[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami now struggles to come up with an effective strategy to face the current crisis arising from the large number of arrests of its party leaders across the country.
Once they get the bit in their teeth, Bangladeshis run with it, it seems. First the Rab, now this -- I am quite impressed.
Party leaders said they would observe the whole situation while keeping in touch with their international contacts
That would be Pakistan's ISI, right? Good luck with that.
and fight legal battles to free their leaders including Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami.
ATM Azharul Islam, acting secretary general of Jamaat, said, "We are observing the situation. The legal battle to free our leaders will continue along with a peaceful movement."
Jamaat lawmaker and its Dhaka unit general secretary Hamidur Rahman Azad said they cannot take the arrests of the party's top leaders lightly but being a political party they would put emphasis on a peaceful movement.
Law enforcers on June 29 arrested Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid and Delwar Hossain Sayedee and also detained Abdul Quader Molla and Mohammad Kamaruzzaman on 13 July.
Of them, Molla and Kamaruzzaman were arrested on charge of mass murder in 1971.
Party leaders however ruled out the idea that the party supporters and leaders of the new generation don't want controversial leaders, highly criticised for their dubious role during the Liberation War, to be at the helm of Jamaat.
Both Azhar and Azad termed the war crimes allegations against Jamaat leaders funny.
They said the government is using the issue in a planned way to weaken the opposition by crushing Jamaat.
Azhar said the government targeted Jamaat to weaken the opposition fearing a possible anti-government movement. But it has to keep in mind that Jamaat is a political party, which is registered with the Election Commission and has representation in parliament.
"It is true that we are worried about the present situation."
But the party knows how to tackle it like it did in the past, he said.
Azad said they would not accept such autocratic attitude of the government but they will continue a peaceful movement.
A number of Jamaat leaders said they are worried about the arrests of the party leaders across the country and considered it a deep crisis for the party for the first time in the last two decades.
They said the party has decided to adopt a wait-and-see policy for now.
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(CNN) -- Colombian authorities have proof that high-ranking leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, live in Venezuela, the Colombian government said Thursday.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe issued a statement listing their names.
Among them is one with the alias "Ivan Marquez;" Rodrigo Granda, whose alias is "Ricardo;" Timoleon Jimenez, whose alias is "Timochenko;" German Briceno, whose alias is "Grannobles;" and Carlos Marin Guarin, whose alias is "Pablito." The president said there are other "integral members" of the group in Venezuela.
Venezuela and Colombia have strained relations.
Uribe is a two-term president who has high approval ratings for his tough stand against FARC guerrillas, who have been waging war against the Colombian government for decades.
Colombia has accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of supporting the rebels. Chavez has previously accused Colombian officials and right-wing paramilitary units of plotting his assassination.
Security analysts have said FARC guerrillas operate mostly in Colombia but have carried out extortion, kidnappings and other activities in Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador.
Jumped-up gangsters. Much like jihadis, but without the rusty swords.
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Uribe last shot before new fella.
New fella got the same list and doesn't deal with bedwetting.
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Mexican politician Diego Fernandez de Cevallos who was kidnapped two months ago was reported in good health after "proof of life" was provided the family Sunday, say Mexican press accounts.
The family of Fernandez received a brief telephone call from Cabeza Fernandez Sunday.
Fernandez, one of Mexico's most respected politicians and a close friend of Mexican president Felipe Calderon, was kidnapped May 14th near his farm near Pedro Escobedo, Queretaro amid evidence of a violent struggle.
In the intervening time the family, through legal representation, requested the government suspend investigation of the crime to allow negotiations to proceed uninhibited.
Reports are the kidnappers, part of a criminal gang which specializes in abductions for profit for more than 20 years, have demanded more than 30 million pesos (US $2,345,196) in cash, down from an initial demand for 50 million pesos (US $3,908,660).
The family has been selling personal and real property trying to raise the ransom.
