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I don't know exactly what to say
he's forked
I'd look closely at his superiors and close friends
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Raid in mid-July.
FTA: It was a complex assault: it included a 37-man assault team, a pair of Afghan Mi-17 helicopters, five UH-1H Hueys and a Douglas DC-3 configured as a surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft.
Where do they get the parts for that DC-3? They must not want the sound of a turbine engine to spook the drug gangs.
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Expect the drumbeat for withdrawal from Afghanistan to get a little louder. 4.3 metric tons of hash off the market is a lot of money out of the mob's pocket. The Turks won't have anything to sell in the Berlin U-Bahn stations now.
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SEVERAL Australians are among a group of foreign security guards at the US embassy in Afghanistan who are being investigated over drunken and deviant parties.
The guards are employed by ArmorGroup, the security company that employed the Australian security contractor shot dead last month by a British colleague after a late-night drinking session. Darren Hoare and a British colleague were shot dead in Baghdad.
The Australians employed by the company as security guards are mostly former members of the Australian Defence Force or Australian police forces.
US authorities said about 300 of the 450 ArmorGroup guards at the embassy are Gurkhas. The rest are Australians, South Africans and Americans.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ordered an investigation into allegations that guards at the embassy in Kabul were engaged in wild parties noted for the sort of anarchy and bullying detailed in the William Golding novel Lord of the Flies.
The inquiry comes after an independent group sent Mrs Clinton a dossier claiming that guards at the embassy had been engaged in drunken parties involving prostitutes and ritual humiliation. Pictures and video footage were attached.
The dossier, compiled by Project on Government Insight, includes an email allegedly from a guard in Kabul describing scenes in which guards and supervisors are ''peeing on people, eating potato chips out of [buttock] cracks, vodka shots out of [buttock] cracks (there is video of that one)''.
US State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the allegations were being taken seriously.
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main rival Abdullah Abdullah staged a rally of village elders on Tuesday to denounce fraud in last month's election and said he was doing all he could to keep his supporters off the streets.
Abdullah has accused Karzai's government of stuffing ballot boxes on a massive scale and has lodged hundreds of allegations of fraud in the Aug. 20 ballot. In a packed hall in central Kabul, 300 tribal elders dressed in flowing white robes shook fists and delivered emotional speeches as they urged Abdullah to take action against what they described as widespread electoral violations.
Addressing them from a stage flanked by armed guards, Abdullah vowed to protect their votes, but urged restraint. "My main concern today is that there is a lot of pressure from the people on me (to hold) demonstrations," Abdullah told Reuters on the sidelines of the meeting. I ask them for calm, I ask them for patience."
An independent fraud watchdog, the Election Complaints Commission, is investigating almost 2,500 allegations of abuse, including 567 it says are serious enough to affect the outcome. Three of the commission's five members are United Nations appointees. Abdullah's main support base is among Tajiks in the north but Tuesday's gathering included elders from southern regions, where he has made an effort to show he has support. Karzai has not commented on fraud allegations.
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[Quqnoos] The Afghan Independent Election Commission has indicated its preparadness for second-round presidential polling, if needed
An IEC spokesman, Noor Mohammad Noor, said on Tuesday that the outcome of last month's election is not decided yet and it is too soon to confirm a run-off, as thousands of fraud allegations challenge the transparency of the first-round vote.
Incumbent Hamid Karzai and his closest challenger Abdullah Abdullah are in the lead of the partial preliminary vote count. The IEC on Monday announced that that 47.8 percent of the polling stations have been tallied so far, placing President Karzai in the lead with 45.8 percent and Abdullah second with 33.2.
Incumbent Karzai is still short of the necessary votes to avoid a two-man runoff.
Some Afghan experts say that the margin between Karzai and Abdullah indicates a possible runoff which, if needed, will be held in October.
Nearly 2,500 complaints have been submitted to the Electoral Complaint Commission (ECC), including 567 allegations of serious abuse that may affect the outcome of the Aug 20 Presidential Election.
