[Washington Post] During a testy video conference in June, President B.O. drew a line in the sand for 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... . If there was no agreement by Oct. 31 on the terms for keeping a residual U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, Obama warned him, the United States would withdraw all of its troops at the end of 2014.
With that deadline less than three weeks away and deep rifts persisting, the White House appears increasingly willing to abandon plans for a long-term, costly partnership with Afghanistan. Despite the Pentagon's pleas for patience, much of the rest of the administration is fed up with Karzai and sees Afghanistan as a fading priority amid far more ominous threats elsewhere in the world.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry arrived in Kabul Friday on an unannounced visit in an effort to convince Karzai that the administration is serious.
"October 31st is our goal," a senior administration official said. "The president has been clear. There can be no reason" for failure "other than the fact that the Afghans don't want what we're offering."
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... serious new irritants in the relationship have convinced Karzai that he was right to question American good faith in year-old negotiations on a deal. The accord is considered critical for the international community to continue funding the Afghan government and shoring up its nascent security forces.
Under the Bilateral Security Agreement, or BSA, the United States plans to leave a still-unspecified number of troops -- between 5,000 and 10,000, most probably -- in Afghanistan to train and advise its security forces after the final withdrawal of what are now 52,000 combat and support troops.
Karzai was enraged several weeks ago, Afghan officials said, when U.S. forces forcibly took custody of a senior Pak Taliban leader whom Afghan intelligence was trying to recruit.
In the previously unreported incident, U.S. forces intercepted an Afghan government convoy and seized the leader in Pashtun-infested Logar province, Karzai front man Aimal Faizi said. In doing so, Faizi added, the Americans foiled a months-long bid by the Afghan government to wean the Taliban capo, identified by others as Latif Mehsud, from the battlefield and use him to help launch substantive peace talks.
Faizi called the seizure a major breach of illusory sovereignty. Although Karzai has not mentioned the case publicly, his private fury has been reflected in recent suggestions that Afghanistan might forgo a bilateral pact.
In a separate incident, Pakistain last month freed a top Afghan Taliban official, Abdul Ghani Baradar, whom Karzai sees as a possible interlocutor for his peace efforts and whose release he had long demanded.
This week, however, Pakistain again placed Baradar under house arrest in the port city of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . Karzai immediately suspected an American hand at work; U.S. officials said they feared that Baradar would return to plotting attacks against American forces in Afghanistan if he were left on the loose.
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And iff the shutdown continues after October 17th or 31st [November 1], the Bammer = already Bad Economy, Debt, Sequester now Shutdown-hit USA may be so deep in default it can't keep any US Troops in Aghanistan for 2014 anyway.
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > A BROKE + BROKEN US GOVERNMENT.
* CBS NEWS LOCAL > TALIBAN MOCK SHUTDOWN: [US = "empty-headed"] LAWMAKERS "SUCKING THE BLOOD OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE".
* SAME > WALL STREET: WE WILL LOSE OUR POWER SEAT IFF US DEFAULTS.
Lest we fergit, TOPIX, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > QARI NASRALLAH VOWS FEARED TALIBAN COMMANDER MULLAH OMAR WILL RETURN TO [formally = legally? electorally?] RULE AFGHANISTAN.
Ditto AYMAN-THE-Z-MAN [Zawahiri] in post-2014 Pakistan???
[An Nahar] The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... (AU) on Friday endorsed a move to boost its Somalia force by 35 percent to step up its fight against al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab rebels.
The AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM) will be boosted by 6,235 troops, taking the total number to 23,966, the AU's Peace and Security Council said in a statement.
The request must be approved by the U.N. Security Council before fresh forces are deployed.
The decision comes in the wake of last month's deadly attack in a Nairobi shopping center which was claimed by the Shabaab.
The AU said "renewed efforts" were needed to fight the Shabaab in Somalia, and that it was deeply concerned by "the serious threat that Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... continues to pose in Somalia and in the region."