[Arab News] A government minister on Thursday rejected claims that Turkey is turning its back on the West, insisting that his country's Islamic-oriented government is seeking trade partnerships around the world.
Zafer Caglayan, the minister who oversees foreign trade, told The Associated Press in an interview that his upcoming trip to the United States to boost trade is evidence that Turkey is committed to close ties with its ally.
The minister said trade between the two countries is far below its potential and that he will work to "triple and even quadruple" it during the next few years.
"We are old allies and have deep, friendly and brethren ties. But when we look at our trade figures, I hesitate to term our ties as a 'model partnership,"' Caglayan said.
"Turkey has a tiny share in the overall US trade volume.
Our trade just does not match up to our friendship." "There is no question of any shift in orientation," the minister said. "Turkey has made it a principle to trade with all regions of the world." The minister was speaking before his weeklong trip to four US states -- Illinois, California, Georgia and Texas -- designed to work out a strategy to develop trade ties based on individual needs of states. Caglayan departs Turkey on Saturday.
The United States is Turkey's seventh largest trading partner, while Turkey ranks 48th in exports to the United States, the minister said. Two-way trade stands at $11.8 billion.
The government's investor-friendly and export-driven policies have helped Turkey rack up an impressive economic growth of 11.7 percent in the first quarter of the year, and Caglayan says both Turkey and the United States stand to benefit from Turkey's economic prowess.
Caglayan said his country is seeking preferential trade treatment from Washington and the easing of quotas. The two countries also are looking to jointly invest in third countries.
The trip, however, comes against a backdrop of tension between the two longtime allies, despite a visit last year by President Barak Obama and assertions that their strategic partnership is based on aligned interests in economic and foreign policy.
Last month, Turkey voted against US-backed sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program that ultimately passed in the UN Security Council. The vote came shortly after Turkey tried to broker a nuclear fuel-swap deal with Iran as an alternative to sanctions.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan also was unhappy that the US did not join Turkey in sharply criticizing an Israeli raid on an aid flotilla bound for Gaza that killed eight Turks and a Turkish-American.
Some fear that Turkey is so frustrated by the European Union's long-standing refusal to accept it as a member in the bloc that it is moving away from traditional alliances with the West toward new partnerships with Islamic countries such as Iran, Syria and Libya. Caglayan, however, said it was natural to trade with neighbors.
"Turkey was late in forging ties with these countries and what you see now is a Turkey trying to catch up," Caglayan said. "Those who say there is a shift in Turkey's orientation are those countries that are worried that Turkey is getting a larger share of their market." Caglayan said his nation's relationship with the United States is strong.
"Our political ties are continuing as always," Caglayan insisted. "There is no question of our trade ties being affected, on the contrary, trade opens all doors."
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* FREEREPUBLIC > Archaeologists may have discovered an ancient TROJAN-WAR ERA Greek harbor used to launch Greek naval war fleets agz TROY; + possible BURIAL SARCOPHOGUS OF PRINCE PARIS? IN PARION, TURKEY???
WAFF POSTER = opined that IHO theres prob MORE GENETICALLY ETHNIC GREEKS IN TURKEY THAN IN GREECE PROPER???
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] JUI leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman has offered an olive branch on behalf of the Taliban to the West fighting in Afghanistan and has claimed the Taliban had an upper hand in the war and the West should start a political dialogue with them.
The leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and coalition partner with Pakistan People's Party in the Centre said at a press conference here the stated objectives of waging war on Afghanistan had completely failed.
The interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned into a nightmare for the coalition forces, said Maulana Fazl, offering to the west that there is no choice but to talk to what he called "the resistance fighters".
He confirmed that western diplomats had met him to seek his views over finding a political solution of the crisis but added that swift progress was required.
He welcomed Hamid Karzai's formation of a jirga accepting Taliban as the political forces as a step in the right direction and asked Britain and the US to follow the suit and remove them (Taliban) from the blacklist, take back the UN approved terror list and allow them to travel so they can come forward to take part in the political process.