The UN and Afghan Parliament have urged the ECC to seriously probe the complaints in order to satisfy all involved parties.
Abdullah, a former foreign minister, has warned observers to not recognise the outcome of the election if cheating becomes the deciding factor.
Abdullah said massive rigging occurred on Election Day. To avoid a run-off, a candidate must win more than 50 percent of the vote.
The IEC is expected to announce the final official results in 16 September. In the event that the election steps in for a second round, it would be held in October.
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[Mail and Globe] Chaos in Somalia is spilling over its borders, fuelling a climate of suspicion in Kenya's remote north-east where recruiters have been seeking new jihadists to send into battle.
Western security agencies say Somalia has become a haven for foreign jihadists and local Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda who are plotting attacks across the region and beyond.
Somalis fleeing the civil war are crossing the frontier into Kenya at a rate of 7 000 a month.
That has piled pressure on the government and aid agencies to shelter them, and has also seen the emergence of groups that local security officials say are linked to Somalia's rebels.
Police said 10 young Kenyan men were arrested last month after being recruited by two bogus charities to go to Somalia and fight for al-Shabaab militants. Washington describes al-Shabaab as al-Qaeda's proxy in the failed Horn of Africa state.
Somalia's United Nations-backed administration is battling several insurgent groups including al-Shabaab. It controls just pockets of the central region and a few parts of the capital Mogadishu.
Sheikh Abdullahi Dahir Shurie, a respected Muslim cleric in north-eastern Kenya's Ijara district, said it was upsetting that so many Kenyan youths had been "misled" into believing fighting for the rebels in Somalia was a religiously sanctioned jihad.
"Some have been recruited, others were killed there," he said. "We must protect those who remain and stop these lies."
A Kenyan intelligence officer who declined to be named said last month's arrests in Eastleigh, a mainly Somali suburb of the capital Nairobi, were made after months of investigation.
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The convicted Lockerbie bomber, released from a Scottish jail last month on compassionate grounds because of ill health, has been admitted to hospital intensive care in Tripoli, a Libyan official said on Wednesday, while British Prime Minister Gordon Brow rejected suggestions that his government put pressure on Scotland to release the bomber. "No, no! Certainly not!"
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, who has prostate cancer and was given only three months to live when he was released on August 20, was hospitalized "three days ago," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He is in a critical state. He is undergoing chemotherapy sessions," said a person close to Megrahi, adding: "Even his family are forbidden to visit, on doctors' orders."
Megrahi is in the Tripoli Medical Center's cancer ward, a security officer told an AFP correspondent at the scene.
Plain clothes police could be seen preventing visitors from going in and a security barrier blocked access to cars.
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I hope he dies slowly in great pain.
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The "great pain" will start after his death, RJ. There's a special annex in Hell for perverts of this type. Just another serial murderer, only he did his in one attack. His punishment in Hell should be having to relive the last few minutes of the lives of those who died on Pan Am flight 103, over and over.
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Sory I don't believe in hell, do it here and prevent others.
Make it so bad that hardened criminals wince.
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I read of a death Tartars used, hang the criminal by his thumbs,
every man in camp cuts off a very small slice, a man stands by with a pot of hot pitch, after each slice he dabs hot pitch on the wound
Not only does it hurt like hell, but prevents the criminal from bleeding to death.
every man is trained NOT to inflict a serious wound, no cutting arteries and such
It can go on for days.
Yep makes me shudder.
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[BBC] A member of the Nigerian Islamist sect behind a deadly uprising in July has confessed to receiving military training in Afghanistan, police say. The member of the sect known locally as Boko Haram and Taliban said he was paid $500 to do the training and promised $35,000 (£22,000) on his return.
An awful lot of money, in Nigeria.
If confirmed it would be the first proven link between Islamists in the oil-rich country and Afghanistan.
The man, 23-year-old Abdulrasheed Abubakar, was paraded before journalists in the Borno state capital Maiduguri, where the sect was based and which saw the worst violence. The police also displayed a large cache of weapons and bomb-making equipment recovered from suspected Boko Haram members recently arrested in the northern cities of Yola and Maiduguri.
