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		<title>Consequences: Foreign Policy or Foreign Fantasy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Bhutto was key to US plan    
Benazir Bhutto was central to American hopes of broadening out Pakistan&#8217;s government from the figure of General Musharraf. Washington helped engineer the political deal that saw her return and now it has seen that lead to disaster, with the loss of one of the key figures [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7162849.stm" target="_blank"><strong>Bhutto was key to US plan</strong></a><strong>   </strong><a href="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/bhutto2.jpg" title="bhutto2.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/bhutto2.thumbnail.jpg" alt="bhutto2.jpg" /></a> <o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Benazir Bhutto was central to American hopes of broadening out <st1></st1><st1>Pakistan</st1>&#8217;s government from the figure of General Musharraf. <st1></st1><st1>Washington</st1> helped engineer the political deal that saw her return and now it has seen that lead to disaster, with the loss of one of the key figures in its plan. <o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>The </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> tried to broker an arrangement that would accommodate western objectives in the </strong><st1><strong>Central  Asia</strong></st1><strong> region.<span>  </span>The effort to squeeze Taliban and AlQaeda between two western influenced countries becomes clumsier every day.<span>  </span>The entanglement of covert micro management has backfired once again.<span>  </span>The </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> must employ even more corrupt leaders at the price of forfeiting human rights.<span>  </span>Trying to inject a moderate ally into the poisonous mix created by the </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> is doomed.<span>  </span>This most recent effort to manipulate Pakistani politics has failed faster than expected.<span>  </span>The </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> is guilty of failing to see long term consequences to its interfering in foreign cultures.<span>  </span><o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong><o> </o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>By oversimplifying whole populations as inferior to western culture, the </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> and </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>Britain</strong></st1><strong> have manufactured an angry and resentful world opinion.<span>  </span>Much like the Spanish Christian inquisition of the 1400s, western governments have engaged in a political inquisition.<span>  </span>In kind, our targets have justified their own inquisition, but, they call it Jihad.<span>  </span>Every move western countries make justifies a counter move by an increasingly powerful force.<span>  </span>Western arrogance has blinded reason and created poisonous foreign policies.<o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/uploads/yanbunov072007.jpg" target="_blank" title="yanbunov072007.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/yanbunov072007.thumbnail.jpg" alt="yanbunov072007.jpg" /></a>… <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/674201a6-aefe-11dc-880f-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1" target="_blank"><strong>a landmark agreement</strong></a> on Thursday to build a pipeline to transport gas to <st1></st1><st1>Russia</st1>, tightening <st1></st1><st1>Moscow</st1>’s control over Central Asian gas exports.   <o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The accord, signed in the presence of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and <st1></st1><st1>Nursultan Nazarbayev</st1>, <st1>Kazakhstan</st1>’s leader, is a setback for <st1>Europe</st1>, which is courting Caspian producers for gas supplies to reduce its dependence on Russian imports.<o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mr Putin said the Pricaspiysky pipeline would be “a serious investment by our countries in strengthening energy security, not just in <st1>Eurasia</st1> but more widely, bearing in mind our main consumers in west <st1>Europe</st1>”.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>Totally ignoring western efforts to control fossil fuel products, </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>Russia</strong></st1><strong> flexes it’s muscles.<span>  </span>Like an athlete on steroids, Putin has taken the reigns for his country and forged allies into a powerful opponent to western fantasies of entitlement. </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>Britain</strong></st1><strong> and the </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> have been mesmerized by a Camelot view of the world.<span>  </span>This has evolved into a foreign policy of Grab-A-Lot.<span>  </span>What is missing from this fantasy is respect for fellow inhabitants of this suffering planet.<span>  </span>Interest in human rights and morality is applied selectively.<span>  </span>The world watches </strong><st1><strong>Darfur</strong></st1><strong> with mild interest while destroying impediments to fossil fuel resources. <span> </span>Covert deals, supplying arms to both sides of a conflict, emphasizes the arrogance of entitlement and resulting bigotry motivating </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>Britain</strong></st1><strong> and US actions.<o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o> </o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://popsci.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/23/trojan_nuke.jpg" target="_blank" title="trojan_nuke.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/trojan_nuke.thumbnail.jpg" alt="trojan_nuke.jpg" /></a><strong>   </strong><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d72870ea-b4c1-11dc-990a-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=81f97690-812f-11da-8b55-0000779e2340.html" target="_blank"><strong>Europe needs to increase</strong></a> its nuclear power capacity substantially to relieve its over dependence on gas, the chief executive of <a href="http://markets.ft.com/tearsheets/performance.asp?s=it:EDN" target="_blank"><strong>Edison</strong></a> has warned. <o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Umberto Quadrino, head of <st1></st1><st1>Italy</st1>’s second-largest utility, said there was serious trouble looming in European power supply. “If you look at the supply of gas to <st1>Europe</st1> over the next 15 years, we have to be scared.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><st1><strong>Europe</strong></st1><strong> desperately seeks energy alternatives.<span>  </span>Because oil interests have suppressed growth of more rational energy policies for so long, western countries are getting a late start.<span>  </span>The quick fix is nuclear.<span>  </span>Now, the concept of ‘Grab-A-Lot’ is backfiring.<span>  </span>Western interests fear nuclear development in other countries.<span>  </span>This is a glaring example of short sighted foreign policy.<span>  </span>Energy removed is energy that must be replaced … DUH!