"The war that was started by the West in the name of freedom for Afghan people 2001 is far from over. It's intensifying and expanding. The coalition has failed. But its implications for Pakistan are far more serious. This war is expanding more in Pakistan," said Maulana Fazl, fearing that he sensed a plot against Pakistan by its eternal enemies who wanted it to descend into a civil war.
"Pakistanis are thinking that the US is shifting the war to Pakistan. This perception needs to change. The US must leave the region and stop repeating the failed experiments," he said. He said a political solution was needed for Afghanistan to save both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He noted that sectarianism was on rise in Pakistan and claimed that state-sponsored foreign elements were fanning the sectarian hatred, adding that it was to counter this tendency that he had initiated dialogue with his former rightist partners to revive the fundamentalist Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). "The revival of MMA is essential and it will be good for the national unity," he said.
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Muhammad PBUH was the last Prophet
Daily Jinnah reported Director Supreme Council Jamaat Ahmadiya Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as saying in Lahore that Jamaat Ahmadiya believed that Muhammad PBUH was the last Prophet and that the Quran was the Last Book. He said that in 1974 the community was unfairly declared non-Muslim.
Imran Khan doesnt condemn terrorists
Quoted in Jang PMLN leader Pervaiz Rashid criticised Imran Khan for not condemning the terrorists who destroyed Data Darbar but instead demanded the dismissal of the PMLN government. Mr Rashid asked Imran Khan to ask his friends not to do terrorism.
No mosque in Punjab Assembly!
Daily Islam reported that while the Punjab politicians were languishing (gham main ghulnay walay) in grief for the Ahmadis, there was no mosque for them in the Punjab assembly where they could say namaz. More than 500 politicians and staff were without namaz. The nearest mosque had a door opening on to the Assembly but that had been closed. The mike that brought in the sound of namaz was also shut off in the House.
Allama snubs Nehru
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir wrote that once Congress leader Nehru came to Lahore to see Allama Iqbal. Nehru complained that Jinnah was too ziddi (stubborn) but both Hindu and Muslims love you as a great poet; had you been the leader of Muslim League everyone would have gathered behind you. On this Allama became furious and reprimanded Nehru and told him that Allama was a simple soldier (adna sipahi) of Jinnah.
Chaudhry Shujaat defends Madrassa Haqqania
Quoted in daily Islam Chaudhry Shujaat leader of Muslim League (Q) said that FIAs report accusing Madrassa Haqqania of Nowshehra of being involved in the plot to kill Benazir Bhutto was wrong. He said the madrassas were the castles of Islam and were serving Pakistan. He rang Maulana Samiul Haq the head of the madrassa at Akora Khattak and gave him his support.
Chief Justices expensive car
Reported in daily Jinnah secretary information of the PPP Fauzia Wahab said that the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had acquired a luxury car worth Rs 5.5 crore. Chief Editor of the paper wrote in his column that the name Fauzia had letters fau and zia and the latter in Urdu meant loss.
Ahle Hadith want Ahmadis cleaned up
The day the Ahmadis were massacred in Lahore by Punjabi Taliban, daily Ausaf reported that a province wide Ahle Hadith youth force was holding a mammoth gathering at Sargodha. Ahle Hadith leader Prof Sajid Mir condemned the killing of the Ahmadis but all the other speakers, in disagreement, demanded a cleaning up of the Ahmadis in Pakistan.
Jamaat Ali Shah speaks Indias language
Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt a seminar held by Nawa-e-Waqt Group of newspapers decided that Pakistans Indus Waters Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah was no longer speaking for Pakistan but was defending the Indian position on the stealing of river waters by India through 62 dams. Speakers including such illustrious men as Ambassador Javed Hussain who said that India was stealing one crore forty acre feet of water and that the Indus Water Treaty was only good for the 1960s but today Indias water aggression could lead to an Indo-Pak war that would soon turn into a nuclear world war.
