(Xinhua) -- The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Thursday which approved the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping forces to the Darfur region in Sudan, despite the Khartoum government's strong opposition. The 17,000 U.N. peacekeepers will take over the mission from an African Union force. The AU force, strapped by lack of funds, has experienced difficulties in coping with the humanitarian disaster in Darfur. But the UN force will not be deployed without approval from the Sudanese government. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and 2.5 million forced to flee their homes in three years of conflict between the government and several rebel groups in Darfur.
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Rules of Engagement? No, not that kinda engagement.
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Well there Koffee, where ya goin' to dredge up these volunteers ? You've done one hella bang up job in Leb. Continue to show us how it's done Big Boy. You f**kin' sleazy slimeball.
Sudan's president accused the United States and Britain Tuesday of conspiring against his country as diplomats at the United Nations said Washington and ally London want the Security Council to adopt a resolution in two days giving the U.N. authority over peacekeepers in Darfur. President Omar al-Bashir staunchly opposes the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping troops in the remote, western region to replace an African Union-led force there now.
"Everybody knows the Americans and British are scheming against the Sudan," al-Bashir said at a rally to muster support for his opposition to the proposed deployment. "We shall not be the first country to be recolonized in Africa. ... We are free and shall not be enslaved," al-Bashir told about 2,000 workers belonging to a federation of unions.
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Once again, wasn't it Arab and Black Muslims raiding the sub-Sahara for slaves before whitey even knew about the New World?
Wasn't it those same people who brought the 'property' they had looted to the harbor enclaves, which the Euros set up in Africa, to sell in the 17th and 18th centuries?
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"Sudan's president accused the United States and Britain Tuesday of conspiring against his country"
Well, yeah. And....?
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Conspiring cannot be a one-way street monopoly of mooselimbs, must it? Who sez others can't do the same? And they should do that mostly for a better world than definite enslavement under i-slam.
The Royal Navy has become the first of the three Armed Services to appoint a Muslim to one of its top ranks: Commodore Amjad Hussain became a rear-admiral yesterday. Born in Pakistan, Rear-Admiral Hussain, 48, emigrated with his family to Britain when he was 5. He said that friends had expressed astonishment that the Royal Navy had promoted a Muslim to such a senior position. He will run the tri-service Defence Logistics Organisation in Bath.
Some of my friends in other European countries have said it wouldnt happen here. So I think thats a mark of how far Britain has progressed, he said. The equivalent rank to rear-admiral in the Army is major-general and, in the RAF, air vice-marshal, but no Muslims have been promoted to those ranks. However, officers from ethnic minorities are gradually climbing the promotion ladder.
Admiral Hussain, who has been in the Royal Navy for 30 years, was previously the commander of the naval base at Portsmouth. I have been really astonished at the number of people who are not acquainted with the military, who have expressed shock that we have a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy from a background like mine, he said. He has served in the fishery protection squadron and was a weapons engineer on the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, which was deployed in the Gulf. He also worked on defence equipment planning at the MoD in Whitehall.
Admiral Hussain, who read engineering, science and business administration at Durham University, urged young people not to limit their ambitions. People from any background could succeed in the Armed Forces, he said. For those kids out there, I want to make the point that they shouldnt let their futures be imprisoned by their own prejudices, and its too easy to do that today, he said.
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funerals can be the best piss-ups of them all - post ceremony, that is!
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People from any background could succeed in the Armed Forces, he said. For those kids out there, I want to make the point that they shouldnt let their futures be imprisoned by their own prejudices, and its too easy to do that today, he said.
That's a positive: he talks about the prejudices of the kids (ie, Muslim kids) rather than of society.
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How does anyone with enough persolal drive stay a muzzie ? Does he beat his wife only on Sunday ?
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The Commodore could be an ethnic Muslim rather than a religious one. Rantburg's own Apostate is proof that being born Muslim does not guarantee adhering to the Conquering Islam worldview.
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Good-looking? Yes.
Smart? Hmm . . . let's see . . . a Muslim girl entering a beauty contest. A religion which celebrates the killing of girls who dare to think and do what they wish instead of what others wish, because a "disobedient" female means that the family has "lost face." A female member of said religion entering a contest that doesn't place a great deal of emphasis on how one looks with one's hair covered, or with one's face veiled, or with one's body covered in a black sack bearing a chilling resemblance to a body bag.
No. She ain't smart. I fear that, regardless of what she's said, a tragedy is going to take place sooner or later.
And on a lighter note: I suggest the Muslim Beauty Contest(TM): Which of these vaguely humanoid shapes looks best with the sack and veil? Winner gets to show us her eyes.
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Oh, well. At least she's easy on the eyes...
Beats having to look st Cindy Sheehan's mug and reading the same thing.
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Just more bitch and moan if you ask me. And she's not that great looking, if you consider what's between her ears. Anyway, women said the same thing about how "handsome" Osama Bin Laden was. Whatever. She's using her "bully pulpit" to do what Islamics always do: blame, incite Moslem rage, rally the jihad, sanctify violence, and maintain the "victimization" staus quo. Hey, it sells. And don't worry about her. Since she's Moslem and in a position to do these things publically, without repurcussion, no one will hurt her. Moslem "mullahs" aren't holy men, and aren't interested in that anyway. They are all about control, and since she's fitting into the plan, they'll let her go. And as a perk, they can privately fantacize about her, when they're not busy looking at porn or chasing little boys.
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Distribute pictures of her from the swimsuit competition to Finsbury Park and the other radical mosques in London. Then see how long it takes her to beg for police protection from the establishment she is currently slamming.
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And on a lighter note: I suggest the Muslim Beauty Contest(TM): Which of these vaguely humanoid shapes looks best with the sack and veil? Winner gets to show us her eyes
The winner will probably be Nasrallah hiding under that shapely burqa. :-)
(KCNA) -- The United States sustained shameful defeat in the Lebanon war. What the U.S. pursued in the war was to wipe out the Hezbollah force at a blow according to its strategy of "anti-terrorism" and to expand the American-style "democratization" in the Middle East region. However, any positive situation for the American-style "democratization" has not been created in the region but its prospect become gloomy.
The Middle East countries came to realize clearly the aggressive nature of the "anti-terrorist war" of the United States and the bellicosity and brutality of the Bush administration through the war and held higher the anti-U.S. banner. It eloquently proves the political fiasco of the United States in the war.
The Syrian President stated that the "conception for new Middle East" conceived by the United States and Israel is a delusion and on the verge of bankruptcy owing to their defeat in the war.
The Syrian President stated that the "conception for new Middle East" conceived by the United States and Israel is a delusion and on the verge of bankruptcy owing to their defeat in the war.
The United States and Israel also suffered ignominious military defeat. In accordance with the scenario worked out by the U.S., Israel mobilized tens of thousands of armed forces and latest war equipment for 30-odd days to launch vigorous attacks on Hezbollah in the air and on the ground and sea. The Hezbollah guerrillas, which had neither tanks nor aircraft, were very poor but gained the supremacy over the Israeli army with their stubborn resistance and tactical advantage. The war showed Israel could not subdue the Hezbollah force and the escalation of the "anti-terrorist war" through the Lebanon war resulted in further tightening the windpipe of the U.S.
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But, comrade, we still miss the good old days of Clinton.
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The Syrians and stick figure man didn't learn anything.
The thing I learned from this "war" was we need to make all reporters on the side of the Islamo-fascists dead as quickly as possible. Cut off their air and let them suffocate. This includes going after those that employ them wherever they me be as well.
AUSTRALIA has been greatly enriched by immigration and most people who have come to this nation have happily integrated with the community.
They have willingly embraced the Australian way of life. They have become part of the fabric of the nation and have helped make Australia the great country it is today.
I have said many times that people who come to this country - no matter where they are from - should become part of the Australian community.
For new migrants, that means embracing Australian values, accepting our culture, being able to speak English if it's not their first language and understanding that men and women have equality.
But it is an undeniable fact that some who have come here are resisting integration. There are pockets of this resistance in different migrant groups but it is perhaps most visible at this time in a small section of the Islamic community.
A small minority of this community, and other groups that reject integration, regard appeals for them to fully integrate into the Australian way of life as some kind of discrimination.
It is not. It is commonsense and, importantly, it is also a powerful symbol of a new migrant's willingness and enthusiasm about becoming an Australian.
It is difficult to get anywhere in this country without learning English. It's the common language of Australia and is, quite simply, a passport to the future.
Simple tasks like securing a job and making new friends would be so much harder in Australia without a working knowledge of English.
Treating women as equals is an Australian value that should be embraced. Australians generally do not tolerate women being treated in an inferior fashion to men.
There are some societies that do not treat women equally. Migrants from those societies must be fully prepared to embrace Australian attitudes towards women.
We are an egalitarian nation that prides itself on the concept of a fair go, our equal treatment of men and women, our parliamentary democracy and free speech.
Embracing these values and other Australian ideals is vital for new arrivals. All new arrivals.
But it is self-evident that some people are resistant to Australian values.
There are small sections of some communities, including the Islamic community, that are resistant to integration.
As I have said on many occasions, 99 per cent of the Islamic community of Australia has integrated into, and is part of, the Australian community. They have added great value to our society and are making a valuable contribution to the nation.
