[Quqnoos] Pakistan is not behind last week's deadly attack on the Indian Embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a Pakistani envoy to Kabul says
Mohammad Sadiq, the Pakistani ambassador, in an exclusive interview with Tolo TV said terrorism is a regional challenge and he called for a regional effort to defeat the insurgency.
A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the Indian Embassy on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 80 others.
The Indian Ambassador to Kabul blamed Pakistans Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) for the attack.
The Afghan Envoy to the US also accused Pakistans intelligence agency of involvement in the bombing of the Indian Embassy. "We are pointing the finger at the Pakistan intelligence agency, based on the evidence on the ground and similar attack taking place in Afghanistan", Ambassador Sayed Tayeb Jawad said.
This was the second suicide attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul within the past year. Last July, the Indian Embassy was the scene of the deadliest attack in the capital since the war began in 2001, when a Taliban suicide car-bomber killed 58 people, including two Indian diplomats. More than 150 others, most of them civilians, were wounded in that blast.
Ambassador Sadiq of Pakistan further said that tackling terrorism needs a joint campaign by India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He admitted that the militants biggest sanctuary exists in Pakistans North Waziristan.
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He admitted that the militants biggest sanctuary exists in Pakistan's North Waziristan Inter-Services Intelligence.
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Duh! The Mumbai murderers passed through dozens of check-points, and then rented a cargo ship and then took it to sea without cargo. Pakistan is a terror entity, not a Western ally.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUMS > NEW TALIBAN WARN INDIA/TALIBAN LEADER [Haikimullah Mehsud]WARNS INDIA WILL BE ATTACKED [once PAKLAND is turned into an ISLAMIC STATE]. PAKIS must also stop obeying the Orders of the Infidel Crusader Americans iff it hopes to have peace wid the Talibs [SSSSSHHHHHHHH ditto for INDIA].
* SAME > INDIA ASKS [Tells = Demands] CHINA STAY OUT OF AZAD KASHMIR. Beijing must stop JOINT CHINA-PAKIS ECON DEV ACTIVITIES IN KASHMIR + LOC DISPUTED TERRITORIES.
In response, SAME/TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > VARIOUS > CHINA TELLS INDIA TO STOP PROVOCATIONS OVER BORDERS.
[Quqnoos] An Afghan member of Afghanistan's Electoral Complaint Commission resigned on Monday, blaming foreign interference weighing down their decisions
Mustafa Barikzai, one of only two Afghan members of the ECC, appointed by the Afghan Supreme Court, said that their foreign colleagues were "making all decisions on their own".
The ECC, is the sole authority to stamp the countrys disputed election as transparent. It has five members, three of them foreigners appointed by the United Nations.
The direct interference of foreigners caused the delay in the announcement of final result, he added in a press conference on Monday.
The ECC's superior received commands from foreigners overnight and Afghans had little input in the bodys key decisions, according to Mustafa Barakzai.
The direct interference of foreigners caused the delay in the announcement of final result, he added in a press conference on Monday.
The UN office in Kabul denies the allegations made by Mr Barakzai, saying his resignation was 'regrettable'.
The resignation of the high ranking election fraud investigator follows the removal of a senior UN official, who backed a total re-count of the Afghan vote.
Peter Galbraith, a US diplomat, was fired over a dispute with the UN Special Envoy in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, on how to deal with the allegations of massive fraud in the August elections.
The final certified outcome of the election is expected to be announced this week.
Preliminary results placed incumbent Hamid Karzai in the lead with about 55% of the votes ahead of his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, who received nearly 28%.
European Union election observers said 1.1 million votes for President Karzai are 'suspicious' and, if removed from his tally, would result in a run-off with Dr Abdullah.
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Paris - French marines deployed on a tuna fleet off the Seychelles fired at suspected Somali pirates on Tuesday, the second such clash in the space of a few days as France protects its highly lucrative tuna industry.
While navies from around the world struggle to contain escalating pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean, some countries like France are opting to directly protect their vessels though others fear this could make things worse. Doing anything at all testicular will certainly make things worse, to hear some tell it.
