[Libya Herald] The European Union is prepared to increase its counter-terrorism commitments in Libya in light of recent attacks by Islamic State but has ruled out a military intervention for the time being . . . ... for the time being...
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Germany is expected to have a major role, potens "decisive" given its location in CENTRAL EUROPE, in any future EU Army, which is why Russia is worried despite Germany being its BFF + strategic partner.
Moscow fears Germany will use the new "EU Army" as a cover to re-arm, nuclearize? + re-assert itself geopol, to include as per REVISION OF THE COLD-WAR-ERA FRANCO-GERMAN PACT INTO POST-9-11 NEW FRANCO-GERMAN SUPER-ALIANCE - Put another way, OWG CO-SUPERPOWER MOSCOW FEARS RUSSIA + SCO-CSTO [Eurasian Customs Union] WILL BE ISOLATED FROM EUROPE [+ IRAN-led ME] TO CHINA-LED EAST ASIA.
[Libya Herald] The House of Representatives (HoR) has instructed Prime Minister Abdullah Thinni to reinstate the suspended Interior Minister Omar Al-Sinki.
In a letter directed to the Prime Minister yesterday, HoR President Agheela Saleh instructed Thinni to enable Sinki to resume his duties effective Sunday. The letter said that this decision was based on the results of the investigation by the pertinent committee.
It will be recalled that Prime Minister Abdullah Thinni removed Sinki from his post on 10 February four days after the Interior Minister had accused General Khalifa Hafter of being a dictator and had called for UNSMIL's dialogue to be held in Misrata, his home town.
The statements by Sinki came when he had given a controversial interview the previous Wednesday to Le Monde when he was in Gay Paree for talks with the French government.
He had said that Hafter had "no role in Libya's future" and described him as a dictator who had planned to kidnap the government. He had added that he recalled speaking to Hafter several times and asserted that the general had told him that he wished to be president. He warned Hafter had to be isolated "or he will isolate us".
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[REUTERS] An Egyptian court seeks the death penalty for the Moslem Brüderbund's top leader Mohammed Badie and 13 other members of the group for inciting chaos and planning attacks on police and army institutions, judicial sources said on Monday.
The court formally referred the case to the Grand Mufti, the country's highest Islamic legal official, which is the first step towards imposing a death sentence.
Egyptian law requires any capital sentence to be referred to the Mufti for an religious opinion before any execution can take place, although the Mufti's ruling is not binding. Once the court issues a final verdict, set for April 11, the defendants can appeal it.
The 14 include the Brotherhood's Salah Soltan, a preacher, and Saad al-Hosseiny, ex-governor of Kafr el-Sheikh province.
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[AnNahar] La Belle France has blocked five websites accused of condoning terrorism, in the first use of new government powers that came into force in February, the interior ministry said on Monday.
One of the sites -- al-Hayat Media Center -- is accused of links to 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.... group, the ministry said.
The site "islamic-news.info" has also been blocked since the end of last week.
The banning order was given to Internet service providers, who had 24 hours to take "all necessary measures to block the listing of these addresses" under the new rules.
They were introduced as part of a package of counter-terrorism measures approved by parliament in November.
Critics argued they could breach citizens' rights by bypassing the need for a judge to make the banning orders.
Other powers include the right to stop people traveling out of the country if they are suspected of trying to join jihadist groups.
Six French citizens aged between 23 and 28 had their passports and identity cards confiscated in February for a period of six months. The order can be renewed.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said at the time that 40 more people were likely to be barred from traveling in the coming weeks.
He visited Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, last month, meeting major Internet firms in a bid to improve information-sharing about online jihadist networks, and was due to meet again Internet company bosses in Gay Paree in early April.
The interior ministry has set up a warning system through which friends and family can alert authorities about potential jihadist cases.
Cazeneuve said last month that the ministry had been alerted to over 1,000 cases and that "several dozen" planned trips to Syria and Iraq had been prevented as a result.
