[Libya Herald] A military force is to be formed to take on the federalists who have blockaded three of the country's eastern oil export terminals since August last year.
Head of the General National Congress (GNC) and temporary Commander-in-Chief, Nuri Abu Sahmain, issued resolution No. 42 of 2014 today, which will apparently see the process put into action within seven days.
The resolution authorised army units and revolutionary brigades from areas including Tobruk, Benghazi, Sebha, Sirte, Misrata and Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... to form a military force designed to bring back the oil export terminals under the control of the state authorities.
The move came after the federalist groups controlling the ports made their first illegal sale of oil. This was loaded onto a North Korean-flagged tanker on Saturday and Sunday at Sidra, although the vessel has not yet been able to leave because vessels under the control of the Navy and revolutionary brigades are blocking it from leaving.
A Congressman, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told the Libya Herald that the GNC Defence Committee held a meeting today to determine the tasks, which would include the use of force against the usurpers at the oil export terminals.
The General Chief of Staff, Jadallah Al-Obaidi, has been instructed to assemble and coordinate these forces, the Congressman said. He added that units from the new force would initially be located in Sirte, Ajdabiya and Jufra.
Under Article No.4 of the resolution, the Congressman said, the Prime Ministry and Ministry of Defence would be responsible for putting the operation into action.
Minister of Economy Mustafa Abufunas has estimated that the port closures, which have seen production plummet from over 1 million barrels per day (b/d) to around 300,000 (b/d), have caused financial losses in excess of $10 billion.
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[Libya Herald] Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... is to make a renewed attempt to rid the capital of gangs, according to the head of the local council Sadat Elbadri.
"We don't want named gangs here, we want proper official security," Elbadri told the Libya Herald. He added that kidnappings had become commonplace and were occurring in the capital on a daily basis.
"Tripoli has to be cleansed of unwanted forces and unwanted heavy weaponry," he said, invoking Law No. 27 to remove militias from the capital.
Elbadri admitted that this was not the first time the Council had tried to remove militia presence from Tripoli. Armed groups had been given time to leave the capital, he said, but they had not responded.
"This is more than just a statement, we have people on the ground," Elbadri said. He added that the Tripoli Military Council and local revolutionaries would implement the decision, which came after two days of meetings between the local and military councils.
The announcement has come at a decisive moment on how Libya approaches gangs operating outside the law, in particular those under the control of self-styled federalist leader Ibrahim Jadhran.
Misratan forces took to the sea this week to help vessels operating under the Libyan Navy try to apprehend an oil tanker that loaded an illegal shipment of oil at Sidra, one of three oil export terminals controlled by Jadhran.
Further forces from Misrata today successfully took on federalist gangs which had occupied Sirte's Ghardabiya airbase for several days. They are reportedly now awaiting reinforcements and orders to head east to bring the oil ports back under state control.
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[The Peninsula] Egyptian leaders should leave the door open for the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund to re-enter politics if the group accepts the constitution, former foreign minister and presidential candidate Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa ... who was head of the Arab League for approximately two normal lifespans, accomplishing nothing that was obvious to the casual observer ... said in a rare call for reconciliation.
Moderation has not exactly been in style in Egyptian politics since army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al Sisi ousted president Mohammed Mursi of the Moslem Brüderbund in July after mass protests against his rule.
Egypt's most organised political group has been devastated by a security crackdown. Hundreds have been killed in the street and thousands tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... . Egyptian authorities have declared the Brotherhood a terrorist group and put its leaders on trial.
Veteran politician Moussa has thrown his weight behind Sisi, who is expected to announce his candidacy for the presidency in a few days and easily win elections due within months.
Asked if he thought Sisi would accept the Brotherhood in politics, Moussa said: "As long as they are following the rules, playing by the same rules as we are all playing, why should you exclude them?"
"The road is open for them, if they so decide. Field candidates, get into the parliament, the ball is in their court," Moussa told Rooters in an interview. "They should look to the future," Moussa said, which meant choosing "the right way" and working within the system.
