[An Nahar] The Malian army is carrying out a purge of soldiers involved in protests at a barracks outside the capital Bamako last month, Amnesia Amnesty International said Wednesday.
The rights group's French branch said in a statement that four soldiers' bodies had been discovered near Bamako in early October and several other troops, including a colonel, were missing, feared dead.
"These extrajudicial killings have created fears that soldiers loyal to General Amadou Haya Sanogo, who organized a coup in March 2012, are in the course of purging all dissidents from their ranks.
"This is the latest striking example of the way in which a small group of soldiers who seem to consider themselves above the law continue to cling to power in Mali," said Gaetan Mootoo, Amnesty's researcher on West Africa.
The organization called on the Malian government to organize an independent inquiry into the incident and ensure those responsible for the killings are brought to justice.
"These inquiries will make a crucial contribution to efforts to reestablish the rule of law in Mali," he added.
"It is frightening to note that, despite the arrival in power of a democratically elected president in August 2013, a small group of soldiers loyal to the former junta continues to impose terror, with complete impunity, on their presumed opponents."
The missing colonel was named as Youssouf Traore. He has been missing since the protests on September 30 and the decapitated body of his body guard was one of those found.
Traore was part of the military regime established after the March 2012 coup.
He was among dozens of disgruntled soldiers who fired guns in the air and took hostage a close aide of Sanago during the protest on September 30.
The soldiers, based in the garrison town of Kati, near Bamako, were unhappy at not having been promoted alongside colleagues also involved in ousting the president in March last year.
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[Shabelle] Scandinavia's humanitarian generosity in the 1990s appears to have backfired, as dozens of young ethnic Somalis living there have embraced jihad, returning to the Horn of Africa to join the al Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab. ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... There's no word that equates to 'gratitude' in the Somali language.
Norway's Intelligence Agency PST is still investigating whether one of the attackers at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi had lived in Norway. The 23-year old had come to Norway with his family at the age of nine as a refugee, but according to Norwegian media had become unsettled after being unable to find work and begun to frequent jihadist websites.
In a statement last week, the PST said it had not yet been determined whether the man took part in the attack, but added: "Based on the information that we have uncovered this far in the investigation ... the suspicion of his involvement has been strengthened."
If it is confirmed, the Norwegian citizen will become the latest in a lengthening line of Somalis from Scandinavia who have either joined Al-Shabaab or planned terror attacks in their adopted homelands.
The Al-Shabaab commander known as Ikrima who was targeted by US Navy SEALs in an unsuccessful raid in Somalia earlier this month also spent several years in Norway. Kenyan counter-terrorism sources told CNN they suspected Ikrima had a hand in the Westgate attack and was connected to the suspected Norwegian gunman.
Morten Storm, a Dane and former intelligence informant who penetrated Al-Shabaab and spent time with Ikrima, told CNN that Danish intelligence are particularly concerned about the threat of a Somali terrorist operative who works closely with Ikrimah called Abu Musab al Somali.
Storm says Danish intelligence told him of their concern that al Somali was planning terrorist attacks inside Denmark after intercepting communications between him and bully boyz there.
Al Somali -- who also goes by the name Abu Moslem -- came to Denmark as a young refugee, was granted permanent resident status, and settled in Copenhagen. In 2005, al Somali travelled to Somalia where he joined other imported muscle affiliated with the Islamic Courts Union, an Islamist militia that evolved into Al-Shabaab. A year later al Somali travelled to Yemen to broker a weapons deal with al Qaeda, according to Storm.
After serving about two years in jail al Somali returned to Somalia, where he joined Al-Shabaab. According to Storm, who exchanged messages with al Somali, he also worked closely with Jehad Serwan Mostafa, an American Shabaab operative wanted by the FBI, and Abdelkadir Warsame, a Somali Al-Shabaab operative who was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... navigating the sea between Yemen and Somalia by the United States in 2011.
Ikrima's name also featured in the trial of two Swedish Somalis who were arrested in 2010 after allegedly training with Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Swedish authorities accused them of planning to return to Somalia to carry out terrorist attacks. A phone intercept between a senior Al-Shabaab figure in Somalia and one of those arrested was introduced during the trial. "You should contact this brother -- his name is Ikrima," the senior figure said on the phone.
After being convicted the pair were subsequently acquitted by an Appeals court, but it nevertheless noted the men were in contact with, and sympathetic to, Al-Shabaab.
Analysts estimate there are several hundred committed Al-Shabaab supporters across Scandinavia.