The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... -funded AMISOM mission, which includes Kenyan, Ugandan and Burundian soldiers, has been in Somalia since 2007.
AMISOM troops have clocked successes in recent months, and have taken over major cities including the capital Mogadishu and the key port town Kismayo.
However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... key Shabaab strongholds remain, including rural southern and central Somalia, while another faction has dug into remote and rugged mountains in the northern, semi-autonomous Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... region.
AU forces are battling alongside Æthiopian troops who invaded the country in 2011 to support Somali government troops to fight Shabaab.
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[An Nahar] Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... on Friday said moderate Islamists in Egypt and Tunisia were in part responsible for their recent political setbacks, accusing them of having been too conciliatory.
A 16-minute audiotape of Zawahiri released on jihadist forums focused on his native Egypt, where he said military-backed authorities were waging war on Islam at the behest of Israel and the United States.
On July 3, Egypt's military overthrew the country's first freely elected president, the Islamist Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , following massive protests against his year-long rule.
Morsi hailed from the moderate Moslem Brüderbund, an Islamist group that has long been at odds with the more radical al-Qaeda, which rejects any participation in democratic elections.
Zawahiri said the increasingly violent conflict between Morsi's Islamist backers and security forces was a "conflict against Islam, a conflict against sharia (Islamic law), a conflict against admitting the right of the Lord ... in legislation," according to a translation by the U.S.-based SITE Monitoring Service.
He called on Egyptian Mohammedans to "rid Egypt of this criminal gang that jumped on power with iron and fire and took advantage of the concessions of some factions in their drooling behind the mirage of the delusional reconciliation," in an apparent reference to the Brotherhood.
Zawahiri said the same "tragedy" was unfolding in Tunisia, where the ruling Ennahda, another moderate Islamist party, has agreed to hand power over to a government of independents following a months-long crisis sparked by an opposition MP's liquidation.
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Yassss, Screech. Not enough Krazed Islamic Killings and Booms™
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Zawahiri would look so good with a .30 caliber hole where that bulge is, maybe .50 CALLIBER.
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[CNN] Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan on Friday described his kidnapping this week as an attempted coup carried out by political opponents bent on toppling his government.
Zeidan was kidnapped early Thursday from a luxury hotel in 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... and held for several hours by militia gunnies before being released, an incident that has highlighted the security threat posed by militias that have run rampant since the revolution that ousted Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... two years ago.
"I don't believe that 100 cars armed with heavy weapons can surround the hotel and lock it down and create checkpoints to prevent people from passing ... without an order from their leadership," Zeidan said in televised remarks.
"...This was coup, a coup against the legitimacy" of the government.
Zeidan blamed political opponents for his abduction, saying they had been trying to take over the government.
He said his abductors identified themselves as members of the Operations Room of Libya's Revolutionaries, a militia group.
Zeidan said his abductors, who forced their way into his room at the Corinthia Hotel before dawn, were carrying forged papers and claimed they had orders from Libya's general prosecutor.
The five-star hotel that Zeidan calls home is popular among government officials, some of whom reside there, including the justice minister.
He said the gunnies entered a number of hotel rooms belonging to diplomatic and international missions.
"They entered my room forcefully and took me, and I couldn't stop them," Zeidan said, adding that they ransacked his room.
He said they took documents and his computer.
In remarks to a Cabinet meeting broadcast on Libyan state TV on Thursday, Zeidan said he did not want to see the situation escalate and urged Libyans to show "wisdom."
But the Operations Room of Libya's Revolutionaries said it merely tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! him over financial and administrative corruption charges.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the Justice Ministry said there was no arrest warrant for Zeidan, calling the move a kidnapping.
The militia works with the Interior Ministry -- a not altogether uncommon practice in Libya, which has tried unsuccessfully to rein in the many militia groups. Instead, various ministries have teamed up with them for their own needs, including providing security services.
