News From The Long War, Thread 2

Various | 2/13/06 | Knitting a Conundrum and others

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Thread 2

Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, our nation has fought a global war against violent extremists who use terrorism as their weapon of choice, and who seek to destroy our free way of life. Our enemies seek weapons of mass destruction and, if they are successful, will likely attempt to use them in their conflict with free people everywhere. Currently, the struggle is centered in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we will need to be prepared and arranged to successfully defend our nation and its interests around the globe for years to come. DOD

Our enemies include all the Muslims who dream of knocking Western Civilization off its perch atop humanity’s dung heap. Islam is fractured into any number of sects, tribes and ethnic groups, but the dream of destroying us cuts across all the fault lines. Islamic terrorists are merely the tip of a very large spear.

J. Peter Mulhern, the American Thinker, September 18

The determination behind that fight is real, the hatred is real, and the excuses for doing this are very real in the minds of those who have decided to walk that path. We can respond in two ways: Try to ignore or negotiate with people who do not want to negotiate in good faith, because what they want is our destruction, or to stand up against the darkness of those who see all of us, our way of life, our culture and our aspirations as something worth eliminating.

Either: "And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Or: "With vigilance, determination, courage, we will defeat the enemies of freedom, and we will leave behind a more peaceful world for our children and our grandchildren." GW Bush.

Here's where I will post news and info about the Long War. Let me know if you're interested.

Thread 1

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Evening News Roundup, 2/13/07

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Haaretz News Tracker

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03:35	U.S. Senate 9/11 bill seeks more security aid, drops cargo inspection requirements (AP)
03:31	U.S. official says anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fled Iraq for Iran (AP)
02:07	French ambassador calls Iran`s nuclear program `a threat to the world` (Haaretz)
01:05	Hamas`s Haniyeh says his government not yet ready to resign (Haaretz)
00:54	Only 4 MKs attend founding meeting of Knesset`s secular caucus (Haaretz)
00:08	Tiberias girl rushed to hospital in serious condition after choking on pizza (Army Radio)
23:52	IDF sources doubt credibility of Syrian group claiming to hold MIA Guy Hever (Haaretz)
23:47	Merkel says sure significance of North Korea deal `won`t be lost on Iran` (DPA)
23:22	State to stand by demand that new PA cabinet meet Quartet terms (Israel Radio)
22:48	Putin says he hopes there will `be an end` to bloodshed in Palestinian Authority (DPA)
22:45	NIS 3.5 million embezzled from branch of Bank Otzar Hahayal (TheMarker)
22:40	Bishara asks El Al to clarify whether refused to let Muslim corpse on flight (Haaretz)
22:16	Two teen brothers suspected of extorting NIS 46,000 from classmate (Haaretz)
21:46	Al-Qaida urges Palestinians leave secular Fatah and embrace Islam (Reuters)
21:16	6-year-old Tiberias girl in serious condition after choking on pizza (Army Radio)
21:06	Three police officers convicted of attacking civilian with no reason (Haaretz)
20:55	Rice: Iran should see North Korea as an example in nuclear standoff (Reuters)
20:46	Lawyer: Saddam Hussein`s deputy urges insurgency to continue fighting in Iraq (AP)
20:18	UN: IDF, Lebanese Army violated truce agreement last week during clashes (Reuters)

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Ynet News Tracker

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Ex-spy chief, Negroponte, moves to No. 2 job at the State Department
(02:08 , 02.14.07)
Ex-CIA contractor sentenced to nearly 8 1/2 years in prison
(01:33 , 02.14.07)
I never doubted 'Guy' was abducted by Syria, mother says
(00:58 , 02.14.07)
Bush welcomes North Korea agreement, but skepticism holds back celebration
(00:39 , 02.14.07)
Al-Zawahri says Bush was alcoholic who gambled on Iraq and lost
(23:32 , 02.13.07)
Two photography students wandering along Lebanon border cause terror scare
(23:26 , 02.13.07)
IDF: Hever custody claims will be examined
(22:57 , 02.13.07)
Security officials say investigating Syrian group’s claim to be holding Guy Hever
(22:30 , 02.13.07)
Labor faction to discuss Welfare portfolio Thursday
(22:03 , 02.13.07)
Syrian organization says they have missing soldier Guy Hever
(21:18 , 02.13.07)
UN says Israel, Lebanon armies violated cease-fire
(20:47 , 02.13.07)
Palestinian injured by Molotov bottle near Bethlehem
(20:37 , 02.13.07)
Peres says Iran must calm down
(20:27 , 02.13.07)

