[Shabelle] Hussein Ali Wehliye has been appointed the new governor of Galgadud region of Somalia.
Mr. Wehliye has vowed to bring tangible development to the underdeveloped region which was previously governed by the Islamic umbrella of Ahlu Suna wal Jama'a sheikhs.
Mr. Wehliye says consultations were part of his plans and will consult both Ahlu Suna and traditional elders who helped in the liberation of the region from Alshabab.
He also promised to continue with the unfinished projects started by the previous regime and thanked Ahlu Suna for their great developments.
"We will establish friendship with neighboring regions and work together to establish peace" said Wehliye.
The appointment has been made at a time when both Ahlu Suna and Alshabab are still situated in the central region of Somalia.
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[NEWS.SKY] Police are hunting a radical Moslem preacher wanted in connection with an acid attack on two British teenagers in Zanzibar.
Sheikh Issa Ponda Issa was cornered by officers near Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, but managed to escape and is now on the run.
He was hit in the shoulder with a tear-gas canister during the altercation, according to local police in Morogoro - the scene of the clash.
Police commander Faustine Shilogile said: "He has not been tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! . He has been shot at. We have been looking for him in all corners of the country."
He added: "We are no closer to finding who was responsible for this. But this is a serious police investigation, and we are doing everything we can."
"They stopped for the girls and the two men then looked at each other, nodded and then the man on the back of the bike smiled and threw acid on the girls.
Five men are also being questioned by officers, according to the authorities.
News of the preacher's escape came as it emerged that one of the two men involved in the unprovoked attack "smiled" before throwing acid.
Speaking from Zanzibar, medical student Olivia Moore told Channel 4 News: "The two men were on a moped and they went past a group of tourists.
"They stopped for the girls and the two men then looked at each other, nodded and then the man on the back of the bike smiled and threw acid on the girls.
"From then on it's just chaotic. There was no incident that preceded the actual attack.
"Everyone was shocked. Nobody can think of a motivation or anything that precipitated this."
Victims Katie Gee, and Kirstie Trup, both 18 and from London, are still being treated for burns at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital after arriving home on Friday.
They are said to be "well rested and comfortable".
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[REUTERS] As Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi cements his ties with Washington, Yemen's interim president risks alienating his own people, who resent the U.S. drone war on al Qaeda in their country. It wouldn't be Arabian without rage.
Hadi's White House visit on August 1, a mark of favor from the United States, coincided with an intensification of U.S. drone attacks on suspected members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemen-based group seen by the West as one of the global bully boy movement's most aggressive branches.
The State Department also temporarily closed its embassy in Sanaa and withdrew some diplomats over warnings of a potential al Qaeda attack, with other Western embassies following suit.
Yemen at first decried these measures as exaggerated. But it later said it had foiled an AQAP plot which also involved seizing energy facilities and a lovely provincial capital, a claim which a government front man in Washington later played down.
Drones have killed at least 37 people in just over two weeks amid extra security measures that have frayed Yemeni nerves.
In Sanaa, a U.S. reconnaissance plane buzzed overhead for hours each day and security checkpoints mushroomed across the capital during the normally joyous Mohammedan Eid al-Fitr feast.
"Hadi has done nothing for Yemen, except to let American planes kill people whose guilt is not known," complained Majida al-Maqtari, a Sanaa school teacher who said she had voted for Hadi in the last election but would back an opponent next time.
LONG-RUNNING TURMOIL
Hadi took office with firm U.S. support after protracted unrest forced veteran President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , once also a U.S. ally, to step down in late 2011 after 33 years in power.
A southerner with a military background, Hadi was Saleh's vice president for nearly two decades. So far he has kept the support of Saleh's friends and foes alike and has met little serious opposition - not even from Islah, an Islamist party linked to the Moslem Brüderbund.
Hadi inherited a country in utter disarray. The anti-Saleh uprising and ensuing power struggles had brought Yemen's tattered economy to its knees. Islamist snuffies had taken over swathes of the south. Many state institutions had collapsed.
