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It suddenly occurs to me that all the noise and hand-wringing coming out of Pakistain lately is not from fear money will get stop flowing, but that the true extent of their treachery and back-stabbing will finally come to light.
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Let the word get out that calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer causes certain undesirable male issues, and the problem will fix itself very quickly. .
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No reason those Paki ammonium nitrate factories shouldn't have an explosion, accidental or otherwise. That is, if the USA had covert services worth a damn.
[Dawn] The Afghan government says it needs to see Pakistain make "tangible progress" on pledges to use its influence to help end the Taliban insurgency.
Foreign Ministry front man Janan Mosazai told news hounds in Kabul on Sunday that although Pakistain had said it would work to get Taliban leaders to the negotiating table, this has not happened.
"Afghanistan has invested a great amount of goodwill and political capital to create an atmosphere of trust and confidence and to try to improve relations with Pakistain over the past three years," Mosazai, told news hounds in Kabul.
"Unfortunately, we have not been witness to the type of concrete progress that we were expecting -- that was promised to us by our brothers and sisters in Pakistain," he added.
A series of meetings between Afghanistan, Pakistain and the United States has been suspended because of the fallout.
Mosazai's remarks come a day after President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said he has given up trying to talk to the Taliban directly and that the key to ending the war is mediation by Pakistain.
Karzai is reviewing his strategy for making peace with the Taliban and will reveal the next steps "very soon," Siamak Herawi, a front man for Karzai also said Sunday.
"All peace talks with the Taliban are suspended. The president will review the peace and reconciliation strategy," Herawi told AFP.
The front man said Karzai was expected to announce a new strategy for peace efforts in a televised address "very soon."
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Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
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'Steps for Peace' - a combination exercise program and protest rally?
[Dawn] Afghanistan's intelligence agency said on Saturday it had handed Pakistain evidence that the Taliban leadership plotted the recent liquidation of former president and government peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... on Pak soil.
The Afghan interior minister, giving testimony in parliament, also said a criminal mastermind of the plot, Hameedullah Akhondzada, had been set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock. The minister said the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had played a role in the killing.
Rabbani, who was head of the High Peace Council charged with trying to reach a negotiated settlement to the war, was killed at his home in Kabul on Sept 20 by a jacket wallah claiming to be carrying a message of peace from the Taliban leadership.
"Without any doubt ISI hand has been involved," Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi told politicians on Saturday, while discussing Rabbani's killing. "We have jugged Hameedullah Akhondzada who confessed that it was nothing but a plot."
Mr Mohammadi said a fact-finding mission was leaving for Pakistain on Saturday to investigate further, and Islamabad had been given a list of those involved.
Spokesperson for the Foreign Office Tehmina Janjua said Pakistain had not received any information, although Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... had conveyed to Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... an offer of cooperation in the investigation. "Pakistain's offer to investigate stands. As yet, no dossier has been received," she said.
Akhondzada has been named by the Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), but it has given no details of his identity. Acting NDS chief Rahmatullah Nabeel also said Akhondzada had been jugged, but gave no details.
Rabbani was the most prominent surviving leader of the ethnic Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance of fighters and politicians and his killing was seen as a heavy blow to hopes of peace talks and has brought fears of worsening ethnic rifts among Afghans fighting the Taliban-led insurgency.
The NDS front man, at a separate news conference, said the mid-Sept suicide kaboom that killed Rabbani was plotted in an upmarket suburb of the Pak city of Quetta.
The Taliban leadership council is known as the Quetta Shura and is believed to be based in that city, although the krazed killer group says it operates only from Afghanistan.
Pakistain denies the existence of any Taliban Shura in Quetta.
"A confession from those we jugged in regard to Rabbani's liquidation shows a direct involvement of the Quetta Shura," NDS front man Lutfullah Mashal said, adding that one of those set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock was a key player in the plot.
"(He) provided evidence and documents which we have submitted to the Pakistain Embassy. Based on mutual cooperation and diplomatic ties with Afghanistan, Pakistain is obliged to take action," he told a news conference in Kabul.
Rabbani's liquidation was plotted in Quetta's Satellite Town, an expensive area home to many officials and the city's elite, Mr Mashal said, adding that a commission had been set up to investigate the killing, and further details would be given soon.
