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The mother of a seven-year-old boy who lost vision in one eye in a mishap in a municipal school has approached the Bombay High Court seeking issuance of guidelines to civic body-run schools with regard to providing a safe and secure environment to the students.
Sherbano Khan filed a public interest litigation (PIL) after her son Sohail Mohammad, a class II student in a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation school in suburban Sion, lost sight in his left eye when one of his classmates accidentally jabbed a pencil into his eye on January 15.
According to Ms. Sherbano, his teacher in spite of being informed about the incident did not take any immediate step to provide medical aid to Sohail.
"Sohail was made to sit with his injured eye for over two hours. After school hours, he was asked to go home by teacher Shahida," the petition claimed.
The boy was operated at the State-run KEM hospital at Parel in Central Mumbai but doctors could not save his left eye as he could not be operated upon soon after the incident, according to the petition.
"Although Sherbano had lodged a complaint with the school authorities and police, no action has been taken so far," the mother's lawyer Shakeel Ahmed told PTI.
The petition claimed that teachers and administrative staff of municipal schools have no concern for the welfare and care of the minor students. The PIL will come up for hearing in due course.
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Husaberg '09 FE570 rallye bike build
Well after putting in an order with the local WA dealer Wanneroo Motorcycles on 7 November 2007 (day after the Milan show release) for the new to be released 2009 Husaberg FE570 it has finally arrived today :clap
So its been a long gestation :(:
Now its straight into converting it to rallye spec for use in '09
Still in the womb !
giving birth :D
Specs will be:
2009 FE 570 new out of the crate
* Talon cush drive rear hub
* Excel Pro Signature 2.5" rear rim laced to Heavy Duty 12g stainless spokes
* Force Accesories 2L Safari alloy bashplate
* Rear subframe fuel tank mod ~4L
* Aqualine Safari main tank ~22-24L total fuel
* Ego Barkbusters
* Akrapovic carbon slipon muffler
* Ohlins SD MX 2.0 steering dampner
* BRP 25mm riser submount bracket
* HB Thermo fan kit
* HB clutch protector
* HB frameguards
* MD roadbook
* ICO VR Light odo X 2 (Main & Backup)
* KTM Roadbook carrier frame
* KTM Fork bleeders
* Stelth rear sprockets
* Michelin Baja and Desert rear tires with Michelin MO2 mousses
* Pirelli MT410 front tires with Michelin M15 mousses
* Motul 300V 4T Factoryline 15W/50 oil
* LED dust light
* changing springs and setting up suspension
* RS Concepts fairing
* HID headlights
* team graphics
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Wish I had a project like that over xmas !
ill be watching this one!!!!!!
thanks for sharing.
Please post as many photos as you can.
Big Kev may be dead. But I'm excited. Good one mate - have fun building that baby up.
I like seeing an artist at work. Love the 'berg
Sub-frame extra fuel tank
The rear subframe on the new '09 Bergs is plastic, same material as the fuel tank and is a great potential extra fuel cell.
see here http://www.husaberg.org/index.php?na...r=asc&start=15
It has been tested now with no leaks from the fasteners etc, and has a 4 litre capacity, ~50% increase on standard, not bad.
Fuel is mainly to the left side, but given that it is carried low, should not be a problem with bike balance.
Wall thickness is approximately 3mm. This should be more than enough material for the vent fitting (plus sealing goo). Fitting the balance line, would be best to do similar to the fuel pump with a mounting plate/gasket goo and bolts.
With the standard 8.5L it will give 12.5L all up, that will be good enough for Condo and Yilgarn etc. all with the standard slim line body work :wings
Great stuff to be able to do that and use the stock body work.
I reckon some clever Swede had this at the back of their mind with the design...................why else ?? and given its the same material as the tank !! :clap :clap http://www.husaberg.org/modules/PNph...smiles/wav.gif
Plus it means that only about another 10 L needs to be found with the larger Safari tank for the long range rallyes :rayof
Bits to go on
NO frivalous bling bits here, no siree, just serious stuff mate ! :deal
Some bits already have and will go across from the '08 FE650 to the new one
So much bling, so little time.
Nice ride Gary. Congratulations mate. See you at Condo.
Read the write up on them - some innovative features - sub frame, straight inlet, mass centralsation etc. What a beautiful project - best of luck.
Hey SafariBerg - do they do "rider ability" in anodized blue as well?:lol3
Congrats Gary. Must be nice to have a factory funded ride and farkles. Will be watching your progress in the respective races, mate.
One person has a life but the rest of you are just internet nerds
I'm off to the pub (on my bike)
you bastard
those new bergs are a very nice thing. Aqualine making a tank for them is a surprise.
the EFi will keep the fuel economy good, what are the oil capacity on them?
Titanium valves?
is it 6 spd wide ratio?
mmmm :deal
Lovely. You'll be trying extra hard not to rub it against too many roos I expect.
ok ok I repent :shog
Now that the new bike endorphin euphoria has subsided I will tread the righteous path and not be led into temptation of frivalous andodised blue bling :cry
Afterall it is supposed to be a serious rallye bike !
(besides which I just realised how expensive it all is :eek1 )
So will save the sheckels for the Safari costs instead :nod
With that aim in mind have amended the proposed bits list below on post #7
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Reitz football team riding four-game winning streak entering game with archrival Mater Dei | VIDEO
Reitz High School football coach Tony Lewis describes the Panthers' West Side rivalry with Mater Dei as the best in the state of Indiana.
"I don't think you can find a better rivalry," he said. "Whether you're having a good year or a bad year or Mater Dei is having a good year or a bad year, it doesn't really matter. Both teams understand they have to leave it all on the line. You hope to play your best football and let the chips fall."
Reitz, 5-3 overall, 4-2 in the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference and 4-1 in the City, is riding a four-game winning streak entering tonight's game at Reitz Bowl. Mater Dei is coming off its first loss, 35-21, to Castle last Friday in a battle of unbeatens at Paradise. The Wildcats, ranked No. 2 in Class 2A, can still win their second successive City championship. Mater Dei is 7-1 overall, 5-1 in the SIAC and 5-0 in the City.
Wildcats senior quarterback Jace Hartz leads the league in passing yardage with 1,502. He is 108-for-172, a 62.8 percentage, for 17 touchdowns with three interceptions. Junior running back Nolan Goebel is second in the SIAC in rushing with 1,045 yards on 133 carries, a 7.9 yards-per-carry average; he has run for 11 touchdowns.
