Afghan President Hamid Karzai disclosed Thursday the United States wants to keep nine bases in his country after the 2014 withdrawal of foreign combat troops. The Afghan leader says Kabul is ready to let Washington have those bases, but it wants security and economic guarantees for Afghanistan.
For months, Afghanistan and the United States have been engaged in talks on a bilateral deal that would define the American military presence in the country after 2014, when most U.S. and NATO troops will have withdrawn. However, both sides have offered few details until now.
On Thursday, Karzai said at a ceremony at Kabul University that discussions on the security agreement have entered a “crucial stage.” He revealed for the first time that Washington is seeking control of nine bases across Afghanistan, including one in eastern Jalalabad city bordering Pakistan and one in western Herat near the Iranian border.
[Al Ahram] Alaa Hamza, a member of the Moslem Brüderbund accused of capturing and torturing opposition protesters, was released on bail of LE10,000 on Wednesday, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Hamza was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for 24 hours while prosecutors decided whether to bring charges against him.
He was summoned by prosecutors in mid-April to answer questions about accusations that he took part in the mistreatment of opposition protesters near the presidential palace in December 2012.
Videos posted online after the violence -- which resulted in several deaths -- showed protesters being tied up, interrogated and physically assaulted by bearded men near the presidential palace in Heliopolis.
Hamza appeared in some of these videos, interrogating and insulting captured protesters.
President Mohamed Morsi was a long-term member of the Moslem Brüderbund until he resigned when he became president.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Arab Spring
[An Nahar] The editor of an Egyptian newspaper and a news hound will face trial for publishing a "false report that could disturb public peace," a judicial official said on Wednesday.
Magdy al-Gallad, editor of the daily Watan newspaper, and journalist Ahmed Khatib, were charged over a report that a Death Eater cell incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! last year had a hit list comprising 100 Egyptian figures.
Since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi last June, a number of journalists have been investigated for publishing false news or insulting Morsi.
The presidency said it has withdrawn all its legal complaints against journalists and that the remaining cases were brought by sock puppets private citizens, as Egyptian law allows.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Arab Spring
[An Nahar] Emirati Islamists on trial accused of plotting to seize power in the Gulf state on Wednesday publicly appealed to the president to probe their alleged torture in jug and denied the charges.
"For months, we have been locked in solitary confinement in narrow cells flooded with bright light day and night. We were insulted and threatened, while some of us suffered physical torture," they wrote in a letter posted online.
The letter urged President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahayan to form an "independent committee to probe the violations" and to "put on trial those responsible for the violations that have tarnished the reputation of the state and threatened its national fabric."
The 94 dissidents are on trial on charges of forming an organization plotting to seize power. The group, which includes 13 women, is said to be linked to the group Al-Islah, which has ties to the Moslem Brüderbund.
The detainees pledged allegiance to the rulers of the United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms, and urged the president to lift a ban on Al-Islah.
"We were unjustly accused of plotting to seize power," they wrote.
The trial which began in March continued on Monday and Tuesday, with the prosecution demanding 15-year jail terms for the defendants who were incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! between March and December last year, Gulf News reported.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Arab Spring
[An Nahar] South Korea's president on Wednesday proposed an international park on the tense border with North Korea as part of a region-wide peace initiative to put an end to constant cycles of crisis.
In an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, President Park Geun-Hye warned that the Demilitarized Zone dividing the neighbors was in fact "the most militarized place on the planet" and a risk to the world.
"The Demilitarized Zone must live up to its name, a zone that strengthens the peace, not undermines it," Park said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Kimmie the Un is a nutcase. Forget about it. Waste of time and preordained failure. Let's get real here.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
05/09/2013 1:03 Comments ||
Top||
#2
So, Losing Kaesong hurt.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
05/09/2013 8:21 Comments ||
Top||
[An Nahar] Islamic authorities in Belgium tried Wednesday to deter young men from going to Syria to fight, saying the Koran provided no justification and that they risked being dangerously radicalized by bully boy groups there.
"Their return from the conflict is to be much more feared than their departure," Belgium's leading Islamic groups said in a statement.
"It is to be feared that these young men take on the agendas of the bully boy groups they will fight with, which will complicate their relations with fellow European citizens" when they return home, it said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: al-Nusra
House Speaker John Boehner called on President Barack Obama to release emails that he says show how the White House wanted to change the Benghazi attack "talking points."
