Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has urged Russia to turn over important figures in his nearly lethal dioxin poisoning five years ago. Good luck with that. Methinks any suspects will drop dead from poisoning before that happens.
Yushchenko said in an interview aired Sunday night on Channel 1+1 that the testimony of the three men who were at a dinner in 2004 at which he believes he was poisoned is crucial to finishing the investigation. "These three people who directly received me, treated me and served me, today unfortunately are in Russia," Yushchenko said.
He said the extradition make it possible to determine "who poisoned the president, what the motives were and who must be held responsible for this."
Ukrainian prosecutors said last year that they had failed to identify a suspect. Prosecutors declined comment on Yushchenko's statement Monday and refused to say whether any suspects have now been named.
Ukrainian prosecutors said Russia has refused to extradite one of the men, the former deputy chief of Ukraine's security service, Volodymyr Satsyuk, because he holds both Russian and Ukrainian citizenship.
Russian prosecutors also declined comment.
Yushchenko fell gravely ill while competing against a Russia-backed rival in the 2004 presidential campaign. He was later diagnosed with dioxin poisoning, which badly scarred his face. He won the election on a wave of massive public protests dubbed the "Orange Revolution."
Yushchenko has continuously accused Moscow of stalling the investigation by refusing to extradite important figures in the case or to provide Russian-made dioxin for testing. He has said repeatedly that he knows who was responsible for the poisoning but does not want to name anyone while an investigation continued.
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The Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, shakedowns and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to choke off the movement's money supply. Only an excerpt of a much longer article...
Obama administration officials say the single largest source of cash for the Taliban, once thought to rely mostly on Afghanistan's booming opium trade to finance its operations, is not drugs but foreign donations. The CIA recently estimated that Taliban leaders and their allies received $106 million in the past year from donors outside Afghanistan. It would seem to be good policy to hunt down and kill those donors, wouldn't it?
For the past decade, the U.S. Treasury and the U.N. Security Council have maintained financial blacklists of suspected donors to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The U.N. list, originally designed to pressure the Taliban to hand over al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, requires all U.N. members to freeze the assets of designated Taliban officials and their supporters.
The U.N. and Treasury blacklists were greatly expanded after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Since 2005, however, only a handful of alleged Taliban benefactors have been added to the lists.
Some American and Afghan officials said the U.S. government, which had been a leading nominator of names for the U.N. blacklist, paid less attention to Taliban donors after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Until recently, they said, Washington had also been preoccupied with preparing sanctions against individuals and companies doing business with the Iranian government.
Richard Barrett, the coordinator of the United Nations' Taliban and al-Qaeda Monitoring Team, said Taliban sympathizers are much more skillful today at masking their donations and ensuring that the money cannot be traced back to them.
"It's been very, very difficult to identify these people," Barrett said. "You can track the money flow and say this money came from the Gulf, but it's a lot more difficult to confirm the source."
In July, Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the Taliban was reaping the bulk of its revenue from donors abroad, especially from the Persian Gulf.
Other U.S. officials have noted that the Taliban received substantial financial help from Gulf countries during the 1990s, when Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates -- along with Pakistan -- were the only nations that gave diplomatic recognition to the Taliban government.
U.S. officials said there is no evidence today that the Saudi, UAE or other Gulf governments are giving official aid to the Taliban. They said they suspect that Pakistani military and intelligence operatives are continuing to fund the Afghan insurgency, although the Islamabad government denies this.
As the insurgency has grown in strength, the Taliban and its affiliates have embraced a strategy favored by multinational corporations: diversification. With money pouring in from so many sources, the Taliban has been able to expand the insurgency across the country with relative ease, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
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wetwork would discourage donors if a few had nasty public deaths
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"It would seem to be good policy to hunt down and kill those donors, wouldn't it?"
"wetwork would discourage donors if a few had nasty public deaths"
--Gentlemen, I sincerely admire the way you think. :)
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Americans traditionally don't do wetwork well -- we get squeamish and moralistic.
However, we could sic ACORN on them and see them fleeced to their last penny.
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I'd like to know how much the US taxpayers contribute via the Pak government.
As for wetwork, I'd like to know how many Soddy princes would be involved. Not that I'm all that concerned, you understand, because how would Obama explain it to the Soddy king? I'd just like to know.
