[Quqnoos] Peace brokers of Hezb-e-islami said some "factions" within and outside of Afghanistan want the stalemate to continue in this country to serve their own interests
A group of delegations representing Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e-islami party announced this days before come to Kabul for peace talks with the Afghan government.
"The war in Afghanistan is a compulsory war, and the people of Afghanistan did not demand this war,", said a representative of the Hezb-e-islami party, Mohammad Amin Karim.
Mohammad Amin Karim said the neighboring countries, especially Pakistan and Iran, are apparently meddling in Afghanistan.
The new peace deal of Hezb-e-islami does not precondition the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan.
"We condemn all the terrorist activities which kill innocents and destroy government and private buildings, schools or mosques in the country, and we call them war crimes,", added a representative of the Hezb-e-islami party, Mohammad Amin Karim.
This comment comes as, based on the annual report of the UN on Afghanistan, last year was the deadliest year for the civilians since the Taliban step down in 2001.
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Hundreds of enraged protesters marched through the streets of Mogadishu on Monday to protest against the Shabab, a militant Islamist insurgent group, in one of the largest demonstrations in recent years.
Men, women and children flooded the rubble strewn center of town and shouted out slogans against the Shabab, who have steadily alienated the population by imposing amputations and digging up the graves of revered Islamic clerics. We don't want grave diggers and we don't want the Shabab!' the protesters yelled.
The protest was led by a moderate Islamist group of Sufi clerics who have driven the Shabab out of several towns in central Somalia. Sheik Abdulkadir Mohamed Somow, one of the Sufi clerics, told the crowd that their group, AhluSunna Wal Jama, will not tolerate further the Shabab's grave excavation activities in Mogadishu' and he called upon Somalis to wage holy war against the Shabab.
Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama recently signed a power sharing agreement with the transitional federal government, which controls only a small fraction of the Mogadishu, the capital. The agreement was intended to help the government go on the offensive against the Shabab in a planned upcoming military operation, which will most likely involve thousands of African Union peacekeepers.
The Shabab recently dug up at least seven graves of renowned Sufi clerics, according to Somali media reports. In 2008, the Shabab desecrated the graves of renowned Sufi clerics in areas under their control, pushing Sufi followers to take up arms. The Sufi version of Islam, which is more mystical and centered on an inner jihad,' is one of the more popular sects in Somalia.
In the Name of Allah, The Merciful, The Compassionate!
Praise be to Allah the Lord of the worlds! Peace and blessings be upon our Prophet, his family, his companions on the true path.
I am Dokka Umarov, the Emir of Caucasian Mujahideen. I received questions which the brothers asked me to reply. And, God's willing, with the help and the will of Allah, I will try to answer these questions.
The first question concerns rhetorics on Russian TV, radio and other media outlets about the "elimination" of me personally and the "elimination of all Mujahideen in the Caucasus" and the allegations that "this is last winter for the Mujahideen."
This question I would like to answer for well-wishers and ill-wishers. For Ill-wishers, I say: "Wipe your snots".
For well-wishers, brothers, I would answer this question this way: we are all mortal. Human life is in the hands of Allah. And if the Almighty wants to summon me, I will, God's wiling, be ready for that.
The Almighty only decides when the soul is ordered to leave this world. The main thing for me is that my soul is a soul of a free man and that my soul leaves this world without humiliation. Humiliation means a disbelief for my soul. In this world, my body would knee only before the Almighty.
The main thing for the people is to know that one is ready for his death. And I believe that, God's willing, I am ready for it.
Every day I spend in this world brings disappointment with those Muslims who because of their slumber, because of their sleep, hypnosis that they have been thrusted on them lost the greatness of Islam. Glory be to Allah that we are not among them.
Putins, Kafyrovs (AKA Kadyrovs) and other Putin's dogs on the spot say that for us, the Mujahideen, "it is the last winter". These words are words of mendacious dogs that we have been hearing over the past 11 years.
So this winter, too, comes to an end. There were a lot of such winters. All the talks of these dogs come from impotence. The master beats the dog on the rump with a stick and demands. And in order to satisfy their masters in the Kremlin, the dogs bark in every direction. Therefore we will not pay attention to them.
Only Allah decides when we leave this world. The main thing is that our luggage is to be filled with deeds pleasing to Allah in order to get a reward for our deeds on this earth, to gain the Paradise. Let's hope on this, and do the Jihad, God's willing!
