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Afghanistan
Afghan Women Slam New Safe House Regulation
[Tolo News] Afghan Women Network Thursday called for termination of the new regulation imposed on women's safe houses in Afghanistan.

Afghan Women Network and some women's rights activists said the regulation has been made without consultation with civil society organisations that run women protection centres.

The main flaw of the regulation is that it imposes more restrictions on women before being received by a safe house, said the protesting women.

The Afghan government has recently made efforts to hold control of women protection centres in a bid to improve management and raise funding opportunities.

But providers of safe houses including international and national organisations, protested against the new regulation arguing it threatens safety of Afghan women and girls.

Afghan Women Network said government institutions are not able to manage the centres in a proper way.

"We, on behalf of Afghan women institutions and activists, suggest to the government to consider our concerns and start consultation a process with Afghan activists for a change in the regulation," Ms Wazhma Frogh, a safe house provider, said.

"There have been reports of violence and discrimination against women in women protection centres controlled by the government," said Ms Selay Ghafar, another protection provider.

Civil society organisations and Afghan women's rights activists strongly urged the Afghan media to prevent power-brokers and influential people from restricting freedom of expression and trampling principles of democracy in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course the government wants control over those houses. How else can they direct husbands and fathers to get there so that they can avenge their family honor by butchering all the women inside?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/18/2011 9:30 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Qaradawi to preaches at tahir sqare today
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who supports suicide bombing of civilians in Israel and americans in Iraq, death by stoning for raped women, apostates and gays, prays for a chance to end his life in martyrdom against Israel and is referred to as moderate by professor of John Esposito International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, CAIR and others, expects to give a sermon late pm (local time) in Tahir square.

Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/18/2011 09:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Like to see a simltaneous MEMRI translation of this. Then I'd like to see it plastered across all papers and TV (yeah, right) and read into the Congressional record.
Posted by: Alan Cramer || 02/18/2011 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  What's Clapper going to say when he finds out in a couple of months....
Posted by: Beavis || 02/18/2011 11:52 Comments || Top||

#3  ...prays for a chance to end his life in martyrdom against Israel...

All you have to do is charge the border with a RPG screaming "God is Great!" and nature will take care of the rest.

I think the goat rapist is lacking motivation to end his life. Hard to give up a good thing, huh?
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/18/2011 13:13 Comments || Top||

#4  based on a report from the CSMonitor, the sermon blamed Mubarek and his regime for sectarian problems and advocated expelling all Mubarek supporters from the cabinet
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/18/2011 16:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Martin Kramer reports that there was a 'liberate Jerusalem' portion of the sermon that will likely go unreported.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 02/18/2011 16:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Looks like poor old Egypt protest hero Wael Ghonim barred from stage.
Imagine that, he leads the protest and Muslim Brotherhood take over. Nobody would ever have imagined it. Not if you're American President and were prepared to forget the Iranian debacle under Carter. But I suppose that this time it's going to be different. What's the definition of insanity again? doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Posted by: tipper || 02/18/2011 17:59 Comments || Top||

#7  ION MEMRI.ORG > IRAQI LIBERAL CLERIC AYAD JAMAL AL-DIN CALLS ON THE IRANIAN PEOPLE TO REVOLT + CHANGE THE FACE OF THE MIDDLE EAST, arguing among other that as bad as the Shah's rule was, at least it never proclaimed to be ALLAH'S REPRESENTATIVE ON EARTH.

Regardless of the merits, methinks AYAD AL-DIN has just inspired IRAN to forcibly assert more MilPol influence in IRAQ VIA ANTI-IGA/GOVT., PRO-IRAN MILTERR GROUPS, besides also hinting at why SECDEF GATES anticipates variable POST-PULLOUT TROUBLES FOR IRAQ.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2011 23:33 Comments || Top||


Egypt's military stifles its economy



But when Obama stifles ours, don't worry about it?
Right. See how easy that is?
It's different here; it's for the children...
Posted by: ryuge || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stifling a Muslim economy: a dirty job, but somebody's got to it.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/18/2011 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  A very very hard job.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/18/2011 3:14 Comments || Top||


Offended Mubarak refuses phone call from Obama
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Ousted Egyptian leader resents calls made by US president during unrest that he "step down immediately," 'Al-Quds Al-Arabi' reports.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder if the new leadership is just going to let Mubarak, and all his rumored billions, just leave Egypt. In fact, I'm beginning to wonder if the popular unrest ==> palace coup chronology is not reversing the order of what actually happened?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/18/2011 3:30 Comments || Top||

#2  If it were a palace coup, I doubt the coupsters would have unleashed the Mooselem Bruderbund to help.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 02/18/2011 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Et tu Brute?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/18/2011 9:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't kill a rat until it sticks its had out, NS.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/18/2011 9:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Bottom Line Obama does NOT respect the US TRUE allies eg.UK,Israel,Egypt but tries to buddy up with the new powers ie China,Brazil and India which looks desperate!
Posted by: Paul || 02/18/2011 9:55 Comments || Top||

#6  True, g(r) but I suspect the security forces knew who was MB long ago. And letting them stick their heads out only works if you can then chop them off. In this case, their popularity is rising making it more difficult to chop heads. A quiet coup would have been much more controlled. This is out of control and will end badly. Smart coupsters would never have let it happen. Now if you want to argue they weren't smart, you may be correct, but I doubt they were that dumb.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 02/18/2011 10:09 Comments || Top||

#7  But, but, Obama was going to part the seas and make it rain in the desert and provide 5 chickens for every pot....and camels LOTS of camels and, and all the dictators of the world would sit around the campfire singing Kumbaya.