Hours after Rabbani was killed, a front man for the Taliban grabbed credit for his death while talking to a Rooters' news hound in Pakistain from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the front man later issued statements denying that he had made a claim of responsibility and said the Taliban were not willing to comment on Rabbani's liquidation.
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"Plot Hatched in Pakistain" is kind of a Dog Bites Man headline. Maybe we should have a separate category for Plots NOT Hatched in Pakistain - small though it may be.
[Dawn] Pakistain on Sunday strongly rejected the allegations by Afghanistan linking Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence with peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani's ... the murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... liquidation. We knew that was coming. The proof offered is much too circumstantial, to include the 8x10 color glossies and the videotapes.
Weren't there also cellphone intercepts of conversations between the attackers and their handlers in Pakistan?
"Pakistain strongly rejects the baseless allegations of the Afghan Interior Minister of ISI's involvement in the liquidation of Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The reaction to Bismillah Mohammadi's remarks came hours after a statement from the Afghan presidential palace claiming that Rabbani's killer was Pak.
According to the statement, evidence shows that Rabbani's death last month "was plotted in Quetta and the person who carried out the suicide kaboom against Rabbani was a citizen of Pakistain".
The statement added that the killer had been living in Chaman, a Pak border town near Quetta.
Pakistain questioned the evidence provided to its embassy in Kabul, and described Rabbani as a great friend of Pakistain, who was widely respected in the country.
Rabbani, chairman of President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai's ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... High Peace Council, was killed by a turban jacket wallah at his home in Kabul on September 20.
He had thought that he was meeting a representative carrying a special message from the Taliban.
"The Afghan Interior Minister has not highlighted the fact that the assassin and his handler were roaming around in Kandahar and Kabul for quite some time," the statement said.
"The Afghan Interior Minister did not say that the assassin had been four days in the guest house of the High Peace Council managed by Afghans close to Burhanuddin Rabbani", the statement added.
"The assassin was also apparently not body searched before the meeting. These facts are also part of the confession handed over to the Embassy by the Afghan intelligence".
The foreign ministry called Mohammadi's statement "all the more regrettable" as Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... had himself offered cooperation in the investigation, during his recent visit to Kabul.
"Instead of making such irresponsible statements those in positions of authority in Kabul, should seriously deliberate as to why all those Afghans who are favourably disposed towards peace and towards Pakistain are systematically being removed from the scene and killed".
It underscored the need to take stock of the direction taken by Afghan intelligence and security agencies.
Karzai's front man said on Sunday that the Afghanistan's Caped President is reviewing his strategy for making peace with the Taliban and will address the nation on next steps "very soon".
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[MEMRI] On October 1, 2011, at a demonstration it held outside the Syrian Embassy in London, the radical Islamist group Mohammedans Against Crusades condemned the killing of Anwar Al-Awlaki. Addressing the protesters, group leader Anjem Choudhary condemned Awlaki's killing, calling it a "murder." He said that Awlaki died as a martyr, and that the jihad will continue despite his death. After he finished speaking, Choudhary led the protesters in a memorial prayer for Al-Awlaki.
Choudhary's address and the prayer are seen in a clip uploaded to YouTube channel of the Mohammedans Against Crusades group.
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Why dont they arrest this idiot.He is a traitor and advocates killing of UK forces.
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Hannity: "You'reone sick miserable evil S.O.B." Have to agree with Hannity.
This is also the same guy who said the flag of islam will fly over the White House. He also said the Koran says he must hate everything non-muslim.
Zacatecas state is facing an uncertain future with a sullied debt rating, a massive public works program that may be threatened by its own financial and security requirements, and a coming security crisis.
Part of the nature of the security crisis hit last week when Zacatecas state attorney general (PGJE) Arturo Nahle Garcia announced that the remains of a former Durango state deputy Ernesto Cordero Anguiano, 37, was found along with other remains said to be the hunting party Cordero Anguiano was in when he disappeared December 2010.
According to the leftist weekly Proceso, the farm where Cordero Anguiano was found is where thousands of human bone fragments lay as a testimony to the sheer number of victims murdered by organized crime.
The remains were found on Las Negritos farm near the village of Calera in El Plateado de Joaquin Amaro municipality in the extreme southern part of the state about 20 kilometers from the western border of Aguascalientes state.