The second question concerns the creation by Russia of a so-called North Caucasian District and the exclusion of the Krasnodar Territory from it. Basically, I would answer this question that way that I do not care about their petty intrigues. I don't care a damn what "districts" they are create, what obligations they take, what shifts in their government they make, what "presidents" they appoint.
This is a policy of infidels, a policy of our enemy. But in this issue, I would like to stress one important thing. Through the creation of the "North Caucasus District" the Kremlin wants to show that the Krasnodar Territory does not belong the Caucasus.
The Krasnodar Territory, as infidels call it, is in fact the land of our brothers, the best brothers and the best Muslims in this world. This is the land of Adygs, the land of Abazins, the land of Circassians.
So I want to state with full responsibility and I bequeath it to the Mujahideen who will come after us, God's willing, they will come, there is no doubt about it, that this is the land of our brothers. And it is our sacred duty to liberate these lands from infidelity. And, God's willing, we will do it, we will achieve this goal.
Therefore, we will never exclude a Caucasian land from the Caucasus.
Moreover, after we liberate the land of our brothers, coreligionists and Caucasian Muslims, we will, God's willing, liberate other lands that are now occupied by Russia. They are Astrakhan and the Volga lands that are now under the heel of Russian infidels.
Therefore, God's willing, we are not going to exclude the lands of our brothers Adygs, Abazins and Circassians from the Caucasus.
The third question which concerns our brothers is a question about the number of the Mujahideen.
My answer to brothers is that we in the Caucasus are in such numbers that it is possible to say today that there are 10,000, and 20,000, and 30,000 Mujahideen. This is true, dear brothers.
Today, by the will of Allah and to the delight of Muslims, young men are very active and so conscious that they understand that the Islamic Ummah can be liberated from the slavery of infidels only with weapons by means of the Jihad.
We have therefore under arms as many as it is allowed by our means, our resources and our finances.
Today we do not have enough means for all the Mujahideen who want to go to the Jihad for the sake of the Word of Allah on the Earth, for the sake of the liberation of the Ummah. Neither our means, nor our resources permit to put all these Mujahideen under arms.
That is why I ask again brothers not to worry about the numbers. Numbers are like a sorcery, and people practice witchcraft with these figures.
I say to you: today there's enough Mujahideen who are needed for the Jihad at this moment. And if we are true slaves of Allah, then today our situation is determined by the will of the Almighty.
Today Allah wants to keep us at this level. By His will, God's willing, the Almighty is able to change quickly this situation, and this is our hope and expectation.
So the numbers of the Mujahideen are sufficient today. And if there are funds, if there are resources, God's willing, the number of Mujahideen could be increased 5- or 10-fold. There is no doubt about that.
And glory be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds!
Allahu Akbar!
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Vympel, now there's some fine gentlemen I haven't heard much of in a while. Which means they must be extraordinarily effective these days. Pity this idiot and his family.
According to Russian media outlets, in Moscow radio programs devoted to subway bombings, ordinary citizens have expressed their view that this was the work of Russian secret services, whose purpose is to further "tighten the screws" of "ungirdled" society that dared to criticize and demand the resignation of Putin.
The reaction to the bombings is: that even, if the attacks have been really carried out by the Caucasian Mujahideen, the Russian society is now inclined to blame Putin and the FSB for the bombings.
A 10-year incessant talk about the "victory" in the Caucasus and the "pacification of Chechnya" is a de facto approval by Russia's public of a campaign of monstrous terror in Chechnya, which killed 250 thousand civilians, including 42 thousand Chechen children from 0 to 11 of age, led to an extension of the war far beyond Chechnya.
Today, it is more and more evident that a moment of truth has come to the Russian society.
It is obvious that the Russian society does not want itself to answer for their criminal acts - for the murder of a quarter million people. Therefore, according to the law of genre, a chief culprit should be named. And it would be likely Putin, even if the Martyrs' Brigade Riyad-us-Saliheen would later claim responsibility for the Moscow metro attacks.
Hence the explanation of Putin's hysteria, who after the bombings said he is immediately returning to Moscow and demanded, as he did 10 years ago, to "rub out terrorists in the outhouse".