Small boats carrying what appeared to be Somali pirates chased two French tuna fishing ships some 370 km north of the Seychelles, French military spokesman Christophie Prazuck said. "The troops fired a type of flare to show the pirates that the ships were protected. As they continued to come closer, the soldiers fired warning shots in front of the boats of the pirates, who turned back and stopped the attack," he said. "Monsieur Crapaud! Send them a type of flare to show this ship enjoys our protection!"
"Oui, mon capitain!"
[KAFLOOSH!]
"Aaaaiiiieeee!"
"Bon shootin', M'sieur Crapaud!"
On Saturday, French troops fired at pirates in a similar confrontation to protect two tuna ships some 350 km off the Seychelles. That was the first time the French fought off an apparent pirate attack since the plan to protect their tuna fleet was implemented in July.
The tuna industry is worth up to $6-billion across the Indian Ocean region, and about 60 French marines are now protecting about 10 vessels off the Seychelles. "It's useful, efficient and sufficient," Prazuck said. "M'sier capitain, consider this: our tuna industrie c'est worth $6-billion. What are Somali pirates worth?"
"Three for a dollar, M'sieur Minister!"
"Come, come! What is that in louis d'or?"
"Ummm... divide by 11... carry the three... times the natural logarithm of 4.5... approximately squat, M'sieur Minister!"
However, other countries have expressed fears that putting troops and armed guards on merchant ships or fishing boats will further worsen the situation and lead to an escalation of violence. Spanish tuna fishing boats off the Seychelles have also been targeted by Somali pirates, who have widened their hunting grounds to avoid navy patrols along the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden.
Gangs from lawless Somalia - some made up of former fishermen who lost their livelihood as foreign fleets moved into the waters - have made tens of millions of dollars in ransoms by hijacking merchant ships.
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So--Are you trying to tell me that a couple of platoons of marines or infantry spread across the fishing fleet is more effective than billions of dollars worth of warships? Who woulda thunk it!
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Depends on who's willing to shoot. If you're not willing to shoot then neither marine nor warship will be effective.
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Hot Tuna!
bluefin, Bigeye, yellow fin, albacore, skipjack hope they dont get caught in crossfire, just fishing net and brought back to make a nice salade nicoise.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has drawn attention to the deplorable conditions in Somalia, urging Arab states to "immediately" assist the war-torn nation.
Moussa decried the living standards in the African nation as "barely fit for humans", where hundreds of thousands of children are suffering from malnutrition, Press TV reported Moussa as saying on Tuesday.
"We need to save Somalia...It is our duty to help our Arab brothers," the Secretary General added.
Arab League's urgent call for aid follows recent reports by human rights organizations, describing the crisis in Somalia as the single biggest humanitarian challenge in the world.
According to the international aid organization, Oxfam, there are currently over 3.6 million people, or half of Somalia's population, in desperate need of aid.
Adding to the crisis are over 1.3 million internally displaced people, and another half a million refugees who reside in impoverished camps in neighboring countries.
The suffering and mass exodus of Somalis come at a time when Somalia is also struggling with its worst drought in a decade.
Somalia has lacked a functioning government since 1991. The new government of President Sharif Ahmed, elected in January, has been fighting an intense battle with rebels, especially in the capital Mogadishu.
The clashes have left hundreds of people dead this month alone.
However, even as conflicts rage within Somalia, both private and government donors are reluctant to throw money in a state as disorganized as this Horn of African nation, where a weak, UN-backed, interim government struggles to contain a bloody insurgency.
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"We need to save Somalia...It is our duty to help our Arab brothers," the Secretary General added.
You can tell it's Iran Press TV - in any Arab media there'd be two particular words in quotes.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Georgia is training and lending safe passage to al-Qaeda agents planning terrorist acts in the Russian Caucasus, the head of Russia's FSB secret service charged Tuesday.
"Audio evidence seized from insurgents shows that, together with emissaries of al-Qaeda, they had contacts with representatives of the Georgian secret services"
"Audio evidence seized from insurgents shows that, together with emissaries of al-Qaeda, they had contacts with representatives of the Georgian secret services," Alexander Bortnikov said, quoted by Russian news agencies.
Through these links, Georgia "participated in the training and transfer of terrorists to the territory of Chechnya," the FSB chief said. Bortnikov also accused Tbilisi of supplying arms and funding terrorist activities in the neighboring Caucasus region of Dagestan. "They perpetually undertake to deliver weapons, explosives and financing for subversive acts on high security sites in Dagestan -- first and foremost on oil and gas pipelines," he said.
