[Tolo News] President's Office rejected news claiming Wahid Omar, President Karzai's spokesperson, had resigned. Hours ago a source close to President's Office told TOLOnews on condition of anonymity that Mr Omar had submitted his resignation to the Afghan President.
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Robert Spencer goes through some of the efforts now underway to pretend that the latest jihad against Christians is not seen as that.
He notes the efforts of Obama who is trying the moral equivalence approach, the Mubarak attempt that massacres targeting Christians are anti Egypt and the efforts of Iran and some of their subsidiaries to say the Jews are behind it.
[Ennahar] Ahmed al-Tayyeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar University, criticized on Sunday the call of Pope Benedict XVI to the world leaders to protect the Christians, saying it was an "unacceptable interference" in Egyptian affairs, according to state news agency MENA.
"Them infidels is ourn, t'do with as we please. Y'all have been jihaded before, and ye'll be jihaded again, if ye can't keep yer nose outta Master Religion business. So be a good boy and go back t'talking 'bout the Religion of Peace."
"I do not agree with the view of the pope, and I wonder why the pope did not call for the protection of Mohammedans when they were being killed in Iraq?" Asked the imam of Al-Azhar, head of the great institution of Sunni Islam, based in Cairo.
Because the Pope is responsible for Christians, leaving the Muslims for the imams to shepherd. To be blunt, the imams have not done well protecting their own from predators masquerading as other sheep vampires among their own flocks.
"Facing discrimination, abuse and religious intolerance, which now stand especially Christians (...). The words are not enough, there must be a real and constant commitment of leaders of nations" had said Pope on Saturday in Rome.
While criticizing the pope, Ahmed al-Tayyeb reiterated at a presser his unequivocal condemnation of the attack that left 21 dead on the night of Friday to Saturday in front of a Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Saturday he had spoken of "atrocious act prohibited by Islam."
I was under the impression such a decision could only be determined by agreement of the entire ulema, not merely by the highest imam of the oldest university in Dar al Islam, even if he does have the support of the many scholars of his university.
The Sunni head also announced the creation of a joint committee with the Coptic Church to understand the reasons for the tensions between the two communities
Because Egypts's Muslims like oppressing Egypt's Christians... and President Mubarak is willing to indulge that little pleasure.
and try to solve them. This committee should hold its first meeting in two weeks.
A little later, the grand imam visited the Orthodox Coptic Patriarch Shenouda III at Saint Mark's Cathedral in Cairo. But at his exit, dozens of Coptic demonstrators chanted "We do not want you", and struck his car.
Tensions have increased since a year between the religious communities in Egypt. The Copts, who account for 6 to 10% of the estimated 80 million Egyptians, feel marginalized and threatened.
Prob'ly because they are.
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Christians only have two cheeks, generally speaking, Imam. It might be wise to stop slapping now, while your arm is still attached. Get me?
[Arab News] Dozens of grieving Christians returned to pray Sunday in a blood-spattered church where 21 worshippers were killed in a suicide kaboom, many of them sobbing, screaming in anger and slapping themselves in grief.
geriatric President Hosni Mubarak said he was receiving new reports about the incident and expressed confidence that security forces would be able to track down the perpetrators soon.
Bloodstains from Saturday's attack were still visible on the facade of the church where 21 people were killed early on New Year's Day and 79 were maimed when an apparent jacket wallahwent kaboom!".
Inside the church, the floor was still stained with blood, two statues were toppled and benches were scattered by the impact of the blast. A red foam sign that read "2011" on the church's door was torn apart. A wooden cross hanging on the church gate was covered with a white sheet stained with victims' blood and bits of human flesh remained stuck on the gate. Young Christian men prevented cleaners from removing the flesh.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... police have intensified security at churches across the country to prevent new attacks. At some churches police were checking identities of individuals before allowing them to enter.
An injured victim said from his hospital that he had seen a 20-year-old man wearing a black jacket standing near a car in the middle of Khaleel Hamada Street between the church and the mosque. "The bomb went off within five minutes," he said.
Eid Abdudhahir, a government employee living in a building near the church, said he had seen a green Skoda car with plate No. CYG 5149 parking in front of the church, adding that the blast came from the car. He said the individuals inside the car had got down from it minutes before the blast. "It is not clear whether they had kept the explosives inside the car or in a bag near the car," Abudhahir said.