The BBC's Bilkisu Babangida said Mr Abubakar appeared confident and not at all nervous in front of the journalists. He explained that he had converted to Islam seven months ago and decided to join the sect after buying the teachings of Boko Haram leader Mohammed Yusuf on cassette. He met Yusuf two weeks after finding the sect in Maiduguri and was asked by the Boko Haram leader to go to Afghanistan, he said.
Boko Haram security must've consisted of checking his Facebook page.
"I spent three months in Afghanistan. I was trained as a bomb specialist." Mr Abubakar said he was supposed to train five people on his return, but when he did not receive his money he escaped. He said that during the uprising in July, when Boko Haram militants, armed mainly with machetes, launched the simultaneous attacks on police stations in different parts of the north, he was in jail in Yola.
After the uprising had been suppressed, many beheaded bodies were found in the sect's headquarters, including at least three Christian preachers and the second in command of the military operation. Hundreds of sect members were also killed as the security forces retaliated and controversy surrounds the death of Yusuf, who was shot after his arrest. Police say Yusuf was killed in a shoot-out when he tried to escape, but human rights groups say it was a summary execution.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Nigerian police reportedly claim that a gunman from the country's hotly-pursued militant sect has confessed to receiving training in Afghanistan.
The man, named Abdulrasheed Abubakar, was arrested in the northern city of Yola on Sunday during a police crackdown on the country's notorious Boko Haram gunmen, the local newspaper Next reported. On Wednesday, the police said the 23-year-old had "confessed" that he had been paid USD 5,000 to do the training and promised USD 30,000 on his return, BBC reported. The police has not clarified who has provided the funds to the man and whether his confession was volunteered.
"The bomb maker was trained outside the country and he is understood to possess extensive knowledge of how to handle, produce and detonate bombs of the most lethal magnitudes," the daily had quoted Altine Daniel, Police Public Relations Officer as saying.
Boko Haram, the man's alleged militant handlers, have been implicated in last July's violence in northern Nigeria which left around 700 killed. The Boko Haram was shaped in 2002 in the northeastern state capital of Maiduguri. The group's continuous attacks against the police have made it the focus of Abuja's anti-terror efforts.
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"whether his confession was volunteered."
This was not in America - just look for cigarette burns and drill holes in his kneecaps.
The show is called "Death Making" in Arabic, hardly the way Al Qaeda probably wants itself described. But that is how the powerful pan-Arabic satellite channel Al Arabiya casts the terror organization and its foot soldiers in its popular television program.
Hosted by female correspondent Rima Salha, the Dubai-based show is heading into its third year on Al Arabiya and aims to influence how the Arab world views Al Qaeda. "As we know, there are lots of Muslims who are brainwashed so they believe in terrorism but there are also big sections of Muslims who sympathize with terrorists," says Salha. "We are targeting those people and trying to explain to them that terrorism is not a good thing."
It is a unique program that lets jihadists tell their stories, and then shows the results of their actions. "It's not enough to tell you that Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization. You have to understand why, what it means, how everything works, and what the end goal is for them," Al Arabia's general manager Abdul Rahman al-Rashed explains.
For her work, Salha, who is Lebanese, gets death threats, including when Osama bin Laden's number two, Ayman al Zawahiri, singled the show and Al Arabiya out, by weaving video of both into one of his multi-media diatribes against mass media. Al Rashed said that the video made "a lot of problems for Al Qaeda," because "they have different factions within Al Qaeda." "There are a lot of programs debating the issue of terrorism, a lot of debating," says al Rashed. "But this is the only program with field trips, with special footage, with a lot of revelations in it."
Despite the threats, Salah is undeterred. She goes to the jihadists, where they are: in refugee camps off limits even to security forces and to Iraq. She and her team convince subjects to talk to them. It's not easy, but some of these militants apparently think they stand to benefit from a bit of publicity. She's interviewed the family of the late leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq Abu Musab al Zarqawi and Kamal Habib who was one of the organizers of the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. Habib has since renounced violence and went on Salha's show critical of his old associate al Zawahiri's continued use of violence.
