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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [Hoti]MINI-THIRD WORLD WAR BEING FOUGHT IN PAKHTUN [Detrimental
"Undeclared War of Aliens/Foreigners", by agz and for Same by Same, may last in Region for many years to come].
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > YOUTUBE > [BBC Radio] > [Gen Robert DOnatt]UK GENERAL: THE PURPOSE OF THE AFGHAN WAR IS TO PREVENT/STOP THE RETURN OF THE CALIPHATE | THE OBJECTIVE OF THE US, UK IN AFGHANISTAN IS PREVENTING THE ESTABLIHSMENT OFA ISLAMCI CALIPHATE THAT WO)LD EXPAND AND THREATEN EUROPE + MEDITERRANEAN.
* SAME > YOUNG MUSLIMS IN SCOTLAND SEEK A VOICE -AND RIGHTS! | {Glasgow] THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IS STAGNANT. ESCOSSE MUSLIMS feel repressed and isolated by typically PATRIARCHIAL, CONSERVATIVE TRADIONAL MOSQUES deemed UNFRIENDLY TO [MODERN = Two Parents Working] FAMILIES + WORKING WOMEN.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A prominent Saudi journalist who conducted several interviews with Osama bin Laden and once tried to persuade him to quit violence resigned Sunday as editor of the nation's leading newspaper.
Jamal Khashoggi resigned from the helm of Al-Watan daily and denied speculations his move was due to external pressures following the publication of an article criticizing religious hardliners in the kingdom, in an interview with Al Arabiya.
Al-Watan announced that Khashoggi, 52, was stepping down as editor-in-chief "to focus on his personal projects," in a statement published on its website and in its Sunday edition.
Khashoggi's resignation came three days after Al-Watan published a controversial column by poet Ibrahim al-Almaee criticizing Salafism, which advocates returning to the fundamentals of Islam.
The statement from Prince Bandar bin Khaled al-Faisal, chief executive of the company that owns Al-Watan, praised Khashoggi as "a loyal son... who left a clear mark on its progress."
"There is no successful editor in chief who likes to resign, but particular conditions prompted me to take this move," Khashoggi said in an interview with Al Arabiya on Sunday.
"But I will not be far from Al-Watan not from the press, and I will come back, Allah willing, one way or another in of one of the journalism venues," Khashoggi added.
Khashoggi denied speculations that his move was due to pressures for his stance perceived as too critical of religious hardliners.
"I do not know any reasons why someone would ask for my resignation or for a change in the newspaper," he told Al Arabiya.
"The newspaper has been very successful and has faced no problems or pressures, but for anyone who works in journalism there is success and there are mistakes."
"Unfortunately some only remembers mistakes and forgets successes. I have covered reforms taking place in the kingdom and this type of coverage will continue and the newspaper will stay the same."
Clash with conservatives
But Khashoggi's resignation came three days after Al-Watan published a controversial column by poet Ibrahim al-Almaee criticizing Salafism, which advocates returning to the fundamentals of Islam.
The article disputed Salafists' rejection of popular religious traditions such as patronizing shrines and graves of important Islamic figures.
Khashoggi was abroad when the article appeared, and he said he disagreed with the decision to run the article.
"Al Watan should not have published this article," he said. "It was a human error. He (the editor) did not realize what the article meant."
The newspaper's staff expressed shock at his resignation.
"It was a sudden shock even for Jamal himself," Mahmud Sabbagh, an Al-Watan columnist, told AFP. "There was a lot of pressure lately aimed at deterring the progressive stance of Al-Watan's opinion section."
U.S.-educated Khashoggi was respected internationally for building Al-Watan into a voice for Saudi progressives.
He was a popular contact for foreign diplomats and intellectuals, and was one of a handful of senior Arab journalists invited to meet US President Barack Obama on his first trip to the Middle East in June 2009.
It was the second time Khashoggi resigned from Al-Watan. He was forced out in 2003 over an editorial criticizing 14th-century Muslim theologian Ibn Taymiyya, whose thinking influenced Wahhabism.