According to another witness, one of the individuals who came out of the car was wearing an boom belt while another said he had seen three people running away from the green car just before the blast.
"We spend every holiday in grief," said Sohair Fawzy, a woman who attended the Mass Sunday and who lost two sisters and a niece in the attack.
At least 5,000 people attended funerals late on Saturday for the victims at a monastery outside Alexandria, where crowds of mourners shouted slogans and refused to accept official condolences.
"No, no, no," the crowd shouted as a Church official tried to read out condolences from Mubarak.
Government and independent newspapers in Cairo warned on Sunday that "civil war" could break out unless Christians and Mohammedans close ranks. The papers also urged the government to give serious consideration to the plight of the Copts, who account for up to 10 percent of Egypt's 80-million population and often complain of discrimination.
"Someone wants to make this country explode... We must realize that there is a plot aimed at triggering religious civil war," the pro-government daily Rose El-Yussef said.
The independent paper Al-Shorouk said Christians had a right to be angry, but urged them not to play the game of "the instigators of (Saturday's) crime." "If all goes as planned, criminal operations against Coptic targets and holy places will increase. Copts will clash with their Mohammedan neighbors and we will be stuck in marshlands like Leb was in April 1975," Al-Shorouk said of the 15-year Lebanese civil war unleashed that month.
Security officials said 25 people have been nabbed for questioning, but none of them was thought to be linked to the attack. They said the 25 were mostly owners of cars parked outside the church at the time, storekeepers and Mohammedan neighbors known to be fundamentalists. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
After bully boyz attacked a Storied Baghdad church in October and killed 68 people, Al-Qaeda in Iraq threatened more attacks and linked the violence to two Egyptian Christian women who sought to convert to Islam after the Coptic Orthodox Church prohibited them from divorcing their husbands who were priests in the church.
The two women have since been secluded by the Church, prompting hard-liners in Egypt to accuse the Church of imprisoning the women and forcing them to renounce Islam, a claim the Church denies.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq has also threatened Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Christian community over the two cases.
The bombing was dramatically different from past attacks on Christians, which included shootings but not serious bombings, much less suicide kabooms.
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All the action lines always come back to Islam.
More than 3/4 of the earth is consumed by Islam.
It really is not so Godly if you could not figure that out.
A recap of what Badanov and Rantburg have been reporting all year. The press is beginning to pay attention.
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's drug violence in 2010 was striking not only for its scale but also for its brutality.
In 2010, the levels of Mexican violence and the kind of extreme cruelty once reserved for Quentin Tarantino movies reached new heights, not just along the Texas-Mexico border, but in regions that were once spared such bloodshed. More than 13,000 people were killed across the country in drug violence, up from an estimated 9,600 a year earlier.
"Mexico has a long history of violence, which is completely different from a culture of violence," said Harvard historian John Womack. "This kind of violence, however, hasn't been seen in Mexican modern history."
Theories as to why such violence is surfacing now include Mexico's difficult transition to democratic government after decades of authoritarian rule, when unwritten understandings -- even among drug gangs -- kept a lid on things.
That may be, perhaps, wishful thinking, since drug cartels by their very nature are always violent, and will use whatever violence is required to enforce their will. The violence now may be different in degree (perhaps) but not in kind.
The Mexican ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, has said that the heart of President Felipe Calder�n's strategy is an effort to create a more democratic society with functioning governmental institutions that could help combat crime. But the transition has been difficult. For much of its history, Mexico has been ruled by authoritarian leaders whose tools of power were cajoling, co-opting or bludgeoning rather than governing by rule of law.
A parallel would be the transition from the Soviet Union to Russia; there the former KGB and party bosses took over and strangled democracy (such as one could ever have in Russia) in its crib. In Mexico the cartels are prominent, but the 'Forty Families' still have substantial control. The end result may be the same: no room for 'democracy'.
The violent year has left Mexicans shocked and perplexed, posing challenges for the government's U.S.-backed strategy and particularly for Calder�n, whose presidency slides into lame-duck status in 2011. The U.S. supports Mexico with the $1.2 billion M�rida Initiative, which aims to help build institutions and provide training and equipment, but U.S. officials wonder whether the strategy will continue beyond the Calder�n administration. Mexico has fought multi-generational intneral wars before, successfully. They may not have been pretty, but they did end successfully.
