Darfur rebels yesterday threatened to attack West Darfur's state capital El Geneina and told aid workers to stay in their compounds and away from government military bases. Sudan's army was not immediately available to comment on the threat which came in the middle of the Muslim Eid Al Adha holiday.
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) claimed victory in clashes with the army in the past week, taking 29 prisoners. Khartoum confirmed the clashes but denied they lost any troops. "JEM is surrounding El-Geneina town from all sides," JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim told Reuters from Darfur. "JEM will take the city. We are saying to NGO (non-governmental organisations) not to fear but they should take care and stay in their compounds."
JEM has increased its military power in recent months becoming the biggest threat to Sudan's army in Darfur of the more than a dozen other rebels groups. JEM was among many groups to boycott peace talks, which opened in October in Libya before quickly ending without specifying a date for resumption. Ibrahim did not say when JEM was likely to attack. He added the government was relying on Chadian rebels to defend the town, which is close to the border. Chad's government has often accused Sudan of supporting an insurgency in its east as Khartoum says N'Djamena supports Darfur guerrillas. A Reuters witness has seen Chadian rebels in El-Geneina.
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(KUNA) -- Bahrain's security forces have captured some people who triggered riots in Jad Hafs area yesterday, the interior ministry said Friday. The security forces arrested people accused of stealing a weapon of a policeman and setting a police car afire during riots in Jad Hafs last night, the intelligence and criminal evidence department said in a statement. The arrestees were taken to questioning and legal action will be taken against them, it added. Jad Hafs, located in northern Bahrain, witnessed confrontations between the policemen and rioters last night causing serious injuries to a policeman.
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Venezuela's president chairing the petroleum summit in Cuba has called on regional leaders to counter US influences by offering cheap oil.
Hugo regards oil as easy money. Need becomes a weapon and an instrument of state. His problem is that most of the other oil producing nations have memories that stretch back to the oil embargo and the pressures it put on international trade overall -- in areas way out of the oil sphere. Hugo's not subtle enough to realize that the hip bone's connected to the leg bone.
Hugo Chavez requested other countries to use their vast reserves to help create a "confederation of republics" free of US interests.
This is Iran Press, so I'm assuming the Medes and the Persians were there. I'm also guessing the Soddies and the Iraqis and the other major producers weren't.
Chavez spoke as leaders studied the Petrocaribe pact under which his country provides fuel to countries around the region through long-term, low-interest financing. Chavez blasted Washington's proposals for free trade pacts. "Free trade doesn't exist," he said. "What exists ... is a dictatorship of world capitalism." He said Petrocaribe is based on fairness and promoting social equality - not profit margins.
In other words, as the steward of his country's wealth, Hugo wants to blow it on a Porsche, some bling, and some natty suits. That "dictatorship of world capitalism" has somehow provided the "long-term, low-interest financing" that's been raked off by dinky doinker tin hat dictators like Hugo would be if he wasn't sitting on top of a puddle of oil. The money flowed in, and the powers that were bought yachts. The guys living in the hovels still have hovels.
Venezuela provides about USD 5b to countries in the region, according to Chavez, who promotes Petrocaribe as part of a larger effort to create a regional confederation from Argentina to Cuba that will help counter US influence.
Certainly all of South America has the potential to form a counterweight to all of North America. The problem with that has been from the very first Bolivarian days that they've been suspicious of the "dictatorship of world capitalism," preferring instead the dictatorship of men on horseback. At the beginning of the 20th century, in fact, there was an approximate parity between the ABC countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile) and the USA. As each of them went down that long, weary road of dictatorship they were left behind.
Venezuela sends nearly 100,000 barrels of subsidized oil a day to Cuba.
So why would Cuba need subsidized oil? Couldn't have anything to do with their economy and their approaches thereto, could it?
In exchange, it gets social services, including thousands of Cuban doctors who treat poor patients in the South American nation.
Which brings up the question of why Venezuela, sitting on a large puddle of oil, can't train its own doctors.
Venezuela's president also paid tribute to his friend and ally, the ailing Fidel Castro, who before failing ill had been the central figure at such regional events.
That could also be why nothing ever came of them.