Secretary of State John Kerry, meanwhile, vowed Thursday to "leave no stone unturned" in looking into the matter and answering questions about the attack.
At a press conference Thursday, Boehner said he wants the White House to unveil emails to the public that House committees saw privately in their Benghazi investigation.
"The White House continues to claim it only made stylistic changes to talking points used by (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations) Susan Rice, ignoring the fact that seniors White House officials directed the changes being made to those talking reports," Boehner said.
FBI agents did not tell Boston police they had receiving warnings from Russia's government in 2011 about suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev and had performed a cursory investigation, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told Congress Thursday, in the first hearing into last month's terror attack on the Boston Marathon.
Davis said that none of four people he had assigned to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force was aware that the FBI investigated the vague warning, found nothing and had closed the file. One of his detectives was in the dark despite being assigned to the unit that investigated Tsarnaev, Davis said.
"They tell me they received no word about that individual prior to the bombing," Davis said.
Davis said he would have liked to have known but conceded that it might not have prevented the attack. The commissioner said his detectives would have wanted to interview Tsarnaev.
"The FBI did that and they closed the case out," he said. "I can't say I would've come to a different conclusion based on the information at the time."
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, police said Thursday after a frustrating weeklong search for a community willing to take the body.
"As a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased," Worcester police said in a statement.
Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said the body was no longer in Worcester and is now entombed. Police did not specify where the body was taken.
Posted by: Steve White ||
05/09/2013 12:45 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Why is the PD of Worcester even involved in the burial arrangements?
If you try to destroy the civil structure of society and are killed and become infamous in the effort, the civil authorities will work to find you a place to be planted?!
#6
Gort, Worcester is the next town over but 1 and the PD is involved because of a bunch of idiot protestors picketing the funeral home that's involved. There are "civilian" funerals and wakes going on as normal and the trolls have to be kept away.
The widow of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has hired a lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases.
Katherine Russell-Tsarnaev, who continues to face questions from the US authorities, added Joshua Dratel to her legal team, her lawyer Amato DeLuca said. Dratel's "unique, specialised experience" will help ensure that Russell-Tsarnaev "can assist in the ongoing investigation in the most constructive way possible", said DeLuca.
Dratel has represented a number of terrorism suspects in US federal courts and military commissions, including Guantánamo Bay detainee David Hicks, who attended an al-Qaida-linked training camp in Afghanistan.
DeLuca, who specialises in civil cases such as personal injury law, said Russell-Tsarnaev will continue to meet investigators as "part of a series of meetings over many hours where she has answered questions".
An FBI spokeswoman would not comment when asked on Wednesday whether Russell-Tsarnaev is co-operating with the authorities. DeLuca has said his client had no reason to suspect her husband and his brother in the bombing.
#2
Debbie Schlussel comments. By the way, don’tcha just love it how all these Islamic terrorists, who live, eat, and sleep “death to the Jews,” always end up gettin’ a Jew lawyer. ‘Cuz they’d never be hypocrites, would they?
Former Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton was the only person empowered by law to authorize the occupation of U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya before the deadly terror attacks there last year, because the buildings did not meet State Department security standards, a House hearing heard Wednesday.
"It's my understanding only the secretary of state could waive those requirements," said Eric Nordstrom, who was regional security officer for the embassy in Libya until a few months before the attack.
The security standards were introduced after the bombing attacks against U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, he said.
Oh yeah, that. We were attempting to learn from past mistakes. Embassies were successfully bombed because security standards were lax, so we said, "okay we'll tighten up security, and in order to use a substandard facility in the future the Boss has to say it's okay." Well the Boss said okay, and her decision failed. And cost four lives. But don't ask her to say anything about it.
"We did not meet any of those standards," he said of the building in Benghazi, which was overrun and set ablaze by heavily armed extremists on Sept. 11 last year.
He spoke at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which heard testimony from State Department officials who were on the ground in Libya before and during the attacks.
He said the State Department-chartered investigation, known as an Accountability Review Board or ARB, had failed to interview senior-enough officials.
"It stopped short of the very people it should have asked -- Undersecretary for Management [Patrick] Kennedy and above," he said.
Gee, an 'internal review' that wasn't very tough, didn't ask people questions, didn't ask the right questions, and white-washed the boss. Whoda thunkit?
Posted by: Steve White ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
#2
we finally know, from yesterday's testimony, why amb Stevens was in Benghazi that day (1) and we know why security hadn't been upgraded (2)
(1) Hillary wanted to open a consulate in Benghazi as a 'part of my legacy' project to show her success in outreach.
