THE Taliban commander waited at the ramshackle border crossing while Pakistani police wielding assault rifles stopped and searched the line of cars and trucks travelling into Afghanistan.
Some of the trucks carried smuggled goods -- DVD players, car stereos, television sets, generators, children's toys. But the load smuggled by Taliban fighter Qari Rasoul, a thickset Pashtun from Afghanistan's Wardak province, was altogether more sinister.
Rasoul's boot was full of remote-control triggers used to detonate the home-made bombs responsible for the vast majority of Nato casualties in Afghanistan. The three passengers sitting in his white Toyota estate were suicide bombers.
In other words, the Pakistan rulers' preferred export to the Afghans.
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There were some in New York,Boston Doing the same!
As my cousin in The Irish Police told me Americans were shaking his hand in a New York parade saying he was doing a good job with the Irish army fighting the Brits.They were shocked when he replied that the IRA were criminal scum and had nothing to do with the Irish police and Irish Army!
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Be proud of your cousin. Sounds like a stand-up type.
babelfish, etc...
Representatives of the three major political parties Saturday denounced the Molotov cocktail attack on a Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) headquarters building in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, say Mexican news accounts.
The attack which took place Saturday morning before dawn caused minor damage. No one was hurt in the attack.
Sinaloa is set to elect this summer a slate of state government leaders, 18 mayorships and the Legislature.
The attack represents one in a "one long chain of (vandalistic) acts on this political institute, among them robbery and destruction of its campaign materials...", said Francisco Solano Urias, Sinaloa PAN leader.
"This attack constitutes a very worrisome message on the violence level that can be presented/displayed in this electoral day', said Partido de la Revolucion Democrätica (PRD) leader for Sinaloa Ramon Lucas Lizärraga.
President of the state committee of the Sinaloa Partido Institutional Revolucionario (PRI), Cenovio Ruiz Zazueta, has demanded the attack be investigated, stating that such attacks can cloud the electoral process.
The resulting fire damaged the front door of the building.
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PAN had decades to plan its re-entry into Mexco's top political leadership. So far, not much in the way of results. With PRD being the road to an overreaching and unaffordable socialistic state, look for the old dinosaur party - the PRI - to return to prominence. (If Colosio had survived the assasination - PRI would still be in the driver's seat.)
Russia Saturday rejected an appeal from Kyrgyzstan's interim president for military assistance in quelling rising violence in the Kyrgyz south, where the toll had reached at least 65.
A spokeswoman for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, 'This is an internal conflict and so far Moscow does not regard the conditions for an active participation to be fulfilled.'
Translation: there's nothing in it yet for Russia ...
Kyrgyz interim President Rosa Otunbayeva had made the request to Moscow earlier Saturday, both in a written message to Medvedev and in a phone call to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Russia agreed to send humanitarian aid with food and medications. The plane would bring seriously wounded people out of Kyrgyzstan on its return flight.
Russia maintains a few hundred paratroopers at a military base at Kant in northern Kyrgyzstan. But an army spokesman in Moscow said they would not be deployed amidst the violence.
'The unit has a clear mission and will not be called in for other tasks,' the spokesman said.
As fighting continued in Kyrgyzstan Saturday, one soldier was reported killed as the government imposed a state of emergency for the southern city of Jalal-Abad and surrounding areas. The government had previously declared a state of emergency for Osh.
'We need military support in order to get the escalating situation in the south under control,' Otunbayeva said in the capital Bishkek, according to the Akipress agency. She noted that the request for aid would have involved several countries and that the 'dynamics of events' in the region permitted no other solution.
Otunbayeva said that the situation in and around the provincial capital of Osh remained unstable, a day after the pitched street battles between local residents and military forces sent in to try to restore order.
As of Saturday, the toll had reached at least 65, with another 900 people injured.
Salvos of machine gun fire and the thunder of artillery shelling could still be heard in several areas in the south, while numerous buildings and cars were in flames, reports reaching Moscow from the region said.
'Anarchy reigns,' a medical doctor was cited as saying, while hospitals in Osh now faced an acute shortage of blood reserves and bandages.
Reports also said plunderers were at large in Osh and surrounding areas, while one entire apartment block had been burned to the ground.
Otunbayeva made an appeal to retired policemen and soldiers to report to help the regular forces. 'All hands are needed,' she said.
Otunbayeva blamed backers of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev for the unrest. They wanted to try to thwart 'with every means possible' the planned June 27 national referendum on a new constitution, she said.
