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IAEA: Iran Nuclear Issue Won’t Be Solved Overnight

By Summer Said

The head of the United Nation’s atomic watchdog said Saturday that the issue with Iran overs its nuclear program won’t be resolved overnight and the Persian country should constructively cooperate with a team of inspectors heading to Tehran Sunday.

“It is in the interest of Iran to proactively and fully cooperate with the inspectors. I don’t think we can solve the issue overnight,”International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano said in an interview on the sidelines of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.

“It is a complicated issue and has long history. It is not a black and white problem but long negotiations are not my objective,” he said.

The IAEA’s previous efforts to check Iran’s claim its nuclear program has only peaceful purpose had been met before with failure. The agency wants access to a military site called Parchin, which is suspected of conducting explosives testing.

Amano, a soft-spoken Japanese diplomat, took center stage in global affairs in November by releasing a study documenting Iran’s alleged efforts to develop the technologies needed to develop nuclear-tipped mid-range missiles and bomb-triggering systems. Tehran quickly rebuked the report, calling it politically motivated and based on falsified information.

“We have overall crediable information that indicates that Iran is engaging in the development of nuclear explosives,” he said.

“It is difficult to foresee how Iran will cooperate with the inspectors…we don’t know if Iran has declared everything to us and, he said adding that it was too early to say definitively that Iran was pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Friday in Davos that there was no other alternative to addressing the Iran crisis than peaceful resolution through dialogue.Tehran has previously fired volleys of insults, accusing Amano of everything from colluding with Washington to complicity in a string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.

Source: blogs.wsj.com read more

Iran-Pakistan pipeline

EVEN as concerns about Iran`s nuclear programme have led to tougher sanctions by the United States and the European Union, Pakistan seems determined to continue with the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline. For this country there are two separate issues at hand. One is the question of Iran building nuclear weapons. As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran must not be enriching uranium to levels required for weapons and should remain under inspection. As such, one hopes Tehran is dec-laring the full scope of its nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency and is only, as it claims, using nuclear material for energy and other peaceful purposes. Also, from the perspective of geopolitical priorities, the presence of another nuclear-armed neighbour is not in Pakistan`s interests, regardless of the current nature of the relationship with Iran.

At the same time, Pakistan`s energy emergency has now become a matter of both prosperity and security. The country needs to pursue any practical and affordable sources of energy it can acquire, especially those that can begin delivering sooner than others. Along with LNG imports, gas from Iran is one such option and execution could be completed in two years if started in earnest today. The Tapi pipeline is beset with challenges, not the least of which is the security situation in Afghanistan. Given Pakistan`s limited options, it is hard to argue that the Iran project should not be pursued, despite America`s discouragement and its contention that there are quicker ways that Pakistan could explore to resolve its energy problem.

Source: Dawn.com read more

Syrian endures another day of unrest

(CNN) -- Violence engulfed Syria a day after bloody unrest swept the country, opposition activists said on Saturday.

The Local Coordination Committees of Syria said a child was killed, security forces shot and shelled targets, and an oil pipeline exploded in Deir Ezzor province.

Security forces killed a man in the Homs province town of Hawleh, and explosions and shooting rang out in the Homs' city neighborhood of Baba Amr, the LCC said.

An activist died after an ambush by regime forces in the Daraa province town of Al-Gharia Al-Sharqiya, the activists said.

In the Damascus suburbs, security forces killed a man at a checkpoint of Harasta when they shot at his car. Also in those suburbs, corpses were discovered at a farm and clashes occurred between soldiers and the Free Syrian Army, the resistance force comprised of military defectors.

In Aleppo city, security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas grenades to disperse mourners who gathered for a funeral.

On Friday, at least 60 people died amid countrywide mass demonstrations across Syria. Activist stage nationwide protests every Friday, and the LCC said people turned out for 588 demonstrations.

The United Nations last month estimated that more than 5,000 people have died since March, when the government launched a crackdown against peaceful demonstrators. But activist groups estimate a higher death toll, with counts near or exceeding 7,000 people.

Diplomats at the U.N. Security Council are considering a draft resolution that calls on President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power to his vice president.

Source: CNN read more

In Iraq suicide bomber kills 33 at Shiite funeral

BAGHDAD (AP) – A suicide car bomber has struck a Shiite funeral procession, killing 33 people as suspected al-Qaida militants stepped up apparent efforts to provoke a counterattack by Shiite militias on Sunnis that could pave the way toward open sectarian warfare now that U.S. troops have left Iraq.

