[Dawn] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... Saturday welcomed US Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... 's remarks that the Taliban "per se is not our enemy".
Biden's comments to Newsweek magazine last week caused uproar in the US, which has been fighting a 10-year war against the Taliban-led insurgency, but reflected an increasing focus on finding a political settlement.
"We are very happy that America has announced that Taliban are not their enemy. This will bring peace and stability to the people of Afghanistan,"Karzai said during a ceremony in Kabul.
Karzai has agreed that if the United States wants to set up a Taliban address in Qatar to enable peace talks he will not stand in the way, as long as Afghanistan is involved in the process.
The September liquidation of Karzai's peace envoy, former president Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... , appeared to have derailed any prospects of progress in talks.
But recent unconfirmed reports suggest the US could be open to a deal which includes the transfer of Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.
In the interview with Newsweek Biden emphasised the need for the Taliban to cut ties with al-Qaeda.
"We are in a position where if Afghanistan ceased and desisted from being a haven for people who do damage and have as a target the United States of America and their allies, that's good enough," he said.
As it pushes for a political settlement, the Afghan government has changed its tone towards the turbans, referring to "terrorist" rather than "Taliban" attacks.
But many Afghans fear if the Taliban is allowed into mainstream politics, their influence will see the undermining of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. and freedoms.
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"We are in a position where if Afghanistan ceased and desisted from being a haven for people who do damage and have as a target the United States of America and their allies, that's good enough," Biden said.
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I'm sure there is historical precedent here, somewhere. For example, maybe Henry A. Wallace, "Ol' Frank" Roosevelt's second VP, at some point might have said that "The Nazis are not our enemy" or "The Japanese are not our enemy".
Or maybe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's VP, LBJ might have said that "The Soviet Union is not our enemy."
A Libyan militia chief said on Sunday his fighters had captured nine supporters of otherthrown leader Muammar Gaddafi who had been plotting to blow up Tripoli's power grid on New Year's Eve.
"We captured explosives with them that they bought from the black market and now we're interrogating them," said Abdullah Naker, the commander of Tripoli's Revolutionist Council.
Militia groups who helped oust Gaddafi last year still hold considerable power in Libya, and have taken the law into their hands in several areas, setting up road blocks and arresting suspects despite the presence of an official police force.
Mr Naker said the nine Gaddafi supporters had been funded by a group of businessmen affiliated to the former leader, who was killed in October after militias overran his home town of Sirte. Mr Naker also accused the nine and their supporters of trying to relaunch the former leader's official television station Al Jamahiriya.
The men had been planning to set off a number of explosions in the capital, state media reported, quoting a statement from Libya's electricity and renewable energy authority.
[Yemen Post] Outgoing Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , headed a consultative meeting today to a number of government officials, members of Parliament and Shura Council and governors.
The meeting reviewed the steps which has been implemented of the Gulf initiative and its mechanism until now.
It also discussed the current situations, especially after the formation of the National Reconciliation Government and the Military Affairs Committee which charged of restoring security and stability in Yemen.
They have also rewired the commitments of the political parties regarding the implementation of the Gulf initiative which would get the country overcome the crisis and its negative impacts in all aspects.
During the meeting, Salih stressed the need for consultation and mutual understanding so as to put an end to the chaos and negative phenomena that grow and evolve day after day in some ministries and institutions.
He said the objective of signing of the Gulf initiative and its mechanism is to end the crisis. To see a progress towards the future with a new national spirit, and to prevent the consequences that will lead to the collapse of state institutions.
" We can't under any circumstances allow the collapse of state institutions and facilities that were built more than 49 years ago." Saleh said.
Other Yemeni press revealed that the meeting, attended by his deputy Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi, decided to prevent the Saleh to travel outside Yemen for treatment because of the current situations in Yemen.
They agreed to bring doctors from aboard to treat President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... inside Yemen and they formed of a room for crisis management, headed by Dr. Ali Mohamed Mujawar.
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[Iran Press TV] Following revelations about Qatar's plan to overthrow the Soddy Arabian monarchy, tensions between the two countries reaches a new level over adherence to Wahhabism.
In a recent development, Soddy Arabia's new crown prince, Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, was quoted by Al-Awamiyah website as saying that his country will not allow Qatar to replace it as a religious hub among Arab countries.
