[BBC] An Afghan court has increased the jail sentences for two brass hats at Kabul Bank, which collapsed in 2010 after losing almost $1bn (£630m).
Former chairman Sherkhan Farnood, and the bank's CEO Khalilullah Ferozi, were enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! for five years in 2013.
They appealed but have now each been sentenced to five years for money laundering and 10 for embezzlement.
The losses at Kabul Bank amounted to about 5% of the country's economy. Most of the money is yet to be recovered.
It was one of the world's biggest banking scandals, involving a brother of the former president, Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
The bank handled payroll for government employees like teachers and coppers, but had to be bailed out by international donors when the scale of the losses emerged.
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[AnNahar] The United States said Tuesday it was deeply concerned over a worsening power struggle between Somalia's president and prime minister, and pulled out of a international summit on the war-torn country.
Washington urged leaders to "rise above the political differences that divert from the important work of unifying the country", U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State... said in a statement.
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his prime minister, Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, have been at odds for months, and some politicians loyal to the president have pushed a vote of no confidence in Ahmed.
"The United States notes with concern the recent political turmoil in Somalia," Psaki said. "Actions to put forward a parliamentary motion for a vote of no confidence in the prime minister do not serve the interests of the Somali people."
Amid the in-fighting, Washington "does not see the utility" in sending delegates to a summit in Copenhagen on Somalia later this month to bring together foreign donors and the government.
The U.S. warnings follow those by United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... envoy Nicholas Kay, who said the tension "puts at risk" political goals including a referendum on a new constitution next year, ahead of elections in 2016.
Kay said he was worried about reports that politicians were being bribed with cash to vote in a no confidence motion against the prime minster.
The Somali government, which took power in August 2012, was the first to be given global recognition since the collapse of Siad Barre's hardline regime in 1991.
Billions in foreign aid has been poured in, including funding the UN-mandated 22,000-strong African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force, which has done much of the heavy fighting against Somalia's al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab rebels.
It was hailed as offering the best chance for peace in a generation, replacing a transitional leadership mired in ineffectiveness and rampant corruption.
But political wrangles and reports of corruption have raised concern the government, like the last administration, is blighted by infighting and failing to unite in the face of the threat by the Shabaab.
U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... warned earlier this month on visit to Mogadishu that Somalia risks returning to famine without urgent aid -- three years since more than 250,000 people died of hunger -- with three million people in need of support.
[Libya Herald] The Zliten Municipal Court has postponed until 8 December, its ruling in the Baza Case against 57 former Qadaffy soldiers because the defense team failed to appear the hearing on Monday.
In court for the hearing was a number of families of deaders and missing persons in the town.
The former soldiers, currently being held in the prison at Zliten, have been accused of war crimes during the liberation of Zliten, specifically in the Baza area, on 18 August 2011. The accusations against them include the formation of armed gangs, the provocation of armed conflict, the burning of houses and the kidnappings and murder of dozens of young men.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Tuesday there were indications of war crimes being committed in Libya, warning that the strife-torn country was 'on the wrong path.'
Fatou Bensouda told the U.N. Security Council that the violence in Libya had worsened over the past six months with the country now split between two governments and two parliaments vying for control.
'There are, indeed, indications that crimes that fall within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court are being committed,' Bensouda told the council.
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[BBC] Nigeria's ambassador to the US has criticised Washington for refusing to sell his government "lethal" weapons to fight holy warrior Islamists.
Nigeria needed support to deliver the "killer punch", not "light jabs" against the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... group, Adebowale Ibidapo Adefuye said.
His comments came as the bully boyz seized the north-eastern Mahia town.
The US has previously ruled out heavily arming the Nigerian military because of its alleged poor human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... record.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... has formally declared himself as the governing People's Democratic Party's candidate (PDP) presidential candidate for February's election at a colourful ceremony in the capital, Abuja. That's because he's done so well this term.
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I'd suggest talking to the Iranians or the Chinese. The latter are arming Cameroon to the north, while the former are still shipping arms to Western Africa.
[AnNahar] U.S. President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... named a shady group linked to attacks in China's mainly Moslem far west as he called for cooperation with Beijing on anti-terror efforts in an interview with Chinese state media. I think they probably meant "shadowy," versus "shady."