Khashoggi returned to the paper in 2007 after serving as adviser to Prince Turki al-Faisal -- whose family controls Al-Watan -- when he was ambassador to the United States.
Under Khashoggi, Al-Watan writers have aggressively poked at the contradictions and oppressive effects of Saudi Islam, especially with regard to women.
Religious conservatives, under pressure to bow to social change, have focused on Al-Watan as a key enemy, said one of the paper's reporters.
The independent news website Massdar.net reported that Al-Watan had brought in a new opinion page manager to tone down coverage and reduce the pressure.
The result, according to Sabbagh, was that many writers, including himself, had found their columns being blocked from publication.
Khashoggi said that Al-Watan must push a progressive agenda, arguing that fighting for more women's rights "is not an issue of religion."
"But at the same time it must be for the purity of Islam."
"We know we are in the middle of a debate" on the development of Saudi society, he said.
"I don't see any contradiction in being a progressive Saudi and not supporting this article."
Khashoggi had followed Osama bin Laden's career since the 1980s and had interviewed the a-Qaeda chief several times.
"Jamal's major issue was terrorism and not social change. He wanted a new Salafism that doesn't have in it seeds for terrorism," Mahdi said.
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The UK's Liberal Democrats have abandoned their agenda in a bid to join in a coalition with the Conservatives, says a former British Member of Parliament. I really thought we were done with him ...
The Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and his Liberal Democrat Deputy Nick Clegg both echo the same sentiments about a "united" and "strong" coalition government.
Yet, the former Respect MP from Britain told Press TV that what they remain to be united about are unfortunately the war in Afghanistan and the savage reduction in the public services and a system that makes working people pay for an economic crisis they have not created.
"In fact the Liberal Democrats have abandoned the policies which made them different. The policies of, for example, not wishing to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system, at least no replica of that system," George Galloway said. "They have abandoned their commitment to the European Union in favor of David Cameron's Conservatives' hatred of virtually all things European."
The former MP argued that the Liberal Democrats have abandoned anything which made them different. "So there is no reason why they should not be united, united in making working people pay in continuing to occupy other people's countries around the world, he said.
Galloway went on to criticize the hereditary nature of government in Britain, saying it is not as eulogizing as some describe it. He said that a system "where the head of state is hereditary, where the House of Lords is packed with unelected people" cannot be described as a democratic system.
The House of Lords is about to be packed with people who were selected, not elected. A pity for Mr Galloway that he can't get in on that.
Galloway said that the Government in the United Kingdom "is not as good as, for example, the United States of America, which has a written Constitution and which has proper checks and balances within its system."
Goodness. I hadn't expected that at all.
"If you get 36 percent of the votes, you should get exactly 36 percent of the seats in the parliament, and if you get 5 percent, as we might do, then you get 5 percent of the seats."
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Galloway is saying nice things about the United States. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Since he's essentially become a political version of Michael Jackson or Anna Nichole Smith, it seems that we won't be done until every last drop of ludicrous travesty has been wrung from his pathetic life.
The Mexican Army said it was a mistake. A leftist candidate for governor of Chihuahua is not so sure.
Saturday morning a convoy for Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) candidate of governor Javier Duarte de Ocho of the Mexican state of Chihuahua arrived at the Chihuahua airport to pick up Ex- Secretary of Health, Jesus Kumate, who was Duarte's guest at an upcoming event.
Kumate had been flown in from Mexico City to Chihuahua for the event.
According to press reports the campaign vehicles arrived about 1015 hrs when the shots were fired and two vehicles were hit. No one was injured.
At a press conference Duarte mentioned the attack: "We cannot allow that the democratic process of Chihuahua to be soiled with violent acts."
Mexican military authorities said the shooting was an accidental discharge of a weapon, and was not directed at the PRI vehicles.