Some 1,400 people living in La Belle France have either joined the jihadist cause in Syria and Iraq or are planning to do so, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in March.
"There have already been nearly 90 French people who have died out there with a weapon in their hands, fighting against our own values," Valls said in an interview on French television.
[AnNahar] The long-awaited trial of two coppers was to start Monday over the deaths of two youths that triggered weeks of deadly rioting across La Belle France's housing projects nearly 10 years ago.
Officers Sebastien Gaillemin and Stephanie Klein will face a court in Rennes, west of Gay Paree, on charges they failed to prevent the electrocution deaths of Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17.
The pair died on October 27, 2005, in a high-voltage electricity transformer near their Clichy-sous-Bois housing project northeast of Gay Paree, as they hid from coppers milling nearby. Dodging in and out of heavy motor traffic on the Périphérique could have resulted in death as well. Should these lads been stopped and warned about those dangers as well ?
Their friend Muhittin Altun survived with severe burns.
The five-day trial will examine whether Gaillemin and Klein knew the youths were in grave danger, but failed to act.
News of Benna and Traore's deaths ignited the pent-up rage of younger Clichy residents over poverty, police harassment and general alienation in the ghetto-like projects.
Almost 10 years on, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls recently said the areas still represent "territorial, social and ethnic apartheid" within society.
The rioting, arson, and running festivities with security forces that broke out in Clichy quickly spread across hundreds of other communities, inducing much soul-searching in La Belle France, yet little improvement in the projects since.
Debate over the darker consequences of that alienation has recently returned to the top of the political agenda in the wake of the jihadist attacks in January in Gay Paree by youths who had embraced radical Islam.
Critics say the long battle to try Gaillemin, 41 and Klein, 38, is further proof of the discrimination against the blighted "banlieues" (suburbs) and their residents.
"Three kids were victims, two of them died in atrocious conditions. That could have been avoided, (but) the idea of acting to rescue youths who were from the projects never came to mind," charged Jean-Pierre Mignard, a lawyer for the victim's families.
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Gaillemin and Klein are being tried for "non-assistance to individuals in danger", a charge carrying a maximum prison term of five years, and fines of up to 75,000 euros ($79,000).
Benna, Traore and Altun were all known in Clichy as well-behaved teenagers, and supporters of their families say the trio did what project youths learn to do when police start chasing them: they ran from anticipated harassment and humiliation.
That led them into the fenced-off electrical transformers, where -- according to accounts and transcripts of police radio exchanges -- surrounding police discussed the fleeing youths and noted the dire consequences in the event they had sought shelter inside the high-voltage installation.
But Daniel Merchat, the lawyer for Klein and Gaillemin, says none of the evidence indicates the defendants knew the boys were in the complex and facing grave danger.
"My clients are relieved to finally get a hearing, because they are certain they did nothing wrong, committed no error," Merchat said last week.
Several earlier hearings and internal investigations have cleared Gaillemin and Klein of error and negligence, but judges ordered the case to court in October 2012.
"Some people never wanted this case to be tried, (and) that almost worked," Mignard said.
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Going into the archives, the first report on this story at Rantburg is here, and the second is here. No doubt we have more -- I think that was the summer of the French car-b-cue.
Note especially the extensive and useful comments from anonymous5089, who previously was the first to decode JosephMendiola's dense and allusion-filled posts. I still miss most of the allusions to 1950s television shows and films...
[Hurriyet Daily News] The ongoing tragedy in Syria is part of global attempts "to weaken The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's power and damage Turkey's position," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said on March 16.
"This is the reason for support given to [Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... ] and also to Daesh [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 Levant, ISIL]," Erdogan said, speaking at the opening ceremony of a new facility of Turkish defense company Aselsan.
Without going into details, he pointed to "some circles that do not want Turkey's development."
Erdogan vowed to continue to support the development of the domestic defense industry, saying Turkey is constantly strengthening its political power with economic power.