The referendum is aimed at introducing democratic structures in the Central Asian country. But the southern region around Osh is a bastion for the Bakiyev clan. Bakiyev himself is living in exile in Belarus after violent demonstrations ins Bishkek ousted him from power in April.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Uzbek ethnic minority in the country appealed to the interim government to establish a humanitarian corridor for the safe passage of some 20,000 older people, women and children to permit them to reach neighbouring Uzbekistan. In a referendum two years ago, about 15 percent of Kyrgyzstan's population declared that they were of ethnic Uzbek origin.
Pyongyang, June 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Jurists Institute of Korea (JIK) in a statement on Friday bitterly denounced on behalf of all the jurists of the DPRK the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors for working with blood-shot eyes to intensify the anti-DPRK smear campaign aimed at doing harm to compatriots after bringing the inter-Korean relations to a total collapse. "Blood-shot eyes." That's okay, but the paragraph needs more vitriol.
The puppet group of traitors in south Korea cooked up the case of the warship sinking of the puppet navy in collusion with the U.S. imperialists and is passing the buck for it to the DPRK in a bid to escalate the confrontation with it, vociferating about "retaliation" and "punishment", the statement noted, and went on: That's a lot better. The "puppet group of traitors" brings back old times, though using the word "puppet" twice in the same sentence kinda dilutes the effect. We shall now prepare for further vociferation...
Through the above-said case the group sought the following sinister aims: to divert elsewhere the south Korean people's anger at the most unpopular rule, fan up the confrontation with the DPRK and internationalize the moves to isolate and stifle it in collusion with outside forces hell-bent on the hostile policy toward it and bring down its dignified system. Not bad, but way too long. Try shorter sentences. And not enough vitriol. What happened to the "do or die Songun army first" policy? Maybe you could dust that off.
The U.S. imperialists and the puppet warmongers orchestrated the case of warship sinking in a bid to ignite another Korean war. "Dat's right. Dem suckers sunk their own boat and blamed it on us!"
This is also clear from the following facts: No sooner had the case occurred than the puppet conservative group and the U.S. amassed armed forces in the waters of the West Sea of Korea, talking about "a resolute retaliation," as if they had been waiting for the incident to happen. And they launched hectic diplomacy to kick off an international campaign for "sanctions" against the DPRK. ... rather than launching on offensive across the ceasefire line in retaliation for a sneak attack.
This bears a close resemblance to the situation when the U.S. imperialists kicked off invasion of Iraq. How y'gonna argue with the logic of Rodong Sinmun? It's impeccable.
If a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, this is bound to spill over to the neighboring countries and then it will soon develop into a world war. That's true. Japan's a tinderbox. China's ready to explode at any moment; all it'll take will be a nudge. And the Russers... We won't even talk about those crazy bastards.
The Lee group of traitors can never shirk off the responsibility as the criminals who orchestrated the case of warship sinking. Lee was actually seen giving field guidance to submarine crews on the morning of the sneak attack. It'll be in all the Pyongyang papers tomorrow... Oh. Wait. This is the Pyongyang paper.
The U.S. imperialists and the Lee group of traitors keen to achieve the above-said purposes through the case will keenly realize what deadly retaliation the army and the people of the DPRK will take to defend the sovereignty of the country and the dignity of the nation.
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6.5
no juche
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Au contraire bridge boy...
working with blood-shot eyes
[Al Arabiya Latest] North Korea warned of an all-out military strike to destroy South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda tools along their fortified border, according to the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency.
South Koreas preparation for psychological warfare, is a direct declaration of a war against the North, the general staff of the communist states military said today in a statement on KCNA. The Norths military retaliation may turn Seoul into a sea of flame, the statement said.
The Korean peninsula has been on edge since the sinking of a South Korean warship off the western coast, killing 46 sailors, in late March.
Seoul has accused the North of torpedoing its navy corvette, the Cheonan.
In what it called a "crucial declaration", North Korea's army general staff said it would shoot down the loudspeakers and all other means of psychological warfare if South Korea resumes its propaganda broadcasts.
"From a military point of view that a psychological warfare is one of the basic operational forms for carrying out a war the installing of such means for the above-said warfare is a direct declaration of a war against the DPRK," the North's official KCNA news agency said, referring to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The heightened tensions and exchanges of rhetoric have rattled Seoul's financial markets, pushing foreign investors already jittery over Europe's debt crisis out of South Korean assets.
South Korea announced punitive measures over the incident in May, including the installation of loudspeakers to resume broadcasts of propaganda messages against Pyongyang. It has yet to start such broadcasts.
"The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will launch an all-out military strike to blow up the group's means for the psychological warfare against the DPRK," Saturday's KCNA statement said, repeating similar threats made in recent weeks.
It warned South Korea that any military action on its part would risk turning Seoul "into a sea of flame".