Beijing regularly blames an organization it calls the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) for a series of deadly attacks in its Xinjiang region, home to the Uighur minority. I'm guessing they know what they're talking about.
"Terrorist groups like ETIM should not be allowed to establish a safe haven in ungoverned areas along China's periphery," Obama said in written interview with China's official Xinhua news agency published late Monday. "China's periphery?" What country could his speechwriter have in mind?
Violent attacks and festivities in and related to Xinjiang over the past year have claimed more than 200 lives, and China has been keen to link what it calls a domestic fight against snuffies to global anti-militant efforts. It's the same old bad guyz regardless of where they pop up.
But Beijing has produced little evidence linking the attacks to organised bully boy groups, and some analysts doubt that the ETIM exists as a significant force inside the region. "Some analysts" do? There was a significant number of Uighars who found themselves in Gitmo. All of them, of course, were in Afghanistan studying Islam or they were aid workers or something. B.O. should probably explain to the Chinese that there is strength in diversity.
The U.S., reportedly at Beijing's request, added the group, sometimes also known as the Turkestan Islamic Party, to a list of terrorist organizations in 2004, but has generally said little about it. Perhaps because it's a terror network that never quite got off the ground? Most of the attacks in Xinjiang have been knifings and such. Why? Because the Chinese cops aren't amused when they see somebody lugging a gun around who's not in uniform, specifically a Chinese uniform.
Rights groups say that violence in Xinjiang is fuelled by government repression of Uighur religious traditions and culture, and economic discrimination. Really. And the violence in Afghanistan is fuelled by the same thing. And in Pakistain. And in all those other countries where they like to wear turbans and they murder their women when they talk to somebody outside the family.
On the same day the interview with Obama was published, a court in Kashgar, a city in Xinjiang near the border with Pakistain, sentenced 22 people to jail on religion-related offenses, state-run media said. Near the border with Pakistain, was it? Wotta coincidence! But I'll betcha the same sorta thing happens near the border with Mongolia. And along the border with Russia. And Vietnam.
The 22 were sentenced for crimes ranging from "illegal preaching activities by 'wild imam'" to "engaging in illegal religious activity" to religious staff who had been dismissed from their positions but continued to preach, according to the government-run China News Agency. They were sentenced to prison terms of 5 to 16 years. "Illegal preaching activities?" Betcha they involved spraying the front three rows with spittle whilst denouncing the infidels. And "religious staff who had been dismissed from their positions but continued to preach" sounds like salafists who were tossed but refused to leave.
Government constraints on religious practices in Xinjiang, including banning veils and long beards, have sparked violent festivities in the past, residents say. All the outward manifestations of Islamism...
Obama added that greater co-operation would depend "on actions China takes at home". The Chinese, meanwhile, were wondering what's for dinner.
"As nations, we cannot confuse violent extremism with peaceful dissent," he said. Can't confuse jihad with personal development, either.
"A failure to treat people equally or respect rule of law or universal rights can sometimes push people into the ranks of terrorist groups. Upholding these rights and the rule of law can often be one of the most effective long-term weapons against terrorism," he added.
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[AnNahar] Families of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and soldiers maimed there in attacks allegedly linked to Iran and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... sued five European banks Monday, claiming their business with Iran helped finance the attacks.
HSBC, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Barclays Bank were sued in the federal district court in Brooklyn, New York, over their already admitted banking business with Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.
RBS was accused over activities of ABN Amro, the Dutch bank taken over by RBS in 2008.
The plaintiffs, including the families of dozens of U.S. soldiers who died in Iraq, allege that by tapping into the global financial system via those banks, Iran was able to finance "hundreds" of attacks in Iraq via Hizbullah and its own Revolutionary Guards, including the Quds Force, between 2003 and 2011.
"Iran used and continues to use the global banking system to purposefully circumvent U.S. and other sanctions regimes to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars," said Osen LLC, the law firm working for the plaintiffs.
"In order to evade detection, Iranian banks enlisted many of the world's largest financial institutions to help Iran cover up its web of transactions in support of its terrorist activities."
"The defendants provided Iran with the means by which it could transfer more than $150 million to the I.R.G.C.-Q.F., Hizbullah and Special Groups, which were actively engaged in planning and perpetrating the murder and maiming of hundreds of Americans in Iraq," the lawsuit said.
