French President Nicolas Sarkozy allegedly called Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu a liar in a conversation with the US president, French website Arret Aur Images reported on Monday night.
I cannot see Netanyahu anymore, he is a liar, the report cited Sarkozy as saying.
You're sick of it, US President Barack Obama responded, but I have to deal with it all day.
According to the website, the comments were overheard by journalists during a meeting between Obama and Sarkozy at the G20 summit meeting on November 3. A technical failure allowed the journalists to listen to the private conversation on their monitors. They were then asked to refrain from reporting what they had heard.
Good lord, they sound like a pair of seventh grade girls talking about their best friend. One wonders how catty each is about the other...
The former Pak President, Gen. Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... warned on Sunday that Pakistain and India would struggle over influence in war-torn Afghanistan if the US withdraws from country.
An unstable Afghanistan reeling from US withdrawal, with bordering Pakistain and India fighting for influence, would lead to disarray in the region, Musharraf said in an interview on CNN.
"I think it`s going to be very difficult, very difficult," the retired army chief said. "I get a feeling that maybe we will revert to" the regional instability that preceded the 2001 US-led invasion.
He warned the US not to leave Afghanistan nor set a time-line for troop withdrawal.
Mr Musharraf said Pakistain had been "bending backward" trying to help train Afghan troops and intelligence personnel, but that Afghan "diplomats, intelligence personnel, military men, and security people go to India for training.
He also expressed doubt about recent comments by 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... during an interview with Pakistain's Geo TV.
Mr Karzai said last month that Afghanistan was a loyal neighbour to Pakistain and would assist if Pakistain went to war with the US. Mr Musharraf said the notion is "totally preposterous" during the interview.
US has around 90,000 troops in Afghanistan and they are expected to leave the country by the end of 2014 when Afghan forces will take over full security responsibility as planned.
They fear lack of income once US & Co leave.Hence approaching China to be their new sugar daddy!
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Personally, I think we should have lobbied hard, as early as possible, for India to place at least two reinforced divisions in Afghanistan, on regular rotation. It would have been a major pain, but once there, the US could provide much of their logistics support.
First of all, it would have forced Pakistan to station a big chunk of its army in the most troublesome areas.
Second it would seal much of the border to traffic, and give plenty of cover to the major crossings.
Third, it would be a huge ego boost to India, convincing them of the value and difficulty of international force projection, which they have to learn to be a major player.
And fourth, it would allow NATO to police up the interior, hard, exterminating troublemakers and wiping out most of the drug production.
Of course, Karzai and his mob would be bitterly opposed to it, because it would bust their rackets as well as split the Pushtun that gives them their support. But these birds are expendable, and should have been expended a long time ago, with a real government put in their place.
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We don't like "Allies" who spit in our eye when we kill the #1 terrorist, waste our money, and are so insecure about sovereignty that they won't do what's needed to be done.
[An Nahar] The International Committee of the Red Thingy said Monday it will begin this week to clear unwent kaboom! munitions in Libya's Bani Walid and Sirte, where several civilians have been hurt or killed by explosives.
"The ICRC will clear unwent kaboom! munitions in Sirte and Bani Walid, focusing on the contaminated areas that pose the greatest threat to civilians, especially some of the least destroyed neighborhoods where people are attempting to return to their homes," said the relief agency in a statement.
ICRC expert Guy Marto said there have been several confirmed casualties in Sirte, including an eight-year-old girl who lost her arm while playing with an bomb.
"Our immediate goal is to ensure that further deaths and injuries among civilians are kept to an absolute minimum," he said.
In Zlitan, to the west of Misrata, some 30 people have been hit by weapons in farmlands and other parts of the region.
The relief agency has cleared almost 1,400 warheads, munitions, grenades and mortar shells across Libya since March.
Bani Walid and Sirte were the last towns loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffy ... who is now cavorting happily with Himmler and Heydrich... to fall to the revolutionaries after bitter fighting.
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A curious task for the ICRC - unless maybe they delivered said munitions and are now feeling a bit of remorse.
In an interview with CNN, Mansour Daou, one of former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qadaffy's ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation, usually for the worse... top security officials, who is reported to have remained at his side until the final hours , describes how the dictator, was forced to scavenge for food and hide in abandoned houses in the coastal city of Sirte.