Authorities became aware of the crime when one member of the hunting party, Hector Alexis Gonzalez Quiroz, 15, was released after being held captive in January, 2011.
After serving their 40 days in preventative detention six police agents with the Joaquin Amaro municipality were ordered to serve sentences for kidnapping. A month later, the video camera belonging to one of the victims was found on a dead armed suspect following a shootout with Mexican security forces in Tabasco, Zacatecas.
According to the leftist weekly Proceso, the farm where Cordero Anguiano was found is where thousands of human bone fragments lay as a testimony to sheer number of victims murdered by organized crime. The forensic services of Zacatecas, since the discovery of Cordero Anguiano has been working to catagorize and identify the bone fragments. Little evidence exists as badly decomposed as the remains were, as to how the victims died or even how many dead found their end in La Negritas, though the report also says "hundreds" of bullet fragments and spent cartridge casings lay about the area.
Proceso also reports that local residents in the area say killings continue to this day in the area
Proceso also characterized the area as similar to San Fernando, Tamaulipas and in the several "narcofosas" in Durango, Durango where together more than 400 victims were buried. San Fernando graves were dug by Los Zetas between August 2010, just after the 72 migrants were shot to death and March, 2011, when a series of bus hijackings led authorities to the place and the graves.
Zacateas has been considered a Los Zetas strongpoint since at least last spring, but now that is likely to change as other cartels and groups either allied with or formed by the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels have publicly announced they are going after Los Zetas.
The same week as the grisly discovery at Las Negritas farm, Zacatecas finance minister Alejandro Tello Cristerna announced a purported restructuring of Zacatecas bond debt currently rated at B++, or speculative grade, by Fitch and other rating services. Tello Cristerna reportedly said in his press conference the public debt of Zacatecas is expected to rise next week as a bailout of the state finances come online to as high as A rating.
Some of the funds generated by the debt have been used to rebuild several wastewater treatment plants thoughout Zacatecas which were either broken down or which had been abandoned. The state administration of Zacatecas governor Miguel Alonso Reyes, now in its third year, has placed 11 of 23 plants back online with the remainder in rural areas where issues are mainly of competent personnel to run them.
But according to Proceso it is the building of three new bases for the Mexican Army which has cast the state deeper into debt. One of the bases is said to be one of the largest in Mexico. Mexican Army bases generally house company sized detachments. Construction of the bases started earlier this month and is expected to cost Zacatecas state MP $600 million (USD $43,274,460.00).
Proceso also said in its report that the Governor Alonso Reyes' security program was in crisis, that criminal gangs run essentially free in Zacatecas. Several shootouts between criminal gangs and state security forces in recent weeks highlight the crisis in Zacatecas.
The way the article describes it, criminal gangs roam the countryside aboard luxury SUVs and even recruit in high schools in Fresnillo city with criminal gangsters offering a rifle, a vehicle and MP $5,000.00 (USD $359.77) to students to join them, going as far as video taping their recruiting efforts.
Even so, Zacatecas government maintains that the security efforts with newfound emphasis on coordination with federal security forces is yielding positive results. For example, the Zacatecas state fair took place without a security incident this year.
It is impossible to know how severe the security situation is going to get in Zacatecas. One Mexican press account said that a showdown was coming between Los Zetas and Sinaloa shooters, probably to take place on the east coast but also possibly in nearby Jalisco in the south. To read Rantburg exclusive reports on confrontations between Mexican security forces and armed criminal groups in Zacatecas click here, here and here
Just over the weekend, federal and state security forces managed to seize six luxury SUVs abandoned in the area after forces were dispatched to investigate reports of armed suspects in the area.
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Mexican Army units have seized since September 26th 1,044 kilograms of marijuana, 34 kilograms of cocaine, 4.8 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, 1 kilogram of heroin and, MP $40,950.00 (USD $2,953.14),and USD $73.22 (MP $1,015.31) in cash.
An army unit with the Mexican 5th Military Zone seized 528 kilograms of marijuana at a checkpoint in Chihuahua state September 26th. The checkpoint was set up at Kilometer 161 of the Juarez-Chihuahua city highway where a passenger bus was stopped and searched. Soldiers found the drugs in 698 packages in a compartment just above the vehicle's air conditioning unit. One unidentified individual was detained at the scene.