On the other side, Reitz senior running back Ke'Andre Vaughn is nearing the end of one of the most storied careers in school history. He is fifth in the league in rushing with 942 yards on 153 attempts, a 6.2 average, including 12 touchdowns. For his career, he is among the Panthers' career leaders in rushing yardage (3,873) and touchdowns (39).
"Ke'Andre is definitely one of the best backs in our history," Lewis said.
Through the years, he's worked diligently to become stronger to complement his speed.
"He's a quiet leader, somebody who is capable of the big play throughout his career," Lewis said.
Senior Rushad Whitlock, who was Henderson County's leading rusher last year, was a standout defensive back most of this season at Reitz. But he scored a pair of rushing touchdowns in a 48-13 win over Bosse. Quarterback Drew Johnston is fourth in the SIAC in passing with 954 yards. He has completed 81 of 113 passes, a 71.7 percentage, for 11 touchdowns with four interceptions.
The Panthers' season began to turn around following an impending storm on Sept. 7. Reitz trailed Central 29-10 when the game was stopped with 3:49 left in the first half because of the weather. It resumed the next night and the Panthers rallied before losing, 36-31.
Reitz has not lost since.
For Mater Dei, bouncing back after losing to a fellow unbeaten is nothing new. The Wildcats lost to Reitz in week 9 in 2010, then advanced to the 2A semistate. Last year, they lost to Castle in week 8, then advanced to the 2A state championship game.
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When the midway lights, the sounds of rides, demolition derby cars and the animals hit the Huron County Fairgrounds in about four months, the Huron County Senior Fair Board will have worked countless hours to get the fair ready.
Most recently board members and numerous other volunteers and businesses will have donated their time, services and equipment to make the fairgrounds more inviting. The biggest project on tap this year is making the south parking lot camping area bigger and more inviting. Workers recently have been spending their time upgrading the electric and water within the campground. Up until now, campers only had a power source for 15 amps and now it is being upgraded to 30 amps. The water line supply is also being upgraded to doubling the pipeline. In the past not all the camping spaces had electric and water, now they all will. While they have been upgrading all this they have re-arranged the spaces and parking and have doubled the amount of camping spaces, bringing the available camping to 144 sites.
All the volunteers and companies who have also donated their equipment have made all these improvements possible. Those companies include: Underground Utilities, Smith Paving, and Norwalk Landscape Materials. Fair Board member Gary Opper said members hope to have this project completed by the end of April and the electric to be connected soon after that.
With these improvements also come a cost, Opper said camping spots will increase from $120 to $200 per week.
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Man I was dreading the tank mission after hearing all the grief about it. Then I found that vid on youtube where the guy pulls into the fortress and backs up into the warning you're about to leave the animus message outside the door. Beat it on the first try, I feel like I dodged a bullet on that one. The bullet being probably at least four hours of my life wasted. Did anyone actually beat it the legit way? If so, bravo buddy.
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I tried...I truly did. After 3 hours I gave up and used the youtube method. It's just so monotonous to work through the entire level just to get shot at the very last part. If there was a checkpoint you could restart from when you have the tank I would have absolutely no problem with this level.
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I did, third or fourth try. I am not sure
People had problems with the tank level?
In an internet argument, the biggest telltale sign that you won is your opponent not responding. YGO 5D's FC - 4898-7960-2520 name: Sam
^ They must be talking about getting 100% sync. Cause the level itself isn't hard but avoiding taking damage is a pain in the rear.
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know.
It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
^ That, along with the fact that the part you get 100% on is at the end of the entire mission, so you have to play it over and over again if you fail.
Sometimes, all you've got left is a bullet and a prayer.
Don't miss.
Made it on the second try, just keep circling them.
Oh yea definitely talking about 100% the mission itself is actually fun without that, I'll be honest I never even tried it the legit way just went for the cheap finish and got it on the first try. I'm just sayin whoever went about it the regular way has some big ones, it's a long way to go to get into a battle with two tanks and hopefully not get shot.
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For locals, Olympics humbling in victory, defeat
The U.S. men's archery team, based in Chula Vista for most of the last six years, upset 2000, '04 and '08 gold medalist South Korea in the semifinals and won a silver.
But it wasn't all medals and anthems for training center athletes.
Days after their team silver, all three men's archers crashed out early in the individual competition, including Brady Ellison, ranked No. 1 in the world. The women's field hockey team won just one of six games, including a 7-0 loss to unfancied South Africa, and finished 12th. The United States won three of six medals in BMX cycling in Beijing, and none in London – while Australia's Sam Willoughby, who lives in Chula Vista but wasn't allowed to train on the center's full-scale replica of the London track, got a silver.
It was a similarly mixed bag in the marathon. San Diego High alum Meb Keflezighi ran a masterful men's race at age 37 and finished fourth. Hilltop High's Desiree Davila dropped out of the women's race after two miles with an injury.
Nothing, though, was quite as wrenching as Uceny on the final Friday night of the Games. No U.S. woman has won an Olympic medal in the 1,500, and Uceny was perfectly positioned to change that as the bell sounded.
A year earlier, she fell in the final at the World Championships in South Korea.
Now it was happening again.
"It seemed impossible and unreal," Uceny wrote in an email to the Associated Press. "My emotions just took control and I couldn't do anything but sit there and cry. I was thinking of all the sacrifices I have made and the commitments I made to get to the Olympics, and to have such an opportunity taken away from me felt cruel."
Humbling, indeed.
A look at the 15 athletes with San Diego ties who won medals at the London Olympics.
Felix Sanchez (track): The University City High alum wins his second gold medal for the Dominican Republic in the 400-meter hurdles eight years after his first. Then he bursts into tears on the medal podium, believing the rain drops are tears of happiness from his late grandmother in heaven.
Rachel Buehler (soccer): The central defender from Torrey Pines High and the San Diego Surf club is 26 and already has two gold medals. She was a reserve in 2008 but started every game in London.
Sarah Hammer (track cycling): The Temecula native who cut her teeth at the Balboa Park velodrome returned from Beijing with no medals and a broken collarbone. In London, she won silvers in the team pursuit and individual omnium.
Will Claye (track): Living, breathing proof that the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista can work magic. Claye finished his collegiate career at Florida last year, then moved to the training center in January. He won silver medals in both the long jump and triple jump at age 21.
Men's archery team: Brady Ellison, Jake Kaminski and Jacob Wukie have lived and trained in Chula Vista for most of the last six years, and the work finally paid off with a silver medal. They shocked three-time defending Olympic champion South Korea in the semifinals and came within a point of the gold.