Tensions between Moscow and Tbilisi remain high one year after they fought a war last August over Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, which lies just south of the mountains from the turbulent Russian Caucasus.
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[Kyodo: Korea] North Korea"s fresh test-firing of short-range missiles has not changed the U.S. goal of bringing back the reclusive state to the six-party nuclear disarmament talks, the State Department said Tuesday. "Our position remains the same: North Korea has to eventually come back to the six-party process and recommit towards denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters.
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Firing off missiles all over the joint doesn't sound very reclusive to me.
[Kyodo: Korea] China said Tuesday North Korea"s test-firing of short-range missiles will not affect the ""softer"" trend on the Korean Peninsula and urged relevant parties to exercise ""restraint"" and work toward the resumption of the six-party talks on the North"s denuclearization. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said at a regular press briefing that he noted that ""North Korea had fired short-range missiles"" and does not feel that this would affect the ""progression toward a softer trend on the Korean Peninsula.""
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was this a call-down on 0bama's manhood?
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Obama's WHAT?
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"was this a call-down on 0bama's manhood?"
But enough about Michelle....
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[ADN Kronos] The president of the Islamic institute of Milan has on Monday condemned the attack against military barracks in the northern Italian city of Milan. "Violence is always condemnable," said Abdel Hamid Shaari in an interview with Adnkronos. However,
Shaari said it is possible the attack was an isolated incident and the work of a "madman".
Shaari also said it is possible the attack was an isolated incident and the work of a "madman".
On Monday an Italian soldier was injured after a Libyan man exploded a bomb hidden inside a toolbox at the entrance of the 'Santa Barbara' military barracks in the northern Italian city of Milan. The man, identified as 35 year-old Mohammed Game, had been living in Italy for many years and lived with an Italian woman with whom they have three children.
Shaari denied that there is tension in the Muslim community over Italian troops in Afghanistan. According to some reports, the Libyan man who attacked the barracks shouted "The army must leave Afghanistan!"
"As far as Im concerned, there is no climate of hostility," said Shaari, who added that he felt "surprised" about the nationality of the bomber.
"As far as Im concerned, there is no climate of hostility," said Shaari, who added that he felt "surprised" about the nationality of the bomber.
Meanwhile, Italian far-right MEP Mario Borghezio said there are jihadists in Italy's cities who must be expelled from the country.
"In our cities, there are dormant 'fighters for Allah' cells that are ready to wake up and should be thrown out of the country," said Borghezio in an interview with Adnkronos.
"The attack in Milan is a sign which brings to light an unnerving and dangerous reality," he said.
The MEP then said the so-called 'dormant cells' must be "cleansed" and then proceeded to attack the Swedish presidency of the European Union.
"The do-goodery and the scarce interest of the past years must end. A job of 'cleansing' without ifs or buts to hunt and drive out these dormant cells should take place. I will never tire of reaffirming my accusation against the Swedish European presidency for its weakness in fighting Islamic extremism," said Borghezio.
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ION NAPOLITAN ADKRONOS > ITALY: TRUTH ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA LIES INSIDE THE VATICAN, SAYS AUTHOR [Author-Journalist Ruggero Marino].
Seems ole CHRISTOPHER COLOMBE [Columbus] was a KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, + had actually discovered the Amers in 1485, NOT 1992, wid help from the Church = Pope Innocent???
The airport shuttle driver accused of plotting a bombing in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all the way to the top, to an Osama bin Laden confidant believed to be the terrorist group's leader in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence officials told The Associated Press.
Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian reputed to be one of the founders of the terrorist network, used a middleman to contact Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi as the 24-year-old man hatched a plot to use homemade backpack bombs, perhaps on the city's mass transit system, the two intelligence officials said.
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[Dawn] Reaffirming its desire for a peaceful and stable South Asia, Pakistan has expressed concern over the growing strategic imbalance in the region that included the recent introduction of nuclear submarines and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).
We expect extra-regional powers to adopt even-handed policies in South Asia and avoid steps that undermine the regional strategic balance,' Ambassador Zamir Akram, the Pakistani delegate, told the General Assembly's First Committee, which deals with disarmament and security issues.
