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Demonstrating once again that complete lack of perspective and judgement which kept him from being re-elected to the presidency... and got him snubbed by the State Department upon his return from that last unauthorized trip to North Korea.
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Jimmy Carter; Went to the George Inst. of Technology.
Then he was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. He received his baccalaureate degree. He went on to secure a Naval Commission as a Senior officer of the Sea Wolf. His superior of all people was Admiral Rickover. I was very impressed with him at the time and yes even voted for him. I regret to see the many mistakes he has made. He was and I must say one of our finest. These missteps in his later years(yes and in office) are unfortunate. That is how he always was. He had to go it alone. Tip O'Neal was the real power in his day while Jimmy went elsewhere. The media always made fun of him just as the are doing with conservatives. Age may play a factor now. Like an old fighter he wants to be in the game and can't control the desire to be an active participant.
Coalition plans to pull out of Afghanistan are being hampered by theft and fraud totalling nearly $1bn, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. Hopes of a timely withdrawal of British troops from the region have been dealt a critical blow by revelations about massive bank frauds which have forced donors to suspend vital international aid.
The Department for International Development (DfID) confirmed last night that it had followed the lead of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in withholding contributions to bankroll hundreds of "nation-building" projects in Afghanistan.
The move, to "protect taxpayers' money", came as the full extent of the scandal at Kabul Bank described as the biggest fraud in modern times became clear. A secret US government report into the debacle "indicates that insiders at Kabul Bank used fraudulent loans to misappropriate $850m (£525m), representing 94 per cent of outstanding loans"
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Another reason to leave Afghanistan now, the pigsty these primitives call home, and let them kill each other as they wish. They revolt me.
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Ditto # and #2. "94 per cent of outstanding loans" they are laughing all the way from the bank. I swear the modern day con artists are everywhere.
Fellow went to a small grocery store and offered to purchase it. He said he had to give her a post dated check for thirty days. This was her asking price. He moves in and sells her inventory down and skips town. On his way he test drives a new car. He drove off with it. The dealer gave him the car to test drive but didn't tell him when to bring it back and he didn't sign anything. That then gets complicated for the dealer.
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Check for corresponding accounts in Bahrain, Dubai, etc. in the gentlemen's names -- they'll have stashed their ill-gotten gains in somewhere safe, friendly, and not too far away. Then take it all back. Easy peasy.
[Iran Press TV] The Kenyan government has expressed support for the recognition of Somaliland, which is an autonomous region of Somalia.
Kenyan Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Richard Onyonka said that Nairobi supports the recognition of Somaliland as an independent state and Kenya will encourage the countries of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... to officially recognize Somaliland, a Press TV correspondent in Nairobi reported late on Friday.
Onyonka made the remarks in an address to a group of Somalilanders living in Nairobi.
Somalilander Mohamed Saleh, who attended the gathering, said Somaliland deserves recognition since it has been relatively peaceful for years.
"We have managed to remain stable in a very volatile region and this should push the global community to recognize our illusory sovereignty from the bigger Somalia," he stated.
Somaliland, situated in northwestern Somalia, unilaterally declared independence from the rest of the African country in 1991.
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An Islamic revival is taking hold in rebel-held eastern Libya after decades of tough curbs on worship by Muammar Gaddafi, but clerics say this will not be a new source of religious extremism as the West may fear.
Restrictions on Islamic piety have become history in the east of the Arab North African state since its takeover by anti-Gaddafi insurgents, and clerics see a much bigger role for Islam in the country if Gaddafi is ultimately driven from power.
Under the autocratic Gaddafi's idiosyncratic brand of communal socialism overlaying Islam, worship was carefully regulated and any apparent manifestation of political, or militant, Islam drew harsh security crackdowns.
Yet Libyan society remained religiously conservative in character and that is now flowering anew in the rebel-held east.
In signs of greater Muslim piety, some rebels have grown longer beards, public prayer has become ostentatious, religious books are selling well and plans are afoot for more centres for the study of sharia, or Islamic law -- all of which, under Gaddafi, could have led to arrest and imprisonment.
