Pakistan must be viewed through the context of 1979; Video: Malou (Cato)

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VIDEO BIG SCREEN VIEW.
Pictures Pierre shot in Pakistan during his nearly 2 years stay in Lahore. Tribute to Pierre (at end)
RIP
Image: Amir Mukhtar (Lahore)



Understanding the legacy of the Soviet-Afghan War, and how its aftermath strained relations between Washington and Islamabad, can shed light of ways to move forward in Afghanistan today, and extricate U.S. troops from this volatile part of the world... read.

AUDIO: A logical look at Afghanistan: LISTEN

AUDIO: Advice to Obama: Afghanistan and Pakistan: Listen.

Malou Innocent, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute , visited Pakistan late last year to get a better sense of how developments within Pakistan shape its foreign policy toward the United States...

Those of us that missed the era of 1979-80 seem to be more apt to look objectively... Malou Innocent states, "In the future we should take Afghanistan as it is, rather than what we want it to be"... To me, this means helping to bring stability to the region; as will reflect the 'best of its history'...

VIDEO: There are solutions: View.
Many do not want to hear what went wrong, thus do not have a correct grasp of a solution... What Obama Should Do in Pakistan read.

And that solution might very well look like this:
"Rather than "surge" into this volatile region, the president should consider the strategic and political significance of Afghanistan's surrounding neighbors and engage in regional efforts to broker dialogue... AUDIO.
VIDEO: Obama's Latest statement- View. (Hope he listen's to Malou.)

Shebab by land -Shebeb by Sea (face-off)

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"Every Somali has great respect for the holy kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We have nothing against them but unfortunately what happened was just business for us and I hope the Saudis will understand," the pirate said.
Let's hope saving face will not set-forth an ecological disaster...

Earlier: Saud against ransom, & Piracy:
"Like terrorism, it is an evil that has to be eradicated," Prince Saud told reporters in Oslo after talks with his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Stoere.
"Negotiations and payment of ransom only encourage the piracy and are not a solution to the piracy issue," he added. Source.


Prince Saud reiterated that his country was ready to take part in an international naval force to combat piracy. Norway has also said it would be willing to participate but not until new frigates enter service "in 2009 or 2010." Stoere said.

The navies of India, Russia, France, Britain and Germany have all battled pirate vessels in the past 12 days alone. Military action is "the only solution," Jens Martin Jensen, interim chief executive officer of Frontline Ltd.'s management unit, the world's biggest owner of supertankers, said in a telephone interview. He called for navies to be given a clearer mandate ``of what they can do and what they can't.'' more.

VIDEO: Opinions from region, but there is no justification for piracy!
(Arabic article below) Iraq4all details info. behind pirate Sponsor-ship.


In Harardhare, a town in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region close to where the ship is anchored, pirates are bringing in extra fighters to strengthen security... How to Deal With Pirates: essay

The disruption East/West commerice appear not to be random acts; but rather, the result of a wider Rogue influence?
Interesting Article from Iraq...

الدب الروسي والاخطبوط الامريكي..لعبة الحرس الثوري الايراني في البحر الاحمر

ايهاب سليم-صحفي مستقل-السويد-12/11/2008-تقرير-وكالة الاخبار العراقية:

ذكرت مصادر مطلعة في العاصمة الايرانية طهران,ان الحرس الثوري الايراني الارهابي نجح خلال الاشهر الماضية في تدريب مجموعة من الصومالين على القرصنة في البحر الابيض المتوسط من جنوب لبنان لتطبيقها عمليا في خليج عدن الذي يقع في المحيط الهندي بين اليمن والصومال والمتصل بالبحر الاحمر من جهة الشمال الغربي من خلال مضيق باب المندب,المصادر اضافت ان الحرس الثوري الايراني قسم المجموعة الصومالية الى قسمين,المجموعة الاولى اطلق عليها اسم (القراصنة) التي تتالف هي الاخرى من ثلاث اقسام كل قسم فيها يضم ثلاثون عنصرا,المجموعة الثانية اطلق عليها اسم (قراصنة الارتباط) التي تتالف من ست عناصر(ثلاثة صوماليين وثلاثة لبنانيين) عملهم ينحصر في نقل المعلومات الاستخبارية عن حركة السفن البحرية القادمة الى خليج عدن من ضباط الحرس الثوري الايراني الى المجموعة الاولى(القراصنة) وفقا للمصادر.

المصادر كشفت ان احد مهمات القراصنة عرقلة السفن المحملة بالنفط القادمة من المملكة العربية السعودية باتجاه المحيط الهندي بهدف ضرب اقتصاد المملكة اضافة الى استهداف السفن المحملة بالاسلحة والمواد الغذائية والجنسيات الامريكية والاوربية كمحاولة لتوجيه انظار امريكا والاتحاد الاوربي بعيدا عن الملف النووي الايراني على حد ذكر المصادر.