Daou, who spoke the the American TV channel while awaiting trial at a detention facility in the city of Misrata, said that the man who was once of the world's most feared leaders was very worried and erratic. Supposedly because he was afraid.
According to Daou, Al Qadaffy became desperate to travel to his birthplace, the village of Jaref, 20 kilometres west of Sirte, a journey that Daou feared would have been a suicide. "He wanted to go to his village, maybe he wanted to die there or spend his last moments there," he said.
Finally, after NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... jets attacked his convoy, Al Qadaffy tried to escape on foot through drainage pipes, but was caught. He was later killed in circumstances that are still far from clear.
Among the most significant charges Daou faces rare those relating to his alleged role in the1996 Abu Salim prison massacre, and his role in the alleged hiring of African mercenaries by the regime during the conflict. In his interview with CNN he said he had no role in those events.
During the hour-long interview, Daou, in his late 50s, and wearing a traditional Arabic grey dishdasha robe, seemed to be in good health CNN said. He described how he had been in the same car as Al Qadaffy as they made their chaotic escape from the former leader's hometown of Sirte.
According to Daou, Al Qadaffy left Tripoli for Sirte on August 18, just two days before NYC fighters entered the Libyan capital Tripoli. Daou himself said he had remained in Tripoli until it became clear the city was no longer safe for the regime's inner circle.
He then decamped to the city of Bani Walid on August 22, along with Al Qadaffy's son, Seif al-Islam and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, and stayed with them for four days before joining the Al Qadaffy in Sirte.
Daou said their living conditions went from bad to worse as the rebels tightened their siege of the city. They moved around abandoned houses every three to four days, he said, surviving on the little food they could find. Towards the end, they had no power, water or communication with the outside world. "Our lives had turned by about 180 degrees," he said.
The former Libyan leader spent his final days writing and reading books he had stacked in suitcases, Daou said, but his behaviour became more unpredictable. As fighters surrounded Sirte, Al Qadaffy's group wanted to leave the city.
Daou said he and others knew that if they did not leave before the siege there would be no way out, But the former leader refused to leave - until October 20 - when he and his son Muatassem decided to make the move to the former dictator's birthplace.
Their group of about 350 men had dropped to fewer than 200, Daou told CNN. "It started dropping daily with some killed, others maimed and those who had left with their families," he said.
Daou described their force as a mostly undisciplined civilian one under the command of Muatassem. They had no plan - not for fleeing and certainly not for fighting, he said.
Their convoy of more than 40 vehicles was supposed to head out before dawn when they thought NTC forces would be resting - but they were too late.
At about 8 a.m. they set out to Jaref but NATO jets quickly struck one of the vehicles in the convoy. Daou remembered a scene of chaos, confusion and horror as the impact of the kaboom triggered the airbags in the car and Al Qadaffy sustained a slight injury to his head or chest.
He went on to say that as they tried to escape anti-Al Qadaffy fighters opened fire on their cars . Then followed a second air strike by NATO.
"That is when we had the most casualties and destroyed vehicles, our car was hit after we got out of it. It was terrifying," Daou recalled, adding that they had no option but to run; their escape on foot ended with heavy fire from fighters who surrounded them by the drainage pipes they were using to escape through.
Daou said he lost consciousness after he was hit by shrapnel in his back and does not know how Al Qadaffy died. But he believed that the death of the former Libyan leader ended the possibility of an insurgency that his loyalists could have mounted. "The regime and any power it may have had died with Al Qadaffy," he said.
The legacy of Libya's former dictator is now being debated. "It will be up to the historians, everyone has their opinion, some see him as a dictator who killed his own people, and there is an opposite view. History is usually written by the more powerful," Daou said.
According to Daou. Al Qadaffy believed he could remain in power. He and other members of the inner circle tried to convince him to leave the country since March "to leave with respect ... to save face." His sons rejected the idea, especially Seif: "It is not easy for someone who had been in power for 42 years, to believe that it is over in a minute," Daou said.
Daou said he had no idea where the former regime's most bandidos - Seif and al-Senuossi - were. But with the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... pursuing them, he believes they are probably still in Libya as no country will take them.
When asked if he thought Seif, who during the conflict vowed to fight until the end, was a fighter, Daou laughed quietly at the suggestion that Seif was a fighter. "I don't know - I don't think so," he said.