"The situation in free Libya will revert to its natural state -- the natural state of the practice of religion in life, in the morals of the people, their ways, their return to the mosques," said Osama al-Salaaby, a well-known cleric and professor of sharia in Benghazi, the rebels' de facto capital.
The trial resumed Saturday in the port city of Alexandria of two police officers, Mahmoud Salah and Awad Ismail Suleiman, accused in the killing of an Egyptian whose death helped spark the uprising that toppled Mubarak. A judge set June 30 for a verdict in the highly charged case.
They are accused in the brutal beating death of 28-year-old Khaled Said, whose slaying served as a rallying point for activists campaigning against widespread human rights abuses under Mubarak. The circumstances of Said's June 2010 slaying -- he was dragged out of an Internet cafe by two plainclothes police officers and beaten to death -- resonated with many young Egyptians who, like him, use the Internet. It was never clear why the officers targeted Said.
His death sparked intermittent street protests in Cairo and Alexandria for months.
Security forces and forensic reports initially maintained Said suffocated after swallowing a packet of drugs -- a claim met with derision after photos of Said's corpse were circulated showing his body covered with bruises, his teeth broken and jaw smashed.
After a public outcry, prosecutors charged Salah and Suleiman with illegal arrest and harsh treatment, although not with murder as the victim's family had demanded.
The trial has dragged on for months. It was postponed repeatedly after Mubarak's ouster as court officials said it would be difficult to secure the proceeding.
On Saturday, hundreds of supporters of Said's family protested outside the courtroom, some holding up a zucchini, a symbol among Egyptians of abuse of authority to circumvent the law.
Lawyer Mohammed Abdel-Aziz said many had expected a verdict, but the judge adjourned the session and said a verdict would be handed down on June 30.
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Security forces and forensic reports initially maintained Said suffocated after swallowing a packet of drugs -- a claim met with derision after photos of Said's corpse were circulated showing his body covered with bruises, his teeth broken and jaw smashed.
"we tried CPR. With our fists"
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heh. Saudi trash was just delivered, I see.
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And seems it was taken out just as quickly.
Pity - I was wondering if he was reasonable this time.
CAIRO - An Egyptian judge on Saturday postponed the trial of the countrys former interior minister and four of his top aides in the deadly shooting of protesters after chaos broke out in the courtroom, with families of the victims shouting Butcher! Butcher! at the defendants.
Habib el-Adly is the highest-ranking former regime official to be brought to trial so far in the killings of 846 protesters and the injury of thousands of others during the uprising that forced ex-president Hosni Mubarak to step down on Feb. 11. If convicted, el-Adly could face the death penalty.
As Mubaraks interior minister for 13 years, El-Adly presided over the 500,000-strong security forces blamed for some of the worst human rights violations Egypt had seen in decades.
Outside the heavily guarded courtroom north of Cairo on Saturday, families of the victims held up pictures of their dead relatives and posters calling for the death penalty. They pushed down security barricades in their rush to enter the courtroom. Once inside, the families shouted Butcher! at el-Adly.
The chaos prompted the judge to postpone the trial to June 26. Plaintiffs lawyers presented a request to change the judge because of what they said was his friendship with el-Adly.
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RIYADH - An official from the six-nation Gulf bloc confirmed its secretary general will head to Yemen Saturday ahead of the planned signing of a deal it brokered aimed at ending months of deadly protests.
Gulf Cooperation Council secretary general Abdullatif al-Zayani will travel to Sanaa on Saturday and the signature of the plan will take place in his presence on Sunday, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Note that he didn't say which Sunday...
He will then return to Riyadh with the signed document, which will be submitted to an extraordinary meeting of GCC foreign ministers that is to be held in the Saudi capital on Sunday, he added.
Zayani has been attempting to broker an end to a bloody standoff between Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and protesters calling for his ouster, which has continued since January.
The GCC chief flew out of Sanaa on Wednesday after sources close to the negotiations said the government and the opposition again failed to ink the proposed deal.
Under the terms of the proposal, Saleh would hand power to the vice president 30 days after the agreement is signed, and he and his aides would be granted immunity from prosecution by parliament. A national unity government led by a prime minister from the opposition would be formed, and a presidential election would follow 60 days after his departure.
