President Hamid Karzai is under the influence of jinns foreign powers and troops led by NATO and the U.S. must set a firm date for their departure from Afghanistan, a government-run daily newspaper said on Saturday.
The remarks are the first of their kind in an Afghan paper about Karzai and foreign troops in Afghanistan, where there is frustration over growing insecurity and rampant corruption. "...It should be said that the Afghan nation reacts seriously, despite its difficulties, when the national interests of their country are exposed to foreign danger and have never accepted and nor will accept a protege government," Anis said. "If the world does not pay attention to this matter, soon the fire of Afghanistan will burn the region and a situation will emerge that will be unimaginable for anyone."
Karzai has been running Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces and allied Afghan factions overthrew the Taliban government in 2001. The 51-year-old won the presidential election in 2004 but is under pressure because of a steady increase in violence and the weakness of his government.
Anis said Karzai's government was a protectorate and the nation must discuss the issue of national sovereignty with "the foreigners" before next year's presidential election. "For the appointment of each high-ranking employee, Mr. Karzai has to propose individuals and then (announce their appointment) after the approval of foreigners," Anis said.
The paper did not elaborate further and did not identify the foreigners. Britain and the United States are the key players in Afghanistan which has been ravaged by decades of foreign intervention and civil war.
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(SomaliNet) After the Eritrean government in Asmara cut off fuel supplies, the United Nations begun moving its peacekeeping force acting as a buffer along the Eritrean-Ethiopian border from Eritrea to Ethiopia, the world body said on Thursday. On Monday, Ethiopia said it would temporarily host the force but the mission would only have administrative, not operational status.
The 1,700-strong UN mission started work in 2000, at the end of a two-year war between the two Horn of Africa neighbors that killed an estimated 70 000 people. They have been stationed in a 25km buffer zone inside Eritrea.
The two countries insist they will not start another war, but both have moved tens of thousands of troops to the border. UN officials have said UN soldiers were reluctant to leave because they feared it could spark a new conflict.
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Eritrea REALLY wants their ass kicked, don't they? They are behind most of the Somalian "rebel" activity support
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Well naturally they are ill-mannered and foul-mouthed: they are denizens of a gangster state. Sort of like comparing folks from your average Italian village with their cousins from the Sopranos.
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Well, since they left your 'loving care' in 1967, they've gone feral. You and your brethren throwing raw meat into the cage didn't help.
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This sort of thing seems petty, but it can have devastating consequences to the Paleos. This is because, no matter where you go in the world, and throughout most history and every culture, people subdivide into two groups: the "polite" people and the "impolite" people.
Virtually every city in the world is subdivided into the "good part of town", where the "polite" people live, and the usually much smaller "bad part of town", for the "impolite."
And being identified as "impolite" by "polite" people can be very, very dangerous.
They "polite" will not just want segregation, they will demand it from the government. And if the "impolite" are thought of as a threat, the "polite" will have them put down like dogs, with little remorse.
If the word gets around the "polite" part of Egypt that the Paleos are "impolite", sympathy for them will dry up overnight. The government will be compelled to not just keep that wall up, but put the military on the Egyptian side with orders to shoot to kill any unauthorized Paleo that tries to cross.
It is that serious. The "polite" Egyptians will even consider ejecting any Paleos currently living in Egypt, lumping all Paleos together as irredeemably "impolite".
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Since they left your 'loving care' in 1967, they've gone feral
Wow. Is it too early to call it the Snark of the Week?
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Dadgummed, high-falutin' Egyptians think y'all be too good fer us, do ya?
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"The "polite" will not just want segregation, they will demand it from the government. And if the "impolite" are thought of as a threat, the "polite" will have them put down like dogs, with little remorse.
If the word gets around the "polite" part of Egypt that the Paleos are "impolite", sympathy for them will dry up overnight. The government will be compelled to not just keep that wall up, but put the military on the Egyptian side with orders to shoot to kill any unauthorized Paleo that tries to cross.
It is that serious. The "polite" Egyptians will even consider ejecting any Paleos currently living in Egypt, lumping all Paleos together as irredeemably "impolite"."
What's the downside, 'moose? ;-p
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BEIJING (AP) - North Korea wants promised energy aid and removal from U.S. terrorism and sanctions blacklists before it will provide a complete declaration of its nuclear programs, American researchers said Saturday after a trip to the North.
