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Sudan?s U.S. Ambassador Says Darfur Crisis Exaggerated
2007-06-08 01:53:00
Sudan?s ambassador to the United States, John Ukec Lueth Ukec, was a member of the rebellion in his country?s South until the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005 ended decades of civil war. Now, as part of the National Unity Government created in the deal, Ukec defends Khartoum?s policy in Darfur . Ukec denies his government supports militias that continue to attack civilians in Darfur, says the splintering of rebel groups complicates the peace process, and that added U.S. and other sanctions only hamper the government?s efforts to prepare for crucial national elections at the end of next year.
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Deteriorating press freedoms in Pakistan
2007-06-08 01:45:00
A new report by the watchdog group Committee to Protect Journalists lists Pakistan among the top ten countries experiencing deteriorating press freedoms.Violent attacks are going unpunished in many of these countries. In Pakistan, eight journalists have been slain in the last five years, but arrests and convictions have been won in only one case. In Russia, 11 journalists have been murdered in the last five years, but no case has been solved.
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Putin?s complaints
2007-06-08 01:26:00
Putin?s complaints are not entirely unfounded. He says Russia ?s unilateral moves to draw down its weaponry from Eastern Europe and reduce its regional forces only spurred the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to strengthen its presence. Reflecting a widely held Russian analysis, Putin denies the missile shield is aimed at Iran, whose ability or interest in striking Europe remains in doubt. ?We are being told that this missile defense system is there to defend against something that doesn't exist,? he told reporters. He promises a new nuclear arms race if plans for the missile shield go forward.
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Countdown To War On Iran
2007-06-07 18:36:00
via countercurrents.org: Silently, stealthily, unseen by cameras, the war on Iran has already begun. Many sources confirm that the United States, bent on destabilising the Islamic Republic, has increased its aid to armed movements among the Azeri, Baluchi, Arab and Kurdish ethnic minorities that make up about 40% of the Iranian population. ABC News reported in April that the US had secretly assisted the Baluchi group Jund al-Islam (Soldiers of Islam), responsible for a recent attack in which some 20 members of the Revolutionary Guard were killed. According to an American Foundation report (1), US commandos have operated inside Iran since 2004.
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Islamic Sharia
2007-06-07 18:30:00
via The Daily Star , Lebanon: Between Jerusalem and Athens, a Muslim 'third way'Often assumed in the West to be an oppressive corpus of law supported  by  only a small handful of fanatics (and especially detested by women), the incorporation of Shari a as one source of legislation enjoys the support of a majority in the eight Muslim-majority nations surveyed. Perhaps more surprising is the general absence of any large difference between men and women regarding their support for the incorporation of Sharia into governance. The only outlier is Turkey, where 57 percent say that Sharia should not be a source of legislation.But how is Sharia understood by the majority of Muslims? Does its inclusion mean a rejection of democratic values and a call for the absolute rule of an infallible clergy? The findings suggest that this is not the case. The vast majority of those surveyed, in addition to expressing their admiration for political freedom in the West, say they support freedoms of speec...
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Review : capella university
2007-06-07 10:58:00
?This (or ?the following?) blog post was (or ?is?) based on information provided by Blogitive. For more information, please visit Blogitive.com.? In my opinion students are the best judges of their institutions. Cape lla Univ ersity has done a wonderful thing by podocasting the interviews of their students. These interviews will help prospective students assess the quality of education at capella University. The podcast of Capella Phd student Carla Chladek, who works as Program Manager for Joint Staff Training Program, tells us that capella university is gaining recognition for its quality online education. It is an accredited online university , which offers graduate and bachelor degree programs in business, information technology and public safety,
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Arabs should unify their ranks
2007-06-07 10:48:00
Forty 40 years after the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.But Arab s had still not learned the 1967 Six-Day War's necessary lessons. The picture is gloomier than ever. Israel continued its aggression against the Palestinians and their land. Palestinian divisions and an Arab world that has unconsciously gone along with the West's plans, striking a blow against Arab solidarity and unity.Arabs would continue to fail in achieving anything of note until they learned the lessons offered by the 1967 defeat, starting with solidarity and unifying their ranks.