An army unit of the Mexican 35th Military Zone rescued one kidnapped hostage and detained three unidentified male suspects September 25th in Guerrero state. The unit had been dispatched to Huitzuco de los Figueroa municipality on the basis of a citizen's complaint. Also seized in the raid were two rifles, one handgun, eight weapons magazines, 155 rounds of ammunition and two vehicles.
Two unidentified armed suspects were killed after they ran army checkpoint in San Luis Potosi September 25th. A unit of the Mexican Army in conjunction with other Mexican security forces in the area established a checkpoint on the Rioverde-San Luis Potosi highway at about Kilometer 30 at about 2200 hrs. A vehicle with armed suspects attacked the personnel manning the checkpoint sparking a brief pursuit. The vehicle being chased then crashed nearby killing two of the occupants. Secured following the crash were two rifles, 10 weapons magazines, 210 rounds of ammunition and tactical gear.
A unit of the Mexican 4th Military Zone seized a quantity of drugs at a checkpoint in Sonora state September 26th. The unit established a checkpoint near Opodepe municipality where soldiers detained one unidentified individual and seized 25 kilograms of cocaine, one kilogram of heroin and a tractor.
A unit of the Mexican 15th Military Zone found a synthetic drug lab in Jalisco state September 27th. The unit was on patrol in the village of Las Pilas in the Tamazula de Gordiano municipality when the lab was discovered. Seized in the raid were lab equipment and 240 kilograms of chemicals used for the production of drugs. No arrests were made at the scene.
Units of the Mexican 2nd Military Zone carried out drug raids in three separate places in Baja California state September 26th, seizing quantities of marijuana, cocaine and crystal methamphetamine.
In Tijuana on Bulevar Bellas Artes in Mesa de Otay colony, Mesa de Otay delegation, an army unit performed a traffic stop and search on a vehicle with three occupants. Soldiers seized nine kilograms of cocaine in eight packages, five bags with 3.5 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, four weapons magazines, 669 rounds of ammunition, MP $40,950.00 (USD $2,953.14), USD $73.22 (MP $1,015.31) and a vehicle. The three unidentified suspects were arrested at the scene.
An army unit performed a traffic stop on a single individual near Avenida Arts Josefina Rendon in the La Mesa de Otay colony, Otay Mesa delegation in Tijuana. Soldiers found 1.3 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and small quantities of cocaine and marijuana. The unidentified individual was arrested at the scene.
An army unit dispatched on the basis of a citizen's complaint arrested one unidentified individual suspected of drug sales on Calle Francisco Villa in Industry colony in Ensenada. Small quantities of crystal methamphetamine and marijuana were seized at the scene.
Units with the Mexican 5th Military Zone seized a number of packages of marijuana and other contraband on September 27th in Chihuahua state.
In the village of El Sauz and in Ciudad Madera in far western Chihuahua state army units seized eight marijuana plants, 400 kilograms of marijuana and a rifle.
In Guadalupe de Bravo, soldiers found a handgun and five rounds of ammunition
Near the village of Samalayuca, an army unit found 115 kilograms of marijuana in 253 packages alongside the Juarez-Chihuahua city railroad track.
Units with the Mexican 2nd Military Zone seized a number of weapons and munitions, and destroyed a marijuana plantation September 27th in Baja California.
In Tijuana on Privada Santa Isabel in the Colinas de California colony, San Antonio de los Bueno delegation, an army unit seized one rifle, four handguns, one hand grenade, 65 weapons magazines and 1,122 rounds of amunition.
In Ensenada, an army unit located and destroyed a 1,600 square kilometer marijuana plantation.
At least three unidentified armed suspects were killed by Mexican Army units and one unidentified kidnapping victim was rescued in three separate incidents in Tamaulipas September 27th.
On the Tampico-Mante federal highway near the municipality of Altamira, a Mexican Army unit on patrol came under small arms fire. Army return fire killed three unidentified individuals. Seized at the scene were three rifles, one handgun, eight weapons magazines, 187 rounds of ammunition and two vehicles.
On Kilometer 219 of the old Ciudad Victoria-Mante highway, a Mexican Army unit on patrol came under small arms fire from armed suspects. Army return fire killed an undisclosed number of suspects. One apparent kidnapping victim was released. Soldiers also seized in the aftermath two rifles, 95 rounds of ammunition, two weapons magazines and one vehicle.