(2) Hillary wanted it to be an 'open' consulate to show the Libyan people that we considered them our friends as a 'part of my legacy' project to show her innovative steps in diplomacy.
but what difference does it make at this point
Posted by: lord garth ||
05/09/2013 6:00 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Billary, Petulant child, "I want it MY WAY.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
05/09/2013 8:28 Comments ||
Top||
WASHINGTON -- A State Department official on Wednesday offered the first public testimony from an American diplomat who was on the ground in Libya the night last September when the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi was attacked. And he said he was later demoted for raising questions about how the attack was handled.
This is part of how we know Champ, Hilde and their team bungled this from beginning to end. They've been threatening and attacking just about everyone who could shed light on what happened.
The other part of how we know is that they blamed that idiot YouTube video and jugged its hapless producer -- who still sits in jail, by the way. If Champ had made the decision not to embark on a rescue because of information he had, or because he judged it to be the greater hazard, then fine. We'd disagree but we'd respect his right to make the call. But the moment Champ, Hilde and Susie Rice started to lie to us about that video, that's the moment when it became clear that Benghazi wasn't about saving our ambassador, but about saving Obama's re-election instead.
Posted by: Steve White ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
"I've been effectively demoted from deputy chief of mission to desk officer," he said during a six-hour hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
This fellow is no lightweight. I suspect his career civilian rank is equivalent to that of an Army general officer at the two star level or better. The fact he was not interviewed during the ARB process should result in anyone associated with the ARB being labeled as co-conspirators and the entire report being fed into the nearest shredder Appalling, the entire episode.
#2
Anybody notice how three men testified yesterday and most of the higher-up who were calling the shots and demoting them appear to have been women? Is Foggy Bottom really the Cat House?
Posted by: Vespasian Oppressor of the Visigoths8235 ||
05/09/2013 9:18 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Is Foggy Bottom really the Cat House?
The Hildebeast's dislike for men and particularly male authority figures fits the current USG Civilian Personnel Office recruiting initiatives. It's not just Foggy Bottom "Cat House", and it didn't just happen. LTG (Ret)Claudia Kennedy used to hold private [ladies only] luncheons and koffeeklatch sessions for aspiring female army officers.
#4
As a young Army officer I had to attend one of those "Wymyn's Luncheons." The US ambassador, a New Agey chaplain, etc. were going to be in attendance. I'd never go to those things because the overtly exclusionary attitude offended me. But once my (male) boss made me go. He wanted to know what went on at those things. I was so bored I couldn't tell him much. I did not realize I was supposed to be networking my way into a "no boyz" club. I thought I was supposed work with everyone, fairly and with an open mind. Silly me.
#5
#1 -- Besoeker 2013-05-09 03:02 about Hicks and the ARB --
"The fact he (Hicks) was not interviewed during the ARB process..."
Hicks was indeed interviewed for the ABR, for 2 hours. However, he said there was no "recording" during the 2 hours, no one was even taking notes. And he has not been allowed to read the classified version.
It was Mr. Thompson that asked to be interviewed and the offer was refused.
Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan of the High Court of Peshawar ruled Thursday that US drone strikes in the region are illegal. The justice also directed Pakistan's Foreign Ministry [official website] to introduce a resolution against such attacks in the UN. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed by the Foundation for Fundamental Rights [advocacy website] on behalf of those who have had family members killed in a drone strike. Khan said the drone strikes should be declared a war crime and that Pakistan should consider breaking diplomatic ties [PTI report] with the US if it vetoes its resolution in the UN. US officials maintain that the drone strikes target al Qaeda and Taliban fighters [Independent report] who are responsible for cross-border attacks in Afghanistan and that the Pakistani has condoned strikes.
The man tipped to be Pakistan's next prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has said he would end the country's involvement in the US-led war on terror if elected.
Mr Sharif told the BBC that the move was necessary for there to be peace in Pakistan and elsewhere in the world.
Pakistan has been part of the US-led fight against Islamist militancy in the region since the 9/11 attacks.
Voters in Pakistan are due to go to the polls on 11 May following an election run-up marred by violence. It is the first time in the country's history that an elected government will hand over power to another elected government.
It isn't 11 May yet...