SEOUL, May 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is moving to stop funding government-level exchanges with North Korea, citing strained relations with the communist neighbor and tension over the sinking of a South Korean warship near their border, a Seoul official said Monday. The Unification Ministry official said his ministry formally requested 10 other ministries last week to suspend budgets related to exchanges with North Korea.
"We find it difficult to continue to fund exchanges with North Korea in the midst of tension over recent developments," the official said, declining to be identified.
The ministry already urged about 200 South Korean companies last week to refrain from signing new deals or supplying resources to North Korea.
Tensions between the divided countries have run high since a 1,200-ton South Korean naval boat sank March 26 in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors. Seoul officials suspect the North of involvement in the sinking. Adding to the tension, North Korea last month confiscated or froze South Korean assets at a joint mountain resort on its east coast in anger over Seoul's refusal to resume cross-border tours.
The move prompted Seoul to pledge retaliatory measures, while Pyongyang threatened to "completely review" a joint industrial park in its border town of Kaesong near the west coast.
Observers say a complete package of South Korean retaliatory measures will be formally announced after investigators release their findings on Thursday.
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North Korea on Sunday warned it will restrict or stop overland travel to the Kaesong Industrial Complex if South Korean activists send propaganda leaflets to the North. The North said it could limit travel "along the east and west coast" -- the land routes used for tours to Mt Kumgang and the Kaesong complex.
SKors should consider Kaesong lost and write off the investment. Seal the border back up and let the Norks figure out where they're going to get the foreign exchange they need.
I thought they printed their own...
The head of a North Korean delegation to inter-Korean defense talks sent a letter to the South which read, "Despite our repeated requests, the South Korean government goaded and tacitly permitted activists to send propaganda leaflets that castigate our ideology and regime, small radios, US$1 bills and DVDs [via helium balloons] from May 1."
A South Korean government official said this is the first time that North Korea clearly mentioned the possibility of shutting down the land route to the Kaesong complex. "It seems to be a preemptive action as we are reviewing sanctions against the North" following the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan and the seizure of South Korean property in Mt Kumgang.
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The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan met Saturday and Sunday in Gyeongju to discuss the sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan. Japan expressed support for the tentative conclusion reached by South Korean and U.S. investigators that a North Korean torpedo was responsible, but China did not mention any connection with the North.
Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada "again expressed condolences over the Cheonan sinking and support for the government's efforts to investigate it objectively despite the difficult conditions," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Kim Young-sun. Immediately after the sinking of the Cheonan, Tokyo told Seoul it is willing to cooperate in any response or economic sanctions the South and the U.S. intend to undertake.
But while expressing condolences for the South Korean sailors who died aboard the Cheonan, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi merely reaffirmed Beijing's stance that "a scientific and objective investigation is important." Yang did not mention the possibility of a link between North Korea and the shipwreck.
Hot tongs wouldn't drag it out of him ...
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FEAR NOT, BEIJING + TOKYO, THE CANADIANS ARE COMING, THE CANADIANS ARE COMING, to investigate and solve this dastardly deed!
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ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > INDIA TO FIRE 5000-KM RANGE AGNI V IN 2011. Iff successful, will threatn most or all of China's major Cities, PLA MilBases vee INDIAN DEEP-STRIKE = STRATEGIC NUCLEAR/MISSLE FORCES.
versus
* SAME > CHINA [PLAAF] WILL NOT ACCEPT "MADE IN CHINA" FIGHTERS, as made + "REVERSE-ENGINEERED" FROM RUSS TECHS by the Shenyang Aircraft Company.
U.S. experts taking part in the investigation into the sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan have done all they can and expect no new discoveries, a South Korean government source said Sunday.
It doesn't matter what the experts believe. It matters what the politicians do. The SKors have already demonstrated that they aren't going to start a war. As Pappy noted yesterday, it's the Pottery Barn problem: you break it, you own it, and the SKors don't want to own Nork-land. That means that, in the end, they'll tolerate a fair bit of aggression from their crazy cousins, and the cousins know it. Expect more provocations.
