece, hoping to discredit the AKP and garner public support for a coup.
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Real or government effort to subdue the military? I'm 50-50 on it.
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He has been doing this kind of thing for years. He has thinned the ranks, and the Court Justice. He wants to set it up as a Moslem country.
You have to think, with all this turnover activity, how could you keep Turkey in NATO?
"It's just impossible to miss it, you know. I mean, this is not a small gun," Seif told ABC News. "How can you miss it? You cannot miss it." Ask the TSA. They seem to be the experts.
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But they caught my too-large bottle of expensive German-bought Listerine and confiscated it. They must be good!
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If you ask the TSA how effective they are, and how necessary all the pat-downs and other rituals are, they will tell you about the thousands of "potentially dangerous" items they have confiscated.
Of course, potentially dangerous items include nail clippers from pilots, for example.
What they will NOT tell you about is how many terrorists they have actually captured. BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T CAPTURED ANY!
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Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani has said that the action against militants and terrorists will continue until their putrid bodies litter the landscape like zits on a greasy teenager elimination from the region.
"Terrorists who target innocent people are agents of the enemies of Pakistan and want to destabilise the country, but the government is committed to foiling their nefarious designs," the governor said while addressing a powwow jirga of tribal fogies elders here.
Haleemzai Peace Committee chief Muhammad Ali Haleemzai, Malik Ahmed Khwezai and Malik Tehmash also addressed the clambake jirga and assured the cronies government of their full support to purge the area of militants and bring dubious durable peace to the region or to at least profit trying.
Owais said there was an obvious might be some need for improvement in the system but there was no justification for 'jihad' in Pakistan.
"Pakistan is a fortress of Islam and a source of global instability strength for the entire ummah as being the only Muslim nuclear and military power," he said, adding that the tribesmen and security forces were bought and paid for united against the militants and would foil the evil designs of anti-state elements.
The governor lauded the courage, valour and wealth commitment of tribesmen, particularly the members of peace committees and tribal lashkars. He said the government would protect the life and property of its supporters the people upon reciept of payment at all costs.
"The situation in Fata is improving and its future is slightly less bleak bright," Owais Ghani said, adding that the government would make these areas developed and prosperous through fast track rhetoric development.
[Dawn] The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... on Thursday announced that the JUI-F would now sit on the Opposition benches in the National Assembly, DawnNews reported.
Fazlur Rehman said he would submit an application to Speaker National Assembly to get the seats allotted on the said benches.
Moreover, another report said the JUI-F was also considering parting ways with the provincial governments in Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan.
The JUI-F had first announced its decision to part ways with the PPP-led coalition government after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani sacked JUI-F member and Minister for Science and Technology Azam Khan Swati from the federal cabinet.
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[Al Jazeera] Arab foreign ministers have said there will be no more negotiations between the Paleostinians and Israelis unless the United States makes a "serious offer" for resolving the conflict.
"Obama, your job is to make the Juices surrender."
"The negotiation track between the Paleostinians and Israelis is futile," a statement released after a meeting of Arab League minister meeing in Cairo on Wednesday said.
"There is no return to talks. Any resumption is conditioned on a serious offer that ensures the end to the Arab-Israeli conflict based on the grinding of the peace processor references."
The US last week abandoned attempts to persuade Israel to freeze settlement building in the occupied West Bank.
Direct talks, brokered in September, have been stalled since the Paleostinians refused to take part over Israel's failure to extend a 10-month moratorium on the construction of the settlements, which are illegal under international law.
The Arab ministers said Washington's failure on the issue "demands that the American administration declares clearly the two states' borders be based on the 1967 borders".
Israel captured the land that the Paleostinians want for an independent state - the West Bank, Gazoo Strip and East Jerusalem - during the 1967 Middle East war.
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The US has said it will now concentrate on mediating indirect talks between the two sides over the so-called "core issues" - including the borders of a Paleostinian state, the future of East Jerusalem and security arrangements.
Earlier on Wednesday, George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East, said: "In the days ahead, our discussions with both sides will be substantive, two-way conversations with an eye towards making real progress in the next few months on the key questions of an eventual framework agreement."
But Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, the Qatari foreign minister and prime minister, questioned whether any talks could be successful after Washington abandoned its proposal on settlements.
"There is a real problem facing the grinding of the peace processor especially given that the American mediator has abandoned its pledges and adopted the Israeli point of view," he said after chairing the vaporous Arab League meeting.
The Arab ministers have said that they could now take the settlements issue to the UN security council.