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Bush's record on democracy
2007-06-07 10:43:00
Bush's record on democracy and human rights is "dishonorable. He will be remembered in the history for occupying a sovereign Arab country - Iraq - under the false pretext of defending human rights and imposing democracy. He criticized Russia and China on democracy. His criticism is unjustified. It was his leadership that contributed to the regression in democratic reforms around the world. Everyone knows Americans always deal with repressive dictatorships. They are supporting military dictator in my country.
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CIA-assisted plot to overthrow Laos foiled
2007-06-06 20:38:00
via Global Research:Vang Pao, prominent Laotian exile leader and legendary CIA asset during the CIA?s clandestine Indochinese wars of the 1960s and 1970s was among 10 men arrested on June 4, 2007, and accused of plotting a catastrophic military strike against the Laotian government using mercenary forces. According to US attorney Bob Twiss, the ten individuals are the plot leaders, but ?thousands of co-conspirators remain at large, many in other countries.? The other leading co-conspirator arrested was Harrison Ulrich Jack, a member of the California National Guard, and a retired Army officer who was a CIA covert operative in Southeast Asia before leaving active duty in 1977. According to the ATF agent, Jack quoted Lo Cha Thao, the president of the nonprofit organization United Hmong International, and one of the other Hmong co-conspirators, as saying that ?the CIA was preparing to assist the Hmong insurgency once the takeover of Laos had begun?. According to the San Francisco Chron...
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Mukesh Ambani To Build $1 Billion ?Home?
2007-06-06 18:45:00
The richest man in India , Mukesh Ambani , is reportedly building a 27-storey skyscraper mansion in the heart of the country?s commercial capital, Mumbai (Bombay). The total cost of the project is expected to be US$1 billion, roughly the average annual income of 1.5 million Indians. Ambani is erecting his lavish ?home? in a city that has 7 million slum dwellers. Several million more of Mumbai?s 12 million-plus residents live in substandard housing. Such is the price of real estate in Mumbai that even well-paid middle-class professionals cannot afford a decent dwelling. In what is clearly an unintended irony, Ambani has named his mansion ?Antilia,? after a mythical island.
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Sales Leads
2007-06-06 13:30:00
?This (or ?the following?) blog post was (or ?is?) based on information provided by Blogitive. For more information, please visit Blogitive.com.?I heard about Martin Worldwide when I was the Information Technology Manager of a leading yellow pages company in Pakistan. Exporters praised Martin Worldwide products. They said that they got good response from their mailing lists and fax lists. Martin Worldwide has been a leader in the direct marketing industry. They have vast experience of providing mailing lists, telemarketing lists and fax lists to businesses of all sizes. These lists can be customized according to your requirements. Their lists are accurate and they regularly update it. These lists will help you find new customers and increase your sales. If you are looking for new Business Sales Lead s then I am sure that you will find the ResponseCom? database of great value, produced by Martin Worldwide. ResponseCom? is a unique mix of US response and US consumer databases.
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Pakistan : Press FREEDOM is now under attack.
2007-06-06 13:25:00
President Gen Pervez Musharraf is trying to gag the media in Pakistan . For this purpose he has amended Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Ordinary 2007. Now the authority can take action on its own against television channels. The noose around the media is tightening; today, it is the electronic part of the freedom of expression, tomorrow it may be print journalism. Government?s actions against meda are only going to exacerbate the situation and further lower the credibility of the government in the eyes of most Pakistanis as well as overseas observers.