Daou recalled that as unrest broke out in the region in January, officials in Libya were worried. "There was fear and there was concern that this wave could reach Libya and the feeling was right," he said.
Daou said he was in a car with Al Qadaffy and al-Senoussi driving back to Tripoli from Sabha in the south when news reached them about the ousting of the President of neighbouring Tunisia. He said they discussed it but the threat was not taken seriously. According to Daou, Al Qadaffy felt betrayed by world leaders he considered allies, like Britannia's Tony Blair, Italia's Silvio Berlusconi ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... . La Belle France's Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... and Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Daou explained to CNN that a bigger betrayal came from within. He said there was a defence plan in place for the capital, but it was treason among the ranks of those who were tasked with securing Tripoli that led to the fall of the capital in a few days. He said more than 3,800 troops were supposed to guard Tripoli's gates, but on the night the revolutionaries entered the capital, fewer than 200 troops were on duty.
Daou, now awaiting trial, said that the revolution was the people's will and they won. Now they have to preserve it,- and Libya's unity," he said.
Asked if he regretted being part of the regime, he sighed and chuckled. "Sometimes I regret everything, I have even regretted being alive, of course a person has regrets at a time in his life and looks back but unfortunately you sometimes regret when it is too late."
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Yes , And Gaddafi Wanted Israel To Help Him Stay In Power And Goad Barrack By His Nose Like A Bull Goaded For : Naught : Blammo By NTC : Eids !
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Yes , And Gaddafi Wanted Israel To Help Him Stay In Power And Goad Barrack By His Nose Like A Bull Goaded For : Naught : Blammo By NTC : Eids !
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I take it making sense English is not your first language, Chomons?
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A key US politician cleared the way Monday for the Paleostinian Authority to receive almost $200 million in aid, after the B.O. regime convinced her that releasing security funds to the PA was in Israel's and the United States' interest.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that she would release her block on two separate sections of security aid -- one for $50 million, and the second for $150 million. All of which we borrowed from China...
An additional $200 million in economic assistance is still being withheld by both the State and Foreign Relations Appropriations Subcommittee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Both the security and economic funds were frozen by Congress in August, in response to the PA's strategy of seeking unilateral recognition of statehood during the UN General Assembly in September.
A second key house leader, State and Foreign Relations Appropriations Subcommittee Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), had used her committee to freeze only the economic aid, believing PA security forces aided in countering the influence of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. Ros-Lehtinen's move has removed the last roadblock to the security aid package.
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. on Monday expressed his satisfaction on the overall law and order situation in Bloody Karachi. They usually do that a few days before thirty or forty people are slaughtered in a bloody shootout.
"Street crimes are the major concern all over the country but the overall situation of law and order is under control with due efficiency of the police and Rangers in Bloody Karachi," he said while talking to media representatives after offering the Eidul Azha prayer at the Babul Islam mosque.
He said directives had been issued to the police and other law enforcing agencies to curb all criminal activities.
Referring to collection of hides of sacrificial animals, Mr Malik said the government had already issued directives in this regard and a code of conduct had also been chalked out.
He further stated that no group or person would be allowed to collect hides forcibly in Bloody Karachi or elsewhere.
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Palestinian pursuit of unilateral statehood goes against the 1993 Oslo Accords with Israel, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday during closed-door discussions in his office.
By boycotting negotiations and by going instead to the United Nations, they [the Palestinians] have reneged on a central tenet of Oslo, Netanyahu said.
Israel will learn the true meaning of "hell" if it decides a military strike against Iran is worth the risk, an Iranian national security official said.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is said to have been reviewing strike plans against Iran's nuclear infrastructure as the International Atomic Energy Agency expressed concerns about Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Iranian officials have said any attack on its nuclear infrastructure would be suicidal.
"If a military challenge is started against Iran in the region, the Zionist regime will definitely be faced with a hell," Javad Jahangirzadeh, a lawmaker on Iran's national security commission, told the semiofficial Fars News Agency.
The Israeli military in 2007 destroyed a site in Syria thought to be part of a nuclear program under construction with the help of the North Koreans. In 1981, the Israeli military launched a surprise attack on a nuclear reactor outside of Baghdad.
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DRUDGEREPORT > {Israel National News] IRAN THREATENS "STREET WAR" IN TEL AVIV, between the Iranian army + IDF in response to any attack agz its NucProgs by Israel.
