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Jordan's Powerful Muslim Opposition Warns That Arabs Will Topple US-Allied Mideast Leaders
Post Date: 2011-01-29 14:24:02 by Brian S
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By Jamal Halaby (CP) – 1 hour ago AMMAN, Jordan — The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States. Hammam Saeed's comments were made at a protest outside the Egyptian Embassy in Amman, inspired by massive rallies in neighbouring Egypt demanding the downfall of the country's longtime president, Hosni Mubarak. About 100 members of the fundamentalist group and activists from other leftist organizations and trade unions chanted "Mubarak, step down" and "the decision is made, the people's revolt will remain." ...
Mubarak reassures Saudi King Abdullah about Egyptian "situation"
Post Date: 2011-01-29 11:04:34 by Happy Quanzaa
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Saudi Arabia slammed protesters in Egypt as "infiltrators" who seek to destabilize their country Saturday while an Iranian official called on Egypt to "abide by the rightful demands of the nation" and avoid violent reactions. Saudi King Abdullah called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and "was reassured" about the situation in Egypt, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported. "During the call, the king said, 'Egypt is a country of Arabism and Islam. No Arab and Muslim human being can bear that some infiltrators, in the name of freedom of expression, have infiltrated into the brotherly people of Egypt, to ...
Hussein Obama bows to Syrian Islamo terror dictator Assad, resumes full diplomatic relations
Post Date: 2011-01-29 08:45:18 by Happy Quanzaa
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U.S. Ambassador Back in Syria The United States resumed full diplomatic ties with Syria this week, sending new ambassador Robert Ford, who met Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Thursday. Ford told Assad that he hopes America's relationship with Syria will improve. The U.S. pulled its ambassador in 2005 following the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Syria was suspected of involvement in the killing. At the time Syria was already under sanctions for its support for Hizbullah and other terrorist groups. U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Ford during a Congressional recess in order to get around Republican opposition. Ford's meeting with Assad ...
Israel Fears Radical Takeover In Egypt
Post Date: 2011-01-28 20:27:42 by Brian S
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Extremist takeover in Egypt would put Israel in ‘wholly different position,’ security official warns Latest Update: 01.29.11, 02:35 / Israel News A fundamental change of government in Egypt may lead to a “revolution in Israel’s security doctrine,” a defense official told Ynet Friday night, as protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s rule continued to intensify. The security official made it clear that Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt constitutes an important strategic asset, “which enables the IDF to focus on other theaters.” The defense source said that the IDF would have to dedicate major resources in order to devote any attention to ...
Egypt's Mubarak Sacks Government, Vows Reforms
Post Date: 2011-01-28 20:13:02 by Brian S
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CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak sacked Egypt's government and vowed to bring in democratic and economic reforms, in a televised address early on Saturday after deadly anti-regime protests. "I have asked the government to resign and tomorrow there will be a new government," a stoney-faced Mubarak said after four days of protests demanding his resignation in which at least 27 people have been killed. He vowed to pursue economic and political reforms. "We will not backtrack on reforms. We will continue with new steps which will ensure the independence of the judiciary and its rulings, and more freedom for citizens," Mubarak said. New steps will be taken "to ...
Iraq or Afghanistan? Prezbo Obama of the 58 United States made a muddled mess
Post Date: 2011-01-28 18:46:23 by Happy Quanzaa
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Which war?Obama swaps Iraq and Afghanistan President Obama mixed up the two countries while answering a question online Thursday. AP Photo Hit with a tough question about his administration’s policy in Afghanistan and Iraq on Thursday, President Obama made a muddled mess out of his plans for withdrawing troops from the region. Obama swapped “Iraq” for “Afghanistan” when he answered a question on YouTube about whether he still believes soldiers need to die in the wars there. “As I said, we will be out of Afghanistan by the end of this year,” Obama said, a fairly significant misstatement of his administration’s Afghanistan policy, which doesn’t ...