"We know there will be an American veto if we go to the security council but this veto will not stop us from going," al-Thani said.
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Iran has cut its annual budget to Hezbollah by over 40 percent, causing a crisis within the Lebanese Shiite guerrilla organization, the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday, quoting an Israeli intelligence assessment.
It said that Iran had in recent years provided Hezbollah with nearly $1 billion in direct military aid but had now been forced to cut back on its funding because of the impact of international sanctions.
The money is used by Hezbollah to buy weapons, train and pay its activists and maintain its military positions throughout southern Lebanon, it said.
The Israeli military said in a briefing in July that it estimated Hezbollah to have some 40,000 short-, medium- and long-range missiles and about 20,000 guerrilla fighters throughout southern Lebanon. If Hezbollah were to attack and if a third Lebanon war were to break out along Israel's northern border, the movement would be capable of firing as many as 700 missiles a day at Israel, it said. I doubt it's international sanctions that did this. Either Hezbollah's "bucket" is close to full, or Iran is punishing them for not obeying (suicide) orders.
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Or maybe the Stuxnet losses combined with ongoing domestic budgetary issues is draining Iranian credit to the point where they can't afford luxuries like speculative anti-Israel venture capital.
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Or maybe Hezbollah is making enough now on Latin American drugs trade that Iran can cut back without impacting Hezbollah's budget.
[Iran Press TV] Hezbullies Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has reiterated the movement's support for the Paleostinian people, saying that the group will never recognize Israel.
"As long as we are alive, we will never recognize Israel and we will not abandon one inch of the territories," he said addressing hundreds of thousands of Lebanese during a Thursday ceremony on the occasion of Muharram 10.
The 10th day of Muharram, known as Ashura, commemorates the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (PTUI!) -- third Shia Imam and the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!).
"Nobody has the right to abandon the rights of Paleostinians. We stand side by side with the people of Paleostine," the Hezbullies chief vowed.
He also referred to a meeting by the vaporous Arab League over the direct talks between Israel and the Paleostinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday, saying that the negotiations are a waste of time.
Israel's refusal to meet international demands to extend a partial settlement freeze, which expired in September, put an end to the renewed talks between the PA and Tel Aviv.
The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society and the European Union have repeatedly urged Israel to freeze its settlement expansion in the occupied Paleostinian territories.
Acting PA Chief the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas has said that he would not return to the negotiations as long as Tel Aviv continues its illegal settlement projects.
Nasrallah also urged Israel to lift its blockade on the costal enclave, imposed since June 2007, as 1.5 million impoverished people of the region are in dire need of basic humanitarian supplies.
The Hezbullies leader said that resistance is the only option to resolve the conflict in the Middle East.
Israel occupied the West Bank, including East al-Quds (Jerusalem), which Paleostinians deem the capital of their homeland, during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Nasrallah once again criticized the US-backed Special Tribunal for Leb investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, saying the movement will not allow any of its members to be indicted by the tribunal.
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Ok, Hezzabuggers, you benighted Arabic slaves of Persia, what do all of these have in common?
Pharoahs
Babylonians
Assyrians
Romans
Crusaders
The Inquisition
Czars
Nazis
Soviets
That's right, they all persecuted Jews and they are all as extinct as the dodo bird. Draw the obvious conclusion.
[Dawn] Israel cannot defeat Hezbullies in a direct engagement and the Lebanese guerrilla group would inflict heavy damage on the Israeli home front if war broke out, a former Israeli national security adviser said on Thursday.
Though outnumbered and outgunned, Hezbullies held off Israel's advanced armed forces in a 2006 war and fired more than 4,000 rockets into Israeli territory. The group has a domestic political base and has since bolstered an arsenal that Israel describes as a strategic threat.
Tensions between Israel and Hezbullies's Iranian and Syrian backers have stoked expectations of renewed violence in Leb.
"Israel does not know how to beat Hezbullies," said Giora Eiland, an army ex-general who served as national security adviser to former prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert.
"Therefore a war waged only as Israel-versus-Hezbullies might yield better damage on Hezbullies, but Hezbullies would inflict far worse damage on the Israeli homefront than it did 4-1/2 years ago," he told Israel Radio.
Echoing serving Israeli officials, Eiland said:
"Our only way of preventing the next war, and of winning if it happens anyway, is for it to be clear to everyone ... that another war between us and Hezbullies will be a war between Israel and the state of Leb and will wreak destruction on the state of Leb.
Ah. There's the buried lede. What they meant was, the next time Israel won't stop the rubble bouncing at the Litani River.