What happened to all that smart diplomacy?
Posted by: Alan Cramer || 02/18/2011 10:48 Comments || Top||


Islam likely to stay Egypt's state religion: sources
[Al Arabiya] A committee appointed by Egypt's new ruling military council to draw up a new constitution in 10 days is unlikely to remove Article 2, which says Shariah is the main source of law, informed sources told Al Arabiya.

The sources said that the committee is unlikely to touch most of the introductory articles that define the nature of the state, such as its religious, ethnic, and ideological orientation. The committee would instead focus more on amendments that would directly improve the state of democracy and guarantee the right of political participation for all.

The committee is headed by an Islamist judge, Tarek al-Bishry, who opposed and criticized ousted Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak. Bishry was seen as an associate of al-Wasat (moderate) offshoot of the Moslem Brüderbund.

The committee is made up of mainly judges and politicians, including a Coptic Christian and Moslem Brüderbund MP, and the fact that it was given just 10 days to draft a new constitution would make it difficult to touch some sensitive articles, like those dealing with religion.

Article 76 is the most likely to be amended so that "it opens the door for independent candidates provided that they obtain supporting signatures from 25, 000 citizens who have the right age to vote in 15 provinces," a source told Al Arabiya.

Such condition is designed to ensure that an independent candidate has a wide support base of constituents from different provinces.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Was there ever any doubt?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/18/2011 0:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Had they closed their eyes, taken a deep breath, and declared themselves a secular state they would be entering the modern world. Instead they remain a Moslem state, with not only the problems of the modern world but also those accumulated since the 7th century.

I guess it takes guts to jettison the baggage.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 9:28 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ahmadinejad: Obama can't spell his own name
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Barack Obama on Friday, saying the American president "doesn't even know how to spell his own name properly."

During a visit to Bushehr ahead of a scheduled rally in support of his regime, the Iranian leader said, "Obama wants to rule the world, but he can't even control his own emotions.
Posted by: Beavis || 02/18/2011 11:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Series of Nork fighter jet crashes last year
TOKYO, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- A series of North Korean fighter jets crashed last year during training held in response to military exercises in South Korea, a high-level Seoul official said Thursday.

North Korea views military drills in the South, including those involving American troops, as preparations to invade the country, and puts its own forces on alert and stages counter-exercises. Holding such counter-drills, which drain its scarce resources, are considered painful to the impoverished nation.

South Korea and the U.S. are believed to have held more military drills than usual last year in an attempt to put pressure on the communist nation that was blamed for the sinking of the South's warship Cheonan in March and shelled the South's border island of Yeonpyeong in November.

"If exercises are held in the South, the North cannot but stage counter-exercises. That is bound to increase difficulties (in the North) under the current situation," a high-level South Korean official visiting Tokyo told reporters. "North Korean troops also appear to suffer as they have to get into underground tunnels" during such drills.

The official said that the North suffered a series of fighter jet crashes during such counter-exercises last year, but did not provide specifics, such as when and how many jets went down. North Korean fighter jets are considered vulnerable to crashes as pilots often lack adequate training due to scant fuel.

"I think there were many crashes as they did a lot of training to counter exercises in the South in a situation where fuel is not enough and the number of training sessions was not high," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "North Korean troops also appear to suffer as they have to get into underground tunnels" during such drills.

And we are probably watching to see where those tunnels are, too.
Posted by: gorb || 02/18/2011 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Another reason for losses due to fuel exhaustion is that the NKor's like to keep the fuel load at a minimum so the pilot doesn't defect with the aircraft.
Posted by: tipover || 02/18/2011 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  The losses aren't due to the jets running out of gas. The losses are due to inadequate training. The inadequate training is due to a lack of jet fuel in the country.