Addressing an opening ceremony of a seminar in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh last Tuesday, Prince Nayef announced that Soddy Arabia would never allow Qatar to own the religious standing of Soddy Arabia in the Arab world.
His remarks followed a measure by the Qatari government to name the country's biggest mosque after Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab, the founder of the Wahhabi sect.
Analysts believe that Doha's measure is an effort to strip Soddy Arabia of its position as the core of Wahhabism in the Arab world.
Nayef added that the Saudi government was founded on the basis of Salafism by Muhammad bin Saud, who was an ally to Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab, and Riyadh is proud of its loyalty to Salafism.
Saudi officials have noted that Qatar is preparing to enter a fierce competition with Soddy Arabia and this is why the country is trying to highlight its loyalty to Wahhabism.
Political observers believe the United States is provoking Qatar to continue a war of words with Soddy Arabia.
Last week, an audio file was published on the Internet in which Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani said the Soddy Arabian monarchy will be tossed by Qatar very soon.
He added that Qatari troops would occupy Qatif in Soddy Arabia's Eastern Province and the Al Saud regime will disintegrate.
"The regime of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud is exhausted and powerless to control the country and the army cannot confront the future changes," he asserted.
Sheikh Hamad said Qatar is also capable of gradually reducing the dominance of Soddy Arabia in the region and imposing itself on Arab countries.
The revelation came as people in Qatif have been staging protest rallies to demand freedom and equality over the past months.
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"Political observers believe the United States is provoking Qatar to continue a war of words with Soddy Arabia."
You sure it's not the Juices?
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Everything not caused by the Juices is the fault of those bloody Americans. Even Allah does not stand with Muslims against them -- thus are ye to know 'tis his will it be so.
HONOLULU: After objecting to provisions of a military spending bill that would have forced him to try terrorism suspects in military courts and impose strict sanctions on Iran's oil exports, the US President, Barack Obama, has signed it.
He said although he did not support all of it, changes made by Congress after negotiations with the White House had satisfied most of his concerns and had given him enough latitude to manage foreign policy in keeping with administration policy.
''The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it,'' Mr Obama said in a statement issued in Hawaii, where he is on holiday.
''I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists.''
The bill authorises $US662 billion in military spending this year. It is a smaller amount than the Pentagon had asked for, but it does not impose the radical cuts the military faces in coming years.
The White House had said the legislation could lead to an improper military role in overseeing detention and court proceedings, and could infringe on the President's authority in dealing with terrorism suspects. But it said Mr Obama could interpret the statute in a way that would preserve his authority.
The President, for example, said he would never authorise the indefinite military detention of US citizens, saying that ''doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation''.
He also said he would reject a ''rigid across-the-board requirement'' that suspects be tried in military courts rather than civilian courts.
Congress dropped a provision in the House version of the bill that would have banned using civilian courts to prosecute those suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda. It also dropped language that would have enacted new authorisation to use military force against al-Qaeda and its allies.
Mr Obama's signature is likely to settle, at least for now, the battle between the White House and Congress over executive authority in the treatment of detainees.
The White House also wrestled with Congress over requirements that the US sanction foreign financial companies that purchase Iranian oil, including through Iran's central bank.
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The President, for example, said he would never authorise the indefinite military detention of US citizens, saying that ''doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation''.
Former Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqanis lawyer said that Haqqani was currently living at the Prime Ministers House due to fear of the intelligence agencies. She said that Haqqani was afraid that he would be forced by ISI into giving a statement.
Moreover, she claimed that the Supreme Courts decision on the Memogate petition was a victory for the countrys establishment. She added that the law was being used to transform the country into a security state.
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Pakistan is one of the few places in the world that might profit immensely from a brutalitarian atheist communist regime for a decade. One with no hesitation at all in wiping out fanatics.
Prime minister's bureau confirms Israel's chief negotiator Yitzhak Molcho to attend Quartet meeting in Amman. Sources in Jerusalem say 'Israel, Jordan share common interests against Hamas, Iran'
Hours after Ynet first revealed that Israel and the Palestinians are returning to the negotiations table, the prime minister's bureau on Sunday evening announced that Attorney Yitzhak Molcho, Israel's chief negotiator to talks with the Palestinians, will travel on Tuesday to Amman and attend the Quartet meeting.