However, a threatening movement of his pale eyebrows and lump horns on his forehead do not impress anybody anymore. It turns out that Putin is guilty in every case.
"If as a result, subsequent calls to the authorities to toughen and "tighten the screws", to increase the funding for law enforcement agencies, are heard, there will be no shadow of a doubt that these explosions are the handwork of special services, Russian citizens say.
A society's movement for a change of the inefficient, corrupt system of the Putin's "vertical of power" is growing. Demands "Putin must go" sound from all the sides, from all the groups of the society, even from his closest associates. In these circumstances, the current government could be capable for every provocations and atrocities, just in order to stay in power.
No trust of many citizens is left anymore in the current government", commentators and journalists write.
"In Putin's Russia the bombings are the most important part of politics. Putin's Russia started with the bombings. And after 10 years, the society has not seen any other explanation for these explosions, but as "the hand of the FSB".
For 10 years, no one took responsibility on them and said a word, like, we blew you up to achieve that and that. The amazing feature of Putin's Russia is: Terrorism in full anonymity.
Since then, terrorism in Putin's Russia, for the most part, is anonymous. Trains derailed, planes fell, subway cars exploded - and no one makes any demands. Guess yourselves, they say, what we wanted to achieve. And this Hollywood thriller has been continuing for 10 years already.
Now, even more interesting, would Putin's Russia end with the blasts, as it had begun?"- a former editor of the former Russian opposition paper Moskovsky Komsomolets Anatoly Baranov asks and concludes --
"Putin's Russia began with the explosions in Moscow, Volgodonsk and the "FSB exercises" in Ryazan. Putin's Russia has been bombing itself for 10 years with and without any reason.
So finally, take away a TNT charge from this fool!"
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From "kavkazcenter.com", eh? BS meter's nearing 100% on this one.
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If Russians are angry with Putin, it is only because he has shown such restraint while fighting Chechans.
But being Russians, they would likely say that "the little father has been deceived by his subordinates, and that if he only knew, then he would righteously smite the Muslims."
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I'm not a fan of Putin, but I suspect the attacks would have happened no matter who had been leading Russia the past decade. The Chechyans have a beef and they have seen examples of terrorism working (spain in particular). Even when it doesn't work it is not uncommon for the terrorists to become wealthy and/or rockstar-like heroes of their people which sounds a lot better than sucking it up and plodding to work day after day to make ends meet.
So what to do about it? Well Russia could start by stopping their support (overt and tacit) of terrorists regimes. They could join with the west and put an end to this crap. If Russia came on board I suspect Obama and Europe would be their poodle which would put Russia in the superpower position again.
Explosions in the Moscow subway are a result of the Russian criminal toward Caucasus in general and Chechnya in particular, said Yuli Rybakov, a well-known human rights activist and a former state duma deputy.
The method used by Putin and Russia have led to adequate results.
"We have now a regime which is 10 times worse than what we had in the early 90s - Rybakov says. - An aggression, which is increasing every day and every year, is coming from the Caucasus in response to our actions.
In the beginning of this campaign, Muslims were fully unaggressive. The war made them aggressive. And it is not surprising: in Chechnya every fourth was killed in the war. Then why are we to be surprised that violence has returned to us? This is the result of our policy in the Caucasus".
"Violence and the abuse of human rights has continued in Chechnya", according to a number of human rights organizations. A number of aid workers and human rights activists have been abducted and murdered.
According to Amnesty International, "The authorities in Chechnya have continued to intimidate and persecute human rights defenders and those who seek justice for abuses. Several have been forced to leave the country due to threats to their lives", the CNN reports from Moscow.
Meanwhile, blasts in Moscow metro have seriously affected the working rhythm of the transport system of Moscow. Additional bus routes were organized, traffic police restricted entry to the city center to avoid traffic jams, taxi drivers turn up their prices for travel.
As some of Russian agencies wrote the subway attack paralyzed the transport system of Moscow. A third transport ring is standstill in a traffic jam.
The central part of the city is closed for cars. Several roads to Lubyanka metro station have been blocked. The same picture is in the vicinity of Park Kultury station.
Movement almost stopped on the outside of the Garden Ring.
"Meanwhile, Moscow taxi drivers decided to cash in on the tragedy", some Russian papers indignantly wrote.
