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More self-deermination is just what these people need.
/sarc lock OFF
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Uh, deertermined to type determination.
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M, maybe self-deermination is what they do need.
Whatever self-deermination is.
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no condemnation by the White House
condemnation is only for zoning approvals for apartments in Jerusalem
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I infer from this Artic that she is prob still married to the man, as there is no mention of a "legal" Taliban divorce taking place during or after the Court's decision to slice off her appendages.
And what did her Female relations get for deception in trying to sell an already "married woman"???
* IIRC TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > AFGHANISTAN'S BOY SEX SLAVES.
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I would favor rounding up the lowlife inlaws that did this to her and cutting off their stuff a little lower down, grinding it up, and frying it in lard and making them eat it.
It's only taken 8 years for people to wake up to what most of us here know. That terrorism is a business and as long as the revenue streams are still intact, it doesn't matter how many of the rank and file you kill or capture, money will always hire new 'recruits'. You need to cut off the revenue and go after the guys who control the funds.
Otherwise, a reasonable summary of the situation. With the finger pointed at Karzai as being a significant part of the problem. I also think going after the hawala system is probably misguided and won't work. In Asia, huge amounts of legitimate funds go through these networks. Certainly 10s of $ billions. Not least because they are cheaper and faster than the banks. You can't just shut them down and arrest the operators. It looks like the thinking of people who are trying to apply the methods used to stop these kind of funds going through the formal banking system. Good luck getting monthly transaction reports from the hawala operators.
In a long report on the war in Afghanistan for the U.S. Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations last summer, one sentence stood out: "If we don't get a handle on the money, we will lose this war to corruption."
The money in this context meant the funds, from multiple illicit sources, that finance the Taliban who are fighting the United States and its allies in a war that is now in its ninth year. Dirty money is greasing corruption on a scale so monumental that Afghanistan ranks 179 (out of 180) on the latest index compiled by Transparency International, a watchdog group based in Berlin.
Part of the reason for the country's dismal standing: for much of the war the U.S. military ignored the booming drug trade (Afghanistan accounts for around 90 percent of the world's opium, the raw material for heroin) and the drug money flowing to the insurgents, estimated at up to $400 million a year. Add kickbacks contractors pay directly to the Taliban to avoid having their projects blown up or their workers kidnapped, add money diverted from development funds and soon you talk about serious money.
"There is a realization now that the best way to stop the conflict is to cut the flow of money," Gary Haff, the chief financial investigator with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) told a conference of anti-money laundering experts in Hollywood, Florida, this week. "We need to identify and disrupt the financial infrastructure that supports the Taliban and al-Qaeda."
That falls under the heading of better late than never and is easier said than done. An important new weapon in the assault on the financial infrastructure was only deployed last summer, initially with a skeleton staff. It is now growing rapidly and by the end of the year, according to Haff, the DEA alone will have 85 agents in the new unit, the Afghan Threat Finance Cell (ATFC), working alongside financial specialists from the Departments of Defense, Treasury and Justice.
That is a big step forward from the days, earlier in the war, when planes were loaded with bales of opium at the Kabul airport in full view of U.S. troops manning the perimeter. It is also a long way from the days when military commanders argued that neither going after the drug lords nor trying to deny financing to the enemy was part of their brief.
It is now one of the pillars of the counter-insurgency strategy but how successful it can be is an open question. "Is it possible to slow the flow of drug money to the insurgency, particularly in a country where most transactions are conducted in cash and hidden behind an ancient and secretive money transfer system?" the Senate Committee report wondered.
The money transfer system in question, known as hawala, goes back to the 8th century and is as ideally suited for moving illicit money as Afghanistan's craggy mountains are suited for guerrilla warfare. Entirely based on trust, it is a remittance system that has been defined as "money transfer without money movement" by Interpol, the international police agency.
How does it work? A customer in one country (or city) gives money to a hawala dealer who charges a small commission and instructs a hawaladeer in another country (or city) to give an equal amount of money to a recipient on the strength of a identification number or password. The transaction leaves no paper trail and is invariably faster than a wire transfer through a bank.
In Afghanistan, a country of 28 million people, there are only 17 banks and no culture of banking. Around 90 percent of financial transactions run through the hawala system, experts estimate. Hawala dealers in Kandahar, the country's second biggest city, and the opium-producing province of Helmand, are thought to handle $1 billion in drug money per year.
The Americans' problems of throttling financing for the insurgents don't end with a difficult-to-penetrate parallel money transfer system. "So far, not enough attention has been given to trade-based money laundering and to the misuse of the Afghan transit trade agreement," according to Dennis Lormel, one of the speakers at the anti-money laundering meeting.
