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Exclusive: America 'was warned of embassy attack but did nothing'
Post Date: 2012-09-14 09:23:58 by calcon
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The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal. American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential. The US administration is now facing a crisis in Libya. Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Other such refuges across the ...
REPORTS: (Egypt) No Live Ammo for Marines
Post Date: 2012-09-13 14:27:18 by Murron
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REPORTS: (Egypt) No Live Ammo for Marines Marine blogs say U.S. embassy did not authorize service members to carry ammo U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in Egypt were not permitted by the State Department to carry live ammunition, limiting their ability to respond to attacks like those this week on the U.S. consulate in Cairo. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson “did not permit U.S. Marine guards to carry live ammunition,” according to multiple reports on U.S. Marine Corps blogs spotted by Nightwatch. “She neutralized any U.S. military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy.” U.S. officials have yet to confirm or ...
Watch it Here. The Movie that Pissed off the Pedophile Worshippers
Post Date: 2012-09-13 12:02:53 by A K A Stone
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If Youtube takes the video down. You can download it right here.
moviecomix.com/start_down...%20of%20muslims%20torrent
Iraqi Militia Threatens U.S. Interests Over Film
Post Date: 2012-09-13 11:52:54 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD | Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:09am EDT (Reuters) - An Iraqi militia that carried out some of the most prominent attacks on foreigners during the Iraq war on Thursday threatened U.S. interests in the country over a film that has triggered protests in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. "The offence caused to the messenger (Prophet Mohammad) will put all American interests in danger and we will not forgive them for that," said Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Asaib al-Haq militia. The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other staff were killed overnight on Tuesday in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi over the film. Protests against the film erupted in Baghdad on Thursday and in the ...
Iran Plans Protests Over Anti-Islam Film
Post Date: 2012-09-13 11:44:30 by Brian S
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TEHRAN — Iran has condemned a film insulting Islam that sparked a deadly protest in Libya killing the US ambassador, while Iranian media reported an anti-US protest over the movie would take place in Tehran on Thursday. A foreign ministry statement slammed the film, an amateur production made in the United States, as “repulsive” and said the US government’s “silence” encouraged such offences to Islam. The Iranian statement made no mention of the attacks on US diplomatic compounds in Egypt and Libya by ultra-conservative Muslims protesting the film. In the Libya attack, US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other US officials were killed when a mob stormed ...
Obama Hits Back At Romney For Playing Politics Over Libyan Consulate Attack
Post Date: 2012-09-13 11:17:46 by Brian S
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Barack Obama has stepped into the political row over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s ill-judged response to the Benghazi consulate attack. Romney faced heavy criticism from across the political spectrum for statements issued on Tuesday evening and repeated at a press conference on Wednesday morning in which he accused the Obama administration of being too ready to apologise for American values. Former diplomats, foreign policy analysts and many Republicans distanced themselves from Romney’s remarks, accusing him of being premature in trying to make political capital out of a fatal attack on US diplomats. To add to his problems, the statements were quickly shown ...
Obama Says Egypt Neither Ally Nor Enemy
Post Date: 2012-09-13 11:08:55 by A K A Stone
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President Obama says the U.S. would no longer consider the Egyptian government an ally, “but we don’t consider them an enemy.” In an interview with the Spanish-language network Telemundo, less than 24 hours after violent mobs stormed American diplomatic outposts in Cairo and Benghazi, Libya, Obama said the new Muslim Brotherhood leadership in Egypt was still “trying to find its way.” “They were democratically elected. I think we are going to have to see how they respond to this incident, to see how they respond to maintaining the peace treaty with Israel,” he said. Egyptian security forces were slow to respond to attacks on the U.S. embassy Tuesday ...
U.S. Embassy in Yemen Stormed as Protests Over Film Spread
Post Date: 2012-09-13 10:21:15 by Brian S
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Protesters attempted to storm the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital Sana’a and one was reportedly shot dead, while demonstrators rallied in Egypt and Iran against a film seen as insulting to Islam. The spread of violence follows the killing of the American ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three colleagues during an attack on consular buildings there two days ago. U.S. lawmakers said yesterday that groups tied to al-Qaeda may have been involved. Demonstrators in Sana’a breached the compound’s security perimeter and set two cars ablaze, as security personnel fired into the air to disperse the crowd, said Yousef Al-Ahjan, who joined the rally. One protester was ...
Obama: "I will stand with the Muslims..."
Post Date: 2012-09-13 08:40:21 by A K A Stone
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In his ghost-written (by William Ayers) 'autobiography', "Dreams of My Father", Barack Hussein Obama said, "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction..."