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MANAMA - Bahrain Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa said on Saturday that his country has frozen the gas import agreement with Iran until further notice.
Doesn't Bahrain have another neighbor close by with natural gas to sell?
According to a statement in the Bahrain News Agency, Shaikh Khalid attributed the decision to troubled political relations between the two countries.
Shaikh Khalid said the gas import project was stopped because of Irans blatant interference in the kingdoms domestic affairs.
Like sponsoring a coup, for example...
He said Irans successive provocative statements will affect agreements between the two countries, stressing that such projects require more suitable political atmosphere.
However, the foreign minister denied reports that the agreement was cancelled altogether, asserting that the kingdom is looking forward to setting up better relations with Iran and other neighbourly countries.
The agreement was signed between the two countries in 2008 to import one billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, but the project, according to the minister, was delayed because of Irans interference in Bahrains internal affairs.
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Nice to know, that the efforts of our armed forces, have been appreciated.
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Dave, we do appreciate your armed services.
Your political "leaders," not so much. But then we think the same of our political losers "leaders." >:-(
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Ditto on the thanks.
And when a Republican president gets elected in 2012, please consider sending Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill's bust back to the White House. We promise to take better care of it next time.
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Mexican Army and Policia Federal security forces have seized 326 kilograms of cocaine and 941 kilograms of marijuana as well as 168 rifles, pistols and rocket launchers since May 14th.
A Policia Federal unit seized 82 packages weighing about one kilogram each of cocaine hidden inside the fuel tanks of a Freightliner tractor rig near Tapachula, Chiapas last Monday.
Agents used an x-ray machine after they determined irregularities existed in the fuel tank area. The search and seizure took place on Kilometer 243 of Mexican National Highway 200. Arrested was Jorge Alberto Lozano Gonzalez, 45.
A Policia Federal unit captured three men who admitted working as lookouts for the Gulf drug cartel in San Luis Potosi Wednesday. Acting on a call to the Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosi municipality, agents ordered the driver of the Chevolet Cruze sedan to pull over, but instead the driver attempted to escape. A one point the occupants bailed out of the vehicle and fired on federal agents before they surrendered.
Arrested were Ricardo Barron Barragan, AKA El Flaco, 26, Hector Rodriguez Garcia , AKA El Gordo, 28 and Pablo Bermares Cruz, AKA El Tecolin, 60.
Seized were four AR-15 assault rifles, one 9mm pistol, 1,041 rounds of ammunition, 26 weapons magazines, 16 bulletproof vests, five ballistic vests and communications equipment.
Policia Federal agents arrested two men and seized more than 21 kilograms of cocaine near Tuxla Guiterrez, Chiapas Wednesday. The arrest was made at a checkpoint on Mexican National Highway 145D near Kilometer 182, where Juan Mario Ortiz Rosas, 40, and Solomon Parra Gutierrez, 34, were arrested following a search of the Volvo sedan they were riding in.
Policia Federal undercover agents arrested a man they say was a major leader of the Gulf drug cartel in Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas Wednesday. Gilberto Barragan Balderas, 41, Romeo Eduardo MejÃa Gonzalez and Sergio Guerra Castañon were arrested in the sting. Barragan Balderas was captured after he was lured to a party.
A detachment of the Mexican 45th Military Zone and agents with the San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora municipal police corporation, raided a warehouse and seized 108 packages of marijuana weighing a total of 190 kilograms. The seizure took place in the village of Golfo de Santa Clara, and included a vehicle and MP $2,500.00 (USD $215.08) in cash.
A unit of the Mexican 39th Military Zone arrested four individuals and seized an amount of drugs and weapons Tuesday. The unit was sent to the Barrio Belisario Dominguez in Comitan, Chiapas, and based on an anonymous tip, seized 225 kilograms of cocaine in 205 packages, four rifles, 536 rounds of ammunition, 11 weapons magazines and six vehicles.
Three armed suspects were killed and another three were arrested in a counternarcotics operation in Matamoros, Tamaulipas that also netted more then 100 weapons Thursday.
