G20 leaders have accepted a Canadian compromise on post-recession economic policy that includes aggressive deficit-cutting targets but allows individual countries to devise their own approach to meeting those goals. It's a saw-off between U.S. President Barack Obama, who favours continued economic stimulus spending to head off a double-dip recession, and European leaders who want G20 countries to move swiftly to reduce debts run up during the 2008-09 economic slowdown. “Advanced economies have committed to fiscal plans that will at least halve deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce government debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016,” reads a leaked draft communique. But the leaders also agree to support economic growth policies and recognize that some countries will start cutting their budget deficits later than others. “We are committed to taking concerted actions to sustain the recovery, create jobs and to achieve stronger, more sustainable and more balanced growth,” the communique says. “These (actions) will be differentiated and tailored to national circumstances.” The G20 has also concluded it will be left up to individual countries to decide whether they want to impose a bank tax or establish some kind of rainy day fund to offset another financial collapse that sparked the worldwide recession, the Star has confirmed.
"The recent release from prison of several high-profile suspects who stand accused of membership in a terrorist organization and working to foment chaos in society in order to provoke a military coup has spurred unease in society, with many jurists strongly questioning the impartiality of the higher judiciary." - Release of terror, coup suspects undermines trust in judiciary
"Turkey now has to pay the political price for its solidarity with the Palestinian people, even perhaps a coup, the warning signs for which have already appeared across the Middle East." - Turkey is paying the price on our behalf
India and Pakistan are talking again officially. The interior ministers from both countries met ahead of yesterday’s South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) conference in Islamabad. Little was said after the meeting between India’s Home Minister P. Chidambaram and his Pakistani counterpart Rehman Malik save that they had agreed to further discussions. Both sides noted however that the talks had taken place in an atmosphere of “goodwill.” This at least is a start. It will however require a great deal more than goodwill for these two nuclear-armed nations to reach the durable and stable relations that have eluded them since partition in 1947. Both are however united by having to face the ogre of terrorism, which has dealt each serious blows. However, while Pakistan is largely occupied fighting the Taleban, the threat to India is related to Kashmir. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which has been behind many terror attacks on India, most recently the November 2008 Mumbai atrocities, is dedicated to the ouster of New Delhi’s forces from Indian controlled Kashmir. Once supported by Islamabad as part of its claim to all of Kashmir, the organization is now officially banned in Pakistan. Seven suspected LeT members alleged to have been behind the Mumbai attacks are currently awaiting trial in the Pakistan courts. The Indians are angry however that the acknowledged founder of the terrorist movement, Hafiz Saeed was released by the Pakistani authorities because they had insufficient evidence to prosecute him. Instead Saeed, who now runs an Islamist charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa has since been under house arrest. It is important that the rule of law prevail in the fight against terrorists, who are dedicated to its overthrow. Nevertheless, the Indians are right to argue that the Pakistan’s police and intelligence services should be trying harder. It has to be that they know a great deal about LeT from the days when they were providing it with covert support in its rebellion in Kashmir. It is equally true that Pakistan’s main intelligence agency the ISI knows a great deal about the Afghan Taleban from the days when, with US encouragement, it was supporting the Mujahideen insurgency against Soviet occupation. The discouraging suspicion that the ISI remains a law unto itself, despite the return of democratic politics to Pakistan, no doubt makes the Indians leery of assurances from Pakistani politicians that they are doing all they can to break the back of LeT insurgency. Yet a large part of the wide front of issues on which the two countries must build rapprochement and trust lies within the intelligence sphere. Turning around the long-standing rivalry between the Indian and Pakistani intelligence communities will be no small matter. Nevertheless, if they can agree on the limited agenda of LeT and work together successfully to blunt and finally break this particular source of terror, then maybe they will have established a productive working relationship for other challenges. The key is surely that the ISI buys fully into Islamabad’s renewed dialogue with New Delhi and leads a successful crackdown on LeT.