Watch the Egypt Protests LIVE
Post Date: 2011-01-28 18:15:43 by jwpegler
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Hussein Obama to Mubarak: Told ya' so
Post Date: 2011-01-28 18:05:59 by Happy Quanzaa
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Axelrod: President Obama Has “On Several Occasions Directly Confronted” Mubarak on Human Rights for the Past 2 Years “To Get Ahead of This” In a network exclusive interview to air on Nightline tonight, we sat down this afternoon with White House senior adviser David Axelrod, the president’s closest aide, whose last day at the White House is today. We talked about a number of issues in this exit interview, but perhaps most news-worthy were his comments on Egypt in which Axelrod suggested President Obama has for two years “directly confronted” the Egyptian president over human rights issues in order to get ahead of growing discontent among his people – ...
Cleric: Uprisings In Arab States Promising Birth Of Islamic Middle-East
Post Date: 2011-01-28 14:42:18 by Brian S
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran's provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Yemen signify creation of an Islamic Middle-East. "Incidents that are happening in the Middle-East and the Arab world should not be regarded simply," Ayatollah Khatami said, addressing a large and fervent congregation of people on Tehran University campus. "To those who do not see the realities I clarify that an Islamic Middle-East is being created based on Islam, religion, and democracy with prevailing religious principals," Ayatollah Khatami stressed. He was referring to the recent historic revolution in Tunisia and massive ...
Top Palestinian Negotiator: Arabs “Feared Bush”…Obama, Not so Much…
Post Date: 2011-01-28 14:10:28 by no gnu taxes
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Arabs respond to one thing and one thing only, violence and the threat of it. (JPost)- US President Barack Obama has lost all credibility in the Middle East, PA negotiator Saeb Erekat told US envoy George Mitchell in October 2009, according to leaked Palestinian documents released by Al-Jazeera and the Guardian Wednesday night. In an apparently heated exchange with Mitchell about a settlement freeze, Erekat said he would not be able to convince the Palestinians to negotiate without a full settlement freeze. “It’s not up to me to decide your credibility in the Middle East,” Erekat said. “He [Obama] has lost it throughout the region. When he got the Nobel Peace Prize, ...
"Cairo Joe" Biden says Egypt's Mubarak no dictator, he shouldn't step down...
Post Date: 2011-01-28 13:25:06 by Happy Quanzaa
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... and wonders what the Egyptian protesters want. Vice President Joe Biden spoke to the PBS NewsHour tonight with the most direct US governent comments yet about the gathering Egypt protests against President Hosni Mubarak's 29-year reign. Mr. Biden's comments are unlikely to be well-received by regime opponents, as they fit a narrative of steadfast US support for a government they want to bring down. About eight protesters and one policeman have died this week as Egypt has sought to bring down the heavy hand of the state against opponents. Since the US provides about $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt a year, the repressive apparatus of the state is seen by many in Egypt as ...
Iranian Media Hail Egypt ‘Revolution’
Post Date: 2011-01-28 11:37:00 by Happy Quanzaa
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(CNSNews.com) – Media in the Arab world are generally reporting cautiously on the protests rocking Egypt following the shakeup in Tunisia, but those in Iran are giving the turmoil prominent, almost gleeful, coverage. Sunni Egypt, viewed as the leader of the Arab world, and Shi’ite Iran are longstanding rivals. Iranian outlets, especially those linked to the government and establishment, are using terms like “revolution” and “uprising” to describe the protests, painting the demonstrators as heroic and giving headline treatment to voices predicting the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak. The approach is in sharp contrast to their treatment of Iran’s ...
Egypt Leaves the Internet
Post Date: 2011-01-27 23:24:58 by go65
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onfirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air. At 22:34 UTC (00:34am ...
World Muslim Population Doubling, Report Projects
Post Date: 2011-01-27 21:25:22 by Brian S
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By Richard Allen Greene, CNN Twenty years ago, the world had about 1.1 billion Muslims. Twenty years from now, it will have about twice as many - and they'll represent more than a quarter of all people on earth, according to a new study released Thursday. That's a rise from less than 20 percent in 1990. Pakistan will overtake Indonesia as home of the largest number of Muslims, as its population pushes over 256 million, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life projects. The number of Muslims in the United States will more than double, to 6.2 million, it anticipates. Afghanistan's population will nearly double, to about 50.5 million, making it home to the ninth largest Muslim ...
Will the Arab revolutions spread?
Post Date: 2011-01-27 16:42:46 by go65
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The end of the Tunisian story hasn't yet been written. We don't yet know whether the so-called Jasmine Revolution will produce fundamental change or a return to a cosmetically-modified status quo ante, democracy or a newly configured authoritarianism. But most of the policy community has long since moved on to ask whether the Tunisian protests will spread to other Arab countries -- Egypt, of course, but also Jordan, Yemen, Algeria, Libya, and almost every place else. Most experts on each individual country can offer powerful, well-reasoned explanations as to why their country won't be next. I'm skeptical too. But I found it unsatisfying to settle for such skepticism as I ...
Egyptian Protests Intensify, As Clashes Spread Across The Middle East
Post Date: 2011-01-27 15:55:13 by Brian S
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Security forces shot dead a Bedouin protester in Egypt's Sinai region on Thursday, bringing the death in the three days of protests to five. Police in Suez fired rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators calling for an end to the 30-year-old rule of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president. Protesters chucked rocks and petrol bombs at police lines. In Ismailia, hundreds of protesters clashed with police, who dispersed the crowds with tear gas. Like in many other countries in the region, protesters in Egypt complain about surging prices, unemployment and the authorities' reliance on heavy-handed security to keep dissenting voices quiet. The protests are ...
Time To End Foreign Aid To Israel: ‘We Just Can’t Do It Anymore,’ Sen. Paul Warns
Post Date: 2011-01-27 12:47:06 by Brian S
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One of the Senate's newest members has settled upon an idea to reduce American debt that's likely to come off as highly controversial in the halls of power: ending all foreign aid, including the tens of billions dedicated to Israel. Israel has been, by far, the largest recipient of US foreign aid anywhere in the world. Since the inception of Israel's close diplomatic relationship with the US all the way through 2008, Americans gave Israel over $103 billion, according to the American Educational Trust. President Barack Obama in late 2009 approved an additional $2.77 billion for Israeli foreign aid in 2010, and another $30 billion over the next decade. That's got to stop, ...
More "Cimate Change" Bullshit Debunked
Post Date: 2011-01-27 11:06:21 by no gnu taxes
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Himalayan glaciers are actually advancing rather than retreating, claims the first major study since a controversial UN report said they would be melted within quarter of a century. Researchers have discovered that contrary to popular belief half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of the mountains are actually growing rather than shrinking. The discovery adds a new twist to the row over whether global warming is causing the world's highest mountain range to lose its ice cover. It further challenges claims made in a 2007 report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the glaciers would be gone by 2035. Although the head of the panel Dr Rajendra Pachauri ...
China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people
Post Date: 2011-01-26 17:48:07 by Mad Dog
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City planners in south China have laid out an ambitious plan to merge together the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta. The "Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One" scheme will create a 16,000 sq mile urban area that is 26 times larger geographically than Greater London, or twice the size of Wales. The new mega-city will cover a large part of China's manufacturing heartland, stretching from Guangzhou to Shenzhen and including Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing. Together, they account for nearly a tenth of the Chinese economy. Over the next six years, around 150 major infrastructure projects will mesh the transport, energy, water ...