South Korea has said it would be able to contain any military action by the North.
Seoul's Yonhap news agency quoted officials from the South's joint chiefs of staff as saying there were no unusual movements spotted along the border.
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"The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will launch an all-out military strike to blow up the group's means for the psychological warfare against the DPRK," Saturday's KCNA statement said, repeating similar threats made in recent weeks.
You are going to blow up their loudspeakers? They can make more.
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OK if they destroy the vuvuzelas in South Africa that will be fine by me.
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EC your claim that in 50 years soccer will dominate the US is wrong. Gotta get rid of the offides rule, Look for Rugby 7's to catch hold especially with the introduction into the Olympics in 2016. I 've been to 3 RWC you'd never see my ass at pro soccer game. My daughter has played soccer on Atlanta travel teams for several year so I understand the game it's awful. Any pathetic poor ass country can play soccer all you need is a ball. A gentleman's sport played by hooligans....
And to stick another knife in you I just came from my son's baseball tournament, at least something is going on in baseball.
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badanov i understand the rule but it's couterintuitive to Americans. You never force a Jerry Rice a Randy Moss or any other great receiver to give up ther touchdown because through there atleticism they got behind the d-back befor the ball got there.
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Since Soccer has already outlawed use of the keenest mind to appendage connection (e.g. the hand), why not just put all but the goalies in straight jackets and proclaim that you can only advance the ball with your a$$? At least it would be entertaining watching while no one could score.
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Is there a database error or something? I came here to talk about the sea of fire and found the standard US/Euro soccer flamewar. Did this get munged from another thread?
So anyway I searched KCNA for the sea of fire thing and didn't find anything. Apparently they haven't used the phrase in years.
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Now if you want a REAL game, you gotta go for original rules Ulama. Losing team is beheaded. Winning team gets to steal from any member of the audience they can catch.
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Infielder basics 101 - get your body completely in front of the ball.
Meterball is one of those games which does not translate well through the TV. Especially if it sounds like there is a swarm of flies in your living room.
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I denounce your game as a religion! There is only one god - me! In my grorious second year in the Earth realm I created this game which running capitalist dogs have stolen and call soccer! Vuvuzelas will burn in a sea of flame!
Bwahahaha!
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Kim Jong Il wins the thread, too. And Shipman. :-)
[Iran Press TV Latest] Israel may allow Turkey to monitor the entrance of relief supplies into Gaza, according to a report in a Lebanese newspaper.
That seems unwise.
Iran Press TV at its finest. You don't get quality hallucinations like this from the Pak Daily Times or the Bangladesh Upazila-Register ...
The Pakistanis are more interested in paranoid conspiracy theories, Bangladeshis just want to be sure the Rab got the badmen.
Citing Arab diplomatic sources,
But not Israeli ones? That's ok, then.
the Lebanese daily newspaper Ad-Diyar said on Saturday that Ankara could be given a role in overseeing Gaza's border crossings in the future, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported.
Relations between Turkey and Israel hit an all-time low after the attack on the Freedom Flotilla last month.
The Israeli military attacked the Freedom Flotilla
The editor forgot to put in the scare quotes there.
in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, killing nine Turkish citizens on board the M.V. Mavi Marmara and injuring about 50 other people who were part of the team on the six-ship convoy.
Not "people". Hired professional terrorists. Do get it write, O PressTV propagandist.
Israel also arrested and later released nearly 700 activists from 42 countries who were on board the ships of the Freedom Flotilla, which was attempting to break the siege of Gaza in order to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian assistance to the long-suffering people of the territory.
Some portion of which was actually usable instead of unhealthy or dangerous, but never mind that...
Earlier this month, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Israel was losing its "best friend in the region,"
And what a high standard that is, to be sure.
and advised Tel Aviv to "immediately" review its policies.
I think the traditional response to that is a slap across the face with a chainmail glove, but I could be mistaken.
And Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said that the incident might compel Turkey to reduce its relations with Israel to "a minimum" in the economic and defense spheres.
Who is going to repair your weapons systems, O Deputy Prime Minister? How certain are you that the Israelis, famed killers that your boss so firmly believes them to be, have not secreted computer chips that will take control at a particularly inconvenient time... as they did to that Syrian radar system supplied by the ever-trustworthy Russians?
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Hmm. As long as they are shadowed and no diplomatic pouches are allowed, maybe.
