(Sh.M.Network)- The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, has on Wednesday opened formal talks with Somaliland administration delegates inLondon, the first ever face-to-face dialogue between the two sides in two decades.
The first round of direct talks between the two sides kicked off in London on Wednesday and each has already designated a panel for the talks in London with international observers, including the hosting UK government.
Somalia's negotiating team, headed by interior and national security minister Abdisamad Mo'alin Mohamed, left on Tuesday morning from Nairobi to London to meet with the self-proclaimed Somaliland delegates led by Mohammed Abdullah Omar, a foreign minister.
This move followed a final communiqué issued during a conference on Somaliain London in February of this year called the two sides to hold formal talks.
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"Self-proclaimed Somaliland delegates." Isn't Somaliland one of the only two parts of the country that's been functional for the last decade while everything else burned down?
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And yes, Somaliland and Puntland are quietly thriving even as the rump of Somalia has ridden hard to Hell in a handbasket, a fascinating experiment in the benefits of benign neglect.
(Sh.M.Network)-- The EU special envoy for Somalia is looking into a fresh report that pirates are in business with Italian gangsters on toxic waste.
They're stealing toxic waste and holding it for ransom?
The Gay Paree-based criminologist, Michel Koutouzis, who carries out investigations for the UN and for EU institutions, described the problem in a new book -- Crime, Trafficking and Networks -- published last week.
He said organised crime groups in south Italia- the Camorra, 'Ndranghetta and La Sacra Corona Unita -- supply Somalian warlords with black market small arms from the Western Balkans in return for permission to dump waste.
That makes more sense.
"Tonnes of waste are discharged every year off the coasts of Somalia,Sudan and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age. ... under the noses of countless warships which control sea freight in the Read Sea and the Gulf of Aden," he explained.
He noted that part of the income -- worth "hundreds of millions of euros a year" -- is laundered via the tourist industry in Kenya and Tanzania.
He added the practice has been going on for years: a UN report in 2005 said the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami broke up deposits of lead, cadmium and mercury as well as hospital and chemical waste, which washed up on the shore near the coastal towns of Hobbio and Benadir, killing some 300 people.
Speaking to press in Brusselson Tuesday (19 June), the EU's special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Alexander Rondos, a former Greek diplomat, said the book has come to his attention.
"It has been passed on to people who are better equipped than I am to look into it ... people are checking into it," he said.
"We need to find out who is funding them [Somalian privateers]. They are part of a much bigger problem we face in theIndian Ocean- the globalisation of organised crime. Investigations are under way."
British rear admiral Duncan L. Potts, who commands the EU's anti-piracy mission, Atalanta, said a new Regional Anti-Piracy Prosecution and Intelligence Co-ordination Centre -- which aims to target pirate's financial activities -- is "getting off the ground" in the Seychelles.
He added that he has no hard evidence of the Italian link, however.
For his part, Koutouzis, in an interview in his home in Gay Paree last Friday, told this website: "Of course they know about it. But they don't want to do anything."
Potts noted that Atalanta seems to have turned a corner in terms of stopping attacks.
Pirates seized 28 vessels in the first half of 2011, but just three in the second half of last year and five so far this year.
Seven vessels and over 200 passengers and crew are currently being held for ransom. Some of them have been held for more than 18 months in "awful conditions" and are in bad health.
Potts attributed the turnaround in part to an "exponential" increase in the use of private security firms by commercial shipping: more than half the 50,000-or-so vessels which pass through the region each year have their own guards.
Their activities are regulated under the laws of the country where the ship is registered, in many cases Liberia or Panama.
"At the more responsible end of the market ... they fire warning shots and then four or five targeted shots to show that the ship is armed," he said.
He did not have figures on how many pirates have been killed by private companies.
He added that Atalanta plays the role of a "constabulary" rather than doing "warfighting" and that "to his knowledge" the troops under his command have not killed a single pirate in their three and half years of operations.
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i can't think of a better place too dump nuke waste that somalia
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I remember the pirates complaining about poisoned waters ruining their fishing, explaining the impetus for buccaneering, and radioactive waste detected there several years ago. Making the link to their own Islamist-linked warlords could turn them...a little vigilante justice could be cost effective for all involved.