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I'm sure either the Mossad or some of our Latin American "friends" would be willing to provide a helping "hand" for enough $$$. Especially since so many of our enemies are also THEIR enemies. At one time we could have trusted the Brits to do the dirty work, but they've become somewhat less than sterling in that line of endeavor, and unwilling to commit to anything that might embarrass them.
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Major Gen Mackay, 52, who was the architect of the military's new counter insurgency doctrine, is said to have told colleagues of his anger at the lack of resources being put into the battle.
He is also said to be "disillusioned" over the failure of the Foreign Office and Department for International Development in fulfilling their obligations in Afghanistan.
The resignation will come as a significant blow to the Government and the Army as Major Gen Mackay, who led a brigade in Helmand, was seen as a leading proponent for readjusting Britain's counter-insurgency plan that has foundered during three years of fighting in Helmand.
He is the most senior officer to leave the Army as a result of disquiet over the direction of the campaign. Other high-profile resignations have included Brig Ed Butler and Col Stuart Tootal who have both later derided shortcomings in resources for Helmand.
Major Gen Mackay's time as the brigadier in charge of 52 Brigade in Helmand over the winter of 2007 was seen as an invigorating shake-up of the direction of the campaign and a template for future commanders. Upon arriving in Afghanistan, he was said to have been shocked that senior officers were "making it up as we go along". Wonder if he talked to McChrystal about this.
I don't understand the general's point. The British invented muddling through.
[Kyodo: Korea] More than 2,800 North Koreans defectors settled in South Korea last year, Yonhap News Agency reported Sunday. The 2008 figure of 2,809 was up 11 percent from a year earlier, Yonhap said, citing a report submitted by the Unification Ministry to the National Assembly.
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INCHEON, Sept. 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea ruled out the construction of light-water reactors Sunday as part of a "grand bargain" that President Lee Myung-bak had recently proposed to press North Korea to abandon its nuclear arms programs.
The United States stopped building two light-water reactors in North Korea in late 2002 after suspicions arose that the communist state was running a secret nuclear program based on uranium enrichment. The halt prompted North Korea to exit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) the following year. The reactors -- incapable of producing weapons-grade plutonium -- would have provided a significant source of energy for the impoverished North.
Wi Sung-lac, South Korea's chief nuclear envoy, told Yonhap News Agency that the construction would not resume at least until Pyongyang dismantles its nuclear programs and returns to the NPT. "Construction of light-water reactors is an issue that can be discussed once the North is denuclearized and returns to the NPT regime," he said at an airport in Incheon, west of Seoul.
Wi was returning from a weeklong trip to the U.S. where he met with senior officials of the U.S., Japan and Russia, which are members of the six-nation talks on the North's nuclear programs. The talks -- which the North declared defunct earlier this year in protest at U.N. condemnation of its rocket launch -- also include South Korea and host China.
South Korea's President Lee on Sept. 21 urged North Korea to return to the talks, proposing a "grand bargain" in which Pyongyang would be given a set of economic and political incentives if it completely abandoned its nuclear programs.
"The reactors the North demanded in the past are not part of the grand bargain," Wi said, adding that sanctions and dialogue will be pursued simultaneously to put pressure on the North.
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A law enforcement official has confirmed that investigators have identified possible accomplices of an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a terrorist attack on New York.
Court papers allege that at least three people helped Najibullah Zazi (nah-jee-BOO'-lah ZAH'-zee) buy beauty products containing peroxide and acetone in suburban Denver. The chemicals can be used to make homemade bombs.
The official told The Associated Press on Monday that investigators know the identities of the three people, who are from New York City. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation continues.
The official would not say anything about the whereabouts of the possible accomplices or the bomb-making materials.
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[Geo News] A great exodus from South Waziristan Agency's areas Makin, Laddah and Pash Ziarat is underway, after the security forces directed the local people to vacate the area. According to the security sources, the announcements were made from the local radio station, which kick-started the emigration. The security sources said the action was necessitated by the frequent extremist attacks at Razmak Camp.
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Compare wid WMF > MYANMAR: UP TO ONE MILYUHN UNREGISTERED OR UNDOCUMENTED CHINESE GIVEN THREE DAYS TO LEAVE.
Get legal, or your Sino arse-is-grass iff you are found in Myanmar = Burma three days after end of public deadline.