A unit of the Mexican 8th Military Zone was sent to a location inside the city after a Fuerza Aerea Mexicana recon Bell-212 helicopter was fired on by armed suspects riding in a multi vehicle convoy. A ground force subsequently sent to the location found and engaged the group, and forced them to scatter. Some of them abandoned their vehicles.
Seized in the aftermath were 83 rifles, 18 handguns, five 40mm grenade launchers, one rocket launcher, 11 grenades, 28 40mm grenades, 315 weapons magazines, 18,274 rounds of ammunition, 17 vehicles and eight kilograms of marijuana.
A detachment of the Mexican 36th Military Zone arrested four individuals who were in possession of a number of weapons. The arrests and seizure took place near Tapachula, Chiapas. Seized weapons included four rifles, four handguns, a grenade launcher and five grenades.
A detachment of the Mexican 5th Military Zone arrested four individuals and seized 728 kilograms of marijuana, as well as a number of weapons and other contraband in Chihuahua state last Sunday. The interdiction took place in the Janos municipality where soldiers found four unidentified individuals with 124 packages of marijuana weighing a total of 728 kilograms.
Weapons seized in the operation also included four rifles, two handguns, two fragmentation grenades, 14 weapons magazines, , 421 rounds of ammunition, six bullet-proof vests, vehicles and other contraband.
A unit of the Mexican 19th Military Zone seized a number of weapons in the state of Veracruz Monday. The unit was on patrol in the Mataredonda colony in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc when it seized four rifles, one handgun, 35 weapons magazines, 155 rounds of ammunition, three practice grenades, and two vehicles.
A detachment of the Mexican 13th Military Zone on patrol Tuesday in the village of San Dieguito in the Abajo municipality in Acaponeta, Nayarit when it was fired on by armed suspects riding in a truck. Army return fire killed two shooters. Seized following the shootout were four rifles, 13 weapons magazines, 518 rounds of ammunition and the vehicle.
A detachment of the Mexican 35th Military Zone was on patrol in Apaxtla de Castrejon municipality of Guererro when they were fired on by armed suspects travelling aboard six vehicles. Army return fire killed three. Ten individuals were detained following the gunfight including four woman and three children. The army also seized 22 rifles, 12 handguns, one grenade, 78 weapons magazines, 2,690 rounds of ammunition, nine kilograms of opium gum , 26 kilograms of cocaine, tactical gear and six vehicles.
A detachment of the Mexican 29th Military Zone rescued a kidnapped individual in a residence in Ciudad Isla, Veracruz Tuesday. Five suspects in the abduction were also detained. Seized were two rifles, eight weapons magazines, 190 rounds of ammunition, a quantity of marijuana and cocaine, and tactical gear.
A unit of the Mexican 14th Military Zone arrested an individuals with drugs and weapons Monday. The arrest took place in the town of Aguacalientes, Aguacalientes, where soldiers seized seven rifles, two pistols, two grenades, 203 rounds of ammunition, 13 weapons magazines and about 15 kilograms of marijuana.
#2
It is amazing how with this more-violent-than-Iraq insurgency going on in Mexico, how just tiny snippets of the news make it into the MSM up here.
Hell, the coverage of Mexican Revolution news in the US 100 years ago was better.
If someone cut a daily 5 minute YouTube video with these stories in it, and stock images in the background, like TV news used to be, once word got around, they would probably get cable-TV sized ratings.
Get a few journalism students to be talking heads for free, "for the exposure", and YouTube would probably give you your own channel after a few weeks.
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This wouldn't happen if American Gun Stores and Gun Shows stopped selling grenades, rockets, and their launchers. Time to outlaw all weapons and ammunition sales
signed: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Eric Holder, and your friendly BATFE
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Frank, except, of course, the sales of guns and ammo to known drug cartel agents, so we can track the guns to where they are used to kill US Border Patrol agents.
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[Dawn] Hundreds of proponents and opponents held rallies in Sweden's second-largest city Goteborg on Saturday to voice their opinions over the building of a mosque there.
Heavy police presence kept the two groups appart and a front man for the force said only one person had been incarcerated for violent behavior toward an officer.