Earlier on Sunday, Ynet learned that advanced negotiations with Jordanian mediation have been launched ahead of a direct meeting between Israeli and Palestinian representatives.
"We thank the King of Jordan and the Jordanian foreign minister for initiating this move in accordance with the Quartet's outline," said Head of the National Information Directorate Yoaz Hendel.
Sources privy to the details said the meeting between Molcho, and his Palestinian counterpart Saeb Erekat is scheduled to take place in Amman within the next 48 hours under the auspices of the Hashemite Kingdom and the Mideast peace Quartet (United States, Russia, European Union and the United Nations).
Meanwhile, sources in Jerusalem told Ynet that the meeting in Jordan was made possible especially due to "the Palestinians' willingness to waive preconditions to the negotiations."
"Israel is allowing Jordan to mediate because they want King Abdullah in the picture," one of the sources noted, adding that "Jordan and Israel have common strategic interests, even if the Jordanians sometimes acts differently in public."
The source said that renewing the talks, under the auspices of the Quartet and the Hashemite Kingdom, also helps present a united front against Hamas, amid ongoing reconciliation talks between Palestinian factions.
"The talks are also aimed against Hamas, which the Jordanian King can't stand, and also to strengthen ties between the two countries," said the source, adding that Jerusalem and Amman also share common interests against Iran.
Another Jerusalem official noted that the Palestinians agreed to the Quartet's outline in order to relieve some of the international pressure that was mounted on them. "They refused to hold direct talks up until now, but now they need the Europeans and the Americans," said the source.
The Jordanian government will host a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators this week, bringing the sides together for the first time in more than a year.
Tuesday's talks will not be a formal negotiating session, but will mark a significant step toward restarting negotiations, which broke down in September 2010.
"The upcoming meeting is part of serious and continuous efforts to reach a common ground to resume the direct negotiations," Jordanian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Kayed said on Sunday.
He said Jordan's foreign minister, Nasser Judeh, would host the meeting of Israeli and Palestinian representatives with teams from the international Quartet of Mideast mediators. The Quartet, consisting of the US, European Union, Russia and the United Nations, has been trying to restart negotiations with the goal of forging a final peace agreement this year.
Judeh is expected to hold a separate meeting with the Israelis and Palestinians, Kayed said. He gave no details on the agenda or participants.
[An Nahar] Paleostinian leaders decided on Saturday to seek sessions of the U.N. Security Council and the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... , hoping for action to halt Israeli settlement.
A statement by the executive committee of the Paleostine Liberation Organization said continued settlement growth in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem was liable "to destroy all chances of a grinding of the peace processor and the two-state solution."
"We shall go to the Security Council to discuss (it)," said the statement, read by PLO Secretary General Yasser Abed Rabbo ... Paleostinian politician and a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. He holds an M.A. in economics and political science from the American University in Cairo..... . "We shall invite the vaporous Arab League at the highest level to follow up on this matter.'
It did not say when it hoped the bodies would convene.
The international peacemaking Quartet ... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... of the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... , the United States, Russia and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has given the parties until January 26 to submit comprehensive proposals on territory and security.
Earlier this month Britannia, La Belle France, Germany and Portugal led condemnation by Security Council members of increased settlement construction in the occupied territories and growing attacks by settlers on Paleostinians.
That enraged Israel, which said the Europeans were in danger of making themselves "irrelevant."
Israeli construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank is one of the thorniest issues of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, scuppering direct negotiations between the sides that began in September 2010 and ground to a halt shortly afterwards when a 10-month Israeli settlement freeze ended.
Israel declined to renew the freeze and the Paleostinians say they will not hold talks while settlement construction continues.
Efforts by the Quartet to bring the parties back to the table have so far failed.
The Paleostinians have sought U.N. censure over settlements before, most recently in February when the United States vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli construction in the occupied territory.