<span>  </span>You would think that would be a factor considered by elite think tanks and global cabals who are supposed to plan the world’s future.<o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/oil_reserves2005.gif" title="oil_reserves2005.gif"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/oil_reserves2005.thumbnail.gif" alt="oil_reserves2005.gif" /></a><strong>     </strong><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55563030-b407-11dc-a6df-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=81f97690-812f-11da-8b55-0000779e2340.html" target="_blank"><strong>Reworking long-term projections for global oil reserves.</strong></a><o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The industrialized countries’ oil watchdog has admitted that it has been paying insufficient attention to supply bottlenecks as evidence mounts that oil is being discovered more slowly than once expected.<o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o> </o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/prospect.jpg" title="prospect.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/prospect.jpg" alt="prospect.jpg" height="228" width="276" /></a><strong>        <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55563030-b407-11dc-a6df-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=81f97690-812f-11da-8b55-0000779e2340.html" target="_blank">Question mark over US estimates</a><o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The US Geological Survey is a <st1></st1><st1>US</st1> government-funded scientific body that studies, among other things, the incidence and growth of the world’s oil and gas reserves.<o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On current trends this would reduce USGS estimates of future oil reserves by 400bn barrels over the 30-year period, leaving a few industry analysts to predict that global oil production will peak before 2020.<o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Critics of the industry say the <st1></st1><st1>US</st1> approach is naive. They say the fact that the oil industry has to resort to venturing into more difficult terrain and continue co-operating with difficult oil-rich regimes is an indication that oil reserves are tightening.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>Western interests have not paid attention to simple concepts.<span>  </span>Foreign policy built upon ‘Grab-A-Lot’ has imperiled the world.<span>  </span>Clash of cultures and human sustainability is a consequence of allowing self important, self indulgent, fantasy driven leaders to rule our lives. <span> </span>In smaller examples, civil wars and revolutions occur when corrections must be made.<span>  </span>Each country is responsible for electing representatives who deal with the world.<span>  </span>Populations who buy in to the entitlement fantasy will pay a dear price.<span>  </span>The world is larger than any one country … the brainwashed population becomes so self important that they are blind to the world they occupy.<span>  </span>The consequence of blind self importance is immanent. <span>  </span>The world has had enough.<span>  </span>Radical change for world order greets us with blood.<o></o></strong></p>
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		<title>No True Muslim, No True Christian, No True Jew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bosskitty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has condemned the suicide attack at a mosque in Charsadda in which at least 50 people were killed.
Musharraf expressed his condolences to the families who lost their loved ones in the attack and directed the law enforcement agencies to track down the perpetrators of the terror attack.
 Musharraf said that &#8220;no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- sphereit start --><p id="top" />Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has condemned the suicide attack at a mosque in Charsadda in which at least 50 people were killed.</p>
<p>Musharraf expressed his condolences to the families who lost their loved ones in the attack and directed the law enforcement agencies to track down the perpetrators of the terror attack.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thelondonnews.net/story/311290" target="_blank"> Musharraf said</a> that <strong>&#8220;no true <a href="http://www.quran.org/" target="_blank">Muslim</a> could even think of killing a large number innocent faithful, who had gathered to say Eid prayers&#8221;.  </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong> </strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/world/asia/22pakistan.html?_r=1&amp;ref=asia&amp;oref=slogin" target="_blank" title="nyt2007mosque.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nyt2007mosque.jpg" alt="nyt2007mosque.jpg" height="131" width="204" /></a>  <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7157037.stm" target="_blank" title="bbcpakistanpoliceafp203b.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/bbcpakistanpoliceafp203b.thumbnail.jpg" alt="bbcpakistanpoliceafp203b.jpg" height="136" width="137" /></a><br />
<strong>The schism in the <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_ch.htm" target="_blank">Christian</a> world, the schism in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam" target="_blank">Muslim</a> world grow wider every day.  There have been violent differences among both religions throughout their history.  <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/judaism.htm" target="_blank">Judaism</a> was the root for these two dynamic religions.  Sibling religions appear bent on self destruction and mutually assured destruction for whatever the most recent charismatic leader decides?  </strong>
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<p align="center"><strong>  </strong><a href="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/religionsworld.gif" title="religionsworld.gif"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/religionsworld.thumbnail.gif" alt="religionsworld.gif" /></a></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Each religion bases it&#8217;s justification for attacking a sect of their own religion or another religion on interpretations of heresy.  Heresy is in the eye of the most charismatic beholder, interpreter of scripture, loudest voice, most violent leader.  </strong><strong>Sibling</strong><strong> religions spreading their words through violence, extortion and intimidation are  despicable.  Christians and Muslims killed and enslaved indigenous peoples throughout history because they truly believed that their victims were less than human.  Each have their terrorists factions.  Religious extremists that consider it their duty to kill non-believers.  Even killing believers who disagree with their tactics.  They would not be subject to the wondrous privileges granted to them by their prophet.  Prophets bless and lead armies against other people, in the name of the god described by that prophet.  Jesus and Mohammad would cringe at the mutations that have grown in their names.  The god these prophets describe is not the god they emulate.     </strong></p>
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		<title>Self Destruction Does Not Win Wars</title>
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Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.
 BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia and Libya, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to Iraq in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/world/middleeast/22fighters.html?th&amp;emc=th" target="_blank">Foreign Fighters in Iraq Are Tied to Allies of U.S.</a><o></o></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o> </o>BAGHDAD — <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/saudiarabia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" target="_blank" title="More news and information about Saudi Arabia.">Saudi Arabia</a> and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/libya/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" target="_blank" title="More news and information about Libya.">Libya</a>, both considered allies by the United States in its fight against terrorism, were the source of about 60 percent of the foreign fighters who came to <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" target="_blank" title="More news and information about Iraq.">Iraq</a> in the past year to serve as suicide bombers or to facilitate other attacks, according to senior American military officials. <a href="cagle.msnbc.com/working/070731/huffaker.gif" target="_blank" title="huffaker.gif"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/huffaker.gif" alt="huffaker.gif" height="384" width="512" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/11/22/world/22fighters.PROMOGRAPHIC.jpg" target="_blank" title="22fighterspromographic.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/22fighterspromographic.jpg" alt="22fighterspromographic.jpg" height="146" width="219" /></a><span>   </span>The data comes from a trove of documents and computers discovered in September, when American forces raided a tent camp in the desert near Sinjar, close to the Syrian border. The most significant discovery was a collection of biographical sketches that listed hometowns and other details for more than 700 fighters brought into <st1></st1><st1>Iraq</st1> since August 2006.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in">Documents recovered verified Saudis brought more money per person than fighters from other nations, the American officials said.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in">Among the Saudi fighters described in the materials, 45 had come from <st1></st1><st1>Riyadh</st1>, 38 from <st1></st1><st1>Mecca</st1>, 20 from Buraidah and the surrounding area, 15 from Jawf and Sakakah, 13 from <st1></st1><st1>Jidda</st1>, and 12 from <st1></st1><st1>Medina</st1>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in">American officials publicly expressed anger over the summer at Saudi policies that were destabilizing <st1></st1><st1>Iraq</st1>. Sunni tribal sheiks in <st1></st1><st1>Iraq</st1> who risked their lives to fight extremist militants also faulted Saudi clerics.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“The bad imams tell the young people to go to Iraq and fight the American Army, because if you kill them or they kill you, you will go to paradise,” Sheik Adnan Khames Jamiel, a leader of the Albu Alwan tribe in Ramadi, said in an interview.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in">One senior American diplomat said the Saudi government had “taken important steps to interdict individuals, particularly military-aged males with one-way tickets.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">According to the rosters found in the raid, the third-largest source of foreign fighters was <st1></st1><st1>Yemen</st1>, with 68. There were 64 from <st1></st1><st1>Algeria</st1>, 50 from <st1></st1><st1>Morocco</st1>, 38 from <st1></st1><st1>Tunisia</st1>, 14 from <st1></st1><st1>Jordan</st1>, 6 from <st1></st1><st1>Turkey</st1> and 2 from <st1></st1><st1>Egypt</st1>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>Yet, the </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> continues to send millions of dollars and millions of its own weapons to the center of the crisis … then proceed to loose track of them.<span>  </span>Funny, the supporters of insurgents appear to have an unlimited supply of money and weapons.<span>  </span>Hummmmm.<span>  </span>Follow the dots …the <a href="http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade.asp" target="_blank">World Arms trade</a> is <a href="http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/BigBusiness.asp">big business</a>.<span>  </span>The bottom line is; the weapons business needs armed conflict to feed its profit line. You might call these misplaced weapons, free samples.<span>  </span>This allows the </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> military to order more expensive weapons.<span>  </span>Weapons kill.<span>  </span>Killing causes grief.<span>  </span>Grief causes retaliation.<span>  </span>Retaliation is self propelled conflict escalation.<span>  </span>More weapons needed. <span> </span>This is a Wall Street dream.<span>  </span>Weapons research and development, more sophisticated armaments and increasing demand is the goal of war profiteers. <span> </span><o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>This old news is the cover story for the continued distribution of weapons.<o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2100597,00.html" target="_blank">Pentagon arms its enemy&#8217;s enemies in Iraq</a></span></strong><span>  </span>The <st1></st1><st1>US</st1> high command this month gave permission to its officers on the ground to negotiate arms deals with tribal elders and other local leaders. Arms, ammunition, body armour and other equipment, as well as cash, pickup trucks and fuel, have already been handed over in return for promises to turn on al-Qaida and not attack US troops.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>Scouts Honor, we will not use these weapons against the </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> forces.<o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/06/iraq.weapons/index.html" target="_blank">Pentagon lost almost 200,000 weapons in Iraq</a><o></o></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·</span><span>  </span>Pentagon: not aware of reports of insurgents with U.S.-issued weapons</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·</span><span>  </span><st1></st1><st1>U.S.</st1> lost track of 110,000 AK-47 rifles, 80,000 pistols for Iraqi security forces</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·</span><span>  </span>Training command blames lack of staff for weapons problem</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Symbol">·</span><span>  </span>Defense Department agrees to revise oversight procedures</p>
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<p align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt10_30_6.htm" target="_blank">U.S. Fails in Tracking Arms for Iraqis</a> </span></strong><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200705/r143378_497940.jpg" target="_blank" title="r143378_497940.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/r143378_497940.jpg" alt="r143378_497940.jpg" align="left" height="255" width="366" /></a></p>
