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Why did the U.S. Attorney for Northern Georgia (Atlanta and Fulton County) just resign?This could be nothing. Or it could be huge. The U.S. attorney who has Atlanta and Fulton County in his district abruptly resigned today, citing “unforeseen circumstances.”BREAKING: U.S. Attorney for North Georgia abruptly resigns due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) January 4, 2021U.S. Attorney Byung “BJay” Pak had scheduled to resign on Inauguration Day, as is often the custom for Department of Justice appointees when a new administration comes in. But instead, he tendered his resignation Monday morning. According to Talking Points Memo:The U.S. attorney...

U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak resigned his position Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. In October 2017, Pak was sworn into the office. He previously served as an assistant U.S. Attorney from 2002 to 2008 and in the Georgia General Assembly as a state representative from January 2011 to January 2017. Pak’s office offered no further comment about the resignation.

Mrs Rausing studied at Occidental College, in Los Angeles, at the same time as the current U.S. president Her husband Hans is still in a medical facility and is not fit to be questioned on suspicion of killing his wife Eva Details of his arrest came out as her inquest opened this morning Police discovered her body in bedroom of £70m London home after they had pulled Mr Rausing over in his car and found Class A drugs Her mother Nancy Kemeny believes flying to London triggered heart problems She said daughter would 'probably' be buried in South Carolina Claims...

Russia and India will sign the first contract on the manufacturing of a fifth-generation jet fighter in late February-early March, a Russian defense industry official said Monday. "We expect a contract on the first stage of design, specifically the development of a technical design concept, to be signed in late February-early March," Alexander Fomin, first deputy head of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation, said. He added that Russia and India were currently "at an active phase of negotiations" on manufacturing fifth-generation fighters. It was not entirely clear whether Fomin was referring to Russia's prototype fifth-generation fighter, which...

On 29 January 2010, the Sukhoi PAK-FA (Perspektivnyi Aviatsionnyi Kompleks Frontovoi Aviatsy, literally "Future Front line Aircraft System"), which could variously be described as a technology demonstrator, the first prototype of the future T-50 fighter, or an intermediate step between the two, took to the air for the first time from the freezing runway of Dzemgi Air Force Base (shared with the KnAAPO plant) at Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East Siberia (see also http://www.defpro.com/daily/details/497/). A fundamental step has at last been accomplished in the development of the long-expected Russian response to the American F-22 RAPTOR air dominance fighter. Airframe...

On 29 January 2010, the Sukhoi PAK-FA (Perspektivnyi Aviatsionnyi Kompleks Frontovoi Aviatsy, literally "Future Front line Aircraft System"), which could variously be described as a technology demonstrator, the first prototype of the future T-50 fighter, or an intermediate step between the two, took to the air for the first time from the freezing runway of Dzemgi Air Force Base (shared with the KnAAPO plant) at Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East Siberia (see also http://www.defpro.com/daily/details/497/). A fundamental step has at last been accomplished in the development of the long-expected Russian response to the American F-22 RAPTOR air dominance fighter. The...

NEW DELHI: Mumbai's 26/11 was actually a plan hatched by "Hindu Zionists" and "Western Zionists", including the Mossad, said a self-styled Pakistan security expert on a Pakistan news television show, uploaded on www.hotklix.com. " Inki shaklein Hinduonwali hain, jis zabaan mein guftagoo kar rahein hain, woh zabaan koi Pakistani istemaal nahin karta hai (They look like Hindus. No Pakistani speaks the language they chatted in)," said Zaid Hamid while referring to the terrorists on the show Mujhe Ikhtilaf Hai (I differ) on Pakistan's News One channel. The sensationalist channel was launched in November last year. Hamid said that it was...

Pakistan's Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani may have known about the plot to bomb the Indian embassy in Kabul, US intelligence officials were quoted by the New York Times as suggesting. The officials are quoted as saying the attack was masterminded by Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, that was headed by Kayani before his promotion to the post of army chief. US officials said the agency “did not really bother to cover its tracks”. The sensational report also suggest the explosives used in the suicide attack on the embassy came from the Pakistan Ordnance Factory. The report comes a day...