Tropical Storm Alex bore down on the coast of Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula today, and may spare BP Plc’s efforts to contain and clean up the largest oil spill in U.S. history. “This should have a very minimal effect on the cleanup,” said Jill Hasling, executive director of the Weather Research Center in Houston, which provides weather forecasts to the oil industry worldwide. She said the closest approach to the leaking well might be 400 miles (643 kilometers), based on the storm’s current track. Alex is about 75 miles (120 kilometers) east of Belize City and is moving to the west-northwest at about 13 mph, according to a 2 p.m. local time advisory from the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm has maximum sustained winds of about 45 mph, more than the 39 mph threshold needed to be classified a tropical storm. Admiral Thad Allen said the U.S. Coast Guard is monitoring the Atlantic season’s first tropical storm, which is poised to pass through the southern end of the Gulf of Mexico. The rig is located in the northern end of the Gulf.
Pakistan will monitor seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, to block anti-Islamic links and content, an official said Friday. Seventeen lesser-known sites are being blocked outright for alleged blasphemous material. The moves follow Pakistan's temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May that drew both praise and condemnation in a country that has long struggled to figure out how strict a version of Islam it should follow. Both the Facebook ban and the move announced Friday were in response to court orders. The sites to be monitored include Yahoo, Google, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Amazon and Bing, said Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesman Khurram Mehran. "If any particular link with offensive content appears on these websites, the (link) shall be blocked immediately without disturbing the main website," Mehran said. An example of one of the 17 sites being blocked include islamexposed.blogspot.com, Mehran said. That site features postings with headlines such as "Islam: The Ultimate Hypocrisy" and links to anti-Islam online petitions.
Today the world remembers Michael Jackson. Hundreds and maybe thousands will gather in Gary, Ind., the Jackson family hometown, to witness the unveiling of a statue to honor the pop icon; his mother Katherine is expected to attend. In Los Angeles fans will gather at Forest Lawn Memorial Park where the King of Pop is entombed. And in Detroit, where it all started, Motown announces today the opening of an exhibit, which will feature photographs from concert performances, television appearances, international tours and the TV cartoon series featuring the Jackson 5.
"Our new revelations include the ambiguous nature of the wording on Dr Kelly’s death certificate; the existence of an anonymous letter which says his colleagues were warned to stay away from his funeral; and an extraordinary claim that the wallpaper at Dr Kelly’s home was stripped by police in the hours after he was reported missing - but before his body was found." -Dr David Kelly: The damning new evidence that points to a cover-up.
"If the Spanish banking system collapses, then Santander will find itself in a very difficult position." dailymail.3
Canadian Omar Khadr, who, since the age of 15, has been illegally imprisoned at Guantanamo (Omar Khadr - Wikipedia). Does the CIA control, Canada?
Canada's spy boss, Richard Fadden, says that some of Canada's politicians are agents of foreign powers. (Warning over Canada politicians)
Richard Fadden did not tell us whether or not he is an agent of a foreign power.
And what about Stephen Harper?
Deux garçons du quartier Rosemont à Montréal portent des vieux pneus de voiture et des chaussures à un centre de récupération du caoutchouc pour les forces armées.
Akram Zatmeh has described how 'Canadians' recruited him as a spy.
"Akram Zatmeh, 22, claims he supplied information to agents posing as Canadians that helped Israel pinpoint the whereabouts of a senior Hamas leader.
"The leader was later assassinated by Israeli forces in a July 23 missile attack that also killed 14 others, including nine children.
"The informant claimed he was recruited by three agents who said they were Canadians and took him to the Canadian embassy in Tel Aviv before coercing him with promises of travel to Canada and threats to distribute fake photos showing him in sexual encounters...
"Martin Rudner, director of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Studies at Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, said the tactics described by Mr. Zatmeh were common." (Israeli Mossad Spies Accused Of Posing As Canadians)
Igor Gouzenko.