He moved swiftly to clear an estimated 3,000 al Qaeda and allied fighters from southern towns in a U.S.-backed offensive.
Hadi knows, as Saleh did, that pleasing the United States boosts the flow of military aid and badly needed humanitarian support. Washington allocated $345 million to Yemen in 2012 and is expected to give $250 million in 2013 and the same in 2014.
But many Yemenis who opposed Saleh are dismayed by the drone attacks and their country's continued dependency on Washington.
"These strikes project Hadi as implementing the agenda of his predecessor, and for sure affect his popularity," said Yahya Qasseb bin Sahl, law professor at Aden University. "They also channel the Yemeni street's feelings in favor of al Qaeda."
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See also WORLD NEWS > [Newstrack India] YEMENIS ANGERED AT US FOCUS ON BEHEADING AL-QAEDA [e.g. vee Drone Strikes], NOT DEVELOPMENT.
And thus little Virgina, we learn once again why "Imperialism", "Nation-building/National Rexconstruction", + "Winning Hearts-n-Minds" are neither dirty words nor mutually exclusive.
MILITARILY "DESTROYING A [Muslim]COUNTRY(S) TO SAVE IT", BUT NOTHING ELSE = RADICAL ISLAM + MADRASSAS + JIHADI MILTERRS + SOON-TO-BE-NUKULAAR GLOBAL JIHAD, OWG CALIPHATE.......@ETC. WIN.
[Bangla Daily Star] Suspected myrmidon leader Muhammad Jasimuddin Rahmani, inspired by Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... , "spiritual leader" of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, has been building radical Islamist network in the country at least for the last five years, Sherlocks say.
The Sherlocks, who have been following his speeches and activities since 2007-08, found that Jasimuddin was not a follower of al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...
Rather, he preferred to follow Awlaki, a US-born Yemeni who was killed in Yemen in an American drone attack on September 30, 2011.
"I don't follow the Big Guy, I follow his Number Three. There's difference, ya know."
Though Jasimuddin, 43, who studied in madrasas at home and abroad, was preaching radicalism to his disciples, he was yet to form any organization, Sherlocks said.
But he and his followers used to share their views on a website named "Ansarulla Bangla Team". Investigators consider them as members of Ansarulla group. They found that the hosting server of this website was in Pakistain.
A source said the Sherlocks do not have a clear picture of the total strength of this group in the country. But they have learnt that there are 200 to 300 people who are active with the website and who believe it is their duty as Mohammedans to kill if someone talks or works against Allah, Koran, Hadith and the Prophet.
"They believe it is the duty of the state to take action against atheists or those who talk against the Koran, Hadith or Prophet," said an investigator on condition of anonymity.
"They also believe the government does not follow Islamic principles, so it is their duty as citizens to kill them [those who are anti-Islam]."
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But he and his followers used to share their views on a website named "Ansarulla Bangla Team". Investigators consider them as members of Ansarulla group. They found that the hosting server of this website was in Pakistain.
All roads lead to Pakistan
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[MiamiHerald] Panama is insisting that the case of a North Korean ship carrying contraband Cuban weapons must be handled by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... despite a soothing diplomatic note from Pyongyang, according a Panamanian government official.
The verbal note from Pyongyang's embassy in Havana noted that the ship did not seek to endanger the security of the Panama Canal and that North Korea hopes for "amiable cooperation" to resolve the case "diplomatically," the official said.
North Korea also asked in the note Friday that two of its diplomats be allowed into Panama to provide consular services to the 35 crewmen of the freighter Chong Chon Gang, said the official, who requested anonymity to speak frankly about the case.
[Dawn] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Syed Munawar Hassan ... The funny-looking leader-for-life of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined the National Students Federation (NSF), a lefty student body, and was elected its President in 1959. He came into contact with the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi, The Great Apostasizer. As a result, he joined IJT in 1960 and soon he was elected as President of its University of Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistain in 1992-93, and became Secretary General in 1993. After years of holding Qazi's camel he was named Amir when the old man stepped down in 2009... has said that government should take the offer of peace talks by Taliban seriously and hold meaningful dialogue with the bad turbans.