Australia's Islamic community is also worried about the attitude of this tiny minority. Most of the Islamic people I know are as appalled as me by the failure of some within the community to integrate.
It is up to all of us to try to overcome the resistance.
Perhaps we can take a lead from the pupils of Eastwood Heights Public School, a school in Sydney's northwest that I visited yesterday.
The students share family backgrounds from all corners of the world. But it was immediately obvious they have quickly learned the values of tolerance, respect, fairness and equality. A vibrant example for all Australians.
ISLAMIC leaders are trying to gag Prime Minister John Howard from speaking out against Muslims who refuse to integrate, threatening that any criticism of their culture could lead to another race riot.
But Mr Howard refused to back down - writing exclusively in today's Saturday Daily Telegraph that he believes a minority of Muslims must do more to fit in here.
The head of Mr Howard's own Muslim advisory council, Dr Ameer Ali, yesterday tried to shut down debate on whether Muslims should learn English and treat women as equals by raising the spectre of the shameful Cronulla riots.
Dr Ali warned: "We have already witnessed one incident in Sydney, in Cronulla. I don't want these scenes to be repeated because when you antagonise the younger generation they are bound to react."
Mr Howard also angered young female Muslim leader Iktimal Hage-Ali, who claimed he was targeting "a minority within a minority". Their criticisms came after Mr Howard said on Thursday that some Muslims refused to learn English and did not want to integrate.
A defiant Mr Howard writes today that some Muslims are not doing enough to adhere to Australian customs of equality for women and a "fair go" for all.
"Ninety-nine per centy of the Islamic community of Australia has integrated and is part of the Australian community," he said.
"But I've said before there is a small section, and that is self-evident, that is unwilling to integrate and it's up to all of us to try and overcome that resistance."
Standing by his remarks yesterday, Mr Howard refused to apologise and warned those who are unwilling to fit in would be further marginalised.
"You can't get anywhere unless you learn English. It's the language of the nation. It's the passport to your future," he said.
"You can't get a job, you can't progress, you can't do anything without English and there can't be any compromising on that."
But Ms Hage-Ali, also a member of the Prime Minister's advisory group, said many non-Muslim immigrants also failed to learn to speak English.
"It is a religious group that he has identified. Muslims are already a minority, so effectively he is talking a about a minority within a minority," she said.
She said there were not enough free classes teaching new migrants English.
"There are resources but they cost money. How can they afford the fees?" she said. "I can't imagine an 80-year-old grandmother running out to learn English."
Speaking at the opening of a school hall at Eastwood Heights, Mr Howard said it was imperative that all migrants embraced "Australian values".
He denied targeting only Muslims, saying: "I haven't singled out anybody in particular."
Of the Muslim leaders offended by his comments, Mr Howard said: "They are missing the point and the point is that I don't care, and the Australian people don't care, where people come from."
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Too bad Australia's disarmed its non-Muslim population. Cronulla-style riots in, say, Alexandria, Louisiana, or Waco, Texas would be kind of entertaining.
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Yaaassss, the Moderate Muslims (carrot) and the Spontaneous Mob Violence Born From Humiliation And Discrimination (stick)... If this is not an at least implied threat ("theses deprived Youths, they're out of control"), then I don't know what is. don't you like it when it's the majority which has to accomodate the demandful and resentful minority, without any reciprocity? Mulsims and tranzis, a marriage made in Heaven.
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ISLAMIC leaders are trying to gag Prime Minister John Howard from speaking out against Muslims who refuse to integrate, threatening that any criticism of their culture could lead to another race riot.
Were I Howard, I'd take that as a threat and instantly deport Dr. Ali and anyone else who suggests that riots are an appropriate Islamic response to anything.
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threatening that any criticism of their culture could lead to another race riot
Do what we want or we'll throw a tantrum.
Dr Ali warned: "We have already witnessed one incident in Sydney, in Cronulla. I don't want these scenes to be repeated because when you antagonise the younger generation they are bound to react."
It won't be the adults throwing the tantrum, of course, who do the reacting, we'll be idly standing by. It will be their Innocent Children(TM) because we goaded them into it!. Hey, it's stupid but it works four us!
"a minority within a minority"
Keep that in mind. It means the majority should be able to reign in the minority, right? In more ways than one . . . .
"There are resources but they cost money. How can they afford the fees?" she said. "I can't imagine an 80-year-old grandmother running out to learn English."
If it's so good in your wonderful home country, then why are you here? If it's so hard in this terrible country, why are you still here?
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I was watching this program last night called Today/Tonight and they had a story on about this woman who has her own business and how she has been forced to close shop after recieving death threats from Men Of Middle Eastern Appearance, one said he was going to throw acid on her face..Anyway every threat they made they tried to justify with the Koran. Actually there were a few reports about Muslims on.. I think things may start getting interesting down under.
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This is typical Muzzie shit. Tried and true, and perfected over 1400 years. This is exactly part of the formula they use when colonizing other cultures.
Islam and Moslem peoples need to be quarantined, at the very minimum. Any civilized society that allows them and their filthy cult into their midst, ultimately faces only misery and ruin.
My biggest fear is that the scum will ultimately prevail, and the human race will descend back into the dark ages, progress will stop and brutality and ignorance will reign for centuries.
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Aussie Islamic 'leaders' to Mr. Howard: "sure is a nice country you got here, be a shame if something happened to it."
Am I missing something? These leaders are making a threat that any reasonable person (i.e., not a progressive) would recognize as such.
I'm as tolerant as any man, and more than some, but this shit has to stop. Any religious leader that starts making threats against the civil order gets jugged and/or deported.
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My biggest fear is that the scum will ultimately prevail, and the human race will descend back into the dark ages, progress will stop and brutality and ignorance will reign for centuries.
Without wishing to be too ghoulish, this is precisely why nuclear weapons were invented. They instantly mass-sterizile large swaths of infected terrain with the push of a button.
Texas Redneck (and anyone else for that matter), if you have not read Wretchard's "The Three Conjectures", please do so immediately. Scroll down about half-way on the page, past the "Reader Responses" and "Postscript" (read those last).
As mentioned in the article, this is, literally, Islam's "Golden Hour". Not in the historical sense of "Golden Age", but in the medical reference to that critical one hour span where a life can be more easily saved than lost if proper attention is sought.
Islam and its attendant fascist atrocities are rapidly bringing all Muslims to the threshold of utter destruction. As noted in the Belmont Club article, even if America surrendered to Islam, the Russians or Chinese will likely feel no such temptation and would exterminate all Islam without any compunctions.
The only issue up for debate is whether America will eventually find the courage to read Islam the riot act. Every single Muslim majority country needs to be put on notice that even just one nuclear terrorist attack upon America will result in all of them being annihilated.
After manifestly interfering with this planet's proper progress for the last half-decade or more, this tomfoolery must be put to an end. Countless billions of dollars have been diverted by a small collection of fanatics and their silent proponents. This wealth is much better directed to fighting disease, famine, education and providing disaster relief. Instead we are confronted with another 9-11 on a daily basis. Another 3,000 people die every single day as we are distracted by this puny band of ultra-violent psychotics.
If this world was brought under sharia law, it is easy to imagine that half of its population would perish by the sword, lack of modern medicine and technological regression. At some point living with Muslims will prove to be more trouble than simply doing away with them. It requires no complex calculus to realize that one quarter of this planet's population (i.e., Islam) is less deserving of life than half of it.
Unreformed Islam will perish. By whose hand is the only question.
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Zenster, I read it. Three years ago when it first hit Richards site. And, I have read it periodically since then.
It brings me no comfort. Even a limited nuclear exchange will collapse the global economy, result in the death of at least a billion people and create chaos. I am no longer interested in giving Islam that "Golden Hour". I would prefer its utter destruction or quarantine before the unthinkable happens.
This country is infected, with the vanguard of Islamic colonizers, and the treasonous filth of the left. Both hide behind our laws and Constitution waging warfare and lawfare. Nearly half the country doesn't have the intelligence to find their way out of an alcove.
When the crap hits the fan, there is going to be massive bloodshed, here and just about everywhere else. Things will never be the same, even if the forces of light prevail. I blame the dithering a$$holes we call our politicians.
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I blame the dithering a$$holes we call our politicians.
I could not agree with you more, TR. This is why I keep screaming for the Islamic world to be put on final notice. Whatever it takes, we must impress upon all Muslims the extremely frayed thread from which their collective fate is suspended. The prime indicator that we have done our job correctly will be when panic-stricken Muslims in Islamic nations around the world hurridly overthrow their governments to prevent the lot of them from being incinerated.
Good to know that you're familiar with "The Three Conjectures". If our leaders would only take it seriously, they'd realize that any possibility of a nuclear terrorist attack upon America must be pre-empted by the threat of annihilation for all who plot against us. Wretchard's article should be required reading for all world leaders and imams.
VANDALS have targeted the cars of a prominent Victorian Islamic leader and his wife in an attack on their Melbourne property. Police are investigating after the front and rear windscreens of Ford sedans, parked in the driveway of the northern suburbs home of Yasser Soliman and his wife, were smashed overnight.
