[An Nahar] 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 Thursday that Washington's suspension of military hardware deliveries to Egypt could be lifted based on the behavior of the country's rulers.
Kerry said the deliveries could resume if Cairo makes headway toward restoring civilian rule.
"So this would be on the basis of performance," he said during a visit to Malaysia.
"By no means is this a withdrawal from our relationship or a severing of our serious commitment to helping the government" transition to democracy, Kerry told news hounds in the capital Kuala Lumpur.
Washington on Wednesday stopped shipments of some large-scale military systems as well as halting $260 million in cash aid to Egyptian military leaders, who ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July.
The step was aimed at signalling Washington's displeasure with the military rulers over a deadly crackdown against protesters and Islamists.
Egypt has criticized the U.S. decision as "flawed" and said it would not bow to American pressure.
The decision, which marks a dramatic break with years of unqualified support to Cairo, will prevent deliveries of big-ticket items including Apache helicopters, F-16 fighter jets, M1A1 Abrams tank parts and Harpoon missiles, U.S. officials told news hounds.
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he said during a visit to Malaysia
where the start of the winter season was bringing some primo swells, dude.
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The question: Is this the suspension of annual aid package (now $1.8 billion) provided Egypt through the Camp David Accords? If so, will the annual aid package provided Israel (near $3 billion) be reduced? How will this reduction impact the role the US has played in maintaining the peace in the Sinai?
[An Nahar] 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... on Thursday denounced the kidnapping of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan and pledged the United States would continue to work with Libya to shore up its security.
"Libyans did not risk their lives in their 2011 revolution to tolerate a return to thuggery," Kerry said in a statement, also welcoming Zeidan's release after he was held by gunnies for several hours.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... gave Britannia's backing to the Libyan PM, pledging to help overcome the country's "security challenges".
A front man for the British prime minister said he had spoken by phone to Ali Zeidan, who was "calm and very measured" despite being seized by gunnies in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! for several hours on Thursday.
"They talked about how the UK would continue to support the Libyan government and the Libyan people during this challenging transition, including support in helping them overcome the security challenges that they face," said the front man.
The pre-dawn seizure of Zeidan from Tripoli's Corinthia hotel came five days after U.S. commandos embarrassed and angered the government by capturing senior al-Qaeda suspect Abu Anas al-Libi off the streets of Tripoli and whisking him away to a warship in the Mediterranean.
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Proves OUR Adminstration aren't thugs, because they haven't kidnapped any prime ministers. Yet.
[Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. yesterday sought vote for the Awami League in the next election and cautioned the countrymen about the return to power of BNP-Jamaat "who want to lead the country towards destruction."
"If the BNP-Jamaat returns to power they will stop the trial of the war criminals. They also don't want the victory that we've gained under the leadership of our father of the nation," she said at a mammoth public rally at Islampur Health Institute Ground in Islampur upazila in the afternoon.
Hasina said: "The BNP-Jamaat does not understand anything except for killing, looting, corruption, bombing, grenade attack, killing police, and violating mothers and sisters.
"They always obstruct the country's development as they want the destruction of the country."
In a scathing attack on the opposition leader's "relentless falsehood", Hasina alleged that before the general election in 1996, Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... used to say there would be no "azan" in the mosques if the Awami League was voted to power.
"But that proved false.
"I seek vote for the Awami League....we've initiated the trial of the war criminals and the trial will continue and Insha-Allah, we'll complete the trial. Otherwise, they [BNP-Jamaat] will stop the trial," she said, urging the audience to pledge to vote for her party.
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[AnNahar] Turkey's parliament on Thursday extended for one year a mandate that would allow Ankara to order military strikes against Kurdish rebels holed up in neighboring northern Iraq.
The vote coincides with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's reforms to boost the rights of the country's sizable Kurdish community and secure an end to the nearly 30-year battle with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
All opposition parties, except the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, gave solid backing to the motion providing the government with another year-long mandate for cross-border operations against PKK hideouts in northern Iraq.
The current mandate expires on October 17. Parliament has extended the mandate every year since it was first approved in 2007.
On September 30, Erdogan moved to scrap restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language, allowing it to be used in private schools and letting election candidates campaign in Kurdish.
The reforms are aimed at breaking an impasse in the grinding of the peace processor between Turkey and the PKK, which is classified as a terrorist organization by Ankara and its Western allies.