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Wire Reports via Yahoo News

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  Iran president tones down Israel attack AP - 8 minutes ago

  TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, toning down verbal attacks on Israel, said in an interview that aired Tuesday that Palestinians should be allowed to determine a resolution to the conflict with the Jewish state.

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  U.S. says all issues on table in Olmert-Abbas talks Reuters - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago

  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - All issues are on the table when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets Palestinian and Israeli leaders next week, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.

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  Bombs kill 3 on buses in Lebanon AP - Tue Feb 13, 4:07 PM ET

  EIN ALAQ, Lebanon - Bomb blasts killed three people on commuter buses Tuesday and lawmakers blamed Syria, stirring fears of clashes between Hezbollah and government supporters at a massive rally planned to mark the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister.

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  Israel, Palestinians disagree on agenda AP - Tue Feb 13, 2:56 PM ET

  RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian and Israeli officials disagreed sharply Tuesday over whether next week's Mideast summit with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should help relaunch peace talks, dimming hopes the session will produce results.

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  Putin takes Mideast peace offensive to Jordan AFP - Tue Feb 13, 2:07 PM ET

  AMMAN (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to pool his efforts with Jordan to help revive long-stalled talks between Israel and the Palestinians as he wrapped up a tour of US Arab allies.

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  Israel denies Jerusalem holy site work halted, protests continue AFP - Tue Feb 13, 11:35 AM ET

  JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel has denied a report that archaeological excavations and building work near Jerusalem's most contested holy site had been abandoned, as angry Muslims continued to slam the project.

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  Thousands protest in Syria at "Israeli crimes" AFP - Tue Feb 13, 9:50 AM ET

  DAMASCUS (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Syrians and Palestinians have demonstrated in Damascus against what they termed "Israeli crimes" in carrying out work near the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

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  Palestinian PM to resign in "two days" to form govt Reuters - Tue Feb 13, 9:50 AM ET

  GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his Hamas-led cabinet will resign in the next two days to make way for a unity government with the rival Fatah faction, a government official said on Tuesday.

• Islamic Jihad threatens to target U.S. over leader Reuters - Tue Feb 13, 9:02 AM ET

  GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group on Tuesday threatened to retaliate against the United States if it tried to capture its Damascus-based leader.

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  Hamas PM readies to form unity government AFP - Tue Feb 13, 8:25 AM ET

  GAZA CITY (AFP) - Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya is preparing to resign at the helm of his Hamas government and form a unity cabinet despite continued Western reluctance to lift a crippling aid boycott.

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  Iraq to close borders with Iran, Syria AP - 3 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security crackdown announced Tuesday that Iraq will close its borders with Syria and Iran and ordered the return of unlawfully seized homes, as part of the drive to end the violence that has threatened to divide the capital along sectarian lines.

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  Jordan, Russia discuss Mideast peace AP - 7 minutes ago

  AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's King Abdullah II and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called for a stronger international push for lasting Mideast peace and urged for a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear standoff.

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  Iran president tones down Israel attack AP - 9 minutes ago

  TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, toning down verbal attacks on Israel, said in an interview that aired Tuesday that Palestinians should be allowed to determine a resolution to the conflict with the Jewish state.

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  Anti-American cleric flees Iraq for Iran AP - 16 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fled Iraq for Iran ahead of a security crackdown in Baghdad and the arrival of 21,500 U.S. troops sent by President Bush to quell sectarian violence, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.

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  British destroy own aircraft in Iraq AP - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

  LONDON - A British Hercules airplane was damaged while landing in southeastern Iraq and later destroyed by coalition forces because of the risk of mounting a recovery operation, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday.

