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CBS Reporter Lara Logan Raped, Beaten by Egyptian Mob Yelling “Jew,Jew!”
Post Date: 2011-02-16 17:25:01 by A K A Stone
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Update: Caliphate-appeasing POS Nir Rosen was on Twitter the past few days making fun of Logan’s attack. He was calling her a “war-monger” and asking things like, ” Where’s your buddy, McChrystal?” (referring to Logan’s 60 Minutes report on General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan.) Rosen finally sees the error (or not) of his ways and has RESIGNED his “journalism” job and position with NYU Center for Law and Security. DLTDHYOTA. Here is Rosen on Russia Today TV saying “it’s a lie” that Al Qaeda is a threat to the U.S. Update: Did you notice who saved Lara Logan from the Muslim mob? That big old “mean” Egyptian ...
Two Iranian Warships About to Pass Through Suez Canal; Israel May Act
Post Date: 2011-02-16 13:30:54 by Brian S
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Israel is monitoring two Iranian warships about to pass through the Suez Canal for Syria and warn they might act. Israeli's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that "Israel cannot ignore these provocations," according to ynetnews.com. Lieberman added that the warships was "a provocation that proves Iran's nerve and self-esteem is growing from day to day." Iran announced plans to deploy warships near Israel and dock at a Syrian port for a year, IsraelNationalNews.com reports. A senior Israeli official tells the site that "Israel will know how to deal with it."
Israelis Fretting Over U.S. Policy
Post Date: 2011-02-16 12:22:37 by Brian S
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israelis are worried about two more years of President Obama, and the crisis in Egypt is adding to their concerns. Israelis already have a cool relationship with Obama, who in his first year as president called for an Israeli settlement freeze as a precondition to peace talks with the Palestinians. Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo, which called for a “new beginning” between the West and the Muslim world, was also viewed with skepticism in Israel. Now there are questions surrounding the leadership of Egypt, Israel’s traditional ally in the Arab world, as well as U.S. policy toward the Middle East. While Israelis uniformly recognize that the ...
The Voice of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood~Islam's Spiritual 'Dear Abby'
Post Date: 2011-02-16 09:59:50 by Happy Quanzaa
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He is a hypermarket of dogma, dispensing advice on subjects ranging from mother's milk to suicide bombing. But few have as much influence on Sunni Muslims as the Muslim televangelist Youssef al-Qaradawi. He says what the Muslim Brotherhood in Egpyt thinks -- and he provides clues to how they might act. This man is a word machine, a one-man talk show that leaves no subject unexamined. Youssef al-Qaradawi has to talk: about former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, about mothers' milk banks, and about the right of Palestinian women to blow themselves up. He is a driven man. There are so many decisions to be made in this godforsaken modern age, and yet there is only one mufti, only ...
Anti-government protests spread to Libya
Post Date: 2011-02-16 08:28:38 by A K A Stone
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CAIRO (AP) - Hundreds of Libyans calling for the government's ouster clashed with security forces early Wednesday in the country's second-largest city as Egypt-inspired unrest spread to the country long ruled by Moammar Gadhafi. Ashur Shamis, a Libyan opposition activist in London, and witnesses said the protest began Tuesday and lasted until the early hours Wednesday in the port city of Benghazi. Demonstrators chanted "no God but Allah, Moammar is the enemy of Allah" and "Down, down to corruption and to the corrupt." Police and armed government backers quickly clamped down on the protesters, firing rubber bullets, Shami said. The outbreak of protests in ...
Iranian lawmakers condemn protests; call for execution of leaders
Post Date: 2011-02-16 07:38:02 by A K A Stone
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Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian lawmakers denounced Monday's protests in Tehran and called for the execution of two opposition leaders for inciting the demonstrations, Iran's state-run Press TV reported Tuesday. Members of the Iranian parliament issued fiery chants against opposition leaders and former presidential candidates Mehdi Karrubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi. Press TV aired video Tuesday of lawmakers chanting "Moussavi, Karrubi ... execute them." Lawmakers also named former President Mohammad Khatami in some of the death chants. The calls for the leaders' executions come after a particularly deadly month in Iran. At least 66 people were executed in January, ...