Addressing an 'Eid Milan' party at Nishtar Hall here on Monday, he urged the government to take all stakeholders into confidence before holding negotiations with the Taliban, who renewed their offer for peace talks with the government recently.
"The government and Taliban should come with open mind for talks to restore lasting peace in the country," the JI leader said. A large number of JI workers attended the function, which was organised in connection with Eidul Fitr.
Mr Hassan blamed some secular forces for creating hurdles in negotiations with Taliban in tribal areas. "These forces should understand that if government can hold talks with hijackers then why not with Taliban," he said.
The JI leader said that government should take all stakeholders and political forces on board for the upcoming All Parties Conference (APC). He was of the view that APC should not be only a formality and the government should circulate its agenda among the stakeholders before the conference.
Mr Hassan said that government had yet to respond to the Taliban's offer. The reason, he said, was that the government might have been waiting for green signal from the US government. He said that America was trying to hold talks with Afghan Taliban in Doha (Qatar) while it opposed negotiations between Pakistain and local Taliban.
Mr Hassan also asked Taliban to explain their position before holding formal talks with the government. He said that coalition government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... did not have the mandate to negotiate with Taliban. Only central government could do it, he added. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... provincial government should cooperate with the centre, he said.
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Which country is the Taliban more popular Pakistan or Afghanistan?
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Afghanistan, if you follow the news out of Pakistan.
[An Nahar] Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... called for a "new beginning" in relations with India in comments published Tuesday, as tensions remained high over the disputed region of Kashmire.
Recent festivities across the heavily militarized Line of Control (LoC), which divides the Himalayan territory between India and Pakistain, have raised the temperature between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Sharif, in remarks published by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named of Pakistain, said it was vital India and Pakistain became "good friends".
"Let us make a new beginning. Let us sit together to resolve all outstanding issues in a friendly manner and in a peaceful atmosphere," he said in comments made Monday to the state news agency.
India's army on Tuesday accused Pakistain of firing across the LoC late on Monday in the latest confrontation.
Pakistain and India have fought three wars since independence in 1947, two over Kashmire. A deadly flare-up along the LoC in January derailed peace talks that had only just resumed after a hiatus sparked by the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
"We must become good friends. Hold each other's hands. We must sit together with open and clean heart," Sharif said, adding that Pakistain had "a lot of love and affection" for the Indian people.
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You want to sit down with Pakistan? yeah?
That should be fun.
Where was Osama's house located, about two blocks from the Pak West Point? Their word is worth about squat.
[Dawn] Pakistain's top military commander at midnight on Tuesday said that there could be difference of opinion on counter terrorism strategy, however, to bow down before the militancy can never be a solution.
Speaking at the annual military parade at Kakul Military Academy in Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... , Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... emphasised on early execution of steps against terrorism by evolving a national consensus.
"It is important to get united, evolve a national consensus and implement it at earliest to find a solution," he said.
"The war against terrorism can only be won when we all are on the same page....so there is no doubt in our and terrorists' minds," he added.
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[Dawn] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has given the green signal to the coalition government in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... to initiate meaningful negotiations with all gangs in the province which has been plagued by sectarian violence and an insurgency.
Sources in Chief Minister Balochistan's Secretariat told Dawn.com that Nawaz Sharif has favored the offer of CM Dr Abdul Malik Baloch for holding talks with all gangs to find an amicable solution to issues relating to the province.
After the prime minister's endorsement, the provincial government has decided to form a high level reconciliation and negotiation committee comprising seasoned Baloch, Pashtun and Sindhi leaders to initiate dialogue with Baloch separatists.
The high-powered committee would comprise of tribal elites in and out of the Balochistan Assembly.
"The committee is likely to be formed in the fast approaching session of the assembly," a politician who requested not to be named told Dawn.com.
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[Dawn] The outlawed Punjabi Taliban, an offshoot terrorist organization of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), on Monday warned the Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N) government of dire consequences if it carries on with its plan of executing some convicts on death row.
