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Libyan Muslim leaders order followers to rebel
Post Date: 2011-02-21 09:55:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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Feb 21 (Reuters) - A coalition of Libyan Muslim leaders has issued a declaration telling all Muslims it is their duty to rebel against the Libyan leadership. "They have demonstrated total arrogant impunity and continued, and even intensified, their bloody crimes against humanity. They have thereby demonstrated total infidelity to the guidance of God and His beloved Prophet (peace be upon him)," said the group, called the Network of Free Ulema of Libya. "This renders them undeserving of any obedience or support, and makes rebelling against them by all means possible a divinely ordained duty," the group said in a declaration obtained by Reuters on Monday. (Reporting by ...
Gaddafi flees Tripoli, protesters torch Libyan parliament
Post Date: 2011-02-21 09:14:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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On the run: Gaddafi flees Tripoli as protesters set the Libyan parliament building alight * Protesters appear to have taken control of second city Benghazi * Up to 400 feared dead after dozens killed in overnight violence * David Cameron declares regime response is 'appalling and unacceptable' * Gaddafi's son says: 'We will fight to the last minute, until the last bullet' * UN warns that British Government could be guilty of 'complicity' in killings Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to have fled the capital Tripoli after anti-government demonstrators breached the state television building and set government property alight. Protesters appear to have ...
Warship Shadowing Hijacked American Yacht
Post Date: 2011-02-20 21:53:17 by Murron
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Warship Shadowing Hijacked American Yacht By: ABDI GULED, Associated Press A warship is shadowing a yacht with four Americans on board that was hijacked by Somali pirates, a pirate said Sunday, as the vessel was reported to be moving closer to the Somali coast. The yacht Quest was hijacked on Friday off the coast of Oman, but is now in the waters between Yemen and northern Somalia, two pirates and a Somali government official told The Associated Press. One pirate who gave his name only as Hassan said a warship with a helicopter on its deck is near the Quest. The pirate's claim could not be independently verified, and U.S. officials on Sunday did not release any information about ...
12 Taxi Drivers, Fares Killed in Mexican Resort (Acapulco)
Post Date: 2011-02-20 20:58:46 by Murron
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12 Taxi Drivers, Fares Killed in Mexican Resort (Acapulco) ACAPULCO, Mexico – A spate of attacks on taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco has left 12 taxi drivers or passengers dead, police said Sunday, just hours before the Mexican Open tennis tournament is scheduled to start. Acapulco has been the scene of bloody drug cartel turf wars, and taxi drivers have often been targeted for extortion or recruited by the gangs to act as lookouts or transport drugs. The organizers of the largest tennis tournament in Latin America said in a statement Sunday that the Mexican government has assured them that appropriate security measures have been taken for the event that starts Monday. ...
Libya protests: Gaddafi's son warns of civil war
Post Date: 2011-02-20 20:23:57 by A K A Stone
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son, Sayf al-Islam, has warned of civil war in the country. He said that the government would "fight to the last bullet" to stay in office. In a TV address to the nation broadcast as anti-government protests spread to the capital Tripoli, he admitted that the military had over-reacted against protesters. But he accused opposition groups and Islamists of trying to break up Libya. He played down casualties, suggesting that at most 14 people, not 200, died in clashes in the eastern city of Benghazi. And he promised "reform and democracy", saying that Libya's legislative forum would meet on Monday. Heavy gunfire could be heard ...
The Arab Revolution Saudi Update
Post Date: 2011-02-20 19:49:41 by A K A Stone
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Remember, in a former post, when I said that Saudis were captivated and shocked by what happened in Tunis and Egypt but hadn’t collectively made up their mind about it? Well it appears that they have. Everywhere I go and everything I read points to a revolution in our own country in the foreseeable future. However we are still on the ledge and haven’t jumped yet. I know that some analysts are worried particularly of Saudi Arabia being taken over by Al Qaeda or a Sunni version of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. Calm down. Besides my gut feeling (which is rarely wrong), the overwhelming majority of people speaking out and calling out for a revolution are people who want democracy ...