It was the biggest police effort in the city since the EU Summit in 2001, when several thousand people gathered to protest against US President George W. Bush, the EU and globalization.
Mosque opponents claim the construction will ruin a nearby park and that the area is not suitable, while supporters say the opposition is racist.
The mosque, which will be the city's second, is due to be completed in mid-June.
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OK, I'll bite after half a year here.
1/. One picture of New Age .vikings, no pics of their opposiotion
2/. Race card used, however, (the ubiquitous however), mosques are (allegedly) not racial places, so the Race card doesn't work in this instance. Besides which, Islam is not a Race so suck that.
Whose side these sloppy hacks on? Some digging to be done.
#2
the issue is that he only pressures and makes demands of Israel.
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Update, he also calls for a "contiguous Palestine" whatever that's supposed to mean. Obama: "Israel Must Be Able To Defend Itself, By Itself, Against Any Threat"
"As for security, every state has the right to self-defense, and Israel must be able to defend itself by itself against any threat. Provisions must also be robust enough to prevent a resurgence of terrorism; to stop the infiltration of weapons; and to provide effective border security. The full and phased withdrawal of Israeli military forces should be coordinated with the assumption of Palestinian security responsibility in a sovereign, non-militarized state. The duration of this transition period must be agreed, and the effectiveness of security arrangements must be demonstrated," President Obama told American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) attendees on Sunday.
#5
Booing is very bad form. Politely standing up, turning your back on him and quietly leaving, in large numbers, is a more powerful and emblemmatic statement. In the old days it was called shunning, and spoke volumes silently.
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Given how O thinks, he probably expects Muslims to forgive him for wacking Osama. As to US Jews, all O has to do is ask them why they become racist.
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Ron Radosh of Pajamas Media was there, and comments about the speech and the discussion panel afterward here. He doesn't discuss audience behaviour, though.
Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugged confirms the standing ovation when President Obama was introduced, although it was noticeably not unanimous among the 10,000+ attendees, and adds photos of the anti-Israel protestors outside the event.
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The Christian Science Monitor blog notes that the introduction thanked President Obama for ridding the world of Osama bin Laden. I would applaud that, too, despite strongly dispproving of the president's statements about, and attitude toward Israel.
The AIPAC site has a video of the speech, so you can judge for yourself.
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I was looking at the protesters and saw a word that I have been using- enabling. I have been calling O supporters enablers for some time. The left attacks Rush with the "Ditto Heads" or brain dead follower cool aid drinkers. They always do that. Make an accusation that they themselves are doing.
THE US Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden were carrying a pocket guide to the occupants of his compound that was so detailed it suggests the CIA may have had a mole inside.
The document, left behind in the compound and obtained by The Sunday Times, lists the names and ages of those who were present, including bin Laden's wives, children and grandchildren.
It details where they lived in the compound and when some of them arrived. It also suggests bin Laden had fathered twins in the compound. It refers to "two unidentified children" born this year to his youngest wife Amal, 28.
Even the clothing worn by the 54-year-old al-Qa'ida leader is described. "Always wears light-coloured shawal (sic) kameez with a dark vest," it says. "Occasionally wears light-coloured prayer cap."
The document raises new questions about how bin Laden was tracked down in what President Barack Obama described as "one of the greatest intelligence successes in American history".
After the mission Mr Obama said he had been "only 45 per cent to 55 per cent sure that bin Laden was even in the compound". The document, which is said to have been carried by all the SEALs on the mission, indicates US intelligence was certain of his presence.
US officials have said that information on the compound was put together over months from a variety of sources, including a nearby CIA safe-house set up as a listening post, imagery from satellites and unmanned drones, and reports from their own agents.
But there is far more detail than seems possible from these methods - unless US drone technology is far more sophisticated than hitherto realised.
Some Pakistani officials say the briefing points to the presence of a mole in the compound.
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As much as I would love to know exactly how the raid went down, I shouldn't know the operational details that would compromise the chances of success of future missions.
If we did have somebody in there, I wouldn't want to make the bad guys aware of it and thus either cut short his usefulness and/or his life.
A lesson I try to pound home to my kids is that just because you can do something, it doesn't mean that you should do something.