In a pamphlet, distributed in southern Punjab and South and North Wazoo tribal agencies in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province bordering Afghanistan, the terrorist outfit said that the government will be considered at war with them if it goes on to execute their colleagues currently serving jail terms and are on death row.
Pak authorities on Thursday said they will hang four convicts on death row later this month, ending a five year stay on the execution of death sentences ordered by the outgoing president.
Inspector General Sindh prisons Nusrat Mangan told Dawn.com that four condemned prisoners, including two members of the banned sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LeJ), would be executed at the Sukkur jail and Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Central prison on August 20, 21 and 22.
The pamphlet also warned the PML-N government to be wary of blindly following the Pakistain Army as it said the armed forces use political forces for their own gains. "They (Pak Army) will be in favour of yet another political force after alienating them at due time."
"Remember what happened to Awami National Party (ANP)..... No one would now go to them even for condolences," said the pamphlet whose copy is available with Dawn.com.
It said the drone attack on Waliur Rehman was a planned conspiracy of "pro-America generals" to sabotage their 'wish' for peace. "Execution of prisoners will prove to be next episode of that conspiracy," said the pamphlet.
The purpose of this conspiracy is to push the PML-N and its allies into the swamp, it added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes... security has been put on high alert in Tank district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province after Taliban threats of targeting the government properties including DPO office on August 14.
Official sources told Dawn.com that the TTP gunnies had threatened a week ago to rob banks and burn down the DPO office in the wake of Independence Day celebrations on Wednesday.
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[Dawn] The National Assembly on Thursday adopted a unanimous resolution condemning the Indian aggression along the Line of Control (LoC).
The resolution was moved by Minister for Science and Technology Zahid Hamid which was endorsed by the house unanimously.
Following is the text of the resolution:
"This House unanimously condemns the unprovoked aggression by Indian military forces across the Line of Control in recent days. It also condemns the attacks on the Pakistain High Commission and the demonstrations outside the PIA offices in New Delhi, and the efforts to prevent the Friendship Bus from proceeding to Pakistain. It deplores the unjustified public vilification of Pakistain in the Indian media.
This House endorses the Prime Minister's forceful statement urging effective steps to ensure the ceasefire on the LoC; not to allow the situation to drift; and to take steps to prove the atmosphere by engaging constructively with a view to building trust and confidence. This House accordingly calls upon the Government to clearly convey to the Government of India the necessity to respect and uphold the Ceasefire Agreement of 2003 in letter and spirit.
This House also reiterates that Pakistain shall continue to extend diplomatic, political and moral support for the just and legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people for the realisation of their right to self-determination, as enshrined in the UN Security Council Resolutions.
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Next, the Pax get the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution stating that Indian Aggression is Zionism, because, having learned the hard way, neither the Juice nor the Indians will stand still long enough to be slaughtered en masse. After which the Washington R-Words renounce their name (as Indians not wanting to be associated with Juice) and declare they are now the Washington Jihadis, in honor of their future overlords -- and at the demand of the IRS. The Five Civilized Tribes, sick n tired of being ignored, then declare war on the Union (again) -- or was it the UN? -- they're not sure, and to cover all bases (and even though there are no bases in the NFL) , they declare war on both. The UN promptly sends in the Black Helicopters. The NAACP promptly files a discrimination lawsuit in federal court seeking a ban on the term "black helicopters" and a ban on "insensitive", "inappropriate" rodeo clowns. The Aggrieved World waits, holding its breath in anticipation of the decision in the NAACP suit. The Aggrieved World passes out (civil suits being what they are). Life goes on.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that drones should only be used to collect information.
Thanks for that Ban. Don't you have a ribbon to cut somewhere?
Speaking at the National University of Sciences and Technology, the UN chief, who is on a two-day visit to Pakistan, also called for international laws to be followed regarding drone attacks, Geo News reported.
Ah, so he's appeasing the rubes in Pakistain. What a great diplomat!
"Pakistan attaches great significance to the UN and accords high importance to the visit of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon," foreign ministry spokesperson Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry earlier said.
He's appeasing the rubes as well...
