CAIRO - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak's health is "satisfactory" after surgery in Germany to remove a gall bladder, the head of the medical team at Heidelberg University Hospital said on Thursday.
"President Hosni Mubarak's overall medical condition continues to improve in a satisfactory manner," Professor Markus Buechler said in a statement released by Egyptian authorities.
He also confirmed that Mubarak, 81, left the intensive care unit on Wednesday to a regular hospital room following Saturday's surgery to remove his gall bladder. During the surgery, Mubarak also had a "benign" growth removed from his small intestine.
Mubarak has delegated executive powers to Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif until he returns to Cairo.
His health is usually a taboo subject in the country he has ruled since 1981, fuelling regular rumours. Journalists writing about Mubarak's health have been handed jail sentences in the past.
Mubarak's fifth six-year term as president ends in 2011. During a speech in 2005, he said he would stay in power until his "last breath."
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SANAA - An opposition MP said on Saturday he will seek to have the information minister grilled in parliament over measures to block live coverage on Arab satellite television of the deadly unrest in south Yemen. Yemen has media? Who knew?
Information Minister Hassan al-Lawzi should be "questioned on the reasons for the seizure of the transmission equipment of Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya," Abdul Razek al-Hajari told a meeting in Sanaa.
Hundreds of journalists, parliamentarians and representatives of civil society groups turned out for the gathering in Sanaa to show solidarity with the channels.
The ministry said the transmission gear of the two Arab satellite news channels was confiscated on Thursday because they were being used without clearance from Yemeni authorities. Such equipment "should not serve to provoke trouble and amplify events in such a way as to harm public order, as has been the case with Al-Jazeera," a ministry spokesman said. So they've managed to make me sympathetic to Al-Jazeera. That's not easy ...
But Saeed Thabet, deputy head of the Yemeni journalists' union, insisted at the Sanaa gathering that the move was "illegal," appealing for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to intervene and have it reversed.
Other speakers charged that the government was trying to cover up its heavy-handed methods in the south, where unrest has been fired up by a secessionist campaign and charges of economic neglect.
"The authorities are trying to kill the witnesses... of a crime because the channels Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera are the best witnesses of their actions in Yemen," said an opposition Islamist MP, Fuad Dahana. Nah, they usually just shoot witnesses in that part of the world ...
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ABU DHABI - The United Arab Emirates will respect any sanctions imposed by the United Nations on key trading partner Iran, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan said on Saturday.
"The Emirates will respect any international sanctions that could be imposed by the UN Security Council on Iran," he said at a news conference with visiting Cyprus Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou.
But he nevertheless said he hoped the international community will solve its row with Iran "through diplomatic means ... before reaching this phase" of imposing fresh sanctions on Tehran.
His remarks come days only after a visit to Abu Dhabi by US Defence Secretary Robert Gates who said Saudi Arabia and the UAE had signalled a willingness to press China to support tough new sanctions on Iran. Gates must have shown them some new intel ...
The two oil-rich Arab states were also open to lobbying Moscow on the issue "although there's less need with respect to Russia," said Gates -- who also visited Saudi Arabia this week -- as it was more supportive of sanctions. The focus was "mainly China," Gates said in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
His comments suggested the United States could be making headway in its push to secure international support for harsh financial sanctions designed to force Iran to give up its uranium enrichment work.
The UAE has a large Iranian expatriate community and is a major conduit for Iran's trade with the outside world.
Earlier this year the UAE foreign minister joined his German counterpart in saying that Iran must do more to allay the international community's concerns about its nuclear programme or fresh sanctions would be likely. "We are very concerned about Iran's non-transparent behaviour with regard to its nuclear programme," he said after talks in January with his visiting German counterpart, Guido Westerwelle.
He urged Iran to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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Around 15,000 bikers roared through Wootton Bassett to honour troops killed in Afghanistan in the biggest ride of its kind. The town in Wiltshire has come to represent the nation in paying respect to fallen soldiers as they are repatriated back to the UK. Hundreds line the high street in silence for each funeral cortege that passes through the town on its way from RAF Lyneham to the coroner in Oxford.
