Between Afghanistan and Azerbaijan there are several cooperation agreements on fighting narcotics, which will be continued and further strengthened, Afghan Foreign Minister Zarar Ahmad Osmani told Trend on March 19. The minister said five percent of drugs produced in Afghanistan are used within the country, while 95 percent are used outside of it.
"Three percent of profits from drug sales, account for Afghanistan, while the remaining 97 percent account for other countries. Profits from drug trafficking are not spent in Afghanistan," the foreign minister said.
Osmani said that because of narcotics Afghanistan is facing very big problems.
"In other countries these problems are not as many as in Afghanistan. The issue related to narcotic drugs is not only Afghanistan's problem, but it is also a regional and international problem," the minister added.
He said that today there is very good situation in Afghanistan in terms of security. Afghanistan's security is provided by more than 350,000 policemen. These are Afghan forces and the country's security is provided by these forces.
"Compared with previous years, today there is a very big development in Afghanistan in terms of security. It can be said that in several areas Afghanistan is safer than some neighbouring states. Al-Qaeda and radical forces don't have bases in Afghanistan. They are placed in the Pakistani province of Waziristan," the minister said.
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[Libya Herald] The UN Security Council today voted unanimously to adopt a resolution condemning attempts to illicitly export oil from Libya and imposing sanctions on any vessels attempting to do so.
The move came after the tanker Morning Glory successfully loaded a shipment of crude oil from Sidra oil export terminal, which has been under the control of a group of federalists operating under Ibrahim Jadhran since August last year. The tanker escaped a naval blockade to sail into international waters but, while moored off Cyprus, was apprehended by a US vessel.
The Libyan authorities have been asked to inform the Security Council committee, which already oversees the arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze imposed by resolution 1970, of any vessels suspected of involvement in illegal oil exports.
Any such reported vessels would be designated "for some or all measures authorised in the resolution on a case-by-case basis for a period of 90 days," the UN said. These could include prohibiting port entry and restricting nationals from making financial transactions with vessels carrying Libyan crude.
The country under which any such vessel was sailing would also be obliged to take necessary steps: "To direct the vessel not to load, transport or discharge such crude oil from Libya," the UN said.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... North Korea's attempts to issue such instructions to the Morning Glory, including a plea made by the North Korean ambassador 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... , did not prevent the loading of a reported 234,000 barrels of oil onto the tanker. At the time, sources said that the crew had been forced to load the oil by gunnies.
North Korea then announced that the ship was in breach of contract, and removed its right to sail under the flag, rendering it a "state-less vessel."
Under the resolution, UN member states will also be authorised to inspect suspect vessels designated by the committee and take suitable action to return illicitly-obtained oil to Libya.
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[AOL] In surprise testimony in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... 's son-in-law recounted the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, when the al-Qaeda leader sent a messenger to drive him into a mountainous area for a meeting inside a cave in Afghanistan.
"Did you learn what happened? We are the ones who did it," the son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, recalled bin Laden telling him.
When bin Laden asked what he thought would happen next, Abu Ghaith testified that he responded by predicting America "will not settle until it kills you and topples the state of the Taliban."
Bin Laden responded: "You're being too pessimistic," Abu Ghaith recalled.
Bin Laden then told the onetime imam, "I want to deliver a message to the world. ... I want you to deliver the message," he said.
The testimony came at Abu Ghaith's trial on charges he conspired to kill Americans and aid al-Qaeda as a front man for the terrorist group. His decision to take the witness stand was announced by his lawyer, Stanley Cohen, who surprised a nearly empty courtroom that quickly filled with spectators as word spread.
Testifying through an Arabic interpreter, the 48-year-old Kuwaiti-born defendant said he went to Afghanistan for the first time in June 2001 because he had a "serious desire to get to know the new Islamic government in Afghanistan."
He said he met bin Laden when the al-Qaeda leader, who was living in Kandahar, Afghanistan, summoned him after hearing that he was a preacher from Kuwait.
Abu Ghaith said bin Laden explained that the al-Qaeda training camps involved so much weapons training and a rough, hard life that he wanted him to change that, to reach the hearts of recruits and show them another side of life.
Abu Ghaith said he knew bin Laden was suspected in terrorist attacks but still "wanted to get to know that person."