It is based on a 1992 U.S. law that makes it possible for people injured in terror attacks, or the families of those killed, to sue anyone culpable in the attacks for financial damages.
All five of the banks have been heavily fined by U.S. banking regulators for handling international financial transactions for Iranian entities in violation of the sanctions, and trying to hide the transactions.
But the suit goes a step farther.
It alleges that the banks knowingly took part in Iran's "conspiracy" to evade financial sanctions.
In addition, it alleges that they "also committed further acts of international terrorism... by knowingly (or with reason to know) facilitating financial transactions with Iran, which each such defendant knew was a designated State Sponsor of Terrorism."
A former high-ranking diplomat and Clinton ally at the center of an FBI counterintelligence probe was a registered foreign agent for the Pakistani government up until just days before she was appointed to run the U.S. State Department's Pakistan aid team.
The Washington Post reported last week that the State Department's aid coordinator for Pakistan, Robin Raphel, is the subject of a counterintelligence investigation and has had her security clearance revoked.
Just how guilty is this person that the MSM is reporting the news and that she's a friend of Hillary?
The FBI has not specified the nature of the probe, although the Post indicated that it could be espionage-related. She was reportedly placed on administrative leave last month, and the State Department said she is no longer employed by the agency.
Raphel previously served as an assistant secretary of state under President Bill Clinton and rejoined the State Department in August 2009 to focus on Pakistan and Afghanistan aid issues. She is also close to Hillary Clinton and contributed $2,000 to her presidential campaign in 2007.
From 2007 until 2009, Raphel worked for the lobbying firm Cassidy & Associates, where her clients included the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
All first class clients of course...
Cassidy & Associates stated in lobbying disclosure records that Raphel stopped conducting work for Pakistan in November 2007.
The U.S. Foreign Agent Registration office told the Washington Free Beacon that Raphel's foreign agent registration for Pakistan remained active until July 31, 2009. The State Department announced her appointment as Pakistani foreign aid coordinator five days later.
Disclosure forms also list dozens of Raphel's cab rides between June 1, 2009 and the July 31, 2009 as expenses incurred on behalf of the Pakistani embassy.
Ten of these cab rides were for trips Raphel made to the State Department at the end of July. Cassidy & Associates later filed an amendment stating that these State Department visits were "incorrectly characterized" and "were not incurred on behalf of the foreign principal."
The firm did not challenge Raphel's other listed cab rides on behalf of the Pakistani government during that same time period.
On August 10, 2009, Cassidy & Associates asked the Foreign Agent Registration office to terminate Raphel's October 27, 2007 lobbying registration for Pakistan and Equatorial Guinea. The firm stated that Raphel "has not rendered services for these foreign principals since [November 2007 and February 2008]."
FARA experts said the discrepancies were unusual, but could be excused as clerical errors and on their own were unlikely to trigger a counterintelligence investigation.
"Not standing alone. Maybe [the filings would prompt] a letter of question, nothing more," one attorney who specializes in FARA issues told the Free Beacon. "I don't think there would be any inference of nefarious conduct based on that."
Still, the disclosures highlight Raphel's close professional ties with the Pakistani government, which critics have cited to claim she is biased against India.
Cassidy & Associates waited barely one month after Raphel left the firm before lobbying their former employee on Pakistan issues, meeting with her on Sept. 2, Sept. 26 and Sept. 27 of 2009, as well as several times in November.
Not enough 'pro' between the 'quid' and the 'quo'...
According to disclosure records, Cassidy & Associates lobbyists had conversations with Raphel about the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act and "aid priorities and funding mechanisms for development in Pakistan."
"We are reviewing our filings, but Ms. Raphel has not worked for Cassidy since July, 2009," said a spokesman for Cassidy & Associates.
While the Obama administration has restrictions on lobbyists joining the administration, Raphel was not subject to these rules because she was not a presidential appointee.
Always an excuse, isn't there...
Raphel, a long-time diplomat, is a frequent guest on think tank panels and a respected voice in Washington's Pakistan policy circles.