المصادر اضافت ان عملية استهدف سفينة الاسلحة الاوكرانية التي حدثت في شهر ايلول سبتمبر الماضي كانت من تخطيط الحرس الثوري الايراني بهدف نشوب صراع روسي-امريكي في خليج عدن وتحقيق توازن عسكري في البحر الاحمر لمواجهة السفن العسكرية الامريكية اذا ما استخدمت في توجيه ضربة عسكرية ضد ايران ولاسيما ان السفينة كانت تحمل الجنسيات من اوكرانيا وروسيا ولاتفيا ما دعى البحرية الروسية الى تحريك السفن العسكرية الى البحر الاحمر وفقا للمصادر.
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Today's Links...
Pirates wallow in cash with no bank trail
LONDON - Tens of millions of dollars extorted from ship owners by Somali pirates are immune from interception and seizure because they are pouring into the economy of a nation with no effective government or policing.International crime gangs normally ...Read More

BBC NEWS Special Reports Pirates 'working with Islamists'
Nov 19, 2008 ... It says two shipments in May were for Sheikh Hassan Abdulle Hersi, who is also known as Hassan Turki, an Islamist leader who is based in...

Somali piracy: Islamic militants 'attack' pirates over hijacked
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Nov 21, 2008The Sirius Star is owned by a Saudi-controlled company. "The Islamists say they will attack the pirates for hijacking a Muslim ship," an unnamed local ...
When the Jolly Roger flies over Somalia Globe and Mail
Pirates only hurting themselves Chicago Tribune

Last Minute Election Questions...

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Answer to Obama supporter's (3) pressing questions for McCain/Palin:
1) Investigator: No Evidence Palin Violated Ethics Law
2) Palin's Doctor Says She Is in 'Excellent Health'
3) Palin's shoes have been given to charity

Questions left unanswered by the Obama Camp.

1) Why on earth did they transform Markets using Europe's old discarded policy? And why is America voting to empower more notorious funding; and dangerous rejections of conflict zone funding! read.




Why doesn't someone buy Barack a tape-recorder?!


I see...
A leader who admits he would bankrupt an industry by creating quick new laws; and then using their losses for new technology?!
View Exact Video of Obama, coal bankruptcy: hotair. -Source:link.


Last question:
Why do you use Socialist Party Slogans, to describe that you're not a Socalist?

"We basically gutted our military after World War I, after World War II, in certain ways after Korea, certainly after Vietnam and after the end of the cold war," Gates said. "Experience is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again." read.

U.S. ties Caracas to Hezbollah aid

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I see that Chávez is attempting to take South America and his 'new-found' definition of Revolution; to a whole new level... And as usual, re-defined to suit 'other-players' interests... Rockets, Scud missiles, IEDs, and 'inter-factional-fighting' and a new Sponsor... With Hezbollah...

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia | U.S. Administration is accusing the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of providing cash and refuge to the militant Islamist group Hezbollah of southern Lebanon.

An investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) names Venezuelan diplomat Ghazi Nasr al Din and Venezuelan-Arab businessman Fawzi Kanan as key links between the two. More.
Photo: Moghimi (3/3)
Image above:
Only days before Chávez sends tanks to his Colombia border dispute. Story. New tanks and equipt. meeting/timing with Chávez-war, against (US ally) Colombia.

(cont. from above)
Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control:
"It is extremely troubling to see the government of Venezuela employing and providing safe harbor for Hezbollah facilitators and fundraisers," said Adam Szubin, political affairs director of OFAC.

Mr. al Din has served as charge d’affaires at the Venezuelan Embassy in Syria and as director of political affairs at the embassy in Lebanon.

The Treasury Department made the accusations in a June 18 statement, which summarized an investigation of Venezuelan-registered businesses that are thought to be laundering money for Hezbollah... More.

From Buenos Aires, Paul Scheltus:
Chávez: Why back FARC when you've got Hezbollah: More.

Venezuelans recruited by the Interior Ministry trained by Hezbollah: Read.
-Non-translated version: Fighter Recruitments (news-clipping)
Excerpt Translated by Fausta:

Other Hezbollah members in Venezuela with temporary visas are: a.. explosives expert Abdul Ghani Suleiman Wanked, born in Lebanon in September 26, 1967, who is Hassan Nasrallah's right-hand man. Nasrallah has been the leader of Hezbollah since 1992 and is Secretary General of the Party of God (Hezbollah).

b.. Rada Ramel Assad, born in Barranquilla, Colombia on January 5, 1955. His Colombian passport was issued at the Colombian consulate in Beirut, Lebanon on November 13, 2006 and will expire on November 13, 2016.

c.. Abouchanab Daichoum Dani, also bearing a Colombian passport, born on September 2, 1982, His passport was issued on July 10, 2007, in Maicao, La Guajira, and will expire on July 10, 2007 [sic]. He is the organizer of the group currently touring Caracas. End of translation. Read more.