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Leaving that information behind does sound like they are being messed with. The impact on those connected would be interesting. I'd bet they are in seclusion and very paranoid.
Then "just because you can do something, it doesn't mean that you should do something". That's a keeper.
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Oh please. It took the Pakistanis weeks to find a detailed document left behind? Total bullshit. It took them weeks to manufacture something that might pass the smell test and allow them to plausibly deny that the Americans have been all over this place for months without them having a clue.
Where else are the Americans now? Maybe in your cell towers; maybe in your air base; maybe in your new nuke reactor; maybe in Moola Omar's dirty laundry room. Don't have a clue?
Ok, then make up some shit so no one gets too worried about it, and any troublemakers can be rounded up and shot as 'moles'.
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It details where they lived in the compound and when some of them arrived. It also suggests bin Laden had fathered twins in the compound. It refers to "two unidentified children" born this year to his youngest wife Amal, 28
The link between Ancestors.com and the CIA is finally revealed! I thought Val Plame was in charge of sanitizing the site prior to extraction? Oh well, it will all come out in the book.
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REHMAN MALIK believes the US did have a mole = inside info on OBL before the raid.
Osama's followers, etal. will likely blame PAK Officials + Islamabad in general, espec iff the same are going to continue insisting they knew or were aware of the Abbottabad operation.
E.G. BHARAT RAKSHAK > DAWOOD [Ibrahim's] KARACHI HOME GUARDED BY PAK [Army]RANGERS, as well as being monitored by PAK ISI.
Since OBL's death at Abbottabad, Dawood repor now extra-cautious. e.g. repor may cancel his personal appearance at his Son's wedding reception.
EITHER THAT OR SHOW UP IN DISGUISE + MASSIVE COVERT SECURITY???
Pakistan's most populous province has cancelled six aid agreements with the United States in protest over the US. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, its law minister said.
Pakistan hailed bin Laden's death as a big step against militancy but was incensed by the raid in a garrison town not far from the capital, saying it was a violation of sovereignty. The operation severely strained already uneasy ties between the United States and Pakistan, whose cooperation is needed to stabilise Afghanistan.
"We have cancelled six MOUs (memorandums of understanding) with the United States in the fields of health, education and solid waste management," said Rana Sanaullah, law minister of Punjab, the country's political nerve centre. "We have told their concerned departments about our decision. This is our protest against the Abbottabad incident."
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Glenmore:
BLAZING SADDLES:
[the Johnsons load their guns and point them at Bart. Bart then points his own pistol at his head]
Bart: [low voice] Hold it! Next man makes a move, the nigger gets it!
Olson Johnson: Hold it, men. He's not bluffing.
Dr. Sam Johnson: Listen to him, men. He's just crazy enough to do it!
Bart: [low voice] Drop it! Or I swear I'll blow this nigger's head all over this town!
Bart: [high-pitched voice] Oh, lo'dy, lo'd, he's desp'it! Do what he sayyyy, do what he sayyyy!
[Townspeople drop their guns. Bart jams the gun into his (own) neck and drags himself through the crowd towards the station]
Harriet Johnson: Isn't anybody going to help that poor man?
Dr. Sam Johnson: Hush, Harriet! That's a sure way to get him killed!
Bart: [high-pitched voice] Oooh! He'p me, he'p me! Somebody he'p me! He'p me! He'p me! He'p me!
Bart: [low voice] Shut up!
[Bart places his hand over his own mouth, then drags himself through the door into his office]
Bart: Ooh, baby, you are so talented!
[looks into the camera]
Bart: And they are so *dumb*!
Before the AFLAC DUCK, there was HARVEY KORMAN + "THE [Bath/Toy]DUCK"!
* ION WAFF > CHINA FINALLY TAKES OVER NAVAL STRATEGIC PORT OF GWADAR, once PAK's agreement wid the managing Singapore Port Authority expires.
NET POSTERS = bad news for the US = US-NATO, as PAK can also stop/halt access to VITAL OVERLAND SUPPLY ROUTES, US WILL HAVE TO PAY $$$ COSTS TO FLY IN BULK OR ALL OF ITS SUPPLIES FOR THE TROOPS.
versus
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [GEN. CHEN BINGDE = US visit] CHINA: TIME TO ATTACK SOMALI PIRATES, ala PLA agz Pirate home = land, shore bases at their source in Somalia.