Mr Soliman, who is a member of the Federal Government's Muslim Community Reference Group, discovered the damage as his wife prepared their children for school this morning. But he said neighbours had reported hearing noises and seeing a group of people jump out of a car in the street about midnight.
He said state and federal police had fingerprinted the cars and conducted a doorknock in the street, but he had told ASIO in case of more attacks on Islamic leaders.
Mr Soliman was at a loss to explain the attacks. "It's hard to know what the message or motivation is," he said. "They chose to walk up the driveway and attack both cars so they're sending some sort of message but I'm at a loss to identify what it is.
"The damage in terms of peace and harmony in the street and suburb and concern it causes certainly does have a greater cost."
Mr Soliman said the attacks coincided with email threats received by other members of the Islamic Community of Victoria in the past fortnight urging them to leave the country. While he could not pinpoint the motivation of the attacks he said recent reports portraying Muslims negatively, including controversy over a bid by a Melbourne Muslim girl to enter a beauty contest and Muslim parents removing children from music classes because of cultural clashes, were concerning.
Mr Soliman said he contacted the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Robb, and asked him to meet sections of the media to address the concerns.
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Reap what you sow motherfu**er. Surprised that there hasn't been more of this at home - probably due to the more forthright nature of our Antipodean cousins.
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Howard-I agree i dont know why there is not more backlash in UK especially in Leeds and London????
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Wise words RC. Forgot about making financial gain from victimisation - one of the tenets of Islam.
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RC's probably right. I thought - "It's hard to know what the message or motivation is," he said. was a dead giveaway things aint what they seem. No denunciation of Australian racism, John Howard's statement today, etc. Just, it's a mystery why someone would want to smash our cars for no reason.
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Well first, does anybody know if this guy espouses radical Islam? Do we know if he's tied in any way to a fundamentalist Islamic group in Australia? What exactly is the Muslim Community Reference Group?
We seem awful quick today in advocating the destruction of a man's property based seemingly only on the fact he's muslim. Someone point me to evidence he's a problem, and I'll jump on your bandwagon. But in a pluralistic society, every law abiding and peaceful citizen has a right to be secure in his property and effects. Dropping F-bombs on a man without knowing anything about him other than his religion? Please.
"...But group members had their own constituencies, containing critics who saw them as co-opted stooges. Members had to "deliver" to their audiences, and that included speaking out.
A Victorian member, Yasser Soliman, president of the Islamic Family and Childcare Agency, says: "The Government has been very cautious, making sure it achieves its objectives. But in a partnership all sides have objectives."
The group has been anxious about getting sufficient access to research and information gathered over the Past year. This issue has now been settled, and Soliman says "we feel we can face the communities and say 'this is what we've got for you'."
Malcolm Thomas, president of the Islamic Council of Victoria, says the group "increased the volume of our voice", affording access to officialdom and for members to become aware of issues in other states.
But expectations were created which were not met, he says, for which he blames both Government and group. The Immigration Department, which serviced it, and the group itself, struggled to define its role. "Were we looking at macro issues or on-the-ground ones?" The Government made it clear macro ones such as foreign affairs were not on the brief, he says.
The department has tried to keep the group on a tight rein. One example was the heading off of a blast against Peter Costello after his toughly worded remarks about Sharia law in a February speech to the Sydney Institute.
Taking issue with Muslim cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika's claim that it was "a big problem" that there were two laws - Australian law and Islamic law - Costello said: "No, this is not a big problem. There is one law we are all expected to abide by. It is the law enacted by the Parliament . . . There are countries that apply religious or Sharia law - Saudi Arabia and Iran come to mind. If a person wants to live under Sharia law these are countries where they might feel at ease. But not Australia."
Yasmin Khan recalls that at its February meeting the reference group decided it wanted to reply to Costello. Efforts to get a meeting with him failed for lack of a mutually convenient date. So, she says, the group proposed to issue a press statement. Khan prepared a draft, accusing Costello of having a "very narrow understanding" of Sharia law.
The three-page document, headed "Muslim Community Reference Group reply to Peter Costello's remarks about the Muslim Community" said in part, "Sharia law is a large tract of legal rules and regulations that covers many different parts of our lives. Not only the religious side of things, but also in trade and finance, in banking and social welfare. But Islam also tells us that we follow the laws of the land of the country in which we live.
"Suffice to say, nothing in Sharia is at odds with Australian law. Nobody has suggested that we implement Sharia law, however let us not summarily dismiss over 1400 years of thought and guidance. Our following of these laws does not in any way ostracise us from society, in fact this is why a lot of Muslim migrants are here, because they know that this country allows them the opportunity to follow their religion in peace."
The statement suggested that if Costello or any parliamentarian wanted to debate citizenship or "mushy, misguided multiculturalism" (Costello's phrase) "they do so with the engagement of all Australians, rather than alienating any one community group".
The group approved the statement, and Khan says it was sent to the department for release. It never saw the light of day.
But the Israel-Lebanon war made the group more determined to get across a message - in this case its belief that the Government's position was one-sided. The Lebanese are a big nationality block in the group.
Soliman says it was important for the group to reflect the Islamic community'sfeelings - if it hadn't, he said: "It would have put at risk confidence in our role as community representatives. We had to show a little bit of spine. At the same time, we understand the sensitivities - the politics being played in the background, the alliances."
The group, however, had its own internal differences on aspects of the war. Ali pre-empted it in calling for the delisting of Hezbollah. This was not discussed at its meeting and some don't agree, although Ali (a moderate) does not retreat from it. "They are fighting in defence of Lebanon," he says. "If you proscribe them as terrorists and keep them away from the negotiations, you are not going to have a sustainable solution."
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We seem awful quick today in advocating the destruction of a man's property based seemingly only on the fact he's muslim.
Never said his cars should have been destroyed. Just extrapolating from the rash of "hate crimes" turned insurance scams here in the US.
Australia's seen a rash of vandalism against Jewish sites and property, all involving MOMEA -- "Men of Middle Eastern Appearance". So I fully expect a handful of faked "hate crimes" from the Muslims in Australia. It's SOP for the ROP.
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Mr Soliman was at a loss to explain the attacks. "It's hard to know what the message or motivation is," he said.
Unclear on the subject? I'm sure the perpetrators will be happy to repeat it for his edification.
While it is unclear as to whether Mr. Soliman is any part of the jihadist network operating in Australia, it is obvious that anti-Muslim backlash is building. After so many gang-rapes and terror plots, this is no big surprise.
We must also never forget the role of taqiyaa. Until Islam purges itself of this convenient catchall, which permits it any and every imaginable form of deceit, it'll be really difficult to maintain the least confidence that anything we are told by anyone of Muslim background has even a granuleatom quark's worth of truth to it.
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#4 Eh. Even money says it's an insurance scam.
Robert I live in Melbourne, Victoria and when I saw the item on TV my first reaction was the same as yours, an insurance scam and also playing the victim. As they say "victimhood is empowering, because at least it allows you to actively participate in your own subjugation."
That line seems to run very well on the local media.
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We seem awful quick today in advocating the destruction of a man's property based seemingly only on the fact he's muslim.
Sorry, but that's good enough for me. It doesn't matter a whit that there may once have been "moderate" KKK members--the *ideology* itself was diseased and violent and anyone who would allow themselves to be associated with it was deserving of no sympathy. "Islam" is but another diseased and violent *ideology* that informed and decent folks have no part of.
Eleven Melbourne men have been committed to stand trial on terrorism related charges. The men were arrested late last year and early this year after a joint counter-terrorism operation by the Victorian and Federal Police.
In court today all of them pleaded not guilty to numerous charges including belonging to a terrorist organisation. Magistrate Paul Smith said he is satisfied there is enough evidence that a jury could convict the men. Most of the men refused to stand as magistrate Smith committed them to trial.
They will next appear in court for a directions hearing in December.
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Let's see if Mr. Soliman will be so kind as to appear for the prosecution and testify that jihadism is in violation of everything the RoP [spit] stands for.
Congressional Democrats are sharpening their attacks on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with one senator proposing a resolution that would call on President Bush to sack the outspoken Pentagon chief.
Sen. Barbara Boxer of California said Thursday that she wants to attach the measure to the defense appropriation bill coming to the Senate floor after lawmakers' August recess.
Democrats in the House of Representatives are likely to offer a similar proposal, a senior Democratic aide said.
The idea is to force Republicans to cast what would amount to a vote of confidence in Rumsfeld -- one of the architects of the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq -- before November's midterm elections, said a Democratic strategist close to the House.
Such a move also would give Democrats a chance to show a united front on Iraq by calling for Rumsfeld's dismissal.
Rumsfeld has said he has offered his resignation before, and President Bush has refused it. In April, Bush said that he wanted Rumsfeld to stay, declaring, "I'm the decider."
Rumsfeld outraged many Democratic leaders with a speech Tuesday to the American Legion convention in Utah, accusing critics of the 3-year-old war of turning a blind eye to "a new type of fascism" and "returning to that old mentality of 'Blame America first.' "
But with U.S. troops trying to quell a wave of sectarian violence in Baghdad, Boxer and other Democrats placed the blame for American troubles in Iraq squarely on Rumsfeld.