For decades, cartels have operated in Mexico, often enmeshed with the government itself. Democracy was supposed to change that, strengthening institutions like the courts and reducing the number of crimes that go unpunished. The reality has been starkly different: Ten years after the so-called democratic opening, with the election of the first opposition party to the presidency in 2000, the rate of unsolved crimes hovers around 98 percent, virtually unchanged from a decade ago.
Again, a difference in degree, not in kind.
"The democratization succeeded in breaking up power relations that controlled the violence," said Georgina Sanchez, an independent security analyst. "Governors, police, military, all institutional powers -- when their power base was broken, an enormous void opened that the democracy wasn't prepared to confront."
With democracy, "the top came off the pressure cooker," she said, and the violence that had long been simmering boiled over.
Business between rival cartels was once negotiated quietly, but now these groups, including those operating along Mexico's border with Texas, battle openly for territory and have become notorious for torture and horrendous killings. One group in particular, the Zetas, has raised the stakes for violence.
"Previously you had an informal code of ethics," said Maureen Meyer, a Mexico analyst with the Washington Office on Latin America. "Women were not targeted; children were not targeted. You took out your rivals, but you didn't hang their bodies from bridges. It was a quieter type of violence than what you're seeing now."
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U.S. special envoy for North Korea will travel to South Korea, China and Japan this week. The State Department said in a statement Sunday that Ambassador Stephen Bosworth will visit the three countries from Monday to Friday. Washington's special envoy for six-party talks, Sung Kim, will accompany him.
Bosworth is scheduled to arrive in Seoul on Tuesday and travel to Beijing the next day. He will continue on to Tokyo on Thursday. The State Department says he will meet with senior government officials in all three cities to discuss the "next steps on the Korea Peninsula."
Supposedly that means discussions on how to revive the 'six-way' talks, which the Norks would like if it means that we recognize them as a nuclear power.
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EAST ASIA
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* TOPIX > CHINA EXPANDS ITS FOOTPRINT IN CENTRAL ASIA.
-Stan, -stan, everywhere there's an Ex-Soviet
-STAN ... MISTER, CAN'T YOU READ THE [Chinese]SIGNS!?
To which we're supposed to respond by offering concessions.
North Korea could attempt to provoke the South prior to the G20 summit in Seoul in November in an effort to divert attention from its deepening domestic crisis, experts speculated Monday at a seminar on the G20 summit and security in the Korean Peninsula organized by the Institute for National Security Strategy. The seminar comes amid suspicions that North Korea may have been involved in the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan in a mysterious explosion on March 26.
Brian Myers, a professor at Dogseo University in Busan, said North Korea is unlikely to sabotage the G20 summit or commit a provocation disgracing the host, but recalled that Pyongyang bombed KAL flight No. 858 just prior to the 1988 Seoul Olympics and killed four South Korean sailors in a naval skirmish during the 2002 football World Cup.
"Kim Jong-il has lost confidence in his health and the 2012 deadline for achieving 'a great, prosperous and powerful nation' approaches, so he is obsessed with paving the way for his heir," said international security ambassador Nam Joo-hong said. "The North will pursue the contradictory paths of improving relations with the U.S. on the one hand and threatening the South on the other." He added provocations cannot be ruled out.
Choi Dae-suk, a professor at Ewha Womans University, said, "If North Korea was involved in the sinking of the Cheonan, the damage to inter-Korean relations would be tremendous." He warned that since this year marks the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, Pyongyang could seek to create military tension along the demilitarized zone.
To prevent the worst-case scenario, Myers proposed offering the North strategic concessions. Nam said that the G20 summit needs to come up with a "Seoul consensus" over the security problem.
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Among other, 9-11 + GWOT = WAR FOR THE ANTI-STATUS-QUO, etc.
As a reminder, "GLOBALISM" + "GLOBAL CENTURY" [21st] = BETTER/PROGRESSIVE GEOPOL EQUALISM + FAIRNESS = THE MAJOR POWERS MUST SHARE GEOPOL POWER, RIGHT + AUTHORITY, ETC. WID THE SMALLER STATES.
Iff CHINA doesn't unilaterally forcibly take over the DPRK during a MAJOR WAR, IT WILL LIKELY DO SO ANYWAY ECONOMICALLY AS A "NATURAL/NORMAL" CONSEQUENCE OF THE NEW CHINA-DPRK FTA SETTING UP CHIN-DOMINATED FTZ-EEZ-SEZ'S INSIDE NOKOR.