Lormel, who now runs a consultancy, DML Associates, was chief of the FBI's Financial Crimes Program until he retired. In his view, the over- or under-invoicing of goods -- trade fraud -- yield millions of dollars that can filter back to the insurgents.
Success on the financial front, and for the ATFC, obviously depends on the political will of key players in the Afghan government, led by President Hamid Karzai. In November, he was declared the winner of disputed elections and promptly faced exhortations from U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to open a new chapter of good governance and fighting corruption.
Let's see how Afghanistan will rank on Transparency International's 2010 index.
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These guys have regular bureaucracies running their killing enterprise. Al-Qaeda are the true killing masterminds. They sign contracts, they get a healthcare plan, and pay for drinks at strip clubs on company dime. I have been suprised time and again at how civil their operation is in destroying civil society.
They are not a joke and they move around lots.
However, going against poppy farmers is not the answer now, nor end game to financing.
Terror financing is not only poppy money driven, it is conditional upon organizational structure.
Let the Afghans sort through the poppy mess, we need to be applying pressure on the business of bad guys in all conventional ways they persue their mayhem.
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BTW, much of that trade ends up in Iran. That government does not allow drugs to ingress in masse unless they want it to. It is as if a country is sponsoring terrorism through inaction.
Good. If they can be named, they can be shamed and a class action again them on account of the nihilistic barbarianism unleashed by their forefather would be nice too.
* Lawyer to sue Danish newspapers for libel
* Cartoons "a slur on descendants"
* One paper has already apologised
NEARLY 95,000 descendants of Mohammed are going to sue 10 newspapers for publishing "blasphemous" cartoons of the prophet.
Faisal Yamani, a Saudi lawyer acting for the descendants, claims that the cartoons - which first appeared in 2005 and caused violent protests by Muslims around the world - are defamatory.
One of the 12 cartoons depicts Mohammed wearing a bomb-shaped turban.
English lawyers expect that he will argue that the cartoons were published in Britain via the internet and are a direct slur on his clients, who live in the Middle East, north Africa and even Australia.
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who is gonna file the first lawsuit on sheep every where behalf?
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Lawyer for the defence: "So if my client were to draw the same cartoon but not name it "Mohammed", your clients would not be libelled, is that correct?"
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In the wake of a disastrous currency reform, North Korea seems desperate to draw international investments in efforts to resolve its deteriorating economy and food shortage. There are moves to open the Rajin-Sonbong Economic Special Zone to the outside again and develop Wihwa and Bidan islands near Sinuiju jointly with China.
The North has been increasingly frantic in calls on South Korea to resume package tours to the Mt. Kumgang resort and increase wages for North Korean workers at the joint Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex.
There are four so-called "special economic zones" -- Rajin-Sonbong, Sinuiju, Mt. Kumgang, and Kaesong -- which the North either tried to develop in the past or is currently operating. They are on the eastern, western, southern, and northern tips of the North Korean territory. They are rigorously isolated from ordinary North Korean life. The Rajin-Sonbong zone is ringed by a high-voltage security fence some 89 km in radius. In the Mt. Kumgang resort, a South Korean tourist who had strayed a little beyond the fence from the permitted area was shot dead by a soldier in 2008.
Ryu Dong-ryeol, a researcher at the Police Science Institute, argued that the North's recent moves to open up are still within that tactic. The North has leased a port in the Rajin-Sonbong zone to China and Russia, but has revised the special zone law to the effect that the North's draconian laws apply strictly to foreigners as well.
In case of the Sinuiju special zone, the Stalinist country aims to develop Wihwa and Bidan islands in the Apnok (or Yalu) River because they are easy to isolate.
A South Korean government official said, "The North could earn a considerable amount of hard currency without having to take big risks if package tours to Mt. Kumgang resume or wages for workers at the Kaesong industrial park increase." The North earned US$500 million from the Mt. Kumgang tourism project over the past decade, and $30 million to $40 million per year from the Kaesong project.
But the policy of such restricted opening-up is likely doomed to failure. Prof. Cho Young-ki of Korea University said that there is a limit to the supply of cheap labor which would attract foreign firms, since the special zones are remote and underpopulated. "In addition, the infrastructure, including electric power and port facilities, is poor there. It seems that the North is still cherishing the illusion that foreign investment will pour in if it opens its doors even a little," he added.
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Don't let go of your stranglehold now unless you want to perpetuate their behavior.
