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Morrocco Denies Entry To Dutch Baby Murderer Ship
Post Date: 2012-10-05 08:48:24 by A K A Stone
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Reuters) - Morocco blocked a Dutch "abortion ship" from entering one of its harbours on Thursday during a campaign group's first attempt to visit to a Muslim country to raise awareness about safe methods of abortion. The Women on Waves ship, which already has visited traditionally Roman Catholic countries Spain, Portugal and Ireland at the invitation of local women's groups, had planned to arrive at Smir, northern Morocco, but was denied entry. "The harbor is totally blocked by warships so no one can get in, and there are a lot of police here," said Marlies Schellekens, a doctor from Women on Waves who had gone on shore. "We're now working on an ...
Turkey hits targets inside Syria after border deaths
Post Date: 2012-10-03 21:00:13 by We The People
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Turkey hits targets inside Syria after border deaths The shelling of Akcakale provoked fear and anger Continue reading the main story Syria conflict Turkey seeks Syria action Grim determination in Assad heartland Bombed from above School in a time of war Turkish artillery has fired on targets in Syria after shells from across the border killed five Turkish nationals. A woman and three children were among the dead when the shells, apparently fired by Syrian government forces, hit Turkey's border town of Akcakale. Ankara's response marks the first time it has fired into Syria during the 18-month-long unrest there. Turkey also asked the UN Security Council to take "necessary ...
Price Of Hate: Radical Israeli Settlers Vandalize Christian Monastery
Post Date: 2012-10-03 14:43:41 by Brian S
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Radical Jewish settlers vandalized a Christian church outside of Jerusalem, spray-painting “Jesus is a bastard” and “price tag” on its outer door. Such attacks have been on the rise despite police promises to curb hate crimes in the Holy Land. The blue graffiti denigrating the central figure to the Christian religion was scrawled on the door of the Franciscan Convent near the Dormition Abbey Church early on Tuesday. It was removed soon after.The Dormition Abbey Church, located on Mount Zion just outside the walls of the Old City, is believed by many Christians to be the site where the Virgin Mary died.“What took place is that a church on Mount Zion was targeted. On ...
U.S. Sent Counterterrorist Teams To North African Embassies Before Benghazi Attack
Post Date: 2012-10-02 18:01:13 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON -- Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery attack that killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya. The soldiers' mission: Set up a network that could quickly strike a terrorist target or rescue a hostage. The White House signed off a year ago on the plan to build the new military counterterror task force in the region, and the advance teams have been there for six months, according to three U.S. counterterror officials and a former intelligence official. All spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the strategy publicly. The effort ...
Hackers Shifting From ‘Disruption’ To ‘Destruction’: U.S. Cyber Chief
Post Date: 2012-10-02 14:27:44 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Hackers are stepping up the intensity of their attacks, moving from “disruption” to “destruction” of key computer systems, the top US cyber-defense official said Monday. General Keith Alexander, who is director of the National Security Agency and commander of the US Cyber Command, told a Washington forum that the new tactics could move beyond mere annoyances and begin causing severe economic damage. “We are seeing the threat grow from exploitation to disruption to destruction,” he told the group at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He argued that these attacks could impact organizations ranging from stock markets to power grid operators — ...
The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Iran And The Bomb, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Facts
Post Date: 2012-09-28 15:15:01 by Capitalist Eric
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As our Nobel laureate President ascended to the podium on September 25 at the United Nations for his last international speech before the election, we again were the recipients of fine oratory and rhetorical flourish about America’s problems in the world. Focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa—what’s often misleadingly termed, “the Muslim world”—Obama singled out Iran’s treaty-entitled uranium enrichment activities, saying “make no mistake: a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained.” Obama’s remarks were dutifully transcribed by our stenographer class, as can be expected, despite ...
U.S. military declares Assange 'enemy of the state'
Post Date: 2012-09-28 11:09:12 by A K A Stone
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The U.S. military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States — the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency. Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy", a military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death. The documents, some originally classified "Secret/NoForn" — not releasable to non-US nationals — record a probe by the air force's Office of Special Investigations ...