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lesson to learn for the Paleos. Intransigence and ignorant temper tantrums are allowing facts on the ground to change the negotiation positions. Israel will not evict the Jooos living in East Jerusalem. Keep arguing and it will become a done deal
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A Pakistani border official spokeshole has accused Iranian security personnel uniformed thugs of crossing into Pakistan, shooting to death one man and wounding another. Happy New Year!
Mir Zafar Bangulzai says Iranian forces took the two men, apparently smugglers, from the Mazah Sar area of southwest Baluchistan province back across the border after the incident Sunday evening. Didn't pay their "taxes"?
Bangulzai says Pakistani border officials followed the foreign forces into Iran oooooo!
, retrieved the two men and brought them back to Pakistan. They also detained three Iranian border security personnel uniformed thugs.
Bangulzai says the man who was shot, Saeed Rigi, and the man who was wounded, his brother, Islam Rigi, were smugglers.
The incident occurred in a desolate area where the border is not clearly marked. Joe Biden should mediate
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If you follow the linked article to the once conclusion that hostilities between Iran and the US to in fact happen, then there is the likely result that Bammi will see an upward turn in his numbers, since Iran has been a thorn the America's side for many years.....
might make the elections even more interesting.
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the article indicates Iran only produced one fuel rod
presumably this goes in a rod bundle with some Russian made rods
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Despite is status as a "rogue" state, the US-NATO can at least closely monitor Pak's nuclear progress, + have a capable mil presence [regional = AFPAK + CAR] in Afghanis to keep Pak in line iff necessary.
NO SUCH LUCK WID IRAN, WE'RE OUT OF IRAQ NOW, + WE'RE NOT SURE YET HOW EGYPT + LIBYUH, etc. Nord Affrique' will turn out.
IN SUM, GLOBAL JIHAD + OWG CALIPHATE, + NUKULAAR-HAPPY RADICAL ISLAM = MILTERRS HAVE THE ADVANTAGE.
Besides ISRAEL ringing the alarm bells in Washington again this AM, FOXNEWS AM > JOHN BOLTON = [paraph]THE WINDOW OF TIME/OPPORTUNITY THAT THE US-WEST + UNO HAVE TO STOP IRAN FROM DEV NUCLEAR WEAPONS, BY MILACTION IFF NEED BE, IS RAPIDLY CLOSING,
BOLTON = essens saying or arguing THE SITUATION WID IRAN IS SUCH THAT MAINSTREAM AMERICA SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IFF POTUS BAMMER HAS [forced] TO TAKE SOME KIND OF DECISIVE ACTION AGZ IRAN GOING INTO THE 2012 ELEX = CAMPAIGN MONTHS.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that the Islamic Republic's central bank would respond with "force" to the new US sanctions intended to pressure Tehran to abandon its nuclear program.
"We must protect the people and the nation against the plots of enemies, so that the people are not under pressure," he said, according to a statement posted on the leader's website.
Observer mission 'giving Syrian regime an Arab cover for inhumane actions'
An Arab League advisory body has called for the immediate withdrawal of the organisation's monitoring mission in Syria, saying it is allowing Damascus to cover up violence and abuses.
The Arab League has a small team in Syria checking whether President Bashar al-Assad is keeping his promise to end a crackdown on a nine-month uprising against his rule.
The observer mission has already stirred controversy, with rights groups reporting continued deaths in clashes and tens of thousands of protesters taking to the streets.
The Sudanese head of the mission infuriated some observers by suggesting he was reassured by first impressions of Homs, one of the main centres of unrest.
The Arab Parliament, an 88-member advisory committee of delegates from each of the league's member states, said on Sunday that the violence was continuing to claim many victims.
"For this to happen in the presence of Arab monitors has roused the anger of Arab people and negates the purpose of sending a fact-finding mission," the organisation's chairman, Ali al-Salem al-Dekbas, said.
"This is giving the Syrian regime an Arab cover for continuing its inhumane actions under the eyes and ears of the Arab League."
[An Nahar] Top negotiator Saeed Jalili said Iran was ready to rejoin EU-led talks with major powers on assuaging Western concerns over its nuclear program even as tensions with the United States soared in the Gulf.
"We will give a resounding and many-pronged response to any threat against the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran," Jalili told Iranian diplomats gathered in Tehran in comments reported on Saturday.