The topic of terrorism is so hot that Salha gets attacked from all sides. "They accuse me of fighting jihad, they accuse me of destroying the image of Islam. This is not true. We are not distorting the image of Islam," says Salha. "The program is just trying to show some facts about terrorism and these so-called jihadists. Of course I receive threats on a regular basis, but that does not prevent me from doing my mission."
"We also, in the show, highlighted victims of terrorism, and when I say victims, I also include the terrorists themselves and their family because they are also victims of brainwashing and radical views," says Salha. She says though the name of the program is "Death Making," she hopes its effect is ultimately the opposite. "We also target youngsters and the aim of the program, and I said, is to help try to get these poor people get over these radical views."
[Iran Press TV Latest] Yemen's Houthi resistance fighters accuse the government of intensifying its offensive against the Shia group after their proposed peace offer was rejected.
Zaidi Shias --also known as Houthis-- said Wednesday that the government troops took advantage of their soft position and started advancing in some districts of the northern provinces of Saada and Amran adding that they were forced to retreat after facing strong resistance.
Houthis have also accused the government of downplaying its successive losses by Shia fighters in the north and also describing some of its defeats as "technical retreat".
"The government is trying to deny its defeat in Saada and Amran while we have already documented them through (video) images", the office of Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, who heads the Shia group, said Wednesday referring to the retreat of Yemen's 105th Brigade in Saada's Maran district and seizure of their arms.
On Tuesday, the government dismissed Houthis' peace offer to end the war, saying the military offensive against Shia fighters in the north would continue until the government's conditions for a ceasefire are met.
The government's conditions for a ceasefire include Houthis' withdrawal from all districts of Saada and the mountainous sites and the return of military equipments they seized from the army.
After the government rejected the offer, the Shia group warned of "a prolonged war of attrition and surprised measures", saying Sanaa "lost a valuable opportunity" to end the violence.
Houthis who say they are defending themselves against religious oppression have vowed to fight until their rights are achieved.
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Yemeni Shia fighters have declared that they hold the government solely responsible for consequences of continuing the war in north after it rejected their truce offer.
The Zaidi resistance fighters, also known as Houthis, offered a peace initiative to the Yemeni government late Monday to end the bloody clashes in Saada province and the surrounding areas.
Houthis say their peace plan was based on humanitarian grounds to prevent more killings in the region. They added that their offer proves that they are determined to end the violence in Saada.
"From now on the government will be faced with a prolonged war of attrition and should await surprised measures", said the office of Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, who heads the Shia group, in a Wednesday statement. It noted that the government "lost a valuable opportunity" by rejecting their truce offer.
On Tuesday, the government dismissed Houthis' peace offer which called for reopening of roads and withdrawal of government troops to positions they held before the beginning of the latest military offensive against the Shia group, saying the only way to end the war was the acceptance of the government's six-term ceasefire plan set out two weeks ago.
The government's conditions for ceasefire include Houthis' withdrawal from all districts of Saada and mountainous sites and the surrendering of military equipment they seized from the army.
The Yemeni army has been fighting the Shia Zaidis in Saada and Amran provinces for three weeks.
The offensive, involving air, artillery and tank strikes, has so far left hundreds of people killed and over 100,000 others displaced.
While the Houthis say they are defending themselves against religious oppression, the government says it is fighting an armed insurgency seeking to reinstate imamate rule, which ended in a 1962 coup.
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Unification Minister Hyun In-taek on Wednesday said North Korea's recent charm offensive toward the U.S. and South Korea represents "tactical changes" but notably omits the most important issue. "I think the conciliatory gestures represent tactical rather than any fundamental changes because despite some differences in its attitude, North Korea has not budged on the six-party talks and the nuclear issue."
And they won't until they either implode or China jerks the leash good and hard ...
He made the remarks in a keynote speech at a National Assembly seminar hosted by the National Unity Forum, a fraternity of Grand National Party lawmakers. "Although North Korea has lifted various kinds of curbs in inter-Korean business, we still have doubts whether it has made fundamental changes," he said.