General Petraeus To Quit As US Commander In Afghanistan
Post Date: 2011-02-15 18:54:53 by Brian S
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Shocker form The Times Of London: General David Petraeus, the most celebrated American soldier of his generation, is to leave his post as commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan. The Times can reveal that the Pentagon aims to replace General Petraeus, who was appointed less than eight months ago, by the end of the year. Sources have confirmed that the search for a new commander in Kabul is under way. Remember that Petraeus took over last year from General McChrystal, whose Rolling Stone interview criticizing the President forced him to resign/be fired. Update: As some point out, the timeframe is not really that uncommon for a commander in the field.
Bahrain Police Open Fire On Funeral Procession Leaving One Dead
Post Date: 2011-02-15 17:09:30 by Brian S
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* News * World news * Bahrain Bahrain police open fire on funeral procession leaving one dead King pledges inquiry into 'regrettable' deaths as thousands of protesters set up camp in capital * o Tweet this o o Reddit o Buzz up * Ian Black, Middle East editor * guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 15 February 2011 20.48 GMT A funeral in Bahrain Shiite protesters in Bahrain carry the coffin of a comrade who died a day earlier from his wounds following clashes with police. Photograph: Adam Jan/AFP Bahrain has moved to defuse unrest by promising to investigate the killings of opposition protesters who had been inspired by the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. The latest violence in the Gulf ...
CBS News' Lara Logan Brutally Assaulted During Egypt Protests
Post Date: 2011-02-15 16:46:51 by Murron
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CBS News' Lara Logan Brutally Assaulted During Egypt Protests CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Separated From Her Crew And Brutally Assaulted on Day Mubarak Stepped Down CBS News Correspondent Lara Logan in Tahrir Square moments before she was attacked on Feb. 11, 2011. (CBS) (CBSNews) On Friday February 11, the day Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a "60 Minutes" story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy. In the crush of the mob, she was separated from ...
Egyptian Democracy Demonstrators Gang Rape Commie Broadcasting System Reporterette
Post Date: 2011-02-15 16:45:42 by Happy Quanzaa
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CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt ProtestsCBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Separated From Her Crew And Brutally Assaulted on Day Mubarak Stepped Down (CBSNews) On Friday February 11, the day Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a "60 Minutes" story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy. In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a ...
PMSNBC schooled on how Barry blew Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-15 16:24:49 by Happy Quanzaa
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‘How Obama Blew It’ On Egypt Harvard historian Niall Ferguson schools MSNBC’s Mika on what has happened in Egypt and Obama’s incompetence. Just devastating. And this guy teaches at Harvard.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Plans to Establish Official Party
Post Date: 2011-02-15 14:30:28 by Brian S
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The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest political opposition group, said it plans to establish itself as a formal party in anticipation of legal changes that may permit it to take part in elections. The party will be formed “at the nearest possible opportunity,” the group’s spokesman, Mohamed Morsey, said in a telephone interview today. The Muslim Brotherhood waited two days before saying it would join the protests that led to the fall of President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11. The group said it shared the goals of the hundreds of thousands who rallied for 18 days, including seeking an end to Mubarak’s 30-year rule, a new constitution, an end to the country’s ...
Bahrain’s Shiite Protesters Demand Democracy as Unrest Spreads
Post Date: 2011-02-15 11:37:16 by Brian S
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Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Protests in Bahrain to demand democracy and an end to discrimination against the Shiite Muslim majority escalated after the death of a second demonstrator, as unrest in the region also led to clashes between protesters and police in Yemen. Thousands of Bahrainis gathered at the Pearl Roundabout traffic intersection in Manama, the capital, shouting slogans against the government after the funeral of a protester killed in clashes with police yesterday. A second protester died today in fighting at the funeral, the official Bahrain News Agency said, as police fired rubber bullets and birdshot and used tear gas. The main Shiite opposition group suspended its work in ...