Gadaffi's tent finds home on Donald Trump's estate
Post Date: 2011-02-20 18:16:52 by A K A Stone
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Moammar Gadaffi pitched his tent on an estate belonging to Donald Trump in suburban New York on Tuesday, according to reports. The Libyan leader is scheduled to attend the UN general assembly this week. He had been struggling to find a plot to accommodate the large Bedouin tent he takes with him when travelling abroad. Workers were seen on Tuesday erecting a tent and satellites in the glamorous neighbourhood of Bedford on an estate owned by Trump. Local officials tried to stop them, saying it was illegal to build a temporary residence without a permit. An ABC News helicopter filmed a large tent on the 45 hectare Seven Springs estate, with rugs and patterned wall hangings. Green and yellow ...
Common Thread to Middle East Protests: Young, Connected Populations
Post Date: 2011-02-20 13:38:37 by jwpegler
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There have been a lot of uninformed commentaries on the cause of the various uprisings in the Middle East, especially among the neo-cons who have become hysterical about a plot by the Muslim Brotherhood to take over the Middle East and then the world. The fact is that the situations in the countries experiencing protests in the middle east are all very different. 1.) Tunisia is a relatively wealthy country. The protests there are very similar to what happened in Chile and many Southeast Asian countries in the 80s and 90s -- people who got some amount of economic freedom finally demanded political freedom as well. 2.) Egypt is very poor and corrupt. Young people decided not to take it any ...
Obama's snubbed, is the Queen a racist?
Post Date: 2011-02-20 13:35:35 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obamas Not Invited to William and Kate’s Wedding President and Mrs. Obama, along with many other heads of state, are not invited to the April 29 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, according to the British press. The Daily Telegraph is reporting that, as far as leaders of nations go, the British royals have decided only to invite fellow royalty and the leaders of the former British colonies that comprise the Commonwealth. So in addition to the Obamas, other international leaders who could add lots of bling to the affair, like French President Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni, are not on the list. Most of the 1,900 people invited to the wedding are drawn from the Royal ...
Top Five Myths about the Middle East Protests
Post Date: 2011-02-20 11:04:36 by go65
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5. Dear right wing blogosphere and also Bill Maher: You can’t generalize about women’s position in Muslim countries based on a reprehensible mob attack on CBS reporter Lara Logan. Generalizing about a whole group of people based on a single incident is called “bigotry.” It is also a logical fallacy (for wingnuts challenged by six syllables in a row, that means, ‘when your brain doesn’t work right’) known as the ‘Hasty Generalization.’ Nobody seems to note that allegedly helpless Egyptian women were the ones who saved Logan, or that Anderson Cooper was also attacked. Some other examples of reporters or celebrities being assaulted by crowds are ...
Libyan forces fire on mourners at funeral again/Mrs. Clinton b*t*hes about Israel, again
Post Date: 2011-02-20 09:21:02 by Happy Quanzaa
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LINK Libyan forces fire on mourners at funeral again By Salah Nasrawi, Associated Press – 6 mins ago CAIRO – Libyan forces fired machine-guns at mourners marching in a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi Sunday, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi pummeled demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weaponry. A doctor at one city hospital said his morgue had at least 200 dead from six days of unrest. The doctor said his hospital, one of two in Libya's second-largest city, is out of supplies and cannot treat more than 70 wounded in similar attacks on mourners Saturday and other ...
Palestinians Calls For 'Day Of Rage' After UNSC
Post Date: 2011-02-19 19:21:27 by Brian S
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Palestinians on Saturday called for a “day of rage” this Friday to protest against the US administration’s decision to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel for building in the settlements. Expressing outrage over Friday’s veto, the Palestinian Authority threatened to reassess its position on the Middle East peace process. Israel, in contrast, welcomed the veto and called on the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table. Friday’s “decision by the US makes it clear that the only path to... peace will come through direct negotiations and not through the decisions of international bodies. “We are ...