[VOA News] Egypt's Election Commission says it has delayed Thursday's planned announcement of the results of a runoff presidential vote while it continues to review appeals from the two candidates, hiking tension as allegations of fraud mounted.
The commission said Wednesday that judges are still looking into some 400 complaints of alleged campaign violations and disputed vote counting submitted by Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and his rival, former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq.
No new date to announce a winner was given.
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[Al Ahram] A military source who spoke to Ahram Online on condition of anonymity spelt out the ruling military council's position on Egypt's current uncertain political situation, in which the Moslem Brüderbund appears to stand on the verge of winning the presidency.
"The military council is determined not to allow the Moslem Brüderbund to seize power," said the source. "It will not relinquish the reins of power until a new constitution is issued and the arena is set for a balanced political process."
"There are political forces that want to discredit the political process by making people believe that matters are being decided by political deals," he added. "To avoid any sudden shifts that could lead to confrontation and drive the situation to the brink, the military council remains the only force capable of regulating the political process so as to preserve the stability of the state."
"The United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... have both been sending messages reflecting their preference for [the Moslem Brüderbund's] Mohamed Mursi as Egypt's president," the source said. "In the belief that they enjoy this support, the group has adopted a policy of pressuring Egypt's interim rulers regarding upcoming political arrangements."
"Moreover, the Moslem Brüderbund's guidance bureau has been exchanging messages with the US -- to which Israel is privy -- containing reassurances about the group's stance on Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Gazoo and the Camp David accords," he added.
True messages or taqqiyah? We report, you decide.
"It remains unclear, however, whether the US would prefer to see Mursi or Shafiq in Egypt's highest office."
The source further explained that the Moslem Brüderbund had escalated the situation to the point where it had "unacceptably" protested the recent High Constitutional Court verdict that led to the dissolution of Egypt's Islamist-led parliament and attempted to monopolise the Constituent Assembly responsible for drafting a new constitution. Any future talks between the two sides, therefore, the source said, "will be of a confrontational, rather than friendly, nature."
"For the first time in its history, the Moslem Brüderbund is adopting a confrontational attitude, after having long depended on a policy of negotiation," the source said. "Their performance during the transitional phase put them in a weaker position than ever, and now they're doing everything they can to regain their popular support base."
Following the constitutional court ruling that led to parliament's dissolution, the military council issued an addendum to last year's Constitutional Declaration, in which it reassumed parliament's legislative powers until fresh parliamentary elections can be held. It also assumed the authority to select constituent assembly members, which had, under last year's Constitutional Declaration, been the sole prerogative of Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliament.
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Military junta vs. Islamonutter theocracy...ain't it grand to have choices?
This situation vaguely reminds me of a ballot initiative campaign in California about 20 years back. I can't even remember what the issue was, but the trial lawyers were vocally supporting and funding one side, the insurance companies doing the same for the other. More than one newspaper op-ed proclaimed what a shame it was that BOTH sides couldn't lose.
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Wow, SOCAL HAS ITS OWN AIR FORCE + WANTS TO BOMB THE BROTHERHOOD IN EGYPT!
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Terrorist group Al-Qaeda announced Wednesday that it would now include Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... on its attack list.
Senegalese authorities, however, respondend that they would "not yield to any form of threat" emanating from the international terrorist group.
A report quoted by the independent Le Quotidien newspaper in Dakar said the decision by Al-Qaeda stems from Senegal's decision to contribute troops to the Economic Community Of West African States Mission in Mali (Micam).
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The Central Africa jihad goes on ....
At this rate, the Bammer + UK PM Cameron will end up sending SPECOPS, other Troops to Liberia + South Africa.
[Yemen Post] Yemen's Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved to set up a fund to reconstruct Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , days after the army drove Al-Qaeda Islamic fascistiout of the southern province after months of a US-backed offensive.
In its exceptional meeting in Aden, the Council urged to accelerate the formation of the fund and announced YR10 billion in government contribution to the fund besides expected internal and external aid to return the situation to normal in Abyan.
