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| Kabos are scattering from Afghanistan |
Posted by Meerca on May, 16. :: 1 Comment
Soon American occupants in Afghanistan will lose all their soldiers. They say that US soldiers’ morale is so low that those ‘brave guys’ are dispersing like cockroaches. Some of them are tired of that endless war. Other ones adopted Islam in secret and came over Talibs’ side. Those men deceived by Muslim cunning preachers are most dangerous. Because they are aware very well about positions of their former military bases and machinery. Also they don’t forget to take some of equipment with. Thus not long ago several American militaries hijacked 2 armoured cars ‘Humvees’ from US military base in Kabul. There are witnesses among their comrades-in-arms who recognized those soldier boys. They say that cars moved towards Talibs’ positions. What business have they got there I wonder? Think they were going to meet their new friends and masters on the other side. Soon Talibs will make Americans to do all bloody work for them fighting against their own natives.
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| Saudis Sends Sharp Warning to Iran Over Lebanon |
Posted by BumbleBeeBoogie on May, 14. :: 1 Comment
Saudis Sends Sharp Warning to Iran Over Lebanon
By Sam F. Ghattas
The Associated Press
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Beirut, Lebanon - Saudi Arabia sent Iran a sharp warning over Lebanon Tuesday, saying Tehran's support for Hezbollah will damage its relations with other Muslim and Arab countries.
More soldiers fanned out through Beirut, with orders to use force to restore security to a nation shaken by nearly a week of sectarian clashes. Lebanese buried more of their dead and tried to resume life in a capital dissected by roadblocks.
What began as a political struggle 1 1/2 years ago with Shiite ministers bolting from the Cabinet devolved last week into Lebanon's worst fighting since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war, with at least 54 people dead and scores wounded.
Shiite Hezbollah guerrillas and allied Amal gunmen have swept through large Sunni swaths of Beirut, neighborhoods that support the government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, a Sunni.
On Tuesday, the strife between Lebanon's government supporters and opponents expanded into a wider regional standoff between Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia and the world's largest Shiite nation, Iran. Iran supports Hezbollah and Saudi Arabia backs Saniora's Sunni-led government.
"Of course, Iran is backing what happened in Lebanon, a coup, and supports it," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal told a news conference in Riyadh, in the most pointed criticism of Tehran. "This will affect (Iran's) relations with all Arab countries, if not Islamic states as well."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shot back by saying Saud's comments were made in anger and likely did not conform to the views of Saudi King Abdullah. He said Iran was the only country that does not interfere in Lebanon's internal affairs.
President Bush weighed in earlier, telling Al-Arabiya television Monday that Washington would continue to support the Lebanese government and military, and would keep up pressure on Iran and Syria. The U.S. considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has repeatedly called for it to disarm.
As Bush travels to the Middle East Wednesday for a trip that includes visits to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the flare-up is a sign that nervousness is growing about Iran's expanding influence.
Sunni Arab countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt worry that Iran wants to flex its muscle and assume a larger and strategic role in the region - taking power and influence that was historically theirs.
Iran, in turn, accuses U.S.-allied Arab countries like Egypt of merely bending to America's will and pushing its agenda in the region.
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, who is traveling with Bush, told reporters that the U.S. is trying to rally international support for Lebanon's U.S.-backed government.
"Obviously, we are also going to talk to various countries about additional pressure that can be put on Syria and Iran because in our view they are what is behind this," said Hadley, indicating that a starting point might be the coming U.N. Security Council meeting in New York. "There is obviously more to do."
Regarding the possibility of more sanctions, Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams said: "We'll see what happens in New York."
The growing tension has wide implications for American and Western goals in the region - with the West generally allied more with the Arab governments and also worried about Iran's intentions.
The same dynamic is playing out over Iraq - which also has been a strong source of discord among Arab countries, who generally support Sunnis there, and Iran, which is closely allied to both the Shiite-led government and to Shiite splinter groups like the Mahdi Army.
On the edge of Beirut, funeral processions snaked Tuesday through mountain towns where civilians and combatants were buried.
Among them were Sunni lawyer Haitham Tabbara, 35, and his mother Amal, killed in a rocket explosion in Ras el-Nabeh as they tried to escape the fighting. Two brothers were later shot as they rushed to the hospital upon hearing the news.