In 1945, Igor Gouzenko defected from the KGB, walked into an Ottawa newsroom and announced that he had details of Soviet spy rings operating in Canada and in the UK.
Gouzenko's case was passed on to MI6's Kim Philby who was secretly on the side of Russia and Israel.
Russia and Israel shared intelligence.
Philby suggested Gouzenko should be interviewed by Roger Hollis of MI5, who was allegedly a Soviet agent.
Serge Serykh also claimed that he had uncovered a plot by the Canadian Government to assassinate the Queen.
Serge Serykh, along with his wife and stepson, were living on the 15th floor of a tower block in Glasgow.
On 7 March 2010, all three were found dead, roped together, at the foot of the tower block. Serge Serykh had been given refugee status in Canada in 2000.
Reportedly he had offered his skills as an alleged former member of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to the Canadian Government.
He claimed he had evidence of a foreign spy network across Canada.
In 2007 Canada rejected his application for citizenship.
He accused the Canadian authorities of having used mind-altering psychotronic techniques against him.
He left Canada in late 2007 and eventually ended up in the UK where he applied for asylum.
He moved to Glasgow in autumn 2009.
His case for asylum in the UK was based on his belief that because of an alleged deal between Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, and former President Putin of Russia, he would be killed by Canadian security agents if he was returned to Canada.
In 2009, the UK authorities rejected Serykh's application for asylum, on the ground that he still had refugee status in Canada.
Blair and Berezovsky (mosnews.com/2006/03/22/zhirinblair.l). Reportedly, Sergey Serykh knew who killed Alexander Litvinenko, whose name has been linked to the Russian-Israeli mafia.
The dead Alexander Litvinenko has been linked to the dead Sergey Serykh, whose body was found at the foot of a tower block in Glasgow, on 7 March 2010.
Ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko may have had links to the Russian-Israeli Mafia and to the smuggling of radioactive materials. (New wrinkle in Litvinenko's death)
"The role of Boris Berezovsky in the Beslan massacre has never been made clear - but there is a growing belief that Litvinenko's silence was sought by people other than Putin..." (Matrioshka - The Russian enigma._)
Berezovsky reportedly poured millions into the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine. (scotsman.2374152005)
Russian politician Mr Zhirinovsky has said "he was convinced that Blair was personally interested in keeping Berezovsky on British soil, claiming that the Blairs were receiving financial support from 'criminal elements'.
"Cherie Blair, Zhirinovsky continued, works in a law firm 'which is servicing our Russian thugs, Berezovsky included.' Those are dozens of 'extremists' including Berezovsky and Akhmed Zakayev, as well as 'nearly all of the Yukos top executives', he added." (www.mosnews.com/2006/03/22/l)
Sergey Serykh was found dead at the foot of a tower block in Glasgow.
According to Vitali Alexandrovich, Sergey Serykh's landlord in London, Sergey "said that since he defected from the Ukrainian secret services they were trying to assassinate him.
"He said he knew who had killed Alexander Litvinenko (the Russian dissident poisoned in London in 2006)." (Daughter of asylum-seeker.)
Sergey's step-daughter Karina lives in Moscow.
Asked about Sergey's spy plot claims, she said: 'I don't want to talk about this.
Sergey had said that Russia's security services would also try to kill him and his family if they returned to his native Ukraine.
The Mail on Sunday (Daughter of asylum-seeker.) has discovered that when Sergey arrived in Britain in 2007 he was well off.
He was born in Zaporozhe in the Ukraine.
Apparently, he was in the Russian army from at least 1994 to 1996.
He and his family moved to Canada in 2000.
They were described as being vegetarian and Hindu. They ran a health business.
In 2005, the family was given 'protected person' status. This means it was believed that, if they returned 'to their country of nationality or former habitual residence they would be subject to the possibility of torture, risk of life, or risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment'.
The family was given permanent residency in Canada.
Then suddenly they fled from Canada to contionental Europe and eventually to London and then Glasgow. He claimed he had uncovered a government plot, involving Stephen Harper, to assassinate the Queen.