As head of the body that rewrote Egypt's constitution, Moussa believes democracy includes roles for Brotherhood supporters, providing they peacefully abide by the new document approved by over 90 percent of voters in January. Many Islamists boycotted the referendum.
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"They should look to the future," Moussa said, which meant choosing "the right way" and working within the system.
Or they can consult with ValJar and learn how to BECOME the system.
Five suspects in the July, 2010 car bomb in Ciudad Juarez were released from prison after Mexican authorities said they had no role in the crime, according to Mexican news reports.
A news report which appeared in the online edition of El Diario de Chihuahua news daily said that representatives of the Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) or attorney general of Mexico said that not only were the five accused tortured into confessing the crime, they had no role in the crime.
The innocents were identified as Noe Fuentes Chavira, Rogelio Amaya Martinez, Victor Manuel Martinez Renteria, Gustavo Martinez Renteria and Ricardo Fernandez Lomeli, all from Chihuahua state.
The 2010 Ciuidad Juarez car bomb was the first car bomb used in the Mexican Drug War since the start in 2007, and the first of a series by other criminal groups in northeastern Mexico between that time and early 2011.
That attack which took place in Zone Centro of Ciudad Juarez took the lives of four, including one Policia Federal agent. At the time it was thought the explosive used was US made C4 plastic explosive, but it was later learned that the explosive was a commercial grade dynamite known as Tovex. Tovex is used extensively in mining operations in the sierras of western Chihuahua state as well as by Pemex, the state owned petroleum entity.
The Policia Federal unit operating in Ciudad Juarez was the target of the attack.
At that time the five were placed in preventative detention, which is a common practice for serious drug related crimes in Mexico. Among the crimes which landed the five in prison were possession of marijuana and possession of a weapon under the Firearms and Explosives Act, which prohibits anyone without explicit permission from the government from owning the same caliber of weapon used by Mexican security forces.
According to a lawyer with Centro de Derechos Humanos Paso del Norte (CDHPN) or Human Rights Center, Diana Morales said that the Istanbul Protocol was applied in the cases of the accused, and it was found that because torture could be proved, the five must be released.
Additionally, the document used to charge the five had already been filled out, dated August 11th instead of August12th, the date of the actual detention.
According to the account, the human rights office met with current PGR Jesus Murillo Karam and said that if any of the five had been subject to torture, then all must go free. It later transpired all five had been abused by Policia Federal while in custody.
The Guadalajara Juzgado Primero de Procedimientos Penales de Distrito ordered the release of the accused Thursday. Last Friday they left prison.
The complaint about torture had been filed a year ago.
The Policia Federal unit which was attacked by the car bomb had long been under suspicion in the press for illegal practices such as torture and abuse of authority. This writer saw news reports at the time including video which purportedly showed top local Policia Federal officials engaged in torture of suspects, but could not credit the information. Those officials also reportedly used drugs seized in other operations which were planted as evidence in other cases.
The practice at the time was so bad that the unit itself was under nearly constant attack from criminal elements in the city, one week suffering several attempted ambushes of their patrols, in which they lost three agents.
Finally, on August 8th a mutiny took place at the hotel where the unit was billeted, where the grievances were aired publicly. Two days later the entire unit was rotated out by air and replaced with a different unit.
Two months later, in October 2010 forty agents, presumably in that unit, were relieved of duty and imprisoned. The El Diario report does not say if the same Policia Federal elements were involved in illegally extracting confessions from the five accused.
The Juarez car bomb was an attack conceived by Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, AKA Diego, the prolific number two man in La Linea, the enforcement wing of the Juarez Cartel. Acosta Hernandez was busted in Chihuahua city by a Policia Federal special forces unit in the summer of 2011.
According to the El Diario de Chihuahua report, several suspects are to be tried in the bombing. Thery include José Ivan Contreras Lumbreras, AKA El Keiko, Jaime Arturo Chavez Gonzalez, AKA El Jimmy, Mauro Adrian Villegas, AKA El Blaky or El Negro, Fernando Contreras Meraz, AKA El Barbas, Martin Perez Marrufo, AKA El Popeye or El Gordo, Lorenzo Tadeo Palacios, AKA El Shorty or Shorty Dog and Jorge Antonio Hernandez, AKA El Chapo or El Chapito.