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Product DescriptionAvid's XX Disc Brake is a super lightweight brake that takes the best Avid technologies and eliminates any excess. This includes everything from the lever to the caliper. This includes Avid features like Power Reserve. The Carbon levers pivot point is close to the bars for easy and natural...
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Strengths: strong front break for about a year
Weaknesses: Noise, sponge feel, need bleeding every 4 months in humid climates
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Date Reviewed: October 13, 2014
Strengths: None
Weaknesses: Horrible modulation, serious shutter and noise. Just plain bad!
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Purchased a very high end XC bike that came with them, now further investment must be made to get the thing to slow/stop properly with a proper brake set.
Come on SRAM/Avid you guys can do better than this.
Date Reviewed: September 9, 2014
Strengths: look nice, lightweight, integrated with XX shifters
Weaknesses: 2012 model, came stock on my Scott scale SL. Pressure drops after few hours of use.
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Date Reviewed: September 7, 2014
Strengths: Look Great
Feel nice
Lots of adjustments can be made
Weaknesses: Super noisy
Lots of chattering
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Bottom line, I think that the callipers and brake levers are fine, but their rotors are so F#@$%^G awful! But you pretty much have to use them, it seems!
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Bike Setup: 2008 Trek EX 9.0
Date Reviewed: May 10, 2014
Strengths: It's light, looks cool, reasonably progressive.
Weaknesses: Mechanically it's garbage. Doesn't provide much stopping power especially during wet conditions, squeals, grinds, shudders and makes other sounds we don't have words for wet or dry. The shop has working on them at least 50 times, adjusting, bleeding, whatever, I can't watch them anymore. Out of the box the pads barely worked at all and needed 10 mins of bedding in to provide safe braking. I've had it. I'm taking them back today and getting XTRs.
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Date Reviewed: September 21, 2013
Strengths: Weight
Weaknesses: Bloody noise and shudder.
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Date Reviewed: August 25, 2013
Strengths: Lite weight
Good looking
Weaknesses: Expensive if purchased new
Need a lot of adjustment to get correctly dialled in
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Used to riding shimano hydraulics for ever, and wanted to try Avids product. So far I have mixed reviews. I love their clean lines, weight and adjustability. But am having problems building up pressure to get the fast stopping power I enjoy. Need some more fine tuning to get them right I guess. I try not to mess with the callipers as they are very finicky.
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Bike Setup: Giant Trance x29er frame
XX1 component group
Mavic Crossmax SLR wheels
Time xc carbon 8 pedals
Race face Csix bars
fizik tundra saddle w/ easton heaven carbon seat post
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Date Reviewed: June 28, 2013
Strengths: Light, Sleek styling, Carbon Lever
Weaknesses: NOISE!!!
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Bike Setup: 2013 Specialized S Works EPIC 29er XX
Date Reviewed: April 22, 2013
Strengths: These brakes look really great. They came stock on my S-Works Epic so they go with the entire XX package that came on the bike.
Weaknesses: Adjustments galore, but painful to get them dialed in. I wont remove my front wheel from the fork ever once I get the front to ride rub free or it take me 15-20 minutes to get it back aligned. The pistons appear to stick and are not rugged.
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Bike Setup: 2010 Specialized EPIC S-Works
Date Reviewed: December 20, 2012
Strengths: Avid warranty- They acknowledged issues with this run of brakes a replaced them with 2013 XX model at no charge. They are nice!
Weaknesses: Weak seals led to fluid loss
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Date Reviewed: September 17, 2012
Strengths: Lightweight. Good modulation and power when they're working.
Weaknesses: Poor reliability. Needs bleed several times/year.
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Duration Product Used: 2 years
Similar Products Used: Avid Juicy 7s- NEVER needed bleeding!
Bike Setup: GF Superfly 100 Full XX
Date Reviewed: September 13, 2012
Strengths: Light weight. The carbon lever feels better than metal.
Weaknesses: Expensive. Rear is noisy and barely works.
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Date Reviewed: September 2, 2012
Strengths: You can't mount your dropper shifter and brake on one clamp.
Weaknesses: Pistons stick need to bleed monthly or more. Replaced original under warranty. LBS couldn't bleed them. Second set same problem. Constant bleeding. Really fun when 15 miles out with no rear brake and have 20 miles to go. Front and rear piston occasionally stick.
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Strengths: Weight
Weaknesses: Everthing else
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Date Reviewed: June 26, 2012
Strengths: Good stopping power (when the lever doesn't go to the bar) and light.
Weaknesses: Had them for about a year in which time they were bled 12 times. I found that 20 hours or riding was all that it takes to get air in the system and you then need to have to bleed them again.
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St. Jude Academy is in survival mode
Financial struggle part of national trend confronting Catholic schools
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St. Jude Academy, named for the patron saint of lost causes, is fighting for its life.
The 62-year-old school in the impoverished Southcrest neighborhood of San Diego almost shut down a year ago when it found itself needing $65,000 to finish the semester. Principal Yolanda Minton told her teachers she couldn't guarantee the campus would reopen in the fall and said she would understand if they left for more secure jobs.
"We're always fighting to keep the school open. There is a danger. We need help," Minton said.
Hundreds of urban Catholic schools nationwide have succumbed to the same factors plaguing St. Jude's: the flight to the suburbs of tuition-paying Catholics; increased payroll costs as priests and nuns are replaced by lay teachers; and competition from tuition-free charter schools.
There are 845 fewer Catholic schools in the United States than a decade ago, according to the National Catholic Education Association. An estimated 300,000 students have been displaced since 1990, according to a report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a research group in Washington, D.C.
That's left thousands of families – particularly in urban areas where discontent with public schools is highest – with limited parochial school choices. If St. Jude closes, its educators say, it would be a defeat for the church's mission to educate the poor.
"I hate to see it when only people with money have this option," first-grade teacher Donna Coduti said.
Steve Laaperi, director of schools for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego, said it is important for Catholic schools to thrive.
"Our philosophy reflects that we educate the whole child. Because part of the child is spiritual, that's not something that a public school can address," Laaperi said.
About 16,000 students attend 46 Catholic schools in San Diego County.
Like so many Catholic schools, St. Jude faces a simple economic problem. Enrollment and income are down; costs are up.
Since the heyday of Catholic schooling in the 1950s, many Catholics have moved to the suburbs, leaving financially weakened parishes in their wake.
In some cases, the schools followed. In the past five years, the San Diego diocese has closed high schools in Imperial Beach and Linda Vista and replaced them with schools in the affluent suburbs of Otay Ranch and Carmel Valley.