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oogo iz in our gulf
wif da chineze off Florida
drillinz our oil
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Too many people in the US don't believe free people (soon the free will be in quotation marks) should have the right to drill for oil in this country's waters without first giving the aristocrats like Yugo and Raul their 300% markup first.
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I was talking to a girlfriend the night before last, about a business trip she just took to Caracas. She said President Chavez has been spending money hand over fist on infrastructure -- a two-lane road winding through the valley to replace that highway bridge that was the single direct connection from that one prosperous suburb (I wish I knew what it was called, but I've never been there), although the bridge remains unrepaired; complete replacement of the Caracas airport structures; and, government employees everywhere, each doing a very small piece of what used to be a one-man job. She'd no idea if there was food on the grocery store shelves, although it certainly wasn't a problem in the nice restaurants she ate at.
Conservative officials who served in the Reagan administration are upset by the left-wing slant of the new movie about the covert action program that helped Afghan guerrillas defeat the Soviet army during the 1980s.
"Charlie Wilson's War," out today, is based on a book about former Rep. Charles Wilson, Texas Democrat known widely on Capitol Hill during his tenure as "Good Time Charlie" who helped fund the semi-secret war that ultimately helped fell the Soviet Union.
The Reagan-era officials said the movie promotes the left-wing myth that the CIA-led operation funded Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda and ultimately produced the attacks of September 11, 2001. Bin Laden, the officials said, never got CIA funding or weapons, and was not directly involved in Islamist extremist activities until years after the Afghan operation ended after the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989.
That anti-American aspect of the film, namely that the Afghan operation ultimately caused the September 11 attacks, reportedly was altered after protests from Mr. Wilson and his former fiancee, Joanne Herring.
Reagan-era officials are accusing screenwriter Aaron Sorkin of writing an anti-Reagan slant into his upcoming movie "Charlie Wilson's War," starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Mr. Sorkin has an anti-Reagan slant? Who knew?
The movie also erred by showing Mr. Wilson and his CIA collaborator, Gust Avrakotos, as enthusiastic backers of supplying advanced U.S. Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to the Afghan rebels.
Fred Ikle, the undersecretary of defense in the Reagan administration, said the CIA initially fought against sending Stingers, while Mr. Wilson was lukewarm on the matter. Both later supported the plan once rebels began downing Soviet gunships with them. "Senior people in the Reagan administration, the president, [CIA Director] Bill Casey, [Defense Secretary Caspar] Weinberger and their aides deserve credit for the successful Afghan covert action program, not just Charlie Wilson," Mr. Ikle said in an interview.
The officials blamed the anti-Reagan slant of the film on the movie's screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, the Hollywood liberal who regularly attacked conservatives on his television drama "The West Wing," also known as "The Left Wing" because of its liberal bias.
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Hollywood, the world's most obnoxious phoney baloney preachers. They have become like the babbling drunk on the street corner predicting doom and gloom and seeing Satan (George Bush)behind every shadow. And all while shoving their hat in your face and demanding that you pay them to do the service of annoying you.
Sorkin uses marijuana and cocaine. He has said that in freebasing cocaine gives him relief from certain nervous tensions he deals with on a regular basis.
In 1995, he checked into rehab at the Hazelden Institute in Minnesota, on the advice of his then girlfriend and soon to be wife Julia Bingham, to try and beat his addiction to cocaine and failed.
Two months later Sorkin relapsed. On April 15, 2001 Sorkin was arrested when guards at a security checkpoint at the Burbank Airport found hallucinogenic mushrooms, marijuana, and crack cocaine in his carry-on bag when a metal crack pipe set off the gates metal detector.
Sorkin recovered and continued working on The West Wing. Sorkin's wife filed for divorce soon after.
Edited for honesty. Also I had a chance to talk to a tribal leader's son in 1989. He told me about using what he called the Chinese "Blue Pipe" missile. When asked which worked better the Stinger or Blue Pipe, he thought and then said, "both work well".
It was easy to figure out where the AK-47s came from. The Russians had wood stocks and the Chinese supplied had plastic. Haven't seen the movie but I'm willing to bet it doesn't not include the Chinese involvement.
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Sorkin uses marijuana and cocaine. He has said that in freebasing cocaine gives him relief from certain nervous tensions he deals with on a regular basis.