Iran also threatens to fight its enemies anywhere on European + US soil [+ beyond].
* FREEREPUBLIC = Iran IRGC is also threatening to hunt down + kill any + all US, etc. military leaders in the ME in response to any killings of its Leaders per the above.
IIUC, IRAN IS TRYING HARD NOT TO SAY IT THINKS THE US, ISRAEL WILL EMPLOY OR PRIORITIZE COMMANDO STRIKES AGZ ITS NUCPROGS OVER AIRPOWER ALONE???
[An Nahar] A senior U.S. official will on Monday launch a three-country campaign to firm up sanctions against Syria and to tackle transnational organized crime, the U.S. Treasury Department said.
Assistant Secretary Daniel Glaser will travel to Beirut, Moscow and Amman for a week-long visit.
In Leb and Jordan, Glaser is expected to press the authorities to "remain vigilant against attempts by the Syrian regime to evade U.S. and EU sanctions."
The financial sectors of both nations are seen by Washington as a possible avenue for Syria to circumvent international sanctions.
On August 17 U.S. President Barack I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go Obama signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against the Syrian regime because of what the White House termed a "continuing escalation of violence against the people of Syria."
The sanctions froze all Syrian government property in the United States and banned U.S. citizens from doing new business with the country, or importing petroleum products.
And on August 10 the U.S. imposed sanctions on Syria's largest commercial bank, the state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria, and its Leb-based subsidiary.
The Lebanese subsidiary denied Washington's "unfounded political allegations" that it dealt with North Korea and Iran.
"Since the establishment of our institution, we have never had any operation with either a North Korean or an Iranian entity even before the existing sanctions," the Syrian Lebanese Commercial Bank said.
"As a result, we deny all accusation of being involved in any illegal activity with any suspected country," a statement added.
The United States Treasury had charged that the Commercial Bank of Syria allegedly supported Syria and North Korea's efforts to spread weapons of mass destruction.
It froze the U.S. assets of the businesses targeted and prohibited U.S. entities from engaging in any business dealings with the two banks.
In Moscow Glaser is expected to discuss "the threat posed by transnational criminal organizations."
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[An Nahar] The ringleader of the gang that kidnapped the seven Estonian tourists, Wael Abbas, stayed in the custody of the Syrian authorities for 20 days before being handed over to Leb's General Security Department last week, official sources said.
The sources told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat published Monday that Syrian authorities questioned Abbas over his fake Venezuelan passport and other documents after Qatar tossed in the clink him at Doha airport and deported him to Syria.
Abbas was trying to flee to Brazil and was on a transit in Doha when airport authorities uncovered his fake ID carrying the name of al-Fliti hailing from the Lebanese eastern town of Arsal.
The sources said that Doha airport police questioned him for four hours and put him on the first plane to Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... . When he arrived to Syria, authorities there kept Abbas in their custody for 20 days and then handed him over to Leb last Wednesday.
The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch is now questioning him, the sources told al-Hayat. But they refused to give further details about his confessions.
The seven Estonians were kidnapped in the eastern Bekaa Valley on March 23, hours after entering Leb from Syria on a bicycle tour and were held for nearly four months before being released on July 14.
An Nahar newspaper has said that Abbas is the leader of a six-member gang that kidnapped the Estonians at the expense of a bigger and more dangerous network.
His arrest raised the number of those executed the abduction to four. The other two remain out of sight.
Six suspects from the larger network are also in jug, An Nahar said although it stressed that the number of those who are on the lam is much higher.
Three of them have been killed in festivities with the Intelligence Branch. They are Kanan Yassine, Munir Jalloul and Darwish Khanjar.
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Irans security officials recently delivered a book on Islam to Nadarkhani, Fox News says; he is in prison Rasht on the Caspian Sea coast.
Irans government and security apparatus have ratcheted up the pressure on Evangelical pastor Youcef Nadarkhani to convert to Islam or face execution, Fox News reported on Saturday.
Youcef Nadarkhani, now 34, was arrested in 2009 for questioning the compulsory Islamic education of his children and for seeking to register a home-based church. He was sentenced to death in 2010.
Irans security officials recently delivered a book on Islam to Nadarkhani, Fox News said. He is in prison Rasht on the Caspian Sea coast.
The Iranian officials told him they would be back to discuss the material and hear his opinion, according to the report.
Fox cited sources close to the case.