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Stop Blaming Pakistan
2007-06-06 13:24:00
Brian Cloughley writes in his article ?Stop Blaming Pakistan ? that Pakistan is a vital ally of the United States. ?I lived in Pakistan for a long time and know President Musharraf to the extent of calling on him when visiting Islamabad, which I do regularly.? He comments that It is unlikely that a person who has had survived assassination efforts by terrorists could be other than extremely serious about combating them. He notes that the religious fanatics in Pakistan are virulently and violently anti-Musharraf because he seek to spread acceptance of ?moderate Islam? in the spirit of the Quran.
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Why pick on Israel? Because its actions are wrong
2007-06-06 01:14:00
Written by Steven Rose    Academic freedom, it appears, applies to Isra el is but not to PalestiniansThe University and College Union annual congress last week voted by a two-thirds majority to organise a campus tour for Palestinian academic trade unionists to explain why they had called for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, and to encourage UCU members to consider the moral implications of links with Israeli universities. Not surprisingly, this overwhelming vote met with a roar of hostility from what we have learned to call the Israel lobby. Our government, long accustomed to sitting on its hands when any serious attempt to censure Israel is made, predictably joined the chorus. More surprisingly, the Independent's editorialist and its columnist Joan Smith followed along. The boycott, we are told, damages academic freedom, picks on Israel, and encourages anti-Semitism on British campuses.Entirely suppressed in this h...
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Bringing Taliban into mainstream
2007-06-06 00:48:00
The President General Pervaiz Musharraf said that if we wanted to achieve peace in the region than we would have to talk to Taliban s. He expressed this view in his recent interview. He said when it suited  American's interest  he called them heroes. They labeled them as terrorists after 9/11. I am amazed at the naivety of our president. America is not her fight terrorists. It created 9/11 to find a justification for its presence in this area.Everyone knows American wants to establish its bases in the area to take care of Chinese growing economy , control Russian influence in its former republics, keep an eye on Iran and facilitate hold of natural resources in Central Asia.
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Media Disinformation on the "Iran Threat"
2007-06-05 03:35:00
The Guardian, one of Britain?s most influence newspapers, has released a controversial article claiming that Iran has planned a secret summer offensive to drive U.S. troops out of Iraq for 2007. There are fresh attempts underway to link Al-Qaeda to Tehran once again, similarly as the attempts to link Al-Qaeda to the late Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi government. The Associated Press also concurrently in step with The Guardian and other major information outlets released an account of Iranian plans to attack the European continent: Iran is attempting to draw up plans to strike targets in Europe and has reconnoitered European nuclear power stations, a security analyst told a meeting at Britain ?s parliament. Claude Moniquet, president of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Centre, a private think-tank in Brussels , said his organisation also had evidence Tehran has increased the number of its intelligence agents across Europe. ?We have serious signals th...
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Fatah al-Islam Talk to Asharq Al-Awsat
2007-06-05 02:45:00
By Sawan al Atbahvia Asharq Al-AwsatFatah al-Islam spokesperson, Abu-Salim Taha rejected calls for giving up members of his group in an effort to reach a consensus with the Lebanese army.In an excusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat Abu-Salim Taha spokesman for Fatah al-Islam, the group that has been fighting the Lebanese national army in northern Lebanon said, "We are happy to accept anything suggested to us apart from proposals that go against our religion and faith. In other words, we cannot hand over any person, because this is treason against God and his prophet. Moreover, we will not be able to leave this camp for any other place." "The army is asking us to hand over our brothers under the pretext that they had attacked it, whereas they [the army] were the ones who started the aggression. Will they hand over the elements that attacked us? Will they accept to do that?" He added.While Abu-Salim denied that negotiations took place because of the fighting conditions in Nahr al-Bar...
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Verdict still out
2007-06-05 02:37:00
Pakistan?s Former Secretary of Defense, Lt. General Hamid Javed said :"The U.S. will continue to support President Musharraf because there is no substitute for him in the army who can, and will, give the kind of support the U.S. wants in the war on terror."