"So far we've been able to verify based on many pieces of evidence that the weapon used to sink the Cheonan was a torpedo, but we still have no conclusive evidence linking it to North Korea," the source said. "But the U.S. experts feel the results so far are enough to confirm that the culprit was North Korea and are satisfied with the better-than-expected results of the probe."
The investigative team apparently concluded that traces of explosives and aluminum debris found in the funnel and split section of the Cheonan are highly likely the same type used by former Eastern-bloc countries as well as North Korea in manufacturing torpedoes, and that the North is the only likely culprit given circumstantial evidence such as the movements of submarines around the time of the sinking.
The U.S. team of investigators, composed of 15 people including submarine experts, apparently agree with that conclusion.
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STRATEGYPAGE > KOREA: THE NORTH SORT OFF SELLS OUT TO CHINA [Chin companies steadily taking over and improving Nokor companies, + asserting intensive econ control, influence oer DPRK].
IOW,MSM-NET > CHINA = CHIN COMPANIES are seemingly taking over many US-WESTERN companies to acquire the VITAL SKILLS, TECHS, ETC. WHICH CHIN SORELY NEEDS FOR ITSELF, + NOKORS DO NOT HAVE.
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* ION SAME > INDIA: SAVE THE FORESTS FOR THE INVADING CHINESE. Contempor Sino-Indian competition for MIL STRATEGIC ROADS ALA TIBET, ARUNSCHAL PRADESH, which was appar NOT an INDJUN PRIORITY UNTIL AFTER DASTARDLY SINA BUILT THEIR OWN NEW MIL ROAD NETWORK.
Australia has defied a United Nations request by ordering the deportation an Iranian Muslim cleric on security grounds before the UN assesses the alleged denial of his human rights.
Defying the UN? I'm sure that has consequences ...
Sheikh Mansour Leghaei lost a 13-year legal battle to stay in Australia yesterday when the Immigration Minister, Chris Evans, refused to intervene against ASIO's adverse security assessment of the moderate preacher, who has raised his four children in Sydney. Dr Leghaei, who has never been told why ASIO suspects him, has been given six weeks to leave the country, angering the 1200 members of his congregation at his Islamic centre at Earlwood, which faces closure without him.
''I hope God forgives him because he does not know any better,'' Dr Leghaei said of Senator Evans at the University of Sydney. Here the sheikh was flanked by one of his many Christian supporters, the Anglican priest Dave Smith, and Ben Saul, one of the human rights barristers who sent a petition to the UN a month ago. A week later, on April 21, the UN's Human Rights Committee asked the Australian government not to deport Dr Leghaei while it considered his case, a process that could take a year.
ASIO had accused Dr Leghaei of undisclosed ''acts of foreign interference'' but, because he is a non-citizen, Australian law entitles him to no explanation - a position confirmed by the High Court. But Associate Professor Saul, the co-director of the university's centre for international law, said Australia was in violation of six articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. ''In other countries, like Britain and in Europe, affected persons are given an opportunity to see at least a summary of the evidence against them. In the sheikh's case, he's been given access to nothing whatsoever.'' Insisting he was no spy or terrorist, Dr Leghaei said: ''I think my 16 years of peaceful life in Australia is my best evidence.''
Senator Evans said national security must be paramount. ''Many people have expressed their support for Dr Leghaei and I understand that my decision will disappoint his friends and members of his local community. The fact remains that he is the subject of an adverse security assessment.''
In 1995, authorities at Sydney Airport secretly photocopied Dr Leghaei's exercise book containing notes on scholars' explanations of jihad. But the Federal Court later accepted his translation, not ASIO's which, he says, added inflammatory material about the killing of infidels.
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they should tell his 1200 member congregation too leav ewith him and be glad they gave you 6 weeks
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The United Nations does not have the authority to tell any country whom they can or cannot allow in to their country.
Article 2 of the UN Charter states 7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII.