He also pledged to diminish the Turkish defense industry's foreign dependency, which he described as "a mistake made from the 1930s until 2000."
Turkey's defense industry is currently worth $5 billion per year, with exports bringing in $1.65 million dollars, Erdogan said.
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* WAFF > [Foreign Affairs] TURKEY AND EGYPT'S "GREAT GAME" IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
Not unlike China-vs-Japan, both Muslim Nations see themselves as Great Powers andor Regional Powers, + as de facto El Supremo = #1 Leader among Sunni Muslims.
VERSUS
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BALANCE OF POWER TIPS TOWARD IRAN | JAPAN TIMES.
Sunni-majority ME in shambles - SHIA RISING IRAN LIKELY TO BE MIDDLE EAST #1 EVEN IFF HAD NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS OR ITS NUCPROGS WERE DESTROYED.
Mainstream Iran + Mainstream Amerika have Anti-US US Globalist Obama + aligned to thank for this gift.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > ABSENT US FORCES, IRAQ [Iraq Govt-Army] TURNS TO IRAN MILITIAS FOR ISIS FIGHT IN TIKRIT, MOSUL.
* WAFF > POSTER THREAD/PICS: IRANIAN FIGHTER-BOMBERS OPERATING IN IRAQ.
10 ea. SU-22 IRIAF FBS.
* WORLD NEWS >[New York Post] IRAN REPORTEDLY SENDS MISSLES [+ LR Arty Rockets] TO IRAQ TO HELP BATTLE ISIS.
CLERICS = D *** NG IT, PAKISTAN, WHY ARE YOU AFRAID TO USE YOUR NUKES - ARE YOU A NATION + ARMY OF ISLAM OR NOT???
Looks like the Al-Aqsa Sunni Mullahs have issues wid US-West/Allies = Crusader-supported Shia Iran becoming the World's first Muslim-Islamic Superpower, wid no KSA andor ME Sunnis as nuclear rival.
Have they said D *** NG IT???
* WORLD NEWS > HAS A CHRISTIAN HOLOCAUST BEGUN? WHEN WILL THE WEST WAKE UP TO ISIS THREAT?
Must mean ANTI-CHRISTIAN, CONSERVATIVE, SECULAR [Neutralist, NOT Atheism], PRO-DEMOCRACY, LIBERTARIAN, REPUBLICAN, + NATIONALIST holocaust.
Using the Hard Boy threat to PCorrectly-Deniably forcibly impose Marxist-Commie-Socialist US, World Order.
But whom notices such thingys ...
To once again paraph CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, andor ANDY GRIFFITH'S "NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS" CLASSIC MOVIE + WILY USAF GENERAL BUSH = "THATS
RIDICULOUS ... SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA,
ITS NOT 2030-2050 YEAR YET, "NEO-OTTOMAN" TURKEY HAS NOT BEGUN ITS "LONG MARCH" TO NEW OTTOMAN EMPIRE, + THE US-BORN, US-RAISED, CONVERT-TO-ISLAM ISLAMIC MAHDI IS NOT THE MAHDI YET".
[DAWN] A Pak man accused of planning to bomb the U.S. consulate in Toronto and other targets in the city's financial district will remain in jug pending an immigration review in April, Canadian media reported on Monday.
Jahanzeb Malik, 33, said little as he appeared by videolink before the brief immigration hearing at a jail in Lindsay, Ontario, northeast of Toronto, the reports said. He was told he would be detained until his next hearing on the grounds he may be "a danger to the public".
The Canadian government, which has said Malik was inspired by 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 seeking to deport him as a security threat rather than charge him with criminal offenses.
That strategy has been criticised as irresponsible by human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... lawyers. The deportation process can take months but the threshold for proof of guilt is far lower than in criminal law.
Malik's next review hearing is set for April 14, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp said.