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<p align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audit/" target="_blank">U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds</a></span></strong><a href="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:SMnkyIR61ZT87M:http://www.vanityfair.com/images/politics/2007/10/poar01_iraq_billions0710.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/poar01_iraq_billions0710.jpg" alt="poar01_iraq_billions0710.jpg" height="227" width="395" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right">&nbsp;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>Look at the price our soldiers are paying for this stupidity.<span>  </span>American taxpayers are funding this ‘self-destructive’ insanity.<span>  </span>No accountability.<span>  </span>No arrests.<span>  </span>More money spent. More enemies to use weapons on.<span>  </span>More apologies, and $2,000.00 compensation checks issued to innocent casualties. <o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>WEAPONS ARE THE GWB DRUG OF CHOICE.<span>  </span>Please give this guy a drink … or find his old heroin pusher.<span>  </span>I’d much rather deal with an alcoholic or junkie. <o></o></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><strong>An unconscious American public has let it all slip away.<span>  </span>This horse has no reins and an idiot for a rider.<span>  </span>Do we really think the terrorists want to “follow our troops home”?<span>  </span>Why would they want to do that unless we fund their efforts, ourselves?<span>  </span>They want us out of their lives.<span>  </span>Al Qaeda will continue to thrive and gain support, because we reinforce their mantra every day we remain in their back yard.<span>  </span>We are clumsy.<span>  </span>We burn the forest down to cut down one tree.<span>  </span>Our original mission morphs every time we catch GWB in a lie.<span>  </span>Bait and switch is illegal for retailers.<span>  </span>Why isn’t it illegal for politicians?<span>  </span>Which presidential candidate can stop this practice?</strong><o><br />
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The State Department, departing from traditional public diplomacy techniques, has what it calls a three-person, &#8220;digital outreach team&#8221; posting entries in Arabic on &#8220;influential&#8221; Arabic blogs to challenge misrepresentations of the United States and promote moderate views among Islamic youths in the hopes of steering them from [...]]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Department+of+State?tid=informline" target="_blank">State Department</a>, departing from traditional public diplomacy techniques, has what it calls a three-person, &#8220;digital outreach team&#8221; posting entries in Arabic on &#8220;influential&#8221; Arabic blogs to challenge misrepresentations of the United States and promote moderate views among Islamic youths in the hopes of steering them from terrorism.</p>
<p>The department&#8217;s bloggers &#8220;speak the language and idiom of the region, know the culture reference points and are often able to converse informally and frankly, rather than adopt the usually more formal persona of a U.S. government spokesperson,&#8221; <a href="http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/events/events_detail/2125/" target="_blank">Duncan MacInnes</a>, of State&#8217;s Bureau of International Information Programs, told the House Armed Services subcommittee on terrorism and unconventional threats on Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;Because blogging tends to be a very informal, chatty way of working,&#8221; MacInnes said, &#8220;it is actually very dangerous to blog.&#8221; So State has a senior experienced officer, who served in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Iraq?tid=informline" target="_blank">Iraq</a>, acting as supervisor and discussing each posting before it goes up. &#8220;We do not make policy,&#8221; MacInnes added.</p>
<p>The State Department team&#8217;s approach is to join a blog&#8217;s conversation, often when it turns to the motivation for U.S. policy toward Iraq, and when others are claiming that the U.S. occupation is meant to help <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Israel?tid=informline" target="_blank">Israel</a> or to secure oil. &#8220;Our job is to address that motivation issue and show them that that&#8217;s not the motivation,&#8221; MacInnes said.</p>
<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t just say, &#8216;Well, here&#8217;s our policy,&#8217; and drop it into the blog. You have to have what I call a bridge,&#8221; MacInnes said. He then described using a sporting or current event or even poetry that would &#8220;allow one to get to be in a conversational mode with people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even though the State Department employees were not going into hard-core terrorist sites, the worry, MacInnes said, was that after identifying themselves and using their own names, &#8220;we would be, in the parlance of the Internet, &#8216;flamed&#8217; when we come on&#8221; &#8212; meaning their entries would be subjected to intense attacks.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Toning down the inflammatory rhetoric at this stage is kind of moot.</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;When we say &#8216;Islamo-fascism,&#8217; whether the term has a meaning or not, what they hear is &#8216;war on Islam,&#8217; okay &#8212; &#8216;attacking my religion,&#8217; &#8221; MacInnes said.</p>
<p>He described the phrase as &#8220;a verbal equivalent of poking a stick in somebody&#8217;s eye . . . and [Osama] <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Osama+bin+Laden?tid=informline" target="_blank">bin Laden</a> has been very good at taking our words and turning them around to his advantage by saying, &#8216;See, they&#8217;re actually at war with Islam.&#8217; &#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/George+W.+Bush?tid=informline" target="_blank">President Bush</a> has not used the phrase recently.</p>
<p align="center"> <strong>What a concept.  Talk to the &#8220;other side&#8221;.  Listen to their complaints and try to address their concerns and anger.  Whether their anger is real or taught, many &#8220;new&#8221; terrorists are revenge motivated for death or injury to their families.  After the wildfire is out of control, the State Department locks and loads its squirt guns.  I really hope this effort is successful.  But, common sense tells me that the curtain has already been pulled back on the Wizard.  All I hear is, &#8220;ignore that man behind the curtain&#8221;. </strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) director IA Rehman told the BBC that Pakistan was in danger of becoming a &#8220;Gestapo state&#8221; if such disappearances were to go unchecked.
