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'I am a Muslim,' Obama Tells Egyptian Foreign Minister Gheit
Post Date: 2011-02-17 07:09:59 by A K A Stone
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which President Obama told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the stepson of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda. Not surprisingly, this story did not hit the main stream media. I have looked into this report for several days, before posting blogs on this report. Here is what I have found: According to Israel Today here...By the way, this is a .pdf file. Here is the passage from the May 2010 issue of 'Israel Today.' It is on page 3 in the article titled "Obama, a 'Strategic ...
Obama, Egypt, and the Dawn of the Muslim Brotherhood
Post Date: 2011-02-17 07:06:26 by A K A Stone
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The Brotherhood awakes, Obama rejoices Only one thing is certain regarding the future of Egypt, and that’s the fact that it’s uncertain. But this much we know – that the coup that was just accomplished in Egypt was not a “youth-based movement for peace and democracy”. It is, in fact, a very carefully orchestrated uprising staged and instigated by the Muslim Brotherhood. If you are old enough to recall the 1979 Iranian revolution, then I think you know how it’s all going to go for Egypt. President Obama also seems to be very interested in what happens next, a marked departure from his aloof and uncaring attitude when the Iranian people protested against their ...
In Sharp Reversal, U.S. Agrees To Rebuke israel In Security Council
Post Date: 2011-02-17 00:41:52 by Brian S
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The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal. But the Palestinians rejected the American offer following a meeting late Wednesday of Arab representatives and said it is planning to press for a vote on its resolution on Friday, according to officials familar with the issue. The decision to reject the American offer raised the prospect that the Obama adminstration will cast its first ever veto in the ...
Nasrallah threatens to liberate Galilee if Israel attacks
Post Date: 2011-02-17 00:02:12 by A K A Stone
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BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called Wednesday on his fighters to stand ready to take over northern Israel in the event of a war with the Jewish state, a threat that earned a swift response by Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. “I say to the fighters of the Islamic Resistance: Be ready. If a new war is imposed on Lebanon we may ask you to take Galilee, to free Galilee,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech in response to threats by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to march into Lebanon. “Nasrallah declared today that he will conquer the Galilee. I have news for him. He won’t,” Netanyahu said. “There is no doubt Israel has the ...
Funeral processions held for two martyrs of illegal demos
Post Date: 2011-02-16 23:53:13 by A K A Stone
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Funeral processions held for two martyrs of illegal demos Tehran Times Political Desk TEHRAN - Funeral processions for martyrs Sane’ Jalleh and Mohammad Mokhtari, who died as a result of injuries received during the illegal demonstrations in central Tehran on Monday, were held in the Iranian capital on Wednesday. Thousands of people, including several senior Iranian officials, attended the funeral processions. According to witnesses, Jalleh, Mokhtari, and two other people were shot by rioters during the unrest on Monday. Jalleh succumbed to his injuries on the same day, and Mokhtari died on Tuesday. A statement was read out at the end of Jalleh’s funeral procession in which ...
Girl born with 12 fingers, 14 toes
Post Date: 2011-02-16 23:46:18 by A K A Stone
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YANGON: A mother in Myanmar says her baby girl's 12 fingers and 14 toes have been no disadvantage - her grip may even be stronger than normal - and now she's grasping for a Guinness record. Phyo Min Min Soe, 26, knew her girl Le Yati Min had a little something extra since nearly the moment she was born. "I asked the nurses whether my kid was born complete with hands and legs," says her mother. "They replied that the baby even has more than she needs." Born with 12 fingers and 14 toes, Le may be the most "digitally enhanced" person in the world. Now, the 16-month-old girl's family in impoverished Myanmar is seeking a Guinness World Record to prove ...
Dar Al-Ifta denies backing Al-Qaeda
Post Date: 2011-02-16 23:39:03 by A K A Stone
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JEDDAH: The Permanent Committee for Research and Religious Edicts (Dar Al-Ifta) on Wednesday denied a press report that it had supported Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. “This is a totally false report,” said Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh, grand mufti and chairman of Dar Al-Ifta. Al-Asheikh said Dar Al-Ifta did not author a religious edict (fatwa) supporting Bin Laden and his activities. He said those who circulated on the Internet the false fatwa misusing the names and signatures of Dar Al-Ifta’s members would face the wrath and punishment of God. “Making false statement and attributing it to a person is a big crime and deserves punishment on the basis of Shariah ...
Ancient Britons 'drank from skulls'
Post Date: 2011-02-16 23:30:24 by A K A Stone
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Ancient Britons were not averse to using human skulls as drinking cups, skeletal remains unearthed in southwest England suggest. The braincases from three individuals were fashioned in such a meticulous way that their use as bowls to hold liquid seems the only reasonable explanation. The 14,700-year-old objects were discovered in Gough's Cave, Somerset. Scientists from London's Natural History Museum say the skull-cups were probably used in some kind of ritual. "If you look around the world there are examples of skull-cups in more recent times - in Tibetan culture, in Fiji in Oceania, and in India," said Dr Silvia Bello, a palaeontologist and lead author of a ...
Somali pirate sentenced to 33 years in US prison
Post Date: 2011-02-16 23:25:56 by A K A Stone
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Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is the only survivor of the crew of pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama merchant ship off Somalia's coast in April 2009. He was captured by the US Navy, whose sharpshooters killed three other pirates trying to escape on a lifeboat with the Alabama's American captain. Muse told the court he was "very sorry for what I did". "I got my hands into something that was more powerful than me," Muse said through a translator. Muse's lawyers had sought the 27-year minimum sentence. 'Relishing cruelty' In federal court in New York, prosecutors had portrayed Muse as a ringleader of the pirate gang who seized the Maersk Alabama ...
Yemeni President Says Anti-Government Protesters "Elements Of Coup"
Post Date: 2011-02-16 17:55:52 by Brian S
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SANAA, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power for 33 years, dubbed the protesters who demanded his resignation as "elements of the coup", the official Saba news agency reported Wednesday. "The young people who stage protests are trying to spread unrest across the country and they are elements of the coup," Saleh was quoted by Saba as saying. "I'm not stick to the power, power is available to anyone, but through ballot boxes," he said in a speech when addressing thousands of his tribal supporters in northwest province of Hajja on Wednesday. "The time of coups and chaos is over," Saleh told his supporters. ...
Possible Mexican Military Incursion On U.S. Soil
Post Date: 2011-02-16 17:39:01 by A K A Stone
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MISSION - CHANNEL 5 NEWS is exposing what appears to be a Mexican military incursion into the United States. It was all caught on camera. We froze surveillance video taken at the Anzalduas International Bridge. What you see is the international boundary that separates the United States from Mexico and what authorities on this side of the border seem to think is a truck packed with armed men crossing into the United States. The video clearly shows a large military-transport vehicle drive north on the Anzalduas bridge over the international boundary. We counted at least a dozen armed men in the back of the truck. The vehicle travels down the bridge toward the U.S. Customs checkpoint. Its ...
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 ...
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