"I don't think North Korea has taken a very forward-looking attitude by lifting the curbs. They were lifted on matters that had already been agreed on [between the two sides]. Everything was belatedly put back on track."
Hyun called for inter-Korean issues to be solved based on national consensus. "Any North Korea policy not based on such consensus is meaningless," he said.
Recalling his meeting with a North Korean delegation during the funeral for former President Kim Dae-jung, he said it was remarkable "as the first such meeting between senior government officials from both Koreas since the new government's inauguration. This was nothing but a small first step. I believe how the first step will lead to a bigger development depends on North Korea."
"How inter-Korean relations will develop will depend on whether North Korea really has the intention to find a solution to the nuclear issue. I repeatedly emphasized to the North Korean delegation that the solution is urgent and essential to peace on the Korean Peninsula," he added.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The newly elected Democratic Party in Japan has burdened the Obama administration with a new foreign policy headache in Asia, adding to its troubles facing Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea.
Japan's new rulers may back away from upholding Washington's priorities including the war in Afghanistan or the redeployment of American troops in Asia, The Washington Post reports in a Wednesday article, quoting an anonymous senior US official.
Testimony to the new Democratic Party's shift of policy towards the US, is a recent announcement regarding considerations to cancel Japan's mission to refuel American warships near Afghanistan and to relocate a US Marine airfield on Okinawa.
The party's leader and presumptive Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, recently lashed out at the American-led globalization and urged a greater Japanese focus on Asia.
"The election of a new party could produce new ways of doing things, which we will have to adjust to," said a senior official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. "You'll have this period of unpredictability."
Washington analysts have begun to ask whether the Sunday's victory of the Japan's Democratic Party against the Liberal Democratic Party was indicative of a deeper change in the Asian country's orientation and a move away from its long-time dependence on the United States.
"There is a fear of dramatic change in the U.S.-Japan alliance," said Michael Auslin, an expert on Japanese foreign policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.
"No one knows what will happen next, or even who to talk to for answers."
Yet, even Japan's rulers are doubtful that their country is going to step out the US sphere of influence, especially in the face of China's herculean rise and a nuclear-capable North Korea.
"They do not have a mandate for changing the alliance with the U.S.," said Yukio Okamoto, a former adviser to several prime ministers on foreign affairs.
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The Liberal Democrats have been in power too long, with the same problems that the PRI had in Mexico. Because it was the only way to political power for so long, lots of scoundrels moved in who didn't believe their core values.
Japan has a lot of internal problems that have been ignored for years as well, and they will probably come busting out in short order.
[Kyodo: Korea] North and South Korea normalized a military hot line in the western area of their border Wednesday, more than a year after Pyongyang suspended it. The direct communication channel, one of two of its kind operated by the military forces of the two sides, ""began normal operations"" after a test trial Tuesday, the South"s Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae Sung told a press briefing.
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He is a shadowy figure who may be the highest paid police agent in Canadian history, costing taxpayers millions as he was rushed into witness protection. Yet the Islamist infiltrator once known as Shaher Elsohemy may prove worth every penny, at least as far as prosecutors and security services are concerned.
Thursday's sentencing of a confessed terrorist will mark the first time that any core member of the alleged Toronto 18 bomb conspiracy is sent to a penitentiary. This conviction might well have been impossible, had police not installed a man on the inside. An Arab entrepreneur in his 30s, Mr. Elsohemy is portrayed in court documents as playing a crucial, clandestine role in thwarting the high-profile plot, yet has received almost no attention to date. He claims that he so thoroughly infiltrated a inner circle of radicalized youth that he was given envelopes of cash and shopping lists of chemicals, as he was asked to help attack Toronto with fertilizer bombs.