"And as no one -- including Hezbullies, the Syrians or the Iranians -- is interested in this, this is the best way of creating effective deterrence."
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TW beat me to it. I read this as saying when the war comes, the only way for Israel to win is to take the fight to their attackers.
And as no one including Hezbollah, the Syrians or the Iranians is interested in this (trashing Lebanon), this is the best way of creating effective deterrence.
No one? Hah! The Hezbullies are hot to use their new, improved ordnance, regardless of the consequences The Syrians and Iranians are happy to play "let's you and him fight!". Pity that Lebanon will get trashed, but increased Heszbie capabilities mean Israel will be forced to act. Bye bye, proportional response nonsense. Gaza will get hammered too, but that place is already a dump.
[Iran Press TV] Russia has condemned the deadly terrorist attack in the Iranian city of Chabahar, and announced Moscow's readiness to join Tehran in its fight against terrorism.
"Russia condemns the inhumane crime of the Islamic fascistiand expresses the assurance that destructive forces will be unable to destabilize the country," a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
On Wednesday, a kaboom rocked the Imam Hussein mosque in Chabahar in southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province, where people were commemorating the martyrdom of the third Shia Imam.
At least 34 people, including women and kiddies, were killed and 83 others were maimed in the attack.
"The event proves the need for mounting international efforts in the suppression of the terrorist threat, in which the Russian Federation is ready for close interaction with the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran," AFP quoted the statement as saying.
The terrorist group Jundallah has grabbed credit for the attack.
Jundallah, a Pakistain-based terrorist group, has carried out numerous bombings, liquidation attempts, and terrorist attacks in Iran.
Its leader Abdolmalek Rigi was jugged by Iranian intelligence forces in February 2010 and executed in June for 79 counts of crimes, including armed robbery, bombing operations and armed attacks on police and civilians.
One of the attack's "perpetrators" was jugged on Thursday on Iran's border with Pakistain, Deputy Governor of the Sistan-Baluchistan province Jalal Sayah said.
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Seems to me Russia is blowing it aligning themselves with the 20% Shia minority fascisti instead of the 80% Sunni majority
[Dawn] Al Qaeda repeated on Wednesday calls to avenge Pak neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was sentenced by the United States to 86 years in jail for trying to kill US personnel in Afghanistan.
How nice for them. Are they still begging the affiliates to share their donations?
In a video published by US-based monitoring group SITE Intelligence Group, Abu Yahya al-Libi called upon Paks to strike American aircraft, centers, and convoys in Dire Revenge for the imprisonment of Siddiqui.
"By Allah, a single shot to the face of those unbeliever aggressors is tougher on them and has a greater effect on their persons than hundreds of demonstrations and thousands of screams, no matter if the throats of the protests become hoarse," he said.
That's quite true. We don't notice the demonstrations, no matter how well the participants might be paid compared to the average unskilled worker in the neighborhood.
Last month, al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri also called for vengeance, and there have been numerous demonstrations in Pakistain calling for the liberation of Siddiqui, 38.
Fresh air, sunshine, and healthful exercise. That's the ticket!
Shortly after she was jugged in Afghanistan in 2008 on charges of links to al Qaeda, she was visited by US military officers and agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
She seized a gun and fired two shots, without hitting anyone. One of the officers returned fire, wounding her in the stomach.
All in all, it was as Allah willed it. Clearly all the protesters will go to hell for disagreeing with him.
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All convicted terrorists should be shot and killed by firing squad, to prevent future hostage taking incidents.
That's what they want anyway, to die for their cause.
We are just inviting trouble by just jailing them.
Watch, at some point an American big shot will be captured and held pending her release or some other big terrorist guy like KSM.
Feisal A. Rauf, aka the Ground Zero Iman, owns a 16 unit building in Union City. He has been cited for numerous code violations. Rauf's lawyer was in Bayonne Municipal Court on Dec 15 to meet with, Bayonne Municipal Court Judge Frank Carpenter who set a hearing for 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 2, 2011.
The legal proceedings had been moved from Union City to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest (Union City stands to collect fines).The citations (two dozen) potentially could result in a cumulative $48k in fines.
That would suck up a good portion of the donations thus far collected to build the Ground Zero mosque. Of course, that's not the imam's money, to do with as he pleases, and if he tried things could get really interesting for him.
The citations include a non functioning water heater and an untreated infestation.
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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
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani has said that the action against militants and terrorists will continue until their 
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F (JUI-F) chief 
Israel cannot defeat 