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] The United States is threatening to launch air strikes on Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership in Quetta as frustration mounts about the ease with which they (allegedly) find sanctuary across the border from Afghanistan, reports The Sunday Times.
The Biden camp argues that attacks by unmanned drones on Pakistan's tribal areas, where al-Qaeda's leaders are (believed to be) hiding, have been successful. Sending more troops to Afghanistan has only inflamed tensions.
The Afghan election has strengthened the position of those in Washington who advocate eliminating Taliban leaders in Pakistan.Senior Pakistani officials in New York revealed that the US had asked to extend the drone attacks into Quetta and other parts of Balochistan. "It wasn't so much a threat as an understanding that if you don't do anything, we'll take matters into our own hands," said one.
The problem is that while the government of President Asif Zardari is committed to wiping out terrorism, Pakistan's powerful military does not entirely share this view, the paper claimed. Earlier this year, there was optimism that Pakistan had turned a corner after it confronted a Taliban group that had taken over the Swat Valley.
There has been tacit cooperation over the use of drones. Some are even stationed inside Pakistan, although publicly the government denounces their use, the paper said. Suspicions remain among US officials that parts of Pakistan's military intelligence agency, the ISI, are supporting the Taliban and protecting Mullah Omar and other leaders in Quetta.
It was to shore up Zardari's domestic standing that Obama attended a Friends of Pakistan summit in New York on Thursday. On the same day, the US Senate tripled non-military aid to Pakistan to $1.5 billion a year.
The Obama administration hopes such moves will reduce anti-American feelings in Pakistan. A survey last month by the Pew Research Centre found that almost two-thirds regarded the US as an enemy.
Drone attacks on Quetta would intensify this sentiment, causing some British officials to argue that such missions would be "unthinkable". However, the paper added, the Pakistani government is reluctant to take its own action.
"We need real-time intelligence," said Interior Minister Rehman Malik. "The Americans have never told us any location."
"We need real-time intelligence," said Interior Minister Rehman Malik. "The Americans have never told us any location."
Western intelligence officers say Pakistan has been moving Taliban leaders to Karachi.
Western intelligence officers say Pakistan has been moving Taliban leaders to Karachi, where it would be impossible to strike. US officials have even discussed sending commandos to Quetta to capture or kill the Taliban chiefs before they are moved, The Sunday Times said.
The threat of air strikes on Quetta comes amid growing divisions in Washington about whether to deal with the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan by sending more troops or by reducing them and targeting the terrorists.
This weekend the US military was expected to send a request to Robert Gates, the defence secretary, for more troops, as urged by General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander there. In a leaked strategic assessment of the war, McChrystal warned that he needed extra reinforcements within a year to avert the risk of failure. Although no figure was given, he is believed to be seeking up to 40,000 troops to add to the 68,000 who will be in Afghanistan by the end of this year.
However, with President Barack Obama under pressure from fellow Democrats not to intensify the war, the administration has let it be known that it is rethinking strategy. Vice-President Joe Biden has suggested reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan and focusing on the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan.
Last week McChrystal denied any rift with the administration, saying "a policy debate is warranted". According to The New York Times, he flew from Kabul to Ramstein airbase in Germany on Friday for a secret meeting with Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to discuss the request for more troops.
So sensitive is the subject that when Obama addressed the United Nations summit in New York, he barely mentioned Afghanistan. The unspoken problem is that if the priority is to destroy al-Qaeda and reduce the global terrorist threat, Western troops might be fighting on the wrong side of the border.
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It can't hurt---but fumugating entire Dar is the only long term solution.
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The Obama administration hopes such moves will reduce anti-American feelings in Pakistan. A survey last month by the Pew Research Centre found that almost two-thirds regarded the US as an enemy.
You will never please the Pakis whatever we do.Them and the average Saudi hate us more than the Average Iranian does!
Asking Pakistan to "cease support -- including by any elements within the military or intelligence agencies -- to extremist and terrorist groups" in the text of the Kerry-Lugar bill was insulting and sent a wrong message to the world.
Asking the government to explain how it has accepted the language of the Kerry-Lugar bill, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) legislator Marvi Memon has said it is insulting to Pakistan.
In a statement issued on Sunday, she said that asking Pakistan to "cease support -- including by any elements within the military or intelligence agencies -- to extremist and terrorist groups" in the text of the Kerry-Lugar bill was insulting and sent a wrong message to the world. She said it had weakened Pakistan's position on the international front.