On June 2, 2006, the agent disappeared to parts unknown to assume a new identity, as undercover police staged a delivery of fake ammonium nitrate to some of the suspects. Eighteen accused in total were rounded up that day. One of them has since opted not to fight charges. Not a day passes that I am not filled with regret for my role in this despicable crime, Saad Khalid, now 22, said at a sentencing hearing last week. Caught unloading boxes marked ammonium nitrate fertilizer from the back a truck, he asked for leniency as prosecutors pressed for a 20-year jail term.
Ontario Superior Court Judge Bruce Durno will sentence Mr. Khalid today, and in doing so reveal how much weight he gives to the evidence of the mystery agent who has not resurfaced since vanishing three years ago. Obviously, all the juicy details are at the link.
The success rate of a test of the missile defense system which the U.S. is building against so-called rogue states including North Korea stands at 86 percent. U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, in an interview said 39 of the last 45 tries at stopping a test missile were successful.
"In the past few years, all hit their mark, except one that had a manufacturing problem. It was fixed, and three weeks ago successfully hit its target in a test," he claimed.
"The failures were mostly at the start of the testing" and the missile defense capabilities improved significantly recently, he added.
"The Defense Department recently committed an additional US$900 million toward fielding the Army's theater high-altitude-area defense mobile missile defense system," he said. "The agency has finished seven of eight required tests of the system," and O'Reilly expects to see it in the field next year.
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Untried... Unreliable... Looks like trouble for the donks...
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Also, prolly better be someone looking at putting SM-2 / SM-3 launch capabilities on the next classes of US nuke subs...
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Unfortunately, Eastern Europe will not see the benefits.
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Ummm 86$ successful is FAIL
If not 100$ effective missiles can get through
You think they'll only launch one
Hell no. you launch thousands at a time to saturate the system
then 14$ get through.
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sorry my eyes are going thought that was the percent sign.
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Um, no. 86% is not fail. It is resounding success. First, no rogue nation has 1000 ICBMs and will not for decades, if ever. If someone did launch hundreds or 1000 ICBMs at us--let's ignore MIRVs, the logic is identical with them--I imagine that we would ordinarily target at least 2 missiles on each incoming. That means that fewer 2 percent would get through. (1-0.86)^2 = 0.019.
Suppose that an enemy launches 1000 ICBMs, which case do you prefer?
case 1) No BMD. 950 warheads land. They take out 600 large population centers, using multiple warheads for the 100 or 200 largest cities. 150 million Americans die immediately, most or all of the rest starve over a period of 5 or 10 years. We retaliate and kill some similar number of the enemy. The rest of the world's population starves because of nuclear winter. Essentially, the world ends with a very loud bang and a prolonged wimper.
Case 2) We have BMD and 19 of the 1000 ICBMs get through. They destroy all or part of 15-17 large population centers. 5 or 10 million Americans die immediately. There is no nuclear winter though and almost all the rest live. We retaliate against enemy military and political targets, killing millions but leaving most of the enemy civilians alive. It is the worst event in world history but life goes one.
Which do you prefer?
86% is excellent.
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[Dawn] A Pakistani court on Wednesday suspended an earlier order lifting restrictions on the movement of nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is alleged to have spread nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
Deputy Attorney General Mohammed Amir Rehman said a two-member panel of the Lahore High Court issued the interim ruling following an appeal from the Pakistan government. The court has scheduled another hearing for Sept. 15, he said.
A judge of the Lahore High Court issued an interim order last week asking the government and police to lift all restrictions on Khan's movement.
That ruling was in response to a petition by Khan, and raised concern among US officials, who consider him a proliferation risk.
Khan was detained in December 2003 and admitted on television in early 2004 to sole responsibility for operating a network that spread nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. He has since retracted that statement.
He was pardoned by then President Pervez Musharraf, but immediately placed under de facto house arrest.
In February, the Islamabad High Court announced he was a 'free citizen', subject to a confidential accord struck with the government. Since then, he has had to tell authorities of his travel plans, get permission for guests to visit him at home, and intelligence agents and security officials have maintained a heavy presence outside his house, prompting him to launch the petition.
The government says the restrictions are necessary for his own safety.
Khan's lawyer Ali Zafar said he heard about Wednesday's court order through the media, but had no details.