That explains the Golden Globe nominations the commercials been bragging about. Funny how they don't mention that he's a junkie. Of course its for medicinal purposes (it always is...).
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...Rep. Charles Wilson, Texas Democrat known widely on Capitol Hill during his tenure as "Good Time Charlie"...
This rang a faint bell, so I turned to Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, specifically to the chapter entitled "Charlie's Angels", which begins:
I've been worrying about my fitness to write for Ms. magazine on account of I like Charlie Wilson.
She goes on to say, among many other things:
Since his days in the Texas Legislature, Charlie has been known for the beauties that grace his office. His standing order on secretaries is, "You can teach 'em to type, but you can't teach 'em to grow tits."
This line nestled itself in my memory. I didn't realize that fellow was the one they made the movie about.
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Hollweird's Leftest Progressive
full-of-themselves addicted Movie Making a$$holes are automatically offending 1/4 or so of the movie purchasing public.
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Hollywood makes the most money when they reflect American culture and society. They tend to do much worse as a business when they attempt to lead it.
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our anonymous friend is either being sarcastic (I approve) or mendacious (boot the asshole). This flick will be presented as Fact, not Fiction, like an Oliver Stone or Al Gore pic.
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Why doesn't the right make any movies about the flaws of the left? Is the right not artistic enough? They have no leverage anywhere? I doubt that.
I would make a shameful history of the left.
Kids hear the "left" and they think hippies having fun and everyone is free to rock. When they hear the right, they think of cops, rednecks, and government snobs. We need to change this perception.
The propoganda war has been lost because there is no attempt to counter it. We feel so morally right, when confront by lies, we say dumb things like "that doesn't deserve a reply", but it really does.
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left the door open to visits to countries like North Korea and Iran if they meet certain conditions, saying the United States doesnt have permanent enemies.
Okay, good cop, now send Mr. Bolton over to be the bad cop.
Asked if she were prepared to visit North Korea, Iran and Syria, Rice replied: Look, we dont have permanent enemies -- the United States doesnt.What we have is a policy that is open to ending conflict and confrontation with any country that is willing to meet us on those terms.
Weve given a very clear path and very clear pathways for improving relations with all of those countries, she continued.
Speaking in a year-end press conference, Rice allowed that if Pyongyang adheres to its commitment to disable its nuclear program by yearend under a six-party agreement made on February 13 2007, it is on a pathway toward better political relations between the United States and North Korea. And there can be many different opportunities within that context of improved relations, she said.
"There's the carrot, Kim, don't make me reach for the stick ..."
On Iran, she reiterated that Tehran must accept a UN Security Council resolution to suspend its enrichment and reprocessing activities. If Iran does so, she said, then Im prepared to meet my counterpart any place and anytime and anywhere and we can talk about anything.
With Syria and Iran we remain open to better relations, but they must choose cooperation not confrontation with the international community.We will continue, in the meantime, to step up the pressure behind our diplomacy.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan authorities rearrested on Friday a lawyer who had spearheaded opposition to President Pervez Musharraf, less than 18 hours after he had been released from detention for a Muslim holiday, his family said. Aitzaz Ahsan, a former member of the National Assembly for Benazir Bhuttos Pakistan Peoples Party, was picked up by police at a motorway restaurant on his way to Islamabad from the eastern city of Lahore before dawn, his son said.
On Thursday Ahsan had been granted a three-day temporary release for the Eid Muslim festival. Six armed men, including four uniformed police, appeared and dragged him to a waiting police van, Ali Ahsan said.
Aitzaz Ahsan was returned to house arrest in Lahore. He had been detained under emergency powers that Musharraf invoked on Nov. 3 when he imposed emergency rule in Pakistan. The emergency was lifted on Dec. 15.
With Pakistan counting down to Jan. 8 elections, Musharraf is under international pressure to ensure they are free and fair. Diplomats say the continued detention of Ahsan and other judges and lawyers have harmed the governments image. There was tremendous pressure to release him, nationally and externally, said Ali Ahsan. But the government got scared after his release when he met with members of the opposition and talked to all the media.