Today's crowds gathered along the High Street to hear the roar of over 10,000 motor bikers with about 5,000 pillion passengers pass the war memorial on route. The ride, believed to the biggest of its kind, has raised more than £100,000 so far for the charity Afghan Heroes.
Wootton Bassett Mayor Steve Bucknell said: "The vast majority of the people of the town fully support what the bikers are doing today. Too many times the town has had to stand still in silence but today is all about noise and movement." Laurence Phillips from Afghan Heroes said the event gathered pace after being posted on social networking site Facebook. "It's quite a staggering spectacle and an unbelievable show of support for the troops in Afghanistan and a mark of respect for the town of Wootton Bassett," he said. "I would imagine it is the biggest bike ride of its kind. The bikes have been coming in since 8am this morning."
The bikers set off from Hullavington Airfield, Wiltshire in waves of 500 along the A429, B4042, Callow Hill to White Hill Lane and the A3102 to Wootton Bassett. The police, Ministry of Defence and local authorities joined forces to make sure it passed smoothly. Opera singer Tim Pitman performed Fields of Green, a song written for Afghan Heroes. Each biker paid £5 to take part, with some raising more including one biker who handed over £750
Gardaí have been given more time to question three men in connection with a suspected plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist.
They were among seven people arrested on Tuesday in a series of raids in the south east of the country by anti-terrorist units acting on intelligence from the CIA, FBI and European agencies.
The investigation centres on an alleged international conspiracy to murder Lars Vilks who controversially depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.
On Friday a man and two women were freed after three and a half days of questioning.
Yesterday afternoon another woman among those arrested was also released. Gardaí said files are being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
A court in Waterford last night granted gardaí a further 48 hours to question the remaining three in custody.
Mr Vilks, whose cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed were printed in the Swedish Nerikes Allehanda newspaper in August 2007, was under threat of death from Iraqi members of the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaida.
They put a US$100,000 (74,000) bounty on the cartoonist's head, forcing him into police protection in an isolated area of Sweden.
US caretaker Colleen LaRose, who styled herself 'Jihad Jane' in a YouTube video, was charged with plotting his murder bid.
The suspect was accused in the US on Tuesday of conspiring with jihadist fighters and pledging to commit murder in the name of a Muslim holy war, or jihad.
According to the US Justice Department, the 46-year-old, who also goes by the name Fatima LaRose, plotted with five others in South Asia, Eastern and Western Europe and the US to recruit men on the internet to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe.
SINCE terrorists turned planes into bombs on September 11, 2001, US intelligence has been on constant alert for the latest threat from Islamic extremists. The last place they expected to find it was in an army of bored divorcées from small-town America.
Yesterday it was revealed that a second American woman had been arrested, this time a blonde Colorado mother, just days after the FBI announced it was holding a housewife from suburban Pennsylvania who called herself Jihad Jane.
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The clock is ticking. The islamo-cockroaches are going to go "One Bridge Too Far" and pendulum of tolerance of the US and Western society is going to swing abruptly to intolerance. And that will impact every muslim regardless of their position of violence.
In a remark that further implicates Pakistan's domineering military in charges of supporting terrorism against India, a US lawmaker has alleged that it may be paying compensation to families of terrorists who attacked Mumbai on 26/11.
The stunning charge came from Congressman Gary Ackerman in course of a hearing he convened on the Lashkar-e-Taiba in his capacity if chairman of a House sub-panel on South Asia on Thursday. "There is, in fact, no reason to doubt that Pakistan's military is likely paying compensation to the families of the terrorists killed in the Mumbai attacks," Ackerman said in his prepared remarks at the start of the hearing.
The lawmaker did not elaborate on the charge against the Pakistani military, which if true would be extremely provocative for India at a time New Delhi is pressing Pakistan to take action against masterminds of 9/11. His office had not returned calls at the time of writing. Nine of the ten Pakistani fidayeen (suicidal) terrorists who attacked Mumbai landmarks eventually died after killing 173 people. A lone captured survivor Ajmal Kasab, is now on trial in Mumbai, largely disowned by Pakistan.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki's bid to retain his job gained steam on Saturday, as early results crucially put him ahead in Baghdad, while rival blocs began jostling over the formation of a government.
