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20 protesters killed in Syria, why no NATObama's kinetic Syrian "humanitarian" operation?
Post Date: 2011-04-08 13:02:14 by Happy Quanzaa
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20 protesters killed in Syria, witnesses say BEIRUT – Syrian security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters across several cities Friday, killing at least 20 people, wounding hundreds and forcing residents to turn mosques into makeshift hospitals, witnesses and a human rights group said. Ammar Qurabi, who heads Syria's National Organization for Human Rights, said most of the deaths happened in Daraa, a restive southern city that has become a flashpoint for anti-government protests. Sixteen people were killed in Daraa, three in the Damascus suburb of Harasta, and one in the central city of Homs, he said. The government acknowledged violence in Daraa on Friday, but ...
Prospects fade for NATObama kinetic military overthrow of Gaddafi
Post Date: 2011-04-08 11:53:18 by Happy Quanzaa
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan rebels said on Friday they repulsed a government assault on the besieged city of Misrata but prospects faded for a military overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. NATO leaders acknowledged the limits of their air power, which has caused rather than broken a military stalemate, and analysts predicted a long-drawn out conflict that could end in the partition of the North African oil producer. Alliance officials expressed frustration that Gaddafi's tactics of sheltering his armor in civilian areas had reduced the impact of air supremacy and apologized for a second "friendly fire" incident on Thursday that rebels said killed five fighters. Misrata, a lone ...
Obama's screwed up Libya so badly we may put kinetic ground troops in<~>current kinetic operation stalemated
Post Date: 2011-04-07 18:48:51 by Happy Quanzaa
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General: U.S. may consider troops in LibyaArmy Gen. Carter Ham says ground forces wouldn't be ideal, but may be a possible way to aid rebels; Says current operation largely stalemated (CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - The United States may consider sending troops into Libya with a possible international ground force that could aid the rebels, according to the general who led the military mission until NATO took over. Army Gen. Carter Ham also told lawmakers Thursday that added American participation would not be ideal, and ground troops could erode the international coalition and make it more difficult to get Arab support for operations in Libya. Ham said the operation was largely stalemated ...
Libyan rebels say NATObama kinetic airstrikes hit their forces, again
Post Date: 2011-04-07 14:03:37 by Happy Quanzaa
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Libyan rebels say NATO airstrikes hittheir forces AJDABIYA, Libya (AP) -- Rebel fighters claimed NATO airstrikes blasted their forces Thursday in another apparent mistake that sharply escalated anger about the military alliance's efforts to cripple Libyan forces. At least five rebels were killed and more than 20 injured, a doctor said. The attack - near the front lines outside the eastern oil port of Brega - would be the second accidental NATO strike against rebel forces in less than a week. It brought cries of outrage from fighters struggling against Moammar Gadhafi's larger and more experienced military. "Down, down with NATO," one fighter shouted as dozens of rebel ...
Obama dismisses Khadafy's love letter
Post Date: 2011-04-06 16:49:28 by Happy Quanzaa
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White House dismissesKhadafy's message toObama TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy sent a message to US President Barack Obama on Wednesday, FOX News Channel confirmed, but White House officials were quick to dismiss the correspondence, claiming that the embattled despot frequently sends messages to Washington. Authorities in Tripoli and Washington both refused to reveal details of the letter. But a senior White House official told FOX that the Obama administration receives similar notes from Khadafy on a regular basis -- as often as once a month, according to one source. The administration does not take the notes very seriously and the president does not respond to them, ...
Yemen president gets a strongly worded warning from Obama's spokesboy
Post Date: 2011-04-06 13:49:25 by Happy Quanzaa
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Yemen president gets a stern warning from Obama press secretary Statement by Press Secretary Jay Carney on violence in Yemen, as provided by the White House The United States strongly condemns the use of violence by Yemeni government forces against demonstrators in Sanaa, Taiz and Hodeida in the past several days. The Yemeni people have a right to demonstrate peacefully, and we remind President Ali Abdullah Saleh of his rYemen President Ali Abdullah Salehesponsibility to ensure the safety and security of Yemenis who are exercising their universal right to engage in political expression. We call upon the Government of Yemen to conduct full investigations into these events and to hold ...