New poll: Romney overtakes Obama on terrorism
Post Date: 2012-09-28 10:32:59 by jwpegler
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The foreign-policy results of the new Bloomberg National Poll haven't gotten much attention yet, but the survey contains some bad news for the Obama campaign. According to the poll, Mitt Romney has a 48-42 advantage over Barack Obama on the question of which candidate would be tougher on terrorism. Romney, in other words, has encroached on one of Obama's signature strengths. What makes this result so surprising is that the president has consistently trounced Romney when it comes to counterterrorism. A Fox News poll earlier this month found that 49 percent of respondents trusted Obama to do a better job than Romney in protecting the United States from terrorist attacks, compared ...
Netanyahu Draws Actual Red Line On Cartoon Bomb During UN Speech
Post Date: 2012-09-27 18:22:18 by Brian S
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu feels so strongly about imposing a “red line” on Iran’s nuclear program that he demonstrated by using a magic marker to draw an actual red line on a bomb diagram during his speech to the United Nations on Thursday. “There’s only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs,” the prime minister explained. “And that’s by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.” “Let me show you, I brought a diagram for you,” he told the General Assembly as he unfolded a drawing of a bomb with a lit fuse that could have easily been mistaken for something out of a ...
Obama Seen in Poll as Steadier Than Romney on Mideast
Post Date: 2012-09-27 11:09:40 by Brian S
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Americans have more confidence in President Barack Obama to deal with a crisis in the Middle East than they do Republican Mitt Romney, though they are losing faith in the president’s handling of terrorism. By a margin of 49 percent to 38 percent, respondents to a Bloomberg National Poll say Obama would be better suited to cope with unforeseen events in the volatile region. “He’s not so quick to jump to war,” says Robert Hypes, 60, of Blacksburg, Virginia. “I think he tries diplomatic steps more than the Republicans do.” The advantage Obama has enjoyed since the May 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special forces is eroding, according to the poll, ...
Ahmadinejad: Israel Has 'No Roots' In Middle East, Upsets Region
Post Date: 2012-09-26 13:22:43 by Brian S
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Israel has "no roots" in the history of the Middle East and represents a disturbance for Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday. Ahmadinejad said Iran has been around for thousands of years, but Israel has existed for only 60 or 70 years. He said that for a certain "historical phase" Israel represents a disturbance for Iran and "they are then eliminated." "They (Israel) have no roots there in history," Ahmadinejad told reporters in New York, where he is due to attend the UN General Assembly. "They do not even enter the equation for Iran." Earlier in the day, Ahmadinejad told the Washington Post that Iran did not take ...
Iran’S Ahmadinejad Pushes New World Order, End To American ‘Bullying’
Post Date: 2012-09-25 23:20:05 by Brian S
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NEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE’-neh-zhahd) says that a new world order needs to emerge, away from American “bullying” and domination. Ahmadinejad spoke to The Associated Press Tuesday in a wide-ranging interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly — his last as president of Iran. He also discussed solutions for Syria, dismissed the question of Iran’s nuclear ambition and claimed that despite Western sanctions his country is better off than it was when he took office in 2005. Ahmadinejad tells the AP, “God willing, a new order will come together and we’ll do away with everything that distances us.” He ...
China's Launched Its First Aircraft Carrier To Coincide With Japanese Conflict In The East China Sea
Post Date: 2012-09-25 16:06:29 by Brian S
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After months of development, China officially launched its much anticipated aircraft carrier, the Associated Press reports today. Named the Liaoning, the ship has yet to carry any aircraft however. Building the planes and teaching pilots to launch them is a high priority, but it's a complex process that will take some time to create and then to master. The former Soviet flattop Varyag was languishing in a Ukraine shipyard when picked up for a song by the Chinese in 1998. Since then, the Chinese have been hard at work coming up with the missing elements required to turn the ship into a fortress of the sea. The Varyag was missing the propulsion, navigation, and communication systems ...
