An Afghan warlord on a U.S. wanted list has said the United States does not have the capacity to stay for long in Afghanistan and he predicts it will pull out at the same time as it withdraws from Iraq. Denouncing the United States as "the mother of problems," Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister whose forces operate in southeastern areas near Pakistan, said Afghanistan's turmoil would not end until U.S. forces left the region. "As long as America remains in Afghanistan and in the region, war and problems will continue," he said in a copy of a video tape obtained by Reuters on Thursday. "I can say with full assurance and confidence that America does not have the ability to stay for a long period in Afghanistan...," he said. Wearing a black turban, the bespectacled and heavily-bearded Hekmatyar said America's allies had sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq out of fear of Washington....
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Editor - 11:19:00 02-22-07
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 Karzai pleads with Italy on mission |
President Hamid Karzai urged Italy Thursday not to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, after the Italian government resigned because of a parliamentary defeat over its plan to keep its 2,000 forces in the volatile country. Karzai, whose own shaky grip on Afghanistan is under threat from resurgent Taliban rebels, also urged another key contributor to the 35,000-strong NATO security force, Canada, to stay the course. "My message to the countries helping us in Afghanistan, to Canada, to Italy, is that the Afghan people, the Canadian people and the Italian people are in the same fight, a fight for the security of our lives today and tomorrow," Karzai told reporters after meeting NATO's Secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Kabul. Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi stepped down Wednesday after his government lost a parliamentary vote over its foreign policy program, including plans to keep Italian troops in Afghanistan. Most of the 2,000 forces are deployed in the ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-22-karzai-italy_x.htm?csp=34
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Editor - 11:17:00 02-22-07
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| A Study in North American Union |
Just when you thought you had a grip on the NAU (North American Union) and its scope, more disturbing news arrives indicating that this horrendous project isn't half-baked, but ready to be forked. The NAU first began gaining the attention of average American citizens in 2005, with the signing of the treacherous Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the release of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) report Building a North American Community (BNAC). The recentness of these eye-opening actions led many to believe that the NAU would be a long time in coming, but information continues to surface regarding the plethora of clever devices employed to sell the NAU to Americans and speed its arrival. For those readers who are still completely in the dark about the NAU, it is, simply put, the transformation of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) into a full-blown economic and political merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. ...
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4468.shtml
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Editor - 11:13:00 02-22-07
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| No Safe Place |
Imagine hiking across Antarctica, through ice, cold and bitter wind, enduring months of hardship, and finally arriving at the doorstep of the South Pole itself. At that moment you get hit by a Sahara sandstorm.That's the analogy scientists are using to describe what happened to the ESA-NASA Ulysses spacecraft last December. "Ulysses was approaching the South Pole of the sun when it was 'sandblasted' by a cloud of high-energy particles—protons, electrons and heavy ions," says Arik Posner, Ulysses Program Scientist at NASA headquarters. The cloud was as foreign to the sun's South Pole as a Sahara sandstorm would be to Antarctica.The strange tale begins on Dec. 5, 2006. ...
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/22feb_nosafeplace.htm?list184039
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Editor - 10:53:00 02-22-07
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| GUNS AND STEEL ON THE SILK ROAD High Noon in China's Far West |
China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far west of the country. Concerns are rising in Beijing of ethnic unrest in the border region. Its plans for economic development there may be in trouble. Mao Tse Tung defies the icy wind blowing from the Pamir Mountains across the city of Kashgar. Beijing is worlds away from this spot on the historic Silk Road not far from Tajikistan & Kyrgyzstan. Which is perhaps why the Chairman Mao needs such a tall base for his statue, perched 79 feet above the "Square of the People." But Mao is strikingly alone the square is practically devoid of people. It is time for prayer. A few blocks away locals are streaming into the Id-Kah Mosque the largest Muslim house of worship in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region home to the Uighur minority in northwestern China. The faithful wear their fur turbans pulled down over their faces. It's bitterly cold, but it is also to disguise their identities. Many are afraid of being recognized...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,467931,00.html
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Editor - 09:53:00 02-22-07
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| Sword seized after man mistakes porn for rape |
A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching. "Now I feel stupid," said James Van Iveren, who has been charged in the case. "This really is nothing, nothing but a mistake." According to a criminal complaint, the neighbor told police that Van Iveren pounded on the door and kicked it open without warning February 12, damaging the frame and lock. "Where is she?" Van Iveren demanded, thrusting the sword at the neighbor, the complaint said. "Where is she?" The neighbor told police Van Iveren became increasingly aggressive as he repeated the question, insisting that he had heard a woman being raped. The complaint said that, with the sword pointed at him, the neighbor led Van Iveren throughout the apartment, opening closet doors to prove he was alone....
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/22/porn.sword.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us
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