For 18 months Sergey and family rented a comfortable apartment in Wembley Park in London.
They "never struggled to meet the £1,250 monthly rent."
Vitali Alexandrovich, Serykh's landlord said: "He seemed to have plenty of money...
"He said the Russian secret service were also after him, which is why he had fled to Canada in the first place."
Sergey Serykh claimed that a deal existed between Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, and former Russian president Vladimir Putin that meant he would be killed by Canadian security agents if he returned there.
"The London offices of ISC Global, now known as RISC Management, were visited in November 2006 by Litvinenko and Russian businessmen Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun and traces of polonium-210 were discovered there.
"According to the Sunday Times of London, Russian police are also investigating whether the poisoning of Litvinenko and the attempted poisoning of Globuvich are connected to the radiation poisoning death two years ago of Roman Tsepov, a former bodyguard of Putin when he was deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg.
"Tsepov was involved in the Russian government's tracking of Yukos assets. Also of interest are connections to the June 2004 assassination of Forbes Russian edition editor-in-chief Paul Klebnikov, a U.S. citizen who wrote a damaging expose of Berezovsky.
"Three Chechen contract killers were charged in Klebnikov's murder. The same Russian-Israeli mob ring is also being looked at in the investigation of the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya of Novaya Gazeta as a way to embarrass Putin...
"In March 2004, British attorney Stephen Curtis, the chairman of ISC Global, died, along with his pilot, in a helicopter crash near Bournemouth Airport. The two were on their way to Dublin. The Times reported a James Bond-like secret project by ISC Global, jailed Yukos tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Nevzlin to launch an international smear campaign to discredit Putin and other members of the Russian government...
"Britain's government has been co-opted by the Russian-Israeli mobsters, much in the same way that their American colleagues, acting through neo-con proxies, ... captured control of the Bush administration."
Ewen Cameron, who worked in Canada for the CIA. Children were 'tortured' in Nazi style experiments.
The CIA’s Allen Dulles gave millions of dollars to organizations headed by Cameron.
Experimentations were conducted at several locations in Montreal, mostly at McGill University, St Mary’s Hospital and Allan Memorial Institute.
Cameron used technique of “psychic driving,” by which unsuspecting patients were kept in a drug induced coma for several weeks and given electroshocks, while electronic helmets were strapped to their heads and repetitive auditory messages were transmitted at variable speeds.
Many of those exploited were abused children from the Roman Catholic orphanage system.
"He was a Scottish doctor whose burning ambition was to be a scientific legend. Dr Ewen Cameron, a graduate of Glasgow University, became one of the most eminent psychiatrists in the world.
"His work in Canada in the 1950s was radical and groundbreaking but now some of his patients are finally receiving compensation...
"Cameron subjected his unsuspecting patients to massive electric shocks and a cocktail of powerful drugs in a 'brainwashing' programme funded by the CIA."
Monarch Program mind-control survivors claim to have been used as slaves by certain intelligence agencies and top-ranking politicians.
Project Monarch is part of the CIA's Project MK Ultra which is about mind control.
The original idea for this project came from research carried out by top SS German Nazi scientists (1927-1941) .The leader of this research was Himmler.
Project MK Ultra was exposed in 1970 due to law suits filed by Canadian survivors and/or their surviving families.
These survivors received the cooperation of Canadian Intelligence individuals and others who uncovered one of the CIA's original mind control research mental health facilities based in Montreal. The CIA and Canadian government settled the lawsuits out of court.
Josef Mengele, known as "the Angel of Death", was one of the approximately 900 military scientists and medical researchers secretly smuggled into the United States after World War II.
Dr Ewen Cameron's “depatterning” and “psychic driving” destroyed a patient’s personality by repeated shocks up to forty times the intensity considered safe.
In the 1950s, the CIA paid Cameron $69,000 to do this as part of their mind control operation code-named MK-ULTRA.