Chinese companies will likely demand Chinese workers to start, notsomuch local North Korean - these same will likely prioritize = follow PRO-BEIJING PROTOCOLS + REGULATIONS + DECISIONS, NOT PYONGYANG'S.
"NORTH-KOREA-FOR-NORTH-KOREANS/KOREANS" + NORTH KOREAN-STYLE COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM-GOVTISM > will devol into "NORTH-KOREA-FOR-CHINA/CHINESE" + CHINESE-STYLE COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM-GOVTISM???
IIUC, "INTERNAL CRISIS" > is that KIM JONG-UN or any other JONG-IL Sonny-Boy mut must Must MUST M-U-S-T MMMMMMUUUUUSSSSSSTTT, D ***** YOU,
BE A GENUINE REFORMER, BY AND FOR NORTH KOREA + NOKOR IDEOS/-ISMS, NOT JUST THE ANOINTED SUCCESSOR TO KIM JONG-IL.
ESPEC AS PER BEIJING = CHINA, NOT the US-ALLIES.
IOW, KIM JONG-UN = "POTUS OBAMA" OF NORTH KOREA, wid "CHINA" as KIM JONG-BAMMER'S "RUSSIA".
A U.S. reconnaissance satellite has detected signs of North Korea preparing for a nuclear test in North Hamgyong Province, where it had conducted two earlier tests in October 2006 and May 2009.
Image at the source shows a sat pic that might be of interest.
A South Korean government source on Wednesday said "brisk movement" of vehicles and people has been detected in Punggye-ri recently, including signs of activity there to repair a tunnel that collapsed after the two earlier nuclear tests.
However, it seems unlikely that the North will conduct a third nuclear test in the immediate future since current activities there suggest it will take "about three months" to prepare, the source added.
Unless they started two and a half months ago...
There is speculation that the North will attempt to reach a deal with the South Korean and the U.S. governments to ease sanctions while giving the impression that it is constantly ready to perform another nuclear test.
But the ROK won't go along given the recent attacks, so that's out.
Others speculate that Pyongyang may go ahead with the test to bolster the standing of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son Jong-un or to tighten controls now Kim junior has officially been established as the successor to the leadership.
Or it could be that they need the test to prove that their bomb actually works, since the first two tests are regarded by many experts as fizzles.
One South Korean security official said, "To consolidate the foundations for Kim junior's succession, the North will continue to try to bolster nuclear weapons and missiles in line with its "Songun" or military-first doctrine and its propaganda goal to become a "powerful and prosperous nation" by 2012, the centennial of regime founder Kim Il-sung's birth.
David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security, a U.S. progressive think tank, said at a seminar hosted by the Institute for Corean-American Studies in Washington that the North may have already developed small nuclear warheads that can be fitted onto ballistic missiles.
That would be quite an advance, if true, and would clearly suggest that the best strategy is to remove the Kim dynasty in some way.
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The photo was from 2006, and too small to show much other than an adit, possibly the one that was used for a previous test.
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What's an adit, Old Patriot? And howis it pronounced?
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > US BASE RELOCATION REMIANS BIG CHALLENGE FOR JAPAN IN 2011. Okinawa = MCAS Futenma + Guam relocation.
* SAME PDF > [Japan FM Seijii Maehara]JAPAN HOPES FOR SECURITY ALLIANCE WITH SOUTH KOREA.
* TOPIX > NEW OPTIONS ON FUTENMA UNDER REVIEW, RELOCATION TO HOKKAIDO, HONSHU URGED. Northern Japan.
IMO read, RUSSIA'S PROPOSED NEW MILBASES IN FORMER-JAPANESE-KURILES-NOW-SOVEREIGN-RUSSIAN-TERRITORY. ALso read, HAINAN + GULF/SEA OF VIETNAM II = ANTI-CHIN SEA DENIAL as China's PLAN, PLAAF cannot effec pass through widout USFJ Bases on one side, + Russ new Kurils SSSHH-NOT-ONLY-ANTI/AGZ-JAPAN? MilBases on the other + US SOSUS, etc. just offshore.
Ditto for Beijing + CPLA in SOUTH CHINA SEA.