In the Jardines de Champayan colony of Tampico, a Mexican Army unit came under small arms fire while on patrol. Army return fire killed an undisclosed number of armed suspects. Soldiers also seized three rifles, 12 weapons magazines, 326 rounds of ammunition, one rifle grenade and one vehicle.
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Mexican Army units with the 9th Military Zone September 26th incinerated several kilograms of drugs and chemicals used to make drugs in Sinaloa state. Contraband incinerated included 1,547.4 kilograms of marijuana, 66.2 kilograms of marijuana seeds, seven kilograms of poppy seeds, small amounts of cocaine and crystal methamphetamine, 40 kilograms of pseudoefredina, 0.500 liters of liquid methamphetamine and four liters of liquid cocaine.
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Ditto on above comment. I live near the border (Tucson) and likewise appreciate his attention to details. Maybe they'll write a narco-corrido to honor him some day...with a happy ending needless to say....
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the German government on Sunday of turning a blind eye to a German foundation that is indirectly "funneling money" to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Today's Zaman reported Thursday.
Erdogan, who made the comments on his way back to Turkey from Macedonia, failed to say which foundation in Germany was funding the group, but told news hounds that Germany's record on funding the PKK is "troublesome," Today's Zaman said.
The Turkish prime minister accused similar organizations of signing loan deals with municipalities run by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), as well as the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). In this way, Erdogan said, these groups can provide aid to the PKK.
Erdogan also said he was unsure why Germany was not taking action to prevent such funds transfers, and said that Turkey actively informs Berlin when such interractions occur, Today's Zaman said.
The Turkish prime minister used the accusation as a basis for an ongoing Turkish investigation of the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK), a supposed offshoot of the PKK. Ankara has jugged a number of politicians belonging to the pro-Kurdish parties in the probe, and critics say he is using it to suppress political opposition.
The Turkish government has been involved in an ongoing conflict with Kurdish separatists both in Turkey and also across borders, like in northern Iraq, in which thousands have been killed. Most recently, a Kurdish group grabbed credit for a kaboom in Ankara that killed three people.
One day it will show up as an episode on one of those very long-running television crime shows, how the police and the FBI teamed up to prevent a major terror attack on the New York City subway by some guy from the Denver suburbs. In the meantime, there is detail enough in this article to satisfy even those who followed the story closely at the time, two years ago.
[An Nahar] Pak President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... called for "serious dialogue" with the United States on Sunday, amid a fierce dispute over U.S. claims that his intelligence agency has links to Islamist krazed killers.
"Democracy always favors dialogue over confrontation," Zardari wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece that decried the recent "verbal assaults" of some U.S. officials against Pakistain.
"It is time for the rhetoric to cool and for serious dialogue between allies to resume."
Last week, the top U.S. military officer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen accused Pakistain of exporting violence to Afghanistan through proxies and charged that the Haqqani network, an al-Qaeda-linked group, was a "veritable arm" of Pak intelligence.
Expressing regret over the growing tensions between the United States and Pakistain, which have struggled to overcome sharp differences to forge an alliance in the years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Zardari said it was the gun-hung tough guys who had gained the most from the spat.
He stressed Pakistain's role in fighting terror threats, the many lives it has lost among its security forces and civilian population and the huge cost of the anti-terror campaign.
Islamabad is preparing for "post-withdrawal realities" after the United States removes its ground troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Zardari said, recalling how Washington left Afghanistan in the 1980s after the Soviet defeat there and did little to invest in reconstruction or development.
"Whoever comes or goes, it is our coming generation that will face the firestorm. We have to live in the neighborhood. So why is it unreasonable for us to be concerned about the immediate and long-term situation of our Western border?" he asked.
"We struggle to hold the line against the tidal wave of extremism that surges into Pakistain each day from internationally controlled areas of Afghanistan. While we are accused of harboring extremism, the United States is engaged in outreach and negotiations with the very same groups."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Jeremiah S. Black ... last week also called for better U.S.-Pak ties, although she said "serious questions" remain about Pakistain's support for krazed killers.
Clinton stressed in her remarks on Thursday however that the two countries "have a lot of interests that are in common, most particularly the fight against terrorism."