Justice Sharif weeps at Data Darbar
According to Jang Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court Khwaja Muhammad Sharif went to Data Darbar after the terrorists had destroyed it with two suicide-bombers and wept and prayed that Allah should keep Pakistan in His security. He said that terrorists could neither be Muslims nor Pakistani. Earlier Commissioner Lahore had stated that the terrorists had come from Afghanistan and had been trained by India. Jang reported on its front page that one 16-year old suicide-bomber Rafiq was from Barki near Lahore and that his brother was employed in an intelligence agency. Later the chief justice asked the police to investigate if Blackwater of America was involved in Data Darbar terrorism.
The Ahmadi statement is a lie!
Reported in Express ulema in Gujranwala reacted to the statement of the Ahmadi leader that the Prophet PBUH was the last prophet by saying that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was lying and was a joke with the Quran and Sunnat. The government should understand the trick and abstain from abolishing the Blasphemy Law. The Qadianis were traitors and should be punished with death under Article 6 for treason.
Pakistani mentality
Writing in Jang Saleem Safi stated that Pakistanis had a split mentality because they tried to hide their filth (ghalazat) with new philosophies in order to make a fool of the world outside. In fact they were themselves idiots who deceived themselves and thus going towards destruction (zillat aur tabahi). Because of their talk the world thinks that Pakistan is the only castle of Islam where West-hating Muslims live.
Bhutto and Ahmadis
Columnist Abbas Athar wrote in Express that Bhutto got the Ahmadis declared non-Muslim after they had helped him organise his victory at the polls. Athar did not believe that Bhutto met his fate later because of some miracle but he did see a connection in the kind of fanatic men who got control of the state after him and hanged him. Bhutto was a liberal man but a hard Muslim was still hidden inside him. And the noose around his neck was tightened in the name of Islam.
Two and half lakh new maulvis
Reported in daily Islam just one federation of seminaries located in Multan, Wifaqul Madaris was host by the end of June 2010 to 2.5 lakh examinees trying to pass the exam kutub (books) and of hifz (learning by heart) of Quran. On passing they will be issued sanad of graduation.
British women embrace Islam
Daily Jinnah reported from the UK that while the West was thinking of banning hijab, British women were embracing Islam in great numbers. In the past decade 30,000 Christian women had become Muslim and just one mosque at Regent Park received women worshippers fully 60 percent of whom were converts.
Ahmadis are to blame!
Writing in Jinnah Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi alias Sakht Jan stated it was wrong to say that South Punjab had become a safe haven for terrorists. And there was a federal minister who put on American spectacles before seeing Jaish and Lashkar in South Punjab. The question was why the government was allowing brandishing of weapons in Chenab Nagar these days.
Wicked lady journalists
Writing in Express Tanvir Qaisar Shahid stated that western lady journalists were given to breaking laws and going to places not allowed to them and in some cases of overstaying their visas in Pakistan. Among men, Daniel Pearl crossed the red line in Karachi and was beheaded by terrorists. He should have informed the intelligence agencies before going there. Christine Lamb and Emma Duncan were early examples of lady journalists getting out of hand, writing Waiting for Allah and Breaking the Curfew books respectively. These books were a blot (badnuma dhaba) on the governments of Pakistan.
Fauzia Wahab regrets
Daily Express reported that PPP information secretary Fauzia Wahab, faced with a trial for insulting the Companions of the Prophet PBUH, regretted that she said what she said about there being no Constitution for Hazrat Umar, and claimed that she herself belonged to the sacred family of Haji Imdadullah Muhajir Makki and that she wanted more madrassas like Jamia Banuria to be opened.
A milestone decision
Reported in monthly magazine Naya Zamana Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court granted bail to the leader of the terrorists who attacked the GHQ, Dr Usman. After the decision the Court resounded with slogans that went like this: Khwaja Sharif Zindabad, Nawaz Sharif Zindabad, Azad Adliya Zindabad, and Tehreek-e-Taliban Zindabad. The magazine also noted that the attackers of the Sri Lankan team in Lahore had also been let off for lack of proof.