In March the PKK's tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! leader Abdullah Ocalan declared a ceasefire after months of clandestine negotiations with the Turkish secret service.
Last month, Kurdish rebels announced a suspension in their planned pull-out of their fighters from Turkish soil, accusing Ankara of not keeping its promises of reform. They called the measures introduced by Erdogan as unsatisfactory.
In return for withdrawing its fighters, the PKK demanded changes such as the right to education in the Kurdish language, changes to the electoral system and a degree of regional autonomy.
The PKK has been fighting for self-rule in the mainly Kurdish southeast and east of Turkey since 1984.
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With the shutdown there should be no visitors. I would like the GOP or someone to monitor who goes in and out at this point.
I really hope the nation holds Obama accountable for the nonsense he's playing with this whole thing. I got hope yesterday when I saw a video of a guy who asked Colorodo college students who they blamed fro the shutdown and it was something like 9 to 2 blamed Obama or Democrats and of the 2 that blamed the Republicans one of them blamed both Republicans and Democrats so it really was like only one blamed Republicans. Nice to see the kids 'get it' on this at least.
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The 'kids' are notorious for not being among the sheep that daily consume the old Perpetual Party Propaganda Machine products anymore. That readership and viewership is largely towards the further end of the age demographic.
[Dawn] Members of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Assembly from 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... on Wednesday voiced reservations about the de-weaponisation campaign in Lower Dir district, which, they said, caused unrest in the area.
Speaking on a point of order, MPA Muzaffar Said told the house that police backed by other law-enforcement agencies had launched the de-weaponisation campaign in Lower Dir.
According to the deputy inspector general of police in Malakand division, the campaign will continue until Oct 15.
He said police began a house-to-house search operation and raided residential compounds, which had created disturbance.
The MPA said the army had already conducted the de-weaponisation campaign in the area and the local people had voluntarily handed over heavy weapons and ammunition to it.
He said the residents of Lower Dir had no sympathies with the myrmidons and local jirga had supported the government's action against anti-social elements.
Mr Muzaffar said the people supported targeted operation against troublemakers and as a result, the area was comparatively peaceful in entire Malakand division.
He said the local residents had retained light weapons like pistols and shotguns for self protection but now, police were recovering light weapons from villagers, which had sparked resentment among them.
MPA Mohammad Ali of JI from Upper Dir district also supported his colleague and said the local qaumi jirga was very active, which had played a major role in the maintenance of law and order situation in the area.
He proposed that the law-enforcement agencies suspend operation and make consultation with local parliamentarians and elders on future course of action.
Minister for Zakat and Religious Affairs Habibur Rehman said the government would look into the matter and produce the report about the Lower Dir de-weaponisation campaign in the house by Friday next.
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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 said a special law was being enacted to deal with cases related to terrorism and asked the provinces to take strict and effective measures to eliminate this menace.
Talking to members of families affected by the recent Qisa Khwani Bazaar bomb kaboom and later in his talk with news hounds at the Governor House on Thursday, he said the proposed law, which would effectively tackle cases of terrorism in the court of law, was ready. The culprits involved in terrorism would not escape the clutches of law, he added.
Mr Sharif said the proposed law would remove lacunas from existing laws, which helped the accused get bail because of lack of evidence or a weak case prepared by the prosecution.
He said in a country where security measures were weak extraordinary laws and decisions had to be taken to put things on the right track. The government would not show any weakness in elimination of terrorism and would go the distance to curb this menace once and for all, 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... Thursday said his government was sincere about holding peace talks with the Pak Taliban, after rebel chief Hakimullah Mehsud complained no serious steps had been taken to open a dialogue.
Speaking after a security meeting in the troubled northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , Sharif said progress was being made on the issue of opening negotiations.
The premier was accompanied by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Information Minister Pervez Rashid and his Advisor on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on the occasion.
Bomb attacks have also hit all four lovely provincial capitals and Bannu district in Pakistain killing ten, wounding more than 60 on Thursday.
His statement came a day after the broadcast of a BBC interview in which Mehsud said he was ready to sit down for talks but the government had "not taken any serious steps."
Alleging the government for not being able to take any substantial step towards peace talks, Mehsud said his Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) outfit would not hold dialogue (with the government) through the 'media.'
"The government is sincere about solving the issue of terrorism through talks with Taliban," Sharif told the meeting in Peshawar.