Indian MiG-21s crash all the time and they don't have defection problems.
Posted by: gromky || 02/18/2011 2:20 Comments || Top||

#4  All of the above. And they probably have a lot more planes and pilots than they do fuel to fly them. So who cares if they lose one every now and then? Only the fighter pilot who believed it would never happen to him.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 02/18/2011 8:25 Comments || Top||

#5  The North Korean command will show those traitorous pilots who intentionally crash their aircraft. Instead of loading their parachute bags with old newspapers, they just won't issue them any parachute bags at all.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/18/2011 9:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Thus saving enough old newspapers to make soup for dozens of their countrymen for months.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/18/2011 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7  For pilots to be good they must fly a lot. North Korea does not fly often due to wear and tear and fuel and maintenance costs. They crash because they are green pilots who will never get any better flying obsolescent aircraft that are poorly maintained. Their air force would last maybe 10 minutes if the balloon goes up.
Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar || 02/18/2011 9:59 Comments || Top||

#8  I wouldn't be surprised if they run out of gas because they don't want them to fly to South Korea and claim amnesty.
Posted by: gorb || 02/18/2011 12:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Again, NORTH KOREA + even SOUTH KOREA have vested interests in preventing a DE FACTO CHINESE TAKEOVER OF NORTH KOREA FOR ANY REASON.

North Korea wants to see iff China will accept foreign econ presence in North Korea, while China wants Regional + Trans-regional Base Rights throughout East Asia + US Milfors withdrawal from same, which Japan + South Korea [ASEAN = South China Sea States?]don't want unless they possess NucWeaps which China doesn't want them to have.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2011 23:41 Comments || Top||


N. Korea Completes Missile Launch Site
North Korea finished building an intercontinental ballistic missile test site in Tongchang-ri, North Pyongan Province late last year, sources claimed Thursday. The facility is five times as large as the Taepodong missile test site in Musudan-ri, North Hamgyong Province and its launch pad 1.5 times as big.

The tower is 50 m high to Musudan-ri's 32 m, meaning it is tall enough to launch a space rocket of over 40 m.

A South Korean government source said the North completed the launch pad, control center and various prefab buildings late last year. "It's a modern complex operating its launch pad much like Kennedy Space Center in Florida," the source added.

He claimed its missiles are to be assembled at a nearby building and moved on to the launch pad by rail. At the Musudan-ri facility, missiles are hoisted on to the launch pad with a crane and then fitted with the first, second and third-stage booster rockets.

An expert with a government-funded agency said, "The Tongchang-ri facility is better than the Musudan-ri base because it's easily capable of launching big missiles or rockets and is unaffected by bad weather when missiles are assembled."

It is also said to have an underground storage room for liquid fuel as well as a fuel supply system that can inject liquid fuel into missiles while avoiding satellite surveillance.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned last December that the North could acquire ICBMs within five years that would directly threaten the U.S. mainland, and U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Thursday said the North has successfully tested many related technologies.

South Korean officials believe the North began construction at the Tongchang-ri base in 2002. The Musudan-ri facility was built in 1992.

There are several good reasons for building the site in Tongchang-ri, intelligence agencies believe. It is less easy for South Korea and the U.S. to carry out air strikes because it is relatively close to China; the manpower and time needed to install nuclear warheads on missiles if it succeeds in developing them would be reduced, since the base is only about 70 km from the Yongbyon nuclear facility; and it is close to the Sanum-dong long-range missile development center in Pyongyang.

In addition, a missile launched from the base may be easier to trace with the North's own radar tracking system, and it could fire missiles southward through the open sea.

Sources speculate that the North could launch an adapted Taepodong-2 missile with a range of 6,700 km from the Tongchang-ri test facility this year.

The launch of a Taepodong-2 missile from Musudan-ri in April 2009 failed when the rocket fizzled shortly after takeoff. Afterwards, another missile was reportedly taken by train to Tongchang-ri. The North is reportedly carrying out engine combustion tests.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Maulana Fazlur Rehman's mysterious trip to India
" The two-day India visit by Islamic hardliner and Pakistain's Jamiat-ul-Islami chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
is believed to be aimed at reinforcing the anti-Vastanvi forces at the Darul-Uloom Deoband seminary in Uttar Pradesh , where the recently appointed vice chancellor Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi had drawn much flak for praising Narendra Modi's governance in Gujarat.
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime...

"Ostensibly, Rehman was in Deoband and New Delhi earlier this week to broker peace between the two warring factions of Indian Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind led by rival Madnis -- uncle Arshad Madni and nephew Mahmood.

"However,
The infamous However...
informed sources at Deoband suspect that the Pak holy man's 'real intent behind bringing the Madnis together was to strengthen the anti-Vastanvi lobby.'

"Vastanvi's fate is to be decided at a meeting of Deoband's 'Majlis-e-Shoora', the highest decision making body of the institution on February 23.

"Considering that Mahmood Madni was responsible for mobilising support for Vastanvi against whom Arshad was known to have fuelled all the trouble, unity between the duo was aimed at weakening the seminary chief's case.

"The proximity between Pak holy man Rehman and Arshad Madni was always an open secret. And even during his 17- hour long stay in Deoband, the two were seen together every minute.

"Sources in Deoband claimed that Rehman's visit was planned by Arshad, who was clearly worried about his hold over Deoband.

"Rehman was therefore called to convince Mahmood to sink his differences with his uncle Arshad in the larger interest of maintaining the undisputed hold of the undivided Madni power over the seminary.