Acosta Hernandez is also accused in the attack, but since he is in prison in the United States, he will not be prosecuted.
The El Diario report also said that the Policia Federal's role in the wrongful imprisonment and torture are still under investigation.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[DAWN] Member of the Taliban's mediating committee, Maulana Yousuf Shah said on Tuesday that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain had decided to maintain its existing team for the dialogue process with the government, DawnNews reported.
Shah, after holding a telephonic conversation with Taliban leaders, announced that the existing committee would remain intact.
He further said that the Taliban were serious about talks and no demands were put forward from either sides as yet.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting to discuss matters related to internal security and the names of persons to be included in the government and Taliban mediations.
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[DAWN] Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Pervez Khattak told news hounds on Tuesday that his provincial government is ready to provide an office to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP).
Khattak said that the KP government, which is led by the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI), was willing to make any other arrangements if needed for the grinding of the peace processor.
"The federal government is heading in the right direction for peace talks," he said speaking to media representatives in the Assembly chambers.
When asked, Khattak said he did not know if his name had been suggested as a member of the Taliban negotiations committee.
The chief minister however said that the KP governor and representatives from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) should be included in the committee.
Khattak said the KP government would take parliamentary party leaders into confidence if peace talks fail.
No such proposal under consideration, Senate told
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the federal government informed the upper house of Parliament that no proposal was under consideration to open a political office of the banned hard boy organization in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. .
Responding to a call-attention notice, Minister of State for Interior Balighur Rehman told the Senate that the government was pursuing the dialogue process to deal with the issue of terrorism.
He said the government was paying attention to the law and order situation in the tribal areas and taking necessary measures.
The minister of state said bully boyz will not be allowed to open up their offices.
Regarding the offer made by a provincial minister of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government to the Taliban to establish their office in Peshawar, Rehman said neither such proposal was under consideration nor a formal request in this regard has been received by the federal government.
The opposition did not find the answer of the state minister satisfactory and staged a walkout from the House in protest over the offer made to the Taliban by the KP provincial minister.
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[DAWN] Chief of Pak Taliban's Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... chapter Umar Khalid Khurasani Tuesday vowed to abide by the ceasefire negotiated between the government and Taliban despite the outfit's claim of killing 23 FC soldiers last month.
Peace talks between the two sides to end years of insurgency by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) had reached a deadlock after the killing of the soldiers.
In a written statement to the media, Khurasani said the outfit did not have any plan to attack former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... or anyone else for that instance.
Mohmand Taliban's chief, who in a chilling admission in February claimed the killing of the kidnapped Pak paramilitary soldiers, said the Death Eater outfit was obeying ceasefire as negotiated by the central leadership of the TTP.
He said security and intelligence agencies were misguiding people. "We abide by ceasefire and have no plan to attack Musharraf or anyone else," said Khurasani.
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[An Nahar] Jordan's Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur said Tuesday that the Israeli government was "completely" responsible for the "hideous" shooting of a Paleostinian-Jordanian judge at a border crossing.
The shooting of Raed Zeiter, a 38-year-old judge who Israel said had attacked its soldiers and tried to steal one of their weapons, has set off a diplomatic row between Israel and Jordan, which signed a peace treaty two decades ago.
"The Jordanian government holds the Israeli government completely responsible for the hideous crime," Nsur told MPs at a meeting in parliament to discuss the shooting that took place on Monday.
He insisted "the Israeli government's excuses do not justify that treacherous act."
The Israeli military said its preliminary findings that Zeiter had attacked the soldiers were based on extensive questioning of witnesses and that the investigation, which is being handled by the military police, was ongoing.
Nsur said Israel accepted a Jordanian request to take part in the probe.
"Jordan has pressured Israel to formally apologize. Jordan is now part of the probe into the shooting," he said.