• Israel warns against visiting Iraq AP - Tue Feb 13, 5:36 PM ET

  JERUSALEM - Israel warned its citizens Tuesday against visiting Iraq, citing the danger to their lives and reminding them that travel to Iraq is a criminal offense under Israeli law.

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  Iraq's foreign minister urges calm AP - Tue Feb 13, 5:35 PM ET

  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Iraq's neighbors should refrain from intervening in its affairs and should not be under the illusion that they will benefit from the difficulties facing the country, Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday.

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  Guinea's president declares martial law AP - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

  CONAKRY, Guinea - A strict curfew kept residents inside their homes in this West African capital Tuesday after Guinea's president declared martial law, but sporadic gunfire persisted as some youths tried to renew protests that killed dozens in recent days.

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  Wave of bomb attacks kills 6 in Algeria AP - Tue Feb 13, 5:38 PM ET

  ALGIERS, Algeria - A group linked to al-Qaida staged seven near-simultaneous bomb attacks Tuesday, targeting police in several towns east of Algiers and killing six people, officials said.

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  US to cancel Liberia's debt AFP - Tue Feb 13, 4:37 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States boosted the fledgling recovery of Liberia by announcing it was erasing the war-ravaged West African nation's debt.

• Zimbabwe's inflation rate skyrockets AP - Tue Feb 13, 2:27 PM ET

  JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Huge price increases for bread, electricity and meat drove Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate to 1,593.6 percent, the Central Statistical Office was quoted Tuesday as saying.

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  Football: Hughes counting on McCarthy to boost Rovers Euro ambition AFP - Tue Feb 13, 5:12 PM ET

  LEVERKUSEN, Germany (AFP) - Blackburn boss Mark Hughes challenged South African striker Benni McCarthy to provide the inspiration when the Premiership outfit face Bayer Leverkusen in their UEFA Cup last 32 clash on Wednesday.

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  Algeria hit by bombings, six dead Reuters - Tue Feb 13, 2:06 PM ET

  SI MUSTAFA, Algeria (Reuters) - Seven bombs went off almost simultaneously in Algeria on Tuesday, killing six people east of the capital Algiers in an elaborate assault by suspected Islamist rebels.

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  Peace envoys hold intensive Darfur talks AFP - Tue Feb 13, 2:00 PM ET

  KHARTOUM (AFP) - Envoys from the United Nations and African Union held intensive consultations with Sudanese officials in a bid to muster support for ailing peace efforts in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur.

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  Bomb blasts kill six in northern Algeria, injure 13 AFP - Tue Feb 13, 1:55 PM ET

  ALGIERS (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda cell has claimed responsibility for a series of car bomb attacks that rocked Algeria's Kabylie region which interior ministry officials say killed up to six people and injured 13.

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  Bulgarian nurses on death row in Libya at a low ebb: lawyer AFP - Tue Feb 13, 1:04 PM ET

  TRIPOLI (AFP) - Five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in an AIDS epidemic case are awaiting a final verdict from the supreme court "with a great deal of worry," their lawyer told AFP.

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  Bush welcomes North Korea agreement AP - 32 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration called a deal to begin dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons program a breakthrough, but the North's history of broken promises kept the celebrations to a minimum.

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  Korean nuclear deal delays disarmament AP - 38 minutes ago

  BEIJING - A hard-won disarmament pact that the U.S. and four other nations struck with North Korea on Tuesday requires the communist nation to halt its nuclear programs in exchange for oil while leaving the ultimate abandonment of those weapons projects to a potentially trouble-filled future.

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  Japan stocks rise; Dollar up against yen AP - 54 minutes ago

  TOKYO - Japanese stocks rose in early trade Wednesday after the main index reached its highest levels in more than six years.

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  IAEA will return to N Korea: ElBaradei AFP - 1 hour, 33 minutes ago

  LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will resume inspections in North Korea following Pyongyang's announcement that it will curb its nuclear activities, its chief Mohamed ElBaradei announced.

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  U.S. holds out North Korea deal as model for Iran Reuters - 2 hours, 26 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday held out as a model for Iran a deal under which North Korea will take steps toward giving up nuclear arms, and analysts said it might bolster Iranians who favor talks with the West.