John Marks, author of The Search For The Manchurian Candidate, tells us: “The frequent screams of patients (usually women) that echoed through the hospital did not deter Cameron or most of his associates in their attempts to ‘depattern’ their subjects completely.
Asif Zardari (AZ) thinks of himself as a political genius. He may well be right. After all he has managed to obtain complete control over the reins of power even though he is supported by no more than 15% of the electorate. It is rare to get an insight into his thinking; he makes his best political speeches from the grave site of his beloved wife – Benazir Bhutto – in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh. Yesterday, 21 June, the country was celebrating the 57th birthday of his wife. Celebration may not be the right word to describe an event linked to a person who is dead – particularly one who was brutally assassinated in full public view. But it was indeed an occasion to celebrate by AZ. If she had not been assassinated, AZ would have been kept out of sight of the public because of his reputation. After all his only link with politics was his renown as the commission agent who charged 10% for every permit and sanction given by his dear wife. However, it is also well known that the couple were leading separate lives. If Benazir had been alive, she would have been a popular Prime Minister and he would have been confined to Dubai the same way as the mother of Benazir, Begum Nusrat Bhutto. With such dubious political background, AZ has come to own every thing that belonged to the Bhutto family. Even Benazir’s seat in the National Assembly is occupied by AZ’s his sister – Faryal Talpur. He has to be a political genius to accomplish such feats. In his speech on the 57th Birthday of Benazir, he made some remarkable statements. He said: ‘he has put in place such a formula that his PP would win even if it loses the elections’. He explained that his formula was based on ‘firm links with the MQM and the ANP’; with his allies he was sure to have a foothold in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP) as well as the Sindh Provinces . In his scheme, the Punjab – 58% of the population of Pakistan – would continue to sidelined, by its caution owing to the fear of the Sindh Card that he has so deftly played. He expressed annoyance that the workers of the PPP did not appreciate his grand design and are still suspicious of the MQM. He said that he is seeking accommodation with the MQM in accordance with the vision of his beloved wife – Benazir. He said he had not forgotten her assassins but reiterated that he would not resort to revenge. To confuse matters further (or perhaps to advance his peculiar politics) he fired off a letter to the UN Secretary General expressing his dissatisfaction with the UN Report on her assassination. Whatever he said was self contradictory; it offended many and confused even more; he satisfied no one. That cannot be deft politics, but it is! AZ formula for perpetual rule over Pakistan is the same as that of General Musharraf (GM). He is a Mohajir; the MQM was his political home; and he sought an alliance with the PPP – the party of rural Sindh. An alliance of urban Sindh (MQM) and rural Sindh (PPP) can easily sideline the Punjab and KP who are remote from the sea. Karachi is the sea port through which almost all the trade of Pakistan and Afghanistan passes. With the MQM in control of Karachi , it can hold entire Pakistan to ransom. Besides, the dictator in chief of the MQM lives in London from where he collaborates with enemies of Pakistan and receives directions. AZ knows enough about the links of the MQM with India and Israel to be afraid. He has his own links with them but he knows that the MQM links are closer. He is struggling to secure a similar constituency of loyalty for himself to rival that of the MQM. The minorities he is cultivating are the Shias and the Qadianis. That is remarkably similar to the politics of GM who shook hands with Ariel Sharon and had a Qadiani – Tariq Aziz – as his close confidante, courier and international gofer. AZ is a shia in a country where the shia population is no more than 10% (Mohajir population is 7%); he had dinner with Israeli Ambassador in New York and has Rehman Malik as his close confidante, courier and international gofer. The question is: would AZ succeed whereas Musharraf failed? It appears that AZ may fail much more spectacularly than GM. The public support for AZ is only 15% which is lower than