Colombian and Venezuelan people should give this little "Iranian/Venezuelan connection" a diplomatic 'nip-in-the-bud' before any destruction can start.
UPDATE! HAHAHAHA!
Iranian university students call each other "comrade," hold up pictures of Che Guevara in rallies, use the hammer and sickle symbol on their blogs, and look to Karl Marx as their philosophical role model!
-Click to enlarge-
I Love you Iranian Students!


Leftist Students Square Off Against President in Iran!Read more.
-En imágenes: Chávez en Irán: Comments say it all
Private Note: My intuition tells me that a money path for funding attacks, likely to be contained in exports of ag. products, medicines, and medical devices to Cuba, Sudan, Libya, and Iran; now that travel-related transactions and sanctions have been lifted by the EU (Ag. Dept.)

Today's News Links...
-Oil Goes Up on Libya Comments: Story.
-Iran tests missiles in Persian Gulf, Hormouz: Aims for Higher Oil
"Iran is certainly sending mixed signals," said Victor Shum at Purvin & Gertz in Singapore. "There was an apparent easing of tensions, but then the missile tests had an impact on prices today."

(Contract fell $5.33 to settle at $136.04 a barrel.)

Tuesday's drop had hurled crude back to levels not seen since June 26. The market's bearish turn this week erases, at least for the time being, part of a run-up that pushed prices past $145 a barrel in a string of record-setting sessions before the Fourth of July holiday. Read more.

-Russia, China and India Create: Maritime proliferation.

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Mitigating Without the U.S. Soldier

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"Even if the international troops withdraw or decrease in number in the policy-relevant future, anti-government elements may focus their efforts even more on Afghan government targets. #

Thus simple removal of the 'foreign occupation' alone may be inadequate to mitigate the incidence of suicide attacks. [IMAGE: Ceerwan Aziz]

United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Study)
-"Suicide Attacks in Afghanistan (2001-2007)"
C. Christuune Fair, UNAMA report, Sept 2007
Better Read up on the world's chances without troop security: #
Media unfairly judged and thus, undermined our troops...

View the group who interviewed the Taliban...


I doubt if much of the World deserves US soldier protection...
During U.S. Soldier's progress; the most frequent word troops said was:
Why is this not being reported? -Media seems to be working opposite.

MEDIA Preferred to highlight more dramatic news, than progress...
138,000 searches for Taliban...
TALIBAN'S MASSIVE JAIL BREAK - New York Post
Jail Break: Taliban Frees Inmates - TIME
Taliban fighters take villages near Kandahar after jailbreak
Hunt on after mass Taliban jail break NEWS.com.au
globeandmail.com: Ottawa to hunt for answers in Taliban jailbreak
The World Today - Taliban taking over villages following jailbreak
Taliban Invades Afghan Villages Following Jailbreak - June 17 ...
France 24 Taliban escape in Afghanistan jail break France 24
Hunt on after Taliban jail break Herald Sun
Believe it: Publicity, as this, will encourage more incident...

And concerning Iraq...
Did you know about: VIDEO: Iraq's Important Sheik Meeting?
"A Reconciliation Conference being held with governor of the Diyala province." Didn't think so... This is significant, and noteworthy.

Instapundit says:
"Remember Those Iraqi Benchmarks? Well, Guess What…
"Democrats no longer talk of the 18 benchmarks for measuring progress in Iraq because so much progress has now taken place."

UPDATE: Iraqi Sheik Offers To Take Fight Story.
Omygosh, this is exactly how I feel...
From (late) Sheik Sattar's brother:
In Washington, Sheik Ahmad also met with some members of Congress. He said he told them that American soldiers should stay in Iraq for at least as long as it takes to rebuild Iraq's national army. The Democratic majority in Congress has tried and failed to mandate deadlines for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq regardless of conditions on the ground...

"We have to rebuild a national Iraqi army, not built on sects, but the same way they built up the Anbar police," he said. "They must be well-armed, so they will be able to protect the country and all the American interests in the area. We also have to make a friendship treaty based on mutual respect between the two parties, and then the United States will be able to withdraw from Iraq, if they wish, and we will succeed in Iraq the same way America succeeded in Japan and Germany." read more.

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Militants Merge into Democratic Fold

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Pakistan, militants agree to peace deal
Pakistani officials said they were "committed to implement the 15 points of the agreement as part of an effort to reduce the violence that has swept the province and spread to the country's major urban areas." Read.




Lebanese Rivals Reach Agreement
"We must ... pledge never to resort to arms to resolve our political differences," Saniora said. "We should accept each other and hold dialogue to solve the problems. We want to live together and we will continue that. We have no other choice." Read more.