Though the preliminary figures represent less than one-third of all votes cast, they have put Maliki firmly in pole position in the race for the top job, with only ex-premier Iyad Allawi having emerged as a potential rival. Analysts said, however, that Maliki could be blocked in his bid to hold onto office even if his State of Law Alliance was the biggest single party in parliament, as other groups could manoeuvre to form a government without him. That's how a parliamentary system works alright ...
With 18 percent of ballots counted in Baghdad, Maliki's State of Law Alliance was comfortably ahead with around 150,000 votes, followed by the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), a coalition led by Shiite religious parties, with 108,000. Allawi's secular Iraqiya bloc was third on 105,000. Baghdad and its seven million residents account for 70 parliamentary seats, or more than one-fifth of the 325-member Council of Representatives, making it a crucial win for any would-be government.
News of Maliki's lead in Baghdad came shortly after a senior member of his coalition said State of Law had formed a committee to begin negotiating with rival blocs to hammer out a government. "The committee met with representatives of four political entities that made progress in the elections," Abbas al-Bayati, a candidate for the coalition, told AFP, but he declined to say with which blocs the talks were held.
But Baghdad University professor Hamid Fadhel said that even if Maliki's group emerged as the biggest party in parliament, other groups could still shut him out and manage to form a government.
"There exists a desire to form an alliance between the INA and the Kurds, possibly also with Allawi," he told AFP. "They have all refused a long time to really see Maliki as the prime minister."
Underscoring Fadhel's analysis, Allawi and Iraq's Sunni Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi were due to arrive in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, on Saturday to meet with regional president Massud Barzani. Barzani's office said he and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, himself a Kurd, also met with Shiite Vice-President Adel Abdel Mahdi, an INA candidate, on Friday.
Iraq's proportional representation electoral system makes it unlikely that any single grouping will clinch the 163 seats necessary to form a government on its own.
Preliminary results from the March 7 polls released since Thursday have put Maliki's coalition in the lead in the predominantly Shiite southern provinces of Najaf, Babil, Karbala and Muthanna. Iraqiya was ahead in the mostly Sunni provinces of Diyala and Salaheddin, while the INA was in pole position in Shiite Maysan.
The Kurdistania alliance, made up of Barzani and Talabani's long-dominant blocs, was leading in Arbil province.
Complete results are expected on March 18 and the final ones -- after any appeals are dealt with -- will likely come at the end of the month.
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Hundreds of supporters of the Islamist movement have called for ending the peace treaty with Israel in light of its policies across the Palestinian territories. They gathered on Friday afternoon at the Abu Obeidah Mosque in Deir Alla, a few kilometres from the banks of the Jordan River,
Far, far from Israel, where it's safe enough to posture pointlessly.
to protest against Israeli measures in Jerusalem as well as its plans to include the Ibrahimi Mosque and the Bilal Ben Rabah Mosque among Israeli heritage sites.
Top leaders from the Muslim Brotherhood and its political wing, the Islamic Action Front attended the hour-long rally, including overall leader of the Brotherhood Hamam Said, its shura council president, Abdul Latif Arabiat and senior officials from the professional associations. Said criticised the Palestinian Authority and Arab countries that agreed to indirect talks with Israel under American sponsorship, saying all links with Israel must stop.
I agree that indirect talks are pointless. If the party of the second part refuses to sit at the same table as the party of the first part, they demonstrate the same lack of seriousness that leads to arguments over the shape of the table itself.
Participants called for "practical measures" to respond to Israeli targeting of holy sites in Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank. They also pointed to the fact that Israel was defeated in the Karameh Battle, which took place more than four decades ago near the Jordan River,
Really? How went that war, not to mention the others before and since?
stressing that "jihad" is the only answer to recent developments, particularly since Israel is being led by a right-wing government.
Protesters burnt the Israeli flag and condemned what they described as "international silence over Israel's gross violation of human rights". Silence? Israelis should protest against these protesters for their chutzpah
They also carried banners that called for ending the 1994 Wadi Araba Peace Treaty and expelling the Israeli diplomatic representation in the Kingdom. "The battle of Jerusalem has started," read one banner.
Ooooooo - scary.
The rally was held within the boundaries of the mosque, and protesters were not allowed to head near the Jordan River.