the lowest for GM. His policy of appeasing the MQM while target killing of PPP workers and Pathans goes on relentlessly in Karachi is making the PPP rank and file very angry. It is well known that the massacre of PPP workers upon the arrival of Benazir in Karachi was the work of the MQM. The workers of the PPP also believe that AZ has something to do with the assassination of Benazir. Why a proper criminal investigation has not been ordered so far, they ask! Bhutto legacy would continue to attract votes but Zardari as the leader of the PP is becoming unacceptable in Sindh. While the effort by GM to make an alliance of a minority that is dominant in Karachi (MQM) with a party with country wide support (PPP) made sense, the effort of AZ to make the same alliance is viewed with revulsion and contempt. It is seen as submission to blackmail by a minority of the majority. Perhaps AZ is aware of that. After all, he did seek an alliance with PML(N) and formed a coalition with it at the outset. They fell out on the issue of restoration of Judges dismissed by GM. There was a likelihood of the alliance being restored after their restoration but the PML(N) was wise to stay away. It realised that the embrace of the PPP is like that of a python – the Boa constrictor. PML(N) government in the Punjab is not providing good governance; it is even trying to ape the PPP with its ‘prone to waste and corruption’ scheme of ‘Two Rupee Roti’. But the PML(N) has avoided strategic errors. It led the movement for the independence of judiciary; it did not rejoin the coalition after the judges were restored; it co-operated for the revision of the Constitution and NFC Award; and it opposed the renaming of NWFP. But it has made two errors since. It needs to review its position on Hazara Province , and it should stop saying that ‘Generals destroyed institutions’. The demand for Hazara Province is the natural outcome of what AZ calls ‘giving that province an identity’. The Hazarawals do not share that identity – the gift of AZ. Nawaz Sharif (NS) must see that and say that. The accusation against the Generals is a lie. When they were managing the Electricity Departments (WAPDA/PEPCO etc) , Railways, Steel Mills, PIA etc, these companies were profitable; under ‘civil’ management they need a subsidy of 350 billion rupees. Ex servicemen as VCs of universities eliminated indiscipline among students as well as teachers and made them a place for learning rather than politics. The fashion to revile the services symbolises ingratitude for their service and sacrifices; it is not good for the solidarity of the nation. NS cannot promote national cohesion by reviling the armed forces. It is wise to have raised the issue of the Kalabagh Dam. Its rejection is associated with the ANP and MQM and now the AZ PPP. All these parties call themselves ‘secular’, which is an expression which means ‘irreligious’ to most people. Overwhelming majority in Pakistan does not see themselves as ‘irreligious’. The JUI, which is a Takfiri, group, is also a part of the AZ formula for perpetual power. The JUI is an ally of the ‘irreligious’ because it has a soft corner for India and the ‘secularists’ are all pro-India. PML(N) subscribes to Islam as the polity of Pakistan . Each component of the ruling coalition is natural nemesis of the PML(N). It is not good politics to question vague objectives of the adversary; but it is good to attack them when they come out with an evil objective. Opposition to Kalabagh Dam is an evil objective. Dams do not consume water; they store water which can be used by all the barrages downstream. More water would be available to Sindh if the Kalabagh Dam is built. If the fears of Sindh cannot be eliminated without dropping the proposal for high level canals from the dam, it should be dropped. AZ has declared his hand. He wants to rule Pakistan and Punjab being ruled by his opposition suits him. That is the scheme of the devil that wishes to undermine Pakistan by imposing upon it rule of enemy collaborators. To advance the enemy agenda, AZ continues to pick fights – one at a time – inside the country in order to neutralise the potential of Pakistan to project its power outside to protect its interests. It is time, as the Americans say, “not to be mad but to get even”. It is time to pick a fight with AZ on Kalabagh Dam, on Drone Attacks and on Iran-Pakistan Gas pipeline. I am sure AZ would end up losing all these fights and his dream for perpetual power would end in nightmare.