The Doha-based negotiations came after the Arab League mediated a deal to end the week of deadly violence that paralyzed parts of the country...
The Qatar negotiations hit snags from the very start, with neither side willing to give concessions...

وتدعم هذه المدونه ابو ظبي ، س العربية ، وإسرائيل.
Peaceful Negotiations- Remembering:
Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Read more.

In a perfect world agreements can now be addressed democratically... But in my heart I know that it is a mad world... Radical militants have left the planet unsure of its very survival; and not the other way around... We are human, and at times are lost, and do not know what to do...

Mad World
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Thwarting Peace, for Missiles & Bombs

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I am shocked by the extreme level of hate within these groups, They -do not- represent the community's efforts toward Lebanon peace..
Memri blog has the Story and VIDEO (Loud)


They claim to represent Muslim values, but WE have Muslim immigrants in America and Paris, who hold more values in (1) prayer, than these groups will achieve in a life-time!

I will be posting the REAL TRUTH about these organizations, from a Palestinian friend... Meanwhile, they should re-evaluate why they pray...

ps: I really worry about Dr. "H" and friends, in Egypt...Story.

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The Militant Group Needs no Introduction

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arming and training Shiite militias in IraqKhatami, "Fomenting violence abroad is treason" -Story
They claim to be opposed to foreign occupation... When in fact, their militias have become the largest occupiers and violators of sovereignty, in the entire region! But never mind that they currently jeprodize other's ability to find resolution; they currently occupy islands which would require their exit by the international courts...

Their support for insurgencies proceeds through third parties and is mostly limited to weapons transfers... But dispite the firm evidence, their part in distabilization, speaks loudest in their lack of decency to impact a responsible condemnation of it... Instead, they brag about their weaponry as their armies slowly enroach upon others territories...

The biggest insult is how they call themselves the strength of the region...
But they'll never be moderate, pragmatic leaders regulating their conflicts through negotiations... Because they live in poverty and inner violence, jail their intellectuals, and discourage individually growth-oriented followers.

Their trade-mark is providing 'fire and mortars' in order to 'antagonize and provolk'.... And some how you realize that the worse is yet to come.
Because their reliance upon 'deteriorating conditions' in their 'targeted territories' might someday be all too slow for them...

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Extremists Disrupt Military Parade (Afghanistan)

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"We just wanted to show to the world that we can attack anywhere we want to." #- Mr. Mujahed

An ex-Mujahed talks about extremist groups, and the trap of mistaking terrorism for jihad. Story/ ...Today's deadly attack reminds the region of the extremist's strive for primacy... And their cult-creed fundamentalism; of which pose threat to all secular governments of the Arab world...


(AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
The stability of this region would require the flow of smuggled weaponry to cease, and drug exports to be curtailed by united regional resolve...
But unless there is complete cooperation by all mid east states; we will see political fragmentation, economic meltdown, ethnic and sectarian warfare, on the increase...And further spread of death cult extremists.

Caption: Afghanistan on Sunday April 27, 2008 Automatic gunfire broke out at the ceremony, forcing dignitaries including the Afghanistan's president to take cover. A defense ministry spokesman says President Hamid Karzai, all Cabinet members and foreign diplomats are safe.


There can be no mistake that this region, lost to extremists, could impart an unstoppable Socio-economic Cataclysm for the 'entire' region...
Every effort should be made to challenge weak regions of the M. East; such as Islam Qala, near Herat, on the Afghan side of the border with Iran, weapons and explosives such as armour-piercing roadside bombs are being trafficked to the insurgents. #

Immediate Reactions from Int'l Community...
Germany's Merkel calls Karzai to express dismay
The World pledge ongoing... - 3 hours ago
Merkel's spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm says the chancellor assured Karzai that Germany "will remain engaged close at Afghanistan's side...

French, Canadian ministers pledge Afghan support
AFP - 45 minutes ago
OTTAWA (AFP) — Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier on Sunday strongly condemned the "terrorist attack" in Kabul in which Afghan President Hamid...

Sarkozy vows to stand by Afghan president after attack
Times of India, India - 1 hour ago
PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday offered Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai his "resolute and constant" support after the latter's escape from...

Pranab condemns attack on Karzai
Hindu, India - 7 hours ago
Kolkata (PTI): External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday condemned the attack on Afghan President Hamid Karzai and called upon the international...

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Fascist Spectacle: Right before our Eyes

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Enlarge MAP
UPDATE: More on this subject... You probably won't find any individual ownership of lands by Palestinians in the map (above)... Yet today's Iranian-backed Armies in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq... extend to Gaza; now rising disturbances at border to Egypt...

Egypt on alert over Gaza border
"An Egyptian security official said Hamas militants were getting ready to bulldoze the rebuilt border and blow up the main crossing gate with mines."
Today, we witness this (hard to admit) dynamic as it unfolds.