"He was a peaceful man who never got involved in politics, always defending the oppressed and supporting what is right," said fellow lawyer Tarek Labban. "We don't like war ... and don't want more victims like him."
At a Shiite cemetery nearby, three Hezbollah fighters were buried as comrades marched with photos of the slain men.
An Arab League delegation was expected in Beirut this week to try to bring Lebanon's feuding parties toward consensus, and resolve a troubling political crisis that has left the country without a president since November.
Violence erupted last week after the U.S.-backed government sacked the airport security chief for alleged ties to Hezbollah, and declared the militant group's private telephone network illegal.
Hezbollah revolted and drove out the government's Sunni supporters in street fighting that spread from the capital to mountains overlooking Beirut and even to the northern city of Tripoli. A cease-fire largely halted the clashes on Monday.
The army has suggested a compromise: that the airport security chief retain his post and the government reverse its decision on the phone network. The government has not yet responded to the recommendation.
Speaking for the first time since he was besieged in his west Beirut home, top Sunni leader and parliamentary majority chief Saad Hariri said Tuesday he supports canceling the Cabinet decisions "to save Lebanon."
Hariri also blamed Hezbollah's backers in Syria and Iran for orchestrating the onslaught.
"This has been decided by the Iranian and Syrian regimes that wanted to play a political game in Lebanon's streets... For us nothing has changed," he told a news conference in Beirut.
"We will not negotiate with someone having a pistol pointed to our head," Hariri said.
Hariri also has close ties to Saudi Arabia. His father, assassinated former premier Rafik Hariri, amassed a fortune working on building projects in Saudi, many of them commissioned by the royal family. He used that fortune to rebuild Beirut after the 15-year civil war, a popular move that bolstered his rise to power.
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| Credit granting system |
Posted by Mikki Mouse on May, 14. :: 0 Comments
Currently most of our experts have a theory that at the present day the UK has beaten our old records in credit granting system. And now not we, but Britons take the leading positions in world system of finance.
But it should be noted that London has managed to raise effectiveness of own finance and credit system thanks to rather curious know-how. In fact, this kind of commercial experiment bears a name of confidence trick.
It pays to look even at present shady schemes in UK system of crediting! Britons themselves claim that most of their credit companies are using impermissible gimmicks for enlisting sympathies of maximum number of clients, including people with poor credit ratings. First of all, it is targeted young people, who can tell you (www.news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30400-1315684,00.html) many examples of ads that promise cash to those in the UK who have the same poor credit history - but fail to mention the typical APR of the product, which advertising rules require. In other words, UK credit card companies are simply doing in the eye of their clients! And I am grateful that our moneymen haven’t condescended to similar trickery yet!
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| Re-election campaign organized for Georgia by Washington |
Posted by Chucks on May, 14. :: 1 Comment
It is obvious for everybody that so extensive pre-election campaign could be organized for our poor friends from ex-Soviet Georgian Republic only by Washington. But just think of it, pals! Current media advertising campaign for a certain Georgian ruling party (right on the eve of local parliamentary election there) is paid from our pockets! And it happens at the very nonce, when our government can not find enough funds for psychological adaptation of own soldiers, retuned to the USA from Iraq and Afghanistan!
Maybe, it is time to stop spending kilo bucks on support of so uncontrollable Georgian leaders, who probably have only one thing on their mind: saber-ratting for so-called “restoring country’s territorial integrity”…
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| China strikes back, or The beginning of a virus warfare? |
Posted by Blurr on May, 13. :: 2 Comments
As I see, the US keeps on trying to foil the Beijing Olympic games! First, CIA agents were setting about calls to boycott the opening ceremony during the European and US leg of Olympic torch relay. Now the time has come to turn to direct subversive actions. World news agencies report that over 30 young children in China have died after becoming infected by an intestinal virus, almost 3,000 children stay in quarantine being infected with the deadly virus. That's what CIA does to spoil the Olympic games! However, US special services were wrong when they thought that China has nothing to retaliate with. An American woman died of an unidentified virus and 10 people were hospitalized with influenza symptoms from a cross-Canadian train when other 260 passengers aboard (at least three fourths of them Americans) and 30 crew members were put on quarantine! I heard from people who are in touch with the situation that the sudden virus outbreak looks like China's counterstroke. I say that the CIA is playing a hazardous game that may cost lives of many-many Americans in case an undeclared virus warfare between China and the US breaks out!
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