Exclusive: Major Taliban Operative Captured |
Mulvi Kabir, the former Taliban governor in Afghanistan’s Nangahar Province, and a key figure in the Taliban regime was recently captured in Pakistan, two senior US officials tell Fox News. Kabir, considered to be among the top ten most wanted Taliban leaders, was apprehended in the Naw Shera district of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province by Pakistani police forces. |
A senior U.S. military official in Afghanistan called Kabir a “significant detention”. |
The intelligence that led to Kabir’s capture was gathered from Mullah Baradar, the Taliban’s second in command, who was picked up roughly two weeks ago in Karachi, Pakistan by a joint CIA and Pakistani intelligence operation. Read more at liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com |
WASHINGTON — Mindful of soaring deficits and an anti-Wall Street mood, President Barack Obama wants a new 10-year tax on the country’s largest banks to cover a projected $117 billion shortfall in the government’s financial crisis bailout fund. |
The president planned to propose Thursday a levy of 15 basis points, or 0.15 per cent, on the liabilities of large financial institutions to make sure every dollar spent from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program to rescue Wall Street firms, auto companies and mortgage holders is either repaid or paid for. Congress would have to approve the tax. |
A senior administration official said the tax, which officials are calling a “financial crisis responsibility fee,” would apply only to financial companies with assets of more than $50 billion. Those firms - estimated to amount to about 50 institutions - would have to pay the fee even though many did not accept any taxpayer assistance and most others already paid back their government infusions. Read more at www.google.com |
Other LGBT News: Portugal Approves Same-Sex Marriage; Obama Appoints Trans Female; First HIV+ Man To Visit U.S. |
While states like California and New Jersey grapple clumsily with the issue of same-sex marriage and equality, Portugal apparently had little difficulty in approving legislation to allow such unions. On Friday, Portugal’s Parliament voted by a sizeable majority – 125 to 99 – to permit same-sex marriages. The nation’s President is not expected to veto the measure, and ceremonies are anticipated to begin as early as April 2010. |
President Obama Appoints Transgender Female To Commerce Dept. |
First HIV+ Traveler To Visit U.S. From The Netherlands |
But the conventional wisdom is insane. Consider the record:
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Two days after he was sworn in, Obama banned the use of “harsh interrogation” and ordered the closing of Guantánamo.
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A day later, Obama reversed George W. Bush’s funding cutoff to overseas family planning organizations — saving millions of lives with the stroke of a pen.
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| Three days after that, Obama gave a green light to the California car-emissions standards that Bush had been blocking for six years |
A week later — we’re in early March now — Obama erased Bush’s decision to restrict federal funding for stem-cell research.
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Also in June, Obama unveiled the “Cash for Clunkers” program, a “socialist” giveaway that reanimated the corpse of our car industry — leading, for example, to the billion-dollar profit that Ford announced on Monday.
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