"I would be flabbergasted beyond belief if she did anything deliberately and knowingly that is illegal," said C. Christine Fair, an assistant professor at Georgetown University and a South Asia policy expert. "I'm appalled by the allegations that have been flung at her without evidence. Everyone should wait for evidence and recall that all are innocent until proven guilty."
We'll remember those words next time a Pub is accused of a crime. And what relation does Prof. Fair have with the accused? How did the Free Beacon just happen to contact her?
Raphel served as both assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Tunisia under the Clinton administration. Her first husband, Arnold Raphel, was a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and was killed along with Pakistani President Muhammad Zia ul-Haq in a 1988 plane crash.
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Cab rides to the PAK embassy certainly do negate the old dead drop routine. Security clearances are not suspended without evidence I assure you. I believe the bureau searched her residence and hauled away a number of items, possibly her crockpot classified document holder, who knows.
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... on Tuesday ruled out the presence of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) Death Eaters in Pakistain.
"No organization of this name exists in Pakistain," the interior minister said while speaking to media representatives after addressing the passing-out parade of Rangers in 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...
Nisar said several hard boy organizations were operating in Pakistain as well as on the other side of the border.
The statement comes days after the provincial government of 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... conveyed a confidential report to law enforcement agencies warning of increased footprints of IS, also known by the Arabic acronym Daish, in Pakistain.
The 'secret information report' stated that the IS has claimed to have recruited a massive 10 to 12,000 followers from the Hangu and Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... tribal areas.
Wall-chalking has also begun to appear in support of IS in some cities of Pakistain, including Karachi and Khanewal.
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* TOPIX > [Washington Times] ISLAMIC STATE SEEKS INFLUENCE BEYONG THE MIDDLE EAST, SENDS EMISSARIES TO PAKISTAN.
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > ISLAMIC STATE IS RECRUITING THOUSANDS IN PAKISTAN, GOVT. WARNED IN NEW SECRET [Balochistan]REPORT - DAWN.COM.
[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court on Monday extended physical remand of four suspects involved in lynching of a Christian couple of Kot Radha Kishan, Kasur.
The investigating officer stated before the court that further custody of the suspects was required to complete interrogation.
Presiding Judge Haroon Latif accepted the request and extended the physical remand of the suspects for nine days. Police produced the suspects under strict security arrangements. he enjugged You have the right to remain silent... suspects included Muhammad Yousaf, Ghulam Husain, Haris Bashir and Mehmand Jatt.
Victims Shahzad and his wife Shama were bonded labourers at the kiln of Yousaf.
The court also directed the police to collect call record of suspects' cell phones. In this case, 39 suspects had already been sent to jail on judicial remand.
Talking to the media outside the court, Chaudhry Nazir, brother of kiln owner Yousaf, accused police of partial investigation. He claimed that Yousaf was not present at the time of the incident.
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[AnNahar] The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday it had been forced to slash the number of people it can help prepare for winter in conflict-ravaged Syria and Iraq for lack of funds.
"The whole humanitarian community is facing shortfalls. People are becoming numb," said Amin Awad, who heads UNHCR's Middle East and North Africa bureau, lamenting that his agency was having to make "tough choices".
The agency said it was facing a shortfall of $58 million (47 million euros) for its efforts to prepare millions of displaced people in Syria and Iraq for winter.
As a result, as many as one million displaced people desperate for blankets, kerosene, warm clothes and other items needed to keep warm and dry may have to go without assistance, it warned.
"I wish we could support everybody, and I wish that we could keep everybody warm," Amin told news hounds in Geneva, adding however that "the world is not responding."
He noted that around 13.6 million people had been displaced from their homes in Syria and Iraq, including 3.3 million Syrians and 190,000 Iraqis who had fled their countries to become refugees.
Some 7.2 million Syrians have been displaced within the war-torn country, many of them multiple times.
And 1.9 million Iraqis have been displaced this year alone -- a million of them since Sunni holy warrior group IS began seizing large swaths of the country in June, declaring an Islamic "caliphate" across much of Iraq and Syria.
With winter already on the doorstep, and temperatures falling as low as minus 16 degrees Celsius (3.2 Fahrenheit) in some parts of Syria and Iraq, UNHCR has already invested $154 million in winter aid for the devastated countries.
