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Thank you Sir!

executinal: U.S. Likely to Expand Drone Attacks to Nigeria Says Leon Panetta, U.S. Defence Secretary.

(CNN) -- Four years ago, John Brennan withdrew from consideration for C.I.A. director because of his leadership role there while serious human rights violations were occurring, including waterboarding and secret detention. Mr. Brennan has said he regrets these practices. Yet he moved from the CIA to the White House, where he began to support a practice many consider worse than torture: targeted killing.

Brennan has been a champion and defender of attacks by C.I.A. drones that have killed thousands of people, including hundreds of children, far from any battlefield. These killings have occurred in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has recently said the killing is likely to expand to Libya, Mali and Nigeria.

Panetta, Brennan and others in the Obama administration defended these lawless killings the same way the Bush administration justified the unlawful treatment of detainees. Officials in both administrations have sought to win public support and overcome opposition by repeatedly asserting that what they are doing is effective and lawful. The tactical parallels are striking.

To create an illusion of legality, both administrations coined new labels for unlawful practices. President Bush's people coined the term "enhanced interrogation methods" to describe torture, and are still asserting that waterboarding is not torture but an effective, necessary tool to keep the country safe.

Brennan unveiled the phrase "hot battlefield" in a speech at Harvard Law in September 2011. A "hot battlefield" is the type found in traditional armed conflicts, where enemy fighters are killed without warning and it is permissible to also kill civilians, as long as their deaths are unintentional collateral damage and not disproportionate to the military objective.

The CIA is killing civilians away from "hot battlefields," but according to Brennan, there are other types of battlefields that are not "hot" but nevertheless lawful places to intentionally kill targets and unintentionally those nearby.


The parallels between the two administrations do not end with fabricated terminology. Lawyers in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in both administrations have written secret memos apparently analyzing the legality of these troubling practices. After the memos were written, waterboarding continued during the Bush administration. President Obama finally ended it with an executive order signed within days of his first inauguration. Guantanamo, however, stayed open, and targeted killing continued. We can safely assume that the memos conclude the United States may lawfully carry out such practices.

It is surprising to me that anyone feels the need to actually see these secret memos. International law clearly makes waterboarding, secret detention and targeted killing away from battlefields unlawful. The fact these practices have continued after the writing of the memos demonstrates the analysis is window dressing.

The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union, among others, have committed significant resources to obtaining the memos on targeted killing. It would, of course, be interesting to compare the specious arguments and omissions that must characterize these memos with those released by the Bush administration on interrogation and detention. Some citizens might actually need to see the memos to finally demand an end to the practice.

The greater importance of the secret memos does not concern what they contain, but the fact our democratic government believes legal analysis can be secret -- that how the government understands the law that regulates its conduct need not be made public. The judge in a recent case who ruled the memos might lawfully remain secret has confused the facts of a particular case with the law. Facts about particular operations can be kept secret, but not the law on which such operations are based. If the police seek a warrant, for example, in some cases the identity of a particular person sought under the warrant may be kept confidential. The law mandating the need for the warrant is public.

Game playing with the law does not amount to effective counter-terrorism strategy. Brennan admitted as much in his Harvard speech:

"I've developed a profound appreciation for the role that our values, especially the rule of law, play in keeping our country safe," he said. "It's an appreciation, of course, understood by President Obama. ... That is what I want to talk about this evening: how we have strengthened, and continue to strengthen, our national security by adhering to our values and our laws."

The CIA needs someone who will do what Brennan says, not what he does.

source http://www.naijapundit.com/news/u-s-likely-to-expand-drone-attacks-to-nigeria-says-leon-panetta-u-s-defence-secretary

Odunnu: You should have just glanced at the profile of the chicken you quoted and save yourself from looking like a fool

Whatz a chicken?

seanet01: Under the Obasanjo Administration, Rochas was the head of National Airport management Authority,
he was caught and dismissed for embezzling over 1 million US dollars.
Just google search it.
He is not a saint, just a thief like ohakim.
Pot calling kettle black.

U know, Rochas can cry wolf because "IT TAKES A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF!".

blink182: I am totally blown away.

Imo state account reconciliation 2007-May 2011. Ohakim is a dead man. The first leg of auditing revealed he stole over N62bn.

Don't be fooled people, i am not shocked@ all!

Blue diamond: Hello house!pls am i new here,how do i post a comment?