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500 laks sez Ahmadis is Jooooo.
Many peoples not know they are joooooooo until it is pointed out to them (often kinetically). Any way best of luck to youze.
ISLAMABAD: The foreign ministers' meetings between India and Pakistan all but collapsed in a welter of accusations on Thursday. Pakistan steadfastly refused to engage in any substantial manner with the critical areas of Mumbai attacks, cross-border terrorism and infiltration, choosing to argue that Islamabad could not speed "judicial" processes.
The joint press conference, which started around 9pm, instead of the scheduled 2.15 pm, saw foreign minister S M Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi take on each other in what turned out to be a bruising spat beamed live.
The divergence came out starkly on Balochistan and infiltration in Jammu and Kashmir as the interaction with the media almost degenerated into a joust.
Asked about India's "role" in Balochistan, Krishna responded, "Forget about credible evidence, we have not received a shred of evidence".
On the issue of anti-India jihad speeches of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, Qureshi actually offered home secretary G K Pillai's comments on Lashkar man David Headley's implication of ISI as a "counter-point". The equation of the mild-mannered Pillai as an equivalent to the Lashkar amir left the Indian delegation gaping.
Qureshi further said Pillai's statement had come up in discussions and "both of us felt it was unwarranted".
Krishna did not respond to this sally. But Qureshi's reference to Pillai as a Hafiz Saeed "clone" more or less symbolized the near futility of the engagement that was to take forward home minister P Chidambaram's discussions just last month.
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A pity we're not openly allied with India against this BS, made-up non-nation. And containing China on its western flank, while we're at it.
The Palestinian Authority has requested that NATO send troops to secure any new Palestinian state in the West Bank.
What, the mighty Uruguayans aren't available?
Officials said PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has relayed a proposal for the stationing of NATO troops along the borders of any Palestinian state in the West Bank. They said the proposal was drafted in cooperation with U.S. envoy George Mitchell, assigned to accelerate efforts to win Israeli agreement for the establishment of a Palestinian state by 2012.
Not. One. American. Soldier.
"The deployment of NATO forces is meant to overcome Israel's security objections to a Palestinian state," an official said.
I suggest British troops. They have a sterling reputation with both sides ...
Officials said Abbas submitted the plan to Mitchell in July amid indirect talks between Israel and the PA. They said the United States has been pressing the PA to move to direct negotiations with Israel based on a plan for a Palestinian state over the next two years.
Mohammed Dahlan, a key aide of Abbas and member of the Fatah Central Committee, said the PA plan called for the deployment of NATO troops between the West Bank and neighboring Jordan. He said NATO forces would also be stationed in other areas of the West Bank deemed as lacking sufficient security.
In a briefing on July 13, Dahlan said the PA plan also called for a Palestinian state in the entire West Bank with the option of land swaps with Israel. He said the plan has also been submitted to Israel, which has not yet responded.
"Mitchell is expected ask the PA to go to direct negotiations with a package that would overcome obstacles to a full agreement," Dahlan said.
At this point, Dahlan said, Fatah would not agree to direct talks with Israel unless it submitted to PA demands on the borders of a Palestinian state and the freezing of Jewish construction in the West Bank and most of Jerusalem. He said Israel must accept the principle of a Palestinian state in the entire West Bank as well as eastern Jerusalem.
Oh well, so much for this whole idea ...
Officials said Israel has insisted on its right to patrol the air space over any Palestinian state as well as the pursuit of insurgents who conduct attacks from the West Bank. They said Israel has also expressed reservations to the establishment of a separate Fatah-controlled state in the West Bank while Hamas controls the Gaza Strip.
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Actually, it's not a bad idea, provided that the headline is as misleading and incorrect as this PA official's statement suggests it is:
"The deployment of NATO forces is meant to overcome Israel's security objections to a Palestinian state," an official said.