Libyan Rebels: 'NATObama Is Now Our Problem'
Post Date: 2011-04-06 07:53:56 by Happy Quanzaa
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Libyan Rebels: 'Nato Is Now Our Problem' Libyan rebels have accused Nato of being too slow to act - and asked them to suspend operations unless they "do the job properly". Rebel leader Abdel Fattah Younes has complained that the alliance takes hours to respond to events on the battlefield because of an overly bureaucratic process. He claimed the alliance's inaction was allowing Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces to advance and was letting them kill people in the rebel-held city of Misratah "every day". He said: "Nato is moving very slowly, allowing Gaddafi forces to advance. Nato has become our problem." Mr Younes also said if Nato had ...
U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant
Post Date: 2011-04-05 22:49:22 by A K A Stone
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United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Among the new threats that were cited in the assessment, dated March 26, are the mounting stresses placed on the containment structures as they fill with radioactive cooling water, making them more vulnerable to rupture in one of the aftershocks rattling the site after the earthquake and tsunami ...
Siemens Business Surges in Iran
Post Date: 2011-04-05 19:38:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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Company Weighs Its Contracts Against Risks of Working in a Sanctioned State BERLIN—A year after German engineering giant Siemens AG pledged to retreat from Iran under international pressure, it is grappling with a thorny problem: a big jump in revenue in the Islamic republic. Siemens has kept a promise not to pursue new projects in Iran. But its existing contracts there underscore how international efforts to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions have had only limited impact on the state's ability to draw on the technology and expertise it needs to maintain its broader infrastructure. The company's Iranian business also shows how Tehran depends on a powerful tool to maintain ...
Mau Mau rebellion: Torture of rebels including Obama's grandfather
Post Date: 2011-04-05 17:56:24 by Sebastian
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* 'Torture victims' in court for landmark claim against British government * Files exposing abuse were flown out of Kenya on eve of independence * 50 year cover up as damning papers languished in Foreign Office * Successful case could open floodgates from claims around world The full horror of a brutal campaign of torture meted out by British officials on Kenyan rebels including Barack Obama's grandfather has emerged for the first time. A cache of secret documents detailing efforts to suppress the Mau Mau uprising has lain hidden in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in London, for 50 years. Removed from Kenya on the cusp of independence, they were uncovered in January ...
Libyan rebels accuse NATObama of leaving people of Misrata to die
Post Date: 2011-04-05 17:25:14 by Happy Quanzaa
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BENGHAZI, Libya -- The head of Libyan rebel forces, Abdel Fatah Yunis, accused NATO-led aircraft Tuesday of standing idly by while loyalist troops killed residents of the besieged third city of Misrata. NATO "is letting the people of Misrata die every day," Yunis told a news conference in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. "If NATO waits one more week, there will be nothing left in Misrata," he added. "What is NATO doing?" he asked. "They are bombing here and there," while the city's residents are faced with "extermination." The last rebel-held bastion in the west of Libya, Misrata has been pounded by forces loyal to Moamar Ghadafi ...
Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit
Post Date: 2011-04-05 14:47:56 by Rek
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Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit High readings in fish prompt the government to establish a maximum level for safe consumption. April 5, 2011, 4:39 a.m. Reporting from Tokyo— The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish. The reading of iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Another sample taken Monday found the level to be 5 million times the legal limit. The Monday samples also were found to contain ...
Arab Spring: The Israeli Factor
Post Date: 2011-04-05 13:44:51 by Hondo68
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Any analysis of the Middle East would be remiss without factoring in Israel. Israel has been playing a rather muted role in the unfolding globalist gambit - mainly because any Israeli involvement in supporting these staged revolutions would instantly taint them and ultimately derail them. Interestingly enough, the limited role Israel has been playing includes using this phenomenon, a political "touch of death," to target the various national oligarchies being swept from power. There are bad Israelis exploited and used by the globalists and there are good Israelis.But lumping them together as "bad" you carrywater for the globalists' "divide & conquer " ...