There are about 25,000 ethnic Somalis in Norway, 17,000 in Denmark and 44,000 in Sweden. The great majority arrived after Somalia collapsed as a state in 1991. Most have been grateful for sanctuary but a very small minority have become radicalized, especially among those who came to Europe as children.
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Far more than Denmark, Swedan and Norway put together.
Thanks Tony Blair.
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about 30k ethnic somalis in MN
reliable voters for Al Franken and Keith Ellison, etc.
most of them are 'Islam is a religion of peace' types but about 20% aren't and of those, quite a few are tied into informal or even physical support for al shabab in Somalia
some of the latter were probably involved in the atrocity in Kenya
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Really gets down to giving them aid, crushes their pride and causes resentment. Jihadists are good at flaming that resentment and PC addled societies are pathetic at stopping it.
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I believe the word is 'repatriation'. Best to stabilize the place long enough to allow the 'refugees' to return with skills they've acquired to lift their fellow countrymen and coreligionists from the ashes of turmoil. Only fitting and right.
[An Nahar] Tunisia's Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said on Wednesday that his government was committed to the "principle" of resigning in line with a roadmap to end months of political deadlock.
"We repeat today our commitment to the principle of relinquishing power in line with the different phases envisaged in the roadmap," Larayedh said in a keenly awaited speech.
"We will not submit to anyone except the interests of the country," he added.
Until now the prime minister has said he would step down only after a new constitution has been adopted.
The opposition has been waiting for a "clear commitment" by the prime minister to quit within three weeks, as stipulated in the roadmap drawn up by mediators and agreed to by his Islamist party Ennahda, to allow a national dialogue to begin.
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[An Nahar] Opponents of the coup that toppled Egypt's elected president 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... in July warned Wednesday the country was headed towards civil war and urged the international community to pay attention.
"The present regime since the coup is pushing Egypt towards civil war," journalist and former chief editor of the Al-Shorouk newspaper, Wael Kandil, told news hounds in Geneva.
He warned the security forces' crackdown on supporters of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund, which has resulted in more than 1,000 people being killed and more than 2,000 tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! nationwide, was ripping the country apart.
Kandil was in Geneva to help launch a new loose coalition of coup opponents from diverse political backgrounds, based inside the country and abroad.
Calling themselves the "Anti-coup Egyptian delegation of public diplomacy," the group said it was visiting U.N. agencies and diplomatic missions to press its case that the military had hijacked the 2011 revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... .
Hatem Azzam, vice president of the moderate Islamist Al-Wasat Party and a member of the now disbanded 2012 parliament, compared Morsi's overthrow with the 1973 coup in Chile, when socialist President Salvador Allende was ousted by a military junta.
Eslam Lotfy, a lawyer at Egypt's High Court of Appeals and member of the leftist Third Square Movement, said while had been against Morsi, he was "also against the coup".
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For a map, click here. For a map of Chihuahua state, click here.
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
As shootings and drug and gang related violence continue in southern Chihuahua, commanders with the Mexican Army are announcing their intentions to stay in northern border states, according to Mexican news accounts.
A news account which appeared on the website of Azteca Noticias reported a joint announcement of Chihuahua Governor Cesar Duarte Jaquez and Mexican Army chief General Salvador Cienfuegos that a new army base would be built in Guachochi municipality housing 600 soldiers and their families. No date was given for either beginning or the conclusion of the construction of the army base.
If the number of soldiers to be deployed at the base is accurate the base will be one of the largest non garrison facilities in Mexico. Mexican Army bases which dot the country usually house a company sized element including about 100 effectives with support staff adding even more. The base in Guachochi will house 600 soldiers including support staff, or the equivalent of a rifle battalion.
Guachochi is in the Mexican 42nd Military Zone command area.
The new deployment adds credence to the notion that Mexico's military commanders are concentrating their efforts in the Mexican sierras where law and law enforcement are at premium, leaving the cities and the highway to Mexican civilian security forces.
Earlier in the year Mexico's military commanders made much of the intention of the new national administration of president Enrique Peña Nieto to return the military to the barracks and to have Mexico's police forces take over security duties nationwide.
Sometime last summer, commanders signaled a definitive shift in strategy, by making much of their intentions to remain in areas where drug and gang related violence is the worst.
The most recent announcement by General Cienfuegos was that the Mexican Army would remain also in Nuevo Leon state.
Pena's security strategy of making states take on more security duties was also amplified by dividing the country into five regions and holding numerous meetings between state politicians and their security staff, and Mexico's federal security apparatus. Central to that is to include all national police and militaries under the Secretaria de Gobernacion or interior ministry.
But problems with the strategy in using state resources abound.