The remarks by Mr Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), may cause concern among Western leaders, the BBC's Orla Guerin reports from Islamabad. They fear it could lead to militants having greater freedom to operate in Pakistan, as foreign troops prepare to leave Afghanistan in 2014.
One of the key questions for the West is how Pakistan's next prime minister will tackle militants on home soil, our correspondent says.
Asked whether he would take Pakistan out of the war on terror, Mr Sharif said: "Yes, we have to."
But he declined to say whether he would stop military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has canceled his planned appearance at next month's Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, apparently in response to the urging of Palestinian activists and academics.
Hawking informed President Shimon Peres of his decision last weekend, but decided not to make it public. Thus it became public knowledge only yesterday, when it was reported on the website of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine and picked up by the British daily The Guardian.
According to the statement published with Hawking's approval by BRICUP, a group that works to promote an academic boycott of Israel, the cancelation was "his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there." The group didn't publish Hawking's letter to Peres, but said it would do so if it received his permission.
Later, Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor emeritus, said the 71-year-old physicist had canceled because of health problems, and that he had not confirmed BRICUP's statement. Hawking suffers from a motor neuron disease that has left him almost entirely paralyzed. But the university subsequently issued a retraction, saying that Hawking's office had confirmed the statement. Hawking has been in Israel several times before, most recently in 2006. Also Stephen Hawking accused of hypocrisy over Israel conference boycott
A senior Palestinian Authority has praised the use of violence against Israel, asserting that if the PA had the military wherewithal to rise up against the Jewish state, it would not hesitate to do so.
Not very comforting but perfectly in character...
Typical Arab talking big -- no reality involved. After all, what were the two intifadas but the best efforts of the Palestinians at a military uprising?
"I swear that if we had a nuke, we'd have used it this very morning," vowed Jibril Rajoub during an interview with the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen TV channel, as reported by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
In other words, he was speaking in Arabic to a local audience, with every expectation that it would not get out to the English-speaking world.
Jibril Rajoub is the Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and Chairman of the PA Olympic Committee. The interview was also published on Rajoub's Facebook page on May 2, 2013.
Posted by: Steve White ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Are we missing Uncle Muammar + Mubarak yet, + soon Baby Assad???
#2
If the PA tossed a nuke, they would become a grease spot on the L&N. They are too stupid to be allowed to be powerful. Even their neighbors in the area realize this.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
05/09/2013 1:01 Comments ||
Top||
#3
really? now were at the point where using nukes is discussed in polite conversation.
#10
would not a nuke on isreal also impact and negatively affect the Palestinians?
If they put it on one of their rockets and it worked as well as a lot of them, it would indeed negatively impact the Paleos, because it would not even make it out of Paleostan to hit Israel.
[An Nahar] Jordan on Wednesday summoned Israeli Ambassador Daniel Nevo after MPs unanimously demanded the government expel him following Israel's detention of the mufti of Jerusalem, state media reported.
Interior Minister Hussein Majali, who is acting foreign minister, summoned Nevo, the official news agency Petra reported.
"These Israeli actions violate international law and obstruct peace efforts. As occupying force, Israel is responsible for preventing such provocations. Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa are a red line," Majali said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[6 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Yet the Bible verifies the Jews are living on the land of their forefathers.
[Al Ahram] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... condemned the arrest of Jerusalem's most senior Musselmenholy man by the Israeli authorities, Paleostinian news agency WAFA reported on Wednesday.
Abbas regarded the detention step as a "severe violation of the freedom of worship" and called for the "immediate release" of the mufti of Jerusalem, Mohamed Hussein.
According to AFP, Israeli police were questioning Hussein for suspected involvement in a "disturbance" at the Al-Aqsa mosque located in the Holy City.
"Some chairs were thrown at a group of Jews on the Temple Mount," which Musselmens refer to as Al-Haram Al-Sharif, police front man Micky Rosenfeld told the news agency of the previous day's incident.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority
[An Nahar] Influential Moslemholy man Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... on Wednesday started his first visit to the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-ruled Gazoo Strip, crossing into the Paleostinian territory at Rafah, on the border with Egypt.
An Agence La Belle France Presse photographer said Egyptian-born Qaradawi, who is a citizen of Qatar and close to the Moslem Brüderbund, arrived in the territory shortly after 9:30 pm (1830 GMT).
He has said the aim of the three-day trip to Gazoo is to "support its people and participate in lifting the (Israeli) blockade against them."