The powerful Friday blast — the second deadliest attack in Iraq this month — set nearby stores and cars ablaze alongside scattered flesh and mutilated bodies. It shattered windows and damaged walls in the local hospital, wounding a nurse and four patients. Within minutes, the hospital was scrambling to treat scores of others.

"It was a huge explosion," said Salam Hussein, who was watching the funeral procession from his grocery store.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah in southwestern Baghdad. But the bombing resembled previous attacks by al-Qaida in Iraq.

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Imran Khan: Army's days are over in Pakistan

Davos: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who is drawing massive crowds in his country, has declared that "army's days are over" in Pakistan and vowed to have "best relations" with India.

"Let me assure you that democracy is set to take off in Pakistan. You just wait till the elections. The time has come for a true democracy in Pakistan," Khan said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit being held in Davos.

"The army's days are over. You will soon see a true democracy in Pakistan," Khan, who also attended the India reception party on Friday night, told PTI.

Khan saw nothing wrong in taking groups like the outlawed Jamat-ud-Dawah (JuD) along in his political journey.

Asked about his association with such extremist group, which has acted as a front of the LeT that carried out the Mumbai attacks, Khan drew attention to the US support to Taliban during the era of Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

"Is taking along different groups of people with an aim to bring them to the mainstream wrong? What you should understand is that you have to talk to various kinds of people in politics. If I try to bring them (extremists) back to the mainstream, there is nothing wrong in it," he said.

Continuing with his argument, Khan, who has been generating a lot of crowd at his political rallies in Pakistan, said, "And if you talk about support to the extremists, did America not support the Taliban?"

"The politics requires you to talk to various groups of people and there is certainly nothing wrong if I want to bring them back to the main fold and change their mindset. For that, I would have to talk to them. I can assure you best of the relations with India and these things would never come in the way," he added.

Khan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party chief, said: "The people of Pakistan are waiting for the change. They want a democracy of their choice".

"The democracy is bound to come there. There are lots of expectations among the people of Pakistan. They have had it enough and now they desperately want a change that would allow their voice to be heard".

Signing off, he said, "We will have a true democracy and there should be no doubts about that".

Source: IBN live Read more

‘Trust deficit’ Gilani bemoans with US

DAVOS: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday there was “a trust deficit” between Islamabad and Washington as he criticised the resumption of US drone strikes on his country’s tribal belt.

Speaking the day after over 100,000 people massed in Karachi to protest the strikes, Yousuf Raza Gilani said they only served to bolster militants.

“Drones are counter-productive. We have very ably isolated militants from the local tribes. When there are drone attacks that creates sympathy for them again,” Gilani told reporters at the Davos forum.

“It makes the job of the political leadership and the military very difficult. We have never allowed the drone attacks and we have always maintained that they are unacceptable, illegal and counterproductive.”

Relations between the United States and Pakistan have deteriorated sharply over the last year, with Islamabad furious about the surprise deadly raid on al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad last year.

The two sides have also been at loggerheads over a US air strike in November in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed.

Gilani said that Pakistan now wanted to agree new rules of engagement with the United States.

“The unilateral action taken in Abbottabad, that was not liked in any quarter … We need assurances that such a unilateral action will not be repeated in the future. There is a trust deficit.”

The prime minister said it was in both countries’ interests to cooperate as partners and Pakistan had paid a high price at the hands of militant groups.

“We want to work together and we are fighting against militants and terrorists. We have paid a huge price for that.”

On the subject of neighbours, Gilani said Pakistan wanted good relation with all negihbouring countries including Afghanistan. He also mentioned the Kashmir issue in his talk and said that dialogue was the only possible way to resolve all outstanding issues with India.

He said that democratic institution of Pakistan should be respected.

Dismissing recent reports of a coup by the military, the PM asserted that democracy in Pakistan was not in danger and that fears of clash between state institutions were baseless.

Source: Dawn.com Read more.

Shahbaz Sharif pledges action in spurious drugs case

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has pledged to the nation that strict accountability would be carried out against those responsible for the dozens of deaths that occurred due to the counterfeit medicine given out at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), DawnNews reported.

Speaking to media representatives after inaugurating a polio campaign in Lahore, Sharif said that supplying free drugs to the patients did not mean that those doing so could play with lives.

Pointing his guns towards the federal government, the chief minister urged the media to also hold accountable “the thieves sitting in Islamabad”.

He blamed the rulers for the prevailing energy crisis in the country and said that coal and other resources could have been used to deal with the issue.

Sharif moreover questioned as to how could the rulers who failed to deliver in four years do something worthwhile during the next six months.