Malik was befriended by an undercover Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer during a long investigation into the activities of the former student, who has a record of travel to Pakistain and allegedly underwent combat training in Libya, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said last week.
The accusations against him have not been proven in court, and Malik's lawyer could not immediately be reached for comment.
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[DAWN] Members of opposition and treasury benches in the National Assembly on Monday said religious minorities are feeling insecure in the country due to the deteriorating law and order situation.
Commenting in the National Assembly regarding the terrorist attacks on churches in Lahore, Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) MNA Syed Naveed Qamar said on Monday: "Government has failed to control terrorism as murderous Moslems are able to strike at any place". The forces of Evil carried out suicide kaboom on churches to defame Pakistain, he added.
Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) politician Syed Asif Hasnain said the terrorist attacks on minorities are damaging the image of the country, while the people have started to believe that Pakistain is no more a secure country for the minorities.
Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) politician Asiya Ansar said it was the responsibility of intelligence agencies to counter such heinous plans as people have been facing terrorism for over a decade now.
She said minorities are feeling insecure in their own country. "People believe they will fail to get justice that's why they are taking law in their own hands," the JUI-F MNA said.
Ruling party's MNA Khalil George demanded of the government to establish a separate task force to protect worship places across the country.
"The media should call those as 'deaders' who bit the dust in the forces of Evil attack in Lahore," he requested.
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[DAWN] Horror and anger dominated protests across Pakistain on Monday, as members of the Christian community erupted into the streets in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , Lahore, Gujranwala and other urban centers following Sunday's Taliban attack on two churches.
The protests turned violent in Lahore when demonstrators clashed at different points during the day with dozens of baton-wielding coppers. One protester was killed while several were maimed when a car hit them at Ferozpur Road.
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[DAWN] A man named Muhammad Saleem filed an application at Lahore's Nishtar Colony cop shoppe on Monday, saying that one of the two men lynched by an angry mob following the twin church blasts on Sunday was his brother Naeem.
Speaking to Dawn.com, officials at the Nishtar Colony cop shoppe confirmed that Muhammad Saleem had approached the police to register a murder case against protesters who brutally killed and then torched his brother's body.
According to DawnNews, Muhammad Saleem said his brother worked as a glass cutter and had nothing to do with yesterday's church bombings in Lahore.
From the blogs section: Killing outside churches, lynching in the streets
Following yesterday's attacks on two churches in Lahore's Christian locality, Youhanabad, scores of protesters had taken away two suspects held by the police and lynched them.
The identity of both suspects had not been ascertained till late Sunday night.
Punjab Police IG Mushtaq Sukhera had said after the lynching: "The coppers did attempt to resist but the mob was highly charged. It was not impossible to use force at that time because it could turn the situation ugly and perhaps out of control."
Commenting on the killing, Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... said "Killing someone on the basis of suspicion is inhumane. No one has the right to take the law into their own hands."
He said an order to arrest those involved in the lynching had been issued.
The situation outside Youhanabad remained out of control on Monday as protests against the bombings turned violent. According to latest reports, one person was killed while seven protesters were maimed after mobs clashed with baton-wielding coppers.
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[DAWN] 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... government on Monday declared 35 out of the total 60 churches in the province as 'sensitive' in an attempt to avert any terrorist attack, similar to Sunday's twin bombings in Lahore. Yeah, they "beefed up security" last time, too.
Sources in the Balochistan Home Department told DawnNews that most of these 'sensitive' churches are located in Quetta, the picturesque provincial capital. According to officials, security around the said churches has been tightened, with more coppers now deployed outside and around the churches to avoid any untoward incident.
The move comes just a day after jacket wallahs attacked two churches in Lahore's Youhanabad, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens other. The bombings resulted in immediate protests in Lahore, where a mob brutally lynched two suspects after taking them away from police custody.
The unrest in Lahore and other cities of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... continued on Monday, with Christian protesters clashing with baton-wielding coppers.
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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... condemned the attack on churches in Youhanabad and said it is an attack on the state of Pakistain.