In the meantime, the authorities are removing and detonating landmines, which were planted by the Islamic fascistiin key towns and working hard to restore basic services to enable the displaced people to come back.
Furthermore, the Council approved to deduct a day's wage from the salaries of the state employees which will be collected and given in aid to the displaced families in Abyan.
The UN has said about 170,000 people fled Abyan to Aden and other nearby provinces due to the battles against Al-Qaeda.
At the meeting, it discussed the report of the local government on priorities topped by immediate interventions to rebuild the areas, which were damaged in the offensive against militancy over the past few months.
It stressed the importance to meet urgent needs in this province, especially necessary security equipment to enable the authorities to do their job perfectly.
In association with pro-government fighters, the national forces retook control of key towns in Abyan including the capital Zinjibar, which were seized in mid-2011. The army has launched massive hunts to pursue the remaining Al-Qaeda Islamic fascistiin nearby provinces.
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Sure, reduce the pay for employees who already support the state, and give it away to drifters. That should work.
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[Dawn] Pak authorities will try to persuade Death Eaters in a northwest tribal area to lift a ban on anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccination teams imposed in protest at US drone strikes, officials said Wednesday.
Local warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur Saturday banned the anti-polio campaign in North Wazoo, a Taliban and al Qaeda-infested region bordering Afghanistan.
"We have requested the governor of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province to direct the political agent (administrator) of North Waziristan to open a dialogue with this group," a senior government official told AFP.
Bahadur, who is allied with Afghan Taliban fighting US-led troops across the border, said the ban would remain until the US stops drone attacks in the tribal region.
"On the one hand they are killing innocent women, children and old people in drone attacks and on the other they are spending millions on vaccination campaign," he said in a statement distributed in the region's main town Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... The government official said vaccinating all children in the tribal areas was a top priority in Pakistain's polio eradication programme.
"The federal government has told the governor to use all available means to ensure that the polio campaigns in the tribal area are not disrupted for the sake of tribal children in particular and Pakistain in general," the official said.
A senior health official said authorities were concerned about the safety of vaccination teams in North Waziristan.
"With a vaccination campaign coming up this week, we are concerned for over 161,000 children under five in the area who require the polio vaccination, many of whom have never been vaccinated even once against this crippling disease,"he said.
"We are also very concerned for the safety of front line polio workers who, despite great personal risk, work to ensure every child is vaccinated."Officials said the polio vaccination programme had made headway this year in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Pakistain is one of just three countries where polio remains endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria.
The highly infectious disease affects mainly the under-fives and can cause paralysis in a matter of hours. Some cases can be fatal.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Pakistain President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... has summoned the country's national assembly on Friday, when a senior aide said a new prime minister would be elected.
The presidency said Wednesday Zardari had summoned the lower house of parliament to meet at 5:30 pm (1230 GMT) on Friday.
The announcement came one day after the Supreme Court dismissed Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... for contempt, forcing Zardari into crisis talks to find a replacement.
"The leader of the house (the prime minister) will be elected in the new session of the national assembly," the outgoing Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told AFP.
The speaker of the national assembly will issue a schedule for the election either later Wednesday or on Thursday, Kaira added. Zardari has chaired a series of crisis talks with coalition partners to decide on a new prime minister and was to meet MPs in his Pakistain People's Party at 4:00 pm (1100 GMT).
Ahmed Mukhtar, minister for water and power, and Textiles Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin, appear to have emerged as the front runners.
"If there is more than one candidate, the election will be conducted through show of hands," Kaira said. The PPP and its governing coalition have a majority in the 342-member national assembly.
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[An Nahar] An alarming number of journalists are killed each year and those responsible are rarely brought to justice, U.N. experts said on Wednesday.
"Journalists who play a crucial role in ensuring a society that takes informed decisions, are killed at an alarming rate by state and non-state actors," said special rapporteur Christof Heyns in a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Sixty-five journalists were killed in the first five months of 2012 around the world, a 50 percent rise on 2011, according to Swiss news agency ATS.
Of those, Syria saw at least 15 victims, Mexico seven and Somalia six.
In his report Heyns, rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, called for a new specific declaration on the protection of journalists "that would emphasize the recognized obligations of states with regard to the protection of the right of life and safety of journalists".