Obama pulls out kinetic military offensive planes from Libya: Pentagon
Post Date: 2011-04-05 12:52:16 by Happy Quanzaa
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US pulls out warplanes from Libya: Pentagon The US military on Monday withdrew its fighter jets from the international air campaign in Libya, officials said, after NATO asked Washington to keep up bombing raids for another 48 hours. The United States had planned to halt combat missions and Tomahawk cruise missile launches at the weekend but accepted a NATO request to continue the operations for another 48 hours until Monday. US combat sorties ended at 2200 GMT, with American warplanes on standby as NATO takes the lead, Pentagon spokesman Captain Darryn James said. After that, "US aviation assets are expected to cease strike sorties and will remain on an alert status if NATO ...
Americans Killed While Waiting To Cross Border (Tijuana, San Ysidro border crossing)
Post Date: 2011-04-05 12:36:16 by Hondo68
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the MMA fighter was one of two men gunned down in an execution-style killingA mixed martial arts fighter was one of two Americans gunned down in an execution-style killing near the San Ysidro border crossing Monday morning.Mexican authorities say Sergio Salcido Luna and Kevin Joel Romero were waiting in their company truck while waiting to cross into the U.S. before dawn.A gunman walked up to the white Mazda truck with California license plates and opened fire at least five times, killing both men as they sat in traffic.Investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the killing. Salcido, 25, was a professional fighter who began his career in MMA in Bakersfield.He also worked for a ...
China Dissident Crackdown Sparks Scant Outcry as Obama Distracted by Libya
Post Date: 2011-04-05 09:28:30 by Happy Quanzaa
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China Dissident Crackdown Sparks Scant Outcry as U.S. Distracted by Libya China’s latest crackdown on dissidents has drawn scant outcry in Washington, with U.S. officials distracted by military intervention in Libya and doubtful that public denunciations will change China’s behavior. The administration is “scared to death to speak out on very sensitive issues” that might offend China and turn them against U.S. policy on Libya, Rep. Randy Forbes, co-chairman of the Congressional China Caucus, said in an interview yesterday. On Capitol Hill, likewise, legislators are reluctant to devote energy to an issue that hasn’t grabbed the public’s attention and ...
Egyptian Islamists On The Rise: New ‘Modesty’ Laws For ‘Those Who Commit Immoral Acts’
Post Date: 2011-04-05 08:35:30 by Happy Quanzaa
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Muslim Brotherhood officials must be confident in their chances in this fall’s Egyptian parliamentary elections. David Miller of Media Line picked up an Egyptian newspaper report citing a member of the Brotherhood’s governing board calling for a squad of virtue police created to act against “those who commit immoral acts.” Issam Durbala’s vision aims to protect public virtue and modesty with “limited authorities,” Miller reports, which means something short of Saudi Arabia’s vice police. [Note: Miller identifies Durbala as a Brotherhood official, other sources place him in the Gama'a Al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group] Moderates and secularists in ...
5 slain in another bar attack in Juárez
Post Date: 2011-04-04 23:04:59 by A K A Stone
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A group of men threw fire bombs into a bar in Juárez and killed five people Friday night, officials said. That attack occurred after 10 people were shot and killed at another bar on Thursday. Chihuahua police officials on Saturday said the bodies of three men and two women were found by investigators at Las Barritas bar, near Oscar Flores Avenue and Francisco I. Madero Street in the Presa neighborhood. Officials said the attack took place about 10:30 p.m. Friday when a group of gunmen walked into the bar and started the fire. Officials did not say how many people were in the bar at the time. The bodies of the victims were found throughout the bar, officials said. Only one of the ...