During those five years, St. Jude's enrollment has shrunk from 270 to 213 in kindergarten through eighth grade. With tuition at nearly $3,000, that amounts to six-figure loss in annual income.
Meanwhile, payroll costs have risen. A poster of St. Jude's faculty from 1950 depicts seven wimpled nuns who worked for a pittance. Nationally, about 10 percent of parochial school teachers were laypeople in 1950. That percentage is now 96 and includes the 11 teachers at St. Jude.
St. Jude's teachers earn $28,000 to $36,000 a year. That's much less than public school teachers – a rookie educator in San Diego Unified School District makes more than $39,000 – but much more than what priests and nuns were paid.


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- 3 tablespoon(s) olive oil
- 2 pound(s) cubed beef stew meat (1 1/4")
- 1 med onion, diced
- 3 clove(s) garlic, minced
- 12 ounce(s) beer (pale lager)
- 3 1/2 cup(s) beef broth
- 2 tablespoon(s) tomato paste
- 1 tablespoon(s) Worcestershire sauce
- 1 1/2 teaspoon(s) sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) paprika
- 8 new potatoes (1 1/2"-2" diameter), quartered
- 4 carrots, sliced diagonally
- 3 tablespoon(s) all-purpose flour
- finely chopped fresh parsley (optional)
- Crusty bread (optional)
- 1. Heat oil in large pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Season beef. Working in 2 batches, brown meat on all sides, 6 minutes. Remove to plate.
- 2. Add onion to pot and reduce heat to low. Cook, stirring, until softened, 3 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, 1 minute.
- 3. Pour in beer. Add broth, tomato paste, Worcestershire, sugar, paprika, 1/2 tsp kosher salt, and pepper to taste.
- 4. Return beef to pot. Simmer until meat is tender, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
- 5. Stir in potatoes and carrots. Simmer until vegetables are tender and meat is very tender, 30 to 40 minutes longer.
- 6. Remove 1 cup of liquid from pot and slowly whisk in flour. Stir back into pot and bring to a gentle boil. Reduce heat and simmer until thickened, 10 minutes. Season. Sprinkle with parsley (if using). Serve with bread, if desired.
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Inter Milan president Moratti: Mourinho is No1
"It's not that I had this planned, but once we were forced to make a change I thought I had to get the No 1 Coach," Moratti said.
"Mourinho is a part of the rise in season ticket sales. There is curiosity, expectation and a greater drive. People are obviously waiting to see what kind of Inter this will be."
A vast number of star names have been linked with the Beneamata, including Deco, Alberto Aquilani and Frank Lampard.
"We have made two lists for the transfer market - mine and Mourinho's," Moratti said with a grin. "Now we will see how we do with uniting the two and we won't have problems.
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It has been a very long road since the announcement in November of 2013 that a preliminary agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of nations had been made on Iran's nuclear technology. There have been extensions along the way and times when a permanent deal appeared imminent along with times when no such deal seemed possible. Despite tremendous pressure from Israel and the neocon lobby who lust after a war with Iran, the outlines for a permanent deal are now in place. What remains is to nail down the details by the June 30 deadline when the extensions of the interim agreement expire. Laura Rozen and Barbara Slavin capture the historic significance of what has been achieved:
We have "found solutions," Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif first proclaimed on Twitter on April 2, "Ready to start drafting immediately."
We have "succeeded in making history," Zarif said at a press conference here April 2. "If we succeed, it is one of the few cases where an issue of significance is solved through diplomatic means."
We have "reached a historic understanding with Iran, which, if fully implemented, will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon," US President Barack Obama said from the White House rose garden after the deal was announced April 2.
What stands out about the agreement is just how much Iran was forced to give up on issues that had been seen by most observers as non-negotiable. Jonathan Landay interviewed a number of nuclear experts on the agreement:
On its face, the framework announced Thursday for an agreement that limits Iran's nuclear program goes further toward preventing Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon than many experts expected it would, including requiring an international inspection system of unprecedented intrusiveness.
The Agreement
The version of the agreement as released by the US can be read here. Let's take a look by sections.
The first section addresses the general concept of uranium enrichment. Although hardliners in the US want all enrichment in Iran stopped, it was clear that Iran would never have agreed to stop. But what has been achieved is staggering. Iran will take two thirds of its existing centrifuges offline. Those centrifuges will be placed in a facility under IAEA inspection, so there is no concern about them winding up in an undisclosed facility. Further, only Iran's original IR-1 centrifuge type will be allowed. That is a huge concession by Iran (everybody knows the IR-1's suck), as they had been developing advanced centrifuges that are much more efficient at enrichment. Many critics of a deal with Iran had suspected that advanced centrifuges would be a route that Iran would use to game any agreement to increase their enrichment capacity if only the number and not the type of centrifuge had been restricted. Further, Iran will not enrich uranium above 3.67% for a period of 15 years. And the stockpile of 3.67% uranium will be reduced by 97%, from 10,000 kg to 300 kg. This reduction also will apply for 15 years. This section also carries an outright statement of targeting a breakout time of 12 months to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb. [But as always, it must be pointed out that merely having enough enriched uranium for a bomb does not make it a bomb. Many steps, some of which there is no evidence Iran has or could develop under intense international scrutiny, would remain for making a bomb.]
The next section of the agreement is titled "Fordo Conversion". Iran's Fordo site is the underground bunker built for uranium enrichment. Iran has agreed not to enrich uranium at Fordo or to have uranium or any other fissile material present for 15 years. While many have advocated a complete shutdown of Fordo, the agreement provides a very elegant alternative. Fordo will now become a research site under IAEA monitoring. Had the site shut down, where would all of the scientists who work there now have gone? By keeping them on-site and under IAEA observation, it strikes me that there is much less concern about those with enrichment expertise slinking into the shadows to build a new undeclared enrichment facility.
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The $250 million in American assistance is to be used to provide food, shelter, medical support, and to restore basic services in Waziristan and the other Federally Administered Tribal Areas, so that the more than 700,000 people who have fled the fighting can return, American officials said. The aid would be redirected from assistance that had already been appropriated for Pakistan.
Of course, even with this repurposing of funds, the US is using it as enticement for what it really wants from Pakistan:
A senior State Department official said before the meetings here that Mr. Kerry would emphasize that Pakistan's crackdown against militants should be extended to the Haqqani network, which has organized attacks in Afghanistan against American and local forces; to Afghan Taliban fighters who have sought refuge in Pakistan; and to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani group that is widely believed to be responsible for the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.