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"The Battle for Jerusalem has started" > ANUTHER REASON FOR YEAR 2012 + IRAN, ISLAMIST/MILTERR NUCLEARIZATION.
Despite any MSM-NET + DIPLOMATIC rhetoric to the contrary, ISRAEL recognizes the COVERT DANGER, which in IMO is why there are domestic efforts to get Israel formally into NATO, EU, + MEDITERRANEAN UNION INCLUDING NON-NATO SECURITY ALLIANCES.
Tis a big reason why Israel is econ, geopol dallying all over CENT-EAST-SOUTH ASIA, EVEN IN REGIONAL STATES WHOM WERE HISTOR OPPOSED TO ISRAEL.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Madrid has warned that, if continued at the current rate, the Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands would bring about the annexation of the entire occupied territories.
The Hockey Stick is true, too. All will end in 2012!!!!!!!!
Good lord -- some people really are capable of believing five impossible things before breakfast.
Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos cautioned that the advancement would claim the entire Palestinian territories in the West Bank, should the current rate of acquisition survive for another two years, AFP reported on Saturday.
"Until now, it's not too late, but if we wait for more than two years it will be too late," he said.
The comments came after the Israel interior ministry approved the construction of 1,600 housing units for Jewish settlers in Jerusalem (al-Quds).
Tel Aviv has been denounced for seeking insidious annexation of the territories under the guise of refurbishing the Jewish residences, resettling the Arab dwellers and promoting tourism among other "self-serving" excuses.
Israeli authorities refuse to meet the Palestinian condition for recommencement of the Middle East peace talks by enforcing a permanent and complete freeze on the expansion.
The resulting long-standing standoff in the negotiations was compounded by Israel's December 2008-January 2009 offensives against the Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians.
Also on Saturday, the European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged prompt formation of an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. "We need a negotiated peace settlement, it needs to happen quickly and now," she said.
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Don't you have any problems closer to home, Miguel? Oooops forgot. Inflaming anti-Semitism is how European rulers been dealing with popular discontent as long as there was Europe.
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I have to agree with Moratinos here but I think we should annex the West Bank as an advance compensation for the future annexation of Spain by the new Moslem Chalifat of Eurabia.
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If the Israelis are going to do that, they had better come up with some way of expelling Arabs from their territory quickly, as they are starting to add up.
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g(r)omgoru,
The situation in the West Bank is at a strange impasse. What would you make of this article by Tom Gross?
"In June, the Washington Post's Jackson Diehl related how Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had told him why he had turned down Ehud Olmert's offer last year to create a Palestinian state on 97% of the West Bank (with 3% of pre-1967 Israeli land being added to make up the shortfall). "In the West Bank we have a good reality," Abbas told Diehl. "The people are living a normal life," he added in a rare moment of candor to a Western journalist.
Nablus stock exchange head Ahmad Aweidah went further in explaining to me why there is no rush to declare statehood, saying ordinary Palestinians need the IDF to help protect them from Hamas, as their own security forces aren't ready to do so by themselves yet."
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Arab mentality is not likely to change anytime soon methinks
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Perhaps Israel should contact some Christian Arabs (there are some in san Diego) and arrange a takeover of the West Bank and Finlandized government. Make it profitable for Israeli Arabs to move into the West Bank and promote a policy of sending troublemakers to Gaza.
Then work to reframe the conflict as Gaza xs everyone instead of Israel vs Arab.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The United States announced Friday it was providing an additional $55 million to a U.N. program aiding Palestinian refugees. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz said the funds would go through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The United States, UNRWA's largest donor, will give $30 million to UNRWA's general fund, which provides services to Palestinian refugees across the region, and $25 million to its emergency appeal for the West Bank and Gaza. This will bring total U.S. contributions to UNRWA thus far in fiscal year 2010 to $95 million. In 2009, the United States provided $267 million to the agency.
The cash-strapped UNRWA provides assistance to about 4.7 million Palestinian refugees, many of whom have settled in camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
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roughly how many Qassams does that work out to?
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Considering that what Bambi-Hildi team would really like to do is to send US military to "protect Palestinians", 55 million is peanuts, abu.