IRANIAN ARMIES:
With Stark resymblance of the ambitions which align with history of the Persian conquests of sixth century BC, which brought armies into not only the Median kingdom but also all of Asia Minor and Babylonia (Iraq) and much of the eastern Mediterranean coast...
The conquests also included a campaign against Bactria, part of modern Afghanistan, and an expansion into Egypt… How warned can one get...

Anytime someone is alive to say these words in Lebanon...
It is time to listen...

Enlarge MAP And View: Here!
And if anyone remembers a time in history when the Tigress flowed backward... They will understand how tricks toward conquests, have now made "terror" the unspeakable elephant in the room...

If anything happens within the internal facets, to disrupt the Egyptian Government (may God protect them) I am going to consider the details in this post, a clear confirmation...

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Iraqi Gov. Purging Basra Strongholds

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Update: instapundit has AUDIO from Michael Yon (Iraq)

Update: Deadline extended (so. city, Basra) Op. Knights' Assault
Armed outlaw Militants encouraged to Handover Arms at security sites Now until April 8th. They will be rewarded financially. #

Iraqi Basra police shed uniforms, kept rifles, & switched sides
Seems UK Times was right there, on hand, to catch the entire development
And Timesonline says this: "If the British taught the police to shoot straight, they failed to instill a sense of unwavering loyalty to the State." Media Slap!


And then UK Times reports: Abu Iman barely flinched when the Iraqi Government ordered his unit of special police to move against al-Mahdi Army fighters in Basra.

“We know the outcome of the fighting in advance because we already defeated the British in the streets of Basra and forced them to withdraw to their base,” Abu Iman told The Times. Media Slap!

UPDATE: Iran Backing Sadr Revolt in Iraq
"They also said an infusion of cash, also from Iran, helped the militia set up new command centers equipped with Internet-linked computers, fax machines and satellite mobile phones. They have also received global positioning system devices, they said.

The tensions have spilled over into street battles in Basra between Mahdi fighters and Iraqi government forces. Fighting also has flared in other cities across southern Iraq's Shiite heartland — where Iran is hedging its bets by supporting factions of the Mahdi Army and its main Shiite rival. Read more.

Rantburg has More Media Slap! From UK Timesonline)
Basra crisis leaves British withdrawal in ruins
Analysis: Britain must now fight or fail
Iraqi troops take on Shia militia in Basra clash

Sounds Like the method Iran & Syria used in Lebanon:
Mahdi Army commanders have told the AP that the militia has recently taken delivery of new weapons supplied by backers in Iran. The arsenal, they said, included roadside bombs, anti-aircraft guns and Soviet-designed Grad rockets.

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Xinjiang Muslims: Next Target of al-Qaeda

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Is China's Xinjiang Region being dished the same al-Qaeda strategy which has led to the expansion of Western occupation in the Middle East?
Observing this group's 'standard-form pattern'... The answer is, yes.

The difference? China cares less for World opinion, and more for survival and safety. And China does now have terror appoligists working against their purge of terrorism... Or (without question) is soon to have fewer.



al-Qaeda calls the region Tukimenistan; will china call it 'mass deportation' of the latest unfortunate Muslim populations, to come under al-Qaeda's curse?

The West is beginning to understand that the spread of terrorism is preportunate to populations who protest the curbs against Freedoms... But today should be an eye-opener, as al-Qaeda groups inch toward China; banking on the destruction of China as a key to the final dust-bin of America...

The Video (below) is not meant to be used as a phobic dance against Muslims; rather to highlight the spread of radicalized jihad, and its impact upon society of ALL people. The success of China's hard line to impact drastic measures; will be viewed all across the board... al-Qaeda acting as "Freedom-Fighters" against "oppressive China"??... (Look below) Are you next in line?

Time to view this VIDEO again:


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Mullah's IRGC (So. America Expansion)

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The merging potential of a Chavez war with Colombia prompts civilian families of the region, to view the elements that could lead to a larger war... You are a strong people. "The champions of mass protest" need to stop this NOW!

Austin Bay:
Behind the Colombia - Ecuador - Venezuela Border Fracas
Iran: Mullahs' Eye on Latin America
Friday, 29 February 2008

Cross posted article - Author: Reza Shafa
NCRI Foreign Affairs (Bio at bottom of post)

It has been quite sometime now that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has its eye on the Latin America as a fresh opportunity...

The underdogs -- as it has been in similar cases in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and elsewhere that the IRGC set its foot -- are the poor people of that region. It usually arrives with packages of irresistible offers to the needy host nations with such lucrative deals like renovating their infrastructures; most of the targeted countries are in desperate need of road constructing, airport renovations, ports rebuilding etc...