Ahsan rose to prominence this year when he acted as chief counsel for Iftikhar Chaudhry, the Supreme Court chief justice whom Musharraf tried to sack in March. Chaudhrys suspension whipped up a campaign against Musharraf by lawyers and opposition activists. That culminated in Musharrafs declaration of an emergency, when Chaudhry and dozens of other judges seen as hostile to the then army chiefs October re-election by legislators were purged. Chaudhry and several other judges remain under house arrest.
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BANGALORE, India - The family of an Indian doctor arrested in Australia on terrorism charges and later freed expects the government there to compensate for turning his life upside down, a relative said Friday. We want to see what they come up with, said Imran Siddiqui, a close relative of Mohammed Haneefs wife and the family spokesman who brought the doctor back home from Australia when he was freed in July.When the judiciary says that whatever action you took against this man was wrong, it becomes the duty of the government to correct itself, Siddiqui told AFP by telephone from the southern Indian city of Mysore.
They did. They'll let you back into the country. More than I would have done. Shaddup.
A court Friday cleared the way for Haneef -- currently performing the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, with his wife and mother -- to return to Australia when it upheld a previous ruling that the government erred in cancelling his visa. The courts have restored his honour, it is up to the government to restore whatever he lost -- his career, his establishment in Australia -- and make reparations for the damage done to this man, said Siddiqui. The previous government did all the damage, they turned this mans life upside down, Siddiqui added. But he said the family had no immediate intention to take legal action for compensation: We are waiting to see first how the present government acts.
The Australian government ordered an inquiry into the bungled case against Haneef after Fridays court ruling. Immigration Minister Chris Evans said the doctor was free to return to work in Australia, marking a shift in official stance following the election of the centre-left Labor Party last month.
Haneef was arrested at Brisbane airport on July 2, just days after failed car bombings in London and Glasgow, as he waited to board a flight to India. Australian authorities detained him for 12 days before charging him with providing support to a terrorist organisation after he gave a mobile phone SIM card to a cousin accused of being involved in the attacks. When the charge was dropped two weeks later due to a lack of evidence, then immigration minister Kevin Andrews cancelled Haneefs working visa on character grounds, forcing the doctor to return to India.
After his release, Haneef said he wanted his old job back at a Gold Coast hospital, but also said Australian authorities should apologise to India over the affair. The question of Haneef returning to Australia is open, said Siddiqui. Its very much open, I wont be surprised if he decides to go back, he said. Haneefs wife, however, is not in favour of him going back, he said and added that the doctor will decide after he returns to India in about a week.
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I didn´t think you could collect on actions done in good conscience.
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Seldom, but not often. People have been released from death row in America without so much as a "sorry." Though one would think there'd be an inbuilt sense of relief...
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Murcek, just imagine losing 10 or more years of your life to jail, with no hope for a career afterwards and no hope for a family. And, American prisons being what they are, imagine coming out of them with AIDS, because some cop or prosecutor lied or covered up exculpatory evidence. Look at that case this week where FBI agents and MA shielded an informant and let 4 innocent men rot in jail for decades. Wouldn't you be angry?
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very true, Eric, and what if, after all that bad treatment, you were released to have yourself, your wife, and your children killed because a bomber facilitated by Hannef's promiscuous phone dipersals was angry? Would you be angry? Blow ME
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(KUNA) -- EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, said Friday that he is "appalled at the suicide bombing in a mosque in Sherpao, Pakistan".
"I condemn in the strongest possible terms this attack that killed dozens of civilians and left dozens injured during a religious service," said Solana in a statement. "Pakistan is currently going through a delicate period in its history. The lifting of the emergency rule, the restoration of the Constitution and the holding of general elections on 8 January are welcome steps in the country's return to the path of democracy. Nothing should undermine this trend," added the statement.
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Who's Solana? One of these "Look at me!" dudes?
BAGHDAD - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on a surprise visit to Baghdad on Friday, assured Iraq of a long-term partnership but stressed his combat troops deployed here would head home by June next year.
Earlier today I visited Australian battle group in Talil (southern Iraq) and spoke directly to what is a fine body of men and women, the recently elected Rudd told a Baghdad news conference with his counterpart, Nuri al-Maliki. That battle group will come to a conclusion as of June next year. And that will be the last battle group we deploy.
Hard to argue; if we're going to draw down forces we can't be upset if the Aussies and Poles do the same.