In a message to the Christian community, the premier expressed grief over the loss of lives.
"The government considers this unfortunate incident as an attack on the state of Pakistain. Our Christian community has rendered invaluable services to the motherland particularly in the social sector and we consider them our honour and pride," he said.
Extending his condolences to the bereaved families who lost their dear ones in the incident, the prime minister said the government would work with them to find answers to their questions. He reiterated the government's resolve to eradicate terrorism and extremism from the country.
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[AnNahar] The White House has confirmed that any nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers would be subject to a vote by the U.N. Security Council. Which essentially takes the Champ regime off the hook for any follow-on military action regarding Iran should the inevitable happen, and Iran violates the terms of the deal. Russian 'buy-in' for any strike against Iran is most improbable.
The acknowledgement by President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... 's chief of staff Denis McDonough comes as the White House butts heads with Republicans over whether the U.S. Congress should vote on any deal.
"Just as it is true that only Congress can terminate U.S. statutory sanctions on Iran, only the Security Council can terminate the Security Council's sanctions on Iran," McDonough said in a letter on Saturday to Bob Corker, the Republican head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"Because the principal negotiators of an arrangement with Iran are the five permanent members of the Security Council, we anticipate that the Security Council would pass a resolution to register its support for any deal and increase its international legitimacy," he said.
On Friday, the State Department's spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki also said there would be an "endorsement vote" by the U.N. Security Council soon after an agreement is reached with Iran.
This would be separate from a resolution on lifting sanctions imposed by the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... on Tehran, she said.
That vote would occur later in a manner and date yet to be established, according to Psaki.
The B.O. regime has been trying to dissuade politicians from passing a law, called Corker-Menendez, that would force the president to submit any agreement with Iran to Congress for approval.
Under the measure, Congress would have 60 days to review and possibly vote to block any agreement's entry into force.
"On this issue where Congress has played such a vital role, I believe it is very important that Congress appropriately weigh in before any final agreement is implemented," Corker said.
The Republicans are trying to assemble a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress to pass the measure and override an Obama veto.
"Apparently the administration is on the cusp of entering into a very bad deal with one of the worst regimes in the world that would allow them to continue to have their nuclear infrastructure. We're alarmed about it," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
"We will either be voting on a bill that would require the deal to come to Congress. The president said he would veto that. Or if there is no deal, we'll be voting on a bill that says the sanctions need to be ratcheted up," he said.
you want to make it a treaty? Do it right, cowards
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The UN can lift sanctions anytime they get tired of five-star dining. It's got nothing to do with a deal between two nations.
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If the sanctions are lifted by the UN, then the Senate's refusal to ratify the treaty will be moot. Not only that, but even if the next president puts sanctions and inspections back in place in accordance with the will of Congress, the rest of th world will be so busily selling Iran the materials and tools to make their nuclear bombs, and buying their oil, that an American refusal to engage on trade will be swamped by European and Asian delight in doing so. They're all already negotiating contracts in anticipation of coming changes.
[IraqiNews.com] President of Kurdistan Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... said on Sunday, that the doors are open for Arabs to fight in the ranks of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, calling the federal government to do its duty in the liberated areas.
Barzani said during a meeting with Arab tribal elders attended by IraqiNews.com, "The doors are open for Arabs to join the Peshmerga ranks in their fight against terrorism, and without discrimination," urging the federal government to do its duty and provide services in the liberated areas.
Barzani added, "We should not feed grudges and hatred. Those who refused loyalty to ISIS must live freely and with dignity, while those who chose to be with ISIS, their fate will be like ISIS' fate."
"All Kurdish areas have been liberated and are now ready to contribute in the operations to liberate the rest of Iraq," calling on everyone to cooperate in order to build a spirit of cooperation and brotherhood.
[REUTERS] Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a final bid to shore up right-wing support ahead of a knife-edge vote on Tuesday, said he would not permit a Paleostinian state to be created under his watch if he is re-elected.