Human rights workers in Pakistan have demanded the release of one of their leading workers who they say has been detained by government officials. Akhtar Baloch, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- sphereit start --><p id="top" /><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.hrcp-web.org/" target="_blank">Human Rights Commission of Pakistan</a></strong> (HRCP)</font><font size="2"> director IA Rehman told the BBC that Pakistan was in danger of becoming a &#8220;Gestapo state&#8221; if such disappearances were to go unchecked.</font></p>
<p><font size="2"><strong>Human rights workers in Pakistan have demanded the release of one of their leading workers who they say has been detained by government officials. </strong></font><font size="2">Akhtar Baloch, the Sindh province co-ordinator of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) disappeared in Hyderabad after a commission meeting.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Mr Rehman said the government had not tried to interfere with the work of the commission, but added: &#8220;Pakistan is not what it was one year ago&#8230; Now there is more pressure from the opposition and in this situation the establishment will become less tolerant.&#8221;</font></p>
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<p align="center">Director, Human Rights                            Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) I A Rehman</p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><a href="http://www.achrweb.org/Review/2007/192-07.html" target="_blank">On     4 November 2007</a>, 55 human rights activists including 31 men and 24 women of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) were arrested by the police from its head office in Lahore. They included Director of</span><span>  </span>HRCP Mr. I.A. Rehman</p>
<p align="left"><font face="Geneva,Arial" size="-1"><a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/11/08/pakist17282.htm" target="_blank"><strong><em>Opposition Activists at Risk of Torture</em></strong></a><br />
The Pakistan government should immediately release thousands of lawyers and opposition activists detained across the country in a crackdown after military ruler General Pervez Musharraf suspended the constitution and imposed a state of emergency on November 3, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch has received credible reports from government officials requesting anonymity that bar association officials and lawyers have been mistreated in detention.</font>
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<p align="left"><span class="featureMainCopy"></span><span class="featureMainCopy"><a href="http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0709/pakistan/pakistan.html" target="_blank">Rashid Rehman</a>, Human Rights Lawyer, hears stories such as </span><span class="featureMainCopy"></span><span class="featureMainCopy">(rape victim) </span><span class="featureMainCopy"></span><span class="featureMainCopy">Najma&#8217;s and fears what lies ahead for Pakistan. In the car on his way back to his office in the Punjabi city of Multan, he sits in the dark, looking out the window at the feeble lights of passing villages. When he speaks, he is calm and clear. <strong>&#8220;When government fails them, people get angry,&#8221; </strong>he says. <strong>&#8220;They lose faith in the system and look for alternatives. Think how easy it would be for the Islamists—or Taliban or al Qaeda—to go to the brothers of this girl now and say, &#8216;What happened to your family is not justice. This man dishonored your sister, he dishonored your father and your family name. Join us and we will help you get justice. We will make him pay.&#8217; When citizens are denied their basic human rights, they become radicalized. When people are powerless, they are easily manipulated. This is what worries me the most.&#8221;</strong> </span>&#8221; Rashid Rehman, is currently detained HRCP, Human Rights Lawyer.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>The world is not alarmed at the despicable actions occurring anywhere, but in their own back yard. Only when a threat spills over into their territory do they take notice. This Pakistani Democracy the United States and Britain helped to create is falling apart. </strong></p>
<p align="left">&#8220;People look at Musharraf and they see a US puppet who&#8217;s willing to declare war on fellow Muslims to satisfy America.&#8221;<strong>  </strong>Javed Ibrahim Paracha, Former Member of Parlaiment.</p>
<p align="left"><font size="2">Former member of the National Assembly and Chairman World Jehad Council, <a href="http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/985/60/" target="_blank">Javed Ibrahim Paracha</a></font> <font size="2">had just returned from the Peshawar High Court, after defending Osama Bin Laden’s Quranic teacher.  </font><font size="2">Paracha is now a tribal leader from a village called Dhara Dhar, near Tora Bora in Afghanistan. As the head of the World Prisoners Relief Fund, he had a reputation for repatriating suspected Al Qaeda militants to their native countries. </font></p>
<p align="left"><a href="http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/985/60/" target="_blank">Journalist, </a><span class="small"><a href="http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/985/60/" target="_blank">Nafisa Hoodbhoy</a> </span>asked, <font size="2">&#8220;Where is Osama Bin Laden?&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Paracha had been expecting the question. Enjoying the dramatic effect of his narrative, he told me that a government official had indicated to him that two of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_family" target="_blank">Bin Laden’s children</a> – from multiple marriages – were studying in a school in Hyderabad.  </font><font size="2">&#8220;Why he’s in Washington, where you are!&#8221;</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Today, the resurgence of the Taliban gives credence to the fact that U.S. and Pakistan military policies have served to strengthen intolerance and promote Islamic militancy in the region. That should give policy makers pause to reflect on just where the U.S. and Pakistan have gone wrong in the ‘War on Terror.’</font></p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://truthhugger.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/goldenoil.gif" title="goldenoil.gif"><img src="http://truthhugger.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/goldenoil.gif" alt="goldenoil.gif" /></a><strong>  American Politics, American Economics, American Delusions have wrought the whirlwind.</strong> <strong>Oil is what Gold used to be.  Reason dies at the hand of greed.  This time the planet is at stake.</strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong><a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C11%5C14%5Cstory_14-11-2007_pg1_9" target="_blank"><strong> *******</strong></a> </strong><a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C11%5C14%5Cstory_14-11-2007_pg1_9" target="_blank"><strong>UPDATE: US preparing for post-Musharraf Pakistan *******<br />
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<p align="left"><em>* US papers say BB (Bhutto) still open to power-sharing deal with Musharraf<br />
* Musharraf  knows elections under emergency would not seem credible</em>
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<p align="left">WASHINGTON: The US appears to be preparing for different eventualities as the political crisis in Pakistan deepens, according to a report in the New Times on Tuesday.</p>
<p>One US official told the newspaper, “Nobody is ready to cut him (President General Pervez Musharraf) off at the knees yet.” But another official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly on the issue, said that many people within the administration were worried that General Musharraf’s missteps would soon erode his base at home that he could be forced to give up power.”</p>
<p align="center"><strong>The US is finally looking ahead to possible outcomes.  What &#8220;possible&#8221; responses is the US planning.  I&#8217;m afraid to guess &#8230;</strong></p>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s Bhutto Detained Again – Ahead of Protest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[
LAHORE/LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Pakistani police put opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a week on Tuesday as the Commonwealth threatened suspension unless President Pervez Musharraf repealed a state of emergency.