North Korean officials also said they slowed the removal of fuel rods from the country's Yongbyon reactor because the United States and other nations have fallen behind in supplying aid under an Oct. 3 disarmament pact, said Siegfried Hecker, a Stanford University physicist, and Joel Wit, a former State Department expert on the North. The October deal calls for the North to disable its nuclear facilities and fully declare its nuclear programs in exchange for energy aid and political concessions, including removal from the U.S. terrorism list by the end of 2007.
Hecker and Wit said they visited Yongbyon and met with top foreign affairs officials and those in charge of the nuclear program but declined to disclose their names. Also traveling with them was Keith Luce, a staff member for Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republic. "To them, the most significant hurdle was ... the lack of the delivery of fuel oil and the lack of any motion in removal from the states sponsoring terrorism list and the Trading with the Enemy Act," Hecker said in Beijing. "They said until that is done, they will not be able to produce what (U.S. nuclear envoy) Ambassador (Christopher) Hill calls a 'complete and correct' declaration."
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Old German proverb: Erst die Ware, dann das Geld. (First the goods, then the money.)
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Don't do it!!! Tell Kimmie: "...No other choice but Detente, sorry!!". If the south balks or 'crabs backward' tell them the days of "Team America, World Police®" is soon to end. gage all reactions!
Heh - some spine appears! Ht to AOSHQ
Danish MPs have cancelled a trip to Iran after Tehran demanded they apologise for the republication of cartoons deemed offensive to Islam. Two days before the scheduled trip, Tehran demanded the MPs condemn the cartoon on their arrival in Iran.
The row follows the arrest on Tuesday of three men for allegedly planning to murder cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. The following day, 11 Danish papers reprinted his drawing depicting the Prophet with a bomb in his turban.
A condemnation and apology would help convince the Iranian people that Denmark's authorities had distanced themselves from the action, Iran's parliament said in a letter to Danish MPs.
Nine members of Denmark's foreign affairs committee were due to arrive in Iran on Monday for a three-day trip focusing on human rights and the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme. "We are not the ones to apologise," said Villy Soevndal, the leader of Denmark's Socialist People's Party. "If anyone needs to apologise for freedom of speech, human rights, imprisonments, executions and lack of democracy, it is the Iranians."
Denmark's foreign minister has backed the parliamentarians' decision not to travel. how do you say "bite me" in Danish?
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Mmmmm....time to go buy some more of that yummy Danish cheese... Havarti?
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tomorrow's a holiday, send the WaPo-buying Mrs. Bobby out for some Danish Elephant Beer while you relax and enjoy the Mickelson win at Riviera and Daytona 500?
that's why I'm divorced ;-)
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In Spanish it's muerdame.
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By the standards of Charles Martel, this isn't much of a stand - but by the standards of modern-day Europe, this is at least a small step in the right direction.
I keep wondering what the remaining white Anglos of the year 2050 will think - looking back to this decade. I have to think it will be along the lines of "what were those fools THINKING back at the turn of the century, to let the Islamic pestilence grow and gain strength as it did".
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The Basque Country declares independence, Corsica declares independence, Scotland declares independence, Wales declares independence, Flanders declares independence....it is gonna be a fun year in the European "Union"..........
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Congratulations Europe, you now have 4 muslims states. Turkey, Bosnia, Albania and now Kosovo.
You will reap what you sow for failing to read your Holy Bible.
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Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica blamed the US which he said was "ready to violate the international order for its own military interests".
What military interests could the United States possibly have in Kosovo?
We shouldn't have been there during the Clinton administration. We shouldn't have been there during the Bush administration. We shouldn't be there today.
We wouldn't be there except that Clinton couldn't keep his hands to himself and Europe can't clean up its own problems in its own backyard. So the US managed to royally piss off a people that had been our good friends and get itself maneuvered into defending a muslim country for no good result.
SRINAGAR: Families of militants killed in police encounters staged a protest demonstration on Sunday and demanded proper rehabilitation from the government.
Holding banners and placards, protesters shouted slogans demanding rehabilitation and other facilities.
The protesters are demanding a rehabilitation package as provided by the state government to the families of surrendered militants and slain civilians.
Officials of the Rehabilitation Council say the government cannot have a dual policy.
"The Government cannot adopt dual policy. It provides rehabilitation packages for the civilians, who are killed on streets, and even for militants who have surrendered, but what about the families of those militants who are killed in encounters? Their families are left helpless, without any support for them. They have an equal right to rehabilitation facilities," said Nirupama Kaul, the Nodal Officer of the Rehabilitation Council.