As I've understood this idea in the past, the main goal of a NATO deployment is to protect both Isral and the moderate minority of Pals from the armed gangs who rule, or misrule, the Pals.
So the headline really ought to read: NATO TROOPS TO POLICE PALESTINE STATE AND PROTECT ISRAEL FROM IT.
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Israel should agree, as long as it gets to select *which* NATO nations would be involved, and under what nations commanders. NATO has 28 members, and only *some* of them are anti-Israel.
My picks would be Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland (maybe), Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Commanded by Hungarians and Romanians, who understand Muslims. Really well. Maybe the Poles could provide the "poles", if you know what I mean and I think you do.
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Why in hell would Estonia (where I live) send troops to protect Palestinians? We've been fighting and dying in Iraq, fighting and dying in Afghanistan, and the current administration is playing footsie with, potentially, our only security threat.
Screw that noise.
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George, why don't you stick to finding out if Clemens did steroids rather then peddling your ass on the international stage like a two dollar crack whore.
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A Palestian state on the west bank would need protection from Hamas.
Right now, the Israelis do a lot of this themselves with cooperation of Fatah. No one in Fatah thinks they can do this themselves (although they may assert this for the cameras).
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FOX NEWS AM + YNETNEWS > US: "IRON DOME" WILL WORK, espec as complemented supported by US Patriot batteries + NATO BMD-ADS MilSys.
* HAARETZ > SUSAN RICE > {US] WE WILL CONTINUE TO SHIELD ISRAEL DIPLOMATICALLY + MILITARILY [etc], US OFFICIAL SAYS.
US Suppor + Defense, etc. for Israel is "NON-NEGOTIABLE", + US will continue to help Israel maintain its QUALITATIVE EDGE agz enemies.
VERSUS
*ISRAELI NN >[World renowned UK ORG = Oxford Research Group] THINK TANK SAYS ISRAEL WOULD STRIKE IRANIAN UNIVERSITIES, as part of any Israel-specific Military attack agz IRAN'S NUCPROGS since to absolutely Iran's Nucprgs means Israel may have to strike FACTORIES, GOVT-PRIVATE RESEARCH CENTERS, + UNIVERSITY LABS [Mines, Transportation-Logistic Links, etc.]
* TOPIX/YNETNEWS > REPORT: ANY ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN WILL START A "LONG WAR".
Lest we fergit, GOVT + RADICAL MULLAHS = IRAN will never surrender to any US = US-ISRAELI ATTACK OR INVASION, + TEHRAN = IRAN is willing to USE ANY MEANS NECESSARY INCLUD DETONATING NUKES-WMDS ON THEIR SOIL + CITIES, ETC. TO DEFEAT OR DESTROY AN INVASION [anti-US "asymmetric warfare = "People's War" = "Vietnam War" in the Persian Gulf, wid "OPTION" FOR MUTUAL DESTRUCTION].
* Also from INN > [Shahzad Faisal]TIMES SQUARE BOMBER: ATTACK ON US IS REVENGE FOR [US = US-led]OPPRESSED MUSLIMS, since the post-9-11 US invasion of Afghanistan = AFPAK.
ARTIC > FAISAL = PLANNED ATTACK WAS MEANT TO SHOW THAT THE "MUSLIM WAR [agz US] HAS JUST BEGUN, + HOW ISLAM WILL SPREAD/EXPAND TO THE ENTIRE WORLD".
IOW, IIUC FAISAL > ISLAMIST-LED MILTERR, prob including post-2012+ NUCLEAR-WMD MILITANCY-TERRORISM, WILL COME TO CONUS + WEST? - 'TIS ONLY A QUESTION OF "WHEN", NOT "IFF"???
SUB-IOW, IIUC Faisal per se has INDIR INFERRED THAT THE ISLAMIST JIHAD" IS ALSO A GLOBAL/UNIVERSAL MUSLIM CONQUEST IN SCOPE.