People who came out of the subway are afraid to go down into the subway and hailing taxi, there are a lot of them, and cars in the center are quite a few. As RIA News reports, taxi drivers increased prices to almost 3,000 rubles ($ 100) per passenger for a short ride.
They are on duty at the subway stations where the explosions occurred, and inform citizens that the station is closed.
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cept Putin did not bomb his subways with people trying to get to work.
The Russian Soldiers getting beheaded in video kind of turned me against the Chech and Daghastan asstards quite quickly.
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ION NEWS KERALA > BJP: INDIA IS LOSING THE TERRORISM WAR; + INDIA SHOULD ANNIHILATE ANTI-INDIAN MILITANT GROUPS [Any Each + All of 'em in AFPAK, etc.]
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cept Putin did not bomb his subways with people trying to get to work
Not to take conspiracy theories at face value, but there is quite a bit of circumstantial evidence that he, or peopl around him, did blow up a few hundred people in the Russian Apartment Building bombings in 1999.
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"The subway blasts are a result of Putin's crimes in the Caucasus".
The lack of subway blasts for the last few years might also be the result of Putin's actions in the Caucasus.
Personally I've been amazed that the Chechnyan have sided with Al Queda in their West first strategy rather than going after Russia. I've also been amazed that Bush and company used harsh terms from time to time about Russian involvement in Chechnya when there was so little to gain and so much to lose by such comments.
North Korea on Monday complained that the South Korean government decided to allow journalists into the demilitarized zone and threatened unspecified retaliation. In a statement, a spokesman for the North Korean Army's liaison office at the truce village of Panmunjom called the decision "psychological warfare."
"If wrongdoings by the U.S. and South Korean authorities continue to abuse the DMZ for inter-Korean confrontation, they will entail unpredictable consequences including human casualties in this area," the spokesman said.
The statement warned if the South wants to escape "thunderbolts of fire," the "military warmongers" in Seoul should immediately relent. It also urged the U.S., a party to the armistice agreement, to stop South Korea "from attempting to destroy the status quo in the DMZ."
North Korea is apparently miffed that the Defense Ministry in February signed a memorandum of understanding with 15 media companies to let them report from the DMZ, calling it a violation of the armistice.
A Defense Ministry official denied there is any violation because the South has obtained approval from the UN Command and the project is aimed at leaving records of the DMZ for posterity.
The accusation comes at a time when South Korea is still reeling from the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan near the de-facto maritime border with North Korea in the West Sea. A South Korean military officer speculated, "By launching the latest propaganda campaign, the North appears to be feigning ignorance of the sinking to show it has nothing to do with it."
The North has not commented on the sinking of the 1,200-ton corvette in an unexplained explosion on Friday.
North Korea last week summoned South Korean officials and businesses to Mt. Kumgang for what it claims is a survey of property there, threatening to confiscate their real estate unless they showed up. The move appears to be part of an increasingly frantic campaign to bully and cajole the South into resuming lucrative package tours to the resort.
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ION VARIOUS > ISRAELI FIGHTERS SCRAMBLED AFTER FOREIGN WARPLANES APPROACH ISRAEL.
IMO read, TESTING THE BAMMER 2010-2012 = IRAN-MILITANT NUKES in 2012 or shortly thereafter.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The biggest Swedish pension fund said Monday it had barred Israeli arms maker Elbit Systems from its investment portfolios on ethical grounds.
Following the lead of Norway's state pension fund, Foersta AP-Fonden said it had banned investment in Elbit because it had built and was operating a surveillance system for a controversial barrier between Israel and the West Bank.
"The Ethical Council recommended that Elbit Systems Ltd should be excluded from each portfolio because it deems that the company can be linked to violations of fundamental conventions and norms," it said in a statement.
Israel says the barrier -- a network of walls, fences and closed military roads -- is designed to prevent attacks. The Palestinians view it as an "apartheid wall" that carves off key parts of their future state.
Israel has so far completed 413 kilometers (256 miles) of the planned 709-kilometre (435-mile) barrier, according to UN figures.
When completed, 85 percent of the wall will have been built inside the West Bank, taking land from villages like Bilin and Nilin.
The international community has condemned Israel's decision to construct the barrier.
The Swedish fund, which only had small investments in Elbit according to a spokeswoman, said that Grupo Ferrovial, PetroChina, Thales and Yahoo had successfully addressed its concerns about ethics violations.
