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POPSUrge World Leaders: Vote No to Biased Goldstone Report I'm here at the emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, facing a draft resolution by the Arab and Islamic blocs that seeks to endorse the biased Goldstone Report"a 500-page document that falsely accuses Israel of “deliberate attacks” against civilians during its defensive war against Hamas rocket attacks last January. (For details, see www.unwatch.org/goldstone.) Adoption of this dangerous text will trigger proceedings toward the indictment and prosecution of Israeli leaders and officers in the International Criminal Court. What’s at stake is the very survival of democratic societies under the assault of terrorists"enemies of human rights who cynically invoke its protective cover. The debate began yesterday and reaches its climax today. UN Watch will be there to address the assembled delegates. Representing us will be none other than Col. Richard Kemp, former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan,
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POPSIran Crisis 25 June 2009 Youtube commentors offer these translations: Basically: last night several man in military uniforms with arabic accents attacked this building and several others in the same street. They broke the door, and made their way into the building all the way to the rooftop, and broke the a/c units, throwing some of them to the street. They also broke the cars in the street. 6.18pm: A reliable twitterer says that a group of mourners went to Neda Agha-Soltan's grave today but were turned back by security forces, who consisted of the usual mix of riot police, plain clothes cops and basiji militiamen. The twitter says they detained people who were carrying green signs or refused an order to disperse. 6.12pm: Our video production team knit together this montage of amateur footage from yesterday's protests. Amateur videos of clashes between protesters and the authorities in Tehran continue to be posted online
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POPSDEJA VU Once again America screws it up. Before we all know it there will be another civil war in Iraq. Both sides are American allies armed and trained by US forces. It is almost like a bad Hollywood comedy. The US forces occupy a country and then don't know what to do, killing and destruction they do know, peace they have no idea.
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POPSDavid Petraeus, Savior Of The Surge, Turns To Afghanistan
The achievement of this fragile success owes much to an increase in forces, Petraeus says, but above all to the application of new ideas. A graduate of Princeton University as well as West Point, Petraeus is as much an intellectual as a soldier, the hero of a new generation leading the Army. “My ideas are drawn from our historical memory,” Petraeus says. “At one time, the American army combined the art of war and that of administration” Another of Petraeus’s inspirations is the French army in Algeria. It is important, he says, not to repeat its errors: torture and attacks on the local population. But it is also important to emulate what Petraeus considers its successes: “bringing security to the people, benefiting them in concrete ways, and living among them.” Now it is up to Petraeus, after entering Iraq, to get out, under the command of Robert Gates, once Bush’s Secretary of Defense and now Obama’s. Petraeus says that the Army is glad for this continuity.
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POPSIsrael Launches War Against Gaza Arab world condemns, White House gives green light. Chief Obama adviser David Axlerod (democrat neocon) will be on Meet the Press Sunday to provide the (very bias and Zionist) 'analysis' of the new administration. Now context is everything, and just recently Israel bowed to pressure and opened the Gaza borders for supplies and humanitarian aid after a siege-like military blockade. THIS is what they are doing in exchange. According to a Jerusalem Post article Israel plans to assassinate the Hamas leadership. Apparently this war attack on Gaza was intent on that. Hamas also stated, in same article "These threats are related to the election campaign inside Israel," he said. "They are also designed to conceal the big crime - namely the unjust siege and the suffering of our people in the Gaza Strip."
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POPSSolving Somalia Conflicts is Key in Controlling Piracy Experts met this week in Cairo to address the piracy issue but failed to come up with any plausible answer. The obvious solution is to bring a conclusion to Somalia's lawlessness. They have been without a legitimate government since the 1990s. This lack of a lawful leadership has allowed rebels to spread out onto the waterways and has threatened every ship that dares pass along the east coast of Africa. Sending foreign military ships has not curbed this activity, it is merely another band-aid 'solution' to a very serious and dangerous problem.
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POPSAssad accuses extremists of targeting Syria As-Safir newspaper reported that Abed al-Ghani Jawhar, the leader of the recently-arrested “terrorist cell,” has not left the Akkar area of North Lebanon in the last 48 hours. One of the arrested members said that Jawhar had made calls to Syrian people during the last month and was in Damascus three days before the explosion on September 27, the paper said. The paper added that he came back to the North few hours after the explosion, which, it said, should encourage the two countries to increase their security coordination. http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=63112
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POPSPeace conference on Darfur opens in Sudan Speaking in the opening session today, Bashir also said a political solution should be founded on the basis of the federal system and the signed agreements. How ever he added that the negative aspects should be handled during the peace talks. During his tour to the Darfur states last July, the Sudanese President said he would invite the rebel groups and all the political forces should be associated. However, today conference was attended by the political parties member of the ruling coalition while the opposition parties were divided.