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[An Nahar] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... is committed to pursuing peace talks with Israel despite the unresolved issue of Israeli settlement building, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said here Tuesday.
"I'll be talking to president Abbas today ... and he is committed to continuing to come to the negotiation because he believes that negotiation is what will resolve this issue," Kerry said in Brasilia.
"Let me make it clear. The policy of the United States with respect to all settlements, is that they are illegitimate," he told a presser after talks with his Brazilian counterpart Antonio Patriota.
"But, that said, (Israeli) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was completely up front with me and with president Abbas that he would be announcing some additional (settlement) building in places that will not affect the peace map, that will not have any impact on the capacity to have a peace agreement," the U.S. chief diplomat said.
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Kerry is a squirrel. Put his chair in the hall and let him go and look for it.
[An Nahar] Jordan denied on Tuesday a U.N. report that organized crime networks operate in the country's Zaatari camp, which hosts 130,000 Syrian refugees.
"There is no such thing as organised crime in Zaatari; there are petty crimes and petty theft," Brigadier Waddah Hmud, head of the Syrian refugee department, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Organised crime needs planning in advance and this we did not see in Zaatari."
The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on August 6 that "both organized crime networks and Syrian opposition groups operate in the camp and use it to pursue their financial and political objectives."
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[An Nahar] Middle East peace talks could "collapse" due to continuing Israeli settlement expansion, a senior Palestinian official warned Tuesday, on the eve of the scheduled resumption of the fragile process. "Settlement expansion goes against the U.S. administration's pledges and threatens to cause the negotiations' collapse," Yasser Abed Rabbo told Agence France Presse. That's what routinely happens, isn't it? Release a bunch of prisoners, then the talks collapse because of something the Zionist Entity did.
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Unless both Egypt + Jordan agree to give up thier claims of soveriegnty on the Gaza Strip + West Bank, the PA is nothing more than a GOVT-IN-EXILE = "SOVERIEGN"? GOVT-STATE WID NO GEOGRAPHIC TERRITORY TO TRULY CALL ITS OWN.
I suppose delusional pretense can serve a good, albeit subjective or altruistic, purpose in keeping Paleo-specific hope alive for a future time.
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We were not going to get shit out of these "talks" anyway. We still need to re-settle those who were kicked out of Gush Katif from the last "peace" talks.
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I'd like to see Israel state that they have a non-negotiable demand: The paleos have to amend their charter to eliminate the section that calls for the destruction of Israel before they even start talking.
Until then, no tickee, no washee.
Bring popcorn: watch heads explode, see Kerry's phrench panties get in a wad. :-D
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[CBSNEWS] Senior U.S. intelligence officials are concerned about the growing presence of al Qaeda hard boyz in civil war-torn Syria. I think we've been "concerned" about it here for awhile.
In a statement released over the weekend, the State Department said the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has moved himself and the group's operations to Syria. A State Department spokesperson also noted that the deadly suicide kabooms and boom-mobileings carried out in Iraq in recent days can be attributed to AQI. We routinely attribute anything that explodes in Iraq to AQI. Occasionally we're wrong, but exploding things and themselves seems to currently be a strictly Sunni tactic. The Shiites, being in power, have an army to oppress the Sunnis. Any non-AQI kabooms are probably mafia wars.
CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell warned of the risk of the collapse of the Syrian government -- which possesses a considerable stockpile of chemical and advanced weapons -- namely, a power vacuum which would leave room for al Qaeda to take hold and take advantage of their weapons cache and technical capabilities. Pencilneck and his govt collapsing was a good thing, until the alternative became the cannibals.
The al Qaeda movement is very much "based on ideology and has very little to do with the kind of organization" that the U.S. is accustomed to, according to CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan, who cited Syria's "massive stockpile of chemical weapons" and depth of knowledge about employing those weapons as a unique threat compared to other, previous al Qaeda training havens. Syria is a much more dangerous Afghanistan than Afghanistan was when it was controlled by AQ. It's got a higher level of technological development. It also presents more problems for AQ: the Salafists will have to digest all those Shiites.