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My question is, how is it gonna help to have a cop with a full auto weapon when the bomber has a hidden bomb that they're gonna detonate when they get in the subway?
Iraqi former dictator Saddam Hussein's number two, fugitive Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, has urged Arab states to talk to what he called the Iraqi "resistance" instead of the government.
"The Iraqi people request that your summit adopts a historic and courageous position by inviting resistance leaders to represent Iraq and its people in the summit and in the Arab League," Ibrahim said in the purported audiotape aired on Al-Jazeera television Sunday.
He asked Arab leaders meeting at their summit in Libya to "recognize resistance groups, armed and unarmed, break their diplomatic relations with the occupying authority in Iraq and annul all obligations resulting from those relations," AFP reported.
Ibrahim is the most wanted of the now-executed dictator's henchmen still at large.
The Baathist was second only to Saddam in the decision-making Revolutionary Command Council.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the country's Foreign Minister to quit an Arab League ministerial meeting held in Libya.
Hoshyar Zebari quit the meeting in protest to a meeting granted by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to ex-members of Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party and some opposition figures including former oil minister Issam Shalabi.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh condemned the meeting on Wednesday, describing it as "undiplomatic" and an "insult" to the people of Iraq.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] sraeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged Israel to topple Hamas in the Gaza war last year, then turned around and blamed Israel for war crimes.
Lieberman said that raised questions over Abbas's fitness as a leader with whom Israel could make peace.
"Over the past year, I witnessed (Abbas) at his best. In Operation Cast Lead, (he) called us personally, applied pressure and demanded that we topple Hamas and remove it from power," he told Israel's Maariv daily.
"A month after the operation ended, he filed a complaint against us with the International Court of Justice at The Hague for war crimes. Is that a partner?"
An aide to Abbas vehemently denied the allegation, accusing the right-leaning Israeli government of trying to deepen the deadlock over U.S.-sponsored efforts to revive negotiations.
"This is not true. It is a continuation of the (Israeli) campaign of defamation ... to create an atmosphere that would destroy any chance of salvaging the peace process," Abbas aide Nabil Abu Rdainah said.
Israel launched its three-week Gaza offensive on Dec. 27, 2008 with the stated aim of stopping rocket attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian factions. Such attacks have tapered off since, though there has been sporadic cross-border violence.
The war's Palestinian toll -- 1,400 dead, mostly non-combatants, while Israel lost 10 troops and three civilians -- drew fierce censure abroad and stalled negotiations between Abbas and then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a centrist.
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I'd guess the Jooooz have the tapes, Mo. Might wanna let it go
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[Ma'an] Fatah Central Committee member Muhammad Dahlan said Monday the de facto government has detained an operative involved in Friday's deadly clashes in the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinian fighters and two Israeli soldiers.
The detainee, a member of Hamas' security forces, has been jailed in Gaza, Dahlan told students at the An-Najjah University, who refused to reveal his name.
Dahlan told students at the Nablus university that Hamas has yet to build anything substantial for Gaza throughout its rule over the coastal enclave "except for the total destruction of Gaza and murder."
Friday's deadly clashes in southern Gaza were the most violent since Israel ended its devastating assault on the coastal enclave 14 months ago.
"We have passed the stage for speeches and entered the stage of national action," Dahlan said, and warned of previous mistakes that could ruin the political future of Palestine.
The Fatah official said fellow Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, one of the Palm Sunday detainees still in Israeli custody, was implementing Fatah's decision to undertake popular resistance against Israeli forces and practices. Dahlan considered the First Intifada to have accomplished great achievements and international balance, unlike the Second Intifada, which "made us pay an expensive price."
"Israel was from then on able to continue indiscriminately detaining Palestinians on charges of terrorism," Dahlan said.
Concerning the present political situation, Dahlan said "for the first time we were able to achieve unity in political discourse ... we are committed to the parameters set out by Abu Ammar [late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat]," adding that the goal is to achieve a Palestinian state on 1967 borders.
Dahlan renewed Fatah and the Palestinian Authority's position on withholding talks until a settlement moratorium is implement across the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.
"[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu knows our position well, and we will repeat it here today: there won't be negotiations while settlement expansion and building continues."
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US intelligence officials told ABC News nuclear physicist Shahram Amiri, who Iran says disappeared last year after going to Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage, was part of a long-planned CIA operation to get him to defect.