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OOOOOPPPSIES, forgot SUB-SUB IOW, FAISAL > IMO also infers that THE REGIONAL = FUTURE "GLOBAL/
UNIVERSAL" ISLAMIST JIHAD-INSURGENCIES will be EXPANDING THEIR MIL EFFORTS AT THE SAME TIME WHILE THE "BRING THE BOYZ HOME" USA = POTUS BAMMER PLANS TO REDUCE OR CONTRACT ITS MILPOL EFFORTS OVERSEAS.
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WAFF > YOUTUBE > [Retired LTC] ALLEN WEST: WE ARE FIGHTING ISLAM, NOT TERRORISM.
* SAME > [Hamsaniyeh.Net]BRITISH THINK TANK WARNS OF GLOBAL REPERCUSSIONS | IN 1971, THE US DE-LINKED/DISLODGED THE LINKING OF ITS GLOBAL CURRENCY TO THE COUNTRY'S GOLD RESERVES, SINCE THEN THE MAJOR WORLD CURRENCIES ESPEC THE US DOLLAR IS SUPPORTED [read, Depends/Dependent On] BY THE STEADY FLOW OF ENERGY [OIL + GAS] THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
ARTIC > denotes that ANY "SINGLE" UNILATERAL US-ISRAEL ATTACK ON IRAN [read, HOWEVER MASSIVE ORINTENSIVE] IS UNLIKELY TO STOP IRAN'S NUCPROGS
* SAME WAFF > [Hamsaniyeh.Net]BETWEEN TEHRAN + GAZA.
ARTIC > TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE > PROF. ITAMAR RABINOVITCH argued that:
To wit,
* ISRAEL has NOT won any clear-cut or decisive Military Victory-Campaign since 1982 Lebanon War agz PLO.
* CONVENTIONAL WARFARE, aka CLASSIC OR TRADITIONAL STATE(S)-VERSUS-STATE(S) WARFARE, is no longer ISRAEL'S PRIMARY OR BIGGEST REGIONAL OR GEOPOL CHALLENGE.
* There is extant REGIONAL + GLOBAL "DE-LEGITIMIZATION" EFFORT AGZ ISRAEL, including but nit limited to its RIGHT TO EXIST.
* REGIONAL LR MISSLE THREAT [IRBMS, ICBMS, Strategic Bomber] = has REPLACED THE COLD WAR "TERRORISM THREAT" AGZ ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE. ISRAEL'S BMD, regardless of level of techs, is in LT FUNDAMENTALLY INADEQUATE TO RELIABLY PROTECT ISRAEL AGZ ON-GOING MIL + NUCLEAR MODERNIZATIONS OF ARAB-MUSLIM STATE, REGIONAL MILITANT GROUPS.
* TURKEY > desires HEGEMONY IN THE MIDEAST EAST. Rabinovitch IHO believes that Turkey is likely unable to gain formal admission to the EU due to the EU = EUros bias agz Turkey as a Muslim State, + that Turkey's Govt-Society is becom increasing susceptible to ANTI-US-WESTERN, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC ISLAMIST FUNDAMENTALISM.
TURKEY AT PRESENT IS NOT TURNING AGZ THE US-EURO/WEST BUT DOES HAVE ITS OWN TURK-SPECIFIC IDEA = BRAND OF REGIONAL, GLOBAL "MANIFEST DESTINY" [Imperialism] + "ISLAMIC" INTERESTS VEE US-WEST + OTHER MUSLIM POWERS.
DUBAI Sri Lanka is finding its feet a year after the rout of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the death of its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The sesssionist struggle for a Tamil homeland in the north and east of the country by the Tiger rebels may have come to nought, but many Tamils are happy about the governments reconciliation efforts with the minorities. With development projects in full swing, there is no indication of the dreaded outfit regrouping, according to a senior Tamil MP.
Political will and military muscle may have ensured there are no more tears from terrorists in the tiny tear-drop shaped country, south of India. Critics, however, accuse the government of human rights violations and for the plight of thousands of refugees displaced by war. There is no room for violence in the new Sri Lanka, the focus is on growth and civil harmony, said Tamil-Muslim Member of Parliament Abdul Cader of the opposition United National Party, a political veteran of over two decades.