Lebanon is a prime example when IRGC arrived looking like a savior just sent from heaves right after the 33-day war in 2006 to help the tormented people of the region, which itself, according to credible information from inside sources within the mullahs' regime, helped ignite the war in the first place . IRGC is examining the following targets to begin in Central America:

Nicaragua
This time Nicaragua is the prey. The IRGC is following the same old tactics it used in other countries; presenting Managua with solutions to ease its financial troubles but with a slight difference in this case of first offering to give military aid to the country for modernizing its army, according to latest information received from the inside sources in Iran.

IRGC agents arrived in Monkey Point in Nicaragua's Atlantic Cost to start building a road with the purpose of getting the old military airport up and running in the region. The project is financed, as a joint venture, with Venezuela and the Iranian regime.

Apart from military assistance, the mullahs' regime, under the pretext of promoting cultural issues through media advertisements, has dispatched a number of teams to produce T.V. programs in Managua. However, their real mission is to find ways in which the clerical regime may precede with its cynical intentions.

Bolivia
On February 19, the Bolivia's president Evo Morales announced that the Iranian regime is planning to open a television station covering the "entire Latin America," in his country. The statement was condemned by the US and a congressional delegation went to La Paz to warn that country against the mullahs' meddling in the Central American nation.

Venezuela
Recently, the Organization of Islamic Culture and Communications opened an office in Caracas, Venezuela. With the help of the mullahs' embassy in the country a center has been opened called "Islamic center of Imam Hadi."

Apparently the new organization is established to encourage Islamic teachings but it is in the business of expanding fundamentalist ideas which in time would nourish terrorism. It does not have an official sign; however, it is run by a Lebanese cleric named Sheik Sam Hamdani with close ties to Tehran.

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Reza Shafa is an expert on the Iranian regime’s intelligence networks, both in Iran and abroad. He has done extensive research on VAVAK (MOIS), IRGC’s Intelligence Office, and Quds Force among others. Currently he is a contributor to NCRI website.

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Those 'Good Revolutionaries' March Forth

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Chavez sends tanks to Colombia border in dispute... Story.

"Venezuela President Hugo Chavez ordered tank battalions to the Colombian border and mobilized warplanes on Sunday after Colombian troops struck inside Ecuador in an attack on rebels.

He also ordered the shutting of Venezuela's embassy in Colombia and the withdrawal of all diplomatic staff in the dispute, warning Colombia's actions could spark a war in South America."
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With Chavez financial concerns, and heavy new machinery...
First Iraqis, now Chavez; as Ahmadinejad moves funds within countries!
-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan counterpart meet in Tehran Saturday night (3 . 1 . 08)


Evidently, it's not only Ed Morrissey who thinks that if Chavez pulls the trigger and crosses the border into Colombia, the US might be forced to respond militarily...

Iranians, spotted training in Venezuela...(read below)
Now Hugo Threatens Colombia With War...


UPDATE: "It is said that Hugo is upset because Colombian armed forces killed one of the leaders of the FARC terrorist group. Raul Reyes, who Chavez has called, “a good revolutionary”, who was hiding in Ecuador when Colombian troops made him an ex-terrorist." -Ace

Iranians Plant Their Flag in Wilds of Nicaragua
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While Iranian money has yet to materialize, the embassy that national security experts most fear as cover for terrorist plots is up and running. Revolutionary Guard operatives reportedly have been moving in and out of the country. In one instance, a senior government minister allowed 21 Iranian men to enter secretly without passport processing.

The longevity of any Iranian presence in Nicaragua may depend on whether it helps Mr. Ortega maintain his razor-thin margin of public support. Influential domestic opponents of the administration are ramping up strong criticism of the alliance, while Nicaragua's poor will support it unless promises go unfulfilled.

Unlike in Venezuela, the Americans have kept a tight lid on any official response to the Iranian move into Nicaragua, suggesting, as several intelligence officials speculate, heightened counter-espionage activity.

Upon arriving in Managua, I linked up with a local interpreter to track down the Iranians and get them talking. In Managua's exclusive suburb of Las Colinas, I finally noticed the distinctive red, white, and green flag of Iran hanging limply from a pole poking up beyond rolls of concertina wire that lined the 12-foot-high walls of a compound. Iran's new envoy to Nicaragua, Akbar Esmaeil-Pour, now calls the mansion inside home...read more
To my Colombian and Venezuelan friends, please be very careful...
You were never fooled by this Iranian leader... So, please be safe.

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Tough Terror Laws for Europe...

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (France)

Spain learns that appeasement doesn’t work
In the after-math of a suicide plot... Spain is getting tougher on terror. The Madrid bombing by militant extremists which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800; has wrought policies which will enable authorities to further reduce incident...and more!

Late last year 21 of 28 suspects who went on trial were convicted of terrorism and other charges in connection with the bombings...The judge's order stops short of a formal indictment. It allows authorities to keep the suspects in jail while authorities gather more evidence for possible formal charges... Read more

Tougher stance is likely to advert future incident...