"The people who know the most about chemical weapons in the United States say that what is scary about Syria is not just the presence of chemical stockpiles ...it's the technical knowledge and training and know-how and the delivery system required to deliver those weapons," Logan said Tuesday on "CBS This Morning." I thought I just said that?
"Nobody knows yet who's going to win the peace in Syria," she added, "It might very well be al Qaeda." Currently there are, broadly speaking, four sides: Pencilneck, the rebels, al-Qaeda, and the Kurds. The rebels are so fragmented they haven't been able to form a shadow govt. Pencilneck is a loathsome specimen, The Kurds aren't going to govern the entire country, but they don't want to be pushed around. And the Qaeda groups are the latest butt-insky grab by international Salafism. Not a lot of choice there. Best we just supply plenty of ammunition to all parties concerned. Maybe the Kurds get a little extra?
The threat is "dangerous enough for the Deputy Director of the CIA to say there are more imported muscle flooding into Syria to fight for al Qaeda today than there ever were at the height of the war with Iraq," Logan said on "CBS This Morning." Zarqawi hadn't totally looned out at the beginning of the war with Iraq. But it's the same machine sending the same people in to inflict that Olde Tyme Religion on the place, whether wanted or not.
Many of the fighters now based in Syria likely came from Afghanistan, North Africa, Yemen and Iraq, where they learned to fight the U.S., Logan explained. What'd they learn in Yemen? "Look out! Here comes another one!" maybe?
"That organization [in Syria] is in very close contact with Ayman al-Zawahri, who is in the Pakistain-Afghanistan region," she said. Probably in Miranshah.
Al-Zawahri is the late Osama bin Laden's ... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel... successor, who in 2001, laid out his long-term plan for the global jihadi movement. The al Qaeda group currently based in Syria has been known as al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and recently changed their name to The Islamic State of Iraq, They've been going under "Islamic State of Iraq since about 2006, though my memory may be off by a year or two.
to reflect their growing ambitions. AQI is led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who is now based in Syria.
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See also RELATED WORLD NEWS > [WaPo] AL-QAEDA EXPANDS INTO SYRIA VEE ISLAMIC STATE.
and
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Various Videos]FOREIGN SHIA MILITIAS FIGHTING IN SYRIA HIGHLY UNDER-REPORTED IN MEDIAS.
versus
* DEFENCE./PK/FORUMS > US PENTAGON IS CONSIDERING ELIMINATING AFRICOM, among other, as due to on-going Sequester-led/forced military realignment of forces.
* SAME, TOPIX > [Cal Thomas] OBAMA HAS NO FOREIGN POLICY, SO US DRIFTS.
Advantage = RADICAL ISLAM + GLOBAL JIHAD, as perhaps goodly illustrated by ...
* WORLD NEWS > [WND.com] [Al-Qaeda in Gaza Strip = Jihadiya Salafiya] JIHADIST LEADER: "ISLAM IS COMING" [to the US + Europe, Israel, E-T-A-L.], WARNS FOREIGNERS FIGHTING IN SYRIA COULD TARGET US NEXT.
Yuuup - do the North Koreans know [Red Dawn II]???
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remember when jihadis came from ten countries to Iraq to fight the Americans? We didn't need to go hunt them in their countries, they came to Iraq to gather and be with us. The US of us.
Came from at least ten countries, paid their own airfare too.
Grease spots out there is the sand today. Syria? Well, Syria needs a few grease spots too. Line up.
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The threat is "dangerous enough for the Deputy Director of the CIA to say there are more imported muscle flooding into Syria to fight for al Qaeda today than there ever were at the height of the war with Iraq," Logan said on "CBS This Morning."
This is a feature, not a bug. Fly strips work best when hung from inside the barn vs the pasture.
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One key difference between having al Qaeda in Iraq/Afghanistan vs. in Syria: in Iraq, we were there, and if the jihadis popped up, we could shoot them. (Of course, carefully observing the restrictive ROEs). In Syria, all we can do is hope that Pencilneck whacks them.
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RiV, Do you think that we (actually Obastard & crew) really hopes Pneck whacks them? I don't.