Former premier Nawaz Sharif is expected to return to Pakistan from exile in Saudi Arabia within the next three to four days, his party said today. However, it was not immediately clear whether Sharif - deposed by President Pervez Musharraf in 1999 and living in Jeddah since he was deported to Saudi Arabia after he tried to come back to Pakistan in September would return before November 26, the last date for filing nominations for the general election scheduled for January 8.

At least 22 people were killed on Saturday in spiralling violence in northwestern Pakistan as international concern grew over the deteriorating security situation and Al Qaida threat along the Afghan border. While there has been no offensive yet, the army has reinforced check posts and stepped up patrols, provoking a series of attacks in recent weeks that have added to mounting concern over the country's a deteriorating security situation.

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar has triggered a storm of protests across the Asian Muslim country over controversial photos showing her hugging a French paraglider at a paragliding show in Paris last week. "I haven't done anything against tenets of Islam. I am better Muslim than those criticizing me for hugging a 71-year old man, who is of my father's age," 48-year-old Bakhtiar told IslamOnline.net.

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Opponents of the war say the only Al Qaeda elements in Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion were those in Kurdish areas not controlled by Saddam. This simply is not so, but for the sake of argument, let’s say it is. And if so, would not the U.S. – as a critical front in the global war on terror – have to invade those areas to shut down the Al Qaeda cells? Of course. And that in itself would have been a far more dangerous “limited war” with Iraq involving a direct ground confrontation with Saddam’s army anyway.

Reiterating the need for special law to deal with terrorism, BJP president L K Advani today assailed the UPA government for repealing Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). "A special law is required to deal with terrorism -- we had made one (POTA) but to please a particular section of the society the UPA government repealed it," Advani said. There was no point in blaming each other but the fact that a terrorist attack was made at the Ram Janambhoomi complex in Ayodhya, Advani told reporters at the Amausi air port here on his way to the temple town. Terrorism has...

Pakistan Tuesday condemned the terrorist attack on the site of Babri Mosque in the Ayodhya city of India. The Foreign Office spokesman condemned the attack and stated that Pakistan is against terrorism in all its forms. He expressed the hope that the incident would not affect the confidence building measures between Pakistan and India. At least five unidentified militants used a car bomb to blow up a security wall before storming Babri Mosque site on Tuesday, setting off a fierce gun battle with police and paramilitary forces that left all the attackers dead, a senior Indian official said.

Tuesday’s Ayodhya attack is a deadly reminder of Lashkar-e-Toiba’s core ideology — it goes well beyond opposing India’s sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir. According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, the Lashkar’s agenda, as outlined in a pamphlet titled, ‘Why Are We Waging Jihad’, includes the restoration of Islamic rule over all parts of India. The terrorist group started out as a wholly owned subsidiary of ISI, Pakistan’s intelligence outfit. But over the years it has grown beyond its creator and is now regarded by many terrorism analysts as the successor to the Al Qaida—not as a monolithic organisation, but...

Pakistan today said it would do whatever it could to get matching weapons systems in the event of India acquiring armaments following its 10-year defence pact with the US, but that it would not join an arms race. ‘‘Pakistan will get anything required for its defence but will not join any arms race,’’ Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told reporters here. ‘‘Pakistan is interested that resources be used for education, health and infrastructure development in South Asia,’’ he added. While Aziz made no reference to India’s likely acquisition of the Patriot Missile Defence Systems from the US, his remarks pointed...

When terrorism was at its peak in the Valley, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed set up terrorist camps in Pakistan where around 3,500 jihadis were trained in guerrilla warfare. This astonishing revelation has come from Kashmiri separatist leader and JKLF chairman Yasin Malik. According to Daily Times , Malik has said that Rashid actively supported the armed struggle in Kashmir by setting up training camps. Rashid trained around 3,500 jihadis in guerrilla warfare around that time, Malik has said. Malik was talking to the audience in an exhibition of 1.5 million signatures by Kashmiris demanding their involvement in the dialogue...

Just announced all U.S. non-emergency personnel to evacuate.No official government statement yet.