GOP backer Adelson accused of commandeering Israel's media market
Post Date: 2012-09-24 23:11:42 by Brian S
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Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who has poured millions into GOP coffers, also bankrolls a pro-Netanyahu Israeli newspaper that could transform the media market. Casino owner Sheldon Adelson attends a campaign fundrasing event with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at Red Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Friday, Sept. 21.(Charles Dharapak/AP) By Joshua Mitnickposted September 24, 2012 at 3:21 pm EDT Tel Aviv Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson grabbed the spotlight in the US earlier this year for making multi-million dollar campaign contributions to Republican presidential candidates on the bet that their policies would better jibe with those of Israeli Prime Minister ...
Panic cash withdrawals in Spain drain banks; Greece-style economic implosion now imminent
Post Date: 2012-09-24 17:22:03 by Capitalist Eric
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(NaturalNews) Spain appears poised to become the next Greece in the ongoing European Union (EU) implosion, as Spaniards are withdrawing record amounts of funds from Spanish banks to avoid a potential insolvency situation. According to the New York Times (NYT), the equivalent of $94 billion was withdrawn from Spanish banks in July, an amount that equals seven percent of the country's overall economic output. Though stronger overall compared to Greece in terms of economic diversity and debt levels, Spain is undeniably on a downward economic spiral that is sending many of its people and their money to other countries like England, Germany, and Singapore, where economic conditions are ...
Obama Disses Benjamin Netanyahu, Dismisses Israel Criticism As 'Noise'
Post Date: 2012-09-24 10:48:06 by Brian S
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President Barack Obama is already facing criticism over remarks he made in an interview with CBS' Sixty Minutes Sunday night, in which he appeared to dismiss criticism of his administration's policies toward Israel as mere "noise." Asked whether he feels pressured by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take action on Iran, Obama said that he agrees with Israel's insistence that Iran not be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon. But, he continued, "when it comes to our national security decisions — any pressure that I feel is simply to do what's right for the American people. And I am going to block out — any noise that's out ...
Republican Defense Hawks Pushes Romney To Break From Obama's Afghan Strategy
Post Date: 2012-09-23 15:58:49 by Brian S
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Republican defense hawks are urging Mitt Romney to separate himself from President Obama on Afghanistan and back an extended presence for U.S. troops in the country. The advice comes as the White House hits the halfway point in its timeline to withdraw all U.S. troops and after Romney faced criticism for not mentioning the Afghan conflict in his acceptance speech for the Republican nomination. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told The Hill on Wednesday the Romney camp needed to distance itself from the Obama administration's goal of pulling all American forces from Afghanistan by 2014. They should, instead, pursue a war plan focused on "what we leave behind" in the country, not ...
Libya: Islamist militia bases stormed in Benghazi
Post Date: 2012-09-22 19:24:42 by Fibr Dog
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The militia suspected of killing the US ambassador to Libya nearly two weeks ago has been driven out of its base in the eastern city of Benghazi. Police and protesters stormed the HQ of the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia. The HQ of the Sahaty Brigade, said to have official backing, was also stormed. At least nine people were killed there, another died elsewhere. The attack on the US consulate was triggered by an amateur video made in the US which mocks Islam. Protests against the film have been held across the Muslim world. At least 19 people died in Pakistan on Friday alone, in clashes with police trying to stop protesters attacking US diplomatic buildings. US citizens have been urged ...
Obama's Tragic Foreign Policy Failure in the Middle East
Post Date: 2012-09-22 18:12:42 by jwpegler
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Over the last couple of weeks, the Muslim world has exploded in anti-America protests that have left more than a dozen people dead, including the American Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. The violence started on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America that killed 3,000 Americans. Initially, the Obama administration insisted that the violence was a random response to some obscure film, made by an Egyptian Coptic Christian who had immigrated to America. The film had depicted the Muslim "Profit" Muhammad in a less than flattering light. As we later learned, the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was part of a planned, ...