Marvi said the issue of nuclear monitoring was unacceptable to any patriotic Pakistani. The Kerry-Lugar bill mandated Pakistan to provide the US "relevant information from or direct access to Pakistani nationals associated with such networks", she said, adding that it clearly allowed the US access to Dr AQ Khan and others, which was unacceptable as state policy. She said the guarantee that terrorism emanating from India and Afghanistan, which destabilises Pakistan, should be controlled was missing in the bill, which made it (the bill) one-sided. She asked the government to explain whether the aid provided through the Kerry-Lugar legislation was only for civilian projects or whether it also included police reforms, equipment and training.
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wow, sKerry and Dick actually saying what the rest of us are thinking...the second sign of the apocalypse?
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Oh, stop acting insulted. What are we - children?
We know the ISI is full of jihadi-lovers. You know it too. Why dissemble? Is it just - habit? Have you been lying so long that you no longer remember how to tell the truth?
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No problem. If the Paks are insulted, just call up the Big O on the sat phone, explain the situation, and he will apologize and grovel. That's what o's do best.
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Participants of the All Parties Convention for the people of Malakand division on Sunday demanded the government constitute a commission to identify the reasons for the military launching an operation in the region.
The convention, organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) NWFP chapter, in a joint declaration, demanded a comprehensive survey be conducted for the assessment of damages to houses, shops, local industry and other properties. It demanded a special package be announced for the victims of Malakand division, adding the families of the deceased should be compensated with Rs 1 million and the injured should be given Rs 0.5 million. The declaration demanded the aid should be spent on the rehabilitation of the victims.
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The arabs don't call it Temple Mount. But they now claim it is sacred to islam, in spite of the fact that Jerusalem/el-kadish/al-quds, ad nauseum doesn't appear in the arab quran. Ergo: it is "sacred" strategically.
However, the arab conquerers of 636 AD stole lands sovereign to Byzantines, and holy to Jews. However, they lost them to European re-claimers. Christians have every right to boot the arab occupier off Temple Mount, and turn the misnamed "al-aqsa" and "Umar" mosques into rubble.
Does anyone here still believe in Carter's three-brethren-of-Abraham crap? Arab muslims don't accept the presence of Jews, Christians, Seculars, Atheists, Buddhists, Animists, Spiritualists, Hindus, Confucians, in any land where arabs reside, including the USA. Take a fricking hint.
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Christians have every right to boot the arab occupier off Temple Mount
No, Christians do not. The Jewish state of Israel, however, does, including whatever Christian Israelis might at the time be serving in Israeli army and police units involved in the action.
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They've renamed it "Dome of the Rock" for some reason. If you want to pi$$ them off, call the place up and ask whoever answers what is the address of the Temple Mount. Then call them back and ask again.
Ma'an -- Hamas has confirmed that senior leader Khalid Mash'al is in Cairo to present the movement's response to Egypt's latest proposal for a Palestinian coalition or unity government.
According to spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum in Gaza, Mash'al is in Cairo alongside Muhammad Nasser, and Moussa Abu Marzuq, who are also members of Hamas' Political Bureau in Damascus.
Joining them will be a delegation of top leaders from Gaza, including Mahmoud Az-Zahhar, Khalil Al-Haya and Nizar Awadallah, who departed for Cairo on Sunday.
"A delegation on such a level may reflect Hamas' seriousness and high sense of responsibility in dealing with the Egyptian proposal in a way that would guarantee bringing success to the Egypt's efforts toward reconciliation," Barhoum told Ma'an in a phone call.
"Hamas' response comes to reinforce real partnership to restore the prerequisites of the Palestinians including the democratic prerequisite, and all that would restore the Palestinian rights and principles to end division," he added.
The leaders will meet with Egypt's intelligence chief, Omar Sulaiman, the powerful official in charge of mediating between Hamas and its archrival Fatah, and in indirect talks between Hamas and Israel toward a prisoner swap.
Although Fatah has not yet issued its official reply, it all indications suggest that the rivals are at odds over Egypt's latest proposal, particularly over the issue of elections. Fatah wants the polls to go ahead as scheduled on 25 January, while Hamas believes that more time is needed to prepare. The Egyptian plan calls for elections in early 2010, as opposed to January 2010 specifically.