* SAME > VIETNAM SAYS [fishing] SAILORS SHOT AT IN SOUTH CHINA SEA [Spratlys], by shooters wearing PHILIPPINES-MILITARY UNIFORMS although its NOT clear at this time iff the same were actually Filipino.
Manila is denying the incident pending further investigation.
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [India] KARWAR TO BECOME LARGEST DEFENCE ZONE IN ASIA.
[Dawn] Pakistain Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday started its two-day sit-in in front of Bloody Karachi Port against the US drone attacks in tribal areas of Pakistain, and logistic support en- route Pakistain to the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... troops in Afghanistan.
Thousands of people from different walks of life and political activists gathered at the Native Jetty Bridge near Bloody Karachi Port on Saturday, holding flags and placards. They rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the drone attacks and the US interference into internal affairs of Pakistain.
Strict security arrangements were made by the Sindh government to avert any untoward incident. Heavy contingents of police and rangers were deployed around the venue while the adjacent roads were blocked by placing empty containers on roads.
Addressing the protesters PTI leaders said that the government should take action against the involvement of American spy agencies in the country and switch the so-called war on terror.
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How considerate of them. I am sure that a drone or two were flying over gathering facial recognition data to be used to spot the sods when they try to engage in their next terrorist attack.
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"When you grow up you find out that life isn't the way you imagined it, and President Obama means well. I think he's actually a good guy. He has no f***ing idea what the world is like because he doesn't have to live there," KISS vocalist and guitarist told CNBC.
"The most pathetic body on the face of the planet." Simmons called the U.N. a "paper tiger" that allows dictators to spread propaganda. Video at link.
[Al Jazeera] A former Paleostinian peace negotiator has told Al Jizz that Binyamin Netanyahu's government is "no partner for peace", after the Israeli prime minister rejected US president Barack B.O. Obama's call for a Middle Eastern settlement based on the 1967 borders.
Paleostinian leaders have welcomed Obama's call, in a keynote speech on Thursday, for a peace deal "based on the 1967 lines, with mutually agreed swaps".
But Netanyahu, visiting the White House on Friday, said Israel could not return to those borders because they were "indefensible".
Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... , the Paleostine Liberation Organisation's former chief negotiator, told Al Jizz: "I don't think we have partner in Israel today to proceed along the two-state solution line.
"Let's give this option the chance, let's give president Obama the chance, let's give Israelis the chance, let's give the international community the chance to have prime minister Netanyahu utter 'two states on 1967 lines' - and if he fails to do that we have many other options that we will go about."
Paleostinian officials said on Saturday they would press ahead with seeking recognition for Paleostinian statehood at the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... in September.
"Of course we will go to the United Nations," Nabil Shaath, an aide to Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , told the Rooters news agency.
"Especially after Netanyahu used the old pretext that he needs 'defensible borders' to keep stealing our land, control the Jordan Valley and create demographic facts on the ground."
Abu Rdainah, Abbas' front man, said Paleostinians preferred to pursue peace with Israel rather look to the United Nations.
"Our position is to give an opportunity, until September, for going back to the negotiating table based on a halt to settlement activity," he said.
"It would be our first choice."
But the statehood vote would have first to be approved in the Security Council, where the United States - which insists on a negotiated peace accord - has a veto.
Shaath urged President B.O. to join other countries in endorsing a Paleostinian state taking in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Another Paleostinian official, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said the drive to win statehood status unilaterally could be forestalled, should Israel accept the demand to extend a freeze on its settlement on occupied land so that negotiations can resume.
But no such rapprochement looked imminent after the Israeli prime minister, differed with Obama on the issue.
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So hard to get along..
There is only one universal religion. Can´t be very difficult to understand.
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MOSCOW - Members of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas will meet very senior Russian officials on Monday during their informal three-day visit to Moscow, a Palestinian negotiator said Saturday. The Palestinian delegation arrived in Russia on Friday evening after concluding mechanisms for implementing a reconciliation agreement between the two sides earlier in the week.