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UN's Human Rights Committee asked the Australian government not to deport Dr Leghaei This Yuman Rites Commission? Libya will not be lonesome. Other candidates include Malaysia, Mauritania, Uganda, Angola and Qatar. The 2009 reports from the state department on all these Council shoe-ins tell us the following: in Uganda there are politically-motivated killings by the government, and law enforcement officials view wife-beating as a husbands prerogative. In Angola there is government torture, widespread rape of inmates, and Internet chat rooms are monitored. In Malaysia, religious authorities arrest deviants in order to return them to the "true path of Islam. In Qatar the law calls for 10 year sentences for individuals proselytizing anything but Islam, conversion away from Islam is a capital offense, and the legal system treats with leniency men who murder women where there has been immodesty on the part of the victim.
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi warns that a civil war could follow the new wave of violence that has hit the country in the aftermath of the general elections.
Allawi, whose al-Iraqiya coalition won most of the seats in the parliament, said in an interview with The Guardian that "the pressure on the judiciary, not to take any action, is strong. All this and other issues do indicate that we have a long way to go and we are not getting there."
The former premier further criticized the international community for not doing enough. "I feel that we are not done and that the international community has failed this country," he said.
Since the announcement of the results of the tightly-contested March 7 elections, efforts by political groups to form a coalition government have failed to bear fruit.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose Rule of Law coalition won 89 seats in the Parliament, was accused by the former Saudi intelligence chief of attempting to steal the elections.
"We are watching a deliberate effort on the part of the incumbent prime minister, Mr. al-Maliki, to hijack the results of the election," Turki al-Faisal was quoted by AFP as saying.
The remarks came after Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission said it has found no evidence of fraud after manually recounting the votes cast at Baghdad's polling stations. The recount was requested by the Rule of Law coalition.
This is while Maliki is inching closer to clinching a deal with other Shia parties to form the country's next government.
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Exactly what were Iraquis doing the last 5 years?
[Al Arabiya Latest] A recount of votes cast in Baghdad did not change the results of Iraq's March election, an electoral official said Sunday, preserving a narrow victory for the Sunni-backed candidate over the Shiite prime minister.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki demanded the recount after losing out by two seats to challenger, Ayad Allawi and alleging fraud. The province, which includes the capital, accounts for so many seats in parliament that a significant change in the vote tally could have tilted the overall results in al-Maliki's favor.
The election results must still be ratified by the Supreme Court, but the announcement removed a major hurdle to the seating of the new 325-member legislature.
Other challenges to the election results have delayed the formation of a new government and raised fears the political uncertainty could lead to a surge in violence.
An Iraq election commissioner, Qassim al-Abboudi, said that results of the recount, "are compatible" with the original count of the March 7 vote.
"The number of the seats are still the same and didn't change," al-Abboudi told a news conference Sunday. He said the difference in the recount amounted to about 3,000 votes, which did not change al-Maliki's two-seat win over Allawi in Baghdad or the overall outcome across the country.
Baghdad accounts for about a fifth of the parliament seats. al-Maliki beat out Allawi in Baghdad but not enough to give him the lead around the country.
Allawi gained heavy support from Iraq's minority Sunni community, giving him 91 seats to al-Maliki's 89 seats.
The end of a recount of votes in Baghdad opens the way for Iraq's March 7 election results to be finally certified more than two months after the ballot, and for coalition-forming talks to begin in earnest.
It does not mean the pace of government formation will necessarily pick up, and the ingredients are still in place for a protracted political vacuum in which sectarian tensions could lead to violence as U.S. troops pack up and start to leave.
The sectarian warfare between once dominant Sunnis and majority Shiites that was kicked off after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion has subsided substantially since its peak in 2006/07.
But a string of attacks by a weakened yet still lethal Sunni Islamist insurgency since the ballot has fuelled fears of a slide back into broad bloodshed that could derail U.S. plans to end combat operations in August ahead of a full pullout in 2011.