Last December as President Peña was taking the reins of power, his Secretaria de Gobernacion, Miguel Osorio Chong continued to push a police certification program requirement begun during the term of the prevous President Felipe Calderon, that all police agents are certified, or they should lose their jobs. The original time period began in 2011, and was extended by the national Chamber of Deputies for a deadline of November 1st, 2013.
But now it appears with barely 75 percent of all state and local police certified nationwide, The deadline has been extended yet another year.
Results in the various state were mixed at best, with two on the six northern border state with percentages of certified police above 80 percent. That was in August. Since that time Nuevo Leon has announced their police certification program completed.
Chihuahua state, where the new military base is expected to be built, as of last August, was in the bottom 10 with just over 51 percent certified. Tamaulipas, easily Mexico's most violent state. was reported dead last with just under 40 percent.
Problems in security continue in Chihuahua state, especially in the southern municipalities.
In El Diario de Juarez Wednesday it was reported that only five municipalities out of 51, have submitted candidates to be approved by the state Chamber of Deputies.
According to Antonio Andreu, President of the Chihuahua state Chamber of Deputies, the five municipalities with police chiefs confirmed by the Chamber of Deputies include Nuevo Casas Grandes, Camargo, Ahumada, Ciudad Juarez and Aquiles Serdan. All are northern or central municipalities.
According to the news story, Chihuahua state's failure in police certifications has led to the large number of municipalities with no confirmed police chiefs. Andrieu said that no deadline exists for confirming new police chiefs, and new police chiefs must be certified.
Chihuahua state went through a mid term election earlier in the summer. Normally by this time all municipalities should have their staff appointed, approved and in place.
Elsewhere in southern Chihuahua, eight unidentified individuals are being investigated as disappeared according to a news account which appeared in the online edition of El Sol de Parral news daily.
Quoting head of the Policia Estatal Unica Division Investigaciones, Pablo Ernesto Rocha, police will begin search operations in Guadalupe y Calvo municipality, focusing in the villages of Corta, Los Charcos and El Vergel. Earlier in the spring and summer, kidnappings and shootings in southern Chihuahua were do bad that young males were refused public transportation for fear of recruiting efforts by local criminal gangs. The latest admission of missing persons by a top state police officials indicates that the violence in the region has not been tempered.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Süddeutsche Zeitung conveyed a strong sense of the depth of disillusionment with the US president in Germany when it wrote that "Barack Obama is not a Nobel peace prize winner, he is a troublemaker".
Angela Merkel has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama. With friends like this...
Please note: You don't spy on friends because the damage, when they find out, is much bigger than the benefit you may have from spying on them.
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I certainly hope, EC, that the S. Zeitung is very widely read and that all of the folks who used to fawn over Obama are properly outraged.
Sometimes lessons take a long while to sink in.
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We spy on our allies and they spy on us. Nothing new about that. Heads of state are left alone out of curtesy usually. Apparently Obama doesn't have any of that.
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Yes the Süddeutsche Zeitung is one of the most respected papers in Germany.
Yes I know about the spying practices, but what you really can't do is to tap the phone of a leader who is one of your closest ally and friend (not necessarily friend of the O)
How can we negotiate a free trade agreement when your partner taps your conversations? This would end any business relationship. You simply don't do it.
Obama in Europe is done. Overdone. He's done more damage to transatlantic relations than any other politician (US or European before him).
I saw his rally in Berlin back in 2008. Though he was an empty suit. But he is worse.
I don't think we'll need any more visits from him in his remaining term.
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We spy on our allies and they spy on us.
True, but there is spying and there is spying. Noticing who Angela hangs out with is one thing, rummaging through her underwear drawer is quite another. And then there is the clandestine aspect, a big word meaning "don't get caught".
B-HO's career has been marked by digging up dirt on friends and rivals. Paranoids read meaning into unexpected resignations or surprising Supreme Court votes. I suspect this is just business as usual for the Obama regime.
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I will remain a friend of America, the American people, the American troops...
But for this administration, I have nothing but disgust.
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Glad to hear, EC...
I wonder how far up the food chain you need to go to get approval to bug the comms of the leader of a close ally? Does that require Presidential sign off?
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From what I read Merkel got the phone that was spied upon in 2009. Will be somewhat difficult to blame this on Bush.
I don't know if the U.S. media are reporting this as they should: This REALLY is serious. Germany's LEADING conservatives and transatlanticists are really upset this time. It's a breach of trust like we've never seen before.
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It's not so much about "trusting" a specific government. And of course you should trust a politician even less than a used car dealer. That's not the point.