"Who does not know that the Madnis whose family has called the shots at the seminary for decades, were responsible for appointment of the previous vice chancellor Maulana Maghrubur Rehman who passed away last year," a senior faculty member told rediff.com over telephone from Deoband.

"Yet another young lecturer, who had hailed the appointment of a computer savvy and MBA qualified Vastanvi as the new vice chancellor felt, "Members of the Arshad Madni lobby were busy impressing upon all north Indians at the seminary that they must not allow Vastanvi to continue as he was the first non-north Indian to head the Deoband seminary."

"He went on to add, "Evidently, the whole idea was to prevent any progressive Mohammedan to take over the reins of this historic institution; and that was the reason that a Pak Islamic hardliner had come down all the way."

"The last time Rehman flew down to Deoband in similar circumstances was in March 2007, when he succeeded in bridging the divide between the Madnis."
Posted by: ryuge || 02/18/2011 01:16 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Pakistani court suspend Davis' case
[Iran Press TV] A Pak court has delayed a decision on whether an American who killed two local men in Lahore in January has diplomatic immunity.

In the court proceedings early Thursday, Lahore High Court suspended judgment until March 14th to decide on whether Raymond Davis has diplomatic immunity, a Press TV correspondent in Pakistain reported.

The court's Chief Justice, Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, ordered the Pak authorities to keep the US national in jug until the country's foreign ministry could prove his status as a diplomat.

The judge pointed out that the US gunman has been barred from leaving the Asian country and his name is included in the exit control list.

Earlier, Pakistain's ministry of foreign affairs sought more time from Lahore High Court to report on Davis' case.

The court had given the foreign ministry 15 days to answer whether full diplomatic status was held by Davis, who has been remanded in jug since his arrest following the incident on January 27.

The United States has urged leaders in Pakistain to arrange for Davis' release and break a legal precedent set for trials of US officials abroad.

US officials were earlier expected to present a petition to the court, asserting the consulate employee was a diplomat and, therefore, has diplomatic security.

Pak lawyers maintain that the US shooter, just like anyone else, should be tried by a local court in Pakistain.

Davis, a former Special Forces soldier, shot and killed two men on January 27 in what he said was a robbery attempt. The case has strained ties between Islamabad and Washington.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Pak foreign office replaces spokesman Abdul Basit
(PTI) In a sudden development, Pakistain's Foreign Office has replaced its front man Abdul Basit, who was today appointed to the post of Additional Secretary (Europe).

Tehmina Janjua, a senior diplomat, was named as the Foreign Office's new spokesperson.

She was serving as Director General in the Foreign Secretary's Office.

Basit will also look after the affairs of the Friends of Democratic Pakistain Forum, officials said.

Basit was in line for an ambassadorial posting for some time.

His appointment as an Additional Secretary days after senior Pakistain People's Party leader Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi was removed from the foreign affairs portfolio triggered speculation in diplomatic circles about the reasons for the move.

Sources said the move was part of efforts to place officials who were more in line with PPP-led government's policies in key positions in the Foreign Ministry.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


US disappointed over immunity refusal: Munter
[Geo News] US Ambassador in Pakistan Cameron Munter Thursday said Pakistan refusal to give immunity to Raymond Davis has caused disappointment to the US, Geo News reported.
I thought we told the Paks that if they didn't send Davis home that stuff was going to start happening. Guess not...
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Malfeasance of office?
Posted by: Water Modem || 02/18/2011 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  US disappointed

Used to mean something.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/18/2011 3:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Lost in all the kerfuffle is the fact that two ISI guys apparently tried to kidnap or kill Davis.
Posted by: Grunter in Sydney || 02/18/2011 7:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: "DISSAPPOINTED!!"
-- The 5th Element
Posted by: mojo || 02/18/2011 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: "DISSAPPOINTED!!"

Heh. As some crufty old Italian guy said, it is better to be feared than loved. To be neither is the worst of all possible worlds.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/18/2011 16:32 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Kingdom to continue its efforts to reconcile Iraqis
[Arab News] Soddy Arabia will continue its efforts to reconcile Iraqi groups and narrow their differences, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said on Tuesday.
... since it worked so well in Lebanon...
"We are in contact with the vaporous Arab League to do whatever possible in this respect," he added.

In a joint presser with his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini, Prince Saud indicated that such mediation efforts would be conducted after the ongoing Arbil initiative.

"Right now the Iraqis are busy with the Arbil initiative and any new reconciliation talks will be after that initiative," he said.

Prince Saud underscored the good response to the peace initiative of King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah from the Iraqi leaders. "King Abdullah has left no stone unturned to end the bloodbath in Iraq and unify the Iraqi ranks."

The Saudi minister denounced the terrorist attacks in Iraq that have killed hundreds of innocent people and injured many others. He also referred to attacks on religious places in Iraq and said Islam strongly prohibited such attacks.

He said his talks with Frattini were positive and covered major regional and international issues, most importantly the Middle East grinding of the peace processor and ongoing efforts to revive Israeli-Paleostinian peace negotiations.