But both he and other officials left the door open to resuming long-stalled talks led by European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Western concerns over Iran's nuclear program.
"We officially told them to come back to the negotiation based on cooperation," Jalili said.
Iran's ambassador to Germany, Alireza Sheikh-Attar, told the Mehr news agency on Saturday: "We will soon send a letter, after which (new) talks will be scheduled."
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was also quoted by a website of the state broadcaster as telling a visiting Chinese foreign ministry official that "Iran is prepared for the continuation of nuclear negotiations" on the basis of a Russian proposal.
Iran is subject to four rounds of U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program, which many Western governments fear is cover for a drive for a weapons capability, an ambition Tehran denies.
The United States and its allies have also imposed unilateral sanctions on Iran's economy.
The last lot of unilateral sanctions triggered a demonstration in Tehran that led to members of the Basij militia controlled by the Revolutionary Guards ransacking the British embassy.
London reacted by closing the mission and ordering Iran's embassy in Britannia closed.
More sanctions are on the way.
U.S. President Barack I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money Obama is expected to sign into law soon additional restrictions on Iran's central bank, which acts as the main conduit for Iranian oil sales.
The European Union is considering other measures that could include an embargo on Iranian oil imports, with foreign ministers to meet on the issue in a month's time.
Iran's oil minister, Rostam Qasemi, told the Aseman weekly that sanctions "will drive up the price of oil to at least $200" per barrel.
Tehran has warned that if the threatened sanctions are implemented it will consider closing the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway through which more than a third of the world's tanker-borne oil supplies pass.
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Nobody cares. Iran is posturing with no intention of following through, and everyone knows it.
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See also CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > SANTORUM SAYS HE WILL BOMB IRAN NUCLEAR SITES, as POTUS iff Iran refuses to open 'em up to international = UNO inspection.
[An Nahar] Iran's navy is about to test-fire a variety of missiles in war games in the Strait of Hormuz, a front man said Saturday, underlining Tehran's threat to close the strategic oil waterway if new Western sanctions are applied.
Commodore Mahmoud Mousavi told the state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
network IRIB: "In the next days, we will test-fire all kinds of surface-to-sea, sea-to-sea and surface-to-air as well as shoulder-launched missiles."
He said in a separate interview with Iran's Press TV that "dummy targets will be towed into the sea today (Saturday) as we prepare for the live-firing of the missile tests."
He did not say exactly when the launches would start, but explained they would involve tests of "medium- and long-range missiles" to evaluate their operational effectiveness.
One Iranian news agency, Fars, reported early Saturday that the tests of "long-range missiles" fired from shore and ships had already started. It later changed its online story to remove any mention of the tests having already taken place.
The 10 days of navy exercises started December 24 and are due to end on Monday.
Twenty percent of the world's oil moves through the Strait of Hormuz, at the entrance of the Gulf, making it the "most important chokepoint" globally, according to information released Friday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Around 14 crude oil tankers per day pass through the narrow strait, carrying 17 million barrels. In all, 35 percent of all seaborne oil transited through there this year.
Iran has said that "not a drop of oil" would pass through the strait if Western governments follow through with planned additional sanctions over its nuclear program.
Military chiefs have said it would be "really easy" for them to close the strait.
The United States had called the threats "irrational behavior" and said closure of the strait "will not be tolerated."
It maintains its own naval presence in the Gulf, with its Fifth Fleet based out of Bahrain.
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This reminds me of a tale from the old Soviet Union, in which Brezhnev was invited to watch a Soviet fleet exercise on the attack and invasion of a naval port.
The exercise went off without a hitch, and the Admiral in charge approached Brezhnev, proudly informing him that all enemy ships and the port had (theoretically) been destroyed and captured, without the loss of a single ship.
"Impressive," replied Brezhnev. "How did you destroy the enemy shore batteries?"
"The enemy has shore batteries!?!," replied the suddenly horrified Admiral.
[Iran Press TV] An American investigative journalist says the al-Qaeda is a fairytale terrorist group made up by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli spy agency, Mossad.
"In the US, the Zionist propagandists are spinning the fanciful tale that Iran was involved with "al-Qaeda," the fairy tale organization concocted by Mossad and the CIA, in carrying out the 9/11 attacks," Wayne Madsen wrote in an article published in Global Research.