Lebanese paper report - Murdered U.S. Ambassador to Libya Reportedly Raped
Post Date: 2012-09-13 02:20:17 by Murron
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Lebanese paper report - Murdered U.S. Ambassador to Libya Reportedly Raped According to the Lebanese news organization Tayyar.org, citing AFP news sources, U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, who was killed by gunmen that stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday, was reportedly raped before being murdered. A google translation of the report says : A news report made by the Libyan Free Press is also reporting that Ambassador Stevens was sodomized before he was killed: "Libya - USA Ambassador in Bengazi sodomized and killed by his own al-Qaeda puppets." (not in english)
WTF!!!!!!!Report: U.S. consulate in Benghazi had no Marine protection
Post Date: 2012-09-12 23:12:04 by calcon
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The consulate where the American ambassador to Libya was killed on Tuesday is an “interim facility” not protected by the contingent of Marines that safeguards embassies, POLITICO has learned… A senior administration official Wednesday called the Benghazi consulate “an interim facility,” which the State Department began using “before the fall of Qadhafi.” It was staffed Tuesday by Libyan and State Department security officers. The consulate came under fire from heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at about 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday. By the time the attack ended several hours later, four Americans were dead and three others had been injured. ...
Flashback: Media Amazed by Obama's 'Deft' Libya Policy
Post Date: 2012-09-12 14:32:12 by calcon
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The media’s full-throttled attack on Mitt Romney’s condemnation of Barack Obama’s weak handling of the Libyan crisis isn’t surprising given they invested so much time praising the President’s Libyan policy in 2011., During the Arab Spring of 2011, Time’s Mark Halperin called the administration’s policy toward Libya “deft” and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell declared Obama’s “victories” in the Middle East would “burnish his credentials as a world leader.” NBC’s David Gregory hailed that since Obama “has been tested” in the foreign policy “arena” he would use the experience as “a club against ...
'israeli' Who Made Anti-Islam Film In Hiding After Protests
Post Date: 2012-09-12 11:37:36 by Brian S
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LOS ANGELES // A filmmaker based in California went into hiding after a YouTube trailer of his movie attacking Islam's Prophet Mohammed sparked angry assaults by Muslims on US missions in Egypt and Libya. The US ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed. Speaking by phone yesterday from an undisclosed location, a writer and director who identified himself as Sam Bacile and an Israeli, remained defiant, saying Islam is a "cancer" and that the 56-year-old intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion. Protesters angered over Bacile's film opened fire on and burned down the US consulate in the eastern Libyan ...
American Ambassador, 3 Others Killed In Libya During Riots Over Mohammed Film
Post Date: 2012-09-12 11:35:07 by Brian S
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TRIPOLI, Libya — The US ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the US consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Mohammad, Libyan officials said Wednesday.They said Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff as the building came under attack by a mob guns and rocket propelled grenades. AFP/Getty ImagesLibyan civilians help an unconscious Chris Stevens, at the US consulate compound in Benghazi . Stevens and three of his colleagues were killed in an attack on the US consulate. ...
Mitt’S Shameful Libya Statement
Post Date: 2012-09-12 11:19:21 by Brian S
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That it’s fundamentally dishonest hasn’t stopped Mitt Romney from repeating his central critique of Barack Obama’s foreign policy over and over – the idea that the president “went around the world and apologized for America.” So it shouldn’t be surprising that Romney’s response to the attacks on U.S. diplomatic installations in Egypt and Libya was rooted in the same caricature of Obama as apologizer-in-chief.“It’s disgraceful,” Romney’s statement, which was released late Tuesday night, read, “that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with ...
Buchanan: Has Obama called Bibi’s bluff?
Post Date: 2012-09-11 11:49:59 by Brian S
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9/11/2012 04:22 AM RESIZE: AAA Print What is Bibi Netanyahu up to? With all his warnings of Iran’s “nuclear capability,” of red lines being crossed, of “breakout,” of the international community failing in its duty, of an “existential threat” to Israel, what is the prime minister’s game? The answer is apparent. Bibi wants Iran’s nuclear program shut down, all enrichment ended, all enriched uranium removed and guarantees that Iran will never again start up a nuclear program. And if Tehran refuses to surrender its right even to a peaceful nuclear program, he wants its nuclear facilities, especially the enrichment facility at Fordow, deep ...
Suspected Hezbollah member arrested in Mexico
Post Date: 2012-09-10 21:27:36 by A K A Stone
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An alleged member of the radical Islamic movement Hezbollah has been arrested in Mexico and handed over to US authorities, Mexican media reported Sunday. Reforma newspaper identified the detained man as Rafic Mohammad Labboun Allaboun, a Lebanese-American , who was wanted by the US government. Allaboun was arrested in the city of Merida late Saturday as part of an operation conducted by Mexican immigration agents and local police, the report said. Two other suspected Hezbollah members – George Abdalah Elders and Justin Yasser Safa of Belize – were arrested along with Allaboun, according to the paper. Since US law enforcement authorities had put out an international alert on ...