Rudd, on his second visit to Baghdad, was elected on a promise that he would pull out the 550 troops deployed in Iraq along with the British forces in the south of the country.
On Friday, Rudd spoke of long-term bilateral relations with Iraq. Australia will continue to support our friends in Iraq through navy deployment in the Gulf to assist in long-term security of Iraqi exports, he said. Australia would also continue training Iraqi soldiers and police in Australia or in neighbourhing Jordan, he said.
We look forward to strengthen bilateral relations between Australia and Iraq in the years ahead ... to build a new Iraqi democracy and look foward to be this countrys long-term partner in the future, Rudd added.
Maliki expressed appreciation for the role played by Canberra in helping the war-torn country develop its security forces. We are happy to receive him in Iraq, especially when he has not been in his position for more than two and half weeks, Maliki said. It is a sign of attention and concern towards our country. We had positve talks with him that opened doors for future cooperation between Australia and Iraq.
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As long as the MSM understands it's because we won the war, not because they succeeded in getting everyone to run away.
Someday, even Harry and Nancy will grasp that fact.
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We didt win this war. this war was illegal, and is a quagmire. we have lost it. i know, because it is seared... seared i tell you into my memory.
BAGHDAD - Talks are underway to reopen the key bridge linking Shia and Sunni districts of the Iraqi capital closed almost three years ago due to bloody sectarian violence, a top official said on Friday. We have exchanged messages with Sunni officials from the Adhamiyah district over the reopening of the bridge, said Hazem al-Araji from Moqtada al-Sadrs group in the Kadhimiyah area.
Almost 1,000 people were killed in 2005 in a stampede on Al-Aima bridge triggered by a mortar attack and rumours that a suicide bomber was among several thousand Shiite pilgrims marking a religious holiday. The bridge which spans the Tigris River was closed in February 2005, even before the stampede disaster, after tensions between Iraqs two main Muslim and became a symbol of the divisions within the country.
Araji said his office had contacted influential Sunni religious leader Sheikh Abdul Ghafur al-Samarai during the current Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, adding the reopening of the bridge would be highly symbolic. Kadhimiyah represents the Shias of Baghdad and Adhimiyah represents the Sunnis. We must reopen the bridge. It is the people who want it. There is a will from both sides to reopen the bridge, said Araji. The government must take measures to make the reopening of the bridge possible, he said, suggesting the introduction of checkpoints.
The reopening must be carefully prepared and security must be put in place to avoid incitements, he said.
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WASHINGTON - The situation in Iraq is improving and should allow the first five units of US troops to leave by July with some going as early as this month, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. He said he hoped the improving security in Iraq would allow drawdowns at roughly the same pace as the first half of the year but that it would depend on the situation on the ground.
The situation on the ground, I think, makes it likely that General (David) Petraeus will be able to decide to bring out the first five teams by July, Gates told an end of year press conference. The first of those is coming out this month. My hope has been that the circumstances on the ground will continue to improve, he added.
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Our sources report the revolt is led by ousted Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan, jailed terrorist Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Qureia, chief Palestinian negotiator with Israel. If Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stands in their way, the Fatah leaders propose cutting Fayyad off from exercising his authority on the West Bank. The revolt was sparked, DEBKAfiles Palestinian sources reveal, by the international donors allocation of $7.4 bn for state-building at their Paris conference five days ago. Dahlan and Co. are determined not to let this bonanza fall into the hands of a Fatah outsider, whose appointment was forced on them by Washington. Why it's always $$$, and never cherche la fam with these people? Oh, never mind.
As Palestinian missiles and mortar bombs continued to fly against Israeli border communities, DEBKAfile reports that on Wednesday, Dec. 19, under cover of the annual Muslim pilgrimage, Hamas leaders got together in Mecca with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the al Qods Brigades officers in his retinue to discuss the next escalation of warfare against Israel. HudnaTM
Ma'an The Popular Front on Friday called for an urgent meeting of the Arab League to halt Israeli attacks on th Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Popular Front condemned "the Arab silence towards these continuous and systematic Israeli attacks." They called for the convening of an emergency meeting of the Arab League in order to put pressure on Israel to stop the attacks.