Qaeda aqcuiring arms from Libya: Algerian source~Transforming Libya into a Somalia
Post Date: 2011-04-04 16:36:31 by Happy Quanzaa
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Al-Qaeda has allegedly acquired surface-to-air missiles in Libya ALGIERS (Reuters) The United States has raised concerns with the Libyan opposition about reports of al Qaeda obtaining weapons in eastern Libya, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Monday. "We are aware of these reports too and it has been one of the topics of our conversation with ... the opposition forces," Toner told reporters. "We have made very clear our concerns and they have ... pledged that they will look into it." A senior security source in neighboring Algeria told Reuters that Al-Qaeda is exploiting the conflict in Libya to acquire weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, and ...
Food and failed Arab states
Post Date: 2011-04-04 14:19:32 by Biff Tannen
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Even Islamists have to eat. It is unclear whether President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt will survive, or whether his nationalist regime will be replaced by an Islamist, democratic, or authoritarian state. What is certain is that it will be a failed state. Amid the speculation about the shape of Arab politics to come, a handful of observers, for example economist Nourel Roubini, have pointed to the obvious: Wheat prices have almost doubled in the past year. Egypt is the world's largest wheat importer, beholden to foreign providers for nearly half its total food consumption. Half of Egyptians live on less than $2 a day. Food comprises almost half the country's consumer price index, and ...
Flip Flop: Now Obama wants Yemeni leader out
Post Date: 2011-04-04 12:47:36 by Happy Quanzaa
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If this is Monday, that means another Obama foreign policy 180. We've seen it in Egypt when we first backed Mubarak and then did an about face and said he should go. We saw it in Libya where for weeks the administration was saying there would be no "no fly zone" or any military action against Gaddafi - until there was. Now we've turned our backs on Yemen's president Saleh after weeks of standing behind him. New York Times: The United States, which long supported Yemen's president, even in the face of recent widespread protests, has now quietly shifted positions and has concluded that he is unlikely to bring about the required reforms and must be eased out of ...
Muslim Bro'hood advocates Egyptian modesty police~Islamic attacks on Muslim mystic tombs, Christians
Post Date: 2011-04-04 11:12:15 by Happy Quanzaa
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Call adds to concerns among liberals that the country is going Islamic after attacks on Muslim mystic tombs, Christians. Officials of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's leading Islamic group, have called for the establishment of a Saudi-style modesty police to combat "immoral" behavior in public areas in what observers say in another sign of a growing Islamic self-confidence in the post-Mubarak era. In the political sphere, the Brotherhood led a successful drive to get voters to approve a package of constitutional amendments. On the street level, at least 20 attacks were perpetrated against the tombs of Muslim mystics (suffis), who are the subject of popular veneration but ...
Kinetic Mission Creep: NATObama extends US kinetic airstrike role in Libya through Monday
Post Date: 2011-04-03 17:02:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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US extends airstrike role in Libya through Monday WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. agreed to NATO's request for a 48-hour extension of American participation in coalition airstrikes against targets in Libya and U.S. lawmakers cautioned Sunday the allies need to know more about the rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces before providing them with weapons. Two weeks into the assault on Gadhafi, Republican lawmakers expressed concern that a stalemate could leave him in control of portions of Libya and with access to stockpiles of chemical weapons. The U.S. is shifting the combat role to Britain, France and other NATO allies, but American air power is still in demand. Air Force AC-130 ...
Peacekeepers control Abidjan airport, French military says
Post Date: 2011-04-03 12:06:33 by A K A Stone
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AFP - Peacekeepers have taken control of the airport in Abidjan as forces loyal to the country's rival presidents struggle for control of Ivory Coast's main city, the French military said Sunday. France has also boosted its Licorne (Unicorn) peacekeeping mission in the cocoa-rich nation by 300 to around 1,400 troops, where part of their mission is to protect foreigners from attacks and looting amid rising insecurity. "This war is about what it means to be Ivorian" "Licorne, in coordination with UNOCI (United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire), has taken control of Felix Houphouet-Boigny airport," chief of staff spokesman Colonel Thierry Burkhard told AFP. ...
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