David Parsons, spokesman for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday the new development is very troubling.
There need to be three attempts to make him convert to Islam before they can kill him, Parsons said. He cited Sharia Islamic law as the basis for the threeattempts rule.
Iran is going through the motions and trying to do it in a very public way for the Muslim world and maybe, in their mind, thinking they can placate the West. It is outrageous, said Parsons, who is a contributing editor to The Jerusalem Post Christian Edition.
The case should be an eye-opener for world leaders, he said. They should know what Islam teaches in terms of inferior religions like Judaism and Christianity.
Fox News wrote that it secured a digital copy of the book given to Nadarkhani, a 300-page compilation entitled Beshaarat-eh Ahdein, meaning Message of the Two Eras, referring to the New and Old Testaments. Through various narratives, the book claims Christianity is a fabrication and attempts to establish the superiority of Islam.
Parsons said it needs to be a priority to hold the Iranian regime accountable.
Governments, even Muslim governments, should not be allowing this. How can anyone find this acceptable this day? Present Truth Ministries has campaigned since 2009 for Nadarkhanis release and works to help persecuted Christians in the Middle East. We cannot wait another moment, we have to contact our elected officials, the USbased organization urges on its website in connection with Nadarkhani.
Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, an authority on minority groups in the Islamic Republic of Iran, told the Post by phone from Berlin on Sunday that the book given to Nadarkhani, Beshaarat-eh Ahdein, is religious indoctrination.
There is no freedom of opinion or religion in Iran, he said. The Iranian regime has been closing newspapers and there is no freedom of conscience in the Islamic Republic.
The book argues against the Judaism and Christianity, as well as against Bahais and Zoroastrians, Wahdat-Hagh, a senior fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels, wrote in a followup e-mail.
The fact that Mr. Nadarkhani was given this book makes clear that it does not deal with freedom of conscience, which does not exist in Iran, rather it deals with propaganda..., he said.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader in Iran, has reacted to pressure regarding Nadarkhanis case, and Khamenei has the authority to vacate the death penalty sentence against the pastor, Wahdat-Hagh added.
This case shows that Iran does not seek dialogue with Christians, rather it wants to convince Christians of the correctness of converting to Islam, he said.
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So.. a pastor announces he will burn the Koran and there is worldwide outrage, condemation, and protests. The MSM gets all up in an uproar over the disrespect to a 'peaceful religion'...
Iran, a soverign government, announces it will execute a christian solely because he is a christian and its ho-hum at the various world bodies. Silence from the MSM and U.N.
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While they are likely going to kill him, I think their noses should be rubbed in it.
That is, sneer at Islam because it is such a pathetic excuse for a religion that it must force others to be in it, because all would otherwise reject it; and those of true faith would rather die than embrace it. This is not a sign of strength or righteousness, but of weakness and evil.
It could even be said that God despises Muslims because their faith is evil and corrupt, the evidence of this being how Muslims live as primitive animals, while even atheists live in happiness and luxury. Their submission is not submission to God, but submission to barbarism, violence and death.
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"It could even be said that God despises Muslims because their faith is evil and corrupt, the evidence of this being how Muslims live as primitive animals, while even atheists live in happiness and luxury. Their submission is not submission to God, but submission to barbarism, violence and death."
Their submission is to a false prophet that helps usher in the end of the earth. They worship Mohammed.
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Ah yes, the old convert or die requirement. No wonder these morons have trouble in this world. I guess they are trying hard to find a way out of this world.
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Convert? Christian sentenced to death? Baptized in the blood of the Lamb, raised to eternal life with Christ - the grass may wither and the flowers may fall and the heart may be filled with sorrow for an evil world but death? To a Christian death is no less than an honor and a gain for the Kingdom just as the death of a soldier is a willing and noble sacrifice to the country he loves.
[An Nahar] British Foreign Minister William Hague called Monday for "ever-increasing" international pressure, rather than military intervention, to end the violent repression in Syria. "I don't think the answer to (the repression) now or subsequently would be a military intervention from outside," Hague told news hounds in Strasbourg after a meeting of Council of Europe ministers. We all know that limp flaccid soft power projects best.
The situation in Syria is "dramatically more complex" than that in Libya before NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... intervened in March, he said.
"We will not be able to apply the same answer in Syria as in Libya," he said. "I do think however we should apply ever-increasing international pressure to the Assad regime."