"This latest Rumsfeld rampage cannot stand," Boxer said in a statement Thursday. "By comparing critics of this administration's policies in Iraq with those who wanted to appease fascism and Nazism in the run-up to World War II, he is slandering the majority of the American people, who oppose the war in Iraq."
Boxer's proposal states that Rumsfeld failed to plan adequately for the U.S. occupation of Iraq and ignored the rise of the insurgency that followed. It cites the criticism of retired generals, some of whom say Rumsfeld ignored military advice before the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
CNN has learned that Democratic leaders in the House are discussing the possibility of offering a similar "no-confidence" vote when Congress reconvenes in September. One senior Democratic aide said Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California supports the idea but needs to "vet it with our folks" before anything definitive would be announced.
Democrats hope opposition to the war -- which hit 61 percent in a CNN poll released last week -- will help them retake at least one house of Congress in November. The party strategist who discussed the idea said challengers could use the vote "to talk about the true colors of these individual incumbents."
"If Rob Simmons supports Rummy, you bet you'll see that in a 30-second ad," he said, referring to the Connecticut GOP congressman facing a challenge from Democrat Joe Courtney.
But White House counselor Dan Bartlett said Democratic calls to begin pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq "would be a disaster for the security of the American people."
"It doesn't matter what we debate on this topic. Our enemies believe it's the central front of the war on terror," Bartlett said. "So if we don't get the job done, they will view that as a victory, and that will be a huge setback."
Many Democrats have backed a phased-withdrawal of troops from Iraq, beginning by the end of this year.
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If there's ever another mass-casualty terrorist attack on this country, Job Number One has got to be rounding up these idiots and putting them in camps for the duration of the conflict so they can't fuck things up for the rest of us.
Enough is enough.
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Don Rumsfeld rocks!
I can't imagine a better SecDef (and can't remember anyone as SecDef for the last 20 years that I would prefer (well... maybe Cap Wienberger) to lead the Department of Defense during the war against islamofascism.
Rummy "makes the call". That is the toughest and lonliest part of being a leader is making the decisions. The have been mostly good, but some bad.
Rummy has also been one steely-eyed sumbitch that doesn't suffer fools and gives back to the media 150% of what her gets....and he is still too kind to them. SNL did some great skits with Darrell Hammond playing Rummy and just skewering the media.
I also know many people I respect, Ralph Peters for instance, think Rummy should go.
I think OBL, the Dr. the mullahs and all the rest of the muzzie fascists fear and loathe Rummy and that is the ultimate 'recommendation' in my book.
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"Boxer and other Democrats placed the blame for American troubles in Iraq squarely on Rumsfeld"
I guess it's not frickin PC to place the blame on the Muslims who are blowing each other up.
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I still don't get what's supposed to be wrong in Iraq.
Without actually wanting to, Bush has created a situation wherein the al Qaeda and Baathists are killing the shia radicals from Iran and vise versa. You couldn't plan such a cool situation. We should just be circling them and picking up the messengers and new recruits as they move about. Our presence in Iraq also forces the Islamic fascists to play their cards and show us how to beat them and how to do it over there. As far as the price of all this, it doesn't compare to other wars, doesn't scratch the surface.
We need more press killed and captured and tortured so the press begins to write anti-Islam screed.
The only surprise about the edition of Hitlers Mein Kampf that has become a best seller in Middle Eastern bookstores is its emboldened title translated as Jihadi as in My Jihad confirming in ironic fashion the moderate Islamic claim that Jihad just means struggle, as in an inner struggle as in a Kampf perhaps.
I've wondered about this for a few years. Now I know. So much for all the taqqiya we're being fed about the "true meaning" of jihad.
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figures. can't even write their own books. their culture produces nothing of significance to society. arts, science, medicine, engineering, literature....you name it, they don't do it.
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The only surprise about the edition of Hitlers Mein Kampf that has become a best seller in Middle Eastern bookstores is its emboldened title translated as Jihadi
A "surprise"? More like confirmation, maybe, but never "surprise". Before they get too enamored with Hitler, someone really needs to tell the Muslims just how many Nazis are left after this world got its fill of them.
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You know, I have always suspected something like this would happen. I was just wondering when someone would actualy report it.
To me the big clue was the popularity of "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Where there is one, eventualy you will find the rest of the anti-semite cannon.
It is sad, realy.
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Before they get too enamored with Hitler, someone really needs to tell the Muslims just how many Nazis are left after this world got its fill of them.
Sounds to me like there are around a billion of them.
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In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, a tiny percentage of people who lost loved ones or were injured in the attacks sued the aviation industry, spurning a federal compensation fund that ultimately distributed more than $7 billion to more than 5,500 victims.
Now, nearly five years after the historic disaster, roughly 60 lawsuits are still grinding their way through court. And the families pushing ahead with litigation, including numerous New Englanders, are mired in a massive legal case that has become a complicated behemoth for the federal judge overseeing it. ``I've never been in any litigation more frustrating than this," said Frank H. Granito, Jr., a New York lawyer who represents the family of an American Flight 11 passenger and several insurance companies in the matter.
The case pits those who consider the day's events an unpreventable tragedy against others who believe government and aviation officials ignored clear warnings that such an assault was possible. That lapse, in their view, led to the deaths of beloved friends and relatives, and they now want accountability and answers.
For some litigants, their decision to sue was met by public disapproval from skeptics who questioned their motives and dismissed their quest for justice as futile. But in interviews with the Globe, many family members said they are committed to pursuing the case until government, airline, and security officials are held responsible for their roles in the attacks. And they are aware that litigation is a gamble that could produce neither answers nor money, they said.
The New York-based case has been slowed by the federal government's sweeping refusal to release materials on aviation security, outraging lawyers for both sides. It has also been stalled by the South Carolina law firm Motley Rice, which made billions suing the tobacco industry and represents 53 victims in the case, or nearly 60 percent of all plaintiffs. Its clients include the families of Flight 11 pilot Captain John Ogonowski of Dracut, crew member Madeline Sweeney of Acton, Rhode Island native David Angell, creator of the sitcom ``Frasier," and many high-earning New England executives.
While other lawyers have resolved most or all of their cases -- at least 32 of the roughly 90 total lawsuits have settled -- Motley Rice has settled only three. Of the cases left to settle, all but 7 are being handled by Motley Rice, whose founding partner, Ronald L. Motley, said in an interview that his clients ``won't take cheap early money."
The firm is advancing to trial, where it says it can win jury awards larger than the settlements being offered and expose systemic failures that allowed the attacks to take place.
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Bollywood may wear its multi-religious pluralism as a badge of honour, but for the angry young British Muslims of Pakistani denomination, its all a sham and therefore a matter of extreme discomfort.
As India's oversized filmdom stampedes across the world winning accolades, a group of British Muslim youth is trashing the Bollywood genre, warning that the "cheesy second-rate imitation of Hollywood...is overrunning Pakistan and brainwashing musalmaans".
In a rap-video posted on youtube.com that is being widely circulated in Pakistani circles, the group reserves much of its venom for Bollywoods reigning stars, many of who happen to be Muslims.
"What do you want to give your kids?/Is it Salman Khan or Islam?/Is it Shah Rukh Khan or Allahs book?/ Is it Bobby Deol or save their souls?/ Is it Amir Khan or imaan?" intones a singer, preferring a hip-hop style to convey the message.
Hiphop is an African-American influenced musical and cultural movement that has itself attracted criticism for its language. YouTube is a social networking website that allows users to upload, view and share videoclips and it too has attracted criticism for encouraging violence and copyright infringement.
But for the extremist Brit-Pak brigade, Bollywood bashing comes first. "Everywhere you look/Its that kufr Bollywood/Video stores selling whores/Semi-gay actors with Muslim sounding names/With Hindu propaganda designed to create chains," goes one rant.
The unnamed group, which has produced the video from a collage of Hindi film clips and posters, says Bollywood movies are officially banned in Pakistan but it is freely available on video and DVD by piracy, which it says is "a conspiracy to allow Hindu culture thorough the backdoor."
Reports from Pakistan speak of the movie Fanaa being a big hit in the countrys underground circuit. Songs from Fanaa and other new Bollywood blockbusters are played openly in taxis and private transport.
The Pakistani elite and the ruling class lead the ranks of Bollywood aficionados, a fact that seems to rankle the British Pakistani youth who are in the limelight for their extremist views and fondness for madrassas.
"They kill Kashmiris but you still watch Mission Kashmir, they admonish Pakistanis in one passage.
Another rap passage wonders: "Bollywood Bollywood whats the future hold/ As film by film you get ever so bold/ Stories of lesbianism enter the fold/ Now you have to heat it up as it starts going cold/ Topless movies or is it incest next/ All the time it is sex sex sex."
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"Bollywood is brainwashing muslims"
Impossible.
To be brainwashed, you first have to have a brain.
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Nah, the brainwashing of Islam is fighting the "brainwashing" of Bollywood.
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What the hell are they doing watching movies anyway? Isn't it a SIN?