Frank La Rue, special rapporteur on freedom of expression, said on the sidelines of the council meeting: "What we are asking for in the report is that (in) countries that are not in an armed conflict situation, but that are in a situation of extreme violence because they are combating organized crime that harasses journalism from different angles ... that there should be a mechanism of protection."
La Rue said successful steps had been taken in countries including Colombia that "actually saved lives", but the main threat to journalists remained the impunity with which many are targeted around the world.
"Impunity is a problem all around in terms of humanized violations, but for journalists there is a more emphatic focus with a lack of interest from states and justice systems to investigate violence," he said.
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Does this include "journlists" that make up "facts" and change quotes to further their political agendas?
[Al Ahram] Jordan's Islamists said on Wednesday they plan to boycott early polls expected this year over a "provocative" new electoral law, as analysts warned against an "official rigging" of the process.
A day after MPs endorsed the law, the Moslem Brüderbund said it was "in touch with centrist political parties and other groups to form a 'shadow government' and 'shadow parliament,' which means a definite boycott of the general elections."
"We expect many to boycott the polls. Those who bet on the participation of the Islamist movement in the vote are wrong and delusional," Zaki Bani Rsheid, deputy leader of the powerful Brotherhood, told AFP.
The new law increases the number of parliamentary seats to 140 from 120, including an expanded quota for women to 15 from 12.
It will go into effect after King Abdullah II approves it, giving voters the right to cast two ballots: one for individual candidates in their governorates and one for parties or coalitions nationwide.
But only 17 seats can be contested by party and coalition candidates.
"This is retarded and provocative... it will not produce representative lower house deputies. It does not honour those who have been demonstrating for reform since last year. It will kill political life," Bani Rsheid said.
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More intel dump from the New York Times. This sort of thing is predicated on the assumption that
Our enemies can't read; or
They're not really our enemies; or
They're not really the newspaper's enemies. The rest of us will have to shift for ourselves; or
The enemy has surely found all this stuff out by talking to the same set of egotistical blabbermouths the Times reporter talked to so it doesn't matter; or
A story like this is more important than the nation it damages.
Take your pick.
From his first months in office, President B.O. secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program. The Times suggests that Obama the Bold immediately saw the potential of cyberweapons and unleashed them on the Medes and the Persians after Bush had merely screwed around with them. In truth, they've been around for years but nobody's head's been swollen enough to blow a major operation like this until now.
Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks -- begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games -- even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran's Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet. Had something like Stuxnet occurred in, for example, the Clinton administration, the response would have been to look blank and let the whole thing blow over. The absolute best cover for any intel operation is looking stoopid. At a tense meeting in the White House Situation Room within days of the worm's "escape," Mr. Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time, Leon E. Panetta, considered whether America's most ambitious attempt to slow the progress of Iran's nuclear efforts had been fatally compromised. "Should we shut this thing down?" Mr. Obama asked, according to members of the president's national security team who were in the room. Proper response: "Shut what down?"
Told it was unclear how much the Iranians knew about the code, You can buy a decent decompiler for under $50. If you're a Linux kind of guy (or intel organization) you can get one open source. Decompilers take binary and translate it to machine language. I haven't looked at them other than in passing for the past ten years or so, but I recall somebody mentioning that there are some available that'll translate the machine language into C code. Most decent programmers can read C code, which means that if they had the worm trapped they could look at it. Even if they were bone stoopid they would be left with a pretty good idea of what the blasted thing did and how. So I guess it was 'unclear' whether they knew a lot or a whole lot.
and offered evidence that it was still causing havoc, The fact that you can recognize it doesn't mean you can kill it. Watch 'Alien' if you don't believe that one.
Mr. Obama decided that the cyberattacks should proceed. In the following weeks, the Natanz plant was hit by a newer version of the computer worm, and then another after that. The last of that series of attacks, a few weeks after Stuxnet was detected around the world, temporarily took out nearly 1,000 of the 5,000 centrifuges Iran had spinning at the time to purify uranium. "Your Enormity! The infidels and their Zionist cohorts have mutated the worm and it has devoured 1000 of our centrifuges!"