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PayPal treads a very narrow line in commerce that allows them to avoid a lot of FTC and banking/funds regulations and oversight. Doing something that draws attention like this could get those gray areas cleaned up much to everyone's loss except for the bureaucrats. That niche which becomes a de facto monopoly will get its proverbial buns in the oven. Of course with that regulation and oversight must come regulatory fees [taxes] which, of course, Congress is not looking for. /sarc off
[Dawn] The pro PML-N ulema on Saturday came out in the open against Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and alleged that Sanaullah had close ties with banned militant outfits.
Naeemian Association Pakistan and Tanzim-i-Ahl-i-Sunnat on Saturday observed the first death anniversary of religious scholar Dr Sarfraz Naeemi.
While addressing the seminar, several ulemas lashed out at Sanaullah and held him responsible for not arresting the murderers of Dr Naeemi.
They demanded the dismissal of the provincial law minister.
Even PML-N MNA Sardar Ayaz Sadiq failed to defend Sanaullah on the occasion and regretted that the murderers were still at large.
Justice (Rtd.) Nazir Ahmed Ghazi, a member of the Tahafuz-i-Namoos-i-Risalat, criticized both the PML-N and the PPP.
The State Minister for Information Samsam Bukhari on the occasion said that the PPP had never supported terrorists in the past and will not do so in the future.
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[Dawn] After a fresh wave of target killings in Karachi, Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday called a high-level meeting at the Governor House.
Governor Sindh Ishrat-ul Ibad and Provincial Interior Minister Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza also attended the meeting.
Addressing the meeting, Malik showed serious concerns over the target killings and said that the third power was involved in the violence and wanted to disrupt the peace in the city. Oh, is it RAW trying to make the Paks look like vicious killers again?
Possibly in concert with Mossad or Shin Bet or something even more secret. That Hinjoo nexus is tricky, donchaknow. Nothing like the honest, straightforward Pakistanis.
He said that miscreants involved in the violence would be dealt with strictness.
Regarding the issue, Malik has called a high-level meeting on Monday.
The meeting will be attended by the members of coalition partners, high-level police officals and the Karachi Administrator.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: A one-hour meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and al-Iraqiya leader Iyad Allawi on Saturday ended in an agreement on the need to form a national partnership government encompassing all groups, an advisor for Maliki said.
The meeting took place in a very positive atmosphere that would open the door for more dialogues and perhaps could give an impetus and lend more seriousness to them,' Ali al-Musawi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Meanwhile, Maysoon al-Damlouji, the spokeswoman for al-Iraqiya bloc, said the meeting, which took place at Maliki's office today (June 12), witnessed talks on forming the next Iraqi government and helped break the ice' between the two sides.
The talks were attended by Sheikh Khalid al-Attiya, Hassan al-Saneed, Khudeir al-Khuzaie, Tareq al-Hashimi, Mohammed Allawi and Hassan al-Alawi.
The meeting comes a couple of days before convening the first parliament session, expected on Monday, and two days after a meeting between a delegation from al-Iraqiya and a delegation from Maliki's Dawlat al-Qanoon (State of Law).
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How generous of the loser of the election to share power with the winner.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Exiled Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal said on Friday the Islamist movement ruling the Gaza Strip would not touch any of the $ 400 million in U.S. aid promised to the Palestinians.
Let's take it back, then. We really do have better things not to do with it, like not borrowing that much more from China.
"The 400 million dollars offered by (U.S. President Barack) Obama are not for Gaza but for the Palestinian Authority which will distribute part of it in Gaza, but not to Hamas," Meshaal told a news conference in Sudan's capital.
Actually, that's a neat little play -- kudos to President Obama: getting credit for supporting Hamas in the eyes of the world, while sliding it into the pockets of the P.A., ie. Fatah. Not to mention raising expectations in Gaza that Hamas would then not be able to meet. It's positively Chicagoan!
"The money will be given to (Palestinian prime minister) Salam Fayyad" in the occupied West Bank, he said.
On Wednesday Obama announced a $400 million aid package for the West Bank and Gaza, saying it demonstrated America's commitment to improving the lives of Palestinians.
After meeting Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas at the White House, Obama described the situation in the Gaza Strip, mired in humanitarian crisis and under an Israeli blockade, as "unsustainable," but also said he still believed "significant progress" towards Middle East peace was possible this year.
Meshaal on Friday also urged Arab and Muslim states to give more humanitarian aid for vessels attempting to break the Israeli blockade of the impoverished Gaza Strip, where more than 1.5 million Palestinians live.
Nine Turkish activists hired terrorists were killed when Israeli commandos boarded a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 31.
Meshaal began a four-day visit to Sudan on Wednesday, during which he has had talks with President Omar al-Beshir. Sudan last year began mediation efforts between Hamas and the rival Fatah faction after Abbas visited Khartoum.
Bet they were as effective as Egypt's mediation efforts.