Iran Naval Ships To Cross Suez Canal On Monday
Post Date: 2011-02-19 19:07:56 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Two Iranian naval ships will sail through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean on Monday, a Suez Canal official said, in what will be the first passage of Iranian naval ships through the canal since 1979. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has described Iran's plan to send the ships through the canal en route to Syria as a "provocation." The official said the vessels would arrive at the southern mouth of the canal in the Red Sea's Gulf of Suez on Sunday. They would enter the canal in the northern convoy on Monday morning and complete the journey to the Mediterranean by evening. An Egyptian army source said on Friday that the military, which has been ...
US Faces Difficult Situation In Bahrain, Home To US Fifth Fleet
Post Date: 2011-02-19 16:39:55 by Brian S
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As it was during the early days of the mass antigovernment uprising in Egypt, the United States finds itself in a tricky position regarding Bahrain. Just two months ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pronounced herself “very impressed by the progress that Bahrain is making on all fronts – economically, politically, socially.” “There seems to be a strong broadly-held commitment to democracy,” she said at a town hall meeting in Manama, Bahrain’s capital and largest city. That was before pro-democracy demonstrators filled the streets and government forces responded with deadly force, killing at least four people and sending dozens to hospitals. ...
As Violence Returns To Yemen President Blames Foreign Plots
Post Date: 2011-02-19 14:36:11 by Brian S
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Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- As the ninth day of protests left one dead and five wounded Saturday, Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed the roiling unrest on foreign agendas and a plot against Yemen's stability, according to state-run Saba news agency. "Everybody has the right to express his views peacefully and has the right to have a say through media as there are many democratic means for the expression of opinion," Saleh told Saturday's founding conference of Civil Society Organizations, according to the Saba agency. The president said he hoped the conference will come up recommendations to alleviate the country's current unstable situation. "We do not want ...
Security Forces Pull Back In Libyan City: Witness
Post Date: 2011-02-19 14:24:52 by Brian S
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TRIPOLI | Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:15pm EST TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Security forces in Libya's second city killed at least three people on Saturday but have withdrawn to a fortified compound, a witness said, after the worst unrest in Muammar Gaddafi's four decades in power. Human Rights Watch said 84 people have been killed over the past three days in a fierce security crackdown mounted in response to anti-government protests that sought to emulate uprisings in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia. There was no sign of a nationwide revolt, with the violence concentrated around the city of Benghazi, 1,000 km (600 miles) east of the capital, where support for Gaddafi traditionally has been weaker ...
Bahrain Protesters Swarm Square, Police Flee
Post Date: 2011-02-19 14:23:16 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Anti-government protesters in Bahrain swarmed back into a symbolic square on Saturday, putting riot police to flight in a striking victory for their cause and confidently setting up camp for a protracted stay. Crowds had approached Pearl Square in Manama from different directions, creating a standoff with riot police who had moved in earlier to replace troops withdrawn on royal orders. Suddenly police raced to their buses, which drove away mounting kerbs in their haste to escape. The emboldened protesters, cheering and waving national flags, ran to the center of the traffic circle, reoccupying it even before all the police had left. The crowd waved fleeing policemen through. ...
After Years Of Trying, Moderate Islamic Party Gets Official Recognition In Post-Mubarak Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-19 14:20:58 by Brian S
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CAIRO — A moderate Islamic party outlawed for 15 years was granted official recognition Saturday by an Egyptian court in a sign of increasing political openness after the fall of autocratic President Hosni Mubarak. Al-Wasat Al-Jadid, or the New Center, was founded in 1996 by activists who split off from the conservative Muslim Brotherhood and sought to create a political movement promoting a tolerant version of Islam with liberal tendencies. Its attempts to register as an official party were rejected four times since then, most recently in 2009. In 2007, Human Rights Watch accused Mubarak and his ruling National Democratic Party of using the law that governs the formation of ...