Why Is Putin Stockpiling Gold? Russia Is Bulking Up Its Gold Reserve
Post Date: 2012-09-07 14:28:16 by Brian S
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I can’t imagine it means anything cheerful that Vladimir Putin, the Russian czar, is stockpiling gold as fast as he can get his hands on it. According to the World Gold Council, Russia has more than doubled its gold reserves in the past five years. Putin has taken advantage of the financial crisis to build the world’s fifth-biggest gold pile in a handful of years, and is buying about half a billion dollars’ worth every month. It emerged last month that financial gurus George Soros and John Paulson had also increased their bullion exposure, but it’s Putin that’s really caught my eye. No one else in the world plays global power politics as ruthlessly as ...
Senior Catholic Cleric: 'If Jews Want Respect, They Must Respect Others'
Post Date: 2012-09-07 11:25:43 by Brian S
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The "price tag" vandalism this week of the monastery at Latrun, in which the culprits sprayed the building's facade with the words "Jesus is a monkey" and set the front door alight, prompted a fierce statement of condemnation signed by Catholic church leaders here. One of the statement's senior signatories, who holds the title of custos (Latin for guardian ) of holy sites on behalf of the Vatican, is a Franciscan priest of Italian origin named Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Prior to the church's statement, which questioned what was going on in Israeli society that would prompt such an act, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the vandalism, calling ...
Iran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory Over The Washington-Israeli Axis
Post Date: 2012-09-06 15:15:59 by Brian S
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by James Petras / September 6th, 2012 Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of state. Even the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, notorious mouthpiece of Washington, felt obligated to address a forum attended by two-thirds of the member countries of the UN, despite State Department and Israeli objections. Any objective evaluation of the meeting, its venue, the attendance, resolutions and political impact leads to one paramount conclusion: the NAM meeting was a strategic diplomatic victory for Iran and a ...
THE REPUBLICANS CROSS THE RUBICON
Post Date: 2012-09-05 12:03:06 by Capitalist Eric
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During the 1980s NPR was continually on the case of the Reagan administration. NPR certainly had a Democratic slant, and a lot of its reporting about the Reagan administration was one-sided. Yet, NPR was an independent voice, and it sometimes got things correct. In the 21st century that voice has disappeared, which was the intention of the George W. Bush regime. Bush put a Republican woman in charge who made it clear to NPR producers and show hosts that the federal part of their funding was at risk. Money often over-rules principle, and when corporations added their really big money NPR collapsed. Today the local stations still pretend to be funded by listeners, but if you have noticed, ...
US Slips Down the Ranks of Global Competitiveness
Post Date: 2012-09-05 10:04:47 by calcon
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The United States has slipped further down a global ranking of the world's most competitive economies, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey released on Wednesday. New York City Photo: Jumper | Photodisc | Getty Images New York City, financial capital of the United States The world's largest economy, which was placed 5th last year, fell two positions to the 7th spot - marking its fourth year of decline. A lack of macroeconomic stability, the business community’s continued mistrust of the government and concerns over its fiscal health were some of the reasons for the downgrade, according to the annual survey. "A number of weaknesses are chipping away at its ...
In New Egypt Shake-Up, Islamists Put In Governor Posts, Human Rights And Press Agencies
Post Date: 2012-09-04 20:58:04 by Brian S
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CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's Islamist leadership took a new move Tuesday to put its stamp on the country's government, appointing members of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood as provincial governors and installing ultraconservatives and other Islamists in the state's top human rights body and a powerful media council. The shake-up was the latest step by President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood to reshape state institutions that were long the monopoly of ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, his ruling party and the military that backed him. Supporters have praised the moves as part of a drive to cleanse the system of Mubarak loyalists after Morsi was inaugurated in late June ...
Israeli Settlers 'Desecrate Christian Monastery'; Church Leaders Decry Vandalism, 'Teaching Of Contempt' For Christians In Israel
Post Date: 2012-09-04 17:33:34 by Brian S
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Israeli police are investigating after vandals attacked a famous Christian monastery - setting fire to its door and spray-painting "Jesus is a monkey" on the wall. The Latrun Monastery, on occupied land in the Ayalon Valley, 15 miles west of Jerusalem, was daubed with pro-settler graffiti. Officers believe it was in possible retaliation for the eviction of 50 families from the nearby unauthorised Migron settlement on Sunday. Migron, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, was cleared after an Israeli court ruled it had been illegally built on Palestinian land. The settlers left the area quietly and moved to temporary housing at another settlement, but eight youths who protested ...
Iraqi PM Nouri al Maliki: Ending Zionists' Occupation, Only Way of Achieving Peace
Post Date: 2012-09-02 23:35:33 by Brian S
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(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Nouri al Maliki appreciated Iran for its hospitality and said: “Iraq is one of the founder countries and I am happy to have this opportunity to discuss the increasing challenges and changes of the world.” “Realizing NAM goals is possible through cooperation and solidarity of member states and we believe that NAM can turn into a pole” he said and added: “NAM should evolve itself with regard to changes in the world and its new goals". Maliki said: “the Syrian government and its opponents should not get into armed fight in spite of the efforts to prolong this civil war.” Iraqi PM said: “there should two approaches be ...
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