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Maliki forgot to import the Minnesota democrap machine for his recount. I can almost hear his arabic equivalent of "WTF? It worked for Franken!"
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We tend to forget what made George Washington so revered in the early days of the nation. It wasn't his military leadership during the Revolution nor his presidency, so much as the fact that he willingly gave up power and retired from office after 2 terms.
It would be a huge step for the Iraqis if this sitting PM were to step down after losing re-election, and Allawi were able to form a government.
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King George III asked his American painter, Benjamin West, what Washington would do after winning independence. West replied, They say he will return to his farm.
If he does that, the incredulous monarch said, he will be the greatest man in the world.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Hamas police wielding clubs beat and pushed residents out of dozens of homes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Sunday before knocking the buildings down with bulldozers, residents said.
Gaza's militant Hamas rulers said the homes were built illegally on government land. Newly homeless residents were furious over Palestinians on bulldozers razing Palestinian homes.
For years, Palestinians have criticized Israel for destroying houses, mostly because they were built without permits issued by the military. Now, Rafah residents complained, their own government, run by the Islamic militant Hamas that seized power in Gaza in July 2007, has done the same.
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I'll give just 30 days to stop that! Oh yeah, here's some more diesel.
[Iran Press TV Latest] A Fatah Central Committee official demands that Hamas should sign an Egyptian-brokered unity deal rejecting Hamas demands to modify the agreement.
Azzam al-Ahmad, who is also the unity talks official, claimed Sunday that he has not received new suggestions for the reconciliation deal from Hamas, demanding that Hamas should first ratify the deal and later negotiate on potential amendments.
"So far, we haven't felt that any substantial changes have been made by Hamas toward signing the Egyptian reconciliation document," Al-Ahmad said, speaking to the Ma'an Radio Network on Sunday.
Al-Ahmad's comments came after senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahhar remarked on Sunday, that "Hamas is awaiting a response from Fatah and the Palestinian Authority to a mechanism suggested by Hamas to push forward reconciliation efforts between both sides."
Hamas has maintained that changes should be made in the agreement before it can ratify it. One of the main demands, it said, is the restructuring of the Palestine Liberation Organization or Fatah.
Speaking to the London-based Arabic language daily Asharq al-Awsat, Zahhar said that new suggestions were conveyed to Fatah but it did not provide a response.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] An Israeli official says renowned academic and polemicist Noam Chomsky, who is a fierce critic of Israel, has been denied entry to the country.
Horning in on George Galloway's turf ...
Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Haddad said Chomsky was turned away for "various reasons" but declined to elaborate. Chomsky was trying to cross the Allenby Bridge from Jordan. He was scheduled to deliver a lecture at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank.
"I went with my daughter and two old friends. We went in the normal way to the border where we were all interrogated. They were particularly interested in me," Chomsky told Israel's Channel 10 from Jordan.
'Interested' is perhaps not the right word ...
Chomsky said the border officials were "very polite," as they "transmitted inquiries from the (Israeli) ministry of the interior."
However, he was denied entry because "the government did not like the kinds of things I say and they did not like that I was only talking at Bir Zeit and not at an Israeli university too," he said. "I asked them if they could find any government in the world that likes the things I say," Chomsky said.
Pol Pot did.
The point is a classic strawman argument. The Israeli officials are not denying entry to other countries. Note for Professor Chomsky: the West Bank is not a country. They could have been, but they refused to accept the responsibilities that go with statehood.
Officials at Israel's interior ministry, which control the country's borders, were not available for comment.
"We have work to do. Go bother someone who isn't busy."
Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghuti, who had invited Chomsky to speak at the university, said the scholar had been detained at the border for five hours.
"This act shows the nature of the Israeli government that is against freedom of speech, particularly from such a noted international figure like Chomsky," said Barghuti.
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now if the us would refuse Noam Chomsky into this country.
also, i doubt that the USSR ever had a problem with what Chomsky had to say. blithering apparatchik that he is.