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Bin Laden 'informer' Shikal Afridi Leon Panetta Being concern

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said he is "very concerned" about a Pakistani doctor arrested for providing intelligence for the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden last year.

Dr Shikal Afridi is accused of running a CIA-run programme in Abbottabad where Bin Laden was killed. A Pakistan panel says he should be tried for treason.

Mr Panetta told the CBS TV network the arrest had been "a real mistake".

Dr Afridi provided "very helpful" information for the raid, he added.

He was arrested shortly after the operation, carried out by US special forces in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad on 2 May last year.

Pakistan was deeply embarrassed by the raid, and condemned it as a violation of sovereignty.

Source: BBC News. Read more.

Pervez Musharraf postpones to return Pakistan, aide says

Former President Pervez Musharraf has decided to postpone his return to Pakistan, one of his aides says:

Mr Musharraf had previously vowed to end his self-imposed exile and fly back to Pakistan by the end of this month to revive his political career.

He faces arrest on arrival as he is accused of failing to provide adequate security for former PM Benazir Bhutto ahead of her assassination in 2007.

The former military ruler, who stepped down in 2008, denies wrongdoing.

On Friday Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani repeated that Mr Musharraf would be arrested if he did return.

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All the latest Transfer Gossip across Europe

With the January transfer window closing next Tuesday, there has plenty of talk of possible 'big name' transfers, but little in the way of action so far this month!
The only big money transfer of note was the predicted move of Bolton's Gary Cahill to Chelsea for £7million. Meanwhile there are also lot of loan deals in the pipeline, but can the players, their agents and the clubs agree terms before the transfer window shuts!

As the clock ticks down here is the most recent transfer gossip to be doing the rounds!

Is your club involved?

Chelsea, Shakhtar Donetsk, Lille, PSG, Arsenal, Hanover 96, Manchester United, Bayer Leverkusen, Napoli, Manchester City, Liverpool, Lazio, Arsenal, Real Sociedad, QPR, Tottenham, São Paulo, Bolton, Crystal Palace, Stoke, Everton, Ajax, Inter Milan, Newcastle, Burnley, Watford, Swansea, Blackpool, AZ Alkmaar, Kalmar FF, West Brom, Zenit St Petersburg, Juventus, Cagliari, Sunderland, Blackburn, MK Dons, Nottingham Forest, Leicester, Southend and Shrewsbury are all caught up in transfer gossip as we speak.

Chelsea are also after Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Willian Borges da Silva, but have been told by the Ukrainians that they will have to fork out £25m for the 23-year-old - The Guardian

Lille striker Eden Hazard (right) has admitted Carlo Ancelotti's presence at Paris Saint-Germain is drawing him towards joining the French club. Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United have all been linked with the 21-year-old - Inside Futbol

Paris St Germain ended their interest in a January deal for Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez earlier this week, but coach Carlo Ancelotti hopes the French club may be able to sign the Argentine in the future - skysports.com

Chelsea defender Alex has completed a €5 million [£4.1m] transfer to Paris Saint Germain this weekend The Brazilian has signed an 18-month deal with the French Ligue 1 leaders - goal.com

Hannover 96 are keen to sign Senegalese international striker Mame Biram Diouf, 24 on loan from Manchester United - footballpress.net

Chelsea could make a £3m move for Manchester United defensive midfielder Paul Pogba (right). The 18-year-old is out of contract in the summer and has refused to sign a new deal - The Guardian

Manchester United could make a shock move for German midfielder Michael Ballack after Bayer Leverkusen indicated the 35-year-old could be available - Caught Offside

Arsenal striker Carlos Vela is hopeful of extending his loan stay at Real Sociedad and possibly turning it into a permanent switch. The 22-year-old Mexico international has been at the La Liga side since the start of the season - Caught Offside

Edinson Cavani's agent has played down talk of a stunning late switch to Manchester City. It has been suggested in the Italian media that Napoli are bracing themselves for a late move for their 24-year-old Uruguayan striker (right). Liverpool are also rumoured to be keen on the striker - talkSPORT and Caught Offside

Queens Park Rangers hope to sign former Liverpool forward Djibril Cisse from Lazio. The 30-year-old Frenchman would cost £4m, although he may join on loan. Adel Taarabt may head in the opposite direction - The Guardian and skysports.com

Bolton have made a £5m bid for Crystal Palace's England Under-21 international Wilfried Zaha, but face competition from Newcastle and Stoke - Daily Mirror and footballgossip.org.uk