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Broke, busted, penniless and without a pot to piss in, but borrowing money from China to fund terrorism? No objections from the feckless congress or DOJ I take it?
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This is a list of state donors for 2008. Notice the preponderance of Muslim country donors...not.
Nowhere to be seen. Just goes to show what they really think of the Palestinians and are not prepared to put their money where their mouth is.
Their Majesties the King and Queen graciously granted a wreath to yesterday's funeral of Bannang Sata district police chief Colonel Sompien Eksomya, who died from his injuries after being ambushed by terrorists insurgents in Yala on Friday. The royally sponsored wreath was presented by Songkhla Governor Winyu Thongsakul.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who attended Sompien's funeral in the evening, affirmed that police had not ignored Sompien's request to be transferred elsewhere. Former deputy police chief Wasit Detkunchon said those responsible for leaving Sompien in the restive region too long must be punished.
Sompien, who had worked in the deep South for 20 years and had been recognised for his good relations with the community, made headlines when he went to Government House to file a complaint that he wanted to be moved out of the region so that he could spend the rest of his police service peacefully.
Offering condolences to Sompien's family, Abhisit said the Police Policy Board had met on March 5 to approve in principle compensation for Sompien, which meant that authorities did not close their eyes to complaints over unfairness.
Wasit said Sompien's death on duty shed light on the national police's personnel-management flaws and injustice for officers stationed in high-risk areas for a long time when other officers should replace them. "Why was he left there for so long? When he asked for a transfer, shouldn't the request have been considered specially? This is terrible, it shouldn't happen and this injustice deserves to be punished," he said.
Wasit, who chairs a committee investigating police transfer complaints, said the eight-rank promotion granted posthumously to Sompien was not a small reward. "But what would the family feel about such an exchange of their husband/father's life for the promotion? If it were I, I wouldn't trade it. What could've been done was to help him before he died.
"Being in the 'war zone' too long, soldiers or police would inevitably become a target. National police personnel management made a mistake, and someone must pay for it. I want the government, premier and his deputy for police affairs to look into human-resources management," Wasit said.
On February 23, Sompien and his wife also went to consult with journalists at police headquarters about how to file a complaint against injustice in police transfers. He claimed that the southern insurgents had put a price of 50 goats, equivalent to Bt200,000, on his head.
That day, Sompien, accompanied by journalists, went to the office of acting national police chief General Pratheep Tanprasert on the eighth floor but was told that it was the Police Policy Board's responsibility, so they went to the board's office on the 18th floor. They were told that the board director was in a meeting, so a lieutenant-colonel took up the complaint instead.
From that day until his death, the national police did not do anything besides telling the press that they would speed up assistance to him, said Wasit. And on the day he died, police came out and said they were planning to promote him as deputy provincial chief in Trang.
The United States is looking to break a taboo and train an elite Indonesian force linked to past abuses, as President Barack Obama courts the world's largest Muslim-majority nation with a visit.
Ahead of Obama's trip next week, top officers from Kopassus -- a military unit that focuses on counter-insurgency and intelligence -- visited Washington to discuss a resumption of training, people with knowledge of the talks said. The United States cut off support for Kopassus under the so-called Leahy Amendment in 1997, which prohibited training to foreign military units involved in human rights abuses.
Ernie Bower, Southeast Asia director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank, said military ties were "absolutely fundamental" if the Obama administration was serious about transforming ties with Indonesia. "Indonesia was going to be the India of the Bush administration -- a country with which they move to a whole new place because they understand it and put a real focus on it," Bower said, referring to former US president George W. Bush's drive to end decades of mistrust with New Delhi.
The talks with Indonesia come amid unease in some circles in Washington about the strong role of the military in the two historic US allies in Southeast Asia -- the Philippines and Thailand.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said that the United States was discussing a re-engagement with Kopassus "that's in accordance with our laws, our values and advances our interests."
"Indonesia's democratic reforms over the past decade have been pretty remarkable and its greatly improved human rights record has enabled us to engage more broadly," Whitman said.
The United States ended overall sanctions on the Indonesian military in 2005, the same year that Australia resumed joint training with Kopassus. But US rights advocates remain deeply uneasy about Kopassus and few expect a deal before Obama leaves on his trip to Guam, Indonesia and Australia on March 21.