Mubarak Falls Into Coma After Final Speech
Post Date: 2011-02-15 00:46:29 by Murron
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Mubarak Falls Into Coma After Final Speech DUBAI (AlArabiya.net) Egypt's deposed president, Hosni Mubarak, went into a full coma on Saturday night at his residence in the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, an Egyptian newspaper reported on Monday, quoting well-informed sources. Mubarak and his family moved to Sharm al-Sheikh on Thursday night following his final speech, in which he handed over executive authority to former Vice-President Omar Suleiman, Egypt's al-Masry al-Youm reported. Former president Hosni Mubarak The same sources said that Mubarak was currently receiving medical treatment but that no decision had yet been made on whether to transfer the 82-year-old former ...
Egypt Presidential Hopeful: Peace Treaty With Israel Is Over
Post Date: 2011-02-14 18:26:48 by Brian S
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A leader of Egypt's secular opposition declared Sunday that the country's 30-year peace treaty with Israel was "over", despite assurances by the new military rulers that it would honor the accord in the wake of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation. "The Camp David accord is over," Dr. Ayman Nur, leader of the Tomorrow Party who is planning to seek candidacy in the Egyptian presidential elections, told Egyptian radio. His remarks were carried by Israel's Channel 2. "Egypt must at least renegotiate the terms of the accord," said Nur, who spent years incarcerated in Egyptian prison and was released with the help of U.S. intervention. Nur is not ...
Iran 'Steadily' Produces Enriched Uranium: IAEA Head
Post Date: 2011-02-14 17:11:26 by Brian S
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Iran is "steadily" producing enriched uranium, the head of the UN nuclear monitoring organization said in an interview published The Washington Post Monday. Yukia Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, expressed concern it might be pursuing military goals. "Iran is somehow producing uranium enriched to 3.5 percent and 20 percent. They are producing it steadily, constantly," Amano told the paper. Iran is at loggerheads with the West over its nuclear programme of uranium enrichment, and the last round of talks between Tehran and the world powers broke down in Istanbul in January. Western powers led by the United States suspect Iran is ...
Iraq diverts F-16 budget for food rations
Post Date: 2011-02-14 15:32:34 by go65
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BAGHDAD — Iraq has postponed the planned purchase of 18 F-16 fighter planes from the United States this year and diverted the funds to feeding the poor, an official said on Monday, amid growing protests that have been inspired by the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. "The F-16 contract has been postponed this year and the money has been diverted toward improving food rations" for the poor, government spokesman Ali Dabbagh told AFP. "Mo more fighter contract," he added. "In the new draft budget for 2011 that was presented to us, $900 million was earmarked for the purchase of F-16s, which will be used to finance rations and social benefits," confirmed ...
Tunisia Sternly Rejects Italian Offer Of Help In Tackling Waves Of Migrants Fleeing Upheaval
Post Date: 2011-02-14 11:39:10 by Brian S
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TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia has sternly rejected an Italian offer to send police to the North African country to help tackle waves of illegal migrants fleeing political upheaval, saying Monday it would fight any attack on its sovereignty. More than 4,000 migrants have landed on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa this week, fleeing uncertainty in Tunisia following massive street protests and the ouster of longtime dictator Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali. Although the situation has calmed down, sporadic unrest persists in some areas of the Mediterranean country. Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Italy could send "our contingents, who can patrol the coasts," as well as ...
Egyptian labor unrest grows after uprising [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-02-14 10:53:38 by Godwinson
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Egyptian labor unrest grows after uprising
(AP) – 22 minutes ago
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military rulers called for an end to strikes and protests Monday as thousands of state employees, from ambulance drivers to police and transport workers, demonstrated to demand better pay in a growing wave of labor unrest unleashed by the democracy uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak's regime.
The statement by the ruling military council that took power from Mubarak appeared to be a final warning to protest organizers in labor and professional unions before the army intervenes and imposes an outright ban on gatherings, strikes and sit-ins.
Soldiers cleared out almost all the remaining ...