"By Allen's Hennaed Beard! Obama is too crafty for us, curse his non-existent mustache!" This account of the American and Israeli effort to undermine the Iranian nuclear program is based on interviews over the past 18 months with current and former American, European and Israeli blabbermouthssecurity holes officials involved in the program, as well as a range of outside experts. None would allow their names to be used because the effort remains highly classified, and parts of it continue to this day. But don't worry your pretty little head about sources and/or methods being compromised.
These officials gave differing assessments of how successful the sabotage program was in slowing Iran's progress toward developing the ability to build nuclear weapons. Internal B.O. regime estimates say the effort was set back by 18 months to two years, but some experts inside and outside the government are more skeptical, noting that Iran's enrichment levels have steadily recovered, giving the country enough fuel today for five or more weapons, with additional enrichment.
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Observation... a carefully crafted small earthquake/jolt would have taken out a hell of a lot more than 1000 centrifuges. Those things are spinning 40,000 to 120,000 rpm... and most made of a glass disk.. - just a jolt is all it takes..
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What effect would a moderate nuclear explosion in the vicinity have?
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I'm in awe of the Community Organizer's military-like prowess. I guess Ike was a pûssy in comparison. The puffery and treason-by-leaks should get some asshats some prison time if they aren't pardoned on Jimmuh Carter V2.0's exit
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"Take your pick."
6. All of the above. >:-(
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[An Nahar] Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Wednesday of a foreign plot coupled with a local participation to drag the Palestinian camps throughout Lebanon to strife.
"The incidents at the Palestinian camps and the targets against the Lebanese army are not innocent and call for concern," Berri told several newspapers.
"The foreign plot is present but there is an internal participation in it," he warned, reiterating that the security incidents from the North to the South are not a coincidence.
He claimed the facts on the ground match the information that he received several weeks ago about preparations for a clash between the shantytowns and their surrounding areas.
Berri was referring to a warning from an Arab leader to a Lebanese official that Palestinian refugees could be pushed to ignite strife in Lebanon similar to the upheaval in Syria.
Al-Akhbar newspaper said Tuesday that the official, who is likely to be Berri, contacted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who sent Azzam al-Ahmed as an envoy to Lebanon to cooperate with the Lebanese authorities in the attempt to thwart the plot.
Angry Palestinians have clashed in the past five days with the Lebanese army at the entrances of the Nahr al-Bared and Ain el-Hilweh refugee camps, leaving three people dead.
Berri rejected "tampering with the morale of the army and the role that the national institutional plays in protecting Lebanese and Palestinians against the Israeli enemy."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(Sh.M.Network)- The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, has on Wednesday opened formal talks with Somaliland administration delegates inLondon, the first ever face-to-face dialogue between the two sides in two decades.
(Sh.M.Network)-- The EU special envoy for Somalia is looking into a fresh report that pirates are in business with Italian gangsters on toxic waste.
He noted that part of the income -- worth "hundreds of millions of euros a year" -- is laundered via the tourist industry in Kenya and Tanzania.
Egypt's Election Commission says it has delayed Thursday's planned announcement of the results of a runoff presidential vote while it continues to review appeals from the two candidates, hiking tension as allegations of fraud mounted. 
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Terrorist group Al-Qaeda announced Wednesday that it would now include 
Wazoo
Pakistain President 
An alarming number of journalists are killed each year and those responsible are rarely brought to justice, U.N. experts said on Wednesday.
More intel dump from the New York Times. This sort of thing is predicated on the assumption that
From his first months in office, 
At a tense meeting in the White House Situation Room within days of the worm's "escape," Mr. Obama, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time, Leon E. Panetta, considered whether America's most ambitious attempt to slow the progress of Iran's nuclear efforts had been fatally compromised. "Should we shut this thing down?" Mr. Obama asked, according to members of the president's national security team who were in the room.
This account of the American and Israeli effort to undermine the Iranian nuclear program is based on interviews over the past 18 months with current and former American, European and Israeli 
Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Wednesday of a foreign plot coupled with a local participation to drag the Palestinian camps throughout Lebanon to strife.