Apart from demanding jobs, protesters also demanded reservations in educational institutions for their children, free education and scholarships and other such benefits, which would ease their monetary troubles.
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Yup. My husband/son/nephew/3rd cousin is killing your civilians, law enforcement and military so you should support our families and give us special privileges.
Muslim/jihadi logic? Be interesting to see how this pans out.
The husband of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that her party will try to persuade the Pakistani people that the fight against Islamic militancy is "our own war" not just America's if it wins Monday's elections.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Asif Ali Zardari also urged Washington to do more to promote democracy in Pakistan. He would not say whether his party would be willing to work with President Pervez Musharraf.
Opinion polls suggest opposition parties are set for a sweeping victory in the parliamentary vote. But the enthusiasm of candidates and voters is minimal in the wake of Bhutto's assassination and amid fears that the voting will be rigged and marred by more bloodshed.
Zardari blamed authorities under Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 military coup and became a key U.S. ally after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, for the widespread skepticism of ordinary Pakistanis toward fighting terrorism. "They have made the people think and realize that we are fighting a war for the sake of the Americans, which is not the true position," Zardari said.
He said the key question was: "Are we ready to become a Taliban state? And the answer is: 'No, we're not.' ... That means we are fighting our own battle, we are fighting our own war."
Zardari spoke to the AP shortly after a suicide car bomb attack on an independent candidate's office near the Afghan border left more than 100 people dead or wounded, many of them supporters of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party. "It's a targeted attack and we condemn it with all the spirit of democracy and all the force in us," Zardari said. He urged party workers to remain calm. "This is again that way of making us lose track and give up the path of democracy," he said.
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Islamic militancy is "our own war" not just America's
When Abid Hunzala's wife was informed that he had blown himself up in a suicide attack, she was not surprised. Abid's mission ended with an attack on this bus in Sargodha A month earlier, she had received a letter from Abid, making it clear he was not coming back. The letter tells Fatima that a certain amount for money will be delivered to her to help her get by in the short term. In the long term, the letter says, "you should get remarried, as it will be the best thing for you and our son".
Abid's letter also tells her to give his best wishes to his mother, "and tell her to pray for me... I am going on a mission for God."
The letter was handed over to detectives investigating militant suspects in Karachi after a raid on Abid's house. They already knew a fair bit about him. His father and elder brother had been killed years ago fighting in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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It'd be nice to think that all this martyrdom is doing good things, long term, for the middle east's gene pool, but I'm afraid there's so many more where Abid came from that it's a wash in the end. Sigh...
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Punjab Rangers Deputy Director General Brigadier Qaisar Khan Tareen said on Saturday that Rangers deployed in 26 sensitive districts had been given shoot-on-sight orders for the February 18 elections.
Addressing a press conference at Rangers Headquarters, he said no one would be allowed to engage in subversive activities. Anyone carrying weapons would be arrested, their weapons seized and licences forfeited, he added. Separately, AIG Malik Muhammad Iqbal, under Police Order 2002, imposed a two-day ban on carrying weapons, or any other item that could be used to inflict injury. A handout said the ban would remain in force on February 17 and February 18.
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The UN's top refugee official has hinted that security in Iraq may soon have improved enough for some of the 4m Iraqi refugees to begin returning home.
See also: This analysis by blogger Sweetness & Light
Attacks by insurgents and rival sectarian militias have fallen up to 80 percent in Baghdad and concrete blast walls that divide the capital could soon be removed, a senior Iraqi military official said on Saturday.
Lieutenant-General Abboud Qanbar said the success of a year-long clampdown named "Operation Imposing Law" had reined in the savage violence between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs dominant under Saddam Hussein. "In a time when you could hear nothing but explosions, gunfire and the screams of mothers and fathers and sons, and see bodies that were burned and dismembered, the people of Baghdad were awaiting Operation Imposing Law," Qanbar told reporters.
Qanbar pointed to the number of dead bodies turning up on the capital's streets as an indicator of success. In the six weeks to the end of 2006, an average of 43 bodies were found dumped in the city each day as fierce sectarian fighting threatened to turn into full-scale civil war.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Saturday that hopes were up for the establishment of a Palestinian state by the end of 2008.
In an interview with Palestinian Al-Quds newspaper, Kouchner called for Palestinians and Israelis to abide by the agreements reached in the Annapolis conference held in the US. Israel must cease building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for the sake of peace, said Kouchner who also affirmed that Palestinians on their part must end all hostile activities against their neighbors.
Donations would continue to reach Palestinians, he said, adding that relief aid for the period between 2008 and 2010 would be to the tune of USD 300 million. ouchner also called on donors' states to fulfill their commitments promised in the Paris donors' conference last 2007.
Kouchner will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad this evening.
The Iranian government has intervened to try to stop the screening of a film in the Netherlands about the Koran. The Iranians say that the film, by the Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders, is offensive.
The Iranian justice minister, Gholam Hussein Elham, wrote to his Dutch counterpart, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, calling for a ban. Mr Hussein Elham said freedom of speech should not be used as a cover for attacking moral and religious values.
Mr Wilders says his film will show the Muslim holy book is an inspiration for murder.
But the Iranian justice minister says it is an unnecessary attack on what Muslims regard as the holiest of things. He said the motivation behind the film was satanic and urged the Dutch government to stop its screening.
Mr Wilders has already been advised that he may have to leave the country for his own safety. But the government has so far refused to intervene, saying the issue is one of freedom of expression.
In 2004, the Dutch film director, Theo van Gogh, was killed by a Muslim extremist in an Amsterdam street after bringing out the film Submission. It dealt with the issue of abused Muslim women and included scenes of nearly naked women with Koranic texts engraved on their bodies.
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freedom of speech should not be used as a cover for attacking moral and religious values.
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They just cant seem to comprehend the fact that it's not against the law to flame the Prophet(fleas be upon him) in the Netherlands. They keep saying the same thing, every time this comes up, and the answer is always the same.
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Iran's constitutional watchdog on Saturday opposed an attempt by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to expand his administration's power, saying the move "lacks legal justification."
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The decision by the Guardian Council was the second major rebuke in less than a month for the hardline president, whose popularity has plummeted recently in the face of Iran's ailing economy. Last month, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rebuffed Ahmadinejad and ordered him to implement a law supplying natural gas to remote villages after he initially refused to do so.
The most recent conflict began earlier this month when Iran's parliament opposed Ahmadinejad's attempt to bring several cultural, economic, technological and environmental institutions under tighter government control. The institutions were composed of a mix of government-appointed and independent representatives, but the Iranian president wanted to have total control of their activities.
The parliament countered Ahmadinejad's attempt by passing its own bill that explicitly prevented the president from taking any steps to bring the institutions under greater government control.
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...the second major rebuke in less than a month for the headline hardline president,
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In the old Roman empire, when a victorious general returned to receive a victory laurel from the Emperor, a slave was tasked to ride next to him in his chariot, as he passed through streets filled with adoring Romans.
The slave's duty was to, at intervals, whisper to the general the same thing:
"Thou art mortal."
This proved over time to be an excellent way of insuring that by the time the general reached the Emperor, he was humble enough to remember his place and not try to upstage his boss.
The Prime Minister's Office refused to comment Saturday on reports in the German weekly Der Spiegel that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to designate IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev as "fallen soldiers."
The two men were kidnapped by Hizbullah in June 2006, triggering the Second Lebanon War. Officials said that as long as there was no statement to the contrary, the working assumption was that both soldiers were missing in action and Israel would continue to pursue all means to bring about their return.
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Not good. This development would spur anticipatory resolve and congealing of the nation, without the hindrance of conscience as escalating warfare takes shape.
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There will be a re-match as soon as the Winograd Commission's recommendations can be fully implemented.
My suggestion: A highly visible build-up along the border, as last time, to freeze Hezbollah in its fortified positions. This would be followed not by a grinding infantry assault on a broad front but by a lightning armored thrust in the east, into the Bekaa Valley, with massive and immediate followup to confront a possible Syrian counter-attack.
At the same time, air and amphibious landings north of the Litani river line would punch across to the Bekaa, isolating the Hezbos in their redoubt. After that they can be destroyed at leisure.
The process must be complete, they must be utterly exterminated at any cost.
Through propagandists like Fisk and Pilger, Hezbollah has boasted for years of being the only "Arab" force to defeat Israel. The bloody stalemate in '06 only contributed to this. This is a massive distortion but with the Hezbos still in the field it cannot be rebutted in the minds of potential supporters.
Does Olmert have the big ones for this? Probably not, but if he is replaced and Bebe Netanyahu destroys Hezbollah instead, it will change the political landscape of Isreal for decades. That realization may allow Olmert to find the fire he needs to complete the job.
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I hope they aren't married. Without proof of their deaths, their widows will be unable to remarry in Israel.
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#1: "This development would spur anticipatory resolve and congealing of the nation, without the hindrance of conscience as escalating warfare takes shape."
Works for me, smn. Israel has been dealing with genocidal freaks neighbors for decades; they need all the resolve they can muster.
Not to mention the most updated ordnance....
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The army is on high alert along the northern border following reports that Hizbullah has deployed 50,000 men in southern Lebanon after last week's assassination of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh in Syria.
Defense officials expressed skepticism over the reports, saying Hizbullah had only several thousand fighters in total. The officials also said there were no indications on the ground of an increase in the Islamist organization's forces in the area.
According to the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir, Hizbullah has fled evacuated several political headquarters in southern Lebanon. The report also said the American Embassy in Beirut had put its staff on alert, and that all US officials in the area had been asked to be more vigilant than usual.
Last week, Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi ordered the Northern Command, air force and navy to raise their level of alert out of concern that Hizbullah will retaliate for the assassination of Mughniyeh by attacking in the North.
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Syria has denied Iranian reports that the two countries will conduct a joint investigation into the assassination of top Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed by a car bomb in the Syrian capital on Tuesday night.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheik Attar announced the joint probe on Friday, according to Iran's official news agency. But an unnamed Syrian official dismissed the report as "totally baseless" and said Damascus would conduct the investigation alone, Syria's state-run news agency reported late Friday.
Hizbullah and its Iranian backers have accused Israel of killing Mughniyeh, and Hizbullah's leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed in a eulogy to the slain terrorist on Thursday that his group would retaliate against Israeli interests anywhere in the world.
Israel has denied any role in the killing, and Syria has not said who it believes was behind the blast.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with senior Syrian officials in Damascus on Thursday and Friday to discuss Mughniyeh's assassination. Attar said Friday that Iran and Syria agreed to the joint investigation during Mottaki's visit.
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Investigate until the 'cows come home', it doesn't matter. Only Meir Dagan and his 'section' know for sure...and they ain't talkin!
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To add insult to injury, I hope they were the notorious 'Mossad Honeys", you know, the beautiful women that can make love to you while driving an ice pick into your heart from the back, while gazing into your delightfully bewildered eyes...yes those agents!! Mr. Vanunu could enlighten us. Thanks Meir! Congratulations on your contract extension also!!
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jeebus smn, could you say that name a few more hundred times? Yes, he's the head of the Mossad, but even Wiki knows that. Cripes, getting a little Obama-like in the gushing, huh?
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Sorry Frank G, I've studied and researched for years, the Israeli 'Answering Machine'. It gives me great pleasure to see the 'leash' removed at times of extreme internal politics, from the necks of the Directors par se! Although I value your service to the country, and the pedestal we all put you on, Meir's is only slightly higher; he's my hero...now and in 1976!
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The money quote:
In this context, I suggest that every Muslim put aside two dollars of his monthly income; half [the money] will go to our brothers in Palestine and the other half will go to the other [jihad] fronts.
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DEBKA > MUGNIYEH killing > IRAN AND ISRAEL POSED FOR A MILITARY CLASH + SYRIA VOWS BACK TO STRIKE BACK AT ISRAEL AFTER MUGNIYEH KILLING. Syrian officials are allegedly publicly announcing to mil strike/attack Israel once Syia's Govt formally repeals or renounces its policy of mil restraint for border incursions/encroachments???
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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President Hamid Karzai is under the influence of 
BEIJING (AP) - North Korea wants promised energy aid and removal from U.S. terrorism and sanctions blacklists before it will provide a complete declaration of its nuclear programs, American researchers said Saturday after a trip to the North.
The husband of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that her party will try to persuade the Pakistani people that the fight against Islamic militancy is "our own war" not just America's if it wins Monday's elections.
Punjab Rangers Deputy Director General Brigadier Qaisar Khan Tareen said on Saturday that Rangers deployed in 26 sensitive districts had been given shoot-on-sight orders for the February 18 elections.
The army is on high alert along the northern border following reports that Hizbullah has deployed 50,000 men in southern Lebanon after last week's assassination of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh in Syria. 