Bomb attack survivor is new Iran atom chief
Post Date: 2011-02-14 10:50:19 by Happy Quanzaa
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Tehran (AFP) Feb 13, 2011 Iran has appointed nuclear scientist Fereydoon Abbasi Davani, who survived a bomb attack in November, as the country's new atomic chief, media reports said on Sunday. Abbasi Davani, reportedly a veteran of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and a target of UN sanctions, replaces Ali Akbar Salehi who was endorsed as foreign minister last month. His appointment comes at a time when talks between Iran and the world powers over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme have failed. The announcement of Abbasi Davani's appointment was declared in an order issued by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the state television website said. "You are ...
Probe Sought of Mubarak Family's Purported Fortune (70 Billion)
Post Date: 2011-02-14 00:42:19 by Murron
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Probe Sought of Mubarak Family's Purported Fortune CAIRO (AP) -- Switzerland has frozen whatever assets Hosni Mubarak and his associates may have there, and anti-corruption campaigners are demanding the same of other countries. But experts say hunting for the deposed Egyptian leader's purported hidden wealth -- let alone recovering it -- will be an enormous task. Mubarak's actual worth remains a mystery. A recent claim that he and his sons Gamal and Alaa may have amassed a fortune of up to $70 billion -- greater than that of Microsoft's Bill Gates -- helped drive the protests that eventually brought him down. "Oh, Mubarak, tell us where you got 70 billion ...
Arab Media Reports: Mubarak Seriously Ill
Post Date: 2011-02-14 00:02:17 by Murron
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Arab Media Reports: Mubarak Seriously Ill Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is seriously ill, according to sources quoted by Palestinian news agency Ma'ain on Sunday. The sources said that Mubarak was suffering serious health problems, and that he had fainted before delivering his last speech on Thursday. The report came two days after Mubarak stepped down and ceded power to the Egyptian armed forces, following 18 days of unprecedented popular protests. Over the weekend, a Bahrain report claimed that Mubarak had fallen into a coma, while an Egyptian paper said that he was in Germany seeking medical treatment.
Looking at the (Suspended) Egyptian Constitution
Post Date: 2011-02-13 19:49:45 by A K A Stone
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At one point it this ongoing process, I thought that the reason Mubarak finally got around (after 31 years) to appointing a Vice President was to create a path for succession. However, in consulting the (now suspended, it would seem) Egyptian Constitution, I understand that a) the line of succession was actually to the Speaker of the People’s Assembly (lower chamber of parliament) and then to the President of the Supreme Constitutional Court (see Article 84 below). The Vice President only takes control if the President temporarily cannot fulfill his duties. Indeed, Mubarak’s attempt yesterday to stay in the office whilst delegating powers to Suleiman makes sense in that context ...
Report: Palestinian Cabinet To Resign In Wake Of Mideast Turmoil
Post Date: 2011-02-13 18:42:42 by Brian S
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Source tells Reuters 'massive change' expected in the composition of President Abbas' government; negotiations to start with Palestinian factions 'immediately.' By Reuters Tags: Israel news Middle East peace Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas Hamas The Palestinian cabinet will tender resignations on Monday after which Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas, political sources said. The shake-up, disclosed to Reuters on Sunday, was long demanded by Fayyad and some in Abbas's Fatah faction. It follows the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to a popular revolt that has set off reform ...
UPDATE 1-Gaddafi tells Palis: revolt against Israel
Post Date: 2011-02-13 18:04:18 by Happy Quanzaa
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* Libyan leader says refugees should mass on Israel's shores * 'This is a time of popular revolutions': Gaddafi * Accuses Western powers of being enemies of Islam (Updates with more quotes in paragraphs 11-13) By Ali Shuaib and Salah Sarrar TRIPOLI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Palestinian refugees should capitalise on the wave of popular revolts in the Middle East by massing peacefully on the borders of Israel until it gives in to their demands, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday. Gaddafi is respected in many parts of the Arab world for his uncompromising criticism of Israel and Arab leaders who have dealings with the Jewish state, though some people in the region dismiss ...
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