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Post Date: 2011-02-18 19:41:25 by A K A Stone
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Liberatarian Paradise - Lots of Freedom, Roomy and Good Fishing
Post Date: 2011-02-18 16:32:01 by Biff Tannen
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Egypt Agrees To Let 2 Iranian Vessels Transit Suez Canal
Post Date: 2011-02-18 12:47:57 by Brian S
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CAIRO — State media on Friday said Egypt has agreed to let two Iranian naval vessels transit the Suez Canal. State-run news agency MENA said that authorities approved a request from Iranian diplomats who offered assurances that the two ships won't have weapons or nuclear or chemical material. The move had been widely expected and Iranian officials have insisted the request is in line with international regulations. They said the two vessels are headed to Syria for training. On Thursday, the two Iranian naval vessels submitted a request to transit the Suez Canal, Egypt's Foreign Ministry said. Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said Egyptian authorities received the request to ...
Security Forces in Bahrain Fire on Mourners and Journalists
Post Date: 2011-02-18 12:02:37 by Brian S
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MANAMA, Bahrain — Government forces opened fire on hundreds of mourners marching toward Pearl Square Friday, sending people running away in panic amid the boom of concussion grenades. But even as the people fled, at least one helicopter sprayed fire on them and a witness reported seeing mourners crumpling to the ground. It was not immediately clear what type of ammunition the forces were firing, but some witnesses reported live fire from automatic weapons and the crowd was screaming “live fire, live fire.” At a nearby hospital, witnesses reported seeing people with very serious injuries and gaping wounds, at least some of them caused by rubber bullets that appeared to have ...
Top Genocide Scholars Battle Over How To Characterize Israel’s Actions
Post Date: 2011-02-18 11:43:22 by Brian S
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Getty ImagesGenocide?: Palestinians evacuate the village of Zenin in 1948. Some scholars say that what is now called ‘ethnic cleansing’ constitutes a form of genocide. By Gal Beckerman, Published February 16, 2011 Did Jews commit genocide in 1948? The question is provocative, and the answer for most people is an unequivocal no. But a debate over this idea has formed the crux of a heated argument among the most eminent genocide scholars in the world, and led recently to the censure of an Israeli professor by the field’s leading academic association. It’s also one more reminder of the growing divide between European scholars and their American and Israeli counterparts ...
Ahmadinejad: Obama can't spell his own name
Post Date: 2011-02-18 10:00:22 by Happy Quanzaa
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Ahead of pro-government rally, Iranian leader says US president 'can't control his emotions' Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Barack Obama on Friday, saying the American president "doesn't even know how to spell his own name properly." During a visit to Bushehr ahead of a scheduled rally in support of his regime, the Iranian leader said, "Obama wants to rule the world, but he can't even control his own emotions." Thousands of Iranians are expected to take to the streets after Friday prayers to show their support for the regime in Tehran and protest against opposition leaders Mir Hussein Moussavi Mehdi Karroubi. A statement issued ...
Egypt Gets Its Khomeini, Yusuf al-Qaradawi Returns in Triumph
Post Date: 2011-02-18 08:11:56 by Happy Quanzaa
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Friday, February 18 may be a turning point in Egyptian history. On this day Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the best-known Muslim Brotherhood cleric in the world and one of the most famous Islamist thinkers, will address a mass rally in Cairo. It was 32 years ago almost to the day when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned in triumph to Tehran to take the leadership of that country. Qaradawi has a tougher job but he's up to the challenge if his health holds up. Up until now, the Egyptian revolution generally, and the Brotherhood in particular, has lacked a charismatic thinker, someone who could really mobilize the masses. Qaradawi is that man. Long resident in the Gulf, he is returning to his ...
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