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Fer crying out loud, they aren't even allowed to kiss in Bollywood movies! They just spend a lot of time making goo goo eyes at each other and breaking into complicated dance numbers about every eight minutes. If that is your idea of "sex, sex, sex", you really need to get out of the madrassah now and then, son.
(Quite entertaining if you are bombed outta your mind with a suitable bunch of friends and you are in the mood for coming up with your own "subtitles", actually.)
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Bollywoods coming a long way. I'm actually enjoying some of the stuff I've been seeing out of there recently, but would like to see 2 trends go away:
1) Please! Please! Please! Why so much singing!!??!!
2) Movies don't always have to average 3 and a half hours in length.
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Quite entertaining if you are bombed outta your mind with a suitable bunch of friends and you are in the mood for coming up with your own "subtitles", actually.
Hell, Swamp Blondie, the same applies to a majority of crap pumped out by Hollyweird, be it television or film.
All I can say is that if Bollywood's vapid and plot-free programming is capable of "brainwashing Muslims", my theory regarding Islamic microencephalism is about ready for publication.
Dr Abdul Qadeer was taken to hospital in Islamabad on Thursday night amidst tight security for a medical examination, Aaj television reported. This is AQ Khan's first check up since he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
He'll be reported "stable" any time now.
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The United Nation's top aid official, Jan Egeland, has welcomed the decision of international donors to pledge $650 million in aid towards the Palestinian territories.
Donors from about 60 countries and organisations made the pledges during a conference in Stockholm.
Mr Egeland warned that a lack of funding had the potential to create a social revolt caused by the anger of Palestinians at their living standards.
But he said last night's conference could prove to be a turning point in the process.
"I hope that this conference here could represent some kind of a rock bottom for how deep we could sink in despair for the Palestinian territories and that we now move forward."
United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan says Syrian President Bashar Assad has promised to enforce an arms embargo on Hezbollah under a UN resolution that halted Israel's war with the Lebanese group.
Mr Annan met with Mr Assad in Damascus, on the last part of the secretary-general's tour of the Middle East.
"The President informed me that Syria supports Security Council Resolution 1701 and will help in its implementation," Mr Annan said.
"While stating Syrian objections to the presence of foreign forces along the Syrian-Lebanese border, the President committed to me that Syria will take all necessary measures to implement in full paragraph 15 of the resolution," Mr Annan added, referring to a provision that bans illegal arms shipments to Lebanon.
Mr Annan says Syria would beef up border security and was ready to run joint patrols with the Lebanese army.
Syrian leaders have been angered by an Israeli demand for international troops to deploy on the Lebanese-Syrian border, the main conduit in the past for Hezbollah weapons supplies.
Lebanon, which has sent 8,600 soldiers to patrol the frontier, says it has no plans to ask UN troops to join them.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem told reporters later that no weapons were crossing from his country to the guerrillas in Lebanon.
"No arms are being smuggled to the resistance (Hezbollah) from Syria," he said.
Another province, another deafening silence from the "media"
KIRKUK, Iraq, Sept. 1, 2006 Soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division transferred responsibility of security for the majority of the Kirkuk Province to two battalions of the Iraqi Army during a ceremony at an Iraqi military compound just outside of Kirkuk, Aug. 31.
With this ceremony, we complete the transfer of security responsibilities from our friends, the Coalition Forces, to our Brigade, said Maj. Gen. Anwar, commander of the 2nd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division. Two battalions in the multi-ethnic (Arab, Kurdish, Turkomen) 2nd Brigade had previously assumed security responsibilities in other sectors of the Kirkuk Province. This ceremony, with the final two battalions assuming responsibility, demonstrates the readiness of Iraqi Army forces in the province.
Thank you my dear friend Colonel Gray and his deputy Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin who helped us make history, said Anwar.
The 1st Brigade Task Force under (your) command brought our brigade to a high degree of training which allowed us to execute duties at the brigade level, he said. We worked as a team with the same goals to achieve security and neutralize terrorism.
Recently, coalition forces and soldiers from the 2nd Iraqi Brigades 1st Battalion and 18th Strategic Infrastructure Battalion participated in Operations Brave Sword and Gaugamela. Their joint effort resulted in the capture of more than 150 terrorists.
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The U.S. military command in Baghdad wants to know how the news media is covering Iraq and is willing to pay someone $20 million to tell them.
A solicitation last week requested that companies interested in providing "continuous monitoring and near-real time reporting of Iraqi, pan-Arabic, international, and U.S. media," submit proposals by Sept. 6, the Associated Press reported Friday.
Contractors also will be evaluated on how they will provide analytical reports and customized briefings to the military, "including, but not limited to tone (positive, neutral, negative) and scope of media coverage."
The winner of the $20 million contract also will likely be required to develop an Arabic version of the multinational force's web site.
The military last year was criticized for a public relations program in Iraq that included hiring a consulting firm that paid Iraqi news media to carry news stories written by American troops.
Pentagon officials have defended the program as a necessary tool in the War on Terror. Critics have said it contradicts American values of freedom of the press.
Fed up with car bombs and death threats, Lazem Hamid, an Iraqi doctor from one of Baghdad's most violent neighbourhoods, decided one day to pack his bags and take his family north to Kurdistan. "I had to leave it all and come here. There was no chance for us in Baghdad. The day we left, our neighbours came out to congratulate us. Life is good here. I have made Kurdish friends," said the 50-year-old microbiology specialist. In June, Hamid set up a private clinic in Sulaimaniya, in partnership with a cardiologist and an orthopaedics specialist both of whom are also from Baghdad, 330km to the south.
Thousands of Arabs like Hamid have arrived among the ethnic Kurds of the soaring northern mountains, fleeing the violence gripping much of Iraq since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in February pushed the country to the brink of civil war. The trend is a stunning reversal for Iraq's Kurdistan, home mainly to non-Arab Kurds. During the 1980s, tens of thousands of Kurds were killed in the region during Saddam Hussein's military campaign, which emptied entire villages.
It is not only doctors and academics who have fled north, leaving once-prestigious hospitals and universities in Baghdad without qualified specialists and scholars. Arab labourers from the Shiite south and the Sunni heartland have also sought refuge from the violence. Now, hundreds sleep on cardboard boxes in Suleimaniyah's public parks, scratching out a living in the booming construction sector or working as porters for Kurdish merchants. There are no official figures for the number of Arabs who have resettled in Kurdistan, but anecdotal evidence suggests it has become a magnet for those who can't afford to go abroad.
More at the link. Good story.
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Now let's watch the sectarian violence start to really escalate in Kurdistan.
But some Arabs complain of feeling unwelcome in the far north and Arab-Kurd struggles for control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk remain a potential flash point for conflict.
bawawaaaaa
The trend is a stunning reversal for Iraq's Kurdistan, home mainly to non-Arab Kurds. During the 1980s, tens of thousands of Kurds were killed in the region during Saddam Hussein's military campaign, which emptied entire villages.
The Kurds were killed and driven out of Kirkuk en-mass and then Saddam's/henchmen gave the Kurd's houses and property out as patronage to his loyal/tribal Sunni families.
opinion: if the 'state' of Iraq is eventually partitioned, of course I'd like to see the Kurds lock up the oil reserves and have dominion over Kirkuk. I may be mistaken [don't think so] but I fear that our very own State Department may still pull off an act of massive treachery against the Kurds and sell out their interests to the Turks, or some other Half-brite ME strategery etc.
While violence has left much of Iraq's economy in tatters, cities in Kurdistan are prosperous with building cranes popping up and foreign firms looking for bases. Rents have soared, the region offers tax breaks to firms, profits can be transferred out of Kurdistan and foreign companies can own land.
yep that be the litmus test, the Kurds are serious.
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Question: as for more Arab Sunnis or Arab Shi'ites living in Kurdistan?
Answer: What is the default character of Arab Sunnis or Arab Shi'ites living in your neighborhood?
Hoping to bolster his position within the Labor party, but jeopardizing his place in the coalition, Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced Thursday that he was joining the mounting calls for a state commission of inquiry. Peretz's decision puts him in the opposition to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plan, which calls for two commissions of inquiry and avoids the broader investigation a state commission would conduct. "I will be willing to stand before any type of inquiry into my conduct during the war," said Peretz. "In this war there were uncovered various failures on a number of levels, we need to check and investigate them without compromise."
It is unclear that this will be the straw that breaks the coalition. But the strain is certainly building...
Sources close to the prime minister said that he was surprised by Peretz's decision and added that it was likely to create a crises over Labor's inclusion in the coalition. "It is unclear that this will be the straw that breaks the coalition," said one source in the prime minister's office. "But the strain is certainly building."
Sources close to Peretz, meanwhile, said he hoped that his decision would not bring an end to his relationship with Olmert. "He does not feel that this should be enough to oust Labor from the coalition," said an aide close to Peretz. "He hopes to remain in the coalition, and hold onto his position as defense minister, for the foreseeable future."
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This bolshevik Stalin face cannot save his criminal bungling ass by turncoating.
(BNA) Israel Deputy Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, affirmed today that the success of the international peace keeping forces in South of Lebanon can open the door for the suggestion made by Italy on spreading UN forces in Gaza. Peres said in an interview broadcasted by the Italian channel Sky News 24 that the success of the UNIFIL in Lebanon and peace with Lebanon might help in discussing the Italian suggestion.