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal put President Obama in a terrible bind. Forgive the insubordinate remarks the commander of allied forces in Afghanistan made in an article in Rolling Stone, and President Obama destroys the chain of command that puts civilians in charge of our military, condones disrespect and poor discipline in the ranks and looks like a wimp besides. Fire him, and the president risks disrupting an increasingly deadly military offensive at what may be the most critical point in what is now America’s longest war. The president will no doubt get criticism from the supposed friends of the military that his decision to replace the general puts the troops at greater risk over what amounted to a series of ill-advised jokes among General McChrystal and his staff. But more is at stake here than the egos of President Obama, Vice President Biden and other members of the president’s national security staff. Civilian control over the military is a foundational principle of our nation (one established here in Maryland when George Washington resigned his commission in the old Senate chamber of the State House, and President Obama would have done greater harm by allowing such a breach to go unpunished. This was not the first time General McChrystal had skated close to the line of insubordination. During the deliberation over whether to increase troop strength in Afghanistan or to engage in a more limited action there, General McChrystal spoke out publicly about his view that we needed tens of thousands more soldiers. That also put the president in a tough situation politically. If he had chosen not to escalate the war, he would have been pilloried for bucking the view of his top military commander in the country. In that light, the remarks in Rolling Stone start to look like a pattern. And putting aside the issue of whether General McChrystal violated the terms of his relationship with the commander in chief, the remarks diminished his ability to be an effective leader. In addition to being insubordinate, the general’s actions were sloppy and reflected a lack of discipline among his top aides. If they couldn’t keep such incendiary views to themselves around a reporter holding a notepad and a tape recorder, how are they to handle the complex diplomatic tasks essential to winning the war in Afghanistan? And if that’s how General McChrystal believes it’s appropriate to act toward his superiors, how can he expect the officers to report to him to show proper deference and respect?
An American man detained in Pakistan for trying to track down and kill Osama Bin Laden has been freed and will return to the United States later Wednesday, his family told local media. Colorado-based construction worker Gary Faulkner was released by authorities in Pakistan late Tuesday before flying home to the United States via Dubai, a relative told ABC7 News in Denver. "They got the news late yesterday that he was coming in. So, they're really looking forward to seeing Gary. It's been a while," Faulkner's brother-in-law John Martin was quoted as saying on the network's website. Faulkner was detained on June 13 in the remote mountains of Chitral, once a rumored hiding place of bin Laden, near Afghanistan's Nuristan province, armed with a pistol, dagger, sword and night-vision equipment. Long haired and bearded, a Christian believer but suffering from health problems, Faulkner dubbed "the American Ninja" was on a solo mission to track down and kill al Qaeda figurehead bin Laden, his family has said. Brother Scott Faulkner told CNN that Gary Faulkner had been motivated to hunt bin Laden out of a desire to avenge the September 11, 2001 attacks and a belief in God, saying he was not crazy, psychotic or schizophrenic.
Eringer claims to have seen a tape of the Prince having sex with a stripper, and that the Prince once asked him, in a discussion of the monarch's "as yet unrecognized illegitimate daughter," if Eringer could "arrange for her to have an accident."
"Formed in 1966, Safra's banking and precious metals empire was founded and built primarily after the creation of the State of Israel, by Safra acting as the savvy money laundry expert for wealthy Sephardic Jews desiring to extract their fortunes as they were fleeing Arab countries where they resided...
"Edmond J. Safra died in a pre-dawn incident when two alleged masked intruders reportedly got into the heavily-secure building in Monaco, and started a fire in or near his two-story penthouse apartment..."