"We are seriously implementing the decision jointly taken by the All Parties' Conference (APC) for dialogue with Taliban."
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[Dawn] Pakistain's former military ruler General (retd) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... was reenjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) killing case hours after submitting surety bonds in the Supreme Court on Thursday.
The rearrest came after he had been granted bail in three other cases and his lawyer said on Wednesday he was cleared to leave the country.
Assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... , death of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti and detention of deposed Supreme Court judges were the other three major cases registered against the former military strongman.
"We have put General Musharraf under house arrest in a case involving a military operation on an Islamabad mosque," Muhammad Rizwan, a bigwig of the Islamabad police told news hounds.
"We will present him before a court on Friday," Rizwan added, after visiting Musharraf's plush villa at the edge of Islamabad, which has been declared a sub jail.
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Edging closer to general mayhem in Iraq
Iraq has annouced that it executed 42 terrorism convicts this week, rejecting mounting international appeals to end its extensive use of the death penalty.
The Iraqi Justice Ministry announced the executions Thursday on its website below a photograph of an executioner's noose against a black background. It mentioned that among those executed "for mass killings and other acts of terrorism" was one woman. It also said all of the dead were convicted of terrorism-related crimes.
The ministry statement did not specify the dates of the executions, but the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq said they took place Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Could have started doing this 10 years ago - might not be needing to now. Imprisoned terrorists have a tendency to get broken loose, or set free; dead ones, not so much.
[Ynet] IAF holds drill to examine abilities to reach remote destinations. 'When we say all options are on the table, we're talking about military options as well,' IDF website says, noting drill was to prepare troops to any possible threat
The Air Force had a widespread drill this week utilizing several squadrons, in order to test the force's ability to reach remote destination during lengthy flights.
In one of the highlights of the drill, where the Air Force cooperated with a foreign army, fighter jets were fueled midair.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held several interviews with European media outlets, warning against Iranian fraud in the nuclear talks with the West, which are to be held next week in Geneva.
The IDF website defined the mid-air fueling as "testing the abilities to fly long distances. When we say, 'all options are on the table', we're talking about military options as well. The Air Force, the longest reaching arm of the IDF, is responsible for realizing that option if it is so required. In the force, we're enforcing a range of abilities, including long-term flights. In this field the Air Force is required to develop all relevant ability, from a pinpointed activity to a wide-range action."
Almost all of the F-15 and F-16 squadrons of the IAF participated in the drill, and training similar to it is held several times a year.
The IDF said the training, which is expected to go on until next week, is no different from drills that took place in recent years, practicing operational planning, flight, fueling and radio control.
The commander of one of the squadrons thatho took part in the drill said: "Challenges in a flight like this start in the planning phase, and continue in the flight itself which is far from home, in unfamiliar weather and terrain conditions, as well as all possible threats."
The Air Force stressed that "The training sharpened the ability and connected the whole of the components and squadrons to the unique and complex training. In the personal aspect pilots talk about a lengthy flight requiring special physical training and preparations."
[AnNahar] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday "a bad deal is worse than no deal" with Iran over its disputed nuclear program, ahead of crunch talks between Tehran and world powers.
In excerpts of an interview with the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published in advance, he called for sanctions on the Tehran regime to be stepped up rather than eased.
"A bad deal is worse than no deal," the prime minister was quoted as saying.
Iran "will ask for a partial lifting of sanctions for cosmetic concessions that would leave them with the ability to have a nuclear weapons capability," Netanyahu was quoted as saying.
He cautioned that Iran was far more dangerous than nuclear-armed North Korea and bent on spreading terror in the world.
"You demand enrichment if you want to build nuclear weapons," he stressed.
Global powers accuse Iran of seeking to obtain a nuclear bomb under the guise of what Tehran insists is its civilian atomic energy program.
But recent U.S.-Iranian talks have raised hopes of progress in Geneva on October 15-16 when Iran meets the United States, Russia, China, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany.
In a separate interview with rolling news channel La Belle France24, Netanyahu urged La Belle France to be tough on Iran "with or without Rouhani's smiles."
"If they really wanted to dismantle their nuclear weapons program, they'd come out with it," he charged.
Rouhani has come out strongly in favor of a quick deal after negotiations over the nuclear program practically stalled for eight years.