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  Treasury names U.S.-China point man AP - Tue Feb 13, 6:18 PM ET

  WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is setting up a telephone hotline connecting him directly with the vice premier of China and naming a new deputy to oversee high level talks amid agitation in congressional quarters for a tougher line with Beijing on trade issues.

• Experts regret time lost before N.Korea deal Reuters - Tue Feb 13, 5:54 PM ET

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Praise in Washington for the deal on North Korea's nuclear program was tempered by regret that it might have been reached years ago -- before Pyongyang tested a weapon and expanded its arsenal to perhaps a dozen nuclear weapons, experts say.

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  Myanmar extends opposition's detention AP - Tue Feb 13, 3:45 PM ET

  YANGON, Myanmar - The military government on Tuesday extended by one year the house arrest of the deputy head of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, despite calls by the party and international community to release him.

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  North Korea agrees to nuclear disarmament steps Reuters - Tue Feb 13, 3:43 PM ET

  BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea agreed on Tuesday to take steps toward nuclear disarmament in exchange for $300 million in aid under a deal President George W. Bush hailed as the best chance to get it to scrap its atomic weapons program.

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  Inspectors ready to return to N. Korea AP - Tue Feb 13, 3:21 PM ET

  VIENNA, Austria - Ready, willing and able — but in the dark. That describes the state of inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency as they scramble to find ways to enforce a deal committing North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.

• Quotes from North Korea nuclear talks AP - Tue Feb 13, 1:55 PM ET

  Key quotes from officials of the six nations that struck agreement Tuesday on North Korea's nuclear weapons program:

• Dismantling North Korea's nuclear arms AP - Tue Feb 13, 1:54 PM ET

  A look at the commitments made by North Korea, the United States, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia as part of the agreement on dismantling North Korea's nuclear programs:

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  NATO seeks more troops in Afghanistan AP - Tue Feb 13, 1:43 PM ET

  CASTEAU, Belgium - NATO's top commander renewed an appeal Tuesday for allies to fill gaps in the international military force in Afghanistan, warning that failure to send reinforcements was weakening the mission and jeopardizing the lives of soldiers fighting the Taliban.

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  Activists chastise India on untouchables AP - Tue Feb 13, 12:31 PM ET

  NEW DELHI - Indians at the bottom of India's Hindu caste system are attacked, raped and killed daily due to their status, even though the rigid social hierarchy has been outlawed for decades, an international human rights group said Tuesday.

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A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the US government's decision to freeze the assets of an Islamic charity with alleged links to a Sudanese group that supports terrorism.

The Treasury Department claims the Islamic American Relief Agency-USA is an affiliate of the Islamic African Relief Agency, a Sudan-based charity the US government accuses of financing al-Qaida and other terror organizations.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed with a lower court's 2005 decision finding that the charity is a branch of the Sudanese-based agency.

The charity did not contest the terrorist designation of the Sudanese group, but claims the organizations have independent leaders and separate bank accounts. The group was founded by a Sudanese immigrant in 1985 to raise money for humanitarian activities around the world.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359851533&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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Sixteen security forces and 69 rebels have been killed over the past three days in ongoing clashes between the Yemeni army and followers of a Shiite rebel leader the northern part of the country, Yemeni military officials said Tuesday.

An army official said government forces have fired artillery bombardments over the areas where followers of Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi are believed to using as hideouts in Saada, about 112 miles (180.24 kilometers) north of the Yemeni capital, San'a. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The official said along with the security forces and rebels killed, about 50 other militant rebels also have been arrested. A total of 80 rebels and 94 army and police officers have been killed in recent weeks.

The fighting comes as members of the Yemen Supreme Defense Council voiced concerns during a meeting on Tuesday, saying the Shiite rebels were receiving funds and assistance from outside countries, according to one of the council's members.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359851757&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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Thank you, Knitting.

Checking in, then back to the sofa. :-/

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What are you doing on a sofa?

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Thanks for the new thread

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HI. Been thinking of you, and your mom and Harley. Hope all is well. :-)

Too many viruses and germs floating around here, all looking for a home... in me. :-(

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Trying to get healthy, and not give this crud to my husband.

But I did some knitting tonight. And have lots of new ideas on decorating. ;-)

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