Hamas leader Ahmad Yousef, an advisor to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, told Ma'an in an interview last week that that the latest proposal is the best he has seen to date.
"I think this time there is a glimmer of hope and room for optimism, more than all the rounds of talks, which was a lot of difficulties and everyone tried to make obstacles, but I think this time the Egyptian vision addressed both Fatah and Hamas demands," said Yousef.
Fatah parliamentary leader Azzam Al-Ahmad, who has been involved in the negotiations with Hamas, told Ma'an earlier in September that he was "astonished" that the Egyptian proposal did not call for the elections to take place as scheduled.
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Ma'an -- The Hamas movement urged Palestinians throughout the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel to take to the streets and begin a new uprising against Israel in reaction to clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Sunday.
In his call for protests, senior Hamas leader Muhammad Abu Askar in Gaza also called on Arabs and Muslims throughout the world to take action to defend the mosque.
By midday on Sunday, 26 people were said to be injured after stone-throwing Palestinians fought Israeli riot police after right-wing Jewish activists entered the Al-Aqsa compound.
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said the Israeli "attack" on Al-Aqsa was an attempt to escalate the situation. "The Israeli occupation is not interested in calm," he said, holding Israel accountable for the repercussions of the escalation.
For his part, Islamic Jihad leader Khalid Al-Batsh said, "The Israeli assault is part of a central Israeli decision to escalate in the whole region. This escalation might reach neighboring Arab countries."
Al-Batsh also called on the Palestinian Authority to suspend all contact with the Israeli government in protest. He also called upon Arab and Islamic countries to stick to their responsibilities in defending Al-Aqsa. Furthermore, he called Palestinian rivals to close ranks and end the current state of political infighting.
The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) called on the Palestinian people to organize demonstrations supporting Islamic holy sites and emphasizing that resistance is the best option to confront Israeli occupation.
The group said its military wing, "An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades would not stay with its hands folded towards atrocities committed by Israeli settlers and Israeli forces."
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Good. Israel needs something to derail Obamba/Hildy initiatives.
A judge in Malaysia has upheld a court verdict to cane a Muslim woman for drinking beer, news reports said Monday, re-igniting a controversy over Islamic justice in this moderate Muslim-majority country. Hate to think what fate awaits this woman if Malaysia hadn't such a Moderate Muslim Majority.
The Star newspaper's Web site and national news agency Bernama said the chief Shariah judge of Pahang state ruled that a Shariah High Court's verdict against Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, was correct and should stay.
If the punishment is carried out, Kartika would become the first Muslim woman to be caned in Malaysia, where about 60 percent of the 28 million people are Muslims. No date was immediately set for the caning.
Kartika, a former model and nurse, was sentenced in July to six strokes of the cane and a fine of 5,000 ringgit ($1,400) for drinking beer in December 2007 at a beach resort in violation of Islamic laws. Islam forbids Muslims from drinking alcohol.
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A nuclearized Iran upsets the Shiite-Sunni imbalance and puts neighbors on the defensive. Thus, one would think that a US President would at least tacitly approve of any Israeli operation to address a future ICBM threat to the US Homeland. However, Obama's people are doing exactly the opposite.
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FREEREPUBLIC > US: TOO LATE TO STOP IRAN. Its official.
FREEP POSTERS > BIG DIFFERENS BWTN "CAN'T" VERSUS "WON'T", i.e. despite US mil power, don't believe that the USA = POTUS BAMMER has the WILL to use force agz Iran???
IOW, Year 2010-2012 + IRANIAN NUCBOMB > afterwards will come NUCLEAR MILITANCY-TERRORISM???
[Iran Press TV Latest] Amid Western hue and cry over Iran's newly-disclosed nuclear enrichment facility, two of the country's neighbors have voiced support for Tehran's nuclear energy program.
Iran PressTV opines again ...
Iraq and Turkey have cautioned the West against imposing any new sanctions and urged guarantee of Tehran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Iraqi president Jalal Talabani said that Western sanctions against Iran would not work and that only a real negotiation would help resolve the issue. He also warned that his country will never allow Israel or any other country to use its airspace to carry out attacks against Tehran's nuclear facilities.
Iran's northwestern neighbor, Turkey has also urged caution over new sanctions, saying they will not be useful.