Army chief Musharraf set off a storm of criticism when suspended the constitution, sacked most judges, locked up lawyers, rounded up thousands of opposition [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0630141120071112?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=worldNews" target="_blank">LAHORE/LONDON (Reuters)</a> &#8211; Pakistani police put opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for a week on Tuesday as the Commonwealth threatened suspension unless President Pervez Musharraf repealed a state of emergency.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify">Army chief Musharraf set off a storm of criticism when suspended the constitution, sacked most judges, locked up lawyers, rounded up thousands of opposition and rights activists and curbed the media.<span>   </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify">The Commonwealth, a 53-member body consisting mainly of former British colonies, gave Musharraf until November 22 to end emergency rule and take other steps to address his country&#8217;s problems, or <st1></st1><st1>Pakistan</st1> would face suspension. <span>  </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1226944320071112" target="_blank">Bhutto detained ahead of mass protest</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL19367220071112" target="_blank">Think-tank calls for gradual sanctions on Pakistan</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1248388420071112" target="_blank">U.N. chief urges Pakistan to end emergency rule</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify"><a href="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bhutto1.jpg" title="bhutto1.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bhutto1.jpg" alt="bhutto1.jpg" /></a>  &#8220;Our plan is on. Definitely she&#8217;ll try to come out. We will start our procession from here and if they try to stop us, the whole of <st1>Punjab</st1> will be a battleground,&#8221; said Bhutto spokeswoman, Fazana Raja.<span>   </span>Police have said Bhutto could be the target of a suicide assassination bid, like the one that killed 139 people at a rally last month welcoming her back from eight years in self-exile&#8221;We will try to go out, we will try to go ahead with the march. There are two laws in the country at the moment, one for the opposition and one for the government,&#8221; Bhutto&#8217;s spokeswoman Naheed Khan told AFP.<a href="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bhutto2.jpg" title="bhutto2.jpg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bhutto2.jpg" alt="bhutto2.jpg" /></a></p>
<p><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><em><a href="http://www.usaid.gov/pk/mission/background/index.htm" target="_blank">Since                                            1951, the United States Agency for International                                            Development   </a></em></font></strong><a href="http://www.usaid.gov/pk/index.htm" target="_blank" title="brandmarkusaid.gif"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/brandmarkusaid.thumbnail.gif" alt="brandmarkusaid.gif" /></a><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><em> has provided nearly                                            $7 billion to support Pakistan’s                                            development efforts. This assistance                                            has strengthened the political, economic                                            and cultural ties between the two nations.</em></font></strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Since before 1951, the US has had it&#8217;s hands in Pakistani affairs.  The US has basically groomed this diverse country as an extension of it&#8217;s influence in the area.  Just like Saudi &amp; Egypt &amp; India, Pakistan has been groomed and manipulated to assist US wants and needs.  This arrangement has caused much resentment among segments of the population.  Those unhappy segments are the terrorists we created.  The same terrorists that resent the leaders the US bought and paid for.  The US has figuratively &#8216;broken the camel&#8217;s back&#8217;.  US influence is now so volatile that we contaminate everything we touch &#8230; even though we delude ourselves that our way of living is a gift to our allies.  Our politicians have sold the humanitarian motive to it&#8217;s constituents.  But, we watch aghast, as spectators at a horror movie while Pakistan  disassembles before our eyes.  Aghast, because the nukes the US, Russia and Europe have helped them build are now at risk of falling into the hands of those unhappy factions we created.  The responsible parties to this dangerous tragedy must acknowledge the mess it has made and attempt to reconcile.  Bhutto and Musharraf are polar opposites that we have tried to combine.  The only common ground is their willingness to deal with the US &#8230; but we have made them impotent and they struggle on their interpretation of Democracy.  </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>While the knee jerk western world thinks that &#8220;Sanctions&#8221; can stop the infighting, </strong><strong>sanctions would be more inflammatory.</strong><strong>  The Pakistanis have their own lives to live &#8211; the city mouse and the country mouse live in two different worlds.   They are at odds already, this political horror flick may be the final spark that erupts into a conflagration of Civil War.  From Civil War to World War Three,  the world has a lot at stake here.  Real solutions are not forthcoming.  Strong arming this situation is NOT  a solution. </strong></p>
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		<title>US Creates Its Own Enemies &#8211; Terrorist Groups Still Growing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LYBIAN GROUP JOINS AL QAEDA 
Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri said a Libyan Islamist group had joined the militant organisation and he urged mujahideen in North Africa to topple the leaders of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
&#8220;Today, with grace from God, the Muslim nation witnesses a blessed step &#8230; Honourable members of the Fighting Islamic [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda" target="_blank">Al Qaeda</a> second-in-command <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri" target="_blank">Ayman al-Zawahri </a>said a Libyan Islamist group had joined the militant organisation and he urged mujahideen in North Africa to topple the leaders of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.<span id="midArticle_1"></span></p>
<p>&#8220;Today, with grace from God, the Muslim nation witnesses a blessed step &#8230; Honourable members of the Fighting Islamic Group in Libya announce that they are joining the al Qaeda group to continue the march of their brothers,&#8221; Zawahri said in a recording posted on Saturday.</p>
<p><span id="midArticle_2"></span> The Libyan group would be the second militant organisation to join al Qaeda this year after Algeria&#8217;s armed GSPC said in January it had won approval from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" target="_blank">Osama bin Laden</a> to rename itself Al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/05/zawahiri.tape/index.html" target="_blank"><strong>Al-Zawahiri: Egyptian militant group joins al Qaeda</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article671510.ece" target="_blank"><strong>Al-Qaeda is recruiting:</strong></a></p>