Speaking to Khaleej Times, he dismissed reports of an LTTE revival, and of funds flowing in for the group from sympathisers in Canada, the US, India, Britain and Australia.
The leading Tamil politician, who has never lost an election, said the Sri Lankan government under Mahinda Rajapaksa was reaching out to the minority Tamils, who make up about 10 per cent of the population. The Sinhalese are in majority with 82 per cent, while the Lankan Moors comprise a little over eight per cent of the populace.
Only on Wednesday, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa chaired a cabinet meeting in Killinnochi, where ironically, the slain Tamil Tiger leader held his first and only press conference in April 2002.
Speaking in the town, the president, said: If not for terrorism the district would have developed long ago. The terrorist who destroyed the northern railway line. We have to obtain foreign loans to restore all this devastation. Who will pay for them? The entire nation will.
The country comes first, it belongs to everyone, and the president is sending out a message that unity is paramount and we should progress together Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Buddhists... said Cader, who lauded efforts by the government to resettle Tamil refugees.
Cader, who claims to be a nationalist above all else, said Tamils and the Muslim minority were fed up by the gory past and the lack of development, a price the country paid during decades of conflict. We dont want to see such violence again. Theres work to be done and countries in the region like India and China will play a major role in reconstruction efforts, said Cader.
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Some worry about higher food prices, some fret about overseas travel and others about business, but it is clear that ordinary Iranians are feeling the effects of sanctions imposed over Tehran's nuclear program.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has scoffed at U.S. sanctions as "pathetic" and said a U.N. resolution had no more worth than a "used handkerchief" and, although some Iranians backed their leader's tough position, others were fearful for the future.
The latest measures are mainly aimed at vital sectors of the economy such as banking and energy, which analysts say will raise the cost of trade by making it more difficult to transfer funds or insure cargoes.
In shops and markets, people say they are struggling to cope, squeezed by soaring rents and grocery bills on the one hand and stagnant salaries on the other.
"Prices go up as soon as there is talk of sanctions. The nation is paying a heavy price for the nuclear dispute," said an English teacher in Tehran, who asked not to be identified.
"Do the officials know how difficult it has become for ordinary people to even feed their children?" said the 45-year-old father of two, who earns about $400 per month.
Architect Mohammad Sadati, 36, was also in no doubt about the cause of the rising prices. "As soon as there is talk about the possibility of new sanctions against Iran, the price of everything goes up," he said.
A growing number of oil companies, trading houses and other international firms have stopped doing business with Iran this year as the United States has led international efforts to isolate Tehran.
Earlier this month, Washington enacted unilateral sanctions which for the first time allow it to punish the U.S. operations of international firms that supply fuel to Iran.
Last week, media reports said Iranian aircraft had been denied fuel in Germany, Britain and a Gulf Arab state because of the latest U.S. sanctions. An Iranian official denied it, calling the reports "psychological warfare".
However, BP confirmed on Tuesday it had stopped supplying jet fuel to Iran Air at Germany's Hamburg airport.
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Faster, please.
Won't mean a thing without a successful overthrow of this regime.
[Energy Minister Sergei] Shmatko and Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mir-Kazemi signed a "road map" outlining long-term energy cooperation Wednesday and said they would aim to form a joint bank to help fund bilateral projects and expand cooperation in natural gas deliveries and oil products.
"Sanctions will not hinder us in our joint cooperation," Shmatko said when asked about joint projects after the signing ceremony.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iranian Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijanis agenda does not include any visit to Iraq soon, according to the Majlis information department on Thursday.
The departments statements came in response to reports published by the mass media recently about a visit by Larijani soon to Iraq, said Irans Mehr news agency.
The Majlis refuted the claims and said Larijani does not plan to pay a visit to Iraq soon, it added.
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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
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