Kopassus spearheaded the anti-communist pogrom in 1965 that killed up to 500,000 people. It was seen as a key force in the 1975 invasion of East Timor and the 1999 violence when the territory voted for independence.
Senator Patrick Leahy, who authored the 1997 law that bears his name, stood firm against training. He said that Indonesia must first bring Kopassus members to justice for past abuses. "It is important that the people of Indonesia see that justice is possible, and that impunity for committing serious crimes is no longer acceptable," said Leahy, a member of Obama's Democratic Party from Vermont. "Indonesia has made progress in its democracy and in curbing some of the excesses of its military. But the past must not be forgotten," Leahy said.
One compromise under consideration is for the United States to train only younger Kopassus members. But T. Kumar, the international advocacy director of Amnesty International USA, said Indonesia should try senior officers involved in past wrongdoing. "Kopassus has such a bad record that to hold no one accountable in a meaningful way sends the wrong message to others," Kumar said.
He called for Obama to meet survivors of the 1965 mass killings. The United States is widely suspected of supporting the pogrom, which future strongman Suharto launched in response to rumors of a communist coup.
A Filipino militant wanted by Washington has become leader of a key faction of Abu Sayyaf, the al-Qaida-linked extremist group in the southern Philippines for which he has previously acquired foreign funding, the Philippine military says.
A military report obtained by The Associated Press Sunday says the militant, Khair Mundus, has connections to funding donors from Saudi Arabia and Malaysia. It also says he has an ideological bent and has begun giving Islamic religious training to Abu Sayyaf fighters.
The United States last year offered $500,000 for information leading to the capture or killing of Mundus, who was arrested by Philippine authorities in 2004 but escaped from a local jail in 2007. While in police custody, Mundus confessed to having arranged the transfer of al-Qaida funds to an Abu Sayyaf chief to finance bombings and other attacks, according to the U.S. State Department.
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we need to tackle the source of the ideology and the funding SAUDI Arabia.
Look at the mess they have done in Pakistan,Bosnia,Africa etc.
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Kofi, were you asking why Saudi Arabia isn't our #1 target?
Probably because the Saudis are very adept at doing just enough to convince Washington politicians that they are "working with us."
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American Delight,
The saudis fund all sunni terrorism but we turn a blind eye because of oil!i have read there is enough reserves in US especially Alaska to be self sufficient.Without oil the Saudis would rot in the desert.That is the way forward.
Watched 'Kingdom' on DVD and what struck me was their arcade games have their youngsters playing Jihadis killing Americans which we ignore?.Its in their mentality from a young age to hate infidels and the decadent west!
All Sunni terrorist are wahabbis but we ignore?
They are no friends of the US and fund Global Islam which is not compatible with Jefferson Demoracy?
Why do we treat as allies?The most anti US parties in Pakistan are funded by Saudi!Sharif was in collusion with Bin Laden and the Saudis to make Pakistan an Islamic State.
Pak/Afghan/Iraq are proxy wars for US V Saudi/Iran over who controls the middle East!
waves cheerfully That you, Paul? Please stick to one 'nym right now.
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Why do we treat the Saudis and Pakistan as allies, Paul2? Because the alternative is to treat them as open enemies.
In the case of Saudi Arabia, that would mean cutting off Saudi oil shipments, most of which go to our real allies, not to America. And that would mean a full-blown world-wide depression. Our allies would be very displeased with us for that.
In the case of Pakistan, the only real path for our troops and supplies into Afghanistan is through Pakistan. Were we to declare war against them, that path would be cut off, and our troops would run of supplies very quickly. While admittedly our guys are hardy enough to survive without food, water or medicines, they won't do so for long without bullets. Were our armed forces (British, American, Canadian, Australian, and all the wonderful others fighting over there) double or quadruple in size, perhaps we could conquer Pakistan as well as Afghanistan. But they aren't and so we simply cannot run roughshod over them as they truly deserve.
Once you figure out a way to substantially increase the size and armament of our armed forces, then we can talk about dealing openly with Saudi and Pakistani perfidy. Until then, it's just an irritant -- to those of us who can do nothing, and to them because they know we will do nothing because we can't.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Sri Lanka's major Tamil party has promised to launch a disobedience campaign and press for autonomy for the country's ethnic minority.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says they will launch a peaceful Ghandi-style campaign if the government fails to view the rights of the Tamils. Since launching a violent revolution brought them nothing but death and destruction ...