<p><!-- END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with pair of portrait images (c) --><!-- Article Copy module --><!-- BEGIN: Module - Main Article --><!-- Check the Article Type and display accordingly--><!-- Print Author image associated with the Author--><!-- Print the body of the article--><!-- Pagination --><!--Display article with page breaks --> UP TO 150 Islamic radicals travelled from Britain to Iraq to join up with a “British brigade” that has been established by Al-Qaeda leaders to fight coalition forces.The flow of young Muslim men from western Europe to Iraq has increased dramatically in the past two years. The “pipeline” of suspected terrorists is being fuelled by growing resentment about American and British policy and scandals such as the mistreatment of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373743" target="_blank"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">Current Trends in Jihadi Networks in Europe</font></a></p>
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<p align="left"> <strong>King George has repeatedly touted how &#8220;<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050527.html" target="_blank"> Thanks to the men and women of the United States military, our strategy is working &#8212; we are winning the war on terror.  </a></strong><strong><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050527.html" target="_blank">&#8220;</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2003/0523middleeast_byman.aspx" target="_blank">President Bush declared</a>, </strong>&#8220;We have the terrorists on the run. We&#8217;re keeping them on the run. One by one, the terrorists are learning the meaning of American justice.&#8221; Several months later, Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed, &#8220;We are winning the war on terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/text-president-bushs-weekly-radio/story.aspx?guid=%7BC5538144-21D9-45C7-B77D-567CD9C9CBD0%7D" target="_blank">Just today, Bush made his case to confirm Judge Mukasey in his radio address</a>:</strong> &#8220;In a time of war, it is vital for the President to have a full national security team in place &#8212; and the Attorney General is a key member of that team. The Attorney General is America&#8217;s top law enforcement officer, with critical responsibilities for preventing terrorist attacks and protecting our Nation.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p align="center"><strong>Oh yes.  The hearts and minds of those poor folks we expected to throw roses onto the liberating forces are surely genuflecting at our occupation. They are so grateful for the sloppy bombs our air attacks provide.  They trust the discretion of the American occupation forces who cannot tell a Sunni from a Shi&#8217;a.  Americans, who have no preparation for the culture they have invaded, are insulting a heritage that existed thousands of years before America was a twinkle in someone&#8217;s eye.  The more collateral damage, the more terrorists we create.  This happens everywhere we send our forces.  I blame the training.  I blame the administration who accepts collateral damage as acceptable.  From careful to careless we create our own enemies from what used to be our friends.  Where did all those imaginary &#8220;surgical strikes&#8221; go?  Why are we still so sloppy?  This administration gives poor lip service to the orphans, widows and refugees it has created.  Thank you George Bush for making sure a new generation of enemies will be available for your wondrous World War Three.  You are fulfilling a sick prophesy at the expense of the planet.</strong></p>
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Iran says documents show U.S. backing &#8220;terrorists&#8221;
TEHRAN (Reuters) &#8211; Iran has access to evidence of U.S. support for terrorist groups in the Middle East, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Sunday.
U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran‘s military 
Petraeus steps up accusations against Iran 
Petraeus says Iran stoking Iraq violence 
Iraq official says [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSDAH86038420071028" target="_blank">Iran says documents show U.S. backing &#8220;terrorists&#8221;</a><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1></st1><st1>TEHRAN</st1> (Reuters) &#8211; <st1></st1><st1>Iran</st1> has access to evidence of <st1></st1><st1>U.S.</st1> support for terrorist groups in the <st1>Middle East</st1>, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Sunday.<o></o></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWAT00835820071025" target="_blank">U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran‘s military </a><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0554268320071008">Petraeus steps up accusations against Iran </a><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0554268320071007" target="_blank">Petraeus says Iran stoking Iraq violence </a><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0546813620071005" target="_blank">Iraq official says big fat no to attack on Iran </a><o></o></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSDAH96407720070929" target="_blank">Iran MPs brand U.S. army, CIA terrorists </a><o></o></span></p>
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<strong>The louder these sabers rattle the closer we get.<span>  </span>This will be a no win event that spans years.<span>  </span>Hello war, goodbye oil.<span>  </span>With the </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>US</strong></st1><strong> dragging it’s feet preparing affordable alternative powered transportation; this country could be stuck in place.<span>  </span>Transportation costs will go through the roof and take our daily commodities with it.<span>  </span>Will you get a raise to offset your trip to work?<span>  </span>Will your city, county or state provide mass transportation to get workers to their jobs?<span>  </span>Here in </strong><st1></st1><st1><strong>Texas</strong></st1><strong>, mass transit is a novelty in a couple of cities.<span>  </span>This country will face an episode that will surpass WWII rationing.<span>  </span>If you are not up to the strain,<span>  </span>step away from sections of the ballot box that has Mass Destruction as a consequence.<span>  </span>If this administration pulls the trigger before it leaves office,<span>  </span>you will know what your grandparents went through,<span>  </span>you will also find you are less prepared than they were.</strong>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><strong>US regular troops are weary and stretched to the limit,  their equipment is in sad shape.  Bush&#8217;s Private Armies are very very expensive, so is their private equipment.  A call to defend the US will be left to the new recruits and what is left of the National Guard and any equipment they managed to salvage.  Natural disasters are taking their toll,  man made disasters, like roads and bridges, are in sad shape.  So much money is being borrowed, from  foreign sources, to fund this administration&#8217;s folly, that the US will be paying it back for generations.  You will re-live what your great grandparents endured during the Great Depression.  S</strong><strong>tep away from sections of the ballot box that has Great Depression as a consequence.</strong></p>
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		<title>Bush and Olmert, Crafting Amageddon, Who&#8217;s God At Work</title>
		<link>http://www.bluebloggin.com/2007/09/21/bush-and-olmert-crafting-amageddon-whos-god-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bosskitty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel consulted US before Syria strike, report says
Israel&#8217;s decision to launch an air strike against a suspected nuclear site in Syria allegedly set up with the help of North Korea came after Israel shared intelligence with the US, it was reported today.