This is more about the fundamental relationship between two nations.
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I think we're in a situation where we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. I have seen statements from people working AT the NSA that a whole lot of what is being peddled around is _bullshit_ but he couldn't prove it because to discuss actual capabilities and their limitations would be, well, a violation of all sorts of secrecy rules and information classification and the like.
(And Frankly...
* We just got finished with a 75 year period where we were in an existential struggle against either totalitarian states run by Germans or a totalitarian state installed by Germans in WW1 or the states that totalitarian state installed and/or used as proxies. There are STILL countries out there that are slave labor camps installed by the people the Germans installed to rule Russia. Their plantation foremen have the bomb and continue to make noises about destroying us. But we're supposed to believe in some "Gentlemen don't read other people's mail" bull####?
* Also, you handed your energy independence on a silver platter to a company controlled by someone whose job at the fall of the Soviet Union was spying on Germany. (So much for "unforgivableness"). One might suggest that if we really were spying on Germany that we'd actually do a better job of destroying your independence than y'all are doing yourselves right now. In a way it's a pity noone cares that Gerhard Schroeder could give away so much to Gazprom and then turn around and go to work for them. Maybe if we discovered it by Eeevil NSA spying instead of watching the evening news people would care.
* That whole situation also suggests that someone else is spying on Germany with a whole lot more success than the US is.
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Germany and the rest of Europe need to understand that we are no happier with this administration than they are -- in fact even less so, given Europe's leftism.
But if you truly want these idiots gone use your press. Tell the stories. Our press won't do it, but if the stories get told then this administration will promptly implode. Mock them. Investigate them. Quote them! That's all it will take.
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain on Wednesday said that continued violations of the Line of Control by India were unfortunate and alarming, and might further escalate tensions, undermining efforts to improve relations.
Foreign Office front man Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry, in a statement, said that during the last two days, Indian troops had intensified violations and carried out unprovoked firing on working boundary in Pukhlian, Chaprar, Harpal, and Charwah sectors near Sialkot. He said the indiscriminate shelling on civilian population and targeting of 27 Pak posts had resulted in casualty of two civilians and one security official and serious injuries to 26 civilians. The front man said the Indian Border Security Force had fired almost 4,000 mortar shells and 59,000 rounds of machinegun, escalating tension across the LoC and the working boundary. The Pak security forces exercised restraint and gave a measured and calibrated response to the unprovoked Indian aggression, he added. "The continued violations are unfortunate and alarming which may further escalate the tension."
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So how are they counting? Esp the machine gun round?
Sound?
Field of intelligent light?
I am seriously curious as it is not a trivial problem.
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Not a good time as Pak BFF CHINA is standing firm + becom increasingly hardline agz Japan + PHIL, ASEAN in the ECE + SCS.
The GOP-Dem debt deal does nothing to ned the sequester, espec as per the Pentagon.
E.g. WORLD NEWS > [Fox News] US ARMY CHIEF: JUST TWO BRIGADES COMBAT-READY.
* RELATED SAME > US ARMY VULNERABLE TO NIGHTMARE SITUATION.
versus
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > [PolicyMic] ASEAN COULD BECOME GROUND ZERO FOR ANOTHER PROXY WAR.
China's closest proxy = surrogate would be Nuke-armed Muslim Pakistan, espec vee INDIA - howvever, IMO I highly doubt China will prefer to leave to any proxies in any East Asia mil conflict agz the US-Allies.
* WORLD NEWS > US NAVAL STRIKE GROUP SHRUGS OFF PYONGYANG THREATS.
"Post-US", "Mahanist" China is deadly serious about securing "sole" strategic access for the PLA throughout the "First Island Chain" ASAP AMAP by 2020, so this is NOT a time for the US Navy-DOD to become complacent just because its from "Pudgy" = NOKOR.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > EXPERT: ROUTINE CHINESE NAVAL EXERCISES IN WESTPAC NEAR GUAM BASE SHOWS THAT THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY "DISMEMBERED", + ITS HISTORICAL BARRIERS OVERCOME BY CHINA + PLA.
The DPRK has three probs ...
> BREAKING CHINESE DOMINATION + PREVENTING FORMAL CHINESE ANNEXATION OF THE COUNTRY.
> REUNIFICATION WID SOUTH KOREA UNDER KOREAN-ONLY SOVEREIGNTY.
> SURVIVING ANY MAJOR WAR ON THE PENINSULA OR NE ASIA REGION BETWEEN CHINA + US-ALLIES.