Additional sanctions against the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... are the way forward, Hague said.
"Of course, the UK would like to be able to pass a resolution at the U.N. Security Council bringing the condemnation of the world on the use of force against civilians by the Syrian regime," he said.
Syria is currently under EU and U.S. sanctions, but Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution against Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... in October.
Hague's comments came as the opposition Syrian National Council called for "international protection for civilians" in the flashpoint central city of Homs, besieged by government forces and the scene of deadly festivities between soldiers and alleged army deserters.
Hague said he "deplored" the brutal crackdown since anti-regime protests broke out mid-March, in which around 3,000 people are thought to have died, according to U.N. estimates.
"Obviously we have to judge the Syrian regime by its actions, not by its words. Its actions remain completely unacceptable and in total violation of the most basic concept of human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... ," Hague said.
"It's particularly disappointing that it is taking place now, after the Syrian government said a few days ago that it had accepted the request of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... to withdraw its forces from towns and cities, to release political prisoners and to end the killings," Hague said.
The Arab League has accused Syria of failing to honor its commitment to an Arab-sponsored plan to end violence against protesters.
The United States said Monday it would firm up sanctions against Syria.
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[An Nahar] Iranian holy man Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami warned the chief of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday not to become "an instrument without will in the hands of the United States" against Iran.
The hardline holy man hit out at IAEA director general Yukiya Amano in an address during communal prayers in Tehran marking the Moslem Eid al-Adha feast.
"If Mr. Amano acts like an instrument without will in the hands of the United States and publishes lies by presenting them as documents, the IAEA will lose the little credibility it has left," said Khatami, an influential holy man who often leads Friday prayers in Tehran.
His comments come as the U.N. nuclear watchdog prepares to circulate an intelligence update among its members on Tuesday or Wednesday which is expected to focus on Iran's alleged efforts towards putting radioactive material in a warhead and developing missiles.
"The report is not going to include some sort of 'smoking gun'," one Western diplomat told Agence La Belle France Presse. "But it will be an extensive body of evidence that will be very hard for Iran to refute as forgery, as they have done in the past."
Iranian officials have already seen the Vienna-based IAEA's information, diplomats told AFP, and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in comments published in Iran on Sunday that it was based on "counterfeit" claims.
Amano said in a September report he was "increasingly concerned" about the "possible military dimension" of Iran's atomic activities, including those "related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile."
Western officials cited by The Washington Post said the intelligence reinforced concerns that Iran continued to conduct weapons-related research after 2003 when, according to U.S. intelligence agencies, Iranian leaders halted such experiments in response to international and domestic pressures.
The newspaper reported Sunday that the Iranian government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon after receiving assistance from foreign scientists.
Citing unnamed Western diplomats and nuclear experts, the newspaper said a former Soviet weapons scientist had allegedly tutored Iranians on building high-precision detonators of the kind used to trigger a nuclear chain reaction.
Crucial technology linked to experts in Pakistain and North Korea also helped propel Iran to the threshold of nuclear capability, the report said.
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Meanwhile ...
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > LEADERS OF IRAN COULD BE [former] AGENTS OF THE SHAH'S SAVAK [Spy Agency].
So-o-o many Spies-Informants, not enough "People Power" Revolutionaries???
* WORLD NEWS > LIST SHOWS COMMUNISTS, ISLAMISTS, + NAZIS [etal.] SUPPORT OWS.
To include but not limited to both the IRGC + KKK.
D *** NG IT, THE FASCISTS rly ely Rely RELY REALLY RRREEEEELLLYYYY .....@ WANT THEIR COMMUNISM!
Or 'twas it the other way around?
Ditto the MODERATES WANT THEIR EXTREMISM/RADICALISM?
* SAME > [IRNA]NOT TOO LATE FOR BAHRAINI, YEMENI REVOLUTIONARIES: FIROUZABADI, to achieve their aims.
[Dawn] Iran accused Israel and the United States of seeking world support for a military strike on its nuclear facilities, which Russia warned on Monday would be "a very serious mistake."
Germany said meanwhile that it would call for "greater pressure" on Iran to comply with international commitments on its nuclear programme.
The spike in tension comes ahead of the release this week of a report into Iran's nuclear drive by the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which diplomats say will focus on the Islamic republic's alleged efforts to put fissile material in a warhead and developing missiles.