The CIA contacted the scientist through an intermediary in Iran who made the resettlement offer on behalf of the United States, according to ABC.
The US officials described the defection as an intelligence coup.'
Iran's Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki last year accused the US of kidnapping Amiri, though his whereabouts had gone unreported until now.
The report described Amiri as being "in his early 30s."
A spokesperson for the CIA declined to comment on ABC's report.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt lashes out at Arab leaders for failing to take a decisive measure to extricate the Arab world from its continued stalemate regarding Israel.
The Arab League summit in Libya highlighted the continued stalemate in the Arab world regarding the conflict with Israel, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party said in a statement on Monday.
The Arab leaders' failure to make a strategic decision comes while Israel's Judaization policies in the occupied territories, especially Jerusalem (al-Quds), have reached their highest levels, Jumblatt protested.
The Lebanese politicians have said Arab states apparently do not want to get out of "the dark tunnel they have been in for the past decades" and take notice of the developments on the ground in Palestine.
The two-day Libya summit, attended by 14 of the Arab League's 22 member states, ended on Sunday with a statement resorting to Washington to urge its closest ally Israel on halting settlement projects.
Earlier this month, Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new settlement units in annexed East al-Quds, viewed by Palestinians as the capital of a future independent Palestinian state.
The announcement smothered US-sponsored "proximity talks" with the Palestinians -- negotiations that had also enjoyed the backing of Arab leaders.
Slim chances of negotiations further faded when Tel Aviv reopened a synagogue close to the highly revered al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds.
The move sparked an outrage across Palestine and drew widespread alarms of an Israeli plot to demolish the occupied city's Islamic sites and replace them with Jewish ones in an effort to Judaize the region.
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C'mon, Wally. Inefficiency has kept them around for 65 years. And the banquets are to die for...
[Iran Press TV Latest] Leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran's current "valuable" industrial advancements are only the beginning, urging officials to aim for a major leap. Kinda like a "Great Leap Forward," right? Got themselves a Five Year Plan Add a dash of juche and army-first and they're good to go ...
"In spite of valuable progress in the industrial field, [plans should be implemented] for a major leap toward improving the quality of domestic products relying on intensified work, effort and tireless pursuit," Ayatollah Khamenei said after visiting the production line for a national diesel engine. Hummmm, sounds like they've outsourced their propaganda to North Korea.
The Leader said Iran has managed to shed a "dangerous illusion" that industrial development alongside an intellectual life was impossible while adhering to spiritual, religious and moral values. "We [have shown that we] can live logically and rationally while developing, in adherence to moral values and religious practices," he said.
Great Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said officials should take steps for the country to advance in all fields based on "Army First Iranian thinking and initiatives," adding that the Muslim world would welcome such developments.
He also cautioned officials to rectify export and import policies to prevent irregularities that would have a negative impact on the domestic industry.
"Abundance and inexpensiveness are pleasant but what is more important is the growth of the domestic industry ... import gates should not be opened based on chimerical rationales," the Leader said. "Sure, lot's of cheap products may seem great, but we've got to protect our union jobs!"
Ayatollah Khamenei expounded that the justification for importing goods is to improve the quality of domestically produced merchandise; however, there are better practices for achieving this objective.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has dismissed the Arab League statement over three Persian Gulf Islands.
"The baseless claims made at the 22nd Arab League summit regarding the Iranian islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa is blatant interference in Iran's internal affairs," said Ramin Mehmanparast.
A statement at the end of the two-day Arab League summit claimed the three islands belonged to the UAE and said Iran was "violating the UAE sovereignty".
Mehmanparast said, "The three islands have been an indisputable part of Iranian territory throughout history, and nothing will affect Iran's sovereignty over them."
He added that the slight misunderstanding with the United Arab Emirates over Abu Musa can be resolved through dialogue and that the interference of other parties would never help solve the problem.
Historical, legal and geographical documents verify Iran's sovereignty to the islands of Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa.
The three Persian Gulf islands temporarily fell under British control in the 1800s, but were officially returned to Iran in November 1971 through a legal process before the state of the United Arab Emirates was created.
According to international regulations, no state can defy any agreements which had come into being before its creation unless such agreements had been officially declared as null and void by the newly-created state.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that he was "ready to visit Egypt at any time," and stressed his readiness to attain Arab reconciliation. Can a new UAR be far behind?