In a report to Congress on U.S. operations in Pakistain and Afghanistan, the White House said that Pak counter-insurgency operations in restive tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan were getting worse.
An unclassified version of the report said that tension between the two governments over the U.S. raid in May which killed the late Osama bin Laden ... who walked in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and didn't make it out... had also hit cooperation between American and Pak military officers in the region.
But Zardari warned that "recent accusations against us have been a serious setback to the war effort and our joint strategic interests."
He added: "When we don't strategize together, and when an ally is informed instead of consulted, we both suffer."
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WORLD NEWS > GILANI SAYS US HAS "BLINKED" IN STANDOFF. Claims a mighty Victory.
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* TOPIX > DREADED MILITANT HIT SQUAD [Khurosans] GOES ROGUE IN PAKISTAN.
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* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA'S [growing] WAR POTENTIAL A [security = military]THREAT TO INDIA: LTG SINDHA.
[Dawn] Local leaders of political parties on Saturday criticised the US for leveling terror charges against Pakistain and said the charges showed that Washington was not a faithful friend of Islamabad and harmed its interests during the ongoing war against terrorism.
During the 'rabita programme' of Gandhara Union of Journalists here, some speakers said the US arms embargo against Pakistain and India during the 1965 and 1971 wars proved militarily beneficial to India.
They regretted that after Pakistain invoked the 1959 friendship treaty, the US leaders declared it against the former Soviet Union.
According to them, Pakistain's role in shaping South East Asia Treaty Organisation (Seato) and Central Treat Organisation (Cento), contributions against the former Soviet Union occupation of Afghanistan and sacrifices in the US-led war on terror are being ignored by the international community, which has been making the country a scapegoat for growing global terrorism.
Speakers also came down hard on the country's politicianship for failing to learn from 'past blunders' and adopting anti-state and anti-people policies.
Usman Khan, Jamaat-i-Islami naib amir in the province, said the US had gradually destabilised Pakistain and did so while pretending to be a friend.
He said the successive Pak governments failed to adopt independent foreign and economic policies.
"Our governments always looked towards the US for management of own affairs to the detriment of national interest," he said.
Masood Jabbar, provincial deputy general secretary of PPP-Sherpao, said the nation stood united on the question of national solidarity and illusory sovereignty.
"We stand by the army against 'Washington not faithful to Islamabad'the US terror allegations. It always protected the country's interests and fought Orcs and similar vermin and militancy inside the country," he said.
Jabbar urged the US to stop blaming Pakistain for terrorism and sit across the table with it and other stallholders for resolving differences.
He said dialogue was the only solution to the problem.
MNA Usman Khan Tarakai, of Swabi Jamhoori Ittehad, demanded that the government implement recommendations of All Parties Conference convened by the prime minister of late on national security.
He said non-implementation of the conference's recommendations would have profound implications for the country.
He criticised the government for failing to act upon the resolution passed by a joint sitting of parliament on the May 2 US raid in Abbottabad to kill Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who knows that it's like to live in the belly of a whale only he's not living... The MNA said the nation was ready to render sacrifices for the country but the leadership should also prepare themselves for
the same.
He said politicianship was to blame for the country's current crises.
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When have either party been faithful, at least PAK got paid.
[Dawn] The banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) said on Sunday that it will never support Pakistain blindly in case of an attack from the US, DawnNews reported.
This was stated by TTP's leader and Taliban Commander of Bajaur area Moulvi Faqir Ahmed while taking to the BBC.
He said that although the US and Pakistain are allies in the war against terrorism, both the countries are deceiving each other in the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
Moulvi Faqir further stated that the US wants an exit passage for its army from Afghanistan while Pakistain is trying to entrap US further in the war.
He said that the US is already attacking Pakistain, however, incase of some bigger action taken against Pakistain by the US, the TTP will not impulsively provide support to Pakistain. The Taliban shura will deliberate on this and then make the final decision regarding support to Pakistain, he added.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Anti-terrorism Department's prisoners in Ninewa began a hunger strike for mis-treatment, security sources said here today. The source told Aswat al-Iraq that about 800 prisoners began their hunger strike today protesting the change of their clothes and solitary imprisonment.
Panties on their heads? Polyester instead of 100% cotton?
No other details were mentioned.