"We also discussed the issue of terrorism and underscored international efforts to thwart terrorist plots," Prince Saud said and called for greater cooperation among the international community to combat terror.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The people will bring down the division
[Ma'an] Paleostinians are coming together to demand an end to the years-long state of political disunity.

Independent figures and nine youth organizations are calling on social networking sites to "bring down the division."

Yaser Wadieyah, the head of an assembly of independents, said the campaign would touch every city in the West Bank and Gazoo Strip, and it will be headed by students, clergy, business leaders and academics, among others.

"Consulations are being held with leaders and representatives of all committees that include independents in Gazoo, the West Bank, and the Diaspora to push forward real conciliation to get out of the paralysis that has surrounded this issue."
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Is it a given that the most radical are pushing for unity, under the control of they, the most radical?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/18/2011 9:31 Comments || Top||


Abbas: No elections if Gaza doesnt take part
[Asharq al-Aswat] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas says elections won't be held by September as planned if the Gazoo Strip's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers don't allow balloting there.

Abbas' West Bank-based government called the elections over the weekend, but Hamas has said Gazoo would not take part.

Abbas told news hounds Thursday that "unless we are capable of holding elections in both the West Bank and Gazoo, then we will not hold elections."

Abbas governs the West Bank but lost control of Gazoo to the Islamic Hamas in a violent 2007 takeover.

The scheduling of the long-overdue vote was seen as a response to widespread Mideast protests against autocratic regimes that have toppled longtime dictators in Tunisia and Egypt.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Senior Iranian officers vow not to shoot at protesters
Senior officers in Iran's Revolutionary Guard have written a letter to their superior officer asking for guarantees that they will not be required to open fire on anti-government protesters, the Daily Telegraph reported on Friday.

In the letter, addressed to Maj.-Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the Guards' commander, the officers contend that using violence against their own people breaks the tenets of Shi'te Islamic law.

"We promise our people that we will not shoot nor beat our brothers who are seeking to express legitimate protest against the policies and conduct of their leader," the letter states.

The Telegraph quotes western diplomats familiar with the letter as saying it has been passed on to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. No official Iranian response to the letter has been made.
Posted by: || 02/18/2011 12:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah. They'll let their Pali hired goons handle it instead...
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/18/2011 19:01 Comments || Top||


World panics over Iran's new 'super' missiles
I saw this story posted elsewhere. It is the first time I have seen this publication. I couldn't tell if the author was praising or just having some fun in regards to this countries pronouncements about it's military prowess.
Iran has made yet another announcement about the development of a new type of weapon. The Iranian administration claimed that it was going to launch the mass production of new ballistic missiles. According to Chief Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the missiles, called the Persian Gulf, develop the speed of 3,675 kilometers an hour and strike targets at a range of 300 kilometers. Jafari also stated, in a classic Iranian manner, that the new missile was unreachable for enemies.
Posted by: Sheregum Hupating6021 || 02/18/2011 08:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From the same folks that have developed super-cavitating torpedoes and have to photoshop their picture of mass missile launches.

Yep. I believe.
Posted by: gorb || 02/18/2011 12:44 Comments || Top||

#2  A while back, the US innovated a tunneling missile, with several cannon in its nose cone, allowing it to burrow through many meters thick reinforced concrete. It did one test that was a huge success, then there has been no, zero mention of it since.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/18/2011 14:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Anonymoose - tht's very interesting. Back during the early part of the Iraq war I sent an idea sort of like that (shaped charges strung together at appropriate separation distance to synchronize harmonically) to a guy I knew at DARPA. Got a thank you, which was more than I wanted or expected.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/18/2011 16:25 Comments || Top||

#4  As per ARTIC...

* "World learned about the appearance of another Superpower" > IMO 'tis a Statement which shows why IRAN SENT WARSHIPS TO TRANSIT EGYPT'S SUEZ CANAL.

RISE OF SHIA = IRAN/PERSIA-CENTRIC ISLAM.

* "Iran's defense technology is a Bluff that has no match anywhere in the World...".

HOW MANY TIMES IN WORLD MILPOL HISTORY WERE THINGS OR EVENTS, ETC, NOT SUPPOSED TO OCCUR ACCORDING TO EMPIRICAL, FACTS-BASED LOGIC + REASON, "REALITY" + "PRAGMATISM", BUT DID ANYWAY!

E.g. CHINA > Logic + Reason said that it wasn't supposed to send in masses of armed troops to militarily intervene agz MacArthur + UN Command in Korea 1950-1953, espec after the Scores of Milyuhns of deaths + extensive $$$ national damage it suffered before + during + just after WW2, BUT IT DID.

CHINA was supposedly too backward + didn't have the potent nuclear arsenal to fight the USSR vee the late 1960's Sino-Soviet Border Clashes, BUT IT DID .