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[Dawn] Pakistan has said that it is 'not obliged' to immediately arrest Lashkar-e-Tayyaba founder Hafiz Saeed even if an Interpol Red Corner notice has been issued against him and claimed that evidence provided by India in their three dossiers was 'not sufficient' to link him to the 26/11 attacks. Nor will it ever be sufficient...
'Pakistan needs to examine the evidence provided by India on the basis of which Interpol issued a Red Corner notice against Hafiz Saeed. Certain procedures are required to pursue the notice,' Interior Minister Rahman Malik said. "What procedures?"
"Certain procedures."
In an interview to Saudi Daily Arab News, Malik said even if a Red Corner notice has been issued against Saeed, the government was 'not obliged to immediately arrest him'. "Maybe some day. But don't count on it too hard."
'We are free to make our own investigations against the man, and then take steps accordingly,' he said.
Malik claimed that the evidence provided by India in three dossiers 'is, in our considered view, not sufficient to link Hafiz Saeed to the (Mumbai) attack and to punish those who are guilty.'
'We appeal to India to share information with us, and also to keep faith in our legal system and judiciary,' he said and reiterated his claim that India could have averted the Mumbai attacks by sharing information with Pakistan. 'Let me tell you, India could have prevented the terror attacks in Mumbai if they had shared intelligence with us after the arrest of two terrorists - Fahim Ansari and Sabah Uddin,' he said.
This article starring:
Fahim Ansari
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Hafiz Saeed
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Sabah Uddin
Lashkar-e-Taiba
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Sounds like India has legitimate grounds to consider the refusal an Act of War.
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Lebanese authorities are holding in custody a prominent Shi'ite financier close to Hizbullah on suspicion of fraud after he invested hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money before declaring bankruptcy, judicial officials said Wednesday.
The Kuwait-based newspaper Al-Watan reported that Hizbullah incurred some $683 million in losses as a result of Salah Ezzedine's activities.
Ezzedine gave himself up to authorities earlier this week after declaring himself bankrupt. The officials said he was then taken into custody and is being investigated for possible crimes including "the defrauding of large amounts of money." He has not been formally charged yet.
The case has drawn comparisons in Lebanon with that of Bernard Madoff, the New York financier whose multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme wiped out thousands of investors and charities worldwide. Madoff was sentenced in June to 150 years in prison.
Ezzedine, a wealthy businessman from the town of Maaroub near the southern port city of Tyre, is a prominent financier particularly among Shi'ite circles in Lebanon. He is the owner of Dar Al-Hadi Publishing House, one of Lebanon's most prominent publishers of religious Shi'ite books that also prints books written by Hizbullah officials. He also owns the Al-Hadi television network for children. Employees at the publishing house have refused to speak to reporters about the case.
An official with close links to Hizbullah confirmed to the Associated Press that Ezzedine "has extensive connections" with senior members of the group but could not say whether any senior members had business dealings with him. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject.
The judicial officials said Ezzedine had major business interests, particularly in oil and iron industries in Eastern Europe, and suffered substantial losses when oil prices dropped starting in the middle of last year.
He tried to make up for his losses by taking money from Lebanese investors, promising them up to 40 percent interest on their deposits, which he could not repay, the officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with Lebanese regulations.
Many Muslims consider interest paid by banks as un-Islamic, and therefore prefer to invest their money in businesses such as the ones run by Ezzedine.
Media reports said that among Ezzedine's victims are high-ranking members of Hizbullah, as well as Shi'ite investors from southern Lebanon and the Hizbullah stronghold south of Beirut.
Al-Mustaqbal, a Lebanese daily, said that among those who filed charges against Ezzedine was Hizbullah lawmaker Hussein Hajj Hassan. Repeated calls by The Associated Press to Hajj Hassan went unanswered Wednesday. It was still not clear whether Ezzedine knowingly deceived investors.
Ezzedine is known for being involved in charity work. He headed an institution that organized pilgrimage trips to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
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Hizbullah incurred some $683 million in losses
heh heh.