"The way Jordan will deal with the development of this issue depends on how Israel acts on it in line with the final results of the investigation."
Israel expressed regret over the shooting, but stopped short of apologizing.
"Israel regrets the death of Judge Raed Zeiter yesterday at the King Hussein (Allenby) bridge and expresses its sympathies to the people and government of Jordan," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.
Jordan demanded the soldiers involved be punished.
"We will not spare any efforts to expose Israeli lies. We will not remain silent about this ugly crime," said Parliament speaker Atef Tarawneh.
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"The Jordanian government holds the Israeli government completely responsible for the hideous crime,"
And we'll scream at you until you realize that attacking the Police and trying to steal their weapons is our right, You have no rights at all, dont't you know. (Sarc, if needed)
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[An Nahar] Israeli tourists aboard a cruise ship were prevented from entering Tunisia due to a surprise decision by the Tunisian government, the cruise operator said on Monday.
"During Norwegian Jade's port call in La Goulette, Tunisia on Sunday, March 9, 2014, a small number of guests holding Israeli passports were not allowed to go ashore because of a last minute decision made by the Tunisian government," the Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line said in a statement.
"We apologize for any inconvenience to our guests and appreciate their understanding. We are reviewing this decision with the appropriate officials," it said, adding that it would refund port taxes to the guests.
A tourism ministry official said the visitors were prevented from disembarking because of "a procedural problem," saying they did not have visas.
The interior ministry could not immediately be reached for comment.
The issue of relations with Israel is a taboo subject in Tunisia, as it is in other Arab countries, and Tourism Minister Amel Karboul faced questions during her nomination regarding past travel to Israel, which she had made for professional reasons.
Tunisia hosted the Paleostine Liberation Organization from its 1982 expulsion from Leb until it returned to the Israeli-occupied territories in the 1990s during the Oslo grinding of the peace processor.
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[An Nahar] Israeli tourists aboard a cruise ship were prevented from entering Tunisia due to a surprise decision by the Tunisian government, the cruise operator said on Monday.
May have been a "surprise" decision there, but not here. After all, the election is over.
[The Peninsula] The mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft deepened yesterday, as a senior military official suggested it had not only turned around but flown back across the Malay peninsula.
Flight MH370 was bound for Beijing when it vanished in the early hours of Saturday morning with 239 people on board. Until yesterday, the last known contact with the flight was thought to be around 1.20am -- 40 minutes after take-off from Kuala Lumpur -- after the plane had crossed Malaysia's east coast and was flying over the South China Sea towards Vietnam.
But air force chief Tan Sri Rodzali Daud said the plane was detected at 2.40am near Pulau Perak, an island in the Malacca Strait, several hundred kilometres north of Kuala Lumpur. "After that, the signal from the plane was lost," he told the Berita Harian newspaper.
An unnamed military official told Rooters news agency: "It changed course after Kota Bharu (on the east coast) and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait." Pilots are supposed to inform their airlines and air traffic control if they change course. MH370 never did so; nor did it issue a distress call.
It is unclear why the west coast contact, if correct, was not made public until now. Asked on Monday why crews were searching the strait, the country's civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told news hounds: "There are some things that I can tell you and some things that I can't."
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Nice of the bastids to let everyone search where they apparently knew it wasn't. Another Fort Hood "workplace violence" event unfolding ?
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Ditto TFSM. I was wondering why the Chinese became so anxious they dynamically re-tasked a bunch of orbiting systems to come have a look see. They probably got wind of the bullshi*.
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I was sure I saw a map showing the search area over the Malacca Strait several days ago, in a link inside a story at Rantburg. The best I could find was this, which is about one day old.
Whatever the time, I am sure I remember thinking, "Why are they searching so far to the west?"
Maybe I'm just corn-fuuzed...
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IF/IF the plane turned west back over MY, it still had 5 plus hours of gas flying is airspace w/little or no long range radar coverage. Darn thing could have flown to Diego Garcia.
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The news reporting last evening and yet this morning continues to point to potential deception by Malaysian investigators. Evidently our NTSB people are sitting in their hotels with no Malaysian crash investigation officially convened. This is both curious and troubling.