Iran's President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad warned against a military attack on Iran and again insisted Tehran's atomic programme was for peaceful purposes only.
"Iran's capabilities are increasing and it is progressing, and for that reason it has been able to compete in the world. Now Israel and the West, particularly America, fear Iran's capabilities and role," Ahmadinejad said in remarks published Monday in Egypt's Al-Akhbar newspaper.
"Therefore they are trying to gather international support for a military operation to stop (Iran's) role. The arrogant should know that Iran will not allow them to take any action against it," he said.
Ahmadinejad added Washington wanted to "save the Zionist entity, but it will not be able to do so."
"This entity (Israel) can be compared to a kidney transplanted in a body that rejected it," he said. "Yes it will collapse and its end will be near."
Ahmadinejad's diatribe against Israel, Iran's arch-foe, comes after Israeli President Shimon Peres warned on television Saturday that an attack on Iran was becoming "more and more likely."
He followed this up in comments published Sunday by the Israel Hayom daily, saying: "The possibility of a military attack against Iran is now closer to being applied than the application of a diplomatic option.
"We must stay calm and resist pressure so that we can consider every alternative," Peres said. In response, Russia warned against a military strike on Iran.
"It would be a very serious mistake fraught with unpredictable consequences," said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"Military intervention only leads to a multiple rise in casualties and human suffering," said Lavrov.
"There can be no military solution to the Iranian nuclear problem, just like there can be none for any other problem in the modern world." In Berlin, a foreign ministry front man said Germany remained suspicious of Tehran's plans.
"It is clear to us that if this report should show that Iran has still taken no credible measures to fulfil its international commitments with regard to the transparency of its nuclear programme, then the German government will call for greater political and diplomatic pressure so Iran will fulfil its international commitments," said Andreas Peschke.
"That remains for us the decisive way to contend with this danger to regional and international security," added the front man.
Iran has so far refused to freeze its uranium enrichment activities, despite several UN sets of sanctions.
Diplomats in Vienna said the new report from the UN atomic watchdog, to be circulated among IAEA members Tuesday or Wednesday, will provide fresh evidence of Iran's nuclear weapons drive.
Previous IAEA assessments have centred on Iran's efforts to produce fissile material, uranium and plutonium, which can be put to peaceful uses like power generation, or be used to make a nuclear bomb.
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About damn time.
Iran's been asking for a whoppin, for some time.
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[An Nahar] Iran's diminutive PresidentMahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad accused the United States and Israel of seeking world support for a military strike on Iran, in comments published Monday in which he also warned against attacks on his country.
Ahmadinejad, in an interview with Egypt's state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper, lashed out at Israel after its president, Shimon Peres, warned at the weekend that an attack on Iran is becoming increasingly likely.
Israel, Iran's arch-enemy, was "bound to collapse," Ahmadinejad said.
"Iran's capabilities are increasing and it is progressing, and for that reason it has been able to compete in the world. Now Israel and the West, particularly America, fear Iran's capabilities and role," he said.
"Therefore they are trying to gather international support for a military operation to stop (Iran's) role. The arrogant should know that Iran will not allow them to take any action against it," he said.
Ahmadinejad, who repeated Iran's frequent denials that the Islamic state is not seeking nuclear weapons and that its atomic program is for peaceful purposes only, added that Washington wanted to "save the Zionist entity, but it will not be able to do so."
"This entity (Israel) can be compared to a liver transplanted in a body that rejected it," he said. "Yes it will collapse and its end will be near."
Peres warned in an interview aired by Israel's privately-owned Channel Two television on Saturday that an attack on Iran was becoming "more and more likely."
He followed this up in comments published on Sunday by the Israel Hayom daily, saying: "The possibility of a military attack against Iran is now closer to being applied than the application of a diplomatic option.
"We must stay calm and resist pressure so that we can consider every alternative," he added.
"I don't think that any decision has already been made, but there is an impression that Iran is getting closer to nuclear weapons," Peres added.
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Short Round- Etertnaly Wrong.
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In other words, "Don't mess with us. Oh, by the way, we're going to kill you first chance we get." I guess that makes sense, in an Arabesque sort of logic. Personally, it sounds like a good excuse for a preemptive strike.
(and yes, I know they are Persians and not Arabs. I was being mean. two fish in a pod, as far as I'm concerned.)
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