This is from ANI in India
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II would be forced to wear a burkha under sharia law, radical Muslim campaigners said.
‘The Daily Express’ quoted Abu Rumaysah, spokesman for pro-sharia campaigners Islam4UK, as saying that she would also be stripped of all authority and the monarchy would be abolished under the sharia system they want to impose on Britain.
They have already said that Buckingham Palace would be renamed `Buckingham Mosque’.

According to Pakistan Daily: “Former president Gen. (Retd) Pervez Musharraf is to launch his political career in earnest in December this year, confirmed sources close to him.”
In another report harshly critical of President Asif Ali Zardari’s administration entitled: A Confused Pakistani Government says, “A traumatized nation watches its confused leaders make contradictory statements on the university attack and the Kerry-Lugar bill.”
WITH an ongoing military operation and rampant terrorism across the country, the first priority for the government should have been to establish clarity of purpose and strategy. Unfortunately, that is …

“If we are going to have a mature partnership where we work together” then “there are issues that not just the United States but others have with your government and with your military security establishment,” Clinton was quoted telling senior Pakistani journalists in Lahore. “I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they (al Qaeda leaders) are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” she said.

Erdogan said that Turkey’s foreign policy is based on friendship with other countries and not having any enemies.

Latest on the War on Terror– oops — overseas contingency operations.
KABUL – Taliban militants wearing suicide vests and police uniforms stormed a guest house used by U.N. staff in the heart of the Afghan capital early Wednesday, killing 12 people — including six U.N. staff. It was the biggest in a series of attacks intended to undermine next month’s presidential runoff election.
A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the early morning assaults, which also included rocket attacks at the presidential palace and the city’s main luxury hotel.
The chief of the United …

The Taliban have warned Pakistan that they would stage more attacks if the army does not end a new ground offensive in South Waziristan tribal region, where the military has dispatched some 30,000 troops to flush out insurgents. South Waziristan is a major base for the Pakistani Taliban and other foreign militants.

Today eight American troops died in two separate bomb attacks in South Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the war for U.S. forces since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban. Brigadier General (R) Anthony J. Tata at Biggovernment.com writes about the cost of President Obama’s indecision in Afghanistan.
While the Obama violinists’ supple wrists magically fiddle with their bows, the firefights continue in Afghanistan. General Stan McChrystal’s thorough assessment requesting 60,000-40,000 additional troops is now over seven weeks old and the Obama administration’s duplicity is becoming more evident by …

Earlier this year, the ICC issued a warrant of arrest for Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, President of Sudan for war crimes and crimes against humanity. “He is suspected of being criminally responsible, as an indirect (co-)perpetrator, for intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, Sudan, murdering, exterminating, raping, torturing and forcibly transferring large numbers of civilians, and pillaging their property. This is the first warrant of arrest ever issued for a sitting Head of State by the ICC.” He remains free today.
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Happening now.
Today on what was “one of the deadliest days for US troops,” according to the US military, where 14 American warriors lost their lives in a series of helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, Senator John Kerry spoke before a live audience at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC to give the “congressional perspective on US policy and the current situation in the region.” I am on the media call-in line.
“I believe his (General Stanley the situation the Obama Administration inherited from the previous administration in what he called …

Judith Miller reports on the corruption within and the dire consequences to national security.

Last year, FBI officials tell me, the Bureau worked on nearly 2,500 public corruption cases and convicted more than 700 dishonest public servants throughout the nation. Most of them were unrelated to the cartels, and Special Agent Abbott, of the FBI’s criminal branch in El Paso, says that only 15 to 30 of his region’s cases so far have involved drug-related corruption among law enforcement officials. “But given the damage that can be done by just one …

Judith Miller writes at City Journal how twenty-six years after the Beirut bombing, the struggle against militant Islam continues.
… That night, I interviewed a Marine who had been guarding the entry post and who remembered only one thing about the driver of the Mercedes that had rammed through the compound’s concrete barriers: the young man with a beard, who turned out to be a 24-year-old Shiite Muslim, was smiling.
On October 23, 1983, 241 Marines, sailors, and soldiers died in the first mass suicide bombing attack—the largest single-day loss of life …

The latest on documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari.
On Oct. 17, the regime let Bahari out on bail almost as suddenly as it had arrested him, and with almost as little explanation. Through his months in solitary confinement, he had never once been allowed to see a lawyer, although he was pushed in front of government television cameras to confess that he had inadvertently helped to promote a “velvet revolution” against the Islamic Republic in the wake of the bitterly contested June 12 elections that returned President Mahmoud …

Read with caution, not confirmed.
For first time Iran and Isreal admit that they have had talks about Iran’s nuclear programme. 27 minutes ago from TweetDeck
I think we just distract ourselves worry abt wht US is doing abt Human Rights in Iran. As Iranians we have 2 solve ths problem
RT @jocarva: RT @LATimes: Draft agreement on transfer of uranium reache with Iran
RT @persianbanoo: Mohamad Hassan Bari(25) & Ali Alami(35) have been moved from Gohardash prison to Evin for execution
3000 students protesting at Azad …

The United Nations, Amnesty International and Oxfam International are pleased.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.
The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush’s administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton …

The Iranian regime sends protestor to prison for 12 years.
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran ignored appeals by Hillary Rodham Clinton and even rock star Sting and sentenced an Iranian-American academic to 12 years in prison Tuesday for his alleged role in anti-government protests after the country’s disputed presidential election.
The sentence for Kian Tajbakhsh was the longest prison term yet in a mass trial of more than 100 opposition figures, activists and journalists in the postelection turmoil.
At the same time, Iran allowed another defendant to leave the country — Canadian-Iranian Maziar Bahari, …

Latest on the war in Pakistan.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taliban militants attacked Pakistani forces and recaptured a strategic town on Tuesday while two suicide bomb blasts at an Islamic university in the capital killed four people and wounded at least 20, officials said.
The army on Monday captured the small town of Kotkai, the birthplace of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud on the approach to an insurgent base in south Waziristan, but militants struck back on Tuesday to retake it, security officials said.
The fighting for control of …

Peter Bergen reports a sobering read at the New Republic about the state of affairs in Afghanistan. Winning in Afghanistan is critical to defeating Al Qaeda.
And yet, as President Obama weighs whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan, the connection between the region and Al Qaeda has suddenly become a matter of hot dispute in Washington. We are told that September 11 was as much a product of plotting in Hamburg as in Afghanistan; that Al Qaeda and the Taliban are quite distinct groups, and that we can …

She was even described as “a wee bit silly” for claiming greater credit than was her due for the Irish peace process, having made several visits to Northern Ireland as First Lady.