"I wanted to see what he had, what is it he wanted," he said.
The defendant testified that videos he made warning that there would be more attacks on Americans and trying to inspire others to join al-Qaeda's cause were based on "quotes and points by Sheik Osama," including at threat in one video that "the storm of airplanes will not abate." He also denied allegations by the government that he had prior knowledge of the failed shoe-bomb airline attack by Richard Reid in December 2001.
He said he stayed for two to three weeks after Sept. 11 in a cave in a mountainous part of Afghanistan with bin Laden and others because the "situation was tense and the roads were dangerous."
He testified that his videotaped sermons were religious in nature, and meant to encourage Moslems to fight oppression.
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"He also denied ... ... failed shoe-bomb attack by Richard Reid" > *** cough **** cough *** ..
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"It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning lit the horizon, an owl hooted low in the trees. Then the ISI guys showed up with hummus and Kebabs and the partay was on"
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No wonder Karzai is pissed off as he has been pointing out that the problem with Afghanistan has been Pakistan for years and we did nothing against them or the funders of the Taliban/Madddasses Saudi Arabia.
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[THEHILL] 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... called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning to protest insults the Israeli defense minister directed at the B.O. regime this week, the State Department said.
According to news hounds for Israeli media outlets, Ya'alon phoned Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Wednesday evening to apologize. A U.S. defense official confirmed the call to The Hill.
In a speech at Tel Aviv University on Monday, Ya'alon criticized President B.O. for having a weak foreign policy, and said Israel could no longer rely on the United States to lead nuclear negotiations with Iran.
"Secretary Kerry spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning. And he protested to him his concerns about these comments," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told news hounds Wednesday.
The U.S., Psaki reaffirmed, maintains an "unshakable commitment" to Israel's security.
"So it is certainly confusing to us why Defense Minister Ya'alon would continue his pattern of making comments that don't accurately represent the scope of our close partnership on a range of security issues and on the enduring partnership between the United States and Israel," she said.
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Pragmatically, iff POTUS Obama is deemed to be weak or anti-US, why should Globalist-desired, Soon-to-be-Nuclear OWG Co-Superpower Iran or Other accept just mere or rough PARITY vee the US + West???
Lest we fergit, DRIVE TOWARDS OWG-NWO = the Globies will do their best to ensure that it continues after the Bammer formally leaves office come January 2017. HOWEVER BAD OR PROBLEMATIC THE US-WORLD SITUATION IS UNDER POTUS OBAMA, ITS LIKELY TO BE WORSE UNDER HIS POST-JAN. 2017 ANTI-US? OWG-NWO GLOBALIST SUCCESSOR.
Presuming, of course, that America = Amerika makes it to 2017 ...
* E.G. CHINA DAILY FORUM > YEAR 2016 WILL BE A VERY DANGEROUS YEAR FOR CHINA AS US INCITES TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE.
Gotta trust the Aussies...... At least one plane on site.... many more coming in Updates as they come....
Military planes from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand are searching for two objects spotted by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean that could be related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday.
Abott told Parliament in Canberra that an Orion and three additional aircraft, including a U.S. P-8 are involved in the search. Abbott cautioned, however, that the task of locating these objects will be difficult and "it may turn out that they are not related to the search for flight MH370."
An Australian search and rescue official said the planes have been sent to check on two objects that could be debris from the Boeing 777 jetliner that were spotted on satellite imagery in the Indian Ocean about 1,550 miles southwest of Perth.
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If the debris is from the MH370, the on-board fire and crew/passenger asphyxiation theory obviously gains credibility. Bangkok Billy was the first to dismiss the complex Taliban or AQ hijack theory. Hopefully we call all dismiss the terrorism theory soon.
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I couldn't disagree more with Besoeker's assertion. How in the world could that plane be THAT FAR off of the filed/planned flight course and yet so many be so eager to simply wish this away as a "on board fire"??? There was no distress call, the transponders were intentionally turned off, the plane DIVERTED from the planned course by a minimum of a 90 degree angle, and then quietly said "Good Night". Sorry, but I'm not willing to chalk all of that up to a "on-board fire".
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines: A Mexican drug cartel has teamed up with local drug syndicates to smuggle drugs to neighboring Malaysia via the so-called southern backdoor, Zamboanga's acting chief of police, Senior Superintendent Angelito Casimiro, said Tuesday.