The Popular Front also called on the international community to intervene to stop the attacks, to lift the seige on the impoverished coastal region and to stop the Israeli plan to to build more than ten thousand housing units on Palestinian lands in Jerusalem. The statement also said that news reports on the difficulty of stopping Palestinian rockets targeting Israeli cities were a victory for the resistance. They also described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' negotiations with the Israeli government as "futile."
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How about the Israelis, supported by US air and French naval forces, totally wiping "paleostain" off the map and taking over, permanently? While they're at it, why not put a load of hurt on EVERY ARAB NATION by bombing the he$$ out of their capitals and largest cities with 20MT nukes? I'm sure that will settle the entire matter... permanently.
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OP - I think that's called the END GAME
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Ma'an The military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades rejected the idea of deploying international forces in the Palestinian territories on Tuesday. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he agreed with the idea of an international force, which was proposed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Paris donors' conference on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades, Abu Abeer said, "We will not receive any international forces with flowers; instead we will be ready to blow our bodies in these forces as we will consider them a new occupation which we must get rid of by any means."
Consequently, the An-Nasser Brigades also called on President Abbas to resume dialogue with the rival Hamas movement, "before it is too late."
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Hey, I would make you a deal! No international force, if you do blow up your bodies. What's not to like?
Israel is examining a Hamas truce proposal delivered by Egypt, defense officials said, but violence persisted yesterday as a Hamas fighter was killed in what the group said was a clash with Israeli troops near the border with Gaza.
Two senior Cabinet ministers yesterday urged Israel to examine any serious cease-fire proposal from Hamas, the group that does not recognize the Jewish state but which rules the Gaza Strip. If a serious offer for a truce from Hamas reached us, I think we should examine it seriously, Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told reporters.
One of Israels deputy prime ministers and a member of the main coalition party Kadima, Mofaz ruled out direct political negotiations with the movement which seized control of Gaza in mid-June unless it recognizes Israel. If Hamas comes to us with a serious proposal for a long-term truce, in my opinion Israel should not reject it. For that, it would not be vital for Hamas to recognize Israel first, said Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer. What is essential is that it stop rocket fire and all other attacks against Israel from Gaza, and that it agrees to stop arms smuggling on the Egypt border, Ben Eliezer told public radio. Making recognition of Israel a precursor to negotiations would be the best way of torpedoing it from the beginning.
Ben Eliezer linked dialogue with Hamas to the release of an Israeli soldier captured in June 2006 by Palestinian fighters on the Gaza border. In his opinion, Hamas was showing signs of weariness because of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip and economic sanctions.
But the office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied that Israel was considering a cease-fire proposal from Hamas, blacklisted as a terrorist group. Israel talks to the Palestinian Authority (headed by president Mahmoud Abbas) and not with extremists, a government official said. We will not let terrorist organizations continue to strike or regroup. We will continue to employ all necessary means to stop them from attacking our towns, the official added.
A Hamas political official denied the movement was even offering a new truce proposal. We cant talk about a truce at a time when Israel is stepping up its attacks, especially during the holiday, Ismail Radwan told AFP, referring to the Eid Al-Adha that began on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, thousands of mourners marched in funeral processions for seven fighters killed in clashes Thursday, with gunfire cracking in the air. Our rifles will speak for us, a song blasted from a loudspeaker.
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The election of Lebanon's president must go ahead on Saturday as scheduled, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in a phone call, Sarkozy's spokesman said on Friday.
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Sarky, the moment you turned around, Assad was flippin' you a birdie. Just sayin'.
A delegation of Hezbollah left for Syria today to meet with the Syrian officials regarding the presidential election in Lebanon, a source told al Markaziya News Agency. The source also told al Markaziya that the current escalation in the dispute between the majority and the minority will not result in the blocking of the presidential elections, but will eventually lead to the election of Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman as a compromise president who will signal a new beginning for the country and lead it to prosperity and stability.
The sources also said that even though Hezbollah has authorized General Michel Aoun to negotiate on behalf of the opposition , their trip to Syria is to discuss the action plan with the Syrian officials on how to proceed from here with regards to the presidential elections.
The source also said that it has become apparent that Hezbollah calls all the shots on behalf of the opposition and that General Aoun is strictly a facade considering the fact that the president should be a Christian.