And won't be. They're under Iraqi authority now so the rest of the world won't give two cents. And the Iraqi jailers aren't as nice as ours.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqs Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has said on Thursday that the presence of foreign experts and trainers during the purchase of weapons is a natural thing, reiterating that the presence of the US troops in his country would end by end of the current year
The presence of the American troops is settled and shall end by the end of the current year, according to an agreement between both sides, and there wont remain a single foreign soldier in the country, a statement by the Prime Ministers office reported.
But Prime Minister Maliki said that the presence of foreign experts and trainers during the process of purchase of weapons is something natural and is followed in other parts of the world.
He then went on to blabber like a Western politician, or a Middle-Eastern politician speaking in English and not Arabic:
Iraq has managed to become a democratic state, enjoying freedom of politics and mass media; and it is witnessing nowadays a movement in all political, economic and social fields, following the stability that took place in the security situation, the statement quoted Maliki as saying.
He pointed out that everybody is striving to settle the current problems, thing that must take place according to the Constitution, and the important thing is that they have discovered that there cant be proper living and the states administration, unless by agreement of all parties.
The governments trend is now directed towards the development of the economy and better investment of fortunes, along with their distribution in a just form, as well as the accelerated rising of development in all fields, Maliki said.
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US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that a decision by the US Congress to withhold $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority was against the Obama administration's position, speaking at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv Monday after a meeting with Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
"The administration opposes holding these funds from the Palestinians," adding that the funds have helped the Palestinian Authority build better security, which helps that Palestinians as well as Israel.
"This is a critical time and it is not a time to withhold those funds."
In the president's opinion. But he isn't the one with the power of the purse, as I recall.
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"This is a critical time and it is not a time to withhold those funds."
I don't recall asking the anti-Israel peanut gallery their opinion. Let the grown ups manage the money, kid. You go back to throwing rocks at your friends and stealing their candy for "redistribution".
Yet another group which wants its acts of war to be treated as ordinary, understandable behaviour.
Thousands of Israeli-Arabs joined a protest march in Saknin on Saturday, commemorating the eleventh anniversary of the events of October 2000, in which 13 Israeli-Arabs were killed by security forces during riots in the North. Among those taking part in the march were MKs Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List-Ta'al) and Haneen Zoabi (Balad).
The procession was expected to wind through the northern city of Saknin before ending in the local cemetery, where a rally consisting of speeches was scheduled to take place.
Israeli Arabs have held demonstrations and strikes during the month of October over the past eleven years to express their anger over what they claim is an improper failure to investigate the incident.
"The loud and clear fact is that thirteen people were killed, but none have been convicted of manslaughter or murder," Channel 10 quoted Tibi as saying during the march. "We cry out in the name of the discrimination against living and murdered Arabs. Our blood is no longer cheap," he added.
Bad things happen during riots. This is why it is a good idea to stay far away from such activities.
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These Arabs shouldn't even be in our land. Expel them all, they are all terrorists!
They are not jews. Some of the Palestinians claim that they are jewish by race even though their ancestors converted to christianity.
Well that is your problem. If your ancestors chose to turn their back on god and worship a heretic schizophrenic then you have NO RIGHT to live in our land!
[An Nahar] The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... appealed to member states Sunday to bolster financial help to the Paleostinian territories after U.S. politicians froze about $200 million in aid in response to Paleostinians' U.N. statehood bid.
"It is necessary for the member countries of the League to increase their financial aid to the Paleostinian people so they can face this threat," said Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi after talks in Cairo with chief Paleostinian negotiator Saeb Erakat.
Good luck with that. How far behind are they on their previous pledges?
Members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have frozen the funding to the Paleostinians "until the Paleostinian statehood issue is sorted out," one of the aides told Agence La Belle France Presse on Saturday.
The economic package is separate from security aid, which the U.S. politicians say would be counterproductive to block. They fear that withholding those funds would weaken the ability of Paleostinian security forces to quell anti-Israel violence.
A coalition of Israel-backing Democrats and conservative Republican politicians are angered by the Paleostinian bid for United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... membership. Both the United States and Israel insist that only direct negotiations can produce an accord leading to Paleostinian statehood.
"It is the right of the Paleostinians to have their state, a full member of the United Nations, like other peoples of the world," Arabi said.
Erakat for his part declared that the "Paleostinian people refuse to allow economic aid to become an instrument of blackmail regarding its rights to membership of the United Nations."