Wouldn't you want to show the success first, before tossing your eggs into that basket? Just a thought.
Ariel Sharon is spinning in his coma ...
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I have seen some televised evidence of Lebanese Army troops disregarding Hizbollah power. That is both a pleasant surprise, and testimony to IDF success in the intervention. And I heard that Lebanon's Ayatollahs are trying to knock Nasrallah down a couple of notches. Two weeks ago, he was the hero of Islam. Are they fickle or what?
Has anyone heard more about the Hizbollah distribution of counterfeit US paper currency? That story disappeared fast.
A Philippine court on Friday gave former Muslim rebel chieftain Nur Misuari temporary liberty to join festivities marking a peace accord he signed 10 years ago. Misuari, founder of the former mainstream Muslim rebel group Moro National Liberation Front, accepted limited autonomy under the Sept. 2, 1996, peace deal with the government.
He later became governor of a predominantly Muslim autonomous region in the southern Philippines. He was arrested in 2001 trying to flee to Malaysia after his followers launched attacks on southern Jolo island that left about 100 people dead. He was charged with rebellion in connection with the attacks and detained in a police camp outside Manila but was later held under house arrest.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which broke from Misuari's group, has continued the struggle for self-rule but agreed to a cease-fire with the government while holding peace talks. The 10th anniversary of the peace agreement was to be celebrated Saturday in southern Davao city. Fidel Ramos, the country's president at the time of the signing, was to attend, officials said.
"Misuari's presence is very important in the celebration," said Jesus Dureza, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's peace adviser "We would like to have the key players in that agreement to be present," Dureza said. "It won't be good if one of the principal signatories is absent and even in jail." The Regional Trial Court in suburban Makati city told police to take Misuari to Davao, about 980 kilometers (610 miles) southeast of Manila, early Saturday and bring him back to the Philippine capital by noon.
It was the third time that Misuari, 65, was allowed temporary liberty since he was jailed. In January, he was permitted to attend Muslim religious rites in southern Metropolitan Manila. He also was allowed later that month to go to a hospital to receive treatment for hypertension and a respiratory infection. He has expressed support for Arroyo, who has fought an alleged coup attempt and recently survived an impeachment bid.
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"Thailand's army chief has said that government forces still do not know who they are fighting as they try to hunt down Islamic insurgents behind a wave of deadly violence in the south."
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Duh!, true, but is seems that there has been some export of kool-aid into Thailand. Remember those origami peace cranes dropped over the restive provinces a few years back? Someone was drunk on that stuff, to delirium, I tell ya!
The European Union said Friday it was too early to impose sanctions on Iran for its failure to halt uranium enrichment by a U.N.-imposed deadline, and announced it would be meeting early next week with Iran's top nuclear negotiator.
Ouch! That smell, smells like burn weasal
"For the EU, diplomacy remains the No. 1 way forward," said Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency.
He told a news conference "this is not the time or place" for the international community to hit Iran with sanctions over its nuclear program.
Iran defied a Thursday U.N. Security Council deadline to stop uranium enrichment, raising the prospect of U.N. economic and other sanctions. In Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated that his country would not be bullied into giving up what he called Iran's right to nuclear technology.
U.S. President George W. Bush said Thursday that Iran has responded with defiance and delay to demands to stop enriching uranium.
In Russia, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said Moscow regrets Iran's decision, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would propose ways to resolve the standoff, suggesting that strong sanctions would be counterproductive, Russian news agencies said.
Tuomioja said if Iran indeed seeks negotiations, "then we have to see what the conditions are."
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NO wait until they have a Nuclear Weapon and then impose sanctions... that will work well!
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It's so tragic hilarious to watch such a self-important group marginalize themselves with exceptional finesse, nuance and expertise. It would be far more entertaining if they weren't simultaneously placing so many millions of people at risk with their idiotic charades.
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Sanctions seldom accomplish anything. Years of sanctions failed in Iraq. Sanctions are unlikely to prevent a nuclear Iran.
It would be interesting to start a thread on what the folks here think will be the results of multiple nuclear strikes on America. That is where we are headed.
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Nothing can be expected from the EU, and particularly from the disgusting Scandinavians: Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish people are strongly anti-American and anti-Israeli, like almost all the Europeans.
The only European people and leaders who don't buy this cowardly appeasement are the Poles, the Czechs and the Hungarians, because they have recently tasted what totalitarianism is; but they have no weigh in the EU foreign policy.
For the Old Europe people, it will never be the time nor place to stand up and to fight bloody dictators and mass murderers, even if those pathological slaughterers have clearly stated they are planning worldwide massacres.
All day long, here in Paris, I am speaking to stupid blind pretentious Frenchies (from plumbers to diplomats, and from journalists to scientists) who are sure that Ahmadidjihad isn't dangerous, but that fighting him would be very dangerous. I have tried many time to open their eyes, during lengthy arguings, but it's like trying to shake the Himalaya.
A lot of those idiotic Frenchies asserted that pre-emption is always wrong, because you can't fight against something that has not yet occured... When I reminded them that Ahmadikiller has said many times he wants to "wipe Israel from the map" (and then Paris, London and Berlin), and asked them if self-defence against a planned genocide would be right, most of them bluntly answered that its only possible to fight back AFTER the genocide has been committed !!!
No need to say that at this point, I usually stop arguing and leave, because I would otherwise spit on them.
The only moment those retarded fools will agree to fight back is after they have been killed.
Although there have been massive bombings in Madrid and in London, the vast majority of Europeans don't think there is any need for the War on Terror, because they simply don't want to see what is happening at this precise moment with radical islam, either in far countries or in the French suburbs. For them, the WoT is just an artifact of the "American paranoia".
They don't want to understand that the Islamonazis would be happy to slice their throats; they prefer to prepare their retirement (retirement is the principal French passion), and to work as little as possible (Parisians are very good at this).
But what's the use of getting good retirement benefits, if you are dead, your throat sliced ?
Tehran, Iran, Aug. 31 Hundreds of new judicial police have begun to roam the streets of Tehran starting from earlier this week, even before Irans Majlis (Parliament) approved the dubious judicial-security body that they represent. The new organ, officially called Judicial Services Police (JSP), began monitoring people in the streets of the Iranian capital on Tuesday, arresting those who the judiciary suspected of illegal activities.
The JSP was set up by the judiciary in coordination with the State Security Forces (SSF), Irans paramilitary police. However, in late 2005 Majlis refused to approve a law granting it authority to carry out its work.
Among senior judicial officials who attended its inauguration at the Imam Khomeini Judicial Centre in the Iranian capital was Tehrans chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi who gained infamy after it was discovered that he may have been personally responsible for the murder of Canadian-Iranian photo-journalist Zahra Kazemi in Tehrans notorious Evin Prison in 2003. These people will be based in JSP units in police precincts and are tasked with carrying out the orders issued by judiciary officials, Mortazavi said.
Something like a mutawa combined with a Gestapo.
The JSP is already believed to have some 800 cadre in its command, and security officials claim that the organ will soon widen its sphere of operation to cover the entire nation.
The JSP was originally set up in the early days of the 1979 Islamic Revolution but it was dismantled 10 years later and its forces distributed among the judiciary and the SSF, with officials citing an overlap of its activities and that of Irans other security agencies as the reason for its closure.
In recent years, the judiciary under the control of Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi had been pushing hard for it to resurface as a fully-functioning force capable of arresting those on its watch-list and placing them straight into its designated prison cells. It argued that this method would by far lead to the fastest prosecutions and sentences for offenders.
Quickest way to disappear the dissidents.
Some analysts say that it is only a matter of time before Shahroudi is replaced as Irans Judiciary Chief.
The deployment of the new judicial paramilitary force will likely add to the already repressive atmosphere in the streets of Tehran and may bring about a backlash of social dissent.
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Arresting women for using clothes to hide the fact that they're naked underneath?
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Reminds me of Hitler's 'Nacht und Nebel' decree
to make political activists disappear into the night and fog. Someone in Tehran must have found Adolph's old play book.
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The JSP is there to prevent insurrection. The IRGC has historically refused to intervene in civil uprisings. I'll conjecture that the Baseej are being used to 'reinforce' regular military units units.
Also notice that they are being placed in an urban area. If past information is right, the JSP is made up of folk from the rural areas; the government's stronghold. Appears they aren't sure they can really count on that.
Lebanese politicians from the March 14 Forces and the parliamentary majority lashed out on Thursday against Kesrouan MP Michel Aoun for calling for the formation of a national unity Cabinet. In an interview with As-Safir daily published Thursday, Aoun said Prime Minister Fouad Siniora "will pay the price of his stubbornness." Aoun was responding to the premier, who said a day earlier that the Cabinet would not resign.
We warned you of the dangerous repercussions that might happen if the government does not resign but you don't care; now we will choose the appropriate time to achieve the desired change in our own way...
"This will happen very soon; he will then not have time to pack his things because he will be forced to leave quickly," Aoun said.
Addressing the people, the head of the Reform and Change parliamentary bloc threatened: "We warned you of the dangerous repercussions that might happen if the government does not resign but you don't care; now we will choose the appropriate time to achieve the desired change in our own way." He added that Siniora's government "has forged an alliance with foreign countries working against Lebanese parties."