* TOPIX > WIKILEAKS: KIM DIDN'T TRUST CHINA in 2009.
* SAME > SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDIENT CALLS ISLAND ATTACK AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE.
ARTIC = says POSK LEE meant changes for SOUTH KOREA-ONLY, BUT MY GUT SAYS LEE COVERTLY MEANS MUCH MUCH M-U-C-H MORE???
* SAME > REPORT: TAIWAN WILL NOT DEPLOY NEW MULTI-LAUNCH ROCKETS NEAR MAINLAND CHINA.
HMMM, HMMMMM, GUAM'S former WW2 MARBO COMMAND > instead of MARINE BASE OPERATIONS later MARIANAS-BONINS-OKINAWA, will become MARIANAS-OKINAWA-TAIWAN strategic perimeter [iff its ever re-activated]???
An accused Russian arms dealer, held in the United States as one of the world's most prolific arms traffickers, says he has rejected a U.S. plea bargain deal that would have compelled him to reveal his connections in Russia and other countries.
Viktor Bout, in a U.S. prison awaiting trial, also accused Washington of waging a well-orchestrated public relations campaign against him and said he does not expect a fair trial in the United States.
Bout's comments were reported Sunday by Russia's RIA Novosti news agency.
The 43-year-old former Soviet military translator insists he is innocent and has accused U.S. authorities of trying to make him a scapegoat for a variety of international problems.
"Which problems?"
"All sorts of problems!"
Bout was extradited from Thailand last year, two years after his arrest in an elaborate sting operation by U.S. agents. An indictment accuses him of using a fleet of cargo planes in the 1990s to transport weapons to insurgents and militants in Africa, South America and the Middle East. Bout says he ran a legitimate air transport business.
The Russian government lobbied heavily against Bout's extradition, denouncing the action as illegal when he was finally deported to the United States in November after more than two years of legal maneuvering.
If we had a CIA worth anything, word on the street would be that Bout is singing like the proverbial canary.
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This guy is 43 and he built all of this business himself?
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Adnan Khashoggi wanna be. Give Putti a call. He'll ring up Obama on the red phone and you'll be out singing songs, drinking vodka, and eating Baluga caviar in no time. Maybe you'll get a nice cush bank job at FondServisBank like Anna Chapman.
[Arab News] The Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP)-led government suffered a severe blow when its key ally Muttaheda Qaumi Movement (MQM) decided to quit the ruling coalition and sit in opposition benches here on Sunday.
In a politically crucial move, the Bloody Karachi-based MQM's decision was announced by the party's deputy Wasim Akhtar.
Without MQM's 25 seats, the PPP's coalition numbers 160 seats in the 342-member National Assembly, 12 short of the 172 required for a majority. The PPP has only the support of the Awami National Party in the lower house now.
All eyes will now turn to Pakistain's main opposition party, the Pakistain Mohammedan League Nawaz (PML-N) led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Müslim League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , that would need to support any possible parliamentary vote of no-confidence.
"It is their moral duty now to prove their majority in the National Assembly," PML-N front man Ahsan Iqbal said of the government.
"The prime minister should take fresh vote of confidence from the Parliament," he said.
The MQM said the decision was taken because of government fuel prices policy and means the US-backed government of President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who showed remarkably little curiosity about who actually done her in ... may now collapse because it will lose its majority in the National Assembly.
"It has been decided. We will sit on the opposition benches in the National Assembly and the Senate," MQM front man Wasay Jalil said.
The MQM, the second largest party in the coalition, this week pulled its two federal ministers, Babar Ghauri and Dr. Farooq Sattar, from the Cabinet because of what it said was the government's failure to improve security and stamp out corruption.
If the MQM sticks to its decision to join the opposition, the government will fall. Forming a new one will likely be a protracted, delicate process, sources said.
If the government collapses, it could mean a call for early elections, which are otherwise due in 2013. That would plunge the country into political uncertainty and distract leaders from tackling security and economic problems.
However, The infamous However... Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said his government will not collapse despite the MQM move.
"The government is not going to fall," he said.
"I was unanimously elected, all parties voted for me in National Assembly. We have contacts with all parties," Gilani said, indicating that horse-trading to shore up a new coalition was already underway.
Akhtar told media that the MQM chief Altaf Hussain had informed Chaudhry Shujahat Hussain, president of the Pakistain Mohammedan League (Q), about the MQM's move.