"Part of the secretary's core message will be to ensure that actions are met with a real and sustained effort to constrain the ability of the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Afghan Taliban, and other militants who pose a threat to regional stability and to direct U.S. interests," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in accordance with the agency's procedure for briefing reporters.
To show its gratitude to the US, Pakistan celebrated by hanging seven prisoners during Kerry's visit.
This level of support from the US for Pakistan's displaced population puts US support for refugees from Syria's civil war to shame. While the US pats itself loudly on the back by combining refugee support figures for 2012-2015 to claim a $3 billion commitment, when we look at what has been announced for 2015 (pdf, scroll to page 6), I see only $277 million. Although that is more money for Syrian refugees, there are almost ten times more refugees in the Syrian conflict than in Pakistan. The story above cites 700,000 displaced by current offensive and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre puts the overall figure for Pakistan at around 1.15 million. By comparison, the same group notes 7.6 million internally displaced Syrians and 2.8 million refugees from Syria in surrounding nations. The total is very nearly half of Syria's 21.9 million total population.
If the US provided the same per capita support to Syrian refugees in 2015 as it has pledged for Pakistan, the $250 million for 1.1 million Pakistani refugees would become approximately $2.4 billion. Given the dire conditions in Syrian refugee camps this winter, such a commitment would be vital, but don't look for it anytime soon.
Approximately 358 days ago, I wrote a post titled,
Yup, John Brennan Rolled DiFi on the Torture Report
In it, I predicted,
Since I was right about John Brennan being completely untrustworthy about bringing an open mind to the evidence presented in the Torture Report, let me make another prediction based on this detail.
Committee aides said the panel hoped to finish work on an updated version of the report, taking note of CIA comments, by the end of the year. The committee could then vote to request declassification, which would allow the public to see the report, or at least parts of it.
What's going to happen is the SSCI will water down the report, ignoring the clear implications of the evidence, in hopes of getting support for declassification. The Republicans on the committee, at least, still won't vote to declassify it. Some section of the watered-down report will be released. And the historical record on torture will not reflect the clear evidence in the documentary record.
Dianne Feinstein could, of course, move to declassify the report in its current state.
But she won't do that, and John Brennan knows it. You see, he knows DiFi wants to be loved by the spooks she oversees, and they could care less what she thinks of them, so long as they continue to hide the true nature of their organizations. And her desire to be loved by those she oversees makes her an easy mark.
When that post said, "by the end of the year"? That meant last year. 2013.
Didn't happen.
Meanwhile, in recent days, we've learned that Brennan prevailed on one of the key fights between CIA and SSCI, succeeding in having the pseudonyms of pseudonyms redacted so we can't track all the things Alfreda Bikowsky did, beyond the torture tourism we know she engaged in and the torture she subjected an innocent Khalid el-Masri to, before she got several more promotions at CIA.
And while I think today's report, confirming that "Yup, John Brennan Rolled DiFi on the Torture Report," adds another dynamic — that of CIA and the President and State publicly making clear that Dianne Feinstein will bear responsibility for any backlash over the revelations in the Torture Report, I think Brennan is still doing a victory lap.
Secretary of State John Kerry personally phoned Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Friday morning to ask her to delay the imminent release of her committee's report on CIA torture and rendition during the George W. Bush administration, according to administration and Congressional officials.
"What he raised was timing of report release, because a lot is going on in the world — including parts of the world particularly implicated — and wanting to make sure foreign policy implications were being appropriately factored into timing," an administration official told me. "He had a responsibility to do so because this isn't just an intel issue — it's a foreign policy issue."
"That's a nice Torture Report you've got there, Dianne," these men seem to be saying, "and we'll happily take credit for your work. Unless something bad happens in which case expect us to throw you to the wolves."
CIA (and NSA) always get Congress to back off oversight with threats like this — kudos to Senator Feinstein for remaining committed to releasing the report.
It's just really really frustrating that we are here, a year later, with the men in charge still levying these kinds of threats. If the torture CIA did will cause blowback, then that's CIA's fault, George Bush's fault. Dick Cheney's fault.
On April 23, 1971, John Kerry, speaking as a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and famously posed the question "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?". On December 2, 2014, Kerry, in his capacity as US Secretary of State, convened a meeting of Foreign Ministers of countries allied against ISIS. Sadly, the wisdom of 1971 John Kerry was completely lost on 2014 John Kerry, as the meeting in Brussels was aimed entirely at making war on ISIS without regard for the residents of the region who will bear the brunt of the new violence and who have faced severe hardships for years as a result of US meddling in the region. Kerry's plan shows no regard for the hard evidence that exists showing that the approach being taken by the US has failed many times over since the failure in Vietnam which he so forcefully described.
Kerry's description of the shortcomings of the approach in Vietnam resonates with the current failed approach by the US in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and beyond:
We found that not only was it a civil war, an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever, but also we found that the Vietnamese whom we had enthusiastically molded after our own image were hard put to take up the fight against the threat we were supposedly saving them from.
We found most people didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and tearing their country apart. They wanted everything to do with the war, particularly with this foreign presence of the United States of America, to leave them alone in peace, and they practiced the art of survival by siding with whichever military force was present at a particular time, be it Viet Cong, North Vietnamese or American.
Kerry pointed out in 1971 that residents of an area under siege by invaders often choose to side with whatever force is there in order to survive. But in 2014, Kerry is pushing the US effort to "vet", train and equip "moderate" fighters to take on ISIS while the US provides air support. How long will these fighters be on "our" side?
And, of course, a very distorted view of the effort gets presented at home, then as now:
We saw Vietnam ravaged equally by American bombs and search and destroy missions, as well as by Viet Cong terrorism – and yet we listened while this country tried to blame all of the havoc on the Viet Cong.
If we look just at Syria, it is clear that those outside the US see US meddling behind the "uprising" against al-Assad. From a 2012 Christian Science Monitor article:
In an empty coffee house in Antakya, local tradesman Ahmet Sari's face crumples in anger as he speaks about Syria.
"What's happening in Syria is all part of America's great project to reshape the borders of the Middle East. America and its allies don't care about bringing democracy to the Syrian people. Look at what happened to Iraq!" he fumes. "The imperialist countries are only after oil and mineral resources."
And many say that all of these problems can be traced back to the US, who they are convinced got involved with, and perhaps even fomented, the Syrian unrest to loosen up regional powers' grip on oil, enlisting Turkey as a pawn in the process. It had little to do with support for democracy, they believe.