It used to be called FACTS-BASED "MIS-CALCULATION"- GOVT(S). CAN HAVE ALL THE FACTS + INFORMATION, ETC. IT NEEDS TO HAVE, + STILL ROYALLY SCREW UP!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2011 20:14 Comments || Top||


Harb Meets Gemayel: Lebanon Can't Remain a State within a State of Illegitimate Arms
[An Nahar] Caretaker Labor Minister Butros Harb stated on Thursday that the ongoing consultations in among the March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
camp are aimed at devising ways to positively deal with Prime Minister-designate Najib Miqati's proposals and confront the campaigns against the president and government in a way that would preserve Leb's political system.
He said after holding talks with Phalange Party
The Kataeb (Phalange) party was founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936, who modeled the party after Spanish and Italian Fascist parties he had observed as an Olympic athlete during the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, then Nazi Germany. The movement's uniforms originally included brown shirts and members used the Nazi salute. Despite the party's uniform, its strong sense of nationalism and dedication to a single charismatic leader, the Lebanese Kataeb was not and never became a fascist party nor did it espouse a totalitarian ideology.
leader Amin Gemayel: "The March 14 camp is in a constant state of consultation and meetings are held away from the media spotlight in order to maintain its unified position from the government."

"Should it decide to take part in the new government, it would do so on the basis of its values and not the values of others," he stressed.

Addressing Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's recent criticism of the March 14 commemoration ceremony at Biel, the minister commented: "We live in a democratic system and listen to others. We hope that others will hear us."

"It's no longer acceptable that the situation in Leb remain as it is. We cannot accept that the state within a state of illegitimate arms continue," he said.

"We cannot accept the murder of Leb's leaders without trying the criminals or that we take the place of a trial and issue our own judgments. We are committed to justice and on this basis, our hand is extended to the other camp," he said.

For his part, Gemayel stressed that the Phalange Party's hand will remain extended to the other camp, adding that consultations with the party's allies are ongoing.

"We are ready for any dialogue that serves the national principals that Leb is built upon and affirms unity, illusory sovereignty, and justice," he said.

Addressing Nasrallah's statement that the March 14 forces committed mistakes, he said: "If some sides, like Hizbullah, believe themselves to be above making errors, we consider ourselves human."

"Hizbullah is the primary side that should reconsider its actions after all the adventures it has led the country to," Gemayel stressed.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Lebanese support Hezbollah, Mikati
[Iran Press TV] A recent poll suggests the majority of the Lebanese public supports the resistance movement of Hezbullies and the country's new Prime Minister Najib Mikati.

The survey, carried out by Beirut Center for Research & Information, showed that the Lebanese movement acted rightly to lead the recent collapse of the government.

Of the 800 respondents, 60 percent said Hezbullies was seeking to defuse domestic tension sparked by the United States-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

The poll also found out that 75 percent of the participants approved of Mikati's premiership, the IRIB Research Center reported.

Former premier Saad Hariri's cabinet collapsed on January 25, when 10 ministers from the Hezbullies-led March 8 Alliance as well as one named by President Michel Suleiman quit.

The resignations were in protests to what the politicians described as the March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
alliance's "inability to overcome US pressure."

Parliamentary meetings, which followed the cabinet's breakup, led to the appointment of Mikati.

Over the past months, reports have suggested that the Special Tribunal for Leb (STL) is preparing to indict senior Hezbullies members in the 2005 liquidation -- an allegation the resistance movement has repeatedly rejected.

Washington, however, strongly supports the court and has reportedly been pushing for the verdict, which analysts warn would sow discord within Leb.

Some 10 percent of the respondents, however, claimed that the Hezbullies-led mass resignation was an exercise in pursuit of power, but Hezbullies Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has rejected claims that Mikati was the movement's pick for the post.

The poll was carried out between January 28 and February 1 this year and included participants of Shia, Sunni, Christian and Druze faiths.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Conflicting reports as Egypt denies barring Iran ships
[Al Arabiya] Iran was pushing Egypt on Thursday to allow two of its warships to pass through the Suez Canal, amid conflicting reports from Cairo about the Egyptian response and despite warnings from Israel.

Iranian warships have not entered the Mediterranean through the canal since 1979, and Israel says any attempt to sail so close to its waters now would be a dangerous "provocation" that would demand a response.

"Iranian officials were in contact with officials in Cairo to secure the Iranian vessels' passage," Iran's state-run Press TV said on its website, citing Iranian naval officials.

The ships were due to pass the canal on Thursday, Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed, but in Egypt a senior Suez Canal Authority official insisted it had not received a request to allow the ships through.

"We did not receive any request for the passage of Iranian warships," Ahmed al-Manakhly, head of the canal's operations room, told AFP, adding he had no idea if any such ships were nearing the canal.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  ION SPACEWAR > MIDEAST UNREST PUTS US MILITARY ACCESS IN JEOPARDY. Any failure by the US to support POST-JASMINE/COLOR REVOL ALLIES threatens US LT ability to DETER IRAN.

US-BASE-TOO-FAR QATAR + "AMERICAN DUNKIRK".