Following Aoun's statement, government allies expressed their strong disapproval of Aoun's stance. The head of the Democratic Renewal Movement, former MP Nassib Lahoud criticized what he called "a programmed campaign against the government that aims to shift the attention away from the humanitarian and socioeconomic crisis of the Israeli offensive against Lebanon." In a statement released following the movement's weekly meeting Thursday, Lahoud said "this campaign does not meet the priorities of the Lebanese."
... some parties are seeking either to increase their shares in the Cabinet so that they can hamper ministerial decisions or prevent the current government from assuming its responsibilities...
"Lebanon is at a turning point and cannot bear internal disputes and tense speeches; it needs cooperation among all the parties," he added. Lahoud also said citizens' priorities were lifting the Israeli air and maritime blockade, reconstructing houses and roads and fully implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1701 as a way of reaching a sustainable cease-fire.
Future Movement MP Atef Majdalani criticized calls for the creation of a national unity Cabinet, saying they were aimed at toppling Siniora's government. In a statement issued on Thursday, Majdalani said that "some parties are seeking either to increase their shares in the Cabinet so that they can hamper ministerial decisions or prevent the current government from assuming its responsibilities in implementing UN Resolution 1701 and the creation of an international tribunal to try those accused in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri."
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Thursday that a prisoner swap with Israel was being considered by his government but "nothing has materialized."
Fuad Saniora said Lebanon was "continuing the contacts" with Israel about a possible swap in which two Israeli soldiers would be released in exchange for all Lebanese detainees in Israeli prisons. "The matter is being looked over," he told reporters in Stockholm. "There is nothing really that has materialized so this matter is going to be of considerable interest by the Lebanese government." Saniora said Lebanon was interested in seeing the return of all detainees, "in other words the abducted soldiers as well as the Lebanese detainees that have been in Israeli prisons for over 28 years."
"I hope the Israeli government will respond to the call of reason so that we can finish with this and everybody will return to his home," he said. Israeli military officials have said Israel is holding 13 Hizbullah prisoners and the bodies of dozens of guerrillas that it could swap for the two captive soldiers. Earlier, a senior Israeli political official said that Israel would agree to conduct negotiations over the release of the soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah, if they were handed over to the Lebanese government. The official told Army Radio that if the talks are conducted with the Beirut leadership the move will not be perceived as a reward for Hizbullah.
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Israeli military officials have said Israel is holding 13 Hizbullah prisoners and the bodies of dozens of guerrillas that it could swap for the two captive soldiers.
I assume the 13 hizo were captured during the conflict. Sounds like a good deal if it's offered.
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Sounds like Saniora thinks (or does) control Hizbullah? If either is true then he is a terrorists enabler and therfore:
1-The EU/UN/US aid destined to Lebanon should be halted at once.
2-The bank accounts of Lenbanese and the government should be frozen.
3-Any accounts in the U.S. should be identified and the Israelis should be given a chance to garner payments for damages caused by Hizbullah, the kidnappings, and any economic damage.
If Fuad Saniora wants to lay with dogs we whould make sure he gets the fleas too.
(Xinhua)-- The United States and its European allies are assembling a list of sanctions against Iran over its defiance of a deadline to halt production of nuclear fuel, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
In addition to efforts in the UN Security Council, the Bush administration is also seeking to persuade European financial institutions to end new lending to Iran...
The proposed sanctions will begin with restrictions on imports of nuclear-related equipment and material. Eventually, punitive measures might expand to restrict travel by Iran's leaders and limit the country's access to global financial markets, the newspaper said.
In addition to efforts in the UN Security Council, the Bush administration is also seeking to persuade European financial institutions to end new lending to Iran. Some Swiss banks have already quietly agreed to limit their lending, U.S. officials said. The UN Security Council demands that Iran suspend its nuclear activities by Aug. 31. In its Resolution 1696, the Security Council for the first time made legally binding demands on Iran and issued a threat of sanctions.
Iran fails to halt N-work: IAEA
The UN nuclear agency declared Iran had failed to halt nuclear work by a Thursday deadline, and Tehran defied the threat of sanctions by vowing never to abandon a programme the West fears could give it atom bombs.
Iran will never abandon its obvious right to peaceful nuclear technology...
A confidential report by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), leaked to Reuters, said Iran resumed enriching small amounts of uranium in recent days.
Iran will never abandon its obvious right to peaceful nuclear technology, Iranian state radio quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying. Washington said before the IAEA verdict that world powers were poised to begin discussing punitive measures against Iran.
... the agency could not verify that Iran was not seeking to build nuclear weapons "because of lack of cooperation from Tehran."
Iran said Thursday that a report by the UN watchdog agency shows the country was completely cooperating with the agency's investigations into its nuclear program. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran was continuing to enrich uranium, defying a UN deadline Thursday for it to suspend the process. The report also said the agency could not verify that Iran was not seeking to build nuclear weapons "because of lack of cooperation from Tehran." But Mohammad Saeedi, the deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said the report showed "Iran has provided access to nuclear materials and facilities."
I am still convinced that path of dialogue should still be favored...
France's Foreign Minister on Thursday deplored Iran's response to an offer on behalf of five UN Security Council members plus Germany to discuss Tehran's terms for new nuclear talks. "I deplore Iran's unsatisfactory response to the ambition propositions for negotiation," Philippe Douste-Blazy said in a statement. "I am still convinced that path of dialogue should still be favored," he said.
"We deplore it, but we don't think anybody should do anything about it."
"Gilles!"
"Oui, your Excellency?"
"It is clear, this can go no further. We mus' take a stand!"
"Non, your Excellency. Surely not..."
"Oh yes, my friend, it is long past time. Fetch me..."
"Sir, think of the children!"
"...the 40 lb bond paper. Don't be such a girl about it. And the shutter pen."
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Oh Yeah!, Rummy and crew are kicking ass now! They will give in any second now!
/Blast France
//I'm not seeing much difference between what they're doing and what we're doing on this matter.
///HAHA!!!! We elected Bush, but got the Kerry plan anyways!!!
////Yeah, I should probably shut up. Keep supporting Rumsfeld. He seriously needs to get his ass booted out of this administration.
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Huh? Rumsfeld? WTF? #1 makes NO fucking sense and has NO bearing on the stories - all of which are about the diplo-game. Sheesh, don't play with your chubbie in public.
As for #2, it's just another step along the way - and your comment, again, is simply stupid. On the same page? LOL. Is that supposed to be insulting, funny, or insightful? LOL. Right. Another crybaby ankle-biter throwing a tantrum, Muck4doo / Thoth.
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Dudes it is a calm before the storm we draft sanctions, China and Russia veto then Prez sez see American people I tried they just won't do it, then we bomb the living shit out of Iran.
#6
Boltons a hard ass and all that, but its the UN people - the corrupt circle jerk at Turtle Bay. As far as what French think, say, or do, they have no honor and never have, their tune will change the moment they can profit or make the US look bad. Also, any sanctions that get agreed on even if approved by Russia & China are likely to be ignored by them anyway.
Bush 41's most shameful legacy was making it a seeming requirement of the US to grovel at the UN to try and justify to despots, tyrants, communists and anti American savages what we perceive as a real national security issues.
Too bad his son has learned that bad lesson all to well. Teddy Roosevelt must be spinning in his grave.
JerseyMike - And if Bush43 does not play the game, then he gets politically reamed - with an endless MSM drumbeat - hurting all the Pubbies who've ever uttered a single comment supporting anything he's ever done. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. The political atmosphere today sucks, but worse than that it is goddamned dangerous for us all.
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NS - The Shutter Pen!? and 40 lb bond paper and a "Round of Quill"
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Why do people keep demanding Rumsfeld's resignation when the primary failures have been at State and CIA?
Why not call for purges of those two organizations?
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In all fairness, I think the CIA has been getting it's act together lately and is improving. State on the ohter hand, is still quite a mess. Guess it takes a while to remove the Albright or Powell stains from the carpet.
International donors have pledged more than $940 million for the reconstruction of Lebanon, nearly double the amount originally sought. Fuad Siniora, the Lebanese prime minister, expressed his "great appreciation" to the donor countries meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. He added that the conference had been successful "not just in terms of show of support of solidarity... but also in the pledges that have been made that show the Lebanese people are not alone".
In a report to the conference earlier on Thursday, the Lebanese government had said at least $540 million was needed to help the country recover from the month-long fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. Jan Eliasson, the Swedish foreign minister, dismissed suggestions that the aid money would trickle down to Hezbollah, the Shia militia group, and strengthen its position in southern Lebanon. "I don't accept that argument," Eliasson said before the meeting. "This conference aims at strengthening the central government of Lebanon and in that government Hezbollah is only a minor part."
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And, how much for Northern Israel? Oh, I didn't think so
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Send the reconstruction bill to Iran and Syria - via Hezb. No-one else should pay dime one.
Word, Thinemp Whimble2412. When we're done kicking Iran's @ss, we need to confiscate enough Persian oil revenue to compensate for all those who were stupid enough to kick down. This aid is a de facto show of support for Nasrallah and should be withheld until they dig him out of his hibernaculum for prosecution.