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[Al Ahram] The International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... on Friday ruled that Libya can try slain dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... 's former spy chief, having previously demanded he be handed over to The Hague.
Because Abdallah al-Senussi is being tried in Libya, ICC judges "concluded that the case is inadmissible before the court, in accordance with the principle of complementarity," it said.
The ICC stressed that the Senussi decision had no bearing on the case against Qadaffy's son Seif al-Islam, who is still wanted in The Hague.
Qadaffy's former heir apparent and others including Senussi are accused of crimes during the revolt against Qadaffy two years ago.
Judges ruled that "the case against Senussi is currently subject to domestic proceedings conducted by the Libyan competent authorities and that Libya is willing and able genuinely to carry out such investigation."
The ICC's founding document, the Rome Statute, says that the ICC cannot carry out proceedings against a suspect if they are receiving a fair trial in a domestic court.
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...Well, since the Libyans were gonna do it anyways, this works out nicely. I suspect the ICC's insistence on trying Senussi was more than likely semi kinda related to the fact that the lad Knows Embarassing Things That Others Would Like Kept Secret, and an ICC imprisonment and trial (tenatively scheduled for never) would have kept him comfortable, alive, and quiet.
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Gosh, thanks!
Channelocks to the ready, boys....
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The two-star US general in charge of the Air Force's arsenal of intercontinental missiles will be fired due to "a loss of trust and confidence," a Pentagon official told Reuters on Friday.
The exact reason for the removal of Major General Michael Carey from his job as commander of the 20th Air Force was not immediately clear. "loss of trust and confidence" in his unquestioning obedience to Great Leader?
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Headline panic..... What's being fired, the general or the nukes????
Probably got a wrong answer on the LGBQT attitude quiz.
Shame that the question of competence isn't the first thing to come to mind reading an article like this.
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In my more paranoid moments all of these generals being purged gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Is there a 7 days in May scenario in the wind, is there a night of the long knives going on, is this clearing the battle space for the OFA army to make a play?????
NSA, IRS, NPS, etc. are not paranoid fantasy they're fact.
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Maybe just bottle or zipper problems, though that's mundane and doesn't fire up conspiracy theorists. Even in the age of obooboo, there are bound to be one or two coincidences that still look ripe for more malign explanations...
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Snowy, it's all about the circles. You're in or you're out. Everyone in can get rich, rich, rich and save money on household products you use everyday, it's that simple. And tapes, maybe he was trying to move too many motivational tapes, these things happen, but it doesn't sully the underlying promise of neighbors selling to neighbors and getting rich, rich, rich by by selling household products you use ever day.
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"Gee, maybe I could make that missile's CEP a lot smaller if only you'd buy some of these professional restaurant-grade baking racks with the deluxe enamel coating..."
[Dawn] The Islamabad High Court rejected a petition submitted by Haroon Rasheed Ghazi, a son of the slain Lal Masjid holy man Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, which sought to add Musharraf's name to the Exit Control List, DawnNews reported.
The court said that the former president was already under custody of police adding that it was the Interior Ministry's responsibility to add names to the ECL.
Earlier, the bench led by acting Chief Justice of the IHC Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan while adjourning the hearing had reserved its judgment.
In his petition Ghazi had claimed that the Aabpara cop shoppe in Islamabad was investigating Musharraf for ordering the Lal Masjid operation in 2007, and therefore he should be barred from leaving the country as the former dictator may not return again if he was allowed to leave .
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... an Islamabad sessions court hearing the Lal Masjid holy man's murder case sent the former military strongman on a 14-day judicial remand.
The court had earlier rejected the request of Islamabad police seeking physical remand of former president Gen (r) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... .
Police had submitted a request seeking five-day-remand of the former dictator over the case pertaining to the alleged murder of holy man Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and his wife during the Lal Masjid military operation.
The bench hearing the case rejected the police request saying that the remand could not be granted without producing the accused in court.