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
Our weapons good. Russian weapons bad
Secretary of State John Kerry said the transfer of advanced missile defense systems from Russia to Syria could potentially destabilize Israel's security, as he announced new humanitarian aid for Syria.
Mr. Kerry said the U.S. has expressed concerns about what the S-300 batteries in Syria would mean for Israel's security.
Oh stop. To the IAF, the S-300 is just another couple lines of code...
He wouldn't address what the missiles might mean for Syria's ...
Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah says Syria will supply his Lebanese militia with "game-changing weapons."
Nasrallah spoke Thursday, less than a week after Israeli officials said Israeli aircraft twice struck shipments of advanced weapons believed to be bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Syria has been the main conduit for Iranian weapons to Hezbollah.
Starting next Monday, President Obama will hold a 3-day meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and other members of the G8 to discuss the economy and the escalating problems in Syria.
Cameron is scheduled to travel to Russia prior to visiting the U.S. and will meet with President Vladimir Putin to discuss the conflict in Syria as well.
Betcha he doesn't wait three hours to see Vlad...
Cameron told members of parliament that it was time to start negotiating to force the transition of political power to help bring to an end the conflict in Syria. The concern for both Obama and Cameron is the growing evidence by a small group that is more and more persuasive showing that the government of President Bashar al-Assad has already used and is continuing to use chemical weapons. Both the regime and the rebels have accused one another of using Sarin and other chemical weapons.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
...who waited and waited...
said last month that the U.S. would increase its aid to the rebel forces inside Syria, but both the U.S. and members of the European Union have refused thus far to supply weapons to the rebel forces. By lifting an embargo against the opposition group for arms, Cameron said it would help strengthen the opposition to the regime and would increase the pressure on al-Assad to enter into negotiations on a solution.
[An Nahar] Head of the Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... bloc MP Fouad Saniora slammed on Wednesday Hizbullah's fighting in Syria alongside regime forces, saying that those seeking to avert the repercussions of the crisis should not send their youth to fight in the country.
He therefore urged President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... , Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... , caretaker Premier Najib Miqati, Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam, and all politicians and MPs to realize the dangers facing Leb.
"They must break the silence and fear and demand that the party withdraw its fighters from Syria," he declared during the launching of a book by the Mustaqbal Movement in response to another by the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... that criticizes the policies of slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri during his tenure at the head of government.
Saniora added: "Hizbullah's involvement in Syria is the greatest danger against Leb and its people."
"It should be a priority for the party to withdraw its fighters from Syria in order to protect Leb's civil peace and internal unity," he said.
"The Lebanese people, families, and mothers do not want their children and fathers to fight in Syria in defense of the country's regime," remarked the former premier.
"We take pride in the fight against Israel, but we are ashamed of fighting in the defense of a regime that is killing its own people," he continued.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Hezbollah
[An Nahar] Syria's main opposition National Coalition on Wednesday said any political settlement to the country's two-year-old conflict must start with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's ouster, implicitly rejecting a U.S.-Russian initiative for dialogue with the regime.
[An Nahar] The United States is to donate another $100 million (76 million euros) in humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees boosting its total to $510 million, the State Department said Wednesday.
The additional funds, to be officially announced Thursday by Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , will fund U.N. programs for shelter, food and help to refugees in Jordan, Leb and Turkey as well as inside Syria, it said in a statement.
Washington has also given $250 million in non-lethal assistance to the Syrian rebels fighting to oust Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... , and it is by far the largest single donor to the Syrian people caught in the bloody conflict.
Posted by: Fred ||
05/09/2013 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[8 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
#1
That money was supposed to be spent on stuff taxpayers approve of not on private projects of the elite. Let the Saudis and Gulf Arabs pay.
Posted by: Water Modem ||
05/09/2013 0:45 Comments ||
Top||
#2
I might approve of giving more ammo to whoever is losing...
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.
[An Nahar] The editor of an Egyptian newspaper and a 
[An Nahar] Emirati Islamists on trial accused of plotting to seize power in the Gulf state on Wednesday publicly appealed to the president to probe their alleged torture 
North Korea
[An Nahar] Islamic authorities in Belgium tried Wednesday to deter young men from going to Syria to fight, saying the Koran provided no justification and that they risked being dangerously radicalized by
The widow of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has hired a lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases.
Former Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton was the only person empowered by law to authorize the occupation of U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya before the deadly terror attacks there last year, because the buildings did not meet State Department security standards, a House hearing heard Wednesday.
Najib Miqati
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