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I can't help but think the NORKS best hard currency option is to invite in the Thai gangsters who run the Nana Plaza and similar, then lay on cheap flights from Britain, Germany, etc for sex tourists.
[Dawn] Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif on Thurday said that terrorism is the worst form of crisis faced by the country, and if not solved, it will serve as a death warrant for the entire nation.
Sharif said that foreign dictation is tampering Pakistan's progress and is causing a negative effect on its policies.
Sharif blamed former president Pervaiz Musharraf's policy for being the root cause of the rise of terrorism in the country.
He applauded the sacrifices made by the people of NWFP in the war against terrorism, but warned that a lack of uniformity among the political parties of the country will cause a lot of problems in fighting terrorism.
He, however, said that the signing of the NFC awards is a big step forward towards uniformity as it develops mutual respect among the provinces.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has called on political blocs to accept a peaceful rotation of power, lashing out at those who speak about the formation of a quota-based government.
This came on the sidelines of a ceremony held in Baghdad to distribute donations to those who have been harmed by the Bloody Wednesday' bombings.
Hashemi said that the return to the sectarian' quota system will end up in a dark tunnel.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Secularist Iyad Allawi edged ahead of Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday in a neck-and-neck election race that has laid bare the ethnic and sectarian divisions threatening Iraq's fragile stability.
The new results from Iraq's electoral commission, with about 93 percent of an early vote count complete, gave a lead of some 8,000 votes to Allawi, a Shiite former prime minister with wide support among minority Sunnis who fear consolidation of the dominance of Shiite religious parties in Iraq since 2003.
The lead in the popular vote has changed hands several times and the eventual winner may be able to claim a symbolic victory, but no matter the final result both Maliki and Allawi's will need to engage in long and potentially divisive talks to try to form a coalition capable of forming a government.
As early results trickle in after the March 7 polls, the divided vote is a reminder of Iraq's precarious position on the seventh anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein and plunged Iraq into a bloody civil conflict.
It's not precarious in the least. There's little chance of a Sunni thug taking power. The Kurds aren't going to break off. Iran is meddling but even most Shi'a don't want them running the place. The squabble is going to be the usual political finagling, with the exception that the Iraqi pols are likely to be more honorable than Nancy Pelosi.
Iraq may have held one of the most competitive elections in the region's history, but the course of its democracy is far from certain. It is far safer than it was at the peak of sectarian killing, but a tenacious insurgency keeps Iraq under siege just as U.S. troops halve their force by this summer.
A close election may actually exacerbate those threats by making it harder to form a government coalition and accommodate the conflicting visions, and personal political ambitions, of groups as dissimilar as Maliki's mainly Shiite State of Law coalition and Allawi's cross-sectarian Iraqiya list.
Nonsense. Maliki and Allawi can form a coalition and work together. They'll just have to figure out who gets what ministries.
Maliki, who has won over many Iraqis with his nationalist rhetoric and steps to crush sectarian violence in Iraq, leads in seven provinces in central and southern Iraq, six of them mainly Shiite.
The prime minister now has a narrow 6-percent lead over Allawi in Baghdad, the diverse capital city, but he has virtually no support in largely Sunni provinces where many are skeptical of his Shiite Islamist roots and condemn his support of a ban of hundreds of candidates, including prominent Sunnis.
Allawi, who has tried to model himself as a non-sectarian outsider, swept western and northern areas home to large numbers of Sunni Arabs. The physician and fluent English speaker holds a narrow lead over a Kurdish bloc in Kirkuk, the disputed city that is Iraq's northern oil hub.
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First of all, Israel doesn't have a regime. It has a government.
It is an hour or two before the Sabbath, and customers spill out of Gershon Hickmann's small grocery shop in Ramat Shlomo dressed in the sober costume of Hasidic Jewry and clutching bags crammed with loaves of challah bread for their Friday evening meals.
Despite the utilitarianism of the East Jerusalem suburb's homes, there is a sense of timelessness, born of the settlement's religious devotion and semi-rural setting.
Yet across the valley, black smoke rises from burning barricades beyond the Palestinian refugee camp of Shuafat. No one affects to notice the fumes, nor the distant popping of tear gas canisters and stun grenades, a reminder of the almost daily clashes that have erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces ever since Ramat Shlomo found itself at the centre of unwanted international attention.
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Israelthrough her leaders and various spokesmen over the years, has made it clear she is not like other nations. Indeed, the self called Jewish state is cut from the same cloth as other cults envisioning themselves as being divine in nature, who are unable to function in the real world in a rational way and determined to go out in a blaze of glory. From Ariel Sharons infamous Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a wild country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go crazy, that we might go wild and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East, or that we might start World War Three just like that to Moshe Dayans Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother to Prime Minister Golda Meirs This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy, one thing the Jewish state has made clear since her inception is that she is not playing with a full deck, and the few cards she does possess are only jokers.