Madsen was referring to the latest US allegation that Iran was involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
On December 22, a US federal judge in Manhattan alleged that Iran, together with the Taliban and al-Qaeda, had been involved in the 9/11 attacks.
The court, meanwhile, withdrew Soddy Arabia's name from the 10-year-old case, even though 15 of the 19 attackers were Saudi nationals.
Tehran has condemned Washington's allegations as amateurish and baseless scenarios.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that the US is jeopardizing international peace and security by repeating such groundless claims.
He added that the US role in founding the al-Qaeda and supporting it is common knowledge.
The American journalist concluded that Iran is now facing an undeclared war being waged by the West and Israel.
"It is a war of computer viruses like the Israeli-developed Stuxnet, propaganda, support for armed krazed killers, covert liquidations and sabotage, and political pressure against Iran's friends around the world. This softening up of Iran is expected by the West to make a final military assault on the country a cake walk. "
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Mr. Madsen is a strange fellow even in conspiracy circles. He claimed the prosecution of former Senator Spitzer was Israeli inspired (of course Spitzer was never actually prosecuted). He claim to know the person who had seen Obama's Kenya birth certificate.
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I'm convinced that if you're a foreign source for Iran Press TV, you're probably batshit crazy.
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Wayne Madesen has written for every idenpendent leftist website there is. He has also written for The American Conservative, described as an anti-war, right wing publication.
Hell, I didn't even know there was such as thing as an antiwar conservative.
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Very early on in the WoT, right after 9-11, when bin Laden was identified as their leader, it was suggested that he had been in Dubai, on a 10 day stay at a hospital, for some now thought of as less serious kidney problem, likely kidney stones, months before the attack. Suggestions of Hepatitis C or that he needed dialysis are just speculation.
At that time, two unidentified CIA agents were alleged to have visited him in the hospital for some extended talks of an unknown nature. Others were also said to have visited, to include some Saudi government officials and bin Laden family members.
The story is likely true, because from the point of view of the US government at the time, bin Laden was just another "a person of interest", leading one of the innumerable radical Muslim groups in the world. Only interesting because of the extensive wealth and power of his family in Saudi Arabia, but not any more interesting than many of the Saud family princes or other very wealthy Saudis who lean to radicalism.
He did not stay at the American hospital in Dubai, nor did he visit at the request or permission, or against the opposition of the US government. Just a routine interview.
[An Nahar] The United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... said Friday it expects Syrian authorities to grant unfettered access and complete cooperation to Arab observers as bloodshed continues amid a crackdown on protesters.
"It is critical that the observer mission be given unhindered access and full cooperation by the government of Syria, and that its independence and impartiality be fully preserved," U.N. front man Martin Nesirky said.
"We hope that the League of Arab States, under the able stewardship of its secretary-general and its membership, will take all steps possible to ensure that its observer mission will be able to fulfill its mandate in accordance with international human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... law standards."
The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... mission has been the focus of controversy, with some Syrian opposition members unhappy with the choice of veteran Sudanese military intelligence officer General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi to head it.
Dabi this week ruffled feathers by saying Syrian authorities were so far cooperating with the mission and by describing his visit to Homs as "good."
In Syria meanwhile, security forces were accused of firing nail bombs to disperse protesters as tens of thousands flooded the streets across the country in a bid to make their voices heard by the Arab monitors.
The protesters called for the overthrow and prosecution of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... , whose autocratic regime has been blamed for the deaths of more than 5,000 people since pro-reform protests erupted in March.
Activists urged the Arab monitors, who this week started a mission to oversee an Arab League plan to end the bloodshed, to do more to protect civilians from regime forces which they said killed another 15 civilians on Friday alone.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Joe 
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
Former Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqanis lawyer said that Haqqani was currently living at the Prime Ministers House due to fear of the intelligence agencies. She said that Haqqani was afraid that he would be forced by ISI into giving a statement. 
The Jordanian government will host a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators this week, bringing the sides together for the first time in more than a year.
Yasser Abed Rabbo
Quartet
[Iran Press TV] An American investigative journalist says the al-Qaeda is a fairytale terrorist group made up by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli spy agency, Mossad.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