'We expect extra-regional powers to adopt even-handed policies in South Asia and avoid steps that undermine the regional strategic balance,' Ambassador Zamir Akram, the Pakistani delegate, told the General Assembly's First Committee, which deals with disarmament and security issues.
'Our vision for South Asia is anchored in a security architecture based on preventive diplomacy, confidence building and conflict resolution,' said Akram, who is Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN's European offices in Geneva.
As a responsible nuclear-weapon state, he added,
Oh, so very, very responsible!
Pakistan was pursuing a policy of credible minimum deterrence. Its proposals for a strategic restraint regime had three interlocking elements of conflict resolution, nuclear and missile restraint and conventional balance. That warranted serious consideration and the support of the international community.
Zamir Akram said the objective of disarmament and global peace and stability could not be effectively pursued in isolation from certain realities that marked the contemporary global and regional security situation. Those realities included regional and global imbalances and asymmetries in defence spending, which were counterproductive to arms control objectives and undermined attempts to establish peace and security.
Despite the end of the cold war, he said, the national defence budgets of the major powers had continued to increase. Another reality was the regional disputes, which continued to fester around the globe, particularly in South Asia and the Middle East.
In parallel with negotiations on nuclear disarmament, the Pakistani delegate said, there was an urgent need for negotiations on the balanced reduction of armed forces and conventional armaments.
As agreed, those negotiations should be conducted with particular emphasis on militarily significant states. The disturbing trend of escalation in the number and sophistication of conventional weapons had to be arrested, as that had a causal relationship with the continuing reliance on nuclear weapons, he said.
Akram called for focusing on conventional arms control, which was not limited to controls over only trade in conventional arms, but also included measures for arms reduction, limitation and restraint.
Any future arrangement on conventional arms that addressed their transfer, but not their development, production and deployment would be inequitable against countries that did not themselves produce such weapons.
Drivel, blather and sonorous profundities couched in complex and interwoven clauses continued until all, including the speaker, were fast asleep.
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The annual increase in Indian GDP now exceeds the total GDP of Pakistan.
"Strategic Balance" ended long ago.
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[Dawn] Almost 11 months after he was picked up as the lone surviving militant for a horrific terror attack on Mumbai, Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab told the trial court on Monday that he had no faith in the Indian judiciary and asked for his case to be transferred to an international court, local reports said. But Judge M. L. Tahaliyani rejected 22-year-old Kasab's plea saying 'it is misconceived'.
'I have no faith in Indian court and this case may be transferred to an international court,' Kasab said in an application to the court. He had moved the application written in his own hand in Urdu. The application was filed through jail authorities who translated it into Marathi and produced before the court.
The judge asked Kasab whether he had written the application and he replied 'Ji huzoor' (Yes, Sir). The trial of Kasab, whom police formally charged in February with several offences including 'waging war' against India, began on March 23 via a video link with his Arthur Road prison in Mumbai.
In a separate development, the judge also rejected the plea of co-accused Fahim Ansari to stay the proceedings on the ground that he had filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking transfer of the 26/11 case to some other court alleging that the recording of evidence was incorrect.
'This is yet another attempt by the accused to delay the trial,' noted Judge Tahaliyani while rejecting Fahim's plea to stay the proceedings. 'Fahim is perhaps being instigated by outsiders,' the court noted. Fahim is facing the charge of conspiring with other accused in the terror attacks.
Police say they recovered maps of 26/11 terror locations which he allegedly handed over to LeT conspirators in Pakistan. The court has also issued contempt notice to Fahim asking him why contempt action should not be taken against him for making allegations against it in the application.
Meanwhile, disappointed at the Lahore High Court's decision to scrap terror cases against Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, India said it would take up the issue with Pakistan as it was given to understand that formal investigation would be conducted against him.
Maintaining that Pakistan should investigate Hafiz Saeed in the Mumbai attack case, Indian Foreign Minister S. M. Krishna said India had provided evidence about his being the 'brain behind' the strike but he was not booked in that case.
'Our talks with Pakistan foreign minister was somewhat on this line that formal investigation would be done on Hafiz Saeed with reference to Mumbai,' Mr Krishna told reporters.