But because of the funding shortfall it has been forced to revise down the numbers it can help.
The agency had planned to help 1.4 million people in Syria and 600,000 people in Iraq, but now expects to reach only 620,000 in Syria and 240,000 in Iraq.
As a result, UNHCR said it was being forced to make "some very tough choices over who to prioritize."
"The needs are massive but funding has not kept up apace with the new displacement," Fleming said.
Those at higher, colder altitudes, as well as vulnerable people such as the sick, the elderly and newborns, are first in line for aid, Amin said.
He noted that 11 young children froze to death in Syria last year.
"The same can happen this year with children, elderly and frail persons," he warned.
[Iraq News] Anbar tribal Council revealed on Tuesday that an all-female force called "Daughters of The Right" was formed to fight the ISIS terrorist organization in Anbar province.
The Sunni tribes?! Not the Kurds, who are eccentric anyway, but the Sunni Arab tribes? The devils must be handing out ice skates in Hell just now.
Sakr Salem Al-Ithawy, a council member, said, "More than 50 women formed a military force called "Daughters of The Right" to support the tribal forces in their war against the terrorist gangs of ISIS during the next phase."
Ithawy added , "Tribes in Anbar experienced the bad influences of the ISIS terrorist gangs who destroyed the city and ousted its families to other provinces, and that was what encouraged these women to form this force."
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Dayyumm! The next thing you know, they'll be demanding the right to drive, to vote, and maybe even dispense with those evil burqas! Why, if the Sunnis aren't careful, some of them might even begin to smoke! I almost feel a little hope for Iraq...
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[Iraq News] On Tuesday, a local source in Diyala province revealed that the organization of the so-called Islamic state in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in Hamrin Basin northeast of Baquba, issued a circular to ban its militants from playing football, considering it âa diversion from the spirit of jihadâ.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNew.com, âThe leaders of ISIS in Hamrin Basin, especially in the areas of Saadia (60 km north-east of Baquba) and Jalawla (70 km north-east of Baquba), issued a circular yesterday whereby it banned its elements from playing football, considering it as a diversion that is harmful to the spirit of jihad.â
The source, who requested anonymity, added, âThe circular also threatened those who do not abide to be whipped and expelled from the organization.â
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Football is so gaye. Please someone, introduce them to Ōllamaliztli. They'll be thrilled with the beheading ceremonies held for match losers.
[Ynet] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday that he was ordering new measures to increase security.
These steps include reinforcing forces across the country to increase the security of Israeli civilians, destruction of terrorists' homes and harsh responses to rioters throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks.
One of the new measures taken by Netanyahu to restore order will also seek to fine "the parents of children who throw rocks" and outlaw sources of incitement in Jerusalem.
"Terror has no borders," Netanyahu declared, "the murderous Moslems do not want us in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, not in Gush Etzion and not anywhere else."
[AnNahar] Jailed Paleostinian leader Marwan Barghuti urged the Paleostinian leadership to give its backing to "armed resistance" against Israel in a letter published Tuesday as a wave of violence surged.
The call came after months of festivities in and around annexed east Jerusalem and a growing number of deadly Paleostinian attacks by lone individuals.
So far, the Paleostinian leadership has not taken a clear position on the violence, which has recently spread to Arab areas of Israel as well as the West Bank.
In a letter to mark 10 years since the death of veteran leader Yasser Arafat, Barghuti said that "choosing global and armed resistance" was being "faithful to Arafat's legacy, to his ideas and his principles for which tens of thousands died as deaders."
Barghuti, who is widely believed to have criminal masterminded the second Paleostinian intifada, from 2000 to 2005, wrote the letter from his cell in Israel's Hadarim prison where he is serving five life sentences for attacks on Israeli targets.
A senior figure within the Fatah movement of Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , Barghuti was placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! in 2002 and sentenced two years later.
Barghuti has since said he never supported attacks on civilians inside Israel and in recent years has thrown his support behind peaceful resistance.
He still wields huge influence from inside prison and is considered the only serious challenger to Abbas as president, with surveys regularly naming him as favourite to win elections should he be released from jail.
"It is imperative to reconsider our choice of resistance as a way of defeating the occupier," he wrote.
There has been increasing talk of a new intifada in the making following months of festivities in annexed east Jerusalem and the series of deadly attacks.