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Bush's nuclear front
2007-06-04 08:34:00
via Khaleejtimes.com:Editorial ONE area where the Bush administration has been about just as helpless as the war-against-terrorism is taming nuclear ambitions of both rising and upstart nations in and around Asia.Indeed, it seems that while Bush must wish he wakes up one day to find a political/diplomatic miracle having solved Iran on its own, India is increasingly becoming a burden, while North Korea is hardly anything to write home about. Yet, despite the frustration and continuous erosion of the superpower's clout and reputation, there seems little adjustment mechanism under the microscope in the White House. It bears noting that Washington is presently without a clear-cut policy on the issue, which is among the most pressing in modern day geo-politics. On the one hand, it comes down hard on NPT signatory Iran, which is still not in violation of the treaty. On the other, it delivers India the proverbial pat-on-the-back, blessing it with US civilian nuclear technology in return ...
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Afghanistan?s security improving: Gates
2007-06-04 08:28:00
via Daily Times :US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday and said security and development were improving despite rising Taliban violence, but he was concerned about preserving those gains.Gates is lying . Situation in Afghanistan is getting from bad to worse. Situation will never improve until we end the miseries of  ordinary Afghani.
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US can?t win in Iraq: ex-general
2007-06-04 08:16:00
Lieutenant Gene ral Ricardo Sanchez said in an interview could not win the war. Sanchez called the situation in Iraq bleak and blamed it on ?the abysmal performance in the early stages and the transition of sovereignty?.This statement is misleading. According to my information US has achieved its goal. Their mission was to destroy Iraq. They did it to fulfill the desire of their Saudi friend.Saudis do not want a strong Iraq.  They want to divide Iraq. But they do not want to give the world impression that they are behind this.

Russia may point missiles at Europe: Putin
2007-06-04 08:05:00
In an interview reported in Italy?s Corriere della Sera, Putin said would once again aim its missiles at targets in Europe if US plans to build a missile defence shield near Russia ?s borders.Putin acknowledged Russia?s response risked restarting an arms race but he said Moscow would not be responsible for the consequences because Washington had started it.Washington says the shield is not a threat to Russia but is designed to protect against possible missile attacks from what it calls ?rogue states?The is question , why does US want to install that shield. In my opinion , American actions will start a new cold war.
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Ahmadinejad sees 'countdown' on Israel
2007-06-04 00:07:00
Iran's president said Israel 's days are numbered."The countdown for the Zionist regime's collapse has started," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency on Sunday. "God willing, we will soon witness the collapse of this regime."Ahmadinejad further predicted that Israel would "bow" to fighting on the Palestinian and Lebanese fronts. His frequent anti-Israel rhetoric has stoked international concern over the nuclear program in Iran.Ahmadinejad has made anti-Israel comments in the past. In October 2005, he caused outrage in the West when he said in a speech that Israel's "Zionist regime should be wiped off the map." His supporters have argued Ahmadinejad's words were mistranslated and should have been better translated as "vanish from the pages of time" _ implying Israel would vanish on its own rather be destroyed.
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Iran Hostage Crisis, part two
2007-06-04 00:01:00
PARANOID that a network of U.S. scholars and thinkers is fomenting a velvet revolution, Iran charged three U.S.-Iranian citizens with espionage. If convicted, they could face execution. The accused are Haleh Esfandiari, the 67-year-old director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Kian Tajbakhsh, 45, a respected social scientist at the New School in New York who has consulted for George Soros Open Society Institute and the World Bank; and Radio Farda journalist Parnaz Azima, 59. The government and various state news agencies have accused these Iranian Americans and their organizations of endangering state security. The charges are ludicrous. Esfandiari, who has invited scholars and statesmen from Iran to U.S. conferences and events, has been criticized by some in the Iranian-American community as being too soft on the current regime. And not only has Tajbakhsh consulted directly for the Iranian government, but the supposedly Zionist and...
