Dawn.com US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. — Reuters photo JERUSALEM: Israel’s relationship with the United States, a defining feature of the troubled Middle East, was under severe strain as diplomats scrambled on Saturday to save newborn US-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians. A senior US official predicted “a dicey period here in the next couple days to a couple of weeks” as Palestinians demanded the reversal of a new Israeli settlement plan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, which includes pro-settler parties, reacts to unusually blunt criticism from Washington. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Israel’s behaviour “insulting” … Continue reading ‘Insulted’ by Israel, US scrambles to save talks

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Undercover with Britain’s violent Left: Amazing story of how Special Branch officer infiltrated anti-racist groups By Sophie Freeman the dailymail.co.uk A Metropolitan Police officer has told how he routinely engaged in violence while working undercover among British anti-racist groups. The man, known only as Officer A, was a member of the Special Demonstration Squad, a secret unit within the Met’s Special Branch with a remit to prevent violent public disorder on the streets of London. In order to maintain his cover, Officer A became involved in violence against members of the public and uniformed police officers. Protest: The National Front … Continue reading Special Branch officer infiltrated anti-racist groups

Posted by Zeresh In 1997, Demi Moore played a rough and tough female soldier in the movie G.I Jane. Well, it’s time for G.I. Jane to make way for the real life terrorist Jihad Jane, a blonde, blue-eyed American woman from Pennsylvania. You just can’t make such stuff up. Colleen LaRose was arrested in October 2009 in connection with a plot to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilk. LaRose, popularly known as Jihad Jane, is the third woman to have been charged in the US with terror violations in recent years. However, her plans to “scare the nonbelievers into submission” by … Continue reading Jihad Jane to the rescue

Jihad Jamie: Racial profiling under scrutiny after second white Islamist arrested US citizen Jamie Paulin-Ramirez detained in connection with alleged conspiracy to kill Danish cartoonist Daniel Nasaw in Washington and Henry MacDonald, Ireland correspondent guardian.co.uk, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez. Photograph: AP The use of racial profiling as a counterterrorism tool has been fatally undermined after a second white American woman was arrested over an alleged Islamist murder plot, critics of the policy said today. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, a nursing student from Colorado, was detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged conspiracy to kill a Danish cartoonist. News of her arrest came … Continue reading Are we going to profile white blond women as potential terrorists now?

Comment is free In search of the real Pakistan With extremism on the rise, it is more important than ever to support the tolerant, peaceful elements of Pakistani society Amil Khan guardian.co.uk A different side of Pakistani society … Labourers decorate a mosque in Islamabad. Photograph: Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images What exactly is Pakistan all about? The international media will tell you it’s one of the most dangerous places on earth, beset by sectarian warfare and religious extremism. Well-heeled Pakistanis beg to differ. Their country, they say, is made up of an irrepressible population that likes to buy the latest fashions, … Continue reading It is more important than ever to support the tolerant, peaceful elements of Pakistani society

Penguin couple pose for photograph A pair of penguins appear to have posed for their picture to be taken by photographer Adam Foster. telegraphy.co.uk Photographer Adam Foster, 23, was visiting Chester Zoo when he noticed the birds and they appeared to pose Photo: ADAM FOSTER / CATERS NEWS The Humboldt penguins – which often mate for life – caught the eye of Adam as they stood lovingly grooming one another. As he approached to photograph the male and female bird almost appeared to know what was coming. Related Articles New photos of Beatles’ John Lennon appear after 40 years Zebra … Continue reading Penguin couple pose for photograph – serious!

Taliban distancing themselves from Al Qaeda: experts By Anwar Iqbal The Taliban were declining to provide shelter or assist in attacks in Afghanistan even in return for payment. — Photo by AP WASHINGTON: The blasts in Lahore are the last desperate measures of pro-Al Qaeda militants who are now being abandoned by the Taliban, diplomatic sources told Dawn. The sources also confirmed a Los Angeles Times report, published on Saturday, that the Taliban militants in Fata were now refusing to collaborate with Al Qaeda fighters. The Taliban were declining to provide shelter or assist in attacks in Afghanistan even in … Continue reading Al Qaeda and Taliban ruptures in Pakistan

Glory, piety and politics Nadeem F. Paracha dawn.com With Pakistan’s two main political parties looking exhausted by being made to play a continuous game of cat and mouse with the establishment, the new generation of young Pakistanis began to look elsewhere. — Photo by AFP Many young Pakistanis, who in their reactionary worldview cannot relate to the conventional make-up of the long-bearded and mullah-looking hawkers of intransigent ideas, have found their man in the dashing (Che Guevara-meets-Saladin) shape of Zaid Hamid. But this phenomenon does not begin or end with Mr Hamid. Back in the early 1990s the army and … Continue reading Pakistans new trendy sexy mullahs!

Why West fears theft of our nuclear assets By Shahid R. Siddiqi the dawn.com The western media and commentators raise doubts about Pakistan being a viable state, the possibility of its nuclear weapons falling into terrorists’ hands and A.Q. Khan episode being repeated. — Photo by AP In August 2007, USAF lost track of six Cruise Missiles armed with 150-kiloton nuclear warheads for 36 hours. These were loaded onto a B-52 Bomber at USAF base in North Dakota, were improperly and illegally flown around the continental US and were eventually discovered at a USAF base in Louisiana. It is illegal … Continue reading US and Pakistan – who lost nuclear weapons?