Meshaal on Saturday said Sudan's mediation was "not contradictory" to Egyptian efforts to bring about Palestinian reconciliation. An accord brokered by Cairo several months ago was backed by Fatah but rejected by Hamas.
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This will be the only money coming into Gaza that Hamas doesn't take a share of.
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The $400M is on top of $500M given annually to those 9/11 uulators.
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Two Iranian ships intended to head for Hamas-controlled Gaza are waiting for their government's approval to challenge Israel on the high seas, escorted by "volunteer marines" that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to send "to teach Israelis a lesson."
An Iranian Red Crescent official said the two ships are waiting for the Iranian foreign ministry to give the green light for launching, according to the French news service AFP, quoting the Iranian Mehr news service. The Red Crescent said a third ship probably would join the fleet.
Red Crescent official Mojtaba Majd also claimed that more than 100,000 Iranians have signed up to board the ships, but only those with "expertise" would be accepted. Majd did not define the area of expertise required.
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Oh no! The Israelis have really done it this time. The Iranians are coming - the most feared and glorous military force in the world. Israel, please say you're sorry and convert to Islam. Do it for the children. And make Obama happy too. You still have a chance - not much - but maybe if you beg for mercy, Hallah and madjab will forgive you.
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a relatively short trip, what could go wrong? Lost at sea, Somali pirates. a Kraken, Nork subs, stray torpedoes, no passage at the Suez, Cindy Sheehan offering herself as a human shield, ....
I expect we can milk this for weeks and in the end, the Iranians won't do a fooking thing. It's all talk from short-dick trying to man-up and be a "regional power". They could give a shit about the Paleos except for hurting the Juice
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Will they drape keys around the Iranian volunteers' necks?
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"the charged anti-Israeli atmosphere following the latest flotilla clash has encouraged Arab and left-wing colleagues" Yeah everyone was aghast at the Israelis until they saw the video footage. IMHO they waited far too long before they used lethal force.
A senior Iranian lawmaker urges Moscow to "stand by its commitments" after the Kremlin made a snap decision to freeze the sale of the S-300 defense system to Tehran.
In the wake of a UN Security Council decision to impose fresh sanctions on Iran, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has reportedly assured fellow Western leaders that Moscow would shelve a long-stalled deal to deliver the S-300 air-defense missiles to the government in Tehran.
Deputy Head of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Esmail Kowsari reacted to the sudden decision made by the Kremlin on Saturday, asserting that Russia is "bound by an agreement to provide Iran with the advanced defense system."
"Russia should abide by agreements made between the two countries and deliver the system to Iran," Kowsari told Mehr news agency on Saturday.
"But if they end up refusing to deliver the systems, we are well capable of producing missile defense systems that are very much similar to Russia's S-300 apparatus," he noted, referring to plans in Iran to develop an air defense system that is reported to be comparable to and even more sophisticated than the advanced Russian S-300 system.
Russia signed a contract to sell Iran at least five S-300 air-defense systems in 2005, but has since wavered between delivering the systems to Tehran and Washington's demands for the deal to be scrapped altogether.
Codenamed 'the SA-20 Gargoyle' by NATO, the S-300 system is a mobile land-based system designed to detect and shoot down aircraft within a 120 km (75 miles) distance.
If delivered, military experts believe SA-20 would make Iranian nuclear sites 'invincible' in the face of any attack, notably aerial saturation bombings that could be carried out by Israel.
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"But if they end up refusing to deliver the systems, we are well capable of producing missile defense systems that are very much similar to Russia's S-300 apparatus," he noted, referring to plans in Iran to develop an air defense system that is reported to be comparable to and even more sophisticated than the advanced Russian S-300 system.
If delivered, military experts believe SA-20 would make Iranian nuclear sites 'invincible' in the face of any attack, notably aerial saturation bombings that could be carried out by Israel.
Just another used hanky. Stop crying and get to work.
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Perpetual liars complaining that someone else didn't keep their word. Rich
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Don't think for a second that ol' Rootin' Tootin' Putin' has an altruistic bone in his body. He's afraid that the Russian-built system will get worked over by the Israelis using US equipment, much as they did to Soviet systems back in the day, thus hurting the export market.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Pyongyang, June 11 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Jurists Institute of Korea (JIK) in a statement on Friday bitterly denounced on behalf of all the jurists of the DPRK the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors for working with blood-shot eyes to intensify the anti-DPRK smear campaign aimed at doing harm to compatriots after bringing the inter-Korean relations to a total collapse. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] North Korea warned of an all-out military strike to destroy South Korean loudspeakers and other propaganda tools along their fortified border, according to the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency.