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Yes. You know that one-laigged nigger dat b'longs to old Misto Bradish? Well, he sot up a bank, en say anybody dat put in a dollar would git fo' dollars mo' at de en' er de year. Well, all de niggers went in, but dey didn't have much. I wuz de on'y one dat had much. So I stuck out for mo' dan fo' dollars, en I said 'f I didn' git it I'd start a bank . Well, o' course dat nigger want' to keep me out er de business, bekase he says dey warn't business 'nough for two banks, so he say I could put in my five dollars en he pay me thirty-five at de en' er de year.
"So I done it. Den I reck'n'd I'd inves' de thirty-five dollars right off en keep things a-movin'. Dey wuz a nigger name' Bob, dat had ketched a , en his marster didn' know it; en I bought it off'n him en told him to take de thirty-five dollars when de en' er de year come; but somebody stole de wood-flat dat night, en nex day de one-laigged nigger say de bank's busted. So dey didn' none uv us git no money."
A little something for the 57th Georgia Light infants. Still, it covers this as well as many other stories.
[Iran Press TV Latest] With the debate on the new Ahmadinejad Cabinet spilled over to another day, Iranian lawmakers will vote on the nominees on Thursday, after the president offers his last words about his picks.
Parliamentary debate on the line-up began on Saturday and is expected to end by Thursday noon. The president will then address the lawmakers in defense of the 21 nominees who await a vote of confidence.
The voting is set to take place after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech.
So far, 19 nominees have outlined their four-year plans in front of the lawmakers, with defense minister-designate Ahmad Vahidi seeming to be enjoying a tacit approval by the Majlis, the Iranian Parliament.
The nominees for the energy and oil portfolios are yet to present their plans to lawmakers.
Iran's outgoing commerce minister Masoud Mirkazemi who has been nominated to head the oil ministry is expected to come under careful scrutiny as there are talks that he lacks expertise in the vital sector.
Mohammad Ali-Abadi, who has previously served as Tehran's deputy mayor, vice-president and head of the Physical Education Organization, will also present his plans as the minister of energy against Majlis officials.
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US President Barack Obama has reportedly sent his second direct message to Iranian authorities.
Tabnak on Wednesday said Iran has received a second letter, but did not mention the exact date the correspondence had reached Tehran.
"The first letter was dispatched in Ordibehesht, before the elections," Tabnak said referring to the second solar month of the Persian calendar corresponding to 21 April to 21 May.
According to the report, Obama's first letter was not left without an answer.
"The leader at the time replied to the letter by providing argumentation," the report added without revealing the contents of the letter.
Obama, whose campaign for the White House included a pledge to open talks with Iran, struggled to make a clean break from the Bush administration by offering an 'extended hand' to Tehran after his election.
In his first sit-down interview in January, the US president said, "If countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us."
Tehran and Washington have had no diplomatic relations for nearly three decades. The two countries severed all ties in 1980 in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution and the US embassy takeover by Iranian revolutionary students.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The convicted Lockerbie bomber, released from a Scottish jail last month on compassionate grounds because of ill health, has been admitted to hospital intensive care in Tripoli, a Libyan official said on Wednesday, while British Prime Minister Gordon Brow rejected suggestions that his government put pressure on Scotland to release the bomber.
The show is called "Death Making" in Arabic, hardly the way Al Qaeda probably wants itself described. But that is how the powerful pan-Arabic satellite channel Al Arabiya casts the terror organization and its foot soldiers in its popular television program.
He is a shadowy figure who may be the highest paid police agent in Canadian history, costing taxpayers millions as he was rushed into witness protection. Yet the Islamist infiltrator once known as Shaher Elsohemy may prove worth every penny, at least as far as prosecutors and security services are concerned.
The success rate of a test of the missile defense system which the U.S. is building against so-called rogue states including North Korea stands at 86 percent. U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, in an interview said 39 of the last 45 tries at stopping a test missile were successful.
[Dawn] Pakistan has said that it is 'not obliged' to immediately arrest Lashkar-e-Tayyaba founder 