Yesterday Lebanese majority leader MP Saad Hariri blasted the Syrian regime for its continued interference in Lebanons internal affairs "The Syrian regime has gone too far in its efforts to destabilize Lebanon and to divide it using what it calls allies and friends . I find this shameful that some Lebanese allow themselves to be manipulated by such a regime which is known for terrorism, crime and corruption. "
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Hezbollah said on Friday a proposal by President George W. Bush for Lebanon's Western-backed governing coalition to elect a new president unilaterally was a threat to the country's stability. Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah told Reuters that Bush's comments on Thursday had further complicated efforts to forge a deal between the governing coalition and the Syria-backed opposition, which have been locked in a power struggle for more than a year.
Parliament is due to convene on Saturday in the 10th attempt at electing a successor to pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud, whose term expired on November 23.
The nine previous sessions have failed because a two-thirds quorum in parliament can only be secured by an agreement between the governing coalition and the opposition, led by Hezbollah. The rivals have agreed on army chief General Michel Suleiman as the next head of state but have not been able to conclude a broader deal on how to share power in a new cabinet.
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(AKI) - Europe will eventually become a Muslim continent, according to a representative of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. "In a dozen years, Europe will be an Islamic continent," said Rasul Jalilzadeh on Friday as he was speaking to the basiji, a voluntary organisation in the capital Tehran. "The Islamisation of the European continent is imminent and this step favours the arrival of the Mahdi," he said, referring to the 12th imam of Shiite Islam.
Shiites believe that the Imam Mahdi, who disppeared as an adolescent, will return to bring an end to chaos and bring universal justice. Rasul Jalilzadeh believes that "the Islamisation of Europe is one of the consequences of the Islamic revolution in Iran" in that "the messages and values that this revolution has transmitted to the Europeans, to convince them "to abandon their current faiths and convert to Shiite Islam."
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The Islamisation of the European continent is imminent
Maybe, maybe not. But almost sure there will be wholesale deislamization in Iran, the way things are going.
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Justice, I'm in Phoenix. Come get me, if you can.
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At first, I thought JUSTICE was another angry Muslim twit with a limited capacity for rational thought. Then at second glance, the rambling dissertations appeared to be the work of an attention starved juvenile troll looking for a dust-up. However, after reading this latest screed, Ive noticed a real feminine quality in the verse. So Ive changed my opinion once again and believe she is simply attempting to be a junior agent-provocateur. (albeit a clumsy attempt at that.) So JUSTICE, I admit I was wrong with my fist impressions about you. I thought you were a cold, calculating Jihadi type but your really quite emotional arent you?
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DG, aren't MOST muslims we seem to hear the most about? Screeching, seething, hypersensitive, dishonorable/whilst killing their own in the name of an imagined family honor. Beating their wymyns for speaking up or showing ankles. Unable to accomplish scientific discoveries in centuries, basically an illiterate backwater stagnated by stupid lemmings marching to a diseased book. JUSTICE? meh....
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DepotGuy, here in Aussieland we would say that JUSTICE was s*it stirring, or has his/her tongue firmly planted in his/her cheek. I use the same tactic my self when I encounter some Pollyanna moonbat who believes that if we only reached out and embraced the "other" peace and harmony would descent on the Earth.
I say "of course it will" except for... and carry on JUSTICE'S rant.
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Affirmation and a stiff drink, just what I needed to end this writer's block - nothing near the writer's block just'ice seems to have concerning questions asked on Thursday's post. Before I begin, I do recognize what tipper is saying is that in a nutshell what lustlice posted sums nicely precisely what has hardened my opinion over the last few years. I would like to add - you know besides what sunnis might think about such a bald statement:
"Ofcourse, Muslims are never allowed to kill women, children and the elderly as this is terrorism, as what is being practiced today by certain misguided Muslims."
Would they, when they decide to kill the innocents, cease to become mouselimbs thus must be killed by the true followers of the korazy?
"...the Jews and Christians will produce all the goods, we will take them all as legitimate war spoils."