--------------

SHIA-IRAN-VS-SUNNI-EGYPT IN SUEZ CANAL

versus

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > [US PACOM Chief] ADMIRAL: SOMALI PIRATES MOVING [expanding] INTO ASIA?, e.e as far as the SOUTH CHINA SEA despite successful Regional, International efforts to stem historical Indo-Malay, etc. local Piracy.

THE AFRICANS ARE COMING, THE AFRICANS ARE COMING.

HMMMM, HMMMM, iff true, IMO will mostly likely be in JOINT ALLIANCE to divide up the Indian Ocean + SE Asia hauls.

YOOHOO, AUSTRALIA, YOU'RE UP - WASHINGTON WILL BE LOOKING AT YOU FOR SE ASIA!

I'm having truble picturing JOHNNY DEPP in a SOMALI + MALAY-INDON PIRATE DRESS [Sarong].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2011 23:22 Comments || Top||

#2  DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > VIETNAM PROTESTS CHINA'S MILITARY EXERCISE IN SOUTH CHINA SEAS [Paracels], claiming it is an affront to its sovereignty oer disputed islands.

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > TUG OF WAR IN THE CAM RANH BAY.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/18/2011 23:59 Comments || Top||


Iran denies cancellation: Warships to cross Suez Canal
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Iran plans to cross the Suez Canal, despite reports to the contrary, Press TV reported on Thursday.

The Iranian news station also said that "Egyptian authorities believed there was nothing wrong with the passage."

Earlier on Thursday, a senior Suez Canal official said two Iranian warships had withdrawn their application to transit the waterway following expressions of concern by Israel over the plans.

The official said no reason was given for Thursday's decision to withdraw the application. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, also said it was not known if the vessels intended to transit the waterway at a later date.

The official identified the two vessels as Alvand, a frigate, and Kharq, a supply ship, and said they were en route to Syria. He said they were now in an area near the Saudi Red Sea port city of Jiddah.

Egypt's official MENA news agency, however, quoted Ahmed al-Manakhly, a senior Suez Canal official, as denying that the waterway's management had received any requests by Iranian warships to transit the canal.

Vessels intending to transit the Suez Canal, which links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, must give the waterway's authority at least 24-hour notice before entering the canal.Only ships that don't meet safety requirements are banned from using the canal.

In the case of warships, a clearance from the Egyptian defense and foreign ministries is required in advance, but is rarely withheld.

The Israel Navy said on Wednesday that it was tracking two Iranian warships as they were set to make a rare crossing of the Suez Canal. Defense officials said Israel would monitor the ships, although their presence in the sea would not change anything for the navy's operational deployment.

"It is strange for the Iranian Navy to use the Suez Canal since it really doesn't have anything to do in the Mediterranean Sea," one official said.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called the planned transit of the canal by the ships a "provocation that proves that the overconfidence of the Iranians is growing from day to day."

Speaking at a meeting in Jerusalem of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Lieberman lashed out at the international community, which he said was not doing enough to confront Iranian provocations.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "Egyptian armed forces have received a request through the Egyptian Foreign Ministry from the Islamic Republic of Iran's affairs office in Cairo requesting the passage of two Iranian warships," according to a statement given to Reuters by an army source.

"The request said the ships do not carry any military equipment, nuclear or chemical contents. The Defence Ministry is currently studying the request,"
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 02/18/2011 9:35 Comments || Top||

#2  "Fine. Then you'll have no objection to having us inspect those ships prior to passage, will you?"
Posted by: mojo || 02/18/2011 11:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Iran gets OK from Egypt
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 02/18/2011 12:36 Comments || Top||


Iran to block opposition chiefs statements
[Asharq al-Aswat] Iran will block the ability of opposition leaders to make statements to their supporters, the chief of judiciary said Thursday, on the eve of a "hatred" rally in Tehran against their movement.

"We urge everyone to allow the judicial system to work within the framework of the law," said Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani in comments directed at Iranian people and politicians and reported by state news agency IRNA.

"They (the people) should be certain that we will block the mechanism through which the sedition leaders issue their statements," he said, urging people to be patient and vigilant.

Larijani's remarks come as Iranian politicians stepped up pressure against opposition chiefs Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi by demanding the pair, once the pillars of the Islamic regime, be executed.

Mousavi and Karroubi have regularly issued anti-government statements on their respective websites despite reportedly being intimidated by hardliners and the authorities.

Despite being under de facto house arrest, they have both managed to get their messages across through their websites, and had issued an indirect call for a rally in support of Arab uprisings on February 14.

Heeding the call, thousands of their supporters took to Tehran streets on Monday and turned the gathering into a fresh anti-government demonstration which led to festivities with security forces and militiamen.

Two people were killed and several others maimed, including nine members of security forces, officials and opposition websites reported.

The protests triggered the wrath of regime-backers who now have called for a rally of their own against the opposition on Friday.