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I heard a report that 777s have a back-up system in case something fails so they know the transponder was deliberately turned off, at the same time it turned with evidence it entered the Malacca Strait. Sumatra? India is joining the search but I'm curious as to passengers & cargo too.
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Don't know if these dots connect but the F1 Malaysian Grand Prix is coming up in on March 30th- arguably the biggest international event for this country. Many big international sponsors fly in for it, it is partially funded by both the government and Big Asian Oil interests and has a much larger worldwide audience than that little NFL game we call the SB. If someone wanted to pee in the Malay picnic punch, the timing would be pretty good.
Arab Spring proponents tried to do the same to the Bahrain event 2 and 3 years ago.
Just throwing my lighter fluid into the conspiracy camp fire...
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Curiouser and curiouser. A 777 is a rather large beast and needs a long place to put down. If the plane was being stashed for later use, it would need a secure and friendly place to land. (military base?)
The rumor/fact (is there a word for this?) that the Chicoms diverted multiple (!) orbital assets to scope out the area is indicative of *something*. (hey, is that insight good enough to get me a desk at the CIA?)
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Some are now comparing this to Air France 447, which disappeared over the Atlantic in 2009. From what I know, of that one (a fair bit) and the current one (not much), that's not likely.
However, AF 447 sent 6 messages and 19 warnings to the 'central computer' before it 'disappeared'. Yet the aircraft was not recovered until 2011 and the final report was made in June, 2012. I don't think the automated messages were ever in the news until the plane was recovered and the transcript of the voice recorder was leaked to the public in 2011.
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This thing compares more to the disappearance of Judge Crater than to any other modern commercial airline catastrophe...
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Hmmmm.
So the conspiracy theory that it was highjacked and flown under radar to Iran for later nefarious use might have some infinitesimal credibility to it? Would they have had enough fuel?
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Barb sez screw Judge Crater, this is Ambrose Bierce territory.
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Theory: Explosion/fire at altitude takes out port engine, electrical systems, cabin pressurization, crew. Remaining engine at full-power vectors aircraft to south in a gradual descent. Aircraft flies itself into sea/ground.
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Yesterday I looked at aircraft performance data and a great circle route to Pyongyang from Kuala Lumpur. No prob for a B-777ER. Wonder what would have happened if the Bo-Jet overflew Beijing and headed Nork without a word. Would China shoot it down, escort it or what?
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the spot noted on the Chinese sat image is in the s chna sea
seabed there is probably about -5000'
much harder to find stuff then in Gult of Thailand
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I just wanted to take this opportunity to work Rod Serling into the thread.
[An Nahar] Two suspect men who flew on a missing Malaysian airliner appear to have been Iranian undocumented Democrats, officials said Tuesday, lessening fears of terrorism but doing little to unlock the agonizing riddle of what has befallen the plane's 239 passengers and crew.
On the fourth day of a multinational search at sea and on land, relatives desperate for news of loved ones aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 said their hopes for a miracle were ebbing away.
Authorities have doubled the search radius to 100 nautical miles (equivalent to 185 kilometers) around the point where the Boeing 777 disappeared from radar over the South China Sea early Saturday, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
"We are intensifying our search and rescue, and hoping against hope there is still an opportunity for us to rescue (those on board)," Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told news hounds.
The 34-year-old son of Malaysian security guard Subramaniam Gurusamy was on the flight to do business in Beijing for an oil company.
"My three-year-old grandson is asking: 'where is Dad?' We tell him father has gone to buy sweets for you," Gurusamy, 60, said as he broke down in tears.
"Please bring back my son. I am praying for divine intervention. That is the only hope we have."
Malaysia had opened a terror probe, joined by FBI agents from the United States. But the revelation of the identities of two men who boarded the flight using stolen European passports suggested they were young Iranian migrants seeking a new life overseas.
Interpol named the pair as Pouri Nour Mohammadi, 18, who was booked to fly on to Germany, and Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, 29, who was ticketed through to Denmark.