View Video (below) Of Bank Robber / Hostage-Taker who boasts to have a grenade! Demanding drugs, and a getaway Motorcycle --
**Warning graphic** ...HT: Ace

News story says, "Spain is in no mood for leniency."

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Reminiscent of an 80’s Lebanon?

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | for- M. Barbay (France)

"I don't believe that the majority of Shiites support Hezbollah in changing south Lebanon into scorched earth."
-Minister of Communications Marwan Hamade

Proxy wars for political assurance; and now we find Lebanon on another battered path... But many claim that this path looks strangely reminiscent of the 80's...

Hamade noted that Qatar managed to withdraw its contingent serving with UNIFIL in south Lebanon early in February because "it felt that something is being planned for south Lebanon and because no one wants to go back to the 1980s" in reference to the abduction of foreigners by pro-Iranian factions. Read more.

Hezbollah of 80's: A familiar Resistance...
Videos Below: I missed this era, when Hezbollah (L) Bombed U.S. Embassy & Army Base (1983)... And for that matter, (R) the SAS storm of Iranian embassy (from 1980)...

But the hallmark riots between rival political factions, in a time where kidnappings and murders succeeded in making peace-keepers into villains; look just like, today...

Middle East leaders are Cautioned:
Hamade said Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Abdul Aziz Khoja was cautioned by Arab and Lebanese security agencies against specific threats and advised to take precautions. "Such a warning was also addressed to many diplomats and Lebanese leaders." Read more.

What Arab neighbor would want to go near this!
Egypt's Mubarak says Syria part of Lebanon crisis
"We should not be (in Damascus) resolving a problem that Syria is a party to," Mubarak said during a visit to Bahrain as part of tour of Gulf Arab countries aimed at unifying positions ahead of the annual Arab League summit..

Peace-keepers and crisis organizations push paper...
Outside View: Suicide bombing a crime

HISTORY: From its modern genesis in Hezbollah's 1983 suicide car bombings of the U.S. Marine Corps and French military barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed 241 Marines and at least 58 French soldiers, suicide bombings have spread worldwide.

Suicide bombings are now a staple of jihadist and secular terrorism alike. Terrorist networks, insurgents and gangs, operating outside of the state system and traditional political boundaries, use suicide terrorism, along with the targeting of civilians, and attacks against humanitarian agencies...
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Extremist Jihadi: Quest is not the West

-Posted by D. Worth (US) | For- m. barbay (France)
We are seeing al-Qaeda's recruitment of 'unrelated' World grievances to amass strength; impact independent Nations, elections, & Sovereign Rule...

But al-Qaeda's goal looks more to me like Mid-East "REGIONAL QUESTS" of which Suicide Militant Jihadists topple Islamic States; and over-power Kingdom Rule...

Found this Video which confirms this assertion!
(As al-Qaeda hopes to gain supremacy via Regional cooperative)

Radical Militants use West as "tool" to gain control over East.
Dr. "H" addresses the popular thought which suggests that "fighting against" these Militant Jihadis, is causing mass recruitment; when in fact, mass recruitments are found in countries of which extremists are failing to be marginalized."
Mauritania killings may be new Qaeda chapter

Dr. "H" says that regions below (with strike-through) suffer enormous challences; but NOTHING like a merging increase of al-Qaeda's assassination attempts; geared to 'quicken':
Their 'Political dismantle' of the following countries:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Chechnya, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kurdistan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Yemen, e. China (East Turkestan), Tibet, inc. certain areas in central Russia.

Some doth protest inaccurately... Extremist Jihadis 'Quest is not the West... As blame upon the West, serves to masque the threat; one must examine the serious consequence of the absence of Western fighters, with an Obama Presidential win... Consider a VOTE for McCain... who does not deny the al-Qaeda threat.

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Dr. "H" (Alexandria) believes that the foreign cooperative to monitor the links to Militant Suicide Networks; must not be discontinued by US Democrat Congress... Attacks, he says, are a progressive form of Islamic Anarchism as was Luxor attack (Egypt) which arranged a coup d’état (1996).
Int'l Collation of Western terror fighters are essential to M. East.

Regions in the news...
E. Timor President Stable after Assassination Attempt
Afghan Governor Survives Bombing Attack
Pakistani ambassador Azizuddin goes missing

Other News Stories
Candidate and 11 killed in Pakistan suicide blast
Monday, 11 February 2008 11:07 A suicide bomber has killed at least ten people, including an election candidate, and wounded 13 others in Pakistan's North Waziristan region. The attacker drove...

The attack follows a suicide bombing that killed 25 people on Saturday at an election rally in the northwestern town of Charsadda.
Election campaigning rallies become sparse.