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Meet the Black Fox Active Adaptive IR Stealth System, created by Israeli start-up firm Eltics Ltd., a company that produces electronic warfare systems in Ashkelon. The new technology can make a helicopter, tank or ship, vanish into thin air. It is better to give than to receive surprises.
After winning an election by an overwhelming majority yesterday, Aziz Pitakumpol has become the 18th spiritual leader of this country's Muslims. He is the first Chula Ratchamontri from the South in the 400-year history of the position.
Mr Aziz said he was thankful for the overwhelming support and would seek the cooperation of the ummah in his work. "You are welcome to offer advice, and tell me when I have done something wrong. I will do my best," Mr Aziz told the electorate.
He later told the Bangkok Post he would like to settle in to his new job before speaking publicly. "I realise that there are expectations that I could or should do something about the southern problem, but this is not an election to a political post," he said. "I represent not only the southern region but am also a representative of all Muslims in the country."
The election was organised on a 6 million baht budget and held amid allegations of vote-rigging. Mr Saman said he had heard about the vote-rigging but he did not spend any money campaigning.
Nabil Ashri, the Saudi Arabia charge d'affaires, said the Chula Ratchamontri would have to work hard to improve the well-being of Muslims. Mr Aziz's understanding of the southern problem would help restore stability, Mr Ashri said.
Pakistan ambassador Sohail Mahmood said he was honoured to witness the election. It was undertaken in a democratic and transparent manner, said Mr Mahmood, adding that the position would serve as a bridge between Muslims and other Thais, and the government and the rest of the world.
Followup to the earlier article today, this one from Defense Industry Daily A Cut-Out Purchase?
Kommersant cites a number of indicators that this may be the case, including a Janes report in May 2007 that a similar arrangement has being used to funnel some of Syrias 36 new Pantsir-S1E air defense systems to Iran in exchange for a fences (sorry, "intermediary") fee. They also cite the 2 countries recent mutual defense agreements, including the July 2006 agreement signed by both countries defense ministers, which envisaged Iranian financing of Syrian arms deals with Russia, Ukraine and China.
In response, Russian authorities have issued non-denial denials.
Russias Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said in a statement that "...all of Russias deals in the sphere of military-technical cooperation comply with international law and Russias obligations under various treaties and United Nations resolutions." Since none of those obligation prohibit sales to Syria, this response is utterly meaningless. I'm not entirely sure they even prohibit sales to Iran.
Sergei Chemezov, head of state arms-trading monopoly Rosoboronexport, is quoted as saying that "Russia has no plans to deliver fighter jets to Syria and Iran." Of course, a sale of fighter jets only to Syria would comply with this statement -- and if the Syrians choose to send them to Iran, that concerns Syrias plans and not Russias.... "That's not my department, says Werner Von Braun..."
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MALAYSIA also repor desires RUSSIAN ADMS + INDIAN AIR FORCE to train the Malaysian Air Force.
HMMMMM, HMMMMM, FAILURE-PRONE RUSS MILSYS + CRASH-PRONE/HAPPT INDIAN AIR FORCE TRAINING > uUh, uh, wehell, thats one way for Malaysia to de facto mil lose to the tradit rival THE PHILIPPINES, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, + ASSORTED PACIFIC ATOLLS???
* ION SYRYUH, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > TURKISH AIR DEFENSE SYSYEMS RE-DEPLOYED TO "DEFEND SYRIA,IRAN" FROM ISRAELI BOMBS [+ US]. No repeat of 2007 by Israel via Turkish airspace. "NO HARM, NO FOUL" FOR NORMAL TURKO-ISRAELI RELATIONS AS LONG AS ISRAEL'S BOMB-EAGLES [US?]
DON'T FLY THRU TURKEY.
* SAME > US SEVENTH FLEET CONTROL TOMAHAWK LAUNCH FROM 5000 MILES AWAY.