Tottenham are in talks with São Paulo over Brazil Under-20 defender Bruno Uvini - The Guardian

Everton are closing in on Ajax striker Mounir El Hamdaoui (right). The 27-year-old Moroccan could move to Goodison Park on loan before sealing a permanent move for £5m in the summer - talkSPORT

Everton are being linked with Inter Milan striker Luc Castaignos, according to reports from Italy. The Toffees are being linked with the a move for the former Feyenoord youngster, either on loan or in a permanent deal - footballgossip.org.uk

Newcastle United want Burnley striker Jay Rodriguez and Watford's Adrian Mariappa. However Swansea City are also keen on the Watford defender - The Guardian and Daily Mail

AZ Alkmaar have completed the signing of 19 year-old right-back Mattias Johansson from Swedish side Kalmar FF - sportinglife.com

Blackpool are lining up a season-long loan move for West Brom's Czech Republic striker Roman Bednar - skysports.com

West Brom head coach Roy Hodgson is hopeful of concluding a deal to sign Zenit St Petersburg winger Szabolcs Huszti (right), for the remainder of the season - sportinglife.com and The Press Association

Juventus are tracking Belgian international Radja Nainggolan 23, but the midfielder has a deal tying him to Cagliari until June 2014 - footballpress.net

David Dunn has signed a new contract with Blackburn until the summer of 2013 - sportinglife.com

Newcastle United midfielder Alan Smith is set to leave the club for League One side MK Dons - football gossip.org.uk

Nottingham Forest are considering a third bid from Leicester for centre-back Wes Morgan. The Foxes' previous offer was believed to be in the region of £800,000 - sportinglife.com

Sunderland are considering a bid for unsettled Besiktas targetman Hugo Almeida (right), 27, who is rated at £3m - Sunderland Echo

League Two promotion chasers Southend have bolstered their defensive options with the signing of Pat Baldwin from Colchester on a free transfer until the end of the season - skysports.com

Shrewsbury Town have signed Romaine Sawyers on a month-long loan from West Brom - skysports.com

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Classic Quotations made about Referees

Back in April 2008 I started a thread on the subject of badly worded or simply daft comments made by football managers, past and present. Following this I then went on a crusade to poke fun at not only football managers but also players, fans, and chairman alike who have at various times spouted out drivel, in an attempt to get their point across.

Like a phoenix from the flames I have resurrected the topic, but this time the emphasis is on the referees, not so much what they have to say, but what is said about them!

There is enough material on the subject to write a novel, but here is just a taster of some of my favourite comments made about referees over the years.


We've got drug-testers here today. I assume they'll ignore the players and go straight to the officials - MICK McCARTHY, Wolves manager, after a controversial home defeat by Birmingham, 2007.

The ref was a big time homer, more interested in his rub-on suntan - DAVID MOYES, Everton manager talking about referee Jeff Winter, 2003.

Can anyone tell me why they give referees a watch? It's certainly not for keeping the time - ALEX FERGUSON, Manchester United manager, after Graham Poll added 'only three minutes' v Everton, 1996.

I tried to talk to the ref but it's easier to get an audience with the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged, I hope the same amount of people turn up - there were six police officers, four stewards and a UN peace-keeping observer - GORDON STRACHAN, after controversy at Arsenal shortly before resigning as Southampton manager, 2004.

If the ref had stood still we wouldn't have had to chase him - ROY KEANE, Manchester United captain, on the Andy D'Urso incident, 2000.

When Paolo Di Canio pushed over the referee (Paul Alcock), if the referee had been a player he'd have been booked for diving - BARRY DAVIES, TV commentator, recalling the 1998 match between Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday, 2004.

I'm 27 years-old and yet the referee tells me I'm not allowed to swear - VINNIE JONES, Wimbledon midfielder, after being dismissed for foul and abusive language, 1992.

I have nothing against the visually handicapped as such, but I am surprised they are allowed to referee at this level - THE SOUP, Kidderminster Harriers fanzine, 1989.

My players wouldn't take a throw-in for that sort of money - GORDON STRACHAN, Coventry manager on learning that referee Gerald Ashby's match fee was £200, 1998.

I can't understand why the ref wasn't more sympathetic. After all, we used to go to the same bookies - STEVE CLARIDGE, Portsmouth player-manager, after his team incurred two red cards v Fulham, 2001.

I don't think we should have shoot-outs. We should have a shoot-the-ref shoot-out. After that penalty, the referee should have been shot - JOHN GREGORY, Aston Villa manager, afer a last-minute penalty was awarded to West Ham against Villa, 1999.