Casimiro said the ties between the Mexican drug cartel, which he did not identify, and the so-called East Asia drug syndicate, which sends shabu or metamphetamine hydrochloride to Malaysia via this city, was uncovered following the arrest of a former Western Mindanao policeman in Metro Manila several days ago.
All indications point to Pon Mohamad Mansul as the conduit between the drug syndicates, Casimiro said, adding Mansul was probably responsible also for the shipments of large amounts of shabu to Malaysia through this city. Mansul was arrested in Las Piñas.
A series of drug busts here started last November, when some P100-million worth of shabu was intercepted at the Zamboanga International Airport. The two suspects who were arrested, both Tawi-Tawi residents, were to have proceeded to Malaysia using the Tawi-Tawi sea route.
On March 6, authorities made a sixth seizure with the interception of some P5 million worth of shabu inside the airport, which was sent from Metro Manila via a courier.
"Drug trafficking is really big money and with the coming in of cartels from as far as Mexico, we're seeing kilos and kilos of drugs being intercepted at the Zamboanga International Airport going to Tawi-Tawi," Casimiro said.
[An Nahar] Syria's foreign ministry said Wednesday that a U.S. decision to close its Washington embassy and two consulates was illegal and arbitrary.
A statement described the decision as "an arbitrary measure," saying it was "a clear violation of the Vienna Convention" that governs diplomatic relations between nations.
It came a day after the United States announced it was closing Syria's Washington embassy and consulates in Michigan and Texas and expelling remaining diplomatic staff who were not U.S. citizens.
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 the decision was taken because "the illegitimacy of the Assad regime is so overwhelming".
"So we just felt the idea that this embassy is sitting here with representation that we could take seriously is an insult, and we closed it. It's that simple," he said.
Syria's foreign ministry said the decision was intended to undermine the country's ability to provide its citizens abroad with services.
The decision "reveals the real objectives of U.S. policy against the interests of Syrian citizens and is another step in the US support for terrorism and bloodshed in Syria," the statement added.
The Syrian embassy in the U.S. capital had been operating for some time without an ambassador, who left the U.S. in December 2011, leaving only a few low level staff who had been providing limited consular services.
The measures will not affect Syria's mission to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... , though Washington last month announced it would limit the movements of Syria's U.N. ambassador to a 25-mile radius around New York City.
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Yes, well, things are tough all over. Perhaps the Russians can give you an extra desk or two at their mission.
Russia may revise its stance in the Iranian nuclear talks amid tensions with the West over Ukraine, a senior diplomat warned Wednesday. Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, according to the Interfax news agency, that Russia didn't want to use the Iranian nuclear talks to "raise the stakes," but may have to do so in response to the actions by the United States and the European Union.
Oh no, we don't want to raise the stakes, not us, we're peace-loving Soviets Russians...
The statement is the most serious threat of retaliation by Moscow after the U.S. and the EU announced sanctions against Russia over its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.
Ryabkov, who is Russia's mouthpiece envoy to the Iranian talks, said that Russia considers the "reunification" with Crimea as far more important than the developments surrounding the Iranian nuclear program.
Russia has appeared to cooperate cooperated with the United States and other Western nations in the Iranian talks, but Ryabkov warned that its attitude may now change.
They may do openly what they used to do quietly...
"We wouldn't like to use these talks as an element of the game of raising the stakes taking into account the sentiments in some European capitals, Brussels and Washington," Ryabkov was quoted as saying by Interfax. "But if they force us into that, we will take retaliatory measures here as well. The historic importance of what happened in the last weeks and days regarding the restoration of historical justice and reunification of Crimea with Russia is incomparable to what we are dealing with in the Iranian issue."
Ryabkov didn't elaborate on how Russia's position in the talks may change.
They likely won't invade Ireland...
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The negotiations are a farce anyway. Bomb Iran and see what Putin thinks about that.
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Between Afghanistan and Azerbaijan there are several cooperation agreements on fighting narcotics, which will be continued and further strengthened, Afghan Foreign Minister Zarar Ahmad Osmani told Trend on March 19. The minister said five percent of drugs produced in Afghanistan are used within the country, while 95 percent are used outside of it.
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