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POPS9/11 of its Day. Today: King David Atrocity. From criminal, to terrorist, to killer, to Prime Minister, to Nobel Peace Prize winner, yes it had to be a Zionist. Menachem Begin was commander of the Irgun terrorist gang then more infamous and feared than today's al Qaeda . Begin wrote in his memoirs, The Revolt: " History and experience taught us that if we are able to destroy the prestige of the British in Palestine, the regime will break. Since we found the enslaving government's weak point, we did not let go of it. " Words that could be about the USA instead of the Brits by al Qaeda and not the Prime Minister of Israel. Any Arab terrorists have a long long way to go in the terrorist league to catch the Zionists.
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POPSIraq Suggest US Timetable Two questions: 1. Would Bush leave even if Iraq kicked him out? 2. On the off-chance that he would, what the hell would John McCain run on?
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POPSYemeni Plan:Palestinian Unity Government The Yemeni plan, which calls for a return to the framework accords laid in Mecca, the creation of another unity government and the reform of security forces along national rather than factional lines and then holding new Palestinian elections. Despite the differences, Ahmed said he was looking forward to Yemen to set a date for new talks: "We look towards implementing the Yemeni initiative and fostering Palestinian national unity," he told reporters. A senior Hamas official said talks would begin on April 5 with the first round being held in the Palestinian territories, but the Palestinian ambassador to Yemen, Ahmad Deek, said Yemen would issue invitations for talks there early next month. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh had been pressing the Palestinians to begin talks in April and said Sanaa would ask the Arab Summit in Damascus on March 29-30 to endorse the initiative as a joint Arab plan.
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POPSPA renews policy of shaving beards Amazing. There is a lot we don't know about Islam. If it was good enough for Arafat, it must be good enough for Abbas. Interestingly, going to jail must be a badge of honor; along with killing innocent people....Arab, Israeli, anyone... and raising your children to do the same.
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POPS Bahrain's Crown Prince Accuses Iran “While they don’t have the bomb yet, they are developing it, or the capability for it,” he said – the first time one of Iran’s Gulf neighbours effectively has accused it of lying about its nuclear programme. It is not a position from which to mince words. In an interview with The Times the Crown Prince has become the first Arab leader to jettison the language of diplomacy and directly accuse Tehran of seeking nuclear weapons. The US Fifth Fleet is based here, its main carrier battle group tasked with securing the Strait of Hormuz. The King Fahd causeway to Khobar makes Bahrain a gateway to the richest oil reserves on Earth in eastern Saudi Arabia. There is no suggestion – yet – of an Iranian invasion of Bahrain. But even as the kingdom throws up skyscrapers to compete with Dubai and Abu Dhabi for regional financial dominance, its security forces are on high alert for evidence of Iranian-backed “sleeper cells” that could bring them all tumbling down.
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POPS Iraqi Shiite Leaders Seeks US-Iran Talks "We will do our best not to allow a permanent (foreign) military base on our land," al-Hakim told hundreds of supporters gathered outside the party's headquarters in Baghdad's Jadriyah district. In the sermon, al-Hakim also urged the region's Arab countries to support the political process in Iraq by opening diplomatic missions here and he appealed on "other nearby Islamic countries" -- a reference to Iran -- to support Iraq and its people.
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POPSIraqi Batallion takes over for Brits "This is another important step for the Iraqi Army as they develop their capabilities and gradually take more responsibility for their own security. It is pleasing that the move went so smoothly and offers encouraging signs for the future as everybody continues down the road towards Iraqi self reliance,” said British military spokesman, Captain Ollie Pile. "It is in everybody's interests – the coalition, the Iraqi Security Forces and, above all, the Iraqi people themselves - that we continue to make progress."
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POPSCaugth Red Hander British Undercover Operatives in Iraq According to the BBC’s Galpin, reporting for BBC Radio 4 (19/9/05, 18 hrs news script), Iraqi police sources in Basra “told the BBC the two British men were arrested after failing to stop at a checkpoint. There was an exchange of gunfire. The men were wearing traditional Arab clothing, and when the police eventually stopped them, they said they found explosives and weapons in their car… It’s widely believed the two British servicemen were operating undercover.” Undercover? Dressed as Arabs? What were they trying to do that had caught the attention of their colleagues, the Iraqi police?
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POPSWhat? Already running away!? Keep the pressure on! Move them back to their hidie-holes from whence they came and then give the people their towns and homes. THEN train them in how to maintain peace and order within them.
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