The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to visit Tehran next month to discuss Iran's nuclear program with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Erdogan ruled out any attempts to impose sanctions on Tehran's gas industry, saying sanctions would be especially problematic for its neighbor Turkey.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory, gives the country the right to the full nuclear fuel cycle if used for peaceful purposes. In line with its guarantee to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for clarity on its nuclear activities, Iran has informed the agency that it is constructing a second plant for uranium enrichment.
Tehran has denied seeking nuclear weapons and called for the removal of all weapons of mass destruction across the globe.
The UN nuclear watchdog in its previous reports had confirmed that Iran -- in its first enrichment facility in Natanz -- only managed to enrich uranium-235 to a level of "less than 5 percent."
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ION TOPIX/NEWSMAX/WORLD NEWS > GADDAFI PROPOSES "NATO OF THE SOUTH"/MISSLE DEFENSE SHIELD FOR AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA.
HUGO CHAVEZ > in the 21st Century, South Amer + Africa are destined to become great powers.
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Given Obama's defense of the status quo ante of de-proliferation, Iran's neighbors have every reason to believe that Iran will join the N-Club in direct consequence of US' suicidal negligence in face of a future ICBM threat to the US Homeland.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency has accused the US, Britain, and France of deceiving the international community over their nuclear programs.
In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh rejected remarks by President Barack Obama of US, British Premier Gordon Brown, and Nicolas Sarkozy of France over Iran's nuclear program.
The three leaders earlier attacked the Islamic Republic over its second under-construction enrichment facility, located 100 kilometers south of Tehran, calling it a "deception."
"I categorically reject that there have been any concealment or any deception," Soltaniyeh said on Saturday.
IAEA Safeguards Agreements declared that Iran is only obliged to inform the UN nuclear watchdog of the existence of enrichment plants 180 days before the introduction of nuclear materials into the facility.
The Iranian envoy noted that he gave a letter to the agency on September 21 and informed the deputy general, elaborating that its new plant would be operational in about 540 days.
He added that there were no obligations to inform the IAEA sooner, according to the agency's document 153.
"It is a pity that none of these three leaders have legal advisers to inform them that according to comprehensive safeguards we are only obliged to inform six months before we put nuclear material."
"This site does not have any nuclear material at all now," according to Iran's representative to the IAEA.
"The problem is that we are the victim of negligence of those who claim that they know in fact the international law. They are talking in the UN but they are not aware of the very principles of the Statue of the IAEA."
Soltaniyeh also clarified that Washington, London, and Paris deceive the people around the world by violating the Non-Proliferation Treaty articles.
"Those three countries in fact have violated for the last 40 years NPT articles."
"The United Kingdom has under secret program of the nuclear submarines so-called trident with over 30 billion pounds and the people of the world and even the British people are not well aware of that. This is a real deception that Mr. Brown has to answer the international community because this is a shocking threat to the international peace and security.
"France is also working on the nuclear weapon programs continuously."
"Americans are working hard on the nuclear weapon posture review. These are all deceptions and concealment."
The western countries have a "long-term strategy" and a "hidden agenda" to "destroy and jeopardize the spirit of cooperation between Iran and the IAEA in order to find an excuse and pretext for sanctions and other measures," Soltaniyeh concluded.
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Mmm... globesteaks.
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ION WAFF > STRATFOR > OBAMA'S MOVE: IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN.
* OBAMA's ADMIN's strategy or milpol approach to same.
* POINTS-OF-DECISION have been reached or are about to be, to includ the OBAMA ADMIN making no decision = taking no action.
* CHANGES from Obama's 2008 POTUS Elex promises.
SAME > MUSLIM UMMAH: THE MUSLIM HUMAN MILITARY MACHINE INVADING EUROPE. You name the dimension(s) = models of human behavior + society, Ummah Islam is there.
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WMF > WSJ: THE US IS LOSING THE PACIFIC OCEAN?; + US STRATEGIC EXPERT BRZEZINSKI: THE US HAS FAILED IN IRAQ, WILL FAIL IN AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN, ENGGAE IN STRATEGIC GEOPOL RETREAT UNDER OBAMA.