Iran's Allies Gain Clout And Possible Softer Edges
Post Date: 2011-01-26 15:04:13 by Brian S
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — From the Afghan badlands to the Mediterranean, evidence of Iran's reach is easy to spot: a mix of friend and foe for Kabul leaders, a power broker in Iraq, deep alliances with Syria and a big brother to Lebanon's Hezbollah and Hamas in Gaza. Tehran's proxy portfolio suddenly has a bit more aura after Hezbollah's political gambit — bringing down a pro-Western government in Lebanon and moving into position to pick its successor. To those keeping score, it would appear that Iran is winning some important points around the Middle East at the expense of Washington and its allies. But such gains have potential built-in costs, ...
Russian Parliament Approves Start Nuclear Arms Treaty
Post Date: 2011-01-26 14:52:52 by Brian S
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Russia's parliament has given its backing to the Start nuclear arms disarmament treaty. The Federation Council (upper house) unanimously approved the deal signed by US President Barack Obama and Russia's Dmitry Medvedev in April 2010. Under the agreement, the number of nuclear warheads deployed by each country will be cut to 1,550. The US Senate approved the treaty by 71 votes to 26 last year, after months of wrangling. Wednesday's vote by the Federation Council comes a day after the treaty was ratified by the Duma, or lower house, and represents the final step in its passage through parliament. The New Start (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), will replace its predecessor, ...
The failure of socialism in Sweden
Post Date: 2011-01-26 12:21:57 by no gnu taxes
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On 26th February 2008, Mr. Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden, gave a talk at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The subject that he presented was: "The New Swedish Model: A Reform Agenda for Growth and the Environment" The speech can be read in full from the Swedish Embassy: The New Swedish Model The passage that interested me the most was the following: At the beginning of the 1970s Sweden also had the fourth highest GDP per capita measured in purchasing power parity. Sweden was blooming. Then came Sweden's mad quarter of a century. Growth fell off. Unemployment rose. The quality of welfare declined. What, then, were the factors that made ...
'Anonymous' Calls For Attacks On Egyptian Gov't Websites
Post Date: 2011-01-26 11:13:25 by Brian S
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The online group of hactivists known as "Anonymous" expressed their support for protesters in Egypt Wednesday by calling for cyber attacks on websites run by the Egyptian government. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Egypt this week, facing down a massive police presence to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in protests inspired by Tunisia's popular uprising. After reports said that social media websites Twitter and Facebook had been restricted in the country, the "Anonymous" Facebook page "Operation Egypt" issued a dire warning to the Egyptian government. "To the Egyptian Govt : Anonymous challenges all those who ...
Moscow airport suicide bomber might have been a Muslim terrorist
Post Date: 2011-01-25 17:43:47 by Happy Quanzaa
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Islamic militants suspected in Russia airport bombingAt least 35 die, 170 injured in ‘terrorist attack’ As Russian authorities sift through the wreckage of the Moscow airport attack, the world’s attention will be drawn to the Muslim separatists who experts suspect carried out the Monday bombing. Known as Imarat Kavkaz, or the Caucasus Emirate, the group was formed in 2007 with the goal of bringing Islamic law to the North Caucasus, a region of Russia that includes Chechnya, an Islamic-majority province that has been in some form of rebellion against Moscow since the 19th century. No one had claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack at Moscow’s busiest airport, ...
Egypt: President's Son And Family 'Have Fled To The UK'
Post Date: 2011-01-25 16:51:21 by Brian S
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Cairo, 25 Jan. (AKI) - Gamal Mubarak, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's son who is widely tipped as his successor, has fled to London with his family, Arabic website Akhbar al-Arab said on Tuesday. The report came as violent unrest broke out in Cairo and other Egyptian cities and hundreds of thousands of people reportedly took to the streets in a Tunisia-inspired day of revolt. Officials did not immediately confirm the report that Gamal Mubarak has fled to the British capital with his wife and daughter aboard a private jet. The jet with Mubarak, his family and 97 pieces of luggage on board left for London on Tuesday from an airport in western Cairo, according to the US-based Akhbar ...
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