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[AnNahar] An exiled opposition group claimed Thursday that Iran has transferred a research center leading its alleged attempt to develop nuclear weapons to a new location in order to hoodwink the world.
"In order to hide its nuclear activities, the Iranian regime is currently in the process of a vast operation moving the center responsible for research and planning of the military nuclear project," Mehdi Abrishamachi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran told a presser in Gay Paree.
According to the opposition group, which has made significant revelations about Iran's nuclear program in the past, the bulk of the center's activities have been moved from a defense ministry property in the east of Tehran to a new site around three kilometers (two miles) away.
Those activities left at the first site could all be regarded as of dual-use -- related to either civil or military uses of nuclear technology -- enabling the regime to disguise their military nature in the event of inspection, according to the NCRI.
"The transfer started at the beginning of September and is not finished but the essential has been done," Abrishamachi said.
The NCRI said it had submitted its information, including a list of 100 alleged employees of the center, to the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday.
Iran denies seeking to develop a nuclear weapons capacity and has said it wants to sign a nuclear proliferation accord with the West. Negotiations on the subject between Tehran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany, are due to resume next week in Geneva.
The talks will be the first since the election in June of new Iran's diminutive President Hassan Rouhani.
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including a list of 100 alleged employees of the center
Flu season is approaching.
[An Nahar] Twelve suspects charged with planning terrorist activities in Leb, including liquidations, have been in contact with members of Fatah al-Islam A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred. terror group in Roumieh prison, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.
The newspaper said that analysis of the so-called telecommunications data revealed that the members of the network had contacted several Fatah al-Islam inmates in the prison.
The examination of the calls is ongoing to know the connection between the two sides, it said.
The State Commissioner to the Military Court, Judge Saqr Saqr charged on Wednesday the 12 suspects, including a Lebanese and 2 Syrians who are in jug, with plotting terrorist activities and forming an armed gang to carry out terrorist operations.
The charges include buying arms, rockets and bombs to plant them throughout Lebanese territories, and plotting liquidations against personalities in northern Leb who back the Syrian regime.
The suspects were also planning to booby-trap vehicles.
Security and judicial sources told al-Joumhouria that two personalities from the Syrian opposition were on the liquidation list of the 12-member network, in addition to several Sunni clergymen in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... who are supporters of the regime in Syria.
The daily identified the clergymen as Bilal Shaaban and his brother, in addition to another Sunni man -- Kamal Kheir, who heads a political association and a charity in northern Leb.
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Sounds like a Chicago or Detroit syndicate operation, doesn't it ?
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Right, RJ - it ain't new, except to those who have been asleep. There was even a Clancy book turned into a movie about a nuke coming into Baltimore.
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Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the Hard Boyz ...
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Hurriyet Daily News]NORTH KOREA WARNS OF COUNTER-ATTACK ON US WARSHIP, specifically a USN CVN = Nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier in response to US-ROK naval drill.
AKA THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON???
Again, to deter, preempt, or prevent a final Chinese annexation of North Korea, the laterr may do something unilaterally + militarily desperate - NE Asia + two Koreas is the last remaning world theater where the Cold War hasn't or never ended. ALL PARTIES WANT A CHANGE THE STAUS QUO, WHICH IN THE MIND OF THE US-ROK-ALLIES = CHINA NOT TAKING OVER OR ANNEXING NORTH KOREA FOR ANY REASON.
IMO KJU = "Pudgy" may be getting twitchy because he realizes a CHINA-LED EAST ASIA MIL CONFLICT, as agz JAPAN, TAIWAN, PHIL, ASEAN, + EVEN INDIA WILL ACCELERATE AN UNWANTED CHINESE TAKEOVER OR ANNEXATION OF NORTH KOREA, espec the more longer formal PRC reunification wid TAIWAN occurs.
And exclusive of the anti-US, OWG Globalist "MultiPolar/PolyCentric" agenda???
* SAME > [VOR = Itar-Tass] NORTH KOREA BUILDING [underground] MISSLE BASE NEAR CHINESE BORDER, at Mount PaKtusan.
DPRK MBMS based there can efectively strike OKINAWA + GUAM while denying the US-ROK a significant chance for counter-strike.
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [WantChinaTimes] PLA AIMS TO CONTROL TAIWAN BY 2020.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State 
David Cameron
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
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North Korea