[Pak Daily Times] The United States will release $1.6 billion in aid to Pakistain, boosting a flow of assistance that slowed in recent years amid a downturn in relations, an official said Tuesday. The State Department has notified Congress that it intends to release the funds already budgeted for in previous years including the fiscal year 2012. The bulk of the funding is made up of $1.38 billion in military aid, State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said. The rest is $260.5 million in civilian aid. "The $260.5 million in civilian assistance is part of the total $959.5 million in FY2012 civilian assistance to be notified, because much of the civilian assistance continued unaffected during the slow down," she told AFP.
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[Pak Daily Times] 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... and US President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... on Wednesday agreed on a joint strategy to counter terrorism and extremism.
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] 'If the host is hospitable and generous, there will be more frequent visits from guests' -- a pithy Chinese phrase summed up the mood as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sealed significant pacts to curb use of force on the borders, open a dialogue on dams on the Brahmaputra and enhance cooperation on terrorism with China.
On a clear day after overnight rain drove Beijing's infamous smog away, the PM struck an equation with the new Chinese leadership, with President Xi Jinping telling Singh, "We need to stand tall and look far, a journey of a 1,000 miles begins with a single step."
Xi handsomely supplemented the proverb offered by the Chinese spokesperson after the two sides signed a border protocol, mooting a hotline between military headquarters, and China pushed for an ambitious Bangladesh-Myanmar-India-China economic corridor along the south Silk Route.
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[An Nahar] Israel reiterated Wednesday it would act to prevent any transfer of advanced arms to "militants" during the conflict in Syria, as a newspaper reported an Israeli Arclight airstrike along the Syrian-Lebanese border.
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, speaking at the parliamentary foreign and defense committee, said Israel was closely monitoring the situation in Syria and the regime's moves to dismantle its chemical arms.
"So far the regime is upholding its commitment," he said in remarks relayed by his office.
"We are following the issue, and continue to maintain our red lines on Syria -- not to allow the transfer of advanced Syrian weapons to hostile hands, especially Hizbullah," he said.
Yaalon said Israel would "not allow the passage of chemical weapons, which until now they haven't even tried to transfer."
His comments came as Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida, citing an official in Jerusalem, said Israeli warplanes had on Monday hit a convoy carrying advanced missiles along the Syria-Leb border bound for Hizbullah.
An Israeli defense official refused to comment on the report, which did not state whether the strike took place inside Lebanese or Syrian territory.
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[An Nahar] Damascus said on Wednesday that no foreign party will be involved in deciding the country's leadership after Arab and Western governments said Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... should play no future role.
"The Syrian people are the only ones who can choose their leader, and who can decide on Syria's present and future," the foreign ministry said.
While the ministry did not specifically address the conclusions of a meeting of supporters of Syria's opposition in London on Tuesday, it said "the Syrian people will not allow any foreign party to impose itself ... in choosing a government, or in determining its powers and tasks."
The ministry statement comes amid preparations for a peace conference dubbed Geneva 2, which was first proposed by the United States and Russia and would bring government and opposition representatives to the negotiating table.
"Syria reiterated it is ready to go to the Geneva 2 conference, and to try its best to ensure its success without any preconditions or any foreign intervention," the ministry said.
The opposition has insisted that any talks with regime representatives should lead to Assad's departure.
But the Syrian authorities have said there should be no preconditions for such talks and on Monday, Assad said he is willing to run for re-election when his term ends in 2014.
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[An Nahar] Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal has warned that "Leb is on the brink of civil war as Hizbullah continues to implement its own agenda without giving any consideration to law and order."
The party "is willing to risk the foundations on which the entire Lebanese political system was built in order to prevent the collapse of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... 's regime and impede the work of the Special Tribunal for Leb that is probing the liquidation of former premier Rafik Hariri," al-Faisal said in a lecture he delivered at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington.
"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... believes that the law needs to be imposed in Leb and it supports all efforts aimed at putting an end to Hizbullah's intervention in Syria and bringing its leaders who are suspected of being involved in the Hariri murder to court," the ex-spy chief added, according to the Central News Agency.
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Listen up!!
This guy knows what he is talking about AND he knows more about what is driving the agenda in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Libya than Slow Joe, Obumble, or Fred Flintstone Kerrey.
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The only times Lebanon isn't on Brink of Civil War is when it has a civil war.
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
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[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] 'If the host is hospitable and generous, there will be more frequent visits from guests' -- a pithy Chinese phrase summed up the mood as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sealed significant pacts to curb use of force on the borders, open a dialogue on dams on the Brahmaputra and enhance cooperation on terrorism with China. 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