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Jan Eliasson, the Swedish foreign minister, dismissed suggestions that the aid money would trickle down to Hezbollah, the Shia militia group, and strengthen its position in southern Lebanon. "I don't accept that argument," Eliasson said before the meeting.
Eliasson: Monkeys Shooting Bottle Rockets Will Fly Out Of My Ass. Soon.
The Italians, Kofi, the US, all with the same message to Pencilneck. Wonder why?
DAMASCUS, Syria - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Syria on Thursday to press its government to join international efforts to stop the flow of arms to Hezbollah and win the release of Israeli soldiers captured by the guerrillas.
This is the opportunity to move things for normal relations between Israel and Lebanon, if Resolution 1701 is implemented in its entirety, Annan said. We need to implement 1701 and capitalize on building relations between Israel and Lebanon as well as with other Arab neighbors to stabilize the region.
Addressing Syria without naming it, he said he would want to see the neighboring states extend their full cooperation to resolve all outstanding issues related to the border.
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No matter how hard he press and urge, his colonic/anal constipation always remain.
The head of the Lebanese-Palestinian dialogue committee said Wednesday that UN Resolution 1701 demanded the disarmament of all militias in Lebanon, including armed Palestinian factions. "The Lebanese government will deploy its control over all its territories and there won't be any weapons but the weapons of the Lebanese Army," Ambassador Khalil Makkawi told the Voice of Lebanon radio.
Makkawi said the national priority was to "remove all illegal weapons from South Lebanon, and then from other areas." He told The Daily Star the army would remove all illegal weapons in three camps where they are deploying next to the Litani River, "and they are Rashidieh, Al-Bass and Bourj Shemali. Just like they would confiscate Hizbullah's weapons if they found them there, the same applies to the Palestinians." He added: "The army does not need any permission to enter those camps."
The army would be tasked with disarming armed Palestinian groups, both inside and out of these refugee camps long known as "security islands," in line with the UN Security Council resolution passed on August 14 to end 34 days of fighting between Hizbullah and Israel.
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"The army would be tasked with disarming armed Palestinian groups"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Them and what other army?
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well, theoretically, if you just declared any armed individual to be "in the Lebanese Army", then all weapons would be in the hands of teh "Lebanese Army". Count on it
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Disarmament under 1701 'means Palestinians, too'
Use the Israeli method of dismembering, it's far less stressful. You might as well ask them to voluntarily hand over their testicles. Who are these idjits and what are they smoking?
An Iranian intellectual released after four months in jail has admitted he unknowingly acted against national security interests after being manipulated by US organisations, the ISNA agency reported Thursday. "I accepted acting against national security through having contacts with foreigners, but I did not do it intentionally and knowingly," Ramin Jahanbegloo told the agency, hours after his release on bail Wednesday.
In fact there was a kind of deviation from my philosophical and intellectual research to a political one...
"In fact there was a kind of deviation from my philosophical and intellectual research to a political one," added Jahanbegloo, a prominent thinker and writer on democracy and nonviolence.
I think that a velvet revolution cannot be carried out in Iran, since the situation in eastern Europe is not comparable to that of Iran.
Jahanbegloo, who also holds Canadian nationality, was arrested on charges of having ties with foreigners as he tried to leave Iran on April 25, prompting calls from Western countries and fellow intellectuals for his release. "During my prison term I sensed that American organisations put me in a position that I myself did not want to be in," he admitted. "I used to write articles on some sites which were run by security [intelligence] officials, and did so unknowingly," he said. "I have never undertaken any political activity and I was never a political leader. I think that a velvet revolution cannot be carried out in Iran, since the situation in eastern Europe is not comparable to that of Iran."
... at some of the conferences I attended there were a number of American and Israeli intelligence agents...
Iran's Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie had said Jahanbegloo was arrested over a US effort to instigate a "velvet" revolution, a reference to the peaceful overthrow of communist rule in Czechoslovakia in 1989. He pointed to a scholarship from the "National Endowment for Democracy" (NED), a US NGO aimed at strengthening democratic institutions around the world through non-governmental efforts. "I was given a scholarship from NED from 2001 until 2002, he said. During my work with them, which lasted until 2006, I came into contact with some US State Department diplomats and institutes." He went on to say that "at some of the conferences I attended there were a number of American and Israeli intelligence agents".
I was not subjected to any physical and mental pressures...
Jahanbegloo said that although it was hard for him to endure his term in Tehran's Evin prison, he was nonetheless not treated harshly. "I was not subjected to any physical and mental pressures. My interrogators were friendly and they told me that I had contacts with such and such and I told them yes... they told me that was against national security, and I told them I was in line with national security," he said. "I felt that many allegations were connected with having contacts with foreigners since I have attended a lot of conferences... I was arrested for having contacts with US organisations," Jahanbegloo added.
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" I was not subjected to any physical or mental pressure" but there was a lot of peer pressure involved.
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"...he had learned to love Big Brother."
George Orwell, 1984
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Let me get this straight:
The Islamist fascists in Iran will execute a teenage girl for showing some leg, but a man who "knowing acted against national security interests" skates after 4 months.
Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said in an interview Wednesday that the international community will not tolerate Syrian arms shipments to Hizbullah or other violations of the UN resolution that ended a month of fighting between Israel and the Shi'ite organization. "The Syrians must know that if weapons come from Syria or acts in violation of UN Resolution 1701 are committed, the international community will not stand by and watch," D'Alema told RAI state radio.
"We'll... ummm... stand by and talk."
The UN has said that so far there are no plans to deploy its strengthened peacekeeping force along Lebanon's border with Syria, something that President Bashar Assad has said he would consider a hostile act.
What's he gonna do? Declare war on the UN?
The warning from D'Alema came a day after an Italian task force set sail for southern Lebanon carrying more than 800 soldiers bound for peacekeeping duties. Italy has pledged to put some 2,500 troops on the ground by the end of the year as part of efforts to strengthen the UNIFIL force there.
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Legs are okay
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(KUNA) -- Twenty-six officers and soldiers of the Spanish army arrived here Wednesday, the vanguard of other forces to work with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Spanish defense minister Jose Alonso ordered a unit of the Marines to prepare for deployment in Southern Lebanon to boost UNIFIL, part of the European Union (EU) contributions to the UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. The unit, estimated at 800 forces, will head to Lebanon once the Spanish parliament gives its blessing for the dispatch, in a session on September 7.
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(Xinhua) -- The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Thursday which approved the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping forces to the Darfur region in Sudan, despite the Khartoum government's strong opposition. The 17,000 U.N. peacekeepers will take over the mission from an African Union force. The AU force, strapped by lack of funds, has experienced difficulties in coping with the humanitarian disaster in Darfur. But the UN force will not be deployed without approval from the Sudanese government. Tens of thousands of people have been killed and 2.5 million forced to flee their homes in three years of conflict between the government and several rebel groups in Darfur.
Sudan's president accused the United States and Britain Tuesday of conspiring against his country as diplomats at the United Nations said Washington and ally London want the Security Council to adopt a resolution in two days giving the U.N. authority over peacekeepers in Darfur. President Omar al-Bashir staunchly opposes the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping troops in the remote, western region to replace an African Union-led force there now.
Eleven Melbourne men have been committed to stand trial on terrorism related charges. The men were arrested late last year and early this year after a joint counter-terrorism operation by the Victorian and Federal Police. 
Dr Abdul Qadeer was taken to hospital in Islamabad on Thursday night amidst tight security for a medical examination, Aaj television reported. This is AQ Khan's first check up since he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. 
Hoping to bolster his position within the Labor party, but jeopardizing his place in the coalition, Defense Minister 
(BNA) Israel Deputy Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, affirmed today that the success of the international peace keeping forces in South of Lebanon can open the door for the suggestion made by Italy on spreading UN forces in Gaza. Peres said in an interview broadcasted by the Italian channel Sky News 24 that the success of the UNIFIL in Lebanon and peace with Lebanon might help in discussing the Italian suggestion. 
Tehran, Iran, Aug. 31 Hundreds of new judicial police have begun to roam the streets of Tehran starting from earlier this week, even before Irans Majlis (Parliament) approved the dubious judicial-security body that they represent. The new organ, officially called 
Lebanese politicians from the 
Lebanon's Prime Minister 
(Xinhua)-- The United States and its European allies are assembling a list of sanctions against Iran over its defiance of a deadline to halt production of nuclear fuel, the New York Times reported on Thursday. 
International donors have pledged more than $940 million for the reconstruction of Lebanon, nearly double the amount originally sought. 
The head of the Lebanese-Palestinian dialogue committee said Wednesday that UN 
Italian Foreign Minister 
(KUNA) -- Twenty-six officers and soldiers of the Spanish army arrived here Wednesday, the vanguard of other forces to work with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Spanish defense minister Jose Alonso ordered a unit of the Marines to prepare for deployment in Southern Lebanon to boost UNIFIL, part of the European Union (EU) contributions to the UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. The unit, estimated at 800 forces, will head to Lebanon once the Spanish parliament gives its blessing for the dispatch, in a session on September 7.