* SAME > US GLOBAL STRATEGY: MAJOR RETREAT BEHIND THE QUEST. OBAMA SAYS US WILL GIVE UP UNILATERAL HEGEMONY FOR MULTILATERAL CONSULTATION AND CONSENSUS; + ASEAN: US DESIRES TO COUNTERBALANCE CHINA IN SOUTHEAST ASIA VIA NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT IN MYANMAR.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The total debt of 11 state-run banks to the Central Bank of Iran has exceeded $32 billion, showing a 10-fold increase over the past four years.
According to records published by the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) on September 26, the biggest debtor is Iran's largest bank, Bank Melli Iran, with nearly $9 billion, followed by Bank Sepah, Iran's oldest, with about $4.8 billion.
Bank Maskan, Bank Keshavarzi, Bank of Industries and Mines and the Export Development Bank of Iran were next with the respective debts of $4.7, $4.1, $3.5 and $1.1 billion.
Private-sector banks had far lower debts, with the biggest being Bank Parsian, which owes about $421 million to the Central Bank.
In addition, the collective debt of state-sector companies to the Central Bank has reached $25 billion.
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The top 12 ayatollahs control $6,000,000,000 in assets, all acquired since the "revolution" of 1979. Central banks are compelled to deliver ANY payroll or inventory loan demanded by the clerics. And there are no regulators to prevent price-fixing or monopolization. The pistaccio nut industry prices for ayatollah profit.
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Essentially. "Dinnerjacket" personally promised cash awards to various places either late last year or early this year, against the advice of the central bank.
Of course it's not just gasoline that's subsidized.
[Iran Press TV Latest] In a meeting with the Austrian ambassador to Tehran, head of Iran's Expediency Council expressed his hope for the removal of obstacles in front of Iran-Europe ties. "The Islamic Republic of Iran does not recognize any limits to the expansion of its cooperation (with Europe) and the adopting of independent policies by European countries can influence the development of relations," Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani told Dr. Michael Postl on Sunday. "The European Union should put aside nit-picking over Iran's use of peaceful nuclear technology," he added, according to a report by Iran's Labor News Agency (ILNA).
Two-term former president Rafsanjani, who now heads Iran's Assembly of Experts, told Vienna's ambassador in Tehran: "The use of new energy sources is a necessity in today's world, and, given Austria's experience in this field, there are many grounds for collaboration with Iran." In turn, Postl said that "the potential for cooperation between the two countries is vast."
He stressed the significance of building confidence between Iran and the West and said: "The development of cooperation in all areas can bring good rewards for both nations."
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But Europe already belongs to Saudia, Ali Akbar.
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 Taliban-led insurgency has built a fundraising juggernaut that generates cash from such an array of criminal rackets, donations, taxes, shakedowns and other schemes that U.S. and Afghan officials say it may be impossible to choke off the movement's money supply. 
[Geo News] A great exodus from South Waziristan Agency's areas Makin, Laddah and Pash Ziarat is underway, after the security forces directed the local people to vacate the area. According to the security sources, the announcements were made from the local radio station, which kick-started the emigration. The security sources said the action was necessitated by the frequent extremist attacks at Razmak Camp.
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] The United States is threatening to launch air strikes on Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership in Quetta as frustration mounts about the ease with which they (allegedly) find sanctuary across the border from Afghanistan, reports The Sunday Times.
Ma'an -- Hamas has confirmed that senior leader Khalid Mash'al is in Cairo to present the movement's response to Egypt's latest proposal for a Palestinian coalition or unity government.
Ma'an -- The Hamas movement urged Palestinians throughout the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel to take to the streets and begin a new uprising against Israel in reaction to clashes at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Sunday.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Amid Western hue and cry over Iran's newly-disclosed nuclear enrichment facility, two of the country's neighbors have voiced support for Tehran's nuclear energy program. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency has accused the US, Britain, and France of deceiving the international community over their nuclear programs. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] The total debt of 11 state-run banks to the Central Bank of Iran has exceeded $32 billion, showing a 10-fold increase over the past four years. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] In a meeting with the Austrian ambassador to Tehran, head of Iran's Expediency Council expressed his hope for the removal of obstacles in front of Iran-Europe ties. "The Islamic Republic of Iran does not recognize any limits to the expansion of its cooperation (with Europe) and the adopting of independent policies by European countries can influence the development of relations," Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani told Dr. Michael Postl on Sunday. "The European Union should put aside nit-picking over Iran's use of peaceful nuclear technology," he added, according to a report by Iran's Labor News Agency (ILNA). 