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Iraq's government said at least 85,000 people were killed from 2004 to 2008, officially answering one of the biggest questions of the conflict how many perished in the sectarian violence that nearly led to a civil war.
What remains unanswered is how many died in the 2003 U.S. invasion and in the months of chaos that followed it.
A report by the Human Rights Ministry said 85,694 people were killed from the beginning of 2004 to Oct. 31, 2008 and 147,195 were wounded. The figures included Iraqi civilians, military and police but did not cover U.S. military deaths, insurgents, or foreigners, including contractors. And it did not include the first months of the war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
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Hey, wait a minute. I thought the Lancet said it was 85 million.
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Does Fayyad realize how much money Disney World rakes in?
Less than PaleoWorld: Total 2008-2010 $7.7 billion
Alas, Poor Farfur! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!
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Disney wants an independent state in the West Bank? Damn! I mean, they're ambitious, I know, but can't they just buy the rest of central Florida and leave it at that?
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The Paleos can have Pluto. It's a Mickey Mouse planet.
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"It looks like it would not come close to what we have in mind."
no, there are still Juice living and thriving there. You do get your own shithole.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Fatah has agreed to an Egyptian proposal for the two main Palestinian factions to separately sign a long-delayed unity deal by Oct. 15, a senior party official said on Tuesday.
"Fatah has decided to send Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of its central committee ... to give the Egyptian leaders the movement's written agreement," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
According to another Fatah official, "Egypt gave Hamas 48 hours to present its final response to the Palestinian reconciliation document."
The Islamist movement Hamas would not immediately comment on the report.
Egypt had announced last week that the rivals would sign the unity deal in Cairo on October 25-26. But Hamas has asked for a postponement because of the controversial decision of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, who is the Fatah leader, to support deferring a vote on a damning Gaza war report at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
According to the latest Egyptian proposal, the two rivals would separately sign a unity deal by Oct. 15 and the rest of the Palestinian factions by Oct. 20.
An official ceremony in Cairo would be postponed until after the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in late November-early December.
Fatah and Hamas have increasingly been at odds since January 2006, when the Islamists routed the long-dominant secular party in Palestinian parliamentary elections. The two parties signed a reconciliation deal in Saudi Arabia in February 2007 after months of escalating tensions dissolved into deadly Gaza street clashes.
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Eid al-Adha which is going to be on or about Nov 27 is at the end of the Hajj and celebrates the offering of Ishmael by Abraham (in the OT, it is Isaac that is offered).
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Ma'an -- In a joint speech Senior PLO officials Mohammad Dahlan and Yasser Abed Rabbo railed against the recent words of Hamas leader in exile Khalid Mash'al, where Abed Rabbo called him the "Last Supper man" in an apparent reference to the biblical betrayer Judas.
The Tuesday speeches came a day after
Mash'al spoke to supporters in Damascus, where he accused Fatah leader and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of betraying the Palestinain people for his government's actions around the Goldstone report
Mash'al spoke to supporters in Damascus, where he accused Fatah leader and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of betraying the Palestinain people for his government's actions around the Goldstone report, recently dropped from the UN Human Rights Council's agenda.
Abed Rabbo launched his attack on Hamas alongside Fatah leader Muhammad Dahlan at the Palestinian Information Center in Al-Bireh, outside Ramallah. The official used the phrase "Last Supper man" multiple times during his remarks, while Dahlan said "Mash'al has lit sedition again in Palestine."
"You can take supper in Damascus, lunch in Tahran, and breakfast in Qatar, yet we will not let our national cause out of our hands," Abed Rabbo said referring to Hamas leaders, and specifically Mash'al whose Sunday night speech was filmed in front of supporters dining in Damascus.
Abed Rabbo accused Hamas of bringing an Arab and regional agenda to the Palestinian arena and taking advantage of their military grip in the Gaza Strip. He also accused Hamas leaders of obstructing the conclusion of a reconciliation agreement even if it means maintaining the separation of the West Bank from the Gaza Strip.
He alleged that powerful figures in Gaza are benefiting financially from the status quo. He specifically named the Hamas consultative council and the movement's Executive Force security apparatus in Gaza.Abed Rabbo also criticized Hamas for preventing Palestinian military groups from launching shells at Israeli targets bordering the Gaza Strip. He said Mash'al "wants to be nothing more than a border guard for Israel."