* SAME > CHINA LACKS A STRONG NAVAL TRADITION
{greatest weaknesses = Lack of LR Overseas Navigation Techniques + Hands-on/Professional Sailor Skills]. Compared to the Western Nations, CHINA PER SE HAS NOT CONDUCTED ANY SERIOUS OTH = OVERSEAS LR EXPLORATION, NAVIGATION SINCE ITS GREAT NAVIGATOR ADMIRAL ZHENG-YE SAILED THE SEAS IN 1433.
ARTIC > [Robert Kaplan] CHINA views GUAM, NORTHERN MARIANAS, PHILIPINES, + INDONESIA as EXTENSIONS OF MAINLAND CHINA. PLA ee PLAN [ + PLAAF, PLA 2nd Arty] charged wid conducting effective LR Milops in defense and protection of same.
* VARIOUS > MILITARY EXPERTS: RUSSIAN AIR
[+ SPACE] DEFENSES NOT FIT/READY FOR ANY PURPOSE.
* WMF > "WEEKLY VOICE" RUSS MEDIA: DESPITE ON-GOING VITAL MODERNIZATIONS CHINA REMAINS ONLY A SECOND-TIER/LESSOR REGIONAL MIL POWER COMPARED TO POST-COLD WAR RUSSIA. A RUSSO-CHINESE LIMITED MIL CONFLICT LIKELY TO SERIOUSLY DAMAGE OR DESTROY CHINA.
SAME > SUPER-FALKLANDS WAR IN ASIA/CHINA SEAS: SINO-JAPANESE NON-NUCLEAR WAR SCENARIO OER THE DAOYUS AND DISPUTED EAST CHINA SEAS ISLANDS WILL LIKELY NOT INVOLVE PLA, JSDF GROUND FORCES, BUT WILL INVOLVE AIR, NAVAL, LR MISSLE [SRBMS, IRBMS], COMMANDO AND SPACE WARFARE CONVENTIONAL FORCES. SINO-JAPANESE NAVAL, AIR BATTLES WILL BE UNPRECEDENTED IN BOTH SCALE AND REGIONAL HISTORY, AND FIERCELY FOUGHT.
SAME > DISASTER OF "NUCLEAR/STRONG JAPAN" FOR CHINA. SINO-JAPANESE MAJOR WAR FOR LEADERSHIP, TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY IN EAST ASIA MAY SPREAD TO MIL-STRONG, ECON-WEAK WEAK RUSSIA [Russ Far East= NorPac/North China Seas Front agz Japan], FRUSTRATED ANTI-CHIN INDIA [Malaccas Oil-Gas,Other Trade routes].
SAME > NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR FUSION CLAIMS CAN UPSET THE GEOPOL BALANCE OF POWER IN CENTRAL-EAST ASIA. THREAT OF DPRK ADVANCED HYDROGEN AND THERMONUCLEAR BOMBS MAY FORCE CHINA TO ASSERT UNILATERAL MIL OR SOVEREIGN CONTROL OER NORTH KOREA [Vassal-Buffer State] AGZ US/UN-LED INTERNATIONAL OCCUPATION OF NORTH KOREA. RISE OF UIGHUR/ISLAMIST SEPARATIST THREAT + ATTACKS AGZ CHINA DUE TO THE DPRK NUCLEAR THREAT.
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Turkey doesn't have enrichment capability. Perhaps the shia uranium needs to be made into sunni moslem uranium before it can be sent to infidel enrichment plants.
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MEMRI > LEADING JIHADIST WEBSITE ADVISES MUSLIMS LIVING IN THE US "HOW THEY FIGHT THE AMERICAN ENEMY" ON US SOIL. DOC on Al-Shumukh describes how ANY MUSLIM RESIDING IN THE US CAN CARRY OUT [domestic terror] ATTACKS AGZ US TARGETS/
INTERESTS.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The UK's Liberal Democrats have abandoned their agenda in a bid to join in a coalition with the Conservatives, says a former British Member of Parliament. 