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h-k.. please get a clue. think they might have them blue light clearance at k-mart.
only one here not playing with a full deck seems to be you. Why not go fellate your Obama doll or flagellate yourself. your troll schtick is tiresome and past stale.
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hunterkiller, how old are you? Where do you live? What have you accomplished in your life?
#6
Hunterkiller makes a good point. Israel won't go down easy.
As a secular athiest, who realizes Israel is the front line (and most especially the West Bank so called settlers) for those of us who enjoy the safety and security of liberal democracies far from those who would threaten us. I know if Israel falls we are all less safe.
And if that requires Israel threatening to lay waste to every Arab state within 2,000 miles then so be it. History won't miss them (the Arab states).
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Israel is a speed bump in the destruction of all western power. Israel is the only thing standing against an arab sponsored world takeover in honor of mohammed as well as the violence that it brings.
Israel is the only TRUE ally you have in the middle east, and a lottle bit of help from God never hurt anyone.
Read up son before the management of the world gets beyond your grips.
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Israel is a speed bump in the destruction of all western power.
I know if Israel falls we are all less safe.
For Obama, forcing his will on Israel is a matter of personal ego and his Presidency. He wants to be able to say I did something that no one else was able to do. For Israel it is a question of its very survival--That sense of survival is very primal and deeply rooted in Israelis--it crosses part lines and unites Israelis acrosses their differences.
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"Behind his cool detached demeanour, there is a part of Obama that is easily frustrated, almost arrogant. I am sure he has reached boiling point,"
What's with the 'almost?' Arrogance, insolence, and vainglory have warped this man's thinking, and all his supporters can do is accuse others of insanity...
[Al Arabiya Latest] U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel and the Palestinians on Saturday to restart negotiations as world powers stepped up diplomatic efforts to push the peace process forward. What does he know about peace?
Ban also called on the Jewish state to stop settlement building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and said the holy city should be the capital for both Israel and a future Palestinian state.
"We have to get negotiations under way," Ban said after meeting Western-backed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "We can and must find a way for Jerusalem to emerge from negotiations as the capital of two states with arrangements for holy sites acceptable to all."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a limited, 10-month freeze on settlement building in the West Bank in November. But the moratorium did not include territory it captured in a 1967 war and annexed to Jerusalem. The Jewish state sees all of Jerusalem as its capital, a claim that has not won international recognition.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] On the occasion of the Iranian New Year - Nowruz - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised that his government would pursue "the road to supremacy with greater speed."
Looking at the last presidential election, Ahmadinejad called it "a great election, with unprecedented and epic participation of the people, which challenged all the set-up of the unipolar world."
According to the text of the greeting published on the presidential website, Ahmadinejad said that "the clear, decisive and high [number of] votes of the nation for the elected and dutiful president defined the clear path for the future and manifested the globalization of the revolution."
He went on to say that "in this election, the new humanitarian and true method of democracy and the rule of the good were displayed before the peoples of the world."
Pointing to the drawn out protests against the election results, Ahmadinejad said: "Of course, the enemies tried to prevent the luster of the Iranian nation ...by throwing dust [towards the sun], but in reality they threw dust on their own faces and the grandeur of the Iranian nation dazzled the eyes of the world."
"The enemies... must know that the Iranian nation today is much happier, kinder, more determined and stronger than the past year."
Turning to the economy, Ahmadinejad enumerated a long list of "great achievements of the Iranian nation in [the fields of] nuclear, laser, aerospace, health, medical care, medicines, industries, agriculture, dams, roads, railways, numerous great and small factories, and success in the fields of commerce and investment."
"While important regions of the world faced recession and negative economic growth, the Iranian nation experienced high growth rates in economy, development, industry and agriculture."
He said that over the past year, "inflation was reined in and cost of housing was reduced and the unity and solidarity of the Iranian nation reached a desired and rarely seen level."
Regarding international affairs, Ahmadinejad said, "through its wise and strong participation in the management of the world, the government will restore the appropriate and unique position of the Iranian nation."
He promised that his government will overcome "the obstacles to development... and pursue reformist and revolutionary programs in [the areas] of economy, culture and development for the benefit of all the people, especially the deprived and will present great achievements to the dear people."