STEP 1: Just click on "Quote" on the post u want to reply, when a writing page opens (pretty much like the body of an email), type what u wish to type in it and click "Submit". Here, i used ur quote as an example.
STEP 2: If its a fresh comment u want to make, scroll to the top or bottom of the thread and click on "Reply", then follow the same sequence as STEP 1 when a fresh writing page opens. CAN'T MISS IT!

Okija_juju: NNA MEHN!!! This Ada Owerri just dey sample Politicians with the same speed wey she use dey act films for Nollywood... Now now wey dem just bail her from Kidnappers, she don enter another one!!


IMO STATE babes no dey carry last!!

Sorry dude, u wish! Nky babe is from Abia State.

ichommy: KADUNA—The Sultan of Sokoto and President, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Dr. Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday said that the present security and developmental challenges facing Northern Nigeria was self inflicted by northerners themselves.

The Sultan spoke at the Northern Nigeria Governors Peace and Reconciliation Committee meeting in Kaduna, blaming northerners for inflicting heavy pains on themselves.

His words, “Let us sit and talk freely and articulate positions that will bring us out of the quagmire we put ourselves. It is important that religious and traditional rulers from our various states sit together, so that each and everyone of us will talk freely for us to articulate a position as the way out of this problem we find ourselves.

We northerners have put ourselves in a quagmire, because whatever that is happening in the North is our own doing. This was because we did not do what we are supposed to do. And since we know that, we have to solve our problems ourselves. So, I think, it is not a bad idea that the committee was set up.
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RECONCILIATION—From left: Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan; Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Mathew Kukah and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, at a meeting of the Northern States Committee on Reconciliation in Kaduna, yesterday. Photo: Olu Ajayi.

Sultan, Onaiyekan sue for peaceful co-existence

“We wrote a memo of about nine pages or thereabout covering various issues affecting the country and the north in particular to the then Acting President and now President. Goodluck Jonathan, through the Nigeria Inter Religious Council, NIREC, where we suggested solutions to the problems.’’

In his own remarks, the Catholic Bishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, attributed the security challenges facing the North and the country in general to high level of poverty in the country and the region in particular.

Onaiyekan further said that another aspect of the problem was associated with religion, saying that, bad image of the country has spread to the outside world and there was need for the stakeholders to address the issue with a view to putting a permanent end to the problems.

Bad governance

He stressed that, Christianity and Islam in Nigeria should not be seen as an accident of history, but God’s design that cannot be changed by anyone.

According to him, the main problem in the country was bad governance and once that is addressed headlong, all other problems would be tackled too.

Kukah hails Sultan, Onaiyekan

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Mathew Kukah, in his remarks lauded the participation of both Sultan Abubakar and Cardinal Onaiyekan saying, “With the Sultan and our amiable Cardinal as members of this committee, we should have the confidence that all sides will be well represented and every view honestly put down with suggested solutions. We also hope that the government would play its own parts when this assignment is finished.”



http://emmanuelbabatunde..com/2013/01/we-re-cause-of-our-problems-in-north.html

Ileke-IdI:
What a shame. That's what you pipu call clean?

Shut your behind, fv*ck face!!!

mitchyy: https://gistville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/okotie.jpg

This statement was made at a service held yesterday, Sunday January 13th at Pastor Chris Okotie's church auditorium. He told his members that tattooing their body or even undergoing plastic surgery is not a sin before God. He said a lot of people misinterpret a scripture in the bible which is supposedly against body art and enhancement. He said getting tattoos and plastic surgery is an individual decision and has nothing to do with God.

What are your thoughts on this?

http://gistville.com/2013/01/theres-nothing-wrong-in-tattoos-and-plastic-surgery-pastor-chris-okotie/

Behold the mouth-piece of "god".

amiskurie: Imagine mine.

(1)I will like to fly in the sky,that means I won't need to board a plane or pass through the airport to visit my desired destinations.

(2)I will like to live forever(God pls forgive me)imagine I could refresh my life as I wishes.

(3)I will like to control whatever with just a clap.imagine me sitting on the dinning and...claps!then two bottles of palm-wine and fried snails appeared.

these abilities are the best,post urs and let's see u dreaming.

Fadelex: I know bigots like you will not be happy.... U can apply to join any force den find you way to JTF to help dem arrest their sponsor... Omo ale jatijati

Burger01: just hang him...

Bro, cut the nigga some slack, will u?
I suggest they strip him, forcefully insert a broom into his pri*ck and break it!