People in Turkey, who already were dealing with the influx of refugees two years ago, clearly saw a very similar situation in Syria as Kerry saw in Vietnam in 1971. And now, the problems in Turkey are much worse, as the needs of refugees have completely overwhelmed the capacity of relief organizations to help.
We know for a fact that funding and arming rebels almost never works, as the CIA found when reviewing its own efforts on that front. Rather than taking that clear piece of information and trying a new approach based on directly helping the people of the region rather than destabilizing it, the US chose instead to grasp at the last straw from the CIA study that said those few times arming rebels works it has been with "direct American support on the ground". So rather than accept that their approach is a failure, the warmongers in Washington now think that US air support for the anti-ISIS efforts is a bare minimum and that "boots on the ground" will be needed for a "win".
And when it comes to "training", of course the US has failed miserably on that front every time it has tried. But we will just keep on doing it, because that's all Washington can come up with.
And even if we should "win", holding onto ground gained is impossible, as Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis has so devastatingly noted in his piercing of the myth of US superiority in its counterinsurgency program.
The contrast of 2014 John Kerry with 1971 John Kerry is brought into clear view with this part of Kerry's opening statement to his war council yesterday: Continue reading
I must confess that I repeatedly put off writing this post. Similarly, the P5+1 countries and Iran now have repeatedly put off finalizing a deal that assures the West that Iran's nuclear program has no chance to quickly move to a nuclear weapon. I had been operating under the assumption that a final deal would be announced at the November 24 deadline. After all, everything seemed aligned to make a deal seem necessary for both sides. Iran's economy has been reeling under sanctions for years, but Rouhani's push for "moderation" had silenced hardliners in his country who see any deal as capitulation. How long Rouhani can hold them back, however, seems to be the biggest mystery. Barack Obama has been waging war seemingly all over the planet, so a deal to avoid another one would be a huge accomplishment for him. And with a new Republican majority set to take over the Senate, meddling by Senate hawks is assured.
But no agreement was reached on Monday's deadline. Even worse, rumblings that at least a "framework" would be announced also proved to be false. In fact, the framework target is now four months away, with another three months built in to iron out the technical details within that framework.
Jeffrey Lewis sees this long timeframe as delusion:
One wonders what the parties are thinking. Is there any reason to believe that this problem will be easier to solve in four months' time? Is there any reason to think that, in fact, the parties have four months? Allow me to be the bearer of two items of bad news.
First, the 114th Congress will pass new sanctions legislation. This year, the White House held off the Menendez-Kirk sanctions bill in the Senate by the narrowest of margins. (The House passing sanctions is a formality at this point.) Proponents had the votes — 60 co-sponsors, including 16 Democrats — but then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refused to let it come to the floor.
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won't be so accommodating.
Second, Iran is continuing research and development on a new generation of centrifuges. A few weeks ago, there was a minor kerfuffle when the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran was test-feeding a new centrifuge under development called the IR-5. The issue was that Iran had not previously fed uranium hexafluoride into that type of machine. The Iranians denied this was a violation. (The definitive answer depends on "technical understandings" in the implementation agreement that the EU will not make public.)
With another extension, though, Iran is free to continue its R&D work on new generations of centrifuges — including resuming testing of the IR-5 and eventually the IR-8.
Oh, yes, the IR-8. The IR-5 is a prelude to this much bigger problem. Iran has declared a new centrifuge model called the IR-8 to the IAEA. (One of these bad boys is sitting at the "pilot" enrichment facility, saying, "Feed me, Seymour.") The IR-8 is about 16 times more capable than the existing centrifuge types installed at the Natanz fuel enrichment plant.
Even the New York Times editorial page sees the situation as desperate, with extremists starting to salivate over the mayhem they can cause: Continue reading
Remember when the George W. Bush campaign and the Republican Party was attacking John Kerry during the 2004 campaign over comments where they construed as him saying that terrorism is a police matter? Here's a refresher:
Bush campaign Chairman Marc Racicot, in an appearance on CNN's "Late Edition," interpreted Kerry's remarks as saying "that the war on terrorism is like a nuisance. He equated it to prostitution and gambling, a nuisance activity. You know, quite frankly, I just don't think he has the right view of the world. It's a pre-9/11 view of the world."
Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie, on CBS' "Face the Nation," used similar language.
"Terrorism is not a law enforcement matter, as John Kerry repeatedly says. Terrorist activities are not like gambling. Terrorist activities are not like prostitution. And this demonstrates a disconcerting pre-September 11 mindset that will not make our country safer. And that is what we see relative to winning the war on terror and relative to Iraq."
The Institute for Economics and Peace, a nonpartisan think tank in Australia, just issued its latest Global Terrorism Index. Buried deep in the report (pdf), on page 56, is this figure in which they summarize data from a RAND Corporation report:
The figure summarizes RAND Corporation findings from a study of 40 years of data on terrorist groups and how the terror activities of those groups come to an end. Despite the gargantuan US Great War on Terror with its trillions of dollars wasted and hundreds of thousands of people killed, only seven percent of the time when a terrorist group ends its activities is that due to them being defeated militarily. In fact, since they cease ten percent of the time due to achieving their goals, it can be argued that a military approach alone makes it more likely the terrorists will win than lose. The leading way for terrorist groups to cease their activities is for them to become a part of the political process, at forty-three percent. And gosh, it turns out that Kerry was correct, because police action (which in this study means "policing and intelligence agencies breaking up the group and either arresting or killing key members") was the cause forty percent of the time when terrorist groups stop using terror. Oh, and adding further to the importance of policing, the report also states elsewhere that homicide accounts for forty times more deaths globally than terrorism.
As we saw in a previous report on the Global Terrorism Index, once again the countries in which the US GWOT is most active are those that have the worst ratings for terrorism. The list is headed by Iraq, with Afghanistan in the second position, Pakistan third and Syria fifth.
Not only are the countries where the US is actively militarily at the top of the index, the timeline of terror attacks provides a very strong correlation for the jump in global terror activity being triggered by the US invasion of Iraq in 2003:
The timeline seems to suggest that terror attacks were going back down after the 9/11 large event, but then took off after the US invaded Iraq.
Not only should the US learn from this report that the "military only" approach to terrorism is dead wrong, but there are warnings that the US should heed about domestic conditions as well. Here is how the study assesses the risk for future terrorism events:
Using terrorist incidents and events data dating back to 1970 and comparing it to over 5,000 socio-economic, political and conflict indicators, three groups of factors related to terrorist activity have been identified. Countries that are weak on these factors and do not have high levels of terrorism are assessed as being at risk.