Assad told reporters, within the sideline of the 22nd Arab Summit in the Libyan Mediterranean city of Sirte on Sunday, that Syria has been for years seeking the achievement of Arab reconciliation.
Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif meanwhile welcomed Assad's desire to visit Egypt and underlined Cairo's eagerness to boost inter-Arab relations and stressed President Hosni Mubarak's keenness to preserve good ties with Damascus.
It would probably be Assad's first visit to Egypt in four years.
On the possibility of meeting Mubarak, Assad said: "We will meet with all Arab officials without exceptions and at all levels."
"I can't answer on behalf of others, but as for Syria, we stress our readiness to achieve Arab reconciliation not only now, but we have been ready for that for years," Assad said when asked about inter-Arab reconciliation.
Assad said that Syria has submitted a paper to the Summit including suggestions on how to manage inter-Arab differences.
The Syrian President pointed out that "the reason behind many of the disagreements among the Arabs lies in the way we deal with the Arab Summit and not in the issues themselves."
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Outrage.
BALTIMORE - The father of a Marine killed in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from Kansas was ordered to pay the protesters' appeal costs, his lawyers said Monday.
On Friday, Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered Snyder to pay $16,510 to Fred Phelps. Phelps is the leader of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, which conducted protests at Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's funeral in 2006. The two-page decision supplied by attorneys for Albert Snyder of York, Pa., offered no details on how the court came to its decision.
Attorneys also said Snyder is struggling to come up with fees associated with filing a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court.
The decision adds "insult to injury," said Sean Summers, one of Snyder's lawyers.
The high court agreed to consider whether the protesters' message is protected by the First Amendment or limited by the competing privacy and religious rights of the mourners. Update: you can donate to the Synders here for their court costs.
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I haven't found the details of this case but it might be that the Snyders filed some kind of lawsuit against Phelps over the protest and that lawsuit was dismissed and perhaps defined as 'frivolous', or under some other circumstance that requires 'loser pays' in whatever jurisdiction applied.
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If ever there were a man in need of a severe beating, its Fred Phelps and anyone associated with his band of barratry criminals. It is in some ways a shame that this is not the 1880s. Phelps would long ago have been tarred and feathered.
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Snyder originally beat them for over a million. The appeals court threw that out on appeal. I think that's what this is about.
Supreme Court's taking it in the fall, so I doubt if it's considered frivolous.
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With that information, I certainly agree it was not 'frivolous'. I do not believe the Court of Appeals overturned the original award or ordered Snyder to pay costs because it approved of Phelps. Just guessing, but probably overturned the award because it found Phelps' conduct was protected speech, regardless of how vile, and ordered costs because the applicable law required it. If I am correct on those points then I would be surprised if the Supremes did not uphold the 4th Circuit.
Moral of the story - if you can't beat Phelps in court, beat him with a baseball bat.
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Glenmore - that sounds accurate, nd a quite scan of the case history indicates as much.
I wonder, though, if an issue for the Supremes is the award of costs following the successful appeal, rather than overturning the appellate result itself.
Though a lawyer, I have zero experience in appellate practice and remedies, but this seems to be an "easy" case to jumble in various issues - 1st amendment rights, speech vs. conduct, statutory vs. discretionary awards/costs, and so forth.
I doubt the plaintiffs/appellants will ever pay anything, but their also likely not to recover anything, alas.
The first amendment can tolerate mosquitos like Phelps, and it seems Harley escorts are the solution on the ground.
The donations should be to the family, not so much to the legal cause, and I hope and expect their counsel have aired that issue thoroughly.
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Aren't they the group that was sued out of existence a few years ago, If i recall right the Phelps group lost and was ordered to pay a huge sum, some millions of dollars Knowing full well they didn't have it simply to shut them down.
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Ok after a bit of research this is the same group, they successfully had the jury's verdict reversed and are still In the hate business.
Disgusting vile folks.
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Fourth Circuit? I would have expected such an result from the Ninth Circus.
Posted by: Flaper Scourge of the Algonquins4926 ||
03/30/2010 13:55 Comments ||
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If I were him, I would let it go to collections first, then pettion the court for relief. ANYTHING to keep the lawyers (Phelps and crowd are also the lawyers) from gettig s dime.
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