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Musharraf?s message from the GHQ
2007-06-03 23:46:00
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) department of the armed forces has told the media that the 101st meeting of the corps commanders has ?endorsed the pivotal role of General Pervez Mush arraf as the president of Pakistan and chief of the army staff (COAS) in the ongoing reforms process in the country?. The meeting is said to have discussed the current situation in the country with particular reference to the judicial crisis, the killings in Karachi and ?politicisation? of legal matters pending with the Supreme Court and the Supreme Judicial Council. The meeting defined the movement against President Musharraf as a ?malicious campaign against state institutions? aimed at ?maligning the institutions? by ?vested interests and opportunists who were acting as obstructionist forces to serve their personal interests and agenda even at the cost of flouting the rule of law?. The top brass, excluding the naval and air chiefs who were obviously not in an army meeting, resolved to ?ensur...
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US-Russia row at G-8
2007-06-03 23:34:00
AS THE G-8 is getting ready for its summit on the Baltic coast in Berlin (June 6-8), Russia and the US are getting ready for a fight on issues like Kosovo and NATO. There are other contentious issues as well. The US wants to deploy a radar system in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor missiles in Poland by 2011-12. It says the system would counter threats from so-called "rogue states" like North Korea, but Moscow sees it as an encroachment on its former sphere of influence. Moscow is also concerned over the US military shipments last week to Lebanon's government, to fight the militants, and cautioned against such aid, saying it would further destabilize the region.Understandably, G-8 president Germany is trying to avert a showdown between the US and Russia at the summit which seeks, among other things, to focus on climate change and aid to Africa. One wonders if the present squabbling between the two former super powers is only to avert a meaningful debate at the summit on 'clim...

Review : Crown condoms
2007-06-03 05:59:00
?This (or ?the following?) blog post was (or ?is?) based on information provided by Blogitive. For more information, please visit Blogitive.com.? Crown condoms are very famous. These condoms are manufactured by Okamoto. They are known as the Skin Less Condom. These condoms are extremely thin, but very strong. This super thin Japanese condom offers a wider, more comfortable shape. Crown Condoms are odorless and tasteless. Nothing feels better than these condoms. You will feel that you are not wearing a condom at all. DiscountCondomKing.com offers these condoms at wholesale and retail prices to all its customers. If buy condoms from them . They do not charge for shipping , and also give 5% discount to regular customers. They sell Japan?s crown condoms. They have full range of Crown Condoms including Trojan, Durex, Lifestyles, Kimono.
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The Sycophants
2007-06-03 05:57:00
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz says protestor should not speak against Pakistan Army. On April 24 and 26, 2007, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) said that any person using abusive language against the military ?should be gunned down? The official circles are making such statements to project themselves as the defenders of the military and depict their political adversaries as anti-military. They think that this would enable them to muster the military?s support at a time when they are challenged by the opposition in the streets.I respect our armed forces. They  defend us. But Musharraf has infiltrated army personnels in every department. This has infuriated the people. May I ask what is the  purpose  of an army  man in central tax department.

Iran minister backs brief marriages to stem illicit sex
2007-06-03 05:28:00
Iran Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said that in order stop illicit between man and women . We should encourage young people to to get temporarily married .He said Iran should seek to promote the practice with ?boldness? and urged seminary scholars to study the matter and come up with ways to ?execute God?s command in society.?
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American aid is being wasted in the name fight against terror
2007-06-02 20:29:00
The attack on a leading government official in Tank in NWFP, shows that Pakistan i security forces have failed to control the Taliban. The carnage, in which the victims included at least two women, would have been horrifying any way, but it's all the more alarming in view of the fact that it followed by just two days Tuesday's car bomb attack in the parking area of Peshawar High Court. Every year American s give $1 billion to Pakistani government to fight terrorism. But it looks American tax payers hard earned money is being wasted in the name of fight against terror.
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