My most cynical and paranoid thoughts are that they WANT AQ & friends to take Syria so that they can then move against the Juice.
I know this is paranoid, but, is it paranoid enough?
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"remember when jihadis came from ten countries to Iraq to fight the Americans? We didn't need to go hunt them in their countries, they came to Iraq to gather and be with us. "
Bring your armies to Babylon and I will make your enemy meet you there.
[An Nahar] The Turkish pilots kidnapped in Leb on Friday were kidnapped in a hope to exchange them with the nine Lebanese pilgrims held in Syria's Aazaz region, reported As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.
A widely-informed security source told the daily that Mohammed Saleh, a relative of the pilgrims who was locked away Please don't kill me! Sunday in connection to the pilots' case, revealed the names of individuals linked to the abduction
He also said that the Turkish pilots were targeted in order to carry out the exchange.
Saleh's relatives denied to As Safir however that their son was linked to the case, saying that he only received messages of congratulations on his telephone when news of the abduction broke out.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told the daily that Saleh is considered as a witness in the kidnapping and not a participant.
His release from custody is in the hands of the General Prosecution, he added.
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[An Nahar] Syrian opposition activists, including National Coalition members, have drawn up a transitional roadmap including a call for national reconciliation and justice for "all of Syria's victims," a statement said Tuesday.
The roadmap is to be presented in full on Wednesday, in the presence of National Coalition chief Ahmad Jarba, but has not been officially endorsed by the key opposition group.
"National reconciliation will be achieved through a long transitional justice process in which justice is assured for all of Syria's victims," said the statement.
It comes amid reports of abuses carried out by both regime forces and rebels in Syria's conflict.
While the country's uprising began with peaceful anti-government demonstrations in March 2011, it has turned into a bloody war that has left more than 100,000 people dead.
Both sides have been accused of summary executions, sectarian killings and torture.
The proposals also call for restructuring Syrian security forces to uproot "corrupt officials."
"All gangs will be disarmed, demobilized and reintegrated into Syrian society," it adds.
It lays out plans for the country's political system after the fall of the Syrian regime, calling for a "hybrid presidential/parliamentary system."
And it proposes using the country's 1950 constitution as the basis for a new charter, with an elected constitutional assembly mandated to decide on modifications.
The 1950 constitution was the first in Syria to be drafted by a constituent assembly, but has subsequently been replaced.
It gave the legislature more power than the executive, and states that the head of state must be a Mohammedan.
The group behind the proposal, Syrian Expert House, includes some 300 activists, lawyers and members of the National Coalition and Syrian National Council.
Defected government officials and rebel commanders also participated in the drafting process, the group said.
More than 200 pages spell out in often minute detail a plan for how best to manage a transition in the event the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... falls.
It argues for war crimes tribunals to be held in Syria with international experts providing advice, and pledges that trials will cover all those accused of abuses.
"The goal is not to target a specific religious group," the document says, adding "there is no place for the policies of Dire Revenge™ or retaliation."
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No agreements exist on the delivery of Russian Antey-2500 surface-to-air missile systems in replacement of the S-300 missile systems, said Anatoly Isaikin, general director of the Russian state arms trader Rosoboronexport, RIA Novosti reported.
"It is difficult to say anything. I would be able to talk about this if agreements had been or will be signed. There are none for now," Isaikin said when asked whether Antey-2500 systems could be delivered to Iran in replacement of S-300 systems.
Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi said at the end of July that Antey-2500 systems' deliveries to Iran in replacement of S-300s could be discussed in the context of Tehran's suit against Russia.
"We are in talks to weight options in the context of Iran's suit. The issue (of Antey-2500 systems' deliveries in replacement of S-300s) could be raised," the Iranian ambassador told journalists then.
Sajjadi told Interfax in June that Iran would withdraw its suit from the Geneva arbitration court over Russia's failure to deliver S-300 missile systems, if Russia honors the corresponding contract.
Moscow and Tehran signed a contract for the delivery of S-300 systems in 2007. Israel and the United States protested against the implementation of this contract.