The unrest has recently spread into Israel and the West Bank, with two Israelis killed in two separate stabbing attacks on Monday.
With religious tensions also surging at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, a site holy to both Moslems and Jews, Barghuti urged the Paleostinian leadership to take action and make good on threats to end security cooperation with Israel.
"The Paleostinian Authority must review its priorities and its mission... and put an immediate end to security cooperation which is only strengthening the occupier," he said.
He also remarked on the circumstances of Arafat's death, saying his "liquidation" was the result of "an official Israeli-American decision".
Arafat died in a military hospital near Gay Paree on November 11, 2004 in circumstances that have never been clear.
Two years ago, Swiss experts who examined his personal effects reported finding "abnormal" levels of polonium, an extremely radioactive toxin, fuelling the widespread Paleostinian belief that he was poisoned by Israel.
Israel has repeatedly denied any role in Arafat's death.
Update at 11:30 a.m. ET, one of those consequences thingies:
[AnNahar] Syria has freed around 11,000 detainees since Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... declared a general amnesty in June, the country's National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar said.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... rights groups including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say 200,000 people are still languishing in government jails.
Speaking to AFP in Damascus on Monday, Haidar said "11,000 people have benefited from the amnesty and been released from prison."
He was referring to a "general amnesty" announced by Assad a week after his controversial re-election as president.
Haidar said the figure was rising gradually as the justice ministry, which is in charge of applying the presidential decree, examined prisoner files.
The Syrian government presented the amnesty as the largest since the outbreak of the country's conflict in 2011.
It was also the first to include those accused of crimes under a controversial "anti-terrorism" law that has in fact been used to jail thousands of peaceful and armed opponents alike.
But the Observatory disputed the government's figures, saying the number of people released was closer to 7,000 people.
"Between 70,000 and 80,000 detainees were supposed to benefit from the amnesty, and only 10 percent of them have been released," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
And a number of high-profile activists, journalists and lawyers, including Khalil Maatuq and Mazen Darwish, remain behind bars despite the amnesty.
Rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni told AFP that many of those released were not political prisoners but rather accused common criminals who were not meant to be covered by the amnesty.
Additionally, he said, "security services have refused to meet with the committees charged with applying the amnesty."
"In fact, the amnesty decree has benefited very few people," he said.
In some cases, he said, tribunals considering prisoners for release simply changed the allegations against them so they would no longer be covered by the terms of the amnesty.
Asked about the reported 200,000 people being held in Syrian prisons, Haidar insisted the figure was "exaggerated."
"They have no documents. We have asked them multiple times to give us the names so we could cooperate together to solve the problem," he said.
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[AnNahar] Several terrorist detainees have confessed to a plot by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant to stage a ground offensive and control several regions in northern Leb to announce the establishment of the Islamic State in Leb.
A high-ranking military source told al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Tuesday that Imad Jomaa, Ahmed Miqati and several other detainees admitted that the ground offensive aimed at opening a corridor to the sea across northern Leb by connecting Arsal with Hermel, Dinniyeh, Akkar and ultimately the coastal 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... Imad Jomaa is a member of the al-Qaeda-affiliate al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front whose arrest sparked the Arsal unrest in August, and Miqati was jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in October in the town of Assoun in the northern district of Dinniyeh during a deadly army raid on an apartment that he and several forces of Evil had been residing in.
The source told the newspaper that the detainees are linked to ISIL and not the Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and take direct orders from the command.
"The group's kingpin in Leb is being pursued by the army and will be arrested soon," the source said.
The gunnies also were planning to carry out a wide-scale assault against the army and seeking to recruit more soldiers to increase defections from the military.
The army has come under growing attacks across Leb by forces of Evil who accuse it of colluding with Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... in its intervention in the Syrian conflict on the side of the regime.
In October, eighteen suspected members of the Islamic State jihadist group were indicted on charges of aiming to set up an "emirate" in northern Leb.
Fifteen of the accused are on the run.
Tripoli was rocked by three days of devastating fighting between troops and gunnies last month that left several soldiers and civilians dead.
The gunnies are suspected of having links to al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, which opposes IS inside Syria although they have an ambivalent relationship in Leb.
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