"We appreciate the American aid but we won't allow it to become an instrument of blackmail," he said.
Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... made a historic bid for U.N. membership on September 23. But the United States has vowed to veto the application if it comes to a Security Council vote.
The diplomatic Quartet ... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... on the Middle East -- the United States, Russia, European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and United Nations -- has launched a new bid to get direct talks resumed with a firm timetable for an accord.
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Given regional + Muslim history the Paleos will indeed need the "luck of the Irish" on this one.
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The arabs are scum and they must all be executed.
The US must stop funding the terrorist Palestinians.
Even though the US has trillions of debt it MUST continue to fund Israel, without it the Palestinian Muslim scum will turn it into an Islamic state or the Palestinian Christians will have a crusade to claim to take Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is Jewish. To the muslim and christians - go find somewhere else to live!
[An Nahar] U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford should stop meddling in Syrian affairs if he wants to avoid more 'rotten eggs' attacks in the future, a state-run Syrian newspaper warned on Sunday.
The Al Baath newspaper, a mouthpiece of the Syrian regime, accused Ford of supporting armed anti-government groups in Syria and said his meddling will not be tolerated.
Supporters of President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... on Thursday pelted Ford -- an outspoken critic of the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on the country's six-month-old uprising -- with eggs as he visited a prominent Syrian opposition figure in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... . He was trapped in the office for about three hours by the hostile pro-government protesters outside until Syrian security forces arrived to escort him out.
"If you want to avoid rotten eggs, you should advise your country to stop its blatant interference in Syrian affairs and its feverish efforts to seek sanctions against Syria from the U.N. Security Council," the newspaper said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Acheson ... and the White House said the assault was part of a campaign to intimidate diplomats looking into the Assad's government's brutal repression of pro-reform demonstrators. The B.O. regime summoned Syria's ambassador in Washington to hear formal U.S. condemnation of the assault.
In comments posted on the embassy's Facebook page, Ford said Thursday's attack was not limited to eggs and tomatoes.
"Protesters threw concrete blocks at the windows and hit the cars with iron bars. One person jumped on the hood of the car, tried to kick in the windshield and then jumped on the roof," Ford wrote.
"Is that peaceful? I'd call it intolerant if not worse."
Al Baath newspaper said Ford should expect further "unpleasant treatment" as long as his country meddles in Syrian affairs.
"As long as the (U.S.) ambassador believes that diplomacy is the art of instigation against national regimes, he should anticipate unpleasant treatment," it said.
Ford has angered the Syrian regime in past months by visiting a couple of the protest centers outside of Damascus in a show of solidarity with the anti-government uprising. The latest incident could further raise tensions between Washington and Damascus, which has accused the United States of helping incite violence in Syria. In August, Obama demanded Assad resign, saying he had lost his legitimacy as a ruler.
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Uh, uh, ROBERT FORD = THE MAN WHO SHOT THE OUTLAW JESSE JAMES [but NOT Liberty Valence]???
[An Nahar] Former Premier Omar Karami stressed on Sunday that Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... comforted him earlier in the week that he had "turned the page of the events" in his country.
Karami, who visited Assad along with his son Minister Faisal Karami on Wednesday, told An Nahar daily that the "the story is over."
Assad comforted him that he had "turned the page of the events" that shook the neighboring country, saying things were "under control."
"We are no longer worried," Karami quoted the Syrian president was telling him.
The former premier told An Nahar that the information about the crackdown in Syria and the uprising against the regime is totally different than what is taking place there.
The Syrian security forces have controlled the situation, he said.
Karami also quoted Assad as saying that Syria still has good relations with several influential countries in the world.
The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... says 2,700 people have been killed in the protests against Assad. The U.N. Security Council, meanwhile, remains divided over whether to threaten the regime with sanctions over its deadly crackdown on dissent.
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[Dawn] The Afghan government says it needs to see Pakistain make "tangible progress" on pledges to use its influence to help end the Taliban insurgency.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the German government on Sunday of turning a blind eye to a German foundation that is indirectly "funneling money" to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Today's Zaman reported Thursday. 
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Local leaders of political parties on Saturday criticised the US for leveling terror charges against Pakistain and said the charges showed that Washington was not a faithful friend of Islamabad and harmed its interests during the ongoing war against terrorism.
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