The UN Security Council adopted a fourth resolution spelling out sanctions against Iran in June 2010. It imposed the first ever curb on conventional weapons deliveries to Tehran, including missiles and missile systems, tanks, assault helicopters, warplanes and warships.
Russia said that the sanctions covered the contract with Tehran for the delivery of S-300 missile systems, developed and made by Almaz-Antey Concern. Russia annulled the S-300 contacts with Tehran on October 7, 2010. Iran filed a $4 billion suit with the Geneva international arbitration court against Rosoboronexport protesting the failure of the S-300 contract.
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The departure of U.N. chemical weapons experts to Syria has been delayed because an agreement hasnt been reached with the Syrian government on arrangements for the investigation of three incidents of alleged chemical weapons use, the United Nations said Tuesday.
U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the investigation team led by Swedish chemical weapons expert Ake Sellstrom completed its logistical arrangements for the visit over the weekend. Del Buey said U.N. disarmament chief Angela Kane was continuing consultations with the Syrian government with a view to reaching agreement as soon as possible on the modalities essential for cooperation to ensure the proper, safe and efficient conduct of the mission.
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky had said on Aug. 6 that preparations were expected to be completed within the next days, following which the date of the mission in Syria will be announced.
The U.N. did not say what specific issues were holding up the teams departure.
Do they have to?
Del Buey said once the Government of Syria confirms its acceptance of the modalities, the mission will depart without delay.
Enjoy your stay in Oyster Bay...
The U.N. gave approval for the investigation on July 31 following an understanding reached during meetings in Damascus between the Syrian government and the U.N., represented by Kane and Sellstrom.
The team is expected to visit Khan al Assal, a village on the southwestern outskirts of the embattled city of Aleppo which was captured by the rebels in late July. The government and rebels blame each other for a purported chemical attack on the village on March 19 that killed at least 30 people.
The experts are expected to investigate two other incidents whose locations are being kept secret for safety and security reasons.
U.N. Mideast envoy Robert Serry told the Security Council last month that the U.N. has received 13 reports of alleged chemical weapons use in Syria.
The investigation team includes about 10 experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is based in The Hague, and the World Health Organization, based in Geneva. Its mandate is to report on whether chemical weapons were used, and if so which ones, but not to determine the responsibility for an attack.
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A proposed international peace conference on Syria that aims to bring together President Bashar al-Assads allies and the opposition will probably not happen until October at the very earliest, a top Russian official said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said additional preparatory talks for the meeting will be held between Moscow and Washington at the end of August, and that the diplomatic schedule was already busy for September.
It will probably not happen in September because there will be other events, Gatilov told the Interfax news agency late on Monday. We are in favour of holding the conference as soon as possible, but we have to take certain realities into account that may have an effect on when this forum is convened.
The so-called Geneva 2 talks were initially agreed in May by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a time when the Syrian rebels were making steady advances on the ground.
Russia, one of Assads strongest international backers, had initially proposed having the meeting by the end of May.
But as Assads forces mounted a counter-offensive, the talks were repeatedly postponed because of the oppositions failure on the need or terms under which they would attend.
But principally because they were getting their asses kicked, so Assad and Russia (BIRM) decided they could wait...
Lavrov said after meeting Kerry on Washington on Friday that Russia and the United States were in agreement about the need to stage the talks as soon as possible, but gave no specific date.
The negotiations are based on the results of a Syria peace conference held in Geneva in June 2012, when world powers agreed on the need to establish a transition government in the war-torn country. But the sides then failed to agree on whether Assad could play a role in forming the new government, and if his closest representatives could serve on the new interim team.
That failure and the conferences inability to halt the fighting on the ground meant that the peace terms were never inforced.
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The departure of U.N. chemical weapons experts to Syria has been delayed because an agreement hasnt been reached with the Syrian government on arrangements for the investigation of three incidents of alleged chemical weapons use, the United Nations said Tuesday.
A proposed international peace conference on Syria that aims to bring together President Bashar al-Assads allies and the opposition will probably not happen until October at the very earliest, a top Russian official said.