Apart from establishing contacts with Chaudhry Shujahat, the MQM chief also talked to Pir Sahib of Pagara of the PML (Functional) and informed about his party's decision.
Another MQM deputy, Haider Abbas Rizvi told news hounds on Sunday, "We have differences with the PPP government over NRO, RGST, corruption and latest hike in petroleum prices. We cannot cohabit any more."
PPP sources said Zardari was weighing several options to tide over the crisis. Options available for Zardari are either dissolution of the National Assembly or an alliance with PML (Q).
Zardari's aides are trying to win back the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), a small coalition partner, which left the government LAST month over the sacking of one of its ministers and sat with the opposition.
The head of the JUI, Fazalur Rehman, has called for the resignation of Gilani.
While there are no signs yet that may happen, rising differences between Zardari and Gilani have raised speculation that the prime minister is becoming vulnerable. Some analysts say Gilani may opt to resign if the pressure on his government becomes unbearable.
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So how long do you have a government crisis before it becomes just a plain chronic condition?
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Reminds me of Venezuela...
"Upon independence, the new country inherited its postal service and the ongoing postal strike from Spain..."
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Al-Iraqiya Coalition, led by former Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, insists on the nomination of its candidates for the posts of Defense and Electricity Ministers, Falah al-Naqib and Ziyad al-Dharb, its Legislature, Kadhim al-Shimmari said on Sunday.
Al-Iraqiya is insisting on its candidates Falah al-Naqib for the new Defense Ministers post and Ziyad al-Dharb for the Electricity Ministers post, Shimmary told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, but admitted that his Coalition had did not nominate any woman candidates for the remaining ministries posts.
Noteworthy is that Legislature Hassan al-Suneid of the National Coalition, had stated on Saturday that Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, insists to assign the remaining ministerial posts that were not filled till now for women candidates, charging that the political blocs have failed to present any women candidate for the remaining ministerial posts, that were not filled till now.
The above development is taking place at a time when the Women Members in the Iraqi Parliament have protested for the absence of any women candidates in the new Iraqi cabinet, and the Spokeswoman, Ala Talabani, told a recent Parliament session which had passed the new cabinet, that such a measure was considered a constitutional violation, demanding the Parliament to settle the issue.
As regards to the legitimacy of the Prime Ministers delay of assigning the leading security ministers in the new cabinet, Shimmary said that the Federal Court had granted the Prime Minister the right to present some of the cabinets candidates and to keep the remaining posts to be announced after the formation of the cabinet.
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Two Palestinians were charged by a court on Sunday with planning a rocket attack on Teddy Stadium, home to the Beitar football team.
that'd be the actual attackers Three more Palestinians, two of them maintenance men employed by the British Consulate General, were arrested on suspicion of supplying them with guns. All five were arrested in November but the details have only now emerged following Sundays court hearing
milked that information vein dry. Now execute them. Let the Brits kick and scream. Remind them of the NGas find....
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Islamic Jihad bigwig Khalid al-Batsh warned Israel against attacks against Gaza, and said that Paleo jihadis will use any possible means to resist.
Al-Batsh said, "Palestinians, as a nation under occupation, know how to defend their rights if the Zionist regime's forces wage an attack on Gaza."
"Accordingly, we will not remain silent in confronting the military threats posed by Israel and will use all the possible means to defend ourselves, including resort to the weapon of resistance," he added.
At the same time, al-Batsh dismissed Israel's military capability, saying that Israel is too feeble to wage a new war on Gaza.
"The regime is facing a serious challenge with Iran, the Lebanese Hezbollah and Syria. In addition, the Zionist regime is pinned down by lots of internal problems," he noted.
* IIRC HAARETZ > FATAH IN LEBANON OFFICIAL: WE WILL DEFEND LEBANON AGZ ISRAEL [Paleos will fight alongside Hezbollah on front lines agz any new IDF Aggression into Lebanon].
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YNETNEWS > [WikiLeaks]UK CABLE IN 1980 SAYS ISRAEL READY TO USE [Nuclear] BOMB, iff it believed it was about to face de facto MILITARY = NATIONAL DEFEAT at the hands of its Enemies.
ISRAEL PREFERRED TO GO DOWN FIGHTING.
Good rehash but nothing that wasn't already known or believed from back then.