The correlations section of this report details the most significant socio-economic correlates with terrorism. There are three groups of factors:
Social hostilities between different ethnic, religious and linguistic groups, lack of intergroup cohesion and group grievances.
Measures of state repression such as extrajudicial killings, political terror and gross human rights abuses.
Other forms of violence such violent crime, organised conflict deaths and violent demonstrations.
It sure sounds to me like a lot those boxes get checked when we start talking about what is going on in Ferguson, Missouri.
Back in September, I called the final agreement between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah a graft-sharing agreement when it paved the way for Ghani to take office as President while Abdullah would assume the extra-constitutional and John Kerry-created role of Chief Executive Officer. An arbitrary deadline of 45 days had been set for establishing the new cabinet based on the divvying-up of departments under the September agreement. However, as with everything in this painful process, the deadline has passed and there is scant evidence of progress.
ToloNews summarizes the situation:
The 45-day period President Ashraf Ghani hoped it would take to form the new cabinet ended on Thursday without an announcement of appointments. The spokesman for Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah said that while full agreement on the look of the government's top leadership remains elusive, at least some of the cabinet will be formed prior to the London Conference in early December.
Though the spokesperson for the CEO and those close to the president have indicated the negotiations over the National Unity Government's cabinet have been time-consuming and arduous, they have disputed rumors that there are major disagreements.
Ghani and Abdullah were said to have had a long meeting Wednesday night, perhaps in hopes of making a last-minute deal before the deadline expired, but concluded it without any suggestion of progression.
After quoting a few more sources providing a rosy picture of "progress" toward developing a cabinet, the article ends with this:
Other sources on condition of anonymity have said that there are still serious differences between Ghani and Abdullah over the new cabinet and so far the two sides have only agreed on general power sharing principles.
That doesn't sound very promising at all.
At the New York Times, Rod Nordland adds to the pessimism:
Some Western diplomats are worried that continued disagreements between Mr. Ghani and his election rival, Abdullah Abdullah, in forming a unity government could push completion of a cabinet to the end of the year or beyond. That is a troubling state of affairs after a protracted election that had already consumed most of the rest of the year.
One diplomat thought that even seating a cabinet by year's end was optimistic. "By the end of which year?" he said, "Gregorian or Persian?" The Persian year, which Afghanistan uses, ends on March 20.
Given the history of the electoral battle between Ghani and Abdullah, I wonder if even March is too optimistic. Perhaps in June John Kerry will put a cabinet in place by decree…
Over the weekend, the NYT had a story reporting the "conspiracy theory" popular among Iraqis that the US is behind ISIS.
The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories still circulating from the streets of Baghdad to the highest levels of Iraqi government that the C.I.A. is secretly behind the same extremists that it is now attacking.
"We know about who made Daesh," said Bahaa al-Araji, a deputy prime minister, using an Arabic shorthand for the Islamic State on Saturday at a demonstration called by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr to warn against the possible deployment of American ground troops. Mr. Sadr publicly blamed the C.I.A. for creating the Islamic State in a speech last week, and interviews suggested that most of the few thousand people at the demonstration, including dozens of members of Parliament, subscribed to the same theory.
The prevalence of the theory in the streets underscored the deep suspicions of the American military's return to Iraq more than a decade after its invasion, in 2003. The casual endorsement by a senior official, though, was also a pointed reminder that the new Iraqi government may be an awkward partner for the American-led campaign to drive out the extremists.
It suggests the theory arises from lingering suspicions tied to our occupation of Iraq.
But, given the publicly available facts, is the theory so crazy?
Let me clear: I am not saying the US currently backs ISIS, as the NYT's headline but not story suggests is the conspiracy theory. Nor am I saying the US willingly built a terrorist state that would go on to found a caliphate in Iraq.
But it is a fact that the US has had a covert op since at least June 2013 funding Syrian opposition groups, many of them foreign fighters, in an effort to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. Chuck Hagel confirmed as much in Senate testimony on September 3, 2013 (the NYT subsequently reported that President Obama signed the finding authorizing the op in April 2013, but did not implement it right away). We relied on our Saudi and Qatari partners as go-betweens in that op and therefore relied on them to vet the recipient groups.
At least as Steve Clemons tells it, in addition to the more "moderate" liver-eaters in the Free Syrian Army, the Qataris were (are?) funding Jabhat al-Nusra, whereas Saudi prince Bandar bin Sultan gets credit for empowering ISIS — which is one of the reasons King Abdullah took the Syria portfolio away from him.
McCain was praising Prince Bandar bin Sultan, then the head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence services and a former ambassador to the United States, for supporting forces fighting Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria. McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham had previously met with Bandar to encourage the Saudis to arm Syrian rebel forces.
But shortly after McCain's Munich comments, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah relieved Bandar of his Syrian covert-action portfolio, which was then transferred to Saudi Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. By mid-April, just two weeks after President Obama met with King Abdullah on March 28, Bandar had also been removed from his position as head of Saudi intelligence—according to official government statements, at "his own request." Sources close to the royal court told me that, in fact, the king fired Bandar over his handling of the kingdom's Syria policy and other simmering tensions, after initially refusing to accept Bandar's offers to resign.
ISIS, in fact, may have been a major part of Bandar's covert-ops strategy in Syria. The Saudi government, for its part, has denied allegations, including claims made by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, that it has directly supported ISIS. But there are also signs that the kingdom recently shifted its assistance—whether direct or indirect—away from extremist factions in Syria and toward more moderate opposition groups.
The worry at the time, punctuated by a February meeting between U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice and the intelligence chiefs of Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, and others in the region, was that ISIS and al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra had emerged as the preeminent rebel forces in Syria. The governments who took part reportedly committed to cut off ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra, and support the FSA instead. But while official support from Qatar and Saudi Arabia appears to have dried up, non-governmental military and financial support may still be flowing from these countries to Islamist groups.
Thus, to the extent that we worked with Bandar on a covert op to create an opposition force to overthrow Assad, we may well have had an indirect hand in its creation. That doesn't mean we wanted to create ISIS. It means we are led by the nose by the Saudis generally and were by Bandar specifically, in part because we are so reliant on them for our HUMINT in such matters. Particularly given Saudi support for Sunnis during our Iraq occupation, can you fault Iraqis for finding our tendency to get snookered by the Saudis suspect?
Moreover, our ongoing actions feed such suspicions. Consider the way the Administration is asking for Congressional sanction (at least in the form of funding) for an escalated engagement in the region, without first briefing Congress on the stupid things it has been doing covertly for the last 18 months?