Dahlan also had choice words for Hamas, saying the party "invoked the report to disable the national dialogue and to start an orchestrated campaign against the President Abbas," and suggested there were Hamas plots in the works to have the president assassinated.
The Fatah leader, who lived in Gaza until 2007 shortly before the Hamas take over of the area, called on the Arab League to take a clear position and place blame for the disruption of national dialogue on Hamas, and also noted Abbas is "keen on elections," and that he plans to announce them on time, even if it is ahead of any unity agreement.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's judiciary has launched a legal case against reformist cleric Mehdi Karoubi over his allegations that some imprisoned opposition supporters were raped, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
A special investigative committee had prepared a file into the case and sent it to the prosecutor's office, IRNA said.
"Karoubi is a cleric and his remarks should be studied at the special court for the clergy," said Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi. "Some people have also been summoned in connection with the case."
IRNA said: "A legal case prepared by the judicial investigative committee has been sent to the Tehran prosecutor over Karoubi's claims."
Karoubi, who finished fourth in the disputed June presidential election, angered hardliners in August by saying some people held in the street unrest that followed had been raped and abused in detention. Last month, the same judicial committee rejected Karoubi's allegation and called for libel charges to be considered against anyone making such claims.
Karoubi and another defeated candidate Mirhossein Mousavi say the poll was rigged to secure President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election. Officials reject the charge.
The election and its turbulent aftermath plunged Iran into its deepest internal crisis in the past three decades. Rights groups say thousands of people, including senior reformers, were arrested after the poll, though most have been freed.
Karoubi said in September he would not give up fighting for rights of dozens of people complaining of mistreatment after being jailed. Hardliners have called for Karoubi to be arrested or charged if he fails to back up his accusations.
The opposition says more than 70 people were killed in post-election unrest. Officials estimate the death toll at up to 36 people including members of the Islamic Basij militia.
The authorities have portrayed the opposition protests as a foreign-backed bid to undermine the Islamic government system.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned the German charge d'affairs in Tehran to protest a Berlin official's remarks regarding Iran's presidential election.
Iran voiced concern over 'the spread of Islamophobic movements and mounting pressure on Muslim communities in Germany'.
The Foreign Ministry voiced its protest to the 'unconventional and non-diplomatic' remarks made by the German deputy foreign minister about Iran's presidential vote, IRNA reported.
Iran voiced concern over 'the spread of Islamophobic movements and mounting pressure on Muslim communities in Germany'.
Tehran further called on Germany not to bolster 'extremist thoughts' about the minorities living in the country.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Quqnoos] Pakistan is not behind last week's deadly attack on the Indian Embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a Pakistani envoy to Kabul says
Paris - French marines deployed on a tuna fleet off the Seychelles fired at suspected Somali pirates on Tuesday, the second such clash in the space of a few days as France protects its highly lucrative tuna industry.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has drawn attention to the deplorable conditions in Somalia, urging Arab states to "immediately" assist the war-torn nation. 
[Kyodo: Korea] North Korea"s fresh test-firing of short-range missiles has not changed the U.S. goal of bringing back the reclusive state to the six-party nuclear disarmament talks, the State Department said Tuesday. "Our position remains the same: North Korea has to eventually come back to the six-party process and recommit towards denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters.
[Kyodo: Korea] China said Tuesday North Korea"s test-firing of short-range missiles will not affect the ""softer"" trend on the Korean Peninsula and urged relevant parties to exercise ""restraint"" and work toward the resumption of the six-party talks on the North"s denuclearization. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said at a regular press briefing that he noted that ""North Korea had fired short-range missiles"" and does not feel that this would affect the ""progression toward a softer trend on the Korean Peninsula.""
'I have no faith in Indian court and this case may be transferred to an international court,' Kasab said in an application to the court. He had moved the application written in his own hand in Urdu. The application was filed through jail authorities who translated it into Marathi and produced before the court.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Fatah has agreed to an Egyptian proposal for the two main Palestinian factions to separately sign a long-delayed unity deal by Oct. 15, a senior party official said on Tuesday.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's judiciary has launched a legal case against reformist cleric Mehdi Karoubi over his allegations that some imprisoned opposition supporters were raped, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