Jawaher Abu Rahma is the second activist from her village to successfully die as an apparent result of IDF actions at West Bank demonstrations.
It was hard to decide which image to use: the Morton Salt girl, It Was A Dark And Stormy Night, the violinist ...
Not that it's impossible that someone could die from an adverse reaction to tear gas, but - let's just say that this is an amazing piece of, uh, journalism.
The IDF shot down an ugly Arab hoax Monday, after it had already been propagated worldwide. The Nana-Channel 10 website reported that a military investigation found that the woman who supposedly died when she inhaled tear gas at a demonstration Friday was not even present at the protest. She did not die of tear gas inhalation but of cancer, the IDF found, and had been lying in a hospital bed for ten days before passing away.
Arabs and leftists propagated the story that the woman, Jawaher Abu Rahma, 36, had inhaled tear gas at their weekly staged riot at Bilin, in Samaria. Adding pathos to the story was the allegation that she was the sister of an Arab who was killed in Bilin in 2009 after being struck by a tear gas canister. Israeli papers carried photos of her and quoted her as saying that she wishes to join her brother in Paradise.
The Palestinian Authority was quick to seize upon the story for lambasting Israel. "We condemn this abominable crime by the Israeli occupation army in Bilin against people taking part in a peaceful demonstration and consider it an Israeli war crime against our people," chief PA negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP.
However, the IDF has now found that Jawahel Abu Rahma died of leukemia or lung cancer, and had been in Ramallah hospital for ten days before passing away. The story was a fabrication intended to delegitimize Israel, the IDF said.
It seems that Arabs in the PA have become creative in making up lies that make Israel look bad worldwide. Unfortunately, even when their lies are discovered, the damage has already been done and the refutation of the story will receive less publicity than the original libel did.
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Lying Paleos and Miscellaneous Arabs? Rule, rather than the exception. They may excuse it with Taqqiya, but to me, it just means they have no honor, ethics, or integrity. F*ck em
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01/03/2011 22:06 Comments ||
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Will that French tv company make a staged special report about this one, too, then insist in court that every word is true?
[Arab News] A senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official said on Sunday that chances for reconciliation with rival Fatah movement are "diminishing."
Abdul-Aziz Dwaik, speaker of Hamas-dominated Paleostinian Legislative Council, said in a press statement that efforts to reconcile the two movements "are getting complicated by the day and hopes to end the internal split are diminishing."
The official questioned the possibility of reaching a deal that will reunify parts of the Paleostinian territories in the current situation.
Fatah and Hamas have been at odds since 2007 following the Islamic movement's violent takeover of the Gazoo Strip and the routing of pro-Abbas forces which now hold sway in the West Bank.
Dwaik said he attributed the failure of national reconciliation to "an Israeli veto which blocks the ending of Paleostinian split."
A senior Fatah official last Monday urged Hamas to return to national reconciliation talks to prevent Israel from launching another offensive on Gazoo Strip.
Sa'eb Erekat, a member of Fatah Central Committee, said in a press statement that "the reconciliation has become pressing and important, especially with Israel's recent threats to launch a new war on Gazoo."
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01/03/2011 00:00 ||
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Iran's nuclear power plant is scheduled to be connected to the national electricity newtowrk in February 2011, one month later than previously stated.
The country's Atomic Energy Organization chief Ali-Akbar Salehi had previously stated, according to DPA, that the Russian-built 1,000-megawatt reactor would be up and running by January 2011. The new deadline was reported by the Iranian Student News Agency on Monday.
Iran has been in an ongoing dispute with the international community concerning its nuclear program, which critics claim is geared secretly towards nuclear weapons capability. Teheran insists it is solely interested in generating electricity, and aims to add an additional 20,000 megawatts of nuclear power to the country's energy grid.
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this would be the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant; if it ever comes on line and is operated at full power (IMO, a big if), it will produce about 900 Megawatt.
Posted by: lord garth ||
01/03/2011 7:55 Comments ||
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AHMADINEJAD > repor was quoted as saying that IRAN IS, OR MUST BE, A "NUCLEAR STATE", which by most Pert accounts IS SYNONYMOUS WID SAYING "NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATE", besides also NucEnergy, etc.
* ION IRAN, WAFF > IRANIAN NAVY ARMED WITH NEW NAVAL CRUISE MISSLES.
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