In the tunnel I said to David Ellery: 'You might as well book me now and get it over with.' He takes it pretty well but he still books me - ROY KEANE, Manchester United captain, 2000.

How the mega-rich male model referee slipped out of Molineux in his luxury Mercedes after a day of mayhem - HEADLINE in Wolvehampton's Express & Star, after referee Uriah Rennie's 'diabolical' handling of a game between Wolves and Bolton, 2004.

What makes a sane and rational person subject himself to such humiliation? Why on earth does anyone want to become a Premiership referee - LORD HATTERSLEY, Sheffield Wednesday supporter, 2002.

.......and to finish off here are a couple of comments made by the officials themselves:

At Stoke an elderly lady was waiting by the dressing room after the game. She said: "Mr. Night, I'm 74 and a grandmother, and I'd just like to say you're the worst f*cking referee I've ever seen." Certainly put me in my place - BARRY NIGHT, Football League referee, 2005.

You're out there with 22 multi-millionaires who you have to control with a whistle and two, sometimes three cards - GRAHAM POLL, English referee on quitting the game, 2007. A year earlier Poll had been cut from the World Cup after cautioning Croatia's Jossip Simunic three times, before sending him off against Australia.

Who's the Bastard in the Black? - TITLE of former Premiership referee Jeff Winter's autobiography, 2006.


To see previous posts by Beer Footy and Birds, on 'Classic Quotations' click on the links below:

Ten Classic Football Quotations made by Football Managers

Ten Classic Football Quotations made by Football Chairman

Classic Football Quotations said by Football Fans or made about Football Fans - Part One

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Beer Of The Week: How Could This Be Beer? What Sorcery Is This?

In case you haven't heard already, there's a brand new craft beer place down in KL called TAPS BEER BAR, and it's got one hell of a crazy range of beers. There's currently about 14 different taps now, with another 20 different bottles of beers. And these aren't even the normal Carlsberg, Hoegaarden, or Guinness beers - these are genuine CRAFT BEERS brought all the way from UK, Australia and Europe. If you think that's impressive, think again... Taps plans to have at least SIXTY FIVE different beers by the end of March. Holy shit that's a lot of beers!

One of the best brands they currently serve is BrewDog, from Scotland, a craft brewery that prides itself on its punk philosophy and awesome beer names:

But more about those other beers for now. Today, the beer of the week is this one, arguably one of the most expensive beers available in Malaysia currently... Behold, the BLACK TOKYO* HORIZON:

Is this even a beer? When me, Shaolintiger and Fireangel tried this the other day, we were wondering the same thing.

The beer itself costs a whopping RM107++, which seems like MADNESS when you consider that it comes in the usual 330ml bottle. Then, when Alvin of Taps poured us the beer, we found out why.

First of all, it was poured into a wine-glass like goblet. The texture was velvety, thick and rich, and the color is almost impenetrable BLACK (we actually tried shining a torchlight through it and it really WAS impenetrable).

On the nose, it smelled of a combination of dark chocolate and er... light soya sauce (it smells better than it sounds, trust me!). At 17.2% and with such a full body, this is definitely a beer you SIP and SAVOUR, not GULP and GUZZLE. Heck at that price you BETTER BLOODY NOT GUZZLE IT!

This beer will literally FUCK WITH YOUR MIND. As I was drinking it, I kept thinking: "THIS IS A BEER, THIS IS A BEER" but it tasted so UNLIKE beer that I swear my taste buds got confused. This is a very, very complex beer (in fact, it was more like wine than beer) - velvety smooth and rich, with layer upon layer of flavors including malt stout, dark chocolate, all accompanied by the syrupy sweetness of port wine. 

Let the beer warm up a little (yes you can drink it at room temperature too), and you get more layers of flavour - bisuits, rich malt - and it all comes together in a long. lingering finish of chocolate, port wine and er... soy sauce (again, it tastes better than it sounds).

The Black Tokyo* Horizon is a special collaboration between three independent European breweries – BrewDog (Scotland), Nøgne ø (Norway) and Mikkeller (Denmark), and is a fusion of the respective breweries’ big stouts, namely the Mikkeller Black, the BrewDog Tokyo*, and the Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon.

The beer is a small-run, limited edition brew; and at the time of writing, there are only 10 bottles of the beer left at Taps. So if you want to try it, you better hurry up!

Taps Beer Bar is located at One Residency, 1 Jalan Nagasari, Off Jalan Raja Chulan, Kuala Lumpur (Tel: 03-21101560)

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