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Only Pakistan UNITY will Quell Tide of Militancy

UPDATE: It is essential for Pakistanis to UNITE with Musharraf to help keep their government from slipping into the hands of al-Qaeda and Taliban...

Remembering Pakistan: Photo shoot by Pierre in Pakistan during his nearly 2 years stay in Lahore. -Beautiful piece about him, at last of film ... (RIP)

Pakistan - Film Pierre 2sur2
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VIDEO: Worst Time in History for Pakistan

And leave it to U.S. Clintons to blame Musharraf’s Governmental practices for the Bhutto attack! Why it never occours to them to blame extremism, is a "dangerously common" party trait.
DO NOT VOTE THIS COUPLE INTO U.S. OFFICE!

Minority Terror groups have learned to manipulate populations into forming disunity, as an opening for their take-over... Take a look at Lebanon!
If terror is to EXIT; it will be through the support of Pakistan Unity.

In America Democracy is the People... But it is NOT magic. ANY leader amidst Terrorist Radicalization will be the wrong leader. Today Pakistan is a Nation against minority extremists! These extremists have been led astray, but can be given new HOPE... I believe they can be reformed.

Funeral of Mohammed Zubair (N. west Pakistan.)
40,000 Taliban with a severe grudge!
Remember Terrorist's wage of war on Musharraf? Pakistan committed to stemming tide of militancy
Pakistan army vows to 'eliminate' terror
after al-Qaeda threat to Musharraf"We have the aim and objective, as our national duty, to eliminate terrorists and eradicate extremism," army spokesman Maj.-Gen. Waheed Arshad said.

This woman returned to highlight the magnitude threat of extremists...
And now will rest in Peace... View an eye-opening, former interview:

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Lebanese Army Strives Amidst Factions

"No matter what terrorism does it will not make the army or the Lebanese people submit." -Lebanon Military chief Suleiman

The military, in a statement confirming Hajj's death, refrained from placing blame, saying only a 'criminal hand' was behind the attack. Suleiman called on all sides "not to use the blood of the martyr in politics or in an attempt to cast doubt about the military's abilities... Who killed Lebanon's top army general ?According to Monday intelligence report: Al-Qaida website posted:
Absi is in Syria and Fatah al Isalm is in Gaza

"Fatah al Islam has relocated to Gaza in Palestine. The same report also states that Shaker al -Absi, the fugitive leader of Fatah al Islam who has escaped from the Nahr- el Bared Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, following the final assault by the Lebanese army is now in Syria with his wife. Story

Hajj had led a three-month military campaign that crushed al-Qaida-inspired militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared in northern Lebanon over the summer.

Fatah al Islam fought the Lebanese army for 106 days . At the end of the battle the Lebanese army declared victory and Fatah al Islam militants were disbanded. Many of them are now in Lebanese jails but some were able to escape...

"Islamic militants were believed linked to a car bomb attack that killed six Spanish troops in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon in June."Read more

Fears have been high that the power vacuum could lead to violence between Lebanon's two camps. Anti-Syrian leader Walid Jumblatt called for dialogue with the opposition, which is led by Hezbollah, Syria and Iran's ally...

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Rubble in Algiers - AQIM Warns Europe

AQIM, in an effort to ramp up its violent struggle to bring down the Algerian government; aimed bombs at the Algerian political structure; resulting in the loss of 62 lives this morning... Terror-warnings issued for Europe.

One might want to take a serious look at these threats toward a Nation who has not subscribed to military interventions... France!
And AQIM's strategy which promises deadly future actions...

The area of belief that the 'eradication of terror' greatly contributes to its growth; should be measured with the assumption that Terror Groups scan be reasoned with... We should remember Saudi King Abdullah's latest visit as he spoke of Great Britian's need to do more to fight terror. He is completely correct...
هذه هي هجمات ضد الاسلام
Attack in Algiers: al-Qaeda Warning to Europe
From the Attack this A.M. in Algerian capital of Algiers (killing 62)
"Given the personalized nature of that renewed fury, however, why didn't the AQIM seek a terror attack on Sarkozy or French interests during his state visit to Algeria last month?

"Success," explains the French counter-terrorism official. "Trying to kill a visiting leader or bomb a place he's set to visit while security alerts are full is not going to work. Waiting a week until security has slackened to below even normal levels to attack - your chances of success get much better."

According to News Reports:

"French Security Officials say that AQIM's organizational effectiveness makes it the largest risk of non-homegrown terror to continental Europe...

The French, who keep a very close eye on suspected terror cells on their own territory, are nervous that the AQIM cells from Algeria may be rolled out against France and other European nations, all relatively easy to reach from just across the Mediterranean." - Bruce Crumley

All about "Sarkozy's friendlier relations with the U.S?" These extremists hold Curious similarities with those who greatly undermine a concerned Int'l community.

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