Binyamin Netanyahu, yesterday confirmed in a TV interview that such an attack did take [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- sphereit start --><p id="top" /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2174292,00.html"><strong>Israel consulted US before Syria strike, report says</strong></a><br />
Israel&#8217;s decision to launch an air strike against a suspected nuclear site in Syria allegedly set up with the help of North Korea came after Israel shared intelligence with the US, it was reported today.<br />
Binyamin Netanyahu, yesterday confirmed in a TV interview that such an attack did take place. His admission came despite a news blackout over the incident.</p>
<p>Interview on Israeli TV:  <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&amp;cid=1189411452663&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><strong>Quite, We&#8217;re On The Air</strong></a>  &#8211; reveals the whole story &#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to follow what is happening in Pakistan closely and carefully,&#8221; a top defense official warned recently. &#8220;There is a real possibility that one day we will wake up and discover that Musharraf has been toppled, and that Islamic radicals have taken over Pakistan.&#8221;</p>
<p>As for Iran, Israel is currently at a crossroads regarding its policy. On the one hand, the defense establishment, though skeptical, is still hoping that President George W. Bush will send his air force to eliminate the threat. On the other hand, diplomatic circles are talking about a deal that Bush and Olmert are busy crafting: In exchange for the US taking care of Iran for Israel, Israel delivers on the Palestinian issue.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Those who watch the bigger picture suspected complicity all along.  These interviews detail the specifics about Bush and his hand in  building the stage for his &#8216;Final Fantasy&#8217;.  These confirmed revelations are significant.  The Nuclear threat  is real,  we are creating a world where nuclear options escalate every time Bush steps on more countries.  Making countries desperate is the only achievement Bush makes high marks on.  Russia and China are actively preparing to combat the insanity with their own solutions.  Deaf and blind to long range consequences,  Bush toddles on toward making sure HIS GOD&#8217;s work is done before he leaves office.  Bush and HIS GOD have made sure the United States will fall into the same historic role as Hitler&#8217;s Regime.  The US is becoming the world&#8217;s enemy. We are the cannon fodder for a maniac.  The world is not standing quietly by.  This is not a spectator sport!  No matter who inherits the disaster,  there are decades of consequences ahead.  This is not a spectator sport! </strong></p>
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		<title>Its &#8216;Holy Operation&#8217; Killed Tribal Leader, Bush Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bosskitty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda in Iraq Lauds Death of Anbar Foe 
A statement posted on the Web site of the Islamic State of Iraq , an umbrella group believed to have been formed by al-Qaeda in Iraq, celebrated the killing of Abu Risha, whom it described as President Bush&#8217;s &#8220;dog.&#8221;  A tribal coalition led by Abu Risha had [...]]]></description>
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<p>A statement posted on the Web site of the <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/islamic_state_of_iraq.htm" target="_blank">Islamic State of Iraq</a> , an umbrella group believed to have been formed by al-Qaeda in Iraq, celebrated the killing of Abu Risha, whom it described as <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/09/15/mourners_vow_revenge_as_sunni_leader_buried/" target="_blank">President Bush&#8217;s &#8220;dog.&#8221;</a>  A tribal coalition led by Abu Risha had fought against al-Qaeda in Iraq for the past year in Anbar province, leading to a dramatic drop in violence, and Abu Risha met with Bush this month during his surprise visit to Iraq.</p>
<p>Lt. Gen, Raymond Odierno, second from right, the second in command in Iraq, arrives at the funeral of Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, founder of Anbar Awakening, in Iraq&#8217;s Anbar province in the provincial capital of Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad on Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. The most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed Thursday in an explosion near his home in Anbar province. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/09/14/2007-09-14_sunni_ally_of_us_sheik_abu_risha_assassi.html" target="_blank" title="abubush.jpeg"><img src="http://www.bluebloggin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/abubush.jpeg" alt="abubush.jpeg" /></a><br />
Lt. Gen, Raymond Odierno, second from right, the second in command in Iraq, arrives at the funeral of Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, founder of Anbar Awakening, in Iraq&#8217;s Anbar province in the provincial capital of Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad on Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. The most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed Thursday in an explosion near his home in Anbar province.</p>
<p>&#8220;This blessed operation comes at the beginning of the month of conquest and victories so that it will be a new setback to the crusader&#8217;s project and the crusader Bush&#8217;s new strategy,&#8221; the statement said, referring to the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The authors also warned that they would assassinate other tribal leaders.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>This is great inspiration to potential collaborators.  We also have a great track record protecting common Iraqi collaborators, like our translators.  We are taking so long helping our loyal Iraqis,  that they are being killed off faster than our bureaucracy can operate.  Is this deliberate?  Ask Bob Woodward how hard it was to locate and evacuate the Iraqi that saved his life.  There is too much shame to go around.</strong></p>
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