Reza's ultimate destination was Sweden, where he intended to apply for political asylum, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
The two traveled to Kuala Lumpur from Doha on their real Iranian passports, and their identification was helped by relatives in Europe who reported them missing, officials said.
"It is part of a human-smuggling issue and not a part of a terrorist issue," Interpol chief Ronald Noble told news hounds in La Belle France, adding that the international agency was more and more "certain that these individuals are probably not terrorists."
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"Seeking a new life overseas"....good a cover story as any, better than some. They check any bags when they presented their one-way tickets ?
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The investigating authorities have determined that none of the discovered oil slick nor alleged aircraft door came from MH370, + UW pinging hasn't picked up anything else, so the plane is officially considered as "vanished widout a trace" at this point, until further notice.
That leaves TERROR/HIJACKING-FOR-RANSOM + "HUMAN SMUGGLING" - this would infer a complex conspiracy where the plane, passengers, cargo + route were extensively studied or reviewed, as the plane would've had to be not only hijacked, but also flown under both radar + satellite noses + landed somewhere widout detection.
Are there any Current or Past-Certified Nuke-WMD
Specialists, etc. include Cargo on-board that would had made it important for a Terror Group(s) to attempt this endeavor???
[An Nahar] The major powers are locked in a race for influence in Leb's presidential elections as Michel Suleiman's ...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... six-year term nears its end, As Safir newspaper reported on Tuesday. Oboy. A rump parliament in Tripoli declares independence from Leb and joins the Soviet Union Russia.
The daily said that the United States is backing elections to choose a new president and has sent an envoy who has a specific mission to follow up the polls. Meanwhile, a lady who pegged out in her garage in 2008 is discovered to have voted Hezbollah in two or three elections.
But the report said that La Belle France, which is also expected to send envoys to Beirut, believes the current situation in Leb and the region is not encouraging, and that elections could not be held given the difficulty to reach an understanding between the Western countries and regional and local parties on a single candidate.
Gay Paree prefers Suleiman's term, which expires in May, be extended, according to As Safir.
Its stance is also backed by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the daily said.
It quoted however a U.S. diplomat as saying that Washington prefers the election of a new president even if he was a personality not allied with it.
Among the names making the rounds are Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... and Marada movement chief Suleiman Franjieh, who are both members of the Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... -led March 8 alliance.
Other names include the March 14 camp's Phalange Party The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology. chief and ex-President Amin Gemayel, and Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... .
The presidential elections could be a topic of discussion between U.S. President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... and King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah ... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old... in Riyadh over the weekend, As Safir said.
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[The Telegraph] The Lockerbie bombing was ordered by Iran and carried out by a Syrian-based terrorist group, a former Iranian intelligence officer has admitted.
Abolghassem Mesbahi, a defector to Germany, said Pan Am flight 103 was downed in 1988 in retaliation for a US Navy strike on an Iranian commercial jet six months earlier, in which 290 people died.
He claims the Ayatollah Khomeini, who was Irans Supreme Leader, ordered the bombing to copy exactly what happened to the Iranian Airbus.
Previously unseen evidence gathered for the aborted appeal hearing of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the bombing, supports Mr Mesbahis claim and suggests that the bombers belonged to the extremist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC).
Documents obtained by Al Jazeera television for a documentary called Lockerbie: What Really Happened? name key individuals said to be involved in the bombing, including the alleged bomb-maker, the alleged mastermind and the man who may have put the bomb on the doomed Boeing 747. New reporting and potential confirmation on an old theory.
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Visiting Dryfesdale cemetery many years ago, reminded me of my first visit to the Vietnam memorial. A strange combination of sadness, fear, and then anger. But much later, glad we had made the journey. Among the many dead, like Benghazi, were a few 'quiet professionals' trying to protect us from the scourge of Islam.
in addition, the Al Jaz types who did the investigation are working for a gang that wants to get the west to side with sunnis against shia islam and its allies
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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.
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Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa
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Mohmand Agency
Michel Aoun
Samir Geagea
King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah