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[Dawn] Reacting to recent statement by Indian military leadership accusing the Mighty Pak Army of supporting terrorism, army chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... on Friday termed the allegations as "unfortunate, unfounded and provocative."
Speaking to a group of military officers at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani said Pakistain was also concerned about the continued Indian violations at the Line of Control (LoC), the heavily militarized border dividing Kashmire between the two countries.
According to a blurb issued by the military's public relations wing, Kayani said the ceasefire at the Kashmire border was proposed by Pakistain and agreed upon by both countries in 2003.
He said that "rather than hurling such baseless accusations, India would be well advised to respond positively to Pakistain's suggestion for holding joint or impartial investigation into the LoC incidents, preferably by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... ."
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Many Pakis are anticipating the soon-to-be-retired Kayani to run for a major political office.
Imgine living in a culture where such a decision requires a second thought.
[NY Times] The question for the class of 10th graders at an all-girls school here in this picturesque mountain valley was a simple one: How many of them, a district official wanted to know, had heard of Malala Yousafzai?
The students stared at the official, Farrukh Atiq, in silence. Not a single hand was raised.
"Everyone knows about Malala, but they do not want to affiliate with her," Mr. Atiq said on Thursday, as speculation grew that Ms. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban a year ago, might win the Nobel Peace Prize.
In the end, Ms. Yousafzai did not win the Nobel Prize. That went to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. But after a week of intense news coverage, during which she released her memoir and won a prestigious European award for human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , Ms. Yousafzai's stature as an icon of peace and bravery has been established across the world -- everywhere, it seems, except at home.
It is not just that the schoolchildren fear becoming targets, though that is certainly an element in their caution. "I am against Malala," said Muhammad Ayaz, 22, a trader who runs a small store beside Ms. Yousfazai's old school in Mingora, the main town in the Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... Valley. "The media has projected Malala as a heroine of the West. But what has she done for Swat?"
That sense of smoldering animosity toward Ms. Yousafzai, 16, in the Swat Valley -- which she hurriedly left aboard a military helicopter for treatment last year after being shot -- seems to be animated in part by the tensions of a rural community still traumatized by conflict.
Although the Pakistain Army forced the Taliban from Swat during a major military operation in 2009, pockets of snuffies still remain, occasionally striking against soldiers or activists like Ms. Yousafzai.
Many residents fear the Islamists could one day return to power in the valley, an anxiety that, paradoxically, has stoked simmering hostility toward the Death Eaters' most famous victim.
"What is her contribution?" said Khursheed Dada, a worker with 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.... party that governs Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Province, which includes Swat.
That cynicism was echoed across Pakistain this week, where conspiracy-minded citizens loudly branded Ms. Yousafzai a C.I.A. stooge, part of a nebulous Western plot to humiliate their country and pressure their government.
Muhammad Asim, a student standing outside the gates of Punjab University in the eastern city of Lahore, dismissed the Taliban attack on Ms. Yousafzai as a made-for-TV drama. "How can a girl survive after being shot in the head?" he said. "It doesn't make sense."
The backlash seemed to stem from different places: sensitivity at Western hectoring, a confused narrative about the Taliban, and a sense of resentment or downright jealousy.
In Swat, some critics accused Ms. Yousafzai's father, Ziauddin, of using his precocious daughter to drum up publicity and of maligning Pashtun culture. Others said the intense publicity had cast their district in a negative light, overshadowing the good work of other Paks in education.
Dilshad Begum, the district education officer for Swat, said that 14,000 girls and 17,000 boys had recently started school following an intensive door-to-door enrollment campaign led by local teachers. The threat from the Taliban was exaggerated, she added.
"I have been working for female education for 25 years, and never received a threat," she said.
Even fellow students seemed to resent the recognition Ms. Yousafzai has received. At another school, a group of female students, assembled by their headmaster, agreed that Ms. Yousafzai did not deserve a Nobel Prize.
"Malala is not the only role model for Pak girls," said Kainat Ali, 16, who wore a black burqa.
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The students stared at the official, Farrukh Atiq, in silence. Not a single hand was raised.
They all knew; they understandably don't want to be the next target.
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Might I suggest: Moslem Culture and Moslem Values. Even the little school children know all about what happens to bad little girls and boys who say the wrong thing and think the wrong thoughts.
Ask Mohammed, he'll tell 'ya.
In the midst of what many see as warming diplomatic ties between Iran and the West, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues to warn the world on the dangers of a nuclear Iran and told the New York Times in an interview published on Friday that he would not let the Islamic Republic have nuclear weapons.
During the interview Netanyahu reportedly pointed to two photos above his desk in his Jerusalem office, one of the British WWII leader Sir Winston Churchill and the founding father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl and said: "They were alone a lot more than I am."
[An Nahar] A top Paleostinian negotiator on Friday slammed what he said was Israel's unwillingness to coordinate on security, after an Israeli settler was killed in the occupied West Bank.
Friday's incident, in which suspected Paleostinian gunnies bludgeoned to death a settler at his home, was the third killing of Israelis in the Paleostinian territory in as many weeks.
"Under our (security) agreement, the Israelis should have come to us immediately asking for security coordination" following the latest violent incidents, Nabil Shaath told Agence La Belle France Presse near the Paleostinian town of Beit Jala, south of Jerusalem.
The Israeli army set up roadblocks near the scene of Friday's attack in Brosh settlement in the northern Jordan Valley as Israeli security forces searched for the perpetrators.
Shaath also criticized a unilateral Israeli operation that saw security forces surround a Paleostinian town in the West Bank after an October 6 attack that injured a nine-year-old Jewish girl in the Psagot settlement.
"They (the army) almost reoccupied (the town of) Al-Bira, searching house by house without any attempt to ask the Paleostinian police to help," Shaath said.
Referring to conflicting reports on whether the girl was stabbed or shot, Shaath said "all of this we hear from the press. They (Israelis) don't talk to our security."
Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... condemned Israeli army "incursions" after the Psagot incident, insisting the Paleostinian Authority should take responsibility for finding the culprits.
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Maybe the Paleos heard Iran El Supremo the Ayatollah Khamenei's message?
To wit,
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [Fars News Agency] DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL GUARANTEED, AYATOLLAH SAYS.
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Voice of Russia] GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN "TOTALLY DEPLETES" US' ABILITY TO ENFORCE IRAN SANCTIONS.
* SAME > [Global Post]ISRAELI ARMY CHIEF: FUTURE WAR POSSIBLE ON MANY FRONTS.
Iran not only gets it NUkes, but is now the US' BFF in SYria = Middle East???
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"They (the army) almost reoccupied (the town of) Al-Bira, searching house by house without any attempt to ask the Paleostinian police to help," Shaath said.
well, no. They didn't. Because they wanted to catch the sumbitches that did it, and they did
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They (Israelis) don't talk to our security."
I am sure they talk about them tho, if it makes them feel any better.
[Mindanao Examiner] A university professor, who was captured and accused by the military as a communist rebel, is facing criminal charges after authorities filed multiple charges against him, said a Philippine army spokesman on Friday.
Troops captured Professor Kim Gargar who was injured in a recent clash in Davao Oriental. An automatic rifle was recovered from him in the village of Aliwagwag where troops also killed a rebel leader of the New People's Army.
Captain Alberto Caber of the Eastern Mindanao Command said, "Gargar is now charged with illegal possession of explosives and firearms, violation of Commission on Elections gun ban and multiple frustrated murders."
Caber said the criminal charges against Gargar, who belongs to NPA Platoon Front 25, told military interrogators that he joined the NPA last year, but previously helped Sison in the production of several books aimed at exploiting villagers in the countryside.
Human rights group Karapatan has called Gargar's arrest and detention illegal, saying the he was wrongfully accused by the military. Cristina Palabay, the group's Secretary General, said, "To throw Professor Kim Gargar in jail on trumped up charges because he wanted to help the (Typhoon) Pablo victims in rehabilitating and developing their communities is not only violating his rights but is also injustice to the communities he is assisting. Professor Gargar should be immediately released."
She said, "The illegal arrest and detention of Gargar is yet another desperate move by the Aquino government to suppress the people's collective action towards meaningful change."
[An Nahar] The bombs that a 12-member terrorist network were planning to use in their plots for bombings and liquidations had been transported to Leb from Syria, Sherlocks said.
The bombs were prepared in Syria and transported to Leb through illegal crossings, the Sherlocks, who were not identified, told al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Friday.
The State Commissioner to the Military Court, Judge Saqr Saqr, has charged the 12 suspects, including a Lebanese and 2 Syrians who are in jug, with plotting terrorist activities and planning liquidations.
The three suspects were tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! by the General Security Department.
Al-Joumhouria's sources said that the network was planning the liquidation of figures close to the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... in addition to members of the March 14 alliance that is a staunch backer of the rebels fighting Assad's troops.
The announced charges against the ring include buying arms, rockets and bombs to plant them throughout Lebanese territories, and plotting liquidations against personalities in northern Leb.
The suspects were also planning to booby-trap vehicles.
Informed sources told the newspaper that a Paleostinian, who has been recently arrested, had helped several terrorist networks prepare explosives in several areas.
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[An Nahar] Representatives of the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Leb delivered Friday posters of the new accused Hassan Habib Merhi to the Lebanese authorities "for the purpose of public advertisement," the court said in a statement.
"According to the Tribunal's rules, the Lebanese authorities are requested to advertise the poster in the media to notify the public and to call on the accused to surrender to the Tribunal," the STL added.
"The information given to the Lebanese authorities includes the biographical details of Mr. Merhi along with two identifying photographs," it said.
On Thursday, the STL said Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen confirmed an indictment against Merhi, who is accused of being involved in the February 14, 2005 Beirut attack that killed former Premier Rafik Hariri and 22 others.
The confirmed indictment and an arrest warrant were transmitted confidentially to the Lebanese authorities on August 6 so that they could search for, arrest and transfer the accused to STL custody, announced the tribunal in a statement on Thursday.
The Lebanese authorities were given 30 calendar days to carry out this obligation and report back on their efforts by September 5, 2013.
On September 6, the Lebanese Prosecutor General submitted his confidential report to Tribunal President, Judge Sir David Baragwanath, stating that so far the accused has not been found. Subsequently, the STL President requested additional measures be taken by the Lebanese authorities.
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[An Nahar] The U.N. Security Council on Friday formally approved a first joint mission with the Nobel Peace Prize winning global chemical arms watchdog to destroy Syria's weapons.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the U.N. already have a team of 60 experts and support staff in Syria destroying Syria's production facilities while the country's civil war rages on.
The 15-member Security Council sent a letter to Ban on Friday backing his plan on carrying out the full eradication of Syria's banned chemical arms.
"The Security Council authorizes the establishment of the OPCW-U.N. join mission as proposed," said the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Agence La Belle France Presse.
The formal backing was given as it was announced that the OPCW had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
"This recognition occurs nearly 100 years after the first chemical attack -- and 50 days after the appalling use of chemical weapons in Syria. Far from being a relic of the past, chemical weapons remain a clear and present danger," Ban said in a tribute to the OPCW.
Ban said in a draft plan sent to the Security Council that up to 100 experts will be needed to carry out the mission aiming to destroy Syria's sarin, mustard gas and other chemical weapons by the middle of 2014.
He has warned they will have to operate in unprecedented danger because of the war that has left well over 100,000 dead.
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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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