There was standing room only at the seaside cafe as World Cup fans escaped the Gaza Strip's dreary confinement for a 90-minute match only briefly interrupted by power cuts. Palestinians have always been avid football fans, but this year's tournament is drawing record crowds to flag-decked cafes with humming generators across impoverished Gaza, where there are few other ways to pass the time. "All the people of Gaza have are the sea and the World Cup," says Abu Mohammed al-Sultan, 44, who set up a projection screen at the beach cafe. "I figured I would combine the two and double my customers." Israel and Egypt have sealed Gaza off from all but basic goods and severely limited travel since the June 2006 capture of an Israeli soldier. The sanctions were tightened when Hamas seized power a year later, and Israel has said the closures and its naval blockade are needed to keep the Islamist movement from importing weapons. Since Israel's deadly seizure last month of an activist aid flotilla, both countries have eased the closures, with Egypt allowing some students and patients to leave and Israel expanding its list of permitted imports. But the enclave of 1.5 million residents, 80 percent of whom rely on foreign aid, remains largely cut off from the world, and the World Cup provides a rare release from the grim boredom of day-to-day life. Gazans organised their own mock World Cup last month in anticipation of the real thing, with 16 local teams posing as national squads and "France" routing "Jordan" to win the championship.
US President Barack Obama faced a dilemma on Tuesday after his commander in Afghanistan showed disdain for the White House, as sacking the general could carry too high a cost at a pivotal moment in the war. General Stanley McChrystal's role as commander was hanging in the balance after a damaging profile in Rolling Stone magazine in which he and his aides openly mock top civilian officials and speak dismissively of Obama himself. Analysts said Obama must decide if he can still trust the general after the disrespectful display, or whether replacing him might derail the war effort amid an overhaul of strategy overseen by McChrystal. The embarrassing episode could not have come at a more sensitive moment in the troubled Afghan war, amid a surge of 30,000 US troops and plans for a make-or-break operation in the southern province of Kandahar. "This is an unfortunate distraction at a critical time," said a senior defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Although Obama had plenty of grounds to fire McChrystal based on the article, sacking him could jeopardize a delicate timeline that envisages a military push against the Taliban and then the start of a US withdrawal in July 2011, some analysts said.
A suspected militant from Germany has been detained in north-west Pakistan wearing a burka, police say. They told the man was in a vehicle with two other men and a young girl when they were stopped at a check-point in Bannu district. The German was travelling with a fake Pakistani passport, officials say. Meanwhile the Taliban has offered to swap 33 soldiers captured on the Afghan border if a number of militants are in return released from Pakistani jails. They have warned the soldiers may be harmed if the government refuses.
Just three places below Afghanistan, Pakistan has been ranked the 10th most failed state in the 2010 Failed State Index released by the Foreign Policy magazine on Monday. The list is topped by Somalia, followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Chad. India is ranked 87 in a list of 177 countries. Burma has been placed at 13, Sri Lanka 22 and Nepal at 25. China is ranked at 57th place. Norway is ranked at the bottom of the list.
Some people may blame the PKK (Kurdish group), which reportedly has links to Mossad.
Sedat Laciner, the head of the International Strategic Research Organization, a Turkish think tank, says that Mossad agents and Israeli military retirees had been sighted providing training to PKK militants. (Turkish military kills 7 PKK militants)
There is 'deepening suspicion' about the possible Israeli involvement in the killing of seven people in a terrorist rocket attack on Turkey.
In The New Yorker in 2006, US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote that Israel and the US have been "working together in support of a Kurdish resistance group known as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan."(Suspicion growing about possible link between PKK and Israel)
Israel has fallen out with Turkey and may want to topple Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
Israel may have help from certain Turks.
According to a report in The Jerusalem Post, intelligence cooperation between Mossad and the Turkish security service, MIT, "was enshrined in a 12-clause agreement that was signed during a 1993 visit to Israel by then-Turkish foreign minister Hikmat Chetin".
Soon after, according to the London-based newsletter Foreign Report, a large Mossad operation was established in Turkey, with Mossad agents based in both Istanbul and Ankara. (hr-action.org/archive1/990225tjp1.html)
It has been argued that Turkey has many crypto-Jews (Jews who appear not to be Jews).
The Young Turk movement, which set up modern Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century, is reported to have been run by crypto-Jews. (CRYPTO JEWS, TURKEY, AND 9 11)
Reportedly, the CIA, NATO and Mossad have a long history of carrying out acts of terrorism in Turkey.
Shoeshine - Hispaniola. 
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