The Islamic Propagation Coordination Council, which organises regime-backed programmes, said those joining the rally will "scream out their hatred, wrath and disgust against the savage crimes and evil movements of sedition leaders, their Monafeghin (hypocrites) and their monarchist allies."

On Wednesday, Karroubi issued an Internet statement saying he was "ready to pay any price," while Mousavi in a similar way stated that Monday's protests were a "glorious achievement."

Larijani said authorities will move in to disable Mousavi and Karroubi's ability to communicate with their supporters.

"Sedition leaders should know that by issuing statements they will not have a place in the nation. Our people know very well for what reason the Zionists, Americans and British support them (Mousavi and Karroubi)," he said.

Iranian officials have accused the United States, Israel and Britain of influencing the opposition heads.

"The system, while being fair will not allow them to project themselves as heroes through their propaganda," Larijani said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Home Front: Culture Wars
California University (UCD) Defines Christians as Oppressors
More than two dozen Christian students at the University of Caliphornia at Davis have filed a formal complaint over a university policy that defines religious discrimination as Christians oppressing non-Christians.

The definition is listed in a document called, "The Principles of Community." It defines "Religious/Spiritual Discrimination" as "The loss of power and privilege to those who do not practice the dominant culture's religion. In the United States, this is institutionalized oppressions toward those who are not Christian."

"This is radical political correctness run amok," said David French, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. The conservative advocacy group has written a letter on behalf of more than 25 students who object to the policy and want it revised. He said it's absurd to single out Christians as oppressors and non-Christians as the only oppressed people on campus.

A spokesperson for UC-Davis directed comments about "The Principles of Community" to Raheem Reed, an associate executive vice chancellor. Reed did not return numerous phone calls.

"Christians deserve the same protections against religious discrimination as any other students on a public university campus," French told Fox News Radio. "The idea that a university would discriminate against Christians is a very old story, unfortunately, and one that we see played out every day."

One student, who asked not to be identified, said university officials asked her to reaffirm "The Principles of Community" last semester. She refused to do so when she realized that Christians were not protected under the policy.

"To have a non-discrimination policy that excludes the Christian faith is a cause for action," she said. "In higher academia, one would hope that a diversity of ideas and beliefs would be appreciated. But my experience has been that this has not always been the case. There is a real fear of academic bias against the Christian faith."

French said all of the students who complained are fearful of backlash if their identities became known.

"This was amazing to actually enshrine in your non-discrimination statement -- discrimination against Christians," he said. "This is a symbol of the seeming impunity in which universities violate the law to establish a radical, secular-left agenda."

Alan Brownstein, a law professor at UC-Davis, said the campus has a generally open and tolerant view of religion. "It's a university campus," he said. "There is robust debate and people will disagree on just about everything."

Brownstein, who is a nationally known constitutional scholar, said any legal challenges to the policy would depend on whether or not it's a binding document.

"Clearly, if you had an enforceable regulatory policy that said, 'we will discipline Christians who oppress non-Christians, but we will not impose the same kind of disciplinary sanctions on non-Christians who engage in the same kind of harassing behavior against Christians,' that would be unacceptable and subject to legal challenge."

Regardless, Brownstein said it might have been more appropriate to use less-specific language in the policy.

"It's always preferable to be as general as you can when you describe these kinds of unacceptable behaviors," he said.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/18/2011 09:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From the same 'intellectual' class that stipulates that only 'whites' can be racist.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/18/2011 10:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Cow College, Berzerkley North. Ignore the droning whine of the inmates.
Posted by: mojo || 02/18/2011 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  I would say it was the progressives that are oppressors.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/18/2011 11:25 Comments || Top||

#4  How do these geniuses who created this policy view the muslims who commit terrorist acts, who work to undermine the country, who advocate killing infidels, and who believe in supremacy and domination over all others?

Let's see, my recollection is that it was the muslim students who shouted down the ambassador from Israel and disrupted a public meeting.

...And then there is Berkelel's adopt a terrorist program.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/18/2011 17:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Correction: Should be "Berkeley's."
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/18/2011 17:19 Comments || Top||

#6  How do these geniuses who created this policy view the muslims who commit terrorist acts, who work to undermine the country

They call them Freedom Fighters silly!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/18/2011 17:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Defund UCD
Posted by: Water Modem || 02/18/2011 18:52 Comments || Top||


Courage??
Photo here.
Posted by: Ulinese Sholurong2630 || 02/18/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are you brave enough to go out in public dressed like that?
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/18/2011 1:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Good...can't have her outside with her arms uncovered like a slut. Do her male relatives escort her to practice to ensure that nobody rapes her along the way?
Posted by: gromky || 02/18/2011 2:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Where's the full head covering? COuld it be that it is politically un-expediaent in this case.

Besides my opinion of courage would be to thros off the clothes the oppressors make her wear.
Posted by: Hellfish || 02/18/2011 14:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Hmmmmmm...sounds like there wasn't a lot of "courage" in college hoops this year if this is the best they've got.
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/18/2011 19:40 Comments || Top||



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