A member of the so-called Middle East Quartet, Russia backs making east Jerusalem the capital of a unified Palestine and is also in contact with Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and is viewed as a terrorist organisation by Israel.
One of the Palestinian negotiators, Mustafa Barghouti, said the group planned to hold a very important meeting with Russian officials on Monday.
It will be a very senior meeting, Barghouti added.
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ISTANBUL - Turkey's President Abdullah Gul has urged the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas to recognise Israel's right to exist, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
In an interview a day after U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a speech on the Middle East, Gul also hailed Obama's reference to creating a Palestinian state based on Israel's pre-1967 borders as "a very important step".
Turkey has regarded Hamas as a key factor in the Middle East peace process since it won fraudulent Palestinian elections in 2006.
Gul said President Obama "has a point" when he said in his speech that Israel could not be expected to negotiate with a body that does not recognise Israel's right to exist.
Oh I'm sure Bambi can work around that...
Asked if he was willing to press Hamas on that issue, Gul said, "I already advised them."
And they replied...what, exactly?
In a meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Ankara in 2006, Gul said he told Meshaal, "you have to be rational" about recognising Israel's right to exist.
Gul said he believed Hamas was ready to recognise Israel in its pre-1967 borders but wants that to happen simultaneously with Israel's recognition of a Palestinian state.
That makes it the two-step plan to kill all the Joooz: first get a Paleo state, then use that to grind down the Israeli state.
Turkey has demanded that Israel end its blockade of the Gaza strip and its aggressive stance on the Palestinian issue has created tensions between Ankara and Washington.
The paper said Obama's speech was being interpreted by Turkish officials as a significant if nuanced change.
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I don't think there will be peace until Israel denies the Paleos right to exist.
"Saudis dismissed US President Barrack Obama's much-anticipated "Arab Spring address" as meaningless, predictable drivel while Egyptians and other Arabs, to whom Obama offered some sops, also did not find anything new in the speech, which according to them focused on US interests." heh........
[Iran Press TV] Amid global concerns over rights abuse in the US, Iran's Parliament (Majlis) is set to discuss imposing sanctions on American officials responsible for human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations.
In its Sunday meeting, the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's Parliament (Majlis) will discuss imposing sanctions on American officials who have committed human rights violations, IRNA reported.
Earlier, Head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's Parliament (Majlis) Alaeddin Boroujerdi said that the Islamic Theocratic Republic is preparing to file a lawsuit against those American officials responsible for committing human rights violations.
This comes as Iran also plans to launch an English-language news agency to report on human rights conditions in the West.
Iranian politician Mohammad Karim Abedi earlier announced that the Human Rights News Agency would seek to assert human rights in the US and Perfidious Albion.
In May, Amnesia Amnesty International (AI) slammed the United States for its indefinite detentions in Afghanistan and at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, as well as its flawed capital punishment system.
In October 2010, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Human Rights Council (UNHRC) also released a report expressing serious concerns about human rights abuse in the US.
The report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) pointed to rights violations and concerns regarding torture, police brutality, and wide-ranging discriminations that the US government has neglected to properly address.
Systematic violations of human rights by the US government were detailed in the report, which indicated that most violations affected African-Americans, minorities, especially Mohammedans, and immigrant communities in the US as well as abroad.
The use of torture against prisoners and detainees by military personnel in Guantanamo Bay prison, as well as detention centers in Iraq and Afghanistan, was also condemned in the report.
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"No more subsidized suicide vests for your home grown terrorist!"
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Better stock up on pistachios.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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RIYADH - An official from the six-nation Gulf bloc confirmed its secretary general will head to Yemen Saturday ahead of the planned signing of a deal it brokered aimed at ending months of deadly protests.
"When you grow up you find out that life isn't the way you imagined it, and President Obama means well. I think he's actually a good guy. He has no f***ing idea what the world is like because he doesn't have to live there," KISS vocalist and guitarist told CNBC.
[Iran Press TV] Amid global concerns over rights abuse in the US, Iran's Parliament (Majlis) is set to discuss imposing sanctions on American officials responsible for 