Great stuff. As addressed on Thursday it would be like handing a caveman a calculator. I see in another post they have discovered wifi, now they can get a wii wii and play with themselves all around the world - hey, do you have to place you tv facing mecca? Without knowing how to make or why it works you become a bigger slave to materialism than mustbends claim others to be. For those of you who say 'why are there no mossimps in Star Trek' consider this episode Samaritan Snare. Hey, any India, Chinese, or Japanese etc. people reading this post, what say you.
"Profit Mo'hammed (hallah's piece be within him) told us that if a Muslim comes across a Jew or a Christian on the street, the Muslim must force this pagan to the narrowest part of the street."
Again stating that God and ahwell are differnt in their world mirage.
"and the elderly"
Question: if the average age in gazaa is 16, what is considered elderly? Does is bother you that my daughters will not only be educated better and shoot straighter at age 8, nevermind that she will live 4 times longer than you mihadis and begin the liberation of your women? Yes, a reckoning is coming for islame, but it is not what you think it is.
By the way, a B-52 is a bit bigger than your dirk.
They keep delaying and they'll run into the next election.
(KUNA) -- Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri Friday postponed anew a special session that was supposed to elect a new president tomorrow until December 29. "Speaker Berri has decided to postpone the session that was scheduled for tomorrow until Saturday December 29," the parliament's secretariat said in a statement. This is the 10th delay made by Berri for a special session that is designed to gather all MPs to elect the new president, but the majority and opposition are still at odds over the presidential issue. Lebanon has been witnessing a presidential vacuum since former President Emile Lahoud's tenure expired on November 24.
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A top Lebanese cleric says the US has never helped Mideast nations and has only sought to warmonger and conspire in the region. On Friday in Beirut Sheikh Mohammad Hossein Fadlallah said, "The US is pursuing its political games in the Middle East in order to continue its sway over the region. America has never worked toward the welfare or calm of Mideast nations; on the contrary it has just sought war and to conspire."
Commenting on the Palestine issue, Fazlallah stated, "At the end of the Paris Donors' Conference, the Palestinian Authority was granted billions of dollars. Yet, no part of it was allotted to the Gaza Strip. International as well as US policies seek to pressurize the Palestinian Authority in a bid to grant the Zionist regime the chance to assassinate Palestinians and destroy their infrastructure."
The senior cleric commented that whether financial aid would resolve the Palestine issue or stop the Zionist massacre of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is subject to question. "The problem with Lebanon lies in the fact that the political decisions are not made here in Beirut. The claims that foreign powers do not meddle in Lebanon's affairs and Lebanese people themselves seal their fate have no concrete basis. The resolution of Lebanon's crisis relies upon political sensitivities both within and outside the country," Fadlallah concluded.
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Venezuela's president chairing the petroleum summit in Cuba has called on regional leaders to counter US influences by offering cheap oil. 
Conservative officials who served in the Reagan administration are upset by the left-wing slant of the new movie about the covert action program that helped Afghan guerrillas defeat the Soviet army during the 1980s.
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left the door open to visits to countries like North Korea and Iran if they meet certain conditions, saying the United States doesnt have permanent enemies.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan authorities rearrested on Friday a lawyer who had spearheaded opposition to President Pervez Musharraf, less than 18 hours after he had been released from detention for a Muslim holiday, his family said. 
BANGALORE, India - The family of an Indian doctor arrested in Australia on terrorism charges and later freed expects the government there to compensate for turning his life upside down, a relative said Friday. We want to see what they come up with, said 
(KUNA) -- EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, 
Israel is examining a Hamas truce proposal delivered by Egypt, defense officials said, but violence persisted yesterday as a Hamas fighter was killed in what the group said was a clash with Israeli troops near the border with Gaza..JPG)
Hezbollah said on Friday a proposal by President George W. Bush for Lebanon's Western-backed governing coalition to elect a new president unilaterally was a threat to the country's stability. Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah told Reuters that Bush's comments on Thursday had further complicated efforts to forge a deal between the governing coalition and the Syria-backed opposition, which have been locked in a power struggle for more than a year.
A top Lebanese cleric says the US has never helped Mideast nations and has only sought to warmonger and conspire in the region. On Friday in Beirut Sheikh Mohammad Hossein Fadlallah said, "The US is pursuing its political games in the Middle East in order to continue its sway over the region. America has never worked toward the welfare or calm of Mideast nations; on the contrary it has just sought war and to conspire." 