Iran Unveils New Anti-Aircraft System
Post Date: 2012-09-21 17:55:05 by Brian S
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Iranian military leaders unveiled a new missile defense system Friday that is built to destroy “aggressive” U.S. aircraft, according to reports. The system, dubbed Ra’d, “has been built in a bid to confront U.S. aircraft and can hit targets 50km in distance and 75,000 feet in altitude,” Iranian General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the nation’s Aerospace Force Brigadier, told Iran’s Fars News Agency Friday. The new system is evidence that Iran’s military capabilities are becoming more sophisticated as it gets closer to building nuclear weapons capabilities, foreign policy experts told the Free Beacon. “This means the clock is ticking ...
French Politician Pushes Ban On Muslim Veils And Jewish Skullcaps In Public...
Post Date: 2012-09-21 17:53:55 by Brian S
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French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen on Friday suggested Jews should be banned from wearing the kippa, or ritual head-covering for Jewish males, in public places. “Obviously, if the veil is banned, the kipah [should be] banned in public as well,” the French daily Le Monde quoted Le Pen, leader of the National Front, as saying in an interview published on Friday. Le Pen’s anti-immigrant, anti-Islamist party long has supported a ban on Muslim headscarves, niqabs and burkas. France’s minister of education, Vincent Peillon, said Le Pen “was fanning the flames of fundamentalism” with her statements. “She is the main fundamentalist,” he said. In ...
Last U.S. ‘Surge’ Troops Leave Afghanistan
Post Date: 2012-09-21 11:06:17 by Brian S
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The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that President Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge have left the country, US defense officials said. The withdrawal, which began in July, follows an unprecedented number of NATO soldiers being shot dead by their Afghan colleagues — 51 so far this year — and comes as anti-Western protests sweep Muslim countries. There are still some 68,000 US military forces in Afghanistan, as well as some 40,000 from NATO’s ISAF coalition. The US-led effort to contain the Taliban insurgency involves a phased withdrawal of troops as newly trained Afghan forces take their place. The plan is for Afghans to take ...
Republican Party ‘Cranks’ Threatening Growth, Swan Says
Post Date: 2012-09-21 10:53:09 by Brian S
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Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said “cranks and crazies” in the U.S. Republican Party are threatening economic growth as Congress remains deadlocked on tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect in January. “Let’s be blunt and acknowledge the biggest threat to the world’s biggest economy are the cranks and crazies that have taken over the Republican Party,” Swan said in a speech in Sydney today. “Global markets are nervously watching the positioning of hardline elements of the Republican Party for signs that they will dangerously block reasonable attempts at compromise.” U.S. lawmakers are deadlocked over how to resolve the so- called ...
Govt declares national holiday in response to anti-Islam film
Post Date: 2012-09-20 21:26:22 by A K A Stone
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* Cabinet decides to observe Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool (PBUH) tomorrow * PTA asked to enter into an agreement with YouTube for blocking any sacrilegious material By Tanveer Ahmed ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Wednesday declared Friday (tomorrow) a national holiday and decided to observe it as Yaum-e-Ishq-e-Rasool (PBUH) against the blasphemous film, which has hurt the sentiments of Muslims worldwide. An Ishq-e-Rasool Conference would be held tomorrow morning to convey a message that sentiments of Pakistani people were hurt by the anti-Islam film, Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told the reporters after the cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Raja Pervez ...
Girls beat up Iran cleric over dress code
Post Date: 2012-09-20 21:13:55 by A K A Stone
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Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- They may be a far cry from their Western counterparts fighting for the acceptance to breast-feed -- or go topless -- in public, but two girls clobbered a cleric recently in a small town in Iran when he admonished one of them to cover herself more completely. The cleric said he asked "politely," but the girl's angry reaction and some pugilistic double-teaming with her friend landed the holy man in the hospital, according to an account Monday in the semiofficial Mehr News Agency. Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the girls on his way to the mosque in the village of Shahmirzad for noon prayers in late August. Women's bodies: The public ...
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