NBC News' Ann Curry interviewed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday in her second extended interview with him. She had been the first Westerner to interview Rouhani after his election. Remarkably, the story put up by NBC on their website to accompany the video seen above did not mention the part of the interview that Mehr News chose to highlight in Iran. From Mehr News:
Iran's president has denounced ISIL terrorist group for its savagery and said US presence in the region has exacerbates [sic] the terrorism crisis since 2001.
That comment about US presence in the region exacerbating the terrorism crisis appears nowhere in the NBC article. The article does, however carry Rouhani's accusation that the US approach to fighting ISIS is cowardly:
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in an exclusive interview with NBC News' Ann Curry, denounced ISIS for its savagery but also branded the U.S.-led coalition against the terror group as "ridiculous." Speaking from the presidential palace in Tehran ahead of his visit to the United Nations, Rouhani questioned President Obama's decision to go after ISIS with airstrikes.
"Are Americans afraid of giving casualties on the ground in Iraq? Are they afraid of their soldiers being killed in the fight they claim is against terrorism?" Rouhani said.
"If they want to use planes and if they want to use unmanned planes so that nobody is injured from the Americans, is it really possible to fight terrorism without any hardship, without any sacrifice? Is it possible to reach a big goal without that? In all regional and international issues, the victorious one is the one who is ready to do sacrifice.
Rouhani's accusation that the US wants to carry out this fight without sacrifices seems to be a very accurate description of the approach by the Obama Administration.
Further evidence for the "ridiculous" charge comes in this Huffington Post story about a Congressional briefing on US strategy:
One Democratic member of Congress said that the CIA has made it clear that it doubts the possibility that the administration's strategy could succeed.
"I have heard it expressed, outside of classified contexts, that what you heard from your intelligence sources is correct, because the CIA regards the effort as doomed to failure," the congressman said in an email. "Specifically (again without referring to classified information), the CIA thinks that it is impossible to train and equip a force of pro-Western Syrian nationals that can fight and defeat Assad, al-Nusra and ISIS, regardless of whatever air support that force may receive."
He added that, as the CIA sees it, the ramped-up backing of rebels is an expansion of a strategy that is already not working. "The CIA also believes that its previous assignment to accomplish this was basically a fool's errand, and they are well aware of the fact that many of the arms that they provided ended up in the wrong hands," the congressman said, echoing intelligence sources.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, already in New York for the beginning of talks on the nuclear deal and the opening of the UN General Assembly, told NPR that he still favors a deal with the P5+1 group of nations:
On the subject of negotiations over Iran's nuclear weapons program, Zarif said all the "wrong options" have already been tried and that "we are ready" for an agreement.
Zarif is fully cognizant of the forces allied against reaching a deal, though:
"The only problem is how this could be presented to some domestic constituencies, primarily in the United States but also in places in Europe," because "some are not interested in any deal," he said.
"If they think any deal with Iran is a bad idea, there is no amount of — I don't want to call it concession — no amount of assurance that is inherent in any deal because they are not interested in a deal, period," Zarif said.
In sharp contrast with what U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other political leaders have said about no deal being better than a bad one, Zarif said: "I think if you compare any deal with no deal, it's clear that a deal is much preferable."
Gosh, considering how the US is working closely with anti-Iran groups, even to the point of interfering in lawsuits to prevent disclosure of how the government shares state secrets with them, Zarif seems to have a very clear grasp of the problem a deal faces.
Despite his harsh comments about the US (and harsh comments about ISIS, as well), Rouhani also held out hope that the P5+1 final agreement can be reached.
Reuters carries a hopeful headline this morning, "Afghan rivals said close to ending feud on how to share power", where they inform us that the elusive power sharing agreement between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah may finally be reached tonight:
Afghanistan's rival presidential candidates may reach a deal on how to share power late on Tuesday, according to Afghan and Western officials, potentially ending months of tension over the outcome of a run-off election held in June.
The struggle to find a successor to President Hamid Karzai, who has held power since the Islamist Taliban were ousted in 2001, has destabilized Afghanistan and paralyzed its economy just as most foreign troops withdraw.
There clearly is a push to say that a resolution of the crisis is close. ToloNews claims that a meeting last night between the candidates hosted by Hamid Karzai "went well, and both men were said to have reaffirmed their commitments to resolving their differences and reaching an agreement soon". However, reading further in the article, we see that fundamental differences remain:
Both teams have confirmed that the candidates have discussed a new plan for the national unity government they agreed to form back in August following meetings with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. According to Abdullah's camp, the two campaigns have agreed that the Chief Executive will serve as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
"An agreement has been made on one of the disputed points regarding whether the Chief Executive will also serve as Chairman of Council of Ministers," Abdullah spokesman Syed Aqa Fazel Sancharaki said Monday.
Meanwhile, the Ghani campaign has maintained that the elected president will serve as head of government and Chairman of the Council of Ministers. "The presidential order will certify the job descriptions of the Chief Executive and his vices and the elected president will be head of the government and Chairman of Council of Ministers," Ghani spokesman Faizullah Zaki said on Monday.
To underline just how farcical the entire process of "auditing" the runoff vote ballots became, another ToloNews article this morning is stunning in its open admission of how widespread fraud was in the election. The Independent Election Commission announced that results from 1028 polling places have been rejected in the audit process:
During the announcement, IEC acknowledged the fact that the June 14 run-off elections witnessed massive frauds.
"There was wide-scale fraud by security forces, governors and IEC employees," a commissioner for the IEC, Azizullah Bakhtyari, admitted. "Clearly, most of the fraud happened in coordination with IEC employees."
Bakhtyari hopes that the audit process will re-establish people's trust in the election process.
"The audit helped us recognize the employees responsible for the fraud that took place at the 1,028 polling sites," he said. "Clearly, we will take action against them for harming the public's trust in the electoral institution."
Wow. So security forces, governors and IEC employees all took part in the fraud? Those are the very people who were supposed to assure voters that the process would be fair and impartial. But don't get the impression that this admission and the tossing of results from 1028 polling stations will change anything. Although that sounds like a lot of votes being tossed, keep in mind that there were around 22,000 polling stations, so this move will have very little impact on the final vote tally.
What is clear is that this final adjusted vote tally will have to be announced soon. What is not clear is whether Abdullah will accept the result that is certain to say that he lost. Just how he and his supporters react to the final announcement will be the most important decision in Afghanistan's fate over the next few years.


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