The announcement comes after the group renewed its demand for regional autonomy in its manifesto for April general elections.
The alliance has also called for power sharing arrangements -- acceptable to the Tamils. The TNA currently has 22 seats in 225-member parliament.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says US is concerned about Iran's influential role in Latin America, Central Asia and Africa, adding that the Islamic Republic is currently among the top world powers.
"This is not a rhetoric issue in a political war. This is a fact. The countries on the opposite side can do nothing without Iran," he was quoted by IRNA as saying on Saturday.
"They (US officials) do not want to see Iran's presence in international relations and equations. They have no option but to keep silent about consecutive victories of the Iranian nation," he added.
The head of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said, "Before the swear-in ceremony in 2005 I asked the the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, [Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei], to issue a permission for breaking the seal of Iran's nuclear facilities, and the leader agreed."
"Despite oppositions [to the move] and threats of the enemy's military attack, the government insisted on its stance," Ahmadinejad said.
He touched upon the enemy's "political game" in Iran's nuclear case and said, "It aims to block and stop the path of the countries' progress."
He reiterated that the West could not stop Iran's nuclear program by adopting further resolutions or imposing sanctions.
The Iranian president questioned NATO's achievements in Afghanistan and said only Iran can help resolve regional crisis.
He disclosed efforts by certain powers and countries to change regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency, saying, "They seek to prevent nations from making progress, but the Iranian nation will not let them."
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"Ahmadinejad: Iran among top world powers loonies"
FTFY
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Yup, there is a guy suffering from a serious mental disorder. More like, Iran is one of the world's top annoyances. Eventually, someone will be forced into to pulling the rug from under them.
Seeking and self-radicalized, the kind that used to join pseudo-religious cults on communes.
Last Easter, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old mom with a $30,000-a-year job as a medical assistant, announced to her family that she had converted to Islam. A few months later, she began posting to Facebook forums whose headings included "STOP caLLing MUSLIMS TERRORISTS!"
On Sept. 11, 2009 she suddenly left Leadville, Colo., a small town in the Rocky Mountains, for Denver, then for New York, to meet and marry a Muslim man she connected with online, her family says. Ms. Paulin-Ramirez, who is 5-foot-11 and blonde, phoned her mother and stepfather in Leadville, providing them with an address in Waterford, Ireland, they say.
Now, she is in the custody of the Irish police, along with six other individuals, arrested as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to commit murder, according to officials familiar with the case. The nature of the authorities' suspicions about Ms. Paulin-Ramirez couldn't be determined on Friday.
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HMMMMM, HMMMMMM, interesting, a MEXICAN CHILD whose Mexi-Hispanic identity = name is ISLAMIZED - IMO as peculiar as saying a MEXICAN turned MUSLIM while in CATHOLIC/CHRISTIAN MEXICA.
The "NEW JIHAD GENERATION" - considering how many Black African Muslims are repor mistreated + abused, etc. by their fellow non-Black Muslims, I'm CURIOUS AS TO HOW NEW WORLD, NORTH-CENT-SOUTH AMERICAN INDIGENOUS = ETHNIC CONVERTS WILL BE VIEWED, TREATED BY OLD WORLD MUSLIMS???
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as peculiar as saying a MEXICAN turned MUSLIM while in CATHOLIC/CHRISTIAN MEXICA
Joe, there were reports a few years ago that Commandante Marcos and other leftists in Mexico had formed alliances with Muslims, invited in mosques and converted to Islam. I fear this will be less and less peculiar in the near future as the Mexican state fails and people look for simple answers.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Hundreds of supporters of the Islamist movement have called for ending the peace treaty with Israel in light of its policies across the Palestinian territories. They gathered on Friday afternoon at the Abu Obeidah Mosque in Deir Alla, a few kilometres from the banks of the Jordan River, 
[Al Arabiya Latest] The United States announced Friday it was providing an additional $55 million to a U.N. program aiding Palestinian refugees. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz said the funds would go through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