Trailing his centre-left opponent Isaac Herzog in opinion polls, the three-term leader has sought to shift the focus away from socioeconomic issues and on to security challenges, saying he alone can defend Israel.
Having previously hinted that he would accept a Paleostinian state, Netanyahu reversed course on Monday, citing risks that he linked to the regional spread of Islamist militancy. He said that if he is re-elected, the Paleostinians would not get the independent state they seek in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gazoo.
"Whoever moves to establish a Paleostinian state or intends to withdraw from territory is simply yielding territory for radical Islamic terrorist attacks against Israel," he told the Israeli news site NRG.
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Please correct me iff I'm wrong, but besides Austria-Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina, the last "two-state" polity in world histoire' was possibly wid ANCIENT EGYPT + so-called POST-JOSAIC/JOSEPHITE PRE-EXODUS ANCIENT ISRAEL???
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You mean the united kingdoms of upper and lower Egypt, and the Jewish kingdoms of Israel and Judah, JosephM? I can see united Egypt as two states under one ruler, though I don't know much about it, but although all 12 tribes of Israel had a united monarchy under the first kings -- Saul, David and Solomon -- after that Israel and Judah were decidedly separate kingdoms with separate royal families and holy places (Jerusalem for Judah, Bethel and Dan for Israel).
There is also the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland...
[Beirut Daily Star] Aid organizations have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over General Security's new residency renewal measures for Syrian nationals, especially a provision requiring registered refugees to pledge not to work. Aid agencies were informed about the measures, which have not been publicized by General Security, in an internal memorandum circulated earlier this year that went into effect Jan. 5. The document, which was acquired by The Daily Star, lists nine different categories for Syrian nationals to legalize their stay in Leb. Notably, it draws a distinction between Syrian nationals registered with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and those outside its purview.
Refugees seeking to renew their residencies for this year must provide the General Security with a written pledge not to work, a fee of $200, a copy of their UNHCR registration document, a housing pledge, which typically requires a notarized declaration from a mukhtar who may charge for the service and valid ID.
Other categories of Syrian nationals, who are legally permitted to work, must find a Lebanese sponsor to assume responsibility for them throughout their stay, a housing pledge and the $200 fee.
The required pledge not to work is raising concerns among Syrian refugees, the majority of whom do resort to some form of informal labor to make ends meet.
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Give them food and money, and they'll be happy to do nothing all the live long day. (Doo Dah, Doo Dah)
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God forbid them work. How are they supposed to pay the $200 fee?
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especially a provision requiring registered refugees to pledge not to work
AKA the Democrat Pledge™
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Pikers! True entitlementarians drive black luxury cars, Lexus, MB, BMW, etc. Cruise around town during business hours. Drift in and out of fast food joints for Pepsi and snacks.
[REUTERS] The United States insisted on Monday it would never negotiate directly with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... , edging away from comments made by 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... , and it cast doubt on any immediate prospects for third-party talks to resolve Syria's civil war.
Kerry's apparent suggestion in a CBS television interview on Sunday that there could be a place for Assad in efforts to reach a diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict drew swift criticism from European and Arab allies.
Seeking to calm the diplomatic storm, State Department and White House officials sought to clarify Kerry's remarks and show that Washington's position on Assad had not softened.
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 that while the United States accepted the need for representatives of Assad's government to participate in any negotiations, "it would not be and would never be - and it wasn't what Secretary Kerry was intending to imply - that that would be Assad himself."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[REUTERS] An Egyptian court seeks the death penalty for the 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAWN] Members of opposition and treasury benches in the National Assembly on Monday said religious minorities are feeling insecure in the country due to the deteriorating law and order situation.
[DAWN] A man named Muhammad Saleem filed an application at Lahore's Nishtar Colony 
[DAWN] 
[DAWN] Prime Minister 
Massoud Barzani