In addition to the people of Iran, Ahmadinejad also sent "special Nowruz greetings" to the peoples of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Pakistan, Iraq, littoral Persian Gulf states, parts of Russia and China, wherein Nowruz is celebrated.
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Ahmadinejad promises better news for New Iranian Year
[Iran Press TV Latest] Three lawmakers on Saturday slammed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for launching an attack on the elected representatives of the people, saying he is legally obliged to execute the economic reform plan approved by the Parliament (Majlis).
Gholam Reza Mesbahi Moqaddam, Ali Tavakkoli, and Elyas Naderan -- three Tehran lawmakers seen as economic experts -- said in a joint statement that the president is under oath to implement the approved legislation.
"The president does not have the right to disobey a law which has been approved by the Parliament," read the statement.
Thus, they said, questioning the collective judgment of the Parliament on the economic reform plan was neither wise nor legal, they said, Fars news agency reported.
In a televised interview on Friday, President Ahmadinejad suggested holding a referendum to approve radical subsidy cuts that the Parliament has approved partially; arguing that any such move could stoke inflation.
"The solution is to ask people if they want this law to be implemented or not and to hold a referendum on this issue," Ahmadinejad said. "We should not require the government to do something that hurts people. The government would not do anything that hurts the people."
In reaction, the lawmakers, considered as economic experts, slammed the president, but said providing the legal process is taken, the Parliament would consider a referendum. "Any call for referendum, after it is approved by the Parliament, should be issued by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, [Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei]."
They, however, invited the president to a televised debate over the issue.
"To further clarify [the issue] for the people and avert a one-sided argument, we are ready to defend the national interest, the people's interest, and the country's economy in a debate with Mr. Ahmadinejad," they said. "However, it would be wise if he assigned the task to economic experts, since he is not one."
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Notice that it's okay to go for 'regime modification' with Israel but not with Iran ...
20 March 2010 Obama renewed his administration's offer of dialogue and diplomacy with Teheran , a year after his offer of a new beginning with Iran failed to achieve concrete results. US President Barack Obama, who addressed Iranians in a new videotaped appeal to mark the observance of Nowruzan ancient festival celebrating the arrival of springhas pledged to pursue aggressive sanctions to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
We are working with the international community to hold the Iranian government accountable because they refuse to live up to their international obligations,' Obama said in the address, according to excerpts released by the White House. But our offer of comprehensive diplomatic contacts and dialogue stands,' he said.
Obama said Washington was committed to a more hopeful' future for the Iranian people despite U.S. differences with Iran's government.
During his first year in office, Obama marked Nowruz with a then-unprecedented message offering Iran a new beginning' of diplomatic engagement with the United States. But Tehran rebuffed Obama's gesture and relations soured further when Iranian authorities cracked down on opposition protesters after a disputed election last June, drawing U.S. condemnation.
Over the course of the last year, it is the Iranian government that has chosen to isolate itself, and to choose a self-defeating focus on the past over a commitment to build a better future,' Obama said.
Even as we continue to have differences with the Iranian government, we will sustain our commitment to a more hopeful future for the Iranian people,' he said.
Obama said the United States was increasing opportunities for educational exchanges for Iranian students to study at U.S. colleges and universities as well as working to increase access to Internet technology so Iranians could communicate with each other, and with the world, without fear of censorship.'
Obama has not ruled out any options in dealing with Iran, the world's fifth-largest crude oil exporter, but U.S. officials have repeatedly made clear that their preferred option is diplomacy, given the difficulty of enforcing sanctions and the risk that military action could cause wider conflict.
He'll bludgeon Israel long before he goes after Iran ...
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iranian authorities temporarily freed a top reformist on Saturday two days after his arrest, so he can join the country's new year celebrations, Fars news agency reported quoting Tehran's prosecutor.
"After Hossein Marashi's arrest on Thursday to serve one year in prison according to his the final verdict (from an appeals court), he was given a leave until April 3," prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted as saying. He added that Marashi was released Saturday morning.
Marashi, a leading member of the Executives of Construction group close to former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was convicted of spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic.
The appeals court also upheld a ban on his engaging in any party political activity for six years, the website added.
Marashi's group was a leading supporter of former prime minister Mir Hossein Mousavi in his election campaign against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last June.
The courts have sentenced several top reformists and political activists to varying jail terms after convicting them of acting against the regime. Several detainees have been released on bail in recent weeks, but news reports say 10 protesters charged with taking part in the post-election unrest have been sentenced to death.
On January 28, Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmani Pour, two members of a monarchist group, were executed. It was unclear when they were arrested, but they were put on trial alongside several post-election protesters.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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